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ledge. i now invoke the divine scribe of this order to record and place this event into thy tablets. i now release any spirits that may have been imprisoned by this ceremony. go back to thine own abodes and habitation with the blessings of yehashua yehovashah, for i now declare this rite in the hall of the neophyte duly closed" bell.in this lesson we will explain some of the preliminary and basic symbology of the neophyte initiation and the symbology of the hall of the neophyte. a basic understanding of it is necessary and required. in a future grade, we will study indepth the subtle nature of the energies imposed on the candidate in the 0=0 neophyte initiation, but at this time your task is to have a basic understanding of the initiation and the symbology of the temple. the whole purpose

t is actually two solid cubes, one sitting on top of the other. the altar is black. imperator cancellarius hierophant past hiero. praemonstratrix sentinel hegemon hiereus kerux b/e b/w. rose lamp bread& sal t wine east west dadouchos stolistes north south in the neophyte initiation, the altar is placed in the eastern part of malkuth (please check the diagram. remember, the temple is set up in the symbology of the qabalistic tree of life, malkuth being the starting place. this is an important point for many temples who incorrectly place the altar in the center of the temple; it should be placed slightly to the east, as pointed out earlier, in the eastern part of malkuth. the altar is the center pinnacle of the temple. although it is painted black, to the adept it is veiled with citrine in t

nted out earlier, in the eastern part of malkuth. the altar is the center pinnacle of the temple. although it is painted black, to the adept it is veiled with citrine in the east, olive in the south, russet in the north, and black in the west; the base is black while the summit or the top of the altar is in a brilliant whiteness. remember, these are symbolic colors that those who have studied the symbology will see as they look at the altar. the reason for these colors will be better understood as we understand the color scheme of the sephira of malkuth, the bottom sephira of the qabalistic tree of life. the hierophant is responsible for bringing in the divine white brilliance, the infinite divine light into the temple. the hierophant brings this light forth where it eventually finds a hom

he back of the frater/soror right hand. in turn they will place their left hand palm down on the back of the left hand that is also palm down. this is followed by three gentle shakes. this greeting is done for all fraters and sorors regardless of grade status. in a temple, sanctuary, study group, or in public this greeting may be done. below is a diagram of this greeting and a list of some of its symbology. the symbols of this greeting the tetragrammaton vibrating in the four qabalistic worlds. the bonding link and vow we each took. the love and support given and received from each of us on our solo trek. the horizontal position represents the horizon that the sun eternally emerges from. the four elements. the warmth is spirit. the three shakes referring to the three supernals and pillars

scale color for malkuth: 9. queen scale color for splendor: 10. queen scale color for wisdom: 11. how many paths connect the ten sephiroth? 12. translation of tiphareth: 13. translation of malkuth: miscellaneous general questions 1. what is the tetragrammaton? 2. what is the pentagrammaton? 3. what is a notarikon? 4. lay out the circle spread divination and name all the positions. 5. describe the symbology of the neophyte grip, step, and grand word. 6. submit a sample of your written hebrew letters. 7. describe the neophyte grade sign. e 0= 0 neophyte grade initiation on the dais (the stage in the east of temple) these officers represent the second order and are present mostly symbolically. praemonstrator: blue robe, blue& orange nemis, gold shoes, lamen, blue collar, sceptre imperator: re

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

. they are the ones who send forth a cry for added power to aid, which penetrates to the ear of those who silently wait- 113- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust rule 3. triple the call must be, and long it takes to sound it forth. let the disciple sound the cry across the desert, over the sea, and through the fires which separate him from the veiled and hidden door. under this symbology comes to the disciple the injunction to make the desert of the physical plane life to blossom like the rose, so that from the garden of the lower life may arise those sounds and scents, and a vibration strong enough to cross the intervening space between it and the portal; to still the restless waters of the emotional life, so that in their limpid, still expanse, that portal may be refle

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

the fourth is called the hour of the flaming wheel. the final cycle comes when even the lamp itself is burned, destroyed through the intensity of heat. the one who watches, seeing the work accomplished, fans the central point of fire and produces a sudden flaming. the wicks are naught the flame is all. this, so the sacred science says, is called the cycle of the wheel consumed" here in the arcane symbology is hid (in terms of energy and of radiant activity) the whole secret of egoic energy, and of impulse making its presence felt in the substance of the lower planes; the student should interpret the above sentences both macrocosmically and microcosmically. in all manifestation, the originating impulse comes from the first aspect which is hidden at the heart of the egoic lotus, but this hid

n in the serpent stage, not the life of the spirit, but the life of the soul, and this will be revealed as the "serpent of the astral light" is truly approached, and duly studied. one of the four lipika lords, who stand nearest to our planetary logos, is called "the living serpent" and his emblem is a serpent of blue with one eye, in the form of a ruby, in its head. students who care to carry the symbology a little further can connect this idea with the "eye of shiva" which sees and knows all, and records all, as does the human eye in lesser degree; all is photographed upon the astral light, as the human eye receives impressions upon the retina. the same thought is frequently conveyed in the christian bible, in the hebrew and christian recognition of the all-seeing eye of god. the applicat

sences which are the liquid elementals. b. gaseous substance, or those lives which are linked to all fiery essences, being volatile and the result of heat. c. etheric matter, or the lowest orders of the devas of the ethers. this major triplicity, when in conjunction, produces that which we breathe, and that in which we live and move and have our being. to the thoughtful student the air is full of symbology, for it is a synthesis, and that which bridges the higher and the lower strata of manifestation. we must centre our attention first upon those lives which constitute the sumtotal of all that is watery, and liquid throughout manifestation, and in dealing with this we must remember that we are concerned with the most occult of investigations, and with matters which are very closely connect

nce of the lesser devas of the liquid or astral plane. when they have done this two results will be seen: first, the astral plane will perfectly reflect the buddhic plane and, secondly, the result of that will be that the physical plane will produce the exact vehicle needed for microcosmic or macrocosmic expression through the force of water, or desire. all this is revealed to esotericists in the symbology of the circulatory system in man. as the blood system, with its two types of channels (arteries and veins) and its two types of builders (the red and the white corpuscles, is studied from the occult standpoint, much will be ascertained of a revolutionary nature. the laws of the path of outgoing, and of the path of return, with the two groups of deva lives therein concerned, will be appre

ho watches above, the wind suffices not to blow it out. the very winds protect, shield and aid the work, guiding the falling fire unto the point of entrance "when the fire emanates from the mouth of the one who thinks and sees, then the earth sufficeth not to hide or kill the flame. it feeds the flame, causing a growth and magnitude of fire which reaches to the narrow door of entrance" under this symbology much is hidden anent the life-giving energy, the centres symbolised to focalise it, and to drive it forth, and the place the various types of receptive matter play in the magical work. as is ever the case in all white magic, the activity of the solar angel is the primary factor and the work of the man upon the physical plane is regarded as secondary; his physical body, and the work engen

hierarchy are called "the hearts of fiery love- 717- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust they save through love, and in their turn these lives are peculiarly close to the great heart of love of the solar logos. these great redeeming angels, who are the sons of men on their own true plane, the mental, are ever, therefore, pictured as taking the form of twelve-petalled lotuses this symbology linking them up with "the son of divine love" the manifested solar system, which is said to be a cosmic twelve-petalled lotus, and with the logoic causal lotus, equally of a twelve-petalled nature. we have, therefore, a direct flow of energy flowing through: a. the logoic twelve-petalled egoic lotus. cosmic mental plane. b. the solar twelve-petalled lotus. c. the planetary logoic heart

establish its own greatness. this spirit of yagna in its way to produce the manifested form gives rise to the parjanya or rain. the word parjanya is applied to rain and often times to a spirit whose function is to produce rain. some thoughts on the gita, p. 127. 278 13: bible. i peter 2:4. 279 14: colour. originally meant a "covering" from root "celare" to cover or hide. also occultare, to hide. symbology of colours. the language of the prism, of which "the seven mother colours have each seven sons" that is to say, forty-nine shades or "sons" between the seven, which graduated tints are so many letters or alphabetical characters. the language of colours has, therefore, fifty-six letters for the initiate. of these letters each septenary is absorbed by the mother colour as each of the seven

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

order to arrive at the field of knowledge. 2. that all our three planes in the three worlds constitute the dense physical body of that one in whom "we live and move and have our being" 3. that on the astral or emotional plane, the lower powers of clairvoyance and clairaudience are used by the perceiver and when misused reveal the serpent in the garden. 4. that on the mental plane psychometry and symbology (including numerology and geometry) are used by the perceiver to arrive at an understanding of the lower mental levels. 5. that only when these three are seen as lower and as constituting the form aspect does the perceiver arrive at a condition where he can begin to understand the nature of the soul and comprehend the true significance of sutras 40 and 41. 6. that, having reached that po

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

nd the factors with which each has had to work have been the same. though the mind of the eastern thinker may run to creative imagery and that of the western worker to creative scientific achievement, yet the world into which they enter is curiously the same; the instrument of thought which they employ is called the "mind" in the west and "mind-stuff (chitta) in the east; both use the language of symbology to express their conclusions and both reach the point where words prove futile to embody the intuited possibilities. dr. jung, one of the people who is seeking to bring these hitherto discordant elements together, touches on this in the following extract from his commentary on an ancient chinese writing. he says "western consciousness is by no means consciousness in general, but rather a

t of opportunity. meister eckhart says "if the soul were stripped of all her sheaths, god would be discovered all naked to her view and would give himself to her, withholding nothing. as long as the soul has not thrown off all her veils, however thin, she is unable to see god."10(45- 33- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust thus, east and west teach the same idea and in the same symbology. meditation is, therefore, an ordered process whereby a man finds god. it is a system, well-tried out and much used, which unfailingly reveals the divine. the important words here are "ordered process" there are certain rules to be followed, certain definite steps to be taken, and certain stages of unfoldment to be experienced before a man can garner the fruits of meditation. it is a par

rificatory furnace into which the lower self has to go in order that all dross may be burned out, and it also destroys all hindrances which might keep him back. this same idea of fire runs through all books on christian mysticism, and many passages in the bible of a similar nature will come readily to mind. willingness to "bear the cross" to "enter the fire" to "die daily (it matters not what the symbology employed may be, is the characteristic of the true aspirant, and, before we pass on to the way of meditation and place our footsteps in those of the myriads of sons of god who have preceded us, we must gauge the depth and the height and brace ourselves for the arduous climb and the fierce endeavor. we must say with j. c. earle "i pass the vale. i breast the steep. i bear the cross: the c

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

ing force or soul, and that which these two use and unify are in reality one vital principle manifesting in diversity. these are the three in one, the one in three, god in nature, and nature itself in god. carrying the concept, for the sake of illustration, into other realms of thought this trinity of aspects can be seen functioning in the religious world as the esoteric teaching, the fundamental symbology and doctrines of the great world religions and the exoteric organisations; in government it is the sum total of the will of the people whatever that will may be, the formulated laws, and the exoteric administration; in education it is the will to learn, the arts and sciences, and the great exoteric educational systems; in philosophy it is the urge to wisdom, the interrelated schools of t

ntering of the stream. metaphorically speaking, the experience that lies ahead upon the path is covered in the following esoteric phrases "when the stream enters the river of life, its passage can be traced for a short moment and then is lost. when the currents of the sentient life meet where the river passes round the mountain's massive foot, then one vast stream is seen which floweth north" the symbology of this is apparent, and can be also used to depict the flow of the two currents ida and pingala and their blending in the river of energy that mounts to the head. there is the meeting place, and there the sacrifice, enacted upon the mount of golgotha (the place of the skull. in considering the sentient body of a human being i will probably help the most if i deal with it in terms of its

nature and will not seek to demonstrate learning. they will meet solely to discuss modes of world helpfulness, the formation of a platform so universal and composed of such basic truths that it can be presented under all the varying methods and utilise the many terminologies. they will endeavour to employ each other's terms, and to familiarise themselves with each other's approach to reality and symbology. little by little also the special contribution and note of each group will be recognised and where a need exists for just that special approach and the particular note or method of interpretation in any part of the world, there will be an immediate and united impulse to facilitate the work that that special group could do in that place. these groups, with the one subjective group of con

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

earance, of energy and that which it energises, is so perfect that appearance no longer veils the reality, and the soul is now the dominant factor; consciousness is now identified with itself (or with its ray) and not with its phenomenal appearance. later, the soul itself is superseded by the monad, and that monad becomes, in verity, embodied purpose. the process can be expressed by a very simple symbology, as follows: o.o.o. or o.o..o or o..o.o, thus portraying the separateness of the three aspects. the union, then, of the aspects of appearance quality purpose or life, results in an abstraction from the appearance, and therefore the end of phenomenal existence. ponder on the simple arrangement of these signs, for they portray your life and progress: unevolved man .o o o. appearance, quali

xth ray influence, but it is not a great root religion, being a hybrid offshoot of christianity with the tinge of judaism. the rays are sometimes considered as divided into three classes; the first ray by itself, the second ray by itself, and the other five in a group. when regarded in this way, they are spoken of as the three rays, and typify the various trinities. another suggestive fragment of symbology describes the three rays as using respectively three kinds of fire to light the sacrifice of the altar, the electric, the solar, and the artificial, or fire by friction. before proceeding to consider the virtues, the vices and the special human characteristics which differentiate the individual belonging to one ray from the individual on another ray, it will be well to refer to the origi

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

through the sign aries, the ram) and the aquarian age into which our sun is now in process of transiting. these are astronomical facts, for i am not here speaking of astrological conclusions. in the period when the sun was in aries, we find the frequent appearance of the ram or the scapegoat in the old testament teaching, and the keeping of the passover feast. in the christian age we use the fish symbology, even to eating fish on good friday. the symbol of the aquarian age, as it appears in all the ancient zodiacs, is that of a man bearing a jar of water. the message of that age is one of unity, communion and our relationship as brothers, because we are all the children of the one father. to this age christ pointed in his instructions to his disciples when he told them to go into the city

. we are slowly passing into this new sign. for more than two thousand years its potencies and forces will play upon the race and will establish the new types, foster the new expansions of consciousness, and lead man on to a practical realisation of brotherhood. it is interesting to note how it was that the energies playing upon our planet when the sun was in aries, the ram, produced in religious symbology the emphasis of the goat or ram, and how in our present age of pisces, the fishes, those influences have coloured our christian symbology so that the fish preponderates in our new testament and in our eschatological symbology. the new incoming rays, energies and influences must surely be destined to produce equal effects, not only in the realm of physical phenomena but also in the world

icity. moses, aaron and joshua; job and his three friends; shadrach, meschach and abednego, the friends of daniel; the three kings at the cradle in bethlehem; the three disciples at the transfiguration; the three crosses on calvary! what accounts for this constant recurrence of three? what does it symbolise? apart from their possible historical appearance, does there lie behind them some peculiar symbology which can, when understood, render clear the circumstances in which they played their part? a study of their names and the interpretation of them as given in the familiar cruden's concordance may supply a clue. take, for instance, the meaning of the names of job's friends. they were eliphaz the temanite, bildad the shuhite, and zophar the naamathite. eliphaz the temanite means "my god is

n. it is this body of illusion which is eventually transmuted, and so changed and stabilised that it provides a clear medium for the revelation of deity. john means "the lord hath spoken" and herein is the mind nature typified, because it is only when the mental aspect begins to manifest that we have the appearance of speech and of that thinking, speaking animal which we call "man" so, in the apt symbology of the scripture, christ's three friends stood for the three aspects of his human nature, and it was upon this integrated, focussed and consecrated personality that the transfiguration made its impact and produced revelation. thus again the essential duality of humanity is revealed through christ, and his threefold personality and his essential divinity are portrayed for us in such a way

ble, and are regarded in our christian belief as the four sacred animals. the prophet ezekiel refers to them in the words "as for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side; and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle."7 and again in the book of revelations, we find the same astrological symbology "and before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes, before and behind "and the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast was like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle."8 the "face of the man" is the ancient sign of aqua

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

attitude and an orientation that is that of a "divine rebel" it is only rebellion that produces pain and sorrow, but this rebellion is inherent and innate in the deity of our planet himself, the "one in whom we live and move and have our being" it is, therefore, a tendency greater than the individual unit. it is only possible to express this amazing truth about the planetary life under a veil of symbology and in terms of human thought. in this there is ever a risk, for men interpret all they read and hear and experience in terms of themselves. the old commentary says "he entered into life and knew it to be death "he took a form and grieved to find it dark "he drove himself forth from the secret place and sought the place of light, and light revealed all that he sought the least "he craved

