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de, or the world, earth, is gram, ein zornec got in daz gebot (bade them, daz uns hie suohten mit ir her; parz. 43, 28. hie ist geschehen gotes rdche; reinh. 975. got wil verviieren sinen zorn; osw. 717 ich wsene daz got roeche da selbe sinen anclen (wreak his vengeance; gudr. 845, 4. daz riime got (god rue it; trist. 12131. daz ez got immer riuwe! trist. 11704. the lex bajuv. 6, 2, in forbidding sunday labour, says: quia talis causa vitanda est, quae deuni ad iracnndiam provocat, et exinde flagellamur in frugibus et penuriam patimur. how coarse were the expressions still used in the 17th century" an abuse that putteth god on his mcltlc, and maketh him to hold strict and pitiless inquisition, that verily he shall, for saving of his honour, smite thereinto vnth his fists; and again" to run

onis illius errore veteri cum professione falsa christianitatis immolahant, succidit; vita imeinwerci, cap- 22. of the holy tree in the old saxon irminsm i will treat in ch. w. several districts of low^er saxony and westphalia have until quite recent times preserved vestiges of iwhj oaks, to which the people paid a half heathen half christian homage. tims, in the principality of minden, on easter sunday, the young people of both sexes used with loud cries of joy to dance a reigen (rig, 1 otlier ms. have' mole' or' metallo. a brazen image on tlie oak is not to be tliought of, as such a thing would have been alluded to in what precedes or follows. 74 temples. circular dance) round an old oak in a thicket near the village of wormeln, paderborn, stands a jioly oak, to which the inhabitants of

xxxii. quintam feriam in honorem jovis honorasti, p. xxxvii. on thursday evening one must neither spin nor hew; superst, swed. 55. 110. and germ. 517. 703. the esthonians think thursday holier than sunday^ what punishment overtook the transgressor, may be gathered from another superstition, which, it is true, substituted the hallowed day of christ for that of donar: he that shall work on trinity sunday (the next after pentecost, or shall wear anything sewed or knitted (on that day, shall be stricken by thunder; scheffer's haltaus, p. 225 (see suppl. if jupiter had these lionours paid him in the 8tli century, if the capitulare of 743 thought it needful expressly to enjoin an' ec forsacho thunarc' and much that related to his service remained uneradicated a long time after; it cannot well b

goddess austra, or her cultus was already extinct. ostara, eddre seems therefore to have been the divinity of the radiant dawn, of upspringing light, a spectacle that brings joy and blessing^ whose meaning could be easily adapted to the resurrection- day of the christian's god. bonfires were lighted at easter, and according to a popular belief of long standing, the moment the sun rises on easter sunday morning, he gives three joyful leaps, he dances for joy (superst. 813. water drawn on the easter morning is, like that at christmas, holy and healing (superst. 775. 804; here also heathen notions seems to have grafted themselves on great christian festivals. maidens clothed in white, who at easter, at tlie season of returning spring, show themselves in clefts of the rock and on mountains, a

a season might be held a feast of the divinity who had prospered the harvest just gathered in. on sept. 29 the christians kept one of their grandest days, that of st. michael, who often had to rejdlace a heathen god of war and victory. it seems worthy of notice, that the saxons had their great feast of victory about the same time, viz, the beginning of october; widukind pp. 423-4. with the first sunday after michaelmas the holi/ common-week was considered in the mid. ages to begin; scheffer's haltaus, pp. 141-2. na der hilligen meinweken, weisth. 3, 240. in the handing down of a precise and doubtless genuine date, i feel the credibility of the story confirmed. now who is cisa? one naturally thinks first of that suevic isis (p. 257) in tacitus, whose name even is not unlike cisa, zisa, if

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h, the worship of the old deities and the old ways were banned and the nature festivals supplanted by christian ones. the christians were pragmatic, however, and pope gregory, who sent st augustine to england in ad 597, acknowledged that it was simpler to graft the christian festivals on to the existing festivals of the solstices and equinoxes. so, easter, for example, was celebrated on the first sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox, which is where it remains today. in the same way, the crosses on the hot cross buns that we eat on good friday were originally the ancient astrological signs for the earth, and were eaten to absorb the power and fertility of mother earth. hot cross buns were still thought to retain their magical qualities until the early decades of the nin

kness with light, in meditation, for goddessfocused rituals, for increasing spiritual awareness and contact with spirit guides, angels and the higher self. white contains both solar and lunar energies and is often used for altar candles. you can substitute white for any other colour. white candles can be used on any day of the week, though they are associated with monday in the goddess aspect and sunday and the sun for life force magick. red red, the colour of mars, the planet and god of war, represents action, power, determination, physical energy and health, courage and determination, sexual passion and potency, survival and change, for careers where danger is involved and the armed forces. it is used as a focus for rituals calling on the power of the gods and for stimulating righteous a

e of all kinds are related to orange, as are independence and asserting your identity if it is under threat or being eroded by the demands or unfair criticism of others. orange also relates to careers involving people and the arts. above all, orange is the colour of joy and also the successful integration of all aspects of the personality into a harmonious whole. orange candles are best used on a sunday. yellow yellow is the colour associated with mercury, the winged messenger of the roman gods. through his skill and dexterity, he came to rule over commerce and medicine and also became patron of tricksters and thieves. yellow candles therefore encourage clear communication and activity of all kinds, improving memory, concentration and learning, and are good for overcoming mental stagnation

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 (male) power, energy and change and all rituals with noble or altruistic purpose. gold is best used on a sunday. using colour in rituals you can also use coloured candles as a focus for wishes in a particular area of experience represented by the colour. so you might write a wish for a better memory on yellow paper and burn it in a yellow candle, the colour of mercury. you could then collect the ash in a heatproof ceramic pot or metal bowl beneath the candle and scatter it to the four winds. for bani

l again at the third hour after sunset, which on this day is jupiter's evening hour, to add his authority and opportunities for expansion. planetary days and their applications in this section i have listed the particular strengths of each planet, together with their most powerful times. remember that, in addition, the sign you are born under will exert its influences on you at all times. the sun sunday, the day of the sun, is for spells for personal fulfilment and ambition, power and success, for increasing the flow of the life force, asserting or strengthening 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

on in further reading on page 297, or try entering angels on your web browser. images can be downloaded and form a focus for meditations, through which you can invoke each angel using your own higher self or consciousness. in this way, the protective angel draws on your own spiritual powers. archangels and their days of the week michael michael is the archangel who rules the sun. michael's day is sunday. michael, the initiator, brings illumination and inspiration in many spheres of life, through the efforts of our individual creative spirit. michael is the guardian of all who stand alone with their unique vision for bettering the world and are not prepared to compromise their ideals for humanity, purely for money or fame. this archangel can be invoked in ritual for all creative ventures, f

her norse counterpart was ostara, the maiden aspect of frigg, the mother goddess, to whom the hare was sacred (this is the origin of the easter rabbit. at the spring equinox, bonfires were lit and the corn dolly of the previous harvest (or in christian times a judas figure) was burned on the easter fires. the ashes were scattered on the field for fertility. wake at dawn on equinox morn or easter sunday and, it is said, you can see the sun or in the christian tradition, angels, dancing in a stream or river. the green man is another central figure that features 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

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ry great one, because it shows us in all things, either good or bad fortune! i tell you, and i repeat absolutely, that this is in no way true; that they produce thus a change of the time and of the air, i in part concede; but do me the grace to tell me how ye do divide the planetary hours. i know that ye begin the first hour of the day with the planet which itself giveth the name unto the day, as sunday is ascribed to the sun, monday to the moon, tuesday to mars, wednesday to mercury, thursday to jupiter, friday to venus, and saturday to saturn; then ye divide the length of the day into twelve equal portions which ye call hours, and to each hour ye assign its planet; and ye do the same thing with the night, according to whether the days be long or short. thus do the hours become long or sh

o the moon, tuesday to mars, wednesday to mercury, thursday to jupiter, friday to venus, and saturday to saturn; then ye divide the length of the day into twelve equal portions which ye call hours, and to each hour ye assign its planet; and ye do the same thing with the night, according to whether the days be long or short. thus do the hours become long or short. as for example, suppose that on a sunday the sun riseth at 7 o'clock and setteth at 5 o'clock in the evening, its course will be ten hours, the which ye divide up into twelve equal parts, so that each hour is of fifty minutes length. i say, therefore, that the first planetary hour is of the sun, and is fifty minutes long; that the second is of venus; the third of mercury; and so on of the others; at last the eighth hour returneth

eek retreat; and ye shall lengthen your prayers to the utmost of your ability. as for eating, drinking and clothing, ye shall govern yourselves in exactly the same manner as in the two first moons; except that ye shall fast (the qabalistical fast) every sabbath eve. note well: the sabbath is for the jews, who are accustomed to observe the same every saturday, but for christians the sabbath is the sunday, and they31 ought to consider the saturday as its eve. 7 the sacred magic 58 the ninth chapter. concerning the two last moons which must be thus commenced. orning and noon ye shall wash your hands and your face on entering the oratory;32 and firstly ye shall make confession of all your sins; after this, with a very ardent prayer, ye shall entreat the lord to accord unto you this particular

eption be theistic or pantheistic. 20 the initiates of the true rosicrucian wisdom, know that there is a certain force in the observance of the equinoxes. 21 abraham evidently means his guardian angel. 22 here abraham admits to an extent what i have urged in my previous notes. 23 i.e, the astrologers to whom abraham refers in the first sentence of the chapter. 24 i.e, the moon and monday; sun and sunday; mars and tuesday (tuisco is a name of mars; venus and friday (freya's day, after freya, the scandinavian goddess, etc. 25 et jusqua ceguil tremonte son jour dure jusqua cequil se leve derechef. 26 this is the initiated rosicrucian teaching, which is very different to that of the outer and uninitiated world. 27 this is the great point to be studied in all magical operations soever, and unle

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re of borges is certainly an indication that lovecraft has finally ascended to his rightful place in the history of american literature, nearly forty years after his death. in the same year that lovecraft found print in the pages of weird takes, another gentleman was seeing his name in print; but in the british tabloid press. new sinister revelations of aleister crowley read the front page of the sunday express. it concerned testimony by one of the notorious magician's former followers (or, actually, the wife of one of his followers) that crowley had been responsible for the death of her husband, at the abbey of thelema, in cefalu, sicily. the bad press, plus the imagined threat of secret societies, finally forced mussolini to deport the great beast from italy. tales of horrors filled the

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r it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred and three score and six. gr:tau-omicron gr:mu-epsilon-gamma-alpha gr:theta-eta-rho-iota-omicron-nu the great wild beast, has the value, according to the greek system, of 666. it is, of course, the title of the master therion. the master therion was, about this time, in communication with an intelligence who gave the name of amalantrah. on sunday, february 24, 1918, at 9.30 p. m, the master therion asked amalantrah if he could use the word gr:theta-eta- rho-iota-omicron-nu as if it were hebrew, with the idea of getting further information as to the mystic meaning of the word. the answer was "yes. he then asked "am i to take the word gr:theta-eta-rho-iota-omicron-nu alone, or the three words gr:tau-omicron gr:mu-epsilon-gamma-alpha g

tor. at this period there was a coal famine in new york, and it was forbidden to heat office buildings on mondays. he merely took away his mail and went home. on tuesday morning he found on his desk a letter which had arrived on monday for the general editor, who had sent it across to him for reply, as it concerned the master therion rather than himself. this letter had been written and posted on sunday evening, at about the same time as the communication from amalantrah. the letter ends as follows "please inform your readers that i, samuel bar aiwaz bie yackou de sherabad, have counted the number of the beast, and it is the number of a man. hb:nunfinal hb:vau hb:yod hb:resh hb:taw n o i r th (read from right to left) 50 6 10 200 400- 666 here, then, we see the most striking solution possi

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ional religion as either the white or the yellow. most primitive fetishistic religions may, in fact, be considered fairly faithful representatives of this philosophy. where animism holds sway, the "medicine-man" personifies this universal evil, and seeks to propitiate it by human sacrifice. the early forms of judaism, and that type of christianity which we associate with the salvation army, billy sunday and the fundamentalists of the back-blocks of america, are sufficiently simple cases of religion whose essence is the propitiation of a malignant demon. when the light of intelligence begins to dawn dimly through many fogs upon these savages, we reach a second stage. bold spirits master courage to assert that the evil which is so obvious, is, in some mysterious way, an illusion. they thus t

damn everything- it's true, it's true. so do you at least get together the stones that you need to build your basilica! chapter lxxiii "monsters" niggers, jews, etc. cara soror, do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. come now, is this quite fair? when i agreed to tip you off about magick and the rest, i certainly never expected to be treated as if i were being interviewed by an american sunday newspaper. what do i prefer for breakfast, and my views on the future of the theatre, and is the great white brotherhood in favour of eugenic babies? no, dear sister- i nearly said sob-sister. but this i will say, you have been very artful, and led me on very cleverly- you must have been a terror to young men- for the matter of that, i dare say you are still! magic without tears get any boo

nt' lyon concluded his story with gusto 'that talkative guy did the opposite of sleeping off his lunch in a very thorough manner, and there wasn't another peep out of him until we put him on the train" p.s. here is a very different set of reactions. i do not quite know why i am putting it in; is it some sub-conscious attraction of my own? anyhow, here it is; call it la poule aux rats time: a fine sunday evening in june, just one and twenty years ago. place: paris, just off the place des tertres, overlooking the city. a large and lovely studio, panelled in oak. strange: it was completely bare, and so far as one could see, it had no door. the skylights, mindful, were carefully screened with broidered stuff. a gallery, some ten feet from the floor, ran round one corner. here was a buffet load

y, of the adventurer that blasted the road. the sunny socialist smiles his superior smile, and condescends to instruct us. that was an unfortunate, though perhaps sometimes necessary, stage in the perfection of society. something in that. but there are other kinds of adventure. my imagination can set no limit to the possibilities of science, or of art: our own great work is evidence of that. last sunday i looked through an interview with the least brain-bound of these ruminators- poor old, dear old g. for gaga bernard shaw. the artist, said he, was a special case. he should have a nice easy job, three or four hours a day, and be free for the rest of it to devote himself to his art. i wonder how much of his own work would have seen daylight if he had been tied to some silly robot soulkillin

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ule of thelema, that its adepts shall be invisible rulers. this, it may be remarked, has always been the case. the new comment the nature of magical power is quite incomprehensible to the vulgar. the prophet ezekiel besieging a tile in order to destroy jerusalem, and the adventure of hosea with gomer, seem as absurd to the 'practical' man as do the researches of any other scientific man until the sunday newspapers have furnished him with a plausible explanation which explains nothing("book 4, part iii, must be read in this connexion "my servants; not those of the lord of the aeon "the law is for all; there can be no secrecy about that. the verse refers to specially chosen 'servants; perhaps those who, worshipping the khabs, have beheld her light shed over them. such persons indeed consumma

l is drunk with the delight of life. wine and strange drugs do not harm people who are doing their will; they only poison people who are cancerous with original sin. in latin countries where sin is not taken seriously, and sex-expression is simple, wholesome, and free, drunkenness is a rare accident. it is only in puritan countries, where self-analysis, under the whip of a coarse bully like billy sunday, brings the hearer to 'conviction of sin' that he hits first the 'trail' and then the 'booze' can you imagine an evangelist in taormina? it is to laugh. this is why missionaries, in all these centuries, have produced no conversions whatever, save among the lowest types of negro, who resemble the anglo-saxon in this possession of the 'fear-of-god' and 'sin' psychopathies. truth is so terribl

rodjestvensky and gervera took their fleets out to certain destruction. the irish revolutionists of easter week, 1916, fought and died like men; and they have established a tradition 'jesus' himself, in the legend 'set his face as a flint to go to jerusalem' with the foreknowledge of his fate. but christians have not emphasized that heroism since the crusades. the sloppy sentimental jesus of the sunday-school is the only survivor; and the war killed him, thank ares! when the nonconformist christian churches, especially in america, found the doctrine of eternal punishment no longer tenable, they knocked the bottom out of their religion. there was nothing to fight for. so they degenerated into tame social centres, so that theosophy with its black brothers, mrs. eddy with her mental arsenic

hank ares! when the nonconformist christian churches, especially in america, found the doctrine of eternal punishment no longer tenable, they knocked the bottom out of their religion. there was nothing to fight for. so they degenerated into tame social centres, so that theosophy with its black brothers, mrs. eddy with her mental arsenic experts, the t.k. with his hypnotists and jesuits, and billy sunday with his hell fire weh note: variation..experts, and the evangelical revivalists with their hell fine, made people's flesh creep once more, and got both credit and cash. the book of the law flings forth no theological fulminations; but we have quarrels enough on our hands. we have to fight for freedom against oppressors, religious, social, or industrial; and we are utterly opposed to compro

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paved with heliotrope, the morals of the crucified (both standpoints joined in one, i hope, 200 in metaphysic s stereoscope) but for the moment be denied a metaphysical inspection bring out the antiseptic soap! we ll judge the christ by simple section, 205 and strictly on the moral side. but first; i must insist on taking the ordinary substantial creed your clergy preach from desk and pulpit each sunday; all the bible, shaking 210 its boards with laughter as you read each sunday. ibsen43 to a full pit may play in the moon. if (lunars they) they thought themselves to be the play, it s little the applause he d get. 215 i met a christian clergyman, the nicest man i ever met. we argued of the cosmic plan. i was lord roberts, he de wet.44* scots legal term for defendant. a romany word for woman

e be ever remembrance that existence is sorrow, sorrow by the inherent necessity of the way it is made; sorrow not by volition, not by malice, not by carelessness, but by nature, by ineradicable tendency, by the incurable disease of desire, its creator, is it so, and the way to destroy it is by the uprooting of desire; nor is a task so formidable accomplished by any threepenny-bitin- the-plate-on-sunday morality, the deceive others and self-deception will take care of itself uprightness, but by the severe roads of austere self-mastery, of arduous scientific research, which constitute the noble eightfold path. 101-105. there s one. six six six.31 this opinion has most recently (and most opportunely) been confirmed by the rev. father simons, roman catholic missionary (and head of the corner

assurance of death. the sword of song 62 browning to be called ascension day and pentecost was conceived (and resolved upon) on friday, november 15, 1901. on that day i left ceylon, where i had been for several months, practising hindu meditations, and exposing the dishonesty of the missionaries, in the intervals of big game shooting. the following day i wrote ascension day, and pentecost on the sunday, sitting outside the dak-bangala at madura. these original drafts were small as compared to the present poems. ascension day consisted of: p. 5* i flung. p. 7, pray do. p. 8, but why. p. 10, here s just. p. 12, i will. to p. 21. but in hell. p. 22, you see. to end. pentecost consisted of: p. 25, to-day. p. 29, how very hard. to p. 31, proceed. p. 33, nor lull my soul. to p. 35. and the visi

the grinning mouths of the dvaitist guns keep the fort of ethics, and warn metaphysics to keep off the rather green grass of religion. that its apologists should have devoted so much time, thought, scholarship and ingenuity to this question is the best proof of the fatuity of the advaita position. there is then a flaw somewhere. i boldly take up the glove against all previous wisdom, 1 or, as the sunday-school boy said: faith is the power of believing what we know to be untrue. i quote deussen with the more pleasure, because it is about the only sentence in all his writings with which i am in accord. a.c. revert to the most elementary ideas of cannibal savages, challenge all the most vital premisses and axiomata that have passed current coin with philosophy for centuries, and present my th

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also fie! and tut! no dog-nosed and blue-faced baboon in rut feels as you feel; or if he does, god's mercies deny him power to tell his thoughts in verses. this is a most regrettable collection of songs; they deal with unrestrained affection unlicensed by the church and state; what's worse there's no denying they are first-rate verse. it surely cannot be that pan's in clover and england's days of sunday-school are over! percy flage. the graces of interior prayer. father poulain, s. j. it would be easy, and was tempting, to dismiss father pulain and his 650 pages with a jest- i have done harder things- for the mountains of his prejudice are difficult to approach across the abyss of his ignorance. for example, he devotes just a paragraph to "yogis" these persons he describes as "hindu buddhi

din attar. 3"d. a man of good repute who loved god saw majnun sifting earth in the middle of the road, and said to him "oh majnunj! what art thou seeking thus "i seek laylah "can a pearl so pure be found in that dust "i seek laylah everywhere, in the hope of finding her one day somewhere" this was my toil, and the reward is mine. of such gems the volume is full. a. c. ib. no. 7. a sermon for whit sunday. by john tauler. awful good, but awful dull. mr crowley's "pentecost" is much livelier. h. g. spiritism and insanity. by dr marcel viollet. the worst type of cocksure medical dogmatising rendered into pitiably frenchified english. this is (i am told) not the fault of the translator, but of dr viollet's arrogance. good english is not good enough for him. it sounds to me like incipient g.p.i

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up the planes is the sad fate of many a mystic. how many do i know in my own experience who tell me that, obedient to the heavenly vision, they will shoot no more rabbits! thus they found a system on trifles, and their lord and god is some trumpery little elemental masquerading as the almighty. i remember my uncle tom telling me that he was sure god would be displeased to see me in a blue coat on sunday. and to-day he is surprised and grieved that i do not worship his god or even my own tailor, as would be surely more reasonable! 82 7.32. how is it that i expect the reward at once? surely i am presuming on my magical power, which is an active thing, and therefore my passivity is not perfect. of course, when it happens, it happens out of time and space now or ten years hence it is all the

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s like a mountain torrent cutting its own course amongst the hills and rushing on wildly yet wisely to the sea. no doubt, from the point of view of a sanitary engineer, the drain is more useful, more rational, altogether more proper than the wayward stream. but it is the rigid utilitarianism of this bread-and-water morality, this one-shirt-a- week thrift, this skimmed-milk philosophy this cake-on-sunday religion, and all the other halfpenny economies of a gluttonous mediocrity, that must be trampled under foot as if they were the very cockroaches of hell, before freedom of even a protoplasmic kind can be brought to life. better be a savage, a one-legged hottentot, better be anything than a civilized eunuch, a crape-capped "widder" in upper tooting lamenting her "demised husband" whilst she

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cing. tennyson sees it as a mere sight- he ticks it off in his baedeker. he sees the dolly side of everything. everything he touches becomes petty, false, weak, a mirage. he degrades the courteous gawain to a vulgar lecher- but his lechery is as mild as an old maid's patience; he ruins women as a child plucks a daisy. lancelot commits adultery with kind gloves on; and enoch arden moralises like a sunday-school teacher at a village treat. in the mouth of this soft-spoken counter-jumper the wildest words take on the smoothest sense. by sheer dint of cadence. 396 "dragons of the prime that tare each other in their slime" sounds less terrible than a dog-fight "nature, red in tooth and claw with ravine, shriek'd- is but a termagant "ring out, wild bells" suggests no tocsin (as it might, for the

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m what little i say here the "extreme gravity" of such a matter, and again i ask you, both for his sake and that of the order, not to force me to go further into the subject. this letter ends by stating that every atom of the knowledge of the order has been communicated to him, and to him alone, by the secret chiefs of the order, and that g.h. soror s.d.a. was now in paris with him.53 51 see the "sunday chronicle" march 19, 1899. 52 s.a. was sapere aude (or non omnis moriar, dr. w. wynn westcott, king's coroner for hoxton. 53 this, as we shall shortly see, must have been madame horos. it must be remembered here that in the "history lection" we learnt that s.r.m.d (that is d.d.c.f, by the death of one of his colleagues and the weakness of the other, secured sole authority over the order; th

itened; a rubber mackintosh nowhere near the fire suddenly caught light; and fires were by no means anxious to burn. again he went to see soror p.e.c.q, and in the evening records a long dream about "the horos lot "they were at c" he writes "and wanted to get a particular ms. i had no one i could trust at all, and it was hell and tommy for a long while. but it ended tragically enough for them" on sunday he saw various members of the order; and on monday saw soror s.s.d.f, arranged with her final details, and captured the vault. he writes: in the morning early i was very badly obsessed, and entirely lost my temper_ utterly without reason or justification. five times at least have horses bolted at sight of me" also "fires at 15 r.r. refuse utterly to burn" on tuesday he recaptured vault and

eemed a penny the worse. one might have expected that d.d.c.f. having failed, p. would have abandoned him. no, for it seemed still possible that d.d.c.f, really in touch with the supreme chiefs, had yet finally decided to say with christ upon the 266 cross "father, forgive them, for they know not what they do" even though this theory was somewhat rudely shaken by d.d.c.f spending the whole of one sunday afternoon in rattling a lot of dried peas in a sieve under the impression that they were the revolted members: as subsequent events proved, they were only the ideas in his head. so we find p. still loyal, if a little sceptical, and searching within himself to discover a touchstone by which he might prove beyond doubt the authenticity of d.d.c.f.'s claim to represent the masters. now, there

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be ever remembrance that existence is sorrow, sorrow by the inherent necessity of the way it is made; sorrow not by volition, not by malice, not by carelessness, but by nature, by ineradicable tendency, by the incurable disease of desire, its creator, is it so, and the way to destroy it is by the uprooting of desire; nor is a task so formidable accomplished by any threepenny-bit-in-the-plate-on- sunday morality, the "deceive others and self-deception will take care of itself" uprightness, but by the severe roads of austere self-mastery, of arduous scientific research, which constitute the noble eightfold path. o. dhammaloyu. john dee. by charlotte fell smith. constable and co. 10"s" 6"d" net. it is only gracious to admit that this book is as good as could possibly have been produced on th

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ere was a devil of a row at 60 last night. m: pressed me to come to his weekly entertainments; so i 288 came. he urged me to speak; so i spoke. he then revealed his divine self in an exceptionally able manner; i refrained from revealing mine. his divine self reminded one rather of a 'navvy's saturday night, by battersea burns" he further urged me to go and see the mahatma himself on the following sunday; and this i did. i arrived at 60, south audley street at seven o'clock. there were already about twenty sheepish-looking tigers present, and when the mahatma entered the room, i sat down next to him; for, knowing, in case a scrimmage should occur, that a hindoo cannot stomach a blow in the spleen, i thought it wisest to be within striking distance of him. the mahatma opened the evening's di

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and fourth series of prentice mulford's essays have been prepared in response to a large demand for the complete works of the "white cross library" at a more reasonable price than that of the american edition in six volumes. essays of prentice mulford. fourth series. completing the entire set of essays published in america under the title of "your forces and how to use them" contents_ the use of sunday. a cure for alcoholic intemperance through the law of demand. grace before meat; or the science of eating. what we need strength for. one way to cultivate courage. some practical mental recipes. the use and necessity of recreation. mental tyranny: or, how we mesmerise each other. thought currents. uses of diversion "lies breed disease; truths being health" woman's real power. good and ill e

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t four feet distance, where there were two very real images, one small and one large respectively. the commend of d. a. on this meditation was that it was most clear, and represented complete success. on the fifteenth of april 1901 we find p. writing in his diary "i agree to project my astral to soror f.165 in hong-kong every saturday evening at nine o'clock, which should ready her at 4.6 p.m. on sunday by hong- kong time. she is to start at 10 a.m. sunday by hong-kong time to reach me by 12.2 p.m. saturday. these spirit journeys were to commence on the 31st of 112 may; but this date seems to have been anticipated, for two days later we read the following: 10 p.m. enclosing myself in an egg of white light i travelled to hong- kong. this city is white and on a rocky hill, the lower part is

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on the intra-cosmic difficulties of communication. viii. conclusions. appendices. bibliography. index "the book. has much to recommend it on the score of stimulus to calm reasoning and further research "pall mall gazette "the collaborators may certainly claim that they have brought proven evidence as to the persistence of individual consciousness and personal identity which merits consideration "sunday times "well worth reading "the tatler "our authors have maintained an admirably detached attitude. mr carrington's theory will stand many tests of application in the light of our present knowledge "westminster gazette "an extraordinarily interesting book "truth "one closes their comprehensive survey with the conviction that the subject has been dealt with by two well-equipped, careful inves

s" was the next word that fell on his ears "we are crossing the seine. passion may not pass the gloomy river; here stalks vice, and the englishman on its heels. the very coffee sent son anglais "et les femmes" muttered edgar. she slapped his hand half fiercely "it's poster art of immorality "i remember going with an american girl to the guignol once. they played a comedy one could have acted in a sunday-school in glasgow; but verro-nika, as they called her, who didn't understand a word of french, said the atmosphere was one of the most awful lust. poor girl! she had paid a lot to see yurrup and its wickedness. i had not the heart to undeceive her "you sympathised, and offered to take her away" 121 "of course "and she preferred to stay "of course "here's the cirque, anyhow "we'll hope for a

are saying "no! no! i hate all who understand. i will bite them. i will bite their waists" dropping her voice suddenly "that was when i was a mouse-trap "dear god! this is like delirium "oh! go on about god. i don't mind god. i could tell you wonderful things about what i have done to god. i was a nonconformist preacher once: i had secret sins. they were mine! mine! how proud i was of them! every sunday i used to preach against the sin that i had done most in the week. there are many butterflies in the desert; 132 ever so many more than one would think. this proves that god is good. and then, you see, there are beetles. beetles and beetles. and scorpions. dear little amber beasts. there! one has stung me. it is the sacrament of hate. i will sleep in a bed of scorpions and rose-leaves. scor

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

the top of the wall but then he began to feel faint. two young men were passing and alex called to them for help. that was all he remembered until he woke up to fmd the white-haired man of his vision bending over him. he was a. doctor and he was stitching the cut. alex's 'growing belief in witchcraft, reinforced by 'each experience of clairvoyance, did not conflict with his regular attendance at sunday school. his gran had explained .that there was only one god but that he was known by many names. it was easy, too, to accept that the virgin mary was the moon goddess in disguise. alex's childhood heroes took on new aspects when gran re-told their stories. there was robin hood, previously just the leader of the merry men, but now revealed in his real role as a witch who used his powers to d

ne to 21 july. lucky stones: emerald, moonstone, eat's eye, pearl. lucky numbers: cancer, two; moon, seven. lucky day: monday. flowers: poppy, water-lily. trees: willow, sycamore. animals: otter, seal. birds: seagull, owl. metal: silver. colours: emerald green, white. leo the lion. 22 july to 21 august. lucky stones: amber, topaz, sardonyx, ruby. 153 lucky numbers: leo, four. sun, one. lucky day: sunday. flowers: marigold, sunflower,.cowslip, heliotrope. trees: palm laurel. animal: lion. birds: cock, eagle. metal: gold. colours: gold, orange. yellow, green, white. vrsco, the virgin. 22 august to 21 september. lucky.stoncs: cornelian, jade, diamond, jasper. lucky numbers: virgo, ten; mercury, five. lucky day: wednesday. flowers: madonna lily, cornflower, valerian. tree: hazel. animal: squir

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

"let the builders cease their work. the temple is completed. let the soul enter into its heritage and from the holy place command all work to end. then in the silence subsequent let him chant forth the word `the creative work is over. i, the creator, am. naught else remains but me" references to the secret doctrine ray 1. will or power planet. sun, substituting for the veiled planet vulcan. day. sunday. exoteric colour .o range. s.d.iii. p. 478. esoteric colour. red. human principle. prana or life-vitality. divine principle. the one life. spirit. this is regarded as a principle only when our seven planes are seen as the seven sub-planes of the cosmic physical plane. element. the akasha "it is written- 261- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis

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ointed this out, having begged you to bring this aspect of yourself into line with spiritual demand and having indicated the wider field of service which could open up before you, i have to leave you to succeed in the task or to refuse to undertake it as seems to you best. perhaps later, i shall see a pronounced change full alignment and heightened radiance. i would ask you to take much time each sunday (for an hour at least) in the attempt to contact my aura and, through that, the aura of the hierarchy. the results of this effort should be vital to you- 283- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust and of importance in handling your problem. i leave you with the last words of the occult phrases i gave you a year ago "then recollection came and active work" i trust

what i say. now you not only recognise it but have in the past and will in the future deal with the problem in a practical manner. for a while it will be an hour by hour and day by day fight; but the power of your soul is adequate to bring release, and the love of this group of disciples is sufficient to carry you through. as to your garden, my brother, i would ask you to enter into it early each sunday morning. see your garden sleeping in the darkness of the dawn no real light, no sound or movement and no- 396- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust life apparent. it remains just dreaming and colourless. enter your tower and climb to the summit and then release the light which is in you; this will be to the garden of your soul what the sun is to the gardens of th

ths. meditation outline 1. achieve comfort, alignment and control. these i need not elaborate to you. you know. 2. sound the o.m. as the soul, breathing it out in benediction upon the personality. 3. sound the o.m. as the personality, responding to the soul. 4. sound the o.m. as the synthesis of personality and soul. 5. then, relaxing, deal each day of the week with the following seven questions: sunday .d id i work as a soul in my service yesterday, or as a personality? was my interest in myself, as a server? or was i engrossed with the need of those i served? monday. in helping others, or in speaking with anybody, did i speak (yesterday as i served) about myself at all? tuesday. what was the general tenor of my thoughts during the day the work i had to do, other people or myself? wednesd

