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e upon the altar, and it is thus the symbol of the banner of the west. the triangle refers to the three paths and the cross to the hidden knowledge. the cross and the triangle together represent life and light. hiero: points out the tablet of the north, saying: hiero: this grade is especially referred to the element of earth, and therefore, one of its principal emblems is the great watch tower or terrestrial tablet of the north. it is the third or great northern quadrangle or earth tablet, and it is one of the four great tablets of the elements said to have been given to enoch by the great angel ave. it is divided within itself into four lesser angles. the mystic letters upon it form various divine and angelic names, in what our tradition calls the angelic secret language. from it are draw

ouble cube raised in the air immediately above your head, you would but see the single square forming the lowest side, the others from their position being concealed from you. just so, behind the material universe, lies the concealed form of the majesty of god. the altar of incense was overlaid with gold to represent the highest degree of purity, but the altar before you is black to represent the terrestrial earth. learn then, to separate the pure from the impure, and refine the gold of the spirit from the black dragon, the corruptible body. upon the cubical altar, were fire, water, and. incense three mother letters of the hebrew alphabet; aleph, mem, and shin. mem is silent, shin; is sibilant, and aleph is the tongue of a balance between these contraries in equilibrium, reconciling and me

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ility void of movement, forcing fire forward into fire. hereunto is the speech of axieros. heg: leads theoricus round to seat of hiereus in n.w. hiereus: as they approach takes red lamp in his hand, rises. hegemon and theoricus halt before him. hiereus: axiokersos the second kabir spake to kasmillos the candidate and said: i am the left basal angle of the triangle of flame. i am fire volcanic and terrestrial, flashingly flaming through the abysses of earth; fire rending fire penetrating, tearing asunder the curtain of matter; fire constrained, fire tormenting, raging and whirling in lurid storm. by what sign dost thou seek to pass by? heg: by the symbol of the pyramid of flame. hiereus: hear thou the voice of axiokersos the second kabir: for not in matter did the fire which is the beyond f

ged by the sacred rites. since ever dragging down the soul and leading it from sacred things, from the confines of matter, arise the terrible dog-faced demons, never showing a true image unto mortal gaze. so, therefore, first the priest who governeth the works of fire must sprinkle with the lustral water of the loud resounding sea. labor thou around the strophaios of hecate, when thou shalt see a terrestrial demon approaching cry aloud, and sacrifice the stone mnizourin. change not the barbarous names of evocation for they are names divine having in the sacred rites a power ineffable. and when after all the phantoms are banished thou shalt see that holy and formless fire, that fire which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe hear thou the voice of fire. hereunto is th

r is the sash of a theoricus with the addition of a purple or violet cross above the white cross and the numbers 3 and 8 within a circle and a square, respectively, left and right of its summit, and below the numbers 32, the numbers 30 and 31 in purple or violet, between narrow parallel purple lines. this grade is especially referred to the element of water and therefore, the great watch tower or terrestrial tablet of the west forms one of its principal emblems (hierophant goes to west in front of water tablet followed by theoricus) it is known as the second or great western quadrangle, or tablet of water, and it is one of the four great tablets delivered unto enoch by the great angel ave. from it are drawn the 3 holy secret names of god empeh arsel gaiol which are borne upon the banners o

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the sash of a practicus, with the addition of a bright green cross above the violet cross and the numbers 4 and 7 within a circle and a square respectively left and right of its summit, and below the number 37, the numbers 27, 28 and 29 in bright green between narrow parallel lines of the same color. this grade is especially referred unto the element of fire and therefore the great watch tower or terrestrial tablet of the south forms one of its principal emblems. hiero: pract: move to the south. hiero: it is known as the fourth or great southern quadrangle, or tablet of fire and it is one of the four great tablets delivered unto enoch by the great angel ave. from it are drawn the 3 great holy secret names of god oip teea pdoce which are borne upon the banners of the south, and the numberle

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em no title; but shalt address them sometimes as you, sometimes as 12. meaning apparently the four princes and eight sub-princes of the demons, before so often alluded to. 13. viz: lucifer, leviathan, satan, and belial. of abramelin the mage 218 thou; and thou shalt never seek out expressions to please them, and thou shalt always have with them a proud and imperious air.14 there be certain little terrestrial spirits that are simply detestable; sorcerers and necromantic magicians generally avail themselves of their services, for they operate only for evil, and in wicked and pernicious things, and they be of no use soever. he who operateth could, should he so wish, have a million such, but the sacred science which worketh otherwise than necromancy in no way permitteth you to employ such as b

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use they are most solar in nature. that is, the 19 equinoxes and solstices occur when the a is in these signs. the kerubic or fixed signs are considered watery because they are the most shining and glittering in nature. the remaining four mutable signs are called the most airy because they are the most subtle in nature. while the four elements are the most earthy because their operation is mainly terrestrial. incidentally, instead of the usual bsymbol, the planet l is used in the enochian system, because, to quote s.r.m.d. though one of the seven lords who wander (planets) l is yet here classed with those who abide because he is the heaviest of the seven and thus formeth a link between the wanderers and abiders. the following diagram shows how any lesser angle may be worked out using the a

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

s.r.m.d. some of them are very profound and the student will do well if he gives them a good deal of attention especially in connection with the idea of the projection of the tree of life into a solid sphere and forming five pillars. this part of the enochian teaching is taken from a manuscript entitled x. the book of the concourse of the forces. binding together the powers of the squares in the terrestrial quadrangles of enoch. each of these terrestrial tablets of the elements is divided into 4 lesser angles by the great central cross which cometh forth as from the gate of the watch tower of the element itself. the horizontal line of each of these three great crosses is named, linea spiritus sancti. the perpendicular is called linea dei, the line of god the father and son, the patris fil

kether coinciding with the north pole, malkuth coinciding with the south pole, the pillar of mildness with the axis) then the pillars of severity and of mercy are quadrupled, i.e. there are five pillars instead of three pillars. the same scheme is therefore, applicable to the celestial heavens, and the mode of the governance of these tablets in the heavens is also set forth in these four tablets, terrestrial as well as in the heavens, is in the spaces between the 4 pillars. 30 that is, between the double pillars of severity and mercy. in these vast spaces at the ends of the universe are these tablets placed as watch towers, and therein is their dominion limited on either side by the sephirotic pillars, and having the great central cross of each tablet coinciding with one of the 4 tiphareth

hiroth in balanced disposition, before which the formless and void roll back. it is the form of the opened out double cube and altar of incense. therefore it is placed to rule each of the lesser angles of each tablet. a knowledge of these tablets will then, if complete, afford an understanding of the llaws which govern the whole creation. the dominion of the tablet of union is above that of the 4 terrestrial tablets and towards the north of the universe. of the letters on the tablets, some be written as capitals. these are the initial letters of certain angels names drawn forth by another method, not now explained, and the offices of these do not concern a z.a.m. some squares have more than one letter. in these cases, either letter characterizes the square. the higher one is preferable. th

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

o ye the worship of asar; see that ye follow him" then, ere one could cry "hold" he had vanished from our sight. i dismissed the people; i was alone with the dead god; with osiris, the lord of amennti, the slain of typhon, the devoured of apophis. yea, verily, i was alone! chapter v now then the great exhaustion took hold upon me, and i fell at the feet of the osiris as one dead. all knowledge of terrestrial things was gone from me; i entered the kingdom of the dead by the gate of the west. for the worship of osiris is to join the earth to the west; it is the cultus of the setting sun. through isis man obtains strength of nature; through osiris he obtains the strength of suffering and ordeal, and as the trained athlete is superior to the savage, so is the magic of osiris stronger than the

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

nion. use it first in all invocations of angels of that tablet, but not at all with other 4 tables. 2: used as an invocation of angels e h n b representing governance of spirit in the tablet of union: also precedes, in the second place, all invocations of key tablet angels. not used in invocations of 4 other tables. 3, 4, 5, 6: used in invocations of angels of tablet of union, also of angels of 4 terrestrial tablets, thus 3: used to invoke angels of the letters of the line e x a r p for those of tablet oro as a whole and for the lesser angle of this tablet, which is that of the element itself, viz. i d o i g o. so for others the remaining 12 keys refer to the remaining lesser angles of the tables, the order of the elements being air, water, earth, fire. pronounce elemental language (also c

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

the place or time is wrong. one cannot easily evoke water-spirits in the sahara, or salamanders in the english lake district. hismael will not readily appear when jupiter is below the horizon<nature of the connexion between the rays of the actual planet called jupiter and the jupiterian elements which exist in various degrees in terrestrial objects> in order to counteract a natural deficiency of this sort, one would have to supply a sufficient quantity of the proper kind of material. one cannot make bricks without straw. with regard to invocations of the gods, such considerations do not apply. the gods are beyond most material conditions. it is necessary to fill the "heart" and "mind" with the proper basis for manifestati

orrespond more or less to the character of the medium of divination. thus, the geomantic intelligences are gnomes, spirits of an earthy nature, distinguished from each other by the modifications due to the various planetary and zodiacal influences which pertain to the several symbols. the intelligence governing puella is not to be confused with that of venus or of libra. it is simply a particular terrestrial daemon which partakes of those natures. 160 the tarot, on the other hand, being a book, is under mercury, and the intelligence of each card is fundamentally mercurial. such symbols are therefore peculiarly proper to communicate thought. they are not gross, like the geomantic daemons; but, as against this, they are unscrupulous in deceiving the diviner<
ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 128 now we get back to the qabalah- how to make use of it. let us suppose that you have been making an invocation, or shall we call it an investigation, and suppose you want to interpret a passage of bach. to play this is the principal weapon of your ceremony. in the course of your operation, you assume your astral body and rise far above the terrestrial atmosphere, while the music continues softly in the background. you open your eyes, and find that it is night. dark clouds are on the horizon; but in the zenith is a crown of constellations. this light helps you, especially as your eyes become accustomed to the gloom, to take in your surroundings. it is a bleak and barren landscape. terrific mountains rim the world. in the midst looms

the q'uran to mohammed was in reality a "master" or messenger of some such person, more or less as aiwass describes himself as..the minister of hoor-paarmagic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 288 kraat (al i, 7) his name implies some such function; for g.b.r. is mercury between the two greater lights, sol and luna. this seems to mean that he is something more than a lunar or terrestrial archangel; as he would appear to be from 777 (there now! that was my private fiend again- the demon of digression. back to our gods) 30 777 itself, to say nothing of the golden bough and the good lord knows how many other similar monuments of lexicography (for really they are little more, is our text-book. we are bound to note at once that the gods sympathise, run into one another, coa

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

e who experience it are in the gravest danger of losing all sense of proportion. by its light all other events of life are as darkness. owing to this, people have utterly failed to analyse it or to estimate it. they are accurate enough in saying that, compared with this, all human life is absolutely dross; but they go further, and go wrong. they argue that "since this is that which transcends the terrestrial, it must be celestial" one of the tendencies in their minds has been the hope of a heaven such as their parents and teachers have described, or such as 13 they have themselves pictured; and, without the slightest grounds for saying so, they make the assumption "this is that" in the bhagavadgita a vision of this class is naturally attributed to the apparation of vishnu, who was the loca

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

ness no negro can equal; from this circumstance comes the name atlas. it is absurdly attributed by some authors to the deposit of excess of phosphorus in the zro. i need only point out that the mark existed long before the discovery of black phosphorus. it is evidently a racial stigma. it was the birth of a girl child without this mark which raised her mother to the rank of goddess, and ended the terrestrial adventure of the atlanteans, as will presently appear. of the ethics of this people little need be said. their word for 'right' is 'phph' made by blowing with the jaw drawn sharply across from left to right, thus meaning 'a spiral life contrary to the course of the sun. we may assume it as 'contrary "whatever is, is wrong" seems to have been their first principle. legs were 'wrong' bec

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

ret nature, as i have shewn thee in my word concerning the sphinx. o my son, yester eve came the spirit upon me that i also should eat the grass of the arabs, and by virtue of the bewitchment thereof behold that which might be appointed for the enlightenment of mine eyes. now then of this may i not speak, seeing that it involveth the mystery of the transcending of time, so that in one hour of our terrestrial measure did i gather the harvest of an aeon, and in ten lives i could not declare it "de quibusdam mysteriis, quae vidi "yet even as a man may set up a memorial or symbol to import ten thousand times ten thousand, so may i strive to inform thine understanding by hieroglyph. and here shall thine own experience serve us, because a token of remembrance sufficeth him that is familiar with

age, in order to play its part in the great drama. this khu, again, needs the proper costume, a suitable 'body of flesh, and this costume must be worthy of the play. we therefore employ various magical means to increase the vigour of our bodies and the energy of our minds, to fortify and sublime them. the result is that we of thelema are capable of enormously more achievement than others, even in terrestrial matters, from sexual orgia to creative art. even if we had only this one earth-life to consider, we exceed our fellows some thirtyfold, some sixtyfold, some an hundredfold. one most important point, in conclusion. we must doubtless admit that each one of us is lacking in one capacity or another. there must always be some among the infinite possibilities of nuith which possesses no corr

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

with sneers as cheap as your this fabric of mine own, one banner of my mind o erthrown just at my will. how true and deep is carroll47 when his alice cries: 485 it s nothing but a pack of cards! there s the true refuge of the wise; to overthrow the temple guards, deny reality. and now 490 (i ll quote you scripture anyhow) what did the sage mean when he wrote (i am the devil when i quote) the mere terrestrial-minded man knows not the things of god, nor can 495 their subtle meaning understand? a sage, i say, although he mentions perhaps the best of his inventions, god. for at first this practice tends 500 to holy thoughts (the holy deeds precede success) and reverent gaze upon the ancient one of days, beyond which fancy lies the truth. to find which i have left my youth, 505 all i held dear

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samadhi it is impossible to understand what is meant by the theory. mr. shirley cannot realize that time and space are accidental forms of our consciousness, no more essential to it than a harem skirt to the venus of milo. suppose a cinematograph show observed by a man on earth and a man on the sun (with a devil of a telescope) at 10.40, and their observations compared. the solar will regard the terrestrial as a prophet, for the latter can see at 10.40 what the former sees at 10.48 or thereabouts. with space it is the same thing. assumer a fourth dimension, and calcutta may rub streets with buenos ayres. the battle of waterloo may be merely one name for a phenomenon whose other names are john brown, saucepan, geometry, etc, etc/ these conceptions are hard to realize intellectually. mr. sh

character of fire- monuments raised to fire-worship in all countries- druidical stones and their worship- the round towers of ireland- cabalistic interpretations by the gnostics- mystic christian figures and talismans- the rosy cross in indian, egyptian, greek, roman, and mediaeval monuments- the great pyramid- myths of the scorpion, or the snake in its many disguises- rosicrucians celestial and terrestrial- alchemy- rosicrucians in strange symbols- robert flood- indian mystic adoration of forms, etc, etc. mysteries of magic: a digest of the writings of eliphas l vi, with biographical and critical essay by arthur e. waite "second edition, revised "and enlarged" 8vo "coth" 1897 (pub. 10"s" 6"d) 6"s" this work fulfils a purpose quite distinct from that of "transcendental "magic "inasmuch as

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s is the hidden wisdom of the divine nature which can be obtained by their aid. the two construed mean: life in light" illustration, approximated below: diagram 12. the flaming sword. illustration: approximated below\ diagram 13. the altar symbol in the 1= 10 ritual "this grade is especially referred to the element earth, and therefore, one of its principal emblems is the great watch-tower on the terrestrial tablet of the north. you will observe that the hermetic cross, which is also called fylfat. is formed of seventeen squares taken from a square of twenty- five lesser squares. 263 these seventeen squares represent the sun, the four elements, and the twelve signs. in this grade the lamps on the pillars are unshaded, showing that you have quitted the darkness of the outer" illustration. a

ar is a symbol. it was in the form of a double cube, thus representing material form as the reflection and the duplication of that which is spiritual. the sides of the altar, 265 together with the top and underside, consist of ten squares, thus symbolising the ten sephiroth "the altar of incense was overlaid with gold, to represent essential purity, but the altar before you is black to typify the terrestrial earth. learn then to separate the pure from the impure, the refined and spiritual gold of the alchymist from the black dragon of putrefaction in evil "i now congratulate you on having attained to the 1= 10 grade of zelator, and in recognition thereof i confer on you the mystic title of pereclinos de faustis, which signifies that you are still far from the goal which has been reached by

hrough the path of fire. in this ritual the three cabiri are made to represent the triangle of fire, thus: axieros, the first kabir, says "i am the apex of the triangle of flame: i am the solar 270 fire pouring forth its beams upon the lower world: life-giving, life-producing" then axiokersos, the second kabir, says "i am the left-hand basal angle of the triangle of flame: i am fire, volcanic and terrestrial, flashing and flaming through the deep abysses of earth: fire rending, fire penetrating, tearing asunder the curtains of matter; fire constrained; fire tormenting; raging and whirling in lurid storm" and lastly, axiokersa, the third kabir, says "i am the right-hand basal angle of the triangle of flame. i am fire, astral and fluid, winding through the firmament of air. i am the life of

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t the coffin exactly. about that time my tormentors must have been interrupted, for they forgot to nail me on the coffin, and the cage was hurriedly put on a motor and carried somewhere on 364 the south coast to the private yacht which, no doubt, was awaiting us. this is my way of explaining it, but of course it is a mere suggestion. it might have been an airship that took me away, independent of terrestrial laws, regardless of customs duties- who knows, perhaps hovering over london and scotland yard and my dear old house in which i was so happy- but "nec scire fas est omnia" the only thing i am certain of is that i was either planed to fit the coffin, or the coffin to fit me; and then i woke up. i was on board a sea- or air-ship. believe me, she was in great danger. however, this would pr

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special mental training, your results will be invalid" 53 and he smiles gently "patient experiment will prove to you that the microscope is reliable" and i smile gently "patient experiment will prove to you that meditation is reliable" so there we are. x "stay not on the precipice with the dross of matter, for there is a place for thine image in a realm ever splendid" zoroaster "when thou seest a terrestrial demon approaching, cry aloud and sacrifice the stone mnizourin- zoroaster as a boy at school i enjoyed a reputation for unparalleled cowardice; in the world i am equally accused of foolhardiness. the judgment of the boys was the better. the truth is that i have always been excessively cautious, have never willingly undertaken even the smallest risk. the paradoxical result is that i hav

ragon for our red tincture. we understand the precept "visita interiora terrae rectificando invenias occultum lapidem; and harnessing to our triumphal car the white eagle and the green lion we voyage at 63 our ease upon the path of the chameleon, by the towers of iron and the fountains of supernal dew, unto that black unutterable sea most still. xiii "from the cavities of the earth leap forth the terrestrial dog-faced demons, showing no true sign unto mortal man "go not forth when the lictor passeth by "direct not thy mind to the vast surfaces of the earth; for the plant of truth grows not upon the ground. nor measure the motions of the sun, collecting rules, for he is carried by the eternal will of the father, and not for your sake alone. dismiss (from your mind) the impetuous course of t

nd the essence, of the earth. in the beginning .god. in wisdom :created:the elohim :the essence<<1>:of the heavens in the head<<2 .the holy gods. and the essence:of the earth<<1: aleph-taw= the first and last- alpha and omega- aleph and tau<<2 "i.e" the white skull "vide" idra zutra qadisha, cap. ii. distinguish from the skull of microprosophus> contained therein also are the divine, magical, and terrestrial formulae of the passage of the incomprehensible nothingness of the ain soph to the perfection of creation 167 expressed by the ten voices or emanations of god the vast one- blessed be he- even the holy sephiroth. and the method whereby i shall work shall be the one absolute and inerratic science: the science of number: which is that single mystery of the intellect of man whereby he bec

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ilippus theophrastus bombast of hohenheim, called paracelsus the great, now for the first time translated into english. edited, with elucidatory notes, a copious hermetic vocabulary and index, by a. e. waite. 2 vols, 4to, cloth, 1894 (published 2 12s. 6d) 27s. 6d. alchemical writings of edward kelly, the englishman's two excellent treatises on the philosopher's stone, together with the theatre of terrestrial astronomy. by edward kelly, translated from the hamburg edition of 1676, and edited, with a biographical preface, emblematic figures. crown 8vo, cloth, 1893 (published, 7s. 6d) 4s. 6d. ashmole (elias) theatrum chemicum britannicum. containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous english philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language, with anno

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s said to cure diseases in man and to remove the imperfection of metals. the alchemical writings of edward kelly. from the latin edition of 1676. with a biographical introduction, an account of kelly's relations with dr. dee, and a transcript of the "book of st. dunstan" edited by a. e. waite. crown 8vo, 4s. 6d. net. a methodised summary of the best hermetic philosophers, including a discourse on terrestrial astronomy, in which the planets are replaced by metals, and instead of an account of stellar influences we have the laws governing metallic conversion. your fortune in your name, or kabalistic astrology. new edition, largely revised. demy 8vo, cloth gilt, 96 pp, 2s. 6d. net. by "sepharial" a manual of cartomancy, fortune-telling and occult divination, including the oracle of human dest

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character of fire; monuments raised to fire- worship in all countries; druidical stones and their worship; the round towers of ireland; cabalistic interpretations by the gnostics; mystic christian figures and talismans; the rosy cross in indian, egyptian, greek, roman and mediaeval monuments; the great pyramid; myths of the scorpion, or the snake in its many disguises; rosicrucians celestial and terrestrial; alchemy; rosicrucians in strange symbols; robert flood; indian mystic adoration of form; etc, etc. real history of the rosicrucians, founded on their own manifestoes, and on facts and documents collected from the writings of initiated brethren, by arthur e. waite "illustrated" 8vo "cloth, uncut" 1887 (pub. 7"s" 6"d) 5"s" written from the historical standpoint, giving the chief documen

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

ancing in every flame, tending the fires of the hearth and the home, and of the factory. they are of the same group as the fire spirits who can be contacted deep in the fiery bowels of the planet. fire spirits, latent in all focal points of heat, who are themselves the essence of warmth, and can be contacted in the heat of the bodily frame, whether human or animal, and who are likewise the warmth terrestrial. the agnichaitans, a higher grade of fire spirit, who form a vortex of fire when viewed on a large scale, such as in volcanoes and large destructive burnings. they are closely allied to a still more important group of devas, who form the fiery envelope of the sun. the pranic elementals, those minute fiery essences who have the ability to permeate the texture of the human body, of a tre

lies an essentially spiritual incentive. this incentive, this latent spiritual cause, is the object of the attention of the spiritual man. the man of the world is occupied with objective phenomena, with that which can be seen, be touched, and handled; the occult student is engaged in studying the subjective side of life, and is occupied with the forces which produce all that is familiar upon the terrestrial plane. these forces fall into three main groups: a. forces emanating from the mental plane in its two divisions. b. forces of a kamic nature. c. forces of a purely physical description. these the occult student studies, experiments with, manipulates and correlates; through the knowledge thus gained there comes an understanding of all that can be known in the three- 736- a treatise on c

ta. 107 21: electricity."we know of no phenomenon in nature entirely unconnected with either magnetism or electricity since, where there are motion, heat, friction, light, there magnetism and its alter ego (according to our humble opinion) electricity will always appear, as either cause or effect or rather both if we but fathom the manifestation to its origin. all the phenomena of earth currents, terrestrial magnetism and atmospheric electricity, are due to the fact that the earth is an electrified conductor, whose potential is ever changing owing to its rotation and its annual orbital motion, the successive cooling and heating of the air, the formation of clouds and rain, storms and winds, etc. this you may perhaps find in some text book. but then science would be unwilling to admit that

the fire of the lightning, or- 802- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust electric fire. the sources of these three fires i may observe in passing, constitute the three principal deities spoken of in the veda, namely, surya, the sun, representing the solar fire; indra (and sometimes, vayu) the rain-producing deity, representing the fire of the firmament; and agni, representing the terrestrial fire, the fire produced by friction (nirukta, vii, 4; and all these three, be it remembered, are merely the ramifications of one agni; which in its turn is an emanation from the supreme one, as the reader will find from the allegorical description given of agni as being the mouth-born son of brahma, in the vishnu purana. now, each of the triple forms of agni has numerous subdivisions

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

aspect of the law of cycles which controls solar evolution. it is a basic human law, protective and developing. it controls the cyclic or "tidal" life of all souls who are carried by the great river of life on the crest of desire into incarnation, and is one of the laws with which the aspirant must work, early in his training. until he can function as a soul, independent of the cyclic turmoil of terrestrial life, and free from the control of the tides of his emotional existence, he cannot take initiation. it was the inability to do this which brought on earth the great atlantean floods which brought that ancient civilisation to an end. we come now to a consideration of the law of cleavages, for our race is controlled by the great heresy of separativeness. through these cleavages (symbolic

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

reatness of range and organization augments personal distinction as well as comprehensiveness. undoubtedly, but it decreases exclusiveness. the great world-men are not born simply of their earthly parents. whole ages and countries are focussed in them. in desiring a highly developed perfection we are desiring to be something which can no longer be identified either with or by the incidents of the terrestrial life."37 if these words are studied in connection with christ's temptations, the wonder of what he did emerges, and is encouraging for all of us, his younger brothers, equally sons of god. therefore as a whole man and yet utterly divine, christ entered into final combat with the devil. as a human being, in whom the divine spirit was fully expressing itself, he faced the evil in his own

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lutionary process and owing to certain shifts and astronomical-astrological discrepancies, the sun is not in the constellation to which a particular sign refers at any given moment. this i called to your attention in an earlier part of this treatise. 5. another factor little known is that the moon today is disintegrating with increasing rapidity and this necessarily affects the earth and produces terrestrial results. students would find it of interest to make the following applications of these great cyclic events to their own "appearance" and functioning processes in time and space: 1. the succession of the greater rounds of the zodiac or a period of cycles of approximately 250,000 years has a correspondence to the life cycle of the monad. 2. the progress of the sun as it passes through t

verywhere and always and in the presence of the impossibility of attributing it all to chance and coincidence. a very great antiquity indeed must be allowed for the zodiac (s.d. i. 711) 10. high ceremonial astrology. depends upon the knowledge of the initiate of those immaterial forces and spiritual entities that affect matter and guide it (s.d. iii. 337) 11. our earth was created or fashioned by terrestrial spirits, the regents (the spirits of the seven planets. a.a.b) being simply the supervisors. this is the first germ of that which grew later into the tree of astrology and astrolatry (s.d. ii. 26) 12 "there are seven chief groups of such dhyan chohans. they are the primeval seven rays. hence there are seven chief planets, the spheres of the indwelling seven spirits, under each of which

jupiter-logos, the word or sun (s.d. ii i. 279) c. the true colour of the sun is blue (s.d. iii. 461) d. the sun was adopted as a planet by the post-christian astrologers who had not been initiated (s.d. iii. 461) 28 "this self, the highest, the one and the universal was symbolised on `the plane of mortals by the sun, its life-giving effulgence being in its turn the emblem of the soul killing the terrestrial passions which have ever been an impediment to the reunion of the unit self (the spirit) with the all-self. hence the allegorical mystery. it was enacted by the sons of the fire-mist and of light (s.d. iii. 271- 397- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust the planet uranus references in the secret doctrine and a treatise on cosmic fire 1

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

fact of religion. the types of- 188- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust that revelation may vary but each new revelation given in response to human need and demand has ever led humanity onward towards a steadily brightening goal and a greater glory. the revelation may come on varying levels of the human consciousness. it may be the revelation of new lands to conquer, terrestrial or mental. some person pointed the way. it may be the recognition of new laws and facts in nature, scientifically grasped and used; it may be the response of intelligent man to increased knowledge, producing a new type of civilisation. some liberated spirit pointed the way. it may be the response of the human heart to the heart of god, leading to the mystical beatitude, and to the reco

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

l vibration of the watery sphere, the crashing note marking the place of thought, dims the sound and shuts out the tone. he who is silent, quiet and calm within, who sees all by means of light divine and is not led by light reflected within the threefold spheres, is he who will shortly hear. from out the environing ether will strike a note upon his ear unlike the tones that sound within the world terrestrial. listen, o pilgrim, for when that sound strikes in colourful vibration upon the inner sense, know that a point has been achieved marking a great transition. watch then, o pilgrim, for the coming of that hour. with purified endeavour mount nearer to that sound. know when its tone steals through the misty dawn, or in the mellow sunlight strikes soft upon the ear, that soon the inner hear

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

sought so far back. if you can only rectify the mercury, sulphur, and salt (understand, those of the sages) until the metallic spirit and body are inseparably joined together by means of the metallic soul, you thereby firmly rivet the chain of love, and prepare the palace for the coronation. these things represent a liquid key, comparable to the celestial influence, and a dry water joined to the terrestrial substance: all which are one thing, derived from three, and two, and one. if you understand this, you have already attained our magistery. then you must join the husband and wife together that each may feed upon the other s flesh and blood, and that so they may propagate their species a thousandfold. though i would fain reveal this matter to you more plainly and openly, i am prohibited

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

e (loka-chakshub) of our world. his breath gives life to the seven (gives light to the planets. it gave life to the first (c "they are all dragons of wisdom" adds the commentary (d (a) lha is the ancient word in trans-himalayan regions for "spirit" any celestial or superhuman being, and it covers the whole series of heavenly hierarchies, from archangel, or dhyani, down to an angel of darkness, or terrestrial spirit (b) this expression shows in plain language that the spirit-guardian of our globe, which is the fourth in the chain, is subordinate to the chief spirit (or god) of the seven planetary genii or spirits. as already explained, the ancients had, in their kyriel of gods, seven chief mystery-gods, whose chief was, exoterically, the visible sun, or the eighth, and, esoterically, the se

cal constellations; and, esoterically, the messiah, the christos (the subject anointed by the great breath, or the one) surrounded by his twelve subordinate powers, also subordinate, in turn, to each of the seven "mystery-gods" of the planets "the seven higher make the seven lhas create the world" states a commentary; which means that our earth, leaving aside the rest, was created or fashioned by terrestrial spirits, the "regents" being simply the supervisors. this is the first germ, the seed of that which grew later into the tree of astrology and astrolatry. the higher ones were the kosmocratores, the fabricators of our solar system. this is borne out by all the ancient cosmogonies: that of hermes, of the chaldees, of the aryans, of the egyptians, and even of the jews. heaven's belt, the

[[vol. 2, page] 45 the first war in heaven. metaphorically immortal through their wisdom. such is the common belief of those who credit every star or planet with being inhabited (and there are men of science- m. flammarion among others- who believe in this fervently, on logical as well as on astronomical data. the moon being an inferior body to the earth even, to say nothing of other planets, the terrestrial men produced by her sons- the lunar men or "ancestors- from her shell or body, cannot be immortal. they cannot hope to become real, self-conscious and intelligent men, unless they are finished, so to say, by other creators. thus in the puranic legend, the son of the moon (soma) is budha (mercury "the intelligent" and the wise, because he is the offspring of soma, the "regent" of the vi

ka, pavamana, and suchi, who had forty-five sons, who, with their three fathers and their father agni, constitute the 49 fires. pavamana (fire produced by friction) is the parent of the fire of the asuras; suchi (solar fire) is the parent of the fire of the gods; and pavaka (electric fire) is the father of the fire of the pitris (see vayu purana. but this is an explanation on the material and the terrestrial plane. the flames are evanescent and only periodical; the fires- eternal in their triple unity. they correspond to the four lower, and the three higher human principles* the suras, who become later the a-suras* atma, buddhi and manas. in devachan the higher element of the manas is needed to make it a state of perception and consciousness for the disembodied monad[[vol. 2, page] 58 the

f the almighty" melha is the lord of the "flames" when he appears on earth, he assumes the personality of a buddha, says a popular legend. he is one of the most ancient and revered lhas, a buddhist st. michael (b) the word "below" must not be taken to mean infernal regions, but simply a spiritual, or rather ethereal, being of a lower grade, because nearer to the earth, or one step higher than our terrestrial sphere; while the lhas are spirits of the highest spheres- whence the name of the capital of tibet, lha-ssa. besides a statement of a purely physical nature and belonging to the[[vol. 2, page] 64 the secret doctrine. evolution of life on earth, there may be another allegorical meaning attached to this sloka, or indeed, as is taught, several. the flames, or "fires" represent spirit, or

ed and occult things, and record the workings of nature in her eternally periodical phenomena. they are never erring, perpetually recurring numbers, unveiling, to him who studies the secrets of nature, a truly divine system, an intelligent plan in cosmogony, which results in natural cosmic divisions of times, seasons, invisible influences, astronomical phenomena, with their action and reaction on terrestrial and even moral nature; on[[footnote(s* wilson's "translation of vishnu purana" vol. i, pp. 50, 51[[vol. 2, page] 74 the secret doctrine. birth, death, and growth, on health and disease. all these natural events are based and depend upon cyclical processes in the kosmos itself, producing periodic agencies which, acting from without, affect the earth and all that lives and breathes on it

y connect in one another, the[[diagram (yod) in the[[diagram (heh, they become impregnated and produce a son. and, therefore, it is called binah, understanding. it means ben yah, i.e, son of yah. this is the completeness of the whole* this is also the "completeness" of phallicism by the rabbis, its perfect apotheosis, the divine being dragged into the animal, the sublime into the grossness of the terrestrial. nothing so graphically gross exists in eastern occultism, nor in the primitive kabala- the "chaldean book of numbers" we have said so in "isis unveiled "we find it rather unwise on the part of catholic writers to pour out their vials of wrath in such sentences as these 'in a multitude of pagodas, the phallic stone, ever and always assuming, like the grecian batylos, the brutally indec

r adamic race; the spirits of human races, which, on the great scale of descending evolution, preceded our races of men, and were physically as well as spiritually, far superior to our modem pigmies. in manava-dharma-sastra they are called the lunar ancestors[[vol. 2, page] 92 the secret doctrine. every physical organ, and psychic, and spiritual function, is a reflection, so to say, a copy on the terrestrial plane of the model or prototype above. why, it is asked, should there be such a strange repetition of the number seven in the anatomical structure of man? why should the heart have four lower "cavities and three higher divisions" answering so strangely to the septenary division of the human principles, separated into two groups, the higher and the lower; and why should the same divisio

ased on blind faith- a hint now ignored by the orthodox brahmins- and forthwith the former become a-suras. the first and mind-born sons of the deity refuse to create progeny, and are cursed by brahma to be born as men. they are hurled down to earth, which, later on, is transformed, in theological dogma, into the infernal regions. ahriman destroys the bull created by ormazd- which is the emblem of terrestrial illusive life, the "germ of sorrow- and, forgetting that the perishing finite seed must die, in order that the plant of immortality, the plant of spiritual, eternal life, should sprout and live, ahriman is proclaimed the enemy, the opposing power, the devil. typhon cuts osiris into fourteen pieces, in order to prevent his peopling the world and thus creating misery; and typhon becomes

perfectly sketched hitherto, will see clearly the allegory contained in the above. its more philosophical meaning will be better understood if the reader thinks carefully over the myth of prometheus. it is examined[[vol. 2, page] 101 the divine babe, agni. further on in the light of the hindu pramantha. degraded into a purely physiological symbol by some orientalists, and taken in connection with terrestrial fire only, their interpretation is an insult to every religion, including christianity, whose greatest mystery is thus dragged down to matter. the "friction" of divine pramantha and arani could suggest itself under this image only to the brutal conceptions of the german materialists- than whom there are none worse. it is true that the divine babe, agni with the sanskrit-speaking race