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

nent the matter. the aura is usually spoken of in terms of colour and of light, due to the nature of the vision of the one who sees and the apparatus of response which is in use. two words only describe an aura from the point of view of occult knowledge and they are "quality" and "sphere of influence" what the clairvoyant really contacts is an impression which the mind rapidly translates into the symbology of colour, whereas there is no colour present. seeing an aura, as it is called, is in reality a state of awareness. that the seer may in all sincerity believe that he has registered a colour, a series of colours, or light, is entirely true in many cases, but what he has really recorded is the quality of a sphere of radiatory activity; this he does when his own individual sphere of radiat

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

rus, the bull" as it is technically called. they fell down and worshipped the golden calf and forgot the new teaching of the age of aries, the ram, into which they were entering, the teaching of the scapegoat which colours jewish history. the fact that christ was the teacher of the new period into which the sun was entering, the period of pisces, is forgotten, but is clearly evidenced in the fish symbology which runs consistently through all four gospels; the symbol of the fish is the astrological symbol for the sign pisces, and has been for untold ages. but christ also looked ahead to the work he would have to do in the aquarian age, in the next sign into which the sun would enter. prior to his "disappearance" he referred to the symbol of the aquarian age and to the task he would then per

subjected (with an equally potent purifying effect, which will demonstrate later. it will then be possible for the hierarchy, the church of christ hitherto- 65- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust invisible, to externalise itself and to function openly upon the physical plane. this will indicate a return to the situation which existed in atlantean days when (to use biblical symbology, genesis chaps. 2 and 3) god himself walked among men; he talked with them and there was no barrier between the kingdom of men and the kingdom of god. divinity was then present in physical form and the members of the spiritual hierarchy were openly guiding and directing the affairs of humanity as far as man's innate freedom permitted. now, in the immediate future, and on a higher turn of

ncient landmarks will again be recognised those landmarks which masonry has so earnestly preserved and which have been hitherto securely embalmed in the masonic rituals, waiting the day of restoration and of resurrection. these ancient mysteries were originally given to humanity by the hierarchy and contain the entire clue to the evolutionary process, hidden in numbers, in ritual, in words and in symbology; these veil the secret of man's origin and destiny, picturing to him, in rite and ritual, the long, long path which he must tread, back into the light. they provide also (when rightly interpreted and correctly represented) the teaching which humanity needs in order to pass from darkness to light, from the unreal to the real and from death to immortality. any true mason who understands, e

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

cal understanding of one's fellowmen, and a development of the true esoteric sense, which is the objective before you at this time. i would like to divide what i have to say into three parts, and i plead for a close study of my words: i. i seek to define for you the intuition- 2- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust ii. i shall deal with its mode of development through the study of symbology. iii. i shall close by giving some specific instructions as to a useful mode of procedure. should you, therefore, find these articles hard to understand and your reaction slow, you must bear in mind that this indicates your need for this study and corroborates what i am telling you. if you will seriously consider with me what the intuition is not, i think my words will find in you an inn

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

scheme. it is for this reason that the units of the fifth hierarchy are called "the hearts of fiery love; they save through love, and in their turn these lives are peculiarly close to the great heart of love of the solar logos. these great redeeming angels, who are the sons of men on their own true plane, the mental, are ever, therefore, pictured as taking the form of twelve-petalled lotuses this symbology linking them up with "the son of divine love" the manifested solar system, which is said to be a cosmic twelve-petalled lotus, and with the logoic causal lotus, equally of a twelve-petalled nature. we have, therefore, a direct stream of energy flowing through: a. the logoic twelve-petalled egoic lotus, cosmic mental plane. b. the solar twelve-petalled lotus. c. the planetary logoic heart

rsonality and the light of the soul blend. upon this i need not enlarge, as nothing i could say would be more than it now is the theory of initiation. this takes place upon the path of initiation and is called the experience of the mountain top. all are needed the depths, the plains and the mountain top. as you know, sagittarius is one of the four arms of the mutable cross. an idea of the general symbology of this cross, from the quality angle, can be gained if we give the two sets of characteristics which distinguish the man upon this cross both unevolved man and the aspirant to divinity. we might list these as follows, finding for each arm a distinctive phrase: gemini changeableness. instability. interplay. sagittarius ambitious desire. direction- 109- a treatise on the seven rays- volum

problem. esoterically, however, it is in libra that the whole question comes up and will increasingly come up for answering, and it is in libra that the balancing of the pairs of opposites must take place and reach solution through the activity of the judicial mind and the establishing of a point of equilibrium between the male and the female principles. this again (for it is a piece of recurrent symbology) is the problem existing basically between the sheep and the goats, between negative and positive, and between those who blindly follow either instinct or custom and those who climb freely where they choose- 139- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust and are self-directed in conduct and attitude. this self-direction may lead them in eithe

average man with no developed spiritual consciousness, the word goes forth again and again throughout the aeons "and the word said: let choice be made" the response eventually comes back as a result of the evolutionary process and from the soul "i choose the way which leads between the two great lines of force" virgo, the virgin the sign virgo is one of the most significant in the zodiac for its symbology concerns the whole goal of the evolutionary process which is to shield, nurture and finally reveal the hidden spiritual reality. this every form veils, but the human form is equipped and fitted to manifest it in a manner different to any other expression of divinity and so make tangible and objective that for which the whole creative process was intended. gemini and virgo are closely rel

is also to be found in the traditionary accounts of the ancient amazons, whose queen hercules defeated, wresting from her what he sought. this is an allegory, teaching the emergence of the spiritual man from the control of matter. three of these goddesses are eve, isis, and mary. they are of peculiar and significant importance where our civilisation is concerned for they embody in themselves the symbology of the entire form nature, which, when integrated and functioning as a whole person, we call the personality. this personality is (as far as humanity is concerned) the developed and qualified expression of the third aspect of divinity, that of god the holy spirit, the active intelligent and nurturing principle of the universe. this aspect we shall study in leo and see there the unfoldmen

een told that in connection with the mutable cross at this time the- 329- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust sign pisces is the most potent and when the work of the mutable cross has been accomplished, the acquiescing disciple passes onto the fixed cross and prepares for the tests and trials of initiation. this is expressed for us in the occult symbology of the old commentary as follows "the light shines forth because the greater light and the lesser light approach and then invoke each other. their blended lights, though not yet one radiant sun, are merging fast. these blended lights reveal the lighted way. the man beholds himself taking this other way, the way of lighted wholes; this leads from form to soul, from dark to light and thus

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

ible story of the ram caught in the thicket and all this was due to the influence of the passing of the sun through the sign of the bull and the sign of the ram. something apart from the findings of academic astrology, which even at present could only touch a very few people, produced these natural reactions. some influence, emanating from the sign of the bull and the sign of the ram produced the symbology which conditioned the religious life of the people of that era. this becomes still more apparent when the sun transitted into the next constellation, the sign of pisces the fishes. then we had the appearance of christ and the fish symbology which ran so characteristically through the entire gospel story. his disciples were largely fishermen. he performed the miracles with fishes and sent

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

nd general health of the sympathetic nervous system. a. congestion. much real difficulty can be traced to congestion or to the lack of the free play of the forces. in this connection it might be pointed out that the etheric body is a mechanism for intake and for outlet. there is consequently a curious and intimate relation between it and such organs as the lungs, the stomach, and the kidneys. the symbology here present, when correctly understood, will tend to show that there is a deep underlying esoteric relation between: 1. the mind and the lungs. the process of breathing, with its stages of inhalation, the interlude, and exhalation, works out in connection with both aspects of force, mental and physical. 2. the desire nature and the stomach. here again is the process of intake, of assimi

ple, and humanity as well, symbolising the world disciple, have mastered the process of transference in this respect, we shall see the new order of individual service and of world service established, and therefore the coming in of the awaited new order. of all these processes, the circulation of the blood stream is the symbol, and the clue to the establishment of the world order lies hid in this symbology free circulation of all that is needed to all parts of the great framework of humanity. the blood is the life, and free interchange, free sharing, free circulation of all that is required for right human living will characterise the world to be. today these conditions do not exist, the body of humanity is diseased and its internal life disrupted. instead of free circulation between all p

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

. the man can produce, through knowledge and creative energy, something upon the physical plane which will be expressive of the soul's creative power. when two of the "love petals" are also unfolded, then a genius makes his appearance. this is a technical piece of information for those students who are studying the science of the ageless wisdom, but it is of no value to those who do not recognise symbology, or the fact of the higher ego or soul. it might be of value here if i clarified my use of the words "higher ego" as you know, if you have read a treatise on the seven rays, vols. i and ii (esoteric psychology, the soul is an aspect of the divine energy in time and space. we are told that the solar logos circumscribed for his use and for the meeting of his desire, a certain measure of th

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uld be systematically and scientifically carried out by you. i shall not, therefore, repeat the instructions here; you have them and should follow them carefully, bearing in mind that you have at least bridged the gap between the personality and the spiritual triad to a certain extent, and that for you the need is to complete and strengthen the rainbow bridge and then to use it with facility. the symbology of the antahkarana tends badly to complicate the grasp of its real nature. may i remind you that, just as the soul is not a twelve-petalled lotus floating around in mental substance, but is in reality a vortex of force or twelve energies held together by the will of the spiritual entity (the monad on its own plane, so the antahkarana is not a series of energy threads, slowly woven by the

which i seek to indicate makes its appeal to the abstract mind and to the soul, whose values are sound, and eventually to the intuition; it is not so colourful an appeal as far as the personality is concerned, but it will produce more creative results and lead the neophyte along a safer road, with fewer disappointments and failures. the formulas the idea of meaning, cause and being underlies the symbology or the significance of the formula with which we are concerned in this instruction. i have pointed out to you before the difficulty of putting these ancient symbols or symbolic writings into such form that they can convey meaning through language. this difficulty is well-nigh insurmountable in connection with this third formula. the reason for this is that this formula has been preserved

of the spiritual triad and the three aspects of the soul-infused personality in the three worlds. in time to come, the phrase "life in the three worlds" will be discontinued; men will talk in terms of "life in the five worlds of the manifested kingdom of god" think in these terms today if you can, and begin to grasp somewhat the significance of the truth therein embodied. in the beautiful eastern symbology "the bridge of sighs" which links the animal world with the human world and leads all men into the vale of tears, of woe, of discipline and of loneliness, is rapidly being replaced by the radiant rainbow bridge, constructed by the sons of men who seek pure light "they pass across the bridge into the light serene which there awaits them, and bring the radiant light down to the world of me

uman being. you will see, therefore, from this brief exegesis how each of these hints carries in it more than you might imagine or anticipate; each of them hides in its heart and at the very centre of its meaning the germ of an expanding realisation. keep this thought ever in your minds as you seek to learn the significance of an esoteric hint and begin to draw correct inferences from the veiling symbology. points of revelation you will have noted from the previous instructions that these points of revelation are essentially planetary in nature, even if they may have at first reading and consideration an individual connotation. these points of revelation concern the hierarchy and its intelligent appreciation of the second or love aspect; they embody the fundamental realisations which the u

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8 lucis trust by either the personality or the soul. for the first time, the goal of the higher way and the attainment of nirvana (as the oriental calls it) appears before him, and he knows that no forms and no spiritual complexes and no pull by either soul or form, or by both united, can have any effect upon his attaining his final destination. i would like for a moment to refer here to the door symbology as the initiate begins to grasp the inner meaning of those simple words. for long the teaching, given in the clear cold light, anent the door and the emphasis put upon the presentation of the door lying ahead of the aspirant has been made familiar, but that has been working with the lower aspects of the symbolism, even if aspirants did not realise it; they have been taught the fact of th

cists) is no fiction or figment of wishful thinking or of a hallucinated imagination, but is definitely brought about by the junction or fusion of the light inherent in substance itself and the light of the soul. it will be found that this will be capable of scientific proof. it will also be shown that the soul itself is light, and that the entire hierarchy is a great centre of light, causing the symbology of light to govern our thinking, our approach to god, and enabling us to understand somewhat the meaning of the words of christ "i am the light of the world" these words carry meaning to all true disciples and present them with an analogous goal which they define to themselves as that of finding the light, appropriating the light, and themselves becoming light-bearers. the theme of light

it conveys an aspect of a major truth. just as the birth of a child is an entrance into light, literally speaking, and the beginning of an entirely new way of life, so each successive initiation is in an exactly similar manner an entrance into light, involving the revelation of a different world to the one hitherto known, and the undergoing of entirely new experiences. if students would keep this symbology and this definition carefully in mind, they would arrive at a keener concept of the processes which lie ahead of them. this is particularly true in connection with this first initiation; the analogy holds good from the very dawn of history, where humanity is considered. in ancient lemuria, with the coming in of the mental idea and mechanism, the low grade animal life (which, to a certain

began to flourish; colour and beauty were registered. in our more modern aryan race, the light has revealed the world of thought and has brought us to a synthesis of the senses; these senses were developed in earlier cycles of human living. each of these three races, in a mysterious manner, has a correspondence on a racial scale to the first three initiations. today, as we enter the new era, the symbology of the fourth initiation, that of the renunciation, has application; men face the necessity of renouncing the material values and of substituting the spiritual. the ferment of the initiation process goes on all the time, undermining the materialism of the race of men, revealing more and more of the reality underlying the phenomenal world (the only world recognised by the lemurians) and a

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an or solar, small or great, organic or inorganic, lies a subjective world of forces which is responsible for the outer form. behind the outer material shell is to be found a vast empire of being, and it is into this world of living energies that both religion and science are now penetrating. everything outer and tangible is a symbol of inner creative forces and it is this idea that underlies all symbology. a symbol is an outer and visible form of an inner and spiritual reality. it is with this interplay of the outer form and the inner life [11] that hercules wrestles. he knew himself to be the form, the symbol, for the dominance of the lower material nature made its presence felt with the facility of agelong expression. at the same time he knew that his problem was to express spiritual be

n the physical plane the glory and the power of his innate divinity. one of the ancient scriptures of india says "by mastery of the binding life comes radiance" and it was this mastery of the imprisoning form which was the glorious consummation of all the undertakings of hercules. we are told that he had a divine father and an earthly mother and so, as with all sons of god, we find the same basic symbology emerging. they typify in their persons the essential duality of god in manifestation, of life in form, of soul in body, and of spirit and matter. this duality is the glory of humanity and also constitutes the problem which every human being has to solve. father-spirit and mother-matter meet together in man, and the work of the- 14- the labours of hercules disciple is to withdraw himself

ctions. whilst in the cradle, history relates, the lusty infant killed two serpents, again emphasizing duality. in this act he forecast the future in which he demonstrated that the physical nature no longer controlled, but that he could strangle the serpent of matter and that the great illusion no longer had him imprisoned. he slew the serpent of matter and the serpent of illusion. if the serpent symbology is studied, we shall find that three serpents are depicted: one standing for the serpent of matter, another for the serpent of illusion, and the third for the serpent of wisdom. this last serpent is only discovered when the other two have been slain [19] this sense of duality is the first stage of the spiritual experience and colors the thoughts of all the great aspirants and mystics of

th the soul, impressed upon him a sense of vocation. he was pledged to the spiritual life and nothing could deter him. vulcan gave him a golden breastplate, magnetic and protective, the symbol of energy, emanating from high sources of spiritual power, which will enable the aspirant to undertake the twelve labors and go forward unafraid. from neptune, the god of the waters, he received horses. the symbology underlying this gift is very interesting. horses, as well as neptune, the god of the waters and the deity of the watery, emotional nature, stand for the capacity to be carried away by either a line of thought or an emotional reaction. this emotional, fluidic nature, with its sensitivity and its power to feel, when rightly used and subordinated to godlike purposes, is one of the greatest

he way to the heavenly world, but the horse does rightly know it" in the very ancient days in india, the horse sacrifice was linked with the sun god, and, yearly, we are told, the sun god, as the zodiacal horse, was supposed by the vedic aryans to die to save all flesh. the sun chariot of apollo is depicted as drawn by horses, and the "princely sign of the ram" is closely connected with the horse symbology, a fact to which this first labor bears witness. reference to books on symbology will show us that the horse [35] stands for intellectual activity. the white horse symbolizes the illumined mind of the spiritual man, and so we find in the book of revelations that christ comes forth riding upon a white horse. black horses represent the lower mind, with its false ideas and erring human conc