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

ys meant a step forward in understanding and a greater ability, therefore, to help. the result of this apparently blind moving forward (as when i married and came to the u. s. a) was extended opportunity. i have played many parts in my life. i was an unhappy, exceedingly disagreeable, little girl, a society girl in the gay nineties (which i didn't find so gay) and then an evangelist of the "billy sunday" type and a social worker. again not so gay, except that i was young and tremendously interested in everything. later, i married walter evans and found myself functioning as the wife of a rector of the protestant episcopal church in california and the mother of three girls. this varied experience of living and working in great britain, europe, asia and america led to basic changes in my att

up a very steep hill one sunny morning, two men on bicycles coasted down the hill and passed us. as one of them did so, he called back to his companion "but i assure you, my dear chap, it stood on one leg and went like the devil" i am still pondering that mystery and have not yet arrived at any solution. it was during this period that i made my first attempt at teaching. i took a class of boys in sunday school. they were in their teens and were reported to be quite unmanageable. i stipulated that i was to teach them in an empty hall near the church but not in the sunday school itself; that i was to be left alone whilst doing so. we had an exciting time. we started with a riot and me in tears, but at the end of three months we were a close group of pals. what i taught and how i taught it is

lf; that i was to be left alone whilst doing so. we had an exciting time. we started with a riot and me in tears, but at the end of three months we were a close group of pals. what i taught and how i taught it is quite forgotten. all i remember is a lot of laughter and noise and much friendship. maybe i did lasting good; i do not know: i do know that i kept them out of mischief for two hours each sunday morning. during those days and until i was 22 and became the mistress of my own small income (as did my sister, we lived the lives of society girls; we had what is called three "london seasons" participating in the usual round of garden parties, teas and dinners and being definitely in the marriage market. i was, at that time, deeply religious but had to go to dances as i did not want my si

one for fear that they would class me as a "mental case" and one who would have to be carefully watched and handled. i was intensely alive spiritually. i was conscious of my faults to an abnormal degree. i was stopping- 22- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust with my aunt margaret at castramont, in kirkcudbrightshire, at the time and the atmosphere was exactly right. it was a sunday morning. the previous sunday i had heard a sermon which had aroused all my aspiration. this sunday, for some reason, i had not gone to church. all the rest of the house-party had gone and there was no one in the house but myself and the servants. i was sitting in the drawing-room reading. the door opened and in walked a tall man dressed in european clothes (very well cut, i remember) but wi

small bible class of my own and to expressing myself at prayer meeting and i had no qualms at all. i was sure i could do it. it was much easier than introducing myself to some soldier, finding out his name, sitting down to play games with him, asking him about his home and gradually leading up to the serious matter of his soul. i, therefore, was quite ready to take the meeting. i found myself one sunday afternoon on a platform in a large room, facing a couple of hundred soldiers and some members of the royal irish constabulary. i started off fluently, slowed down, got stage fright, gave those men one look, burst into tears and bolted off the platform. i swore that wild horses could not take me back but in due time and in answer to my perennial question "what would jesus have me do" i crawl

going into a packed room in india, with perhaps four or five hundred soldiers in it, and climbing on a table, get their attention and, what is more, hold it. i became a good speaker and learnt to like speaking, so that now i am really happier on a platform than anywhere else. belfast saw me break free in that connection. i remember once being sincerely flattered over the tremendous success of my sunday night bible class held at lucknow, india, several years later. a whole crowd of army schoolmasters got into the habit of coming every sunday to listen to me (always with several hundred other men) and i began to get a touch of swelled head. i decided that i must be really good if intelligent men like that came sunday after sunday to hear me. i really let myself go. at the close of the serie

sind desert five times. there is very little vegetation in baluchistan, except juniper trees, until the land is irrigated and then anything can grow. the roses in baluchistan are something that i have seldom seen equalled anywhere and in my day they blazed in every garden. in the spring the country is a riot of cosmos and then later come the sunflowers. thereby hangs a tale. i was speaking to my sunday bible class in quetta one afternoon and telling the soldiers how the human being naturally and normally turns towards god. i used the sunflower as an illustration of this, pointing out that it was called sunflower because it followed the sun in the heavens. the next morning a soldier came to the door of our sitting-room, with a very grave face, and asked if i would mind coming out into the

ur temporarily failed me, and when that happens to someone who can usually laugh at life and circumstances it is rather terrible. when i say "humour" i don't think i mean a sense of fun but an ability to laugh at oneself and events and circumstances as they are seen in relation to one's setting and equipment. i don't think i have a real sense of fun; i simply do not understand the "comics" in the sunday papers and i can never remember a joke; but i have a sense of humour and have absolutely no difficulty in making an audience large or small roar with laughter. i can always laugh at myself, too. but for the next few years of my life i found nothing amusing and my problem is how to cover this cycle without being either deadly dull, or presenting a woeful picture of a miserable woman. for tha

y snooty little nose up in the air and decided there was nobody good enough for me to associate with. of course, i did my duty as the rector's wife and i am sure i was very nice and kind, but always i felt a barrier. i did not want to have much to do with the parishioners and i let them know it. i started a bible class, however, and that was a huge success. numerically it outnumbered my husband's sunday morning congregation, which may have added to the trouble which was steadily growing worse. members of all the different churches, except the catholic, attended and it was the one bright spot in the week, partly i think because it linked me with the past. my husband's temper was getting out of all bounds and i lived in a constant terror that the members of the congregation would discover it

ch friends, working with us from then to now, but were also loyally dedicated to the service of humanity. we seldom went away in the summer as this house was on the sound and had its own beach and the girls had all the swimming and clamming they needed. i'm really a great hand at clam chowder. thanks to the kindness of a friend, we had a car and could drive to new york or anywhere we chose. every sunday, practically, we were at home to friends and guests and frequently had 20 or 30 people at the house. we mixed them all up higgledy-piggledy, young and old, people of good social position or of no position, and i believe a good time was had by all. we served cake and punch, tea and coffee, and no matter who they were everybody had to "muck in" and wash dishes and tidy up the sitting room whe

his pamphlet, the new world religion. he indicates that the work of the buddha prepared people for the path of discipleship, whilst the work of the christ prepared people for initiation. he indicated a ritual in this pamphlet in which the great day of the buddha, the wesak festival (the vaisakha festival at the may full moon- 135- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust and easter sunday, fixed by the april full moon, stood for the illuminated buddha and the risen christ, whilst the full moon of june was the festival of humanity making its major annual approach to god under the guidance of christ. the other full moons in each month constitute lesser festivals in which certain spiritual qualities necessary for the expression of discipleship and initiation are considered and

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998 lucis trust not give, you may not ask, for you have no right to evoke that which you do not share. suggestions: 1. this meditation is so simple that many of you may regard it as innocuous and perhaps futile. used by many simultaneously, it may shatter the impasse which at present prevents adequate funds pouring into the work which the hierarchy seeks to accomplish. 2. do this meditation every sunday morning. take what you have saved during the previous week and dedicate it to the work and present it in meditation to the christ and his hierarchy. whether the sum is large or small, it can become an attractive and magnetic unit in the masters' plans. 3. realise the occult law that "to those who give shall be given" so that they can give again. 4. attempt to feel true love sweeping through

t. today you will and will profit thereby. some years ago you would have wasted time and strength in inner worry, in self-condemnation or in refutation. today you know better the meaning of occult obedience and the acceptance of the statement and expressed wish of your master and this because you know me better and trust me more. let me give you a visualisation exercise to be followed by you each sunday morning, every friday morning, and for the five days which come at the time of the full moon each month. in company of your group brothers, you have for years visualised me standing by an open window, and you have thus sought contact with me. this trained facility forms the basis of the following suggested exercise, the procedure of which is as follows: 1. picture to yourself a wood of pine

o use it consciously and constructively not employing its destructive aspect and thus learn to use first ray energy as a channel of approach; that, however, constitutes a much later stage- 392- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust the above three points for reflection will suffice for your meditation work for the coming year, and you should profit greatly by it. every sunday, however, i would have you take the meditation which i gave you last year and give thirty minutes to it, thus each week establishing a closer link with my ashram and with me. my ashram might be called the doorway to the ashram of the master k.h, and some day you will pass through to the higher and more potent centre. august 1946 my brother: you have profited much from the attention you paid

on. i have therefore nothing spectacular or unusual to say to you today, and that in itself indicates much. you can be trusted to proceed as heretofore, but i would ask somewhat more. i would ask you to undertake a special piece of work (of integrating work for me, and to do it in such a way that it does not become a formal service but a living process animated with purpose. i would ask you every sunday to endeavour to contact the ashram and myself (expecting no outer indication of success, and then in my presence name each of the people in the groups of nine and in the new seed group, as well as the three other people who have been in receipt of "the ashram papers" the fourteen rules for disciples and initiates. this will take some time, as there have been many. it will be like picking up

preparation for your next incarnation. when that comes, you will renew your service with a first ray astral body, provided, of course, you have in this life reduced the usually obdurate sixth ray tendencies and are controlling them. this you are doing with real success and i have no question in my mind as to your ultimate success. i seek to change your rhythm of work. i asked you as you know each sunday to have in mind all the members of the personal group with whom i have worked with the aid of a.a.b. did you realise, as you carried out my request, that i was seeking the aid of your one-pointed attitude to reality? or that i needed the assistance of some of the disciples in my ashram in producing a consolidation and integration within the ashram itself? it is a new ashram; there are only

f past meditation work through active service, chosen with deliberation and carried through steadily without any meditation at all but on the strength of the stored-up knowledge you have, and which you have never used. i am asking you, therefore, to stop all meditation, even the group meditation. you can give fifteen minutes to dedication, consecration and contact with your soul and with me every sunday morning and at the full moon period. you can participate in the group meditation at the school, but see to it that the group meditations are regarded by you as acts of service and not as means whereby your own nature is stimulated and refreshed. you can take part in the group held by a.a.b. on friday evenings, for there is much that you can there learn. but i do not want you otherwise givin

nd the immediate service-activity are known, and disciples and initiates each aware of his task and equipment proceed to carry out the phase of the one work which is theirs. each senses its relationship to the phases of the work undertaken by his group brothers; it is in learning to see the picture whole (as the master ever sees it) that confidence and security are developed. in the place of your sunday morning dedication, i want to give you four pictures upon which to reflect, seeking to read behind their symbolism the message of your soul to you, the personality. i. a quiet sea of midnight blue. above, the shining, round-faced moon. across the sea, a path of light, and moving slowly down that path a little boat and smiling, with the oars in hand h.s.d. is seen. ii. a pillared cloister, d

lden door, wide open to the sun. before the door lie rocks and bits of stone. a path winds towards that door, and o'er its lintel are the words: enter with calm; speak low and only if a need is there. enter the stream behind the door and wash away the stains of travel. then face the master, but only when the quiet of evening light shines forth and all is still within. take these pictures one each sunday in the month and work creatively with them. at the close of a year, send in to a.a.b (for the helping of the group) your interpretation of these symbols. speak truth through them and fear not criticism- 505- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust you are making progress, my brother, and can if you so will be of service to your fellowmen. forget not that at the cen

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ses appear, the one on which the virgin rode down to bethlehem, prior to the birth, and the other on which she rode to egypt, after the birth. close to the sign cancer are two bright stars, one called asellus borealis, or the northern ass, and the other, asellus australis, or the southern ass (there is also the third time, when christ rode into jerusalem during his brief moment of triumph on palm sunday [90] seated on the back of an ass, a symbol of patience and humility the crown jewels of greatness. so do not decry this symbol) someone has used the following words to express the cadence of cancer when first entered "a sorrowful little voice underground, a low, half-captured, half-evasive melody" not yet has the work been consummated. all that is to be heard is the note of possible achiev

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t these words: luna mia, bella luna!pi di una altra stella;tu sei sempre bella!portatemi la buona fortuna!moon, moon, beautiful moon!fairer far than any star;moon, o moon, if it may be,bring good fortune unto me!and then, if thou has(sic) money in thy pocket, thou wilt have it doubled.for the children who are born in a full moon are sons or daughters of the moon, especially whenthey are born of a sunday when there is a high tide. page 68 yet a few years, reader, and all this will have vanished from among the italians before the newspa-per and railroad, even as a light cloud is driven before a gale, or pass away like a snowflakes in apond. old traditions are, in fact, disappearing with such incredible rapidity that i am assured on bestauthority and can indeed see for myself that what i coll

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aps they may not be able to convince their fellows about us, but they may be able to convince their fellows to vote like they do, by other means. forming alliances is an important political advantage, and having alliances in 15 christianity would be *especially* advantageous to the protection of our people from persecution. and i am not necessarily suggesting that my readers walk into a church on sunday morning and start talking about satanism and demonolatry. perhaps a safer route would be to begin by participating in an online christian or inter-faith forum (the inter-faith forum would probably work best for a beginner) whatever you do (or don't do, the point is that if more of our people take an active role in demonstrating our humanity to people of mainline and mainstream religions, we

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isis, artemis[[footnote(s* in the oldest systems we find the moon always male. thus soma is, with the hindus, a kind of sidereal don juan, a "king" and the father, albeit illegitimate, of buddha- wisdom, which relates to occult knowledge, a wisdom gathered through a thorough acquaintance with lunar mysteries including those of sexual generation (see "holy of holies* if instead of being taught in sunday schools useless lessons from the bible, the armies of the ragged and the poor were taught astrology- so far, at any rate, as the occult properties of the moon and its hidden influences on generation are concerned, then there would be little need to fear increase of the population nor to resort to the questionable literature of the malthusians for its arrest. for it is the moon and her[[foot

BLUE EQUINOX

h from the first i set out to tread. may it not be, o adonai, that even now the second six months may be made to balance the first six, and that what is passed may yet be for the best. at that time he had not found out that things always turn out for the best; it took him a long while to realize this, but it is evident that soon afterwards his efforts produced some result; for we find an entry on sunday, august 7th, 1910 .i have found (for a few moments) the peace which passeth all understanding. amen. this was evidently the foreshadowing of his first really notable result, the first dawning of l.v.x. which he experienced on august 29th. there is an entry on september 2nd, full of joy and gladness and wonder at his first illumination; and then, three days later, he had evidently recognised

ry bad; but the explanation is that this particular hour was a great .rush. as i had to call at my brother.s office, go home for lunch, do some shopping for lunch, and back again to eat same, also get shaved, in one hour. i evidently got flurried and lost control a bit (note the time when talking to my brother is doubtful, but have included it) i think i should here note that on saturday evening, sunday and monday i was quite aware of my task practically all the time; even when i made mistakes, they were in almost every case caused through trying too hard. probably, having got over a difficult bit of conversation successfully, i was seduced into the error. tuesday and to-day have been rather different. i have lapsed a little in vigilance, but attained a certain subconscious wariness. this

p.m. to mrs. r (loud) 1 at 9:00 p.m. office. 1 at 10:30 p.m. to wife. 1 at 11:30 p.m. to wife. 8 total for day this was a very bad day; and i had so much hoped to get through one clear day without a break! never mind, better results next experiment. saturday, jan. 14, 6:30 p.m. results very poor again. 1 during morning. 1 at 1:45 p.m. to wife. 1 at 3:00 p.m. to wife. 3 saturday evening, jan. 7 15 sunday 9 monday 6 tuesday 6 wednesday 9 thursday 2 friday 8 sat. till 4 p.m. 3. total for week 58 thus ends first experiment in control of speech. it has been somewhat disappointing as regards results; but has proved to me how much i needed the exercise. i am very glad i undertook it, and shall try again in the near future. note. i have got over the feeling of shrinking at cutting myself. the firs

composed of finer materials? and by complete union therwith. i cannot formulate any more now. this entry indicates a recognition of the .formulation of the negative in the ego. which shall eventually destroy it. is it not written in liber lxv .as an acid eats into steel, and as a cancer utterly corrupts the body, so am i unto the spirit of man. i shall not rest until i have destroyed it utterly? sunday, april 2nd (fra v.i.o..s 25th birthday) during practice i had a distinct consciousness of the .centre of consciousness. being not .within. as usual, but above head. april 3rd. i alternate between a state of .enjoying any task or position because it is the first that comes to hand and therefore the simplest and best course of action. and .a feeling of absolute mental torture caused by the ne

vii, ii: 51-53, bestowing on himself this benediction as he did so..o.m. liber clxv 149 well spent, and that i have gained a more certain control of my body and mind, but realize how much is needed before. 0 8. peace unto all beings. amen. section iv april 30th, 1911, to october 13th, 1912 frater v.i.o. next experienced a state of .dryness. such as almost invariably follows a partial success. on sunday, may 7th he writes: i have not made an entry in this record for a whole week. i seem to be losing control, and my diary, lying untouched in my drawer, is becoming like a horrible fiend. it worries me when i do not enter it; and yet it requires a great effort even to touch it or take it out, while to enter it daily appears an almost superhuman task. why is this? i have done exercises this we

of the four great meditations on love, pity, happiness and indifference. at night, i again attempted .thinking backwards. but experienced rather more difficulty as 4 observe how the least slackness in writing up the record avenges itself. the record is both chart and log to the bold sea-captains of the voyage marvelous! liber clxv 151 conditions were bad. however, once started, i got back through sunday and very nearly, if not quite as fully, over the two previous days; then, having got into the swing, i roughly attempted a short and incomplete review of my whole life, which although brief, was much fuller than i expected. i remembered things connected with early childhood quite accurately, but of course not with full connections. then something occurred that i really did not expect, and o

t, interlacing and like a net-work, and when the love-thought was sent out, the whole net sparkled, as with little specks of gold. continued in this thought for some minutes, and gradually returned to normal. gave thanks and entered diary [very nearly in serious trouble, my young and rash friend. it seems that you must go up well outside earth-attraction if you wish to get good astrals. it sounds sunday-school-talk, and i can give no reason. but i.ve tried repeatedly going horizontally and downwards, always with the same result. gross and hostile things are below, pure beings above. the vision is good enough for what it is; it is clear and coherent. but i see no trace of scientific method in directing the vision. i explain further in the general comment..o.m] about this time frater v.i.o

ge, and took her as wife in name, and secretary and general servant in function. this female, however, developed an unsuspected quality. she made him shave, and mr. bishop, who had been going about london for forty years looking like a most venerable old gentleman, was seen to be a monkey. he looked like a monkey so much that the local zoologists used to frequent the neighbourhood of his house on sunday afternoon. we have also seen that he thinks like a monkey, the god whom he has made in his own image being more ferocious than a gorilla, and far less intelligent. what then are the differences between mr. bishop and a monkey? they are not obvious, and i do not think that any man of science will disagree that it is better to leave it to the monkeys to discover them. but if they insist that

ar to gautama buddha. they began to talk about parinibbana, super-nibbana, as if there were some way of subtracting one from one which would leave a higher, superior kind of a nothing, or as if there were some way of blowing out a candle which would heave moses in a much more egyptian darkness than we ever supposed when we were children. this is not science. this is not business. this is american sunday journalism. the hindu and the american are very much alike in this innocence, this na vet which demands fairy stories with ever bigger giants. they cannot bear the idea of anything being complete and done with. so, they are always talking in superlatives, and are hard put to it when the facts catch up with them, and they have to invent new superlatives. instead of saying that there are bric

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days of the week. thus- of the thirty-six decans here follow the descriptions of the smaller cards of the four suits, thirty-six in number, answering unto the thirty-six decans of the zodiac. commencing from the sign aries, the central decans of each sign follow the order of the days of the week. thus- being thus the four threes, sixes, and nines. the first and third decans follow the same order: sunday beginning the first decan of virgo and in the third decans of gemini and capricorn. the planets govern respectively decans with the following titles- or in taurus leo libra sagittarius pisces two wands: 1 each of the other suits. or in gemini leo libra capricorn pisces two swords: 1 each of others. head cross, orb held downwards brown princess winged ram's head grass, flowers, grove of tree

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e correlation of days and planets, with their governing of properties, is as follows. choose your day for working magick based on these. monday moon merchandise; dreams; theft tuesday mars matrimony; war; enemies; prison wednesday mercury debt; fear; loss thursday jupiter honor; riches; clothing; desires friday venus love; friendship; strangers saturday saturn life; building; doctrine; protection sunday sun fortune; hope; money cord magick many witches and covens work cord magick. for this you will need a cord, or tingulum as it is sometimes called, that is nine feet long (three times three; the perennial magick number) and is red in color (the color of blood; the life force. it is best to make your own by taking three lengths of red silk (or wool, nylon, whatever you prefer though natural

like the diagram on the following page. the ritual is started by drawing a circle about you and the altar, with your athame, and consecrating it as usual. now meditate for a moment on what you want to achieve. light the candle representing the petitioner and say "here is (petitioner's name. this candle is her/ him. this flame burns as does her/his spirit" blue green black yellow white red purple sunday monday tuesday wednesday light red #1 and say "the love of.(name. is great and is here shown. it is a good strong love and sought by many" light astral candle of the love desired and say 'this is the heart of another; one whom s/he will love and desire. i picture her/him before me" light red# 2 and say "the love s/he has for.(petitioner's name. grows with this flame. it burns as does the li

d by (i) inscription, and (ii) consecration. it can be of any shape, but let's first look at the material of the talisman. a talisman can be of virtually any material paper, silver, copper, lead, stone but traditionally some substances are more appropriate than others, and their use will imbue the talisman with more power. for example, as you know, the days of the week are each ruled by a planet: sunday sun, monday moon, tuesday mars, wednesday mercury, thursday jupiter, friday venus, saturday saturn. now each of these planets is, in turn, associated with a metal: sun gold, moon silver, mars iron, mercury mercury, jupiter tin, venus-copper, saturn lead. from the table of correspondences given in the last lesson (for candleburning) you know what properties are governed by the days of the we

y jupiter, friday venus, saturday saturn. now each of these planets is, in turn, associated with a metal: sun gold, moon silver, mars iron, mercury mercury, jupiter tin, venus-copper, saturn lead. from the table of correspondences given in the last lesson (for candleburning) you know what properties are governed by the days of the week and can therefore correlate those properties with the metals: sunday sun /gold/ fortune, hope, money monday moon/ silver/ merchandise, dreams, theft tuesday mars/ iron/ matrimony, war, enemies, prison wednesday mercury/ mercury/ debt, fear, loss thursday jupiter/ tin i honor, riches/clothing, desires friday venus/ copper/ love, friendship, strangers saturday saturn/ lead/ life, building, doctrine, protection so, for example, knowing that friday is associated

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h, the worship of the old deities and the old ways were banned and the nature festivals supplanted by christian ones. the christians were pragmatic, however, and pope gregory, who sent st augustine to england in ad 597, acknowledged that it was simpler to graft the christian festivals on to the existing festivals of the solstices and equinoxes. so, easter, for example, was celebrated on the first sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox, which is where it remains today. in the same way, the crosses on the hot cross buns that we eat on good friday were originally the ancient astrological signs for the earth, and were eaten to absorb the power and fertility of mother earth. hot cross buns were still thought to retain their magical qualities until the early decades of the nin

ness with light, in meditation, for goddess-focused rituals, for increasing spiritual awareness and contact with spirit guides, angels and the higher self. white contains both solar and lunar energies and is often used for altar candles. you can substitute white for any other colour. white candles can be used on any day of the week, though they are associated with monday in the goddess aspect and sunday and the sun for life force magick. red red, the colour of mars, the planet and god of war, represents action, power, determination, physical energy and health, courage and determination, sexual passion and potency, survival and change, for careers where danger is involved and the armed forces. it is used as a focus for rituals calling on the power of the gods and for stimulating righteous a

e of all kinds are related to orange, as are independence and asserting your identity if it is under threat or being eroded by the demands or unfair criticism of others. orange also relates to careers involving people and the arts. above all, orange is the colour of joy and also the successful integration of all aspects of the personality into a harmonious whole. orange candles are best used on a sunday. yellow yellow is the colour associated with mercury, the winged messenger of the roman gods. through his skill and dexterity, he came to rule over commerce and medicine and also became patron of tricksters and thieves. seite 53 wicca01.txt yellow candles therefore encourage clear communication and activity of all kinds, improving memory, concentration and learning, and are good for overcom

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 (male) power, energy and change and all rituals with noble or altruistic purpose. gold is best used on a sunday. using colour in rituals seite 56 wicca01.txt you can also use coloured candles as a focus for wishes in a particular area of experience represented by the colour. so you might write a wish for a better memory on yellow paper and burn it in a yellow candle, the colour of mercury. you could then collect the ash in a heatproof ceramic pot or metal bowl beneath the candle and scatter it to the

third hour after sunset, which on this day is jupiter's evening hour, to add his authority and opportunities for expansion. planetary days and their applications in this section i have listed the particular strengths of each planet, together with their most powerful times. remember that, in addition, the sign you are born under will exert its influences on you at all times [insert sym13] the sun sunday, the day of the sun, is for spells for personal fulfilment and ambition, power and success, for increasing the flow of the life force, asserting or strengthening 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

on in further reading on page 297, or try entering angels on your web browser. images can be downloaded and form a focus for meditations, through which you can invoke each angel using your own higher self or consciousness. in this way, the protective angel draws on your own spiritual powers. archangels and their days of the week michael michael is the archangel who rules the sun. michael's day is sunday. michael, the initiator, brings illumination and inspiration in many spheres of life, through the efforts of our individual creative spirit. michael is the guardian of all who stand alone with their unique vision for bettering the world and are not prepared to compromise their ideals for humanity, purely for money or fame. this archangel can be invoked in ritual for all creative ventures, f

her norse counterpart was ostara, the maiden aspect of frigg, the mother goddess, to whom the hare was sacred (this is the origin of the easter rabbit. at the spring equinox, bonfires were lit and the corn dolly of the previous harvest (or in christian times a judas figure) was burned on the easter fires. the ashes were scattered on the field for fertility. wake at dawn on equinox morn or easter sunday and, it is said, you can see the sun or in the christian tradition, angels, dancing in a stream or river. the green man is another central figure that features 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

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ting role in black america. a supernatural practitioner who was committed to good\ 12\ works, abraham channeled his gifts into a ministry that endured for more than thirty years. his great success demonstrates how african americans in the early twentieth century, like their nineteenth-century predecessors, embraced beliefs that extended well beyond the prescribed territories of the church and the sunday school and into their everyday lives. although it is not clear that henry abraham would have claimed the title, his career manifests strong parallels with those of other african american supernatural healers, the conjurers. conjure is a magical tradition in which spiritual power is invoked for various purposes, such as healing, protection, and self defense. the relationship between conjure

he recalled "when the door opened and a little conjure man came in and said softly: eyou don't understand de people. you must get you a hand as a friend to draw 'em. ef you will let me fix you a luck charm, you'll git 'em" the minister accepted the charm from the conjurer and found to his surprise the very next week his church was full "for four years" he reflected "the aisles were crowded every sunday" disgusted, he eventually destroyed the charm, unable to reconcile his increased popularity with the apparent potency of the supernatural object "i knew it was not the gospel's power\ 13\ but that wretched eluck ball. f" perplexed, he concluded "i c have never been able to draw an audience since"[3] black magic page 10 of 144 http//content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk.id=0&doc

ion between the two the positions he held. sarcastically, owen commented "the old-fashioned negro c conjures in the name of his african devil on saturday, and goes to a christian church, sings, prays and exhorts, and after emeetin f invites the minister to a dinner black magic page 19 of 144 http//content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006 of stolen poultry on sunday" some black supernatural specialists appear to have been quite comfortable in their dual roles. allen vaughn, an earlytwentieth-century conjurer "of great repute" in north carolina "conducted prayer meetings and sat on the mourner's bench" in the baptist church, as was explained in a chapter of a book about his family titled "the conjurer-churchman" other conjurers supported christian relig

b. lippincott, 1935, p. 228. 41. thaddeus norris "negro superstitions" lippincott's monthly magazine, july 1870, reprinted in the negro and his folklore in nineteenth-century periodicals, ed. bruce jackson (austin: university of texas press, 1967, p. 139; oral narrative, rev. p. l. harvey, folder 2, pp. 1.4, university of virginia special collections, lynchburg; clipping from the new york times, sunday, december 20, 1874, newbell puckett papers, cleveland public library; rawick, american black magic page 100 of 144 http//content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006 slave, georgia narratives vol. 13, pt. 4, p. 248. 42. this is not to say that congregations never formally censured church-going conjure practitioners. several nineteenth-century church trials

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d life and when i was in college i would come home from a date at three in the morning and they would not get back until two hours later. and, in spite of the bible boom of the 1950's, they did not take religion very seriously. we were united church of christ, with a short interlude among the liberal methodists and when a local television station decided to run the classic flash gordon serials on sunday mornings, dad was all to happy to give up church-going so i could watch my favorite show and he could get some sleep. there were no opportunities to see angels in my house and if anyone did, there would some very serious questions about the quality of the liquor. i was going to be a scientist. i had my chemistry sets and set off bombs in the backyard (they were actually attempts to create r

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stice wenersturm, the president of one of the tribunals, resigned and went home in disgust at the injustice and manipulation of it all. another american judge, edward l. van roden, was one of the three members of the simpson army commission which was appointed to investigate the methods used at the dachau trials at nuremberg. his findings were reported in the washington daily news and the british sunday pictorial in january 1949. he described the ways that 'confessions' were secured "posturing as priests to hear confessions and give absolution; torture with burning matches driven under the prisoner's finger nails; knocking out of teeth and breaking jaws; solitary confinement and near-starvation rations..the statements which were admitted as evidence were obtained from men who had first bee

isation through which manipulation is orchestrated that adds massively to the number of political prisoners? media organisations supporting the riia include abc news intercontinental inc; cbs news; nbc news worldwide inc; britain's channel four tv and independent television news (itn; fuji television; der spiegel; the european; the financial times; the guardian; the independent and independent on sunday; the observer; daily telegraph; the times; the scotsman; the yorkshire post; reuters, the international news agency; the new york times; the washington post; the wall street journal; the reader's digest; and, quite outrageously for an organisation claiming to be independent, the bbc world service; the bbc monitoring service; and bbc radio. taxpayer funding and support for the riia is given

ph newspapers and the hollinger group. great to know we have a free press, eh? another member of the bilderberg steering committee is andrew knight, the former executive on the economist, black's daily telegraph, and later the executive 154 .and the truth shall set you free chairman of rupert murdoch's news international which, in britain, owns the sun, today, the news of the world, the times and sunday times. knight is still on the board of that organisation. since 1982, he has been part of the council of management of the ditchley foundation, based at ditchley park, near oxford, in a castle built for the earl of lichfield in the sixteenth century. the ditchley foundation was given the property by ronald and marietta tree. ronald was a former high flyer in british intelligence.38 the stee

mmission and the elite planning for world management (edited by holly sklar, south end press, boston, usa, 1980)p182 34 trilateralism, pl83 35 trilateralism, pl66-167 36 washington observer newsletter (july 1st 1971) 37 later the international institute of strategic studies. the ford foundation gave $150,000 over three years (trilateralism, pl87) 38 the world order, our secret rulers, p267 39 the sunday times (december 17th 1995) p1, section 3 40 john smith attended the april 1986 bilderberg meeting in gleneagles, scotland, which was chaired by lord roll of ipsden. also there were david steel, the then leader of the british liberal party; denis healey; lord home; garret fitzgerald, the irish prime minister; lord young, the uk secretary of state for employment; malcolm rifkind, the secretar

usual. and an initiate of licio gelli's p2 freemasonry lodge in rome was a man called silvio berlusconi. he went on to become prime minister of italy and the country's major media mogul. just a coincidence nothing to worry about! 202 .and the truth shall set you free sources 1 secret societies, pp294-295. see also dr john coleman's conspirators hierarchy. the story of the committee of 300. 2 the sunday times (december 17th 1995) p1, section 3 3 conspirators hierarchy. the story of the committee of 300. see also who's who of the elite by robert gaylon ross, sr (rie, spicewood, texas, 1995) 4 after 1986, such dire penalties ceased to be spoken by the initiate during the ceremonies and are instead spoken by the worshipful master. what difference that is supposed to make i can't think. purely

t think. purely cosmetic. 5 i highly recommend martin short's, inside the brotherhood (grafton books, london, 1990. this reference is from page 60. 6 secret societies, p282 7 if you know anything about these groups, please contact me. 8 alternative press review (fall, 1994, usa) p53 9 "a state of terror, by ben c. vidgen, nexus magazine (february/march 1996) pl8 10 "saddam double fools the world, sunday times (january 22nd 1995) pi and section three, p1 11 treason at maastricht, pl40 12 betty mills, colonel north, william casey and the knights of malta (private printing, 1990) p4 13 quoted in the us publication, matrix iii, p680 14 my thanks for the secret society background to northern ireland to on target magazine. see bibliography. 15 see the series of booklets by anthony c. sutton, the

etary matters and creation of this world conservation bank, in the company of i. michael sweatman of the royal bank of canada. those two were like siamese twins, and that's why i say that it appears they were running at least the money side of this conference and i would say the conference was primarily to get money. also, david rockefeller (of chase manhattan bank) was there and gave a speech on sunday."23 the debt scam 241 the scam was to transfer the debts from the third world countries to the world conservation bank and, in return, those countries would give land to the wcb. should the wcb collapse or get into repayment difficulties on the debts, it would then owe its assets to the global bankers, who would be at liberty to seize the lands of the third world. alternatively, in the ever

the truth shall set you free the power of the elite to control the major newspapers and broadcast media was seen again in january 1995, when a 4,000 word article exposing the barry seal drugrunning operation at mena and its connections to iran-contra and the cia was withdrawn from the washington post. it was immediately dubbed "the greatest story never told. the article was due to appear in the "sunday outlook" section, after eleven weeks of debate and argument among the staff. lawyers had been through every line and approved it legally, the type had been set, and the illustrations completed. the contracts with the authors had been signed and leonard downie, the executive editor, had given his consent. then suddenly, it was pulled and the post's managing editor, robert kaiser (cfr, said i

nd it was she who stopped drug testing for white house employees. this is the president of the united states we are talking about here. this is the white house, the supposed centre of power in the most powerful country in the world. and people go on allowing it to happen. clinton was actually re-elected in 1996! there is another intriguing aspect to the foster story. documents shown to the london sunday telegraph reveal that foster was jetting around the world and making strange visits to switzerland while still working in private practice at the rose law firm.50 records show that he was flying with delta airlines (at discount rates only available to senior government officials or those involved in work for the federal government, before he was publicly connected in any way to the governme

chose the banks to advise the companies being privatised. sir michael richardson was vice chairman of n.m. rothschild and chairman of the rothschild company, smith new court, when this privatisation work was being won during the margaret thatcher years. sir michael, a senior freemason, is a close associate of margaret thatcher. we can always rely on the media to expose these matters, however. the sunday telegraph of january 29th 1995, ran an article justifying the rothschild/wakeham/ government connections and saw nothing wrong with them. the sunday telegraph, 336..and the truth shall set you free like the daily telegraph, is owned by the bilderberger, conrad black, and on the board of telegraph newspapers plc is evelyn de rothschild, the chairman of .n.m. rothschild! the article failed to

the lancaster house conference, it was revealed that margaret thatcher (bil) and lord carrington (tc, bil, riia, comm 300) had ordered a massive surveillance operation on the delegates. telephones were tapped, rooms bugged, diplomatic communications were monitored, and the british used rhodesian security to interpret the african language. this was revealed by reporter barrie penrose in the london sunday times of february 3rd 1980, under the headline "minister's phone was tapped by secret services. this, said the article, was why "lord carrington could conduct the conference on the basis of brinkmanship. the intelligence services told him what the brinks were. which leads to another question: if the rooms and 342 .and the truth shall set you free phones were bugged, why did they not know wh

41 ibid pl30 42 the clinton chronicles, produced in 1994 by citizens video press, a division of citizens for honest government, po box 220, winchester, ca 92596 350. and the truth shall set you free 43 the clinton chronicles 44 "state organised crime, the presidential address by william j. chambliss to the american society of criminology, 1988 45 details of the article were reported in the london sunday telegraph (january 29th 1995) pl8 46 terry reed and john cummings, compromised: clinton, bush, and the cia (1994) 47 interview on the video, the clinton chronicles 48 quote from jim johnson, former arkansas state senator and state supreme court judge. on the video the clinton chronicles 49 nicholas guarino, the editor of the wall street underground, wrote an article accusing bill clinton of

in murder, drug running, extortion, rape, threats, beatings, break-ins, bribery, thefts, arson, conflicts of interest, money laundering, insider trading, election fraud, obstruction of justice, campaign fraud, witness tampering, and destruction of subpoenaed documents. the content of the article was summarised in the spotlight (december 19th 1994) p1, 3 50 "secret swiss link to white house death, sunday telegraph (may 21st 1995) p22 51 interview for the clinton chronicles 52 the spotlight (may 8th 1995) p6 53 david rockefeller praised clinton publicly for his support for gatt in the arkansas democratic gazette of may 21st 1995, and rockefeller was described as a "leading voice advising clinton on trade policies in central and south america. advising? dictating. 54 the spotlight (february 2

her member of the bilderberg group steering committee and the ditchley foundation, and formerly of the economist magazine (director, evelyn de rothschild, a publication set up to press for an end to the corn laws and promote the principle of 'free trade. knight moved on to become executive chairman of rupert murdoch's news international which owns the sun, the news of the world, and the times and sunday times. murdoch owns newspapers, magazines, and television networks that are estimated to have a potential audience of three billion people. that is without his interests in the film industry. he is now linking in with a global telephone and communications network, mci, and has made a bid for parts of the vast berlusconi media empire in italy. according to the european newspaper he is also p