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f the "dan" or jan-na("dhyan) of gautama's metaphysics- grand as they appear to one unacquainted with the tenets of the wisdom religion of antiquity- are but a very small portion of the whole. the hindu reformer limited his public teachings to the purely moral and physiological aspect of the wisdom religion, to ethics and man alone. things "unseen and incorporeal" the mystery of being outside our terrestrial sphere, the great teacher left entirely untouched in his public lectures, reserving the hidden truths for a select circle of his arhats. the latter received their initiation at the famous saptaparna cave (the sattapanni of mahavansa) near mount baibhar (the webhara of the pali mss. this cave was in rajagriha, the ancient capital of mogadha, and was the cheta cave of fa-hian, as rightly

e (jod) from the female (eva) principle; or, so to speak, the birth of a male element from an immaculate source, in other words, an immaculate conception" thus is repeated on earth the mystery enacted, according to the seers, on the divine plane. the "son" of the immaculate celestial virgin (or the undifferentiated cosmic protyle, matter in its infinitude) is born again on earth as the son of the terrestrial eve- our mother earth, and becomes humanity as a total- past, present, and future- for jehovah or jod-he-vau-he is androgyne, or both male and female. above, the son is the whole kosmos; below, he is mankind. the triad or triangle becomes tetraktis, the sacred pythagorean number, the perfect square, and a 6-faced cube on earth. the macroprosopus (the great face) is now microprosopus (t

of modern science will never understand it, since, in order[[vol. 1, page] 79 primeval radiations from the unity. to obtain clear perception of it, one has first of all to admit the postulate of a universally diffused, omnipresent, eternal deity in nature; secondly, to have fathomed the mystery of electricity in its true essence; and thirdly, to credit man with being the septenary symbol, on the terrestrial plane, of the one great unit (the logos, which is itself the seven-vowelled sign, the breath crystallized into the word* he who believes in all this, has also to believe in the multiple combination of the seven planets of occultism and of the kabala, with the twelve zodiacal signs; to attribute, as we do, to each planet and to each constellation an influence which, in the words of ely

pouring in daily, since "adam- we have to admit the occult teachings. this will be explained in its place. let us see, now, what may be the occult meaning of this stanza. the doctrine teaches that, in order to become a divine, fully conscious god- aye, even the highest- the spiritual primeval intelligences must pass through the human stage. and when we say human, this does not apply merely to our terrestrial humanity, but to the mortals that inhabit any world, i.e, to those intelligences that have reached the appropriate equilibrium between matter and spirit, as we have now, since the middle point of the fourth root race of the fourth round was passed. each entity must have won for itself the right of becoming divine, through self-experience. hegel, the great german thinker, must have know

fohat is transformed into that force which brings together the elemental atoms and makes them aggregate and combine. we find an echo of this primeval teaching[[vol. 1, page] 110 the secret doctrine. in early greek mythology. erebos and nux are born out of chaos, and, under the action of eros, give birth in their turn to ether and hemera, the light of the superior and the light of the inferior or terrestrial regions. darkness generates light. see in the puranas brahma's "will" or desire to create; and in the phoenician cosmogony of sanchoniathon the doctrine that desire[[pothos, is the principle of creation. fohat is closely related to the "one life" from the unknown one, the infinite totality, the manifested one, or the periodical, manvantaric deity, emanates; and this is the universal mi

unseen as on the manifested planes, the action of which resembles- on an immense scale- that of a living force created by will, in those phenomena where the seemingly subjective acts on the seemingly objective and propels it to action. fohat is not only the living symbol and container of that force, but is looked upon by the occultists as an entity- the forces he acts upon being cosmic, human and terrestrial, and exercising their influence on all those planes respectively. on the earthly plane his influence is felt in the magnetic and active force generated by the strong desire of the magnetizer. on the cosmic, it is present in the constructive power that carries out, in the formation of things- from the planetary system down to the glow-worm and simple daisy- the plan in the mind of natur

school, divided into two parts- one for the inner lanoos, the other for the outer or semi-lay chelas beyond the himalayas; the first teaching a septenary, the other a six-fold division of human principles. from a cosmic point of view, fohat taking "five strides" refers here to the five upper planes of consciousness and being, the sixth and the seventh (counting downwards) being the astral and the terrestrial, or the two lower planes (b "four winged wheels at each corner. for the four holy ones and their armies (hosts. these are the "four maharajahs" or great kings of the dhyan-chohans, the devas who preside, each over one of the four cardinal points. they are the regents or angels who rule over the cosmical forces of north, south[[footnote(s* the four aspects are the body, its life or vita

ng of the tabernacle. in the egyptian temples, according to clemens alexandrinus, an immense curtain separated the tabernacle from the place for the congregation. the jews had the same. in both, the curtain was drawn over five pillars (the pentacle) symbolising our five senses and five root-races esoterically, while the four colours of the curtain represented the four cardinal points and the four terrestrial elements. the whole was an allegorical symbol. it is through the four high rulers over the four points and elements that our five senses may become cognisant of the hidden truths of nature; and not at all, as clemens would have it, that it is the elements per se that furnished the pagans with divine knowledge or the knowledge of god* while the egyptian emblem was spiritual, that of the

igious system has ever adopted a female creator, and thus woman was regarded and treated, from the first dawn of popular religions, as inferior to man. it is only in china and egypt that kwan-yin and isis were placed on a par with the male gods. esotericism ignores both sexes. its highest deity is sexless as it is formless, neither father nor mother; and its first manifested beings, celestial and terrestrial alike, become only gradually androgynous and finally separate into distinct sexes* the "theosophist" of february, 1887, p. 305, first lecture on the bhagavadgita[[vol. 1, page] 137 the mystery of the female logos. cosmical, fohat* the "son of the son" the androgynous energy resulting from this "light of the logos" and which manifests in the plane of the objective universe as the hidden

es that there is a perpetual exchange taking place in space of molecules, or of atoms rather, correlating, and thus changing their combining equivalents on every planet. some men of science, and those among the greatest physicists and chemists, begin to suspect this fact, which has been known for ages to the occultists. the spectroscope only shows the probable similarity (on external evidence) of terrestrial and sidereal substance; it is unable to go any farther, or to show whether atoms gravitate towards one another in the same way and under the same conditions as they are supposed to do on our planet, physically and chemically. the scale of temperature, from the highest degree to the lowest that can be conceived of, may be imagined to be one and the same in and for the whole universe; ne

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eate by repeated act the true right habit of this consciousness of the life which abideth in light. and this is easy, if your will be strong: for the true life is no much more vivid and quintessential than the false that (as i rudely estimate) one hour of the former makes an impression on the memory equal to one year of the latter. one single experience, in duration it may be but a few seconds of terrestrial time, is sufficient to destroy the belief in the reality of our vain life on earth: but this wears gradually away if the consciousness, through shock or fear, adhere not to it, and the will strive not continually to repetition of that bliss, more beautiful and terrible than death, which it hath won by virtue of love. there be moreover many other modes of attaining the apprehension of t

mmortal. 2. shila, the key of harmony in word and act, the key that counterbalances the cause and the effect, and leaves no further room for karmic action. 3. kshanti, patience sweet, that nought can ruffle. 4. vairagya, indifference to pleasure and to pain, illusion conquered, truth alone perceived. 5. virya, the dauntless energy that fights its way to the supernal truth, out of the mire of lies terrestrial. 6. dhyana, whose golden gate once opened heads the narjol toward the realm of sat eternal and its ceaseless contemplation. 7. prajna, the key to which makes of a man a god, creating him a bodhisattva, son of the dhyanis. such to the portals are the golden keys (subsection i) charity and love are here used in their technical sense, agap .love is the law, love under will. both agap and

f must have been separated from its thoughts, so that they no longer disturb that self. now, however, the fortress walls must be thrown down, and the mind slain in the open field. the equinox 94 39. if thou would.st not be slain by them, then must thou harmless make thy own creations, the children of thy thoughts unseen, impalpable, that swarm round humankind, the progeny and heirs to man and his terrestrial spoils. thou hast to study the voidness of the seeming fuli, the fulness of the seeming void. o fearless aspirant, look deep within the well of thine own heart, and answer. knowest thou of self the powers, o thou perceiver of external shadows? if thou dost not.then art thou lost. the way to make thoughts harmless is by the equilibrium of contradictions.this is the meaning of the phrase

BOOK OF BLACK SERPENT

th. seven are the infernal palaces, yet do they include ten. in the tree of life, by the waters of the river, in the garden of wisdom, is the serpent of the paths; it is the serpent in the celestial eden. but the serpent of the temptation is that of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, the antithesis and opposer of the other: the red coiled stooping dragon of the apocalypse, the serpent of the terrestrial eden. regard thou therefore the celestial serpent, as of brass, glistening with green and gold, the color of vegetation and of growth: banish thou therefore the evil and seek the good. for as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of adam be lifted up, raised through the balance of strife and of trial, through the pathway of eternal life. and when, like our

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

an chronology, islamic religious doctrine, greek science and mesopotamian astrology. identified idris with enoch and hermes. 796-861 dhu l-nun al-misri hermetic sufi from akhmim egypt, said to have studied with jabir b. hayyan al-kufi. 800-866 al-kindi wrote "on rays (de radiis. al-kindi's theory would tend to imply that the "occult qualities" of plants and stones are a kind of signification "all terrestrial things emit "rays" which exist everywhere simultaneously thereby permitting the magician who understands these things to effect change at a distance. these "rays" of terrestrial things are related to the rays of the stars and planets, thus heaven and earth exist in a reciprocal relation to each other. more than this the human voice can effect change. thus the arts of the trivium (gramm

discusses ethiopian magical texts) postel leaves paris in may due to henry ii putting a halt to his public preaching. he journeys to dijon, besancon and basel in the summer returning to venice in august; in the autumn he is preaching in padua. by december he is in vienna where he is appointed to a university chair by emperor ferdinand. publishes: wonders of the world. and there the monster of the terrestrial paradise< 1553, paris; sibyllinorum versuum virgilio in quarta bucolicorum versuum ecloga transcriptorum ecfrasis commentarii instar phoenix superis stellas qui viuidus aequat "bring forth the superior phoenix, which vigorously reaches as high as the star> 1554 january, postel gives address on phoenician and hebrew languages. by may, postel leaves vienna

ngdom, separate from the church, upon the the conversion of the jews and a "full restoring of the jewish nation; a literal kingdom on earth. 1558 elizabeth i becomes queen of england; giambattista della porta's magia naturalis published; zohar printed in mantua. john dee propaedeumata. 1559 august, postel and other prisoners are freed upon the death of the pope. 1559-1598 edward kelley theatre of terrestrial astronomy. the stone of the philosophers. 1560-1605 heinrich khunrath proto-rosicrucian amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae "what good are torches, light, or spectacles, to those who will not see" 1560 foxe's book of martyrs. zohar printed in cremona. adam von bodenstein begins his work of editing various writings of paracelsus. giambattista della porta magia naturalis. postel fearing re

CHYMICAL WEDDING OF CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ

clockwork which was erected upon a fair turret in the centre, and regulate themselves according to the course of the planets, which were to be seen on it in a glorious manner. and hence i could easily conjecture where our artists failed; however it s none of my duty to inform them. at length i came into a spacious room (shown indeed to the rest a great while before) in the middle of which stood a terrestrial globe, whose diameter was thirty feet, although nearly half of it, except a little which was covered with the steps, was let into the earth. two men might readily turn this globe about with all its furniture, so that no more of it was ever to be seen, just so much as was above the horizon. now although i could easily conceive that this was of some special use, yet i could not understan

COSIMANO CHARLES ELEMENTARY PSIONICS

ore detail later when you have your instruments up and running. by means of the pendulum you can read messages from any mind in the universe as long as you are attuned to it. that's right, i said the universe. now as the universe is a pretty big place, you have to do some real fine tuning in some cases, but there is no reason you cannot do it. usually, however, you will be more interested in more terrestrial sources and the best way to do that is to make a chart like the one below (letter number chart. to do this, draw a large circle on a piece of paper. now, evenly spaced around the circle, write the letters from a to z, numbers from 1 to 0, and some common punctuation marks such as a period, comma and question mark. once you have done that, take a ruler and draw a line from the center of

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

iam engdahl, a century of war (dr bottiger verlags-gmbh, germany, 1993) p147. a superb expose of anglo-american oil politics and its place in the new world order. 14 a century of war, pl50 15 ibid p149 16 before the previous arab-israeli war in 1967, there was considerable ufo activity over israel and the golan heights. this is often reported in war zones before and during the conflict. see extra-terrestrial friends and foes, by george c. andrews. 17 a century of war, pl50 18 a century of war, pl80-181 the debt scam 251 19 henry a. kissinger, reflections on a partnership: british and american attitudes to postwar foreign policy (royal institute of international affairs, chatham house, london, may 10th 1982. in june 1995 kissinger was given an 'honourary knighthood' by the queen for "servic

, 13 90 usa today (april 28th 1995) p3a 91 the spotlight (june 5th 1995) p5 92 ibid p3 93 ibid (may 8th 1995) p4-5 94 dallas mufon group meeting, august 10th 1988 95 see open verdict by tony collins, an investigation into 25 mysterious deaths among people working in the defence industry (sphere books, london, 1990. 96 contact with space, quoted in extra-terrestrials friends and foes, p47 97 extra-terrestrial friends and foes, p238 98 story reported by richard deacon in the truth twisters (macdonald, london, 1987) 99 "watching for aliens, the spotlight (september 25th 1995) p2. it reveals laurance rockefeller's support for the center for the study of extra-terrestrial intelligence. chapter 13 the one party states saw a television programme a few years ago about research into animal behaviou

the shah, another cia puppet, had outlived his usefulness. at the same time, as the wall street journal of august 16th 1990 reported, it was the cia in 1968 who supported the baath party in iraq and installed saddam as dictator. now saddam would be used again, knowingly or otherwise, to start up another war in the gulf, another war planned long before. george c. andrews reports in his book, extra-terrestrial friends and foes "a little known fact about the gulf war is that one month before our declaration of war on december 15th, 1990, secretary of state, james baker, signed the us army report from the 352nd civil affairs command on the new kuwait [unclassified, and therefore available to those interested. this report describes in detail how extensively kuwait will be destroyed, how the oil

explanation of the global drug industry and who is behind it, see dope incorporated. the book that drove kissinger crazy, by the editors of executive intelligence review (washington dc, 1992) 17 defrauding america, p295 18 the spotlight (may 8th 1995) p2 19 the video, a nation betrayed 20 michael levine and lauri kavanau-levine, the big white lie. also quoted in defrauding america, p293 21 extra-terrestrial friends and foes, p288 22 transcript of the meeting released by the iraqis and quoted in the immaculate deception. the bush family crime exposed, pl46-147 23 defrauding america, p433 24 extra-terrestrial friends and foes, p287 25 bush's talk of a "new world order: foreign policy tool or mere slogan, washington post (may 26th 1991) 26 washington post (september 12th 1990) 27 defrauding

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

used throughout history to describe people and ideas that are simply different. and different does not mean wrong. so many condemned and ridiculed ideas in the past have later become conventional wisdom. first they ridicule you; then they condemn you; then they say they knew you were right all along. this book is designed to pull together the evidence and background of the extraterrestrial, inner-terrestrial, and interdimensional control of planet earth for thousands of years to the present day. to do this, i have weaved together information in the biggest secret with a mass of new historical and modern accounts, to present as clear a picture as possible of the forces that daily manipulate and direct the lives of the human race. this is not the whole story, however, just part of it. there

ld and our lives today are the same bloodlines that ruled lemuria, atlantis, sumer, egypt, babylon, the roman empire, and the british and european empires. they are the presidents of the united states, the prime ministers, the leading banking and business families, the media owners, and those who control the military. we have been ruled by the same interbreeding tribe of extraterrestrial or inner-terrestrial hybrids, the nefilim, for thousands of years and we are now facing a crucial time in their unfolding agenda: the time when we, the people, either bring this hidden dictatorship to an end or face a future, very shortly, in a global fascist state. that's the summary of what has happened and is happening. now consider the detailed evidence. chapter 1 to the prison born there are none so e

s lie. i do not dismiss for a moment the claims of physical reptilians and greys living within the planet in the underground bases and tunnel networks. that is clearly true from the explosion of ancient and modern accounts, and at the point of interface with surface humanity that is a vital aspect of this story. however, it is the interdimensional rather than the purely extraterrestrial and inner-terrestrial, which holds the key to unlocking the mysteries. the reptilian hybrid bloodlines have been created, in my view, for occupation by fourth, maybe also fifth, dimensional reptilian and other entities and it is they who are controlling the illuminati. indeed at the peak of the pyramid, they are the illuminati. satanic and secret society rituals are designed to create the means through whic

maintain contact with us, they need crossbreeding with men and women of our planet? is this the origin of the many tales and legends where genetics plays a great role: the symbolism of the virgin in occultism and religion, the fairy tales involving human midwives and changelings, the sexual overtones of the flying saucer reports, the biblical stories of intermarriage between the lord's angels and terrestrial women, whose offspring were giants? from that mysterious universe, have objects that can materialize and 'dematerialize' at will been projected? are the ufos 'windows' rather than 'objects? there is nothing to support these assumptions, and yet, in view of the historical continuity of the phenomenon, alternatives are hard to find, unless we deny the reality of ail the facts, as our pea

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ion of itsexistence will have been taken away. ive talked and researched in more than 20countries and i see the same process in every one of them. identical policies andstructures are introduced in line with a global agenda, yet at the same time there is quiteobviously a global awakening as more and more people hear the spiritual alarm clock andemerge from their mental and emotional slumbers, the terrestrial trance. which force willprevail in these millennium years to 2012? that is up to us. we create our own reality byour thoughts and actions. if we change our thoughts and actions we will change theworld. its that simple.in this book i am going to chart the history of the interbreeding tribe of bloodlineswhich control the world today and reveal the true nature of the global agenda. and iw

s? first they battled on mars,apparently, then the moon and now earth. hitler was obsessed with finding theentrances to this subterranean world so he could contact the aryan master race, but thetruth is that he was a reptilian puppet controlled by the angel of death, josefmengele. it is highly likely, as i mentioned early on, that the reptilians are in conflictwith other extraterrestrial or inner-terrestrial races for control of the planet and therewill certainly be many competing factions in the consciousness cesspit of the lowerfourth dimension. a founder of the thule society was rudolf glauer, an astrologer,who changed his name to the grand-sounding baron von sebottendorff. his demandsfor a revolution against jews and the marxists turned the thule society into a focus for248the anti-jew

h of which produceelectromagnetic fields and they can certainly be produced by the electromagnetictechnology used by the brotherhood in their mind control projects. the effect andpotential of electromagnetic fields to take people into altered states of consciousness andto trigger many supernatural phenomena is enormous. unless we understand this,extraterrestrial explanations can be given for very terrestrial events. this applies toplasma balls and lights in the sky which are commonly caused by electromagneticprojections from the earth. the modern explosion of ufo sightings did not begin untilafter the second world war, by which time the germans for one had developed forms offlying saucers. project paperdip was the british intelligence-american intelligenceoperation to spring the top nazi s

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sychic vacuum. this ritual is celestial in nature. lbrp: the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram. a general method of abjuration (q.v. a powerful technique popularized by the hermitic order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v) to rid your area of unwanted negative influences. also a good technique of psychic self defense, as this ritual strengthens, fortifies, and magnifies the aura. this ritual is terrestrial in nature. lemures: see larvae. leo "the lion" in astrology (q.v, the fifth sign of the zodiac (q.v) having the qualities of fixed (q.v) and fire (q.v) and is ruled by the planet sol (the sun (q.v. on the rainbow wand (q.v) and on the lotus wand aries is represented by the color yellow. keywords include: loudly, proudly, powerfully, creatively, dramatically, heartily, need for recognit

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place in daath, the invisible sephirab. mystical qabala page 41 11. the next six sephiroth are conformed into zaur anpin, the lesser countenance, or microprosopos, whose special sephirah is tiphareth. the remaining sephirab, malkuth, is called the bride of microprosopos. 22. microprosopos is also sometimes called the king; malkuth is then called the queen. she is also called the lesser mother or terrestrial eve as distinguished from binah, the supernal mother. 23. these different methods of classifying the sephiroth are not competing systems, but are designed to enable the decimal system of the qabalists to be equated with other systems, using a threefold notation, such as the christian, or as we have already noted, a sevenfold system like theosophy; they are also valuable as indicating f

and water. and although it is not functional in any triangle, it represents the endresults of all the activities of the tree. it is the nadir of evolution, the outermost point on the outgoing arc, through which all life must pass before returning whence it came. 2. malkuth is said to be the sphere of earth; but we must not make the mistake of thinking that the qabalists meant by malkuth only the terrestrial sphere. they meant also the earth-soul-that is to say, the subtle, psychic aspect of matter; the underlying noumenon of the physical plane which gives rise to all physical phenomena. likewise with the four elements. these are not earth, air, fire, and water as known to the physicists, but are the four conditions in which energy can exist. the esotericist distinguishes these from their

e. 20. now it cannot be denied that there are many things, especially the more recondite aspects of psychology, concerning which the east knows a great deal more than the west, and which we should be wise to learn; but it also cannot be denied that, having originated in the east, the growing-point of evolution is now to be found in the west, and that for every advance in the art of living on this terrestrial planet, the east must look to the west unless it is content to go back to the spinning-wheel standard of life. but let it not be forgotten that with the primitive standard of life goes also the primitive standard of death. a primitive culture can only support a sparse population. a great many people have got to die, mostly the old and the young. when we return to nature, she deals with

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ye that this pyramid of pepi, this building built for eternity, may flourish, even as the name of the god tmu, the chief of the great company of the nine gods, doth flourish. if the name of shu, the lord of the celestial shrine in annu flourisheth, then pepi shall flourish, and this his pyramid shall flourish, and this his work shall endure to all eternity. if the name of tefnut, the lady of the terrestrial shrine in annu endureth, the name of pepi shall endure, and this pyramid shall endure to all eternity. if the name of seb. flourisheth the name of pepi shall flourish, and this pyramid shall flourish, and this his work shall endure to all eternity. if the name of nut flourisheth in the temple of shenth in annu, the name of pepi shall flourish, and this pyramid shall flourish, and this

evolutions of ra, the god neb-er-tcher, the "lord of the company of the gods" records the story of the creation and of the birth of the gods-"i am he who evolved himself under the form of the god khepera, i, the evolver of the evolutions evolved myself, the evolver of all evolutions, after many evolutions and developments which came forth from my mouth.[12] no heaven existed, and no earth, and no terrestrial animals or reptiles had come into being. i formed them out of the inert mass of watery matter, i found no place whereon to stand. i was alone, and the gods shu and tefnut had not gone forth from me; there existed [1. brugsch, religion, pp. 128, 129. 2. ibid, p. 132. 3. ibid, p. 140. 4. ibid, p. 142. 5. ibid, p. 148. 6. ibid, pp. 149, 152. 7. ibid, p. 158. 8. ibid, p. 160. 9. ibid, p. 1

tion, thou supporter of the universe. thou art one in thine attributes among the gods, thou beautiful bull of the company of the gods, thou chief of all the gods, lord of maat, father of the gods, creator of men, maker of beasts and cattle, lord of all that existeth, maker of the staff of life, creator of the herbs which give life to beasts and cattle. thou art the creator of things celestial and terrestrial, thou illuminest the universe. the gods cast themselves at thy feet when they perceive thee. hymns of praise to thee, o father of the gods, who hast spread out the heavens and laid down the earth. thou master of eternity and of everlastingness. hail to thee, o ra, lord of maat, thou who -art hidden in thy shrine, lord of the gods. thou art khepera in thy bark, and when thou sendest for

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formerly run a healing sanctuary. he was in his apartment one morning in march 1954 when a voice informed him: prepare yourself. you are to become the voice of interplanetary parliament. it was king s habit to meditate daily, and while so engaged several days later, he was visited by an indian yoga master who informed him of his mission: the cosmic intelligences had selected him as their primary terrestrial channel. king began to communicate with an entity named aetherius, a venusian who was one of the cosmic masters of the interplanetary parliament located on saturn (jesus christ is also considered a parliamentary master) until his death in 1997, dr. king was in regular contact with these masters. eventually king went public when he permitted the master aetherius to speak through him at

having left their graves, they came to feed upon what was brought them. they believed also, that the demons were fond of the smoke of sacrifices, of music, of the blood of victims, and the commerce of women; and that they were confined for a determinate time to certain houses or other places, which they haunted, and in which they appeared. they held that souls, when separated from their gross and terrestrial bodies, still retained a finer and more subtle body, of the same form with that which they had quitted; that these bodies were luminous like the stars; and they retained an inclination for the things which they had loved in their life time, and frequently appeared about their graves. when the soul of patroclus appeared to achilles, it had his voice, his shape, his eyes, and his dress

the remarkable effects of hypnotism can be achieved through conscious suggestion employed by the subject. coue s methods have since become the basis for many popular systems of healing, self-improvement, and mysticism and an integral part of new thought metaphysics. autoscope encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 132 avalon (or avillion) the enchanted island of arthurian legend. this terrestrial paradise was known in welsh mythology as ynys avallach (isle of apples) or possibly related to the celtic king of the dead named avalloc or afallach. in geofrey of manmouth s twelfthcentury chronicle of king arthur, historia regum britanniae, it was noted that arthur s sword was forged in avalon, and he was returned to avalon after his last battle so his wounds could heal. in 1191 the

was determined that the majority who died were given tranquilizers and were subsequently shot. their bodies were then arranged in a circular pattern. sources: introvigne, massimo. the magic of death: the suicides of the solar temple. in catherine wessinger, ed. millennialism, persecution, and violence: historical cases. syracuse, n.y: syracuse university press, 2000. meyer, jean francois &43 our terrestrial journey is coming to an end: the late voyage of the solar temple. nova religio 2, 2 (april 1999: 172.96. palmer, susan. purity and danger in the solar temple. journal of contemporary religion 11, 3 (october 1996: 303.18. wessinger, catherine. how the millennium comes violently. new york: seven bridges press, 2000. dimensione psi defunct quarterly journal of associazione italiana studi

all were disappointed. many, including miller, admitted their mistake. some posed new dates, and out of their subsequent failures have come a host of small adventist groups (including the advent christian church and the jehovah s witnesses. others found a means of reinterpreting miller s teachings in a spiritualizing direction. among them, ellen g. white suggested that the date did not refer to a terrestrial event, but to a cleansing of a heavenly sanctuary. that event, which began in 1844, presages the more visible return of christ in the indefinite but imminent future. white s teachings became the interpretation accepted by the seventh-day adventist church. in britain in 1881 there was a panic in country districts during which people left their houses and spent the night in prayer, convi

key to the universe. new york: harper& row, 1979. cole, j. a. abayomi. astrological geomancy in africa. london, 1898. hartmann, franz. geomancy: the art of divining by punctuation according to cornelius agrippa and others. london: william rider& son, 1913. pennick, nigel. geomancy. cambridge: cokayne publishing, 1973. skinner, stephen. the oracle of geomancy. london: routledge& kegan paul, 1977. terrestrial astrology: divination by geomancy. london: routledge& kegan paul, 1980. watkins, alfred. the old straight track. 1925. reprint, london: garnstone press, 1970. george, demetra (1946) demetra george, a popular contemporary astrologer, has become well known for promoting consideration of the role of asteroids in the interpretation of the horoscope, and for her integration of goddess mytho

s clairvoyant visions. to play the part of the ghost, hudson occasionally dressed up or made double exposures. the duplication of the pattern of the carpet and other parts of the background showing through the legs of the sitter and of the ghost was ingeniously explained by refraction.the spirits being quoted as saying that the spirit aura differs in density and refracting power from the ordinary terrestrial atmosphere. such resourceful explanations, coupled with the belief that hudson produced many genuine spirit photographs, helped to reestablish his shaken credibility. however, according to psychical researcher harry price, in his book confessions of a ghost-hunter (1936; reprinted in 1974, hudson used an ingenious camera manufactured by howell, a encyclopedia of occultism& parapsycholo

h a year later another group would commit suicide and in 1997 five more died believing that they were following the first group to a higher dimension. sources: introvigne, massimo. the magic of death: the suicides of the solar temple. in catherine wessinger, ed. millennialism, persecution, and violence: historical cases. syracuse, n.y: syracuse university press, 2000. meyer, jean francois &43 our terrestrial journey is coming to an end: the late voyage of the solar temple. nova religio 2, 2 (april 1999: 172.96. palmer, susan. purity and danger in the solar temple. journal of contemporary religion 11, 3 (october 1996: 303.18. wessinger, catherine. how the millennium comes violently. new york: seven bridges press, 2000. journal du magnetisme et du psychisme experimental monthly publication f

hic abilities and also launched into the practice of yoga. as he matured, he found himself most interested in spiritual healing. then in may of 1954 he heard a voice speak to him, prepare yourself! you are to become the voice of the interplanetary parliament. king claimed to have come into telepathic contact with an extraterrestrial entity named master aetherius, who in 1955 named him the primary terrestrial mental channel. out of his regular contacts (by what is currently termed channeling) with masters aetherius and the master jesus, he founded the aetherius society. he also began a magazine, cosmic voice. he maintained regular contact with the great white brotherhood, the group of evolved beings charged with guiding earth s evolution. king came to understand that the earth was in the mi

which is nova hierosolyma, 1985. lord s new church which is nova hierosolyma. http/ www.novahierosolyma.org. march 8, 2000. pitcairn, theodore. the book sealed with seven seals. bryn athyn, penn: cathedral book room, 1927. my lord and my god. new york: exposition press, 1967. lords of the flame (or children of the fire mist) adepts, or manasaputras (sons of mind, sent from the planet venus to aid terrestrial evolution. according to theosophy, venus was considered in advance of the earth in the evolution of the solar system. the efforts of these adepts directed towards intellectual development enable the inhabitants of the earth to become further advanced than could be expected in the ordinary course of events. these adepts are not permanent inhabitants of the earth, and, while a few remain

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ass needle and considered to indicate some kind of electromagnetic force. it was suspended in a glass cylinder by a silk fiber. if the cylinder was approached by a hand, the paper (over a dial of 360 degrees) would either turn toward the hand or away from it. carried out in a more substantial form with a metallic multiplicator, a condenser, and a needle, the magnetometer was used for the study of terrestrial magnetism to solve meteorological problems. since the beginning of the twentieth century, it has been used for dowsing (see also biometer of baraduc; de tromelin cylinder; water witching) magonia (journal) quarterly journal concerned with anomalies, such as visions, portents, prodigies, and ufos. the name magonia was given in medieval france to a mysterious land beyond the sky, the ori

ichet if myers were not a mystic, he had all the faith of a mystic and the ardour of an apostle, in conjunction with the sagacity and precision of a savant. i never knew a man so hopeful concerning his ultimate destiny, wrote sir oliver lodge in memoriam. he once asked me whether i would barter.if it were possible.my unknown destiny, whatever it might be, for as many aeons of unmitigated and wise terrestrial happiness as might last till the secular fading of the sun, and then an end. he would not. myers was working not only in the first generation of parapsychology, but at a time when psychology was struggling to separate itself from the dominance of physiology. the kind words of myers s contemporaries about his psychological theories reflect his general high standing in the intellectual c

of the dead back to life within that period. on a festival day of the ndembo, the members marched through the village in a grand procession amidst universal joy, carrying with them the persons who were supposed to have died. the neophytes who were supposed to have perished comported themselves as if in reality they had come from another world. they took new names, pretended that everything in the terrestrial sphere was new to them, turned a deaf ear to their parents and relatives, and even affected not to know how to eat. they further desired to have everything they set eyes on, and if it was not granted to them immediately, they might fall upon the unhappy owner and beat and even kill him without any consequence to themselves. it was assumed that they were mere children in the affairs of

estrial sphere was new to them, turned a deaf ear to their parents and relatives, and even affected not to know how to eat. they further desired to have everything they set eyes on, and if it was not granted to them immediately, they might fall upon the unhappy owner and beat and even kill him without any consequence to themselves. it was assumed that they were mere children in the affairs of the terrestrial sphere, and therefore knew no better. those who went through this rite were called nganga, or the knowing ones, while the neophytes were designated vanga. during their occupation of the vela they learned an esoteric language, which they constantly employed. perhaps the best record of the group was made by ethnologist adolf bastian (1826.1905, who stated: the great nkissi (who here repl

faced by scientists who do not understand the consequences of their actions for the environment. the first collection of messages from the origin was released in 1997. further messages are expected to be released in the future. sources: dahya, amyn. reflections from the origin. vancouver, bc: reflections publishing, 1997. the orion mystery a book proposing that the pyramids of giza, egypt, are a terrestrial map of the constellation orion, traditional home of the soul of the reborn kings of egypt. sources: bauval, robert, and adrian gilbert. the orion mystery. london: heinemann, 1994. oris (1954) oris is the spiritual name of tsvelev sergei vassillievich, a psychic channel who emerged in russia in the 1990s following the demise of the soviet union. oris was born on january 25, 1954, in mar

ed frequently to become incarnate, and to hold personal intercourse with the yet undepraved race, to instruct them in arts and sciences; to unveil their own sublime functions and pure nature; and to make them acquainted with the economy of those celestial regions into which they were to be immediately translated, when the period of their terrestial probation expired. sources: baring-gould, s. the terrestrial paradise. in curious myths of the middle ages. 1872. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1967. doane, t. w. the creation and fall of man. in bible myths and their parallels in other religions. 1884. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1971. jacoby, mario. the longing for paradise: psychological perspectives on an archetype. boston: sigo press, 1985. pagel, walter

icate with us before we communicated with them. the martian fascination of mansfield robinson should also be mentioned. through a mrs. james, the author claimed to have obtained a martian alphabet, a martian trance control oumaruru, and gave a number of martian revelations based on trance excursions to the red planet. many of the claimed spiritual revelations of life on other planets betray their terrestrial origins by everything being bigger and better than on earth. this is demonstrated in the pamphlet a description of the planet neptune; or, a message from the spirit world by japssa seniel, spiritual, from the planet naculo or neptune (london, ca. 1872, from which the following quotations are typical: we have horses, which we call nemilis, but they stand nearly as high again as yours, a

ill health, having spent six months leave on a voyage to the united states in search of a replacement. he lived his last years at the english seaside resort of torquay when he was not traveling in search of some relief from his illness. he died at torquay on march 21, 1857. it was during his years at exeter that scoresby s interest in animal magnetism (mesmerism, arising from his observations on terrestrial magnetism during his polar voyages, emerged. during his last years at torquay, he conducted a number of experiments, having found that he could mesmerize subjects easily. he gave the name zoistic magnetism to this hypnotic faculty. his third wife was one of his hypnotic subjects. scoresby s careful research into the possibility of clairvoyance resulted in persuasive evidence for though

and derives spiritual invigoration and nourishment during its sojourn in the spiritual world. in the paranormal phenomena observed in dreams and the hypnotic state, f. w. h. myers found indications that the self of sleep is a spirit freed from ordinary material limitations, and this conclusion conforms to the hypothesis that we live in two worlds; the waking personality is adapted to the needs of terrestrial life, the personality of sleep maintains the fundamental connection between the spiritual world and the organism, so as to provide the latter with energy while developing itself by the exercise of its spiritual powers. related to theories of sleep are theories on astral projection, also known as obe (out-of-body experience) or soul traveling, in which the soul is said to leave its body

tro and certain characteristics of leopold, but he believed that they accorded well with the subliminal medley. leopold did not know italian and turned a deaf ear if anyone addressed him in that language. his handwriting encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. smith, helene 1421 showed striking dissimilarities to that known of the real cagliostro. his answers to questions regarding his terrestrial existence were evasive or vague. he did not furnish a single name, date, or precise fact. he was, on the other hand, as archaic in his therapeutics as in his orthography and treated all maladies in an old-fashioned way. he claimed that his sentiments for smith were only the continuation of those of cagliostro for marie antionette. marie antoinette was the first great romance of smith s