of coordinating, or at-one-ing, soul and body, so that duality gives place to unity and the pairs of opposites are blended [61] the symbols eurystheus, having watched hercules achieve mental control and then ride the bull of desire over into the temple of the soul, now sets him the task of fetching the golden apples from the garden of the hesperides. the apple has long figured in mythology and in symbology. in the garden of eden, as we know, the serpent gave the apple to eve; and with the giving of that apple, and with its acceptance came the knowledge of good and of evil. this is a symbolic method of telling us the story of the appearance of mind, and of how it began to function in that early creature, which was neither animal nor strictly human. with the coming of mind came also the know

ith great heat, hence we have the phrase of "the dog days" in the middle of the summer, when the heat is supposed to be greatest. from the standpoint of the occultist, sirius is of profound significance "our god is a consuming fire, and sirius is the symbol of the universal soul as well as of the individual soul. it is therefore, esoterically considered, the star of initiation. in the language of symbology we are told, there comes a moment when a star blazes forth before the initiate, signifying his realization of his identity with the universal soul, and this he suddenly glimpses through the medium of his own soul, his own star- 42- the labours of hercules canis major is the immortal hound of heaven, that chases forever the lesser dog, the underdog, the man in physical incarnation. this c

and it is in this sign that the christ consciousness is conceived and nurtured through the period of gestation until at last in pisces, the opposite sign, the world savior is born. as in leo, this is a cave experience "in the womb of time, and should be characterized by warmth, quietness, deep experiences and "slow, yet powerful crises. it is a synthetic sign. on this point the tibetan says "the symbology of virgo concerns the whole goal of the evolutionary process, which is to shield, nurture and finally reveal the hidden spiritual reality. this, every form veils but the human form is equipped and fitted to manifest it in a manner different from any other expression of divinity and so make tangible and objective that for which the whole creative process was intended (esoteric astrology

aped constellation with three mainstars outlining it, the cup of communion, of which the christ said "drink ye all of it; in its highest meaning the holy grail.the brightest star is spica, which means "the ear of corn. christ was born in bethlehem, which means "the house of bread. we say "give us this day our daily bread, manna, bread from heaven, or the bread and wine of the communion. ever this symbology of bread runs through the old and new testaments, and today our great economic problem still remains to furnish bread, a symbol of food, to a hungry world: bread [121] for the body and bread for those who hunger and thirst after righteousness. all this as part of the nurturing function of the mother of the world, who nourishes the form and also the christ-consciousness latent in the form

to ancient forms and sacrifices. their sin consisted in a reactionary attitude and in not grasping the significance of the new age which was upon them. again the astronomers tell us that, when christ was born in palestine, the date from which our christian dispensation starts, the sun passed in to the sign pisces, the fishes. we have, therefore, the emphasis laid in the gospel story upon the fish symbology. christ chose fishermen to be among his disciples; he performed miracles with fishes; he sent his disciples out into the world to be fishers of men; for nearly two thousand years it [220] has been customary to eat fish on good friday and on fast days. so we find the lamb sacrifice following upon the bull sacrifice, and the fish symbol upon that of the lamb, and this as the sun passed app

signs of the zodiac. there are in the zodiac thirty-six crosses, for each sign is divided into what are called three decanates, which used to be known as "the thirtysix crossing stars. the zodiac is completed with 360 degrees, the square of 90 degrees is one fourth of the circle, creating the four corners, which is the cross within the circle. there are, however, three main crosses which in their symbology represent the three divine aspects, spirit, soul and body. they are as follows [222] 1. the cardinal cross, consisting of the four constellations: a. aries- creation, commencement. b. cancer- the first door into existence. c. libra- the balance between life and form- 128- the labours of hercules d. capricorn the door into spiritual life. this is the cross of spirit or of the initiate and

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to rtk and is now available to the new adept. the great work must still be accomplished, but now it is possible. the pastos is empty for it will never be wanted again. in the southeast and the northeast are the minutum mundum; the serpent and the flaming sword are on the altar and the beautiful mountain of sacred initiation, abiegnus. the risen osiris sees the empty pastos and is shown its occult symbology. the new adept is called to glory by the chief adept, who the aspirant has often seen as just a person, but now sees him as the divine link with the third order and a representative of his higher genius. the chief adept beckons the risen osiris from y in twlyxa. the risen osiris sees the cross, and a dim light from within the vault, representative of his/her full glory, unfolds before hi

BANISHING THE SLAVE GODS

the forehead of the person you are cursing/blessing. the key to the efficacy of this attack lies in the ability to open ones own "third eye chakra" which provides the force behind the actual symbol. here is a brief sex magical rite to open the "third eye. obtain crowley's book of thoth: tarot take out the devil and tower cards. you can: a. masturbate while gazing upon the tower card equating its symbology with the procreative force you are generating through arousal, then while holding back orgasm karezza switch attention to the devil card. focus on the "third eye" that is depicted on the goat. take on the head of the goat as in the manner of an assumption of a god form. as your sexual arousal begins to reach its pitch. imagine the focused force of that energy opening and shining out, pro

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te continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 124 the secret doctrine. if from greek mythology we pass to the mosaic allegories and symbolism, we shall find a still more striking corroboration of the same tenet under another form. unable to trace in genesis the "egg-born" we shall still find there unmistakably the androgynes, and the first three races of the secret doctrine hidden under most ingenious symbology in the first four chapters of genesis- the divine hermaphrodite. an impenetrable veil of secrecy was thrown over the occult and religious mysteries taught, after the submersion of the last remnant of the atlantean race, some 12,000 years ago, lest they should be shared by the unworthy, and so desecrated. of these sciences several have now become exoteric- such as astronomy, for instance

having necessarily a third eye in the middle of the brow, like the legendary cyclops, is also furnished by science. to the occultists who believe that spiritual and psychic involution proceeds on parallel lines with physical evolution; that the inner senses- innate in the first human races- atrophied during racial growth and the material development of the outer senses; to the student of esoteric symbology, finally, this statement is no conjecture or possibility, but simply a phase of the law of growth, a proven fact, in short. they understand the meaning of this passage in the commentaries which says "there were four-armed human creatures in those early days of the male-females (hermaphrodites; with one head, yet three eyes. they could see before them and behind them* a kalpa later (after

at this conspiracy of slander. it is proposed to divide the subjects involved in these three last verses into several groups, and examine them in this final chapter as carefully and as fully as space permits. a few more details may thus be added to the general evidences of antiquity, on the most disputed tenets of occultism and the esoteric doctrine- the bulk of which will be found in part ii. on symbology- serpents and dragons under different symbolisms. the name of the dragon in chaldea was not written phonetically, but was represented by two monograms, probably meaning, according to the orientalists "the scaly one "this description" very pertinently remarks g. smith "of course might apply either to a fabulous dragon, a serpent, or a fish" and we may add "it applies in one case to makara

wara, or any ad (the first) followed by any adjective or substantive. the reason for this is that such truths were a common inheritance. it was a revelation received by the first mankind before that time which, in biblical phraseology, is called "the period of one lip and word" or speech; knowledge expanded by man's own intuition later on, but still later hidden from profanation under an adequate symbology. the author of the "qabbalah (according to, the philosophical writings of ibn gebirol" shows the israelite using "adonai (lord) instead of eh'yeh (i am) and yhvh, and adds that, while adonai is rendered "lord" in the bible "the lowest designation, or the deity in nature, the more general term elohim, is translated god (p. 175) a curious work was translated in 1860 or thereabout, by the o

if, therefore, renan persists in regarding the chaldean scriptures- or what remains of them- as apocryphal, it is quite immaterial to truth and fact. there are other orientalists who may be of a different opinion; and even were they not, it would still really matter very little. these doctrines contain the teachings of esoteric philosophy, and this must suffice. to those who understand nothing of symbology it may appear astrolatry, pure and simple, or to him who would conceal the esoteric truth, even "heathenish foolishness" maimonides, however, while expressing scorn for the esotericism in the religion of other nations, confessed esotericism and symbology in his own, preached[[vol. 2, page] 457 the kabalistic four adams. silence and secresy upon the true meaning of mosaic sayings, and thu

of the ancients, i.e, that recess on the western side of the temple which was enclosed on three sides by blank walls and had its only aperture or door hung over with a curtain- also called the adytum- was common to all ancient nations. nevertheless, a great difference is found between the secret meanings of this symbolical place, in the esotericism of the pagans and that of later jews; though the symbology of it was originally identical throughout the ancient races and nations. the gentiles, by placing in the adytum a sarcophagus, or a tomb (taphos, and the solar-god to whom the temple was consecrated, held it, as pantheists, in the greatest veneration. they regarded it- in its esoteric meaning- as the symbol of resurrection, cosmic, solar (or diurnal, and human. it embraced the wide range

i of the hindus, and the ark of the covenant, is the female symbol of the universal "mothers of the gods" and is now found under its christian symbol in every church, as the nave (from navis, the ship* the navis- the sidereal vessel- is fructified by the spirit of life- the male god; or, as the learned kenealy (in his apocalypsis) calls it very appropriately- the holy spirit. in western religious symbology the crescent was the male, the full moon, the female aspect of that universal spirit "the mystic word alm, which the prophet mahomet prefixed to many chapters of the koran, alludes to her as the alm, the immaculate virgin of the heavens. and- the sublime ever falling into the ridiculous- it is from this root alm that we have to derive the word almeh- the egyptian dancing-girls. the latte

aal or bacchus worship publicly, but left its worst features to be followed secretly; and it is with the talmudic jews that the grand symbols of nature were the most profaned. with them, as now shown by the discovery of the key to the correct bible reading- geometry, the fifth divine science("fifth- because it is the fifth key in the series of the seven keys to the universal esoteric language and symbology) was desecrated, and by them applied to conceal the most terrestrial and grossly sexual mysteries, wherein both deity and religion were degraded. we are told that it is just the same with our brahma-prajapati, with osiris and all other creative gods. quite so, when their rites are judged exoterically and externally; the reverse when their inner meaning is unveiled, as we see. the hindu l

ile saying "i am the almighty god" yet adds "i will establish my covenant to be a god unto thee (abraham, and unto his seed after him (gen. xvii. 7- not unto aryan europeans. but then, there was the grandiose and ideal figure of jesus of nazareth to be set off against a dark background, to gain in radiance by the contrast; and a darker one the church could hardly invent. lacking the old testament symbology, ignorant of the real connotation of the name of jehovah- the rabbinical secret substitute for the ineffable and unpronounceable name- the church mistook the cunningly fabricated shadow for the reality, the anthropomorphized generative symbol for the one secondless reality, the ever unknowable cause of all. as a logical sequence the church, for purposes of duality, had to invent an anthr

and a thousand to one it would not be a year or two old before discovering fire, through the fall of lightning setting in flames grass or something else. this assumption, that primitive man lived ages on earth before he was made acquainted with fire, is one of the most painfully illogical of all. but old aeschylus was an initiate, and knew well what he was giving out* no occultist acquainted with symbology and the fact that wisdom came to us from the east, will deny for a moment that the myth of prometheus has reached europe from aryavarta. nor is he likely to deny that in one sense prometheus represents fire by friction. therefore, he admires the sagacity of m. f. baudry, who shows in his les mythes du feu et breuvage celeste (revue germanique, 1861 p. 356* one of the aspects of prometheu

al, while in numbers it is exact" unfortunately, before any one can appreciate the poetry of the expressions, or the exactness of the numbers, he will have to learn the real significance and meaning of the terms and symbols used. and man will never learn this so long as he remains ignorant of the fundamental principle of the secret doctrine, whether in oriental esotericism, or in the kabalistical symbology- the key, or value, in all their aspects, of the "god"-names "angel"-names, and "patriarchal" names in the bible- their mathematical or geometrical value, and their relations to manifested nature. therefore, if, on the one hand, the zohar "astonishes (the mystic) by the profundity of its views and the great simplicity of its images" on the other hand, that work misleads the student by su

gh they get out of the difficulty by saying that the said calendar does not prove that the hindus knew anything of astronomy at that date, and assure their readers that, calendars notwithstanding, the indian pundits may have acquired their knowledge of the lunar mansions headed by krittika from the phoenicians, etc. however that may be, the pleiades are the central group of the system of sidereal symbology. they are situated in the neck of the constellation of taurus, regarded by madler and others, in astronomy, as the central group of the system of the milky way, and in the kabala and eastern esotericism, as the sidereal septenate born from the first manifested side of the upper triangle, the concealed[[diagram. this manifested side is taurus, the symbol of one (the figure 1, or of the fi

esent the faces of the universe, and indicates that the universe is bounded by pentagons" as the sanskrit writers "speak also of[[footnote(s* what is the meaning and the reason of this figure? because, manas is the fifth principle, and because the pentagon is the symbol of man- not only of the five-limbed, but rather of the thinking, conscious man* the reason for it becomes apparent when egyptian symbology is studied. see further on[[vol. 2, page] 577 poseion's five ministers. ashtadisa or eight faces bounding space" referring thus to the loka-palas, the eight points of the compass (the four cardinal and the four intermediate points "from an objective point of view the microcosm is represented by the human body. makaram may be taken to represent simultaneously both the microcosm and the ma

periods between the incarnations. like the phoenix, primordial man resurrected out of his old into a new body. each time, and with each new generation, he became more solid, more physically perfect, agreeably with the evolutionary law, which is the law of nature. death came with the complete physical organism, and with it- moral decay. this explanation shows one more old religion agreeing in its symbology with the universal doctrine. elsewhere the oldest persian traditions, the relics of mazdeism of the still older magians, are given, and some of them explained. mankind did not issue from one solitary couple. nor was there ever a first man- whether adam or yima- but a first mankind. it may, or may not be "mitigated polygenism" once that both creation ex-nihilo- an absurdity- and a superhu

ntinents, mountains, oceans, and exterior shell, is fifty crores (500 millions) of yojanas in extent" to which the commentator remarks that "this comprises the planetary spheres; for the diameter of the seven zones and oceans- each ocean being of the same diameter as the continent it encloses, and each successive continent being twice the[[footnot continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 617 persian symbology. furthermore, it is not only in the hindu scriptures and philosophy that one finds references to the seven earths, but in the persian, phoenician, chaldean, and egyptian cosmogonies, and even in rabbinical literature. the phoenix- called by the hebrews onech [heb char (from phenoch, enoch, symbol of a secret cycle and initiation, and by the turks, kerkes- lives a thousand years, after wh

urn by their correligionists as "vedantins in disguise" the esoteric philosophy of both these can be but one if carefully analysed and compared, as gautama buddha and sankaracharya are most closely connected, if one believes tradition and certain esoteric teachings. thus every difference between the two will be found one of form rather than of substance. a most mystic discourse, full of septenary symbology, may be found in the anugita* there the brahmana narrates the bliss of having crossed beyond the regions of illusion "in which fancies are the gadflies and mosquitoes, in which grief and joy are cold and heat, in which delusion is the blinding darkness, avarice, the beasts of prey and reptiles, and desire and anger are the obstructors. the sage describes the entrance into and exit from t

e in this a reference to creation, the deluge, and the promised coming of christ, when they will live in a new jerusalem in heaven, this is no fault of "peter" what the writer of the epistles meant was the destruction of this fifth race of ours by subterranean fires and inundations, and the appearance of new continents for the sixth root-race. for the writers of these epistles were all learned in symbology if not in the sciences. it was mentioned elsewhere that the belief in the septenary constitution of our "chain" was the oldest tenet of the early iranians, who got it from the first zarathustra. it is time to prove it to those parsis who have lost the key to the meaning of their scriptures. in the avesta the earth is considered septempartite and tripartite at one and the same time. this