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of artemis (diana) worship. the merovingians founded paris on major vortex points on the earth's energy grid and built underground chambers outside the original settlement to harness that energy in their rituals and sacrifices to the goddess diana. that very site is still an underground chamber. it is called the pont de l'alma tunnel where princess diana, named after the goddess, was murdered on sunday, august 31st, 1997. the goddess diana was symbolically a "moon goddess" and the name pont de l'alma means "bridge or passage of the moon goddess. i tell the story of diana's assassination in great detail in the biggest secret,27 where you will also see the staggering obsession that the bloodlines and their illuminati network have with symbolism and ritual. everything they do is symbolism an

esus" and yet again tells the later christian story in fine detail. it is even said that gold, frankincense, and myrrh, were offered to him. by the time that jesus was invented by the anunnaki priesthood, the mithra rites and religion were widespread throughout the roman empire. when they founded christianity in rome, they used the symbols and myths of the mithric rituals. mithra's sacred day was sunday because he was, like jesus, symbolic of the sun. mithra worshippers called this the "lord's day" and they celebrated the main mithra festival during what is now easter. mithra initiations were held in caves adorned with the signs of capricorn and cancer, symbolic of the winter and summer solstices. he was portrayed as a winged lion (the sun) standing within a spiralling serpent. the lion an

ged draco. these align with ancient and modern descriptions across the world of the "royal" reptilians from the draco constellation with their wings, tails, and horns. keel compiled his findings in a book, the mothmen prophecies (signet books, new york, 1976. here is a sample..according to her story, connie [carpenter, a shy, sensitive eighteen-year-old, was driving home from church at 10:30am on sunday, november 27, 1966, when, as she passed the deserted greens of mason county golf course outside new haven, west virginia, she suddenly saw a huge grey figure. it was shaped like a man, she said, but much larger. it was at least seven feet tall and very broad. the thing that attracted her attention was not its size, but its eyes. it had, she said, large, round, fiercely glowing red eyes that

centre of these sacrifice rituals and they have been performed in the same way for thousands of years going back to atlantis and beyond under the control of the other-dimensional entities and serpent "gods. this ritual of cutting out and eating the human heart goes back as long as the bloodlines and can be found all over the world. the heart represents the very essence of who we are. the scottish sunday post of january 2000 told the strange story of alisdair rosslyn sinclair under the headline "victim of secret holy land power struggle" he was a scottish 280 children of the matrix "tourist" who was named after rosslyn chapel, near edinburgh, which was built by the sinclair family, formerly the french st clair family, which was involved in the formation of the knights templar. alistair ross

island, including a large house in the countryside where children are brought to parties for guests to rape. other ritual centres include at least one yacht club and a seafront hotel. the chalk seam that runs from one side of the "diamond isle" to the other appears to be very important to the satanists. some years ago, a local community worker told the nexus of the world, the uk's biggest selling sunday newspaper, about the horrific satanic rituals and sacrifice on the island and the involvement of freemasonry, local politicians, council administrators, hotel owners, and other business people.15 but nothing was done. it was just covered up. i have spoken to others who know what goes on and the story of the isle of wight is horrific, but the local media don't want to know. yet again, ted he

dren across the world are fronts for satanism and its offshoot, trauma-based mind control. most of the children are suffering every day without their parent's knowledge, but they are also handed over to the cults quite willingly by their satanic parents. occasionally, the odd story gets into a newspaper, but this bears no resemblance to the staggering scale of the ritual abuse of children. the uk sunday mirror revealed the abuse of a woman they called kate, who was then aged 34. she had been abused at a house on the outskirts of dublin, ireland, since she was three "i still remember the first time it happened" she said "it was evening time because it was dark outside and my mother made me dress up in my best clothes. i was excited because i thought i was going on an adventure. i was picked

haeologist also confirmed the existence of the tunnels and an alarm system inside the centre. in other words, the children had been telling the truth. in britain there have been, among many others, cases in orkney, nottingham, rochdale, and cleveland. each time the social workers trying to expose satanic abuse have been subjected to a blitz of condemnation by the mainstream media with the mail on sunday particularly vehement in its opposition. it went so far on one occasion as to describe the "spectre" of satanism as "hysterical nonsense. such remarks are so at odds with the worldwide evidence that they can only be the work of an uninformed idiot (quite possible) or someone who wishes the truth to remain undiscovered. as a result of such imbalanced coverage and, of course, the stunning nat

ven not at all. most of the rest are so terrified by the consequences of speaking about their experiences that they stay silent. that's why zack is such a brave little boy. those that do tell their story are faced with a system structured to suppress public exposure. the next time people want to close their minds to a child's "fantastic story" of ritual abuse, they should remember that. sources 1 sunday mirror, october 24. 1999 2 ibid 3 quoted by andrew boyd in blasphemous rumours (fount paperbacks, an imprint of harper collins. london, 1991, p 30 4 the deadly deception, p 149 5 see also http//www.davidicke.com/icke/index1a.html 6 who owns whom 1990: australia& far east, merchants of debt, george anders, kkr and the mortgaging of american business (basic books, 1992; sarah bartlett, the mo

and was watching herself being hit. this often happens in these circumstances and it is the mind "dissociating (splitting, withdrawing and distancing itself) from the trauma. people of certain bloodlines with family histories of child abuse dissociate easily, and each time they do so another compartment is created in their mind. the woman who beat her was the one who welcomed the children at the sunday school. when jane saw her the next sunday, she did not "spiritual" satanism and "christian" conmen 325 recognise her because the trauma had been compartmentalised. but she reacted by kicking and screaming, although she did not know why at the time. since her memories have begun to return, as they have for many such victims, she recalled vividly being placed in a cedar chest and the lid secu

they could be injected through a hypodermic needle during mass vaccination programmes. some years later, a picture appeared in a british newspaper of an ant holding a micro-chip in its pincers and that's only the size they allow us to see. you will find that shot in the picture section. chipping people so they can "talk" to their personal computers and the internet is another approach. the london sunday times reported "the next computer you buy may be the last one you will need. in future, scientists want to insert electronic chips into our heads so we can plug directly into the information superhighway. british researchers are among international teams working on an implant to translate human thought into computer language. in a generation, one group says, people with a peppercorn-sized c

afla.html and http//www.davidicke.com/icke/articles/lanctot.html 15 there is a long list of articles on aids in the medical archives of the david icke website 16 see the medical mafia and http//www.davidicke.net/medicalarchives/badmed/vaccinemafia.html 17 ibid 18 http//www.davidicke.net/medicalarchives/badmed/doctorguns.html 19 http//www.davidicke.net/medicalarchives/badmed/5000die.html 20 london sunday times reported: on april 16th, 1995 21 nexus magazine, summer 1994 22 http//www.davidicke.net/newsroom/global/090800a.html 23 http//www.reptilianagenda.com/exp/e020900a.html chapter 18 the matrix the matrix is everywhere. it is all around us. even now, in this very room. you can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. you can feel it when you go to work, wh

of what i call the "robot radicals. the london school of economics is a prime example. kalman and murray have long since left the scene. they suddenly went very quiet. maybe they realised they had been massively duped into duping others. maybe the story got old and the fees from the newspapers ran out. who knows and who cares? however, their nonsense was now in print thanks to newspapers like the sunday times, guardian, independent, and the london evening standard, all run by highly intelligent people, you'll understand. once in print, even if the sources themselves may no longer believe it, the articles can be used to further censor what people can hear. enter stage right, far right from where i am sitting, one richard warman. never heard of him? you are not alone. no one seemed to have h

ontact numbers for the canadian green party on the website. at the same time warman was having my events banned, the leader of the us green party, ralph nader, was condemning the "censorship" that saw him denied a place in the televised presidential debates between bush and gore. warman summed up his attitude to freedom when he told a journalist of equal intelligence in the british independent on sunday "he has taken all the conspiracy theories that ever existed and melded them together to create an even greater conspiracy of his own. his writings may be the work of a madman, or of a genuine racist. either way they are very dangerous. there is an unpleasant anti-semitic undertone in his work [i thought i was a "hatemonger" openly condemning jewish people] that must be brought to public att

rman does not feel the same about others. green party members of the world, this man claims to speak for you. how long are you going to sit there in silence? while you do so, you are responsible for everything this man does and says in your name. how many more venue owners are going to have their decisions made by such a fundamental enemy of freedom? the "journalist" who wrote that independent on sunday article, one jason cowley, just let those quotes pass without comment while calling my work "extreme "dark, and "dotty. if more dark and extreme words have ever been spoken than those, then i haven't heard them. but in one way, richard warman, this misguided holographic image, provides a service to those who care about their freedoms. his behaviour has shown how fragile those freedoms are a

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often portrayed with rams heads to symbolise that the time of aries, the spring, wasa period of natures abundant creation. the festival of easter was as important to earlychristians as december 25th. the legend of mithra said he was crucified and wasresurrected on march 25th. the date of easter is no longer fixed to the first day ofaries, but the symbolism remains. the christian religious day is. sunday. christianchurches are build east-west with the altar to the east. this means that the congregationface east- the direction of the rising sun. even easter eggs, like hot cross buns, are nota christian tradition. dyed eggs were sacred easter offerings in egypt and persia,among other places. how ironic that the authorities at westminster abbey havequestioned whether they should have a christm

ppens to be a majorcentre for the mithra sun religion and it was the cilicians who had taken this cult torome, from where it spread throughout the empire. asia minor was also a region whichfollowed the cult of dionysus. both were symbolic sun gods, born on december 25th,who died so our sins could be forgiven. everything christians believe about jesus, theromans and persians believed about mithra. sunday was the sacred day for mithraistsbecause he was a sun god and they called this the lords day. dionysus was born to avirgin mother, and he was known as: the vine, our lord, the saviour, the judge of thedead, the deliverer, the born again and the only begotten son of god. above the headof dionysus were the words: i am life, death, and resurrection, i hold the wingedcrown (the sun).18 the writ

us in asia minor, not far from the alleged site of troy. the locationof the ancient underground chamber in paris where the merovingians worshipped andsacrificed to the goddess diana is now called the pont and place de lialma and it is still,by design, an underground chamber. on the site today is a road tunnel and it was herethat the car of diana, princess of wales, crashed in the early morning of sunday, august31st 1997. another offshoot of the scythian-sicambrian franks-merovingian bloodlineemigrated from northern france and belgium in the 12th century to become the famousscottish families and some of these were the ancestors of diana, princess of wales.the merovingian king, clovis, had the iris, or fleur-de-lis, as his royal emblem, aflower which grows wild in the middle east. it is also

g personal attackson me, including the fact that my eyes appeared bloodshot. not surprising after a non-272stop speaking tour of australia, new zealand and the united states over a period of twomonths, but how can anyone write about the state of someones eyes when they arebeing offered, as he put it himself, the story of the century? because hes a journalist,thats why i offered to put the british sunday people in contact with similar sources, butthey didnt want to know. as the old saying goes: you cannot bribe or twist the greatbritish journalist, but seeing what they will do unbribed, theres no reason to. ofcourse there are journalists who are exceptions, and honourable ones, but they are so, sorare and ask them what happens when they try to write the story as it really is.journalists dan

publishing inbritain, 55% of australian provincial newspapers, 25% of irish press newspapers, and44% of wilson and horton the largest newspaper group in new zealand.5 he also hasextensive interests in cable television in ireland, and radio and television in australia andnew zealand. his acquisitions will go on and money will be no object because for all hisself-promotion he is just a puppet. his sunday independent in ireland devoted an eightpage supplement to him called a man for all continents and it included seventeenphotographs of him with his friends. henry kissinger (bil, cfr,tc, riia, comm300, margaret thatcher (bil, v alery giscard destaing (bil, and robert mugabe. oneof oreillys close friends in ireland is the former prime minister, garret fitzgerald (bil,tc).6 oreilly also idolis

it is likely, the magiciansterm, abracadabra, originated. dutroux buried alive an accomplice, bernard weinstein,and among weinsteins effects was a letter from the abrasax group signed by someonedescribing himself as the egyptian god, anubis. it ordered him to provide presents forthe high priestess of the order and apparently gave specific details of the age and sexthe victims must be. the british sunday times reported the accounts of witnessesdescribing black masses in which children were killed in front of audiences whichincluded prominent members of belgian society.32 a belgian newspaper reported that aformer commissioner of the european union was among a group of judges, seniorpoliticians, lawyers, and policemen, who attended orgies at a belgian chateau organisedby michel nihoul, one of

in to investigate. the assassinationsof president kennedy and princess diana were full of satanic ritual, also, as i shalloutline later. i hear the same themes of satanic ritual, abuse and sacrifice in everycountry i visit and even on the isle of wight, the small island off the south coast ofengland where i have lived for many years, there is substantial satanic activity. britainsbiggest selling sunday tabloid, the news of the world, published the revelations of acommunity worker on the isle of wight who exposed the nature and extent of the abusethere. she said that these satanic sacrificers of children were pillars of the localcommunity, owners of seaside hotels, business people, local government officers, andpoliticians. she described the breeding programmes on the island in which babie

nt archaeologist also confirmed the existence ofthe tunnels and an alarm system inside the centre. in other words, the children had beentelling the truth. in britain there have been, among many others, cases in orkney,nottingham, rochdale and cleveland. each time the social workers trying to exposesatanic abuse have been subjected to a blitz of condemnation by the mainstream mediawith the mail on sunday particularly vehement in its opposition. it went so far on oneoccasion as to describe the spectre of satanism as hysterical nonsense. such remarksare so at odds with worldwide evidence that they can only be the work of an uninformedidiot (quite possible) or someone who wishes the truth to remain uncovered. as a resultof such imbalanced coverage and, of course, the staggering nature of the c

r revelation, p 109.14the occult conspiracy, pp 39-40.15the temple and the lodge, p 53.16the hiram key, p 364.31117the curse of canaan, p 37.18ibid.19ibid.20ibid.21lbid,p38.22blasphemous rumours, p 114.23ibid.24the illuminati formula, p 46.25ibid.26the top 13 llluminati bloodlines.27ibid, p 93.28the illuminati formula, p 213.29ibid.30ibid.31ibid, p 214.32satanic links to belgian murder trial, the sunday times, december 29th 1996.33ibid.34ibid.35lord mcalpine and the paedophile ring, scallywag, issue 22, 1994.36peter jones, the obedience of australia (xpo-imprint, 26 burlington close, london, w9 3lz,1995, pp 10-11.37extraterrestrial friends and foes, p 70.38ibid, p 69.39the monster man of pie, scallywag, issue 25, 1994.40contact newspaper, april 4th 1995, p 23.41the illuminati formula, p 22

rder ofthe british empire, the former number two in the 22nd regiment of the sas. the firstchairman was major general viscount gilbert monckton of brenchley, companion ofthe bath, order of the british empire, and former chief of staff of the british army ofthe rhine. his father was in winston churchills cabinet and chairman of midlandbank, and his son was editor of the daily telegraph (hollinger) sunday magazine andadvisor to margaret thatcher. philip warner of the shipping company p& 0 wasanother founding director of defence systems and a later chief executive was richardn. bethell, another former sas officer. his father, lord nicholas bethell, was an agentwith british intelligence (m16) and lord-in-waiting to the queen. he was involved inthe manipulation of the war in afghanistan through

of the web. but the eir does some outstanding research. their windsorreport is expensive, but well worth it if you want to know more. their address is executiveintelligence review, p0 box 17390, washington dc 20041-0390. through the rest of thischapter i will source this document with the name of the writer and the title of the article,followed by (el r).16blairs school mentor was sex abuser, the sunday times, may 25th 1997.17scott thompson, the nazi roots of the house of windsor (el r, p 70.18ibid, 71.19scott thomson, the ultimate insider trader is the queen (el r, p 73.20ibid.21ibid, p 74.22for the full story on this see the peter jones book, the obedience of australia, published byxpo-imprint, 26 burlington close, london, in 1995.23the ultimate insider trader is the queen, p 74.24ibid.2

bid, p 74.22for the full story on this see the peter jones book, the obedience of australia, published byxpo-imprint, 26 burlington close, london, in 1995.23the ultimate insider trader is the queen, p 74.24ibid.25stephen knight, the brotherhood (granada books, london, 1985, p 223.26anthony k. wikrent, the anglo-dutch corporate empire (el r, pp 113-132.27the brotherhood, p 211.28ibid.29the mail on sunday, august 12th 1998, p 9.30dean andromidas, crown agents: the queens managers (eir, pp 141-142.31ibid, p 141-142.32ibid, p 141.33the obedience of australia, p 55.34the brotherhood, p 217.35scott thompson, the queens honorary knights in america (el r, p 81.36james shelby downard, sorcery, sex, assassination and the science of symbolism, anarticle in the book, secret and suppressed, edited by j

daily mail, thursday, august 27th 1998.25ibid.26diana: her true story27ibid.28ibid.29private eye magazine, no 956, friday, august 7th 1998, p 5.30t om bower, fayed, the unauthodsed biography (macmillan, london, 1998).31ibid, p 22.32the london daily mail, friday, june 26th 1998.33simon reagan, who killed diana (a scallywag publication, amsterdam, 1998, p 57.34ibid, p 62.46335the news of the world, sunday, january 18th 1998, pp 18, 19.36peter hounam and derek mcadam, who killed diana, p 17.37dispatches, channel four, june 1998.38ibid.39ibid.40fayed, the unauthorised biography, p 425.41ibid, p 420.42ibid, p 421.43peter hounam and derek mcadam, who killed diana, p 64.44ibid, pp 73, 74.45jim marrs, crossfire: the plot that killed kennedy (carrol and graf publishers, new york,1989, p 382.46dispa

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ambling, and engaging in other sinful pleasures. the satanist does not even think badly of the christian for doing such things. but the satanist can only feel contempt for someone who preaches against the pleasures of the flesh and condemns others to eternal damnation while continuing to do these things himself. these men are out drinking and lusting after women on friday night and then in church sunday morning asking god to forgive them for their sins when they know they will be back out the following weekend doing what they have always done. the satanist rejects them because they are hypocrites, and judges them by the standards they have set. why, you may ask, does the satanist call himself a satanist if he does not believe in the literal existence of the devil? the satanist, of course

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shaitan, the adversary. in the black book, a doctrine considered written by shaykh adi, describes the foundation of azazel as the black light or hidden way of the path against all others- in the beginning god created the white pearl out of his most precious essence; and he created a bird named anfar. and he placed the pearl upon its back, and dwelt thereon forty thousand years. on the first day, sunday, he created an angel named 'azazil, which is ta'us melek("the peacock angel, the chief of all. the black book it is presented here that ta us melek is the foundation of independent energy, motion and progression. in no mentioning of the black book is satan considered to be a negative force, rather a misunderstood power which can reside in each human being who can recognize what azazel is. 2

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are the pathologies of the mystic life, and if they were better understood, many tragedies might be averted. on the other hand, it is not well that everybody should indulge in the study of textbooks of pathology. a vivid imagination and a weak head are a disastrous combination. the readers of that one-time "best seller" three men in a boat, may remember the fate of the individual who spent a wet sunday afternoon reading a medical textbook. at the finish he was firmly convinced he had got every single disease described therein with the single exception of house maid's knee. this book is not intended merely to make the flesh creep, but is designed as a serious contribution to a little-understood aspect of abnormal psychology, perverted, in some instances, to the purposes of crime. it is a b

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than two hundred feet deep filled with reptiles, each of which had seven heads, and all their bodies were covered as it were with scorpions. here also were serpents, the very sight of which terrified the beholder, and to one of them which had teeth like iron stakes was the wretched man given to be devoured; for five days in each week the serpent crushed him with his teeth, but on the saturday and sunday there was respite. another picture of the torments of hades is given in the martyrdom of macarius of antioch, wherein the saint, having restored to life a man who had been dead six hours, learned that when he was about to die he was surrounded by fiends, some of whom had the faces of dragons, others of lions, others of crocodiles, and others of bears. they tore his soul from his body with g

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g at his station, with bowed head, disconsolate visage, and with no apparent interest in the brilliant assemblage around him. a past grand master walked up to him and inquired the cause of his dejection. with a breaking voice and moist eyes the old man replied in tremulous tones "i have served you all these many years; i have tried at all times to do my duty, and here you fellows are in your fine sunday clothes: and i have not been furnished with so much as a jacket" a typical lodge 125 it was amusing and yet sad. the next day an order was given to a dressmaker of the town for a jacket and other garments for uncle dick. a member bought a broadbrimmed straw hat, then quite fashionable, and another picked up for him a rusty, old-fashioned, crooked sabre that had done service in the revolutio

sheets had been destroyed, and that in a few days morgan would be effectually separated from the company that had led to his ruin. during the day it was reported to us at lewiston that 'morgan had gone into theatricals' and was shouting and alarming the people in the vicinity. nothing would quiet him except rum, which was given him "lawson, whitney and a few others remained in the vicinity until sunday night, when the two canadian brethren came over, received morgan, receipted to whitney for the money[$5oo] and crossed to the west side of the river "they travelled on horseback-three horses in the party; monday night they rode some thirty miles farther to a point near the present city of hamilton, where the journey ended. morgan signed a receipt for the $5oo. he also signed a declaration o

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t of decease was duly understood. sometimes more is conveyed, especially in cases of accidental or violent death. successive pictures may arise as if in a vision of the state of the body or of subsequent steps taken in regard to it. the announcement of death may be quite explicit, as in the case described in the proceedings society for psychical research (vol. 10, pp. 380.82, on june 5th, 1887, a sunday evening, between eleven and twelve at night, being awake, my name was called three times. i answered twice, thinking it was my uncle, come in, uncle george, i am awake, but the third time i recognized the voice as that of my mother, who had been dead sixteen years. i said mamma! she then came round a screen near my bedside with two children in her arms, and placed them in my arms and put th

as described: we all saw the trumpet (having a phosphorescent band) rise towards the ceiling and turn upside down so as to place the large end uppermost, then we heard something fall heavily into the trumpet, as though the object had dropped from the ceiling. the arrival of a jar of ointment in full visibility is recorded in rev. charles l. tweedale s man s survival after death (1909. he writes: sunday, 13th november, 1910. mother had sustained a cut on the head, and she, my wife, and i were all in the dining room at 9:20 p.m. we were all close together, mother seated in a chair, self and wife standing. no one else was in the room. my wife was in the act of parting mother s hair with her fingers to examine the cut and i was looking on. at that instant i happened to raise my eyes and i saw

ly taught to earlyne chaney by the masters. the law of vibration has led to the practice of reciting om, the sanskrit word believed to encompass the creative energy of the universe. along with other yogic and meditative techniques, astara recommends a natural food diet that leans toward vegetarianism. astara is headquartered in a complex in upland, california, where members congregate and regular sunday services and a cycle of conferences and retreats are held throughout the year. most members relate to astara through a set of correspondence lessons, the book of life. the book of life lessons function as a guru to the student and replace any need for a personal teacher. apart from the lessons, both chaneys have written a number of books and shorter works. in 1988 there were approximately 1

birth. thus two hours every day are under the control of saturn; the first hour after sunrise on saturday is one of them. therefore, a person born on saturday in the first hour after sunrise has saturn for the lord of his or her ascendant; those born in the next hour, jupiter; and so on in order. venus rules the first hour on friday, mercury on wednesday, jupiter on thursday, the sun and moon on sunday and monday, and mars on tuesday. in drawing a nativity or natal chart (horoscope) a figure is divided into 12 portions representing the astrological houses. the 12 houses are similar to the 12 astrological signs, and the planets, being always in the zodiac, will therefore all fall within these 12 divisions or houses. the line that separates any house from the preceding is called the cusp of

this influenced him, and in august 1870, he set to work to prepare the first number, which appeared on the 1st of september of that year. there was no organization in australian spiritualism, and mr. terry saw the advantage and necessity of associative movement. he consulted a few friends, and in november 1870, he organized the first victorian association of spiritualists. a hall was rented, and sunday services, consisting of essays and reading by members, enlivened by appropriate hymns, were held. in october 1872, impressed with the desirability of forming a lyceum, he called together a few willing workers, and held the first session on october 20th, 1872. it is, and has been from the first in a flourishing condition, numbering 150 members, with a very handsome and complete outfit, and e

leech were published from week to week in pamphlet form, and widely distributed. at the same time, mr. charles bright, who had published letters on spiritualism in the argus, over an assumed name, openly identified himself with the movement, and spoke publicly on the subject. shortly after, 11 persons met and formed an association, which soon increased to 80 members. a hymn book was compiled, and sunday services began. as elsewhere, the press ridiculed and the pulpit denounced spiritualism as a delusion. a number of articles in the argus brought some of the facts prominently before the public, and the growing interest was advanced by a public discussion between messrs. tyerman and blair. in 1872, a sunday school, on harmonial principles, was established, mr. w. h. terry, the proprietor of

on s article assuring the rev. mr. green that i was willing to meet him at once in a public discussion. the melbourne argus, one of the best daily papers in the world, the australasian, the herald, and the age, all dealt honorably by me, reporting my lectures, if briefly, with admirable impartiality. the press is a reflector; and those audiences of 2,000 and 2,500 in the great opera house on each sunday for several successive months, were not without a most striking moral significance. it seemed to be the general opinion that spiritualism had never before occupied so prominent yet so favorable a position in the eyes of the public. peebles initially introduced thomas walker, a young englishman, to australia. alleging himself to be a trance speaker under the control of certain spirits, whom

es, and was extended for several nights beyond the period originally agreed upon. spiritualism was also promoted by the visits of emma hardinge britten and medium henry slade. the melbourne age of august 20th, 1878, recorded their activities: spiritualism is just now very much to the front in melbourne. the lectures of emma hardinge britten, delivered to crowded audiences at the opera house every sunday evening, have naturally attracted a sort of wondering curiosity to the subject, and the interest has probably been intensified by the strenuous efforts that are being made in some of the orthodox pulpits to prove that the whole thing is an emanation from the devil. the announcement that the famous dr. slade had arrived to strengthen the ranks of the spiritualists, has therefore been made at

ted states, become all too heavy for endurance when shouldered upon the isolated workers; hence the paucity of public representation, and the impossibility of those who visit the colonies, as i have done, effecting any important pioneer work beyond the two great centers i have named. mr. walker at sydney, and i at melbourne, have been favored with the largest gatherings ever assembled at colonial sunday meetings. having, by desire of my spirit guides, exchanged rostrums, he filling my place at melbourne, and i his at sydney, we find simultaneously at the same time, and on the same sundays, the lessees of the two theaters we occupied raising their rent upon us one hundred and fifty per cent. the freethinkers and spiritualists had occupied the theatre in sydney four years at the rate of four

ngs. having, by desire of my spirit guides, exchanged rostrums, he filling my place at melbourne, and i his at sydney, we find simultaneously at the same time, and on the same sundays, the lessees of the two theaters we occupied raising their rent upon us one hundred and fifty per cent. the freethinkers and spiritualists had occupied the theatre in sydney four years at the rate of four pounds per sunday. for my benefit the landlord raised the rent to ten pounds, whilst the same wonderful spirit of accordance caused the melbourne manager to increase upon mr. walker from eight pounds to a demand of twenty. with our heavy expenses and small admission fees this was tantamount to driving us out altogether. both of us have succeeded after much difficulty, and fighting christian warriors with the

eded after much difficulty, and fighting christian warriors with the christian arms of subtlety and vigilance, in securing other places to lecture in; and despite the fact that the press insult us, the pulpit curse us, and christians generally devote us to as complete a prophecy of what they would wish us to enjoy everlastingly as their piety can devise, we are each attracting our thousands every sunday night, and making such unmistakable marks on public opinion as will not easily be effaced again. dr. slade s advent in melbourne since last september has been productive of an immense amount of good. how far his labors here will prove remunerative i am not prepared to say. frankly speaking, i do not advise spirit mediums or speakers to visit these colonies on financial advancement intent. t

its chief secretary, promulgated an interdict against the proprietor of the melbourne opera house, forbidding him to allow spiritualists to take money at the door for admission to their services, and in effect, forbidding them to hold services there at all. walker, peebles, and britten had occupied the opera house for months together, and admission fees had been charged regularly at each of their sunday services, without let or hindrance. as reported in the harbinger of light of march 1882, spiritualists organized to fight the new policy. in the 1870s, richard hodgson, an australian by birth, became involved in the study of paranormal phenomena as an undergraduate at the university of cambridge, england. in 1884 the society for psychical research sent him to india to investigate helena pet

lkin. he appeared with his fellow iconoclasts on the popular late late show, hosted by gay byrne on rte television on march 7. draper arrogantly cited the fourth and fifth commandments of the old testament and exod. 23:24 as giving him divine sanction to smash all religious statues in ireland, regardless of the rights and views of other people. as reporter eoghan corry stated in an article in the sunday press (march 9, 1986, there isn t a safe statue in the country. meanwhile from los angeles evangelist scott indignantly disassociated himself from the activities of the irish statue smashers and described the robert draper group as the most ridiculous association i have ever heard in a lifetime of confronting ridiculous things. in a press statement he specifically said, i abhor violence in

he was the son of two touring actors and grew up in a working-class background. he was apprenticed to a brushmaker at the age of 14, but six years later ran away, tramped from armouth to london, starved for some weeks, then enlisted in the army, becoming a sergeant. after leaving the army in 1878, he worked for six years as a clerk and then turned to journalism. from 1885 to 1891 he wrote for the sunday chronicle. he contributed soldier stories and wrote on the land war in ireland and the slums of manchester. his experiences turned him to socialism, and in 1891 he lost his job over it. with friends he started the clarion as a socialist newspaper. his series of articles, merrie england, was reissued in book form in 1893 and had a tremendous popular sale in a penny edition. the articles lift

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r authorities on the subject, it was advisable to vary the robe s color and employ certain jewels and other accessories, according to the symbolism of the end desired. eliphas levi, whose writings stand at the fountainhead of the twentieth-century magical revival, offers instructions for rituals, from which the following details are taken: if the rites were those of white magic and performed on a sunday, then the vestment should be of purple and the tiara, bracelets, and ring of gold, the latter set with chrysolith or ruby. laurel, heliotrope, and sunflowers are the symbolic flowers, while other details include a carpet of lionskins and fans of sparrow-hawk feathers. the appropriate perfumes were incense, saffron, cinnamon, and red sandal. if, however, the ceremonial took place on a monday

hat theater on december 10, 1929, to simulate by trickery, for 250, one single phenomenon of rudi schneider s under the identical conditions imposed by the national laboratory of psychical research. maskelyne refused. will goldston, one of the greatest professional magicians in europe, author of 40 works on legerdemain, founder and former president of the magicians club of london, declared in the sunday graphic, december 2, 1929, concerning schneider s phenomena: i am convinced that what i saw at the seance was not trickery. no group of my fellow-magicians could have produced those effects under such conditions. goldston tells the story of his conversion to spiritualism in secrets of famous illusionists (london, 1933. two of his great fellow magicians.ottokar fischer of vienna, and harry r

nomena: i am convinced that what i saw at the seance was not trickery. no group of my fellow-magicians could have produced those effects under such conditions. goldston tells the story of his conversion to spiritualism in secrets of famous illusionists (london, 1933. two of his great fellow magicians.ottokar fischer of vienna, and harry rigoletto. were quite accepting of psychic phenomena. in the sunday dispatch (august 1931, goldston testifies about hazel ridley and her direct voice phenomena as follows: miss ridley sat at a table in our midst, and without the use of trumpets or any of the usual paraphernalia spoke in three different voices. no ventriloquist could possibly produce the effect this girl produced, and i say that after a long experience of ventriloquists. first there was a po

in their homes. faucets turned on automatically, burglar alarms went off, and auto engines switched themselves on. lost articles reappeared, small objects materialized in homes, other objects disappeared, and watches and clocks went haywire. manning has also predicted that his own death will occur at an early date. on august 7, 1977, he took part in an esp test organized by the british newspaper sunday mirror. manning was stationed in london s post office tower (580 ft. high. between 6 and 6:15 p.m. he mentally transmitted three images: the color green, the number 123, and the shape of a house. readers of the sunday mirror were asked to tune in to these images and send their results on a postcard. of the 2,500 readers who responded, 575 scored the right color, 1 in 44 got the threefigure

will attack me. during his 1977 american tour, manning was vigorously criticized by magician james randi, a well-known and hostile opponent of paranormal phenomena. randi is a member of the committee for the scientific investigation of claims of the paranormal and the author of the magic of uri geller (1975, in which he accused geller of massive fraud. in september 1977 randi attacked the british sunday mirror esp test in the post office tower, suggesting that manning could have sent in an important fraction of the postcards himself. manning countered, the man who talks of falsehoods makes statements himself which can be seen to be totally false by anyone who reads my book. a report on this controversy was carried in the british newspaper psychic news (september 10, 1977. manning s prefere

l not lack money throughout the month. monition supernormal warning. in the wider sense of the definition of psychic researcher charles richet, it is the revelation of some past or present event by other than the normal senses. the proceedings of the american society for psychical research (1907, p. 487) published the instance of mr. mccready, editor of the daily telegraph, who was in church on a sunday morning when he heard a voice calling go back to the office. he ran and found a petroleum lamp blazing in his room. it threw out such clouds of smoke that everything was covered with soot. monitions may range from trifling events to warnings of death. they occur accidentally and are verifiable as true. all the monitive phenomena lie within the field of nonexperimental telepathy and clairvoy

erudition and sophisticated philosophy that was far above the intellectual capacities of the medium. in 1929, laurence cowen, well-known author and playwright, came in contact with morris. power convinced him of the truth of survival and filled him with a missionary spirit. hitherto an agnostic, cowen became a convert to spiritualism, associated himself with morris, and arranged a long series of sunday meetings in the fortune theatre in london for the general public. wide publicity accompanied the sermons for some time in the press. public attention was further aroused by the provincial tours cowen arranged at great personal sacrifice. morris s rise into the forefront of inspired orators was punctuated with two publicly attested supernormal occurrences. first, an attempt was made by the c

tings with munnings in his home, dismissed his claims to direct voice mediumship. bradley stated that the sittings were entirely valueless and, in february 1926 a public warning against munnings was issued in the press by sir arthur conan doyle, abraham wallace, r. h. saunders, and h. d. bradley. for publication of the warning, munnings brought an action for libel against the daily sketch and the sunday herald in 1928. mumbo-jumbo encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1070 however, he did not face the issue before the court and judgment was entered for the defendants. thereupon munnings sold his confessions to the people newspaper. it appeared in installments for several weeks, written by journalist sydney a. moseley, branding munnings s whole psychic career as an incident of

