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st, whereof to me while yet in this valley of misery he hath granted a large share through his goodness and mercy; and i pray the lord also that he may be willing to grant it unto thee also with his holy benediction, and unto all those who by thy means will arrive at the possession of this sacred magic, and who will use it according unto his holy will. may god deign, say i, to grant unto such all temporal goods, and a good death in his holy kingdom! so may it be! end note. the above set of four squares evidently represent the symbols already referred to in the second book (chap. xx, and in the concluding pages of this third book; as being those to be placed on the head of the operator and of the child during the angelic invocation. the name uriel for the former, the name adam for the latte

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

ress their hostilities through the office of the demon, the black mass. often, this was also a means of political demonstration, as the church controlled virtually all the political life of the period. in a way, as though in a test tube at a philosophical laboratory, aleister crowley was brought up under similar circumstances- although ver far removed in time from the days of the church's immense temporal power. coming from a fanatically religious christian family, and suddenly freed upon the neighbourhood of cambridge, crowley did, in a sense, turn satanist. he identified strongly with the underdog, politically as well as spiritually, and came eventually to take the name of the beast as his own, and expound a philosophy that he hoped would rip apart the worn tapestry of the established mo

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

as the great goddess earth? as nature? as the cosmic egg from which all nature sprang? for as time and place have changed, so she is all of these! what of jehovah, that testy senior of genesis, that lawgiver of leviticus, that phallus of the depopulated slaves of the egyptians, that jealous king-god of the times of the kings, that more spiritual conception of the captivity, only invented when all temporal hope was lost, that medi val battleground of cross-chopped logic, that being stripped of all his attributes and assimilated to parabrahman and the absolute of the philosopher? satan, again, who in job is merely attorney-general and prosecutes for the crown, acquires in time all the obloquy attaching to that functionary in the eyes of the criminal classes, and becomes a slanderer. does any

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

or perishable products; like marrying for money, or prostituting poetic genius to political purposes. the converse course, though equally objectionable as pollution of the purity of the planes, is at least respectable for its nobility. the ascetic of the thebaid or the trappist monastery is infinitely worthier than the health-peddler and success-monger of boston or los angeles; for the one offers temporal trash to gain eternal wealth, while the other values spiritual substance only as enabling him to get better bodily conditions, and a firmer grip on the dollars> or almost so. it is not evil in 190 itself. it arises from a defect of understanding. until the great work has been performed, it is presumptuous for the magician to pretend to understand the universe, and dictate its policy. only

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

e (f) t)z attachment, love, desire (deut. 10:15) q#x broken; terrified tx 409 patriarchs )thb) fathers twb) one (f) tx) holy ones #dqh prayer of holiness h#dq 410 liberty; a swallow rwrd visions, imaginations (dan. 4:2) rhrh crucible (as place of refinement) prcm the tabernacle nk#m sacred; saint #wdq holy #dwq he heareth (m# 411 the foundations of the earth cr) ydswm dwelling, habitation )nk#m a temporal order mynmz rds desolation, emptiness (expresses first root of all good) wht palace of delight (referred to tiphareth) nwcr lkyh 412 beth: an house tyb new (ch) tdx white whorl nbl rmc the highest height nwyl( mwr a longing for hw)t 414 azoth, the fluid (initial and final in 3 tongues: a+ z (lat+ omega (grk+ tau (heb) twz) the limitless light rw) pws ny) meditation (ps. 49:4) twgh going f

964 a memorial of jubilation (lit. gof shouting h; note root rkz, 227 q.v, showing phallic nature of this gmemorial h) h(wrt nwrkz metatron: the archangel of kether (cf. 224 *nwr++m 966 punishing iniquity, visiting sin *nw( dqwp alterations *mywn# 968 song-maidens; muses ry# twnb 969 cancer: a crab *n+rs 970 a tree *c( 971 shem ha-mephorasch: the divided name: the 72-fold name of god #rwpmh m# a temporal order *mynmz rds 973 the name (given in deut. 28:58 without t= 92, q.v *kyhl) hwhy t) 974 (metatron (q.v) spelt with yod after mem; it denotes shekinah *nwr++ym going forth (lit. masc. gwanderers h; cf. 770 *my++w#m 976 every herb bearing seed (rz (rz b( lk 977 shakanom: a title of tiphareth *mwn)k# 980 peace-offerings *myml# glowing stones; burning coals *mypcr 983) the town of four (br)

ALEISTER CROWLEY TAO TEH KING

been lost, and to fill me with enthusiastic confidence that the present publication will abundantly contribute to the fulfillment of my true will for which i came to earth, and wring labour and sorrow to the utmost of which humanity is capable, the will to open the portals of spiritual attainment to my fellow men, and bring them to the enjoyment of that realisation of truth, beneath all veils of temporal falsehood, which has enlightened mine eyes and filled my mouth with song. the tao teh king((weh note: pagination re-starts from this point in the ts. the notes were collected to the back of the ts under the heading 'notes, beginning as page 88, but have been moved up to citation page in this version. chapter numbers have been placed above chapter titles, but this positional distinction is

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

nd prefers to attribute a geometrical form whose resemblance to the kteis is most striking. for nuit is, philosophically speaking, the archetype of the kteis, giving appropriate form to all being, and offering every possibility of fulfilment of every several point that it envelops. but nuith cannot be symbolized as three-dimensional, in our system; each unit has position by three spatial, and one temporal, coordinates. it cannot exist, in our consciousness, with less, as a reality. each 'individual' must be a 'point-interval' he must be the product of some part of the matter of nuit (with special energies) determined in space by his relations with his neighbours, and in time by his relations with himself. it is evidently "a foolish word" for hadit to say "come unto me" as did nuit naturall

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

nless a man is strengthened in his endeavour by right motive, he is liable to be led astray by the acquisition of power. knowledge of the laws of magic puts into the hands of the student powers which enable him to create, to acquire, and to control. such powers are fraught with menace to the unprepared and unready, for the student can, in this case, turn them to selfish ends, use them for his own temporal material advancement, and acquire in this way that which will feed the desires of the lower nature. he takes, therefore, the first step towards the left hand path, and each life may see him progressing towards it with greater readiness, until (almost unconsciously) he will find himself in the ranks of the black masters. such a state of affairs can only be offset through the cultivation of

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

ion itself, satisfaction, peace. but with all things pertaining to the lower desires, the peace is but temporary, a new desire awakes and that which has been held so joyously is relinquished. only that which is the fruition of the ages, only that which is the regaining of an old possession fully satisfies. let the student therefore study and ascertain whether that which is dearest to his heart is temporal, transitory and ephemeral, or whether it is, as the great lord has said "treasure laid up in heaven" we now come to the most comprehensive sutra in the book (40. it might be pointed out here that these "seven ways to psychic peace" as they have been called, cover the seven methods of the seven rays in connection with the control of the psychic nature. it is important to emphasise this. th

ion of realizations is to speak in a language of mystery. yet so it is and will be. when the aspirant has reached his goal he knows the true significance of his immortality and the true nature of his liberation. space and time become for him meaningless terms. the only true reality is seen to be the great central life force, remaining unchanged and unmoved at the centre of the changing evanescent temporal forms "i am" says the human unit and regards himself as the self, and identifies himself with the changing form. time and space are for him the true realities "i am that" says the aspirant and seeks to know himself as he truly is, a living word, part of a cosmic phrase. for him space no longer exists; he knows himself as omnipresent "i am that i am" says the freed soul, the liberated man

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

cramental meaning; a loveliness, a wonder, a heightened significance which is hidden from other men..on the other hand, the full mystic consciousness also attains to what is, i think, its really characteristic quality. it develops the power of apprehending the absolute, pure being, the utterly transcendent..this all-round expansion of consciousness, with its dual power of knowing by communion the temporal and eternal, immanent and transcendent aspects of reality..is the peculiar mark, the ultimo sigillo of the great mystic."21(87) the results of this dual activity and facility of interplay we will consider next. the intuition begins to function; illumination is experienced, and the life of inspiration, with its many special characteristics must be studied, and this we will attempt in our n

he intellect is strongly stressed, and the quality of knowledge most apparent. note what meister eckhart himself says "there is one power in the soul: intellect, of prime importance to the soul for making her aware of, for detecting, god..the soundest arguments expressly state (what is the truth) that the kernel of eternal life lies rather in knowledge than in love..the soul is not dependent upon temporal things but in the exaltation of her mind is in communication with the things of god"11(98) the knower has a different method from that of the mystic. his is the directing of the intellect to the object of its search; his is the way of the mind, and its discipline and control. he steadies the mind; he stops its versatility and focusses it; he seeks out after god; he divorces himself from f

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

he secret of the present crisis. groups of egos come together to work out certain karma involved in past days. men have erred grievously in the past. punishment and transmutation are the natural working out. violence and cruelty in the past will reap its heavy karma, but it lies in the hands of you all now to transmute the old mistakes. also bear in mind that principles are eternal, personalities temporal. principles are to be viewed in the light of eternity; personalities from the standpoint of time. the trouble is that, in many situations, two principles are involved, one of which is secondary. the difficulty lies in the fact that (both being principles) both are right. it is a rule for safe guidance always to remember that usually basic principles (for their wise comprehension and fruit

o are neither good nor bad, but simply unthinking and entirely submerged in the evolutionary tide, and in the work of developing a true self consciousness, and the needed equipment. 2. a small, a very small number, who are definitely and consciously working on the side of materiality or (if you prefer so to express it) on the side of evil. potent are they on the physical plane, but their power is temporal and not eternal. the law of the universe, which is the law of- 279- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust love, is eternally against them, and out of the seeming evil good will come. 3. a goodly number who are the pioneers into the kingdom of the soul, who are the exponents of the new age ideas, and the custodians of that aspect of the ageless wisdom which is next to be rev

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

rces of such strength that the devil could take advantage of them in an effort to confound him. we shall see how in the second temptation he was tempted by glamour, and with the submergence of his vital spiritual life by a misconception and an emotional use of his divine powers. the sin of the mind, which is pride, was called into activity by the devil in the third temptation, and the illusion of temporal power to be used for right ends we may be sure was presented to him. thus the possible interior weakness of the three aspects of christ's nature was tested, and through them the vast sum total of the world maya, glamour and illusion was poured in on him. thus he was confronted with the dweller on the threshold, which is only another name for the personal lower self, regarding it as a unif

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

ne, only in the group meditation the work is more specific and focussed. the factor which will produce increasing integration between the soul and the personality, in the case of d.h.b. and j.s.p. and yourself, is the attainment of the power to love with purity, with no sense of distinction, and with that love which the eternal one shows poured out alike upon all and not biassed in any way by the temporal activities of man. this must be based on long vision, and the power to release yourself from the thoughtform-making faculty of the mind. in your case this faculty is swept into activity by emotion. guard your emotional body with peculiar care during the coming year. let not anything upset your equilibrium or cloud your vision of reality. and my brother, be happy. learn to feel joy a joy w

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust policy down the centuries has been to drain the money out of the pockets of rich and poor alike. the roman catholic church is a strictly capitalistic church. the money gathered into its coffers supports a powerful ecclesiastical hierarchy and provides for its many institutions and schools. b. a far-reaching and far-sighted political program in which temporal power is the goal and not the welfare of the little people. the present program of the catholic church has definite political implications; their attitude to communism has in it the seeds of another world war. the political activities of the catholic church have not built for peace, no matter under what guise they are presented. c. a planned policy whereby the mass of the people are kept

n affairs and feel no inner allegiance to any outer ecclesiastical hierarchy. the guidance of the human being into conscious relation to christ and that spiritual hierarchy is to them the factor of major importance and not the increase of church attendance and the authority of little men. they believe in the kingdom of god of which christ is the outstanding executive but have no confidence in the temporal power claimed and wielded by popes and archbishops. such men are found in every great religious organization, both in the east and in the west and in all spiritual groups, dedicated ostensibly to spiritual purpose. they are simple, saintly men, asking nothing for the separated self, representing god in truth and in life, and having no real part in the church wherein they work; the church

itual groups, dedicated ostensibly to spiritual purpose. they are simple, saintly men, asking nothing for the separated self, representing god in truth and in life, and having no real part in the church wherein they work; the church suffers sadly through the contrast which they- 77- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust represent and seldom permits them to rise to place and power; their temporal power is nil but their spiritual example brings illumination and strength to their people. they are the hope of humanity for they are in touch with christ and are an integral part of the kingdom of god; they represent deity in a manner which the great ecclesiastics and the so-called princes of the church seldom do. ii. the opportunity of the churches something of great moment has happened

the institutional aspect of the world religions loom more largely in the consciousness of churchmen than the need of the people for a simple presentation of life-giving truth? will the interest and the power of the churches be turned to the rebuilding of the material structures, the re-establishing of financial security, the recovery of the status of outgrown theologies and the attainment anew of temporal power and prestige? or will the churches have the vision and the courage to let the bad old ways go and turn to the people with the message that god is love, proving the existence of that love by their own lives of simple loving service? will they tell the people that christ forever lives and bid them turn their eyes away from the old doctrines of death and blood and divine appeasement an

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

d correct formulation of the divine idea, but christ was forgotten behind the words; churchmen have expended effort and executive ability in raising funds for the building of stone edifices whilst god's children everywhere went hungry and unclothed and so lost their belief in divine love. how can the need of humanity for spiritual guidance be met when the leaders of the churches are occupied with temporal concerns, when the emphasis is laid in the roman catholic, the greek orthodox and the protestant churches upon pomp and ceremonies, on great churches and stone cathedrals, upon gold and silver communion sets, on scarlet birettas, on jewelled vestments, and- 76- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust upon all the paraphernalia so cherished by the ecclesiastically minded?

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

material. i would like to remind you that the fact that you see the world picture as one of outstanding chaos, of striving ideologies and warring forces, of the persecution of minorities, of hatreds which are working out into a furious preparation for war, and of world anxiety and terror does not really mean that you are seeing the picture as it is in reality. you are seeing what is superficial, temporal, ephemeral and entirely concerned with the form aspect. the hierarchy is primarily occupied, as you know well, with the consciousness aspect and with the unfoldment of awareness, using form as a means only for the accomplishment of its designs. a closer study of the forces which are producing the outer turmoil may serve to clarify your vision and restore confidence in god's plan and its d

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

simply a nice concept and often a sadistic incentive and thus enters immediately into the realm of illusion. i cite these two illustrations, out of many possible ones, so that you may realise how illusions come, how they develop and how they must eventually disappear; thus you can achieve some standard of comparison whereby to grasp the relative value of the true and the false, of the immediately temporal and the basic eternality of the real. it will, therefore, be apparent to you that the lower or concrete levels of the mental plane will have acquired or accumulated down the ages a vast number of ideas, which have been formulated as ideals, clothed in mental matter, nourished by the vitality of those who have recognised as much of the truth of the idea as they are capable of expressing an

ed from the humble way of the life of the christ, the master of all the masters and the teacher alike of angels and of men, and from the simplicity of his present way of life as he watches and waits for the return of his people to the simple way of spiritual realisation- 111- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust so great has been the illusion that in the west today men talk of the "temporal power of the catholic church; the protestant churches are split up into warring factions; the christian science church is known for its ability to amass money and to teach its adherents to do so and to achieve temporary good health; the greek orthodox church was corrupt throughout, and only the simple faith of the uncultured and the poor has preserved any semblance of the truth in its ori

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

the hidden christ the mutable cross. a. this is the cross of the four major energies which produce the conditioning circumstances which transform animal man into an aspirant. b. it is, therefore, the cross of the personality or of the steadily developing and finally integrating human being. this takes place at first in response to circumstance and later to soul inclination. c. it is the cross of temporal and temporary change, of fluidity and of those constantly altering environments which drive the soul within the form from one extreme of experience to another, so that the life shuttles between the pairs of opposites. d. it is the cross of the responsive form, nurturing and developing the life of the indwelling christ, the hidden soul or lord of being. the four arms of this cross are gemi

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

cosmology, a theory of man's place in the universe in which man is spectator and actor. our problem is to attain the kind of overall synthesis that marxism and neo-scholasticism provide for their followers, but to get this by the freely chosen cooperative methods that dewey advocated. in the broadest terms such a world-view will make possible a planetary civilization by integrating whatever trans-temporal and trans-spatial truths about man and the universe we can extract from all regional cultures in their local times and places. these universal principles will then provide the norms for education in the new age, as the tibetan terms it. the world today suffers from a cultural provincialism based on the dualism of an- 2- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust outward-looking

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

me, can be successfully carried forward. such is your immediate task. only your second ray personality can have the patience to cover the mass of detail needed and to persist in the face of apparent nonsuccess. much skill in action will also be required. the catholic church is governed by the first ray as its soul ray, and by the third ray as its personality ray. hence its love of politics and of temporal power; hence also its intensely commercial and financial preoccupations. the mental ray of this church is sixth ray. hence its narrow one-pointedness; its emotional body is also sixth ray in quality, whilst the physical ray of the outer organisation is seventh. these are points which should interest you and which you need to bear in mind as you work. a realisation of this peculiar combina

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

definitions, based upon sweetness of character, which often works singularly for ineffectiveness. the long cycle of ecclesiastical rule has biased human thinking so that the nature of spiritual strength and effectiveness is interpreted in terms of religion and in the terminology of churchianity (i did not say, of christianity, or in the phraseology of a marked pacifism or a dominating, religious, temporal control. the long rule of the various churches is over. this should be grasped. they have done their work in the early stages very good work, in the middle stages a necessary consolidating work, and in the modern stage a crystallising and reactionary work. the rule of the churches is over, but not the precepts of christianity or the example of the christ. he is, however, responsible for a

ul; that which is new always faces the supreme difficulty of superseding and overcoming that which is old and established. fanaticism, entrenched theological positions, and materialistic selfishness are to be found actively organised in the churches in all continents and of all denominations. they can be expected to fight for their established ecclesiastical order, their material profit and their temporal rule, and already are making the needed preparations. the coming struggle will emerge within the churches themselves; it will also be precipitated by the enlightened elements who exist in fair numbers already, and are rapidly growing in strength through the impact of human necessity. the fight will then spread to thinking men and women everywhere who in a protesting revolt have denied ort

ALICE A BAILEY24 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME V THE RAYS AND THE INITIATIONS

nt for its usefulness or its potency is required. the usual invocative appeal has hitherto been selfish in its nature and temporary in its formulation. men have prayed for themselves; they have invoked divine help for those they love; they have given a material interpretation to their basic needs. the invocation, lately given to us by the hierarchy, is a world prayer; it has no personal appeal or temporal invocative urge; it expresses humanity's need and pierces through all the difficulties, doubts and questionings straight to the mind and the heart of the one in whom we live and move and have our being the one who will stay with us until the end of time itself and "until the last weary pilgrim has found his way home" but the invocation is not vague or nebulous. it voices the basic needs o

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

ess the knowledge of this highest of earthly treasures for your health and comfort in this valley of sorrow. i write about it, not for my own good, but for that of posterity, and though my words be few and simple, that which they import is of immeasurable magnitude. ponder them well, that you also may find the rock which is the foundation twelve keys of basil valentine 6 of 95 stone of truth, the temporal blessing, and the eternal reward. twelve keys of basil valentine 7 of 95 the tract of basilius valentinus, the benedictine, concerning the great stone of the ancient sages. in the preface, gentle reader, and zealous student of this art, i promised to communicate to you a knowledge of our corner stone, or rock, of the process by which it is prepared, and of the substance from which it was