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he rude outward form in place of the inner meaning. works, most remarkable for their ingenious deductions and speculations, in circulo vicioso, foregone conclusions generally changing places with premisses as in the syllogisms of more than one sanskrit and pali scholar, appeared rapidly in succession, over-flooding the libraries with dissertations rather on phallic and sexual worship than on real symbology, and each contradicting the other. this is the true reason, perhaps, why the outline of a few fundamental truths from the secret doctrine of the archaic ages is now permitted to see the light, after long millenniums of the most profound silence and secrecy. i say "a few truths" advisedly, because that which must remain unsaid could not be contained in a hundred such volumes, nor could it

izontal line in it, a perpendicular line, the tau was formed[[diagram- the oldest form of the letter. it was the glyph of the third root-race to the day of its symbolical fall- i.e, when the separation of sexes by natural evolution took place- when the figure became[[diagram, the circle, or sexless life modified or separated- a double glyph or symbol. with the races of our fifth race it became in symbology the sacr, and in hebrew n'cabvah, of the first-formed races* then it changed into the egyptian[[diagram (emblem of life, and still later into the sign of venus[[diagram] then comes the svastica (thor's hammer, or the "hermetic cross" now, entirely separated from its circle, thus becoming purely phallic. the esoteric symbol of kali yuga is the five-pointed star reversed, thus[[diagram- th

, as perfect plants, they will become: nature thus giving us a specimen of the preformation of its production. the seed of all phanerogamous plants bearing proper flowers containing an embryo plantlet ready formed (see part ii "the lotus flower as an universal symbol) this explains the sentence "the mother had not yet swollen- the form being usually sacrificed to the inner or root idea in archaic symbology. the lotus, or padma, is, moreover, a very ancient and favourite[[footnote(s* an unpoetical term, yet still very graphic (see foot-note to stanza iii* even in christianity (see part ii "primordial substance and divine thought* gross "the heathen religion" p. 195[[vol. 1, page] 58 the secret doctrine. simile for the kosmos itself, and also for man. the popular reasons given are, firstly

hough poetised later on into the motherly feeling of the pelican rending its bosom to feed its seven little ones with its blood* the reason why moses forbids eating the pelican and swan, classing the two among the unclean fowls, and permits eating "bald locusts, beetles, and the grasshopper after his kind (leviticus xi. and deuteronomy xiv) is a purely physiological one, and has to do with mystic symbology only in so far as the word "unclean" like every other word, ought not to be read and understood literally, as it is esoteric like all the[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 1, page] 81 primeval differentiations. self-existent, and penetrating into the mundane egg, it emerges from it at the end of the divine incubation as brahma or prajapati, a progenitor of the future universe into w

s greatly honoured by masons as by the parsis- the triangle being a symbol of deity everywhere (see the masonic cyclopedia, and "pythagorean triangle" oliver) as a matter of course, doctors of divinity (cassel, for instance) show the zohar explaining and supporting the christian trinity. it is the latter, however, that had its origin from the[[diagram] of the heathen, in the archaic occultism and symbology. the three strides relate metaphysically to the descent of spirit into matter, of the logos falling as a ray into the spirit, then into the soul, and finally into the human physical form of man, in which it becomes life* ormazd is the logos, the "first born" and the sun[[vol. 1, page] 114 the secret doctrine. is identical with kronos, in his aeolian form, that of a circle. for the circle

irely erroneous. our learned brother and correspondent judges apparently the hindu religious systems by their shastras and puranas, probably the latter, and in their modern translation moreover, which is disfigured out of all recognition, by the orientalists. it is to their philosophical systems that one has to turn, to their esoteric teaching, if he would make a point of comparison. no doubt the symbology of the pentateuch and even of the new testament, comes from the same source. but surely the pyramid of cheops, whose measurements are all found repeated by professor piazzi smythe in solomon's alleged and mythical temple, is not of a later date than the mosaic books? hence, if there is any such great identity as claimed, it must be due to servile copying on the part of the jews, not on t

istian kabalists and alchemists, and relate, symbolically as well as cosmogonically, to the numerical system of the universe. the numbers with which these celestial beings are connected are extremely difficult to explain, as each number refers to several groups of distinct ideas, according to the particular group of "angels" which it is intended to represent. herein lies the nodus in the study of symbology, with which, unable to untie by disentangling it, so many scholars have preferred dealing as alexander dealt with the gordian knot; hence erroneous conceptions and teachings, as a direct result. the "first is the second" because the "first" cannot really be numbered or regarded as the first, as that is the realm of noumena in its primary manifestation: the threshold to the world of truth

ction there is between the "celibate" and chaste sons of brahma, who refuse "to multiply" and terrestrial mortals. meanwhile it is evident that "the man-plant" saptaparna, thus refers to the seven principles, and man is compared to the seven-leaved plant of this name* so sacred among buddhists. for further details as to saptaparna and the importance of the number seven in occultism, as well as in symbology, the reader is referred to part ii, book ii, on symbolism: sections on "saptaparna "the septenary in the vedas" etc. etc[[footnote(s* the egyptian allegory in the "book of the dead" already mentioned, the hymn that relates to the reward "of the soul" is as suggestive of our septenary doctrine as it is poetical. the deceased is allotted a piece of land in the field of aanroo, wherein the

ected in every mythology, especially the grecian, with child-birth, because of the lunar influence on women and conception, the occult and actual connection of our satellite with fecundation is to this day unknown to physiology, which regards every popular practice in this reference as gross superstition. as it is useless to discuss them in detail, we may only stop at present to discuss the lunar symbology casually, to show that the said superstition belongs to the most ancient beliefs, and even to judaism- the basis of christianity. with the israelites, the chief function of jehovah was child-giving, and the esotericism of the bible, interpreted kabalistically, shows undeniably the holy of holies in the temple to be only the symbol of the womb. this is now proven beyond doubt and cavil, b

lected the solar light, and because the eye gives back image in its mirror. in the form of the goddess pasht, the cat keeps watch for the sun, with her paw holding down and bruising the head of the serpent of darkness, called his eternal enemy" this is a very correct exposition of the lunar-mythos from its astronomical aspect. selenography, however, is the least esoteric of the divisions of lunar symbology. to master thoroughly- if one is permitted to coin a new word- selenognosis, one must become proficient in more than its astronomical meaning. the moon (vide vii. deus lunus) is intimately related to the earth, as shown in stanza vi. of book i, and is more directly concerned with all the mysteries of our globe than is even venus-lucifer, the occult sister and alter-ego of the earth. the

ted to the earth, as shown in stanza vi. of book i, and is more directly concerned with all the mysteries of our globe than is even venus-lucifer, the occult sister and alter-ego of the earth. the untiring researches of western, and especially german, symbologists, during the last and the present centuries, have brought every occultist and most unprejudiced persons to see that without the help of symbology (with its seven departments, of which the moderns know nothing) no ancient scripture can ever be correctly understood. symbology must be studied from every one of its aspects, for each nation had its own peculiar methods of expression. in short, no egyptian papyrus, no indian tolla, no assyrian tile, or hebrew scroll, should be read and accepted literally. this every scholar now knows. t

mbols and emblems is now attempted, as book ii, which treats of anthropogenesis, would be most difficult to understand without a preparatory acquaintance with the metaphysical symbols at least. nor would it be just to enter upon an esoteric reading of symbolism without giving due honour to one who has rendered it the greatest service in this century, by discovering the chief key to ancient hebrew symbology, interwoven strongly with metrology, one of the keys to the once universal mystery language. mr. ralston skinner, of cincinnati, the author of "the hebrew-egyptian mystery and the source of measures" has our thanks. a mystic and a kabalist by nature, he has laboured for many years in this direction, and his efforts were certainly crowned with great success. in his own words "the writer i

o follow their lord, who confers justice (osiris in amenti. all this is now shown to have been the source and origin of christian dogmas. that which the jews had from egypt, through moses and other initiates, was confused and distorted enough in later days; and that which the church got from both, is still more misinterpreted. yet their system is now proven identical in this special department of symbology- the key, namely, to the mysteries of astronomy as connected with those of generation and conception- with those ideas of ancient religions, the theology of which has developed the phallic element. the jewish system of sacred measures applied to religious symbols is the same[[vol. 1, page] 313 the jews, and their system. so far as geometrical and numerical combinations go, as those of ch

f creating in their turn- such symbols were but natural. if later races have degraded them, especially the "chosen people" this does not affect the origin of those symbols. the little semitic tribe- one of the smallest branchlets from the commingling of the 4th and 5th sub-races (the mongolo-turanian and the indo-european, so-called, after the sinking of the great continent- could only accept its symbology in the spirit which was given to it by the nations from which it was derived. perchance, in the mosaic beginnings, that symbology was not as crude as it became later under the handling of ezra, who remodelled the whole pentateuch. for the glyph of pharaoh's daughter (the woman, the nile (the great deep and water, and the baby-boy found floating therein in the ark of rushes, has not been

aning as the hebrew numerals. the earliest forms of elementary geometry must have certainly been suggested by the observation of the heavenly bodies and their groupings. hence the most archaic symbols in eastern esotericism are a circle, a point, a triangle, a plane, a cube, a pentacle, and a hexagon, and plane figures with various sides and angles. this shows the knowledge and use of geometrical symbology to be as old as the world. starting from this, it becomes easy to understand how nature herself could have taught primeval mankind, even without the help of its divine instructors, the first principles of a numerical and geometrical symbol language* hence one finds numbers and figures used as an[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page "the story" says mr. g. smith "is supposed

ity" who lays at the beginning of each mahamanvantara a "golden egg" it typifies the great circle, or o, itself a symbol for the universe and its spherical bodies. the second reason for its having been chosen as the symbolical representation of the universe, and of our earth, was its form. it was a circle and a sphere; and the ovi-form shape of our globe must have been known from the beginning of symbology, since it was so universally adopted. the first manifestation of the kosmos in the form of an egg was the most widely diffused belief of antiquity. as bryant shows (iii, 165, it was a symbol adopted among the greeks, the syrians, persians, and egyptians. in chap. liv. of the egyptian ritual, seb, the god of time and of the earth, is spoken of as having laid an egg, or the universe "an eg

ring the struggle between the "children of the rebellion" and shoo (the solar energy and the dragon of darkness (ch. xvii. the deceased is resplendent in his[[footnote(s* and this only because the brazen serpent was lifted on a pole! it had rather a reference to mico the egyptian egg standing upright supported by the sacred tau; since the egg and the serpent are inseparable in the old worship and symbology of egypt, and since both the brazen and "fiery" serpents were saraphs, the "burning fiery" messengers, or the serpent gods, the nagas of india. it was a purely phallic symbol without the egg, while when associated with it- it related to cosmic creation "brass was a metal symbolizing the nether world. that of the womb where life should be given. the word for serpent was in hebrew nakash

(v. 5; after which "the lord sent fiery serpents" to bite them, when, to oblige moses, he gives him as a remedy the brazen serpent on a pole to look at; after which "any man when he beheld the serpent of brass. lived. after that the "lord" gathering the people together at the well of beer, gives them water (14-16, and grateful israel sang this song "spring up, o well (v. 17. when, after studying symbology, the christian reader comes to understand the innermost meaning of these three symbols- water, brazen, the serpent, and a few more- in the sense given to them in the holy bible, he will hardly like to connect the sacred name of his saviour with the "brazen serpent" incident. the seraphim[[hebrew (fiery winged serpents) are no doubt connected with, and inseparable from, the idea "of the s

ble; and before the christian era, from the trimurti of the hindus down to the three kabalistic heads of the scriptures as explained by the jews, the triune godhead of each nation was fully defined and substantiated in its allegories. such is the cosmic and ideal significance of this great symbol with the eastern peoples. but, applied to practical and exoteric worship- which had also its esoteric symbology- the lotus became in time the carrier and container of a more terrestrial idea. no dogmatic religion has ever escaped the sexual element in it; and to this day it soils the moral beauty of the root idea. the following is quoted from the same kabalistic mss. already mentioned "pointing to like signification was the lotus growing in the waters of the nile. its mode of growth peculiarly fit

t rendering of the underlying ideas of old, of the purely pantheistic conceptions, impersonal and reverential, of the archaic philosophers of the prehistoric ages. not so, however, when applied to sinful humanity, to the gross ideas attached to personality. therefore, no pantheistic philosopher would fail to find the remarks that follow the above and which represent the anthropomorphism of judean symbology, other than dangerous for the sacredness of true religion, and fitting only our materialistic age, which is the direct outcome and result of that anthropomorphic character. for this is the key-note to the entire spirit and essence of the old testament "therefore" goes on the mss, treating of the symbolism of art-speech of the bible "the locality of the womb is to be taken as the most hol

on d'etre is brought forward for this double worship. it is written by a wonderfully well-informed and acute scholar and mystic, who gives it in the comprehensive form of a hypothesis. the latter, however, becomes forcibly a proven fact in the history of religious[[vol. 1, page] 389 a key note to the moon. evolution in human thought, to anyone who has ever had a glimpse into the secret of ancient symbology. thus, he says "one of the first occupations among men, connected with those of actual necessity, would be the perception of time periods* marked on the vaulted arch of the heavens sprung and rising over the level floor of the horizon, or the plain of still water. these would come to be marked as those of day and night, of the phases of the moon, of its stellar or synodic revolutions, an

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oms. the book of rituals. consecration of tools. rituals erecting the temple; clearing the temple; esbat rite; full moon rite; new/dark moon rite; cakes and ale. lesson six sabbats samhain; beltane; imbolc; lughnasadh. 79 lesson seven meditation, dreams and the minor sabbats meditation how meditation works; technique; posture; area; time of day: method. dreams the source; dream interpretation and symbology; remembering dreams; personal symbols; the repetitive dream; group dreams; dreams vs out-of-body experiences. rituals spring equinox; summer solstice; autumnal equinox; winter solstice. lesson eight 97 marriage, birth, death and channeling handfasting rite; handparting rite; birth rite; crossing the bridge. the intuitive process-categories of channeling; clearing the channel; external fo

ortance of them becomes increasingly clear. for many people the dream state is the only medium available to the higher mind for it to reach the consciousness. thus every night it is busy trying to get its message across. your higher self is expending a lot of time and effort in forming and transmitting dreams; the least you can do is try to understand what the message is. dream interpretation and symbology you have probably spent countless hours trying, unsuccessfully, to decipher the seemingly senseless riddles of your dreams. you are puzzled when a dream of attending aunt minnie's funeral proves not in the least prophetic as, ten years later, aunt minnie is still going strong. you're totally baffled at intimate exchanges with people you wouldn't normally go near. you are amazed at dreami

e minor sabbats 185 universal symbolism includes those things that remain true for all humankind throughout the ages. included are colors, numbers, form and sexual identity (i.e. male and female. they come from the super-consciousness and therefore are timeless. a case in point is transportation the universal symbol of spiritual advancement. as material technology has advanced, the application of symbology has kept pace. so transportation may take one of the modern forms of conveyance, such as rockets, planes, steamships, trains or automobiles, or one of the timeless modes of riding on the back of an animal or walking. it would be impossible to list all the universal symbols here, but a general sampling is given in the section on universal symbols. interpreting your dreams the eminent psyc

the literal interpretation fails to make sense, the dream is obviously symbolic. 88 i buckland's complete book of witchcraft a symbolic dream is one in which the dream character and images cannot be taken literally, as a real person or thing. then the image is that of an aspect of you, the dreamer. then the ancient wisdom of the universal symbols should be applied. as you first begin to work with symbology, you may still have difficulty unraveling the tangled threads; you may only decipher part of the mystery. don't worry about this for it is quite natural in the beginning. continue to affirm that you will remember. continue to faithfully record all of the details that you can. as you do, you will find that the symbols will gradually begin to clear, as you and your higher self develop a di

wn. soon you will find that you have an extensive set of personal symbols which will permit nearly total interpretation of all your dreams. personal symbols many published books on dream interpretation provide the reader with hundreds of symbols and simplified interpretation. other than listings of universal symbols, such books are totally misleading. each of us has his or her own unique personal symbology, based on our experiences in this life. for example, two elderly ladies dream of a cat. one of the ladies has lived a spinster life shared with a succession of cats that she has loved and pampered. the second lady has a very traumatic memory of a wild cat which scratched her severely during her childhood. it is obvious that a single interpretation of "cat" will not satisfy both dreamers

e cat is an evil, dangerous creature that brings pain. therefore, it is necessary for the dreamer to analyze the symbol from the standpoint of his or her own personal feelings. the repetitive dream many dreams are repeated in order to emphasize their meaning or to insure that they are noticed. this may or may not be obvious to the dreamer. usually dreams come in a series of three. sometimes their symbology will be quite similar. at other times you may record three dreams of entirely different symbology, but upon interpretation find that the underlying theme for each is almost identical. in either case the source of the dream is attempting to insure that the message gets through and is understood. a dream repeated over days, weeks or perhaps months, indicates something that you have not tak

letters are the initials of people of importance to the subject, be they friends, relatives or business associates. as with most forms of divination, you should interpret what you feel about what you see, rather than going by hard and fast "meanings. as a start, however, here are the traditional interpretations of some of the most common symbols. you may find it interesting to compare them to the symbology used in dream interpretation (lesson seven. anchor: end of a journey. safe landing. successful end to a business or personal affair. problem unexpectedly solved. arrow: disagreement. antagonism. instructions for a journey. a letter. bell: good news. a wedding. bird: news, which could be good or bad. possible journey. companionship. boat: travel. end of a friendship. bottle: celebration