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

e also discovered a mediumistic talent. in his seances, myers would enter into semi-trance while standing and was controlled by blackfoot, an american indian. from clairvoyant impressions, he would describe the presence of spirit forms and, quite frequently, the extra that would appear on a photographic plate. he was challenged by the marquess of donegall. in the presence of the art editor of the sunday dispatch, journalist hannen swaffer, and stage magician will goldston, donegall filled myers s camera (which he examined) with his own marked plates, took six pictures in bright light while myers simply stood by, and developed them himself. two of the plates showed extras that neither donegall nor the art editor could explain (sunday dispatch, october 9, 1932. the following week, however, a

s, arthur french, paul pentreath, nicholas pyne, harold stevens, shirley tarn, and rold white. his books include the green garland (1908, the triumph of pan (1910, lillygay, an anthology of anonymous poems (1920, swift wings, songs in sussex (1921, songs of the groves (1921, and larkspur, a lyric garland (1922. in 1933 neuburg edited a section called the poet s corner in the british newspaper the sunday referee. this encouraged new talent by awarding weekly prizes. a group of talented young writers and poets grew up around neuburg. he gave an award to a then-unknown poet named dylan thomas. as a result of neuburg s enthusiasm, the publisher of the sunday referee sponsored the first book of poems by dylan thomas, titled 18 poems. the first publication is now a prized collector s item. altho

the public. pio has been the subject, especially since his death in 1968, of a large body of literature (see also therese neuman) sources: berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. grosso, michael. padre pio and the paranormal. christian parapsychologist 4, no. 7 (1982. schug, j. a. padre pio. huntington, ind: our sunday visitor, 1976. the pioneer of progress (newspaper) british spiritualist weekly, published in london from january 1874 until november of the same year. piper, leonora e(velina simonds (1859.1950) trance medium of boston, among the most renowned in the history of psychical research. her work is credited with convincing sir oliver lodge, richard hodgson, james h. hyslop, and many others to bel

nir press, 1960. the saffron robe. n.p, 1964. the thirteenth candle. n.p, 1972. wisdom of the ancients. n.p, 1965. you.forever. n.p, 1965. stein, gordon. encyclopedia of hoaxes. detroit: gale research, 1993. the tibetan lama hoax. tomorrow 9, 2 (spring 1958. ramtha spirit guide channeled through j. z. knight. according to knight, ramtha first made himself known in 1977 when he appeared to her one sunday afternoon in 1977 in her home in tacoma, washington. over a period of months, she became used to his presence and to his use of her body, through which he began to speak. in the 1980s he became the center of a movement that emerged in the context of the larger new age movement. knight became the most successful of the plethora of channels who became so definitive of the new age. ramtha desc

owed the reconstruction period after the civil war, as the country attempted to redefine itself as it moved toward the industrial revolution. each of these awakening periods swept through the growing nation, creating new sects, reviving old ones, and inspiring an infectious spiritual fervor. among the most famous evangelists of the great awakenings included charles finney, dwight moody, and billy sunday, each paving the way for revivalists of future generations. a peculiar form of revivalism is said to have arisen by the late twentieth century, culminating with the explosion of television evangelists in the politically conservative 1980s. televangelists such as oral roberts, billy graham, jimmy swaggert, jerry falwell, and jim and tammy bakker reached huge audiences through broadcast and c

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ivities invisible, setting up energy walls that effectively concealed them from prying eyes. the american branch of the rosicrucians, headquartered in san jose, published lewis s book. during the 1930s, it also sponsored expeditions that sought to locate the secret entrances to shasta. articles in rosicrucian di- gest discussed the mountain s mysteries. then on may 22, 1932, the los angeles times sunday magazine ran a destined-to-be-influential piece by edward lanser. lanser claimed that while taking a train trip on the shasta limited on his way to portland, he observed mysterious lights on shasta in the early dawn. the conductor told him that the lemurians were holding ceremonies. on his way back to portland, lanser wrote, lanser spent time in the shasta area and found that nearly everyon

oks speculating about the relationship of native religions and visiting extraterrestrials. younger tribal members resisted katchongva and solem s efforts, though other residents of the area were claiming ufo sightings that they took to be evidence of the prophecy s imminent fulfillment. solem announced that paul 2 would bring in flying saucers for all to see on four occasions, beginning on easter sunday 1971. their failure to appear on the first scheduled date destroyed solem s credibility, and soon afterward katchongva was ousted from his position as leader of the sun clan. he died the following year. solem lapsed into obscurity. his last known public appearance was on july 21, 1990, in the resort town of lava hot springs, idaho, where he spoke to a small crowd and tried without success t

w. in the interview, the young man reported that while driving home on an interstate highway he witnessed a ufo landing. two aliens emerged, and one introduced himself as vadig. two months later, vadig showed up at the washington restaurant where monteleone worked part-time. he arranged a meeting, ending the encounter, as he had before, with the enigmatic words i ll see you in time. the following sunday night, vadig drove the young man into rural maryland where they boarded a spaceship and flew to lanulos, where the inhabitants walk about naked. one week later monteleone met vadig and another lanulosian for the last time. not long after the initial interv i ew the de renbergers and salkin returned to talk once more, bringing along with them occult journalist john a. keel. keel, who thought

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e few who have some part of it descried, yet fools enough to guard not their full hearts, revealing to riffraff both their insight and their feeling, men have of old burned at the stake and crucified. i beg you, friend, it s far into the night, we must break off our converse now. wagner i d gladly keep awake for ever if i might converse with you in such a learned way; tomorrow, though, our easter-sunday holiday, this and that question you ll allow. i ve studied zealously, and so i know much now, but all i fain would know. exit. faust [alone] how strange a man s not quitted of all hope, who on and on to shallow stuff adheres, whose greedy hands for hidden treasure grope, and who is glad when any worm appears! dare such a human voice resound where spirits near me throng around? yet still i t

! there come two others, there behind, quite neatly dressed and rather striking. one of them is my neighbour too, i find, and she is greatly to my liking. they go their way now quite demurely, yet in the end, they ll take us with them surely. the first no friend! to feel constrained is too depressing. quick then! lest we should lose the wilder prey. the hand that wields the broom on saturday will sunday treat you with the best caressing. citizen no, that new burgomaster i don t like a bit. now since he s in, he s daily bolder every way, and for the town, what does he do for it? are things not growing worse each day? now more than ever we must all submit, and more than ever must we pay. beggar [sings] good gentlemen and ladies pretty, so flushed of cheek and fine of dress, may it please you

more than ever we must all submit, and more than ever must we pay. beggar [sings] good gentlemen and ladies pretty, so flushed of cheek and fine of dress, may it please you, look on me with pity, and see and soften my distress! let me not vainly grind here waiting! who likes to give, alone is gay. a day all men are celebrating, be it for me a harvest day. another citizen i know naught better on a sunday or a holiday than chat of wars and warlike pother, when off in turkey, far away, the people clash and fight with one another. we stand beside the window, drain our glasses, and see how each gay vessel down the river passes, then in the evening homeward wend our ways, blessing with joy sweet peace and peaceful days. third citizen yes, neighbour! i would leave things so; each other s skulls t

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g to the second person of the trinity, as lactantius did, and as is shown in the representation of hermes trismegistus on the siena pavement. his view of the third person as the anima mundi or the virgilian "spiritus intus alit" was an interpretation frequently made in the renaissance. to give only one example, it was expounded at length by bishop (later cardinal) jacques davy du perron in a whit sunday sermon.2 1 documenti, pp. 93-8. 2 "he (the holy spirit) it is of whom the pagans themselves said, speaking of the constitution of the world, spiritus intus alit" jacques 350 giordano bruno:return to italy bruno's faith as he emphasises later to the inquisitors, he considers to be cathohc and orthodox as concerning the father or the mens; he confesses that he is unorthodox as regards the son

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ed a faint conception of ancient nature worship, had not become entirely divested of the purer ideas which in an earlier age of the race had constituted a creative force. that the war of the sexes was revived, and that for many centuries much strife was engendered over the exact importance which should be ascribed to the female element in the deity may not be doubted. an ancient homily on trinity sunday has the following "at the deth of a manne, three bells should be ronge as his kuyl in worship of the trinitie, and for a woman, who was the second person of the trinitie two bells should be ronge" upon this subject hargrave jennings remarks "here we have the source of the emblematic difficulty among the master masons who constructed the earlier cathedrals, as to the addition, and as to the

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wedding-s255 rather the opposite.on29 june1887,fornoother reasonthanthatitwas the church nearest to grittleton road,therevd granville thorold stuart- menteath, priestofthe churchofengland, married his anglican bride at stpeter's park baptist chapel. it may, of course, have been an early exampleofpractical ecumenism-e-stuart-menteath did, on subsequent occasions,open church bazaars and distribute sunday-school prizes fortheminister, the revd],mitchell-cox255butconvenience seems a more simple, if more cynical, explanation. waite was resigned. to the marriagebuthe couldnotbring himself to be present:'itwas seen to on my part that whosoever might be present, atwhatfunction. soever by which the seals were set, 1 at least was far away,withthe sounds of the seaand the sounds of the light andthen

rief wasnotlessened by its being expected and was so intensethathe could never afterbringhimself towritedirectly aboutamy'sdeath. even waite saysofitonlythat'she was" reconciled tothelatinchurch-thatofherchildhood-beforeshe passed away, and this to machen's 'great satisfaction'(sly,p.156).herdying is recorded more poignantly by jerome:thememorylingerswithme of thelasttime i saw his wife. it was a sunday afternoon. they were living in verulam buildings, gray's inn, in rooms on thegroundfloor. the windows lookedouton to the great quiet garden,andtherooks were cawing in the elms. she was dying, and machen,withtwocats under his arm, was moving softly about, waiting on her. we didnottalk much. i stayed there till the sunset filled theroomwitha strange purple light(mylifeandtimes,p.116).machen w

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osed to occupy the centre" a paper on the group bydrfelkin enlarges on its activities and provides us with florence's justification 'when the first group was formed by mrs emery she told us that d.d.c.f. approved of such groups, as also did s.a. and that indeed s.a. had once formed such a group himself.theobjects of the group were: to concentrate forces of growth, progress and purification, every sunday at noon, and the progress was rst, the formulation of the twelve workersnearbutnot in 36; and formulation round london; 3rd, formulation round the earth; 4th, formulation among the constellations.thengradually reverse the process, bringing the quintessenceofthe greater forces to the lesser.theprocess was to take about an hour."thegroup had disbanded by190iso it seems that annie horniman'sba

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21 evan hadingham, lines to the mountain gods, harrap, london, 1987, p. 34. 22 aymara is rigorous and simple which means that its syntactical rules always apply, and can be written out concisely in the sort of algebraic shorthand that computers understand. indeed, such is its purity that some historians think it did not just evolve, like other languages, but was actually constructed from scratch. sunday times, london, 4 november 1984. 23 m. belts, ancient language may prove key to translation system, computerworld, vol. ix, no. 8, 25 february 1985, p. 30. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 98 miraculously by sea as so many of the legends told. where had these seafarers been going? what had their objective been? and why, come to think of it, had they made such dogged efforts to stay in

1 santillana and von dechend do not think that the presence of a canine character in both the above variants of the myth of the cosmic mill is likely to be accidental. they point out that kullervo, the finnish hamlet, is also accompanied by the black dog musti .32 likewise, after his return to his estates in ithaca, odysseus is first recognized by his faithful dog,33 and as anyone who has been to sunday school will remember, samson is associated with foxes (300 of them to be precise34, which are members of the dog family. in the danish version of the amleth/hamlet saga, amleth went on and a wolf crossed his path amid the thicket. 35 last but not least an alternative recension of the kullervo story from finland has the hero (rather weirdly) being sent to esthonia to bark under the fence; he

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ighway; if he happens to come to a cross-road, down he goes horse and all, and only picks himself up when past it; he hunts and pursues all manner of weird rabble, thieves, robbers, murderers and witches. a low saxon legend of the tilsgraben or devil's hole between dahlum and bokenem (harrys 1, g) says, the wild knight tils was so fond of the chase that he took no heed of holidays, and one easter sunday he had the presumption to say' he would bring a beast down that day if it cost him his castle' at evening the cock crew out that the castle would sink before night; and soon after it sank in the lake with all that was in it. a diver once on reaching the bottom of the lake, saw the ritter tils sitting at a stone table, old and hoary, with his wjdte heard grown through the table. in the harz

choose what present he would have. he begged for one of their balls, took it home, and put it among his stock of iron. afterwards, wanting to work it, he made it red hot, but it burst in pieces on the anvil, and every piece was sheer gold he never again found the opening in the odenberg; he had happened that time to hit the day when it stands open to men, as it does on certain days of the year to sunday children. they see an old man with a long heard, holding in his hand a metal goblet (as charles in eomance epic always has the epithet 'a la barbe florie' and osinn too was called ldnghar&r, harbard'r, siffskeggr. inside the mountain they have presents given them, as in the kifhauser. in the guclicnherg" near frankischgemiinden, a haiser disappeared with all his army a long time ago; but wh

ey found a liver- sausage freshly fried, and liked it better than they ever did another. another day two men from griinwettersbach saw the maiden fill a tub with water from the brook, and carry it up the hill; on the tub were two broad hoops of pure gold. the way she takes, every time she goes up and down, was plainly to be distinguished in the grass (mone's anz 8, 304. at osterrode, every easter sunday before sunrise, may be seen a white maiden, who slowly walks down to the brook, and there washes; a large hunch of keys hangs at her girdle. a poor linen-weaver having met her at that season, she took him into the castle ruins, and of three white lilies she plucked him one which he stuck in his hat. when he got home, he found the lily was pure gold and silver, and the town of osterrode had

a zivisele, zwispel (furca, and twist it three times round itself^ others demand a white shoot of hazel or holy-thorn, one that has a twiele or fork, has shot up in one year, and has not a speck of old wood in it; it must stand so that the sun from east and west shines through the fork, else it is no good. he that would gather it walks in silence to the shoot, between 3 and 4 in the morning of a sunday in full moon, turns his face to the east, bows three times to the shoot, and says' god bless thee, noble spray and summer's bough' then follow seven spells, given in the meckl. jb. 5, 1 10 7. that simile of conrad's makes us imagine a single slender rod. several sorts were distinguished, at least in later times: fire-rod, burn-rod, burst-rod, strike-rod, quakerod. the hazel was not used for

a magnificent car (mone's anz. 8, 184) like wuotan and like donar. devil's geandmothee. 1007 wuotan was known as the god and inventor of gaming, and of dice in particular (pp. 150. 160: it was he that gave the allwinning die to player jack in the fairytale. but very commonly dice-playing is ascribed to the devil, in folktales he looks on at the game, especially if played during divine service on sunday, and he plays with men, who have to stake their own souls^ in witch-trials he is called schenzerlcin^ dicer, from schanzen to throw dice, schm. 3, 374; and he lies in wait for gamblers, renn. 11316 seq. judaism has devils, but knows nothing of she-devils; all power for good or evil it places in the hands of male beings (p. 396. to put it still more generally: gods are altogether the older

t last the gi-eat goat burns himself to ashes, and these are distributed among the witches to work mischief with. a young untried witch is not at once admitted to the feast and dance, but set on one side to tend toads with a ivhite ivand^ at home also they breed and maintain these 1 laffert's kelationes criminales, celle 1721. pp. 52-4. horst's diiinonom. 2, 376-7. 2 yet they eat bread baked on a sunday, meat salted on sunday; and drink wine put in cask on sunday. 3 distinction of ranks is kept up too: the rich sit down to table first, and drink out of silver goblets, then the poor out of wooden bowls or hoofs* 0. fr. poets also put peeled wands in the hands of witches' une vielle 1072 magic. animals: tlie hatzlerin ixviii^ already chides a witcli as' inhitzige lirotensack' such a novice w

in the appendix i quote a spell, where the alb is thus addressed' with thy hacli lihe a doughtrough' both elf and witch are beautiful only in front, behind they are disgustingly deformed, like gurorysse p. 945, or dame world in coni-ad's poem. out of the llaundy thursday egg, when hatched, comes a fowl of gay plumage, which changes colour every year: take such an egg with you to church on easter sunday morning, and in sunshine you can tell all the women who belong to the devil; but they smell it out, and try to crush the egg in your pocket, so you must be careful to camy it in a little box, for if they succeed in crushing it, your heart will be broken too. tobler 102^ informs us of the swiss superstition' weme ma n' am sonntig vor sonna nufgang e nuhhldttlets chlee (clover) ine schue ina

cursed lultcli-days, 1, 613. 658. 745; separately, wednesday 567, friday 241. 800. m, 59. 60. in records of witch-trials (see the quedlinburg, the devils mostly appear on a thitrsday or tuesday. monday too is a bad day for a fresh beginning (i, 771. 821. tuesday is the time to begin journeys, to form marriage contracts^ fat tuesday, swed. fct-tisdag, fr. mardi gras favours enterprises (k^ 79. 84. sunday is lucky (i, 243. 634. the christians had, beside the great festivals, many days in the year marked by something special, above all st. john's; and almost every holy day stood in a particular relation to sowing, planting, cattle-breeding and the like. the dan. skjer-torsdag in k, 168-9 is maundy thursday. hardly ever was a nation so addicted to day-choosing as the christians in the mid. age

he disease advanced^^conf. p. 1158; if it reaches only to the elbow, there is no hope for him. the measuring is repeated from time to time: if the thread stretches, and reaches its due length again, the danger is removed. the wise woman must never ask money for her trouble, but take what is given. the mark, forschungen 1, 247 says a woman is stript, and measured with a piece of red yarn spun on a sunday. compare the measuring of corn and water. sup. i, 258. 953, and supra p. 491-7 (see suppl. much can be done by strohing and binding. a patient's body is commonly stroked with the hand or sleeve or the back of a knife; often a thread is also tied round the part affected, or the medicine tied on by it. of this binding more hereafter. in poland, when the white folk (biate ludzie, p. 1157) torm

ntaining over 2000 articles, of which a preliminary notice appeared in the monthly mimer (ups. 1838 40) pp. 271 7. among these spells now reduced to writing, isolated runes can here and there be recognised even yet, and in some cases their use is enjoined; thus, on the mode of compelling a thief to restore stolen goods on pain of losing his eye, we find the following prescription: go at sunset on sunday evening to a place that lies high, bearing a bucketful of water, cut the rune s, and charge the thief within a certain time to bring back what he has stolen, or lose his right eye. the rune s apparently refers to sunday and sunset, perhaps to syn (sight, eye; does it also in connexion with the water-vessel point to the word sa (situla? most likely the water was poured out, and ran down the

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onderful power of healing diseases and wounds, and of never spoiling (see suppl. possibly even in syria an old pagan drawing of water became veiled under new christian meanings. in germany other cir cumstances point undisguisedly to a heathen consecration of water: it was not to be drawn at midnight, but in the morn ing before sunrise, down stream and silently (superst. 89. 775, usually on easter sunday (775-6) to which the above explana tions do not so well apply; this water does not spoil, it restores youth, heals eruptions, and makes the young cattle strong. 4 magic water, serving for unchristian divination, is to be collected before sunrise on a sunday in one glass from three flowing springs; and a taper is lighted before the glass, as before a divine being (superst. h. c. 55-57. 5 her

of white mullein (bouillon blanc) and a leafy spray of walnut through the flame, and both are afterwards nailed up over the cowhouse door; while the youth dance and sing, old men put some of the coal in their wooden shoes as a safeguard against innumerable woes (ibid. 4, 110. in the department of hautes pyrenees, on the 1st of may, 1 the kaiserchronik (cod. pal. 361, lb) on the celebration of the sunday: swenne in kom der sunnintac, so vlizete sich borne al diu stat (all k. bestirred itself, wie si den got mohten geeren (to honour the god, die allirwisisten herren (wisest lords) vuorten einiz al umbe die stat (carried a thing round the city) daz was geschaffen same ein rat (shapen like a wheel) mit brinnenden liehten (with burning lights; 6 wie groze sie den got zierten (greatly glorified

gbeetle, maybeetle, dungbeetle, goldbeetle, the traces of ancient beetle-worship seem also to meet, first in one, then in another of them. a scarafone who brings succour occurs in pentamer. 3, 5 (see suppl. 694 teees and animals. continued to be done by the spinning girls in parts of schleswig as late as the 1 7th century. 1 folk- tales of up. germany inform us: some girls, not grown up, went one sunday to a deserted tower on a hill, found the stairs strewn with sand, and came to a beautiful room they had never seen before, in which there stood a bed with curtains. when they drew these aside, the bed was swarming with goldbeetles, and jumping up and down of itself. filled with amaze ment, the girls looked on for a while, till suddenly a terror seized them, and they fled out of the room and

the axe on his bach and the bundle of brushwood (dornwelle) in his hand. plainly enough the water-pole of the heathen story has been transformed into the axe s shaft, and the carried pail into the thornbush; the general idea of theft was retained, but special stress laid on the keeping of the christian holiday; the man suffers punishment not so much for cutting firewood, as because he did it on a sunday. 2 the interpolation is founded on numb. 15, 32-6, where we are told of a man that gathered sticks on the sabbath, and was stoned to death by the congrega tion of israel, but no mention is made of the moon and her spots. as to when this story first appeared in germany i have no means of telling, it is almost universally prevalent now; 3 in case the full-moon s name of ivadel. wedel in the s

ersally prevalent now; 3 in case the full-moon s name of ivadel. wedel in the sense of a bunch of twigs 4 1 dalin 1, 158: men annu fins den meningen bland var almoge. ling s eddornas sinnebildslara 1, 78: annu sager allmanheten i sodraswerge, att manens flackar aro tvenne varelser, som bara en bryggs (bridge-bucket, slung pail. 2 a westphalian story says, the man dressed the church with thorns on sunday, and was therefore put, bundle and all, into the moon. 3 hebel has made a pretty song about it, pp. 86-9: me het em gsait der dieterles on which schm. 2, 583 asks: is this dietrich of bern, translated in classic fashion to the sky? we must first make sure that the poet found the name already in the tradition. 4 in the henneberg distr. wadel means brushwood, twigs tied up in a bundle, esp. f

r wott i der sonn verbrenna, oder im mo verfriira (burn in sun, or freeze in moon. yar: in n kalta mo ihi, oder i d holl abi. do will er lieber in n mo ihi. dromm sied ma no ietz an ma im mo inna, wenn s wedel ist. er hed a puscheli uff em rogga (bush on his back. kuhn s mark, sagen nos. 27. 104. 130 give us three different accounts: in one a broom-maker has bound twigs (or a woman has spun) on a sunday, in another a man has spread manure, in the third he has stolen cabbage-stumps; and the figure with the bunch of twigs (or the spindle, with the dungfork, with the cabbage-stalk, is supposed to form the spots in the moon. the earliest authority i know of is fischart s grarg] 30b: sah im mon ein mannlin, das holz yestohlen hett; praetorius says more definitely, weitbeschr. 1, 447: the supers

y seven white and seven black steeds (the days and nights of the week. here also the old heathen notion of riding unz 1 i.e. day or morning is there before the sun, who backs them up, so^to speak: daz diu sunne ir liehtez schiuen bot dem morgeu iiber berge, nib. 1564, 2. 738 day and night. or driving deities peeps out. again, a spell quoted in mone s anz. 6, 459 begins with f god greet thee, holy sunday! i see thee there come riding/ this is no doubt the heathen god tag riding along on scinfaliso with his shiny mane (on. skinfaxi, sn. 11; but if we took it for the white god paltar on his foal (p. 222-4, we should not be altogether wrong. we shall have more to say presently on the personification of day; but that spell is well worthy of consideration (see suppl. nevertheless our poets expre

to consider the formation of such names as rsdldceg, swipdceg, etc, for gods and heroes. this messenger of the gods stations himself on the mountain s top, and that on tiptoe, like the beast on his claws, that he may the sooner get a glimpse of the land: jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops/ eom. and j. 3, 5; a popular image, i have little doubt, and one that hebel also uses about sunday morning( und lisli uf de zeche gold und heiter uf de berge stoht de sunntig/ he climbs and pushes on swiftly, irrepressibly: der tac stigende wart, trist. 8942. der tac begund herdringen, wolfd. 124. in as)>a wass morgen leoht scofen and scynded (praecipitatus et festinatus, shoved and shindied, beow. 1828. hence our poets call him der riclie, the mighty, as they do god (p. 20: riche

ew summer to us rides. or: smrt gsme warn zanesly, d. we ve from you taken, nowe leto prinesly. new summer to you brought. in moravia: nesem, nesem marenu. we bear, we bear marena. other slavs: wyneseme, wyneseme mamuriendu. remove we mamurienda. or: wynesli sme murienu se wsi, we ve taken muriena out, and prinesli sme may nowy do wsi.2 brought new may to the town. at bielsk in podlachia, on dead sunday they carry an idol of plaited hemp or straw through the town, then drown it in a marsh or pond outside, singing to a mournful strain: smierc wieie sie po plotu, d. blows through the wattle, szukaiac klopotu. seeking the whirlpool. they run home as fast as they can: if any one falls down, he dies within the year. 3 the sorbs in upper lausitz make the figure of straw and rags; she who had the

to winter, i.e. ever. yet the throwing or dipping of the divine image in a stream need not have been done by the christians in mere contempt, it may have formed a part of the pagan rite itself; for an antithesis between summer and winter, and an exalting of the former, necessarily implied a lowering of the latter.3 the day for carrying death out was the quarta dominica quadragesimae, i.e. laetare sunday or midlent, on which very day it also falls in poland (w nieziele srodopostna, bohemia, silesia and lausitz. the bohemians call it smrtedlna, samrtna nedele, the sorbs smerdnitsa, death sunday; coming three weeks before easter, it will almost always occur in march. some have it a week earlier, on oculi sunday, others (espec. in bohemia) a week later, on judica sunday; one boh. song even bri

ere on whit-tuesday choose their green man or lettuce-king; a young peasant is escorted into the woods, is there enveloped in green bushes and boughs, set on a horse, and conducted home in triumph. in the village the community stands assembled: the bailiff is allowed three guesses to find who is hidden in the green disguise; if he fails, he must pay ransom in beer. 3 in other places it is on whit-sunday itself that the man who was the last to drive his cattle to pasture, is wrapt in fir and birch boughs, and whipt through the village amidst loud cries of whitsun-sleeper i at night comes beerdrinking and dancing. in the erzgebirge the shepherd who drives out earliest on whit-sunday may crack his whip, the last comer is laughed at and saluted whitsun-looby: so with the latest riser in every

p. 387 note. a in some places a winning horse has a stick cleft in three fixed on his head and richly encircled with the finest flowers; the boy who rides him, beside many garlands, receives a cap woven of rushes, and must preserve a serious countenance while the procession slowly advances: if he can be provoked to laughter, he loses, kuln, p. 328. dkessing- up in green. 787 ceremonial. on white sunday/ a fortnight before easter, the herdboys march to the pasture with white sticks (supra p. 766, and with these they mark off a spot, to which no one may drive his cattle till whitsuntide.1 this being done, the smaller boys name their brides 2 to the bigger ones, and no one must reveal the name till whitsunday, when the railed-off pasture is thrown open, and any one may tell the brides names

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made, that forthwith thou wilt cast away every phantasm from thee that it shall not be able to do any hurt in any thing. bless, o lord, this creature of fire and sanctify it, that it may be biessed to set forth the praise of thy holy name that no hurt the secret grimoire may be able to come unto me, through the virtue and defence of our lord jesus christ. amen. the secret grimoire invocation for sunday (sol: come, heavenly spirits who have the effulgent rays of the sun, luminous spirits who are ready to obey the power of the great tetragrammaton, come and assist me in the operation that i am making under the auspices of the grand light of day whicb the eternal creator hath formed for the use of universal nature. i invoke you for these purposes. be favourable and auspicious to what i shali

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

ch he had performed an initiation. it is now visited annually by great numbers of members, and his friends and admirers.[134] ralph m. lewis, f.r.c. imperator for the worldwide jurisdiction (the americas, australasia, europe, africa, and asia) a.m.o.r.c. the following is a brief biography of facts gathered from the archives of the order. ralph maxwell lewis was born in new york city, new york, on sunday, february 14, 1904, at 10:30 a.m. his father, the first imperator of a.m.o.r.c. for north and south america, was born in new jersey, and was of welsh extraction, being a descendant of sir robert lewis, early american settler. his mother was born in boston, massachusetts. his father, at the time of his birth, was engaged as a feature writer for a new york newspaper, and, though still a young

and master, frater raymond bernard, in 1959. he also brought into existence the grand lodges of brazil, germany, and japan, and in general has expanded the order to its present worldwide extent. cecil a. poole, f.r.c. vice-president of the supreme council for the worldwide jurisdiction (the americas, australasia, europe, africa, and asia) a.m.o.r.c. cecil a. poole was born in monmouth, oregon, on sunday, august 11, 1907. his family were early pioneers in the old oregon territory, having come from missouri and michigan over the oregon trail. his great-grandfather, a methodist circuit rider in the willamette valley, was instrumental in helping oregon to become a state of the union. inheriting the sturdy, questing pioneer spirit of his forebears and being influenced by the orthodox religious

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sponse obtained this evening from the c. a, who as usual enters earnestly into your views, and, as you will perceive, expresses a wish that you should have another communication with him personally before your intended meeting takes place. however much pleasure it will give me to see you here again, i am afraid travelling at this time of the year must prove irksome to you. but if you can name any sunday it would be convenient for you to pass the day with us, i feel sure thec.a. would appear for the purpose of affording you his further opinion. i have this evening been engaged with my friend, who is as incredulous about our spirit manifestations as your good friend-.we had, however, an interesting evening, and if i shall on thursday have finished my volume, i will send it at once to you for

e with them. were you to throw itopento all who would come there would be many and of different grades avail themselves ofit.iwas not prevented from appearing, thereforeimay sayiwas allowed to do so. higher spirits would not deprive meofthe chanceofmaking myself happier when they knewihad the desire to do so.theywould not close every portal against me and make me an outcast from every one''thenon sunday eveningiwill await your appearance' and my seer remarked,'now he has turned round and walked away.'rsthjan.,1857-3.45p.m.indweljersof theworldofspirits143the authorof"lachiavo del cabinetto 'yes, i knew him in my life 'i always understood that romish priests who underwent the purifying by fire were first strangled at the stake''therewere some instancesofit,butit was not a rule. it is left t

ms and talismans did not mention him by any of the names known to me in all my readingofblack magic. i136 therosicrucianseer944o-'thebook would be shown plainly in an unconse- crated mirror or crystal' 1 asked 'shallitbe a plain glass or silvered mirror?'9442-'tuesday.like that, but unconsecrated''iam engaged on tuesdays. cannot it be on some other day' 9443-'wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday,sunday-noon''thenwe will inspect on sunday at noon' now it is gone, and the book is gone. 1.45p.m,having duly prepared a mirror, on thefollowingsunday, emma inspected the mirror.odiejan.ii,18 57unconsecratedmirror.1.45p.m.theseeress immediately said 'here's the man come who had the book. he has on a brown stuff dress, close round the waist, straight black hair, black eyes, very thin, sallow comple

blessed son the christos and his mother. amen. and by alpha and omega and them that shall come to judge the quick and the dead at the latter day of judgement; that when two or three of us are gathered together whatever we ask for in thy name,thouwilt grant it unto us, as this glass is held in hand through the merits of the lord christos, for he was the truth. so help me god. amen. and if it be on sunday you may say: i pray by all the powers written on this paper that the angel of the sun, michael, may have power to assist me in seeing things of my desire on otherdays-saythe name of the correct angel.[the third excerpt shows hockley's interest in alchemy and is followed by a longer series of extracts outlining the crowned angel's ideas on religion; the church of england; the spiritual devel

lishphysitian(165;2)characterized as astrological botany derived from aristotle. william salmon,botonolo255gia,(1710. maynard is untraced.43 [no address [undated] mydearbro. irwin,tosave delay i return themscatalogue. i had 13vols,of the lot. i do not wish to increase by stockofmerely curious books when high priced. i am very unwellindeed-ifind tonight my letter too long to sendbutwill finishiton sunday next. with kind regards tomrsirwin, yourself and herbert. yours fraternally.88therosicrucianseerhave your father's promise thathe will notcopyany thing but whatrelatestocagliostro.thereis nothing relating to vaughan or anyofthose who write thro' you" e. i did not copy a word out of your r[osi] c[rucian]mss.f. i will send amscopy of the anecdotes of bacstrorn" down in the box wheniget it bac

buti will attend to it when i get home. i am much obliged by your kind mama's remembrances&therosicrucianseerprofessional researcher and copyist of mss in the british museum and other libraries. a member of numerous masonic orders, he quarrelled with many people. he applied to the grand lodge for financial aid in 1880, after which he disappears from the records.royal hotel, college green, bristol sunday,10october1875dear brother irwin, i arrived here on saturday at 6 p.m. but i am so exceedingly unwell and unable to get about that i remained indoors all day today except walking to the baths to seemrbartholome&i have engaged to be there atvlpast10tomorrowmorning255intending to take my first turkish bath&if it does me good i shall stay a week ortendays for i cannot keep on as i am at present

ned i was going to northumberland hoping i might in some measure restore my over-troubled system. i went on10aug. and was getting 'all serene' when on 23rd i was attackedwithdiarrhoea which i stoppedbutstaying on my way home at lincolntosee64therosicrucianseerhis autograph copy now in my possession&i will send you another ms with anecdotesofthe comte de chazal by bacstrom.i 1 could not find it on sunday.themsya.rdleysprocess is a very curious ms highly esteemed.ihaveneverseenitprinted&is well worth herbert copying.thediary is merely curious.ido not remember whereigot the original. your twomssare very curious and veryinteresting-itis astonishing to me that ourinvisiblefriends do not give us anythingvaluableandnew.3thebookofseth-asstated in thems-isvastly like a plagiarism upon the scripture

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

elcomed her benjamin back; and the good wives of the burg exercised their swift tongues for many a monthafter as to the real causes of that death. frau stenio, before franz's return, was a healthy, buxom, middle-aged body, strong and hearty. she was apious and a god-fearing soul too, who had never failed in saying her prayers, nor had missed an early massfor years during his absence. on the first sunday after her son had settled at home- a day that she had beenlonging for and had anticipated for months in joyous visions, in which she saw him kneeling by her side inthe little church on the hill- she called him from the foot of the stairs. the hour had come when her piousdream was to be realized, and she was waiting for him, carefully wiping the dust from the prayer-book hehad used in his bo

g by her side inthe little church on the hill- she called him from the foot of the stairs. the hour had come when her piousdream was to be realized, and she was waiting for him, carefully wiping the dust from the prayer-book hehad used in his boyhood. but instead of franz, it was his violin that responded to her call, mixing its sonorousvoice with the rather cracked tones of the peal of the merry sunday bells. the fond mother was somewhatshocked at hearing the prayer-inspiring sounds drowned by the weird, fantastic notes of the "dance of thewitches; they seemed to her so unearthly and mocking. but she almost fainted upon hearing the definiterefusal of her well-beloved son to go to church. he never went to church, he coolly remarked. it was loss oftime; besides which, the loud peals of the

ent to church, he coolly remarked. it was loss oftime; besides which, the loud peals of the old church organ jarred on his nerves. nothing should induce himto submit to the torture of listening to that cracked organ. he was firm, and nothing could move him. to hersupplications and remonstrances he put an end by offering to play for her a" hymn to the sun" he had justcomposed. from that- memorable sunday morning, frau stenio lost her usual serenity of mind. she hastened to, layher sorrows and seek for consolation at the foot of the confessional; but that which she heard in responsefrom the stem priest filled her gentle and unsophisticated soul with dismay and almost with despair. a feelingof fear, a sense of profound terror, which soon became a chronic state with her, pursued her from thatm

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

rly training will leave its mark behind in the shape of a cramped and distorted mind. a proper and sane system of education should produce the most vigorous and liberal mind, strictly trained in logical and accurate thought, and not in blind faith. how can you ever expect good results, while you pervert the reasoning faculty of your children by bidding them believe in the miracles of the bible on sunday, while for the six other days of the week you teach them that such things are scientifically impossible? q. what would you have, then? a. if we had money, we would found schools which would turn out something else than reading and writing candidates for starvation. children should above all be taught self-reliance, love for all men, altruism, mutual charity, and more than anything else, to

