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ated and most ancient work is a collection of mystical hymns and addresses in the form of a species of ceremonial ritual for the use of the soul after death, to enable him to unite himself to the body of osiris the redeemer, thenceforth in the ritual is he no longer called the soul but he is called the 'osiris' of whom he is a member "i am the vine, ye are the branches' said the christ of the new testament 'i am a member of the body of osiris' said the purified and justified son of god. such is the subject of the great egyptian ritual, purified by suffering, strengthened by opposition. nor is the 'ritual of the dead' a work of comparatively recent times, for the great egyptologists birch and bunsen assert that its origin is anterior to menes, and belongs probably to the pre-menite dynasty

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iola represent that saint by two little mice nibbling at the thread on a spindle (vreteno, as a sign that there ought to be no sjnnning on her dav. the same holds good of the russian piatnitsa, friday (kopitars rec. von strahls gel. eussland^ ra. 163-8. 470. women are c^alled in as. frisowebban, peace-weavers. holua, holle. 271 one might be tempted to derive dame holda from a character in the old testament. in 2 kings 22, u and 2 chron. 34, 22 we read of a prophetess rt^sn iluleddali, huldah, for which luther puts hulda; tlie septuagint has 'oxbd, the vulgate olda, but the lat. bible viteb. 1529 (and probably others since) hulda, following luther, who, with the german holda in his mind, thus domesticated the jewish prophetess among his countrymen. several times in liis writings he brings u

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, twined round the middle pillar of the sephiroth. and the word used in the passage in numbers 21 for fiery serpents, is the same as the name of the angels of geburah, the same spelling, the same pointing, seraphim, around the middle pillar of the sephiroth, because that is the reconciler between the fires of geburah and severity, and the waters of chesed or mercy, and hence it is said in the new testament, that it is a type of christ, the reconciler. and the serpent is of brass, the metal of venus, whose sphere is called nogah or external splendor, as shown further in the alchemic symbol of the planet venus, wherein the circle of the sun is exalted above the cross of corrosion. and therefore it is said in the zohar, that alone of the shells is the serpent nogah found in holiness, and he i

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ne estate and conditions. my possessions were few, and i demanded of mine angel three thousand thousand golden florins,5 and they were granted unto me. later i made such good use of the sacred science, and i understood so well how to augment my goods, that at the present time, after having married three daughters unto each of whom i gave a hundred thousand (golden florins, as thou wilt see by the testament which i have made, i am leaving in current money more than a million golden florins, besides a large quantity of very valuable furniture. had i been of noble birth i might have demanded much more and have profited less. when any one demanded of me: eh! how have you managed to gain so much? i would reply thereto that it is a fine thing to know by certain knowledge how much such or such a

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blets that recorded an age, that the first creation epic is found, the first exorcism, the first ritual invocations of planetary deities, the first dark summonings of evil powers, and ironically, the first "burnings" of people the anthropologists call "witches. lovecraft's mythos deals with what are known chthonic deities, that is, underworld gods and goddesses, much like the leviathan of the old testament. the pronunciation of chthonic is 'katonic, which explains lovecraft's famous miskatonic river and miskatonic university, not to mention the chief deity of his pantheon, cthulhu, a sea monster who lies "not dead, but dreaming" below the world; an ancient one and supposed enemy of mankind and the intelligent race. cthulhu is accompanied by an assortment of other grotesqueries, such as aza

ay that later st. george and st. michael would defeat the serpent again- the cosmos was created from the body of the slain serpent, and man was created from the blood of the slain commander of the ancient army, kingu, thereby making man a descendent of the blood of the enemy, as well as the "breath" of the elder gods; a close parallel to the "sons of god and daughters of men" reference in the old testament. yet, though the identity of the victor is clear, there were- and are- certain persons and organisations that dared side with the vanquished, believing the ancient ones to be a source of tremendous, and most unbelievable, power. worship of the ancient ones in history "let them curse it that curse the day, who are skilful to rouse leviathan- job 3:8 s.h. hooke, in his excellent middle eas

n persons and organisations that dared side with the vanquished, believing the ancient ones to be a source of tremendous, and most unbelievable, power. worship of the ancient ones in history "let them curse it that curse the day, who are skilful to rouse leviathan- job 3:8 s.h. hooke, in his excellent middle eastern mythology, tells us that the leviathan mentioned in job, and elsewhere in the old testament, is the hebrew name given to the serpent tiamat, and reveals that there was in existence either a cult, or scattered individuals, who worshipped or called up the serpent of the sea, or abyss. indeed, the hebrew word for abyss that is found in genesis 1:2 is, hooke tells us, tehom, which the majority of scholars take to be a survival of the name of the chaos-dragon tiamat or leviathan tha

umption, the sumerian origin of the feast of lammas. indeed, it seems just as valid as the ideas of idries shah concerning craft etymology as presented in his book, the sufis. it is also not far-fetched to assume that these four beasts were known to the entire region of the middle east, as they appear on the sphinx in egypt, and have become the symbols of the four evangelists of the christian new testament- an ironic and splendid result of the ignorance of the greek religious historians concerning the ancient mysteries! probable the most inconsistent concept the sumerians possesses with reference to the craft is the naming of the goddess as a deity, not of the moon (as the craft would have it, but of the planet venus. the moon was governed by a male divinity, nanna (like inanna but minus t

you in check! may the mountain subject you! may the mountain cover you! may the mighty mountain fall on you, may you be held back from my body (note: the original translator had noted the resemblance between the greek word for lors, kurios, and the sumerian word for mountain, kur, and for a type of underworld, chthoic, monster which is also called kur and which refers to the leviathan of the old testament. also, in this particular conjuration, the word for mountain is shadu- shaddai? the old serpent kur is, of course, invoked every day by the christians: kyrie eleison) common sumerian words and phrases in english sumerian english akhkharu vampire alal destroyer alla xul evil god barra! begone! dingir xul evil god edin na zu! go to the desert (a form of exorcism) gelal incubus gigim xul ev

lt; la magie chez les chaldeens paris, 1874 lovecraft, h.p. tales of the cthulhu mythos new york, 1973 at the mountains of madness new york, 1973 the dunwich horror new york, 1963 the lurker at the threshold (with august derleth) new york, 1971 mason, h. gilgamesh (ed) new york, 1972 neugebauer, o. the exact sciences in antiquity new york, 1969 pritchard, j. near eastern texts relating to the old testament princeton, 1958 the chaldean oracles of zoroaster "sapere aude" new york seignobos, s. the world of babylon new york, 1975 seligmann, k. magic, supernaturalism, and religion new york, 1968 shah, i. oriental magic new york, 1973 the secret lore of magic new york, 1972 the sufis new york, 1973 tallqvist, k.l "die assyrische beschworungsserie maqlu nach dem originalem im british museum hera

made subject unto me, and so doing found ngaa, the god of the heathens, who breathes flame and roars like a thousand thunders. i have found fear. i have found the gate that leads to the outside, by which the ancient ones, who ever seek entrance to our world, keep eternal watch. i have smelled the vapours of that ancient one, queen of the outside, whose name is writ in the terrible magan text, the testament of some dead civilisation whose priests, seeking power, swing open the dread, evil gate for an hour past the time, and were consumed. i came to possess this knowledge through circumstances quite peculiar, while still the unlettered son of a shepherd in what is called mesopotamia by the greeks. when i was only a youth, travelling alone in the mountains to the east, called masshu by the pe

agent of chaos. know, secondly, that the power of magick is the power of our master enki, lord of the seas, and master of magick, father of marduk, fashioner of the magick name, the magick number, the magick word, the magick shape. so, therefore, the priest who governeth the works of fire, and of the god of fire, gishbar called gibil, must firstly sprinkle with the water of the seas of enki, as a testament to his lordship and a sign of the covenant that exists between him and thee. know, thirdly, that by the power of the elder gods and the submission of the ancient ones, thou mayest procure every type of honour, dignity, wealth and happiness, but that these are to be shunned as the purveyors of death, for the most radiant jewels are to be found buried deep in the earth, and the tomb of man

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blind god. lams= 131= pan. line 3. isheth zanunim (woman of whoredom, said to be the wife of samael \ynwnz tca= 864 \ycdq cwdq, qadosh qadeshim, holy of holies. doubtless there is an arcanum concealed here, possibly along the lines of you can prove anything with gematria if you try hard enough. line 5. ashteroth. historically a middle eastern goddess (a.k.a. ishtar, astart, etc, denounced by old testament writers and given an inexplicable sex change by medieval demonologists. table of correspondences 55 line 6. chiva, the beast; said to be the offspring of samael and isheth zanunim (see mathers introduction to kaballah unveiled, para 61. only a hideous fudge (to wit (a) mis-spelling the name as ahija (b) writing each letter out in full and (c) counting h in full as ah rather than the more

ounting h in full as ah rather than the more usual hh) can get this name to add to 666. line 7. asmodai. appears in the apocryphal book of tobit. sometimes also known by the latinised form asmodeus. the name is possibly a modification of aeshma deva, an evil spirit from persian mythology. line 8. belial. said to be the chief of the evil spirits in some late jewish apocalyptic literature (e.g. the testament of the 12 patriarchs, but in the old testament the name was a mere term of abuse meaning masterless or worthless. line 9. lilith. she gets everywhere. line 10. naamah. the sister of tubal-cain (see masonic symbolism; but in the zohar she gets turned into another version of lilith. col. cix. rather than use planetary symbols to distinguish the kings and dukes as in the printed edition, i

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

ere we are back in the pestilent purlieus of walham green, and the frowsty atmosphere of the frowsy "medium" and the squalid s ance "look! but do not speak to them" as virgil warned dante. so let us look. no! let us first congratulate ourselves that this subject of necromancy is so admirably documented. as to the real art, we have not only eliphas l vi, but the sublimely simple account in the old testament of the witch of endor, her conjuring up of the apparition of samuel to king saul. a third classic must not be neglected: i have heard or read the story elsewhere- for the moment i cannot place it. but it is so brilliantly told in i write as i please by walter duranty that nothing could be happier than to quote him verbatim. magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 168

e immune to self-deception spurred by the wish-fiend? while there are people walking about outside the bug-house who can find mrs. simpson and generals de gaulle, franco, allenby, montgomery and who else in the "centuries" of nostradamus, we should be stupid to assign everything to conscious fraud. 28 in that case what about poor tiny aleister? do please allow me the happy young eagles of the old testament; what clearer prophecy of psychoanalysis, it's only the english for freud and jung and adler! no, by no means always fraud. yet at any s ance the "investigators" take no magical precautions soever- against, say, the impersonation of iophiel by hismael, or the doves of venus by the a'arab zareq. all they attempt especially at "demonstrations" and "materializations" is to guard with great

science, and a whole host of bogeys (candles in hollow turnips deceive nobody outside a churchyard) magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 234 so we find ourselves discussing a "palely wandering" phantom idea whose connotations or extensions depend on the time, the place, and the victim. we know "the crimes of clapham chaste in martaban" and the difference between old and new testament morality in such matters as polygamy and diet; while the fur flies when two learned professors go down with a smart attack of odium theologicum, and are ready to destroy a civilization on the question of whether it is right or wrong for a priest (or presbyter? or minister) to wear a white nightie or a black in the pulpit. but what you want to know is the difference between (a) common or

em a mere phrase; no idea of its connotation or principles) demology entrepreneur correspondent and co-respondent (they don't know the difference) subcutaneous chordee) gleet (although they have them) histology("something to do with history) 5^ weh note: louis umfraville wilkinson wrote under this pen name. he was one of two individuals named to be literary executors under crowley's last will and testament. 16 will i please draw it? you make me feel like giotto! there is one remark which i must make at the beginning. it's some poet or other, tennyson or kipling, i think (i forget who) that wrote "folks in the loomp, is baad" it is true all round. someone wisely took note that the vilest man alive had always found someone to love him. remember the monster6 that sir frederick treves picked u

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, and said "gabriel appeared to me" but in spite of his ignorance, his total misconception of the truth, the power of the vision was such that he was enabled to persist through the usual persecution, and founded a religion to which even to-day one man in every eight belongs. the history of christianity shows precisely the same remarkable fact. jesus christ was brought up on the fables of the "old testament" and so was compelled to ascribe his experiences to "jehovah" although his gentle spirit could have had nothing in common with the monster who was always commanding the rape of virgins and the murder of little children, and whose rites were then, and still are, celebrated by human sacrifice<jews in eastern europe which surprise the ignorant, are almost invaria