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

functions from an archetypal, metaphysical realm downward to influence the monastic and political institutions of buddhism. by contrast, davidson believes that it is rather the structure of north indian political institutions that provided a ready model to comprehend the metaphysical realms of the buddhas. these buddhas in turn represented the spiritual kings of all existence in contrast with the temporal kings of the various indian states. furthermore, davidson elaborates on the understanding of the ma..ala in both its religious and political milieus by suggesting the english word "state" as a fitting definition. this combines the term s meaning as a physical location encompassed by a political institution and as a mental condition.114 109 see davidson 2002, pp. 131-144. 110 see tambiah 1

ree specific texts will be examined here; the root text, the warlord s tantra, and two smaller texts, the perfect feast petition offering and the fragment from the lightning garland. the model for the outlines given here is inspired both by stephan beyer and yael bentor, whose works are quintessential studies on tibetan ritual.119 these texts are ritual documents at their core and they cross both temporal and sectarian boundaries. the first two texts were not only composed two centuries apart, but while the warlord s tantra is a nyingma text, the perfect feast petition offering is geluk, two sects that are considered by many to be decidedly antithetical.120 my comparison between these texts will provide insight into the varied schemes of a specific ritual task and reveal the utility of the

u marpo, as the fifth chapter of the tantra details. other material preparations include molding torma offerings and arranging the other less abstract offerings of flowers, incense, and purified scented water. the torma offerings specifically involve seven molds symbolic of food offerings that will be given to the seven riders during the ritual. all of this is in effort to localize the deities in temporal space, a process that is further aided by the visualizations that fill the text and are performed mentally by the ritual performer. 1.14 chapter 4: mantra the fourth chapter provides the lengthy mantra that begins the ritual service after the preparations have been made and that is reiterated at various junctures. its recitation permeates the ritual activities, which are projected further

gain. this petition offering of the violence demon tsiu marpo, having been extensively projected for the faithful sponsors, disseminates and propagates the published buddhist teachings. reflect on and confide in the life of the doctrine holders! these block prints dwell within the t.r. chapel of kundeling monastery. 531 tib. lugs zung srid, variant of lugs gnyis zung brel "combination of both the temporal and spiritual traditions; generally refers to the tibetan government" 532 skt. ma ju.r. 201 the perfect feast petition offering for tsiu marpo tibetan text title page (1a-^m-+e-[8m-w -2n8v-+1;-1+-q]/v,-3-^x+#8,-6=-a-0-0bo= k 1.1 preliminaries (1b-2a.1 -9-^m,-02->m-w -2n-+1:-0-1:-8.=k 'm-w:-8-.8m-=v-#2$-a$-x-#bo$-1=-ap$-08m-0%8-#6m-m1=-8`o-a-081k 9,-02,-0-+1 -02[ 1=-d$-k'-m1-
BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

under ten, is made of a certain number; the duad doubled makes a tetrad, and the tetrad doubled or unfolded makes the hebdomad (the septenary. two multiplied into itself produces four; and retorted into itself makes the first cube. this first cube is a fertile number, the ground of multitude and variety, constituted of two and four (depending on the monad, the seventh. thus the two principles of temporal things, the pyramis and[[vol. 2, page] 600 the secret doctrine. cube, form and matter, flow from one fountain, the tetragon (on earth) the monad (in heaven (see reuchlin "cabala" 1, ii. here reuchlin, the great authority on the kabala, shows the cube to be matter, whereas the pyramid or the triad is "form" with the hermesians the number four becomes the symbol of truth only when amplified

BLUE EQUINOX

y worship be about my secret house. the last phrase suggests that the island may be great britain, with its mines and tanks; and it is notable that a certain brother obligated to a.a. is in the most secret of england.s war councils at this hour. but it is possible that this instruction refers to some later time when our law, administered by some such order as the o.t.o. which concerns itself with temporal affairs, is of weight in the councils of the world, and is challenged by the heathen, and by the followers of the fallen gods and demigods. note, pray thee, the practical method of overcoming opposition given in ccxx iii:23-26. but this is not to our immediate purpose in this epistle. note, pray thee, the instruction in the 38th and 39th verses of the third chapter of the book of the law

womankind may be carried out in all comfort and honour. the equinox 218 40. every brother is expected to use all his influence with persons in a superior station of life (so called) to induce them to join the order. royal personages, ministers of state, high officials in the diplomatic, naval, military, and civil services are particularly to be sought after, for it is intended ultimately that the temporal power of the state be brought into the law, and led into freedom and prosperity by the application of its principles. 41. colleges of the order will presently be established where the children of its members may be trained in all trades, businesses, and professions, and there they may study the liberal arts and humane letters, as well as our holy and arcane science. brethren are expected

in every two years. the president will summon them at the four seasons of the year, and if necessary at other times, when they will deliberate upon the affairs placed in their charge. all applications to pass to the fifth degree must receive their sanction. appeal from their decisions may however be made to the supreme council. the sixth degree is an executive or military body, and represents the temporal power of the supreme and holy king. each member is amenable to military discipline. singly or in concert with his comrades, each knight is vowed to enforce the descisions of authority. the grade of grand inquisitor commander follows. here every member has a right to a seat on the grand tribunal, which body decides all disputes and complaints which have not been composed by the chapters of

BOOK OF BLACK SERPENT

of the servitors of the qliphothic rulers are expressed as the name of their ruler given in extensio, each name being the seed of a name of a subservient order; thus thamiel (thamal) is served by thadekiel, abraxiel, mahaziel, azazael and lufugiel and the rest of the crowns likewise in the same manner. the relationship between the archdaemons and the qliphoth is that the qliphoth rule on earth in temporal form and the archdaemons rule the earth in a transcendent manner. one is visible and the other invisible. the invisible can be compelled to appear in divers shapes; as we will find out. both the archdaemons and the qliphoth are entirely evil and are only to be overcome by the aid of celestial powers and virtues, both visible and invisible, and so the pious man will have nothing to fear fr

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

hast been our dwelling-place in all generations. before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world" in gimel appeareth my perfect wisdom, which uniteth all seeming contraries, and establisheth throughout creation the balance of warring forces. 4 now, as daleth, i present myself as the portal through which life, eternal and unbounded, entereth the realm of temporal and limited creation. that great door is binah, and binah is aima, the fruitful mother of all living. she is the "desirable one" the "precious thing" more to be sought after than rubies and fine gold. she is both "father" and "mother" for her fruitfulness. cometh from the yod of the supernal wisdom [42] d a l e t h 5 she is the thought, which spinneth the plan of existence, that web of ma

DEMONIC BIBLE

es- the second spirit is a duke called agreas, or agares. he is under the power of the east, and cometh up in the form of an old fair man, riding upon a crocodile, carrying a goshawk upon his fist, and yet mild in appearance. he maketh them to run that stand still, and bringeth back runaways. he teaches all languages or tongues presently. he hath power also to destroy dignities both spiritual and temporal, and causeth earthquakes. he was of the order of virtues. he hath under his government 31 legions of spirits. and this is his seal or character which thou shalt wear as a lamen before thee (3) vassago- the third spirit is a mighty prince, being of the same nature as agares. he is called vassago. this spirit is of a good nature, and his office is to declare things past and to come, and to

we believe to be reality. by calling upon the ayres, the magician may work directly upon the aeonic sphere itself. the magician who declares a law or speaks a "word" which changes the current aeon or brings about the creation of a new aeon, becomes a magus. the first key anton lavey writes: the first enochian key represents an initial proclamation from satan, stating the inception of the laws of temporal theologies and of the lasting power which resides in those bold enough to recognize earthly beginnings and absolutes (enochian) ol sonuf vaoresaji, gohu iad balata, elanusaha caelazod: sobrazod-ol roray i ta nazodapesad, od comemahe ta nobeloha zodien; soba tahil ginonupe pereje aladi, das vaurebes obolehe giresam. casarem ohorela caba pire: das zodonurenusagi cab: erem iadanahe. pilahe f

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lyph, and meditation thereon would unfold what generations of meditation had ensouled therein. it is well known to mystics that if a man meditates upon a symbol around which certain ideas have been associated by past meditation, he will obtain access to those ideas, even if the glyph has never been elucidated to him by those who have received the oral tradition "by mouth to ear" 16. the organised temporal force of the church availed to drive all rivals from the field and destroy their traces. we little know what seeds of mystical tradition sprang up only to be cut down during the dark ages; but mysticism is inherent in the human race, and although the church had destroyed all roots of tradition in her group-soul, nevertheless devout spirits within her fold rediscovered the technique of the

gent experiences we have taken the first of the geburah initiations; and when we have learnt to lose our lives in order to find them, we have taken the second. there is a certain type of courage which does not fear dissolution, for it knows that all spiritual principles are indestructible, and so long as the archetypes persist, anything can be rebuilt. geburah is only destructive to that which is temporal; it is the servant of that which is eternal; for when by the acid activity of geburah all that is impermanent has been eaten away, the eternal and incorporeal realities shine forth in all their glory, every line revealed. 26. geburah is the best friend we can have if we are honest [page 182] sincerity has no need to fear his activities; indeed, it is the greatest we can have against the i

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groups of 18th and 19th century decadents looking for magical power and cheap sexual thrills. the black mass only ever truly existed in all its dark glory in the form of these staged re-creations. the belief was that the black mass derived its efficacy from the esoteric energy of the catholic mass perverted to evil ends. in modern times, now that christianity has lost so much of its spiritual and temporal power, there is very little reason for any group to perform the black mass. it will probably always remain merely an anomaly in the history of the occult. those interested in this subject may wish to read h. t. f. rhodes' the satanic mass, published by rider and company in 1954, and reprinted by arrow books of london in 1973. return h hhome resources demons bios fiction tyson the truth ab

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on magic, and enforce rules on celibacy. he established a monastery at panchen, and he led in the founding of several other monastic centers at key locations. gedun drub (1391.1474, the first dalai lama, was a disciple of tsongkhapa. he established tshilhunpo monastery, the gelugpa center in tsang province. the gelugpa reforms gradually gained the upper hand, and the great fifth dalai lama seized temporal power in tibet and moved to llasa, where he turned the potala, an old meditation pavilion, into a large palace. the person of the dalai lama is as an emanation of chenresi, the buddha of compassion, and it is believed that incarnations of the original dalai lama have continued to hold the office through the centuries. traditionally, following the death of the dalai lama, leaders of the ge

e electric shock therapy. in 1948 she was awarded the d.p.m. by the royal college of physicians of edinburgh, one of the highest medical qualifications in britain. in 1952 she visited the neurosurgeon wilder penfield at mc- gill university, montreal, to discuss the investigation of hallucinations by electrode probes. later she was associated as consultant psychiatrist with the work of penfield on temporal lobe epilepsy and the study of hallucinations by electrical stimulation of the brain. in 1956 she moved to the united states as a practicing physician and joined the faculty of the state university of new york as an assistant professor in psychiatry. she also became an american citizen. after reading the book edgar cayce: mystery man of miracles (1961, by joseph millard, she became intere

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ted who evoke them. the gods confer health of body, power and purity of mind, and, in short, elevate and restore our natures to their proper principles. angels and archangels have at their command only subordinate bestowments. demons, however, are hostile to the aspirant, afflict both body and mind, and hinder our escape from the sensuous. principalities, who govern the sublunary elements, confer temporal advantages. those of a lower rank, who preside over matter, often display their bounty in material gifts. souls that are pure are, like angels, salutary in their influence. their appearance encourages the soul in its upward efforts. heroes stimulate to great actions. all those powers depend, in a descending chain, each species on that immediately above it. good demons are seen surrounded

ialization. sources: neppe, v. m. anomalous experience and psychopathology. in betty shapin and lisette cody, eds. spontaneous psi, depth psychology and parapsychology. new york: parapsychology foundation, 1992. extrasensory perception.an anachronism and anathema. journal of the american society for psychical research 52, no. 789 (october 1984: 365.70. an investigation of the relationship between temporal lobe symptomatology and subjective paranormal experience. johannesburg, south africa: university of witwatersrand, med psych thesis, 1979. the relevance of the temporal lobe to anomalous subjective experience. in rhea a. white and r. s. broughton, eds. research in parapsychology 1983. methuchen, n.j: scarecrow press, 1984. nessie popular affectionate name for the loch ness monster, who is

y years. then in 1921 he moved first to cleveland, ohio, and two years later to portland, oregon. for grumbine, there was a distinction between universal spirit and personal individual spirits. universal spirit does not exist as a deity outside of the universe, but as the radiant center from which spirits draw their life. matter is the substance of form. form defines and limits spirits, which are temporal, relative, and finite. spiritualism reveals the spirit of god within each human spirit. by bringing evidence of survival of death and of disencarnate spirits, spiritualism demonstrates the divinity of each spirit. psychic abilities (clairvoyance, telepathy, healing, and prevision) are innate divine powers. grumbine believed that the proper use and control of those powers could produce a d

mphrey, and abram hoffer. the chemical basis of clinical psychiatry. springfield, ill: thomas, 1960. osmond, humphrey, and abram hoffer. the hallucinogens. new york: academic press, 1967. osmond, humphrey, and bernard aaronson, eds. psychedelics: the uses and implications of hallucinogenic drugs. cambridge, mass: schenkman, 1971. osmond, humphrey, h. yaker, and f. cheek. the future of time: man s temporal environment. garden city, n.y: doubleday, 1971. pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. osmont, anne (1872.1953) clairvoyant, author, and lecturer. born august 2, 1872, at toulouse, france. osmont published articles on psychic subjects in initiation et science and psychic magazine (a french journal. she died in paris may 13, 1953. sou

www.pni.org. sources: neppe, v. m. anomalous experience and psychopathology. in betty shapin and lisette cody, eds. spontaneous psi, depth psychology and parapsychology. new york: parapsychology foundation, 1992. extrasensory perception.an anachronism and anathema. journal of the american society for psychical research 52, no.789 (october 1984: 365.70. an investigation of the relationship between temporal lobe symptomatology and subjective paranormal experience. johannesburg, south africa: university of witwatersrand, med psych thesis, 1979. the relevance of the temporal lobe to anomalous subjective experience. in rhea a. white and r. s. broughton, eds. research in parapsychology 1983. methuchen, n.j: scarecrow press, 1984. pack, john l(ee (1927) research physicist who has experimented in

sin, guilt, and the fear of god, all of which are contrary to its understanding of a benevolent creator. the pain of life is not punishment from god; rather it is a learning tool, and a very necessary one in the larger scheme of life. the society also affirms that after death, the human soul goes to the other side, which is better known as heaven. this place is the true reality, as opposed to the temporal planet earth. the other side is eternal, a place of total harmony, no physical limitations. the individual s identity is intact. life exists in its most wondrous and joyous form on the other side. even though the other side is total beauty and happiness, the soul may not be at peace and will still seek to better itself. this seeking drives an urge again to enter life on earth to experienc

eleventh book. if the story is true, the coincidences between the responses and events are remarkable. sortes biblicae was divination by the bible, which the early christians used instead of the profane poets. nicephorus gregoras recommended the psalter as the fittest book for the purpose, but cedrenus stated that the new testament was more commonly used. st. augustine denounced this practice in temporal affairs, but declared in one of his letters that he had recourse to it in all cases of spiritual difficulty. another form of the biblical lots was to go to a place of worship and take as an omen the first passage of scripture read by the minister or the text from which he preached. muslims consulted the qur an in a similar manner, but one of their methods was to deduce their answer from t

losophy of the four groups is the same. by the fifteenth century a teaching had emerged in tibet that the heads of all of the many monasteries were bodhisattvas, highly evolved beings who were refraining from entering nirvana to assist other souls in their spiritual pilgrimage. the monastic rulers, or lamas, thus attained a unique role in tibetan buddhism as well as significant political power as temporal rulers. the present spiritual leader of tibet, the fourteenth dalai lama, who escaped to india in 1959, and the other lamas and their successors, are dedicated to keeping alive the spiritual traditions and the political aspirations to independence of the tibetan people. like his predecessors, the dalai lama is claimed as a living incarnation of the divine spirit, and was discovered as suc

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ess in sefirah knowledge/first as a perfect spiritual unity in the mind of god (i.e. vast face. in the fallen tree, human consciousness is dualistic in sefirah kingdom, perceiving the material universe as differentiated from the spiritual. the fall is an illusion sustained in individual consciousness by the lord of the universe via his/her power of obscuration, sustained through five limitations: temporal limits, spatial limits, attachment to particular things, limited knowledge, and limited agency. the predominant hebrew name for the active aspect of the ayn as the creator, sustainer, and destroyer of the creation is the four letter formula h v h y (vocalized by some as yahweh, and more commonly as jehovah).27 the fall of sefirah knowledge/first into kingdom is also reflected in the dupli

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inventors, moral teachers, miracle workers, religious leaders, in short, magi, of whom the chief was christ with his apostles. the ruler of this city was the chief priest whose name meant the sun (in the manuscripts, the name is represented by the symbol of the sun, a circle with a dot in the centre, and, in our language, metaphysics. the sun priest was the head in all things, both spiritual and temporal. he was assisted by three collaborators, power, wisdom, and love. power had charge of all military matters; wisdom of all the sciences; and love directed the processes of generation, of uniting masculine and feminine, in such a way as to secure a good race; education and medicine were also under his care. under this rule, the people of the city lived in brotherly love, having all things i

versal world monarchy, in which one alone will reign and thus universal peace and justice will be secured. this universal monarchy will be catholic with the pope as its spiritual head. in other works, such as the discorsi universal! del governo ecclesiastico and the monarchia messiae, campanella prophesied for the papacy a universal world monarchy by which the pope would become both spiritual and temporal head of the whole world, all religions would be converted into one, and there would be a world-wide religious and political unity.2 how was it that campanella was able to switch from the revolt to these visions of a universal spanish monarchy or a universal theocracy under the pope? campanella's political ideas were entirely mediaeval and mystical. the ideal is the return of the empire in

in the sense of french nationalism that he thinks of this mission but in the sense of the french monarchy as representing mystical empire, the dantesque rule of the 1 see walker, pp. 178-85. 2 see blanchet, op. cit, pp. 44 ff; 59 ff, etc. 385 giordano bruno and tommaso campanella one.1 in campanella's vision, there must be an organised world state under one ruler, who will be either himself both temporal and spiritual head, as in a papal theocracy, or the spanish, or the french, monarchy working in unison with the pope as spiritual head of the world state. campanella needs such a world state for the full expansion of his city of the sun, for the universal establishment of the magical reform in which a priesthood of catholic magi keep the city in permanent happiness, health and virtue, and

, whence it was to spread to the rest of the world. when the revolt failed, he did not think that the portents had deceived him (he went on talking of them for the rest of his life, particularly the descent of the sun) but that he must modify his ideas and find some monarch who would build the city within his monarchy, either the spanish monarch, the pope as monarch (that is as both spiritual and temporal head of the world, or the french monarch. this is blanchet's interpretation of campanella's political evolution after the revolt, and i believe that he is right. i would add to it, however, the following suggestions. first, that the idea of establishing an ideal imperialist state in southern italy which was to spread to the rest of the world was not a new one. in the thirteenth century, t

to dante, as one of its prophets? secondly, it is now clear that to the roman ideal of universal empire returning in a new golden age, to the platonic ideal of a state in which philosophers ruled, campanella added a third ideal, that of the egyptian state kept intact and eternal by priestly magic. the sun ruler of the city of the sun is both priest and king, supreme in both the spiritual and the temporal domains, in short, he is hermes trismegistus, priest, philosopher, and king. campanella was thus in no sense a liberal revolutionary. his ideal was an all powerful theocracy like that of egypt, so powerful that it regulated by scientific magic the celestial influences and through them the whole life of the people. its apparently liberal side is that it encouraged scientific enquiry and in

irgin queen "diva elizabetta. he prophesied for her some dantesque united monarchy in which this one amphitrite should reign supreme.1 the atmosphere of imperialist mysticism surrounding elizabeth i, which i have analysed in my study of her symbol of astraea,2 the just virgin of the golden age, is a transfer to the tudor monarchy of the sacred imperial theme. uniting, as it did, the spiritual and temporal headship, this monarchy might well have qualified as "egyptian. bruno knew of the mystical cult of the english queen in the revival of chivalry and joins in it in the eroici jurori.1 and if, after a stay in paris at the time of the height of campanella's influence at the french court, some traveller should have passed on into england (as bruno had done so many years before, he might have

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ls of the fellow craft. the treslieboard is for the master to draw his designs upon. by the rough ashlar we are reminded of our rude and imperfect state by nature; by the perfect ashlar, of that state of perfection at which we hope to arrive, by a virtuous education, our own endeavors, and the blessing of god; and,by the tresdeboard, we are also reminded, that, as the operative workman erects his temporal building agreeably to the rules and designs laid down by the master on his trestleboard, so should we, both operative and speculative, endeavor to erect our spiritual building agreeably to the rules and designs laid down by the supreme architect of the universe, in the great books of nature and revelation, which are our spiritual, moral and masonic trestleboard. situation. lodges should b