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elos& quosdam in terra. sigillavit mare in alio nomine suo& terminum, quam sibi posuit, non pr ter b t& per nomina angelorum, qui dominantur in primo exercitu, qui serviunt orphaniel angelo magno, precioso& honorato& per nomen stell, qu est luna& per nomina pr dicta, super te conjuro, scilicet gabriel, qui es pr positus diei. lun secundo qu d pro me labores& adimpleas &c. as in the conjuration of sunday. the spirits of the air of munday, are subject to the west-winde, which is the winde of the moon: their nature is to give silver; to convey things from place to place; to make horses swift, and to disclose the secrets of persons both present and future: but in what manner they appear, you may see in the former book. considerations of tuesday. the angel of tuesday, his sigil, his planet, the

igillavit super eam cum precioso, honorato, metuendo& sancto nomine suo& per nomen angelorum dominantium in quinto exercitu, qui serviunt acimoy angelo magno, forti, potenti& honorato& per nomen stell, qu est mars& per nomina pr dicta conjuro super te samael, angele magne, qui pr positus es diei martis& per nomina adonay, dei vivi& veri, quod pro me labores& adimpleas &c. as in the conjuration of sunday. the spirits of the air of tuesday are under the east-winde: their nature is to cause wars, mortality, death and combustions; and to give two thousand souldiers at a time; to bring death, infirmities or health. the manner of their appearing you may see in the former book. considerations of wednesday. the angel of wednesday, his sigil, planet, the signe governing that planet, and the name of

per nomen sigilli, qu sigillatur a deo fortissimo& honoratio: per omnia pr dicta super te raphael angele magne, conjuro, qui es pr positus die: quart& per nomen sanctum quod erat scriptum in fronte aaron sacerdotis altissimi creatoris& per nomina angelorum qui in gratiam salvatoris confirmati sunt& per nomen sedis animalium, habentium senas alas, qu d pro me labo, et &c. as in the conjuration of sunday. the spirits of the air of wednesday are subject to the south-west-winde: their nature is to give all metals; to reveal all earthly things past, present and to come; to pacifie judges, to give victories in war, to re-edifie, and teach experiments and all decayed sciences, and to change bodies mixt of elements conditionally out of one into another; to give infirmities or health; to raise the

dedit potestatem super omnia animalia: unde benedictum sit nomen creatoris in loco suo& per nomina angelorum servientium in tertio exercitu, coram dagiel angelo magno, principe forti atque potenti& per nomen stell qu est venus& per sigillum ejus, quod quidem est sanctum& per nomina pr dicta conjuro super te anael, qui es pr positus diei sext, ut pro me labores &c. as before in the conjuration of sunday. the spirits of the air of friday are subject to the west-winde; their nature is to give silver: to excite men, and incline them to luxury; to reconcile enemies through luxury; and to make marriages; to allure men to love women; to cause, or take away infirmities; and to do all things which have motion. considerations of saturday, or the sabbath day. the angel of saturday, his seal, his pla

on of the lords day. the spirits of the air of saturday are subject to the southwest-winde: the nature of them is to sow discordes, hatred, evil thoughts and cogitations; to give leave freely, to slay and kill every one, and to lame or maim every member. their manner of appearing is declared in the former book. heptameron 19 tables of the angels of the hours, according to the course of the dayes. sunday. sunday night hours of the day. angels of the hours. hours of the day. angels of the hours. 1. yayn. michael. 7. ourer. samael. 2. janor. anael. 8. tanic. michael. 3. nasnia. raphael. 9. neron. anael. 4. salla. gabriel. 10. jayon. raphael. 5. sadedali. cassiel. 11. abay. gabriel. 6. thamur. sachiel. 12. natalon. cassiel. hours of the night tafrac. raphael. 9. neron. sachiel. 9. sassur. gabr

HOWE THE ALCHEMIST OF THE GOLDEN DAWN

best methods of achieving indian independence led to his fame and martyrdom and her eclipse. 12 at henry lay esqre staverton court by cheltenham 25 july 1889 38 the alchemist of the golden dawn mrs ayton and i are tolerably well. we were at brighton last week and the bathing did me great good, so much so, that we are going there again next monday to stay till the following saturday week including sunday. i do not yet know our exact address, but if necessary a letter to 22 goldstone villas, west brighton, would find us. we go home tomorrow. when we think of coming to london is for the week including the equinox, 2 i st september, to attend the society i told you of, but it would be so inconvenient to get back to chiswick if our meeting is late at night, that i think we must just run up on p

members 1887- 97 described her as 'no good. 13 chacombe vicarage 29 august 1889 you asked me i think to tell you of any of behmen's [jakob boehme's] work .wherefore i send you by this post a cat [catalog e] co?tammg one at p.z, which i received this morning. also, it has just been intimated to me that the churchwardens con em late cleaning the church, which will necessitate the closmg it for one sunday at least. i might probably be at liberty to l:ave home on monday qth september. this induces me to ask if you could equally conveniently receive me on or about that day. i am only asking you provisionally, as the plans are not quite matured. mrs ayton would not be able to accompany me as on the oth ?eptember, her sister who has been staying in the north, will come here on her way home and s

you provisionally, as the plans are not quite matured. mrs ayton would not be able to accompany me as on the oth ?eptember, her sister who has been staying in the north, will come here on her way home and stay a few days. mrs ayton would then accompany her to london and join me at r?oms perhaps, or? at any rate, we should stay in london till the [olden] d[awn] is over, and then, if i get a second sunday, as i probable, she and i would go to her brother in suffolk to stay tor a few days. perhaps the great strike will make it inconvenient to you to 40 thealchemist of the golden dawn receive a visitor, tho' it appears likely it will terminate soon. the letter to gardner printed next is uridated but is probably in its more or less chronological position. t e 'so-called rosicrucian society of e

picacity and truthfulness. i. retur it to you by this post, together with another small affair, which you need not return. these few extraordinary warm days have made a great change in the views of our farmers, and this morning there was a special meeting, and it was resolved that the church cleaning &c. must begin this very next monday, and that they must have the harvest thanksgiving service on sunday zznd september for special reasons. consequendy that the church must be closed on sundays 8th and r gth, and that if! wanted my holiday, th t i must go next week. therefore, if convenient to you, i should like to come to you next thursday the 15th september, and if not the letters 41 too long for you, i .would stay over sunday, as on that day you would be more at liberty for a long talk. mr

s on that day you would be more at liberty for a long talk. mrs ayton will not be able to come .with n:e, as her gre t friend, the sister of major waterhouse, is staymg at the pnory and they are seeing one another every day. moreover, her sister may come sooner as she will be alone. if this happens to be inconvenient to you i will go somewhere else for the time so as to be absent from here on the sunday',if it be nconve ient to you, i shall be much obliged to you to grve me mstrucnons for changing at paddington. i could come either by the early train which arrived at paddington at 0.30 a:m, or by that which arrives at 1.50 p.m. or by that whi h arnves at 3.30 p.m. i should naturally come by the earliest, but that does not stop at westbourne park. being a thursday, we could go in the evenin

marriage, which ended m mr macgregor mathers coming down last monday, marrying her in my church and carrying her off' this has somewhat delayed my asking you to come as arranged, but the w ath r has not been propitious as yet, and we may now hope it will be warmer and more pleasant. if it would be convenient to you to come the end of next week, say friday or saturday, 27th or 28th, and stay over sunday, it would suit us best. we have miss simpson with us now, and early in july we have two female cousins coming, which would make our bed-rooms scarce, and we could not give you so good a one as you had last time. please let us know-as soon as you conveniently can that we may be ready for you. we will not talk now but reserve it till you come. 1 i have not been able to discover what brought m

t for anyone, and with our views of diet the letters 63 and my peculiar susceptibility to certain articles, absolute poison. so, we have been in a state of great perturbation; on the one hand, an extreme desire to be present, and on the other a great fear of the mischief it might do me. we have both had influenza tho' in a modified form, and i have only just recovered- could not do my services on sunday! i do not feel at all flourishing, and dread all locomotion. we had not absolutely decided, but as we must give an answer by the 25th inst, we shall probably write on the zath to saywe cannot come. ifwe did happen to come, it would be very delightful staying with you, but the having to return to chiswick at night after these meetings seems to us prohibitory. you young people do not mind it

cannot come for 2 o'clock i will arrange for something for you at 7. so please let me know. perhaps i shall see you before then. at present i am rather bound and cannot stir out. 285 uxbridge road, w. 9 october 1goo mrs emery left volo' yesterday, and she is now at 67 the grove, hammersmith, w. i will not now write about the contents ofyour letter, but with your kind permission, i will come next sunday afternoon and we will talk about it. 92 the alchemist ofthe golden dawn content with things as they are. i have made a memorandum of the corresponding no. in my ms, so that i can easily refer to it. i was in ecstasies with the letter part wh[ich] corroborates all i have in s. bacstrom& others, more clearly given. it is more clear& easy to practice than the particular in that rosi, ms in wh[

uary 1901 i have copied the part of rotalo which i had overlooked, and now send it to you to have another try at it. to omit this was like the play of hamlet with the part of hamlet omitted. so far as it appears to me to be the real thing and for those who can master it, of infinite value. i have not done so as yet, having only slightly considered it as i copied it. i caught a desperate cold last sunday. on monday morning i went out again and in afternoon was caught again in a storm of sleet. on tuesday i found bronchitis coming on and i have not been out since. the inhaler did some good, but i was so ill, it was not sufficient and i took a special medicine i have for such emergencies and it prevented further evil consequences, and i have been gradually recovering, but it has not gone yet

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

were once the burial-places of the pocumtucks; even though many ethnologists, disregarding the absurd improbability of such a theory, persist in believing the remains caucasian. ii. it was in the township of dunwich, in a large and partly inhabited farmhouse set against a hillside four miles from the village and a mile and a half from any other dwelling, that wilbur whateley was born at 5 a.m. on sunday, the second of february, 1913. this date was recalled because it was candlemas, which people in dunwich curiously observe under another name; and because the noises in the hills had sounded, and all the dogs of the countryside had barked persistently, throughout the night before. less worthy of notice was the fact that the mother was one of the decadent whateleys, a somewhat deformed, unatt

sent to development camp. the government, alarmed at such signs of wholesale regional decadence, sent several officers and medical experts to investigate; conducting a survey which new england newspaper readers may still recall. it was the publicity attending this investigation which set reporters on the track of the whateleys, and caused the boston globe and arkham advertiser to print flamboyant sunday stories of young wilbur's precociousness, old whateley's black magic, and the shelves of strange books, the sealed second storey of the ancient farmhouse, and the weirdness of the whole region and its hill noises. wilbur was four and a half then, and looked like a lad of fifteen. his lips and cheeks were fuzzy with a coarse dark down, and his voice had begun to break. earl sawyer went out t

'wal, all right, ef ye feel that way abaout it. maybe harvard won't be so fussy as yew be' and without saying more he rose and strode out of the building, stooping at each doorway. armitage heard the savage yelping of the great watchdog, and studied whateley's gorilla-like lope as he crossed the bit of campus visible from the window. he thought of the wild tales he had heard, and recalled the old sunday stories in the advertiser; these things, and the lore he had picked up from dunwich rustics and villagers during his one visit there. unseen things not of earth- or at least not of tridimensional earth- rushed foetid and horrible through new england's glens, and brooded obscenely on the mountain tops. of this he had long felt certain. now he seemed to sense the close presence of some terrib

to treat the diary as a madman's raving. opinions were divided as to notifying the massachusetts state police, and the negative finally won. there were things involved which simply could not be believed by those who had not seen a sample, as indeed was made clear during certain subsequent investigations. late at night the conference disbanded without having developed a definite plan, but all day sunday armitage was busy comparing formulae and mixing chemicals obtained from the college laboratory. the more he reflected on the hellish diary, the more he was inclined to doubt the efficacy of any material agent in stamping out the entity which wilbur whateley had left behind him- the earth threatening entity which, unknown to him, was to burst forth in a few hours and become the memorable dun

lae and mixing chemicals obtained from the college laboratory. the more he reflected on the hellish diary, the more he was inclined to doubt the efficacy of any material agent in stamping out the entity which wilbur whateley had left behind him- the earth threatening entity which, unknown to him, was to burst forth in a few hours and become the memorable dunwich horror. monday was a repetition of sunday with dr armitage, for the task in hand required an infinity of research and experiment. further consultations of the monstrous diary brought about various changes of plan, and he knew that even in the end a large amount of uncertainty must remain. by tuesday he had a definite line of action mapped out, and believed he would try a trip to dunwich within a week. then, on wednesday, the great

believed they ought. with willett, especially, the capacity for receiving fresh impressions of awe was well-nigh exhausted; and both men sat still and helpless till the closing of the library forced them to leave. then they drove listlessly to the ward mansion in prospect street, and talked to no purpose into the night. the doctor rested toward morning, but did not go home. and he was still there sunday noon when a telephone message came from the detectives who had been assigned to look up dr. allen. mr. ward, who was pacing nervously about in a dressing-gown, answered the call in person; and told the men to come up early the next day when he heard their report was almost ready. both willett and he were glad that this phase of the matter was taking form, for whatever the origin of the stra

y was on that kanaky isle. i dun't think he aimed at fust to do no mixin, nor raise no younguns to take to the water an' turn into fishes with eternal life. he wanted them gold things, an' was willin' to pay heavy, an' i guess the others was satisfied fer a while "come in' forty-six the taown done some lookin' an' thinkin' fer itself. too many folks messin- too much wild preachin' at meetin' of a sunday- too much talk abaout that reef. i guess i done a bit by tellin' selectman mowry what i see from the cupalo. they was a party one night as follered obed's craowd aout to the reef, an' i heerd shots betwixt the dories. nex' day obed and thutty-two others was in gaol, with everybody a-wonderin' jest what was afoot and jest what charge agin 'em cud he got to holt. god, ef anybody'd look'd ahea

arning me away as before. i tingled at the thought of what he might now have to tell me- there was an almost paralysing fascination in the thought of sitting in that lonely and lately-beleaguered farmhouse with a man who had talked with actual emissaries from outer space; sitting there with the terrible record and the pile of letters in which akeley had summarised his earlier conclusions. so late sunday morning i telegraphed akeley that i would meet him in brattleboro on the following wednesday- september 12th- if that date were convenient for him. in only one respect did i depart from his suggestions, and that concerned the choice of a train. frankly, i did not feel like arriving in that haunted vermont region late at night; so instead of accepting the train he chose i telephoned the stat

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

ey was on that kanaky isle. i dun't think he aimed at fust to do no mixin, nor raise no younguns to take to the water an' turn into fishes with eternal life. he wanted them gold things, an' was willin' to pay heavy, an' i guess the others was satisfied fer a while "come in'forty-six the taown done some lookin' an' thinkin' fer itself. too many folks msssin- too much wild preachin' at meetin' of a sunday -too much talk abaout that reef. i guess i done a bit by tellin' selectman mowry what i see from the cupalo. they was a party one night as follered obed's craowd aout to the reef, an' i heerd shots betwixt the dories. nex' day obed and thutty-two others was in gaol, with everybody a-wonderin' jest what was afoot and jest what charge agin 'em cud he got to holt. god, ef anybody'd look'd ahea

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

e to turn on an emotional intensity, but only enough to support some very clear thinking. it isn't good to be passionate and aroused and a bit dizzy all at the same time. wednesday is the best clearheaded day. if you've got a case in court, for instance, it would be very good if you could get it on a wednesday. it's that kind of day. the days of the week are named after planets, in all languages. sunday is derived from the sun, and monday is moon day. in foreign countries, the same practice is followed: it's a global custom. the chinese god, tui, was a war god, and although our war god, mars, comes from the romans, we named tuesday after tui. the french use mardi in honour of mars. the spanish and french named wednesday after mercury, but we use the germanic "wodensday" woden was the count

anish named their thursday after jupiter, we stick to thor. thor and jupiter were the same gods in different parts of the world. friday comes from venus but we use the german "freitag" the equivalent goddess. saturday is saturn's day. it is not only witches who set aside special days. there are certain traditional days to do certain things; all sorts of tricky things that most women know about. a sunday marriage is blessed and, of course, this may be why so many more people get married on sunday than on any other day (sunday marriages are customary in the united states) monday marriages are likely to face great ups and downs and changes because of the connection with the phases of the moon. tuesday weddings mean arguments and a bit of inconstant behaviour (it's mars' day, which means a lot

f my hands. the babysitter would, for some reason, not show up. something would happen that was beyond her control and mine, supposedly. then i faced up to my situation. i cast a spell that enabled me to get a [housekeeper. in other words, i psyched myself into believing that from that moment forward i would not have babysitting problems, and i cast a spell to do this for myself. immediately, the sunday following the spellcast, the phone rang. wrong number. a young girl said "hello, ada" i said "no, this isn't ada. are you a housekeeper" she said "yes" i said "do you want a new job" she said yes. i immediately went and got her and 1 had her for over two years. she had been working for someone named ada. she'd only been working a short time. she'd gone home for the weekend, and ada was to p

acted telepathically and called because she thought my sister wanted her for something. however, the woman said she hadn't started to think about my sister at 9 p.m. rather, she had started to think about her at 6 p.m. she heard my sister's voice call her at that time and believed that something had happened. her husband had told her it was just her imagination, but she was impelled to call early sunday to see. that means she didn't pick up the thought because we were talking about her; she picked up the thought at 6 p.m- before i even knew she was the woman we were going to get in touch with! that's a different kind of a psychic thing. my sister has a mysterious psychic link with all other members of the family. it frequently happens that i have the urge to telephone her but postpone the

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

e devil's name stamped thereon instead of jesus christ, and a pipe of ointment wherewith she greased a staffe, upon which she ambled and galloped through thicke and thin, when and in what manner she listed" petronilla was accordingly condemned to be burnt alive, and the execution of this sentence took place with all due solemnity in kilkenny on 3rd november 1324, which according to clyn fell on a sunday. this was the first instance of the punishment of death by fire being inflicted in ireland for heresy. whether or not petronilla's fellow-prisoners were punished is not clear, but the words of the anonymous narrator show us that the burning of that unfortunate wretch was rather the beginning than the end of persecution--that in fact numerous other suspected persons were followed up, some of

rejecting the supernatural element in the above as being merely the fruits of a diseased mind, there is no reason to doubt the truth of the story. mr. blair also met with some strange cases of religious hysteria, which became manifest in outbursts of weeping and bodily convulsions, but which he attributed to the devils "playing the ape, and counterfeiting the works of the lord" he states that one sunday, in the midst of public worship, p. 93 "one of my charge, being a dull and ignorant person, made a noise and stretching of her body. incontinent i was assisted to rebuke that lying spirit that disturbed the worship of god, charging the same not to disturb the congregation; and through god's mercy we met with no more of that work" thus modestly our writer sets down what happened in his autob

uddenly "on the brow of a bank she found a suck- bottle with sweet milk in it, no footsteps appearing in the snow p. 99 of any that should bring it thither, and far from any habitation; which preserved the child's life, who after became a blessing to the church" the dr. tate mentioned above was evidently the rev. faithful tate, d.d, father of nahum tate of "tate and brady" fame. 1 on the night of sunday, the 8th of may 1642, a terrific storm of hail and rain came upon the english soldiers, which of course they attributed to other than the correct source "all the tents were in a thrice blown over. it was not possible for any match to keep fire, or any sojor to handle his musket or yet to stand. yea, severalls of them dyed that night of meere cold. our sojors, and some of our officers too (w

en in the air come from all parts of the world, and are recorded by writers both ancient and modern, but there are certainly few of them that can equal the account of that weird series of incidents that was seen in the sky by a goodly crowd of ladies and gentlemen in co. tipperary on 2nd march 1678. 1 "at poinstown in the county of tepperary were seen divers strange and prodigious apparitions. on sunday in the evening several gentlemen and others, after named, walked forth in the fields, and the sun going down, and appearing somewhat bigger than usual, they discoursed about it, directing their eyes towards the place where the sun set; when one of the company observed in the air, near the place where the sun went down, an arm of a blackish blue colour, with a ruddy complection'd hand at one

d to catch him, but every time they attempted it he ran off and could not be found. at last one of the servants, seeing the master's dog coming in, cried out that her master was returning home, and that he would soon p. 203 catch the troublesome creature, upon which he immediately vanished, nor were they troubled with him again till february 1711. on the 11th of that month, which happened to be a sunday, old mrs. haltridge was reading dr. wedderburn's sermons on the covenant, when, laying the book aside for a little while, nobody being in the room all the time, it was suddenly taken away. she looked for it everywhere, but could not find it. on the following day the apparition already referred to came to the house, and breaking a pane of glass in one of the windows, thrust in his hand with

ISIS UNVEILED

the three days' sepulture of jesus whidi pre- ceded his reauirectioq though the statement of the three days is as fanciful as much of the rest, and adopted to fit the well-known threat to destn^ the temple and rebuild it again in tkree days. between hia burial and alleged resurrection there intervened but one day the jewish sab- bath as he was buried on friday evening and rose to life at dawn on sunday. however, whatever oth^ circumstance may be regarded as a prophecy, the story of jonah cannot be made to answer the purpose 'big fish' is cetus, the latinized form of ketos (k^tos, and ketos is dagon, poseidon, the feminine form of it being keton atar-gatis the syrian goddess, and venus, of askalon" the figure or bust of der- ketos, or astarte, was generally represented on the prow of the s

lall persuade their elders to let him translate the contents of their secret books and compile their hoary traditions! it is a strange delusion that makes some writers think that the nazaraeans have no other sacred literature, no other literary relics than four doctrinal works and that curious volume full of astrology and magic which they are bound to peruse at the sunset hour on every sol's day (sunday. tills search after truth leads us, indeed, into devious ways. many are the obstades that ecclesiastical cunning has placed in the way of our find- ing the primal source of religious ideas. christianity is on trial, and has been, ever since science felt strong enough to act as public prosecutor. a portion of the case we are drafting in this book. what of truth is there in this theology? tbr

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

n euerie towne and place where the corps rested by the waie, the king caused a crosse of cunning workmanship to be erected in remembrance of hir. two of the like crosses were set up at london, one at westcheape (the last but one, and the other at charing, which is now charing cross, and where the last cross was placed. the final obsequies were solemnised in the abbey church at westminster, on the sunday before the day of st. thomas the apostle, by the bishop of lincoln; and the king gave twelve manors and hamlets to the monks, to defray the charges of yearly obits, and of gifts to the poor, in lasting commemoration of his beloved consort. some writers have stated the number of crosses raised as above at thirteen. these were, lincoln, newark, grantham, leicester, stamford, geddington, north

rendering it visible in the form of an apparition, and enabling it to affect material objects, make noises, move articles, and such-like things perceptible to the living sense in short, to spucken. according to its nature, this composite being takes a longer or shorter time to be dissolved; the geist alone being immortal (the gnostics and their remains, note to p. 46. an ancient homily on trinity sunday has the following: at the deth of a manne, three bells should be ronge as his knyll in worship of the trinitie. and for a woman* who was the second person of the trinitie, two bells should* this is a curious direct assertion that the saviour of the world was feminine. 152 the rosicrucians. be ronge. here we have the source of the emblematic difficulty among the master-masons, who constructe

the planets, working secretly in the telluric body. they thought that gold and silver, and all the gems, had but one foundation in nature, and were simply augmented, purified, and perfected through the operation of the hermetic or magnetic light invisible and unattainable under ordinary circumstances, and unknown, except to the alchemists. all yellow gems, and gold, are appropriate to be worn on sunday, to draw down the propitious influences, or to avert the antagonistic effects, of the spirits on this day, through its ruler and name-giver, the sun. on monday, pearls and white stones (but not diamonds) are to be worn, because this is the day of the moon, or of the second power in nature. tuesday, which is the day of mars, claims rubies, and all stones of a fiery lustre. wednesday is the d

posed to conduct to victory, because its figure was a most potent charm. the standards and guidons of the cavalry follow the same magic rule. the planets are supposed by the astrologers and alchemists to exercise dominion more particularly in the order following, and to produce effects upon their own appropriate undermentioned metals, on planetarily corresponding days. these are sol, for gold, on sunday; luna, for silver, on monday; mars, for iron, on tuesday; mercury, for quicksilver, on wednesday; jupiter, for tin, on thursday; venus, for copper, on friday; and saturn, for lead, on saturday (lucas s travels, p. 79; count bernard of treviso. the emblematical sculptures, in which the whole enigma of the art of transmutation is supposed to be contained, are those over the fourth arch of the

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

the train from its tracks. note, too, the suddenness of the attack. a more definite case of meteoric ice could scarcely be imagined. lest we fall into the trap of suspecting these reports merely because of their age, i shall depart from my desire to draw upon material reported before the present flying saucer phenomenon, and reproduce this letter in fate magazine, august, 1950. the great hail on sunday, september 11, 1949, three acquaintances, dr. robert botts, dr. john tipton, and dr. t.j. treadwell, went dove hunting on the eugene tipton ranch in northwest stephens county, texas. dr. botts told me about it, and said that it was a fairly clear, hot afternoon on the ranch when the skies let loose with about forty pounds of ice, all in one chunk. dr. tipton and dr. treadwell substantiate w

solated places and ships. there is without doubt, an element of our old friend: selectivity, 94 and perhaps segregation. there is also a suggestion of ruthlessness selective ruthlessness. there is something of evasion, or secretiveness. all are attributes of intelligence. the story is told by c.f. talman, in realm of the air of a ship which was expected to arrive in new york in colonial days. one sunday afternoon, after a violent storm she was floating in the air, every spar so clearly visible that there was no doubt about the identity of the image depicted in the sky. that was the last ever seen of her. mr. talman opines that this was a mirage, and that probably she had sprung a leak in the storm, and foundered before she got to port. air too cleared-up of dust& etc. after storm at sea. c

have taken him right out of his seat. so what impelled him to run out of the offices? did "something" want him to go outside where he could be lifted? have resisted this of them. myself "telepathic control" only resisted by another telepath. darn tough on me, i am only partly telepathic but can "set" call-barriers. if ever see l-m swimming about again, ill grab him. this account, from the london sunday express, september 21, and 28, 1924, bears careful consideration. on july 24, 1924, at a time of arab hostility, flight lieutenant, w.t.day, and pilot officer, d.r.stewart, were sent from british headquarters upon an ordinary reconnaissance flight over a desert in 100 mesopotamia. according to scheduled flight plan they would not be absent more than a few hours. the men did not return, and

ghted since the advent of the air age and use of radar) 119 i suggest, further, that these disappearances are but more kidnappings, by the space contrivances. are there any other explanations which satisfy all the questions? we close the strange accounts of disappearing planes with an account, published in coronet, march, 1951, which is as startling as any yet encountered. on a calm, but overcast sunday in august, 1942, two experienced naval officers, lieutenant cody, and ensign adams, in fine spirits took off on an antisubmarine patrol in the u.s. navy blimp, l-8, from a small base on treasure island, california. adams, after fifteen years' service, had just been made ensign, and this was his first flight as a commissioned officer; so the flight was a bit more than merely routine, as they

etect energy-forms of l-m ships plus their solid "semi-solid_ forms as well. detects "nodes" too 146 ufo patrol the years 1879 and 1880 partook of the general spiciness of the era of the comets. the astronomical profession did not work up any major fracases, but then you cannot have a riot every year. however, things did happen. there was the house whose roof suddenly took its departure on easter sunday of 1879 a slate roof. it jumped up into the air suddenly and then fell back on to the ground. beyond ten meters from the house nothing was disturbed. there wasn't the least bit of wind. this was officially recorded in the french science magazine, la nature 1879. there are other cases of roofs taking off without provocation. an american case was reportedly similar. on july 10, 1880, the cons

KETAB E SIYAH

atus happy beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam et qui affluit prudentia happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. 401 meshaf i resh the black book in the beginning the invisible one brought forth from its own precious soul a white pearl. and it created a bird upon whose back it placed the pearl, and there he dwelt for forty thousand years. then on the first day, sunday, it created an angel called izrael. he is archangel over all the angels, he who is melek taus, the peacock angel. he is the first to be, and to know that he is; for the one can know nothing. on each of the other days of the week the one brought forth angels to serve melek taus on monday he created darda'il, which is sheikh hasan. on tuesday he created israfil, who is sheikh shams. on wednes

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

aternal and democratic spirit of the first communities, and their humble origin; the identification of the object of adoration with light and the sun; the legends of the shepherds with their gifts and adoration, the flood, and the ark; the representation in art of the fiery chariot, the drawing of water from the rock; the use of bell and candle, holy water and the communion; the sanctification of sunday and of the 25th of december; the insistence on moral conduct, the emphasis placed upon abstinence and self-control; the doctrine of heaven and hell, of primitive revelation, of the mediation of the logos emanating from the divine, the atoning sacrifice, the constant warfare between good and evil and the final triumph of the former, the immortality of the soul, the last judgment, the resurre

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

institut is a legal organization established in 1990 to teach harmful sorcery and initiation into satanic rites. abrasax, a divinity with obscure origins, is often invoked in ancient magical spells. the college s building housed a variety of different neopagan groups and two satanist organizations, the luciferian initiation order and the belgian church of satan. in an article that appeared in the sunday times of london toward the end of 1996, journalist peter conradi reported that five witnesses described black masses [there] at which children were killed in front of audiences said to have included prominent members of belgian society. soon afterward, a flemish newspaper published a story that a number of officers in the charleroi municipal police force were members of the institut abrasax

d that she never knew dutroux. although the raid was terrifying, according to kindermans, and although the police confiscated their materials, no charges were filed and the investigation was redirected after authorities determined that there was no connection between the institut and dutroux. see also satanic ritual abuse for further reading: conradi, peter. satanic links to belgian murder trial. sunday times. london, uk, december 1996. linton, leyla. satanic sect raided by child-sex police. london times. london uk, december 24, 1996. robinson, bruce a. charleroi, belgium murder/ritual abuse case. http//www.religioustolerance.org/ra_charl.htm chick publications chick publications is a conservative christian publishing ministry obsessed with satan s machinations. jack t. chick, the man behi

cage boy and later as a musician. he eventually worked an act with the big cats, and later assisted with the machinations of the spook shows. he became well lavey, anton szandor 145 versed in the many rackets used to separate the rubes from their money, along with the psychology that lead people to such pursuits. he played music for the bawdy shows on saturday nights, and for tent revivalists on sunday mornings, seeing many of the same participants at both. all of this provided a firm, earthy background for his evolving, cynical worldview. when the carnival season ended, lavey would earn money by playing the organ in los angeles area burlesque houses. moving back to san francisco, lavey worked for awhile as a photographer for the police department, and, during the korean war, enrolled in

t illegal for children to attend pagan gatherings, spiritualist church services, new age events, or psychic fairs. following a typical pattern in such cases, none of the children were found to show signs of sexual abuse and no physical evidence was ever discovered. in at least one case, one of the children confessed to fabricating information at the prompting of social workers. the independent on sunday hypothesized that children s reports of dancing in a circle may have come from a brownies halloween party that had been held at the church hall. a member of rochdale council s social services committee asserted that the children had seen horror movies and had confused fiction with reality. he further stated that, the children were never involved in witchcraft or satanism. it has all been a

was eventually charged and convicted. publication of robert d.hicks s important, in pursuit of satan: the police and the occult, and james t. richardson, joel best, and david g. bromley s the satanism scare, both of which take a debunking stance on satanic ritual abuse. dale akiki is accused of abusing children at faith chapel in spring valley, california, where he was a volunteer baby-sitter and sunday school worker. as in many other satanic child abuse cases, therapists prompt the children to relate memories of akiki murdering or mutilating a baby, rabbits, and even a giraffe and an elephant. 1992 the sterling family along with an unidentified minor female and five other men, are charged chronology 289 with 190 counts of physical and sexual abuse against two dozen children at the sterlin

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seen that these few operations appear to fill every lotus of the universe with their buddhas. but it may be that each operation must be worked in detail, with digital probe rather than palmary grasp, so that each practical act of the initiate might need a separate consecration. or for great operations like the x in the above list it might be arranged to make a specially elaborate sacrament every sunday (for example) in the year, the intervening days being devoted to the details of the building. but the initiate will soon develop a method of his own for extracting the most efficiently the honey from this comb. xviii of a certain other method of magick not included in the instruction of o.t.o. it may not be altogether inappropriate to allude to a method of vampirism commonly practised. the

LIBER CLXV A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE

h from the first i set out to tread. may it not be, o adonai, that even now the second six months may be made to balance the first six, and that what is passed may yet be for the best? at that time he had not found out that things always turn out for the best; it took him a long while to realize this, but it is evident that soon afterwards his efforts produced some result; for we find an entry on sunday, august 7th, 1910. i have found (for a few moments) the peace which passeth all understanding. amen. this was evidently the foreshadowing of his first really notable result, the first dawning of l.v.x. which he experienced on august 29th. there is an entry on september 2nd, full of joy and gladness and wonder at his first illumination; and then, three days later, he had evidently recognised

very bad; but the explanation is that this particular hour was a great rush as i had to call at my brother s office, go home for lunch, do some shopping for lunch, and back again to eat same, also get shaved, in one hour. i evidently got flurried and lost control a bit (note the time when talking to my brother is doubtful, but have included it) i think i should here note that on saturday evening, sunday and monday i was quite aware of my task practically all the time; even when i made mistakes, they were in almost every case caused through trying too hard. probably, having got over a difficult bit of conversation successfully, i was seduced into the error. tuesday and to-day have been rather different. i have lapsed a little in vigilance, but attained a certain subconscious wariness. this

p.m. to mrs. r (loud) 1 at 9:00 p.m. office. 1 at 10:30 p.m. to wife. 1 at 11:30 p.m. to wife. 8 total for day this was a very bad day; and i had so much hoped to get through one clear day without a break! never mind, better results next experiment. saturday, jan. 14, 6:30 p.m. results very poor again. 1 during morning. 1 at 1:45 p.m. to wife. 1 at 3:00 p.m. to wife. 3 saturday evening, jan. 7 15 sunday 9 monday 6 tuesday 6 wednesday 9 thursday 2 friday 8 sat. till 4 p.m. 3 total for week 58 thus ends first experiment in control of speech. it has been somewhat disappointing as regards results; but has proved to me how much i needed the exercise. i am very glad i undertook it, and shall try again in the near future. note. i have got over the feeling of shrinking at cutting myself. the first

me, composed of finer materials? and by complete union therwith. i cannot formulate any more now. this entry indicates a recognition of the formulation of the negative in the ego which shall eventually destroy it. is it not written in liber lxv as an acid eats into steel, and as a cancer utterly corrupts the body, so am i unto the spirit of man. i shall not rest until i have destroyed it utterly? sunday, april 2nd (fra v.i.o. s 25th birthday) during practice i had a distinct consciousness of the centre of consciousness being not within as usual, but above head. april 3rd. i alternate between a state of enjoying any task or position because it is the first that comes to hand and therefore the simplest and best course of action, and a feeling of absolute mental torture caused by the necessit

iber vii, ii: 51-53, bestowing on himself this benediction as he did so. o.m. liber clxv 149 well spent, and that i have gained a more certain control of my body and mind, but realize how much is needed before. 0. peace unto all beings. amen. section iv april 30th, 1911, to october 13th, 1912 frater v.i.o. next experienced a state of dryness such as almost invariably follows a partial success. on sunday, may 7th he writes: i have not made an entry in this record for a whole week. i seem to be losing control, and my diary, lying untouched in my drawer, is becoming like a horrible fiend. it worries me when i do not enter it; and yet it requires a great effort even to touch it or take it out, while to enter it daily appears an almost superhuman task. why is this? i have done exercises this we

of the four great meditations on love, pity, happiness and indifference. at night, i again attempted thinking backwards, but experienced rather more difficulty as 4 observe how the least slackness in writing up the record avenges itself. the record is both chart and log to the bold sea-captains of the voyage marvelous! liber clxv 151 conditions were bad. however, once started, i got back through sunday and very nearly, if not quite as fully, over the two previous days; then, having got into the swing, i roughly attempted a short and incomplete review of my whole life, which although brief, was much fuller than i expected. i remembered things connected with early childhood quite accurately, but of course not with full connections. then something occurred that i really did not expect, and o

t, interlacing and like a net-work, and when the love-thought was sent out, the whole net sparkled, as with little specks of gold. continued in this thought for some minutes, and gradually returned to normal. gave thanks and entered diary [very nearly in serious trouble, my young and rash friend. it seems that you must go up well outside earth-attraction if you wish to get good astrals. it sounds sunday-school-talk, and i can give no reason. but i ve tried repeatedly going horizontally and downwards, always with the same result. gross and hostile things are below, pure beings above. the vision is good enough for what it is; it is clear and coherent. but i see no trace of scientific method in directing the vision. i explain further in the general comment. o.m] about this time frater v.i.o