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ents, then, being the extreme of opposition to miracle, there are yet events of a third and intermediate type, marvels, which cannot be understanded of the people, but which are yet the product of a special gift to certain men, their spirits, minds, and bodies, who by due, careful, and sufficient training, wisdom and experience, have earned such a reward. such should the typical rosicrucian be, a terrestrial earthly body, the temple in which dwells a mind trained to understand the powers of nature, and enshrined within this, as a canopy, should sit a divine afflatus, a portion of the spirit of god, an ala of the celestial dove who brooded over the chaos, and this spirit may by patent submission to deity, and by active efforts at power, draw down to itself a commission to work wonders, and

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h ariseth. seven are the infernal palaces, yet do they include ten. in the tree of life by the waters of the river in the garden of wisdom is the serpent of the paths. it is the serpent of the celestial eden. but the serpent of temptation is that of the tree of knowledge of good and of evil. it is the antithesis and the opposer; the red coiled stooping dragon of the apocalypse; the serpent of the terrestrial eden. regard thou, therefore, the celestial serpent as of brass; glistening with green and gold, the colors of vegetation and of growth. banish thou, therefore, the evil and seek the good, thou who wouldst know the life of ages, thou who would follow in the footsteps of our master, o brother of the order of the golden dawn! for as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so

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e year, queen juliana of holland received him, igniting fierce commentary in the press and a riot at the university of zurich when adamski attempted to give a lecture in switzerland. adamski charged that the students and indeed most of his critics were agents of a sinister silence group, which sought to frustrate the moral reforms and technological advances advocated by the space people and their terrestrial allies. though the reality of adamski s audience with queen juliana was never in doubt, other purported meetings with notables, including president john f. kennedy, pope john xxiii, and vice president hubert h. humphrey, that figure in the adamski legend almost certainly did not occur outside adamski s imagination. in the early 1960s, after adamski openly embraced psychic approaches of

deas are based on his reading of ancient sumerian documents. in his view they confirm that the anunnaki a su m e rian term created humans in their image, via genetic engineering with the dna of nat i ve anthropoids, after their arrival some f o u r- h u n d red thousand five- h u n d red ye a r s a g o. these original earthlings we re created so that they could work as slaves in the anunn a k i s terrestrial gold mines; the extraterre strials needed the gold to pre s e rve the atmosp h e re of their home world. many thousands of years later, they returned to give the sumerians and egyptians their re s p e c t i ve civilizations and actually lived among these people for a thousand years. one visitor f rom ni b i ru, enki, re p o rtedly saved the human race. when a hostile alien, en l i l, t

icipated in a small ufo study group put together by the canadian government s de- boys from topside 47 fense research board. the following year, smith released project magnet s findings, which were perhaps not surprisingly that ufos performed in ways that are difficult to reconcile. with the capabilities of our technology; thus, we are forced to the conclusion that the vehicles are probably extra-terrestrial (smith, 1953. he urged his superiors to set up a monitoring station that would check for ufo activity over a twenty-four-hour period. they agreed to the proposal and provided a dot-owned hut on shirley s bay, some ten miles west of ottawa. the installation contained an ionospheric reactor, an electronic sound-measurement device, a gamma-ray detector, a gravimeter, a magnetometer, and a

a, 1994. taken: inside the alien-human abduction agenda. roland, ar: kelt works. contactees contactees are people who claim a regular, ongoing relationship with benevolent extraterrestrials, sometimes called space brothers. these aliens essentially angels in spacesuits are nearly always human in appearance, except better looking than humans are. they espouse an occult philosophy with recognizably terrestrial origins, notably in theosophy. contact occurs in a variety of fashions. much, perhaps most, of it is through channeling. other psychic communications are effected through automatic writing, dreams, visions, or astral (out-of-body) travel. a third group, the most controversial, alleges physical contacts, including trips in flying saucers to other worlds. physical contactees frequently o

ole j. sneide. in a letter to the sa n francisco chro n i c l e appearing in the july 3 issue, sneide stated that the flying discs, also k n own as flying saucers, we re spaceships fro m other planets (this is one of the ve ry earliest public attempts to link the new public sensation with extraterrestrial visitors. nearly all other speculation held the saucers to be natural phenomena or advanced terrestrial aircraft. the association of flying saucers as spaceships did not take widespread hold until the early to mid-1950s) sneide also said the saucers had a base on the dark side of the moon. he knew as much because he re g u l a r l y t e l e p o rted himself around the galaxy. a foll ow-up article in the c h ro n i c l e d e t e r m i n e d that sneide, a student of occultism, was serious

te, gray barker, to write a sensational and paranoia-drenched book, they knew too much about flying saucers (1956, about bender and other supposedly silenced ufo researchers. eventually, barker, who had started a small west virginia based publishing company, persuaded bender to reveal what had happened to him. in flying saucers and the three men (1962, bender wrote that he had run afoul, not of a terrestrial intelligence agency, but of extraterrestrial intelligences from the planet kazik. bender s ifsb had come into existence in april 1952 and was soon among the most successful of early ufo groups, claiming as many as six hundred members in a number of countries. bender was also an enthusiastic science- fiction fan. a bachelor, he lived in a house full of artifacts from horror films, and a

doctor and his wife were driving a few miles from the airport at pajas blancas, in cordoba province, when their engine failed. a huge, extraordinary-looking craft landed on the highway in front of them. for the next twenty minutes the couple stared in puzzlement and unease at the ufo. then, according to a press account, a man walked out of it and spoke to them in spanish, don t be afraid. i am a terrestrial. my name is r. d. apparently the man gave his full name, but published accounts give only his initials. he went on, tell mankind about it, in your own fashion (creighton, 1974. the man walked slowly back toward the ufo and was joined by two gray-clad beings who had suddenly appeared. they boarded the ship, and it flew rapidly away, a violet-colored trail in its wake. see also: abductio

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h. and he, having seen this form like to himself in nature, reflected in the water, he loved her and wished to dwell with her. the moment he wished this he accomplished it and came to inhabit the irrational form. then nature having received her loved one, embraced him, and they were united, for they burned with love" man having taken on a mortal body, in order to live with nature, is alone of all terrestrial beings of a double nature, mortal through his body, immortal through the essential man. although in fact immortal and having power over all things, he has also through his body the condition of mortality, being under destiny and the slave of the armature of the spheres "now, says pimander "i will reveal to you a mystery which has been hidden until now. nature being united to man in lov

ble. and all this great body of the world is a soul, full of intellect and of god, who fills it within and without and vivifies the all. contemplate through me (that is through the mens) the world, and consider its beauty. see the hierarchy of the seven heavens and their order. see that all things are full of fight. see the earth, settled in the midst of the all, the great nurse who nourishes all terrestrial creatures. all is full of soul, and all beings are in movement. who has created these things? the one god, for god is one. you see that the world is always one, the sun, one, the moon, one, the divine activity, one; god too, is one. and since all is living, and life is also one, god is certainly one. it is by the 1 st. john, i, iv, xii. 2 c.h, i, pp. 147-57; ficino, pp. 1850-52. 31 fic

who regards this as one of the passages in which hermes prophesies christianity).2 but there had to be another being who could contemplate what god had made and so he created man. seeing that man could not regulate all things unless he gave him a material envelope he gave him a body. thus man was formed from a double origin, so that he could both admire and adore celestial things and take care of terrestrial things and govern them. the soul of the gods is said to be all intellect, but this is true only of the superior gods, for there are many gods, some intelligible, some sensible. the chief or principal gods are as follows (i here combine two passages on the principal gods. the ruler of heaven is jupiter; and through the intermediary of heaven he dispenses life to all beings (possibly an

re of the gods and to reproduce it. our first ancestors invented the art of making gods. they mingled a virtue, drawn from material nature, to the substance of the statues, and "since they could not actually create souls, after having evoked the souls of demons or angels, they introduced these into their idols by holy and divine rites, so that the idols had the power of doing good and evil" these terrestrial or man-made gods result from a composition of herbs, stones, and aromatics which contain in themselves an occult virtue of divine efficacy. and if one tries to please them with numerous sacrifices, hymns, songs of praise, sweet concerts which recall the harmony of heaven, this is in order that the celestial element which has been introduced into the idol by the repeated practice of the

een mistaken in interpreting the lament as a true prophecy, though inspired by devils, of the coming of christianity to abolish egyptian idolatry. surely, on the contrary, the work which lactantius had called the sermo perfectus contained the final initiation into the religious cult practised by the holy hermes. and that cult involved the practice of astral magic. the statues in the temples, the "terrestrial gods, were animated by knowing the occult properties of substances, by arranging them in accordance with the principles of sympathetic magic, and by drawing down into them the life of the celestial gods by invocations. so it would become a legitimate practice for a philosopher, even a devout practice associated with his religion, to "draw down the life of the heaven" by sympathetic ast

and indeed so had all the constellations and stars of the heavens. for the all was one, united by an infinitely complex system of relationships. the magician was one who knew how to enter into this system, and use it, by knowing the links of the chains of influences descending vertically from above, and establishing for himself a chain of ascending links by correct use of the occult sympathies in terrestrial things, of celestial images, of invocations and names, and the like. the methods and the cosmological background presupposed are the same whether the magician is using these forces to try to obtain concrete material benefits for himself, or whether he is using them religiously, as in the hieratic magic described in the asclepius, for insight into the divine forces in nature and to assi

us and magic spiritus descends from the above to the below and resides in the place where it is caught (ubi captus est. or, as it is put in another chapter1 "the virtues of the superior bodies are the form and power of the inferiors, and the form of the inferiors is of a material related to the virtues of the superiors; and they are as it were joined together, because their corporeal material (of terrestrial things) and their spiritual material (of the stars) are one material" the whole art of magic thus consists in capturing and guiding the, influx of spiritus into materia. the most important of the means of doing this is through the making of talismans, images of the stars inscribed on the correct materials, at the right times, in the right frame of mind, and so on. the whole of the firs

3 the first of these parts of speculative cabala, described as "catholic" philosophy done with revolving alphabets, is thought by scholem to refer to letter-combinatory techniques of abraham abulafia and his school, the path of the names. the second with its allusion to the three worlds the supercelestial world of the sephiroth and the angels, the celestial world of the stars, and the sensible or terrestrial world would presumably correspond to the path of the sephiroth. in the third of the cabalist conclusions, pico gives a definition of practical cabala: scientia quae est pars practica cabalae, practicat totam metaphysicam formalem& theologiam inferiorcm.4 fortunately, he explains himself a little more clearly about the different kinds of cabala in his apology. he now abandons the sub-di

aculum, a being worthy of reverence and honour. for he goes into the nature of a god as though he were himself a god; he has familiarity with the race of demons, knowing that he is of the same origin; he despises that part of his nature which is only human for he has put his hope in the divinity of the other part' the fathers of the church had placed man in a dignified position, as the highest of terrestrial beings, as spectator of the universe, as the microcosm containing within himself the reflection of the macrocosm. all these orthodox notions arc in the oration on the dignity of man,2 but the dignity of man as magus, as operator, having within him the divine creative power, and the magical power of marrying earth to heaven rests on the gnostic heresy that man was once, and can become a

synthesis of neoplatonism with christianity so, too, he helped pico to build the bridge between jewish cabala and christianity. pico's heptaplus, which is a commentary on genesis in the cabalistic manner, is full of references to dionysius. in this work, pico frequently has occasion to mention the "three worlds" as understood by the cabalists, who divided the universe into the elemental world or terrestrial world, the celestial world or the world of the stars, and the supercelestial world. between all these worlds there was continuity of influences. pico found no difficulty in linking this concept both with neoplatonism and with the christian or pseudo-dionysian mysticism. he makes the link with neoplatonism by identifying (as ficino had also done) the angelic world with what the philosop

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come forth and turn back; seeing by night and bringing by day, a perfect description of bennu or phoenix type of returner" kg:noe:p70-71"she is the whore babalon, the scarlet woman of the cult of the beast. in egyptian her name means the number seven (sefekh, she was the primordial goddess of the seven stars. 393 is the number of a highly secret ophidian formula concealed in the name of an extra-terrestrial entity known as aossic. the integers 393 (3+9+3=15=1+5=6, the number of the sun or solar phallic energy" so we see a unity between these concepts. a phoenix-type returner, a conflagration, bablon and a celestial relation, with some correlation with aossic) and empowered with solar phallic energy (set as midnight sun. an interesting note (with some biblio-mancy) is that in the last page

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th was the old ones, who came down from the stars to build their black stone city on the continent of antarctica. they are described as having starfish-shaped heads, and tubular bodies covered with tentacles and cilia. their servants are the mindless, protoplasmic shoggoths. in the novel, at the mountains of madness, lovecraft records the wars which took place between the old ones and other extra-terrestrial races, at the dawn of time. these other groups include the spawn of cthulhu, winged cephalopods who constructed the now-sunken city of r lyeh. the deep ones, described by lovecraft in the shadow over innsmouth, are the semi-humanoid, aquatic servitors of dagon. at certain times in the past, they have ventured onto land and mated with humans, producing a degenerate offspring who can be

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works of the creation and to adore their great creator. peace, unity and plenty* of the globes. the globes are two artificial spherical bodies, on the convex surface of which are represented the countries, seas, and various parts of the earth, the face of the heavens, the planetary revolutions, and other particulars. the sphere, with the parts of the earth delineated on its surface, is called the terrestrial globe; and that with the constellations, and other heavenly bodies, the celestial globe. the use of the globes. maine masonic text book file//c /grand lodge/bluebook/bluebook1.htm (16 of 76 [11/22/1999 11:51:55 am] their principal use, beside serving as maps to distinguish the outward parts of the earth, and the situation of the fixed stars, is to illustrate and explain the phenomena a

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f the lesser mysteries has been passed and the candidates become aspirants to the greater mysteries, and further because the lodge of phree messen (children of light) of ancient egypt are now transferred to the various branches of the anglo-saxon race, where the sound nain means "nine" the original word has been corrupted to mislead all not entitled to the knowledge. but all things change on this terrestrial sphere, and this applies also to the methods of initiation and the requirements thereof. hiram abiff failed in his great effort to make the molten sea at the time when he was building solomon's temple, because he, the son of the fiery lucifer spirits, did not know how to blend the element fire with the water poured into his mold by the sons of seth, the creatures of the water god, jeho

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her with one point up and two down, depicting lucifer [see the lucifer-satan pentagram explanation, below. the masonic ring symbol is just a disguised pentagram with both the "good" and "evil" stars represented. thoth "the first hermes was the intelligence or word of god. moved with compassion for a race living without law. god sent to man osiris and isis, accompanied by thoth, the incarnation or terrestrial repetition of the first hermes; who taught men the arts, science, and the ceremonies of religion; and then ascended to heaven or the moon [pike, morals and dogma, p. 255, 17th degree, knights of the east and west; emphasis was in the original. helena petrovna blavatsky was founder of the house of theosophy. her books were all written by her demonic guiding spirits in a form that is cal

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s an integral factor. today man is no longer faced as he was a couple of centuries ago by a universe of four elements, but instead by a universe of four dimensions- od, heh, vau, heh, in a more all-embracing form- which with himself complete the modern idea of the microcosm. to sir james jeans, in spite of the fact, as he says, that gwe have no language at our command except that derived from our terrestrial concepts and experiences h, scientific speculations lead to the supposition that gthe universe appears to have been designed by a pure mathematician h 4- a qabalistic assumption. and what does this mean? it means that science, which during the last century broke away from the idealistic conceptions of religion- the spiritual side of man- is today tending towards a return to these conce

words. between the mystical and the superstitious there is consequently a close relationship; and as man, whether mystical or superstitious, lives in one and the same world, both see god in nature but from different intellectual angles. the religion of the masses has never changed in essence; for it has always been nature-worship in one form or another. life eternal is but a prolongation of life terrestrial; the soul, of the personality; heaven is but a super-happy home and hell but an infra-abominable gaol. everywhere and in every land we find the same ideas dressed in different garments the same gods and goddesses of chaos and order, of love and death, of hatred and life, of fertility, of dawn, of night, etc, etc. from such is built up the normal religious mood of the masses; neverthele

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ents, then, being the extreme of opposition to miracle, there are yet events of a third and intermediate type, marvels, which cannot be understanded of the people, but which are yet the product of a special gift to certain men, their spirits, minds, and bodies, who by due, careful, and sufficient training, wisdom and experience, have earned such a reward. such should the typical rosicrucian be, a terrestrial earthly body, the temple in which dwells a mind trained to understand the powers of nature, and enshrined within this,asacanopy, should sit a divine afflatus, a portion of the spirit of god, an ala of the celestial dove who brooded over the chaos, and this spirit may by patient submission to deity, and by active effortsutpower, draw down to itself a commission to work wonders, and so d

personality to the letters of the divine name, yod, heh, vau, heh, the tetragrammaton which we call jehovah.itis not proposed to consider this subject any further on this present occasion, but rather to refer to several analogies and allied symbols which call for notice when we adopt the view that man is quadripartite, i.e, composed of a pair of higher, lasting principles, and a pair of lower and terrestrial elements which are evanescent and transitory: these four may be called spirit and soul with an astral form, the vehicle of the animal needs and desires, the nephesh of the hebrews, and a coat of skin or material envelope, the body. the mysteries which were celebrated by the priests and initiates of many countries in long past times were partly reproduced in the mystery plays of medieva

r christ of our own faith. you must all have observed from days of childhoodthatour pantomime exhibits four characters always and alone, and these four are closely repre255 sentative of humanity and the principles of man when man is viewed as a quaternary being.thecharacters, masks or personae are harlequin, colum255 bine, clown and pantaloon, and if we consider man as partly celestial and partly terrestrial, we may look upon him as already suggested as being of fourfold essence, recognising, for example, a ray of divinity--the spirit, the human soul, the animal soul or the passional element, and the material body; thus showing two higher principles from the celestian world and two from mundane sources. you will recall the harlequin, who is always veiled and is carrying a magic wand; he re

wisdom, and having been successful in gaining much of the hidden teaching of the hindoo adepts she fluttered the english religious impassive calm by the great critical destruc255 tive workisisunveiled,which condemned in severe terms some errors and failures of the christian churches, and followed it up by an attempt to convince western europe and america of the value of the cosmogonical and supra-terrestrial lore of the brahmin and kshatriya pundits of hindostan.thesecretdoctrineinterested and puzzled us all by its profound sug255 gestions of an existing knowledge of prehistoric ages, and by its assertions regarding man's relation to supernatural beings of angelic type, whose powers over the earth and its humanity set afar off the hebrew and orthodox ideal of a personal god 255 jehovah- wh

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iseth, seven are the infernal palaces, yet do they include ten. in the tree of life, by the waters of the river, in the garden of wisdom, is the serpent of the paths; it is the serpent of the celestial eden. but the serpent of the temptation is that of the tree of knowledgeofgoodand evil, the antithesis and opposer of the other: the red coiled stooping dragon of the apocalypse, the serpent of the terrestrial eden. regard thou therefore the celestial serpent, as of brass, glistening with. green and gold, the colour of vegetation and of growth: banish thou therefore the evil and seek the good, thou who wouldst follow in the footsteps of our master, brother of the golden dawn. for as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of adambelifted up, raised through the bal

es, is there any scientific or physical explanation of this? and there certainly is,ifwe accept the philosophy of the tatwas. because the atmosphere of the world, its aura in fact, is bounded, and rigorously bounded, at the distance of some few miles from the earth where the air ceases; and there, according to the philosophy of the tatwas, the solar prana passes through the akas to merge into the terrestrial prana. or, to put it in perhaps a more intelligible form to those who are not familiar with the eastern language, the blue vault of the sky may be compared to a hollow and transparent glass globe surrounding the atmosphere of the earth. now, every action of every human being, every motion that is made upon the face of the earth, immediately produces a picture which is carried upon the

e character of the whole system. but it is not. now certain things we know physically. we know that it is exactly this inclination of the earth's equator to the ecliptic that gives us the phenomena of summer and winter, gives us the phenomena of the seasons. that merely shows us what an effect the fact of the earth not being polarised accurately to its system produces on the mere operation of the terrestrial taijas, the heat and cold, and with every tatwic current which flows the result is precisely the same, that is to say, every tatwa that flows is a little bit out of the characteristic of the solar system. the earth is to that extent in disharmony with its surroundings. the characteristic of the earth depends upon those currents which run, not from the belt of the zodiac, but from the b

f suffering; therefore also it is that every individual on the earth, every human being, every man or woman who polarises his own or her own individuality in accordance with that of the earth, is in disharmony with the wider and stronger currents, viz, those of the solar system which surround it. therefore it is that the materialist must invariably and inevitably be in disharmony with all but the terrestrial and material surroundings. therefore it is that we are told to polarise ourselves to the higher spiritual planes. and therefore again it is that in all occult sciencewe.aredirected especially to the zodiac in the study of astrology, because that fixes the plane from whence the life of the solar system is derived, not the mere terrestrial life, but the life of the whole solar system. an

en we can by mental effort place ourselvesin harmony with that life, we draw in vitality from the whole tatwic currents which are running into the solar system- not merely the material life of the body which we obtain by polarising ourselves with the earth- we draw in the inner and more essential and more vital conditions which, properly assimi-thetatwas205lated, render us independent of the mere terrestrial currents.itis of course somewhat difficult to pursue this analogy. it is a metaphor, comparing the material with the spirit, passing from the material plane on to the spiritual plane, from the actual world of flesh and blood on to the thought world;butyet for all students of occultism it is a very real metaphor, a very real transition. now in every place and in every connection in whic

hese different series with different times running simultaneously. now, after a number of such operations, we find our own sun coming into operation as the centre of the solar system,thetatwas209radiating its five tatwas, the life-source of the solar system.thenthat operates upon the earth,butthe earth itself is radiating its own five tatwas each in their particular time, and the solar timeandthe terrestrial time is very different, and in this i am jumping over a great many intermediate stages,butyou have upon those earth centres other centres, each of whichisan individual human being, and every human being is radiating its own tatwas constantly, and those are the tatwic currents which that humanbeingis conscious of. so there are an enormous number of tatwic currents constantly running, ev

solar system, which is the sun, that is to say, the vibration of heat, of light, ofcolour;of electricity, of magnetism, and soon,these come at a particular pace, at certain measured intervals, and succeed each other at measured intervals to the earth. these produce other currents which radiate from their own centres on the earth;muchas the earth magnetism produces the thunderstorm. all these are terrestrial tatwic currents, and their rate of progress, and the times at which they succeed each other, are not by any means those of the sun,butare quite different.then,again, each human being is producing his or her owntatwiccurrents;everyhumanbeing is reflecting light, is radiating warmth, shows motion- the circulation of the blood and so forth. and those lines of vibration proceed at a totall

e speaking of the human. bodyywe look upon the brain and nerves as the sun, and the arteries and veins(with their centre the heart) as the moon; and the positive and negative states of nerve force are day and nightofthe sun of the body. this.:gives usthemodes ofmeasurementofthese two functions of thehumanbody, and.thisis the way we arrive at the primary human day' wearetold by rama prasadthatthe. terrestrial day and night are merely one small. division, that there are a larger day and night, which again are part of the still larger day and nightofbrahm. yet, even so, the day and night of the human organism are a part, even as the pulsationsareapartoftheterrestrial day and night; and even so we find the pulsation, the267 circulation,thephenomena of nerve force different by day andsleeping

the earth's atmosphere a quick reflection is sent back. that is very slight. the bulk, the strength of the picture, goes out beyond the earth's atmosphere, out into the void, so to speak, and becomes, so to say, latent. but at a measured interval, which interval can be calculated, that picture returns; and returning, and coming within the earth's atmosphere again, and within the influence of the terrestrial prana or life of this planet, it remanifests itself. i daresay some of you have seen edison's latest invention, the kinetograph, by which, taking photographs at intervals of a tiny fraction of a second, of a man doing any particular act, and reproducing these through a magic lantern in rapid succession, you appear to see on the sheet before the lantern a moving figure actually doing th

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games or traps enthralled the other spirit beings and as they became involved in them, they found themselves creating material reality. the final game involved forgetting who they were and entering into matter, hence, they entrapped themselves. modern adaptations of the alpha event are not unusual. for examthe gnostic handbook page 43 ple, there is much discussion about the possibility that extra-terrestrial entities genetically engineered mankind. these theories were made popular by such writers as zecharia sitchin and on a more vulgar level by eric von daniken. whether we wish to use a highly spiritual and ethereal description such as that by the kabbalists or see the supposed fall of man in more material terms it is of little importance, something occurred and the algebra we use to repr

ust like there are many miscarriages in this world, there are many in the spiritual world. being conceived on the path of transfiguration is not enough, the path itself must be traveled! the gnostic handbook page 91 therefore if any man be in christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 1 corinthians 5:17 the two paths the first path is known as the terrestrial path or that of the dove. there are actually two paths within the process of transfiguration. before anyone can enter the path of the serpent of wisdom or the celestial path they must have passed through the terrestrial first. the terrestrial path is the path of rebirth for most gnostics, it is a demanding way which transforms the dialectic into the very substance of the treasury of li

ay which transforms the dialectic into the very substance of the treasury of light. in the new testament it is the path of the called. in the secret teachings of valentinus those who enter the path of the dove are known as psychics, while those who follow the secret path of the serpent are known as pneumatics. the path of the dove has seven stages. these seven stages illustrate the process of the terrestrial path, after the gnostic has worked through these stages he can rightly be called a child of the treasury of light. at this point, depending on his destiny, he will reincarnate and teach and assist others or he will enter the celestial or secret path. the destiny of those who remain as children of the dove is to be reborn as immortal beings living on the restored light world which will

is destiny, he will reincarnate and teach and assist others or he will enter the celestial or secret path. the destiny of those who remain as children of the dove is to be reborn as immortal beings living on the restored light world which will be the replacement for earth. the earth will be rectified and return to the static kingdom and will exist in a dimension of light populated by those of the terrestrial path of rebirth. the mysteries..and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in god, who created all things. ephesians 3:9 the word of god is now god as he had been man, in order to deify mankind together with himself. eusebius, demonstratio evangelica iv:14 the mysteries are a special teaching which is not covered in most biblic

of christ (ephesians 3:4, the great mystery (ephesians 5:32, the administration of the mystery (ephesians 3;9) and in many other verses. this teaching was the gnostic handbook page 92 an esoteric gnosis which was not available until its revealing after the death of jesus. this teaching was a special wisdom for a certain class of initiate. the divine will would call certain people from the path of terrestrial salvation to enter a new way, that of celestial deification. and that is the nexus of this new specialized teaching, that some of the initiates would be called to become part of the god family, in other worlds, gods themselves! this special path is known as the celestial path, the path of the serpent of wisdom or the path of the chosen ones. initiates on this path were known in some tr

of christian life lies at the base of every important theological controversy in the history of the orthodox churches. abingdon dictionary of living religions, page 553. in simple terms the divine will will call certain gnostics on the path of transfiguration onto a special road. these will be few in number and the demands on them will be ever so great. their first task will be the mastery of the terrestrial path, however, then rather than reincarnating simply to teach and assist, they will achieve perfection while doing the special tasks required by the lord of wisdom. some of these perfect ones will achieve some measure of perfection in the flesh and become emissaries of the divine in their lifetimes. the mysteries are very different from the more traditional gnostic paths for they inclu

the priesthood of melchizedek. this priesthood is a special, immortal royal line which was founded by the lord of wisdom in the period before creation. it is a unique priesthood and one available to all those of israel. it comprises, however, various levels or hierarchies within it. the four levels of the melchizedek priesthood are: 1 first born of creation. 2 144,000 elders. 3 celestial class. 4 terrestrial class. the first born of creation is michael who became jesus himself. he is the highest priest of all. the 144,000 elders are of a special class. they are the overmen or succeeders from the last cycle. they are a group who passed right through the seven phases of the previous adamic evolutionary cycle. when they saw the destruction being reeked throughout our universe by our own ignor

fection through the path of transfiguration and achieved a state of godhood. they continue to incarnate on earth working with the will (logos) of the lord of wisdom. in the end time the 144,000 in conjunction with the celestial class will fulfil the role of the "left hand of god" cleansing the planet in preparation for his return. the celestial class will be deified and unit with the pleroma. the terrestrial class are those who achieve perfection at the resurrection. they apply and follow the gnostic principles in many lives as they transform from earthly to heavenly substance. the terrestrial class will continue their development in the next great chain of being (new heaven and new earth. him that overcometh will i make a pillar in the temple of my god, and he shall go no more out: and i

ha's logic the problem however is that when we attempt to totally detach from the world, the reaction is normally so strong, we end up in total attachment! one of the first steps in the path is that of "controlled awareness. controlled awareness is becoming totally aware of what is happening within us and around us. it involves realising that the process of rebirth involves the "death" of the old terrestrial mind and emotions, and the rebuilding of a new self. transfiguration awakens the real self, a self we have never experienced and one which is truly us and yet so alien at first. accordingly the new gnostic on the path must become aware of the changes that are occurring within him and observe and understand the reactions and actions that occur. the "controlled" facet of awareness is in

raments used by the gnostic church. the rite is only available to those who have entered the path of transfiguration. baptism is one of three initiations offered by the gnostic ecclesia: baptism by water, anointing with the holy spirit and celestial confirmation (consolomentum. as can be seen from the verse below there are two distinct forms of baptism, both of which are available to those on the terrestrial path. there is the baptism of repentance (known scripturally as the baptism of water or john's baptism, and there is the baptism or anointing with the holy spirit or fire (the baptism of the holy spirit. the third initiation, that of the celestial class is a unique rite (not a baptism) and one we will not elaborate on in this study. the gnostic handbook page 99 so paul asked "then what

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the virgins spirits are equivalent to the world of atziluth in the kabbalistic fourfold structure. the plane of divine spirit this plane is also known as the spiritual plane. it is the plane of archetypal forms, and is the location from which energies from the upper planes are condensed and radiated into the lower. this is the plane on which the immortals exist. this is the goal for those on the terrestrial path. the plane of the life spirit this plane is also known as the intuitional plane. it is the dimension where the forces and archetypes take creative solidity and manifest. on a human level, it is the dimension of high level intuition and cosmic awareness. the plane of the divine spirit and the plane of the life spirit are equivalent to the kabbalistic world of briah. traditionally t

s we move from the higher realms to the lower, when we apply it to the nature of earth and man it is particularly expressive. the nature of earth in the refraction model we noticed two major variants in relation to the conditioning of the spectrum or end result. these were: 1. the quantity and/or quality of the light source. 2. the quality of the matrix. if we apply these to the earth to create a terrestrial refraction model we find: 1. physical and spiritual energies received from the solar logos. 2. variants in the quality of the earth logos (gaia. the sun provides spiritual and physical energy which sustains and destroys all life on earth. the heat of the sun can bring about the maturing of crops and stimulate life, while at the same time, it can also cause men to die of heat exhaustion

the energies of this centre. it is the centre of sexual fire, and when the base centre is activated and force is manifested at this level it must be totally controlled so that the energies continue on upwards towards redemption. loss of control can mean destruction or obsession, a relevant maxim here is that "all acts of sex are acts of power. related to this characteristic is the mystery of the terrestrial and celestial paths, while both paths have much in common they activate the energy centres in different ways using very different technologies. the very things that are forbidden to those of the terrestrial path are used by those of the celestial to achieve liberation. the commendation given to the church is for standing strong in the time of tribulation and persecution. this refers ag

eans that a fully reborn person is permanently one with the pleroma. now surely this does not apply to modern fundamentalist christians who are supposedly reborn by a quick prayer at a revival meeting! gnostic theurgy page 127 no, being reborn is being transformed from one substance to another! the two paths there are two paths within the process of transfiguration. the first path is known as the terrestrial path (or that of the dove, the second that of the serpent (the celestial path. before anyone can enter the path of the serpent of wisdom (or the celestial path) they must have graduated from the terrestrial path first. the terrestrial path is the path of rebirth for most gnostics. it transforms the dialectic into the very substance of the treasury of light. in the new testament it is t

first. the terrestrial path is the path of rebirth for most gnostics. it transforms the dialectic into the very substance of the treasury of light. in the new testament it is the path of the called. in the secret teachings of valentinus, those who enter the path of the dove are known as psychics, while those who follow the secret path of the serpent are known as pneumatics (fig 35) the two paths terrestrial path sacred law immortals on new spiritual earth. path of the dove, terrestrial, called ones. celestial path mysteries mastery of terrestrial path- initiation and deification -perfection on earth. path of the serpent of wisdom, celestial, chosen ones, parfait. fig 35 gnostic theurgy page 128 the path of the dove has seven stages (fig 36. these seven stages illustrate the process of the

errestrial path sacred law immortals on new spiritual earth. path of the dove, terrestrial, called ones. celestial path mysteries mastery of terrestrial path- initiation and deification -perfection on earth. path of the serpent of wisdom, celestial, chosen ones, parfait. fig 35 gnostic theurgy page 128 the path of the dove has seven stages (fig 36. these seven stages illustrate the process of the terrestrial path. only after the gnostic has worked through these stages can he rightly be called a child of the treasury of light. at this point (depending on his destiny, he will reincarnate, teach and assist others, or he will enter the celestial or secret path. the destiny of those who remain as children of the dove is to be reborn as immortal beings living on the restored earth. the earth wil

reasury of light. at this point (depending on his destiny, he will reincarnate, teach and assist others, or he will enter the celestial or secret path. the destiny of those who remain as children of the dove is to be reborn as immortal beings living on the restored earth. the earth will be rectified and return to the static kingdom and shall exist in a dimension of light populated by those of the terrestrial path of rebirth. the mysteries..and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in god, who created all things. ephesians 3:9 the word of god is now god as he had been man, in order to deify mankind together with himself. eusebius, demonstratio evangelica iv:14 seven stages of transfiguration re-orientation (first steps. re-educatio

stage of the continuing development of the mystery teachings. the mysteries are described in a range of new testament books as the mystery (ephesians 3:3, the mystery of christ (ephesians 3:4, the great mystery (ephesians 5:32) and the administration of the mystery (ephesians 3;9. this teaching was a special process for a unique class. certain gnostics would feel the call to move from the path of terrestrial salvation and enter a new phase of development, that of celestial deification. this is the nexus of the new specialised teaching, that some of the gnostic brethren would be called to become part of the hierarchy itself, in other words, gods themselves! this special path is known as the celestial path, the path of the serpent of wisdom or the path of the chosen ones. initiates on this p

istian life lies at the base of gnostic theurgy page 130 the base of every important theological controversy in the history of the orthodox churches. abingdon dictionary of living religions, page 553. in simple terms certain gnostics on the path of transfiguration enter onto a special road. these will be few in number and the demands on them will be great. their first task will the mastery of the terrestrial path, however, rather than reincarnating to teach and assist, they will achieve perfection while doing the special tasks required by hierarchy of light. some of these perfected ones will achieve a special state of limited perfection in the flesh, and become emissaries of the divine in their lifetimes. this path is a dangerous and demanding one for it goes beyond all the laws, moral cod

melchizedek. this priestgnostic theurgy page 131 hood is a special, immortal royal line which was founded by the lords of light in the period before creation. it is a unique priesthood and one available to all those of israel. it is comprised, however, of four various levels or hierarchies. the four levels of the melchizedek priesthood are: first born of creation. 144,000 elders. celestial class. terrestrial class. the first born of creation is michael who became jesus himself. he is the high priest and since the birth of the new aeon (circa 1844-1904) is ministering in the heavenly tabernacle preparing for the omega day (end time. the 144,000 elders are of a special class. they are the overmen or succeeders from the last cycle. they are a group who passed right through the seven phases of