CONCERNING THE CEREMONY OF THE CONSECRATING THE VAULT

he four elements under the divine proceedings of the letters of the name hwchy. the elements themselves in the symbol of the cross are governed by hwhy, but the letter c representing the \yhla jwr, the divine spirit, being added thereto, the name becometh hwchy or hcwhy, the latter when the letter c placed between ruling l and the other three letters of the tetragrammaton" it is apparent that the symbology is also directly connected to the round altar. see the diagram below: c q n w hwchy the second adept now purifies with the lesser banishing ritual of the hexagram. this is performed with the planetary wand of the second adept. this wand is ruled under the governance of the head of the phoenix, this being the mystical symbol of osiris. let us never forget that the phoenix rose from the as

are also re-activated through the tablets of the watchtower and the invocation. this symbol, being placed on the doorway to the vault, also charges and activates the c doorway or the entrance into the center of the mystical burying place of our founder. opening of the portal five knocks are given after the adorations and invocations of the watchtowers. five is the number of the pentagram,and its symbology should be apparent. each knock also alludes to the pentagrammaton as well. 5 hwchy forms the grand word of the 5=6 grade. the reference to the river called phrath shows the physical world, the outer order, and its hidden and secret link to the true order of the r.r. et a.c. the qabalistic cross is done in unison. this indicates our unity as one body of christ under the light divine. it i

word of the 5=6 grade. the reference to the river called phrath shows the physical world, the outer order, and its hidden and secret link to the true order of the r.r. et a.c. the qabalistic cross is done in unison. this indicates our unity as one body of christ under the light divine. it is also a symbol of bringing forth and invoking the higher genius. there is a much more hidden meaning in the symbology of the cross as it relates to corpus cristi and the solstice. the cross is a symbol of the invisible middle pillar. this is covered in early order documents "the law of the convoluted revolution of the forces" the cross relates to the central axis of the l that receives the rays of the a. remember, in our system, it is this axis that we measure. the center point of the l rather than the

sti and the solstice. the cross is a symbol of the invisible middle pillar. this is covered in early order documents "the law of the convoluted revolution of the forces" the cross relates to the central axis of the l that receives the rays of the a. remember, in our system, it is this axis that we measure. the center point of the l rather than the equator. thus, we see in the qabalistic cross the symbology of the sun and its' life giving rays passing over the l. this is osiris/christ energy united in unison through the qabalistic cross. let us be aware always that no banishings can be done in the vault. in addition, no invoking pentagrams or hexagrams can be made directly inside the chamber of the vault. thus, the altar must be re-charged outside the confines of the vault. next, four knock

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s the witches' sabbath is esoterically understood as the atemporal reality of our ritual. when perceived anew through praxis, dream and spiritmediumship, the myriad motifs of the sabbath yield new wisdom and serve as wholly apposite cyphers for the teachings of oneiric flight, atavistic transformation, wortcunning, divination, ritualisation, dual observance, spirit-worship, and so forth. sabbatic symbology has thus been utilised to encode and narrate the teachings accumulated and still developing in our tradition. dreaming and the mutual translation of dreamt ritual and ritual-as-dreamt form the basic rationale and context for our work. the active discourse between initiates and our spirit-patrons inspires and motivates this dreaming. this is demonstrably manifest in the magical artistry o

DAVID ICKE RELATED THE HIDDEN GEARS OF FREEMASONRY

the obelisk worship so forbidden by god as to be worthy of the death penalty. keep this in mind the next time you contemplate the washington monument! finally, serpent worship takes us directly into hell itself, for satan stands directly behind this form of worship. this is the invisible fraternity of freemasonry, and i bet you never knew it existed, did you? washington d.c. and masonic/luciferic symbology. there is much more to ufos then unidentified flying objects and aliens. people must understand the spiritual side of what is going on. these "gods" haven't left us. they live among us, controlling us via mind control tactics. i would trust that you would study the entire site, it has plenty to offer. as you can see on the back of the u.s. one dollar bill there is a pyramid with the all

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

cing years. the native has long, flaxen hair, gray eyes, a courteous disposition, and a just and upright character. the places libra rules are mountains, sawpits, and newly felled woods. the key phrase for libra is i balance. scorpio, the eighth sign of the zodiac, is a fixed water sign. it is a negative, feminine sign, ruled by the planet pluto (in traditional astrology it was ruled by mars. its symbology is complex, being the only sign with three symbols.the scorpion, the snake, and the eagle. its glyph is said to represent a serpent. it takes its name from the latin word for scorpion. scorpio is associated with the sexual organs and the kidneys. scorpio is a cold, nocturnal sign. the native has a strong, robust, corpulent body, is of average stature, and has a broad visage, dark but not

. the major realms of the cosmos are described in ten realms called sephirots. the sephirots are connected by a system of paths, 22 in number. the different parts of the cosmos reflect the pattern of the whole and the whole of existence is tied together in a complex system of correspondences between the macrocosm and microcosm. the modern tarot has been reworked so as to correlate with qabalistic symbology. bota is organized as an ancient mystery school. as they grow spiritually members attempt to live out the truth of the oneness of god, the brotherhood of man, and the kinship of all life. their social outlook is stated in seven values: 1. universal peace; 2. universal political freedom; 3. universal religious freedom; 4. universal education; 5. universal health; 6. universal prosperity;

the spine to the top of the head. in roman thought, the caduceus was a symbol of moral equilibrium and good conduct. over the centuries, the caduceus was brought into the esoteric gnostic tradition and reappears as symbolic of power and the balance between positive and negative or darkness and light. it has a special place in the rich iconography of speculative freemasonry. as eastern and western symbology has mixed and merged in the twentieth century, the ancient caduceus has emerged as a symbol of enlightenment and acquisition of the ancient wisdom. sources: cirlot, j. e. a dictionary of symbols. new york: philosophical library, 1962, 1971. hall, manly palmer. the secret teachings of all ages. los angeles: philosophical research society, 1977. caer the daughter of ethal anubal, prince of

rview and discussion with sheldrake himself at the home of john mitchell. sources: sheldrake, rupert. a new science of life: the hypothesis of formative causation. london: blond& briggs, 1981. the presence of the past: morphic resonance and the habits of nature. new york: vintage books, 1989. forrest, stephen (1949) stephen forrest is an astrologer best known for his work on the somewhat abstract symbology of astrology and the application of the different symbols to an individual s personal life. his exposition of astrological symbols was spelled out in a series of articles and three books, the changing sky (1984, the inner sky (1986, and skymates (1989. the latter study focused on malefemale relationships. forrest was born in mount vernon, new york, on january 6, 1949. he attended the uni

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL

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

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vian priests and poets on the central summit of a rainbow, which was fabled to be a bridge leading from earth [female vulva] to heaven [great father's pha llus [oliver, signs and symbols, macoy publishing and masonic supply co, p. 14; also r. swinburne, the mysteries of osiris or ancient egyptian initiation, p. 185] a christian author explains this somewhat obscure statement, above, on the sexual symbology of the rainbow "in the ancient jewish kabbala. mystical rabbis taugh he t that the rainbow symbolized a sexual rite. the bow of t rainbow was supposedly the phallus of the male god which descended into the kingdom of the womb, the queen or goddess. the union was said to create immense divine powers [texe marrs, mystery mark of the new age, p. 97] sex in the cross and the crown most chris

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of the qabalah; he or she may say, gwell, if these people like to symbolize god as a satanic force, let them; it is their business and not mine. h this is tolerant enough, but it avoids the danger without removing it; which is that should a qabalist attain to so potent a vision that he can detonate the spiritual instinct of the masses, will he not, because of his education, make use of a satanic symbology which, literally accepted by his intoxicated followers, will spiritually turn them upside down and impel them towards the most diabolical acts of anarchy and outrage? the likelihood of this is common knowledge, for the power of the demagogue is well known, and the most dangerous of demagogues is he who is fervently narrow in his opinions or faith, that is secret wisdom of the qabalah pag

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

hebrew writing. when the alphabet has been learned, i advise the student to take a text at random from a hebrew bible and name aloud each letter, disregarding the dots, marks, accidents, etc. noticing only the letters. he should not be satisfied till he can do so easily and without hesitation. when he is perfectly familiar with the forms of the letters, he may read with advantage my paper on the 'symbology of the hebrew letters in the first pentad. there will be much in this that he will not yet understand, but it will serve to impress his mind with the importance of attending to the exact form of the letters and the comprehension of what is taught therein will be gradually unfolded to him as he proceeds. these three subjects then should be impressed on his mind: 1. the four elements and t

casionally some local or political cause had produced variations,butthese also were detected without trouble.onesuch occurs in a modern french pack in my possession, where a strong antipapal bias has occasioned the substitutionofthe figures of juno and jupiter for the original la papesse and le pape. now and then some enterprising innovator has redrawn the entire pack to suit his own ideas of the symbology, as did the fantastic peruquier alliene, whounderthe pseudonym etteilla (being his own name spelt backwards) posed as an illuminated adept. but these have attained no vogue, and are now merely of interest to collectors, for the embody, not the ideals, whatever thay may be,ofthe oldtarot,butonly eneilla's notion of what they ought to be. discounting however these variants, the persist255

tations that have been put upon them, nor am i sure that it would serve any good purpose to do so. in the absence of evidence as to the intention of the original designer they must remain as merely the speculations of individual writers. but there is much to be said for the idea of eliphaz levi that they were to be referred to the hebrew alphabet. students of the qabala, who are familiar with the symbology of the hebrew letters, have often been struck with the correspondence of some of the atus with some of the letters. there can be no doubt that these cards are hierog255 lyphics of some kind, though the meaning seems to be in dispute;butwhether they represent a series, such as the history of the soul, or cosmical evolution, or the grades of training of an initiate, or a synthesis ofallof

anti was rather surprised that he should have taken the swords of the tarot as the prototypes of clubs. so learned and accurate a writer must have had some authority for this statement,butnone is given, and the obvious idea that in italian swords is spadi, and the form of the pips in modern cards suggest a conventionalized drawing of the roman broad sword, is not so much as alluded to.theoriginal symbology as i have said remains unknown, and is open to any conjecture,butit must be said that the form of the club pip is singularly unlike a bludgeon or quarter staff. butifwe take the suit of denarii, or pentacles, to represent earth forces, and suggest that money or coins might symbolize material powers, and that the clover or trefoil leaf, as a product of the earth, might also symbolize the

nknown, and is open to any conjecture,butit must be said that the form of the club pip is singularly unlike a bludgeon or quarter staff. butifwe take the suit of denarii, or pentacles, to represent earth forces, and suggest that money or coins might symbolize material powers, and that the clover or trefoil leaf, as a product of the earth, might also symbolize the earth forces, it might be as good symbology as the derivation of bludgeons from swords. in any case it seems to be generally assumed the cups are the prototypes of hearts, and sceptres of diamonds, andifswords or spadi became spades, there is only left the correspondence of pentacles with modern clubs. there are then three ways in which we may regard the tarot126thesorcerer and his apprenticecards. firstly the most obvious, as imp

de do not credit. the rosicrucian body is a solid fact, and not the sub-section of freemasonry which goes by that name; it is absolutely an esoteric school, possessing extraordinary wisdom.162 the sorcererand his apprenticea large amount of wisdom has also been preserved among the freemasons, although they have lost a great deaf of what they ought. to have; they have a large quantity. of exoteric symbology, but, sad to say, they have in great part lostthekey toitin the meantime, the knights templars in the middle ages again, handed down a great deal-of wisdom and knowledge. they are gone;butthere are schools of occultism descended from them still existing, and from timetotime these. schools. allow certain portions of their knowledge to be proclaimed generally. to such allowance we owe the

fference between the two systems.[substance of a paper read on 22 october 1892. reprinted fromtransactionsof thescottishlodgeof thetheosophicalsociety,vol. i,part vi (1892, pp. 84-7.]18.thescience of numbers kabalisticandhermeticthe subject of numbers is a very wide one, branching out into every possible domain of science, history, legend, and mythology, and also of occultism.ifone knew the whole symbology of numbers, and the whole meaning and interrela255 tion of numbers,itwould notbenecessary to know anything more; for then would be known absolutely the top and bottom, the ground-work as well as the consummation, of every science on earth. in various systems different numbers are given, which at first blush appear to be irreconcilable; and people get puzzled, being told in one place perh

in theperfect way,and7laid down in thesecretdoctrine,orkey totheosophy,and other oriental works. you will be able to see now pretty clearly that both the7and the4are absolutely viewsofthe same thing, and so also is the 10, the 10 sephiroth of the kabala [paper read on 3 december 1982. reprinted fromtransactionsof the scottish lodgeof thetheosophicalsociety,vol.i,partvi (1982),pp.92-7.]19. occult symbology in relation to occult scienceevery science has its symbology, and consequently there must be an occult symbology, with this distinction that as occult science is the synthesis of all sciences- the algebra, so to speak, of their arithmetic- so the symbology of occult science must be the root of all symbology of all sciences. further, every symbol of occult science is absolutely appropri25

the synthesis, the sphere. the spiritofgodmovesupon the face of the water, and from these opposingf()rces.comes the whirl, which means the motion withinaconfmedspace- the limitation which is the condition of creation now. in that sense the zodiacisavortex ring, and insense also the zodiac is the western analogueoftheshakra, the great wheel of the divine lawoftheeastern. forifyouonce:grasp it, the symbology of each is practically the same; the zodiac, the tree, the. serpent, these arethegreat glyphs.theserpent of eternal generation, the divine serpent,theserpent of. light and of wisdom, the infernal serpent of darkness and of sensuality;thetree of eden and the tree of calvary, the tree of death andthetreeoflife'-thattree aspiring upwards asthetree of life towards the shakra or the zodiac,th

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS A

apons [g] 13. consecration ceremony of the vault of the adepti [k] 14. hermes vision 15. lineal figures 16. minutum mundum (commit to memory [w] 17. z.a.m. first stage lectures 1. lecture on sigils (sigils by g.h. frater d.d.c.f. comentary and addition by g.h. frater p.c.a) 2. concerning the ceremony of consecrating the vault of the adepti 3. analysis of the 5=6 initation by g.h. frater p.c.a. 4. symbology of the banners 5. telesmata and flashing tablets 6. the canopic gods symbolism of the four genii of the hall of the neophyte 7. evil and unclean spirits- by g.h. frater d.d.c.f. 18. full moon healing vigil (to be performed monthly on the full moon) 19. ritual of spiritual alchemy (astral projection, ritual magick and alchemy by francis king) the adept must now pass an examination on the

the adept must now pass an examination on the above. 20. z.a.m. second stage lectures 1. rosary of the r.r.et.a.c. 2. archangels on the paths 3. practical workings with the schemhamphoresch 4. telesmatic figures 5. 6. 7. 8. 21. the advanced meditation of rah ynda end of second stage. the adept must now pass examination on [c] and [e. tarot [n [n1 [p [o [q [r [f] 21. tarot description of 78 cards (symbology and meaning [n] 22. major arcana series [n1] 23. tarot: tabular view of dominion of symbols of book t in the celestial heavens, and operation and rules of the tree of life as projected in a solid sphere [p] 7 24. tarot: the astronomical correspondences [o] 25. tarot: method of divination (opening of the key [q] 26. tarot: tabulated rules [r] the adept must now pass an examination on. con