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

up the planes is the sad fate of many a mystic. how many do i know in my own experience who tell me that, obedient to the heavenly vision, they will shoot no more rabbits! thus they found a system on trifles, and their lord and god is some trumpery little elemental masquerading as the almighty. i remember my uncle tom telling me that he was sure god would be displeased to see me in a blue coat on sunday. and to-day he is surprised and grieved that i do not worship his god.or even my own tailor, as would be surely more reasonable! 7.32. how is it that i expect the reward at once? surely i am presuming on my magical power, which is an active thing, and therefore my passivity is not perfect. of course, when it happens, it happens out of time and space.now or ten years hence it is all the same

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

paths paved with heliotrope, the morals of the crucified (both standpoints joined in one, i hope, in metaphysic.s stereoscope) but for the moment be denied a metaphysical inspection. bring out the antiseptic soap. we.ll judge the christ by simple section, and strictly on the moral side. but first; i must insist on taking the ordinary substantial creed your clergy preach from desk and pulpit each sunday; all the bible, shaking its boards with laughter as you read each sunday. ibsen43 to a full pit may play in the moon. if (lunars they) they thought themselves to be the play, it.s little the applause he.d get. i met a christian clergyman. the nicest man i ever met. we argued of the cosmic plan. i was lord roberts, he de wet.44* scots legal term for defendant. a romany word for woman. the re

e be ever remembrance that existence is sorrow, sorrow by the inherent necessity of the way it is made; sorrow not by volition, not by malice, not by carelessness, but by nature, by ineradicable tendency, by the incurable disease of desire, its creator, is it so, and the way to destroy it is by the uprooting of desire; nor is a task so formidable accomplished by any threepennybit- in-the-plate-on-sunday morality, the .deceive others and self-deception will take care of itself. uprightness, but by the severe roads of austere self-mastery, of arduous scientific research, which constitute the noble eightfold path. 101-105. there s one. six six six.31. this opinion has most recently (and most opportunely) been confirmed by the rev. father simons, roman catholic missionary (and head of the corn

itive assurance of death. notes 59 browning to be called .ascension day and pentecost. was conceived (and resolved upon) on friday, november 15, 1901. on that day i left ceylon, where i had been for several months, practising hindu meditations, and exposing the dishonesty of the missionaries, in the intervals of big game shooting. the follow-ing day i wrote .ascension day. and .pente-cost. on the sunday, sitting outside the dak-bangala at madura. these original drafts were small as compared to the present poems. ascension day consisted of. p. 2* i flung. p. 4, pray do. p. 5 .but why. p. 7, here.s just. p. 9, i will. to p. 18. but in hell. p. 19, you see. to end. pentecost consisted of. p. 22, to-day. p. 26, how very hard. to p. 28 .proceed. p. 30, nor lull my soul. to p. 32. and the vision

the grinning mouths of the dvaitist guns keep the fort of ethics, and warn metaphysics to keep off the rather green grass of religion. that its apologists should have devoted so much time, thought, scholarship and ingenuity to this question is the best proof of the fatuity of the advaita position. there is then a flaw somewhere. i boldly take up the glove against all previous wisdom, 1 or, as the sunday-school boy said .faith is the power of believing what we know to be untrue. i quote deussen with the more pleasure, because it is about the only sentence in all his writings with which i am in accord..a.c. revert to the most elementary ideas of cannibal savages, challenge all the most vital premisses and axiomata that have passed current coin with philosophy for centuries, and present my th

LIBER LXXVIII

ecan of meaning day 3 of wands a established strength! 6, p. b material success" 9, s. c despair and cruelty% 3, c. d abundance# 6, w. e victory& 9, p. f material gain$ 3, s. g sorrow f 6, c. h pleasure! 9, w. i great strength" 3, p. j material words% 6, s. k earned success# 9, c. l material happiness& being thus the four threes, sixes, and nines. the first and third decans follow the same order: sunday beginning in the first decan of f and in the third decans of c and i. the planets govern respectively decans with the following titles. a description of the cards of the taro 25 f 1. e strife 5 of wands. 2. g sorrow 3, swords. 3. i oppression 10, wands. 4. l abundant success 8, cups. 5. b success unfulfilled 7, pentacles. or in b e g i l two wands: 1 each of the other suits& 1. e victory 6

LIBER XLI THIEN TAO

. blow the tom-tom, bang the flute! let us all be merry! i fm a party with acute chronic beri-beri. i. monday i fm a skinny critter quite felicien-rops-y. blow the cymbal, bang the zither! tuesday i have dropsy. chorus. ii. wednesday cardiac symptoms come; thursday diabetic. blow the fiddle, strum the drum! friday i fm paretic. chorus. iii. if on saturday my foes join in legions serried, then, on sunday, i suppose, i fll be beri-beried! chorus. one need not be intimately familiar with the japanese character to understand that kwaw and his feat were forgotten in a very few days; but a wealthy daimio, with a taste for observation, took it into his head to inquire of kwaw for what purpose he had entered the country in so strange a manner. it will simplify matters if i reproduce in extenso the

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

nslation of the roman days of the week by the germanic peoples at some point during the migration period. although the roman weekdays were named after planets, the germanic peoples who undertook the translation seem to have relied on the roman gods whose names the planets bore and to have tried to equate those gods with their own. in the cases of the sun and the moon, the translation was obvious: sunday and monday. the other cases, however, were more difficult. dies martis, the day following gmoon-day, h bore the name of mars, god of war and battle. the germanic peoples equated him with *tiwaz, who was to become ty lr in scandinavia and tiw in england, whence tuesday. thus, although about all ty lr does in the extant mythology is lose his hand to the wolf fenrir (and provide the gods with

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

comes in for a good deal of criticism for "being so secretive" it might seem prudent for the order to accept the suggestions of its critics and open up. actually, from the perspective of this writing, there is a lot more to it than that. back in 1961, when i first started interior work, i studied with a man, also a brother mason, named joel s. goldsmith. his students used to join him for lunch on sunday; and one day after the meal he held his empty water glass up in front of him and said "secrecy is the vessel within which you contain your spiritual experience" it is an age old teaching; in the bible it is put as "cast not your pearls before swine" until one has spent a great deal of time in the interior work, one's interior experience is very delicate. if you share your experience with sk

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

aternal and democratic spirit of the first communities, and their humble origin; the identification of the object of adoration with light and the sun; the legends of the shepherds with their gifts and adoration, the flood, and the ark; the representation in art of the fiery chariot, the drawing of water from the rock; the use of bell and candle, holy water and the communion; the sanctification of sunday and of the 25th of december; the insistence on moral conduct, the emphasis placed on abstinence and selfcontrol; the doctrine of heaven and hell, of primitive revelation, of the mediation of the logos emanating from the divine, the atoning sacrifice, the constant warfare between good and evil and the final triumph of the former, the immortality of the soul, the last judgment, the resurrecti

rium and completion had been attained. this plain band of gold therefore bore witness of the union of the higher self (god) with the lower self (nature) and the ceremony consummating this indissoluble blending of divinity and humanity in the one nature of the initiated mystic constituted the hermetic marriage of the mysteries. in describing the regalia of a magician, eliphas levi declares that on sunday (the day of the sun) he should carry in his right hand a golden wand, set with a ruby or chrysolite; on monday (the day of the moon) he should wear a collar of three strands consisting of pearls, crystals, and selenites; on tuesday (the day of mars) he should carry a wand of magnetized steel and a ring of the same metal set with an amethyst, on wednesday (the day of mercury) he should wear

symbol of jupiter and the signature of michael engraved upon it. a copper triangle should extend from the hilt along the blade a short distance on each side: these should bear the symbols of mercury and venus. five sephiroth should be engraved upon the handle, as shown. the blade itself should have the word malchut upon one side and quis ut deus upon the other. the sword should be consecrated on sunday. click to enlarge a magic circle. from the complete book of magic science (unpublished. the above figure is a complete and faithful representation of a magic circle as designed by medi val conjurers for the invocation of spirits. the magician accompanied by his assistant takes his place at the point formed by the crossing of the central lines marked magister. the words about the circle are

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

lly common property of the group. for the individual witch, two candlesticks are quite sufficient. should you wish to make the candlesticks, as opposed to buying them, you must first exorcise your raw materials whether they be clay, wood, or metal by fire and water in a properly cast circle. as this work pertains to the nature of illumination and the operations of light, it is best performed on a sunday, the day of the sun, preferably around noon, having cast your circle at the requisite time and lit a solary incense, purify your materials or newly purchased candlesticks (which may be made of any material you choose. then formulate in your imagination the brilliant, burning light of the noonday sun, and repeating a blessing with each rune such as "blessed be thou, creature of light" paint

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 1

on. mars. mer. 3 8 jup. ven. sat. ven. sat. sun. moon. 4 9 mars. mer. jup. mer. jup. ven. sat. 5 10 sun. moon. mars. moon. mars. mer. jup. 6 11 ven. sat. sun. sat. sun. moon. mars. 7 12 mer. jup. ven. book one page 9 table 2: table of the magical names of the hours, and of the angels who rule them, commencing at the first hour after midnight of each day, and ending at the ensuing midnight. hours. sunday. monday. tuesda. wednes. thursd. friday. saturd. 1. yayn raphael sachiel anael cassiel michael gabriel zamael 2. yanor gabriel zamael raphael sachiel anael cassiel michael 3. nasnia cassiel michael gabriel zamael raphael sachiel anael 4. salla sachiel anael cassiel michael gabriel zamael raphael 5. sadedali raphael sachiel anael cassiel michael gabriel zamael 6. thamur michael gabriel zamae

ssiel michael gabriel zamael raphael sachiel 10. agla. raphael sachiel anael cassiel michael gabriel zamael 11. c erra gabriel zamael raphael sachiel anael cassiel michael 12. salam cassiel michael gabriel zamael raphael sachiel anael the key of solomon page 10 table 3: table of the archangels, angels, metals, days of the week, and colours attributed to each planet. days saturday. thursd. tuesda. sunday. frida. wednes. mond. archangel tzaphquiel tzadiqel khamael raphael haniel michael gabriel angel cassiel sachiel zamael michael anael raphael gabriel planet saturn jupiter mars sun venus mercury moon metal lead tin iron gold copper mercury silver colour black blue red yellow green purple white book one page 11 preliminary discourse. from lansdowne mss. 1203, the veritable clavicles of solom

he sun; beneath the sun is nvgh, nogah, venus; beneath venus is kvkb, kokav, mercury; and beneath mercury is lbnh, levanah, the moon, which is the lowest of all the planets. it must, therefore, be understood that the planets have their dominion over the day which approacheth nearest unto the name which is given and attributed unto them viz, over saturday, saturn; thursday, jupiter; tuesday, mars; sunday, the sun; friday, venus; wednesday, mercury: and monday, the moon. the rule of the planets over each hour begins from the dawn at the rising of the sun on the day which take its name from such planet, and the planet which follows it in order, succeeds to the rule over the next hour. thus (on saturday) saturn rules the first hour, jupiter the second, mars the third, the sun the fourth, venus

e that thou shalt have the good fortune to be familiar with such kinds of spirits, and that thou shalt be able by means of what i have taught thee to make them submit unto thine orders, they will be happy to give thee, and to make thee partaker in that which they uselessly possess, provided that thine object and end shall be to make a good use thereof. the manner of performing the operation. on a sunday before sunrise, between the 10th of july and the 20th of august, when the moon is in the sign of the lion, thou shalt go unto the place where thou shalt know either by interrogation of the intelligences, or otherwise, that there is a treasure; there thou shalt describe a circle of sufficient size with the sword of magical art wherein to open up the earth, as the nature of the ground will al

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 3

ing the seal ready that belongs to that sign& degree as is showed before, then you are next to understand what order he is of, as is showed herein the following part. first these genijs that belong to the fiery region, that is and governed by michael the great angel who is one of the chief messengers of god, who is toward the south, therefore these genijs are to be observed in the first hour of a sunday& at the 8th. hour, also at the 3rd& 10th. at night, directing yourself toward that quarter, they appear in royal apparel holding scepters in their hands, and riding on a lyon or a cock, their robes are of red& saffron color& most comely, they assume the shape crowned queen& very beautiful to behold. secondly these genijs that are attributed to& are of the earthly regions& are governed by vr

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

report contained more infor-mation on memory loss. 1990 psi-corps receives psionic hardware from nsa capable of tracking information worldwide. 1990 the error-prone nature of the standard test for hiv, the elisa test, was illustrated in russia in1990. out of 20,000 positive elisa tests, only 112 were confirmed through the secondary westernblot test, which itself is subject to doubt (see 1994, the sunday times) 1990 lancet, the journal of the british medical association, v1,p123-8, admits that karposi sarcoma isnot caused directly or indirectly by hiv. 1990 total u.s. government budget for human resources is $197 billion. this includes social behav-ioral programs and similar activities. 1990 supreme court (april 17, 1990) rules that religious freedom is not a right- as guaranteed underthe c

uncil and dr. bernard m. wagner from the new york uni-versity school of medicine. a statement that 132 million americans drink water with .7 ppm fluo-ride. 1993 media announces that world religious leaders press for disarmament. the 1993 parliament ofworld religions and the world council of churches (see conspiracy of the 300. refer also to ironmountain report, 1961.1994 in march 1994, the london sunday times reports that russia has a new superplague powder thatis so powerful that 400 pounds discharged in air burst bombs could kill 500,000 people. according tothe report, it is thought that the west has no antidote. 1994 the national academy of sciences reports that 95% of the chemicals used in perfumes and fra-grances are derived from petroleum, and many of these chemicals are causing alle

weapons. 1994 university of north carolina finds that women employed in electrical trades are 38% more likelyto die of breast cancer. for men, the risk of breast cancer in those occupations is six times normal. 1994 in the united states (aug. 94) a program begins in the mind control arena which involves the useof scalar energy and photonic information fields, to last until december 1994. 1994 the sunday times in london (may 22, 1994) reports that the western blot hiv test gave a pos-itive result to some 85% of african patients found to be hiv negative. proteins from the leprosygerm, which infects millions in africa, can show up as a false positive for hiv (detected by p24 pro-tein presence. 1994 resolution trust company (rtc) places three senior criminal investigators who worked on thewhit

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

yellow east separation sylphs paralda water blue west union undines nichsa fire red south energy salamanders djin earth green/brown north stability gnomes ghob sprit white center balance n/a n/a planet color day# characteristics saturn black saturday 3 death; limitation; decay jupiter blue thursday 4 growth; prosperity; luck; justice mars red tuesday 5 violence; change; success; disease sun gold sunday 6 power; creative energy; goodness venus green friday 7 love; socialization; sex; the arts mercury purple wednesday 8 intellect; business; communication; travel moon silver monday 9 the unconscious; mysteries; childbirth note: the color property in the 2 tables of correspondences above are specific to the order of the golden dawn. other traditions have used different correspondences with eq

ering of astral beings in a place called, and associated with, the sphere of saturn. it s also worth noting that shabbathai is saturn in hebrew; it is likely that the words sabbat and sabbath derive from the hebrew word shabbathai. further, jews and seventh-day adventists consider saturday, the day associated with saturn, to be the true day of sabbath, as opposed to most christians who worship on sunday. in truth, it is sunday, and the sun in general, which is more closely associated with jesus and goodness; whereas saturn is mostly related to satan, death, and evil. the infernal sabbat is a gathering that happens here on earth, but most who attend arrive in an astral body. this earthly sabbat, sometimes called black sabbath, usually occurs in remote and secluded places. it is sometimes th

MORALS AND DOGMA

ing his indefatigable activity and sagacity. the fifth, of copper, was that of mars, expressive of his inequalities and variable nature. the sixth, of silver, was that of the moon: and the seventh, of gold, that of the sun. this order is not the real order of these planets; but a mysterious one, like that of the days of the week consecrated to them, commencing with saturday, and _retrograding_ to sunday. it was dictated, celsus says, by certain harmonic relations, those of the fourth. thus there was an intimate connection between the sacred science of the mysteries, and ancient astronomy and physics; and the grand spectacle of the sanctuaries was that of the order of the known universe, or the spectacle of nature itself, surrounding the soul of the initiate, as it surrounded it when it fir

eat altar of europe; the nocturnal sky has been to mankind the dome of a temple, starred all over with admonitions to reverence, trust, and love. the scriptures for the human race are writ in earth and heaven. no organ or miserere touches the heart like the sonorous swell of the sea or the ocean-wave's immeasurable laugh. every year the old world puts on new bridal beauty, and celebrates its whit-sunday, when in the sweet spring each bush and tree dons reverently its new glories. autumn is a long all-saints' day; and the harvest is hallowmass to mankind. before the human race marched down from the slopes of the himalayas to take possession of asia, chaldea, and egypt, men marked each annual crisis, the solstices and the equinoxes, and celebrated religious festivals therein; and even then

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

pronounce the numbers. this same rhythm should be used as you use the chant< you are now ready to begin. enter your witching circle. awaken your magic power. chant the magic word, misabu, over and over again for at least five minutes. ideally, the chant should begin as a shout and gradually fade away to a whisper. the magic word is pronounced: me-sah-boo. i would suggest you begin the chant on a sunday, at or near the full moon. the golden square spell gnomes are the elemental spirits of the earth. they have the general appearance of grotesquely deformed dwarfs, but despite their appearance gnomes are benevolent in nature. one occult belief is that gnomes are the guardians of buried treasure, and inhabit the darkest depths of mines. their essence can be found in the earth, wood and metals

very popular in the twenties, and many people made their own ouija boards simply by writing all the letters of the alphabet across a flat surface, and under this all the numbers from one to nine. together with the words yes and no, as on a real ouija board. any smooth object that could slide around was used to spell out messages, such as a wineglass. some of my earliest childhood memories are of sunday afternoon ouija board sessions with family members, the kitchen table acting as a makeshift talking board. a lot of what came through was, on reflection, gibberish. of course it was gibberish, 90% of spirits contacted in this manner are mischievous by nature and delight in leading us astray. it takes patience to make sense of what comes through, to sift the grains of gold from the sands of

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

t the carpenter's association of paris originated with the templars. the templars remained at the head of this carpenters association known as the king's carpenters until the dissolution of their order. at that time, in fact, the position of the royal carpenter was abolished the templars and the parisian builders 113 under philip the fair by an act of parliament in 1314 on the tuesday before palm sunday.11 what proves that this suppression was only circumstantial in nature and targeted only the officeholder is that the position was later restored. in fact, in the epitaph record of saint paul church we can read "jean, son of jacques barbel, known as de chastrel, sergeant of arms, carpenter of the king for his kingdom, who died on november 24, 1882 (emphasis mine. we know what kind of author

PRELUDE TO THE BLACK ARTS

olicitous spirit jump up right in the middle of your ritual and cry "but you are just as guilty as she" now, if instead of assuming the proper posture and commanding "die, son-of-a-bitch" you instead inquire "i am" then all is lost. you can see the possibilities. so, if you are harboring any guilt about anything, anything at all, crush it under your heel for good or else hustle your bacon back to sunday school where you belong. no cheating! jesus loves you. decided to stay, huh? well, eventually, this "journal" will become your "black book, and in it, you'll keep all sorts of magical information, deals with the devil and the results of your magickal endeavors. even satan keeps one, you should too. it will be especially helpful when your years grow long and your memory grows short. we know

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

written in the zohar1 on the verse, gand g-d said, elet there be a firmament in the midst of the waters. f h2 in the middle of that passage [in the zohar] it says, gsimilar to this is the quarrel of korach with aaron. h the division of the water into two (atmospheric and ocean water) presaged the division of korach. the seven days of the creation week manifested the seven sefirot of the emotions. sunday, when light was created, manifested chesed, pure giving. monday, when the primordial water was divided into atmospheric moisture (the upper water) and the oceans (the lower water, manifested gevurah, restraint. water is naturally heavier than air, so in order for it to be suspended in air, it had to be restrained from precipitating, and this aspect of the hydrological system/cycle is referr

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

he precious stones are produced through thechemic operation of the planets working secretly in the telluric body. we argue that metals andminerals have but one base or foundation: and having this we would have the key that could unlockthe universe. it hath been further taught that by the hermetic or magnetic light, we can augmentand purify indifferent stones and, give them greater value: thus, on sunday, expose yellow gems and.gold, and their weight will increase through the attractive power by affinity of the sun; and thus bythe alchemic action of the moon, pearls and stones of white on monday are improved: on tuesdaylet mars increase the fire of rubies, while on wednesday, sapphires, turquoises and gems of bluereflect the brilliant mercury. jupiter in his majesty, and thor, are supreme o

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

tenary cultus of the planets. we have observed previously that in this sense the planets are only signs; they have the influence which universal faith attributes because they are more truly the stars of the human mind than the orbs of heaven. the sun, which antique magic always regarded as fixed, could be only a planet for the vulgar; hence it represents that day of rest in the week which we term sunday without knowing why, the day of the sun among the ancients. the seven magical planets correspond to the seven colours of the spectrum and the seven notes of the musical octave; they represent also the seven virtues and by contrast the seven vices of christian ethics. the seven sacraments correspond equally to this great universal septenary. baptism, which consecrates the element of water, i

ght and saturn the left eye; the moon rules between both at the root of the nose, the two alae of which are governed by mars and venus; finally, the influence of mercury is exercised over mouth and chin. among the ancients these notions constituted the occult science of physiognomy, afterwards recovered imperfectly by lavater. the magus who intends undertaking the works of light must operate on a sunday, from midnight to eight in the morning, or from three in the afternoon to ten in the evening. he should wear a purple vestment, with tiara and bracelets of gold. the altar of perfumes and the tripod of sacred fire must be encircled by wreaths of laurel, heliotrope and sunflowers; the perfumes are cinnamon, strong incense, saffron and red sandal; the ring must be of gold, with a chrysolith o

found in agrippa, must be engraved on the pommel; on one side of the blade must be these characters: xjaj va xnxv pvsv'h, and on the other the monogram of the labarum of constantine, followed by the words: vince in hoc, deo duce, comite jerro. for the authenticity and exactitude of these figures, see the best ancient editions of the enchiridion. the consecration of the sword must take place on a sunday, during the hours of the sun, under the invocation of michael. the blade of the sword must be placed in a fire of laurel and cypress; it must be dried and polished with ashes of the sacred fire, moistened with the blood of a mole or serpent, the following words being said: be thou unto me as the sword of michael; by virtue of eloim sabaoth, may spirits of darkness and reptiles of earth flee

itable adepts. with regard to the term sabbath, some have traced it to the name of sabasius, and other etymologies have been imagined. the most simple, in our opinion, connects it with the jewish sabbath, for it is certain that the jews, most faithful depositaries of the secrets of the kabalah, were almost invariably the great masters in magic during the middle ages. the sabbath was therefore the sunday of kabalists, the day of their religious festivals, or rather the night of their regular assembly. this feast, surrounded with mysteries, had vulgar fright for its safeguard and escaped persecution by terror. as to the diabolical sabbath of necromancers, it was a counterfeit of that of the magi, an assembly of malefactors who exploited idiots and fools. there horrible rites were practised a

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ch revolutions of time, seers or men of the second sight females being but the secret commonwealth 23 seldom so qualified, have very terrifying encounters with them, even on highways. therefore [seers] usually shun to travel abroad at these four seasons of the year, and thereby have made it a custom to this day among the scottish-irish [gaelic speaking highlanders, to keep church duly every first sunday of the quarter, to sene or hallow themselves, their corn and cattle, from the shots and stealth of these wandering tribes. and many of these superstitious people will not be seen again in church till the next quarter [day] begins, as if no duty were to be learned or done by them, but the only use of worship and sermons were to save them from those [fairy] arrows that fly in the dark. they [

d accident of person trying conclusions and conjecturing events. for surely, if we [but] knew them, the wide creator has framed many things so, that there are more ways to save than to destroy. there is some resemblance also, and allusions in nature, that all things being sevenfold, or composed of it, most usually have a virtue beyond whatever is composed of any other number, examples are such as sunday, the seventh day of rest, or the sun, the seventh planet; seven being composed of four and three, the elements and the trinity, comprehending both worlds. but how things having this numeral relation and the secret commonwealth 71 resemblance, being so remote, come to partake and derive a secret virtue beyond other things from the prototype or first pattern cannot be well given account of ye

ded down among seers, over and above the initiatory and interpret-ative lore that is well recorded. pages 22-23 they remove to other lodgings at the beginning of each quarter of the year, so traversing until doomsday. and at such revolutions of time, seers or men of the second sight. have veer terrifying encounters with them. therefore [they] have made it a custom. to keep church duly every first sunday of the quarter. and. will not be seen again in church till the next quarter [day] begins. the quarters or seasons (see figure 2) are the turning points of both the pagan and the christian wheel of the year. the four great nodes or turnings were celebrated at approximately the spring and autumn equinox and the summer and winter http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_72.htm (6 of 10 [10/9/2001

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ass that parody this canon frighten devout catholics so much. there is no rite considered more powerful or sacred to catholicism- or the anglican church- than holy mass. high mass and solemn mass are embellishments with music, incense, more celebrants, and extra invocations. low mass has no music, one priest, and is the quickest to complete, usually done in half an hour. this is the early morning sunday mass for the fishermen, farmer, or years ago the domestics. nowadays they are able to go on saturday night. 18. ancient mysteries, pg. 236. the following page references without book titles are for this book. 19. this is similar to the concepts of tantric yoga. 20. pg. 236 21. again, following page references without titles are from this volume. 22. pg. 239 23. pg. 139 24. pg. 159 25. pg. 1

universe as a thing apart. the multi-faceted nature of manifest reality. preservation of the self as a being distinct and separate. the goal of immortality. 21. asp the naked self. relationship with the subjective universe; its mastery. the shedding of masks and indoctrinations to reveal one's inner core. self-expression in the exterior universe. the perception of runa. the thirtieth aethyr- tex sunday 21st november, xxvii aes, 12:59 a.m. at first, i stood upon a central, circular table of silver which revolved slowly, drawn round by four very world-weary kerubic beasts. large mountains loomed in the north and i walked over to them, finding a colossal figure crudely shaped from stone, bound by the shackles of karma. this is the illusion of constraint caused by self-guilt and hypocrisy. bu

trate had two merciless eyes, but his other features were blank, his face smooth like an egg. i then entered the darkness of hell, the shadows pierced by roaring flames. screams of pride and fury filled the air, but here in the crucible of its own desires, the ego burned like a star, rising triumphant, burning through all barriers in the fierce intensity of its heat. the twenty-eighth aethyr- bag sunday 6th june xxviii aes, 1:36 a.m. i stood upon a barren plain of crumbling, black rock, scarred and pitted. stars shone brightly overhead, but somehow seemed very distant and remote. i saw the hideous, blackened, corrupt figure of the crucified christ, nailed to a cross. he was cackling insanely, his malice wrapped around the earth, mantling it in guilt and blindness. whenever man looks beyond

ck his totem into splinters, grinding him into the ground. he shrieked and pleaded for mercy, writhing in impotent terror. but i laughed, proclaiming myself the puppet master on whose strings he danced. he serves the purpose of keeping the masses under the control of the great satanic masters who have ever ruled the world, but possesses no power over the true elite. the twenty-seventh aethyr- zaa sunday 25th july, xxviii aes i found myself standing at a spooky, sinister crossroads at night, in the shadow of a leafless, twisted gallows tree, creaking in the wind. a black-clad, pale vampire then appeared in this haunted spot, fixing me with his burning gaze. he professed himself the spirit of power and immortality, but also of intense isolation and loneliness. he offered me his kiss, the kis

ot appreciate the beauty of the day or the delicious spread on the table. anybody can confine their attention to what they want to see, or what they're told to see, and never perceive anything beyond those limits. it is a rare man who can see beauty and horror side by side. it is only the black magician who can intuit the horror inherent in beauty and the beauty inherent in horror. aethyr 18- zen sunday 3rd october xxviii aes, 1:03 a.m. i found myself standing between two enormous, jagged pinnacles of rock, facing across a plain to where a large, black trapezohedron pyramid stood. the air resonated with the rhythmic beating of a deep gong. all around i saw dark shapes of men and women indulging in sexual activity of all descriptions, especially sado-masochistic. moans of agony and ecstasy

aur, the beast who manifests my glory. and as i gazed forth from this perspective, i saw that a majestic statue of set has been raised in the desert and i adored it. then, with another flash of lightning, the heavens split apart, revealing the pentagram of set which shone serenely overhead. my ka assumed the form of a great bat with a human head and soared aloft into the night sky. aethyr 15- oxo sunday 7th november xxviii aes, 12:41 a.m. i was in a bowl-like depression, a clearing with pine trees rising to the top of the ridge all around me. here i saw a muscular, naked man and we commenced sex in all its variety, making full use of all physical senses. but even as this carried on, i still retained an outside perspective, looking down upon the carry-on with a benign amusement. in some sen

e again to indulge self in interaction with not-self, but with no further fear of contamination or dissolution of personal boundaries. this is the aethyr of applied black magic, the adept remanifesting in the everyday world. at this stage, the magician fears no transient attachments, having come into being in his own completeness, all else is a fascinating game of his own devising. aethyr 14- vta sunday 14th november xxviii aes as with crowley, this was an aethyr of darkness and i perceived no shapes or forms other than those specifically recorded here. no background was visible at all. i was in a black void, when i saw worm ouroboros surrounding me at a great distance, the serpent biting its own tail and creating time and space within its coils. it appeared as a sinewy dragon of oriental

interact within the confines of not-self, controlled from this isolated and detached viewpoint. the perception of self as inherently unnatural was never stronger. looking down, i perceived this position as balanced atop a black pyramid, the pyramid of initiation, the progress of my xeper to date. i realized that i had remanifested as the enthroned self perceived in earlier aethyrs. aethyr 13- zim sunday 21st november xxviii aes i first perceived the universe as the sundered body of tiamat, the two halves of the dragon. the ground trembled to the rhythm of its breathing. i then found myself sitting at the edge of a forest, at a beach close to the sea on a tropical island paradise. a tall figure, hooded and wrapped in a black robe, appeared beside me. i could discern pale features within the

a man and he perceives the black flame in all its naked glory. he has become "something more than human" and counts himself not among men, but among gods. it is very peaceful here, but belial decreed that when the mind has rendered itself so balanced and tranquil, its true trial is just due to begin as it prepares to pit itself against the very inertia of the entire created order. aethyr 12- loe sunday 5th december xxviii aes, 1:17 a.m. i found myself among the thunder-clouds of a purple-black, storm-laden sky, surrounded by lightning. then the distant sky changed from black to scarlet, as of blood, a whirling vortex of red radiance, from which raced the expected charioteer of this aethyr, similar to the trump in the thoth tarot. i sensed an eye watching from within the vortex. the chario

daries. 3. zom the inferno of annihilating the exterior universe, followed by re-creation. the black flame turning red. the vision of leviathan. the absolute. 2. arn looking in at the universe from the outside. the ship of a million years. travelling and interacting on one's own terms, without any outside ties. 1. lil immortal, eternal and becoming. the outsider. the eternal quest. aethyr 10- zax sunday 2nd january xxix aes, 1:25 a.m. i experienced no perceptions of this as a particularly "accursed" aethyr, as 666 describes it, although for reasons i shall refer to later in this write-up, it may be deemed responsible for the "sorrows" of buddhism. i stood in the centre of a vast plain. at one side all was so rigid and ordered as to be totally unmalleable, and at the opposing side was a roa

presence was also with me, an intelligence who was warm and deep. there was no communication apart from a pleasant and profound touching of minds (which in spite of its gentleness shook me to the core) and i withdrew for the present by the way i came. i understand, writing this afterwards, that this experience has affected me profoundly. i also understand that there is more to come. aethyr 5- lit sunday 20th february xxix aes, 12:07 a.m. i was sitting quietly in a void, calm and untroubled. this space was self-contained and inviolate, and was bordered by the ouroborous, self-created boundary and definition of my self. any seeking to assault the sanctity of my self would encounter only the dragon that devours eternally, for the rest stands apart from the universe. i was in an environment to

he boundaries of self-reference must be established and maintained. then the old can be swept away, leaving a void in which a truer vision may manifest. the black magician fears not even if the entire universe be annihilated. for he is his self alone, and not touchable by its catastrophe. his immortality is within his self, the black flame at his core, and dependent upon none other. aethyr 3- zom sunday 27th february xxix aes, 1:08 a.m. the aethyr was full of raging red fire, with cracking great flashes of scarlet lightning that ripped through the heart of me and then shot through the aethyr. this was a terrifying spectacle at first, until i realized that it was all according to my implicit will, my magical quest, and that i was unharmed by the inferno. i recalled that the black flame turn