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

very difficult. it seems as if they were given to meet some contingency which has not yet arisen. for example this verse might be appropriate in case of the institution of a false cultus by impostors. the doctrine is that hadit is the nucleolus (to borrow a term from bilogy) of any star-organism. to mock at hadit is therefore evidently very much what is meant by the mysterious phrase in the "new testament" with regard to the unpardonable sin, the "blasphemy against the holy ghost. a star forsaken by hadit would thus be in the condition of real death it is this state which is characteristic of the "black brothers, as they are described in other parts of this comment, and elsewhere in the holy books of the a. a. i may here quote liber aleph, de inferno servorum and de fratribut nigris "now

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

us consider the esoteric idea-mongers of christianity, swedenborg, anna kingsford, deussen and the like, of whom i have taken caird as my example. i wish to unmask these people: i perfectly agree with nearly everything they say, but their claim to be christians is utterly confusing, and lends a lustre to christianity which is quite foreign. deussen, for example, coolly discards nearly all the old testament, and, picking a few new testament passages, often out of their context, claims his system as christianity. luther discards james. kingsford calls paul the arch heretic. my friend the christian clergyman accepted mark and acts until pushed. yet deussen is honest enough to admit that vedanta teaching is identical, but clearer! and he quite clearly and sensibly defines faith surely the most

that hill being shelled, doth swear his forces never had been there. i got disgusted, called a parley, 230 (here comes a white-flag treachery) asked: is there anything you value, will hold to? he laughed, chase me, charlie! but seeing in his mind that i would no be so converted, shall you, 235 he added, grope in utter dark? the book of acts and that of mark are now considered genuine. i snatch a testament, begin reading at random the first page; 240 he stops me with a gesture sage: you must not think, because i say st. mark is genuine, i would lay such stress unjust upon its text, as base thereon opinion. next? 245 i gave it up. he escaped. ah me! but do did christianity. as for a quiet talk on physics sane ac lente, i hear the british don spout sentiments more bovine than a sane yak 250

my idol punish you! no earnest student of religion or draw poker should fail to commit this anecdote to memory. 767. mr chesterton.80 i must take this opportunity to protest against the charge brought by mr. chesterton against the englishmen who write philosophical essays on the splendour of eastern thought. if he confines his strictures to the translators of that well-known eastern work the old testament i am with him; any modern biblical critic will tell him what i mean. it took a long time, too, for the missionaries (and tommy atkins) to discover that budd was not a great gawd. but then they did not want to, and in any case sympath and intelligence are not precisely the most salient qualities in either soldiers or missionaries. but nothing is more absurd than to compare men like sir w

u that i come, however unworthy, to take up the sword that huxley wielded; i tell you that the oppressor of science in her girlhood is already at work to ravish her virginity; that a moment s hesitation, idleness, security may force us back from the positions so hardly won. are we never to go forward, moreover? are our children still to be taught as facts the stupid and indecent fables of the old testament, fables that the archbishop of canterbury himself would indignantly repudiate? are minds to be warped early, the scientific method and imagination checked, the logical faculty thwarted thousands of workers lost each year to science? and the way to do this is not only through the negative common-sense of indifference; organise, organise, organise! for a flag we offer you the stainless lot

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some fine lines in these verses "the times""ready march 6th. crown" 8"vo. cloth gilt. about" 280 "pp "the new god" and other essays. by ralph shirley (editor of the "occult review_ contents: the new god- prophets and prophecies- prophecies and anticipations- julian the apostate- mystical christianity- the perfect way- relationship of christianity to gnostic faiths- early christian evidences- new testament authorities- friedrich nietzsche- the strange case of lurancy vennum- cagliostro_ a manual of occultism. a complete exposition of the occult arts and sciences by sepharial, author of "a manual of astrology "prognostic astronomy "kabalistic astrology" etc. etc. with numerous diagrams and illustrations. 368 pp, handsomely bound in cloth gilt. gilt tops. crown 8vo. 6"s" net_ contents: part

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ou do not smoke, in fact you do nothing which is pleasant; you spend your whole lives in looking for the devil in the most unlikely places, and declare that the only remedy against his craft and his cunning is total immersion in tonic-water and pine-apple syrup. f. an interpretation of genesis. by theodore powys. this is a most mystical interpretation of the most beautiful of the books of the old testament. it consists of a dialogue between the lawgiver of israel and zetetes, who is not exactly the disciple, but rather the interpreter of the master's words. thus it commences "the law-giver of israel "in the beginning the truth created the heaven and the earth "zetetes "the life that is within and the life that is without, are not these the heaven and the earth that the truth created" wheth

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and "a spring meeting" and we look forward to any future work of the author. there is more in his work that is met at first glance. let him forget that he writes for english readers and subscribers to libraries! george raffalovich. history of chemistry. by sir edward thorpe. watts and co. vol. ii. as excellent as vol. i. what is sir edward doing amongst this brainy goody lot? h2s. history of old testament criticism. by archibald duff, d.d. watts and co. 1"s" net. an interesting little volume, as complete as can be expected for 146 pages. duff, d. d, does not understand qabalah. we can assure him it is not a "fancied philosophy wherein everything was in reality brand new" as zunz 335 says. he does not understand it, but he is not alone in this. few understand the qabalah; and therefore few

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

raft, which regard homosexuality as a denial of the basic tenet of fertility, insist on man always being paired with woman, especiallyin a ceremony as personal asinitiation. a few days later the young man returned and asked if alex would accompany him to the home of some friends who might be able to help 'they are devout christians, evangelists, but they are eager to obey the teachings of the old testament and talk with angels, and they might be prepared to use witchcraft to do so' bill and eunice turned out to be crusaders in revivalist christianity and while bill was quite willing to invoke alien gods, his wife wasreluctant. she felt it disobeyed.the teachings of christ 'but the apostles themselves said "seek ye good gifts, alex told her 'and one ofthe gifts they listed was to speak with

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iled poem. a man is an embodied thought, and this is also the concept latent in the definition of plutarch. you have therein first the idea of a self-conscious entity, you have then to recognise the thought or purpose which that entity is seeking to express, and finally, you have the body or form which is the sequential result. the term logos, translated as the word, is frequently used in the new testament, in speaking of the deity. the outstanding passage in which this is the case is the first chapter of st. john's gospel, where the words occur "in the beginning was the word, and the word was with god, and the word was god" let us consider for a minute the meaning of the expression. its literal translation is 'the word' and it has been defined as "the rendering in objective expression of

that in these two aspects of the central divine life you have the third person of the logoic trinity co-operating with the second; you have the intelligent activity of divinity, or the holy spirit aspect, working in connection with the second aspect, or the son, who is the builder of forms. this is brought out in an interesting manner in proverbs viii. where wisdom cries aloud (wisdom in the old testament representing the christ aspect, and after pointing out that he was with god before ever there was creation, goes on to say that when "he appointed the foundations of the earth, then i was by him as the master worker or builder" students would do well to study this chapter in connection with the ideas that we are here formulating, being careful to ascertain the exact translation. we now c

hen the consciousness of the animal expanded into that of the human being, still another great initiation took place. all the four kingdoms have been entered by an initiation, or through an expansion of consciousness. ahead of the human family lies now the fifth, or spiritual kingdom, and it is likewise entered through a certain initiation, as can be seen by those who intelligently read their new testament. and in all these cases these initiations have been brought about by the help of those who already know. thus we have within the evolutionary scheme not great gaps between one kingdom and another, and between one state of awareness and another, but a gradual development of consciousness, and one in which we, each one of us, have had and will have our share. if we can remember this univer

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hall of wisdom. at this time, emphasis is consistently laid on his astral development, although his mental equipment grows steadily. many lives may intervene between the first initiation and the second. a long period of many incarnations may elapse before the control of the astral body is perfected, and the initiate is ready for the next step. the analogy is kept in an interesting way in the new testament in the life of the initiate jesus. many years elapsed between the birth and the baptism, but the remaining three steps were taken in three years. once the second initiation is taken the progress will be rapid, the third and fourth following probably in the same life, or the succeeding. the second initiation forms the crisis in the control of the astral body. just as, at the first initiat

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(through the medium of the work effected in the third initiation) have been put in conscious contact with their "father in heaven" the monad. esoteric students, disciples and the initiates of lower degree are developing contact with the soul, or the second aspect, and only when this contact is firmly established can the higher concept be entertained. the nature of spirit is dealt with in the new testament in one of the esoteric statements addressed by the great lord to the initiate, nicodemus. as he was an initiate of the second degree it may be supposed that he had some glimmering of understanding as to the meaning of the words, which were spoken to him as part of his training in preparation for the third initiation "the wind (prana or spirit) bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest t

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he physical plane during the last quarter. the interest now shown in raja yoga and the study of this science and the rules it provides for man's unfoldment, is indicative of the general trend of this rising second ray impulse. this interest will be increasingly shown. thus comes the day of opportunity. there are three books which should be in the hands of every student, the bhagavad gita, the new testament, and the yoga sutras, for in these three is contained a complete picture of the soul and its unfoldment. in the gita we have given us (in its eighteen chapters) a description of the soul, of krishna, the second aspect, in his true nature as god in manifestation, culminating in that marvellous chapter where he reveals himself to arjuna, the aspirant [page xiii] as the soul of all things

complete picture of the soul and its unfoldment. in the gita we have given us (in its eighteen chapters) a description of the soul, of krishna, the second aspect, in his true nature as god in manifestation, culminating in that marvellous chapter where he reveals himself to arjuna, the aspirant [page xiii] as the soul of all things, and the point of glory behind the veil of every form. in the new testament there is depicted for us the life of a son of god in full manifestation, wherein, freed from every veil, the soul in its true nature walks the earth. it becomes apparent to us, as we study the life of christ, what it means to develop the powers of the soul, to attain liberation, and become, in full glory, a god walking on earth. in the yoga sutras there are embodied for us the laws of th

e of those obstacles, 4. determination to eliminate them, 5. a sudden flash or vision of the soul reality, 6. fresh aspiration and a strong determination to make that fleeting vision a permanent reality in the lower plane experience, 7. the battle of kurukshetra, with krishna, the soul, heartening arjuna, the aspirant, on to steady and continuous effort. the same thought is to be found in the old testament, in the case of joshua before the walls of jericho. it might be well here to conclude this comment with sutras 31, 32, 33 and 34, of book iv: 31. when, through the removal of the hindrances and the purification of all the sheaths, the totality of knowledge becomes available, naught further remains for the man to do. 32. the modifications of the mind-stuff (or qualities of matter) through

our is apparent from this and hence the frank paraphrasing of this passage. there are two thoughts seeking expression in this sutra. one refers to the veil or covering which prevents the illumination of the mind, and the other to the state of realization which is achieved when a man has freed himself from this veil. that which covers up the light (the "bushel" referred to by the christ in the new testament) is the changing, fluctuating sheaths or bodies. when they are transmuted and transcended the light of god (the second divine aspect) can flood the lower man and he knows himself as he is. illumination pours in and he knows himself as something different to the forms through which he is functioning. he is no longer centred, no longer polarized in his forms, but is actually in a condition

f orce. the son of god. the agnishvattva the dweller in the body. these and many other terms will be found scattered throughout the scriptures and literature of the world. in no book, however, is the nature of the soul, whether macrocosmic (the cosmic christ, or microcosmic (the individual christ, so wonderfully portrayed as in the bhagavad gita and in the three books, the bhagavad gita, the new testament and the yoga sutras is contained a complete picture of the soul and its unfoldment. 23. then the mind stuff, reflecting both the knower and the knowable, becomes omniscient. this sutra is in the nature of a summation and emphasizes the fact that the mind, being stilled and quiescent through the practise of concentration and meditation, becomes the reflector of "that which is above and of

and body. he stands (as regards the three worlds) at the stage called that of isolated unity. but another union becomes possible, that of the soul, with the spirit. the master must become the christ and to do this the raincloud of spiritual knowledge must be reached, used and penetrated. what lies on the other side of that veil which hides the father it is needless for us to consider. in our new testament, when the father communicated with the christ, the voice issued out of a cloud (see matt. xvii) 30. when this stage is reached then the hindrances and karma are overcome. the two verses we have just studied have carried the aspirant on from the stage of adept to that of the christ. all that hindered, veiled or prevented the full expression of the divine life has been overcome; all barrie

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s upon the whole. a master carries his disciples on and up with him in a similar manner. the matter is abstruse and largely one of the secrets of the law of vibratory expansion. the initiation of the logos has a universal effect. you are right in your assumption that the probationary path corresponds to the later stages of the period of gestation. at the first initiation what is called in the new testament "the babe in christ" starts upon the pilgrimage of the path. the first initiation simply stands for commencement. a certain structure of right living, of thinking and of conduct has been attained; the form that the christ is to occupy has been constructed and now that form is to be vivified and indwelt. the christ life enters and the form becomes alive. therein lies the difference betwee