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

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should prevail in the mind of the adept when utilizing these calls. beware not to profane them or utilize them casually, as one is apt to attract the opposite forces. this could lead to physical harm or spiritual disaster. eighteen of the first nineteen calls are verbally expressed, and are attributed or are to be used in conjunction with the tablet of union, and the four enochian tablets of the terrestrial watchtowers. key 1: this key is used to activate the entire tablet of union. it is to be used for all invocations of the various angels of the tablet of union. this key is not used in the invocation of the angels that may be extracted from the four watchtower tablets. key 2: utilize this key to activate the spiritual forces and angels of the column e.h.n.b. the activation of the far le

let as a whole, and for the lesser angle of the tablet. l ofl. key 6:o utilize the sixth key or call to activate the row of bitom. it should as well be employed to activate the o tablet as a whole, and for the lesser angle of the tablet. o ofo. keys one through six relate to the tablet of union (this relates to the five points of the pentagram and the center) the remaining keys relate to the four terrestrial tablets of the watchtowers. keys 7- 18: key 7: utilize to activate n of m and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 8: utilize to activate l of m and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 9: utilize to activate o of m and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 10: utilize to activate m of n and all invocational work in this quadrant. 4 key 11: utilize to activate l of

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should prevail in the mind of the adept when utilizing these calls. beware not to profane them or utilize them casually, as one is apt to attract the opposite forces. this could lead to physical harm or spiritual disaster. eighteen of the first nineteen calls are verbally expressed, and are attributed or are to be used in conjunction with the tablet of union, and the four enochian tablets of the terrestrial watchtowers. key 1: this key is used to activate the entire tablet of union. it is to be used for all invocations of the various angels of the tablet of union. this key is not used in the invocation of the angels that may be extracted from the four watchtower tablets. key 2: utilize this key to activate the spiritual forces and angels of the column e.h.n.b. the activation of the far le

let as a whole, and for the lesser angle of the tablet. l ofl. key 6:o utilize the sixth key or call to activate the row of bitom. it should as well be employed to activate the o tablet as a whole, and for the lesser angle of the tablet. o ofo. keys one through six relate to the tablet of union (this relates to the five points of the pentagram and the center) the remaining keys relate to the four terrestrial tablets of the watchtowers. keys 7- 18: key 7: utilize to activate n of m and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 8: utilize to activate l of m and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 9: utilize to activate o of m and all invocational work in this quadrant. key 10: utilize to activate m of n and all invocational work in this quadrant. 4 key 11: utilize to activate l of

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rse to the utmost confines of space. let the candidate represent unto him, as it were, a world whom he is beginning to lead unto the knowledge of its governing angel. as it is written, the lightening cometh out of the east and shineth even unto the west, even so, shall the coming of the son of man be. the candidate during the ceremony is addressed as child of earth, as representing the earthly or terrestrial nature of man. he who comes forward from the darkness of twklm to endeavor to regain the knowledge of the light. this is what is meant by the speech of the hegemon, because the path of the initiate is but darkness and foolishness to the natural man. the single knock given by the hegemon without the door represents the consenting will of the natural man to receive the force formulated b

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ledge must they have possessed to inscribe their gigantic signatures on the plateau? it seems, for a start, that they were pretty good observational astronomers at least according to dr phillis pitluga, an astronomer with the adler planetarium in chicago. after making an intensive computer-aided study of stellar alignments at nazca, she has concluded that the famous spider figure was devised as a terrestrial diagram of the giant constellation of orion, and that the arrow-straight lines linked to the figure appear to have been set out to track through the ages the changing declinations of the three stars of orion s belt.3 the real significance of dr pitluga s discovery will become apparent in 3 personal communications with dr pitluga. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 47 due course. m

in places, and had a puzzling geological history. here are the mysteries, and some of the solutions that have been proposed: 1 though now more than two miles above sea level, the area around lake titicaca is littered with millions upon millions of fossilized sea shells. this suggests that at some stage the whole of the altiplano was forced upwards from the sea-bed, perhaps as part of the general terrestrial rising that formed south america as a whole. in the process great quantities of ocean water, together with countless myriads of living marine creatures, were scooped up and suspended among the andean ranges.1 this is thought to have happened not more recently than about 100 million years ago.2 2 paradoxically, despite the mighty antiquity of this event, lake titicaca has retained, unti

, mathematical, like the tick-tock of a great metronome: a constant, almost imperceptible, nodding, perpetually changing the angle between yourself and the horizon. now picture the earth again. floating in space, as every schoolchild knows, the axis of daily rotation of our beautiful blue planet lies slightly tilted away from the vertical in its orbit around the sun. from this it follows that the terrestrial equator, and hence the celestial equator (which is merely an imaginary extension of the earth s equator into the celestial sphere) must also lie at an angle to the orbital plane. that angle, at any one time, is the obliquity of the ecliptic. but because the earth is a ship that rolls, its obliquity changes in a cyclical manner over very long periods. during each cycle of 41,000 years t

nce? and whether cult or science, was it realistic to suppose that it had enjoyed widespread distribution only in the americas when there was so much evidence linking it to other parts of the ancient world? for example, archaeo-astronomers making use of the latest starmapping computer programmes had recently demonstrated that the three world-famous pyramids on egypt s giza plateau formed an exact terrestrial diagram of the three belt stars in the constellation of orion.14 nor was this the limit of the celestial map the ancient egyptian priests had created in the sands on the west bank of the nile. included in their overall vision, as we shall see in parts vi and vii, there was a natural 11 ibid, pp. 266-9. 12 the ancient kingdoms of mexico, p. 67. 13 mysteries of the mexican pyramids, p. 2

s almost certainly not what the teotihuacanos (whoever they were) had called the immense and impressive avenue. the spanish name calle de los muertos was of aztec origin, apparently based on speculation that the numerous mounds on either side of the street were graves (which, as it happened, they were not).30 we have already considered the possibility that the way of the dead may have served as a terrestrial counterpart of the milky way. of interest in this regard is the work of another american, alfred e. schlemmer, who like hugh harleston jr. was an engineer. schlemmer s field was technological forecasting, with specific reference to the prediction of earthquakes,31 on which he presented a paper at the eleventh national convention of chemical engineers (in mexico city in october 1971. sc

akes, but sometimes fire and a terrifying darkness. all this contributes to the creation of a confused and jumbled picture. the myths of the hopi, however, stand out for their straightforwardness and simplicity. what they tell us is this: the first world was destroyed, as a punishment for human misdemeanours, by an all-consuming fire that came from above and below. the second world ended when the terrestrial globe toppled from its axis and everything was covered with 46 2 peter 3:3-10. 47 see h. murray, j. crawford et al, an historical and descriptive account of china, 2nd edition, 1836, volume i, p. 40. see also g. schlegel, uranographie chinoise, 1875, p. 740. 48 warren, buddhism in translations, p. 322. 49 ibid. 50 dixon, oceanic mythology, p. 178. 51 worlds in collision, p. 35. 52 ency

seemed at first to be a vast diagram of the stars. was this indeed what the giza pyramids represented? i knew that bauval s later work, which had been wholeheartedly endorsed by graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 343 mathematicians and astronomers, had borne out his inspired hunch. his evidence (reviewed fully in chapter forty-nine) showed that the three pyramids were an unbelievably precise terrestrial map of the three stars of orion s belt, accurately reflecting the angles between each of them and even (by means of their respective sizes) providing some indication of their individual magnitudes.6 moreover, this map extended outwards to the north and south to encompass several other structures on the giza plateau once again with faultless precision.7 however, the real surprise reveal

round of which, for periods of 2160 years at a time, the sun would consistently rise on the spring and autumn equinoxes and on the winter and summer solstices.22 the pyramid texts appear to contain several versions of this diagram. moreover, as is so often the case with prehistoric myths which transmit hard astronomical data, the precessional symbolism is interwoven tightly with violent images of terrestrial destruction as though to suggest that the breaking of the mill of heaven, that is the transition every 2160 years from one zodiacal age to another, could under ill-omened circumstances bring catastrophic influences to bear on terrestrial events. thus it was said that ra-atum, the god who created himself, was originally king over gods and men together but mankind schemed against his sov

d her body, the heavens above and the earth beneath came into being. at the same moment, the four legs of the cow, as egyptologist wallis budge commented in his classic study the gods of the egyptians, became the four props of heaven at the four cardinal points .29 like most scholars, budge understandably assumed that the cardinal points referred to in this ancient egyptian tradition had strictly terrestrial connotations and that heaven represented nothing more than the sky above our heads. he took it for granted that the point of the metaphor was for us to envisage the cow s four legs as positioned at the four points of the compass north, south, east and west. he also thought and even today few egyptologists would disagree with him that the simpleminded priests of heliopolis had actually

tecchini. 3 ibid, p. 46. 4 ibid, p. 181. 5 ibid, p. 299. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 416 of elephantine at aswan (seyne) where an important astronomical and solar observatory was located throughout known egyptian history.6 it seems, that this archaic land, sacred since time began the creation and habitation of the gods was originally conceived of as a geometric construct exactly seven terrestrial degrees in length. within this construct, the great pyramid appears to have been carefully sited as a geodetic marker for the apex of the delta. the latter, which we have indicated on our map, is located at 30 06 n 31 14 e a point in the middle of the nile at the northern edge of modern cairo. meanwhile the pyramid stands at latitude of 30 n (corrected for atmospheric refraction) and a

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ny years served as chairman of the national ufo conference. 14 allen h. greenfield newbrough, john, known mainly for his channeled communication of the mystical work oahspe in the late nineteenth century. palmer, raymond a, was a publisher of conventional science fiction magazines until 1943. then he began publication of the writings of richard shaver, which purported to be accounts of real extra terrestrial visitations and an off-world origin for the human race. for this, palmer was eventually drummed out of science fiction circles. after cofounding fate magazine with curtis fuller in the 1950s, palmer went on to publish flying saucers magazine and search until his death in the 1970s. he republished the shaver material in the early 1960s and was a fighter for unorthodox causes until the e

h. greenfield ancient gnostic symbol. 69 11 how to defeat the ufonaut body snatchers: law of the battle of conquest the purpose of this series of ceremonies performed by parsons and hubbard was to unseal an inter-dimensional gateway that had been sealed in deep antiquity, thereby allowing other-dimensional entities known as the old ones access to our space/time continuum. george c. andrews, extra-terrestrial friends and foes enochian is the lingua franka of the space races, much as swahili was the lingua franka of the many african !dnguages. enochian is the correct time-tested traditional way for earthlings to communicate with extra-terrestrials. george c. andrews, ibid. the inner order tells us clearly, through the new aeon cipher, how to resist alien abduction and alien conquest the eart

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in three directions (standa a]?ria vega, so did three or four great highways branch out from the irminsul (pp. 356. 361; and the farther we explore, the richer in results will the connexion of these heathen ideas prove. the pillars of hercules (p. 364, of bavo in hainault, and the thor and roland pillars (p. 394) may have had no other purpose than to mark out from them as centre the celestial and terrestrial direction of the regions of the world; and the sacred yggdrasil 1 also in the east, conf. jelaleddin s divan in hammer s pers. redek. p. 183. 2 first publ. in boissonade s anecd. graeca, torn. 4, paris 1882, pp. 1365. 3 hist, duorum christi militum (opera, basil. 1575. pp. 815902; also printed separately, antv. s.a (the illustration at p. 107; another version in tfurius 7, 58 seq, the

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f hathor at dendara, built during the roman period (courtesy of richard pinch) lieve that myths described events that had actually happened. he is scathing about people who interpreted all myths in terms of natural phenomena such as crop cycles or eclipses: one should take the greatest heed and care not unconsciously to reduce and resolve the divine to terms of winds, fluxes, sowings, ploughings, terrestrial occurrences and seasonal changes, like those who explain dionysus as wine and hephaestus as flame. 98 plutarch saw the mythology of isis in particular as a profound expression of the benevolent face of the divine. it is to his credit as a scholar that he related some incidents, such as one in which isis strikes a child dead with her glance, that do not easily fit with this view. roman

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ch and ready to enter the open door" was the answer "the daij-dzins willhave the best of you" i interrupted him with a brutal laugh, and a still more brutally phrased enquiry about the fees i was expectedto give the yamabooshi, for his experiment with me "he needs no reward" was the reply "the order he belongs to is the richest in the world, since its adherentsneed nothing, for they are above all terrestrial and venal desires. insult him not, the good man who came tohelp you out of pure sympathy for your suffering, and to relieve you of mental agony" but i would listen to no words of reason and wisdom. the spirit of rebellion and pride had taken possessionof me, and made me disregard every feeling of personal friendship, or even of simple propriety. luckily forme, on turning round to order

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ignificance. i really do not know what spiritualists mean by the term; but what we understand them to claim is that the physical phenomena are produced by the reincarnating ego, the spiritual and immortal "individuality" and this hypothesis we entirely reject. the conscious individuality of the disembodied cannot materialize, nor can it return from its own mental devachanic sphere to the plane of terrestrial objectivity. q. but many of the communications received from the "spirits" show not only intelligence, but a knowledge of facts not known to the medium, and sometimes even not consciously present to the mind of the investigator, or any of those who compose the audience. a. this does not necessarily prove that the intelligence and knowledge you speak of belong to spirits, or emanate fro

ual soul or spirit, and the animal soul (the nous and psuche. this is the division adopted by paul, another initiate, who maintains that there is a psychical body which is sown in the corruptible (astral soul or body, and a spiritual body that is raised in incorruptible substance. even james corroborates the same by saying that the "wisdom (of our lower soul) descendeth not from the above, but is terrestrial("psychical "demoniacal" see the greek text) while the other is heavenly wisdom. now so plain is it that plato and even pythagoras, while speaking but of three principles, give them seven separate functions, in their various combinations, that if we contrast our teachings this will become quite plain. let us take a cursory view of these seven aspects by drawing two tables. theosophical

s in devachan. this separation, first in "the meadows of hades" as plutarch calls the kamaloka, then in devachan, was part and parcel of the performances during the sacred mysteries, when the candidates for initiation enacted the whole drama of death, and the resurrection as a glorified spirit, by which name we mean consciousness. this is what plutarch means when he says: and as with the one, the terrestrial, so with the other celestial hermes doth dwell. this suddenly and with violence plucks the soul from the body; but prospina mildly and in a long time disjoins the understanding from the soul (proserpina, or persephone, stands here for postmortem karma, which is said to regulate the separation of the lower from the higher principles: the soul, as nephesh, the breath of animal life, whic

of the most learned modern scholars. even metaphysicians are too inclined to confound the effect with the cause. an ego who has won his immortal life as spirit will remain the same inner self throughout all his rebirths on earth; but this does not imply necessarily that he must either remain the mr. smith or mr. brown he was on earth, or lose his individuality. therefore, the astral soul and the terrestrial body of man may, in the dark hereafter, be absorbed into the cosmical ocean of sublimated elements, and cease to feel his last personal ego (if it did not page 51 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt deserve to soar higher, and the divine ego still remain the same unchanged entity, though this terrestrial experience of his emanation may be totally obliterated at the instant of separa

ved the "holy kiss" or the reunion of the soul with the substance from which she emanated-spirit. all souls are dual, and, while the latter is a feminine principle, the spirit is masculine. while imprisoned in body, man is a trinity, unless his pollution is such as to have caused his divorce from the spirit "woe to the soul which prefers to her divine husband (spirit) the earthly wedlock with her terrestrial body" records a text of the book of the keys, a hermetic work. woe indeed, for nothing will remain of that personality to be recorded on the imperishable tablets of the ego's memory. q. how can that which, if not breathed by god into man, yet is on your own confession of an identical substance with the divine, fail to be immortal? a. every atom and speck of matter, not of substance onl

t is just that which it is so difficult to understand. a. it seems to me very easy, on the contrary, once that you have seized the main idea, i.e, that man acts on this or another plane of consciousness, in strict accordance with his mental and spiritual condition. but such is the materialism of the age that the more we explain the less people seem capable of understanding what we say. divide the terrestrial being called man into three chief aspects, if you like, and unless you make of him a pure animal you cannot do less. take his objective body; the thinking principle in him-which is only a little higher than the instinctual element in the animal-or the vital conscious soul; and that which places him so immeasurably beyond and higher than the animal-i.e, his reasoning soul or "spirit" we

tion with buddhi, its vehicle, which links it to the individuality (or divine page 58 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt man. for it is the buddhi-manas which is called the causal body (the united fifth and sixth principles) and which is consciousness, that connects it with every personality it inhabits on earth. therefore, soul being a generic term, there are in men three aspects of soul-the terrestrial, or animal; the human soul; and the spiritual soul; these, strictly speaking, are one soul in its three aspects. now of the first aspect, nothing remains after death; of the second (nous or manas) only its divine essence if left unsoiled survives, while the third in addition to being immortal becomes consciously divine, by the assimilation of the higher manas. but to make it clear, we

he spiritual ego was omniscient. where, then, is that vaunted omniscience during his devachanic life, as you call it? a. during that time it is latent and potential, because, first of all, the spiritual ego (the compound of buddhi-manas) is not the higher self, which being one with the universal soul or mind is alone omniscient; and, secondly, because devachan is the idealized continuation of the terrestrial life just left behind, a period of retributive adjustment, and a reward for unmerited wrongs and sufferings undergone in that special life. it is omniscient only potentially in devachan, and de facto exclusively in nirvana, when the ego is merged in the universal mind-soul. yet it rebecomes quasi omniscient during those hours on earth when certain abnormal conditions and physiological

e fine spiritual perceptions of coleridge, who shows how intuitional he is in some of his comments. hear what he says with respect to the probability that "all thoughts are in themselves imperishable" if the intelligent faculty (sudden 'revivals' of memory) should be rendered more comprehensive, it would require only a different and appropriate organization, the body celestial instead of the body terrestrial, to bring before every human soul the collective experience of its whole past existence (existences, rather. and this body celestial is our manasic ego -ooo- on the reward and punishment of the ego page 65 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt q. i have heard you say that the ego, whatever the life of the person he incarnated in may have been on earth, is never visited with postmortem

tity a long lease of mental rest, i.e, the entire oblivion of every sad event, aye, to the smallest painful thought, that took place in its last life as a personality, leaving in the soul-memory but the reminiscence of that which was bliss, or led to happiness. plotinus, who said that our body was the true river of lethe, for "souls plunged into it forget all" meant more than he said. for, as our terrestrial body is like lethe, so is our celestial body in devachan, and much more. q. then am i to understand that the murderer, the transgressor of law divine and human in every shape, is allowed to go unpunished? a. who ever said that? our philosophy has a doctrine of punishment as stern as that of the most rigid calvinist, only far more philosophical and consistent with absolute justice. no d

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nly perceived as ufos) suggested that the manifestations followed the patterns of the fault lines that run under the region. deveraux.s book, earth lights revelation, explores this kind of activity all over the world, and notes the strong connection between ufo sightings and geological faulting. while many ufologists reject the earth lights theory which in part explains ufo encounters as a purely terrestrial phenomena, earth mysteries research is continuing 29 to document evidence to support and further edify deveraux.s ideas. reading accounts of earth light sightings and their relationship to specific regions and underground activity is for me, very reminiscent of lovecraft.s accounts of the activities associated with the great old ones. what is perhaps also significant for the modern mag

he sceptical researcher is the commonality of experiences between different individuals who come into contact with these anomalies. historical research into ufo .flaps. shows that there have been spates of sightings of mysterious spirits, dirigibles, aircraft, submarines, and of course, flying saucers, throughout history. also, numerous reports from individuals who have been .contacted. by extra- terrestrial entities show similar structural features in the accounts which have been .remembered (often by hypnosis being used as a recall technique. in dealing with such phenomena, there is obviously a great many factors which need to be taken into consideration, but i would like to discuss some of the possible processes which are occurring, with the aim of weaving them into the discussion later

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be reconsidered. revolutions in the sciences are beginning to occurr, as the shift in emphasis from a reductionist to an integrationist perpective gathers momentum. there is also a growing awareness of a revolution in consciousness occurring. the fragmentation of western culture shows how clearly divide and rule operates in all aspects of our experience. our culture is profoundly egocentric- the terrestrial behaviour of tool-wielding apes. the we superior-you inferior behaviour loop has dominated our cultural relations with both ourselves and other planetary species, and is also at the root of notions such as free will or spirituality. 65 oven-ready chaos at the turn of the century, the shift from religion to science as the dominant ethos for defining reality exposed the fact that us apes

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ousework himself. his studio was in a north attic room, where the panes of the monitor roof furnished admirable lighting. during that first winter he produced five of his best-known short stories- the burrower beneath, the stairs in the crypt, shaggai, in the vale of pnath, and the feaster from the stars- and painted seven canvases; studies of nameless, unhuman monsters, and profoundly alien, non-terrestrial landscapes. at sunset he would often sit at his desk and gaze dreamily off at the outspread west- the dark towers of memorial hall just below, the georgian court-house belfry, the lofty pinnacles of the downtown section, and that shimmering, spire-crowned mound in the distance whose unknown streets and labyrinthine gables so potently provoked his fancy. from his few local aquaintances

e's curvilinear hieroglyphs. these cases were stored in tiers of rectangular vaults-like closed, locked shelves- wrought of the same rustless metal and fastened by knobs with intricate turnings. my own history was assigned a specific place in the vaults of the lowest or vertebrate level- the section devoted to the culture of mankind and of the furry and reptilian races immediately preceding it in terrestrial dominance. but none of the dreams ever gave me a full picture of daily life. all were the merest misty, disconnected fragments, and it is certain that these fragments were not unfolded in their rightful sequence. i have, for example, a very imperfect idea of my own living arrangements in the dream-world; though i seem to have possessed a great stone room of my own. my restrictions as a

hed my belief that similar reading and research, accomplished by my secondary self, had formed the source of the whole terrible fabric of pseudomemories. the period of my dreams, apparently, was one somewhat less than 150,000,000 years ago, when the palaeozoic age was giving place to the mesozoic. the bodies occupied by the great race represented no surviving- or even scientifically known-line of terrestrial evolution, but were of a peculiar, closely homogeneous, and highly specialised organic type inclining as much as to the vegetable as to the animal state. cell action was of an unique sort almost precluding fatigue, and wholly eliminating the need of sleep. nourishment, assimilated through the red trumpet-like appendages on one of the great flexible limbs, was always semifluid and in ma

of information, the basis of the fear was a horrible elder race of half-polypous, utterly alien entities which had come through space from immeasurably distant universes and had dominated the earth and three other solar planets about 600 million years ago. they were only partly material- as we understand matter- and their type of consciousness and media of perception differed widely from those of terrestrial organisms. for example, their senses did not include that of sight; their mental world being a strange, non-visual pattern of impressions. they were, however, sufficiently material to use implements of normal matter when in cosmic areas containing it; and they required housing- albeit of a peculiar kind. though their senses could penetrate all material barriers, their substance could n

me continuum- written by captive minds from every orb and every age in the solar system. madness, of course- but had i not now stumbled into a nighted world as mad as i? i thought of the locked metal shelves, and of the curious knob twistings needed to open each one. my own came vividly into my consciousness. how often had i gone through that intricate routine of varied turns and pressures in the terrestrial vertebrate section on the lowest level! every detail was fresh and familiar. if there were such a vault as i had dreamed of, i could open it in a moment. it was then that madness took me utterly. an instant later, and i was leaping and stumbling over the rocky debris toward the well-remembered incline to the depths below. vii from that point forward my impressions are scarcely to be re

to human scholarship- with a haunting, half-aroused memory. it came to me that this was the language used by a captive mind i had known slightly in my dreams- a mind from a large asteroid on which had survived much of the archaic life and lore of the primal planet whereof it formed a fragment. at the same time i recalled that this level of the archives was devoted to volumes dealing with the non-terrestrial planets. as i ceased poring over this incredible document i saw that the light of my torch was beginning to fail, hence quickly inserted the extra battery i always had with me. then, armed with the stronger radiance, i resumed my feverish racing through unending tangles of aisles and corridors- recognising now and then some familiar shelf, and vaguely annoyed by the acoustic conditions

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

lex and highly developed as to leave lake aghast. though excessively primitive and archaic in some respects, the thing had a set of ganglial centers and connectives arguing the very extremes of specialized development. its five-lobed brain was surprisingly advanced, and there were signs of a sensory equipment, served in part through the wiry cilia of the head, involving factors alien to any other terrestrial organism. probably it has more than five senses, so that its habits could not be predicted from any existing analogy. it must, lake thought, have been a creature of keen sensitiveness and delicately differentiated functions in its primal world- much like the ants and bees of today. it reproduced like the vegetable crytogams, especially the pteridophyta, having spore cases at the tips o

omotion no external aid was used, since in land, air, and water movement alike the old ones seemed to possess excessively vast capacities for speed. loads, however, were drawn by beasts of burden- shoggoths under the sea, and a curious variety of primitive vertebrates in the later years of land existence. these vertebrates, as well as an infinity of other life forms- animal and vegetable, marine, terrestrial, and aerial- were the products of unguided evolution acting on life cells made by the old ones, but escaping beyond their radius of attention. they had been suffered to develop unchecked because they had not come in conflict with the dominant beings. bothersome forms, of course, were mechanically exterminated. it interested us to see in some of the very last and most decadent sculpture

and seem therefore to have originally come from even remoter gulfs of the cosmic space. the old ones, but for their abnormal toughness and peculiar vital properties, were strictly material, and must have had their absolute origin within the known space-time continuum- whereas the first sources of the other beings can only be guessed at with bated breath. all this, of course, assuming that the non-terrestrial linkages and the anomalies ascribed to the invading foes are not pure mythology. conceivably, the old ones might have invented a cosmic framework to account for their occasional defeats, since historical interest and pride obviously formed their chief psychological element. it is significant that their annals failed to mention many advanced and potent races of beings whose mighty cultu

HP LOVECRAFT BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP

olism- there are still a certain remainder whose immundane and ethereal character permit of no ordinary interpretation, and whose vaguely exciting and disquieting effect suggests possible minute glimpses into a sphere of mental existence no less important than physical life, yet separated from that life by an all but impassable barrier. from my experience i cannot doubt but that man, when lost to terrestrial consciousness, is indeed sojourning in another and uncorporeal life of far different nature from the life we know, and of which only the slightest and most indistinct memories linger after waking. from those blurred and fragmentary memories we may infer much, yet prove little. we may guess that in dreams life, matter, and vitality, as the earth knows such things, are not necessarily co

, for he was unfit to bear the active intellect of cosmic entity. his gross body could not undergo the needed adjustments between ethereal life and planet life. he was too much an animal, too little a man; yet it is through his deficiency that you have come to discover me, for the cosmic and planet souls rightly should never meet. he has been in my torment and diurnal prison for forty-two of your terrestrial years "i am an entity like that which you yourself become in the freedom of dreamless sleep. i am your brother of light, and have floated with you in the effulgent valleys. it is not permitted me to tell your waking earth-self of your real self, but we are all roamers of vast spaces and travelers in many ages. next year i may be dwelling in the egypt which you call ancient, or in the c

HP LOVECRAFT FROM BEYOND

em visually. i recalled what he had said of the pineal gland, and wondered what he saw with this preternatural eye. suddenly i myself became possessed of a kind of augmented sight. over and above the luminous and shadowy chaos arose a picture which, though vague, held the elements of consist-ency and permanence. it was indeed somewhat familiar, for the unusual part was superimposed upon the usual terrestrial scene much as a cinema view may be thrown upon the painted curtain of a theater. i saw the attic laboratory, the electrical machine, and the unsightly form of tillinghast op-posite me; but of all the space unoccupied by familiar objects not one particle was vacant. indescribable shapes both alive and otherwise were mixed in disgusting disarray, and close to every known thing were whole

HP LOVECRAFT THROUGH THE GATES OF THE SILVER KEY

space, yet one which held no hint of what we recognize as motion and duration. imperceptibly, such things as age and location ceased to have any significance whatever. the day before, randolph carter had miraculously leaped a gulf of years. now there was no distinction between boy and man. there was only the entity randolph carter, with a certain store of images which had lost all connection with terrestrial scenes and circumstances of acquisition. a moment before, there had been an inner cave with vague suggestions of a monstrous arch and gigantic sculptured hand on the farther wall. now there was neither cave nor absence of cave; neither wall nor absence of wall. there was only a flux of impressions not so much visual as cerebral, amidst which the entity that was randolph carter experien

in the space outside dimensions. each local being- son, father, grandfather, and so on- and each stage of individual being- infant, child, boy, man- is merely one of the infinite phases of that same archetypal and eternal being, caused by a variation in the angle of the consciousness-plane which cuts it. randolph carter at all ages; randolph carter and all his ancestors, both human and pre-human, terrestrial and preterrestrial; all these were only phases of one ultimate, eternal "carter" outside space and time- phantom projections differentiated only by the angle at which the plane of consciousness happened to cut the eternal archetype in each case. a slight change of angle could turn the student of today into the child of yesterday; could turn randolph carter into that wizard, edmund cart

rom salem to the hills behind arkham in 1692, or that pickman carter who in the year 2169 would use strange means in repelling the mongol hordes from australia; could turn a human carter into one of those earlier entities which had dwelt in primal hyperborea and worshipped black, plastic tsathoggua after flying down from kydiamil, the double planet that once revolved around arcturus; could turn a terrestrial carter to a remotely ancestral and doubtfully shaped dweller on kythamil itself, or a still remoter creature of trans-galactic stronti, or a four-dimensioned gaseous consciousness in an older space-time continuum, or a vegetable brain of the future on a dark, radioactive comet of inconceivable orbit- so on, in endless cosmic cycle. the archetype, throbbed the waves, are the people of t

ed him from a man in 1928 to a boy in 1883, and then to something quite outside time? oddly, despite his present apparent absence of body; he knew that the key was still with him. while the silence still lasted, randolph carter radiated forth the thoughts and questions which assailed him. he knew that in this ultimate abyss he was equidistant from every facet of his archetype- human or non-human, terrestrial or ertra-terrestrial, galactic or tran-galactic; and his curiosity regarding the other phases of his being- especially those phases which were farthest from an earthly 1928 in time and space, or which had most persistently haunted his dreams throughout life- was at fever beat he felt that his archetypal entity could at will send him bodily to any of these phases of bygone and distant l

no being of yaddidi had ever performed- a bodily voyage through nameless eons and across incredible galactic teaches to the solar system and the earth itself. once on earth, though in the body of a clawed, snouted thing, he might be able somehow to find and finish deciphering-the strangely hieroglyphed parchment he had left in the car at arkham; and with its aid- and the key's- resume his normal terrestrial semblance. he was not blind; to the perils of the attempt. he knew that when he had brought the planet-angle to the right eon (a thing impossible to do while hurtling through space, yaddith would be a dead world dominated by triumphant dholes, and that his escape in the light-wave envelope would be a matter of grave doubt. likewise was he aware of how he must achieve suspended animatio

lph carter hurtled through space as a nameless, alien entity in a thin envelope of electron-activated metal. he timed his period of suspended animation with utmost care, planning to have it end only a few years before the time of landing on the earth in or near 1928 "he will never forget that awakening. remember, gentlemen, that before that eon long sleep he had lived consciously for thousands of terrestrial years amidst the alien and horrible wonders of yaddith. there was a hideous gnawing of cold, a cessation of menacing dreams, and a glance through the eye-plates of the envelope. stars, clusters, nebulae, on every hand- and at last their outline bore some kinship to the constellations of earth that he knew "some day his descent into the solar system may be told. he saw kynath and yuggot

den, though it would not go through the weed-choked fissure to the inner cave. it was there also that he covered his alien body with the human clothing and waxen mask which would be necessary. he kept the envelope here for over a year, till certain circumstances made a new hiding-place necessary "he walked to arkham- incidentally practicing the management of his body in human posture and against terrestrial gravity- and his gold changed to money at a bank. he also made some inquiries- posing as a foreigner ignorant of much english- and found that the year was 1930, only two years after the goal he had aimed at "of course, his position was horrible, unable to assert his identity, forced to live on guard every moment, with certain difficulties regarding food, and with a need to conserve the

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

e is no such thing as hence and beyond and feels no fear of death, which concept is quite strange to him. if, by the disintegrating work of the elements or a sudden breakup, the astral matrix which is connecting matter between the grossly material body and the astral body has got loose, then will happen what we commonly call death, which, however, in reality is nothing else but a passage from the terrestrial world to the astral world. backed up by this law, the adept knows no fear of death, being convinced that he will not approach uncertainty. through his control of the elements, besides many other things, he also can achieve a slackening of the astral matrix, which will result i a spontaneous separation of the astral body from the mortal frame. thus he will be able to visit the remotest

a degree that he can be seen, heard and perceived with the physical eyes. the issue in this respect depends on the duration of the training and on the capacity of the accumulation of the earth element in the astral body. it is obvious that the magician also can perform physical acts with the help of his astral body. producing phenomena as adepts see them such as knocking sounds, and influence on terrestrial affairs, etc, find a satisfactory explanation here. really and truly, no limits exist for a magician, and it is entirely up to him in which line he specializes. in any case, he knows exactly how to manage all these things, such as how to condense only one part of the body, i.e, one hand, while the rest remains astral. if he is able to accelerate the electronic vibrations of an object w