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS D

ing of the wand itself as there are several different methods that people have employed and all of them are very good. when the adept wishes to banish in the microcosm as in the l.b.r.p. he should hold the black end, when you wish to banish in the macrocosm as in the b.r.h, hold the wand by the white end afterwards point the black end and draw the banishing forms thereof. in addition to the other symbology of the wand, the white end is more akin to the macrocosm, the black end is more akin to the microcosm. let us emphasize that the white portion of the lotus wand is generally for invoking, and the black portion is used for banishing, but this is not always the case and many immature adepts believe that the white end is always used for invoking and the black end is always used for banishin

luences as well. let us never confuse a sephiroth with one of the heavens of assiah, or with a planet or a zodiacal. all sephirotic influences should be invoked with the white band held on high. the white band is also employed for rising in the planes. 4 when working with mundane matters, you will use the black portion of the lotus wand, as this deals with the material and the physical world. the symbology of the lotus the inner ten petals refer to the purity of the ten sephiroth. understanding the symbology of the lotus itself is very important. this is, of course, why we hold the white portion of the lotus wand when working with the nature of the sephiroth directly. the middle eight refer to the counter charged or natural and spiritual forces of m and o. the lower and outer eight refer t

GREY W G CONDENSATION OF KABBALAH

t instead of the neutral centre. they solved this problem by considering that if the final creative act were equivalent to the expulsion of an individual from a womb, then the final tenth sphere of the human world, should be another stage lower and the two above it should follow suit to balance the design. this gave figure 3, which left a space below the top three concepts which provided a useful symbology of its own. a gap, or abyss just below this top level of consciousness which clearly indicated the difference between divine and human thinking. it also symbolised our legendary fall by which we were supposed to reach the level of this material world. this abyss was then marked as per figure 4. the next logical step was to show the descent of god to the state of man by connecting the sph

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

e it as a gold cross with a "ruby red rose" the symbol described herein as the true rosy cross is registered in the united states patent office as the official rosicrucian symbol, and such patent registration is held exclusively by amorc. the name and symbol are also registered with many other nations of this jurisdiction [73] the rose and the cross a book might be written upon the subject of the symbology or mystical meaning of the rose and the cross. the most popular explanation of the two symbols.the one which writers in encyclopedias love to use with great show of seeming authority.is that the cross and the rose have much to do with dew and other alchemical terms. this is simply a fanciful, though satisfactory, explanation for the casual reader. it is not the truth, however. as far as

orient were originating and creating symbols which would have definite meanings in the minds of the learned students. if the cross and other symbols confuse and perplex the wise today, it is not to be wondered at that in the days gone by there were many who saw naught in these symbols but arbitrary marks of indefinite character. the rose, on the other hand, offers little trouble to the student of symbology. its fragrance, its cycles of budding into life, maturing into full bloom and sweetness and then dropping to decay and dust, represent the cycles of life.even human life. that the seed of the [74] disintegrating rose should drop to earth and in earth find again the opportunity to be reborn, typifies the mystic's understanding of the continuity of life, or reincarnation. in our work, the

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

plain it in this way. disbelieving in the hellfire which theology discovers as underlying the threat to the branches, we say that the "husbandman" means atma, the symbol for the infinite, impersonal principle, while the vine stands for the spiritual soul, christos, and each "branch" represents a new incarnation. q. but what proofs have you to support such an arbitrary interpretation? 1. universal symbology is a warrant for its correctness and that it is not arbitrary. hermas says of "god" that he "planted the vineyard" i.e, page 87 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt he created mankind. in the cabala, it is shown that the aged of the aged, or the "long face" plants a vineyard, the latter typifying mankind; and a vine, meaning life. the spirit of "king messiah" is, therefore, shown as wa

e pagans. chr stos meant, in that vocabulary "a disciple on probation" a candidate for hierophantship; who, when he had attained it, through initiation, long trials and suffering, and had been anointed (i.e "rubbed with oil" as initiates and even idols of the gods were, as the last touch of ritualistic observance, was changed into christos-the "purified" in esoteric or mystery language. in mystic symbology, indeed, christes or christos meant that the "way" the path, was already trodden and the goal reached; when the fruits of the arduous labor, uniting the personality of evanescent clay with the indestructible individuality, transformed it thereby into the immortal ego "at the end of the way stands the christes" the purifier; and the union once accomplished, the chr stos, the "man of sorro

INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW CHUMBLEY

m what i have learned of previous generations in this and kindred streams of traditional craft, the utilisation of sabbath- imagery had been in process for some time, but during the late 19th century and throughout the 20th century became fully self-conscious. when mythic imagery and direct magical experiences of spirit- flight, faerie convocations, and such like conjoin, the language of sabbatic symbology is actually a very natural vehicle to employ. it is useful at this point to emphasise that traditional craft as a whole embraces many diverse streams of initiation, ritual, custom and spirit-allegiance. i know of at least seven lineages in britain and am quite sure there are many others each with its own character and spiritual individuality. this being said sabbatic craft, as a unifying

ISIS UNVEILED

/(urf* treated in ancient pagan and modem chrigtian symbuiam are un- impeachable. nor can we agree with some english critics who chai^ him with an intent to destroy christianity. if by qhrittianuy is meant the vernal religious forms of worship, then he certainly seeks to destroy it, for in his eyes, as well as in those of every truly religious man who has studied ancient exoteric faiths and their symbology, christianity is pure heathenism, and catholicism, with its fetish-worshiping, is far worse and more pernicious than hinduism in its most idolatrous aspect. but while denouncing the exoteric forms and unmasking the symbols, it is sot the reli^on of christ that the author attacks, but the artificial system fa theology. we will allow him to illustrate the position in his own language, and

depicted in asiyrian culptiike, whet males offer to the goddess symaajr of la >i(mbm" set anciml pagan and uod m ckrittian symmww, p. 91: 2nd ed. new york. digitizecoy google 110 isis nnteiled whole roman catholic image-worship the madonna element and reforming the faith to protestantism. the enforcement of the late dogma of the immaculation was prompted by this very secret reason. the science of symbology was mulring too rapid progress. blind faith in the pope's infallibility and in the immaculate nature of the virgin and afker atkestral female lineage to a certain remove could alone save the church from the indiscreet revelations of saence. it was a clever strc^e of polk^ on the part of the vicegerent of god. what matters it if, by "conferring upon her such an honor^ as don fasquale di f

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

t of a great ancient religion. like every product of these ancient and elaborately perfected systems, these rites are full of meaning, or rather of meanings; for in egypt we attributed to them a fourfold signification. since every detail is thus full of import, it is obvious that nothing should ever be changed without the greatest care, and only then by those who know its full intent, so that the symbology of the whole may not be spoiled. 38. the egyptian outlook 39. it is exceedingly difficult to explain to twentieth century readers all that this work meant to us in the sunny land of khem; but i will try to describe the four layers of interpretation as they were taught when i myself lived there. 40. the first idea of its meaning was that it conveyed to us and symbolized in action the way

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

le amount of trouble to carry out his design exactly as he wanted it. so far as the investigators were able to see, his work was based entirely upon a traditional account of the stone egyptian pillars, which had been handed down from the time of moses. it did not appear that he had any clear idea of the meaning of all these strange decorations, though moses knew perfectly well the whole system of symbology which lay behind it. 174. it is to be understood that all this varied orna-mentation was not arranged in basso-relievo, as would be expected in a casting; on the contrary it stood out boldly from the face of the pillar, many of the flowers being connected with it only by a comparatively thin stalk of considerable length. some indication of the patience and care which the artist exhibited

e then indicates that he ascended or rose again. the symbol in the centre- that of the double axe- is that of the most high god; so the complete glyph is thus a kind of symbolic creed, which for those who drew it affirmed their faith in the descent of the deity into matter and his final triumphant ascension from it: gdescended he; ascended he h. if we were to interpret it along lines of christian symbology we might call it the emblem of the crucified and triumphant christ; but it is also a token of the whole method of evolution. 261. this device appears in many places. it is to be seen in the museum of the louvre in paris, engraved upon a chaldaean intaglio made of green jasper. it is also to be found on the walls of some very old churches in devonshire and cornwall in england, where it mu

e been modified, but the cup has not. the cross was originally what is now called the greek cross, with equal arms. that has always been the token of the first out-pouring of divine life through the third aspect of god, or the third member of the trinity, called among the christians god the holy ghost, and sometimes the life-giver, who brooded over the waters of space. 284. a further point in the symbology is that the cross contains within itself the square, the level and the plumb-line combined; and we find in the epistle to the ephesians written by st ignatius (who according to tradition was the little child whom christ once took and set in the midst of his disciples as a type of those who should inherit the kingdom of heaven, this remarkable masonic passage: 285. ye are stones of a temp

if he leaves the order. 451. divisions of the ceremony 452. we now come to the consideration of the cere-mony by which the candidate is admitted to freemasonry, a ceremony which is commonly called his initiation. we must recognize from the beginning that this ceremony is no mere form; first because it produces definite inner effects, and secondly, because it contains a great deal of most valuable symbology, the understanding and application of which will be of great moment in the candidate fs future life. 453. as i have stated earlier in the book, one chief object of freemasonry is to train its members for the work which they have to do in the world, and therefore to cultivate within them the qualities necessary for that work. the various degrees in masonry are all stages in that training;

militude of the divine light of god fs love through which and in which we have our being. 530. the e c1 i c s 531. on being restored to the blessing of light, the eye of the new a. falls upon the t c g c e c l c s in freemasonry. the furniture of the lodge here reappears under this new name, but as we have already discussed the matter in chapter iii, we need not repeat here the explanation of the symbology involved. 532. in the co-masonic ritual the r.w.m. now raises the newly-made brother to his feet and turns him round so that he sees for the first time the brn. with their s c s at the carry. he explains to him that he must not regard this martial display as a menace, but as a symbol of the protection with which freemasonry henceforth surrounds him. the brn. then return to their seats. 5

nd his two wardens, symbolizing respectively wisdom, strength and beauty or harmony. these have already been explained in chapter ii. in the masculine ritual this explanation of the three columns is put somewhat differently, as they are there described as the three lesser lights, which are explained to be the sun, the moon and the master of the lodge. this connects up modern masonry with much old symbology in which the moon and the sun largely figure. 534. the s c and p c 535. in this situation the r.w.m. also instructs the n. in the s c s of this degree, a s c, a g c and a w c the s c in this degree is often supposed to be related to the p c mentioned in the o, but the s c, existed long before the p c, which was invented to fit it. among the egyptians the same p c existed, and even before

e in his magnificence, except in the case of men far advanced on the road of evolution. now, in the symbolism of this degree, the personality has seen with all clearness that the purpose of life is to serve the higher; he throws himself into the task with vigour and so gives some of his definiteness to make the purpose of the ego clear to himself; he makes a call to the warrior within, to use the symbology of light on the path. 582. the opening 583. while the preparation of the c. is taking place the r.w.m. once more calls upon the brn. to assist him in opening the lodge, but this time in the second degree; and yet again he begins with the universal question, but very slightly varied: gwhat is the first care of every f.c.f? h and he receives the invariable answer: gto prove the lodge close

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

e seen from the above that the deities, or rather forms of deity, osiris, isis and horus were already familiar to the people, and the world teacher made it part of his work to draw their attention to the true meaning of the three persons. at what time knowledge of these three aspects of god was introduced into the land we do not know, but at the date of our experience they had their places in the symbology of the mysteries. 64. isis and osiris 65. isis, to whom the lesser mysteries were ascribed, was not only the universal feminine principle expressed in nature, but also a real and very lofty being, just as the christ is the universal life, the second logos, and also a high official of the occult hierarchy. she by virtue of her high development and office was able to represent the feminine

ce in the working, while the ideas contained in what we now call the mark degree were associated with the 2 as the arch was with the 3. although in english working the period of the arch is represented to be that of zerubbabel and the second temple, the irish chapters refer the whole legend to the days of king josiah, while the royal arch of enoch, which differs considerably in detail, though the symbology has the same significance and purpose, is described as belonging to the time of king solomon himself. the absence of a fixed period is noteworthy as indicating that the historical setting is only of secondary importance, and that the main purpose of the degree is to convey symbolical instruction. 295. the essenes and the christ 296. the tradition of the mysteries was transmitted from cen

er was suppressed in their native country were intermingled with those of more than one of the existing scottish rites. those who founded it, or at least developed its teaching, appear to have been thoroughly eclectic, for in addition to the two sources above indicated they seem to have assimilated a certain amount of material from the culdees, and also from the jewish tradition, though using the symbology of the second temple. ramsay quotes in connection with it the jewish legend of the sword and trowel; and it is with the sword in one hand and the trowel in the other that the brn. of the royal order still take their o. i have already referred to its curious old rhymed ritual, which bears internal evidence of antiquity, and teaches the search for a lost word which is eventually found in c

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

ded on all sides by five rivers (lethe, styx, phlegethon, acheron, and cocytus) and at the entrance the mythical threeheaded dog cerberus stood guard. plato introduced the idea of a postmortem judgment based on good and evil deeds during one s life into greek spirituality. this philosopher also aimed at understanding hades as a psychological state rather than as a physical location, while all the symbology related to it was interpreted allegorically. in judaism the underworld was viewed as a dusty shadowy realm called sheol, representing the extreme point in the universe, at the opposite end from heaven. in the ethiopian apocalypse of enoch, sheol is subdivided into three areas according to merit: subsequently it came to be identified with the gehenna (hell, imagined the united kingdom, ri

LOGOMACHY OF ZOS

eads to a worthwhile reality in consummation. the only certainties are the great uncertainties of unremembered commitments to myself. t% s]%d. x5 (5. d< 5. 5. e 9"d. p. d..t" through dissatisfaction. speak not of the inconceivableness of god for i am this but am not a god. sensations are impacts from phases of outer energy, relevant or not but mostly hurtful. 5. r..1 o$ 5! z 5( x. 5: j y "d x' 1* symbology. even with great virtue of belief none can attain union with soul or noumen for they are ever interlocked. why begin with false beliefs? your unions are with your own ideas of them. the first law was duality, determining by differentiated duplication; for whatever is begotten is from a similarity. the chain of causation is a sequence of entities becoming less and less similar and, eventu

nsationally. our truth is the totality of our observations when confirmed by our atavisms. the key to all metaphysical phenomena (mind, soul, etc) is wrapped up in our needs. what sounds the depths and conjoins will and belief? some inarticulate hieroglyph or sigil wrought from nascent desire and rhythmed by unbounded ego. we pray. like a convulsed naiad transfixed by rape. there is a grimoire of symbology, of vague phonic nuances that conjoin all thought and is the cryptic language of the subconscious world. deep silence and lonely longing unfreeze the all-prolific mind. life is a wanton whose price is death. our thought-patterns result from quantitative aggregations, gradations, variations, juxtapositionings and proportionings derived from our w=h 5..1 2. s..15# e$ b( m "d 5! s 2..q..1 2

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

devise an image in which the three persons--father, son, and holy ghost--were separate and yet one. in different parts of europe may be seen figures similar to the above, wherein three faces are united in one head. this is a legitimate method of for to those able to realize the sacred significance of the threefold head a great mystery is revealed. however, in the presence of such applications of symbology in christian art, it is scarcely proper to consider the philosophers of other faiths as benighted if, like the hindus, they have a three-faced brahma, or, like the romans, a two-faced janus. p. 20 always followed by the process of dissolution. according to spencer, however, disintegration took place only that reintegration might follow upon a higher level of being. the chief position in

peculiar palpitation is to be noted throughout the structure of the globe and is communicated in the form of ripples to the emanating streamers. the greatest and most luminous of these spheres is the archangel michael; and the entire order of solar life, which resemble him and dwell upon the sun, are called by modern christians "the archangels" or "the spirits of the light. the sun in alchemical symbology gold is the metal of the sun and has been considered by many as crystallized sunlight. when gold is mentioned in alchemical tracts, it may be either the metal itself or the celestial orb which is the source, or spirit, of gold. sulphur because of its fiery nature was also associated with the sun. as gold was the symbol of spirit and the base metals represented man's lower nature, certain

ddress was a tiny cup of gold, made in the form of a flower. this signified that the nature of the priest was receptive and that he had a vessel in his own soul which, cuplike, was capable of catching the eternal waters of life pouring upon him from the heavens above. this flower over the crown of his head is similar in its esoteric meaning to the rose growing out of a skull, so famous in templar symbology. the ancients believed that the spiritual nature escaping from the body passed upward through the crown of the head; therefore, the flowerlike calyx, or cup, symbolized also the spiritual consciousness. on the front of the golden crown were inscribed in hebrew, holiness unto the lord. though robes and ornaments augmented the respect and veneration of the israelites for their high priest

inciples, disclaims all personal connection with it. many others have done likewise. some are of the opinion that sir francis bacon had a hand in the writing of the fama and confessio fraternitatis, on the basis that the rhetorical style of these works is similar to that of bacon's new atlantis. they also contend that certain statements in the latter work point to an acquaintance with rosicrucian symbology. the elusiveness of the rosicrucians has caused them to be favorite subject's for literary works. outstanding among the romances which have been woven around them is zanoni. the author, lord bulwer-lytton, is regarded by some as a member of the order, while others assert that he applied for membership but was rejected. pope's rape of the lock &c. comte de gabalis by abb de villars, and e