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bellion. this beneficent reaction will come about because the thinkers of the race will be blended together in a general soul awareness, and a consequent group consciousness will permit them to see the purpose underlying the- 67- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust working of the law. let us put this a little more simply. we are told in the new testament that we must endeavour to let the mind which was in christ also be manifest in us. we are working towards the perfecting of the rule of christ on earth; we are aiming at the development of the christ consciousness and at the bringing in of the rule or law of christ, which is love. this will come to fruition in the aquarian age, and we shall see brotherhood established on earth. the rule

on with true unanimity; hence (and herein lies a hint) our earth is not one of the seven sacred planets. there is, as we know, the ancient legend of the lost pleiade, and there are many such stories. again, in the council chamber of the most high, there has not always been peace and understanding, but at times, war and disruption; this is made abundantly clear by several of the stories in the old testament. symbolically speaking, some of the sons of god fell from their high estate, led, at one time, by "lucifer, son of the morning. this "fall of the angels" was a tremendous event in the history of our planet, but was nevertheless only a passing and interesting phenomenon in the history of the solar system, and a trifling incident in the affairs of the seven constellations, of which our sol

reserved intact more of the original characteristics. it is the realisation of this common origin which has led the british-israelites into their travesty of the truth, and caused them to trace our modern western history to the jews of the dispersion. it is a far more ancient relation than that, and dates back into a period that antedates the history of the jews as it is related for us in the old testament. the original three disciples and their family groups were the ancestors of three major racial groupings, which can be generalised as follows: 1. the semitic race or races of biblical and modern times; the arabs, the afghans, the moors and the offshoots and affiliations of those peoples, including the modern egyptians. these are all descended from the eldest of the three disciples. 2. th

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om bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust beginning of that astronomical age which we call "the piscean age" because, during this period of approximately two thousand years, our sun is passing through that sign in the zodiac which we call pisces, or the fishes. hence the frequent references to fishes, and the appearance of the symbol of the fish in christian literature, including the new testament. this piscean age comes between the previous jewish dispensation (the two thousand years wherein the sun was passing through the sign aries, the ram) and the aquarian age into which our sun is now in process of transiting. these are astronomical facts, for i am not here speaking of astrological conclusions. in the period when the sun was in aries, we find the frequent appearance of the r

es between the previous jewish dispensation (the two thousand years wherein the sun was passing through the sign aries, the ram) and the aquarian age into which our sun is now in process of transiting. these are astronomical facts, for i am not here speaking of astrological conclusions. in the period when the sun was in aries, we find the frequent appearance of the ram or the scapegoat in the old testament teaching, and the keeping of the passover feast. in the christian age we use the fish symbology, even to eating fish on good friday. the symbol of the aquarian age, as it appears in all the ancient zodiacs, is that of a man bearing a jar of water. the message of that age is one of unity, communion and our relationship as brothers, because we are all the children of the one father. to thi

onsciousness, and lead man on to a practical realisation of brotherhood. it is interesting to note how it was that the energies playing upon our planet when the sun was in aries, the ram, produced in religious symbology the emphasis of the goat or ram, and how in our present age of pisces, the fishes, those influences have coloured our christian symbology so that the fish preponderates in our new testament and in our eschatological symbology. the new incoming rays, energies and influences must surely be destined to produce equal effects, not only in the realm of physical phenomena but also in the world of spiritual values. the atoms of the human brain are being "awakened" as never before, and those millions of cells which, we are told, are to be found inactive and dormant in the human brai

line. it is the way of mental illumination and intuitive perception. initiation is the revelation of love, of the second great aspect of divinity, expressing itself in wisdom. this expression is found in its fullness in the life of christ. he revealed to us the nature of essential love, and then told us to love. he demonstrated to us what divinity is, and then told us to live divinely. in the new testament this unfolding life of living divine love is held before us in three ways, each progressive in its definition of experience, and each giving us the sequence of the revelation of christ in the human heart. there is first of all the phrase "christ in you, the hope of glory."22 this is the stage which precedes and immediately follows the new birth, the birth at bethlehem. it is the stage to

with those who normally function there. initiation relates to consciousness and is merely a word which we use to express the transition which man can make out of the consciousness of the fourth or human kingdom, into the fifth or spiritual kingdom, the kingdom of god. christ came to reveal the way into that kingdom. this initiating soul, as we have already seen, is called by many names in the new testament, and in the other religions it is called by a terminology suited to the time and temperament of the aspirant. where the christian disciple speaks of "christ in you, the hope of glory,"11 the oriental disciple may speak of the self or the atman. the modern schools of thought speak of- 27- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust the ego, or the higher self, the real man, or th

it is called by a terminology suited to the time and temperament of the aspirant. where the christian disciple speaks of "christ in you, the hope of glory,"11 the oriental disciple may speak of the self or the atman. the modern schools of thought speak of- 27- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust the ego, or the higher self, the real man, or the spiritual entity, whilst in the old testament reference is made to the "angel of the presence" a long list of these synonyms could be compiled, but for our purpose we shall confine ourselves to the word "soul" because of its wide use in the west. the immortal soul in man prepares him for the first initiation, for it is this soul which manifests upon earth as the "infant christ" and appears in man. this is the new birth. that which h

ates of new life to thee! see the christ stand" after the third initiation, the transfiguration, when the personality has been subordinated to the soul, or the indwelling christ, and the glory of the lord can shine forth through the medium of the flesh, we are faced with the supreme achievement of the crucifixion and the resurrection. then, we are told, that mysterious being, spoken of in the old testament as melchizedek, and as the ancient of days, will play his part and initiate us into the still higher mysteries. of him we are told that "this melchizedek, king of salem, priest of the most high god. was, in the first place, as his name means, king of righteousness, and besides that, king of salem (that is king of peace. being without father or mother or ancestry, having neither beginning

rld may not. when christ passed through these crises, in every case a voice sounded out, and the sound which went forth "opened anew the gates of life" door after door is opened on the demand of the initiate and at the response by the initiator, standing on the other side of the portal. we shall see what each word signified. the word always issues forth from the centre. again and again in the new testament we are told that "he that hath ears to hear, let him hear,"28 and a study of the words spoken to the seven churches in revelations will bring much light upon the factor of the word. great racial words have been sounded forth and have brought about needed changes, and have signified a potency of true spiritual value to the sensitive. the word or sound for ancient asia in the past was tao

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rmining impulse which impelled the soul of god himself to enter into form life; which impels life, upon the involutionary arc, to progress down into matter, producing thus the immanence of god. it is that also which drives humanity forward into its wild struggle for material well-being. it is that too which urges man eventually to turn his back upon the "world, the flesh and the devil" as the new testament puts it, and orient himself to the things of spiritual import. the prodigal son sacrificed the father's home when he chose to wander forth into the far country. he wasted and sacrificed his substance through the use he- 60- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust made of the experience of life on earth, until he had exhausted all his res

ins, teutons, nordics, and anglo-saxons, and their various offshoots. 3. a group which bridges between the oriental races and the aryan race which we call the semitic. this race is neither purely oriental nor is it aryan. the jews are a group of people in whom the principle of separation is pronouncedly present. for ages they have, with determination and in obedience to the injunctions in the old testament, insisted on regarding themselves as a people set apart. for ages they have held themselves separated off from all other peoples in the world. the result is that they are now evoking from the races among whom they are scattered a corresponding desire to force that very separation upon them. under the law, we draw forth from others what is actually present within ourselves, and to this la

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

learnt but is not held back by personality reactions. it is the normal attitude of the- 47- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust soul or self to the not-self. it is the negation of prejudice, of all narrow preconceived ideas, of all personality tradition, influence or background. it is the process of detachment from "the world, the flesh and the devil" of which the new testament speaks. 3. love. love is that inclusive, non-critical, magnetic comprehension and attitude which (in group work) preserves the group integrity, fosters the group rhythm and permits no secondary personality happenings or attitudes to mar the group work. contact, impersonality and love these three constitute the individual objectives which i set before each and all of you. the group requir

copyright 1998 lucis trust 4. gradually the antahkarana is built and in this way the "greater light and the lesser light" are consciously related. a path of light and energy is established or created between these two divine aspects. as time goes on, there appears in the egoic group what is technically known as the "linking light" or the "bridging radiance" this is the path referred to in the old testament as "the path of the just is as a shining light which shineth more and more until the day be with us" in the esoteric books it is referred to in the following terms "before a man can tread the path, he must become that path himself" these four stages have been described in the old commentary in the following terms "the point of light shines forth. it waxes and it wanes. the point becomes

ity. love is never worked up, if i might put it so, in the lower nature; it is a free unimpeded inflow from the higher. love is spontaneous and carries ever the free spirit of christ. i would suggest that there has never been a better description of the nature of love than that given by the initiate paul, even though the translation of his words is faulty at times. study those passages in the new testament in which he defines love. give up emphasising the will-to-love and emphasise in your own consciousness the need of others for understanding, compassion, interest and help. the usual loneliness of all disciples is frequently incidental to the fact of the self-centredness of all those whom they contact and the intense preoccupation of the neophyte with his own growth. the cry of the neophy

les, even though placed upon the furthest point in the periphery of the master's influence, are responding with eagerness; their motives are normally mixed and their response is frequently galvanised by a desire for personality progress and aggrandisement. they are, at this particular time, greatly complicating the call to service but their distortions are bringing about the fulfilment of the new testament prophecy that (at the time of the end) there will be much distortion of the truth concerning the spread of the christ consciousness and the return of the christ, or the "second coming" and so, from stage to stage the disciple passes, going from light to light, from perception to perception, from force to energy, from personality focus to soul integration and, then, from soul to spirit, f

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

nd disappearance, as does every human being. but behind these cycles, the triumphant spirit of man moves on from height to height, from attainment to attainment and towards an ultimate goal which as yet no man visions but which is summed up for- 52- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust us in the possibility of being in the world as christ was; this is the hope held out to us in the new testament and by all the sons of god down the ages and in every land and by all religious faiths. in considering our theme we need now to do two things: first of all consider what makes a people, a race or a nation a minority, and then consider along what lines a solution may lie. the world today is full of clamouring minorities who rightly or wrongly are making claims upon the majority. some of t

requirements they have, as a people, been obedient and hence their plight in a modern world. the word "love" as it concerns relation to other people is lacking in their religious presentation, though love of jehovah is taught with due threats; the concept of a future life, dependent upon conduct and behaviour to others and on right action in the world of men, is almost entirely lacking in the old testament and teaching on immortality is nowhere emphasized; salvation is apparently dependent upon the keeping of numerous physical laws and rules related to physical cleanliness; they go so far as to establish retail shops where these rules are kept in a modern world where scientific methods are applied to purity in food. all these and other factors of less importance set the jew apart, and thes

o matter how obsolete they are or inconvenient to others. these factors demonstrate the complexity of the problem from the jewish angle and its irritating and frictional nature to the gentile. this irritating factor is something which the jew seldom if ever recognizes. the gentile today neither remembers nor cares that the jews were instrumental in having christ put to death (according to the new testament; he is more apt to remember that christ was a jew and to wonder why the jew was not the first to claim and love him. he remembers far more acutely jewish business methods, the fact that the jew, if orthodox, regards gentile food as impure for him and that the jew considers his citizenship as secondary to his racial obligations. he regards the jew as a follower of an obsolete religion; he

was not the first to claim and love him. he remembers far more acutely jewish business methods, the fact that the jew, if orthodox, regards gentile food as impure for him and that the jew considers his citizenship as secondary to his racial obligations. he regards the jew as a follower of an obsolete religion; he intensely dislikes the cruel and jealous jehovah of the jews and looks upon the old testament as the history of a cruel and aggressive people apart from the psalms of david, which all men love. these are points to which the jew at no time seems to pay attention and yet it is these things in their aggregate which have set the jew apart from the world in which he wants to live and be happy and in which he is the victim of an inheritance which could with profit be modernized- 58- pr

es among whom he lives. the need of the jew at this time is for a solution of this ancient problem which has disturbed the peace of countries down the centuries. the responsibility of the non-jews, in the light of humanitarian demand, is vital; the record of the persecution of the jews is a grievous and ghastly story, only paralleled by the jewish treatment of their enemies, as related in the old testament. the fate of the jews in the world war is a terrible tale of cruelty, torture and wholesale murder and the treatment of the jews down the ages is one of the blackest chapters in human history. for it there is no excuse or condonation, and right thinking people everywhere are aware of this and are eagerly demanding that these persecutions end. the spiritual forces of the world and the spi

s those who interpret him in terms of some particular school of theological thought, the symbolism of the blood sacrifice, the appropriation of the cross as a christian symbol, the teaching about the virgin birth and the picture of an angry deity only appeased by death are the unhappy results of man's own thinking, of his own lower nature, of his sectarian isolationism (fostered by the jewish old testament, but not generally found in the oriental faiths) and of his sense of fear, inherited from the animal side of his nature all these are fostered and inculcated by theology but not by christ, or the buddha or shri krishna. the little minds of men at their past and present stages of evolution cannot today and never have comprehended the mind and the purposes of the one in whom we live and mo

nd its processes, based on continuously renewed opportunity, controls the people. christianity has emphasized immortality but has made eternal happiness dependent upon the acceptance of a theological dogma: be a true professing christian and live eternally in a somewhat fatuous heaven or refuse to be an accepting christian and go to an impossible hell a hell growing out of the theology of the old testament and its presentation of a god full of hate and jealousy. both concepts are today repudiated by all sane, sincere, thinking people. no one of any true reasoning power or with any true belief in a god of love accepts the heaven of the churchmen or has any desire to go there. still less do they accept the "lake that burneth with fire and brimstone" or the everlasting torture to which a god