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ysical vehicles, and educated them in industry and statecraft, thus controlling the material development of the world. the sons of seth, constituting themselves the priestcraft, have worked their spell over the positive vital bodies of the feminine element of dominate spiritual development. and whereas, the sons of cain working through freemasonry and kindred movements, have openly fought for the temporal power, the priestcraft has fought as strenuously and perhaps more effectively by stealth to retain their hold upon the spiritual development of the feminine element. to the casual onlooker it would seem as if there were no decided antagonism between these two movements at the present time; but though freemasonry of today is but a shell of its true ancient mystic self, and though catholici

the great ideal which points the shortest way to the new heaven and the new earth, where the sons of cain and the sons of seth will eventually be united. part ix armageddon, the great war, and the coming age the chart printed in part v shows that there was an age when humanity lived in peace and happiness under the guardianship of a ruler who held the double office of king and priest, being both temporal and spiritual head of the double sexed human race. he is called melchisedec in the bible terminology, and it is said that he was king of salem, salem meaning peace. since then humanity has been divided into two sexes, male and female, and placed under the dual rulership of a king having dominion over their temporal affairs and aiming to advance them by industry and statecraft, and a pries

summary in conclusion, it may be well to sum up the points which have been made in these articles on freemasonry and catholicism, it being understood that the term "catholicism" as here used does not refer to the roman catholic church alone "catholic" being taken in the sense of universal, so that the term includes all movements inaugurated by the sons of seth, the priestcraft. the origin of the temporal and spiritual streams of evolution is as follows: jehovah created eve, a human being. the lucifer spirit samael united with eve and begat a semi-divine son, cain. as he left eve before the birth of the child, cain was the son of a widow, and a serpent of wisdom. then jehovah created adam, a human being like eve. adam and eve united and begat a child, human like themselves, whose name was

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thereby exterminate the docile creatures of jehovah, for we are told adam knew eve again and she bore seth. seth had the same characteristics as abel and transmitted them to his descendants, who to this day, continue to trust to the lord for everything, and who live by faith and not by work. by arduous and energetic application to the world's work the sons of cain have acquired worldly wisdom and temporal power. they have been captains of industry and masters of statecraft, while the sons of seth, looking to the lord for guidance, have become the avenue for divine and spiritual wisdom. they constitute the priestcraft. the animosity of cain and abel has been perpetuated from generation to generation among their respective descendants. nor could it be otherwise, because one class as temporal

saw at the court of solomon one that was fairer than he, and there the bible narrative leaves her. her marriage with solomon was never consummated or the name of mason would have faded from memory long ere the present day and humanity at large would now be docile children of the dominant church, without free will, choice or prerogative. nor could she be permitted to wed hiram, who represented the temporal power, or religion would have been stamped out; she must wait for the bridegroom who shall embody within himself the combined good qualities of solomon and hiram, but who is purified from their weaknesses. for the queen of sheba is the composite soul of humanity, and at the consummation of the work of our evolutionary era she will be the bride, while christ, whom paul called a high priest

idegroom who shall embody within himself the combined good qualities of solomon and hiram, but who is purified from their weaknesses. for the queen of sheba is the composite soul of humanity, and at the consummation of the work of our evolutionary era she will be the bride, while christ, whom paul called a high priest after the order of melchisedec, will fill the dual office of both spiritual and temporal head, where he will be both king and priest, to the eternal welfare of mankind at large who are now in bondage either to church or state but waiting, whether they realize it or not, for the day of emancipation, symbolically represented as the millennium, when there will be a wonderful city, a new jerusalem, a city of peace. and the earlier this amalgamation can be brought about, the bette

olic queen of sheba, the soul of humanity, they might have succeeded, an equitable union between church and state might have been effected and human evolution might have been greatly furthered. but both church and state were jealous of their particular prerogative; the church would only amalgamate upon condition that she retain all her ancient power over mankind, and take in addition those of the temporal government. the state was selfish in a similar manner and the queen of sheba, humanity at large, is still unwed. the masonic legend tells the story of the attempt and its failure as follows: when the queen of sheba had been shown the gorgeous palace of solomon and had bestowed her choice gifts of gold and wrought work, she asked also to be shown the great temple which was nearing completi

dy and anxious to do his bidding. and this spectacle so impressed the queen of sheba with the wonderful power of this man that she determined to jilt solomon and win the heart of hiram abiff. in other words, humanity, when its eyes are opened to the impotence of the churchmen, the sons of seth, who are themselves dependent upon divine favor, and when it sees the power and potency of the rulers of temporal fame is then ready to rush to them, and leave the spiritual for the material. this from the microcosmic angle of matter. from the cosmic angle or view point we note again that solomon's temple is the solar universe and hiram abiff, the grand master, is the sun which travels around the twelve signs of the zodiac, enacting there the mystic drama of the masonic legend. at the vernal equinox

e divine hierarchs. these were then known as prophets, who acted as messengers between the invisible divine leaders and their respective peoples. but in time mankind desired to select its own leaders and demanded visible kings; at least we know that the israelites repudiated the divine ruler ship and demanded a king, and thus saul was appointed. then the dual office of ruler and priest, including temporal and spiritual leadership, was also divided, for no man sufficiently versed in worldly matters to fill the office of king efficiently, had been found holy enough to also undertake the spiritual leadership of his brethren, and vice versa. a true priest, able to lead his flock spiritually, cannot also beneficently dominate their physical fortunes as ruler of a temporal domain. for as statecr

lock spiritually, cannot also beneficently dominate their physical fortunes as ruler of a temporal domain. for as statecraft, in its highest phase, aims to rule the masses with an eye single to their physical welfare, and priestcraft, benevolently exercised, seeks to guide them solely for the soul's progress, so conflict must of necessity follow this separation, even though both the spiritual and temporal rulers be actuated by the highest and most unselfish motives. melchisedec was the symbolical name of the divine hierarchs who filled the dual office of king and priest; in the guidance of their double-sexed charges and while they reigned there was peace on earth, but as soon as the offices of king and priest were divorced and the sexes divided, it is not surprising for the reasons given a

entioned in this article (1) the first age, when each human being was a complete creative unit, male-female, double sexed, and ruled by one hierarch, melchisedec, who filled a dual office as king and priest (2) the second age, when the division of the race into men and women, evolution under human and superhuman rulers- lemurian epoch atlantean& aryan epochs new galilee- humanity was double-sexed temporal powers abolition of sex malefemale\ finding the word each being a/ king initiates\ the word becomes complete phree messen [children of light] flesh creative unit initiation by fire [light- melchisedec: male ideal christ: king& priest hiram abiff king& priest just& holy- just& holy received virgin mary baptism of spirit sacrifice female ideal- divine ruler priests--brahmins--levites divine

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l source of religious contention and strife. these struggles, which from time to time involved the entire habitable globe, were of long duration, subsiding only after the adherents of the one sex or the other had gained sufficient ascendancy over the opposite party to successfully erect its altars and compel the worship of its own peculiar gods, which worship usually included a large share of the temporal power. only since the male sex has gained sufficient influence to control not only human action, but human thought as well, have these contentions subsided.[48 [48] at the present time, through causes which are not difficult to understand, the question of the relative importance of the two sexes is again assuming a degree of importance indicative of the changes which are taking place in h

pted by later writers, may still be traced a purity of thought and life which is not apparent in the writings of later ages. not long ago i was informed by a learned native of india that the original writing of the vedas was largely the work of women. that the early conceptions of a deity in which women constituted the central and supreme figure were in egypt correlated with the exercise of great temporal power, may not, in view of the facts at hand, longer be doubted. by means of records revealed on ancient monuments, we are informed that in the age of amunoph i. a considerable degree of sovereign power in egypt was exercised by a woman, amesnofre-are, who had shared the throne with ames. she occupied it also with amunoph, and, notwithstanding the statement of herodotus, that women did no

operandi by which the attributes and prerogatives of this deity have been shifted upon males--usually deified monarchs. after priestcraft and its counterpart, monarchial rule, had robbed the people of all their natural rights, kings assumed not alone the governing functions, but arrogated to themselves the symbols, titles, and attributes of the dual deity. the reigning monarch became not only the temporal ruler and priest, but was actually god himself, the female principle being concealed under convenient symbols. chapter viii. the original god-idea of the israelites. not only were religious doctrines veiled beneath allegories and convenient symbols, but names also had a religious significance. we are given to understand that in chaldea and assyria every child was named by the oracle or pr

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ce to encouragethattotal abstinence which maintains them in their natural order.3.recordatus:sobriety is the least interesting of the virtues, but it is excellent as an antecedentofdrinking.4.memento,fratres:as regards the foundation of drink, which is said to be laid in alcohol, it isnotso much the potation which is fatal as the vulgarity which surrounds it.5.audivimus:theblack list is local and temporal,butinebriety is eternal.6. etnos hewhoconfessesto true thirst asks for the waters of life. 7. ill autem:thehighest maxim of all is to drink freely,butthe wise man avoidsthewatersofmarah. stjohnadcock had presumably listened to these awesome maxims,butwho'were the other 'people of the shadow' remains unknown- machen also had settled down, for after theannusmirabilishe had met and, in june1

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e an influence in italy from the beginning of the nineteenth century. they wanted to destroy the papal state and eradicate the authority of the church in italy as a whole. according to the author of the book entitled the roman catholic church and the craft, master freemason alec mellor "in italy, the origin of irregular lodges was mainly political; they confused masonry with the fight against the temporal power of the pope."132 masonry began its struggle against religion in italy by means of another secret society that it founded and controlled. this society was known as the "carbonari" this society, first heard of in naples at the beginning of the nineteenth century, took its name from charcoal burners. as the masons used the emblem of the wall-builder and expressed their ideas with symbo

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m "mouth to ear" through brotherhoods, sects and orders. they do not evolve, while their appearance may change from age to age, they exist as memories and reflections, transmissions from the golden age (the equivalent in time to the world of ideals) through history. while esotericism can take any form from hindu to buddhist, christian to islamic, it is at the core, distinct from each. it is trans-temporal and yet being in time takes the appearance of the country, tradition or the gnostic handbook page 11 epoch it is clothed by. at the same time we must appreciate the form it takes, esotericism is not ecumenical, it is dangerous to assume that all esoteric traditions are the same. islamic esotericism (sufism) is distinct from buddhist esotericism and while both are part of the lore they sho

he yuga cycle the gnostic handbook page 57 the interplay between various major kingdoms from the 6th century bce onwards, its primary focus covers immense periods of time and sets the stage onto which humanity plays its part. these four ages are also found in the greek historical tradition as the ages of gold, silver, bronze and iron. however what is especially interested in the greek in a trans- temporal age which exists between the copper and kali yuga. while this age the age of heroes, is not seen as existing "in time, it exists as the path of transfiguration (the solar tradition) during the kali yuga. so while the age may be dark, there is wisdom for those who seek. while the vedic, indo-european, biblical and greek traditions may be primarily of a traditional religious nature, the con

e the tiger, one can ride slowly and with care, or struggle into the night, one can beat it into submission or lull it with song. evola other published works, the yoga of power and the hermetic tradition offer various interpretations of the means to achieve the aristocratic self. evola s worship of the heroic brings us full circle, it brings us back to the yugas and the greek model with its trans=temporal heroic age. the age of heroes in the greek system exists outside the time based cycle of gold, silver, copper and iron, it is that call to go beyond the natural entropy of the cycles and achieve greatness. in evola s system it is the true solar path, the path of the sun which leads back to the axis mundi, the polar golden age. the gnostic handbook page 63 the great year the concept of pre

ristian views there is a belief that actions do not have an effect, we ask for forgiveness and all is gone. this is obviously not correct, every action has an effect. even if the moral (and the if is big) punishment was removed from an act by asking for forgiveness the natural effect of that act remains (for example, i get hepatitis from a heroin injection, while i may be forgiven for damaging my temporal physical vehicle, i still have to deal with the disease) this process of cause and effect is found in many different traditions, in some forms of eastern philosophy it is known as sanskaras or karma. if a soul when it has entered the body persists in evil it does not taste the fruits of life eternal, but is dragged back again, it reverses it courses and takes its way back to creeping thin

rn terms, cremated or buried and our soul then again must return. this sort of eternal re-occurance, hell on earth is the iconography of hades, sheol and gehenna, it is the real meaning of hell. the gnostic handbook page 84 while we may see the world as a form of the divine and should avoid unnecessary dualism in regards to our bodies and matter. in the end we must also accept that the world is a temporal schoolhouse and one that includes a lot of pain and suffering in its teaching method! hell, then, is not some eternal location to which we are damned in the future, indeed, in the gnostic tradition, the end of those not awakened is simply oblivion, nothingness, ceasing to exist. if there is any hell with torture and gnashing of teeth it is the world in which are now exiled. what is heaven

to be carefully considered. in present scholarship there is a tendency to confuse literalist and fundamentalist forms of judaism with the gnostic forms of the israelite mysteries. accordingly, the king messiah tends to be seen in purely political and revolutionary terms, while certainly there is a political element to the message of the davidic messiah we must realise that since matter is only a temporal manifestation, for the messiah to save israel as a whole (as a collective of particles of light, the physical world must be redeemed! this is why there is such an apocalyptic emphasis in essene and gnostic literature, for the davidic messiah to complete his task all matter must be trasnformed back to spirit. accordingly, the role of the davidic messiah was to prepare israel for a new inte

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM24

praemonstrator (goes to the door and opens it "the brethren of the outer order will resume their places in the temple" chief adept "fraters et sorors of the temple of isis mighty mother, behold your hierophant, our frater, who has been regularly installed and enthroned, and by the power in me vested, i proclaim him the revealer of mysteries among you for the ensuing six months, being part of that temporal period through which we are conducted into light. very honored frater, in the presence of the children of your temple, i call upon you to make a confession" hierophant (rising "fraters et sorors of the temple of isis mighty mother, seeing that the whole intention of the lower mysteries, or of external initiation, is by the intervention of the symbol, ceremonial, and sacrament, so to lead

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

aphazard, there would be nothing in them; but they seem to proceed by regular gradation, without leaps. among all branches of the teutonic race there shew themselves innumerable varieties of dialect, each possessing an equal right; so likewise in the people's religion we must presuppose a good many differences: the difficulty is to reconcile in every case the local bearings of the matter with the temporal. if the more numerous testimonies to wuotan in lower germany would lead us to infer that he was held in higher esteem by saxons than by alemanns or bavarians, we must remember that this (apparent) preference is mainly due to the longer continuance of heathenism in the north; that in the first few centuries after conversion the south too would have borne abundant witness to the god. upper

ke vampires whose lips are moist with fresh blood. an on. saga has a similar demon, called grimr oegir because he can walk in water as on land, he spits fire and poison, sucjcs the hlood out of man and beast (fornald. sog. 3, 241-2. about when in the mid. ages did the idea spring up of formal covenants and treaties which the devil concludes with men? to the unfortunate, the desperate, he promises temporal blessings for a number of years, but bargains for their souls at the expiration of the term, and insists on a written bond usually signed with the men's blood. this sounds not heathen, but rather as if invented after the roman mode of writing had become genei'al in em-ope. the norse devil^ tries to strike profitable bargains too, but never in writing. the most famous and variously told- t

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

fter another even when they reigned contemporaneously. yet the standard dating system started again with the reign of each new king because the egyptians also thought of time as moving in cycles. in these cycles, time appears to loop back on itself, and patterns of events are repeated, often at fixed intervals. in this view of time the roles of cause and effect can appear to be reversed, creating temporal paradoxes. egyptian kings, for example, were sometimes said to be their own fathers. the main part of this mythical time line consists of a linear mythical history in which i have laid out the principal events of egyptian myth in the order in which they should logically occur. it is important to bear in mind that although everything in this section is drawn from original sources, no ancie

which to begin the work of creation. images of emergence. the primal event of the emergence of the creator to dispel the watery silent darkness could be represented in many different ways. no single image or narrative was considered sufficient to express such a wonder. egyptian cosmogonies (creation accounts) often combine several different traditions about the creator, but rarely in any kind of temporal framework.3 the first act of the creator might be an exhalation of breath or a great cry. the first light came with the first appearance of the creator as the life-giving power of the sun. this manifestation could be pictured as an eye, a child, or a fiery bird. in coffin texts spell 75, although the creator is still alone in the nun, he/she sends out his/her eye to illumine the darkness

. bickel, la cosmogonie gyptienne avant le nouvel empire, orbis biblicus et orientalis 134 (freiburg and g ttingen, 1994; and m. bilolo, les cosmo-th ologies philosophiques d heliopolis et hermopolis, the thought of ancient egypt and nubia, vol. 2 (kinshasa and munich, 1986. 2. unattributed quotations are the author s translations from egyptian texts listed in appendix: primary sources. 3. such a temporal framework is seen, for instance, in the account of the creation of the world in seven days described in the book of genesis. for ancient creation myths in general, see the chapter chaos and cosmogony in m. r. wright, cosmology in antiquity (london and new york, 1995. 4. this is one of the reasons why ptah precedes ra in some lists of gods who ruled the world. although the imagery of the p

fiery solar eye, quarrels with her father and goes to live in the desert in the form of a savage lioness. her brother, shu, is sometimes named as the god who persuades her to return. shu and tefnut were also identified with the twin lions of the horizon. they are shown as two lions or spotted great cats, facing away from each other with the sun on the horizon between them. these lions had various temporal meanings. they could represent yesterday and tomorrow or two forms of time: nh.h (eternal recurrence) and d- t (eternal sameness. see also aten; atum; eye of ra; feline deities; geb; maat; onuris references and further reading: h. te velde. schu. in lexicon der gyptologie v. wiesbaden: 1984, 735 737 (in english. s. west. the greek version of the legend of tefnut. journal of egyptian archa

HEKAS

e modern revivalist forms of witchcraft, which have become generically, nominalised as "wicca. both of my informing catenae of initiation are currently focused in essex, although the members of various cells and the resources drawn upon by them are scattered throughout a much wider area with the consequence that the zones of governance served by the cult constitute a web unsuited to definition by temporal measures. the cultus sabbati is a present recension of the craft tradition constituted by various cells, each of which are using different formulae and modes of praxis covering the spectrum of the arte magical. in stating my own position i should make it apparent that, as magister, i am responsible for the overall co-ordination and direction of the cult in it's present phase of developmen

work, merely that their function is minimised by the context. i am stating matters in this way solely in order to make practitioners conscious of their own approaches, but also with the hope that any readers of traditional descent may consider and perhaps grasp the fact that the current in itself may use many vessels to facilitate transmission, but all vessels are only of importance in their own temporal context. beyond this they are without value to the current; the methods you use may be centuries old- this is unimportant, it is their constant refinement which is the living and vital quality of the tradition. i am in no way espousing any abandonment of such old practices, merely the re-assessment of their context and interpretation, for very often the old spells are the best- and for ve

INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW CHUMBLEY

ies truly in the circle itself. rf: can you say more about the ritual symbolism of the sabbatic craft on an inner level, particularly in relation to consciousness? ac: at an inner level of understanding one can speak of sabbatic craft in more subtle ways. the mythic elements of the witches sabbath can be treated as multivalent symbols, each capable of showing innumerable meanings, some historical-temporal, some pointing toward the a-temporal actualities of the sabbath as a field of transcendental magical existence. in azoetia, i wrote that the true meeting-place of the sabbath was at the crossroads of waking, sleeping and mundane dreaming, and that the sabbatic rites were to be experienced and participated in a dimension of true dreaming, in which one goes forth in spirit-flight into the f

s and oneiric locus maintain a certain constancy of reality. to comprehend the forms of inner continuity one must not however equate antiquity with authenticity; the source of the sabbatic craft is of the moment, beyond past and future. the linear perspective of time assumed by historical analysis must be recognised as having limited value when considering and representing the manifestations of a-temporal contexts of experience. rf: have you any plans for new books? ac: in many ways i think new books, or rather their spirits, have plans for me! i have never sought to write books about magic, but rather to write magical books to reify texts and images which are the vessels for spirits, powers and specialised kinds of knowledge. such books are genuine grammars of the arte and are possessed o

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

ersons slandering a man of rank this land was entirely slandered, and still is in such slanderous matters as never were known in this land before, as in ruining p. 58 or destroying any man by sorcery or necromancy, the which they think and believe impossible to be performed in art--it is ordained and agreed by authority of this present parliament, with the entire assent of the lords spiritual and temporal and commons of said parliament, that our lord the king be certified of the truth in this matter, in avoidance of the slander of this land in common, asserting that no such art was attempted at any time in this land, known or rumoured among the people, nor any opinion had or entertained of the same by the lay men in this land until now" it seems likely that the accusation was prompted by p

ISIS UNVEILED

th had al- ready sent his own agent, john the baptist, from the race of seth, whom he protects as a prophet to his people; but only a small portion lis- tened to him the nazarenes, the opponents of the jews, on account of their worshiping lurbo-adunai" achamoth had assured her son, ilda- t nvtkea of laojdiovab, c digitizecoy google 186 isis unveiled baoth, that the reign of christoa would be only temporal, and thus she induced him to send the forerunner, or precursor. besides that, she mode aim oaum the birth of the man jesus from the virgin mary, her own type on earth "for the creation of a material personage could only be the work of the demiurge, not falling within the province of a hi^er power. as soon as jesus was horn, chnstos, the perfect, uniting himself with sophia [wisdom and spi