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

age of the latter. true-hearted masons ought to reject with horror any connection, letalone descent from these (madame helena blavatsky, the secret doctrine) there exists. another class of adepts belonging to a brotherhood also and mightier thanany other they have to be ranked with the adepts of the black arts. these are our romancatholic fathers and clergy. a hundred times more learned in secret symbology and theold religion than our orientalists will ever bethere are more profoundly learned kabalistsin rome and throughout europe and america than is generally suspected..thus are thebrotherhoods of black adepts more powerful and dangerousthan any host of easternoccultists (madame helena blavatsky, the secret doctrine) speak i of ancient atlantis, speak of the days of the kingdom of shadows

NEW WORLD ORDER OR OCCULT SECRET DESTINY

hul a disembodied ascended master. her christ is indeed the antichrist in the strictest sense of the word. antichrist means substitute for or in place of christ. she goes on to say that these ancient mysteries were originally given to humanity by the hierarchy [of which djwhal khul is a part of] and contain the entire clue to the evolutionary process, hidden in numbers, in ritual, in words and in symbology; these veil the secret of man s origin and destiny, picturing to him in rite and ritual, the long, long path which he must tread, back into the light (ibid, p.121-22) so what do we have here: the new age tells its disciples that they are working for the hierarchy. the teachings of the new age are giving by the hierarchy. the movement for the installement of the antichrist is giving the g

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

years ago when regardie felt (as in the above quotation) that psychology would find its "logical conclusion and fruition" within the golden dawn system! although wolf makes no reference to the golden dawn or l.v.x. per se, he has dealt a death knell to a classical physics model of psychological theory while a quantum mechanics model has been astoundingly and secretly kerneled within the profound symbology and initiatory technique of the golden dawn system for countless years! to quote wolf "it is my dream that quantum physics will bridge the gap between science and mysticism. as such it must lead thinkers and researchers to a new view of human behavior. b.f. skinner was not so wrong in attempting to deal with behavior scientifically, but he was the newton of behaviorists. we now search fo

e in a temple of the grade of neophyte, the four gods, ameshet, ahephi, tmoumathaph, kabexnuf, said also to be vice-gerants of the elements, and answering to the rivers of eden as drawn in the warrant of the temple, are said to rule in the four comers of the hall between the stations of the kerubim. in egyptian mythology, these gods are also said to be the children of horus, and to partake of his symbology. if now, we regard the neophyte ceremony as representing the entrance into a new life, regeneration -mors janua vitae- the egyptian symbology wherein that idea was so clearly and exactly worked out becomes important. bear in mind that a new life means a new plane or a higher world, a passing, say, from the kether of assiah to the malkuth of yetzirah. now as behind kether depend the veils

the body itself, the vehicle of the soul, are the organs, the media for the action of organic life, and it is equally important to preserve these from corruption, yet not together with the body. for as the body of osiris was broken up, so must the body of the osirian be divided. this is the meaning of the viscera being preserved apart from the body. the death and resurrection of christ has other symbology and the teachings belong to a higher grade. let none therefore object that his body was laid in the tomb entire (the body of osiris was first laid in the chest or pastos whole. the division into 14 parts was subsequent. n. b. 1 plus 4= 5, the five wounds) for even as yod heh vav heh must be known before yod heh shin vav heh can be comprehended, and as moses must precede christ, so must t

vav heh must be known before yod heh shin vav heh can be comprehended, and as moses must precede christ, so must the mysteries of osiris first be known. now the guardian of the hall and of the neophytes against the qlip poth (whose kether is thaumiel, the dual or two-headed one, the demons of corruption and disintegration) is the hiereus or horns, and to the children of horns, who partake of his symbology, are the viscera committed, to guard them against the demons of disintegration and corruption. as the elements and the forces of the elements are to the world, so are the vital organs and the life which animates them to the human body. appropriately, then, are the vital organs and the life which animates them, placed under the charge of the vice-gerents of the elements, the children of h

ere, symbolise the entire separation of the alimentary system and the circulatory system, which is contrary to nature, for they continually counter-change, and thus arises life. wherefore in the hall of the two truths, the portions of ahephi and kabexnuf are reversed, and the order becomes. east-ameshet. south-tmoumathph north-kabexnuf west-ahephi now these, being thus arranged, do partake of the symbology of the elements to which they belong. for ameshet being to the east, the quarter of air, has the head of a man. tmoumathph, to the south, has the head of a jackal who is the purveyor of the lion (for these are the vice-gerents of the elements, while the kerubim are the lords thereof; so tmoumathph is properly a jackal. kabexnuf in the west, in the region of water, has the form of a hawk

th, has the head of a jackal who is the purveyor of the lion (for these are the vice-gerents of the elements, while the kerubim are the lords thereof; so tmoumathph is properly a jackal. kabexnuf in the west, in the region of water, has the form of a hawk, the subordinate form to the alchemic eagle of distillation, and the form also, of horus, the hiereus, beside whom is his station, and of whose symbology he partakes <129> ahephi in the north,has the head of an ape. the symbology of the ape in ancient egypt is very complex. here it may be taken that while apis, the bull, represents the divine strength of the eternal gods, the ape represents the elemental strength which is far inferior and blended with cunning. ahephi, however, has other symbology and other attributes. for by reason of the

live and clothed with a definite symbolic form. in this it is desirable to use the forms of the gods of egypt, so as to avoid the chance of illusion through memory creeping in by the appearance of the human officers one is accustomed to see. each of this considered in detail assumes a symbolic form. note, that as the present purpose is to examine the reflection of some earthly event or force, the symbology is particularly regarded with reference thereto. thus the hiereus specially guards against the intrusion of any material wish or thought or emotion which might disturb the perfect calm of the divining mind. the dadouchos is not alone the power of heat and dryness but of energy, fire, passion, impetuous zeal; and stolistes is not alone cold or moisture, but pleasure, love, luxury, etc. in

, impetuous zeal; and stolistes is not alone cold or moisture, but pleasure, love, luxury, etc. in fact the forces of wands and cups. the fiery zeal prepares the way for the prayer which rises from the soul like incense, this prayer being related also to the suffering which is the purification by fire <275> the receptive and negative forces of the cup are those which develop the perception of the symbology of the various forces. the intuitive intellect (anubis, the watcher within) regulates the imaginative forming of the sphere of sensation itself- guides the formulated movements thereof- keeps alive the light of occult science and grasps the ray of divine wisdom. so the genius of equilibrium, thmaah, must introduce the question to be investigated, for unless this be done by perfect equili

is repeatedly quoted without due credit (unfortunately, it is also mis-information, and no credit to the late israel regardie) first, the original system of dee and kelly was vastly more sophisticated than even the golden dawn version, but it had not been pulled together at that time, so regardie had insufficient materials at hand to form his judgement. second, the golden dawn reduces all occult symbology to an "elemental-bias, and then combines elemental attributions quite mechanically to constitute everything into what they took of the dee system. this is valid and powerful! h.s. 626 the golden dawn: volume zv book nine some of the order clairvoyants have claimed that dee and kelly in some way obtained access to the construction of the enochian system whilst they were in central europe

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

s composed of three yang, or masculine figures, because nothing passive can be admitted into the idea of god, considered as the principle of production in the three worlds. for the same reason, the christian trinity by no means permits the personification of the mother, who is shown forth implicitly in that of the son. for the same reason, also, it is contrary to the laws of hieratic and orthodox symbology to personify the holy ghost under the form of a woman. woman comes forth from man as nature comes forth from god; so christ himself ascends to heaven and assumes the virgin mother: we speak of the ascension of the saviour, and the assumption of the mother of god. god, considered as father, has nature for his daughter; as son, he has the virgin for his mother and the church for his bride;

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cate it after an incomplete manner, which might be capa66 the ritual of transcendental magic ble of another interpretation. but the most curious things which we have found on this subject are indicated by the mystical figures and magical legends in a book of henry khunrath, entitled amphitheatrum sapientae aeternae. khunrath represents and resumes the most learned gnostic schools, and connects in symbology with the mysticism of synesius. he affects christianity in expressions and in signs, but it is easy to see that his christ is the abraxas, the luminous pentagram radiating on the astronomical cross, the incarnation in humanity of the sovereign sun celebrated by the emperor julian; it is the luminous and living manifestation of that ruach- elohim which, according to moses, brooded and wor

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e whom set had recognized as priest, could even benefit from its study. accordingly, materials discussing xem in depth were sent only to the priesthood. that magus is no longer with us. the primary texts concerning xem(5) are scheduled for inclusion in the ruby tablet of set. while xem is now 'available' to adepts(6, most of you will find its importance minimal. further, the text is shrouded with symbology from the aeon of harwer and other mystical traditions. like finding a magical name or working with an individual neter, a time may come when xem is important to you. until then, concentrate on xeper. per-t was uttered in xvi. at first recognized as a word, many in the priesthood now consider per-t to be little more than a useful philosophy. my personal opinions concerning per-t are still

i (very minor updates) html revision: dec 12, 1998 ce subject: tarot reading list: 9l, 4c, 19b, 19c. lesson 17- your first reading, an extension. lesson 18- a summary of the first reading. appendix i- 15-card probabilities. table 1: alchemical correspondences of the tarot suits and court cards. table 2: achemical sub-elemental correspondences of the court cards. table 3: traditional numerological symbology. table 4: correspondences between kaballistic sephiroth and the numbered tarot cards. table 5: correspondences between kabbalistic paths and the atu. figure 1: sample record layout. figure 2: sample record layout, by position. figure 3: wasserman layout diagram. figure 4: first reading using the wasserman layout. figure 5: first reading, alternate diagram. figure 6: wasserman layout diag

d need to master these fields as well. fortunately we don't need to master a language to use it. we simply need to understand enough of it to send and receive the simpler messages "me hungry" serves almost as well as "i worked through lunch-time today, and that juicy, sizzling steak smells divine; may i have some please" to begin studying the tarot, you should be familiar with the three fields of symbology. this primer will tell you when to read some introductory chapters on each if you need to, and when to read crowley's book of thoth. you'll probably need to read that latter book from cover to cover two or three times, since the subject matter is complex, and since that book is not quickly understood. keep the cards handy while you read the book of thoth, and refer to the cards when crow

uch reading. additional lessons are planned for this primer, and these lessons shall be added through additional readings. 9perhaps our higher selves are able to divine each card's position through occult powers, or are able to remember and calculate card positions despite our shuffles. or perhaps the cards are chosen at random, and our higher selves simply direct our attention at the appropriate symbology. you will have to reach your own conclusion about why the tarot works. 10these fortunes were for people who can't avoid predetermined fates as readily as we can. they were also obviously not the in-depth readings i do for myself or for my close friends. those latter readings generally take one or two hours each to complete. lesson 1. the tarot and magic this first lesson discusses some t

bolism. the symbolism of tarot cards is complex and extensive; no wonder so many people believe the cards themselves are magical. this primer is different. we rely on crowley's text to discuss most of the symbolism, leaving this primer free to concentrate on the process of laying and reading the cards. in this lesson (and the next several) we summarize the more globally applicable points of tarot symbology. you will later study crowley's text for more detail. please look at your cards as you continue in this lesson. the standard tarot deck contains 78 cards.(26) of these 78 cards, 22 are trumps (also called keys or atu. the remaining 56 cards are divided into four suits of fourteen cards each. each suit contains four court cards, plus ten numbered cards. the four suits of the book of thoth

ace through ten, with the court cards having an importance somewhere between that of the trumps and the numbered cards. instead, the atu (and their symbolism) may be considered to be more complex than the court cards, which in turn may be considered to be more complex than the numbered suit cards. there is no value differentiation within the tarot deck.(29) as mentioned in the introduction, tarot symbology is drawn from three schools: alchemy, numerology, and the kaballah. to master the tarot we would need to master these other schools as well. fortunately, we need but a simple, basic knowledge of these schools to begin using the tarot. and that simple knowledge is readily available. we can approach the tarot's symbolism from two different directions. we can concentrate our study on the ca

: alchemy, numerology, and the kaballah. to master the tarot we would need to master these other schools as well. fortunately, we need but a simple, basic knowledge of these schools to begin using the tarot. and that simple knowledge is readily available. we can approach the tarot's symbolism from two different directions. we can concentrate our study on the cards, referencing the three fields of symbology as necessary. or we can concentrate on the three fields of symbology, studying their correspondences within the tarot. most texts use one method or the other. this primer does both. first (in each of the next several lessons) we will concentrate on matching one school of symbology with the tarot. when we have finished that summary of tarot symbology, we will then be free to work with the

faithful, affectionate, reliable. 7 mysticism, magic, solitary, cycles and rhythms, wisdom, religion, philosophy. 8 worldly involvement, material success or failure, life after death, new life. 9 completion, enough (3x3, spiritual and mental acheivement, initiation, egotistical. 10 (not defined) 11 higher planes, saints, martyrs, relevation, preachers, teachers. table 3: traditional numerological symbology the primer will concentrate on using numerological interpretations that are appropriate to the querant, question, and reader. these interpretations will often differ from those found in table 3. numbers can also take on personal meanings. two is the number of opposition, od opposites, and shu is a god of opposition in balance. the two is therefore a very positive card for me, whileit wou

ay find that avendish's the black arts contains such a suitable introduction. a more thorough examination is found in dion fortune's the mystical quabalah, not on the temple of set reading list. this latter book is a solid example of a work from the aeon of horus, and the setian reader needs to apply our more modern perspective to its content. 41see table 5 on page 30. 42this table summarizes the symbology described in dion fortune's the mystical quabalah. 43again, the swords imply mental activity, and the three implies creation. 44as implied by the seven. 45as shown by the disks. 46this table is adapted from crowley's diagram in the book of thoth entitled the tarot- general attribution (plate# xxviii. the version in wassermann's instruction booklet may be easier to read. 47while the autho

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. mirrors also serve to "rob the soul" according to old tradition. an austere chair is provided in which the celebrant sits during the first part of the ritual. the coffin may be of any type, although a traditional hexagonal style is recommended, as this is the type depicted in the actual sigil of the sixth degree of the templars and, combined with the skull and crossbones, is retained in masonic symbology. the coffin must be large enough to accommodate two persons, hence special construction or modification is likely to be necessary. the usual devices of satanic ritual are all employed. additional accouterments include a cat-o'-nine-tails with which to scourge the celebrant, a cruet for the wine of bitterness, and a goblet the celebrant (pope) is attired in tattered and decaying vestments

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us exception is if the neophyte is gay and then he or she must seek out a relevant sapphic or uranian temple. the individual to be initiated may also undergo tests- both during and previous to the initiation ritual- and may be subjected to both humiliation and pain. humiliation may take the form of being stripped naked and bound before the temple into which the neophyte is seeking initiation. the symbology here is of a stripping of personality, wherein the individual is no longer protected by his or her personality as symbolised by his or her clothing and is instead bared to all devoid of any societal position or power that he or she may have. adding to this feeling of nakedness, which is enhanced by the unfamiliarity of the temple and its members, the neophyte may also be subjected to a r

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

htenment; sarnath, where he delivered his first sermon on how to avoid suffering; and kusinagara, where he escaped from this life into nirvana. observances. wesak is the most important holy day for buddhists. held on the full moon in may, it celebrates the buddha s birth. phrases. om mani padme hum is a mantra, or chant, prevalent in buddhism, meaning hail the jewel in the lotus. it refers to the symbology surrounding the buddha s miraculous birth. world religions: almanac 91 buddhism rock pillars, or stupas, erected with the words of the buddha inscribed on them, calling for respect for all life. ashoka organized missionaries, people who dedicated themselves to preaching the truths of their religion to others, to spread buddhism beyond the borders of india. some of these missionaries reac