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hierarchy of our planet; it is dependent also upon the steadfastness of the christ's disciples in the world at this time and his initiate-workers all working in the many groups, religious, political and economic. to the above must be added what christians like to call "the inscrutable will of god" that unrecognised purpose of the lord of the world, the ancient of days (as he is called in the old testament) who "knows his own mind, radiates the highest quality of love and focusses his will in his own high place within the centre where the will of god is known" when the christ, the avatar of love, makes his reappearance then will the "sons of men who are now the sons of god withdraw their faces from the shining light and radiate that light upon the sons of men who know not yet they are the

te; yet the modern commentator is probably more intelligent and better educated than the ancient one and has, also, the benefit of the many recognised translations and a precise science. we are suffering theologically from the ignorance of the past; it is a peculiar thing that an ancient commentator is supposed to carry greater weight than the modern, more educated and intelligent man. if the new testament is true in its presentation of the christ, if it is true in its repetition of his words, that we can do "greater things" than he did, and if it is true in that he told us to "be perfect even as our father in heaven is perfect" what is there wrong in our recognising the capacity of a human being to keep pace with the mind of christ and to know what he intends us to know? christ said that

and awakening humanity, there is but one purpose, one idea and one united expectancy. it is essential that today there should be a measure of fuller knowledge concerning the "centre where the will of god is known" the public should possess some understanding of this highest spiritual centre to which if we believe the gospel story christ himself was always attentive. frequently we read in the new testament that "the father spoke to him" or that "he heard a voice" unheard by others, or that the words were heard "this is my beloved son" several times, we read, the seal of affirmation (as it is spiritually called) was given to him. only the father, the planetary logos, the "one in whom we live and move and have our being (acts xvii.28, the lord of the world, the ancient of days (dan. vii.9) c

n the human heart are planetary facts. there is one aspect of this return of the christ which is never touched upon and to which no reference is ever made. it is the factor of what this coming out again among men, this return to outer everyday activity will mean to the christ as he faces it. how will he feel when the hour of his appearance arrives? there is a great initiation spoken of in the new testament to which we have given the name of the ascension. of it we know nothing. only a few items of information are brought to us in the gospel story; the fact of the mountain top, of attendant watchers, and of the words of christ, assuring them that he was not leaving them. then a cloud received him out of their sight (acts i.9) there were none present who could go further with him. their cons

d, therefore, nine years (a- 36- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust relatively brief time; it resulted in the decision arrived at by the christ to re-appear or return to visible presence on earth as soon as possible, and considerably earlier than had been planned. this decision was necessarily made in consultation with the lord of the world, the "ancient of days" of the old testament, and the "one in whom we live and move and have our being" of the new testament. he is the custodian of the will of god. it was also made with the full understanding and cooperation of the masters and the senior initiates. this was inevitably so, because their participation and help were imperative. they also necessarily had to be with him in thought, and cooperating mentally, because hi

onsolidation. i can only make reference to them, for it is not possible to prove the factual nature of what is here said; only possibility, probability and the law of correspondences can indicate the rightness of these events. their effects will be noted, especially after the moment of emergence. these three events can be described as follows: 1. the spirit of peace descended upon christ. the new testament bears witness to a somewhat similar event when, at the baptism, we read that "he saw the spirit of god, descending like a dove and alighting upon him (st. matt. iii.16) this spirit is a being of tremendous cosmic potency and is today overshadowing the christ in much the same manner as christ (two thousand years ago) overshadowed or worked through the master jesus. this spirit of peace is

cycle came into existence. the average christian is singularly unaware of the times and cycles through which our planet passes, under influence of solar progression. the at present dubious science of astrology has sidetracked the legitimate interest of humanity in the astronomical teaching and its spiritual interpretation of the passage of the sun through the signs of the zodiac. yet, in the new testament, that recognition is clearly revealed and colours the presentation of the entire gospel story. it is found also in the old testament. what was the sin of the children of israel in the desert but a reversion to the old mithraic worship which distinguished the time when the sun was "in the sign of taurus, the bull" as it is technically called. they fell down and worshipped the golden calf

ally-minded people of the world are concerned, plus the hundreds of thousands of advanced humanity, is so to "nourish" their spiritual consciousness and life that they will be enabled to take the third and fourth initiations those of the transfiguration and the renunciation (or crucifixion. as esotericists know, the term "little ones" refers to those disciples who are "babes in christ (as the new testament terms it) and who have taken the first two initiations of the birth and the baptism. they are aware of the spiritual aspiration which is indicative of the christ life in their hearts, and they have subjected themselves to the processes of purification which culminate in the baptismal waters. christ must prepare these aspirants for the higher initiations and so nourish and aid them that t

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heart; he will think in terms of the whole and not in terms of the part. that is the thing which he will endeavour to impress upon the racial consciousness. this may lead at times to ruthlessness and cruelty if the personality of the individual is not yet controlled by soul impulse. such cases can frequently be seen. an instance of this can be noted in the history of the jews as found in the old testament. when the first ray was in control and passing through one of its rare cycles of activity we read that they butchered and slaughtered all their enemies men, women and children, putting them to the sword. the sword is ever the symbol of the first ray force just as the pen is of the second ray influence. i wish to remind you that i use the word "energy" in reference to the spiritual expres

their revolt against materialistic religion and in the widespread effort to be seen in europe and elsewhere to return the land (mother-earth, the true virgin mary) to the people. it can be seen in the constant movement of people throughout the world from place to place, symbolised in the gospel story by the journey of mary with the infant jesus into egypt. then followed, as we are told in the new testament, a cycle of thirty years wherein all we know is that the infant jesus grew to manhood and could then take the second initiation, the baptism in jordan, and begin his public service. today the many who in this life have taken the first initiation are entering the long silence of that symbolic thirty years wherein they too will grow to manhood and take the second initiation. this initiatio

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cosmic picture and objectives to those who simply see the next step ahead for the race or the nation. isaiah and ezekiel are the only two of the hebrew prophets who had true prophetic and cosmic vision. the others were small, but intelligent men who, from analysis and deduction, assessed the immediate future and indicated immediate possibilities. they had no direct revealing intuition. in the new testament, john, the beloved disciple, was privileged to gain a cosmic picture and a true prophetic vision which he- 82- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust embodied in the apocalypse, but he is the only one who so achieved and he achieved because he loved so deeply, so wisely and so inclusively. his intuition was evoked through the depth and intensity of his love as it was in his

inclined people. i said not intuitives, brother of old. this group is now so large and its focus is now so real and its demand so loud that it is succeeding in focussing the massed intent of the people. therefore, whatever revelation may emerge in the immediate future will be better "protected by the spirit of understanding" than any previous one. this is the significance of the words of the new testament "every eye shall see him; humanity as a whole will recognise the revealing one. in past ages the messenger from on high was only recognised by and known to a mere handful of men, and it took decades and sometimes centuries for his message to penetrate into the hearts of humanity. the stress of the times also and the development of the sense of proportion, plus an enforced return to simpl

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ere do well to remember that the subjective eastern student is far more prone to telepathic receptivity than is his western brother; this has a definite bearing on all the above classifications, which is somewhat humiliating for the western mystic and occult student. the world scriptures emanate from another department of the second ray teaching faculty. in this statement i do not include the old testament except such passages as the twenty-third psalm and certain passages out of the prophets, particularly the prophet isaiah. the world scriptures were written for mystics, occupied with beauty, comfort, and encouragement, and were not written for occultists. i would call this to your attention. in this section of the teaching i am dealing with the nature and results of contact, of receptivi

ual who has the ability to read it with accuracy, and how thankful you should be that such a capacity is relatively rare, or is in the possession of an initiate or of a master whose nature is love. the "sphere of radiation" is a potent instrument in service, and its extent and purity of contact should he cultivated by the pledged disciple. there is true occult teaching in the statement in the new testament that "the shadow of peter passing by healed" his aura was of such a nature that it had a beneficent effect wherever and whenever it touched or contacted those in his environment. the control of the christ over his aura was such that "he knew when virtue had gone out of him" he knew, therefore, that healing energies had poured through one of his centres to a needy person or group of perso

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aquarius, as you know, is one of the arms of the fixed cross. this cross is outstandingly the cross of discipleship and of the three major initiations in connection with which it might be pointed out that: 1. in taurus desire is transmuted into aspiration, darkness gives place to light and illumination, the eye of the bull is opened which is the spiritual third eye, or the "single eye" of the new testament "if thine eye be single" said the christ "thy whole body shall be full of light" this single eye takes the place of the two eyes of the personal self. the attention of the man becomes focussed upon spiritual attainment. he treads the path of discipleship. 2. in leo the self-centred man becomes eventually the soul in life expression and focussed on the achievement of the spiritual goal of

d the experience of the cardinal cross as it expresses the will-to-manifest of god. taurus, the up-turned horns of the bull with the circle below, depicting the push of man, the bull of god, towards the goal of illumination and the emergence of the soul from bondage with the two horns (duality) protecting the "eye of light" in the centre of the bull's forehead; this is "the single eye" of the new testament which makes the "whole body to be full of light" then capricorn, the goat, related particularly and closely to aries, but hiding (as an esoteric blind) the symbolism of the unicorn in which the two horns and the single eye are blended and depicted by the long straight horn of the unicorn in the centre of the forehead. behind all the above lies the dual mystery of leo, for leo is as far a

crystallisation process. this concretising faculty of capricorn can be considered in several ways. first of all, capricorn is an earth sign, and in it we have expressed the densest point of concrete materialisation of which the human soul is capable. man is then "of the earth, earthy" and is what- 95- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust the new testament calls "the first adam" in this sense, capricorn holds in itself the seeds of death and finality the death which takes place finally and eventually in pisces. ponder on this. when crystallisation has reached a certain degree of density and so-called "hardness" it is easily shattered and destroyed and man, born in capricorn, then brings about his own destruction; this is due to his fundame

sciple. the great experiences upon the various mountain tops as related in the bible have all to do with capricorn. moses, the lawgiver on mount sinai, is saturn in capricorn imposing the law of karma upon the people. a clue to the significance of the jewish people as a karmic clearing house can be found here. ponder on those words "a karmic clearing house" the mount of transfiguration in the new testament is venus in capricorn when love and mind and will meet in the person of the christ, and "he was transfigured" before all men. at the same time, he received the vision of the father and of what he had to do as he "went up to jerusalem" the place of death and likewise the city of peace. this jerusalem is pisces. in aquarius, christ put his disciples in touch with the "man, bearing a pitche

death and likewise the city of peace. this jerusalem is pisces. in aquarius, christ put his disciples in touch with the "man, bearing a pitcher of water" aquarius, and in the upper room introduced them to union and unity under the symbolism of the communion feast. for that feast, humanity is today preparing, as we saw when studying the last constellation. the astrological significance of the new testament is as yet little understood. christ was born in capricorn, fulfilled the law under saturn, initiated the era of intelligent brotherhood under venus and is the perfect example of the capricornian initiate who becomes the world server in aquarius, and the world saviour in pisces, thus completing the round of the zodiac and able to say triumphantly in pisces "it is finished" the polar oppos

love for attachment. christianity exemplifies the death of the personality, with individual and not universal implications; love has been conspicuously lacking and the controlling colour of christianity has indeed been red. it is not christ's expression but the scorpio-mars presentation of st. paul. mars has ruled christianity because st. paul misinterpreted the esoteric significances of the new testament message and he misinterpreted because the truth like all truths as they reach humanity had to pass through the filter of his personality mind and brain; it was then unavoidably given a personal slant and twist and this is responsible for the sorry historical story of christianity and the dire plight of the nations today ostensibly christian nations yet swept by hate, ruled by fear and at

tion and, symbolically speaking, produce eventually that "tearing asunder- 164- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust which always precedes initiation and illumination and which is testified to by all the mystics and initiates. this is in reality that which produces the destruction of the veil of illusion and is symbolically referred to in the new testament as "the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom" this constitutes the result of the dual activity of the great wheel. it precedes the dark night of the soul wherein the man stands pendant between heaven and earth and then cries "where is the one god who has forsaken me? he is nowhere to be seen and all other gods have gone. i stand alone, bereft yet unafraid. i se

just as that of the fixed cross is that of the soul or the mystery of self-conscious entity, whilst the mutable cross holds hid the mystery of form. in these words, you have the key to the secret of manifestation as a whole and to that mystery which was revealed to christ at the final crucifixion and to which he testified his understanding reaction in the triumphant utterance recorded in the new testament "my god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me" he then left the fixed cross and the identity which has hitherto been his and identified himself with that which was then revealed. to these words, thus translated somewhat inaccurately in the christian bible, there are three meanings or true significances. the translation hinted at in the secret doctrine (s.d. ii. 613 "the robe, the robe, the