ISIS UNVEILED

half tainted with matter throng a succession of spiritual evolutions we may readily understand what is meant by the matron baubo, the enchantress who, before she succeeds in reconciling the soul, demeter, to its new position finds herself obliged to assume the sexual forms of an infant. baubo is mofter, the physical body; and the intellectual, as yet pure astral soul can be ensnared into its new terrestrial prison but by the display of innocent babyhood. until then, doomed to her fate, demeter (or magtta-maier, the soul) won- ders and hesitates and suffers; but once having partaken of the magic potion prepared by baubo she forgets her sorrows; for a certain time she parts with that consciousness of higher intellect that she was pos- sessed of before entering the body of a child, lliencefo

ns and development of psychical powers. the mystae were brought into close union with those whom proclus calls "mystical natures "resplendent gods" because, as plato says "we were our- selves pure and inunaculate, being liberated from this ntrrounding tiat- metu, which we denominate body, and to which we are now bound like an oyster to its shell" phaedr, loc. cit. so the doctrine of planetary and terrestrial pitiis was revealed entirely, in ancient india as well as now, only at the last moment of initiation, and to the adepts of superior degrees. many are the fakirs who, thou^ pure, honest and self-devoted, have yet never seen the astral form of a purely human piiar (an ancestor or father) otherwise than at the solemn moment of their first and last initiation. it is in the presence of his

t by her own act she has deprived herself of the only pos- able key to her own religious mysteries. the assumption of godfrey higgins that there are two doctrines maintained in the boman church, one for the masses and the other the esoteric for the 'perfect' or the initiates, as in the ancient mysteries, appears to us unwarranted and rather fantastic. she has lost the key, we repeat; otherwise no terrestrial power could have prostrated her, and except as having a superficial knowledge of the means of producing' miracles' her clergy can in no way be compared in their wisdom with the hierophants of old. in burning the works of the theurgists; in proscribing those who affect their study; in afisxing the stigma of demonolatry to magic in general, rome has left her exoteric worship and bible to

the profoundest mysteries of the onental gnosis, one of the most majestic articles of faith of the secret wisdom. it was purposely veiled so as to half conceal and half reveal the truth. it implied that moses, like certain other god-like men, was believed to have reached the highest of all states earth the rarest of all psq'chological phenomena the perfect union of the immortal spirit with the terrestrial dwtd had oc- curred. the trinity was complete. a ifod was incarnate. but how rare such incarnations! that expression 'ye are goda' which, to our biblical students, is a mere abstraction, has for the kabaliats a vital significance. each immor- tal spirit that sheds its radiance upon a human being is a god the microcosmos of the macrocosmos, part and parcel of the unknown god, the first

d-like beings as gautama-buddha, jesus, lao-tse, krishna, and a few others had imited themselves with their spirits permanently hence, they became gods on earth. others, such as moses, pythagoras, apollonius, plotinus, confucius, hato, lamblichus, and some christian saints, having at intervals been so united, have taken rank in history as demi-gods and leaders of mankind. when unburdened of their terrestrial tabernacles, their freed souls, henceforth united forever with their spirits, rejoin the whole shining host, which is bound together in one spiritual solidarity of thought and deed, and is called 'the anointed' hence the meaning of the gnostics, who, by saying that 'christos' suffered spiritually for humanity, implied that his divine spirit suffered mostly. such and far more elevating

ived the "holy kiss, or the reunion of the soul with the substance from which she emanated" spirit' all souls are dual, and while the soul is a feminine principle, the spirit is masculine. while imprisoned in body, man is a trinity, unless his pollution is such as to have caused his divorce from the' spirit "woe to the soul which prefers to her divine husband [spirit] the earthly wedlock with her terrestrial body" records a text of the book of the keys^ these ideas on the transmigrations and the trinity of man were held by many of the early christian fathers. it is the jumble made by the translators of the new testament and of ancient philosophical treatises, between soul and spirit, that has occasioned the many misunderstand- ings. this is also one of the many reasons why buddha, plotiuus

i, pp. 65 b, 66. 725. ihid, 11, p. 97; i, p- 168 a. 725. a hermetic work. 726a. e. biimouf; lelotiudtlab(miuloi,a.w^iq: ldito'via^ra, xxii; t. w. ahy> davids; bvdhium, p. 176; saortd book* rf at eait, x. xm. xix. xxxv. oxford: hardy: a manul rf bwuntm; tc. etc. digitizecoy google 282 isis unveiled even james (iu, 15) ideotifiea the aoul hy saying that its wisdom "desceadeth not from above" but is terrestrial, paycaieo, denumiatal (see greek text. plato, speaking of the soul (ptvdu, observes that" when she allies herself to the noui (divine substance, a god, as pruehe is a goddess, she does everything aright and felicitously; but the case is otherwise when she attaches herself to anoia" what plato calls tunu, paul terms the spirit; and jesus makes the heart what paul says of the fieah. l^e

" now of the deaths we die, the one twtket man two of three, and the other, one of [out of] two. the former is in the region and jurisdictiob of demeter, whence the name given to the mysteries, rtatnu, resembled that given to death, rixnn. the athenians also heretofore called the deceased sacred to demeter. as for the other death, it is in the moon or region of persephone. and as with the one the terrestrial, so with the other the celestial hermes doth dwell. this suddenly and with violence plucks the soul from the body; but proserpina mildly and in a long time disjoins the understanding from the soul. for this reason she is called monogenei, only-begotten, or rather begetting one alone; for the better part of man becomes alone when it is separated by her. now both the one and the other ha

cal and dual indi- viduality, composed of soul and body; and uniting himself with his third and higher immortal self, the real and heavenly man, merges, so to say, into the divine essence whence his own spirit proceeded like a spark from the common hearth. thus the arhat, the holy mendicant, can reach nirv&na while yet on earth; and his spirit, totally freed from the tram- mels of the "psychical, terrestrial, devilisk wisdom" as james calls it, and being in its own nature omniscient and omnipotent, can on earth, through the sole power of his thought, produce the greatest of phenomena "it is the missionaries in china and india, who first started this false- hood about niepang, or niepana (nirvftna" says wong-chin-fu. who can deny the truth of this accusation after reading the works of the a

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

he twenty-ninth. connection between the templars and gnosticism. 266 chapter the thirtieth. rosicrucian origin of the order of the garter. 282 chapter the thirty-first. rosicrucian supposed means of magic through signs, sigils, and figures. 295 chapter the thirty-second. astro-theosophical system of the rosicrucians the alchemic magisterium. 303 chapter the thirty-third. rosicrucian celestial and terrestrial (means of intercommunication. 317 chapter the thirty-fourth. the pre-adamites. profound cabalistic or rosicrucian speculations. 322 xvi contents chapter the thirty-fifth. page. the adapted rosicrucian contemplation. intrusion of sin. ruins of the old worlds. 337 chapter the thirty-sixth. indian mysterious adoration of forms. the unity of the mythologies found in the buddhistic and maho

ducing the six winter signs, which are (g) libra again (h) scorpio (i) sagittarius (j) capricornus (k) aquarius, and (l) pisces. fig. 12 (a) ezekiel's wheel. turning-point libra (the sign libra was added by the greeks) the first six signs, or ascending signs, are represented by the celestial perpendicular, or descending ray, as thus: the last six signs, or descending signs, are represented by the terrestrial ground-line, or horizontal, or equatorial (symbol, or sigma, as thus: the union of these (at the intersection of these rays) at fig. 13. mysteries of the cross. 63 the junction-point, or middle point, forms the cross as thus: fig. 15 (b) cross (c) fig. 16. fig. 17. fig. 18. fig. 19. in figure c, the union of fig. 16 and fig. 17 forms the cross. fig. 18 is the mundane circle. fig. 19 is

and hath nothing of him; but is instituted as the place of purification, being, or punishment: the opposite of god, the enemy of god, and, in its results, apart from the spirit of god, which rescues supernaturally from it, the denier of god! this world and its shows nay, life stands mysti110 the rosicrucians. cally as the devil, serpent, dragon, or adversary, typified through all time; the world terrestrial being the ashes of the fire celestial. the torches borne at funerals are not alone for light: they have their mystic meaning. they mingle largely, as do candles on altars, in all solemn celebrations. the employment of light in all religious rites, and in celebration in the general sense, has an overpoweringly great meaning. festival, also, claims flame as its secret signal and its pass

severine, rosa latet in hieme. these two principles are never separated; for nature proceeds not so far in her dissolutions. when death hath done her worst, there is an vnion between these two, and out of them shall t rosicrucian limbus. 131 god raise us at the last day, and restore us to a spiritual constitution. i do not conceive there shall be a resurrection of every species, but rather their terrestrial parts, together with the element of water (for there shall be no more sea: revelation, shall be united in one mixture with the earth, and fixed to a pure diaphanous substance. this is st. john s crystall gold, a fundamentall of the new jerusalem so called, not in respect of colour, but constitution. their spirits, i suppose, shall be reduced to their first limbus, a sphere of pure, eth

, orastarte, indifferently, are represented by the planetvenus and by themoon. persian fire-tower. chapter the twentieth. the rosy cross in indian, egyptian, greek, roman and medi val monuments. hough fire is an element in which everything inheres, and of which it is the life, still, according to the abstruse and unexplained ideas of the rosicrucians, it is itself another element, in a second non-terrestrial element, or inner, non-physical, ethereal fire, in which the first course fire, so to speak, flickers, waves, brandishes, and spreads, floating (like a liquid) now here, now there. the first is the animal, material, gross fire, with which we are familiar, contained in a celestial, unparticled, and surrounding medium (or celestial fire, which is its matrix, and of which, in this human b

een spirits (or workers) of the great alchemy. 191 original architect, building his microcosmos of a world from the plans and powers evoked in the macrocosm, or heaven of first forms, which, in their multitude and magnificence, are as changeable shadows cast off from the central immortal first light, whose rays dart from the centre to the extremest point of the universal circumference. it is with terrestrial fire that the alchemist breaks or sunders the material darkness or atomic thickness, all visible nature yielding to his furnaces, whose scattering heat (without its sparks) breaks all doors of this world s kind. it is with immaterial fire (or ghostly fire) that the rosicrucian loosens contraction and error, and conquers the false knowledge and the deceiving senses which bind the human

whose presence and intentions no one knows anything, or ever did know anything, truly and in reality, although their power has been felt in the ages, and still remains unsuspectedly conspicuous: all which we think we have in some measure proved. and shall still farther establish (we hope, before we arrive at the end of our book. the crux-ansata. chapter the thirty-third. rosicrucian celestial and terrestrial (means of intercommunication) onscientious readers will thank the man who states accurately that which they agree with, but will be almost equally grateful to the man who states clearly what they most dissent from. what they want is either truth or error; not a muddle between them. the reason of the real superlative importance of the ideas entertained by people respecting the rosicruci

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

e and things; inexplicable tracks and marks, such as the devil's footprints of devonshire, and the "cup-marks" found in stone over much of the world; the organically shaped meteorites found in tertiary rock and coal formations; evidences of levitation and flight from prehistoric antiquity; and many other phenomena which appear to us to be, or resemble, acts rather than things. 26 all of these are terrestrial events--manifestations more or less on the terrestrial surface. but there is a third great area of observational data. it is that vast conglomerate of purely astronomical observations which relates to things and phenomena in space or on planets and satellites other than earth. these are the unpopular, poor relatives of orthodox astronomy, the untouchable erratics. these have come to be

ation with intelligent being. a second group was obviously the product of thinking, if not, indeed, of higher mental characteristics such as purposefulness, determination, morality, and perhaps even humor. then, especially in those instances where space phenomena appear to intermingle with our native meteorological condition, it became necessary to consider, as a third group, the less spectacular terrestrial events and to clarify our thinking by segregating these and getting them out of our way. the upshot of this coercion was that we found more than half a dozen subcategories wherein we were allied with the sciences of meteorology which is the terrestrial science of the air, and meteoritics which is a branch of astronomy. let us, then, consider briefly these segments of our problem. to mo

is indeed a nasty choice for inhibited minds. einstien wasn't alive then, but the natural functions of our universe& this planet worked well without him. we can conclude that space habitation has existed for many a millennia. we do not care whether earthmen took to space as a matter of convenience, comfort, and safety after blowing off a portion of the planet; or whether space inhabitants created terrestrial intelligence "in their own image" bluntly "what's the difference" the basic thought is that man is living in a world in which he is neither the completely dominant nor the supremely intellectual being. huh, he'll never admit it, though: pride. there has been a raging controversy for generations between pro-atlantians and anti-atlantians as regards the antiquity of civilized mankind upo

em was to rediscover it for contemporary civilization. as we have said before, it is easier to discover a scientific principle if it is known to exist. the russians have known this as well as we have known it. we are contemplating space travel via cumbersome methods within a few years- at most a few decades. if earthlings can be that close to it now, other races, either nonterrestrial or of great terrestrial antiquity, can already have it. if the u.s.a. can foresee space navigation in such a short time, there is no reason why russia's mathematicians and physicists cannot have stumbled onto the principles which makes it possible. but there is another, and much more plausible, possibility. have the russians captured a space ship? or have space people taken over the red empire? nuts. the secr

en here for thousands of years. whether we belong to them by possession, like cattle, or whether we belong to each other by common origin and association is an interesting problem, and one which may soon be settled if we keep our heads. he knows something but how does he know. in final summary, the ufo's have been around us for a long time and probably are a connecting link with the first wave of terrestrial civilization. they have been used against us in some very minor and insignificant cases, but, on the whole, have either been friendly or indifferent. they are operated by forces currently unknown to us, but of vastly greater efficiency than anything we now contemplate. space contains enough miscellaneous debris to supply many of the requirements of space life, and the remainder are obt

we can believe that a space ship has landed in inner asia and that they have captured it and are studying its principles and experimenting with models- or that the space people have taken over the russian high officialdom and are directing their efforts and supplying know-how. we do have the ufo's. they are of several kinds, always have been, so they may come from various sources. they are either terrestrial, extraterrestrial, or both. we think they are extraterrestrial, but remotely of terrestrial origin. we believe they are both, and that the russians may have captured one or more. we think that some new scientific principles are with us, perhaps even now operating within our military laboratories, and may burst forth at any moment- and that as a race we may be on the verge of something

way of coincidence, professor campbell of lick observatory, ace aviator eddie rickenbacker, conservative astronomer, colonel marwick, and dr. emmert, of detroit, all reported from widely separated points of the earth that an unknown, luminous object had been seen near the sun on august 6 and 7 "near the sun" means, in astronomical parlance, something more or less in line with the sun as seen from terrestrial observation. it actually means "apparently near the sun" not necessarily physically close to that orb. in conclusion, let us summarize the vital features of these phenomena as they relate to our thesis. most falls involve only low forms of life, most of which require water for their environment, or at least a moist habitat. many falls are reported in clear weather from a clear sky, but

ds, except that of a common source predating the egyptians, the chinese, the indians (asiatic, the incas, and the mayas, and in fact all branches covered by the study of anthropology and ethnology. much as we may deride writers such as churchward (as per de camp; lost continents) in his rather crude presentation of his hypothesis of the lost continent of mu, his is the only general explanation of terrestrial intellectual development and distribution to be advanced which in a broad way explains the observed data. such explanations, however desirable, are ruled out by the fashion of the day which decries emphasis on qualitative knowledge in favor of quantitatively investigating the fifth place of decimals or other exaggerated refinement of classified knowledge. who is churchward or this deca

rtiary coal beds; it is of meteoritic structure and material which even conservative science has reluctantly admitted as being from outer space. so this must have been shaped by intelligence either before or after falling, but certainly prior to or surely concomitant with the formation of tertiary coal. for our purpose, we do not care whether one says it was fashioned by extraterrestrial hands or terrestrial hands, for we are just as much interested in proving the extreme antiquity of civilized man as we are in indicating the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence. this obstreperous whickeroo was dropped into an embryonic coal bed, either from an indigenous civilization or by an off-shore agency of some kind. if there was civilization in tertiary times terrestrial or spatial the sequel

ime. his name and address& his accomplishments are signified on the metal. the cross was left so that the body might be brought home. the making of this required calipers, scribes and drawing compass, plus mathematics. punch, a press, a set ot stamps, a drill, severaldifferent files, a forge, smelter& etc. or one force-ray stamp& burner press (italics by jemi) we continue to have a choice between terrestrial antiquity or spatial antiquity. but antiquity we do have, and a race so ancient, on earth, could very well have invented space travel. all of these samples lead to conclusions, but we must not overlook the actual sighting of shaped objects, falling from the sky. the object, five inches by fifteen inches, for instance, which fell at twickenham, august 5, 1889. samples of script have com

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

th, which was perfectly well known in ancient egypt. as will be seen in a later chapter, the egyptians were quite familiar with the exact measurements of the earth, but in the indication of it in the spheroid of the pillar the polar depression is naturally greatly exaggerated, as otherwise the difference could hardly have been visible. it is known that these pillars were intended to represent the terrestrial and celestial spheres respectively; and in some modern attempts to reproduce them they are crowned with these two globes. in the originals, however, there were no such globes, as the rounded chapiters sufficiently represented them. 168. it will be seen from the illustration that the surface of the chapiter below the disc is covered with a network, and that the lower ends of the network

s lotus leaves. 176. to the ordinary worshipper in the temple all this rather complicated ornamentation was merely decorative, but to the initiate it was full of esoteric significance. first, these two pillars were an exemplification of the occult axiom, gas above, so below h, for though they were absolutely alike in every particular it was always understood that they represented respectively the terrestrial and celestial worlds. on tat, the left-hand pillar, each link of each chain symbolized what in our oriental studies we call a branch-race, and the links as they descended became larger and thicker to indicate a deeper descent into matter, until the fourth was reached, when the life-force begins to draw inward and upward, and so its embodiment becomes less material. 177. each loop of se

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

on symbolizes the will or the mental aspect (air; and the soaring eagle is taken to indicate the spiritual side of man s nature (fire. the egyptian forms were a little different; but the same four elements and their rulers are depicted in that ancient symbolism, which indeed we find in all religions. there is a four-faced brahma; there is the fourfold jupiter, who is aerial, fulgurant, marine and terrestrial. and that leads us back to the reality behind all these symbols, the four great angel-rulers of the elements, the administrators of the great law, who are the gods or leaders of the hierarchies of angels of earth, water, air and fire. those are the mystical four; and they are full of eyes within, because they are the scribes, the recorders, the agents of the lipika: they watch all that

orlds and their positions in the solar system as a whole. their terms were different from ours, but the instruction was in essence the same; where we speak of successive life-waves and outpourings, they spoke of aeons and emanations, but there is no doubt that they were fully in touch with the facts, and that they represented them to their pupils in wonderful visions of cosmic processes and their terrestrial analogies. 368. just as in the case of the after-death states, these representations were at first produced by occult methods; and later, when these failed them, by mechanical and pictorial means, the results of which were greatly inferior. illustrations of the development of the human embryo, shown by picture or model in the same way as we might show some of them by means of a microsc

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

rn hemisphere. after the antepurgatory, where are placed the excommunicated and the belatedly repentant, and the passage through peter s gate, come seven encircling terraces, which rise in succession with diminished circuit as they approach the summit. each of the cornices corresponds to the seven deadly sins, from which the soul is purged through the expiatory labor of climbing the mountain. the terrestrial paradise is reached through a final wall of flames and comprehends two streams that wash away the remembrance of sin and strengthen the remembrance of good deeds. dante s paradise, according to the ptolemaic system of cosmography, consists of nine moving heavens, which are concentric with the earth, the fixed center of the universe, and around which they revolve at a velocity proportio

s. through satan s will and magical arts were made simple creatures on this earth, and extensive pleasures to delight them a paradise for his sons and daughters whom he loved. the earth was satan s gift to creation, and all that happened therein was decided by the living ones. satan made the living creatures master of their physical world, and the ruler of all that is material. satan gave all his terrestrial creation to his wife to care and tend, and made her queen of life s domain. their success was governed by lilith, or nature the mother of all creation and everything that is material.nature caused justice and harmony in the beginning, for before her all was chaos. nature now attends to the physical world ensuring it does not destroy itself before its time has come. through the will of

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ret nature, as i have shewn thee in my word concerning the sphinx. o my son, yester eve came the spirit upon me that i also should eat the grass of the arabs, and by virtue of the bewitchment thereof behold that which might be appointed for the enlightenment of mine eyes. now then of this may i not speak, seeing that it involveth the mystery of the transcending of time, so that in one hour of our terrestrial measure did i gather the harvest of an on, and in ten lives i could not declare it. r liber aleph vel cxi 178 #u de quibusdam mysteriis, qu vidi (of certain mysteries, which i have seen) et even as a man may set up a memorial or symbol to import ten thousand times ten thousand, so may i strive to inform thine understanding by hieroglyph. and here shall thine own experience serve us, be

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nion. use it first in all invocations of angels of that tablet, but not at all with other 4 tables. 2: used as an invocation of angels e h n b representing governance of spirit in the tablet of union: also precedes, in the second place, all invocations of key tablet angels. not used in invocations of 4 other tables. 3, 4, 5, 6: used in invocations of angels of tablet of union, also of angels of 4 terrestrial tablets, thus. 3: used to invoke angels of the letters of the line e x a r p for those of tablet oro as a whole and for the lesser angle of this tablet, which is that of the element itself, viz. i d o i g o. so for others. the remaining 12 keys refer to the remaining lesser angles of the tables, the order of the elements being air, water, earth, fire. pronounce elemental language (also

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

dismiss with sneers as cheap as your this fabric of mine own, one banner of my mind o.erthrown just at my will. how true and deep is carroll47 when his alice cries .it.s nothing but a pack of cards. there.s the true refuge of the wise; to overthrow the temple guards, deny reality. and now (i.ll quote you scripture anyhow) what did the sage mean when he wrote (i am the devil when i quote .the mere terrestrial-minded man knows not the things of god, nor can their subtle meaning understand. a sage, i say, although he mentions perhaps the best of his inventions, god. for at first this practice tends to holy thoughts (the holy deeds precede success) and reverent gaze upon the ancient one of days, beyond which fancy lies the truth. to find which i have left my youth, all i held dear, and sit alo

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

propose to show, by applying to the text the keys of the qabalah, that not merely the surface meaning is contained therein. in the beginning, created, god, the essence of the heavens, and the essence, of the earth. in the beginning in wisdom in the head* created god the elohim the holy gods the essence. of the heavens and the essence of the earth contained therein also are the divine, magical and terrestrial formula of the passage of the incomprehensible nothingness of the ain soph to the perfection of creation expressed by the ten voices or emanations of god the vast one.blessed be he. even the holy sephiroth. and the method whereby i shall work shall be the one absolute and inerratic science: the science of number: which is that single mystery of the intellect of man whereby he becometh

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

and surt fs fire will not have harmed them, and they will dwell at idavoll, where asgard used to be. as is so often the case, much of the discussion has centered on the etymology of the word, or in this case, the first syllable. idavoll means either geternal field h or perhaps gshimmering field h or even gfield of pursuits [of the gods. h the first makes the most sense, given that idavoll is the terrestrial equivalent of the paired second-generation gods and their gaming pieces and memories that survive the mythological present and ragnarok. see also game of the gods; ragnarok; vali, son of odin; vidar idun guardian of the apples of the gods; given over to and retrieved from the giant thjazi. the story is found in the skaldic poem haustlong, by thjodolf of hvin, and in the skaldskaparmal

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

olve there into several subspecies. in the same vein, it is estimated that 90% of the 13,000 or so plants species found in madagascar are indigenous, including more than 1,000 species of orchids. finally, evolution by natural selection explains well the common presence of flightless birds on remote islands. flying creatures are obviously able to colonize islands that are not normally reachable by terrestrial mammals. for example, new zealand has only one native mammalian species: bats. this means that new zealand had no predatory mammals until the arrival of humans and one of their food sources, rats, about 1,000 years ago. it so happens that new zealand has several species of ancient flightless birds, including the well-known and endangered kiwi and kakapo. we know that the islands of new

ts) to make rna deep under the ocean surface. or else some kind of primitive metabolism could have appeared in or near the vents, which would have led to the synthesis of rna building blocks. this scenario is amenable to experimentation in the laboratory. to do these experiments, one would have to construct a vessel in which superheated water at high pressure, containing suspended elements of the terrestrial magma, is shot continuously through a large column of cold water. the cold water should contain in a dissolved state all the organic compounds known to be made in a sparked hydrogen-rich atmosphere. to our knowledge, such experiments have not yet been performed. the existence of two different models for the origin of life (which could actually bemerged, as described above)means that re

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nterest. like many masonic diagrams of the period, this seems to be a heterogeneous collection of symbols, but two seem to me to be essentially kabbalistic. once again we see the staircase (ladder) of seven steps between two opposite verticals, and these are clearly opposite they figure 4. frontispiece, masonic miscellanies, 1797. are of different orders of architecture and they are surmounted by terrestrial and celestial spheres. the same pattern is repeated at the top of the drawing by the symbol of the circle, the parallel lines and the ladder (jacob's ladder) which has three principal rounds, faith, hope, and charity. in 1797, when this drawing was published, those parallel lines represented the saints john. we know them to be opposites because the baptist's day is mid-summer and the e

ral arts and sciences and the five orders of architecture certainly points the candidate toward a course of study which was the foundation of formal education in the renaissance. the reference to the history of the third degree will assist us in the interpretation of that degree. i have mentioned that the two pillars are opposites, and we know that because they are surmounted by the celestial and terrestrial spheres, active and passive, respectively. they are made of brass, cast in the clay ground, and cast hollow "to hold the archives of masonry."62 this is an intriguing picture; by being metallic and cast in the earth, these pillars are related to the physical world; they are hollow to hold archives; and they are opposites. now, we are looking at a yeziratic model of the individual; and

and became unreliable. a perfect ashlar was kept on the building site so that these tools could be recalibrated as necessary. masonically, we are told that we have such a standard in the middle chamber of our soul; it sounds to me like our conscience, the internal standard, provided by the deity, by which we define and calibrate our morality. in figure 15 i have placed the two pillars, with their terrestrial and celestial spheres and their archival records, in the side triads which kabbalah associates with the active and passive intellectual and emotional complexes. now, it is generally acknowledged that emotional and intellectual material in our unconscious particularly material that has been repressed has a significant effect on our lives by compelling or inhibiting various forms of beha

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

worship the subterranean temples of mithras, from whose cult has been borrowed much of the sacerdotalism of the modem church. the ancient philosophers believed that no man could live intelligently who did not have a fundamental knowledge of nature and her laws. before man can obey, he must understand, and the mysteries were devoted to instructing man concerning the operation of divine law in the terrestrial sphere. few of the early cults actually worshiped anthropomorphic deities, although their symbolism might lead one to believe they did. they were moralistic rather than religionistic; philosophic rather than theologic. they taught man to use his faculties more intelligently, to be patient in the face of adversity, to be courageous when confronted by danger, to be true in the midst of t

druids worshiped the supreme deity; therefore, anything growing upon that tree was sacred to him. at certain seasons, according to the positions of the sun, moon, and stars, the arch-druid climbed the oak tree and cut the mistletoe with a golden sickle consecrated for that service. the parasitic growth was caught in white cloths provided for the purpose, lest it touch the earth and be polluted by terrestrial vibrations. usually a sacrifice of a white bull was made under the tree. the druids were initiates of a secret school that existed in their midst. this school, which closely resembled the bacchic and eleusinian mysteries of greece or the egyptian rites of isis and osiris, is justly designated the druidic mysteries. there has been much speculation concerning the secret wisdom that the d

, and he is supposed to dwell within that shining orb. mithras has a male and a female aspect, though not himself androgynous. as mithras, he is the ford of the sun, powerful and radiant, and most magnificent of the yazatas (izads, or genii, of the sun. as mithra, this deity represents the feminine principle; the mundane universe is recognized as her symbol. she represents nature as receptive and terrestrial, and as fruitful only when bathed in the glory of the solar orb. the mithraic cult is a simplification of the more elaborate teachings of zarathustra (zoroaster, the persian fire magician. click to enlarge the ground plan of stonehenge. from maurice's indian antiquities. the druid temples of places of religious worship were not patterned after those of other nations. most of their cere

; on which account the greeks had made the serpent the attribute of pallas. his head--that of a cock--represents phronesis, that bird being the emblem of foresight and of vigilance. his two arms hold the symbols of sophia and dynamis: the shield of wisdom and the whip of power" the gnostics were divided in their opinions concerning the demiurgus, or creator of the lower worlds. he established the terrestrial universe with the aid of six sons, or emanations (possibly the planetary angels) which he formed out of, and yet within, himself. as stated before, the demiurgus was individualized as the lowest creation out of the substance called pleroma. one group of the gnostics was of the opinion that the demiurgus was the cause of all misery and was an evil creature, who by building this lower wo

merely fulfilling the dictates of the invisible lord. some gnostics were of the opinion that the jewish god, jehovah, was the demiurgus. this concept, under a slightly different name, apparently influenced medi val rosicrucianism, which viewed jehovah as the lord of the material universe rather than as the supreme deity. mythology abounds with the stories of gods who partook of both celestial and terrestrial natures. odin, of scandinavia, is a good example of a deity subject to mortality, bowing before the laws of nature and yet being, in certain senses at least, a supreme deity. the gnostic viewpoint concerning the christ is well worthy of consideration. this order claimed to be the only sect to have actual pictures of the divine syrian. while these were, in all probability, idealistic co

d. only those conversant with the eleusinian concept of life could understand that statement. it means that the majority of people are not ruled by their living spirits but by their senseless (hence dead) animal personalities. transmigration and reincarnation were taught in these mysteries, but in a somewhat unusual manner. it was believed that at midnight the invisible worlds were closest to the terrestrial sphere and that souls coming into material existence slipped in during the midnight hour. for this reason many of the eleusinian click to enlarge the rape of persephone. from thomassin's recucil des figures, groupes, themes, fontaines, vases et autres ornements. pluto, the lord of the underworld, represents the body intelligence of man; and the rape of persephone is symbolic of the div

tes not only the simplest but also the most direct and complete method of liberating their higher natures from the bondage of material ignorance. like prometheus chained to the top of mount caucasus, man's higher nature is chained to his inadequate personality. the nine days of initiation were also symbolic of the nine spheres through which the human soul descends during the process of assuming a terrestrial form. the secret exercises for spiritual unfoldment given to disciples of the higher degrees are unknown, but there is every reason to believe that they were similar to the brahmanic mysteries, since it is known that the eleusinian ceremonies were closed with the sanskrit words "konx om pax" that part of the allegory referring to the two six-month periods during one of which persephone

a bacchic (rational) existence. the titans of hesiod, who were twelve in number, are probably analogous to the celestial zodiac, whereas the titans who murdered and dismembered bacchus represent the zodiacal powers distorted by their involvement in the material world. thus bacchus represents the sun who is dismembered by the signs of the zodiac and from whose body the universe is formed. when the terrestrial forms were created from the various parts of his body the sense of wholeness was lost and the sense of separateness established. the heart of bacchus, which was saved by pallas, or minerva, was lifted out of the four elements symbolized by his dismembered body and placed in the ether. the heart of bacchus is the immortal center of the rational soul. after the rational soul had been dis

ness of the solar and vital fires which she dispenses to every individual by a continual circulation of the elements, this circulation being symbolized by the musical rattle which she carries in her hand. this sistrum is also the yonic symbol of purity. a serpent interwoven among the olive leaves on her head, devouring its own tail, denotes that the aurific unctuosity was soiled with the venom of terrestrial corruption which surrounded it and must be mortified and purified by seven planetary circulations or purifications called flying eagles (alchemical terminology) in order to make it medicinal for the restoration of health (here the emanations from the sun are recognized as a medicine for the healing of human ills) the seven planetary circulations are represented by the circumambulations

with the serpent under her feet and a crown. of stars on her head. in her arms she carries a sheaf of grain and sometimes the young sun god. the statue of isis was placed on a pedestal of dark stone ornamented with rams' heads. her feet trod upon a number of venomous reptiles. this indicates that nature has power to free from acidity or saltness all corrosives and to overcome all impurities from terrestrial corruption adhering to bodies. the rams' heads indicate that the most auspicious time for the generation of life is during the period when the sun passes through the sign of aries. the serpents under her feet indicate that nature is inclined to preserve life and to heal disease by expelling impurities and corruption. in this sense the axioms known to the ancient philosophers are verifi

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l things. it is by this means, my son, that i possess all the virtues and riches of which thou now seest me in the enjoyment, and in order that thou mayest be willing to be attentive to all which i am about to relate to thee, and that thou mayest retain with care all that i am about to tell thee, i assure thee that the graces of the great god will be familiar unto thee, and that the celestial and terrestrial creatures will be obedient unto thee, and a science which only works by the strength and power of natural things, and by the pure angels which govern them. of which latter i will give thee the names in order, their exercises and particular employments to which they are destined, together with the days over which they particularly preside, in order that thou mayest arrive at the accompl

s in order, their exercises and particular employments to which they are destined, together with the days over which they particularly preside, in order that thou mayest arrive at the accomplishment of all, which thou wilt find in this my testament. in all which i promise thee success, provided that all thy works only tend unto the honour of god, who hath given me the power to rule, not only over terrestrial but also over celestial things, that is to say, over the angels, of whom i am able to dispose according to my will, and to obtain from them very considerable services. firstly. it is necessary for thee to understand that god, having made all things, in order that they may be submitted unto him, hath wished to bring his works to perfection, by making one which participates of the divine

but also over celestial things, that is to say, over the angels, of whom i am able to dispose according to my will, and to obtain from them very considerable services. firstly. it is necessary for thee to understand that god, having made all things, in order that they may be submitted unto him, hath wished to bring his works to perfection, by making one which participates of the divine and of the terrestrial, that is to say, man; whose body is gross and terrestrial, while his soul is spiritual and celestial, unto whom he hath made subject the whole earth and its inhabitants, and hath given unto him means by which he may render the angels familiar, as i call those celestial creatures who are destined: some to regulate the motion of the stars, others to inhabit the elements, others to aid an

ets which he hath given and revealed unto me. think not, however, o my, son, that it would not be permitted thee to profit by the good fortune and happiness which the divine spirits can bring thee; on the contrary, it gives them great pleasure to render service to man for whom many of these spirits have great liking and affinity, god having destined them for the preservation and guidance of those terrestrial things which are submitted to the power of man. there are different kinds of spirits, according to the things over which they preside, some of them govern the empyrean heaven, others the primum mobil, others the first and second crystalline, others the starry heaven; there are also spirits of the heaven of saturn, which i call saturnites. there are jovial, martial, solar, venerean, mer

to the empire of ba l. besides this, there are special times reserved for the invocation of these spirits, in the days and hours when they have power and absolute empire. it is for this reason that thou wilt see in the following tables to what planet and to what angel each day and hour is submitted, together with the colours which belong unto them, the metals, herbs, plants, aquatic, a rial, and terrestrial animals, and temple incense, which are proper to each of them, as also in what quarter of the universe they ask to be invoked. neither are omitted, the conjurations, seals, characters, and divine letters, which belong to them, by means of which we receive the power to sympathize with these spirits. the key of solomon page 8 table 1: table of the planetary hours hours from hours from su

use then the experiment will always succeed better, provided thou observest the rules laid down later on, for if thou omittest one single condition thou wilt never arrive at the accomplishment of the art. for those matters then which appertain unto the moon, such as the invocation of spirit, the works of necromancy, and the recovery of stolen property, it is necessary that the moon should be in a terrestrial sign, viz: taurus, virgo, or capricorn. for love, grace, and invisibility, the moon should be in a fiery sign, viz: aries, leo, or sagittarius. book one page 15 for hatred, discord, and destruction, the moon should be in a watery sign, viz: cancer, scorpio, or pisces. for experiments of a peculiar nature, which cannot be classed under any certain head, the moon should be in an airy sig

ens above, and hath laid the foundations of the earth beneath, we command ye that, immediately and without any delay, ye come unto us from all places, valleys, mountains, hills, field, seas, rivers, fountains, ponds, brooks, caverns, grottos, cities, towns, villages, markets, fairs, habitations, baths, courtyards, gardens, vineyards, plantations, reservoirs, cisterns, and from every corner of the terrestrial earth where ye may happen to be in your assemblies, so that ye may execute and accomplish our demands with all mildness and courtesy; by that ineffable name which moses heard and invoked, which he received from god from the midst of the burning bush, we conjure ye to obey our commands, and to come unto us promptly with all gentleness of manner. again we command ye with vehemence, and w

ese names therefore, and by all the other holy names, we conjure ye and we exorcise ye; by the angel zechiel; by the angel duchiel; by the angel donachiel; and by the great angel metatron, who is the prince of the angels, and introduceth the souls before the face of god; and by the angel sangariel, by whom the portals of heaven are guarded; and by the angel kerub, who was made the guardian of the terrestrial paradise, with a sword of flame, after the expulsion of adam our forefather; and by the angel michael by whom ye were hurled down from the height of the throne into the depth of the lake and of the abyss, the same name meaning, who is like god upon earth; and by the angel aniel; and by the angel ophiel; and by the angel bedaliel; wherefore, by these and by all the other holy names of t

h were written by the finger of god in the tablets of moses and which i, solomon, have received through the ministry of an angel by divine revelation. these then have i collected together, arranged, consecrated, and kept, for the benefit of the human race, and the preservation of body and of soul. the pentacles should then be made in the days and hours of mercury, when the moon is in an a rial or terrestrial sign; she should also be in her increase, and in equal number of days with the sun. it is necessary to have a chamber or cabinet specially set apart and newly cleaned, wherein thou canst remain without interruption, the which having entered with thy companions, thou shalt incense and perfume it with the odours and perfumes of the art. the sky should be clear and serene. it is necessary

lemn conjuration of spirits. we have also spoken enough in our present key, regarding the manner in which it is necessary to attract the spirits so as to make them speak. now, by divine aid, i will teach thee how to perform certain experiments with success. know, o my son roboam, that all the divine sigils, characters, and names (which are the most precious and excellent things in nature, whether terrestrial or celestial, should be written by thee each separately, when thou art in a state of grace and purity, upon virgin parchment, with ordinary ink, in the beginning of the month of august before sunrise, raising thine eyes unto heaven, and turning towards the east. thou shalt preserve them to suspend from thy neck, whichever thou wilt, on the day and hour wherein thou wast born, after whi