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p-gloss and men into temptation. now he owned record stores all over town, a successful nightclub called hot wax, and a store full of gleaming musical instruments that was his special pride and joy. he was an indian from guyana "but there's nothing left in that place, sir. people are leaving it faster than planes can fly" he had made good in quick time "by the grace of god almighty. i'm a regular sunday man, sir; i confess to a weakness for the english hymnal, and i sing to raise the roof" the autobiography was concluded with a brief mention of the existence of a wife and some dozen children. gibreel offered his congratulations and hoped for silence, but now maslama dropped his bombshell "you don't need to tell me about yourself" he said jovially "naturally i know who you are, even if one

fifty p coin travelling at a ground speed of one hundred miles an hour at a distance of three miles. what i love about this country is that: its genius. greatest inventors in the world. it's beautiful: am i right or am i right" he had been deadly serious. chamcha answered "you're right "you're damn right i'm right" he confirmed. they met for the last time just before chamcha took off for bombay: sunday lunch at the flag-waving highgate mansion. rosewood panelling, a terrace with stone urns, a view down a wooded hill. valance complaining about a new development that would louse up the scenery. lunch was predictably jingoistic _rosbif, boudin yorkshire, choux de bruxelles. baby, the nymphet wife, didn't join them, but ate hot pastrami on rye while shooting pool in a nearby room. servants, a

he intellectuals, too. out with the whole faggoty crew. in with the hungry guys with the wrong education. new professors, new painters, the lot. it's a bloody revolution. newness coming into this country that's stuffed full of fucking old _corpses. it's going to be something to see. it already is" baby wandered out to meet them, looking bored "time you were off, chamcha" her husband commanded "on sunday afternoons we go to bed and watch pornography on video. it's a whole new world, saladin. everybody has to join sometime" no compromises. you're in or you're dead. it hadn't been chamcha's way; not his, nor that of the england he had idolized and come to conquer. he should have understood then and there: he was being given, had been given, fair warning. and now the coup de grace "no hard fee

attic window, the recording angel and the exterminator, too. from her chamcha learned the fables of the new kurus and pandavas, the white racists and black "self--help" or vigilante posses starring in this modern _mahabharata, or, more accurately _mahavila yet. up there, under the railway bridge, the national front used to do battle with the fearless radicals of the socialist workers party "every sunday from closing time to opening time" she sneered "leaving us lot to clear up the wreckage the rest of the sodding week- down that alley was where the brickhall three were done over by the police and then fitted up, verballed, framed; up that side-street he'd find the scene of the murder of the jamaican, ulysses e. lee, and in that public house the stain on the carpet marking where jatinder si

avation "it's our turf" said mishal sufyan of that street without a blade of grass in sight "let "em come and get it if they can "look at her" anahita burst out "so ladylike, in"she? so refined. imagine what mum'd say if she knew "if she knew what, you little grass" but anahita wasn't to be cowed "o, yes" she wailed "o, yes, we know, don't think we don't. how she goes to the bhangra beat shows on sunday mornings and changes in the ladies into those tarty--farty clothes- who she wiggles with and jiggles with at the hot wax daytime disco that she thinks i never heard of before- what went on at that bluesdance she crept off to with mister you-know-who cockybugger- some big sister" she produced her grandstand finish "she'll probably wind up dead of wossname _ignorance" meaning, as chamcha and

ral chat, a series of lunches- heavy stews and a minimum of three outrageous puddings- at which dissident hungarian poets told convoluted jokes to gurdjieffian mystics, or (if things didn't quite work out) the guests sat on cushions on the floor, staring gloomily at their loaded plates, and something very like total silence reigned for what felt like weeks. allie eventually turned away from these sunday afternoon rituals, sulking in her room until she was old enough to move out, with alicja's ready assent, and from the path chosen for her by the father whose betrayal of his own act of survival had angered her so much. she turned towards action; and found she had mountains to climb. alicja cohen, who had found allie's change of course perfectly comprehensible, even laudable, and rooted for

allie riposted with spirit, and rose "the fact is, i don't even like my league" her feet ached, obliging her to limp, rather than storm, from the restaurant "grand passion" she could hear her mother behind her back announcing loudly to the room at large "the gift of tongues; means a girl can babble out any blasted thing" o o o certain aspects of her education had been unaccountably neglected. one sunday not long after her father's death she was buying the sunday papers from the corner kiosk when the vendor announced "it's the last week this week. twenty--three years i've been on this corner and the pakis have finally driven me out of business" she heard the word _p-a-c-h-y, and had a bizarre vision of elephants lumbering down the moscow road, flattening sunday news vendors "what's a pachy"

s surrounded by clouds of cardboard and smoke- was the intended climax to the english segment of his re-entry into his superstardom; next stop, bombay. deserted, as he called it, by alleluia cone, he once more "refused to crawl; and immersed himself in work. the next thing that went wrong was that billy battuta got himself arrested in new york for his satanic sting. allie, reading about it in the sunday papers, swallowed her pride and called gibreel at the rehearsal rooms to warn him against consorting with such patently criminal elements "battuta's a hood" she insisted "his whole manner was a performance, a fake. he wanted to be sure he'd be a hit with the manhattan dowagers, so he made us his tryout audience. that goatee! and a college blazer, for god's sake: how did we fall for it" but

cure, it appeared, was complete "the film industry is full of wackos" swatilekha was telling george, affectionately "just look at you, mister" but bhupen grew serious "i always saw gibreel as a positive force" he said "an actor from a minority playing roles from many religions, and being accepted. if he has fallen out of favour, it's a bad sign" two days later, salahuddin chamchawala read in his sunday papers that an international team of mountaineers, on their way to attempt an ascent of the hidden peak, had arrived in bombay; and when he saw that among the team was the famed "queen of everest, miss alleluia cone, he had a strange sense of being haunted, a feeling that the shades of his imagination were stepping out into the real world, that destiny was acquiring the slow, fatal logic of

ng peak, the crowd began to disperse. however, in spite of the thousands involved in the event, in spite of its peaceful nature and positive message, the formation of the human chain was not reported on the doordarshan television news. nor did all-india radio carry the story. the majority of the (government-supporting "language press" also omitted any mentions. one english-language daily, and one sunday paper, carried the story; that was all. zeeny, recalling the treatment of the kerala chain, had forecast this deafening silence as she and salahuddin walked home "it's a communist show" she explained "so, officially, it's a non--event" what grabbed the evening paper headlines? what screamed at readers in inch--high letters, while the human chain was not permitted so much as a small--print w

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book at once there appeared to him three demons, one named luxuriosus, another superbus, and a third avarus, all of them devils k likewise, he said and confessed that he had proposed to blind johanneta, the widow of johannes paganus of the present place, because she displeased him. with two keys he had traced her image, in a manner and form which he explained in the examination; he did this on a sunday, depicting her image beneath the names of devils, using implements, materials and techniques described in the examination k likewise, he said and confessed that poisons were made by the aid of devils, by which men could be killed, through their working or by the aid of demons k and taken from a basilisk, toad, serpent, spider or scorpion k k and that on the feast of saint john the baptist h

os nathanathos neleyson (ms sloane 962, british library. necromancy when you wish to infuse a spirit into a dead person, so that he appears alive as he was previously, this is the procedure to follow. first have a ring made of gold. around the outside these names should be carved: brimer, suburith, tranauit; on the inside, these names: lyroth, beryen, damayn. when the names have been carved, on a sunday before sunrise, go to running water and place the ring in it, and let it remain there for five days. on the sixth day, take it out and take it to a tomb, and place it inside, so that it remains there on friday and saturday. on sunday, before sunrise, go outside of town under a clear sky, in a remote and secret place, and make a circle with a sword, and on it write with the sword the names o

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lective of one's own nature, but there are universally pleasing and harmonious configurations that should not be deninicalled "the black pope" by many of his followers, anton lavey began the road to high priesthood of the church of satan when he was only 16 years old and an organ player in a carnival "on saturday night i would see men lusting after half-naked girls dancing at the carnival, and on sunday morning when i was playing the organ for tentshow evangelists at the other end of the carnival lot, i would see these same men sitting in the pews with their wives and children, asking god to forgive them and purge them of carnal desires. and the next saturday night they'd be back at the carnival or some other place of indulgence "i knew then that the christian church thrives on hypocrisy

world of physical excitement that had magical attractions. on the other side, he was working with magic in the dark side of the human brain. perhaps the strange combination influenced the way he began to view humanity as he played organ for carnival sideshows "on saturday night" lavey recalled in one of our long talks "i would see men lusting after half-naked girls dancing at the carnival, and on sunday morning when i was playing organ for tent-show evaneglists at the other end of the carnival lot, i would see these same men sitting in the pews with their wives and children, asking god to forgive them and purge them of carnal desires. and the next saturday night they'd be back at the carnival or some other place of indulgence. i knew then that the christian church thrives on hypocrisy, and

k? satan smiles and says he would like that fine- many nuns are very pretty girls with nice legs. many churches with some of the largest congregations have the most hand-clapping, sensual music- also satanically inspired. after all, the devil has always had the best tunes. church picnics, despite all of aunt martha's talk about the lord's bountiful harvest, are nothing more than a good excuse for sunday gluttony; and everyone knows that lots more than bible reading goes on in the bushes. the fund-raising adjunct to many church bazaars is commonly known as a carnival, which used to mean the celebration of the flesh; now a carnival is okay because the money goes to the church so that it can preach against the temptations of the devil! it will be said that these things are only pagan devices

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

r. baptism is a religious ceremony in which a person is dipped in or sprinkled with water as a sign of being cleansed of sin. in the christian religion baptism also signifies that a person has been admitted to church membership. the last supper, also referred to as the eucharist, is a remembrance of christ s last meal with his disciples before he died. the faithful met on sundays, for it was on a sunday that jesus had risen from the dead. they said prayers together, reading from the old testament and from paul s letters. christianity has 2.1 billion followers around the world. the largest number of followers are in europe and north and south america. reproduced by permission of thomson gale. christianity more than 25% of population, including andorra, antigua and barbuda, barbados, cape ve

renadines, tonga, tuvalu, vatican city (not shown; the bahamas, jamaica, luxembourg, solomon islands, vanuatu (shown) 5 25% of population, including singapore (not shown; brunei (shown) less than 5% of population 2006 thomson gale 124 world religions: almanac christianity soon the church began to organize. members of the congregation (gathering or group) took on the jobs of preaching, leading the sunday services, and collecting offerings from the believers. these tasks were later taken over by church officials. bishops became administrators, overseeing the operation of the church in a city or district, while priests led worship. these offices slowly came to be officially separate from the laity, or regular members of the congregation. a ceremony called ordination gave a person holy orders

t first some of the worship service was borrowed from jewish forms, so that the faithful said prayers together, sang from psalms( biblical hymns, and read scripture, mostly from the old testament at first and later from paul s letters. as christianity developed more of its own writings in the new testament, the readings tended to come more and more from that section. worship services were held on sunday, considered the day of jesus s resurrection. in addition, the early church had two main sacraments: baptism and the lord s supper, also known as holy communion or the eucharist. the lord s supper is a reenactment of the last supper, when jesus and his disciples shared bread and wine on the night before his crucifixion. at one time this lord s supper was a community dinner after which the fa

at one time this lord s supper was a community dinner after which the faithful received symbolic bread and wine. now, it is a more symbolic gesture of drinking holy wine and eating a blessed bread wafer, representing the body and blood of jesus. modern forms of worship largely follow this basic format. services are held in churches and cathedrals, buildings that often double as community centers. sunday school classes are often held for children to teach them church doctrine. no special clothing needs to be worn for services, though the faithful usually dress formally. members of the congregation sometimes sit in pews, or rows of benches, and also stand at various times during the religious service or kneel with their hands held in front of them to pray. all branches of christianity observ

dox church, and the anglican church the reenactment of the last supper is the central part of the worship service. catholics call this celebration the eucharist or mass. in the orthodox tradition it is called the divine liturgy( liturgy is a public act of worship. for anglicans it is the holy eucharist. in all three traditions a priest leads the service. in both catholicism and eastern orthodoxy, sunday attendance is required of all members and is called a holy day of obligation. there are two parts to the eucharist or divine liturgy. the first part consists of hymns, prayers, bible readings, and recitations of various teachings and prayers by the entire congregation. the second part is the actual celebration of the last supper, with the symbolic eating of a wafer and drinking of wine. cat

s this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses; as we forgive those who trespass against us. and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. world religions: almanac 139 christianity observances and pilgrimages the primary holy days for christianity are christmas (celebrated on december 25 in the western tradition) and easter (celebrated in the western tradition on the first sunday after the first full moon in spring. christmas celebrates the birth of jesus, although it is not known for sure what time of the year he was born. easter celebrates the resurrection of jesus. although these holy days are commonly celebrated worldwide on the dates recognized by the western tradition, in some areas, including parts of eastern europe and in the middle east, they are often cele

requires it. christian funerals are usually followed by a meal at the home of the deceased or dead person. this is a chance for friends and relatives to express their sadness over the death and release their emotions. confession another rite that has an ongoing role in the lives of catholics and orthodox alike is the sacrament of confession. confession, also christian worship services are held on sunday, considered the day of jesus s resurrection from the dead. christian influences are particularly strong in the west, where the work week and holidays are often set around important dates in the christian calendar. flip schulke/corbis. world religions: almanac 145 christianity called penance, is a sacrament through which sins can be repented and absolved, or forgiven. for catholics confessio

nly in theology, or the formal study of religion, but also in education, art and architecture, in the structure of western society, and even in politics. the christian church has, in large part, shaped societies in europe and the americas. the very rhythms of life in the west are attuned to christianity. for example, the workweek typically begins with monday and ends with friday or saturday, with sunday being a day of rest. the occasions of christmas and easter likewise shape annual rhythms. the concept of the nation and state grew with the western church. the pope, at times, has proved a mighty leader of the west. such leadership did not always result in the best outcomes: the long and bloody history of the crusades, for example, and the harsh years of the inquisition, are not high points

s in his hometown of qufu and the temple of confucius at beijing. outside of china, the ancient rites and traditions of confucianism are still maintained at places such as the confucian temple of literature in hanoi, vietnam; chongmo, or the royal ancestral shrine in south korea; and the confucian shrine at the national confucian academy in seoul, south korea. for example, at chongmo on the first sunday in may, people make offerings of wine, food, and incense to the royal spirits. this ceremony, carried out according to the record of rites, also involves dance and music. the confucian shrine in seoul and those around the countryside of south korea are sites for honoring confucius on his birthday, celebrated in late september or early october. confucian temples were once the sites of many o

s sleep by an angel and told to wed mary. mary plays a major role in a number of events in the new testament, including jesus s birth; the time when jesus went missing for several days at age twelve; the marriage in the town of cana when jesus turned water into wine; her son s crucifixion, when she remained by his side; her visit to christ s tomb after his resurrection; and pentecost, the seventh sunday after easter, when the holy spirit descended upon the twelve apostles. a tradition arose in the fifth century ce that mary was taken, or assumed, directly into heaven after her death, still a virgin. this event came to be celebrated on august 15 as the assumption. catholic tradition holds that mary remained a virgin throughout her life. this had led to much speculation by scholars about not

nor of judea, pontius pilate, attempted to satisfy the demands of a screaming crowd by ordering jesus s crucifixion. the punishment was carried out on friday, later called good friday in christian tradition, on the hill of golgotha, also known as calvary. among jesus s last words were, as quoted in luke 23:24, father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. the resurrection on the following sunday, celebrated afterwards as easter sunday, when followers went to the tomb where jesus was buried, they discovered the stone covering the entrance pushed aside and jesus gone. his disciples supposedly shared a meal with him after he rose from the dead. others, including his mother, mary, were said to have seen him after this miraculous resurrection. forty days later, after telling his discipl

at. in modern life, however, many jews have modified their interpretation of activities that would be a violation of shabbat; thus, creative writing might be considered a leisure activity that would add to the holiness of shabbat. shabbat begins at sundown on friday, when the new day is thought to begin, and continues until sundown on saturday, when the day ends. christianity moved its sabbath to sunday as part of its break with jewish traditions. this order was made by the church council of laodicea in 364 ce. 6 world religions: primary sources tanakh (hebrew bible) can find chapters and verses without having to refer to differing page numbers. in the excerpt from genesis, the name god is written g-d. omitting letters from god s name is a common practice in jewish tradition out of a conce

particular to a person. impartial: neutral, not having an opinion for or against something. arrest: holding off, slowing down. emissaries: representatives. attainment: achievement. ascertainment: discovering with certainty. 50 world religions: primary sources collected essays, vol. 5: science and christian tradition understood by the religious enthusiast; but that which the candid simplicity of a sunday scholar once defined it to be. faith, said this unconscious plagiarist of tertullian, is the power of saying you believe things which are incredible. now i, and many other agnostics, believe that faith, in this sense, is an abomination; and though we do not indulge in the luxury of self-righteousness so far as to call those who are not of our way of thinking hard names, we do feel that the

reward for bad and good behavior to a god, people lose their free will and surrender control over their lives. goldman believes that people themselves have the power to take charge of their lives and even to help address the problems and reduce the suffering in the world. religious revivals, which goldman attacks, are large gatherings of people who come to hear compelling speakers, such as billy sunday (1862 1935, preach about religion. in the early twentieth century such revivals were common and resulted in many people becoming newly religious. revivalism was responsible for a large growth in u.s. religious participation. excerpt from the philosophy of atheism to give an adequate exposition of the philosophy of atheism, it would be necessary to go into the historical changes of the belie

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d formed with it jupiter in the universe, the seventh day of the week, and the mouth of man. by these seven letters were also made seven worlds, seven heavens, seven earths, seven seas, seven rivers, seven deserts, seven days, seven weeks from passover to pentecost, and every seventh year a jubilee. mayer lambert gives--beth to saturn and the hebrew sabbath--that is saturday; gimel to jupiter and sunday; daleth to mars and monday; kaph to the sun and tuesday; peh to venus and wednesday; resh to mercury and thursday; and tau to the moon and friday. chapter v 1. the twelve simple letters are h h, vau, zain, cheth, teth, yod, lamed, nun, samech, oin, tzaddi and qoph (43) they are the foundations of these twelve properties: sight, hearing, smell, speech, taste, sexual love, work, movement, ang

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los. der kopflose gott, beiheft zum "alten orient" 8 (leipzig 1926) 23-37. still, the view of wunsch was perpetuated; see below, n. 21, and pearson "egyptian seth (above n. 3, 36, nn. 1 and 2. 6 see peterson "die befreiung adams aus der eanagkh" in his fruhkirche, judentum und gnosis (rome, freiburg, vienna 1959) 108. peterson discarded preisendanz' tentative suggestion that =u!tika indicated the sunday. m.w. meyer in the greek magical papyri in translation, ed. h.d. betz (chicago and london 1986) 36, n. 3, simply cites preisendanz without showing knowledge of peterson's article; cf. r. kotanski "incantations and prayers for salvation on inscribed amulets" in magika hiera, ed. c.a. faraone and d. obink (new york-oxford 1991) 137, n. 110. 7 although seth in ancient egypt could be reconciled

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display of arrogance as well as its members being programmed to feel they are invincible and above the law are now visible to all americans if they closely watch the actions of their government leaders, a group svali readily admits "are card-carrying illuminati members "wars. a military state. a loss of civil rights. an upcoming financial collapse that will make the "great depression" look like a sunday picnic" said svali who still holds out hope that the illuminati can be stopped before america is destroyed "it all goes back to the vatican and all of our leaders take their marching orders from rome. this is not fiction. i know because i lived it for many years" although many researchers of the illuminati feel that america is doomed, svali feels differently "the illuminati and other groups

of the group, so please take it with a grain of salt. as i know, these people aren't always honest or trustworthy- they are deceptive. but i was told that there would be an enormous economic collapse prior to the revealing. that basically the stock market would destabilize. ch: well, that appears to be already happening. sv: yeah. yeah. and i was told it would make the great depression look like sunday school. and at that time, it's going to. they're going to really be manipulating finances to bring about chaos, confusion, warfare, and then. but see, i don't like to be so negative. but i am telling you what i was taught when i was in the group, you know? ch: well, i so appreciate it. sv: yeah. ch: and i'm sure we all do. sv: yeah. i. ch: you're a great voice. sv: well, thank you! i apprec

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s akin to a "crown of purity" his ring was simply a typical, gold band made with the masonic square and compass and letter "g."2 sexual idols former mason bill schnoebelen, now a christian, reveals the awful truth about most of the masonic rings, tie tacks, and other symbolic items when he writes: let's face it, the masonic tie tacks and rings that so many masons wear proudly to their churches on sunday are sexual idols..the gods, like baal, of all pagan nations around israel were all sexual idols. this is precisely what god does not want in his church, and yet all these masons are flaunting both their idols and their (church) membership.3 schnoebelen also mentions a little pin many masons wear on the lapel of their jacket or coat shaped like a hockey stick with two balls attached. it is n

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ck spells( the colors of magick white purification, truth, monday violet channeling, unity purple ambition, power, wednesday indigo psychic abilities, divination blue, dark impulsiveness, changeability, thursday blue, light tranquility, understanding, patience pink love, friendship, health green finance, fertility, growth, friday green-yellow anger, jealousy, discord yellow intellect, confidence, sunday orange encouragement, energy, attraction brown hearth, home blessing, grounding red strength, vigor, sexual passion, tuesday gold wealth, abundance, prosperity silver discretion, intuition gray neutrality, tranquility black banishing, absorption, protection, saturday you know how to use candles? ya, you light the wick. it s more than that first put on the shirt then put on the pants ca e n

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hat many people closed the doors of their mind without waiting to find out what message it may have for them, interpreted in the light of truth. according to fillmore s view, christ released humanity from the bondage of karmic law, thereby allowing each individual to make the most of each incarnation. edgar cayce (1877 1945, the famous sleeping prophet of virginia beach, was a solid baptist and a sunday school teacher, but while in a trance, he gave past-life readings to thousands of men and women. cayce believed that each soul enters the material plane not by chance, but through grace and the mercy of a loving father-god. as to whether the soul is developed or retarded during these various incarnations is left to the free will of the individuals as they live through the errors incumbent i

far from st. theresa s church. in her melodic irish brogue, bridey told of a life without children, a life laced with an edge of conflict because she was protestant while brian was catholic; then in a tired and querulous voice, she told how she had fallen down a flight of stairs in 1864 when she was 66. after the fall, she was left crippled and had to be carried about wherever she went. then one sunday while her husband was at church, bridey died. her death upset brian terribly, she said. her spirit lingered beside him, trying to establish communication with him, trying to let him know that he should not grieve for her. bridey told the astonished hypnotist and the witnesses that her spirit had waited around belfast until father john, a priest friend of her husband s, had passed away. she

er 2001. maryless, daisy. a medium becomes large. publishers weekly, 19 january 1998. rubin, sylvia. spirit of success, san francisco chronicle, 24 april 1998. sefton, dru. a spirited debate. the san diego union-tribune, 10 july 1998, p. e1. van praagh, james. talking to heaven. new york: dutton: 1997. witchel, alex. gone, perhaps, but no less chatty: a visit with friendly spirits. new york times sunday styles, february 22, 1998. jach pursel jach pursel grew up in lansing, michigan. and after marrying his high school sweetheart, peny, he graduated from university of michigan with degrees in international business and political science. in 1974, that was to change forever. pursel, then a young corporate business executive with state farm insurance, was on the fast track in an accelerated pr

r the genuineness of schneider s mediumship. price continued to proclaim the authenticity of schneider s paranormal abilities, writing various articles insisting that he had passed every major test set before him and emerged unscathed from the ordeals of intense scientific investigation. then on march 5, 1933, price puzzled both his many admirers and detractors when he published an article in the sunday dispatch claiming that rudi schneider was a fraud. one of the photographs taken in april of the previous year, during the period of exhaustive experiments, revealed schneider freeing a hand at the time that spiritistic phenomena had occurred. why price reversed himself so dramatically after having so publicly championed schneider remains a mystery, though some psychical researchers felt tha

th additional dire news, as if he were somehow viewing the disaster as it occurred. alarmed, he told the company that the house of a friend was already in ashes and that the fire was fast approaching his own home. at eight o clock in the evening, he came back inside to announce joyfully that the awful fire had been extinguished and that it had been stopped just three doors away from his house. by sunday morning, word had spread of swedenborg s remarkable vision, and he was summoned to the governor, who questioned him about the disaster. the seer described the fire precisely, telling exactly how it had begun and precisely how it had at last been squelched. on monday evening, a messenger dispatched by the board of trade during the time of the fire arrived in gotenburg. in letters the courier

tean picture library) 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 religious phenomena 189 virgin mary appearing before bernadette soubirous (1844 1879) at lourdes (fortean picture library) time, the small village of knock has come to be called the irish lourdes. garabandal, spain: a series of ecstatic visions of mother mary began for four children one sunday after mass in 1961. the visitations continued until 1965 and produced numerous accurate prophecies and astonishing miracles. zeitoun, egypt: as many as a million witnesses may have glimpsed the figure of the glowing madonna standing, kneeling, or praying beside a cross on the roof of st. mary s coptic church. miraculous cures manifested among the pilgrims from 1968 to 1971. medjugorje, yugo

fare was an unpleasant fact of life on earth, t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 280 mystery religions and cults t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mystery religions and cults 281 born on june 16, 1880, in manchester, england, alice ann la trobe bateman was a devoted missionary worker and sunday school teacher. she later became known as a writer of the occult. many refer to her as the mother of the modern form of the new age movement. one sunday, alice was alone in her room reading, when the door opened and a stranger entered. terrified, she listened as the man dressed in european clothing with a large turban on his head informed her that there was a plan for her to do some work in

udes the actual text of the black mass and the ritual for the satanic baptism of adults and children. anton lavey, the founder of the first church of satan in san francisco, ran away from home at the age of 17 to work as a cage boy for the circus lion tamer clyde beatty. later, lavey became a carnival mentalist and hypnotist, then an organ player for the dancers and strippers in the sideshows. on sunday mornings he had an extra job playing the organ for an evangelist who conducted revival meetings in a large tent on the neighboring lot. in the 1950s, lavey became a san francisco police department crime scene photographer, but he maintained the same fascination for magic that had driven him to perform as a stage mentalist, hypnotist, and magician in the carnivals and circuses of his youth

rican nation of guyana, where he had acquired a lease from the guyanese government for 4,000 acres of land to be used for colonization. the new community was called the people s temple agricultural project, and eventually more than 900 men, women, and children would follow their charismatic leader to jonestown. members were required to labor 11 hours per day, six days per week, and eight hours on sunday, clearing land for agriculture, planting crops, and erecting buildings. they ate primarily of rice and beans, and their evenings were filled with required meetings before they were allowed to get some rest. jones claimed to be receiving messages from extraterrestrials that described a process called translation, in which he and his followers would all die together and their spirits would be

life. in christian belief, the resurrection was the rising of jesus christ from the dead after he was crucified and entombed. resurrection also refers to the rising of the dead on judgment day, as anticipated by christians, jews, and muslims. right-hand path in occult tradition, a practitioner who practices white magic. sabbath from the greek sabbaton, and the hebrew sabba, both meaning to rest. sunday is observed as the sabbath, or day of rest from work and for religious worship in christianity, and saturday is the sabbath as observed by judaism and some christians. santeria from spanish santeria meaning holiness. a religion which originated in cuba by enslaved west african laborers that combines the west african yoruba religion with roman catholicism and recognizes a supreme god as well

as a community custom, such as the rite of courtship. often has a solemn, religious or ceremonial meaning, such as the rite of baptism. sabbath from the greek sabbaton, and the hebrew sabba, both meaning to rest. a 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 glossary 331 g l o s s a r y day of rest from work and for religious worship. in christianity, sunday is the observed day of worship while saturday is observed in judaism and some christian denominations. sanskrit sanskrit is an ancient indo-european language and the language of traditional hinduism in india. spoken between the fourteenth and fifth centuries b.c.e, it has been considered and maintained as a priestly and literary language of the sacred veda scriptures and other classical tex

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this peculiar function of the transcendent self to the extent that they can project their spiritual essence at will and produce ghosts, apparitions, of the living. early psychical researcher edmund gurney (1847 1888) told of the incredible experiments of a mr. s. h. beard in his phantasms of the living, published in 1886. beard began his experiments with astral projection in november of 1881 on a sunday evening after he had been reading about the great power which the human will is capable of exercising. exerting the whole force of his being on the thought that he would be present in spirit on the second floor of a particular house, beard managed to project an apparition of himself that was visible to his fiancee, miss l. s. verity. three days later, when beard went to call upon verity, a

heir stay with their mother. the sounds of raucous laughter rattled the shingles of the bell home, and witnesses noted the strong scent of whiskey that permeated every room in the house. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d ghosts and phantoms 27 when two local preachers arrived to investigate the disturbances, the witch delivered each of their sunday sermons word for word and in a perfect imitation of their own voices. the bell witch was adept at producing odd objects apparently from thin air. once, at one of mrs. bell s bible study groups, the ladies were showered with fresh fruits. betsy s friends were treated to bananas at one of her birthday parties. although the father, john bell, was the butt of malicious pranks and cruel blows, t

ter the exorcisms had been performed, mme. de x. was sitting at a writing desk when an immense packet of holy medals and crosses dropped in front of her on her paper. it was as if the ghost had but suffered a momentary setback and was announcing that it must retreat for a time to recuperate and lick its wounds. towards the end of august, soft knockings and rappings began to be heard. on the third sunday in september, the drawing room furniture was arranged in horseshoe fashion with the couch in the middle. a few days afterward, mme. de x. lay terrified in her bed and watched the latch to her room unbolt itself. m. de x. was out of the castle for a few days on business, and she was alone with the servants. the duration of the phenomena was much briefer this time, and the restless ghost seem

floor on which he or she might have sprawled? according to krogman, the temperatures required to bring about such immolation should ignite and consume anything capable of burning within a considerable radius of the blaze. in what has become one of the classic cases of shc, mary h. reeser of st. petersburg, florida, was last seen relaxing comfortably in an armchair in her apartment at 9:00 p.m. on sunday evening, july 2, 1951. when a telegram was delivered to her 11 hours later, nothing remained of the 170-pound woman but a skull that had shrunk to the size of a baseball, one vertebra, and a left foot wearing the charred remains of a black slipper. st. petersburg fire chief nesbit said that he had never seen anything like it in all his years of investigating fires. police chief j. r. reicha

real bigfoot on film. and none of the individuals who allegedly asked john chambers to design a gorilla costume in order to hoax patterson have ever stepped forward and identified themselves. chambers himself, who was living in seclusion in a los angeles nursing home when the story of the gorilla suit hoax broke, refused to confirm or deny the reports. chris murphy, a bigfoot researcher, told the sunday telegraph (october 19, 1997) that very high computer enhancements of the film show conclusively that, whatever it was, it was not wearing a suit. the skin on the creature ripples as it walks. other bigfoot experts have declared the patterson-gimlin film to be an authentic documentary of a genuine female hominoid. two russian scientists, dmitri bayanov and igor bourtsev, minutely analyzed ev

said that the gigantic reptile was dark red with a long, thick neck, and longer than two hippopotamuses. unfortunately, the photograph taken by the regusters was rather fuzzy, and their tape recording of the roaring trumpeting noise heard frequently around lake tele was impossible to identify. dr. bill gibbons, a zoologist who specializes in attempting to track down new species, told the (london) sunday times (june 3, 1999) that he is certain that mokele-mbembe exists. according to gibbons, cryptozoologists had heard reports that hunters from the kabonga tribe had killed a mokele-mbembe and had tried to eat it. its flesh proved inedible and the carcass was left to rot and be gnawed and pecked at by scavengers. if there are monsters from the age of reptiles surviving in the remote jungles o

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

a. saltmarsh used the above criteria to proclaim 183 of the 349 cases as being wholly satisfactory cases of precognition. one of these, the case of the derailed engine, will serve as an illustration of the sort of experience that saltmarsh assessed as truly precognitive. a minister s wife and daughter were staying at lodgings at trinity, near edinburgh, scotland, on july 15, 1860. it was a bright sunday afternoon, and between three and four o clock, mrs. w. told her daughter to go out for a short walk on the railway garden, the name that she had given a strip of ground 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 174 mysteries of the mind between the seawall and the railway embankment. the daughter had only been gone a few minutes when mrs. w. d

hat afternoon an engine and tender jumped the rails and crashed into the wall where her daughter had been playing before the servant brought her home. three men out of five who were there, were killed. much later, miss w. and her brother visited the scene of the tragedy and saw that the smashed engine had crashed into the precise spot where she had spent two hours with her brother on the previous sunday afternoon. saltmarsh theorized that what is called the present moment is not a point of time, but a small time interval called the specious present. according to his theory, the human subconscious mind has a much larger specious present than the conscious level of being. for the subconscious, all events would be present. if, on occasion, some of this subconscious knowledge were to burst int

ith a piece of chalk, their unlucky days with charcoal. from this custom of marking unlucky days with charcoal started the phrase black-letter day. today, black-letter days are generally ones remembered with regret because of some unfortunate occurrence connected with them. blue monday is an old phrase still in general usage. in early days those whose business circumstances forced them to work on sunday, the official day of rest, were considered entitled to a holiday on monday. on monday, therefore, while others were back at work, the people who worked on sunday had a day of rest. because the churches throughout europe were decorated with blue on the first monday before lent which was a holiday or lazy day for everyone the day of rest throughout the rest of the year for the sunday workers

ver scheduled for a wednesday. a familiar old rhyme preserves the old superstitions concerning the personalities of various children on various birthdays: monday s child is fair of face,/tuesday s child is full of grace,/wednesday s child is sour and sad,/thursday s child is merry and glad,/friday s child is loving and giving,/saturday s child must work for a living,/but the child that is born on sunday/ is blithe and bonny, good and gay. dogs dogs, man s best friend, do not have any of the kind of sinister superstitions that surround the cat, their domesticated companion and 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 superstitions, strange customs, taboos, and urban legends 191 thecustom of marking unlucky days with charcoal started the phras

ir hats, bow, and shout, god bless you! in nineteenth-century england, someone originated a rhyme regarding the consequences of sneezing on certain days of the week: sneeze on monday, sneeze for danger. sneeze on tuesday, kiss a stranger. sneeze on wednesday, sneeze for a letter. sneeze on thursday, something better. sneeze on friday, sneeze for woe. sneeze on saturday, a journey to go. sneeze on sunday, your safety seek for satan will have you for the rest of the week! many people believe that the custom of uttering the benediction god bless you! after a sneeze dates from the great plague that swept london in 1665. other traditions are firm in stating that the practice began much earlier during the pontificate of gregory the great (c. 540 604; pope 590 604. during this period a deadly pes

d. there are few tears of mourning, for the family and friends are reminded by the monk that the soul will be reborn many times in many bodies. after the service, the body is cremated, and the ashes are buried or kept in the temple in a small urn. because christians believe that jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e) is the son of god who died on a cross on good friday and who rose from the dead on easter sunday, the followers of this religion believe that if they have faithfully followed the teachings of jesus, they, too, will be physically resurrected on a future day of judgment. generally, the body of the deceased is embalmed in a funeral home, then taken in a coffin to a church for a religious service before burial or cremation. in many churches, the deceased is displayed for mourners to pay th

ncient egyptian rulers of egypt. from the hebrew paroh and egyptian pr-o, meaning great house. predator any organism or animal that hunts, kills, and eats other animals. can refer to a ruthless person who is extremely aggressive in harming another. from the latin praedator and praedari, meaning to seize as plunder. sabbath a day set apart as one of religious worship and rest from work observed on sunday for christians, saturday in judaism and some christian denominations. from the greek sabbaton, via the latin sabbatum, and hebrew sabba, meaning rest. spittle something that looks like or is saliva, which is secreted from the mouth. superstition the belief that certain actions and rituals have a magical effect resulting in either good or bad. from the latin stem superstition, and superstes