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ter the many voices of nature and within myself were stilled. i knew that behind all that i could see and touch there was a something that could not be seen but which could be felt and which was more real and more truly essential than the tangible. i had been brought up to believe in a god transcendent, outside his created world, inscrutable, unpredictable, often cruel (to judge from what the old testament reports, loving only those who recognised him and accepted him, and slaying his only son so that people like me could be saved and not perish everlastingly. innately i criticised this presentation of a loving god, but automatically accepted it. but he was far away, distant and unapproachable. yet all the time, something within me, inchoate and indefinable, was reaching out after god imma

n me then how intensely difficult a thing it is to translate correctly. one of the words constantly occurring in occult books is the word "path" meaning the way back to our source, to god, and to the spiritual centre of all life. when translating it into french, what word shall we use? le chemin? la rue? le sentier? or what? when, therefore, you endeavour to translate a book as ancient as the new testament into english, how can there be such a thing as verbal inspiration? all that you probably have is an old translation from the aramaic or hebrew into ancient greek, and from the greek into latin, and from the latin into old english and thence, at a much later date, into the standard st. james version. the same is true of biblical translations into all the many languages. i have been told t

glish, how can there be such a thing as verbal inspiration? all that you probably have is an old translation from the aramaic or hebrew into ancient greek, and from the greek into latin, and from the latin into old english and thence, at a much later date, into the standard st. james version. the same is true of biblical translations into all the many languages. i have been told that when the new testament was being translated into french, some decades ago, they came to the words of christ where he says- 31- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust "i am the water of life" joyously they translated it as "eau de vie" and proceeded to publish. then they realised that those three words are the french name for "brandy" and had to reprint, making christ say "i am living water "ea

ut of life along material lines? let us eat and drink and get worldly goods for tomorrow we die. all this is understandable but does not make for good relations. as i have studied and thought and asked questions, certain things have clarified in my mind and are for me part of the answer. the jews hang on to a religion which is basically obsolete. i asked myself a few days ago what part of the old testament was worth preserving. much of it is dreadful, cruel and only because the literature is found in the bible does it pass the post-office regulations. i decided that the ten commandments must be preserved, one or two of the bible stories such as the love of david and jonathan, the 23rd psalm and the 91st psalm with a few others and about four chapters in the book of isaiah. all the rest was

rite statement that "god said" but perhaps he didn't; perhaps the translation was wrong; perhaps the phrase under consideration was an interpolation there are many such in the bible. then came the question in my mind: why did god speak only to jews? i knew nothing of the other scriptures in the world and if i had known them i would not have regarded them as scriptures. there were parts of the old testament that shocked me and parts that made me often wonder how they ever got through the mails. in an ordinary book they would have been regarded as obscene, but in the bible they were all right. i began to wonder if my interpretations were not as good as somebody else's. i remember pondering one day on the verse in the bible "the very hairs of your head are all numbered" it seemed to me that g

for all subsequent stages of approach. the steps in meditation are identical. this will be apparent to anyone who studies the works of meister eckhart and the yoga sutras of patanjali. all of the great expansions of consciousness as outlined in the hindu philosophy and the expression of these five great expansions as portrayed in the five great crises in the life of the christ, related in the new testament, are also the same. when man begins consciously to seek out god and consciously to take himself in hand for discipline and endurance, he finds himself at one with seekers in the east and in the west and with those who lived before christ ever came and with those who are seeking today. it was in an effort to make the relation between the east and the west clear that i wrote the book, the

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andled. 2. the problem of the right relation of a particular centre to its related gland, permitting the free play of the force pouring through the centre to the allied glandular correspondence, thus conditioning its peculiar hormone and eventually conditioning the blood stream. if you grasp this sequence of contact, you will understand more clearly the occult significance of the words in the old testament that "the blood is the life" it is the vitality coming from the etheric body which works through into the blood stream, via the centre which is responsive to one of the seven peculiar types of force, and its allied gland. it will be apparent, therefore, that there is a close relation between: a. the etheric body as a transmitter of a vast aggregate of energies and forces. b. the endocrin

is so well known and their future and their destiny are subjects of worldwide, universal concern. the jews have- 156- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust always had a symbolic significance; they sum up in themselves as a nation, down the ages the depths of human evil and the heights of human divinity. their aggressive history as narrated in the old testament is on a par with present-day german accomplishment; yet christ was a jew and it was the hebrew race which produced him. let this never be forgotten. the jews were great aggressors; they despoiled the egyptians and they took the promised land at the point of the sword, sparing neither man, woman nor child. their religious history has been built around a materialistic jehovah, possessive

ill mean concession and compromise on the part of the orthodox jews not the concession of expediency but the concession of conviction. let me point out also that just as the kabbalah and the talmud are secondary lines of esoteric approach to truth, and materialistic in their technique (embodying much of the magical work of relating one grade of matter to the substance of another grade, so the old testament is emphatically a secondary scripture, and spiritually does not rank with the bhagavad-gita, the ancient scriptures of the east and the new testament. its emphasis is material and its effect is to impress a purely materialistic jehovah upon world consciousness. the general theme of the old testament is the recovery of the highest expression of the divine wisdom in the first solar system;

e recovery of the highest expression of the divine wisdom in the first solar system; that system embodied the creative work of the third aspect of divinity that of active intelligence, expressing itself through matter. in this solar system, the created world is intended to be the expression of the second aspect, of the love of god. this the jew has never grasped, for the love expressed in the old testament is the separative, possessive love of jehovah for a distinct unit within the fourth or human kingdom. st. paul summed up the attitude which humanity should assume in the words "there is neither jew nor gentile" the evil karma of the jew today is intended to end his isolation, to bring him to the point of relinquishing material goals, of renouncing a nationality that has a tendency to be

he only hell is the earth itself, where we learn to work out our own salvation, actuated by the principle of love and light, and incited thereto by the example of the christ and the inner urge of our own souls. this teaching anent hell is a remainder of the sadistic turn which was given to the thinking of the christian church in the middle ages and to the erroneous teaching to be found in the old testament anent jehovah, the tribal god of the jews. jehovah is not god, the planetary logos, the eternal heart of love whom christ revealed. as these erroneous ideas die out, the concept of hell will fade from man's recollection and its place will be taken by an understanding of salvation upon the physical plane, which leads him to right the wrongs which he may have perpetrated in his lives on ea

divinity, the christ embodied and transmitted four qualities of this aspect to humanity, and consequently to the other kingdoms in nature the only four which humanity could absorb. only one of these four is as yet beginning to express itself the quality of goodwill. the other three will later be revealed, and one is related in a peculiar sense to the healing quality of love. according to the new testament, this quality was called by the christ "virtue (a somewhat inaccurate translation of the word originally used; christ employed it when healing force had been taken from him and he said "virtue has gone out of me" i have called this to your attention because this truth is directly related to this seventh law. we have seen, in connection with all the healing processes, that the dense physi

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ew age copyright 1998 lucis trust which leads to birth into light, carried forward in the light and producing the externalisation of the body of light. this continuing process (for in all ages this birth into light has been going forward) will produce that future world of light which it is the purpose of the natural processes of evolution to reveal. this is the "second birth" spoken of in the new testament, in which a man is "born again" into the world of light and love. from the angle of the new education, these new concepts will govern the mental attitude of parents in the coming civilisation, and for this the adolescent must be prepared. it is the misinterpretation of the newer concepts which is prevalent at this time and is thus producing the emphasis laid in certain countries and amon

one is the result of aeons of incarnating life and becomes in time a powerful repository of energies gathered out of a wide range of contacts, though conditioned by the ray type in its three aspects. the etheric body exists and is today functioning powerfully. the soul body is in process of being slowly constructed, and is that "house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens" to which the new testament refers (ii cor. 5: l. it is interesting to note that the old testament refers to the etheric body (ecc. 12:6-7) and its construction, and the new testament deals with the building of the spiritual body. 3. the science of the antahkarana must be studied in three ways: a. concretely and in relation to the etheric body, which is a substantial, tangible form, and is being so considered (thou

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e of the travail of his soul and be satisfied" the final line of the last stanza is also perhaps in need of explanation. it speaks of the task of the plan as implemented by humanity to "seal the door where evil dwells" this is (needless to say) a symbolic way of expressing the idea of rendering evil purposes both inactive and ineffectual. there is no particular location where evil dwells; the new testament in the book of revelations speaks of evil and of the destruction of the devil and of the rendering of satan impotent. those passages all refer to the same time cycle with which this invocation deals and which it seeks to bring about. the "door where evil dwells" is kept open by humanity through its selfish desire, its hatreds and its separateness, by its greed and its racial and national

l the vicissitudes of life and automatically registers these events; it therefore builds or creates that stream of ascending energy which is tinctured by the life qualities and the developed ray characteristics. along that stream, the life qualities and the developed ray characteristics can pass at will; the disciple will increasingly register the "things of the spirit" as it is called in the new testament; he will consequently acquire the facility to penetrate into the world of the hierarchy, and to reach eventually the door to the way of the higher evolution. he will at the same time function in the three worlds as a serving disciple. with this simple presentation of the antahkarana, you may find it easier to work during the coming year. as this thought-projection process or exercise bec

prime implementing factors and its scientific agents are the "sons of mind who choose to be the sons of men and yet for all eternity remain the sons of god" these "sons of mind" were chosen, in that far distant time when the fourth kingdom in nature came into being, to carry forward the science of redemption. there is a true historical and spiritually esoteric significance in the words in the new testament that the "whole creation groaneth and travaileth together in pain until now, waiting for the manifestation of the sons of god" st. paul is there referring to planetary purpose and to the determined insistence of the sons of god that eventually as they brought about the redemption of substance, of matter and form, and thus proved the possibility of that redemption through their own transf

ejection" a level from which the new and assembled energies are "let loose upon the world of outer forms" this process has been greatly facilitated since the entire hierarchy shifted its location (since 1925 a.d) from the higher mental levels to the buddhic plane, thereby making direct and unimpeded etheric reception possible. this is one of the significances of the words which we read in the new testament that "the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom" a symbolic way of expressing the unveiling of an unimpeded channel. this was made possible by the christ as the avatar, working in cooperation with the master jesus, and also by the point of evolution reached by the humanity of that time. we will leave the fifth point of revelation at this time and consider it in

ur work must now be more closely related to the christ. i refer not here solely to the preparation work in which you must all be engaged; i refer specifically to the christ himself, as a living individual, attentive to the reactions of disciples who possess sufficient strength of purpose, clarity of intention and dedication to enable them to touch the periphery of his aura (referred to in the new testament as "the hem of his garment. by this statement i do not mean the aura of the hierarchy. you are all of you already sensitive to that to a greater or less degree, for his quality impregnated the entire aura of the hierarchy. i mean his individual aura. a disciple has "the freedom of the hierarchy (as it is called) and can now make this attempt to reach within the individual aura of the chr