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lly unto all my requests; so that i may 32 it will depend on the quarter to which the spirit is attributed, which of the four chief kings are to be invoked. accomplish my will and desire in knowing or obtaining any matter or thing which by office thou knowest is proper for him to perform or accomplish, through the power of god, el, who created and doth dispose of all things both celestial, aerial terrestrial, and infernal. after thou shalt have invocated the king in this manner twice or thrice over, then conjure the spirit thou wouldst call forth by the aforesaid conjurations, rehearsing them several times together, and he will come without doubt, if not at the first or second time of rehearsing. but if he do not come, add the spirits chain unto the end of the aforesaid conjurations, and h

MEANING OF MASONRY

g; he will become aware of having tapped a previously unsuspected source of power, giving him enhanced mental strength and self-confidence; there will become observable in him developing graces of character, speech and conduct that were previously foreign to him. the floor, or groundwork of the lodge, a chequer-work of black and white squares, denotes the dual quality of everything connected with terrestrial life and the physical groundwork of human nature the mortal body and its appetites and affections" the web of our life is a mingled yarn, good and ill together" wrote shakespeare. everything material is characterized by inextricably interblended good and evil, light and shade, joy and sorrow, positive and negative. what is good for me may be evil for you; pleasure is generated from pai

he stars" it follows from all this that the mason who seriously yields himself to the discipline of the order of is not merely improving his character and chastening his thoughts and desires. he is at the same time unconsciously building up an inner ethereal body which will form his clothing, or covering, when his transitory outer body shall have passed away" there are celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial..and as we have borne the image of the earthly we also shall bear the image of the heavenly" and the celestial body must be built up out of the sublimated properties of the terrestrial one. this is one of the secrets and mysteries of the process of regeneration and self-transmutation, to promote which the craft was designed. this is the true temple-building that masonry is concerned wi

otherwise that descent would not have been necessary. what it is that has been lost is not explicitly declared, but is implied and is stated to form" the genuine secrets of a master mason" it is the loss of a word, or rather o f the word, the divine logos, or basic root and essence of our own being. in other words the soul of man has ceased to be god-conscious and has degenerated into the limited terrestrial consciousness of the ordinary human being. it 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

ng spirituality. similarly the displayed banners of the twelve israelitish tribes are again but fi gures of their prototypes, the twelve zodiacal sections of those heavens which could not exist or be discernible to the outward eye were they not also the phenomenalized aspect of a reality cognizable by the inward eye; whilst, gathered beneath these emblems, are those who represent the tribes of no terrestrial nation, but are the" tribes of god" the heavenly hierarchies that constitute an archetypal canopy or holy royal arch above the visible creation and that mediate to it the effluences of that all embracing triune spirit of power, wisdom and love in which the entire composite structure lives, moves and has its being" in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth, and the earth wa

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

of the sorcerer's own blood. the qlipoth are energy currents which spring from da ath, which lies within the heart of the desert of set (9. 29 29 tunnels which exist through da ath are where most of the qlipothic demons manifest. please note that this is not a 'satanic' plane, these entities are negations of the self in its primal aspect. such spirits, whose existence is not earth based but extra terrestrial, have no conception of the meaning of 'satanic. exploring these tunnels opens wide the doors of perception, as hinted in the theses of magick, and therein lie in wait devouring spirits and demons. it is the task of the inspired individual to pass by these denizens of the deep, and by doing so discover the true essence of their inmost self. invocationto call spirits and energies/godform

h one can repair the self and grow in the state of understanding, compassion, mental strength and the like. the flip side of the absorption of such a spirit is that if not properly prepared, or merely attempted with the spirit escaping one could risk possession, psychic damage or madness. such beings generally are mindless, especially if broken fragments of a former self; but some may be of extra terrestrial (non human) origin, or a powerful sorcerer suriving intact in the discarnate state, these have extensive abilities upon the astral plane. this is also true of the adept sorcerer who is able to take on the dream flesh of the vampire, it will prove nearly impossible for anyone to absorb such a sorcerer's spirit. such results require close to the same expenditure in time, and semi continu

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

ave been mistaken as such,because its atmosphere was resplendent with reflections of the actual sun. this is notas improbable as it sounds since v enus, the morning star, the second planet from thesun and the third brightest object in the sky, is so bright that it casts a distinct shadowon a moonless night.around the time of this event, the solar system, and later the earth, was colonized byextra-terrestrial beings who were either attracted to this solar system by that conflagra-tion or upon coming here caused the calamity themselves. whether the disaster wasnatural or not, the result was that mankind on earth experienced total and long lastingchaos and confusion. the surface of the planet tiamat consisted mostly of greatoceans. upon its destruction, these vast saline waters entered into t

ppressed, all but a very smallremnant. the records of hundreds of cultures lead us to the conclusion that their eventualdecline and fall was indeed due to external interference. the alien invaders and theirlackeys also instilled the idea, now so all pervasive, that nature was threatening andantithetical to humankind, something to be abused and possessed. this instinct is cer-tainly not natural to terrestrial humans but would be consistent with the outlook ofthose not from this planet.it is extremely unlikely that such a pernicious philosophy could originate from withinhumankind. for reasons that should now be apparent, historians have suppressed most of theevidence of the pre-diluvian matriarchies. all the various tenets of post-diluvian religionhave their roots in the lexicons of those be

y, the secret doctrine, v ol. 3)many cryptic terms are used to describe the adversaries and their conflict. many seem-ingly incomprehensible motifs and anecdotes from the worlds legends can be madelucid once the reader knows what is really being implied. and this was comprehendedby the american master of the pre-diluvian epochs, ignatius donnelly, who demon-strated his discernment, concerning the terrestrial tribulations, when he wrote:it sounds like the cry not of a man but of a race, a great, religious, civilized race, who couldnot understand how god could so cruelly visit the world. this fact can be corroborated by a close reading of the old testament. in it, we hear ofthe strange meeting moses had at the burning bush. this has long been a point ofconjecture, but can easily be explained

age ofthe hms beagle) animals that had been native for millions of years disappeared under circumstances thatwere suspiciously suddenthe loss of over 30 genera of large mammalsand many otherspecies of large animals in north america alone (paul s. martin, who or what destroyedour mammoths) at the end of the pleistocene about 10,000 years ago, there was an extinction event that dec-imated the large terrestrial mammalian herbivores and carnivores of north america, southamerica and australia. in north america alone, more than 32 genera of mammals becameextinct the cause of this extinction is debatable (r. w. graham, evolution of new eco-systems at the end of the pleistocene) however ingeniously and with whatever subtlety we may deal with our evidence, the factsconstrain therefore to one inevit

and large scale climaticvariations. of these, severe earthquakes in particular may even induce axial wobble, andpolarity reversals.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation51 records of blood and stone studies have shown that at 10,178 bc, or over 12,000 years ago, the celestial pole wasinclined at an angle of 30 degrees from its present position. this in turn strongly suggeststhat the terrestrial axis then oriented differently from today.archaeologists all over the world have realized that much of prehistory as written in theexisting textbooks, is inadequate, some of it quite simply wrongwhat! no ice age which came and went, spreading over hundreds of thousands of years asall good geologists proclaim? no smothering ice sheets which enveloped the british islesand much of the nor

he shall imagine that he understandsthemthe true explanation is reserved for the adepts, the princes of masonry (those of the32nd and 33rd degrees (albert pike, grand master of american scottish rite freema-sonry)in spite of the efforts of science fiction and fantasy writers, it appears that humansare very far from a complete understanding of the forces that have shaped history orthe evolution of terrestrial societies. because they are in charge of the worlds media,the alien masters have been industrious and successful in putting atlantis in front of usas a long lost paradise, where wise priests presided over semi-enlightened, sublimelycontented people, at one with their environment. if ones discrimination is, however,still operating and if one has read through the masterpieces of tolkien

tion85 chapter 13the living macroscopesir john dee, one of the greatest satanic occultists that ever lived, was extremely wellconnected throughout the europe. along with edward kelley and others, he set aboutopening portals to other dimensions in order to speak with the angels. his fraternalcounterparts in europe, under his instruction, performed similar rites. their obsessionwas to contact extra-terrestrial, or preferably, pan-dimensional beings, the archons.to do this, he invented what was known as enochian magic which, due to theiradroit camouflaging, has been misunderstood to this day. look through the quaint images and see the truth of this. these wizards and warlocks wereinvolved, and are still involved, with the summoning of pan-dimensional entities, who weremistaken in the days of

t we recognize as true the medieval arcane notion that such beingscould be invited to participate in the life of a city, by means of the spiritual art of astrology.ovason then goes on to give one reason why the city was constructed according tosuch specific designs and dates. he speaks of the presence or existence of angelicbeings, or overlords, who are being invoked to literally take part in the terrestrial oper-ations of mankind. the masonic fathers and builders of the city referred to these enti-ties by their latin term, cosmocrates: the leader of these mighty beings was due to take over the direction of western civilizationin 1881 caused considerable excitement in the esoteric circles of washington d.c, and theoccult world in general. the very word capitol derives from caput draconis

interstellarimplication. this is why we see so many planetary and sabean symbols in occult books, andwhy occult symbols turn up on the institutes of government, security services, and subver-sive fraternities.the nephilim who fell to earth from the netherworld are trying desperately to regaintheir freedom. they have been chained in the pit (earth, but are convinced that thereis a way out of their terrestrial prison. this is why the space program exists, and whythere is exorbitant and frenzied expenditure in satellites and the exploration of outerspace. look at the names given to many of the space programs and modules: gemini, mercury,capricorn, apollo, seti, nasa, v oyager, columbia, challenger, etc. notice also the namesof the research and invention laboratories that produce the technolog

ll session of the united nationsseptember 21, 1987) atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation123 what planet are you from? the serpent masters, who visited our planet ages ago, arrived and took over withoutpermission. they literally invaded our sovereign planet and interfered with the destinyand evolution of the native inhabitants while possessing no legal status, so to speak.like many terrestrial illegal immigrants, these aliens had, and their progeny have, nolove for the world they occupy. their treatment of the earth tells us as much. theirplundering of nations, their decimation of indigenous peoples and their violation ofnature, should be taken as ample evidence for their origins. the human victims ofearth must, therefore, remedy the injustices perpetrated against them by as

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

t. what s more is that heaven itself is often spoke of as being broken into 7 pieces, the 7 heavens. each level of the heavens is ruled by an arch-angel, and in some cases these heavens have been mistaken for earthly locations. for example, i ve heard occultists, texts of the christian apocrypha, and muslims speak of the garden of eden as a location that resides in the 3rd heaven, as opposed to a terrestrial location. then there is hell, sometimes called the abyss, the qliphoth, the averse, or acausal realms. similar to how the heavens are broken into 7 pieces, hell is also considered to exist as separate parts and, like the heavens, each partition has its own ruler. but unlike the material and heavens realms, the 7 hells do not obey the strict laws of space and time that we are familiar w

MOODY RAYMOND A LIFE AFTER LIFE

ncept of the afterlife by asking what kind of body the dead will have: 1 corinthians 15:35-52: but some man will say "how are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come" thou fool (of) that which` thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain. but god give' it a body as it hath pleased him, and to ever, seed his own body. there are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one and the glory of the terrestrial is another. so also is the resurrection of the dead. it is sown in corruption, it is raised in ii corruption: it is sown in dishonour; it is raised glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised power: it is sown a natural body, it is raised spiritual body. there is a natural body, and the is a spiritual body. behold

MORALS AND DOGMA

nd that on the left boaz. our translators say that the first word means"_he shall establish" and the second"_in it is strength" these columns were imitations, by khurum, the tyrian artist, of the great columns consecrated to the winds and fire, at the entrance to the famous temple of malkarth, in the city of tyre. it is customary, in lodges of the york rite, to see a celestial globe on one, and a terrestrial globe on the other; but these are not warranted, if the object be to imitate the original two columns of the temple. the symbolic meaning of these columns we shall leave for the present unexplained, only adding that entered apprentices keep their working-tools in the column jachin; and giving you the etymology and literal meaning of the two names. the word _jachin, in hebrew, is [hebre

re recondite and more _fruitful_ meaning. they probably had the same meaning as the twin columns jachin and boaz. that meaning is not for the apprentice. the adept may find it in the kabalah. the justice and mercy of god are in equilibrium, and the result is harmony, because a single and perfect wisdom presides over both. the holy scriptures are an entirely modern addition to the symbol, like the terrestrial and celestial globes on the columns of the portico. thus the ancient symbol has been denaturalized by incongruous additions, like that of isis weeping over the broken column containing the remains of osiris at byblos* masonry has its decalogue, which is a law to its initiates. these are its ten commandments: i [symbol: earth: god is the eternal, omnipotent, immutable wisdom and supreme

the infinitely great and the infinitely small; the echoing of causes in the abysses of beginning, and the avalanches of creation? a fleshworm is of account; the small is great; the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity. there are marvellous relations between beings and things; in this inexhaustible whole, from sun to grub, there is no scorn: all need each other. light does not carry terrestrial perfumes into the azure depths, without knowing what it does with them; night distributes the stellar essence to the sleeping plants. every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. germination includes the hatching of a meteor, and the tap of a swallow's bill, breaking the egg; and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of a socrates. where the t

of the spectacle of the beauties of the universe, and applying its attention to that luminous writing of the infinite book which is called "the visible" seems to utter, as god did on the dawn of the first day, that sublime and creative word "be! light" it is not beyond the tomb, but in life itself, that we are to seek for the mysteries of death. salvation or reprobation begins here below and the terrestrial world too has its heaven and its hell. always, even here below, virtue is rewarded; always, even here below vice is punished; and that which makes us sometimes believe in the impunity of evil-doers is that riches, those instruments of good and of evil, seem sometimes to be given them at hazard. but woe to unjust men, when they possess the key of gold! it opens, for _them, only the gate

f his attributes; in which we see the occult meaning of the necessity of recovering "the word; and of our two columns of strength and wisdom, which are also the two parallel lines that bound the circle representing the universe: that the visible world is the image of the invisible world; that the essence of the human soul is the image of god, and it existed before the body; that the object of its terrestrial life is to disengage itself of its body or its sepulchre; and that it will ascend to the heavenly regions whenever it shall be purified; in which we see the meaning, now almost forgotten in our lodges, of the mode of preparation of the candidate for apprenticeship, and his tests and purifications in the first degree, according to the ancient and accepted scottish rite. philo incorporat

on for a race living without law, and wishing to teach them that they sprang from his bosom, and to point out to them the way that they should go [the books which the first hermes, the same with enoch, had written on the mysteries of divine science, in the sacred characters, being unknown to those who lived after the flood, god sent to man osiris and isis, accompanied by thoth, the incarnation or terrestrial repetition of the first hermes; who taught men the arts, science, and the ceremonies of religion; and then ascended to heaven or the moon. osiris was the principle of good. typhon, like ahriman, was the principle and source of all that is evil in the moral and physical order. like the satan of gnosticism, he was confounded with matter. from egypt or persia the new platonists borrowed t

s, science, and the ceremonies of religion; and then ascended to heaven or the moon. osiris was the principle of good. typhon, like ahriman, was the principle and source of all that is evil in the moral and physical order. like the satan of gnosticism, he was confounded with matter. from egypt or persia the new platonists borrowed the idea, and the gnostics received it from them, that man, in his terrestrial career, is successively under the influence of the moon, of mercury, of venus, of the sun, of mars, of jupiter, and of saturn, until he finally reaches the elysian fields; an idea again symbolized in the seven seals. the jews of syria and judea were the direct precursors of gnosticism; and in their doctrines were ample oriental elements. these jews had had with the orient, at two diffe

of autumn, the woman (virgo, in the constellations seems (upon the chald an sphere) to crush with her heel the head of the serpent, this figure foretells the coming of winter, during which life seems to retire from all beings, and no longer to circulate through nature. this is why typhon signifies also a serpent, the symbol of winter, which, in the catholic temples, is represented surrounding the terrestrial globe, which surmounts the heavenly cross, emblem of redemption. if the word typhon is derived from _tupoul, it signifies a tree which produces apples(_mala, evils, the jewish origin of the fall of man. typhon means also one who supplants, and signifies the human passions, which expel from our hearts the lessons of wisdom. in the egyptian fable, isis wrote the sacred word for the instr

ucius saw the image of the goddess, on either side of which were female attendants, that "with ivory combs in their hands, made believe, by the motion of their arms and the twisting of their fingers, to comb and ornament the goddess' royal hair" afterward, clad in linen robes, came the initiated "the hair of the women was moistened by perfume, and enveloped in a transparent covering; but the men, terrestrial stars, as it were, of the great religion, were thoroughly shaven, and their bald heads shone exceedingly" afterward came the priests, in robes of white linen. the first bore a lamp in the form of a boat, emitting flame from an orifice in the middle: the second, a small altar: the third, a golden palm-tree: and the fourth displayed the figure of a left hand, the palm open and expanded "

se who, from that lofty abode, where they were lapped in eternal light, have looked longingly toward the body, and toward that which we here below call _life, but which is to the soul a real _death; and who have conceived for it a secret desire--those souls, victims of their concupiscence, are attracted by degrees toward the inferior regions of the world, by the mere weight of thought and of that terrestrial desire. the soul, perfectly incorporeal, does not at once invest itself with the gross envelope of the body, but little by little, by successive and insensible alterations, and in proportion as it removes further and further from the simple and perfect substance in which it dwelt at first. it first surrounds itself with a body composed of the substance of the stars; and afterward, as i

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

, in order to play its part in the great drama. this khu, again, needs the proper costume, a suitable 'body of flesh, and this costume must be worthy of the play. we therefore employ various magical means to increase the vigour of our bodies and the energy of our minds, to fortify and to sublime them. the result is that we of thelema are capable of enormously more achievement than others, even in terrestrial matters, from sexual orgia to creative art. even if we had only this one earth-life to consider, we exceed our fellows some thirtyfold, some sixtyfold, some an hundredfold. one most important point, in conclusion. we must doubtless admit that each one of us is lacking in one capacity or another. there must always be some among the infinite possibilities of nuit which possess no correla

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

ereus, thaumas, phorcys, ceto, and eurybia. co-existent with uranus and gaa were two mighty powers who were also the offspring of chaos. these were erebus (darkness) and nyx (night, who formed a striking contrast to the cheerful light of heaven and the bright smiles of earth. erebus reigned in that mysterious world below where no ray of sunshine, no gleam of daylight, nor vestige of health-giving terrestrial life ever appeared. nyx, the sister of erebus, represented night, and was worshipped by the ancients with the greatest solemnity. uranus was also supposed to have been united to nyx, but only in his capacity as god of light, he being considered the source and fountain of all light, and their children were eos (aurora, the dawn, and hemera, the daylight. nyx again, on her side was also

, and as venus myrtea (or the myrtle goddess, an epithet derived from the myrtle, the emblem of love. helios (sol. the worship of helios was introduced into greece from asia. according to the earliest conceptions of the greeks he was not page 67 only the sun-god, but also the personification of life and all life-giving power, for light is well known to be an indispensable condition of all healthy terrestrial life. the worship of the sun was originally very widely spread [62]not only among the early greeks themselves, but also among other primitive nations. to us the sun is simply the orb of light, which, high above our heads, performs each day the functions assigned to it by a mighty and invisible power; we can, therefore, form but a faint idea of the impression which it produced upon the

y less barbarous, namely, the scourging of youths, who were whipped on the altars of the brauronian artemis in the most cruel manner; sometimes indeed they expired under the lash, in which case their mothers, far from lamenting their fate, are said to have rejoiced, considering this an honourable death for their sons. selene-artemis. hitherto we have seen artemis only in the various phases of her terrestrial character; but just as her brother apollo drew into himself by degrees the attributes of that more ancient divinity helios, the sun-god, so, in like manner, she came to be identified in later times [97]with selene, the moon-goddess, in which character she is always represented as wearing on her forehead a glittering crescent, whilst a flowing veil, bespangled with stars, reaches to her

rch of this lower world, was the [131]successor of erebus, that ancient primeval divinity after whom these realms were called. the early greeks regarded aides in the light of their greatest foe, and homer tells us that he was "of all the gods the most detested" being in their eyes the grim robber who stole from them their nearest and dearest, and eventually deprived each of them of their share in terrestrial existence. his name was so feared that it was never mentioned by mortals, who, when they invoked him, struck page 146 the earth with their hands, and in sacrificing to him turned away their faces. the belief of the people with regard to a future state was, in the homeric age, a sad and cheerless one. it was supposed that when a mortal ceased to exist, his spirit tenanted the shadowy ou

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

of freedom. even political assemblies concerning the life of the kingdom were held at cathedrals, notably notre dame of paris, as was the case in 1302 with the famous assembly of the general estates. in a society dominated by the sacred, it was logical that the temple was, for all actions playing a determinative role in social life, the secular brotherhoods: the germanic and anglo-saxon guilds 55 terrestrial reproduction of a transcendent model. the same was true in the traditional civilizations of ancient peoples. each of the brotherhoods to which abbot aymon refers was not yet strictly composed of artisans of one trade who had banded together to perform their profession. instead, for work that was not planned in advance, brotherhoods were formed spontaneously on the construction sites th

14 the rooster also had a profoundly esoteric significance. without examining too deeply its symbolism, which would necessitate moving well outside the concerns of this book, we can say that this animal was always considered a solar bird. the great initiate rabelais informs us, in pantagruel, book i, chapter 10, that "the presence of the powers of the sun, which is the organ and storehouse of all terrestrial and sidereal universal freemasonry 219 light, is symbolized and represented by a white cock" subsequently, the rooster came to symbolize daybreak and by extension the resurrection. today it still figures in the initiation skit of the apprentice mason. the decline of masonic universalism the universalism of the medieval builders was closely connected to the catholic religion and the bui

ONYX TABLET OF SET

are approved and they are officially welcomed into the temple. this action can not only improve the quality of those who we do decide to bring into the temple, but heighten our own initiation aspriests and priestesses of set. sounds simple, right? like most things that seem easy it is actually an art to be mastered. the advantages are manifold.this practice can push forth the boundaries of set's terrestrial territory.i would not have recommended this practice if i hadn't given it a whirlmyself. these are some useful techniques i've noticed, which i'm sure each priest worth his or her salt will add to through each separate and unique unfolding of becoming. onyx tablet: ot.o.3.1 temple of set author: nikolas schreck iii date: march 8, 1998 ce revision: html revision: june 6, 1998 ce before

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

g that the gevil man h overcomes the gholy man h to his own detriment, for the fact that he oppresses israel and rules them allows israel to totally extract from him all the sparks of holiness within him. gevil man h and gholy man h here mean the forces of evil and good. just as in the vision of ezekiel the array of divine attributes flowing into creation had the form of a man, and the anatomy of terrestrial man reflects this organization of forces, so are the forces of evil arranged in the human form. and wherever they go, the shechinah [divine presence] goes with them, in order to elevate her component parts. the divine presence accompanies the jewish people in their exile, in order to reconstruct herself out of the fallen sparks of her shattered self. 4 deuteronomy 28:68. 5 exodus 14:13

of abba and ima. know that the union of z feir anpin and nukva occurs sporadically and there are times when it is interrupted. in contrast, abba and ima couple continuously and never part from each other, as mentioned in the zohar.2 now, this seems to contradict the statement of our sages that gthe holy one, blessed be he, swore that he would not enter the celestial jerusalem until he enters the terrestrial jerusalem. h3 this means that there would be no supernal coupling of abba and ima.referred to as gthe celestial jerusalem h.until the lower coupling, between z feir anpin and nukva.referred to as gthe terrestrial jerusalem.would occur. the solution to this is that there are two types of coupling of abba and ima. the first is in order to emanate new souls into earthly bodies. the second

his coupling stopped, as is explained in the zohar4 with reference to the gchamber of love h: gfor new souls did not go there after the temple was destroyed. h the sages alluded to this coupling when they said that god swore that he would not enter the celestial jerusalem until, etc. i.e, he would not reinstate the constant gcomplete coupling h of abba and ima, which produced new souls, until the terrestrial temple would be rebuilt. this is explained in the seventh [of the eight] gate[s, sha far ruach hakodesh[ gthe gate of divine inspiration h],5 regarding meditative unifications, that one should not meditate on the vowels of the various names havayah, only on the letters themselves. the gincomplete coupling, h however, which occurs in order to sustain reality, is never interrupted, for w

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

ymbol of the banner of the west. the triangle refers to the three paths and the cross to the hidden knowledge. the cross and the triangle together represent life and light. hiero points out the tablet of the north, saying: hieyo this grade is especially referred to the element of earth, and therefore, one of its principal emblems is the great watch tower or 148 the golden dawn: volume ii book two terrestrial tablet of the north. it is the third or great northern quadrangle or earth tablet, and it is one of the four great tablets of the elements said to have been given to enoch by the great angel ave. it is divided within itself into four lesser angles. the mystic letters upon it form various divine and angelic names, in what our tradition calls the angelic secret language. from it are draw

e cube raised in the air immediately above your head, you would but see the single square forming the lowest side, the others from their position being concealed from you. just so, behind the material universe, lies the concealed form of the majesty of god <64> the altar of incense was overlaid with gold to represent the highest degree of purity, but the altar before you is black to represent the terrestrial earth. learn then, to separate the pure from the impure, and refine the gold of the spirit from the black dragon, the corruptible body. upon the cubical altar, were fire, water, and incense, the three mother letters of the hebrew alphabet; aleph, mem, and shin. mem is silent, shin is sibilant, and aleph is the tongue of a balance between these contraries in equilibrium, reconciling and

ing grade. hierophant returns to east and sits down. hegemon guides zelator to him. the three portals facing you are the gates of paths leading from this grade. that on the right connects with the grade of philosophus, that on your left with the grade of practicus, while the central one leads to the portal. this grade especially refers to the element of air, and therefore the great watch-tower or terrestrial tablet of the east forms one of its principal emblems. it is one of the four great tablets deliveredunto the golden dawn: volume 11 book two hiero hie yo <89> hiero hiero hie yo enoch by the great angel ave. from it are drawn the three holy secret names of god, or0 ibah aozp1,'which are borne upon the banners of the east, and number less divine and angelic names which appertain unto th

ious and hurtful, but to uphold them with stability, void of movement- forcing fire forward into fire" hereunto is the speech of axieros. hegemon leads theoricus to the seat of hiereus who rises holding his red lamp. they halt before him. hiereus ,axiokersos, the second kabir, spake to kasmillos the candidate and said "i am the left basal angle of the triangle of flame. i am the fire volcanic and terrestrial, flashingly flaming through abysses of earth- fire-rending- fire penetrating- tearing asunder the curtain of matter- fire constrained- fire tormented- raging and whirling in lurid storm. by what sign dost thou seek to pass by? heg by the symbol of the pyramid of flame. hegemon returns to his place- signing theoricus to remain. hiereus hear thou the voice of axiokersos, the second kabir

by the sacred rites- since, ever dragging down the soul and leading it from the sacred things, from the confines of matter, arise the terrible dog-faced demons, never showing true image unto mortal gaze. so therefore first the priest who governeth the works of fire must sprinkle with the lustral water of the loud, resounding sea. labour thou around the strophalos of hecate. when thou shalt see a terrestrial demon approaching, cry aloud and sacrifice the stone mnizourin. change not the barbarous names of evocation, for they are names divine, having in the sacred rites a power ineffable. and when <103> after all the phantoms have vanished, thou shalt see that holy and formless fire- that fire which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe, hear thou the voice of fire. her

e which you will now be entitled to wear, is the sash of a practicus, with the addition of a bright green cross above the violet cross and the numbers@ in a circle and in a square on either side of its summit, and below the number 31, the numbers 27/28, and 29 in bright green, between narrow bars of the same colour. this grade is especially referred to fire and therefore, the great watch-tower or terrestrial tablet of the south forms one of its principal emblems. it is known as the fourth or great southern quadrangle and is one of the four great tablets delivered unto enoch by the great angel ave. from it are drawn the three holy secret names of god oip teaa pedoce, which are borne upon the banners of the south, and numberless divine and angelic names which appertain unto the element of fi

to the utmost confines of space. let the candidate represent unto him, as it were, a world whom he is beginning to lead unto the knowledge of its governing angel. as it is written "the lightning lighteneth out of the east and shineth even unto the west, even so, shall the coming of the son of man be" the candidate during the ceremony is addressed as child of earth, as representing the earthly or terrestrial nature of man- he who comes forward from the darkness of malkuth to endeavour to regain the knowledge of the light. this is what is meant by the speech of the hegemon, because the path of the initiate is but darkness and foolishness to the natural man. the single knock given by the hegemon without the door represents the consenting will of the natural man to receive the force formulate

as required, and the formulation of a vortex to draw in the highest spiritual influences. i therefore, directed as in the 6= m, the circumambulation of these mighty forces, as it were, a great wheel which set revolving, whose centre was the point of silence, the throne of harpacrat. the whole sphere then adored the lord of the universe. at this stage i found that i could formulate the figure of a terrestrial globe in the place of the altar, and fixing the attention on any point of the surface, get a mental picture of what was transpiring there, recognising at the same time that it took place by the action and reaction of the great forces which moved by the will of god and were therefore in all things perfectly good. this rendered impossible any feeling of joy or sorrow at any event, any ho

substance, so each tattwa is subdivided into five divisions, currents or planes. akasa of akasa, spirit of spirit, would be the most tenuous and purest form of that element, the integral nature of spirit-its highest essence. vayu of akasa would refer to its airy quality; tejas of akasa to its fiery and dynamic aspect; apas of akasa, its fluidic and watery phase, while prithivi of akasa, its most terrestrial phase, or that aspect of its power which more nearly than the others contacts the earth. the same five-fold division, in the same five-fold order, applies equally to the other elements. the student is strongly urged to make these symbols, and have a set of them with him for working. the primary or simple tattwa should be made about two or two and a half inches in height. it is recommen

e or hate, irritation, etc, for all these feelings operate against your power. it is but rarely that a talisman for the love of a person is a right and justifiable thing to construct. pure love links us to the nature of the gods. there is a perfect love between the angels and the gods because there is perfect harmony among them, but that is not the lower and earthly love. thus a talisman made for terrestrial love would be sealed with the impress of your own weakness, and even if successful, would read on you in other ways. the only way in which real power can be gained, is by transcending the material plane and trying to link yourself to your divine and higher soul. that is why trouble is so great an initiator, because trouble brings you nearer spiritual things when material things fail. t

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n.:frater practicus, we are in the midst of physical darkness and mental gloom and even the soul iswandering in mazes preceded only by the light of truth, symbolised by the blazing torch. we are toapproach creation, the breaking away of night, to enter upon the first rays of lux. the chaoticelements of fire and flood are to give place to a serene, calm, passionless and pure existence of allthings terrestrial and celestial; the heavens and. the earth are to take form, system and harmony. therituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliaphilosophus37 fair urania, the goddess of astronomy, by the aid of the divine will, is to guide our mentalfootsteps. as the pure and heavenly teacher appointed 12 apostles to make known his holy laws, soastronomy, through the wondrous mower of the great crea

y are termed "corposant, or body and spirit.conductor and companions proceed to 1st ancient, whose six lights have just been lit. the tapers ofmedallist and 2nd herald are extinguished.1st ancient,6th sign: now, all created things move in harmony toward the fulfilment of their destiny; theheavens are studded with brilliants, and the earth swarms with life, and teams with apparentfruitfulness. the terrestrial surface bears the impress of a paradise, and all nature rejoices in fullnessas doth man in his growing strength. nature wells forth. no herb, no flower, no tree is wanting forornament or use, for sight, scent or taste. the bounty of god supplies man222s necessities, comfort andrecreation.the loving month of june displays its gorgeous constellation of minor stars, and is represented by

ar antares, brilliantly red andknown as the scorpion222s heart.rituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliaphilosophus40 conductor and companions proceed to guardian of caverns whose single taper has been lit. light of4th ancient out.guard. of c, 11th sign: as true as the arrow of the archer, the shaft of death will reach its mark. all naturequivers and shrinks from the coming blast. all forms terrestrial possessing life, shudder at thecoming winter of their being. darkness again begins to brood over the waters. but let not theshadows of despair overtake the soul.as ye have sown, so shall ye reap, with a firm reliance on the just acts of the past, hope on, and havefaith in an omnipotent redemption and on mercy. the arrow of sagittarius is brilliant with flamingstars of hope.conductor an

chemistry, alchemy, astrology, or other science; ever intent onobtaining the elixir of life, the vampire-food, that shall enable man to live forever in unalloyedhealth, and this with the discovery of metallic transmutation would enable them to enjoy luxury andrituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliasecond section46 ease of body to the extent of their desire.we will question them of things terrestrial, celestial and the destiny of the soul, and meditate onwhat we hear. this is the astrologic and astronomic cavern of the rosaic philosophers. disturb nottheir calculations, but draw nigh in silence, and we will abide our time.the cond. of n. taps 3 then 4, on the entrance. no response; again a little louder; still no answer.the door is discovered to be ajar, is pushed open, and they qu

g ear. you222d betray my secret.but what want you?the conductor and philosophus give the sign.cond. of n: brother, and yet father, you know us not, we gave the secret battery twice, and not beinganswered, found the door ajar and entered. we come to crave a boon, and await your good time.this philosophus, in our rosaic system, hath been sent by the council to you, knowing that youdelve in sciences terrestrial and celestial, and who casting the horoscope, can solve wonderfulenigmas by divination, grasping knowledge from the heavenly bodies, when they appear singly orin conjunction, and interpret the unknown, according to their starry signification. the councildesires that you instruct this philosophus further. he seeks to know the future destiny of the soul, hisinner self, his undying and mo

o the fate of some dear but distant friend? ifthou seekest to be informed of nature's works, the earth and its surroundings, speak to ben-ardac,the rosaic arab there that is his study, and of it, he is the master. our province, as astrologers, is toseek the knowledge of startling forces in nature, and the destiny of man through two channels andwe classify them thus: the arab grasps at nature, the terrestrial, and the substance that envelopes therituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliasecond section47 earth, the air and its components, and watches, when twinkling in the light, the fall of 'star-dross',which you call gold, and which we produce at will. the second class, in this much-lovedastrology, comes within my sphere. i seek not for precious gold nor deadly poison, nor the myriade

ual energies; his reason, appetites, senses, and powers of generation. these are some of thetheories which tend to prove our atmospheric envelope a delicate sensorium, promptly responding toevery wave of physical energy that beats upon it from stellar space. future observations will provethat the agency of planets in causing solar disturbances is powerful to influence the great luminary incausing terrestrial cyclones and earthquakes, and that great magnetic and meteorologicaldisturbances over the entire globe are effected.cond. of n.:we were taught in the council that astronomy was an exact science, then why these uncertaintiesand trusting to a future?3rd philos.:mark well, the depths of space lead into infinity in the universe, the invention of the galileantelescope has but opened the eye