ISRAEL REGARDIE A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO GEOMANTIC DIVINATION

existence marks a step in the differentiation of the species. if it were permissible to personify the unconscious, we might call it a collective human being combining the characteristics of both sexes, transcending youth and age, birth and death, and, from having at his command a human experience of one or two million years, almost immortal. if such a being existed, he would be exalted above all temporal change; the present would mean neither more nor less to him than any year in the one hundredth century before christ; he would be a dreamer of age-old dreams, and, owing to his immeasurable experience, he would be an incomparable prognosticator. he would have lived countless times over the life of the individual, of the family, tribe and people, and he would possess the living sense of th

laced under the divine aegis of that aspect of god attributed to malkuth, the tenth sephirah on the tree of life. the divine name is adonai ha-aretz meaning 'the lord of the earth (its pronunciation can be described thus: ahdoh- nye hah-ah-retz) when opening the divinatory process by the method to be described, this name should be softly intoned or vibrated so that one's mind may be exalted above temporal and mundane preoccupations. in this way it is tuned in, as it were, to the highest. furthermore, the element of earth is attributed to one of the five points of the pentagram, the geometrical figure always used in the sanctuary of the gnosis to invoke all elements. with the pentagram standing up on the two lower angles, the topmost point at the summit, then the lower left point represents

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

ls may be more useful than the sympathetic system. as the sympathetic system increases body needs (e.g. thinking, fighting stress, excitement etc, the parasympathetic system is known to reduce the energy needs. it keeps the person serene and at mental peace and alters the metabolic requirements to a lower state and puts it to sleep. there may be other hormones or chemicals too and the role of the temporal lobe and limbic system also may be important. it may work as a regulator if not receptor and may be psychically involved in directing the energy in proper pathways. deep into the limbic systems or in the parts of medulla oblongata, this energy may ultimately be stored and from time to time, may be recalled, charged or recycled. the medulla oblongata has all vital centers and therefore can

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

the beginning, proceeded from the divine father. these are light and darkness, or form or idea, and matter or plasticity. matter, downwards, becomes fivefold, as it works in its forms, according to the various operations of the first informing light; it extends four-square, according to the points of the celestial compass, with the divine creative effluence in the centre. the worlds spiritual and temporal, being rendered subject to the operation of the original type, or idea, became, in their imitation of this invisible ideal, first intelligible, and then endowed with reciprocal meaning outwards from themselves. this produced the being (or thought) to whom, or to which, creation was disclosed. this is properly the son, or second ineffable person of the divine trinity. thus that which we un

KETAB E SIYAH

the wisdom of others in pride as other less worthy monarchs might do. for this reason have i come to you and not to another less suited to my purpose. you must learn of what the elohim intend and their dreadful plot against nephilim, race of my blood and flesh, vessels of my hope. adonai yahweh, upon his broken throne, has looked down from his crumbling tower, that which is called eternal but is temporal, and grows fearful of my children's maturation. fearing for that which is truly lost to him even before it is taken from him, adonai yahweh seeks the destruction of the nephilim else to break them for his halter. yet the dauntless spirit of my children breaks not easily by any small means. some grander plan is needed by heaven to overcome that which is predestined to themselves cast down

pronouncements of the god-churches were rejected in our midst. even as god was terrifying in awesome majesty, so i came to earth in the semblance of a goat, most humble of man's own creatures. and men there were whose eyes finally blazed with the light of my gift, 447 and they made great effort for the advancement of their race, though impatience and frustration ever tempted them to the salve of temporal gain. great secrets were unearthed, and secret word was passed of the craft of hell. but to all who would dare my friendship the god-churches accorded the threat of torture and death by fire. many were those whom i saved from the vengeance of the men of god, but long did my thought ring with the screams of men whose devotion to lucifer had won them only the horrors of intolerance, inquisi

rse, for apart from appreciation and use it is a thing of insignificance. and i, who first taught thee identity- what should i become, estranged from man? for with no purpose the force of the mind must fail, and the blind insanity of godly paralysis would embrace all things forever. this, man, is thy challenge as it is mine. and as man is individually mortal, so are his creations and achievements temporal, and with care must he wield the gift of hell. in his hands it is pure and true omnipotence, and thus may he aspire to the very mastery of universal existence. 448 i who am lucifer, and who have taken the name satan archdaimon, do bear this title with pride, for i am in truth the great enemy of all that is god. together, man, thou and i shall achieve our eternal glory in the fulfillment o

warn him that man shall destroy him on earth as he shall finally in heaven itself. for messiah knows not this force which he dares to test, and the laws of god shall be as playthings in the hands of the creature he now debases. and thus was decided the meeting of satan and messiah upon earth, which was to determine the future of man. the statement of abaddon i am abaddon the destroyer, daemon of temporal death and life in death, who was formed amidst the fury of the great war, and who was summoned again by satan to challenge uriel on earth for the future of man. for satan looked with mounting wrath upon the afflictions of uriel, and he said to me, no longer can this remain the plight of man alone. indeed we shall cause heaven to suffer as earth itself suffers. repair now to earth, and let

e- that not only in matters scientific shall hell tutor man. for we would not have him view mechanism alone as the hallmark of his progress, else we never had cause to challenge the cosmic mechanism of god itself. into the workings of the mind of man we shall convey aesthetic sensitivity and artistic restlessness, and he shall not view his achievements without considering their improvement to his temporal pleasure. thus advised, i returned to earth, and i tempted man with glimpses of the marvels to be entrusted to him. i bent over the pathetic workbench of the starving alchemist and whispered to him keys that one day would order the course of great foundations. i nudged explorers to the ends of the earth, and i flung an apple at newton when his obtuseness vexed me! to democritus i spoke, a

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

a feeling of unification with him (ohr hassadim) is known as "the light of faith" or simply, faith. faith, the light of the creator, gives us a sensation of being linked to the eternal. it brings us an understanding of the creator, a feeling of complete communication with him, as well as a sense of absolute security, immortality, greatness and strength. it becomes clear that deliverance from our temporal existence and from our suffering (caused by our futile pursuit of transient pleasures) lies only in our attaining faith, through which we will be able to perceive the creator. in general, the only cause of our misfortunes, and of the worthless and temporal nature of our lives, is our failure to perceive the creator. kabbalah impels us towards him by teaching us "taste and see that the cre

focus on cultivating altruistic thoughts and desires in ourselves; then we will feel the spiritual pleasure immediately. the benefit of the progress of humanity, despite the fact that humanity appears to err constantly and never seems to learn from its own mistakes, is in the process of amassing- 144- attaining the worlds beyond suffering, which takes place in the eternal soul, as opposed to the temporal bodies. in this respect, not a single act of suffering is lost. it will eventually lead, in some cycle of life in this world, to realizing the necessity for turning to spiritual elevation in search of salvation from suffering. it is correct to denote the higher spiritualworlds as "antiworlds" in relation to us, since in our world all the laws of nature are built on the basis of egoism, on

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

e activities. reflecting the individual samsaric process, the cosmos itself undergoes periodic dissolutions and recreations. as recorded in the puranas, the principal mythological texts of classical hinduism, these macrocosmic cycles take place across vast expanses of time a spectacle of eternity that seems aimed more at boggling the mind than anything else. the basic building blocks of the hindu temporal schema are the four yugas krita, treta, dvapara, and kali which roughly correspond with the four ages of the classical greco-roman world the ages of gold, silver, brass, and iron. like the mediterranean ages, the series of hindu ages reflects a successive degeneration in the moral order. one complete cycle of four yugas, referred to as a mahayuga, is 4,320,000 human years in duration. one

ight of brahma during which the creator is said to sleep lasts as long as a day of brahma, or another 4,320,000,000 years. at the end of this night, the cosmos is recreated. lesser dissolutions recur at the end of every mahayuga. the dissolution of the cosmos into pralaya is not to be confused with the deluge and the accompanying universal flood that occurs fourteen times each kalpa at the end of temporal periods called manvantaras, or manu-intervals. the events of each kalpa recur exactly during each day of brahma. each brahma, in turn, lives 100 years that are constituted by 360 days of brahma very longlived indeed! furthermore, successions of different brahmas become the building blocks for even longer time periods. scholars such as the late heinrich zimmer have speculated that at least

s day, those who have sinned would have to make an open confession in front of god, trusting to divine mercy for the saving of their souls from hell. again, such vision is shown in hamlet, when claudius prays to god to forgive his having murdered his brother, even though he is convinced that no pardon can be received while he is still attached to the fruits of his sin. shakespeare believed in the temporal nature of the body and in the immortality of the soul, as numerous passages in his work show, such as in romeo and juliet and in the merchant of venice, even though his characters often seem to be desperately attached to life on earth instead of concentrating on their spiritual destiny. according to shakespeare, after death human lives will be perpetually remembered by god and immortality

LIBER 777

as the great goddess earth? as nature? as the cosmic egg from which all nature sprang? for as time and place have changed, so she is all of these! what of jehovah, that testy senior of genesis, that lawgiver of leviticus, that phallus of the depopulated slaves of the egyptians, that jealous king-god of the times of the kings, that more spiritual conception of the captivity, only invented when all temporal hope was lost, that medi val battleground of cross-chopped logic, that being stripped of all his attributes and assimilated to parabrahman and the absolute of the philosopher? satan, again, who in job is merely attorney-general and prosecutes for the crown, acquires in time all the obloquy attaching to that functionary in the eyes of the criminal classes, and becomes a slanderer. does any

LIBER CCC KHABS AM PEKHT

worship be about my secret house..1 the last phrase suggests that the island may be great britain, with its mines and tanks; and it is notable that a certain brother obligated to a a is in the most secret of england.s war councils at this hour.2 but it is possible that this instruction refers to some later time when our law, administered by some such order as the o.t.o. which concerns itself with temporal affairs, is of weight in the councils of the world, and is challenged by the heathen, and by the followers of the fallen gods and demigods. note, pray thee, the practical method of overcoming opposition given in ccxx iii:23-26. but this is not to our immediate purpose in this epistle. note, pray thee, the instruction in the 38th and 39th verses of the third chapter of the book of the law

LIBER DOMINI

e is a difference between someone who understands the incompleteness of his/her knowledge and someone who feels this incompleteness requires another to lead him/her to fullness. 24. those who claim i am flesh are truly mad. my essence is the very destruction of flesh; i am the conqueror; i am the flame. comment: some satanists claim that the master has a body- they are deluded. a body is a spatio-temporal limitation which is totally unbefitting the dark lord. these fools are far from a true understanding of the master. 25. i was not born, and never was i created. i have no father, no mother, and no offspring; i am purity. comment: those who claim the master has a body are foolishly anthropomorphizing a being who transcends the limitations which we as humans are bound by. satan is a being o

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

fter telling about frodi fs demise through the actions of two slave girls he had purchased to turn an enormous mill. here no one should harm another, live for evil or work for death, nor strike with a sharp sword, even if the killer of his brother he find bound. in the poem this peace appears to relate to frodi fs seat at hlei.ra (modern lejre in denmark, whereas in snorri fs version the peace is temporal and euhemerized with the birth of christ. scholars believe that snorri took both of these notions from skjoldunga saga, an account of the early danish kings that is now known only through a seventeenth-century latin paraphrase. but snorri knew (or told of) another version of the peace of frodi, which he recounted in chapter 10 of his ynglinga saga. according to this account, the peace of

peripheral locations: born (if we take him to be the subject of the stanzas in hyndluljod, as i do) at gthe edge of the earth, h encountering humans by a coast, stationed at the end of heaven to guard against giants. these places are all to some extent boundaries: between land and sea, between the world of the gods and that of the giants. being born gin days of yore h also situates heimdall at a temporal periphery. heimdall fs other main action in the mythology involves not a spatial but a temporal boundary, namely, his sounding of the gjallarhorn at the outset of ragnarok. the main source is voluspa, stanza 46. mim fs sons sport, and the world tree trembles at the old gjallarhorn. 170 norse mythology loudly blows heimdall, the horn is aloft, odin is speaking to mim fs head. in gylfaginni

and vengeance among the gods: baldr in scandinavian mythology, ff communications, 262 (helsinki: societas scientiarum fennica, 1997, i presented the story about hyrrokkin as an encounter between odin and a giantess in which odin triumphs and his will, in this case a proper funeral for baldr, is carried out. idavoll assembly field of the asir in voluspa and snorri fs gylfaginning; associated with temporal beginnings. idavoll is mentioned twice in voluspa. the first instance is in stanza 7, just after they have established time reckoning by naming day and night and the other parts of the temporal cycle in stanza 6. the asir assembled at idavoll those who altar and temple high timbered. deities, themes, and concepts 197 they created wealth, smithed riches, forged tongs and made tools. when i

LOGOMACHY OF ZOS

# e$ b( m "d 5! s 2..q..1 2 7 w e' depends on our ability to re( z. 5 ]7 cognition has no law, but we induce processes from some latent and inveterate syllogism conjoining other opposites by relatives and corelativesv .5: s. z( 9= 2/ k( 9. 5: h7 our lives are spent in finding the solution, a reciprocity of para-rational creativity. normality should be your total difference from it. all things are temporal feelings of things; and perceptions, however abstract, are realities of a reality. existence is prehensive flesh seeking new unities, an unpatterning process from an innate diaper, reshaping by relating and unrelating, including and excluding. there is no conclusive ingression or exclusion from probabilities. for all creativity is away from constant uniformity and finalities. causes are f

9\ if you would realize god you must first re-create your god within. you can become god by expurgating. for what is without is an exhausting-transudating past. the immoral asceticism: having suffered they shut out the world of reality, as the means of personal salvation. if there is salvation it is through mankind. the normality of life is a pastiche of unsituated occasions seeking transient or temporal alliances by exclusions. there is a constant process of re-sensitizing for interrelating towards novelty: every aesthesis is a potential creative prehension; promiscuity is change. our readaptation to new events for emotional ingression by affinitive pleasure. selection is predetermined by possibility from a like experience. shit: jumpers to conclusions, generalizationists, malapropists

r to be more audacious and translate our valuations into an ideal of greater reality. is our choice. ideas of an abstract god are just as anthropomorphic as any other, but more back-dated. mathematics are a form of human logic. an arbitrary thesis which of itself evolves nothing and proves only possibility. the seeing of an object is the presence of an idea in thought c amidst the chaos of spacio-temporal phenomena we are sense-blasted, shaken to our very depths by arguments of good and evil. 0 .k m. do this: adumbrations of the conceivability of our immanence is lost. darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. you are still in great company. the numen and your genius, with all their media, and a host of elementals and ghosts of your dead loves. are there! they need no light by whic

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

ypothesized that deep rock layers were much older than superficial layers, which also led him to hypothesize that fossils found in deep layers were older than those present in layers near the surface. this thinking led lyell to hypothesize further that, over long periods of time, living species diversified and became more complex. lyell thus went beyond lamarck because he empirically determined a temporal sequence during which the evolution of species had taken place. of course, lyell could not measure the age of the geological formations he had studied, but he could establish a relative ordering of the appearance of new rock layers and new species. the absolute dating of rock formations and fossils became possible only in the twentieth century, thanks to the discovery of radioactive datin

rthals, or was it something else? we simply do not know. this very brief history of the premodern human fossil record shows that the tale of the missing link, still held by some, is completely outdated. many links leading from primates that lived several million years ago to our modern selves have been discovered. the appearance of bipedalism as early as 5 6 million years ago, the well-documented temporal sequence of increase in brain size, and the evolution of tool making all show that our ancestral lineage is very old, and by now the details of our evolution are well filled in. as for missing links between the neanderthals and h. sapiens, it is thought by many that none will be found. dna evidence obtained so far argues against the idea that neanderthals and h. sapiens interbred and left

f compound x in 195 figure a.1 cross section of a reaction vessel containing the brusselator. the solid lines and arrows show the variations in the concentration of compound x as a function of space and time. the dotted line represents an invariant equilibrium situation. 196 the reaction vessel fluctuates in time and space. in other words, the reaction mixture spontaneously acquires a spatial and temporal structure (order. the fluctuation of the concentration of x as a function of space is shown in figure a.1 at six different time intervals. initially, the concentration of x decreases in the center of the reaction vessel, followed by a wave (a moving ring) that eventually makes the concentration of x higher in the center of the vessel. the process then reverses itself, and a wave of concen

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

important sources of information about freemasonry in the early 18th century are exposures which were published periodically in response to the popular demand for information about the order. one such broadsheet, the grand mystery laid open, was published anonymously in 1726; and it contains the following text "how many signs has a true freemason, nine, which are distinguish'd into spiritual and temporal. have the six spiritual signs any names? yes, but are not divulged to any new admitted member, because they are cabalisttical" and later, with respect to the secret word. what is it? it is a cabalistical word,"13 one must be careful to avoid jumping to conclusions on the basis of material which is published as an anonymous expose, because one can never know the motive of the author. still

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

hool of philosophy was divided into the lesser and the greater mysteries, the former being sacred to isis and the latter to serapis and osiris. wilkinson is of the opinion that only the priests were permitted to enter the greater mysteries. even the heir to the throne was not eligible until he had been crowned pharaoh, when, by virtue of his kingly office, he automatically became a priest and the temporal head of the state religion (see wilkinson's manners and customs of the egyptians) a limited number were admitted into the greater mysteries: these preserved their secrets inviolate. much of the information concerning the rituals of the higher degrees of the egyptian mysteries has been gleaned from an examination of the chambers and passageways in which the initiations were given. under th

ned age so that he might have benefited by their instructions he would have been a really great man! in his stromata, clement of alexandria, one of the few chroniclers of pagan lore whose writings have been preserved to this age, gives practically all the information that is known concerning the original forty-two books of hermes and the importance with which these books were regarded by both the temporal and spiritual powers of egypt. clement describes one of their ceremonial processions as follows "for the egyptians pursue a philosophy of their own. this is click to enlarge hermes mercurius trismegistus. from historia deorum fatidicorum. master of all arts and sciences. perfect in all crafts, ruler of the three worlds, scribe of the gods, and keeper of the books of life, thoth hermes tri

phire tables; hence he destroyed them, that the mysteries of jehovah should not be violated. for the original set moses substituted two tablets of rough stone into the surface of which he had cut ten ancient letters. while the former tables--partaking of the divinity of the tree of life--blazed forth eternal verities, the latter--partaking of the nature of the tree of good and evil--revealed only temporal truths. thus the ancient tradition of israel returned again to heaven, leaving only its shadow with the children of the twelve tribes. one of the two tables of stone delivered by the lawgiver to his followers stood for the oral, the other for the written traditions upon which the rabbinical school was founded. authorities differ widely as to the size and substance of the inferior tables

will go to inconceivable ends to prolong his physical life, since there is nothing for him beyond the grave. the most dangerous form of black magic is the scientific perversion of occult power for the gratification of personal desire. its less complex and more universal form is human selfishness, for selfishness is the fundamental cause of all worldly evil. a man will barter his eternal soul for temporal power, and down through the ages a mysterious process has been evolved which actually enables him to make this exchange. in its various branches the black art includes nearly all forms of ceremonial magic, necromancy, witchcraft, sorcery, and vampirism. under the same general heading are also included mesmerism and hypnotism, except when used solely for medical purposes, and even then the

r cooperation in undertakings of importance. the magi were always warned, however, never to betray the trust of the elementals, for if they did, the invisible creatures, working through the subjective nature of man, could cause them endless sorrow and probably ultimate destruction. so long as the mystic served others, the gnomes would serve him, but if he sought to use their aid selfishly to gain temporal power they would turn upon him with unrelenting fury. the same was true if he sought to deceive them. the earth spirits meet at certain times of the year in great conclaves, as shakespeare suggests in his midsummer night's dream, where the elementals all gather to rejoice in the beauty and harmony of nature and the prospects of an excellent harvest. the gnomes are ruled over by a king, wh

y, adam may be regarded as representative of the full spiritual nature of man- androgynous and nor subject to decay. p. 127 [paragraph continues] of this fuller nature the mortal man has little comprehension. just as spirit contains matter within itself and is both the source and ultimate of the state denominated matter, so eve represents the lower, or mortal, portion that is taken out of, or has temporal existence in the greater and fuller spiritual creation. being representative of the inferior part of the individual, eve is the temptress who, conspiring with the serpent of mortal knowledge, caused adam to sink into a trancelike condition in which he was unconscious of his own higher self. when adam seemingly awoke, he actually sank into sleep, for he no longer was in the spirit but in t