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blem as a humanitarian problem but also when the jew does his share of understanding, love and right action. this he does not yet do, speaking racially. he must let go of his own separative tendencies and of his deep sense of persecution. he will do this latter with great facility, when he grasps, as a race, the significance and inevitability of the law of karma, and from a close study of the old testament and of the acts and deeds there claimed by him as his racial acts and deeds (conquest, terrorism and cruelty, realises that the law is working out and incidentally releasing him for a greater future. there must, at the same time, be a realisation by the jew and gentile of equal responsibility and equal liability for the present world difficulty. the two forces to which i have been referr

interference and intervention; this succeeded in salvaging an ethically sound minority (the word "spiritual" would not yet apply, except relatively) and in destroying those who were wrongly focussed or oriented and, therefore, dedicated to the life of material aspiration and perception. this nucleus which was saved, formed the basis of our present root race, the aryan. the whole theme of the old testament is built around the development and growth of this nucleus. symbolically speaking, the inhabitants of the ark and their descendants and the jewish race stand for the salvaged remnant of humanity salvaged in spite of themselves and in face of stupendous difficulties by the great white lodge- 81- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust two points warrant attention h

the three centres: humanity, hierarchy and shamballa. that relation is now becoming somewhat established; the inflow of light and love to humanity is now possible if the disciples and aspirants of the world can be led to make the needed effort to stand in spiritual being and, from that poised attentive attitude, to invoke these great entities. it was to this possibility that the story in the new testament refers where reference is made to the pool which was stirred at times by the angel and thus a condition was produced which led to the healing of the sick. the angel of the presence, the soul of humanity, as embodied in the hierarchy and those who are consciously endeavouring to function as souls can now stir these reservoirs of force and light upon etheric levels in shamballa so that a d

plane focal point..the throat centre planetary centre..h. umanity thus all the great centres are linked and all the planes are interrelated; the past has contributed its finished work; the present is evoking its just and right development; the future of wonder and of divine possibility appears its results contingent upon a spirit of right understanding and invocation. three statements in the new testament begin now to demonstrate their profound- 107- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust esoteric significance and their amazing living potency: i am the light of the world..the forces of light phrase 1. 2nd aspect my peace i give unto you..the spirit of peace phrase 2. 1st aspect love thy neighbour as thyself..the men of goodwill phrase 3. 3rd aspect the three aspec

sation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust world saviour) who saves humanity. it is the sacrifice, day by day, in the process of daily living which can save the world of men the sacrifice of selfish personal interests for the good of the whole and the giving up of one's practical life to the salvage of the world. it is living in order that others too may live which is the theme of the new testament. when, therefore, the mode of sacrifice enters into the realm of the subtler and subjective values and the true meaning of forgiveness is intellectually, practically and spiritually comprehended, the new age will be abundantly realised with its truly human civilisation and a culture which will embody the realities of the esoteric teaching, as well as the best of the externalised past. th

some man, or some group of men, so that they will be inspired to bring about the victory of liberty- 176- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust let the rider from the secret place come forth and coming save. come forth, o mighty one. here we come up against one of the oldest traditions in the world and of the ancient east; one, too, which finds its counterpart in the new testament, where the coming one is seen coming forth to the rescue of the people "riding upon a white horse" in the occident we have for long thought in terms of the "lamb, slain from the foundations of the world" and in this statement lies a profound astrological truth. it refers to that great round of the zodiac (a period of approximately 25,000 years) in which the sun passes through all the twe

will inevitably be potently felt, evoking an immediate human response. this will prove an incontrovertible fact. that his radiation will reach forth and surround his disciples, struggling in the conflict with evil, is also certain and sure. this will enable them to make the supreme effort which will win the battle for humanity. that he will come in "the air" is a well-known prophecy from the new testament, thus enabling "every eye to see him" these words have more meaning today than when written nearly two thousand years ago, for this world conflict is outstandingly an aerial one. students and those using this invocation would be wise to bear this in mind or they may fail to see and recognise the deliverer when he comes a thing which has happened before. we come now to the second stanza

rning the appearing and the disappearing of great and active energies which pass in and out of manifestation, fulfilling the purposes of deity and yet limited and handicapped by the quality of the forms upon which they make their impact. if any intervention is possible and takes place, it will be an "intervention in time" such an intervention is hinted at in the sacred scriptures, such as the new testament, where it is foretold that "for the sake of the elect, the time shall be shortened" the real meaning of this (which is not apparent in the rather inadequate translation which we have) is "because of the elect or because of those who know and who take right action, the progress of evil can be arrested" this is encouraging, and i commend the thought to your attention. there is a power whic

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isolation and the freeing process which brings about the merging into unity through the emission of the sound, the cry, the invocation, such as the cry of the christ upon the cross symbolised. his exact words have not been transmitted to us. they vary for each ray, but all bring about the recognition of divine merging, in which all separating veils are "rent from the top to the bottom (as the new testament expresses it- 26- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust b. the omniscience of the divine whole is also brought home to the initiate through the medium of the clear cold light, and the phases of "isolated experience" as it is sometimes occultly called, is forever ended. i would have you realise what this can mean in so far as possi

he sees the light and hears the word; but this is something different and is the higher correspondence to the earlier experience. it will be obvious that i can say no more upon this subject. it is essential, however, that some knowledge begin to reach the public anent the highest spiritual centre to which (as the gospel story intimates) christ himself was attentive. frequently we read in the new testament that "the father spoke to him" that "he heard a voice" and that the seal of affirmation (as it is occultly called) was given to him. only the father, the planetary logos, the lord of the world, enunciates the final affirmative sound. this has no reference when it occurs to the earlier initiations, but only to the final ones. there are five obvious crises of initiation which concern the m

ne expression in life and service of the first great divine aspect, the will aspect, is the goal held before the members of the hierarchy. they too are on the way of evolution, and their goal is to pass through the "eye of the needle" on their way to the higher evolution. this higher evolution is that which opens up before a master of the wisdom. the use of this esoteric term by christ in the new testament story gives us a hint as to the nature of the exalted consciousness which he expressed. faced by the rich young man who possessed so much, christ indicated that he needed to prepare himself- 75- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust for a great negation and for a step forward. the true significance of this has never been grasped a

the wisdom is to let in the light, utilising those rents which already exist within the veils of maya. three major rents within these veils might here be noted. they are symbolically referred to in the bible, though their essential meaning has not been noted or comprehended. the first major rent was made by the establishment of the law of god, and this is portrayed for us symbolically in the old testament in the story of moses. he went up into the mount of god and there received the ten commandments. this is the expression of divine law as adapted for humanity and as needed in the projection of those forces which will destroy, purify and reorganise. moses, the lawgiver, penetrated to one of the halls within the veils of maya, and there encountered the glory of the lord. this was of such a

h clear purpose further the ends of evolution. transmutation "disappears" out of his own life, but the forces which have been transmuted into spiritual energy begin now to have a dynamic transmutative effect in the world of forms wherein he now chooses to work and serve, according to his ray and ashramic intent. 4. impartation. reference to this is made in the book of revelation, found in the new testament. there we are told that the initiate is given a white stone, and in the stone "a new name" is found written; this is the "hidden name egoic" i am at a loss at this point as to how to express the higher significance of this. this impartation marks a climaxing point in the attainment of the point of tension where the sound can be heard and not the word alone. never forget that the o.m. is

rld of unity into which they have succeeded in penetrating. they, therefore, are demonstrating oneness and synthesis in such a simple way that men everywhere can grasp it. the new group of world servers is the vanguard of the kingdom of god, the living proof of the existence of the world of spiritual oneness. to all applicants the call has gone out to see the christ as he is, in order (as the new testament puts it) that "as he is, so should we be in the world" to disciples and initiates the call goes out to reveal to the world the grouped formation of all spiritual workers, the nature of the christ consciousness which knows no separation, which recognises all men everywhere as sons of god in process of expression. this is all desired because of the need to emphasise the all-inclusive appro

one of the factors which disciples have to learn and grasp whilst preparing for an initiation, because it involves success in handling and manipulating certain types of divine energy. each of the initiations brings one or other of the seven centres into full functioning activity, not from the angle of awakening or of stimulation, but from the angle of a "wheel turning upon itself" this is an old testament expression and is wholly inadequate, but i can find none other to substitute. the wording is totally blind and inadequate and will prove to you somewhat meaningless, except to the initiate who has experienced that turning. as esoteric astrologers know well, there comes a life cycle wherein the disciple reverses himself upon the wheel of life (the zodiacal wheel) and from going clockwise

consciousness throughout all time in the heart of every human being; to this the words and promise "lo, i am with you all the days, even until the end of the world" bear witness. it is owing to the deeply esoteric meaning of the resurrection and the ascension and their major significance, referring to the consciousness of the christ, that nothing much is told us about these initiations in the new testament, except the vaguest generalities, in contradistinction to the wealth of detail given anent the other four initiations. four of these initiations are related to the "door of initiation" as occultly understood and with the interpretation of which we are familiar; these four are related also to the electrical "fire by friction" of which that door is constructed, and which spreads to and cre

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obligation certain of the ancient masonic rituals, and symbolizes the drinking of that which we have ourselves brewed. in other words, the same truth can be expressed in the words of christian bible "as a man soweth, so shall he also reap [107] then we have, thirdly, corvus, the raven, that stands upon hydra, the serpent, and pecks at it. it has nine stars, again the number of initiation. the old testament started with a raven, the new testament starts with a dove. experience starts with the bird of matter and ends with the bird of spirit. it is interesting to note that in aquarius, the consummating sign to leo, we find cygnus, the swan, the symbol of the bird of spirit. in the voice of the silence we read "and then thou canst repose between the wings of the great bird. aye, sweet to rest

he energy of the mind. in this virgo lecture a.a.b. gave a most interesting sequence of prophetic references to the virgin as follows- 69- the labours of hercules "behold, i will bring forth my servant, the branch (zechariah 3:8. one symbol of virgo is the woman with the ear of corn, or the sheaf of wheat, or the branch of fruit in her arms. remember also the prophecy in isaiah upon which our new testament is based "and a virgin shall conceive and bring forth a son, and link up with that verse in ephesians when st. paul said that some day we shall attain unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of christ. i would remind you that christ laid the emphasis again and again on the new birth rather than on blood sacrifice. the esoteric meaning is "the blood is the life. we are always too

from whom he came "a server of the world you have become" the teacher said when hercules drew nigh "you have gone on by going back; you have come to the house of light by yet another path; you have spent your light that the light of others might shine. the jewel that the eleventh labor gives is yours forever more" f.m. the energies of aquarius (lecture by a.a.b. 1937) there is a phrase in the new testament "the end of the world. it is just beginning to dawn upon many of us that what was really meant was that the sign pisces, in which christ, the great world savior, came, would end at a particular date, and we are right in that time now. we are not facing a judgment day in which the sheep and goats will be divided and some go to heaven and others go to hell. many ridiculous interpretations