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ruth. there is indeed a formidable secret, the revelation of which has once already transformed the world, as testified in egyptian religious tradition, summarized symbolically by moses at the beginning of genesis. this secret constitutes the fatal science of good and evil, and the consequence of its revelation is death. moses depicts it under the figure of a tree which stands in the midst of the terrestrial paradise, is in proximity to the tree of life and is joined at the root thereto. at the foot of this tree is the source of the four mysterious rivers; it is guarded by the sword of fire and by the four symbolical forms of the biblical sphinx, the cherubim of ezekiel. here i must pause, and i fear that already i have said too much. i testify in fine that there is one sole, universal and

nes or at their surface. by this dual force all is created and all preserved. its motion is a rolling up and an enrolling which are successive and unlimited, or, rather, simultaneous and perpetual, by spirals of opposite movements which never meet. it is the same movement as that of the sun, at once attracting and repelling all the planets of its system. to be acquainted with the movement of this terrestrial sun in such a manner as to be able to apply its currents and direct them, is to have accomplished the great work and to be master of the world. armed with such a force you may make yourself adored: the crowd will believe that you are god. the absolute secret of this direction has been in the possession of certain men, and can yet be discovered. it is the great magical arcanum, dependin

s the mother of all forms, and transmits them from emanation to emanation, merely diminished or modified 26 the doctrine of transcendental magic according to the density of the media. secondary forms are reflections which return to the font of the emanated light. the forms of objects, being a modification of light, remain in the light where the reflection consigns them. hence the astral light, or terrestrial fluid, which we call the great magnetic agent, is saturated with all kinds of images or reflections. now, our soul can evoke these, and subject them to its diaphane, as the kabalists term it. such images are always present before us, and are effaced only by the more powerful impressions of reality during waking hours, or by preoccupation of the mind, which makes our imagination inatten

question, being the instrument of life, cleaves naturally to all living centres, attaches itself to the nucleus of planets, even as to the heart of man and by the heart we understand magically the great sympathetic identifying itself with the individual life of the being which it animates, and it is by this quality of sympathetic assimilation that it is distributed without confusion. hence it is terrestrial in its affinity with the sphere of the earth and human exclusively in its affinity with men. it is for this reason that electricity, caloric, light and magnetism, produced by ordinary physical means, not only do not originate, but tend rather to neutralize magical equilibrium 31 the effects of animal magnetism. the astral light, subordinated to a blind mechanism, and proceeding from ar

ons are produced on the one hand, and on the other profound and unexpected graces. the traditional doctrine of two angels who sustain and tempt us is explained in this manner. the two forces of the astral light may be represented by a balance wherein are weighed our good intentions for the triumph of justice and the emancipation of our liberty. the astral body is not always of the same sex as the terrestrial, that is, the proportions of the two forces, varying from right to left, seem frequently to belie the visible organization, producing seeming aberrations of human passion and explaining, while in no wise morally justifying, the amorous peculiarities of anacreon or sappho. a skilful magnetizer should take all these subtle distinctions into account, and we shall provide in our ritual the

who was destined for him a slave to the demons of debauch. souls grow and multiply in heaven, as bodies do upon earth. immaculate souls are the daughters of the kisses of angels. nothing can enter heaven save that which comes from heaven. hence, after death, the divine spirit which animated man ascends by itself above and leaves two corpses below, one upon earth, the other in the atmosphere; one terrestrial and elementary, the other aerial and sidereal, one already inert, the other still animated by the universal movement of the soul of the world, yet destined to die slowly, absorbed by the astral forces which produced it. the terrestrial body is visible; the other is unseen by the eyes of earthly and living bodies, nor can it be beheld except by the application of the astral light to the

that the devil is the fallen angel; occult philosophy accepts and explains this definition. it will be unnecessary to repeat what we have said previously on the subject, but we may add a further revelation: in black magic, the devil is the great magical agent employed for evil purposes by a perverse will. the old serpent of the legend is nothing else than the universal agent, the eternal fire of terrestrial life, the soul of the earth, and the living centre of hell. we have said that the astral light is the receptacle of forms, and these when evoked by reason are produced harmoniously, but when evoked by madness they appear disordered and monstrous: so originated the nightmares of st. anthony and the phantoms of the sabbath. do therefore the evocations of goetia and demonomania produce a

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rving the purposes of bewitchment. the natural mandragore is a filamentous root which presents more or less as a whole either the figure of a man, or that of the virile members. it is slightly narcotic and an aphrodisiacal virtue was ascribed to it by the ancients, who represented it as being sought by thessalian sorcerers for the composition of philtres. is this root the umbilical vestige of our terrestrial origin, as a certain magical mysticism has suggested? we dare not affirm it seriously, but it is true all the same that man issued from the slime of earth and his first appearance must have been in the form of a rough sketch. the analogies of nature compel us to admit the notion, at least as a possibility. the first men were, in this case, a family of gigantic, sensitive mandragores, a

of gaffarel and his master rabbi chomer. onomantic astrology was practised by the old hebrew kabalists, as is proved from their observations by rabbi chomer, rabbi kapol, rabbi abjudan and other masters in kabalah. the menaces of the prophets uttered against various nations were based upon the characters of the stars found vertically over them in the permanent correspondence of the celestial and terrestrial spheres. thus, by writing in the sky of greece the hebrew name of that country nwv or gnv, and translating in numbers, they obtained the word chrb, which signifies destroyed, desolated. h w k 2 2 8 charab destroyed, desolated sum 12. 106 the ritual of transcendental magic u n v 5 6 1 javan greece sum 12. hence they inferred that after a cycle of twelve periods greece would be destroyed

th unalloyed with falsehood; it is also material, actual, pure gold, the most precious which can be found in the veins of the earth; but the living gold, living sulphur, or true fire of the philosopher, must be sought in the house of mercury. this fire feeds on air; to express its attractive and expansive power, a better comparison is impossible than that of lightning, which primally is a dry and terrestrial exhalation united to humid vapour, and afterwards, assuming an igneous nature, in virtue of its exaltation, acts on its inherent humidity, which it attracts and transmutes into its own nature, when it falls rapidly to earth, where it is drawn by a fixed nature similar to its own. these words, enigmatic in form but clear in essence, express openly what the philosophers understand by the

f the most simple elementary notions; let him say, for example, that the earth revolves and that it is shaped like an egg: what resource has the barbarian who hears him except to believe? is it not plain that every proposition of this nature becomes for him a dogma from on high, an article of faith? and is not the veil of a wise allegory sufficient to make it a mythos? in the schools of seers the terrestrial globe was represented by an egg of pasteboard or painted wood, and when young children were asked, ewhat is this egg? f they answered, eit is the earth. f those older children, the barbarians, hearing this, repeated, after the little children of the seers: ethe world is an egg. f but the book of hermes 145 they understood thereby the physical, material world, while the seers meant the

confined to its passive secondary part, never governs reason, the natural logic which results from the comparison of ideas; which come into being, extend in the same proportion as his needs, and which the circle of his knowledge enlarges thus by degrees without intermixture of false judgements and errors. his alone is a light infinitely progressive, because the rapid increase of population, after terrestrial renovations, establishes in a few centuries a new society in all the imaginable moral and political correspondences of its destiny. we might add, in fine, that his alone is absolute light. the man of our time is immutable in himself; he changes no more than nature, in which he is rooted. the social conditions which surround him alone determine the degree of his perfection, of which the

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

anny or cleft of the earth where air enters [as if] to their ordinary dwellings. the earth being full of cavities and cells, and there being no place or creature but is supposed to have other animals, greater or lesser, living in, or upon it, as inhabitants; and [there is] no such thing as pure wilderness [that is, a vacuum void or emptiness of life] in the whole universe. 2. we then, of the more terrestrial kind, having now so numerously planted all countries, do labour for that abstruse people, as well as for ourselves. albeit when several countries were uninhabited by us, they had their easy tillage, above ground as we [do] now, the print of whose furrows do yet remain to be seen on the shoulders of the very high hills, which was done when the champagne [that is, prime or virgin arable

ntry do answer in the language of that place, yet sometimes these subterraneans do speak more distinctly than at other times. their women are said to spin, very finely, to dye, to tissue and embroider; but whether it be as [a] manual operation of substantial refined stuffs with apt and solid instruments, or only curious cobwebs, impalpable rainbows and a fantastic imitation of the actions of more terrestrial mortals, since it transcended all the senses of the seer to discern whither, i leave to conjecture [just] as i found it. 6. their men travel much abroad [that is far and wide, either presaging or aping the dismal and tragical actions of some among us, and have also many disastrous doings so of their own [such] as convocations, wounds, and burials, both in the earth and air, they live m

alms-deeds in this life called cuirp dhaondachbach, which means fluid active, ethereal vehicles to hold them[selves together, that they may not scatter, nor wander and be lost in the totum [plenum or fullness, or [in] their first nothing [the void] but if any are so impious as to have given no alm, they say [that] when the souls of such do depart, they sleep in an inactive state until they resume terrestrial bodies again. others, those which the lowland scot calls a wraith, and the irish eug or deathmessenger, appearing sometimes as a little rough dog, and if crossed, and conjured http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_21.htm (6 of 8 [10/9/2001 12:34:36 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 21-29 [beneficially] in time will be pacified by the death of any other creature instead of the

from laughter, when unexpectedly an enemy leapt in at his side and stabbed him. with their weapons they [the fairies] also gon or pierce cows or other animals, usually said to be elfshot, whose purest substance, if they [subsequently] die, these subterraneans take to live on [which is to say] the aerial and ethereal parts, the most spirituous [of] matter for [the] prolonging of life, leaving the terrestrial [parts] behind; such [that is, just] as aquae-vita [distilled spirits or whiskey] moderately taken, is [the purest] among liquors. the cure of such hurt is simply for a man to find out the hole [of the elf-shot] with his finger, as if the spirits flowing from the man's warm hand were antidote sufficiently against the poisoned darts. 9. as birds and beasts whose bodies are much used to

by what is said above; many having seen the same specters and apparitions at once having the visive faculties entire, for non est disputandum de gustibus. it now remains to show that it is not unsuitable to reason, nor to holy scriptures. 9,1: first that it is not repugnant to reason does appear from this: that it is no less strange for immortal sparks and souls to come and be immersed into gross terrestrial elementary bodies, and be so propagated, so nourished, so fed, so clothed as they are, and breathe in such an air and world prepared for them than for hollanders or hollow-cavern inhabitants to live and traffic among us in another state of being without our knowledge. for raymond de subunde in his third book chapter 12 argues quaintly that all sorts of living creatures have a happy rat

s(pages 50-59) inexcusable or perfectly happy against the last day, salves all the difficulty [of this discussion. but [it must be argued] in every deed, and speaking suitably to the nature of things; there is no more absurdity for a spirit to inform an infant body of air than a body composed of dun and drowsy earth, the best of spirits having always delighted more to appear into aerial than into terrestrial bodies. they feed mostly on quintessence and ethereal essences, the pith and spirits only of women's milk feeds their children, being artificially conveyed [just] as air and oil sink into our bodies, to make them vigorous and fresh. and this shorter way of conveying a pure element, without the usual digestions, by transfusing it and transpiring through the pores into the veins and arte

rom these [interpretations. averring those subterranean people to be departed souls attending a while in their inferior state, and clothed with [temporary] bodies procured through their alms-deeds. that they may not scatter, nor wander and be lost in the to [plenum or fullness] or [in] their first nothing [the void. but if any. have given no alms. they sleep in an inactive state until they resume terrestrial bodies again. several significant traditions are reported here, the first being the widespread one of the fairy sadness at their immortality and being possibly banned from heaven by an orthodox deity. this theme 'the burden of unimagined time' was pursued by the scottish poet fiona macleod (william sharp) in his fairy drama, the immortal hour, which was adapted and set to music by rutl

id (kirk's first nothing. they do not play a great part in the orthodox christianity of the seventeenth century, and if we grant that kirk is indeed reporting oral tradition, this is further evidence of a specific wisdom-teaching of ancient origins, but with perennial and worldwide currency. finally we have the reference to reincarnation: for the souls sleep in an inactive state until they resume terrestrial bodies again. an unambiguous statement directly counter to christian dogma. http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_92.htm (2 of 9 [10/9/2001 12:36:14 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 92-101) as kirk is reporting the beliefs of his barbarian parishio-ners, presumably he can avoid any suggestion of heresy or witchcraft, but we need to remember constantly that seventeenth-centur

e taught traditionally for making contact with otherworldly beings, often at ancient sites: such techniques result in the learning of skills, verses, or in subtle gifts such as magical powers. kirk now repeats his main theory concerning the under-world realms, and the possibility of bodies or vehicles lighter and less visible than our own. he returns to the concept of commentary 116 universal and terrestrial holism, with a subterranean counter-part. page 51 the manucodiata or bird of paradise, living in the highest region of the air; common birds in the second region [and so downwards through various orders of being] can we then think the middle cavities of the earth to be empty? kirk's cosmology is (see figure 7) similar to that of renaissance adepts, drawing upon various traditional and

RUBY TABLET OF SET

dynasty egyptians had rejected set as they became increasingly lost in the white-light of guilt and national weakness, they nevertheless recognized the (psychic) power represented by set as absolutely necessary to the very existence and functioning of the gods. the fact that the set-animal does not occur in nature makes it clear that it- and the god it expresses. is of extra-dimensional or "extra-terrestrial" origin. and from my manifest semblance, which alone is not of earth" the north solstice working for the illumination of the relationship between woden and set classification: v2- a41.w- 1 author: stephen e. flowers ii date: north solstice, xix html revision: october 26, 1998 ce subject: woden/odin, set reading list #3 #14 #17 the north solstice working for the illumination of the rela

age and youth simultaneously. it was time to flee that unnatural scene, and i convinced my friend to do the same. literally head first, i dove onto the ice-covered path. my inner wish was that i might once gain attain some degree of normalcy. but i could not leave behind that which was a part of me- in fact, that which was me- the baby. he came with me. i was he, and "i" was also the "me" of the terrestrial plane. as we/i plunged downward, i heard (and felt) a voice tell me that my metamorphosis to the myall had left me only two hours. i took it to mean that there were only two hours left to the world as i had known it. as i continued down the path, vaguely aware of my friend in the background, i felt both terrified and beguiled at having finally revealed a piece of my fate. i awoke. set

other cards of the thoth deck. each is there for a reason seen by ipsissimus crowley as having pertinence to the essence of the card. the figure of the young woman in the trump's center shows a youthful and fertile presence surrounded by all the metaphysical nutrients necessary to the continuation of a highly specialzed being, that of the life force manifesting itself through the feminine figure. terrestrial nature continues its many species through a birth and death series evident to even the most casual observer. the universe of atu xxi is a portrayal of an unnatural nature in full flower. it will promote its own continuation not in the way generally understood in biology, but rather in a manner unique unto itself. the living being within atu xxi's borders has xepered beyond any dependen

, he stated: classification: v4- c32- 3 author: anubis pylon date: july 8, xiii html revision: dec 11, 1998 ce reading list: in your letter you rementioned the "cyclical working" and a "continuing, growing ritual" again i shall quote from the satanic rituals by lavey (p. 219 "the true ages of time are cast in the likeness of nine [my underscore] with all cycles obedient to its law. all matters of terrestrial concern may be evaluated by the infallible resolution of nine [again] and its offspring. action and reaction relative to humanity's tribal needs are contained within successive nine-year periods: the total of both (18 years) is called a working. the beginning and end of each working is called a working year and each midway point between the working years displays a zenith of intensity

SATANIC RITUALS

am i! at once i am removed and feel the reckoning of my twofold completion. my mind is lofty with the enlightenment of thy creation! my feet are as the mountain's base, firm and one with the house of joy. my eyes are as a pinnacle that views the scattered multitudes of fools who grope for things celestial; who bow and scrape to wan and sallow gods, the spawn of shallow minded men, forsaking life terrestrial while creeping to their graves. i gaze upon the massive hoards that suffocate, like peter's fish pulled from the lake of life's sweet waters. to perish in heaven's foul vapors shall be their doom! the fate of fools is justice! i am the tempter of life that lurks in every breast and belly; a vibrant, torpid cavern, nectar laden, with sweetest pleasures beckoning. i am a thrusting rod wi

s to identify a certain number with satan, it will be known that nine is his number. nine is the number of the ego, for it always returns to itself. no matter what is done through the most complex multiplication of nine by any other number, in the final equation nine alone will stand forth. the true ages of time are cast in the likeness of nine, with all cycles obedient to its law. all matters of terrestrial concern may be evaluated by the infallible resolution of nine and its offspring. action and reaction relative to humanity's tribal needs are contained within successive nine-year periods: the total of both (eighteen years) is called a working. the beginning and end of each working is called a working year, and each midway point between the working years displays a zenith of intensity f

SEPHER YETZIRAH WESTCOTT

the idea of making, producing or creating. briah, briah, giving shape, genesis i. 1. oshih, ashiah, completing, genesis i. 31. itzirh, yetzirah, forming, genesis ii. 7. to these the kabalists add the word atzlh, with the meaning of "producing something manifest from the unmanifested" emanation shin aleph mem macrocosm primal fire spirit primal water universe heavens atmosphere the earth elements terrestrial fire air water man head chest belly year heat temperate cold chapter 4 this is the special chapter of the heptad, the powers and properties of the seven. here again we have the threefold attribution of the numbers and letters to the universe, to the year, and to man. the supplemental paragraphs have been printed in modern form by kalisch; they identify the several letters of the heptad

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

eeping alive the "divine traditions" as in ministering to the god in their appointed seasons. the members of these companies who wrote the copies of the book of the dead which were buried with kings and queens and personages of royal or exalted rank declared the power and omnipotence of almighty god, whose visible emblem to mankind was the sun, and his sovereignty over things celestial and things terrestrial with no uncertain voice, and we should expect them to believe what they proclaimed, i.e, that god was sufficiently powerful to protect his emblem in the sky. yet the priests of thebes made copies of works which contained texts to be recited at specified hours of the day and night, and gave directions for the performance of p. xv magical ceremonies, the avowed object of such being to pr

SORCERIES OF ZOS

agical seed from which the human foetus was ultimately generated. arthur machen was, perhaps, near the truth of the matter when he suggested that the fairies and little people of folklore were decorous devices concealing processes of non-human sorcery repellent to mankind. machen, blackwood, crowley, lovecraft, fortune, and others, frequently used as a theme for their writings the influx of extra-terrestrial powers which have been moulding the history of our planet since time began; that is, since time began for us, for we are only too prone to suppose that we were here first and that we alone are here now, whereas the most ancient occult traditions affirm that we were neither the first nor are we the only ones to people the earth; the great old ones and the elder gods find echoes in the m

ncient occult traditions affirm that we were neither the first nor are we the only ones to people the earth; the great old ones and the elder gods find echoes in the myths and legends of all peoples. austin spare claimed to have had direct experience of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligences, and crowley- as his autobiography makes abundantly cleardevoted a lifetime to proving that extra-terrestrial and superhuman consciousness can and does exist independently of the human organism. as explained in images and oracles of austin osman spare, spare was initiated into the vital current of ancient and creative sorcery by an aged woman named paterson, who claimed decent form a line of salem witches. the formation of spare's cult of the zos and the kia owes much to his contact with witch

terson becomes explicable, and all magical circles, sorceries, and cults, are seen as manifestations of the shadow. footnotes (1) see the white people, the shining pyramid, and other stories. this theme is a frequent one with machen. the hideous atavisms described by lovecraft in many of his tales evoke even more potently the atmosphere of cosmic horror and 'evi l' peculiar to the influx of extra-terrestrial powers (2) see the confessions, moonchild, magick without tears, and other works by crowley (3) frederick muller, 1975 (4 'the body considered as a whole i call zos (the book of pleasure, p.45. the kia is the 'atmospheric i. the 'i' and the 'eye, being interchangeable, the entire range of 'eye' symboli-s mto which repeated reference has been made- is here applicable (5) first published

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phomet, the androgynous goat god, is illustrated elsewhere in this book, was more to the point. he recognized that satan and lucifer are, indeed, one and the same. but levi also taught that satan, believe by true christians to be the enemy of god, is, in fact, man's helper and benefactor. indeed levi praised satan, or lucifer, as the "angel presiding over the light of truth "lucifer is divine and terrestrial" said levi "he is the holy spirit" and is the "light-bearer in us. it is our mind."15 thus, we discover the cabalistic philosophy is not only that lucifer is divine. he is integrated into and is one with the mind of the men who make up the illuminati elite. lucifer and these men are of one mind. this brings to pass the prophecies of revelation 17 where we are told that the conspiracy o

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paterson as a 'second mother. what little he said about her explains much of his work and his life-long devotion to the occult. she was able to transform herself on certain occasions into a woman of alluring loveliness: this she had done in his presence as a proof of her magical powers.(note 3) furthermore, she gave him the keys whereby he gained access to the witches' sabbath, the genuine extra-terrestrial event of which the popular version is but a debased and grotesque parody. it was during his exultation to the dimension where this event occurs that he was taught how to explore the subconscious with the use of sentient symbols and the alphabet of desire described in [the book of pleasure. these methods, once demonstrated, had to be brought down and 'earthed, and it took several years

o consciousness, then he is literally blasted into death or insanity. the secret of this sorcery is analogous to that taught by crowley in his ordo templi orientis (o.t.o) where it was- and still is- the fulcrum of magical power and the means of gaining access to trans-human dimensions and of communicating with the denizens of other worlds. spare maintained that he was in communication with extra-terrestrial intelligences and conscious forces possessed of superhuman power and knowledge. he referred frequently to black eagle,(note 6) who inspired many of his 'magical' drawings. black eagle seems to have been a concentration of sinister trans-cosmic current which, according to h.p. lovecraft (note 7, had been tapped in its primordial phase by the witch cults of new england. perhaps black eag

between the years 1909 and 1913. two only of spare's drawings were reproduced. see the equinox, vol. 1, number 2, pages 140 and 161. 6. see the magical revival (frederick muller ltd. 1972, plate facing page 149, for a reproduction of spare's impression of black eagle, painted in 1946. 7. howard phillips lovecraft (1890-1937. the new england writer whose tales of terror involve traffic with extra-terrestrial entities. 8. see crowley's confessions. 7 8 definitions the words god, religions, faith, morals, woman, etc (they being forms of belief, are used as expressing different "means" as controlling and expressing desire: an idea of unity by fear in some form or another which must spell bondage-the imagined limits; extended by science which adds a dearly paid inch to our height: no more. kia

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come? you foolish man! what you sow t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 8 afterlife mysteries does not come to life unless it dies. and what you sow is not the body which is to be, but a bare kernel. god gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. for not all flesh is alike. there are celestial bodies and there are terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. so it is with the resurrection from the dead. what is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. it is sown in the physical body, it is raised in a spiritual body. if there is a physical body

, male and female; the creator as cause; polarity of negative and positive; vibration; rhythm; relativity; and mentality. daniel fry (1908 1992) established understanding incorporated in 1955 as a means of better spreading the teachings of space brother a-lan, whom fry claimed to have met on his first trip in a ufo. in that same year, george king (1919 1997) claimed to have been named the primary terrestrial mental channel by master aetherius of venus. king was later declared an agent for the great white brotherhood and a channel for both aetherius and master jesus. members of the aetherius society are earnestly engaged in the war being waged by the brotherhood against the black magicians, a group they feel seeks to enslave the human race. by the 1960s, few people were claiming the direct

urious and the true believers in the spiritual teachings from wise mentors from outer space. on may 21, 1959, king went into samadhic trance while being interviewed on the bbc, and thousands of radio listeners in the united kingdom were able to hear for themselves the warnings and the counsel of the cosmic masters. in recognition of his devotion to his extraterrestrial assignment as the principal terrestrial contact for the masters, king s followers bestowed upon him the titles of sir george king, o.s.p, ph.d, th.d, d.d, metropolitan archbishop of the aetherius churches, prince grand master of the mystical order of st. peter, and hrh prince de george king de santori. by 1960, king and his aetherius society had spread their cosmic gospel throughout the british isles, as well as to the unite

de santori. by 1960, king and his aetherius society had spread their cosmic gospel throughout the british isles, as well as to the united states, and an american headquarters was established in hollywood, california. soon there would be branches in detroit, michigan; australia; and west africa. the aetherius society warned that matters were serious in the view of the cosmic masters. two previous terrestrial civilizations, atlantis and lemuria, had destroyed themselves in a nuclear war in prehistory, and the intergalactic council was concerned that such a catastrophe could take place once again. the members of humankind were regarded as the problem children of the solar system, and various masters and adepts were forced to give earth special attention. to this end, a grand master plan woul

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ot indicate a sincere effort to collect and examine the basic ufo data. its main theme appeared to be the criticism of the extraterrestrial thesis. a genuinely scientific study would have collected sufficient data to determine whether or not a phenomenon existed at all. then all the various theories would have been studied and compared with the available data. sighting factors of time, geography, terrestrial features, the correlative aspects in the witnesses backgrounds and features in their reports, must all be sifted and weighed before any theory can be considered. this type of systematic study was not under- t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 258 invaders from outer space the cover of the us paperback edition of the condon report (f

o spread confusion and fear among earth s serious ufo investigators and those witnesses of ufo activity. others maintain that in spite of official denials, the men in black are agents from a top-secret u.s. government agency, which knows the answer to the flying saucer enigma and has been commissioned to keep the truth from the american public. still others claim that they are agents from another terrestrial political system that endeavors to guard its secret of advanced technology just a bit longer. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 278 invaders from outer space thelegend of the three men in black, the mib, began in september 1953. m delving deeper barker, gray. they knew too much about flying saucers. new york: university books, 195

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he seven spirits in their circles is called fate, and these circles themselves are enclosed in the divine thought that permeates them eternally. hermes was given to comprehend that god had committed to the seven spirits the governing of the elements and the creation of their combined products. but because god created humans in his own image, and, pleased with this image, had given them power over terrestrial nature, god would grant the ability to command the seven spirits to those humans who could learn to know themselves, for they were and could come to conquer the duality of their earthly nature. they would truly become magi who learned to triumph over sensual temptations and to increase their mental faculties. god would give such adepts a measure of light in proportion to their merits

harmonious manner. they commence to vibrate in unison. when this union becomes complete, the ignorant man becomes the prophetic sage. h joseph goodavage, author of astrology: the space age science (1966, began his book with the following declaration: gover many thousands of years astrologers have deduced a connection between the motions of the planets and positions of the stars with every kind of terrestrial activity. their ability to predict future trends.even actual events.has been repeatedly demonstrated. h the gstar gospel, h outlined in the history of creation and origin of species (1967) by reuben luther katter, attaches religious interpretations to the 12 signs of the zodiac. katter stated that the star gospel, also called adamic theology, antedates the old testament by 2,500 years

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than anything else, is the influence of levi on crowley's philosophy. accidents of emphasis in levi's works often became seeds for fruitless avenues of research in crowley's effort> q. but will science preoccupy herself with it? a. she already preoccupies herself with it. we have written this book and you are reading it. q. give us some notions of this plastic medium. a. it is formed of astral or terrestrial light, and transmits 105 the double magnetization of it to the human body. the soul, by acting on this light through its volitions, can dissolve it or coagulate it, project it or withdraw it. it is the mirror of the imagination and of dreams. it reacts upon the nervous system, and thus produces the movements of the body. this light can dilate itself indefinitely, and communicate its re

te sleep-waker was dead. 126 chapter iii mysteries of hallucinations and of the evocation of spirits an hallucination is an illusion produced by an irregular movement of the astral light. it is, as we said previously, the admixture of the phenomena of sleep with those of waking. our plastic medium breathes in and out the astral light or vital soul of the earth, as our body breathes in and out the terrestrial atmosphere. now, just as in certain places the air is impure and not fit for breathing, in the same way, certain unusual circumstances may make the astral light unwholesome, and not assimilable. the air of some places may be too bracing for some people, and suit others perfectly; it is exactly the same with the magnetic light. the plastic medium is like a metallic statue always in a st

prodigies are accomplished by means of a single agent which the hebrew calls od, as did the chevalier de reichenback, which we, with the school of pasqualis martinez, call astral light, which mr. de mirville calls the devil, and which the ancient alchemists called azoth. it is the vital element which manifests itself by the phenomena of heat, light, electricity and magnetism, which magnetizes all terrestrial globes, and all living beings. in this agent even are manifested the proofs of the qabalistic doctrine with regard to equilibrium and motion, by double polarity; when one pole attracts the other repels, one produces heat, the other cold, one gives a blue or greenish light, the other a yellow or reddish light. this agent, by its different methods of magnetization, attracts us to each ot

on we throw it aside at the moment of our second birth. human life compared to heavenly life is veritably an embryo. when our evil passions kill us, nature miscarries, and we are born before our time for eternity, which exposes us to that terrible dissolution which st. john calls the second death. according to the constant tradition of ecstatics, the abortions of human life remain swimming in the terrestrial atmosphere which they are unable to surmount, and which 283 little by little absorbs them and drowns them. they have human form, but always lopped and imperfect; one lacks a hand, another an arm, this one is nothing but a torso, and that is a pale rolling head. they have been prevented from rising to heaven by a wound received during human life, a moral wound which has caused a physica

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me around the 14th century, but is also mentioned in the zohar, and was developed by the lurianic school (amongst others) in the 16th century. this version depicted four worlds (a) olam ha-azilut, the world of emanation (the sephiroth (b) olam ha-beriah, the world of creation (the throne& chariot (c) olam ha-yezirah, the world of formation (the angels (d) olam ha-asiyyah, the world of making (the terrestrial sphere) the four worlds obviously can be connected with the four letters of the divine name yhvh, the four quarters, the four elements, and other quaternary systems. sedir, quoted by papus, gives the nature of each world as (a) azilut, the world of emanations, at which level that which renders possibility becomes real (i.e. the thirty-two paths of wisdom (b) beriah, the world of creati

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e virtue of power and purity to dwell in me. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. prayer to be said while putting on the sandals: o lord, happy are those who are honest in their ways and who walk according to thy will. o almighty god, may thus my actions be regulated, as well as my steps, so that i may preserve faithfully thy ordinances and thy commandments. may they both lead me victoriously during this terrestrial life unto the original plane which i have left of my own fault. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. prayer to be said while vesting the bandolier or collar of the degree: grant me, o lord of hosts of heaven, the power always to preserve in honour 16 and faithfulness this precious adornment of my reconciliation, and may this shoulder cloth, symbol of avenging combats, remain a symbol of thy vi

ndslides and earthquakes: o almighty and eternal god, thou who hast created the heaven and earth, and given them their original permanent stability, we implore thy immense goodness and thy inexhaustible mercy. deign, o lord of mercy, to restrain by the power of thy 22 angels and the merits of thy saints, the daemons cowered in the bowels of earth. deign to preserve its beneficial stability to the terrestrial succor, so mountains shall not topple into the valleys or valleys become plains and that earth's surface shall not open and thus endanger thy creatures "by ieshouah, our lord, amen. after having meditated awhile, operator prays to avert the ravages of snow, hail, rain and storms which bring grief and sorrow to humanity: o almighty and eternal god, thou who deigned to sanctify the water

of a burning bush and who made thy holy ghost descend upon the apostles and disciples under the form of fire of pentecost, o lord of mercy, we beseech thy immense goodness and thy inexhaustible mercy, to spare by the power of thy angels and the merits of thy saints the places where thy creatures live or take shelter as well as the creatures themselves, from the flames of the 23 subterranean fire, terrestrial conflagration and those caused by lightning. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator meditates for awhile and then prays that epidemics, pestilence, cholera, small pox and all germs attacking the vegetable, animal and human realms be controlled and eventually disappear from the surface of the earth: o god almighty and eternal, thou who deigned to heal the people of israel wandering in th

traced upon their foreheads. here operator makes the sign of tau upon his forehead with his index, middle finger and thumb joined together, a cross+ or x, the cursive signs of the hebrew tau from the first centuries of our era as well as before. he then continues to pray: o lord, thou who hast arranged the ministry of angels and men in an admirable order for this, cause, o lord of mercy, that our terrestrial life be protected by those who serve thee in heaven. 27 by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator meditates awhile and then prays for the salvation of the prevaricated spirits: o god almighty, the eternal rewarder, we beseech and implore of thee, not thy justice but thy mercy for all spirits who have prevaricated at the beginning. make, o lord of mercy, a ray of thine divine light finally

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his lies, or he had had a very special set of experiences beyond the limits of ufology. by march 1967 the crowds had given up in discouragement and mr. cold was able to safely land his spaceship on woody's farm. woody went aboard, according to his story, and took a flight all the way to brazil and back. the interior of the spaceship was disappointingly normal, with bunks and equipment of obvious terrestrial manufacture. later that year, derenberger would be flown to lanulos. a pleasant little planet where the people ran around nearly nude. most contactees who claim to have visited other planets, and there are many, usually described a futuristic world. there was something mundane about woody's descriptions of that nudist colony in outer space. too mundane. in his later adventures, woody u

in white coats, like doctors, who were examining lines of earth people, all of whom moved like robots apparently in a drugged state. beneath all the hallucinatory nonsense i could now perceive the roots of many of the ufological legends. a surprising number of contactees were orphans and through them the whole "hybrid" concept was launched. they were told that their parentage was a cross between terrestrial and extraterrestrial, that slowly more and more earthly women were being impregnated by spacemen and eventually the whole planet would be populated with a hybrid race. some of the games i was involved in were obviously designed to convince me of the reality of this crossbreeding experiment. but i knew it was just an updated version of the biblical begatting theme when the "sons of god