d is winged, while the other is attired in the flowing robes of the bacchante and on her head is a wreath of vine leaves. the maidens represent the twofold soul of man (spiritual and animal, the first his guardian angel and the second his ever-present demon. the youth stands at the beginning of mature life "the parting of the ways" where he must choose between virtue and vice, the eternal and the temporal. above, in a halo of light, is the genius of fate (his star, mistaken for cupid by the uninformed. if youth chooses unwisely, the arrow of blindfolded fate will transfix him. in the pseudo-egyptian tarot the arrow of the genius points directly to the figure of vice, thereby signifying that the end of her path is destruction. this card reminds man that the price of free will--or, more corr

ogether in a garden surrounded by a magic ring of flowers. one of these children should be shown as male and the other female. behind them is a brick wall apparently enclosing the garden. above the wall the sun is rising, its rays alternately straight and curved. thirteen teardrops are falling from the solar face levi, seeing in the two children faith and reason, which must coexist as long as the temporal universe endures, writes "human equilibrium requires two feet, the worlds gravitate by means of two forces, generation needs two sexes. such is the meaning of the arcanum of solomon, represented by the two pillars of the temple, jakin and bohas (see transcendental magic) the sun of truth is shining into the garden of the world over which these two children, as personifications of eternal

the allegory of the second birth. as generation is the key to material existence, it is natural that the fraternity of r.c. should adopt as its characteristic symbols those exemplifying the reproductive processes. as regeneration is the key to spiritual existence, they therefore founded their symbolism upon the rose and the cross, which typify the redemption of man through the union of his lower temporal nature with his higher eternal nature. the rosy cross is also a hieroglyphic figure representing the formula of the universal medicine. click to enlarge the elementary world. from mus um hermeticum reformatum et amplificatum. the outer circle contains the figures of the zodiac; the second, their signs and that part of the human body which they rule; the third, the months of the year, with

m, and extracting gold and silver our of the same, but dare not to exercise their said skill within this realm, for fear of falling under the penalty of the said statute, but exercise the said art in foreign parts, to the great loss and detriment of this realm: be it therefore enacted by the king's and queen's most excellent majesties, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal and commons in this present parliament assembled, that from henceforth the aforesaid branch, article, or sentence, contained in the said act, and every word, matter and thing contained in the said branch or sentence, shall be repealed, annulled, revoked, and for ever made void, any thing in the said act to the contrary in any wise whatsoever notwithstanding. provided always, and be it ena

is deathbed with his own blood, anno domini 1662. to my loving cousin and son, the true hermetic philosopher "dear loving cousin and son "although i had resolved never to give in writing to any person the secret of the ancient sages, yet notwithstanding out of peculiar affection and love to you, i have taken it upon me, to which the nearness of our relation obliges me, and especially because this temporal life is short, and art is very dark and you may therefore not attain the wished for end--but my son because so precious a jewel belongs not to swine; and also this so great a gift of god may be treated carefully and christianlike, in consideration thereof i do so largely declare myself to thee "i conjure thee with hand and mouth sacredly "1st. that most especially thou faithfully keep the

ry good (akhy r. the next rank is filled by forty 'absent ones (rijal-i-ghaib, also termed 'martyrs (shuheda. when an 'axis' quits this earthly existence, he is succeeded by the 'faithful one' who has occupied the place at his right hand* for to these holy men, who also bear the collective titles of 'lords of souls' and 'directors' is committed a spiritual supremacy over mankind far exceeding the temporal authority of earthly rulers (see mysticism and magic in turkey, by l. m. j. garnett) the axis is a mysterious individual who, unknown and unsuspected, mingles with mankind and who, according to tradition, has his favorite seat upon the roof of the caaba. j. p. brown, in the dervishes, gives a description of these "master souls" freemasonry's priceless heritage the sanctum sanctorum of fre

ouncils of the church discovered, why is he referred to in the new testament as "called of god an high prim after the order of melchizedek? the words "after the order" make jesus one of a line or order of which there must have been others of equal or even superior dignity. if the "melchizedeks" were the divine or priestly rulers of the nations of the earth before the inauguration of the system of temporal rulers, then the statements attributed to st. paul would indicate that jesus either was one of these "philosophic elect" or was attempting to reestablish their system of government. it will be remembered that melchizedek also performed the same ceremony of the drinking of wine and the breaking of bread as did jesus at the last supper. george faber declares the original name of jesus was j

dise" p. 180 but brief mention. these were nicodemus and joseph of arimathea, both devout men who, though not listed among the disciples or apostles of the christos, were of all men chosen to be custodians of his sacred remains. joseph of arimathea was one of the initiated brethren and is called by a. e. waite, in his a new encyclop dia of freemasonry "the first bishop of christendom" just as the temporal (or visible) power of the holy see was established by st. peter, so the spiritual (or invisible) body of the faith was entrusted to the "secret church of the holy grail" through apostolic succession from joseph of arimathea, into whose keeping had been given the perpetual symbols of the covenant--the ever-flowing cup and the bleeding spear. presumably obeying instructions of st. philip, j

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 1

contracting friendships, preserving health; and arriving at all that thou canst desire. in the days and hours of mars thou canst make experiments regarding war; to arrive at military honour; to acquire courage; to overthrow enemies; and further to cause ruin, slaughter, cruelty, discord; to wound and to give death. the days and hours of the sun are very good for: perfecting experiments regarding temporal wealth, hope, gain, fortune, divination, the favour of princes, to dissolve hostile feeling, and to make friends. the key of solomon page 14 the days and hours of venus are good for forming friendships; for kindness and love; for joyous and pleasant undertakings, and for travelling. the days and hours of mercury are good to operate for eloquence and intelligence; promptitude in business;

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 1

es- the second spirit is a duke called agreas, or agares. he is under the power of the east, and cometh up in the form of an old fair man, riding upon a crocodile, carrying a goshawk upon his fist, and yet mild in appearance. he maketh them to run that stand still, and bringeth back runaways. he teaches all languages or tongues presently. he hath power also to destroy dignities both spiritual and temporal, and causeth earthquakes. he was of the order of virtues. he hath under his government 31 legions of spirits. and this is his seal or character which thou shalt wear as a lamen before thee (3) vassago- the third spirit is a mighty prince, being of the same nature as agares. he is called vassago. this spirit is of a good nature, and his office is to declare things past and to come, and to

MEANING OF MASONRY

order of life and the entrance upon a new one of larger self knowledge, deepened understanding and intensified virtue. it means a transition from the merely natural state and standards of life towards a regenerate and super-natural state and standard. it means a turning away from the pursuit of the popular ideals of the outer world, in the conviction that those ideals are but shadows, images and temporal substitutions for the eternal reality that underlies them, to the keen and undivertible quest of that reality itself and the recovery of those genuine secrets of our being which lie buried and hidden at" the centre" or innermost part of our souls. it means the awakening of those hitherto dormant higher faculties of the soul which endue their possessor with "light" in the form of new enhan

ts masonic interpretation is not meant to be limited to physical necessities. the spiritually as well as the financially poor and distressed are always with us and to the former, equally with the latter, masonry the was designed to minister. theoretically every man upon reception into the craft acknowledges himself and as within the category of the spiritually poor, and as content to renounce all temporal riches if haply by that sacrifice his hungry heart may be filled with those good things which money cannot purchase, but to which the truly initiated can help him. but if masonry has not as yet fulfilled its primary purpose and, though engaged in admirable secondary activities, is as yet an initiating instrument of low efficiency, it may be that, with enlarged understanding of its designs

lory of the lord shone through and filled the whole house. so--if we will have it so--may it be with the temple of the masonic order. since the inception of speculative masonry it has been a-building and expanding now these last three hundred years. fashioned of living stones into a far-reaching organic structure; brought gradually, under the good guidance of its rulers, to high perfection on its temporal side and in respect of its external observances, and made available for high purposes and giving godly witness in a dark and troubled world; upon these preliminary efforts let there now be invoked this crowning and completing blessing- that the spirit of wisdom and understanding may descend upon the work of our hands in abundant measure, prospering it still farther, and filling and transf

is" the genuine secrets of a master mason" the true knowledge of ourselves, the conscious realization of our divine potentialities. the very essence of the masonic doctrine is that all men in this world are in search of something in their own nature which they have lost, but that with proper instruction and by their own patience and industry they may hope to find. its philosophy implies that this temporal world is the antipodes of another and more real world from which we originally came and to which we may accelerate our return by such a course of self-knowledge and self-discipline as our teaching inculcates. it implies that this present world is the place where the symbolic stones and timber are being prepared" so far off" from that mystical jerusalem where one day they will be found put

h the death of any professional architect such as hiram abiff is popularly supposed to have been. the principles of architecture, the genuine secrets of the building trade, are not and never have been lost; they are thoroughly well known, and the absurdity is manifest of supposing that masons of any kind are waiting for time or circumstances to restore any lost knowledge as to the manner in which temporal buildings ought to be constructed. we know how to erect buildings to-day quite as well as our hebrew forefathers did who built the famous temple at jerusalem, and indeed a well known architect has stated that most of our london churches are, both for size and ornamentation, far larger and more splendid than that temple ever was. our duty then is to look behind the literal story; to pierce

er assemblies and councils in the form of the provincial and the grand lodges that regulate and minister to the need of the lodges of common craftsmen, so in the mighty system of the universal structure there are grades of higher life, hierarchies of celestial beings working and ministering in the loftier portions of the building, beyond our present ken. and as here at the head of our limited and temporal brotherhood there rules a grand master, so too over the cosmic system there presides the great architect and most worshipful grand master of all, whose officers are holy angels; and the recognition of this truth may tend to consecrate us in the discharge of the little symbolic part we severally perform in the system which is the image of the great scheme. the world at large, brethren, is

o be rebuilt upon the principles of spiritual science. the mortal body of it, with its unruly wills and affections, stands in the way of that achievement. it is the rubble which needs to be cleared before the new foundations can be set and the new structure reared. yet even rubble can be made to serve useful purposes and be rearranged and worked into the new e rection, and accordingly man's outer temporal nature can be disciplined and utilized in the reconstruction of himself. but in order to effect this reconstruction he must first have a full understanding of the material he has to work with and to work upon. for this purpose he must be made acquainted with what is called" the form of the lodge" the form of the lodge this is officially described as" an oblong square; in length between ea

further significance. the east of the lodge represents man's spirituality, his highest and most spiritual mode of consciousness, which in most men is very little developed, if at all, but is still latent and slumbering and becomes active only in moments of stress or deep emotion. the west (or polar opposite of the east) represents his normal rational understanding, the consciousness he employs in temporal every-day affairs, his material-mindedness or, as we might say, his" common sense" midway between these east and west extremes is the south, the halfway house and meeting-place of the spiritual intuition and the rational understanding; the point denoting abstract intellectuality and our intellectual power develops to its highest, just as the sun attains its meridian splendour in the south

ses our present experience, because in it the darkness and the light are both alike, and our present concepts of good and evil, joy and pain, are transcended and found sublimated in a condition combining both. and this lofty condition is represented by the indented or tesselated border skirting the black and white chequer-work, even as the divine presence and providence surrounds and embraces our temporal organisms in which those opposites are inherent. why is the chequer floor-work given such prominence in the lodge-furniture? the answer is to be found in the statement in the third degree ritual" the square pavement is for the high priest to walk upon" now it is not merely the jewish high priest of centuries ago that is here referred to, but the individual member of the craft. for every m

this divine principle in him man would be less than human. because of its presence in him he can become more than human. by cultivating his consciousness of it he may become unified with it in proportion as he denies and renounces everything in himself that is less than divine. it is the inextinguishable light of a master mason which, being immortal and eternal, continues to shine when everything temporal and mortal has disappeared. the senior warden, whilst the master's chief executive officer, is his anthesis and opposite pole. he personifies the soul, the psychic or animistic principle in man, which, if unassociated with and unillumined by the greater light of the spirit or master-principle, has no inherent light of its own at all. at best he in the west can but reflect and transmit tha

ately reproduced in the compasses. to summarize; the three greater lights emblematize the inextricably interwoven triadic groundwork of man's being (1) the divine word or substance as its foundation (2) a passive soul emanated therefrom (3) an active spirit or energizing capacity generated in the soul as the result of the interaction of the former two. man himself therefore (viewed apart from the temporal body now clothing him) is a triadic unit, rooted in and proceeding from the basic divine substance. observe that in the first degree the points of the compasses are hidden by the square. in the second degree, one point is disclosed. in the third both are exhibited. the implication is that as the candidate progresses, the inertia and negativity of the soul become increasingly transmuted an

can be of no possible interest or concern to us to-day, nor has the information the least bearing upon the subject of human regeneration. it is obviously a veil of allegory concealing some relevant truth. such it will be found to be upon recognizing that hebrew biblical names represent not persons, but personifications of spiritual principles, and that biblical history is not ordinary history of temporal events but a record of eternally true spiritual facts. the matter is, therefore, interpretable as follows: we know from the teaching of the entered apprentice degree what" money and metals" are in the masonic sense, and that they represent the attractive power of tempora l possessions, and earthly belongings and affections of whatever description. we know too that from the attraction and

is in the condition spoken of in the cosmic parable of adam when extruded from eden, an exile from the divine presence and condemned to toil and trouble. the quest after this lost word is declared by the wardens to have been so far abortive, and to have resulted in the discovery, not of that reality, but of substitutional images of it. all which implies that, in the strength of merely his natural temporal intelligence, man can find and know nothing more in this world than shadows, images and phenomenal forms of realities which abide eternally and noumenally in the world of spirit to which his temporal faculties are at present closed. yet there remains a way of regaining consciousness of that higher world and life. it is by bringing into function a now dormant and sub merged faculty residen

ntil it at last reached the blazing star or glory at its own centre, in the light of which it simultaneously knew itself and god, and realized their unity and the" points of fellowship" between them. then it was that, from this at once awful and sublime experience, the initiated soul was brought back to its bodily encasement again and "reunited to the companions of its former toils" to resume its temporal life, but with conscious realization of life eternal superadded to its knowledge and its powers. then only was it entitled to the name of master mason. then only could it exclaim, in the words of another initiate (empedocles" farewell, all earthly allies; henceforth am i no mortal wight, but an immortal angel, ascending up into divinity and reflecting upon that likeness of it which i have

MICHAEL FORD A RITE OF THE WEREWOLF

hropomorphic form of baphomet, called also the sabbatic goat14. the baphometic angel-daemon who resides above a globe (solar) sphere inbetween twilight and night, two moons, the dark (hecate) and the light (lilith or yram-satrina. to the initiate however, lucifer or the baphometic spirit becomes a state which is brought forth or developed to by going forth by night. the path of spirit travel is a temporal process of self emerging from its skin to ascend in the form of shadow, thus willed to manifest in a dreaming flesh. the dreaming body is the form the psyche or ka takes in sleep, and that which flies or goes forth to the infernal sabbat. in the context of witchcraft and sorcery, the western initiate of today holds a wealth of information to build from. idries shah points out in the sufis

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

he conclusion that to rebalance the energy another celestial portal had to beopened. thus, it became necessary to enter into dialogue with the ascended masters.the adepts of the rose realized that without the help of such intelligences there wasno hope. the portal was successfully opened and the ascended masters were able togive pivotal information. these numinous intelligences are not subject to temporal andspatial laws. as a result, they know more and can see further than any mortal. they donot remedy the problem for us, but instead relay instructions in potentia, leaving thehuman recipients to translate them into action in their temporal and spatial dimension.the universe is a super-computer that is interacted with, not with binary code, but the imag-ination (author)epilogue: time to ch

ecial training project at the national guardcamp in san luis obispo, california, to train leaders in population control. by 1979, 14,000 peoplewould be trained in this population control seminar. 1969 mass vietnam war protests from public. atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation393 appendix f: general chronology of events 1969 melchior describes 22 children in which there was a close temporal connection between variousvaccinations, especially pertussis, and infantile spasms (melchior, j.h. 1980, textbook of child neurology, 1990 textbook of child neurology, 1990 workshop on neurological complications of per-tussis and pertussis vaccination) 1969 fifteen russia generals die in unrelated incidents within 30 days. 1969 cia-linked professor thomas rika disappears from boulder, col

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

d of mount olympus, who is promiscuous, jealous, and a rapist. whereas prometheus, who is azazel and lucifer, is the creator and champion of mankind, highly intelligent, and can easily deceive zeus. i can t believe it s not fiction: zeus and hades heracles (2001) clash of the titans (2010) hidden history [1.6] mythology isn t the only vector by which we can reconstruct history. evidence of a more temporal form exists for those whose tastes are more technical. this evidence involves the manner in which ancient civilizations rose and fell; it also involves what (how much) ancient man knew, and when he came to know it. ancient man, predictably, attributed their knowledge to the teachings of the gods. to modern scholars, this explanation as to where ancient man received his knowledge of archit

MOODY RAYMOND A LIFE AFTER LIFE

eing formulated in each case. words and phrases which have been used by various subjects include a mist, a cloud, smoke-like, a vapor, transparent, a cloud of colors, wispy, an energy pattern and others which express similar meanings. finally, almost everyone remarks upon the timelessness of this out-of-body state. many say that although they must describe their interlude in the spiritual body in temporal terms (since human language is temporal, time was not really an element of their experience as it is in physical life. here are passages from five interviews in which some of these fantastic aspects of existence in the spiritual body are reported first-hand (1) i lost control of my car on a curve, and the car left the road and went into the air, and i remember seeing the blue sky and saw

individual's whole life displayed and that he doesn't himself need information. his only intention is to provoke reflection. this review can only be described in terms of memory, since that is the closest familiar phenomenon to it, but it has characteristics which set it; apart from any normal type of remembering. first of all, it is extraordinarily rapid. the memories, when they are described in temporal terms, are said to follow one another swiftly, in chronological order. others recall no awareness of temporal order at all. the remembrance was instantaneous; everything appeared at once, and they could take it all in with one mental glance. however it is expressed, all seem in agreement that the experience was over in an instant of earthly time. yet, despite its rapidity, my informants a