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

e form of lectures to a society of hermetic students in 1888. since that date a french translation of "the zohar" by jean de pauly, and a work entitled "the literature and history of the kabalah" by arthur e. waite, have been published, yet i think that this little treatise will be found of interest to those who have not sufficient leisure to master the more complete works on the kabalah. the old testament has been of necessity referred to, but i have by intention made no references to the new testament, or to the faith and doctrines taught by jesus the christ, as the saviour of the world: if any desire to refer to the alleged reference in the kabalah to the trinity, it will be found in the zohar ii, 43, b: and an english version of the same in "the kabbalah" by c. d. ginsburg. wm. wynn we

p in some of the old manuscript works. the dogmatic or theoretical kabalah indicates philosophical conceptions respecting the deity, angels and beings more spiritual than man; the human soul and its several aspects or parts; concerning pre-existence and re-incarnation and the several worlds or planes of existence. the practical kabalah attempts a mystical and allegorical interpretation of the old testament, studying each phrase, word and letter; it teaches the connection between letters and numbers and the modes of their inter-relation; the principles of gematria, notaricon, and temura; the formation and uses of the divine and angelic names as amulets; the formation of magic squares; and a vast fund of allied curious lore, which subsequently formed the basis of mediaeval magic. for those w

t the time of the second temple when cyrus, sovereign of all asia, 536 b.c, holding the jews in captivity, permitted certain of them to return to jerusalem for the express purpose of reestablishing the hebrew mode of worship which had been forcibly interfered with by nebuchadnezzar in 587 b.c. after this return to jerusalem it was that ezra and nehemiah, circa 450 b.c, edited and compiled the old testament of the hebrews, or according to those who deny the mosaic authorship and the solomonic r gime, it was then that they wrote the pentateuch. the renewed worship maintained until 320 b.c, when jerusalem was captured by ptolemy soter, who, however, did not destroy the foundations of the jewish religion; indeed his successor, ptolemy philadelphus, caused the hebrew scriptures to be revised an

e pentateuch. the renewed worship maintained until 320 b.c, when jerusalem was captured by ptolemy soter, who, however, did not destroy the foundations of the jewish religion; indeed his successor, ptolemy philadelphus, caused the hebrew scriptures to be revised and translated into greek by seventy-two scholars, about 277 b.c; this has been known for centuries as the septuagint version of the old testament. further jewish troubles followed, however, and jerusalem was again taken and pillaged by antiochus in 170 b.c. then followed the long wars of the maccabees; subsequently the romans dominated judea, then quarrelling with the jews the city was taken by pompey, and not long after was again plundered by the roman general crassus in 54 b.c. yet the jewish religion was preserved, and we find

en by pompey, and not long after was again plundered by the roman general crassus in 54 b.c. yet the jewish religion was preserved, and we find the religious feasts and festivals all in progress at the time of jesus; yet once more in a.d. 70, was the holy city taken, plundered and burnt, and that by titus, who became emperor of the romans in a.d. 79. through all these vicissitudes, the hebrew old testament survived, yet must almost unavoidably have had many alterations and additions made to its several treatises; the more esoteric doctrines which were handed down along the line of the priestly caste, and not incorporated with the torah offered to the people, may no doubt have been repeatedly varied by the influences of contending teachers. soon after this period was framed the first series

oidably have had many alterations and additions made to its several treatises; the more esoteric doctrines which were handed down along the line of the priestly caste, and not incorporated with the torah offered to the people, may no doubt have been repeatedly varied by the influences of contending teachers. soon after this period was framed the first series of glosses and commentaries on the old testament books, which have come down to our times. of these the earliest are the volume called the "targum of onkelos" on "the law" written about a.d. 100, and that of jonathan ben uzziel on "the prophets" about a.d 141 there first came into note the now famous treatise written by the rabbis of judah, called "mishna" and this formed the basis of those vast compilations of hebrew doctrine called t

lon-the most notable, and the other associated with jerusalem. to the original "mishna" the rabbis added further commentaries named "gemara" from this time the literature of judaism grew apace, and there was a constant succession of notable hebrew rabbis who published religious treatises, until at least a.d. 1500. the two talmuds were first printed at venice in 1520 and 1523 respectively. the old testament books were the guiding light through the ages of the jews, but the learned rabbis were not satisfied with them alone, and they supplemented them by two parallel series of works of literature; the one, talmudic, being commentaries based upon thirteen rules of argument delivered by moses to illustrate the old testament, and supply material for teaching the populace; and the other a long se

elements, the seven planets, and the twelve zodiacal influences of the heavens, which tincture human concerns through the path of our sun in its annual course. i have given the names and definitions of the thirty-two paths at the end of my edition of the" sepher yetzirah" now to show the close connection between the kabalah and orthodox judaism, we find the rabbis cataloguing the books of the old testament into a series of twenty-two (the letters) works to be read for the culture of spiritual life; this twenty-two they obtained from the thirty-nine books of the o.t. canon, by collecting the twelve minor prophets into one treatise; ruth they added to judges; ezra to nehemiah; while the two books each of samuel, kings, and chronicles, they called one each. the canon of thirty-nine works was

APOCALYPSE MOSES

itual disse sthe forgotten books of eden translated in the late 1800's by dr. s. c. malan and dr. e. trumpp. translated into king james english from both the arabic version and the ethiopic version which was then published in the forgotten books of eden in 1927 by the world publishing company. apocalypses moses part of the "forgotten" books of eden from-the apocrypha and pseudepigrapha of the old testament r.h. charles oxford: the clarendon press, 1913 scanned and edited by joshua williams northwest nazarene college,1995 this is the story of adam and eve after they had gone out of paradise. chapter 1. 1 and adam knew his wife eve and went upwards to the sun-rising and abode there eighteen years and two months. 2 and eve conceived and bare two sons; adiaphotos, who is called cain and amilab

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religious beliefs- is apparently becoming more and more problematic to some. a new trend within the american christian spiritual experience is a movement that is being called "dominionism" it is sometimes called "christian reconstructionism" and appears to have grown out of conservative presbyterianism during the early 1970's. dominionist beliefs are evidently derived from genesis 1:26 of the old testament "then god said 'let us make man in our image, in our likeness and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground (niv) 12 dominionist theologians believe that it is their responsibility, as christians, to bring the entire world- all countries, societies, and governments- under t

rs are probably sweating at the brow by now. however, let's keep a good head on our shoulders. there are certain things we need to keep in mind about these dominionists and their relations to the rest of christianity. for one thing, it is important to acknowledge that, unlike most other forms of fundamentalist christianity, dominionists stress the importance of the hebrew scriptures (i.e, the old testament) over the christian scriptures (i.e, the new testament. this is a highly unusual position for fundamentalist christians to take. usually it is believed among the more conservative christians that the old testament is not nearly as important as the new testament. so this right here is an example of how unusual dominionists actually are. another thing is that dominionists openly claim that

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is the first divine manifestation* containing "every possible power of exact expression of proportion" by this kabalistic speculation we are taught that the sephiroth "were the numbers or emanations of the heavenly light (figures 20612 to 6561, they were the 10 'words' dbrim, 41224, the light, of which they were the flux, was the heavenly man, the adam kdm (the 144- 144; and the light, by the new testament or covenant (or 41224) created god; just as, by the old testament god (alhim, 31415) creates light (20612 to 6561" now there are three kinds of light in occultism, as in the kabala (1) the abstract and absolute light, which is darkness (2) the light of the manifested-unmanifested, called by some the logos; and (3) the latter light reflected in the dhyan chohans, the minor logoi (the eloh

seven points of the triangle and the cube* whence the kabalistic name of shells given to the astral form, the body called kama rupa, left behind by the higher angels in the shape of the higher manas, when the latter leaves for devachan, forsaking its residue* which shows that the essenes believed in re-birth and many reincarnations on earth, as jesus himself did, a fact we can prove from the new testament itself[[vol. 2, page] 112 the secret doctrine. i corinthians vi, 3 "know ye not that we (the initiates) shall judge angels? finally, it is shown in every ancient scripture and cosmogony that man evolved primarily as a luminous incorporeal form, over which, like the molten brass round the clay model of the sculptor, the physical frame of his body was built by, through, and from, the lower

is, the patriarchs are all convertible in their numbers, as well as interchangeable. according to the subject to which they relate they become ten, twelve, seven or five, and even fourteen, and they have the same esoteric meaning as the manus or rishis. moreover, jehovah, as may be shown, has a variety of etymologies, but only those are true which are found in the kabala[[hebrew (ieve) is the old testament term, and was pronounced ya-va. inman suggests that it is contracted from the two words[[hebrew] yaho-iah, jaho-jah, or jaho is jah. punctuated it is[[hebrew] which is, however, a rabbinical caprice to associate it with the name adoni or[[hebrew, which has the same points. it is curious, and indeed hardly conceivable, that the jews anciently read the name[[hebrew (adoni, when they had so

tian era, when. the customs and religion of the egyptians fell into decadency! this is hardly possible, since jude quotes in his epistle from the "book of enoch (verse 14; and, therefore, as archbishop laurence, the translator of the book of enoch from the ethiopic version, remarks, it "could not have been the production of a writer who lived after. or was even coeval with" the writers of the new testament: unless, indeed, jude and the gospels, and all that follows, was also a production of the already established church- which, some critics say, is not impossible. but we are now concerned with the "fallen angels" of enoch, rather than with enoch himself. in indian exotericism, these angels (asuras) are also denounced as "the enemies of the gods" those who oppose sacrificial worship offere

r. strange to say, the occult teaching reverses the characters; it is the anthropomorphous archangel with the christians, and the man-like god with the hindus, which represent matter in this case; and the dragon, or serpent, spirit. occult symbolism furnishes the key to the mystery; theological symbolics conceal it still more. for the former explains many a saying in the bible and even in the new testament which have hitherto remained incomprehensible; while the latter, owing to its dogma of satan and his rebellion, has belittled the character and nature of its would-be infinite, absolutely perfect god, and created the greatest evil and curse on earth- belief in a personal devil. this mystery is opened with the key to its metaphysical symbolism now restored; while that of theological inter

erefore, their great arts of meteorography and meteorology. it is from them, again, that the aryans inherited their most valuable science of the hidden virtues of precious and other stones, of chemistry, or rather alchemy, of mineralogy, geology, physics and astronomy. several times the writer has put to herself the question "is the story of exodus- in its details at least- as narrated in the old testament, original? or is it, like the story of moses himself and many others, simply another version of the legends told of the atlanteans" for who, upon hearing the story told of the latter, will fail to perceive the great similarity of the fundamental features? the anger of "god" at the obduracy of pharaoh, his command to the "chosen" ones, to spoil the egyptians, before departing, of their "j

e ark of the covenant" the biblical jews of to-day do not date from moses but from david- even admitting the identity of the old genuine with the later and remodelled mosaic scrolls. before that time their nationality is lost in the mists of prehistoric darkness, the veil from which is now withdrawn as much as we have space to do so. it is only to the days of the babylonian captivity that the old testament may be referred by the most lenient criticism, as the approximately correct views that were current about the days of moses. even such fanatical christians and worshippers of jehovah as the rev. mr. horne, have to admit the numerous changes and alterations made by the later compilers of the "book of god" since it was found by hilkiah (see "introduction to the old testament" and also bish

in the work of marangone "delle grandezze del archangelo sancto mikaele" the author exclaims "o star, the greatest of those that follow the sun who is christ[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 479 god and devil, both metatrons. the church accepts positively the tenet that christ has his ferouer as any other god or mortal has. writes de mirville "here we have the two heroes of the old testament, the verbum, or the second jehovah, and his face('presence' as the protestants translate) forming both but one, and yet being two, a mystery which seemed to us unsolvable before we had studied the doctrine of the mazdean ferouers, and learnt that the ferouer was the spiritual potency, at once image, face, and the guardian of the soul which finally assimilates the ferouer (memoires a l'ac

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y the brahmins from the bible! but the facts cited by the oxford professor in his lectures on the "science of religion" concerning the now famous interpolations, for the benefit, and later on to the sorrow, of col. wilford, do not at all interfere with the conclusions to which one who studies the secret doctrine must unavoidably come. for, if the results show that neither the new nor even the old testament borrowed anything from the more ancient religion of the brahmans and buddhists, it does not follow that the jews have not borrowed all they knew from the chaldean records, the latter being mutilated later on by eusebius. as to the chaldeans, they assuredly got their primitive learning from the brahmans, for rawlinson shows an undeniably vedic influence in the early mythology of babylon;

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

of all the other exoteric faiths, by showing the dogmas in their real, naked meaning. and then this undeniable meaning, however incomplete, will unveil the mystery of being, besides changing entirely the modern scientific systems of anthropology, ethnology and especially that of chronology. the element of phallicism, found in every godname and narrative in the old (and to some degree in the new) testament, may also in time considerably change modern materialistic views in biology and physiology. divested of their modern repulsive crudeness, such views of nature and man, on the authority of the celestial bodies and their mysteries[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] final stage of the sacred mysteries" had mr. staniland wake been a theosophist, he might have added that the

e infinite space. and this spirit is nara-yana, or vishnu[[footnote(s* see "the holy of holies* the word "eternity" by which christian theologians interpret the term "for ever and ever" does not exist in the hebrew tongue- either as a word or meaning. oulam, says le clerc, only imports a time when beginning or end is not known. it does not mean "infinite duration" and the word for ever in the old testament, only signifies a "long time" nor is the term "eternity" used in the christian sense in the puranas. for in vishnu purana, it is clearly stated that by eternity and immortality only "existence to the end of the kalpa" is meant (book ii. chap. viii* orphic theogony is purely oriental and indian in its spirit. the successive transformations it has undergone, have now separated it widely fr

lity. therefore, no pantheistic philosopher would fail to find the remarks that follow the above and which represent the anthropomorphism of judean symbology, other than dangerous for the sacredness of true religion, and fitting only our materialistic age, which is the direct outcome and result of that anthropomorphic character. for this is the key-note to the entire spirit and essence of the old testament "therefore" goes on the mss, treating of the symbolism of art-speech of the bible "the locality of the womb is to be taken as the most holy place, the sanctum sanctorum, and the veritable temple of the living god* with man the possession of the woman has always been considered as an essential part of himself, to make one out of two, and jealously guarded as sacred. even the part of the o

dic woman was as free as man; and no impure terrestrial thought was ever mixed with the religious symbo[[footnote(s* surely the words of the old initiate into the primitive mysteries of christianity "know ye not ye are the temple of god (i corinth. iii. 16) could not be applied in this sense to men? the meaning may have been, and was so, undeniably, in the minds of the hebrew compilers of the old testament. and here is the abyss that lies between the symbolism of the new testament and the jewish canon. this gulf would have remained and ever widened, had not christianity- especially and most glaringly the latin church- thrown a bridge over it? modern popery has now spanned it entirely, by its dogma of the two immaculate conceptions, and the anthropomorphic and at the same time idolatrous ch

sacred symbol to represent that god, who is shown as branding its entering into function as disobedience and everlasting sin! who can ever fathom the paradoxical depths of the semitic mind? and this paradoxical element, minus its innermost significance, has now passed entirely into christian theology and dogma! whether the early fathers of the church knew the esoteric meaning of the hebrew (old) testament, or whether only a few of them were aware of it, while the others remained ignorant of the secret, is for[[footnote(s* the same idea is carried out exoterically in the incidents of egypt. the lord god tempts sorely pharaoh and "plagues him with great plagues" lest the king should escape punishment, and thus afford no pretext for one more triumph to his "chosen people[[vol. 1, page] 384 t

t, is for[[footnote(s* the same idea is carried out exoterically in the incidents of egypt. the lord god tempts sorely pharaoh and "plagues him with great plagues" lest the king should escape punishment, and thus afford no pretext for one more triumph to his "chosen people[[vol. 1, page] 384 the secret doctrine. posterity to decide. one thing is certain, at any rate. as the esotericism of the new testament agrees perfectly with that of the hebrew mosaic books; and since, at the same time, a number of purely egyptian symbols and pagan dogmas in general- the trinity for example- have been copied by, and incorporated into, the synoptics and st. john, it becomes evident that the identity of those symbols was known to the writers of the new testament, whoever they were. they must have been awar