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h by witchcraft remains very powerful in many nations. in 1998, in scenes reminiscent of the salem witch hunts, mobs in indonesia attacked and killed 153 people who were accused of practicing sorcery. in an eight-yearperiod, from 1990 to 1998, more than 2,000 cases of witchcraft-related violence, including 577 murders, were recorded in the northern corner of south africa. in june 2001, the london sunday times reported that the president of zimbabwe, robert mugabe, feared that he and his government had become the victims of black magic directed at them by powerful sangomas (witchdoctors. in august 2001, a teenaged girl in nigeria confessed to taking part in the ritual killing of 48 people after being initiated into a secret witchcraft cult. three men were arrested by police in that african

gcase study: the european witch-hunts, c. 1450. 1750, h gendercide watch [online] http//www. gendercide.org/case_witchhunts. html. faiola, anthony. gwitchcraft murders cast a gruesome spell, h november 28, 2001 [online] http//www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/ a25297-2001nov27.html. 25 february 2002. johnson, r. w. gmugabe fs men on the run from witchcraft, h june 2, 2001 [online] http//www. sunday-times.co.uk. notestein, wallace. a history of witchcraft in england. new york: thomas y. crowell, 1968. russell, jeffrey burton. witchcraft in the middle ages. ithaca, n.y: cornell university press, 1972. trevor-roper, h. r. the european witch-craze. new york: harper& row, 1967. summers, montague. the history of witchcraft. new york: university books, 1956. france when an overview of the wi

t cruel acts and excesses. torquemada is known to have ordered the deaths by torture and burning of thousands of heretics and witches. the spanish inquisition seemed to take special delight in the pomp and ceremony of the auto-de-fe, during which hundreds of heretics might be burned at one time. if an auto-de-fe could not be made to coincide with some great festival day, it was at least held on a sunday so that the populace could make plans to attend the burnings. the ghastly event began with a procession of the penitents led by dominican friars. behind them marched the wretched victims of the inquisition, barefooted, stumbling, hollow- eyed with the pain and nightmare of their ordeal. as in spain, the same lack of concern regarding the practice of the old religion and the folk customs of

cross within the center diamond formed by the seal. solomon fs seal was especially recommended for summoning air spirits. according to peter of abano (an occult author who lived from 1250 to 1318, this summoning should take place when the moon is waxing. abano also recommended the inscription of four concentric circles for the invocation of good spirits. this should be done in the first hour of a sunday in springtime. the names inscribed in the circles were varcan, the lord fs king-angel of the air, and tus, andas, and cynabel, who are the lord fs holy ministers. the highest angels of sunday, according to abano, are michael, dardiel, and huratapal. the north wind carries these angels, and they can be invoked by magical ceremonies employing incense made of red sanders. m delving deeper ahme

it is 1,500 miles to the nearest area of human habitation, pitcairn island. another mystery, then, is how the island came to be populated, and how the isolated island people managed to make and move the immense moai. the island inhabitants could tell little about the moai to european visitors. evidence of a once-thriving culture existed on the island, but when roggeveen named the island on easter sunday, 1722 the several thousand polynesian inhabitants were struggling for survival. at the time of this first contact with europeans, islanders called their home te pito o te henua, which has been variously translated as gnaval of the world, h gend of the world, h and glands f end. h the population and land were even more impoverished 50 years later when british explorer james cook (1728.1779)

a community custom, such as the rite of courtship. often has a solemn, religious or ceremonial meaning, such as the rite of baptism. sabbath from the greek sabbaton, and the hebrew sabba, both meaning gto rest. h a 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 glossary 289 g l o s s a r y day of rest from work and for religious worship. in christianity, sunday is the observed day of worship while saturday is observed in judaism and some christian denominations. sanskrit sanskrit is an ancient indo-european language and the language of traditional hinduism in india. spoken between the fourteenth and fifth centuries b.c.e, it has been considered and maintained as a priestly and literary language of the sacred veda scriptures and other classical tex

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p the house withblossomed broom in may, you sweep the head of the house away".the most important example of a processional broom survives in the prize besom of shaftesbury. adescription of it occurs in an agreement made in 1662 between the mayor and corporation of shaftesburyand sir edward nicholas, in which the burgesses of the town ask that the annual procession in may shouldnot take place on a sunday "the said mayor, accompanied with some of the burgesses and other inhabitantsof the said town and borough, have used to walk out into a place called enmore-green, where is a pool ofwater, and divers springs and wells; and in that place, to walk or dance hand in hand round the same greenin a long dance, there being a musician or tabor and pipe, and also a staffe or besome adorned withfeather

h side of the churchyardwhere burials are fewest.one of the most surprising survivals of the processional dance was to be found at shaftesbury. like "greengarters" it was connected with the may-day ceremonies, showing that it was in origin essentially religious.the petition of the civic authorities in the reign of charles ii is still extant, praying that the date of the dancemight be changed from sunday to a weekday, as the performance interfered with the attendance at church.this shows that the sanctity of the dance was such that it had to be performed on the sacred day. thedescription of the dance as seen by an eye-witness is published in the sporting magazine for 1803."the inhabitants of shaftesbury have an annual custom of great singularity called the besant, or a may daydance for the

is so much the fashion to pour floodsof tearful sentiment over her that plain facts are not always welcome, but the contemporary evidence is thereand has never been refuted.in 1436, five years after the trial, the herald-at-arms, fleur de lils, and joan's brother, jean du lys, arrivedat orleans to announce officially to the town that joan, was still alive.[7] the accounts of the city show thaton sunday, the 6th of august, 1436, jean du lys, brother of "jehane la pucelle, was in orleans carryingletters from his sister to the king. he was f352ted by the city; the bills for the feast are still extant, and includetwelve fowls, twelve pigeons, two goslings, two leverets, besides a considerable quantity of wine. on the 9thof august came the herald-at-arms, fleur de lils, bearing letters from jo

THE MARTINIST OPERATIVE GENERAL RITUAL

arly cycle the resurrection of christ and his victory over death, is an image of the reintegration and resurrection of the whole humanity, it is advantageous to operate choosing a monthly cycle which would reverberate, in the invisible, this solemn commemoration by a sort of a psychic and spiritual echo. this is the reason why the monthly periods for this general operation have been fixed for the sunday following each full moon (easter takes place on sunday following the full moon of the vernal equinoxes) the hour has been set: from 11 p.m. until midnight, standard time. this time has been chosen because the traffic and outside noise level starts then to subside. local time should be taken into account as it is often advanced from the standard time. in such cases the time for the operation

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

melted. his wife took over the wheel of their vehicle and drove him to a hospital. fortunately, the damage was not permanent. what puzzled me about connie's case, however, was that she had not seen a splendid luminous flying saucer. she had seen a giant "winged man" in broad daylight. according to her story, connie, a shy, sensitive eighteen-year-old, was driving home from church at 10:30 a.m. on sunday, november 27, 1966, when, as she passed the deserted greens of the mason county golf course outside of new haven, west virginia, she suddenly saw a huge gray figure. it was shaped like a man, she said, but was much larger. it was at least seven feet tall and very broad. the thing that attracted her attention was not its size but its eyes. it had, she said, large, round, fiercely glowing red

had spelled the name c-o-l-d from the outset and it was spelled that way throughout the subcommittee's documents. how nicap arrived at the k-u-l-d spelling is a mystery in itself. iii "look at that crazy character coming in downwind in that plane" eddie adkins commented. he and four other men were standing on the field of the gallipolis, ohio, airport, just across the river from point pleasant on sunday, december 4, 1966. at 3 p.m. that afternoon a large winged form came cruising majestically along the ohio river, just behind the airport. the pilots later estimated that it was about three hundred feet in the air and was traveling about seventy miles an hour. as it drew closer they realized it was not a plane but was some kind of enormous bird with an unusually long neck. it seemed to be tu

e protected, not from men in black or sinister government agencies but from the ufo believers themselves. this unfortunate problem persists, and this is why i have used blind items here, or, in some cases, altered the names of the witnesses or their location. this is a common policy in medical books and scientific literature, but it is sad that it becomes necessary in studies of this kind. ii one sunday afternoon in the spring of 1967, i was walking along forty-second street and third avenue with a lady friend. there were very few people on the streets at the time. suddenly a tall, thin man came around a corner. his face was gaunt and pointed, and he was carrying a camera. he raised the camera and deliberately took our picture, then he turned and ran up the street. my friend knew nothing a

h archaic terms like "twenty-three skidoo" or "hubba hubba" the poor bastards not only fail to understand who or what they are, but also where they are or what time period they're in. some of these mistakes seem intentional and have some allegorical purpose. but others seem to be just. mistakes. this brings us to one of the most puzzling contact stories in my files. at 1:15 a.m. on the morning of sunday, december 10, 1967, a young college student from adelphi, maryland, was driving home alone outside of washington, d.c. as he was crossing the then-partially completed cutoff on interstate 70, leading from route 40 to route 29, he saw a large object on the road directly ahead. at first he thought it was a tractor-trailer jackknifed across the road. then he realized it was a bone-white reflec

folded down. a hand reached out and helped vadig aboard, then the thing rose silently into the air and disappeared. tom told his three roommates about the encounter, but they didn't take him seriously so he didn't mention it to anyone else. tom was working his way through school by serving as a waiter part-time in a chain of restaurants in the d.c. area he had not mentioned this to vadig. but one sunday night in early february 1968, vadig entered the restaurant where he was working and sat at one of his tables. vadig was now wearing a conventional suit with a black outer coat "do you remember me" vadig asked "i sure do" tom answered, very surprised. they exchanged a few words and tom brought him a cup of coffee "my presence here would be detrimental to the family trade" vadig said at one p

nd sat at one of his tables. vadig was now wearing a conventional suit with a black outer coat "do you remember me" vadig asked "i sure do" tom answered, very surprised. they exchanged a few words and tom brought him a cup of coffee "my presence here would be detrimental to the family trade" vadig said at one point with a chuckle. he asked tom if he would be willing to meet with him the following sunday. tom agreed and vadig left the restaurant "i'll see you in time" he promised. after work the next sunday, a waitress drove tom home and dropped him off. as she pulled away, a big black car with its lights out glided from the shadows and halted at the curb. mr. vadig called out to tom. another man was in the car. tom later recalled only that he wore a gray coat, had black hair, and never spo

itself is the unruly mob of true believers, cranks, and irresponsible self-styled investigators who pursue the subject; moths attracted to the flame. they tormented charles hickson and calvin parker in 1973, just as they had arrived by the carload in point pleasant in 1967- 15- misery on the mount i daniel drasin was about eighteen when he filmed a riot in new york's washington square, titled it sunday, and won a number of motion-picture awards. now still in his mid-twenties, handsome, quiet-spoken, intelligent, and perceptive, he was well into a promising career in the film industry. the west virginia ufo documentary was an important break for him and he plunged into the project with a mixture of awe and enthusiasm. as i was on my way to washington, d.c, from point pleasant, he was heade

. i was out of the city and away from my phone for two or three weeks at a time, but when i returned i would find a phone bill for $150-$200 waiting. and that was just the beginning. iii a reporter on the daily american in west frankfort, illinois, picked up his phone on february 16, 1967, and heard a weird echo chamber voice which instructed him to be at a certain pond at 3:15 a.m. the following sunday. the reporter motioned to his co-workers and they picked up extensions to listen in. the voice immediately said"'tell them to put down their phones" electronic sounds beeped and whistled behind the hollow speaker "bring no one with you" the newsmen decided it was all a joke but that it "was a first-rate performance. whoever that was had talent and electronic equipment to work with" in my tr

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re of borges is certainly an indication that lovecraft has finally ascended to his rightful place in the history of american literature, nearly forty years after his death. in the same year that lovecraft found print in the pages of weird takes, another gentleman was seeing his name in print; but in the british tabloid press. new sinister revelations of aleister crowley read the front page of the sunday express. it concerned testimony by one of the notorious magician's former followers (or, actually, the wife of one of his followers) that crowley had been responsible for the death of her husband, at the abbey of thelema, in cefalu, sicily. the bad press, plus the imagined threat of secret societies, finally forced mussolini to deport the great beast from italy. tales of horrors filled the

TRUE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

agick, the symbols of the white pillar and black pillar represent this balance between conscious and unconscious forces. in gardnarian wicca, the goddess and horned god- and the priestess and priest, represent that balance. there is nothing, nothing of pacts with the "devil" or the worship of evil in any of this; that belongs to misguided exchristians who have been given the absurd fundamentalist sunday school notion that one must choose the christian version of god, or choose the devil. islam, judaism and even catholicism have at one time or another been thought "satanic" and occultists have merely played on this bigoted symbolism, not subscribed to it. as we have seen, wicca since gardner's time has been watered down in many of its expressions into a kind of mushy white-light `new age' r

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

of the phallus. such at least appears to have been the case in france, where the custom still exists. in saintonge, in the neighbourhood of la rochelle, small cakes, baked in the form of a phallus, are made as offerings at easter, and are carried and presented from house to house; and we have been informed that similar practices exist in some other places. when dulaure wrote, the festival of palm sunday, in the town of saintes, was called the f te des pinnes, pinne being a popular and vulgar word for the membrum virile. at this f te the women and children carried in the procession, at the end of their palm branches, a phallus made of bread, which they called undisguisedly a pinne, and which, having generative powers 159 been blest by the priest, the women carefully preserved during the fol

the sabbath in open day; and during the other six, until the 16th of september, 1609, she had only gone to them twice, because she had watched, and still watches in the church; and that the last time she was there was the 13th of september, 1609, which she narrated in a bizarre and very terrible manner. it appears that, having watched in the church of siboro during the night between saturday and sunday, at daybreak she went to sleep at home, and, during the time of the grand mass, the devil came to her and snatched qu elles menoyent au sabbat. quant la transformations, dict qu encore que parfois elles si fassent voir hautes comme une maison, pourtant elle n a jamais veu aucune d elle se transformer en beste en sa pr sence, mais seulement certaines bestes courier par le sabbat, et devenir

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

eptagram mercury moves to the outer circle with the rest of the planets, and the center is occupied with the sign for the earth, of which substance humans are formed. the ordering of the planets around the heptagram is determined in part by the order of the days of the week: wednesday (mercurii dies) mercury thursday (jovis dies) jupiter friday (veneris dies) venus saturday (saturnus dies) saturn sunday (solis dies) sun monday (lunae dies) moon tuesday (martis dies) mars some of the correspondences are obvious--sun for sunday, moon for monday, saturn for saturday--others are less apparent. this is because many of the old gods are no longer well known. tuesday is named after the teutonic war god tiw, the nearest equivalent in the pagan hierarchy to mars. wednesday is named after woden, the

being clearly understood that the magus is under no constraint about 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

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

m in the air near the earth with bag and bagadge; and at such revolution of time, seers, or men of the second sight (fzmales being seldome so qualified) have very terrifying encounters with them, even on high ways; who therefoir uswally shune to travel1 abroad at these four seasons of the year, and thereby have made it a custome to this day among the scottish-irish to keep church duely evry first sunday of the quarter to sene or hallow themselves, their corns and cattell, from the shots and stealth of these wandring tribes;52 the quarters of the year are the transitions from season to season, when the length of the day is noticed to change. on the winter solstice (december 21, the shortest day occurs in the northern hemisphere and on the summer solstice (june 21, the longest day. on the sp

reception being terrible from the strain of testing the correctness of every passage thus communicated; the nerve prostration alluded to being at times accompanied by profuse cold perspirations, and by severe loss of blood from the nose, mouth, and occasionally the ears."121 the poet william butler yeats, who was a leading member of the golden dawn, wrote of mathers in his autobiographies "every sunday he gave to the evocation of spirits, and i noted that upon that day he would spit blood. that did not matter, he said, because it came from his head, not his heart; what ailed him i do not know, but i think 120. howe, 130. 121. ibid, i31 chapter seven: the golden dawn 101 he lived under some great strain."122w hen yeats was visiting, mathers and his wife would sometimes play enochian chess

nch of the golden dawn by mathers. westcott had been forced to withdraw in order to protect his public reputation and his government job as london coroner. mathers agreed with farr that the practice of secret groups working within the golden dawn on projects of their own interest, such as her sphere group, should be formally accepted. 131 the sphere group consisted of twelve members who met every sunday at noon to "concentrate forces of growth, progress and purification."132t hey occasionally came together in the same physical place, but as dr. robert william felkin (1858-1922, one of the original members of the group later testified "meetings were not necessary for the work of the felkin meant that physical meetings were unnecessary because the twelve met on the astral planes. the name of

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,33 wednesday: 5,11,28 sunday: 6,13,28 monday: 6,13,27 thursday: 5, 11,31 tuesday: 6,13,33 week three friday: 5, ll,27 wednesday: 6,13,28 monday: 8,12,27 318 practice schedule tuesday: 8,12,34 week four friday: 9, 13,27 wednesday: 8,12,28 monday: 9, 13,27 saturday: 9, 13,36 thursday: 8,12,34 tuesday: 9, 13,36 sunday: 9,13,28 friday: 8, 12,27 wednesday: 9,13,28 saturday: 8,12,34 thursday: 9, 13,36 sunday: 8,12,28 suggested reading t he overriding consideration in compiling this reading list was practicality. only works that contain important instructions, techniques, or rituals of ceremonial magic are included. these are books in my own library that i have read and reread numerous times. the list is by no means exhaustive, but every book on it is worth intense study, and will repay the ener

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

y similar to that which links the order of the seven days of the week with the astrological order of the seven planets on the heptagram (see illustration on page 53. if the line of the seven-pointed star is traced clockwise from point to point, the order of the planets associated with the seven days of the week results. beginning with saturday, the jewish sabbath, this order is: saturday (saturn, sunday (sun, monday (moon, tuesday (tew-the teutonic mars, wednesday (woden-the teutonic mercury, thursday (thor-the teutonic jupiter, friday (frija-the teutonic venus. if a circle is traced clockwise around the heptagram from this same planet, saturn, the order of the planets touched by the circle is their ancient astrological order based upon their apparent rate of progress across the heavens. f

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

green light. as many correspondences as possible should be employed to evoke a sense of the numinous. before your magical working it is good to be aware of astrological timing. if working with planetary squares and symbols derived from the tree, one can take various courses, such as attempting to make the talisman from beginning to end on the particular day attributed to that planet/sphere, e. g, sunday for the sun, monday for the moon, etc. this could even be further subdivided into planetary hours and their ruling angelic forces (see next chapter. generally, the first hour is calculated by the moment the sun rises on that particular day, and therefore the hours vary in length, according to whether the days are long or short. for many modern magicians (who have schedules as busy as anyone

(destructive, cruelty, resentment, manipulation. self-doubt. planet sun moon mars mercury jupiter venus saturn pluto element best place for working fire water fire planet (also rules water sign) air planet (also rules earth sign) fire planet (also rules water sign) earth planet (also rules air sign) earth planet (also rules air sign) water (rules scorpio, replacing mars) leo, aries, sagittarius, sunday cancer, taurus, monday, nighttime aries, capricorn, tuesday gemini, virgo, wednesday sagittarius, pisces, cancer, thursday taurus, libra, pisces, friday capricorn, aquarius, libra, saturday scorpio, aquarius, capricorn, nighttime figure 3-h sun: positive: leadership, power and self-confidence. harmony and illumination. mental alertness and creativity. open-hearted, loyal, equable, and compa

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

ly, the magicians term, abracadabra, originated. dutroux buried alive an accomplice, bernard weinstein, and a mong weinstein's effects was a letter from the abrasax group signed by someone describing himself as the egyptian god, anubis. it ordered him to provide 'presents' for the high priestess of the order and apparently gave specific details of, the age and sex the victims must be. the british sunday times reported the accounts of witnesses describing, black masses in which children were killed in front of audiences which included, prominent members of belgian society" a belgian newspaper reported, that a former commissioner of the european union was among a group of judges, senior politicians, lawyers, and policemen, who attended orgies at a belgian chateau organised bv michel nihoul

this is a true story. i might have told it before ,but felt i should again. around 1988 i had to make several trips to pittsburgh weekly for business reasons. the road i travel was rt. 8 this road has 4-5 lanes form a town called butler to pittsburgh itself. who are the draconians file//d /my documents/avidya/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (64 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:20:01] one a certain sunday i was traveling this road by myself. it was early in the morning and i was quite tired. this road had many stop signal followed by brief areas of no turn offs. on this certain morning i pulled up to a red light and was waiting for the light to change. as i did i saw a black limo pull up directly beside me. as i looked over at the limo i noticed that the back window started to come down. i t

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ll bring good luck, that a person born on christmas day can see the little people, that a cricket on the hearth brings good luck, that if one opens all the doors of the house at midnight all the evil spirits will depart, that you will have one lucky month for each christmas pudding you sample, that the tree must be taken down by twelfth night or bad luck is sure to follow, that 'if christmas on a sunday be, a windy winter we shall see, that 'hours of sun on christmas day, so many frosts in the month of may, that one can use the twelve days of christmas to predict the weather for each of the twelve months of the coming year, and so on. remembering that most christmas customs are ultimately based upon older pagan customs, it only remains for modern pagans to reclaim their lost traditions. in

the bunny (both for fertility and because her worshipers saw a hare in the full moon) and the egg (symbolic of the cosmic egg of creation, images which christians have been hard pressed to explain. her holiday, the eostara, was held on the vernal equinox full moon. of course, the church doesn't celebrate full moons, even if they do calculate by them, so they planted their easter on the following sunday. thus, easter is always the first sunday, after the first full moon, after the vernal equinox. if you've ever wondered why easter moved all around the calendar, now you know (by the way, the catholic church was so adamant about not incorporating lunar goddess symbolism that they added a further calculation: if easter sunday were to fall on the full moon itself, then easter was postponed to

easter is always the first sunday, after the first full moon, after the vernal equinox. if you've ever wondered why easter moved all around the calendar, now you know (by the way, the catholic church was so adamant about not incorporating lunar goddess symbolism that they added a further calculation: if easter sunday were to fall on the full moon itself, then easter was postponed to the following sunday instead) incidentally, this raises another point: recently, some pagan traditions began referring to the vernal equinox as eostara. historically, this is incorrect. eostara is a lunar holiday, honoring a lunar goddess, at the vernal full moon. hence, the name 'eostara' is best reserved to the nearest esbat, rather than the sabbat itself. how this happened is difficult to say. however, it is

y. another mythological motif which must surely arrest our attention at this time of year is that of the descent of the god or goddess into the underworld. perhaps we see this most clearly in the christian tradition. beginning with his death on the cross on good friday, it is said that jesus 'descended into hell' for the three days that his body lay entombed. but on the third day (that is, easter sunday, his body and soul rejoined, he arose from the dead and ascended into heaven. by a strange 'coincidence, most ancient pagan religions speak of the goddess descending into the underworld, also for a period of three days. why three days? if we remember that we are here dealing with the lunar aspect of the goddess, the reason should be obvious. as the text of one book of shadows gives it..as t

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tried in 1324. the court obviously believed she had been practising witchcraft, but saw no particular harm in it though supposed to convict her they let her off as lightly as possible and discharged her, much to the bishop's disgust; much as a manx court in 1659 found mrs. jane ceasar not guilty of witchcraft, though the bishop managed to get her sentenced to 'abjure her witchcraft, the following sunday in malew church (a curious case of 'not guilty but you must promise not to do it again) the lady was forced to abjure in church and spoke with a play of words which satisfied the court, though the commentators said 'it would make her accusers very unhappy if they really believed her to be a witch. as nothing more is recorded it is to be presumed that the matter was allowed to drop. later ch

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

never have any real assurance that your best is good enough for me, and hence you have no real security in obtaining salvation. just think of it! i already have the equivalent of salvation and have never had to go through this infinitely lugubrious process of earning it. don t you ever envy me for this? mortal: but it is blasphemous to envy you! god: oh come off it! you re not now talking to your sunday school teacher, you are talking to me. blasphemous or not, the important question is not whether you have the right to be envious of me but whether you are. are you? mortal: of course i am! god: good! under your present world view, you sure should be most envious of me. but i think with a more realistic world-view, you no longer will be. so you really have swallowed the idea which has been

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

under the persecutions of decius in the 3rd century. they fell into a trance and slept 200 years. they awaked in a.d. 447 and going to the emperor theodosius ii, they convinced him of the truth of the life beyond the grave. this done, they returned to the cave to sleep until the last judgment. the 7 dolours of the virgin mary is the name of a roman catholic fast day held on the friday before palm sunday. the 7 wise masters were officers of king kurush who tell stories to save the life of the king s son. they exist in greek, syriac, hebrew, persian and in english are called the book of sindibad, edited by clouston. the coptic gnostics represented the jehovah of the hebrews by a curious arrangement of the 7 vowels, numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott wi

them. 84. the historic city of rome, pagan before it was christian, was built upon seven hills. the palatine, coelian, aventine, viminal, quirinal, esquiline, and the capitol. in latin times it was called urbs septicollis. some old authors speak of valentia as a secret name for rome. the bijou notes and queries, vol. xiv, p. 235, says that the 7 days of the week have all been used as sacred days. sunday by christians; monday by the greeks. tuesday by the persians. wednesday by the assyrians. thursday by the egyptians. friday by the turks. saturday by the jews. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the number 7 was curiously related to h. p. blavatsky and the theosophical society. lucifer was first published in 1887, and 1887 is the sum of 17 hundred, 17

ZALEWSKI GOLDEN DAWN ENOCHIAN MAGIC OCR

pective hours of the day, as designated to them in the following pages. the descriptions and powers of the kings and princes may at first appear somewhat archaic, and are arranged as dee transcribed them. the key to their functions is not planetary, but lies in the application of the biblical verses of genesis to the first seven days of creation. the seal of king camara is shown in figure 73. 109 sunday president: isr vice president: ave the seal of ave is shown in figure 74. king: bobogel figure 74 prince: bornogo the seal of bornogo is shown in figure 75. governors: bonefon over the hour of mars barnafa over the hour of jupiter bariges over the hour of mercury buscnab over the hour of saturn bablibo over the hour of the moon 80bogel governs the whole with his seat of power in the hour of

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

iz (measure) den tihir din herza in modum crucis, unde von dem hrustlejffile zuo demo nahile, unde miz denne von eime rippe unz an daz andire, unde sprich alsus. again: so miz denne die rehtun hant von deme lengistin vingire unz an daz resti (wrist, unde miz denne von deme dumin zuo deme minnisten vingire. one prayer was called' der vane (flag) des almehtigin gotis; nine women are to read it nine sundays' so ez morginet; the ninth has to read the psalm domini est terra, in such a posture' daz ir lih nict more die erde, wan die ellehogin unde diu chnic' that her body touch not the ground, except at the elbows and knees; the others are all to stand till the lighted candle has burnt out; diut. 2, 292-3 "we cannot now attach any definite meaning to the gothic uviliudon ev'^apiareiv; it is form

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

ish houses which should not be homey in any way and yet manage to be so. it was not particularly old, having been built in the time of queen anne by sir william temple. he it was who introduced tulips into england. his heart enclosed in a silver casket was buried under the sundial in the middle of the formal garden, outside the library windows. in its way moor park was a show place and on certain sundays was thrown open to the general public. i have two recollections of that library. i remember standing at one of its windows and trying to picture the scene as sir william temple must have seen it with its formal gardens and terraces, peopled by great lords and ladies in the dress of the period. and then another scene, this time not imaginary; i saw my grandfather's coffin in which he lay in

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

you and your preparation for fuller service in the next life. a study of these three phrases will carry you into the realm of quality, and not simply of symbolism; the concept of heart radiation, attractive power, and the responsibility of preparation emerge clearly in the three ideas underlying the meditation suggested below. my proposal to you is that you do this meditation only twice a week on sundays and on one day in the middle of the week. on the other days you will simply carry forward the group reflective assignment with your group brothers. in this way the days of your personal orientation in meditation will be gladly anticipated events. will you try out this plan, my brother? stage i. the diadem. 1. the establishing of relation between: a. the heart centre and the head centre. b

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

he charges, there was reason for the belief. the early church was extremely harsh on its people. it not only governed the peasants' way of worship but also their ways of life and love. even between married couples, sexual intercourse was frowned upon. it was felt that there should be no joy from the act, it being permitted solely for procreation. intercourse was illegal on wednesdays, fridays and sundays; for forty days before christmas and a similar time before easter; for three days prior to receiving communion, and from the time of conception to forty days after paturition. in other words, there was a grand total of approximately two months in the year only when it was possible to have sexual relations with your spouse. but without deriving pleasure from it, of course! it was no wonder

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

american test medium who gave answers from departed relatives to mental questions of the sitters and also did pellet reading. conklin s chief claim to fame was the patronage of president abraham lincoln. after lincoln s election, conklin stated in the cleveland plaindealer that the president-elect was a spiritualist. lincoln did not deny the statement, and it is recorded that for four successive sundays, prior to the issue of the antislavery proclamation, conklin was a guest at the presidential mansion. the spirit messages delivered by conklin were reported to have greatly strengthened the president s determination to make the historic step. sources: britten, emma hardinge. nineteenth century miracles. new york: william britten, 1884. cooper, robert. spiritual experiences. london: heywood

businessmen of chicago, had a controlling interest in the grain and shipping industries. while chairman of the committee on banks and corporations, he became a personal friend of lincoln. in his book, god dealing with slavery (1870, richmond reproduced the letters which, under psychic influence, he sent to the president. col. s. p. kase claimed in the spiritual scientist that for four succeeding sundays mr. conklin, the test medium, was a guest at the presidential mansion. the result of these interviews was the president s proposition to his cabinet to issue the proclamation. col. kase also narrated president lincoln s visit, in the company of his wife, in mrs. laurie s house. laurie was a wellknown medium. the colonel s daughter, mrs. miller, produced strong physical phenomena. colburn w

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

unt phantasmata et in terra et in nubibus intefiras venationes ciim canibus, retibus, clamoribus raucis tamen, aliisque instrumentis venaticis iustituere, praeferentia formas hominum longe ante defunctorum. 2 ildef. v. arx, buchsgau p. 230. staid. 1, 208" furious host: hackelbernd. 921 hackelharend, haclcejhernd, hackelherg, hackelhlocl: this eachelhdrend was a huntsman who went a hunting even on sundays, for which desecration he was after death (like the man in the moon, p. 717) banished into the air, and there with his hound he must hunt night and day, and never rest. some say, he only imnts in the twelve nights from christmas to twelfth-day; others, whenever the storm-wind howls, and therefore he is called by some the jol-jager (from yawling, or tule^ once, in a ride, hachelberg left on

the huntsman's' huhu' tutosel is said to have been a nun, who after her death joined hackelnberg and mingled her tiihu with his liuhu^ the people of altmark place a wild hunter named hahkeherg in the dromling, and make him ride down by night with horses and hounds from the harz into the dromling (temme, p. 37. ad. kulin no. 17 calls him hackenberg and hackelberg: he too is said to have hunted on sundays, and forced all the peasants in his parish to turn out with him; but one day a pair of horsemen suddenly galloped up to him, each calling to him to come along. one looked wild and fierce, and fire spirted out of his horse's nose and mouth; the left-hand rider seemed more quiet and mild, but hackelberg turned to the wild one, who galloped off with him, and in his company he must hunt until

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

ffer from that gentleman on the subject of his review; but, emboldened by his admission that, although 'many would probably dissent from his views, stillcontributionstothezoist199in this case the speculatrix had never seen the party in question in any other than a black silk neckerchief and jet studs,butit afterwards appeared that the gentleman, being then in mourning for his deceased wife, he on sundays wore a white neckcloth and diamond studs, a circumstance she was at the time perfectly unconscious of, and consequently the vision could not be the embodiment of her own thoughts. i will just add one more relation to prove the fallacy ofdrc.'s opinion. in 1842, an old and worthy friend, of whose strict veracity i have no possible reason to doubt, came from burnham with a relative to transa

HP LOVECRAFT THE PICTURE IN THE HOUSE

nfinite intensity. his madness, or at least his partial perversion, seemed beyond dispute. he was almost whispering now, with a huskiness more terrible than a scream, and i trembled as i listened "as i says 'tis queer haow picters sets ye thinkin. d'ye know, young sir, i'm right sot on this un here. arter i got the book off eb i uster look at it a lot, especial when i'd heerd passon clark rant o' sundays in his big wig. onct i tried suthin' funny- here, young sir, don't git skeert- all i done was ter look at the picter afore i kilt the sheep for market- killin' sheep was kinder more fun arter lookin' at it" the tone of the old man now sank very low, sometimes becoming so faint that his words were hardly audible. i listened to the rain, and to the rattling of the bleared, small-paned window

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 1

hment paper, and therein write the foregoing conjurations, and constrain the demons to swear upon the same book that they will come whenever they be called, and present themselves before thee, whenever thou shalt wish to consult them. afterwards thou canst cover this book with sacred sigils on a plate of silver, and therein write or engrave the holy pentacles. thou mayest open this book either on sundays or on thursdays, rather at night than by day, and the spirits will come. regarding the expression night, understand the night following, and not the night preceding the aforesaid days. and remember that by day (the demons) are ashamed, for they are animals of darkness. book one page 39 chapter viii concerning pentacles, and the manner of constructing them. as we have already made mention o

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

was that everyone, black brown white, had started thinking of the dream-figure as _real, as a being who had crossed the frontier, evading the normal controls, and was now roaming loose about the city. illegal migrant, outlaw king, foul criminal or race--hero, saladin chamcha was getting to be true. stories rushed across the city in every direction: a physiotherapist sold a shaggy--dog tale to the sundays, was not believed, but _no smoke without fire, people said; it was a precarious state of affairs, and it couldn't be long before the raid on the shaandaar caf that would send the whole thing higher than the sky. priests became involved, adding another unstable element- the linkage between the term _black_ and the sin _blasphemy--to the mix. in his attic, slowly, saladin chamcha grew. o o o

ester- you will pardon me if i use the name i gave him, not meaning to belittle the warrior's name he took for himself, but only out of ingrained habit- sylvester, he burst upwards from that dock like leviathan from the waves. i want you to know how he spoke: he spoke loud, and he spoke clear. he spoke looking his adversary in the eye, and could that prosecutor stare him down? never in a month of sundays. and i want you to know what he said 'i stand here' my son declared 'because i have chosen to occupy the old and honourable role of the uppity nigger. i am here because i have not been willing to seem reasonable. i am here for my ingratitude' he was a colossus among the dwarfs 'make no mistake' he said in that court 'we are here to change things. i concede at once that we shall ourselves b

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

nd jews (whom the prophet 296 world religions: almanac islam called the people of the book. sometimes the relationship between members of different religions was so close that they shared places of worship. in syria, for instance, christians and muslims shared the church of st. john the baptist (an old christian church. muslims used the church as a mosque on saturdays, while christians used it on sundays. the rapid and widespread growth of islam as both a community of faith and a social community created a world-state that stretched from china to europe. it brought people from different cultures together and gave them a common set of values. in that sense, islam has been a major force for global understanding. internal arguments and divisions despite its early successes islam was weakened

sikhism the granth sahib can be considered a gurdwara, including a home. in practice sikhs worship at temples where the granth sahib can be kept secure. there are approximately two hundred gurdwaras in india and an equal number in the united states. though some are open twentyfour hours a day, others open before dawn and remain open until late in the evening. communal worship is generally held on sundays. sikhs are opposed to any form of idol worship, which is the worship of any physical object as if it were a god. to avoid even the possibility of idol worship, gurdwaras do not have paintings, photographs, statues, bells, or any similar items, though many gurdwaras are beautifully decorated. each gurdwara has four doors leading into it: the door of livelihood, the door of peace, the door o

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 3

in a hall where dinner is served to the invited guests and gifts are presented to the newlyweds. depending upon the beliefs of the individual denomination or congregation, a dance may follow the dinner and the gift-giving. after the party, the couple leaves their family and friends and departs on their honeymoon. jewish weddings are always events of great celebration and are usually performed on sundays. on the sabbath before the wedding, the groom must go to the synagogue and read from the torah. as in other traditions, the bride is attired in a white gown, symbolizing purity and joy, and the groom stands beside her wearing a dark suit. the wedding couple is attended by their parents, and the group stands before the rabbi under a canopy known as a chuppah, which represents the future hom

lass is a reminder of the destruction of the temple in jerusalem. an old tradition adds that the glass is broken to symbolize that the bride and groom will be joined in happiness and love until the glass is 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 superstitions, strange customs, taboos, and urban legends 211 jewish weddings are usually performed on sundays. made whole again, which is another way of saying forever. before a buddhist wedding can occur, a buddhist monk must check the horoscope of the prospective bride and groom to be certain that they are compatible. if the stars indicate that the couple will be able to adjust to one another s personalities throughout their lives together, the monk next determines the best day for the wedding c

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