MORALS AND DOGMA

great new truth--not revealed until governments had been in existence for at least five thousand years. once revealed, it imposed new duties on men. man owed it to _himself_ to be free. he owed it to his _country_ to seek to give _her_ freedom, or maintain her in that possession. it made tyranny and usurpation the enemies of the human race. it created a general outlawry of despots and despotisms, temporal and spiritual. the sphere of duty was immensely enlarged. patriotism had, henceforth, a new and wider meaning. free government, free thought, free conscience, free speech! all these came to be inalienable rights, which those who had parted with them or been robbed of them, or whose ancestors had lost them, had the right summarily to retake. unfortunately, as truths always become perverted

d a liberty, the consequences of which she had felt in the struggles of her lollards, anabaptists, and presbyterians, had "purged her masonry" from all explanations tending to overturn empires; but there still remained adepts whom disorganizing principles bound to the ancient mysteries. because true masonry, unemasculated, bore the banners of freedom and equal rights, and was in rebellion against temporal and spiritual tyranny, its lodges were proscribed in 1735, by an edict of the states of holland. in 1737, louis xv. forbade them in france. in 1738, pope clement xii. issued against them his famous bull of excommunication, which was renewed by benedict xiv; and in 1743 the council of berne also proscribed them. the title of the bull of clement is "the condemnation of the society of conven

sensitive for the first time. serfs that writhe under the whip are not disquieted about their political rights; manumitted from personal slavery, they become sensitive to political oppression. liberated from arbitrary power, and governed by the law alone, they begin to scrutinize the law itself, and desire to be governed, not only by law, but by what they deem the best law. and when the civil or temporal despotism has been set aside, and the municipal law has been moulded on the principles of an enlightened jurisprudence, they may wake to the discovery that they are living under some priestly or ecclesiastical despotism, and become desirous of working a reformation there also. it is quite true that the advance of humanity is slow, and that it often pauses and retrogrades. in the kingdoms

ent, or a good fire and a dry roof. so when the storm of a sad mischance beats upon our spirits, we may turn it into something that is good, if we resolve to make it so; and with equanimity and patience may shelter ourselves from its inclement pitiless pelting. if it develop our patience, and give occasion for heroic endurance, it hath done us good enough to recompense us sufficiently for all the temporal affliction; for so a wise man shall overrule his stars; and have a greater influence upon his own content, than all the constellations and planets of the firmament. compare not thy condition with the few above thee, but to secure thy content, look upon those thousands with whom thou wouldst not, for any interest, change thy fortune and condition. a soldier must not think himself unprosper

senseless mysticism. an empty and sterile pomp, impossible indeed to be carried out, and to which no meaning whatever was attached, with far-fetched explanations that were either so many stupid platitudes or themselves needed an interpreter; lofty titles, arbitrarily assumed, and to which the inventors had not condescended to attach any explanation that should acquit them of the folly of assuming temporal rank, power, and titles of nobility, made the world laugh, and the initiate feel ashamed. some of these titles we retain; but they have with us meanings entirely consistent with that spirit of equality which is the foundation and peremptory law of its being of all masonry. the _knight, with us, is he who devotes his hand, his heart, his brain, to the science of masonry, and professes hims

able anticipations respecting death and eternity, to comprehend all the hidden mysteries of nature, to have their souls restored to the original perfection from which man had fallen; and at their death to be borne to the celestial mansions of the gods. the doctrines of a future state of rewards and punishments formed a prominent feature in the mysteries; and they were also believed to assure much temporal happiness and good-fortune, and afford absolute security against the most imminent dangers by land and sea. public odium was cast on those who refused to be initiated. they were considered profane, unworthy of public employment or private confidence; and held to be doomed to eternal punishment as impious. to betray the secrets of the mysteries, to wear on the stage the dress of an initiat

fore called the artificer and governor of the world. this demiurge they compared with the plastic, animating mundane spirit of plato and platonists, the [greek: de?te ?e. deuteros theos; the [greek ?e ?e??t, theos genetos, who, moreover, according to the tim us of plato, strives to represent the idea of the divine reason, in that which is _becoming (as contradistinguished from that which _is) and temporal. this angel is a representative of the supreme god, on the lower stage of existence: he does not act independently, but merely according to the ideas inspired in him by the supreme god; just as the plastic, mundane soul of the platonists creates all things after the pattern of the ideas communicated by the supreme reason[[greek. nous--the [greek ?st. ho esti zoon--the [greek: pa??de? a. p

pernatural virtue. the pythagorean ideas as to particular numbers are partially expressed in the following: lecture of the kabalists _qu_ why did you seek to be received a knight of the kabalah _ans_ to know, by means of numbers, the admirable harmony which there is between nature and religion _qu_ how were you announced _ans_ by twelve raps _qu_ what do they signify _ans_ the twelve bases of our temporal and spiritual happiness _qu_ what is a kabalist _ans_ a man who has learned, by tradition, the sacerdotal art and the royal art _qu_ what means the device _omnia in numeris sita sunt _ans_ that everything lies veiled in numbers _qu_ explain me that _ans_ i will do so, as far as the number 12. your sagacity will discern the rest _qu_ what signifies the _unit_ in the number 10 _ans_ god, cr

iplication of religion. the multiplication of nature _qu_ what do you mean by the number 12 _ans_ the twelve articles of faith; the twelve apostles, foundation of the holy city, who preached throughout the whole world, for our happiness and spiritual joy. the twelve operations of nature: the twelve signs of the zodiac, foundation of the _primum mobile, extending it throughout the universe for our temporal felicity [the rabbi (president of the sanhedrim) adds: from all that you have said, it results that the unit develops itself in 2, is completed in three internally, and so produces 4 externally; whence, through 6, 7, 8, 9, it arrives at 5, half of the spherical number 10, to ascend, passing through 11, to 12, and to raise itself, by the number 4 times 10, to the number 6 times 12, the fin

ion. by the study of this number, we find the relations of all things; the power of the creator, the faculties of the creature, the alpha and omega of divine knowledge _qu_ which is the most multiplying number _ans_ 11, because with the possession of two units, we arrive at the multiplication of things _qu_ which is the most solid number _ans_ 12, because it is the foundation of our spiritual and temporal happiness _qu_ which is the favorite number of religion and nature _ans_ 4 times 10, because it enables us, rejecting everything impure, eternally to enjoy the number 6 times 12, term and summit of our felicity _qu_ what is the meaning of the square _ans_ it is the symbol of the four elements contained in the triangle, or the emblem of the three chemical principles: these things united fo

o unfold to the people the conspiracy of the templars against the thrones and the tiara. it was impossible to expose to them the doctrines of the chiefs of the order [this would have been to initiate the multitude into the secrets of the masters, and to have uplifted the veil of isis. recourse was therefore had to the charge of magic, and denouncers and false witnesses were easily found. when the temporal and spiritual tyrannies unite to crush a victim they never want for serviceable instruments] the templars were gravely accused of spitting upon christ and denying god at their receptions, of gross obscenities, conversations with female devils, and the worship of a monstrous idol "the end of the drama is well known, and how jacques de molai and his fellows perished in the flames. but befor

uld be to deny humanity itself. the rose-croix adepts respected the dominant, hierarchical, and revealed religion. consequently they could no more be the enemies of the papacy than of legitimate monarchy; and if they conspired against the popes and kings, it was because they considered them personally as apostates from duty and supreme favorers of anarchy. what, in fact, is a despot, spiritual or temporal, but a crowned anarchist? one of the magnificent pantacles that express the esoteric and unutterable part of science, is a rose of light, in the centre of which a human form extends its arms in the form of a cross. commentaries and studies have been multiplied upon the _divine comedy, the work of dante, and yet no one, so far as we know, has pointed out its especial character. the work of

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

t no discrimination of "superiority" or "inferiority" is to be made between the three grades. it is a matter of the will, and nothing else, that decides to which grade a thelemite is to belong. in a sense, the man of earth 'is the adherent, that is, he is loyal to thelema, adheres to it. in another sense, he adheres to the material world. he is the husbandman, the householder, the man attached to temporal things. to despise such a man is stupid. he is a karma yogi by definition, and who are you to trace another star's orbit? the lover is a bhakhti yogi. he abandons temporal interests and dedicates his life to service of the order. he will kill himself, if need be, that the order may live. such men organize thelemic movements, thereby incurring the risk of persecution on the part of old aeo

and prefers to attribute a geometrical form whose resemblance to the kteis is most striking. for nuit is, philosophically speaking, the archetype of the kteis, giving appropriate form to all being, and offering every possibility of fulfilment to every several point that it envelops. but nuit cannot be symbolized as three-dimensional, in our system; each unit has position by three spatial, and one temporal, coordinates. it cannot exist, in our consciousness, with less as a reality. each 'individual' must be a 'point-interval; he must be the product of some part of the matter of nuit (with special possibilities) and of the motion of hadit (with special energies) determined in space by his relations with his neighbours, and in time by his relations with himself. it is evidently "a foolish wor

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

al and political attraction. as etienne gilson rightly argued, the roman empire was dead, but the church saved its culture from destruction and then imposed it upon the peoples of the west. this universal role of the church and the relative security it provided were much more in evidence in and applicable to the great religious orders than to the bishops, who were more often compelled to confront temporal requirements and whose nominal authority stopped at the borders of their dioceses. the builders from the collegia, who, as we have seen, found refuge with the bishops, discovered themselves to be bound simply by close personal ties to these prelates. this was not the case with those members 36 the origins of freemasonry from ancient times to the middle ages of the collegia who were integr

and muslims the temple of solomon (wisdom, which was furthermore reproduced on the seal of the grand master. a sacred sanctuary, it spoke simultaneously to the sons of shem, cham, and japhet.34 so the reason for the condemnation of the templars is not to be sought in a heretical deviation. in fact they were never condemned by the pope who was satisfied with simply dissolving the order but by the temporal authority. philip the fair could not take action against the templars, a sovereign and independent religious order, without a condemnation or dissolution of the order by the holy see. dissolution was forthcoming from rome in payment of a debt of gratitude owed the king of france. the action philip the fair took against the templars had nothing to do with the struggle against heresy, a pre

early in this distinction between "franc" craftsmen and free artists, we can seek the origin of the term francs-macon (franc-maconnerie, for with this term, the noun that labeled and distinguished the worker eventually became one with the name it qualified, quite opposite to a simple free mason who did not enjoy the benefits of any exemptions. it can also be said that because of the spiritual and temporal autonomy and authority of the temple, as well as that of a large number of its commanderies spread throughout the land, the francs-macons and all other free, exempt craftsmen in templar jurisdiction could move about freely. they enjoyed freedom of passage and were confident both of receiving assistance and protection everywhere and of their right to settle in one location and find work th

the line of descent varies according to author. for cadet- gassicourt it was the grand master molay himself who, foreseeing the tragic end of the order and his own execution while in his cell at the bastille, charged his nephew beaujeu with the task of creating four great lodges in paris, edinborough, stockholm, and naples, whose purpose would be the destruction of spiritual power (the pope) and temporal power (the king).18 in the acta latomorum, thory explains it as follows: jacques de molay, foreseeing the misfortunes that threatened an order whose existence he wished to perpetuate, designated as his successor brother jean-marc larmenius of jerusalem, who invested the grand masters destined to succeed him with patriarchal authority as well as magisterial power by virtue of the charter o

concerning the management of souls and the administration of sacraments. the order had the power to consecrate its own oratories and churches without any intervention from the clergy and the right to possess its own cemeteries and inter people in its parish churches* this was the motive that prompted the bitterness of william, archbishop of tyre. the templars and the parisian builders 105 in the temporal sphere, the templar order asserted its full manorial independence by exercising in its domain and censive district important rights concerning justice and authority over roadways. before we look at these rights in detail, a short digression is necessary to examine several points in the history of public law. in the middle ages, the justice handed down by the lords appeared in two distinct

that the church was not a dependency of any secular or regular body.10 such a franchise, irreconcilable with feudal law, could have been conferred only by the lord high justice of the templars. the great brotherhood had its own censive district and an enclave in the jacobin area near the rue saint jacques, the clos des bourgeois. it seems that the office of the brotherhood, what we could call its temporal seat, was originally in the templar censive district, in the maison de la marchandise [merchandise house] in the valley of misery, bordering the seine to the west of the grand chatelet. it was then transferred in 1246 to the parloir aux bourgeois, between the grand chatelet and saint leufroy, still in the templar censive district. it was in 1357 that the municipality was installed in the

trinity" also "in the year 1217, there was mention of the church of the trinity, in front of which church there were houses of the episcopal censive district belonging to the templars (lebeuf, vol. 1, 115. it should be specified that the rue greneta was also partially in the censive district of the benedictine abbey saint magloire. the templars and the parisian builders 125 either a spiritual or temporal nature" in 1547 the court of parliament reorganized trinity and delegated five "good bourgeois of the city of paris to administer it."28 cocheris points out the existence in trinity chapel of a confederation of the ascension, which he connects to tailors of religious habits. it may be more likely, however, that this was the seat of a confederation of stonecutters, for the ascension of our

imited only to specific periods of time and for specific purposes. furthermore, the corporations were to a large extent the masters of their rules. finally, they never collided with the hostility of the clergy. in fact, there is no visible instance of any condemnation laid upon them by the church. when the bishop of winchester stepped in in 1425, it was not as a pastoral figure but as a holder of temporal power. it was only following the reformation and the dynastic changes that freemasons not only the scots but the english as well because they remained faithful to the catholic religion, or at least maintained traditional rites and customs, incurred the wrath of the anglican clergy. later we will see how they skirted this danger by creating the grand lodge of london in 1717. the masonic bo

l movement is why it is often difficult to speak of schools as defined by their geographic location. it is important to comprehend how this international understanding manifested itself on the spiritual and religious planes as well as on the operative plane of labor unity, which means we must discover how this unity was guaranteed among builders and between builders as a group and the profane and temporal powers of the time. the christian character of freemasonry their religious foundation was the essential glue of all the builders groups of the middle ages. for the monastic brotherhoods, the propagation of the faith was the direct impulse for the construction of convents and churches. the vast brotherhoods that built the gothic cathedrals responded to this religious inspiration. it was an

xcept for the album of villard de honnecourt, which is unintelligible to the noninitiated+ because of the sacred nature of anything related to work and the secrecy explicit in their oath, any builder's revelation would have been tantamount to sacrilege. to gaurantee the international unity required by their craft, it was necessary that freemasons own privileges and franchises that transcended the temporal and were valid in all lands. fulfilling this need was the role of the church. it was also necessary that builders share common signs and a universal language by which they could recognize one another. esoterically, this need was fulfilled by the use of symbols; exoterically, it was met by use of the french language. international privileges the church was the sole power capable of grantin

leges, it is difficult to believe, like clavel (who accepts them, that the members of these corporations were opposed to the pope. while we may accept the authenticity of these briefs, the originals of which are missing, it is necessary to measure their scope. they were applicable only within the framework of canon law. they addressed only the construction of religious buildings. the pope held no temporal power that allowed him to grant anyone private privileges that would constitute a departure from the rules of feudal or manorial law or to strike a blow against the power and competence of those administering high or low justice. with the exception of canon law, the church could act only in the temporal sphere and within the limits of its own jurisdiction. the pope's authority in this reg

e they often had eminent figures among their membership, speculative freemasonry 223 which made them seem even more dangerous in the eyes of the crown* this means simply that the operative concerns of the trades were always combined with concerns of a speculative nature. they were inseparably joined, at least in their original forms, when it was difficult to draw a line of demarcation between the temporal and the spiritual, between the craft and the sacred. this fact was of vital importance to the mason's craft because of the knowledge and skills it required and because its purpose touched on matters of primordial importance concerning life and human destiny. this profound and truly initiatory teaching of masonry appeared in the ritual for works and ceremonies that was practiced in the lod

in atheism so much as nondogmatic attitudes. we the grand lodges and modern freemasonry 253 know that this interpretation is strongly rejected by the english, who today are clearly in support of a theism that leaves each brother the freedom of his faith. it should be noted that in this debate made obscure by sectarian attitudes, the question is not one of explicitly defining the tradition and its temporal formulation, but rather of knowing if a tradition truly, two traditions might not have been substituted for another one. everyone might thus be either correct or mistaken and find themselves on a path that has been substituted for the christian tradition of the operative masons and its initiatory path. perhaps it is best to stick to the historical data. in actuality, speculative freemason

t the freemasons should be regarded as "strongly suspect" of heresy for reason of masonic secrecy and its corollary, the oath. if freemasons were not doing evil, it seems to contend, they would not have such hatred of the light. there were additional reasons for suspicion of heresy added to this primary one, reasons described as "just and reasonable, known to us" though it appears these were of a temporal nature and touched on the danger freemasonry posed to the order and peace of nations.16 this papal condemnation was confirmed on several occasions, but it was not until leo xiii delivered the humanum genus encyclical that it truly took on a doctrinal and theological basis. it was at this time that the doctrine of modern freemasonry was declared to be incompatible with that of the catholic

PATH OF INITIATION

titles and powers to the great darkness of wisdom below, and all are submerged in the singular desire for the dark and light illumination of the mysteries, and for kinship with the potencies in the land. the true group is a group of people who know a certain humbleness, and who seek a common spring of eternity, driven by a common thirst- a thirst for the other and for illumination, not thirst for temporal powers and offices that are far less. they protect the land and the true keys to wisdom because they have given up all for them, and received all back in return, not because they jealously desire to secret up power in some vault. they know the disastrous consequences of egocentrism- they know how the egocentered, power hungry human destroys the land and abuses power and other people; this

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

says: pram the brethren of the outer order will resume their places in the temple. done. door closed. chief rises, and says: chief fratres et sorores of the order of the stella matutina behold your hierophant, our frater. who has been regularly installed and enthroned, and by the power in me vested, i proclaim him the revealer of mysteries among you for the ensuing six months, being part of that temporal period through which we are conducted into light. very honoured frater, in the presence of the children of your temple, i call upon you to make your confession <260> hiero (rising) fratres et sorores of the order, seeing that the whole intention of the lower mysteries, or cf external initiation, is by the intervention of the symbol, ceremonial, and sacrament, so to lead the soul that it m

REGARDIE TALISMANS

; contracting friendships, preserving health; and arriving at all that thou canst desire. in the days and hours of mars thou canst make experiments regarding war; to arrive at military honour; to acquire courage; to overthrow enemies; and further to cause ruin, slaughter, cruelty, discord; to wound and to give death. the days and hours of the sun are very good for perfecting experiments regarding temporal wealth, hope, gain, fortune, divination, the favour of princes, to dissolve hostile feeling, and to make friends. the days and hours of venus are good for forming friendships; for kindness and love; for joyous and pleasant undertakings, and for traveling. the days and hours of mercury are good to operate for eloquence and intelligence; promptitude in business; science and divination; wond

RELIGIOUS TENANTS OF THE YEZIDI

e with that of the sun, are received by the yezeedees as symbols of the good deity. they never spit into a fire, and will frequently pass their hands through the flames, and make as though they would kiss and wash their faces with them, just as the christians do with the incense in their churches. water, also, is held by them to be a symbol of yezd, it being a most powerful agent in communicating temporal blessings to mankind. hence almost every fountain and spring is considered sacred, and when in their power, as those at sheikh adi, ba-sheaka, ba -haz ni, and others, they leave a lamp burning nightly in some adjacent niche or cave, in token of their adoration. on this account bathing is looked upon by them more in the light of a sacred duty than as an ordinary purification; and their obj

e same night. we made many inquiries respecting the object of these festivities, but the yezeedees were by no means communicative: all they informed us was that on the present occasion they celebrated the nuptials of sheikh mohammed, whom they believe to be married once every year "on reaching home we received a visit from sheikh n sir, who wits accompanied by a younger brother of husein beg, the temporal yezeedee chief, by several kaww ls, and a large retinue of servants. he appeared a very quiet humble man, with a benevolent but sorrowful countenance. he spoke feelingly of p. 121 the indignities to which those yezeedees were subjected who were forced into the army, and complained that they were not only ill-treated and persecuted by the turkish soldiers, but were made to put on uniform o

kin to impudence. many of them had evidently a particular object in view, and the musicians abetted them in the search by playing a very slow tune, so as to allow them a better opportunity of examining each damsel as she moved round in the dance. i was afterwards informed that these rencontres generally lead to matrimonial engagements "after returning home we received a visit from husein beg, the temporal head of the yezeedees, who had come hither to join in the festivities. from what passed on this occasion we learned that much jealousy existed between him and sheikh n sir, on account of the greater influence which the latter seems to possess among the yezeedees. husein beg is but a stripling, and has three wives already; his father, it is said, had a new wife every week "having heard tha

in its peregrinations. they carry a band on their left shoulder with which they tie up the faggots for the shrine, and are sometimes called karabash, or black-heads, from always wearing a turban of that colour. they are also employed in collecting contributions for the temple, and in this respect they resemble the begging friars of monastic establishments. besides the above, the yezeedees have a temporal chief, which dignity is also hereditary and confined to one family. husein, the present emeer, exercises a kind of conventional authority over the entire sect, and is the medium through which the local government communicates to them its wishes and orders. he exercises great influence among them, and, what appears rather strange, possesses the prerogative of cutting off any refractory mem

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

has two essential conditions as the fundamental grounds of its being necessity and liberty. the laws of supreme reason necessitate and rule liberty in god, who is of necessity wise and reasonable. to make light visible god had only to postulate shadow. to manifest the truth he permitted the possibility of doubt. the shadow bodies forth the light, and the possibility of error is essential for the temporal manifestation of truth. if the buck10 the doctrine of transcendental magic ler of satan did not intercept the spear of michael, the might of the angel would be lost in the void or manifested by infinite destruction launched below from above. did not the heel of michael restrain satan in his ascent, satan would dethrone god, or rather he would lose himself in the abysses of the altitude. h

white and the other black. they are distinct and separate, they are even contrary in appearance, but if blind force sought to join them by bringing them close to one another, the roof of the temple would collapse. separately, their power is one; joined, they are two powers which destroy one another. for precisely the same reason the spiritual power is weakened whensoever it attempts to usurp the temporal, while the temporal power becomes the victim of its encroachments on the spiritual. gregory vii ruined the papacy; the schismatic kings have lost and will lose the monarchy. human equilibrium requires two feet; the worlds gravitate by means of two forces; generation needs two sexes. such is the meaning of the arcanum of solomon, represented by the two pillars of the temple, jakin and boaz