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ption on its cover is both froward and perverse, and contrary to the sum of human experience. this however i trust he will find is not the case, and, as ianthe, will discover that after the mystic union has been consummated, the beautiful daughter of ligdus and telethusa was as acceptable a young husband as ever wooed nymph on the shaded slopes of ida. much has been written concerning stars, both terrestrial and celestial, and not a little regarding that capricious star which gleamed over the humble manger-bed of the son of man. dark seas of blood have long since lapped that star of the morning into the crimson oblivion of day, whose empurpled strife has also rumbled into the distance as the droning of some drowsy fire-finger on the sleeping parchment of life, murmuring and moaning as the

omena. bohn fs ed, p. xxi. religion and science have for many years seemingly run antagonistic to each other, but in reality their antagonism has been of a superficial nature, and fundamentally they at heart are one. the former having postulated an eternal gcreator, h a something out of something. god; the latter postulated an eternal gcreation, h a something for ever something. matter. gthe mere terrestrial-minded man knows not the things of god, nor can their subtle meaning understand? h a sage, i say, although he mentions perhaps the best of his inventions, god *pentecost, vol. ii, p. 176. then under the daedal wand of newton and berkeley, science disclosed the fact that matter is hylo-zoic. a fact already supposed by spinoza. that is, that within matter itself lives an indwelling energ

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st, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other [grain] 15:38 but god giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. 15:39 all flesh [is] not the same flesh: but [there is] one [kind of] flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes [and] another of birds. 15:40 [there are] also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial [is] one, and the [glory] of the terrestrial [is] another. 15:41 [there is] one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for [one] star differeth from [another] star in glory. 15:42 so also [is] the resurrection of the dead. it is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: 15:43 it is sown in dishonour; it i

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of the primitive christians to be naturally mortal, was then supposed to become immortal. 4 upon the same principle, the figure of pan,5 is represented pouring water upon the organ of generation; that is, invigorating the active creative power by the prolific element upon which it acted; for water was considered as the essence of the passive principle, as fire was of the active; the one being of terrestrial, and the other of thereal origin. hence, st. john the baptist, who might have acquired some knowledge of the ancient theology, through its revivers, the eclectic jews, says: i, indeed, baptise you in water to repentance; but he that cometh after me, who is more powerful than i am, shall baptise you in holy spirit, and in fire:6 that is, i only purify and refresh the soul, by a communio

, and the other of thereal origin. hence, st. john the baptist, who might have acquired some knowledge of the ancient theology, through its revivers, the eclectic jews, says: i, indeed, baptise you in water to repentance; but he that cometh after me, who is more powerful than i am, shall baptise you in holy spirit, and in fire:6 that is, i only purify and refresh the soul, by a communion with the terrestrial principle of life; but he that cometh after me, will regenerate and restore it, by a communion with the thereal principle.7 pan is 1 ver. 703. 2 pindar, olymp. i. ver. 1. diodor, sic. lib. i. p. 11. 3 il. x, ver 246, and f, ver. 196. 4 clementina, hom. xii. arnob. adv. gentes, lib. ii. 5 see plate v. fig 1. the original is among the antiquities found in herculaneum, now in the museum o

rch, of immemorial antiquity, derived from the oldest theologists and legislators, not only in traditions and reports, but in mysteries and sacrifices, both greek and barbarian.3 fire was the efficient principle of both, and, according to some of the egyptians, that therial fire which concentred in the sun. this opinion plutarch controverts, saying that typhon, the evil or destroying power, was a terrestrial or material fire, essentially different from the therial. but plutarch here argues from his own prejudices, rather than from the evidence of the case; for he believed in an original evil principle coeternal with the good, and acting in perpetual opposition to it; an error into which men have been led by forming false notions of good and evil, and considering them as 1 plutarch, de is&

ig. 7, from one belonging to me. similar figures are on the coins of most of the seleucid. 4 de bello parthico. 5 in crasso. of priapus 83 the author of the treatise attributed to lucian1 says, she was nature, the parent of things, or the creatress. she was therefore the same as isis, who was the prolific material upon which both the creative and destructive attributes operated.2 as water was her terrestrial essence, so was the moon her celestial image, whose attractive power, heaving the waters of the ocean, naturally led men to associate them. the moon was also supposed to return the dews which the sun exhaled from the earth; and hence her warmth was reckoned to be moistening, as that of the sun was drying.3 the egyptians called her the mother of the world, because she sowed and scattere

ve and passive powers of generation,5 which were both, to use the language of the scholastics, essentially the same, though formally different. this union is represented on a medal of demetrius the second, king of syria,6 where the goddess of hierapolis appears with the male organs of generation sticking out of her robe, and holding the thyrsus of bacchus, the emblem of fire, in one hand, and the terrestrial globe, representing the subordinate elements, in the other. her head is crowned with various plants, and on each side is in asterisc representing (probably) the diurnal and nocturnal sun, in the same manner as when placed over the caps of castor and pollux.7 this is not the form under which she was represented in the temple at 1 de dea syri. 2 plutarch, de is& osir. 3 caler felis arefa

whose body being still entire, he retained both, and knew ulysses before he had tasted of the blood. it was from producing this separation, that the universal bacchus, or double apollo, the creator and destroyer, whose essence was fire, was also called liknithj, the purifier,3 by a metaphor taken from the winnow, which purified the corn from the dust and chaff, as fire purified the soul from its terrestrial pollutions. hence this instrument is called by virgil the mystic winnow of bacchus.4 the ammonian platonics and gnostic christians thought that this separation, or purification, might be effected in a degree even before death. it was for this purpose that they practised such rigid temperance, and gave themselves up to such intense study; for, by subduing and extenuating the terrestrial

par modestie elle dict n avoir jamais fait ny veu faire, mais parce que le diable tenoit tellement li s leurs coeurs et leurs volontez qu peine y laissoit il entrer nul autre d sir: outre que les sorci res croyent aller en quelque lieu o il y a cent mille choses entranges et nouvelles 230 on the worship of the of melodious instruments that they are ravished, and believe them-selves to be in some terrestrial paradise. moreover the devil per-suades them that the fear of hell, which is so much apprehended, is a piece of folly, and gives them to understand that the eternal punishments will hurt them no more than a certain artificial fire which he causes them craftily to light, and then makes them pass through it and repass without hurt. and more, that they see there so many priests, their pas

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. but such methods are poorly suited for the modern westerner, who is highly depen- dent on the rational faculties and more reverent of them than the easterner. reason cannot be suppressed or circumvented; it must be accommodated. centuries ago it was possible to accept traditional magic literally. it is no longer possible, any more than it is possible to believe that the world was created in six terrestrial days. the bible is in much the same position as the ancient magical texts. faced with obvious incongruities, the intelligent reader must either deny them or interpret them in a new way. xxxii new millennium magic the most common response is an attempt to alter the terms of magic to suit the modern zeitgeist. increasingly, magical texts are written with buzz words derived from science

ely changed. here are the signs, names, and representations of the zodiac given in tradi- tional order, proceeding counterclockwise around the heavens: aries ram ll libra scales itj taurus bull ?tl scorpio scorpion n gemini twins 2 sagittarius archer cancer crab 25 capricorn sea-goat q leo lion zz aquarius water-bearer iijj virgo virgin x pisces fishes the tree of the sephiroth may be viewed as a terrestrial and human symbol based on the division of fives (the number of man, while the zodiac may be con- sidered a heavenly and divine symbol based on the division of sixes (the number of god. this distinction is simplistic but can be useful in practical magic. the tree is consulted to discover the workings of spirit in the soul of human- ity and used to affect aspects of the personality and c

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substance, so each tattwa is subdivided into five divisions, currents or planes. akasa of akasa, spirit of spirit, would be the most tenuous and purest form of that element, the integral nature of spirit-its highest essence. vayu of akasa would refer to its airy quality; tejas of akasa to its fiery and dynamic aspect; apas of akasa, its fluidic and watery phase, while prithivi of akasa, its most terrestrial phase, or that aspect of its power which more nearly than the others contacts the earth. the same five-fold division, in the same five-fold order, applies equally to the other elements.140 140. regardie, 458. the method of using the twenty-five tattwa cards for both scrying and astral projection is fairly straightforward. the experimenter employing a tattwa symbol sits staring at it in

while in an entranced state of mind. usually when metal that is supposed to have come from an alien implant or a space vessel is subjected to spectrum analysis, it is found to be composed of a common alloy. unless spirits have the ability to cause apports and thus make objects pop into existence from empty space, either the metal object never existed, or it was acquired in the usual way from some terrestrial source by bender. 154 soul flight the men in black the three aliens are a version of the men in black who figure so frequently in the lore of ufo sightings. they usually appear shortly after an event to question the one who has seen the ufo, and to warn that person not to talk about the sighting. they wear black suits, black ties, black shoes and socks, but their shirts are usually sai

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ound with god in us, thus including god, men, and all created things, with all their mysterious powers. adding three, you get ten, which marks the return to unity. in appendix b: commentaries on tetragrammaton this arcanum in concluded all knowledge of hidden things which god, by his word, has made known to the men of his good pleasure, so that they might have a true conception of him("theatre of terrestrial astronomy [sixteenth century, the alchemical writings of edward kelly, edited by a. e. waite [new york: weiser, pp. 117-8) robert fludd the soul of the world is therefore metatron, whose light is the soul of the messiah or of tetragrammaton's virtue, in which is the light of the living god, in which is the light of the ain soph, beyond which there is no progression (philosophia moysaic

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ley del arcano ocho. esos son los fracasados. el viejo saturno balancea al padre de los dioses, j piter tonante. esa es la ley del equilibrio. 61 arcanum 9 in this lesson, we will study the ninth key of basil valentine in the illustration of viridarium chymicum. the ninth key represents old saturn falling and the goddess moon victoriously rising. saturn is the lead and the moon is the silver (the terrestrial adam, the psychological i. it must fall and die so that the adam christ can be born within us. we need to transmute the lead into gold. the lead of our personality must be transmuted into the gold of the spirit. the moon-mercury-sophic (the ens seminis) must rise and return inwardly and upwardly. to disincarnate signifies to perpetuate error. the psychological i, the terrestrial adam i

die so that the adam christ can be born within us. we need to transmute the lead into gold. the lead of our personality must be transmuted into the gold of the spirit. the moon-mercury-sophic (the ens seminis) must rise and return inwardly and upwardly. to disincarnate signifies to perpetuate error. the psychological i, the terrestrial adam is born millions of times; in order to satisfy desires. terrestrial births are the perpetuation of ignorance. to be born in spirit and in truth signifies death for the terrestrial adam. the adam christ is born from the seed. the grain, the seed, needs thelema (willpower) in order for the super man to heroically germinate; the birth of the super man is not the outcome of evolution. the super man does not need to evolve to attain perfection as is assumed

vimiento de la vida universal de acuerdo con los conceptos de tiempo, espacio y movimiento. dentro de la naturaleza evolucionante est n contenidas todas las posibilidades. unos se vuelven muy buenos y otros se vuelven muy malos. empero el s per hombre no es el resultado de ninguna evoluci n, sino el producto de una tremenda revoluci n de la conciencia. 62 adam christ is so much different from the terrestrial adam, as the lightning is from a black cloud. lightning is born from a cloud, yet it is not a cloud. lightning is the super man while the cloud is the man. to be born is a sexual problem, the path is sexual transmutation. a rectangle appears in the ninth key, this represents the four elements of alchemy. by carefully studying this rectangle, we discover a double circle that wisely symb

salt in order to raise the metallic serpent upon the pole. the adam christ is born in us only by working with the prima matter: mercury, sulfur and salt; the phoenix bird that is born from its own ashes stands upon the double circle of mercurial matter. we need to become imitators of this mythological bird; however, this is only possible when we work with the grain. the eagle of volatility is the terrestrial adam that is dominated by the crow of putrefaction. the moon goddess carries upon her head a white swan. we must whiten the crow with sexual transmutation until transforming it into the immaculate swan of ascension. the entire symbolism of the great work is enveloped within the ninth key. no one can work with the sephirothic tree without being an alchemist and a kabbalist. the wiseman

eme dignity of the great hierophant of mysteries. the flaming forge of vulcan is found in the ninth sphere (sex. there, mars descends in order to retemper his flaming sword and conquer the heart of venus (the venusian initiation. hercules descends in order to clean the stables of augias (our lower animal depths. perseus descends in order to cut off the head of medusa (the psychological "i" or the terrestrial adam) with his flaming sword. all of the great masters of humanity such as hermes, buddha, jesus, dante, zoroaster, etc, had to pass through this utmost test. the following phrase is written upon the frightful threshold of the ninth sphere (which does not grant access to profaners "lasciate ogni speranza voi ch entrate [abandon hope, all ye who enter here. la novena esfera una sentenci

of the earth are represented. the secret name of this genie is cham-gam. the sign of the infinite is in the center of the ninth sphere. earth has nine atomic stratums and the sign of the infinite is found within the ninth stratum. the nine initiations of minor mysteries gradually corresponds with each one of these nine stratums. each initiation of minor mysteries gives access to each one of these terrestrial stratums. therefore, only the ones who have attained the nine initiations of minor mysteries can reach the heart of the earth. each terrestrial stratum is guarded by terrifying guardians. secret paths lead the disciple towards the heart of the earth. the double vital current of the genie of the earth is represented in the sign of the infinite. the double vital current sustains and nour

se retirando lentamente del trabajo del laboratorio. total cuarenta a os (40) para realizar todo el trabajo. cuando el alkimista derrama el vaso de hermes se apaga el fuego del hornillo del laboratorio y se pierde todo el trabajo. 69 mantras for sexual magic i.a.o. ou aoai ouo ouoae kore now continue with the powerful mantras: kawlakaw, sawlasaw, zeesar. kawlakaw is the inner god. sawlasaw is the terrestrial man and zeesar is the astral body. these powerful mantras develop all of the internal powers. we have already mentioned the mantram inri and its modifications [inri, enre, onro, unru, anra see arcanum 7. the alchemist must not forget any of these mantrams. the arcanum nine of the tarot, the hermit is prudent and wise, covered with the protective robe of apollonius which symbolizes prud

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and serves as the source of all astral visions, whether of ghosts or the gods. all are filtered through yesod. levi explains how visions operate: all forms correspond to ideas and there is no idea which has not its proper and peculiar form. the primordial light which is the vehicle of all ideas is the mother of all forms, and transmits them from emanation to emanation. hence the astral light, or terrestrial fluid, which we call the great magnetic agent is saturated with all kinds of images or reflections. now our soul can evoke these and subject them to diaphane (transcendental magic, p. 66. diaphanous literally means translucid and by it levi refers to the plastic mediator, which is the magnet that attracts particular visions from the astral light that correspond to the impetus of the wi

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this aristotle objected, but perhaps the difficulty might be solved. in this sublunary sphere, all things are not commensurate, nor is everything sensible to everybody alike. animals can be scented, and their presence definitely known, by dogs when at great distances from them, and when man is in complete ignorance of their existence. some of the ancients thought the soul had three vehicles--the terrestrial body, an aerial one in which it is punished, and an ethereal one, luminous and celestial, in which the soul abides when in a state of bliss. it may be that some one, by purification of the senses, by hereditary magical power, or by probity, or by the sacred operations of his religion, may perceive, with a terrestrial body laid aside, things imperceptible to us, and hear sounds inaudibl

ed the father of numbers is the reason for the universal prejudice in favor of odd numbers over even numbers, which are but copies of numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the first even number, the dyad, or universal mother. the father being more esteemed than the mother, for might. odd numbers were given to the greater gods, and even ones to the inferior and terrestrial deities. the number one is represented in the roman and arabic systems, by an upright simple line, but in many old systems whose numerals were their letters, we find that almost universally the letter a, from being chosen to commence the set of letters, had the task of representing the monad. in numeration, note that the romans began with lines, i, ii, iii, iiii, and then followed the

n, read hymn 269 in hymns ancient and modern, a most orthodox volume. principalities and powers, watch for thy unguarded hours, and hymn 91, christian, dost thou see them, on the holy ground, how the troops of midian compass thee around? if these are not the evil elementals, what are they? francis barrett mentions the 4 consecrated animals, lion, eagle, man and calf, emblems of the kerubim on the terrestrial plane; 4 archangels, michael, gabriel, numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott uriel, raphael; note, all end in the deity name, el, i.e. al, of the hebrews. 54. the gnostics said that all their edifice rested on a 4- pillared basis; truth, intelligence, silence, bathos. note the earth was formed on the 4th day, according to the allegory found in the j

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not to give way to the promptings of the irrational soul, for, to such as fail herein, it is significantly said "thy vessel the beasts of the earth shall inhabit" the chald ans assigned the place of the image, the vehicle of the irrational soul, to the lunar sphere; it is probable that by the lunar sphere was meant something more than the orb of the moon, the whole sublunary region, of which the terrestrial earth is, as it were, the centre. at death, the rational soul rose above the lunar influence, provided always the past permitted that happy release, great importance was attributed to the way in which the physical life was passed during the sojourn of the soul in the tenement of flesh, and frequent are the exhortations to rise to communion with those divine powers, to which nought but

erature; it has since been thoroughly elaborated by porphyry and synesius. the eleventh book of the metamorphoses of apuleius and the vision of scipio ably vindicate this; and, although no doubt every christian has beard that "he giveth unto his beloved in sleep" few, indeed, realise the possibility underlying that conception. what, it may be asked, were the views of the chald ans with respect to terrestrial life: was it a spirit of pessimism, which led them to hold this in light: esteem? or, should we not rather say that the keynote of their philosophy was an immense spiritual optimism? it appeals to me that the latter is the more true interpretation. they realised that beyond the confines of matter lay a more perfect existence, a truer realm of which terrestrial administration is but a t

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ss with the axis, then the pillars of severity and of mercy are quadrupled, i.e. there are 5 pillars instead of 3 pillars (see figures 22& 23 `the same scheme is therefore applicable to the celestial heavens, and the mode of the governance of these tablets in the heavens is also set forth in the book [the tarot manuscripts ra. but as before and there is said, the rule of these 53 54 four tablets, terrestrial as well as in the heavens, is in the spaces between the 4 pillars. that is between the double pillars of severity and mercy. in these vast spaces at the ends of the universe are these tablets placed as watch-towers, and therein is their dominion limited on either side by the sephirothie pillars, and having the great central cross of each tablet coinciding with one of the 4 tiphareth po

each tablet is divided, each represents a vast area of dominion, having the correlation herefore in the universe, in the planets, in our earth, in the fixed stars, and even in man, in animals, vegetables and minerals "a knowledge of these tablets will then, if complete, afford an understanding of the laws which govern the whole creation. the dominion of the tablet of union is above that of the 4 terrestrial tablets and towards the north of the universe" the golden dawn scheme, as given above, shows a vast undenying system, and subsystem, that could be developed from it in the new zealand order, a great deal of study has been done or this, and the following drawings will give the reader an indication of the magnitude of the elemental quadrants of each tablet. they have been updated; the or

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a positive experience at least in outcome. sources 1 barbara marciniak, bringers of the dawn (bear& co, sante fe, 1992) 2 hari prasad shastri, the ramayana of valmiki (shanti sadam, london, 1976) vol. ii, p95 3 jesus is a greek translation of a judean name, probably y'shua, the hebrew for joshua. the full name would have been y'shua ben yosef (joshua, the son of joseph) 4 george c. andrews, extra-terrestrials among us (llewellyn publications, usa, 1986) p63 5 extra-terrestrials among us, p54-55 6 ibid p73-74 7 ibid p72-73 8 ibid p63 9 preston b. nichols with peter moon, the montauk project (sky books, new york, 1992) 20..and the truth shall set you free 10 extra-terrestrials among us, p54 11 ibid p59 12 christian o'brien, the genius of the fen (turnstone press ltd, wellingborough, northamp

signs of templar control, maybe, but many certainly will 4 letter by lt. colonel harold z. onlmeyer, commander, 8 reconnaissance technical squadron (sac, united states airforce, westover airforce base, massachusetts, to professor charles h. hapgood, of keene college, new hampshire, on july 6th, 1960. quoted by graham hancock in fingerprints of the gods (heinemann, london, 1995) p3 5 ibid 6 extra-terrestrials among us, p76 7 extra-terrestrials among us, p80 8 america's assignment with destiny, p95 9 ibid p96 10 enrique de vincente "the occult roots of the new world order, exposure magazine (1993) vol. 1, no. 2, plo 11 "the occult roots of the new world order, plo 12 jan van helsing, secret societies and their part in the 20th century (ewertverlag, grand canada, spain, 1995) p215 chapter 3

s to decide who governs them. i had never heard of rael or his followers until i was told by a source close to the british intelligence network that some of those behind the campaign to discredit me as a "neo-nazi" after the first edition of this book were connected with the rael foundation in the uk. that same day someone else gave me a book by claude rael called the message given to me by extra-terrestrials. they took me to their planet.17 the rael foundation appeared to be suddenly very shy about the symbol on the front of the book which rael said was the symbol of the elohim. a sticker with another symbol had been used to cover up the original one on the cover. you will perhaps appreciate why when you look at figure 12. the esoteric knowledge and the super elite- the black magicians 21

in, i am not saying that she was a negative force, but i think her name has been used by some of her 'followers' for purposes of manipulation. 3 quoted by francis king in satan and swastika (mayflower books, london, 1976) 4 quoted by j.h. brennan in occult reich (futura, london, 1974) and by francis king in satan and swastika 5 verses from the book of the law. quoted by george c. andrews in extra-terrestrials among us, pl59-160 6 quoted by trevor ravenscroft in the spear of destiny, p106 7 alan bullock, hitler, a study in tyranny (pelican books, london, 1960) 8 hermann rauschning, hitler speaks (london, 1939) 9 ibid 10 j.h. brennan, occult reich 11 rudolph hess was supposed to have been kept at spandau prison until his death in 1987. but dr ewen cameron, who became a cia 'mind doctor, said

ancient headquarters of the order of comocine, the forerunners of the medieval masons. i spent a lot of time at lake como in 1995 before later realising its esoteric significance. among those attending the bilderberg meeting at lake como in 1965 were prince philip and lord mountbatten of the british royal family. 16 secret societies, p325 17 claude vorilhon rael, the message given to me by extra-terrestrials. they took me to their planet (aom corporation, tokyo, japan, 1986. fifth printing, 1992) chapter 11 the debt scam t is impossible to understand the global conspiracy unless we appreciate the background to the world money system. this is not taught in the schools and no smart-suited economist or correspondent on the television news will tell you the truth, either. some of them don't k

contents were revealed by church and quoted in george bush, the unauthorised biography, p291-292 the hidden hand 303 52 michael milan, the squad: the us government's secret alliance with organised crime (shapolsky publishers, new york, 1989) p206 53 final judgement, p81-82 54 quoted in the australian spiritual/conspiracy research magazine, new dawn (november/december 1995) p20 55 quoted in extra-terrestrials friends and foes, p289 56 rodney stich, defrauding america (diablo western press, alamo, california, 1994) p316-317, 615 57 robert d. morrow, the senator must die: the murder of robert f. kennedy (roundtable publishing, santa monica, 1988) 58 psychology today (september 1969) vol 3, no 2 59 ibid 60 ibid 61 private interview for final judgement with one of the kennedy campaign voluntee

76 valdamar valerian, the matrix (arcturus, 1988) 77 russell s. bowen, the immaculate deception, the bush family crime exposed (american west publishers, carson city, usa, 1991) p30-31 78 the world order, our secret rulers, pl23 79 the immaculate deception, the bush family crime exposed, p30-31 80 see final judgement, p306-313 81 the new york times (february 18th 1976) 82 george c. andrews, extra-terrestrials among us, pl73 304 .and the truth shall set you free 83 journalists and investigators have identified at least circumstantial connections between the hinckley and bush families. 84 george bush, the unofficial biography, p397 85 this meeting was confirmed by felix rodriquez and reported in the miami herald on june 30th 1987. ramon rodriguez, a notorious drug money launderer, was invite

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ation, they have had to work and manipulate to introduce a structure of society in which (a) the key decisions are made by fewer and fewer people as power is continually centralised and (b) humanity is manipulated to police itself and keep each other in a mental and emotional prison. the reptilians appear to take three expressions. there are physical beings who live mostly within the earth (inner-terrestrials; physical beings that come from the stars (extraterrestrials; and non-physical beings, the real centre of power, which exist on other frequencies and use their hybrid bloodlines to manipulate unseen. the reptilians have worked this scam in many parts of the galaxy, it would seem. it all sounds utterly bizarre and ludicrous. i understand that reaction and yes it is bizarre from a condi

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itat was thehighlands of central asia and its disappearance coincided with the great flood.13 butthere are still sightings of giant flying lizards in remote areas of the world, especiallyin mexico, new mexico and arizona.who are they and where do they come from?there are three suggested origins for the anunnaki reptilian intervention in humanaffairs: 1 they are extraterrestrials; 2 they are inner terrestrials who live within theearth; 3 they manipulate humanity from another dimension by possessing humanbodies. i think they are all true.23extraterrestrials?researchers into the reptilianphenomenon conclude that atleast some originate in the dracostar constellation (see figure 4).the draco system includes thestar thurban, once the northstar, by which the egyptianpyramids are orientated.14acco

ourself as a man of renown. sitchin says the real meaning of shemis sky vehicle. he says it comes from the root, shu-mu, which means that which is amu, and a mu was a flying craft, he says. so men of renown becomes men orpeople of the sky vehicles. it was these who interbred with human women. thispassage in genesis, i would suggest, tells of the interbreeding between theextraterrestrials or inner terrestrials with humans to produce the reptile-human hybrids.the term sons of god in fact comes from the hebrew, bene-ha-elohim, which reallytranslates as sons of the gods. the early offspring of these genetic encounters werethe giants of legend and there are many records of such hybrids being born. there arenumerous accounts throughout the ancient world, on every continent, of a giant raceand th

er, a former operative withunited states naval intelligence, said he had seen secret documents which claim thatextraterrestrials had told the us authorities that they had manipulated the human racevia religion, satanism, witchcraft, magic and the occult. certainly, the human race hasbeen manipulated and controlled through religion and satanism. the only question is,are extraterrestrials (or inner-terrestrials) behind this? as cooper asks..were theyindeed the source of our religions with which they had been manipulating us allalong?31the answer, i would suggest, is a very loud: yes. sources1abelard reuchlm, the true authorship of the new testament (the abelard reuchlmfoundation, p0 box 5652, kent, wa, usa, 1979).2ibid, p 1.3ibid, pp 4-5.4ibid, p 12.5ibid, p 5.6ibid, p 22.7michael howard, th

ooks, l or de rennes (paris 1967; la racefabuleuse (paris 1973; le vrai dossier de lenigme de rennes (vestric 1975; les templierssont parmi nous (paris 1976; and signe: rose+ croix (paris 1977).7the occult conspiracy, p 47.8ibid, p 74.9 manly r hall, the secret t eachings ofall ages.10the curse of ignorance, volume ii, p 30.11ibid, p 32.12the occult conspiracy, pp 51-52.13george c. andrews, extra-terrestrials among us (llewellyn publications, st paul, minnesota,usa, 1993, p 76.14the secret teachings of all ages, pp clxv-clxviii.15ibid.16ibid.17ibid.18the templar revelation, p 137.19the secret teachings ofall ages, p clxvi.20ibid,pclxv.21ibid,pclxvi.22lbid,pclxvi.23ibid, p clxxiv.24ibid.25ibid.26the occult conspiracy, p 17.27the curse of ignorance, volume ii, p 219.28the curse of canaan, p

uslims.through the brotherhood bloodlines the ancient rituals have been strictly maintained andthe ruling elite today are sacrificing children and drinking blood the same as they did inthe ancient world. the hindu faith and the information for its sacred books, the v edas,were taken to the indian subcontinent by the aryans from the caucasus mountains, oneof the centres for extraterrestrials/inner terrestrials and their offspring. it is thereforepredictable that the v edas contain the same instructions for sacrifice to the gods. thev edas, written about 1,400 bc, list the names of the gods and the victim most suitablefor each one. in the modern world, annual victims have been offered to the mothergoddess kali, the wife of the god, shiva, and she was always believed to live off humanflesh. a

veryexistence. it is then that all peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to deliverthem from this evil.the one thing every man fears is the unknown. when presented with this scenario,individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted tothem by their world government.486thats the reason for the ufo scam. problem-reaction-solution. the extra-terrestrials are not invading they are already here and they are the ones, operatingthrough physical bodies, who will offer to save us! the ufo investigator and lecturernono hayakawa says this plan is called project panic and that high technologyequipment will be used to create an optical illusion of a ufo invasion. this will givegovernments and the united nations the excuse to call a global state

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al books on occult and ancient astronaut themes. originally published in french, they had a wide appeal in their english editions, with their constant themes of paranoia, conspiracy, and alternative history. sources: bergier, jacques. extraterrestrial visitations from prehistoric times to the present. chicago: henry regnery, 1973. reprinted as mysteries of the earth: the hidden world of the extra-terrestrials. london: sidgwick and jackson, 1974. secret doors of the earth. chicago: henry regnery, 1975. bergier, jacques, and info editors. extraterrestrial intervention: the evidence. chicago: henry regnery, 1974. pauwels, louis, and jacques bergier. the eternal man. london: souvenir, 1972. impossible possibilities. new york: stein and day, 1971. le matin des magiciens. paris: editions gallima

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tor-racing journalist claude vorilhon. vorilhon claimed that on december 1, 1973, he encountered a small humanoid being who arrived on earth in a spacecraft. the entity, addressing him in french, told vorilhon that he had been chosen to spread a message of love, peace, and fraternity to all people. the substance of their continued contacts was published in 1974 in the message given to me by extra-terrestrials (originally published in french. vorilhon was given a new name, rael, by the extraterrestrials. according to the space beings, humankind is the product of experiments by an extraterrestrial race, the elohim (a hebrew term generally translated in the bible as god. in their scientific experiments, the elohim succeeded in creating life and eventually produced a humanlike creature. their

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chnology made time t r a vel possible. both the space people and the s e c ret government had learned that world wa r iii would erupt in 1995 and escalate into nuclear conflict in 1999, preparing earth for the second coming of christ in 2011. see also: abductions by ufos; adamski, ge o r g e; contactees; holloman aliens; williamson, ge o r g e hu n t further reading andrews, george c, 1986. extra-terrestrials among us. st. paul, mn: llewellyn publications. c l a rk, je rome, 1998. da rk side. in the ufo en c y- clopedia, second edition: the phenomenon from the be g i n n i n g, 301 319. de t roit, mi: om n i g r a p h i c s. cooper, milton william, 1991. behold a pale horse. sedona, az: light technology publishing. ellis, bill, 1991. cattle mutilation: contemporary legends and contemporary

d into a two-hour discourse on space travel, visitors from other worlds, cosmology, and philosophy. ja n u s s t ressed the human race s immaturity and its potential to destroy itself. in the course of this c o n versation, horsley came to believe that the stranger was reading his mind. janus said that advanced observers from distant planets are watching earth, contacting a select few trustworthy terrestrials while trying not to interfere directly in human affairs. once human beings have learned interstellar travel, he said, it is of paramount importance that you have learnt your responsibilities for the preservation of life elsewhere (horsley, 1997. in the meantime, the visitors also want to ensure that they leave no conclusive proof of their presence. horsley wrote that there was an odd

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ld design. it therefore comes as no surprise, since humans are not supposed to have been able to fly until the beginning of the twentieth century, that the nazca lines have been identified by a number of observers as landing strips for alien spaceships. this is a seductive notion, but nazca is perhaps not the best place to seek evidence for it. for example, it is difficult to understand why extra-terrestrials advanced enough to have crossed hundreds of light years of interstellar space should have needed graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 46 landing strips at all. surely such beings would have mastered the technology of setting their flying saucers down vertically? besides, there is really no question of the nazca lines ever having been used as runways by flying saucers or anything el

irius mystery. he also concluded that the ancient egyptians must have received the information from intelligent beings from the region of sirius .42 like temple, i had begun to suspect that the more advanced and sophisticated elements of egyptian science made sense only if they were understood as parts of an inheritance. unlike temple, i saw no urgent reason to attribute that inheritance to extra-terrestrials. to my mind the anomalous star knowledge the heliopolitan priests had apparently possessed was more plausibly explained as the legacy of a lost human civilization which, against the current of history, had achieved a high level of technological advancement in remote antiquity. it seemed to me that the building of an instrument capable of detecting sirius-b might not have been beyond t

, i don t see it as being my problem as a geologist. i m not seeking to shift the burden, but its really up to the egyptologists and archaeologists to figure out who carved it. if my findings are in conflict with their theory about the rise of civilization then maybe its time for them to re-evaluate that theory. i m not saying that the sphinx was built by atlanteans, or people from mars, or extra-terrestrials. i m just following the science where it leads me, and it leads me to conclude that the sphinx was built much earlier than previously thought. 13 legendary civilizations how much earlier? john west told us that he and schoch had a friendly debate going about the age of the sphinx: schoch puts the date somewhere between 5000 bc and 7000 bc minimum [the epoch of the neolithic subpluvial

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st die and, our having not forgotten that mohammed and alexander were higher men as well, law of the battle of conquest. carry to the alien nest the law of the adepti and the knowledge of the portal and, as andrews puts it..in the golden dawn enochian system, the great king of air is the appropriate intermediary to be called upon as a benign go-between in negotiations between earthlings and extra-terrestrials. the great king of air, in the enochian language, is called bataivah and is invoked by the 2= 9 grade opening in the system of the a.a. all adepti know this. but a 9mm pistol in your pocket wouldn t hurt either. aleister crowley used to say that the correct magical operation for leaving a room is turning the door knob and pushing the door. resistance is not futile= 329= abrogate are a

e. nephilim al-kemy. 86 allen h. greenfield meeting of the inner circle by jonathan sellers. 87 afterword cipher as art: art as code language. this is a book about a secret cipher that exists within the book of the law (liber al vel legis, and which has been found to make some sense of the mysterious and often ridiculous utterances of trance channels and those who have been contacted by the ultra-terrestrials. this book reveals to a wider public that which initiates have known, it is fair to say, since at least the 1940s, if not earlier. there have been ciphers and codes worked into religious and magical teachings since at least the times of the gnostics. ciphers and codes have been used to conceal vital information, sensitive data, secret communications. before blaise de vigini re s famou

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80s, secret official agencies and evil space people have formed an unholy alliance to mutilate cattle and people. called by their critics dark siders, believers fashioned a kind of demonology of their own, though without the literal demons of the satanist lore the new speculations supplanted. jerome clark see also satanic ritual abuse; ufos and demons for further reading: andrews, george c. extra-terrestrials among us. st. paul, mn: llewellyn publications, 1986. donovan, roberta, and keith wolverton. mystery stalks the prairie. raynesford, mt: thar institute, 1976. ellis, bill. raising the devil: satanism, new religions, and the media. lexington: university press of kentucky, 2000. kagan, daniel, and ian summers.mute evidence. new york: bantam books, 1984. stewart, james r. cattle mutilati

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hecate, polyhymnia (a muse, pluto, triton, president of the sea, tritogenia, achelous, and the faces, furies, and graces. this number is called wisdom, because men organize the present, foresee the future, and benefit by the experiences of the fast. it is cause of wisdom and understanding. the triad is the number of knowledge--music, geometry, and astronomy, and the science of the celestials and terrestrials. pythagoras taught that the cube of this number had the power of the lunar circle. the sacredness of the triad and its symbol--the triangle--is derived from the fact that it is made up of the monad and the duad. the monad is the symbol of the divine father and the duad of the great mother. the triad being made of these two is therefore androgynous and is symbolic of the fact that god

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