SYMBOLISM OF THE BANNERS

wn international, we notice variable usage of the calvary cross with various number of squares. these crosses have varied meanings than those on the banners, but their meaning allows a deeper understanding. thus, here is a list: a f b j d h l i e a g k c a c b k d h e f g i j l 6 rtk hnyb hrwbg trapt dsj hmkj jxn dwh dwsy twklm 10 9 8 7 3 5 6 4 2 1 7 triangle and the hexagram taking a look at the symbology of the triangles on the banners, we notice that they also represent various rosicrucian concepts. these concepts represent the trinity of creation in various forms. also, they represent a microcosmic/macrocosmic relationship. the various diagrams below provide a simple example of those concepts. for i am the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end' saith the lord, god who liveth in li

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

ics, napoleon is using the left-handed path (dark occultism) of magic. napoleon was also reputed to be an llluminatus and an initiate into the greater mysteries (areopagite degree. note also the sun sign (maltese) badge. now we find yet another indication of napoleon's secret society involvement. wearing red, the color of rothschild and blood, napoleon signifies his lefthand path orientation. the symbology of the threetowered church in the background of the painting (behind the curtain) signifies the boast that napoleon, a political sovereign, is also lord over the spiritual realm. in this famous painting of napoleon, the emperor is depicted using his right-hand in giving the royal arch mason handsign. 74 codex magica irish-american politician and author ignatius donnelly caused a sensatio

stiny of the illuminati and the whole world is said to be in his hands. we thank god that all who believe in christ jesus have no part of this destiny. jesus said he has chosen us out of the world. we are pilgrims, aliens on earth, spiritually residing in heavenly places. the serpent has no power or control whatsoever over us, and we solidly reject his many works, among which, regrettably, is the symbology of the great seal of the united states. advertisement for a cigarette brand. the three most prominent symbols (1) all-seeing eye (2) the sign of eternity resembling the figure 8 lying on its side (3)the three dots, or points, indicative of the unholy trinity. the guardian angel organization in new york city has as its logo an all-seeing eye in a triangle, and angel wings. message "we are

or contlmporary studies and the arts the architectural design for the yellow springs institute for contemporary studies and the arts in chester springs, pennsylvania reveals a music amphitheater and a triangle structure with a circle inside. meanwhile, the official logo for the yellow springs institute is a red triangle with a tree inside. 370 codex magica only an adept heavily schooled in occult symbology would understand the message being communicated in this full-page ad for "virginia slims" cigarettes. the occult significance of the lightning bolt, the triangle, the square, the arm and hand signs and positions, even the wide spread of the model's legs is explained in the pages of codex magica. the colors she wears, black, red, blue, and white also contain significance. still, given the

their secret sign with the first three fingers of the right hand united, make the sign of an arrow."6 the rosicrucian's sign of an arrow is dark and evil because it is used by the individual to remove himself from god's blessing and leave himself purposely exposed to the arrows of the devil (in this case, the form, or shape, relates the arrow to the spear. dean grace, authoritative researcher in symbology and masonic secrets, believes that at least some modern-day disciples of this international black lodge, priory of sion, communicate their involvement to other hidden members by giving the sign of the spear point.7 in this sign, the point of the spear can either be sharply angular or it can be modified. often, the fingers are positioned so that the horns and face of baphomet are indistin

blood, holy grail) 408 codex magica first lady hillary rodham clinton, wearing a "mao tse tung" peasant outfit and fashion look, clearly giving the baphomet/priory of sion sign. this cover and feature article in time (march 1, 1999) examined hillary clinton's possible candidacy for the u.s. senate from the state of new york in the upcoming election (2000. in fact, ms. clinton ran and won. was the symbology displayed (priory of sion sign) predictive of her future successful run? the merovingian dynasty, the priory of sion 409 said by political analysts to be one of the most important addresses of his political career, in late august 1998, president bill clinton went on national television to give a limited mea culpa("i am sorry) for his sexual indiscretions with the young white house intern

judaism. here a rabbi is seen carrying a chicken off to be sacrificed in a voodoo/ santeria-type ritual during the jewish festival of yom kippur (israel, a photobiography, by micha bar-am, new york: simon& schuster, 1998) twisted satanic rituals and lies the rabbinical doctrines and teachings of cabalism are based on a curious blending and mosaic of astrology, numerology, graphology, color magic, symbology, alchemy, pagan religion, and pure luciferianism. there are hand signs and body gestures, talismanic jewelry and clothing, hidden codes, and on and on. the end result is a confusing jumble of "man is god" theology (but only jewish man gentiles are inferior) and magical formulae, words of power, incantations and spells. heads of chickens are cropped off and blood sprinkled around "magic c

e supposed eternal reign of their god, lucifer. he shall, they declare, wear a crown of gold. thus, the metal of gold is favored. the mystic tie of the masons the masonic fraternity teaches the illusory goal that all who are inititated into its ranks are bonded by the "mystic tie" of fellowship. of course, this is allegory, and yet the necktie does seem to have a special place in masonic lore and symbology. it is believed that both the bowtie and the traditional necktie are of masonic symbolic design. the necktie has two triangles descending, a larger and a smaller. it is tied into a "knot" at the neck, signifying solidarity and unity. the neck itself, as a part of the human anatomy, represents the virtue of sacrifice. in terms of the secret order or secret society, it symbolizes sacrifice

ing tribune, october 26, 1998, p. 7a) robert rubin, secretary of the treasury in the bill clinton administration (photo: austin american-statesman newspaper, may 16, 1999) anne graham lotz, billy graham's daughter, at a ymca prayer breakfast (photo: charlotte, nc newspaper, april 2, 1999) ok-sign of the divine king 505 this drawing by an anonymous artist is very revealing it its carefully crafted symbology. we see at top and bottom the illuminati's "ok" sign. then, mere's the oval-shaped "egg" the "el diablo" devil's horns, the two dialectic birds. roddy doyle: the more popular this widely read novelist grows, the darker and better his books become roddy doyle, popular irish novelist (newsweek, july 1, 1996, p. 64) pat robertson, mason, illuminist, knight of malta, and elite propagandist i

THE CANOPIC GODS SYMBOLISM

se are the vice-gerents of the elements, while the kerubim are the lords thereof; so tmo-oumathu is properly a jackal. kabexnuv in the west, in the region of n, has the form of a hawk, the subordinate form to the alchemic eagle of distillation, and the form also, of horus, the hiereus, beside whom is his station, and of whose symbolism he partakes. ahephi in the north, has the head of an ape. the symbology of the ape in ancient egypt is very complex. here it may be taken that while apis, the bull, represents the divine strength of the eternal gods, the ape represents the elemental strength which is far inferior and blended with cunning. ahephi, however, has other symbolism and other attributes. for by reason of the fertilizing qualities of the nile and of the fact that what is brought down

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to teach humans how to free themselves from the control of the demiurge and to understand that the kingdom of god was within, a transcendental state of consciousness, rather than a future reward. as if the theology of the gnostics was not enough to have them branded as heretics by the orthodox christian establishment, their doctrines and their scriptural texts often utilized feminine imagery and symbology. even more offensive to the patriarchal church fathers was the gnostic assertion that jesus had close women disciples as well as men. in the gospel of phillip it is written that the lord loved mary magdalene above all the other apostles, and he sharply reprimanded those of his followers who objected to his open displays of affection toward her. gnosticism ceased to be a threat to the org

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of the mind throughout the centuries, philosophers, poets, prophets, and scientists wondered who humans really are. many believe the greatest adventure is available to those who wish to explore the mysteries of the mind the miracle of consciousness, the enigma of dreams, and the mind beyond the physical bodies. 115 chapter exploration dreams creative and lucid dreaming nightmares sleep paralysis symbology of dreams the mechanics of memory false memories phobias altered states of consciousness hallucinations hypnosis meditation psychedelics the mind-expanding drugs relaxation extrasensory perception: the sixth sense esp researchers clairvoyance out-of-body experience (obe) precognition psychokinesis telepathy introduction perhaps the greatest mystery of the human mind is how the brain give

m the dream content. jung developed an intricate system of elaborations, in which the dreamer relates all that he or she knows about a symbol as if he or she were explaining it to a visitor from another planet. jung found startling similarities in the unconscious contents and the symbolic processes of both modern and primitive humans, and he recognized what he called archetypes, mental forces and symbology whose presence cannot be explained by anything in the individual s own life, but seemed to be aboriginal, innate, and inherited shapes of the human mind. jung believed that it is crucial to pay attention to the archetypes met in dream life. of special importance is the shadow, a figure of the same sex as the dreamer, which contains all the repressed characteristics one has not developed

s for creative problem- solving. buffalo, n.y: bearly, 1988. rowlands, barbara. in the dead of night. the observer, november 18, 2001 [online] http/ www.observer.co.uk/life/story/0,6903,596608,00. html. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mysteries of the mind 127 researchers links sleep paralysis with rapid eye movement (rem, the dream state. symbology of dreams fritz perls (1893 1970, the founder of gestalt therapy, believed that dreams were the royal road to integration. in his view the various parts of a dream should be thoroughly examined and even role-played to gain selfawareness and to integrate fragmented aspects of the personality into wholeness. according to perls, the different parts of a dream are fragments of the human pers

ay the subject was able to progress by correcting his own mistakes and by learning to rely upon, and trust, his own judgment. 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 168 mysteries of the mind an interesting difficulty that arose concerned the resistant aspect of psychic impressions. psi impressions do not seem to occur in the same set patterns and symbology as do sensory impressions. extrasensory perceptions are usually perceived subjectively and manifest most frequently through the physical senses as hallucinatory experiences. this means that a color may manifest itself as a texture, sound, or temperature. ryzl learned that one of the difficulties in testing for esp lies in the fact that psychically received impressions, manifesting as fal

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

rocesses of people apparently diverse. one of the key functions of the tree, and one at which it excels, is as a mental filing-system. not only can the tree be viewed as a system, but also a meta-system, that is, a system which includes other systems within it. in this way, ideas may be compared across apparently different models. an example of this is the association of astrological concepts and symbology with the myths of the ancient egyptians. thus, one familiar with the former, say, understanding the "nature" of venus, would be able to equate this knowledge to an understanding of the "nature" of hathor, through their mutual correspondence on the tree. there are dangers in taking this approach too simplistically, as there are dangers in all methods of translation and learning, but it pr

e way of god. the universal will, the will of god, the state of unity where it is "thus so. the taoist "action by non-action, and the way of the siddhis. the tree of crowns in ritual, the kether of each sephiroth can be represented by the headdress worn by the participant. i offer here a list of those i have allocated, but it is by no means exhaustive, and would obviously also be dependent on the symbology adopted by the ritual participant: kether: a circlet of gold, or ritual crown. the parsley crown of the nemean games, sacred to zeus. chockmah: the twin feathers, or crown of thoth. binah: the crimson cap of concealment. chesed: the cardinals hat, or emperors crown. the pine crown of the isthmian games, sacred to poseidon. geburah: the war helm, or martial crown. the judges wig. tipharet

ss; maiden (first quarter- mary, isis, nephthys rajas: passion; mother (full moon- venus, aphrodite, nike tamas: darkness; crone (third quarter- kalli, lilith other forms of the feminine associated with binah range from the shekinah, the "indwelling presence of god (also associated with malkuth as the unwedded soul, to babalon, the great whore or scarlet woman, deified by crowley in his elaborate symbology as the lady babalon, nursing the babe of the abyss in the city of pyramids under the night of pan. the catholic "litany of the blessed virgin" lists titles which could be transposed onto the tree of life with appropriate relevance, such as: mary i.e, exalted, also "bitterness of the sea "myrrh of the sea, or "lady/mistress of the sea" mother of christ binah connecting to tiphareth mother

ay reflect its sevenfold nature of completion. the seven-petalled rose alludes to the sevenfold pattern, and was used by bosch as emblem dccxxiii of the ars symbolica, and by fludd in the summum bonum. it is to this rose of completion that the golden dawn aim in their elemental initiations, as a preshadowing of the rose cross of tiphareth and the rose of light in kether. charles harness uses this symbology in his magnificent short story "the rose, where the next stage of human progression is embedded in the ballet of the "nightingale and the rose. in the original story of oscar wilde's from which this fictional ballet is based, the nightingale sacrifices itself on a white rose in order to make it red. this could be read as the sacrifice of netzach, where sensual passion is tranfused into m

13, 25 and 32. in descending order, path 13 is called "inductive of unity, path 25 the path of "trial, and path 32 the "governing intelligence. the lower path, path 32, is seen in its cosmological aspect as governing the "operation of the seven planets. the tarot card attributed to this path is that of the "universe, and its meaning is "synthesis, indeed some cards show the planets as part of the symbology of the card. in terms of the ascending process, the path connects the world of events around us (malkuth) with our own personality (yesod) through the ego, and beliefs. thus, the nature of our beliefs governs our awareness of the seven planets, as symbols of the seven sephiroth below the abyss. the path leading from yesod to tiphareth, one of whose symbols is the crucified god-man, is ap

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

n dawn, this is accomplished through initiation rituals which heighten the awareness of the student, combined with intellectual teachings and personal meditations, rituals, visualizations, invocations, and exercises 136 theb alanceb etweenm inda nd magic such as the middle pillar.35 once the shadow is confronted, recognized, and correlated into the psyche, its tremendous energy resources and rich symbology can be harnessed and utilized by the conscious mind whch can in turn stimulate the neshamah. magical disciplines strive to open a channel for the neshamah to communicate with the lower portions of soul, bringing to the individual a conscious recognition of the divine self. the higher faculties of the ruach, including imagination, will, and memory, are also awakened. in order for this to

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

e genetic manipulations to form various subservient cross breeds. the reptilians: for the most part, we are dealing with another species that is humanoid in shape, but reptilian in heritage. their leader elite are the 'draco. they even have special 'wings, which are flaps of skin, supported by long ribs. these can be folded back against the body. they are also known as the "dragon race" and their symbology usually includes the winged serpent. there are elements of their species which do not have wings- the "soldier class" of the species and 'scientists. they are all "cold blooded" and have to have a balanced environment to maintain body temperature. the "soldier class" of the species can bury themselves in the ground and wait long periods of time in order to ambush their enemy. if need be

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

or druidical material, hidden by the bards during the persecutions. since some of you will progress on to more serious druid groups, it is good to be familiar with some of the more stressed reading material. only the english translations have been provided. in the original, these poems had marvelous rhymes, meters and clever poetic devices that a literal translation cannot hope to convey. use the symbology and nature imagery to open your mind. please don t try to rush through these poems, many are of interminable length and will just bog you down. skip the longer ones when you are just perusing, that way you ll enjoy them more when you have time. the waterfall by dafydd y coed rough, bold, cold rhayadr, with tiny tresses, piddling pennyworths, blare, blow, blaze, soft arses snare, sewer to

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

e name of abraham, and a conversion of a yod into he, y into h, in the case of sarah; and then their sterility is destroyed. some learned men consider abraham to be a conversion of brahma, the hindu deity. the name splits up curiously. ab is father, br is son, am is like om or aum, a deific name of power. rm meant, he is lifted up. blavatsky remarks that abraham and saturn were identical in astro-symbology. the father of the pharisees was jehovah, and they were of the seed of abraham. the number of abrm is 1, 2, 200, 40 or 243, the number of the man figure, seir anpin, representing microprosopus. read pistorius, ars cabalistica, for the effect of adding h 5 to men s names, see page 969. also inman, numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott ancient faiths, a

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

postulant bows head in silence in assent. part 2 postulant has feet bare, save for red slippers, and purple cloak. he carries the admission badge of scales. notes on the symbolism of the 6=5 ritual by p.j. zalewski preparation before the start of the ritual, the shekinah pricks her finger and mixes her blood with that of olive oil saying "blood is the life of man; let the man give his life" this symbology is very complicated, and at more than one level. olive oil is under the goddess athena (which also means vulva or womb) who presided over voyages. in order that a person can be made new or life given to him, he must pass into the land of the unborn. it is the voyage of the spirit seeking his eternal roots. with the introduction of blood, we have the melusine, an entity who has the capaci

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