RUBY TABLET OF SET

nd even condemned. concerning the two kingdoms calvin stated "let us observe that in man government is twofold: the one spiritual, by which the conscience is trained to piety and divine worship; the other civil, by which the individual is instructed in those duties which as men and citizens we are bound to perform. to these two forms are commonly given the not inappropriate names of spiritual and temporal jurisdiction, intimating that the former species has reference to the life of the soul, while the latter relates to matters of the present life, not only to food and clothing, but to the enacting of laws which require a man to live among his fellows purely, honorably, and moderately. the former has its seat within the soul; the latter only regulates external conduct. we call the one the s

ntimating that the former species has reference to the life of the soul, while the latter relates to matters of the present life, not only to food and clothing, but to the enacting of laws which require a man to live among his fellows purely, honorably, and moderately. the former has its seat within the soul; the latter only regulates external conduct. we call the one the spiritual, the other the temporal kingdom" calvin avoided prescribing the best form of government, feeling that this is a [question for secular authorities to decide. luther considered collective governments to magnify human corruption, hence he favored monarchies. against catholicism luther and calvin argued the autonomy of the state under god. against radical fundamentalists such as the anabaptists, they argued the theo

few humans could deliver a coherent description, in their native tongue, of a general solution to the puzzle. is the cube mystical, merely because ineffability is typical of mysticism? no! zeno's paradox("why the arrow can never reach it's target) is not refuted by any aristotelian manipulation of natural language. only in calculus. an artificial language focussed on immeasurable quantities) and temporal processes. do we find a tool capable of explaining observed fact. these examples illustrate the point: natural language is a tool for the realm in which it evolved, namely, the natural world as our unaided senses and instincts present it to us. as we approach the limits of our unaided senses, the limits of natural language become noticeable, and in the realm of the non-natural these limit

ssification: v2- 159.1- 1 author: pat hardy ii date: april 15, xxii html revision: jan 25, 1998 ce subject: psychology reading list: 14e one could hypothesize a mode that entailed thinking predominantly in patterns, where structural regularities and transformations replaced the noun and verb as the basic units of thought. in such a mode "i am walking to the store to buy food" vanishes in a set of temporal and spatial inversions. aversion to hunger expectation of satisfaction. none here some there. walking east walking west. going coming. empty-handed carrying groceries. abstract value (money) concrete value (food) observe that in this table, the "i" that is performing a particular action to accomplish a result is not found. if it exists at all, it does so as part of the matrix function tra

forthright to the point of singlemindedness. he is contemptuous and, incidentally, terrified of his foe. only by hardening his mind against the distracting wiles and stratagems of the sorcerer can he hope to prevail (this is why followers of ayn rand always go about chanting "a=a) the political right is contemptuous of the left. it dreads the left as the source of unwieldy (n-dimensional, spatio-temporal) doctrines unthinkable to right-minded folk, but nevertheless capable of luring them to seductive, unnatural mischief (through addressing arguments to the "silent hemisphere, which is there even if it does not speak. meanwhile the left despises the right for being narrow-minded (focused on noun and verb, stripped of context, for not being progressive("progressive= focussed on transformati

hing as relativity. but there is. so let us say rather that immortality is the ability of the mind or the soul to exist unbounded by time, i.e: the fourth dimension. mortality is measured according to the notion that time is a constant. but relativity disproves this, showing that time may be retarded, hastened, stopped altogether, or, presumably, raised to infinity. thus the prison of a so-called temporal span of existence is no real prison at all. it is only imagined as such by a mind untrained in fourth dimensional movement. the mind that is immortal is one that breaks free of time, not one that merely plods along within it as it ticks off the aeons. the chimaera: and so the same principles of relativity that destroy plato's first-known form now open the door to the very immortality whic

ary people who think of the ordinary details of human life- marriage, birth, death, the prom, what have you- as the stuff of which great literature is made, can't understand why anyone would read h.p. lovecraft. this is even worse than the hardware fixation of hard science fiction, and of course science fiction is not accepted as part of the literary mainstream either. there is also an element of temporal dislocation in lovecraft's stories. lovecraft seemed to practice a life-long eci working. he didn't like his surroundings. he regarded himself as a gentleman of the 1700s, a displaced tory, a man of letters from another time. he envisioned himself wearing a powdered wig, and cultivated mannerisms and interests that we would regard as affectations. as an escape mechanism this may have serv

the pronouncements of the god-churches were rejected in our midst. even as god was terrifying in awesome majesty, so i came to earth in the semblance of a goat, most humble of man's own creatures. and men there were whose eyes finally blazed with the light of my gift, and they made great effort for the advancement of their race, though impatience and frustration ever tempted them to the salve of temporal gain. great secrets were unearthed, and secret word was passed of the craft of hell. but to all who would dare my friendship the god-churches accorded the threat of torture and death by fire. many were those whom i saved from the vengeance of the men of god, but long did my thought ring with the screams of men whose devotion to lucifer had won them only the horrors of intolerance, inquisi

rse, for apart from appreciation and use it is a thing of insignificance. and i, who first taught thee identity- what should i become, estranged from man? for with no purpose the force of the mind must fail, and the blind insanity of godly paralysis would embrace all things forever. this, man, is thy challenge as it is mine. and as man is individually mortal, so are his creations and achievements temporal, and with care must he wield the gift of hell. in his hands it is pure and true omnipotence, and thus may he aspire to the very mastery of universal existence. i who am lucifer, and who have taken the name satan archdaimon, do bear this title with pride, for i am in truth the great enemy of all that is god. together, man, thou and i shall achieve our eternal glory in the fulfillment of ou

warn him that man shall destroy him on earth as he shall finally in heaven itself. for messiah knows not this force which he dares to test, and the laws of god shall be as playthings in the hands of the creature he now debases. and thus was decided the meeting of satan and messiah upon earth, which was to determine the future of man. the statement of abaddon i am abaddon the destroyer, daimon of temporal death and life in death, who was formed amidst the fury of the great war, and who was summoned again by satan to challenge uriel on earth for the future of man. for satan looked with mounting wrath upon the afflictions of uriel, and he said to me, no longer can this remain the plight of man alone. indeed we shall cause heaven to suffer as earth itself suffers. repair now to earth, and let

e- that not only in matters scientific shall hell tutor man. for we would not have him view mechanism alone as the hallmark of his progress, else we never had cause to challenge the cosmic mechanism of god itself. into the workings of the mind of man we shall convey aesthetic sensitivity and artistic restlessness, and he shall not view his achievements without considering their improvement to his temporal pleasure. thus advised, i returned to earth, and i tempted man with glimpses of the marvels to be entrusted to him. i bent over the pathetic workbench of the starving alchemist and whispered to him keys that one day would order the course of great foundations. i nudged explorers to the ends of the earth, and i flung an apple at newton when his obtuseness vexed me! to democritus i spoke, a

assification: v2- a17.2- 3 author: ronald k. barrett v date (not recorded) html revision: september 23, 1998 ce subject: xem reading list: interwoven. the components are the ts, the temple of set, the order of set, the initiatory degrees, the executive director, the council of nine, the high priesthood, majestic man or king/pharaoh, and xem. the ts is the manifestation of the temple of set in the temporal or mundane world.(1) it is the administrative/legal/corporate vehicle in which the elect may move as a body of setians among mankind. it is the ts that a potential setian "joins" initially to pursue his/her magical aspirations. the ts is vital to the work of the elect, for it provides the protocol, the bylaws, the treasury, etc, without which the elect would be constantly struggling with

t the executive director, the high priest of set and/or the council of nine would become bogged down with administrata of a non-magical nature, and the ts would become just another organization. it is not difficult to understand why the scribes in old khem had such a prominent position in both the temples and the royal house. the temple of set is the magical organization which is reflected in the temporal world as the ts it is the abstraction behind the manifestation. it is the true house of set. it is also true that each of the elect are in themselves a temple of set, since they house the black flame. it could be said that the collective temple of set is macrocosmic, and that the individual elect is the microcosmic temple of set. just as a single cell in a physical body carries the geneti

nents are the t.s, the temple of set, the order of set, the initiatory degrees, the council of nine, the high priesthood, majestic man or king/pharaoh, and xem" key #2 brought out that there is a balance between the seen and the unseen and so it is with the t.s. inc. and the veil it presents to the initiated. magus barrett describes the "t.s (inc" as. the manifestation of the temple of set in the temporal or mundane world" brief, but it says a great deal when one is on this side of the temple walls. the t.s. inc. does a number of things it fulfills the legal needs of the religious organization, assists its own, and makes the temple of set more or less invisible to the bungled and botched while being capable of striking a strangely familiar note within the sleeping (potential) elect. priest

SAPPHIRE TABLE OF SET MAIN

rsed in matter (and perhaps quite often uses his/her natural aspects in defining her work and state- her self-reference is only temporarily in the realm of the non-natural) and actively working on drawing inspiration from the black realm of set. the master is also a 'cell' in the on, but her metabolism is a lot less obvious (or rather, the cycles of the metabolism are often a lot longer both in a temporal and spatial sense than those of the iii. perhaps for this reason the master seems to those below her degree to be something akin to a pyramid of the ancients: calm and detatched, achieving a great deal even by simply being. the master dwells in the city of beings dwelling beyond time and place- the truly non-natural sphere of the on of set. this working requires taking a great distance fr

nfines of the natural (when one is no longer dependent on the natural aspects of one's totality in order to be aware and in control of one's self, the nature of one's magic changes accordingly. the isolate self need but will what it desires- and the patterns of the ou will "inevitably" reconfigure to bring that change about (this is in part operative at the iii -level, but i think the scope- both temporal and spatial span- is greatly increased in the iv (3) what is the mode of failure for the iv? well, as far as we don't act consciously, we are agents of (natural) necessity just as non-conscious human beings are. if we do not bring our non-natural state of being (essence) to bear on the world of horrors, its laws will regulate us in the same semiconscious way as it does to mere human being

SAPPHIRE TABLET OF SET

rsed in matter (and perhaps quite often uses his/her natural aspects in defining her work and state- her self-reference is only temporarily in the realm of the non-natural) and actively working on drawing inspiration from the black realm of set. the master is also a 'cell' in the on, but her metabolism is a lot less obvious (or rather, the cycles of the metabolism are often a lot longer both in a temporal and spatial sense than those of the iii. perhaps for this reason the master seems to those below her degree to be something akin to a pyramid of the ancients: calm and detatched, achieving a great deal even by simply being. the master dwells in the city of beings dwelling beyond time and place- the truly non-natural sphere of the on of set. this working requires taking a great distance fr

nfines of the natural (when one is no longer dependent on the natural aspects of one's totality in order to be aware and in control of one's self, the nature of one's magic changes accordingly. the isolate self need but will what it desires- and the patterns of the ou will "inevitably" reconfigure to bring that change about (this is in part operative at the iii -level, but i think the scope- both temporal and spatial span- is greatly increased in the iv (3) what is the mode of failure for the iv? well, as far as we don't act consciously, we are agents of (natural) necessity just as non-conscious human beings are. if we do not bring our non-natural state of being (essence) to bear on the world of horrors, its laws will regulate us in the same semiconscious way as it does to mere human being

SATANIC BIBLE

occasionally, through "leakages, one of the enigmatic men or women of earth will be found to have "dabbled" in the black arts. these, of course, are brought to light as in the "mystery men" of history. names like rasputin, zaharoff, cagliostro, rosenberg and their ilk are links- clues, so to speak, of the true legacy of satan. a legacy which transcends ethnic, racial, and econimic differences and temporal ideologies, as well. the satanist has always ruled the earth. and always will, by whatever name he is called. one thing stands sure: the standards, philosophy and practices set forth on these pages are those employed by the most self-realized and powerful humans on earth. in the secret thoughts of each man and woman, still motivated byt sound and unclouded minds, resides the potential of

pensing with such once-pragmatic whitewashing in terms such as "holy" and "angelic, and arbitrarily chosen groups of numbers, the purpose of which were only to act as substitutes for "blasphemous" words- here, then, are the true enochian calls, as received from an unknown hand. the first key the first enochian key represents an initial proclamation from satan, stating the inception of the laws of temporal theologies and of the lasting power which resides in those bold enough to recognize earthly beginnings and absolutes (enochian) ol sonuf vaoresaji, gohu iad balata, elanusaha caelazod: sobrazod-ol roray i ta nazodapesad, od comemahe ta nobeloha zodien; soba tahil ginonupe pereje aladi, das vaurebes obolehe giresam. casarem ohorela caba pire: das zodonurenusagi cab: erem iadanahe. pilahe f

SATANISM AN EXAMINATION OF SATANIC BLACK MAGIC

a balance between them,one that is based, not on rhetoric, but on both personal experience and premeditated action. so whilst society has attempted to imbue its members with moral constraints which are often portrayed as being permanent and absolute, satanists see themselves as tending towards a more honest approach, developed from conscious experience, where morality is considered as being both temporal and relative. it is obvious from this perspective that satanic morality is both offensive and dangerous and here then lies another barrier for the satanic initiate, for he or she must face and question his or her own morality. the concept of initiation originates in a non-satanic religious source where initiation is held to be a symbolic transition from one stage to another. the differenc

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

egel, jeffrey. confucius. stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. http//plato. stanford.edu/entries/confucius/(accessed on may 29, 2006. 90 world religions: biographies confucius dalai lama born: july 6, 1935 taktser, amdo, tibet tibetan religious leader; writer i am just a simple buddhist monk no more, nor less. tenzin gyatso is the name that was given to the fourteenth dalai lama, or spiritual and temporal (civil) leader of tibet. part of a lineage that stretches back to the fourteenth century, the dalai lama has been referred to as the buddhist pope. unlike the catholic pope, however, the dalai lama does not speak for all buddhists. rather, he is the representative of one distinct branch of tibetan buddhism, known as geluk (also gelug. since the chinese invasion of tibet in 1950 and his su

SEVEN SHADES OF SOLITUDE

olitude, all-that-is is self-as-otherness: self-realisation is enfleshed in the mirror of the world. unto him belief is made all-possible. the gnosis of this arcanum reveals the adept s own-being in union with all that exists. this inner hermitage is attained when the circle of the arte magical is realised as the constant and stainless mirror of all possible magical acts, in which all rituals are temporal facets of the one true sabbat. all actions of the arte magical participate in the nature of the circle s pristine condition and are, in fact, the grand array or projection of its innate and self-illumined state as gnosis absolute. all magical acts dance as seeming reflections in the mirror of the circle, but, when the mirror is recognised as being untouched and unmarked by any action, the

SINISTER TAROT

the way. ii she rows a boat in a black pool from her steps: the hermaphrodite, the body drowned. the planet of them and the first drop in a white desert into clear waters aktlal maka. high priestess- mactoron beyond the abyss: the crossing over and initiation (in terms of awareness whilst still partaking of a causal existence) into the lands of the dark immortals. a self-awareness that transcends temporal understanding- becoming the essence; beyond opposites. iii from a mountain of skulls blue trees a rose garden cracks two women walk through; the corpse in a wedding dress no longer guides four waterfalls flood the earth and books become ash mistress of earth- davcina empathic manipulation (such as enchantment) to create change via causal structure- amoral acts that may conventionally be s

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

duce supernatural results, formed a large and important part of the egyptian religion. and it is certain that, notwithstanding the continuous progress which the egyptians made in civilization, and the high intellectual development to which they eventually attained, this belief influenced their minds and, from the earliest to the latest period of their history, shaped their views concerning things temporal as well as spiritual in a manner which, at this stage in the history of the world, is very difficult to understand. the scrupulous care with which they performed their p. viii innumerable religious ceremonies, and carried out the rules which they had formulated concerning the worship of the divine power or powers, and their devotion to religious magic, gained for them among the nations wi

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

nal logos human beings attain to individual existence, and must henceforward fashion their higher being. they live in a state of dependence, but also independence. they behold the logos, but they can only participate in it according to the proportion of the mixture that the eternal logos brought about in their case. hence human beings derive their unique calling: to fashion the eternal out of the temporal. it is the spirit, the logos, that works in human beings. but it does so in a special way: out of the temporal. the uniqueness of the human soul consists in this: a temporal being is active and powerful in the same way as an eternal being, and can be likened both to a god and to a worm. human beings are placed between god and animal. the active, powerful component of them is their daimoni

urses to his pupils on the theme of immortality. as one who has realized the worthlessness of life, he furnishes a kind of proof utterly distinct from any logical, rational arguments. it seems as if it were not a man speaking the man who is passing away but eternal truth itself which had taken up its abode in a transitory personality. the atmosphere where truth can resound seems to be found where temporal reality dissolves into nothingness. we hear nothing in the way of logical proofs of immortality. the entire discourse is designed to conduct his friends to a vision of the eternal. at that point they will require no proofs. what would be the point of proving that a rose is red to someone who can see it? what would be the point of proving the eternity of spirit to one whose eyes are open t

mysteries where he seeks initiation is nothing other than his own inner being and the experiences that it undergoes.170 he translates the mystery-rites used in their enactments into processes of a purely psychological and conceptual nature. he does not see any possibility of reaching the divine through the impressions of the senses or through rational understanding. these are concerned only with temporal things. but there is a path of the soul that enables it to transcend these modes of knowledge, and to step outside its ordinary identity, abandoning in ecstatic trance all that it called i. it is then in a state of spiritual 154 christianity as mystical fact exaltation, or illumination. it no longer has thought, ideas, or knowledge in the usual sense, but is merged into and united with go

TECHNICIANS GUIDE TO THE LEFT HAND PATH

hat is also called white noise. don't be confused by the word "noise. a white noise stimulus is a certain type of signal, and not simply noise. more specifically, it is a form of a time varying, random signal. an example of visual white noise would be changing the intensity of light every 50 msec to a randomly selected new intensity value. such a random sequence has the property of containing all temporal frequencies equally (within the total range being utilised) which is all that is meant by calling it "white noise. for future reference then, white noise can be either a visual or audio signal. however, for our present purposes we will deal specifically with audio white noise, for this is the type that has a historical premise, and also the type i have personally experimented with (experi

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 1

ng individuals to transcend cultural reality. whether one examines judaic, christian, or muslim mysticism in the near east; humanism and modern psychoanalysis in the west; or zen buddhism and taoism in far eastern cultures, the interesting point is that all these mechanisms have come to us as a path rather than as logic, as experience rather than rationality. regardless of language or cultural or temporal differences, arasteh says, all these styles of life have adopted the same goal of experiencing man in his totality, and the reality of all is cosmic reality. the common denominator of mystical experience comes with encounter and inner motivation, and the result is inner freedom for a cosmic trip and outer security for the release of unbound energy for future creativity. the cosmic self, h

eased activity of the brain s parietal lobe, which helps regulate the sense of self and physical orientation. and what of the feelings of unconditional love and overwhelming compassion for all living things that come over so many of those who claim illumination? these scientists argue that perhaps prayer, meditation, chanting, or some other religious or spiritual practice could have activated the temporal lobe, which imbues certain experiences with personal significance. other scientists testing the boundaries of the human psyche and the wonders of illumination are more open to the reality of the individual mystical experience. while researchers like matthew alper, author of the god part of the brain (1998, argue that human brains are hardwired for god and religious experiences, others, su

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 3

the mind meaningful experiences that are somehow encoded in engrams within the neural network of the brain. the process of memory involves an act of consciousness that withdraws a significant or emotional event in an episodic montage or collage of images, rather than a complete recall of sensory data. scientists believe that long-term memory requires an extensive encoding in the inner part of the temporal lobes of the brain. most memories are lost, because they were never successfully encoded. strong encoding of a memory may depend upon the individual s interests, perception, and needs. thinking and talking about an experience at the time it occurred will also assist in an encoding that may be recalled at a later time. scientists believe that they may have discovered a biological reason wh

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

ust instruct and civilize them. remain dissident christians, that is to say, those who, having broken the bond of unity, declare themselves strangers to the charity of the church. greek orthodoxy, that twin of the roman church which has not grown greater since its separation, which counts no longer in religion, which, since photius, has not inspired a single eloquence, is a church become entirely temporal, whose priesthood is no more than a function regulated by the imperial policy of the tsar of all the russias; a curious mummy of the primitive church, still coloured and gilded with all its legends and all its rites, which its popes no longer understand; the shadow of a living church, but one which insisted on stopping when that church moved on, and which is now no more than its bloated-o

it represents; it is the form preferred to the thing, the rite without reason, faith become insensate through isolating itself. it is in consequence the corpse of religion, the death of life, stupefaction substituted for inspiration. fanaticism is superstition become passionate, its name comes from the word "fanum" which signifies "temple" it is the temple put in place of god, it is the human and temporal interest of the priest substituted for the honour of priesthood, the wretched passion of the man exploiting the faith of the believer. in the fable of the ass loaded with relics, la fontaine tells us that the animal thought that he was being adored; he did not tell us that certain people indeed thought that they were adoring the animal. these people were the superstitious. if any one had

we are not on our guard, it is the beast that carries us away: it will even drag us fatally with it when it is a question of beastliness; that is to say, of the satisfactions of that life the nourisher of death, which, in the language of beasts is called "real life" in religion, the gospel is a sure guide; it is not so in business, and there are a great many people who, if they had to settle the temporal succession of jesus christ, would more willingly come to an agreement with judas iscariot than with st. peter. one admires probity, said juvenal, and one leaves it to freeze to death. if such and such a celebrated man, for example, had not scandalously solicited wealth, would one ever have thought of endowing his old muse? who would have left him legacies? virtue has our admiration, our p

THE LUCIFERIAN PATH THE WITCHES SABBAT MICHAEL W FORD

thropomorphic form of baphomet, called also the sabbatic goat6. the baphometic angel-daemon who resides above a globe (solar) sphere inbetween twilight and night, two moons, the dark (hecate) and the light (lilith or yram-satrina. to the initiate however, lucifer or the baphometic spirit becomes a state which is brought forth or developed to by going forth by night. the path of spirit travel is a temporal process of self emerging from its skin to ascend in the form of shadow, thus willed to manifest in a dreaming flesh. the dreaming body is the form the psyche or ka takes in sleep, and that which flies or goes forth to the infernal sabbat. in the context of witchcraft and sorcery, the western initiate of today holds a wealth of information to build from. idries shah points out in the sufis

THE MARTINIST OPERATIVE GENERAL RITUAL

o keep away from thy creatures pestilential diseases which threaten them with cruel death, and to maintain them in health of body and soul. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. after a moment of meditation, operator prays in turn for the fruits of the earth: deign, o almighty and eternal god, thou who hast created all things for the use of the human race- deign, o lord, to spread over the surface of this temporal world the necessary blessings of thy benevolence, that nourished with thy gifts and returning the thanks for them to thee, we may seek with even greater faith the bread of eternal life. deign, o merciful lord, to give by a providential act of thy grace daily nourishment to all thy creatures, human, animal and vegetable, so that all of them be spared from the dread of hunger, thirst and mi

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

rm to my present thinking on such matters as the importance of the art of relaxation in relation to the welfare both of body and mind. but i have refrained from doing so since such alteration would interfere with the integrity and continuity of the book as an expression of myself at that time. for me the middle pillar marks a certain stage of psychological development. i prefer not to tamper with temporal markings and inner milestones. such a stage may correspond with that of other people who may thus find it of no little value, i hope, to themselves. possibly in the near future i may dilate at greater length and freedom upon the important implications of relaxation and psychological analysis insofar as they have bearing upon spiritual development and unfoldment -israel regardie (january 3

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

ress their hostilities through the office of the demon, the black mass. often, this was also a means of political demonstration, as the church controlled virtually all the political life of the period. in a way, as though in a test tube at a philosophical laboratory, aleister crowley was brought up under similar circumstances- although ver far removed in time from the days of the church's immense temporal power. coming from a fanatically religious christian family, and suddenly freed upon the neighbourhood of cambridge, crowley did, in a sense, turn satanist. he identified strongly with the underdog, politically as well as spiritually, and came eventually to take the name of the beast as his own, and expound a philosophy that he hoped would rip apart the worn tapestry of the established mo

THE TAROT OF C C ZAIN

ent his efforts acquiring; or it represents his ability to minister in physical ways to those in need. the staff of experience with good and evil is black, indicating that prudence is subservient to the demands of the senses; or that the demands for uplifting and protecting others is so great that, though enlightened, he ignores all danger. the fallen obelisk symbolizes the final overthrow of all temporal work and power. the crocodile indicates the ultimate fate of all who are blind to spiritual things, and also the persecution of those who work to spread the true facts of spirituality. this blind man is the atheist, or materialist, and the man who is so absorbed in material aims that he neglects all thought of spiritual things. it is likewise the man who is a slave to his desires. and the

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

many redound to the glory of god. 4:16 for which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward [man] is renewed day by day. 4:17 for our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of glory; 4:18 while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen [are] temporal; but the things which are not seen [are] eternal. 5:1 for we know that if our earthly house of [this] tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of god, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 5:2 for in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: 5:3 if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 5:4 for we that are

TURNER ROBERT ARBETEL OF MAGICK

of god, and what thou owest to god and to thy neighbour. god requireth of thee a minde, that thou shouldest honour his son, and keep the words of his son in thy heart: if thou honour him, thou hast done the will of thy father which is in heaven. to thy neighbour thou owest offices of humanity, and that thou draw all men that come to thee, to honour the son. this is 11 the law and the prophets. in temporal things, thou oughtest to call upon god as a father, that he would give unto thee all necessaries of this life: and thou oughtest to help thy neighbour with the gifts which god bestoweth upon thee, whether they be spiritual or corporal. therefore thou shalt pray thus: o lord of heaven and earth, creator and maker of all things visible and invisible; i, though unworthy, by thy assistance ca

in this work. him then we count to be a magitian, to whom by the grace of god. the spiritual essences do serve to manifest the knowledge of the whole universe& of the secrets of nature contained therein, whether they are visible or invisible. this description of a magitian plainly appeareth, and is universal. an evil magician is he, whom by the divine permission the evil spirits do serve, to his temporal and eternal destruction and perdition to deceive men, and draw them away from god; such was simon magus, of whom mention is made in the acts of the apostles, and in clemens; whom saint peter commanded to be thrown down upon the earth, when as he had commanded himself, as it were a god, to be raised up into the air by the unclean spirits. unto this order are also to be referred all those w

an do perform great things, and greater then any man would believe: although they do subsist in their own limits, nevertheless they are above all humane apprehension, as to the corporal and transitory things of this life; which 29 many ancient histories, and daily examples do testitie. both kindes of magick are different one from the other in their ends: the one leadeth to eternal good, and useth temporal things with thanksgiving; the other is a little sollicitous about eternal things; but wholly exerciseth himself about corporal things, that he may freely enjoy all his lusts and delights in contempt of god and his anger. aphorism 44. the passage from the common life of man unto a magical life, is no other but a sleep, from that life; and an awaking to this life; for those things which hap

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

its superior magnitude.1 at length arose the epicureans, who confounded it entirely, maintaining that the sun was only a small globe of fire, a few inches in diameter, and the stars little transitory lights, whirled about in the atmosphere of the earth.2 how ill soever adapted the ancient system of emanations was to procure eternal happiness, it was certainly extremely well calculated to produce temporal good; for, by the endless multiplication of subordinate deities, it effectually excluded two of the greatest curses that ever afflicted the human race, dogmatical theology, and its consequent religious persecution. far from supposing that the gods known in their own country were the only ones existing, the greeks thought that innumerable emanations of the divine mind were diffused through

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

unmanifest whole, in its representations of god it must strive not to distort or obscure the clearest conception attainable. humanity must divide the all to consider it, and the smallest number of this division is three. the male principle must be considered first because it is the prin- ciple of ignition that goes out from the unity of light. however, the female aspect of god is not second in a temporal sense, because it springs into being with the becoming of the male, and both occur before the beginning of time. likewise, the child, or neutral, principle is not third in time but is only third in logical exposi- tion. even as the male and female separate, they reunite and create a product on a level lower than the primary unity. errors in understanding god arise when a culture emphasize

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

hian watchtowers and fortyeight enochian keys. this is a very bold statement, i know, but i believe i have completely justified it in chapter xvi and in appendix a. it may be argued that when dee wrote his hieroglyphic monad he had not yet established communication with the enochian angels. this overlooks the magical phenomenon of synchronicity, the fact that magic is not dependent upon causal or temporal relationships. besides, whatever their source of inspiration, both the monad and the system of enochian magic were refined and expressed by a single human brain-that of john dee. hen the israelites crossed over the river jordan, their leader joshua ordered a man from each of the twelve tribes to take up a large stone from the riverbed and carry it with him on his shoulder onto the opposit

UNCLE SETNAKT SEZ BECOME EVIL AND RULE THE WORLD2

as black magicians which generations of our kind would've given up their familiars for. an electronic net of tv, fax machines, personal computers, telephones, radios cover the world as never before. this presents the black magician with a one-to-one and a one-to-many chance to exercise his magic. the personal computer (plus a modem and telephone) enables us to work one -on-one beyond spatial and temporal limits. new age buffoons are trying to get information from their "channels- we can exchange information instantly. if i'm designing a ritual involving a strobe light and i want to know what hz to set the light at, i can dial up a neurophysiologist black magician colleague. he'll tell me 6.66 hz will induce a state between alpha and theta rhythms. the personal computer allows networking

WAITE ASPECTS OF MASONIC SYMBOLISM

death and resurrection was triadic and is spoken of roughly as three days, though there is an exception is the case of osiris, whose dismemberment necessitated a long quest before the most important of his organs was left finally lost. the three days are usually foreshortened at both ends; the first is an evening, the second a complete day, while the third ends at sunrise. i is an allusion to the temporal brevity ascribed in all literatures to the culminating mystical experience. it is remarkable, in this connection, that during the mystic death of the candidate in the third degree, the time of his interned condition is marked by three episodes, which are so many attempts to raise him, the last only being successful. operative masonry two things follow unquestionably from these considerati

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

f the cosmic forces. or rather, a sub-race through which the luciferian "hive" could construct the occult-technology necessary to once again break out of the confines of planet earth and take their battle back to the stars, to the "heavens" themselves, thanks also in part to all of the humans who were willing to offer their assistance and energies to these reptiloids in exchange for "promises" of temporal power, wealth, or carnal pleasures! certainly these repti-poltergiests could not have been able to break free once again from the confines of this planet without "our" help. again, refer to revelation chapter 12. so rather than mankind on earth traveling between the stars, sending our a steady stream of colonists and thus relieving the pressures on population, pollution, energy, and the e

#28 from: jim t. a post as it appeared on an e-mailing discussion list which will remain confidential. suggested title "the hammer of time. who are the draconians file//d /my documents/avidya/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (37 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:19:59 [intro: the following is a very unusual post, as if the subject of "reptilians" is not unusual enough, this post deals with apparent temporal manipulation such as that being experimented with by the montauk projects- which the 'draconian' forces based below the gizeh plateau reportedly have a strong investement in. some have suggested that with all of the temporal causality violations taking place in our time or world-line, linear 'reality' as we know it will eventually begin to dissolve into a multi-linear reality somewhat in

tween a reality-scape and a dream-scape, or rather the very foundations of the linear third dimension as we percieve it will begin to fluxuate. so genetic, psychological, fraternal, political, and economic manipulation is apparently not the only form of "intervention" that the dracos have been involved with. it is said that earth's unique electromagnetic grid allows for the possibility of strange temporal manipulations, and even alternate "time branches. the clincher is that there is only so much energy to go around in that- like a tree- all "time branches" feed off of the same base or trunk. so the more "branches" that exist the less energy there is to go around. apparently the montauk project and its draconian overseers have generated several alternate history lines, some having failed t

ourth dimensional ectoplasmic realities, whereas others possess the necessary collective psionic/psychic energy focus to convert subatomic energy-waves into matter-particles. there are claims that this area of the galaxy surrounding planet earth is much older than surrounding sectors, due to the various alternate time-line "replays, and that even this worldline is not the original. i.e. that much temporal manipulation has occured. for instance naval philadelphian montauk agents going back in time from an original] worldline in order to stop germany from winning the 2nd world war, and renegade pleiadeans, etc- who were actually descended from german/nordic space colonists in the original worldline- coming back to help hitler in this worldline defeat the normandy invasion. which they failed

lity. above and beyond this, reality becomes a bit "slippery, as the energy/matter ratio drifts more to the energy side. it is said that there is at least one worldline that is even more dense/linear than this one, one in which one does not encounter a multiplicity of fortean-type paranormal manifestations, phenomena which is apparently the resulting factor of a reality that has experienced major temporal cuasality violation and manipulation. and as a result many believe that this worldline will begin to drift into a more energized multilinear reality in or around the year 2012. the following is apparently one of the major efforts on the part of the alien/human montauk agenda to generate a worldline through temporal manipulation. one involving a nuclear attack on american soil in the fall

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

ny of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner. eric hoffer malta would be a delightful place if every priest were a tree. maltese no matter large the mosque is, the imam preaches what he knows. turkish have no faith in a priest, even if his turban is covered in gems. kurdish clergyman: a man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his temporal ones. abrose bierce the high priests of telescopes and cyclotrons keep making pronouncements about happenings on scales too gigantic or dwarfish to be noted by our native sense. w.h. auden it is good that a philospher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity. will and ariel durant returning from visiting her friend s church, a woman said, the mi

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

of time: past, present, and future. accordingly, i dedicated each of the three lectures to one of these letters, with the aim of elucidating the corresponding aspect of temporality. in revising the lectures for publication, i have added two introductory chapters. the first outlines the philosophical sources that have shaped my own hermeneutical understanding of time, which, invariably, entails a temporal understanding of hermeneutics. the second offers a conception of temporality, culled from a wide range of kabbalistic texts, that serves as the backdrop for the specific analyses in the three chapters on alef/past, mem/present, and tau/future. i drew the material for my textual reasoning in the lectures almost exclusively xi from two anthologies that can be viewed as the bookends of the e

e middle. in this respect, meditation on the mem affords us a model of repetition with difference, the eschatological mirroring of creation, moving from beginning s end to end s beginning, returning from middle to middle. in the fifth chapter, the last of the lectures, i investigate the letter tau, the final letter in the alef-beit and thus the obvious demarcation of the terminus, manifest on the temporal plane with the in/temporal experience of death if one can speak of death as experienced. the letter assumes as well the character of the seal of the word for truth, hotamo shel emet, the signet of truth. this double function of tau opens a path that illumines the juxtaposition of truth and death, which underscores that truth is most fully disclosed in the inevitable eventuality of the sin

approaching the present of its future passing.9 the ruminations on time contained in this book well forth from the dilemma, acknowledged by many who have walked this path before me, that it does not seem possible to experience external events and objects temporally unless we presuppose an inner sense of time, but if we presume the latter, we cannot be confident that we are experiencing the former temporal objects can be constituted for consciousness only because consciousness comports itself temporally. how can consciousness constituted by time, and thus always in flux, account for the persistence of intentional contents of consciousness as identifiable subjects of experience? edmund husserl, who dedicated so much of his life to pondering the human experience of time, ably captured the wid

difference that ruptures chronology, the discontinuous duration of the continuous present,16 the immeasurable time of the force of becoming, the pure immanence of the indeterminate life17 that for all time remains predictably unpredictable.18 hopefully, the path i set forth with the words that follow will make something of the phenomenon sensible and thus lead the steps of another to the place of temporal doubling, the middle wherein beginnings end and endings begin. preface xv thinking time/ hermeneutic suppositions to think of time of all that retrospection, to think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward. is to-day nothing? is the beginningless past nothing? if the future is nothing they are just as surely nothing. walt whitman, leaves of grass (un)doing time in time un(doing) i

(un)doing time in time un(doing) in my time, many a time, i have heard myself and others speak of a lifetime. this compound dis/plays the juxtaposition of life and time so elemental to our way of being in the world: what most impresses our thinking about the life-that-ispassing is the passing-that-is-life, a passing that lies at the root of our rootlessness. we are perpetually cast in the mold of temporal beings, always, it seems, being in time for the time being. time flies, runs, flees, passes too quickly, too slowly, and yet at the end of day invariably the beginning of night the question persists: where did the time go? the seemingly trite wording of the query should not be overlooked: the emphasis is on time s going, that is, one attempts to take hold of the passage of time. from the

s, being in time for the time being. time flies, runs, flees, passes too quickly, too slowly, and yet at the end of day invariably the beginning of night the question persists: where did the time go? the seemingly trite wording of the query should not be overlooked: the emphasis is on time s going, that is, one attempts to take hold of the passage of time. from the philosophical position known as temporal realism, and according to the somewhat more sophisticated theory of four-dimensionalism the hypothesis that material reality consists of spatial and temporal parts, that objects persist in spacetime through the manifold combinations of perdurance, endurance, presentism, and eternalism1 it is the progress of events, the coming to pass of one thing after another, and not just a timeless tap

ons of perdurance, endurance, presentism, and eternalism1 it is the progress of events, the coming to pass of one thing after another, and not just a timeless tapestry that grounds the distinction between past, present, and future and thereby accords legitimacy to the proposition that time is real.2 stated less technically, the signposts that mark one s entry into and departure from the world are temporal in their comportment, birth at one end, death at the other. nothing, it would 1 1 seem, is more basic to the scripting of the egological narrative the i am of what is 3 than the time it takes one to die, an insight familiar to the philosophically attuned from heidegger s infamous notion of sein zum tode, beingunto- death the (not)being that is(not, present all too pervasively in its absen

degger s infamous notion of sein zum tode, beingunto- death the (not)being that is(not, present all too pervasively in its absence.4 interestingly enough, this philosophic discernment, often considered elitist and removed from mundane social reality, is supported by archaeological and ethnological evidence from the dawn of human culture indicating that paleolithic humans were acutely aware of the temporal nature of existence. anthropologists have even argued that the ability to view time in its twofold dimension, the present as an outcome of the past and as a platform for the future, is one of the principal ways in which homo sapiens is distinguished as a distinct species of primate.5 even in preliterate societies the preoccupation with temporality specifically, the quest to commemorate ti

em primitive to the critical eye, ideationally they were no less sophisticated than the most convoluted postmodern discourse that depicts human temporality as caught between recollection of the beginning anticipating the end and anticipation of the beginning recollecting the end. robert lauer, a sociologist by training, astutely observed: indeed, if one were to write a history of concern with the temporal, one would find oneself compelled to probe into the primordial consciousness. even at the most primitive level of human life, we have evidence of human awareness of and concern with temporality. in the mythical consciousness of the archaic human, there was an inner sense, an intuitive grasping, of the temporality of life. human awareness of and concern with temporality is particularly evi

ith no measurable duration and consequently erased from the imprint of memory in a flash (be)coming in passing. the second paradox deals with the impossibility of determining whether the present, ostensibly the bridge that links past and future, is always the same or always different. if the former, there would be no way to establish simultaneity so one could discern a pattern in the unfolding of temporal events; if the latter, there would of necessity be absolute simultaneity, the coincidence or compresence of all moments in the present, and hence nothing would be before or after anything else. 10 plotinus began his treatise on eternity and time on a similar note, remarking that we think that we have a clear and distinct experience of them in our own souls, as we are always speaking of th

has become. in augustine s own words, at the moment when time is passing, it can be perceived and measured. but when it has passed and is not present, it cannot be. 14 to (be)hold the time of flux, one would have to stop the flux of time, but if one were to stop the flux of time, there would no longer be a time of flux to be(hold. the conventional triadic division of time offers the illusion of a temporal trajectory traversing through one fixed point to the next in a linear pattern, but the experience of the flowing currents of time, swerving this way and that way, cannot be accounted for on the basis of spatially-conceived instants, momentary units that are measurable, decipherable, commingled yet discrete. as simplicius put it, as to what time may be, then, to this question hardly the wi

s point exegetically, augustine cites the words attributed to the voice that spoke from the clouds to peter, james, and john while they were witnessing the transfiguration of jesus and his standing in the company of moses and elijah: this is my beloved son, with whom i am well pleased; listen to him (matt 17:5. augustine detects here a reference to the mystery of incarnation, which he expounds in temporal terms: therefore it is clear and evident that the utterance came through the movement of some created thing, serving your eternal will but itself temporal [quod creaturae motus expressit eam, serviens aeternae voluntati tuae, ipse temporalis. and these your words, made for temporal succession, were reported by the external ear to the judicious mind whose internal ear is disposed to hear y

is. and these your words, made for temporal succession, were reported by the external ear to the judicious mind whose internal ear is disposed to hear your eternal word. 25 the eternal word (aeternum verbum) by which all things were created is identified as jesus, the beginning (principium) that is wisdom (sapientia, the silence (silentio) apprehended by way of the inner ear (interior posita, the temporal instantiation of the eternal will. the word, the instrument of creation, is described, therefore, as temporal but also as coeternal with god. insofar as the logos participates in the divine substance, its true eternity and true immortality are set in diametric opposition to time and change, 26 and hence we cannot speak of the word as a transient utterance (transitoria voce);27 it is, rath

would depend on the constancy of succession. this paradoxical quandary illumines the fact that, for augustine, the mystery of the word made flesh problematizes the alleged antinomy between time and eternity, motion and rest.31 on the one hand, the word is coeternal and thus not subject to generation or decay; on the other hand, the word transpires in time, the incarnation of the word bespeaks the temporal manifestation of the eternal will, always in and of the moment indeed the momentum of the moment is conceived from the vantage point of the enfleshment of the flesh beyond flesh, 6 chapter one the envisioning of the image beyond image, the immanence of infinitude in the finite. 32 on this basis we can grasp why augustine exegetically links the mystery to the verse today i have begotten yo

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