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be treated as such while in the field, and slain or captured as the officer of the brother may command. but within the precincts of the lodge all such divisions are to be forgotten absolutely; and as children of one father the enemies of the hour before and the hour after are to dwell in peace, amity, and fraternity. eighth house 33. every brother is expected to bear witness in his last will and testament to the great benefit that he hath received from the order by bestowing upon it part or the whole of his goods, as he may deem fit. 34. the death of a brother is not be an occasion of melancholy, but of rejoicing; the brethren of his lodge shall gather together and make a banquet with music and dancing and all manner of gladness. it is of the greatest importance liber ci 217 that this sha

ce, and deal with the psychology of the case, its genesis and cure; volume iii is by hyslop, and takes it up.as we might have supposed.from the .spiritualistic. point of view, and endeavours to prove that the various personalities are not such at all, in reality, but probably .spirits. who are .obsessing. the poor girl, and causing all the reviews 287 disturbance. shades of witchcraft and the new testament.here is a joyous revival, in the twentieth century! we have a girl, doris fischer, born in 1889 (of german parents, who developed, in all, five distinct personalities, each of which received a special name. besides the original .doris. we find .sick doris .margaret. and .sleeping margaret. and .sleeping real doris. these five personalities are said to have shown varied characteristics (a

BOOK OF PLEASURE

e blended into unity and symbolized. one form made by two, that is three-fold and having four directions*(1) about this "self; all conception is the dual principle, the law which is its conception*(2) the unmodified sex principle refracted through the dual principle emanates the infinite variety of emotions or sexualities, which may be called its ramifications. the transcendental law, the law and testament of the "new" the law of kia is its own arbiter, beyond necessitation, who can grasp the nameless kia? obvious but unintelligible, without form, its design most excellent. its wish is its superabundance, who can assert its mysterious purpose? by our knowledge it becomes more obscure, more remote, and our faith-opacity. without attribute, i know not its name. how free it is, it has no need

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use the tribe worshipped a god or gods other than the christian one. it would not matter that the people were good, happy, often morally and ethically better living than the vast majority of christians. they had to be converted! the charge of devil-worship, so often leveled at witches, is ridiculous. the devil is a purely christian invention; there being no mention of him, as such, before the new testament. in fact it is interesting to note that the whole concept of evil associated with the devil is due to an error in translation. the original old testament hebrew ha-satan and the new testament greek diabolos simply mean "opponent" or "adversary. it should be remembered that the idea of dividing the supreme power into two good and evil is the idea of an advanced and complex civilization. t

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

sympathizers, vesey provided the charleston uprising with a spiritual impetus that secular ideology did not supply. religion became both a tool and a motivating force. but while christianity gave justification to the noble but dangerous cause of freedom fighting, ritual action was the catalyst. combining biblical rhetoric and antislavery discourse to inspire his followers, vesey utilized the old testament trope that identified the slaves with the israelites, portraying blacks as freedom fighters in a decisive struggle that had already\ 66\ been foretold in sacred history. as described in the confessions of rolla bennett, a slave of the former governor, vesey held secret gatherings in which he planned strategy and shared his revolutionary ideas. in a meeting at his home, vesey gave a milit

phy, ithiel clemmons argues that mason was "committed to preserving the african spirit cosmology" and other "distinctive african cultural expressions" the ethicist cheryl sanders notes that pentecostal healing practices designated "as african and magical.such as prayer, anointing the sick with oil, laying on of hands, and the commission of special cloths or handkerchiefs.are also found in the new testament (clemmons, bishop c. h. mason and the roots of the church of god in christ [bakerfield, calif: pneuma life publishing, 1996, pp. 33.34, 78; and sanders, saints in exile: the holiness-pentecostal experience in african-american religion and culture [new york: oxford university press, 1996, p. 8. 40. j. o. patterson, german ross, and julia mason atkins, history and formative years of the ch

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pirates based in cilicia (a province on the southeastern coast of asia minor) were practicing secret rites of mithras. 46-120 plutarch 20 bc- 45 philo of alexandria, jewish platonic philosopher 10 bce apollonius of tyana 4? bce-33 ce jesus founds christianity. diamond sutra. heart sutra. 1st century ce apollonius of tyana flourished. nagarjuna- first order 4 magic square, in india. 1st to 3rd ce) testament of solomon composed 17 egyptian zodiac at denderah is erected. 30-96 new testament. 50-63 (n.t) colossians, philemon, ephesians, philippians. c.50 chaeremon egyptian stoic philosopher and grammarian, superintendent of the alexandrian library kept in the temple of serapis, and as custodian and expounder of the sacred books belonged to the higher ranks of the priesthood. wrote an account o

milano, 1973, p.142. 1150 turba philosophorum translated from arabic. c. 1150: abbess hildegard of bingen (1078-1179, hailed as the "sibyl of the rhine" writes the scivias and a series of important letters; she also composes music and verse, including the ordo virtutum. c.1150 "the ysagoge in theologiam" text from the school of abelard (christian knowledge of jewish speculation)held that the old testament evidenced in hebrew the incarnation of the word and trinity in the unity of divine essence more than the latin or greek. c.1150 geoffrey of monmouth's "life of merlin" 1150 fl. ya aqob nazir (the nazirian) underwent in jerusalem initiation into mystical and angelogical traditions one of the handfull of jews from provence who were alledged daily access to the revelations of the prophet el

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

roughout known history the tost sheep' symbolism has been used to describe our plight. we have somehow become detached from our higher potential, our power 3 w 4. and the truth shall set you free source; again, we see this portrayed symbolically throughout history and cultures in phrases such as lost children' who have become disconnected from 'the father. the story of the prodigal son in the new testament is an obvious example. i believe that, symbolically, this is precisely what has happened and the consequences of that explain so much of the world we live in today. i feel it is impossible to appreciate what has happened unless we can open our minds to the existence of what we call extraterrestrial life. that can include an infinite variety of forms. all i mean by extraterrestrial is 'no

ssed a sealed message from their communicator to the pope, with instructions that it was only to be opened and made public in 1960. the pope did open it in 1960, but we are still waiting for all of it to be made public! one thing is for sure: if it had confirmed the basis of the roman catholic religion, it would have hit the airwaves within minutes. so what did it say? i am convinced that the old testament 'god' known as yhwh (yahweh) is also based on an extraterrestrial, or more likely, a series of them. interestingly, while the jewish religion is perceived as a 'one god' faith, the original hebrew texts do not support this. while the english translation refers to a 'god, the hebrew talks of elohim, the plural meaning 'gods. similarly, while we read the word 'lord' in the english, the heb

e original hebrew texts do not support this. while the english translation refers to a 'god, the hebrew talks of elohim, the plural meaning 'gods. similarly, while we read the word 'lord' in the english, the hebrew refers to adonai, the plural 'lords. jehovah, who is often interchanged with yahweh, would seem to have a different origin. another extraterrestrial, most probably. if you read the old testament and other ancient texts and replace every reference to 'god' or 'the gods' with 'extraterrestrial, the whole thing begins to make sense and becomes so obvious. it is important to remember that in evolutionary terms, the time span between the period when these accounts were written and today is nothing, hardly the blink of an eye. modern ufo phenomena as reported by thousands of people- w

he bible story of the garden of eden is mirrored in the much earlier sumerian story of the garden of edinnu, and even the idea of the sabbath can be found in the sumerian day of rest, the sabattu. the jewish peoples were held in captivity in babylon and, when they were freed by the persians, they took many of the babylonian stories and beliefs back to palestine. these found their way into the old testament of the bible and through that into the new testament. today's religions are the recycling of ancient beliefs and symbolic stories which have been added to and twisted under the guidance of the prison warder consciousness, until the original meaning has been lost under an avalanche of myth and invention. so often when you investigate the origin of the foundation stories of the religions

se..worship me with fire and blood; worship me with swords and with spears. let the woman be girt with a sword before me: let blood flow in my name. trample down the heathen; be upon them, o warrior, i will give you their flesh to eat..sacrifice cattle, little and big; after a child..kill and torture; spare not; be upon them!"5 if that sounds remarkably like some of the angry god stuff in the old testament, that's because it was almost certainly the same force on the fourth dimension which communicated to the ancients, to crowley, and to anyone else on that vibration who would help to stimulate the conflict and the energy of human misery, on which the prison warders feed. this is the force that controls the consciousness of those which control the global elite-illuminati-brotherhood, and i

ories of the melchedekans, i was interested to come across an organisation called the raelian foundation. it is based in 216 .and the truth shall set you free geneva, switzerland, with branches around the world. this is the creation of a former french motor racing journalist called claude vorilhon rael (rail) who claims to have met an extraterrestrial group which he says are the elohim of the old testament. rael says he was taken to their planet and he was told that the elohim genetically engineered the human race. according to the stories told in the secret 1960s survey of contactees, the ones known as elohim were the melchedekans. rael claims to be the "messiah" of the elohim, the "guide of guides, and they instructed him, he says, to tell people that they must do everything he says. oh

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f the reptilian species on the earth alone, it would be more amazing if there were not reptilians of a humanoid and intelligent variety. these "gods" interbred with each other and the more primitive earth people and these unions are recorded in endless ancient accounts. these were the sons of god who interbred with the daughters of men to seed the hybrid race, the nefilim, as described in the old testament book of genesis. the most important interbreeding was between the reptilians and the blond-haired, blue-eyed, nordic peoples, both of extraterrestrial origin, as an alliance was formed between factions of these races. the union produced what has been called the aryan or "noble" race- the "master race" of the nazis. this is the fusion of the nordic and reptilian dna (the genetic m xxii ch

tean goat god called pan. they first landed on the peloponnese in greece and settled in arcadia, according to ancient greek records. arcadia has always been a sacred place to the illuminati bloodlines and was apparently a name for atlantis. the danaans left atlantis to settle in asia minor (now turkey, greece, and the islands of the aegean. they are claimed by some authors to descend from the old testament tribe of dan, but so much in the bible is symbolic rather than literal or downright untrue. the name danaans derived from their serpent moon goddess, dana or diana. the danaans made the headquarters of their serpent-worshipping culture on the island of rhodes, a name that originates from a syrian word for serpent.51 rhodes was the home of the danaan brotherhood of initiates and magicians

y of king sargon is a classic case. they said that his mother floated him in a basket of rushes on the river and he was found by a member of the sumerian royal family who brought him up as their own.8 the hebrews, or rather their manipulating priests, the levites, later stole this ancient story from the sumerian accounts and used it in the fable of their invented character known as moses. the old testament is founded on sumerian accounts, edited and rewritten as required, to create a manufactured history and religion called judaism. the new testament is based on symbolic stories repeated over and over in the thousands of years before its creation and based on the sumerian (and golden age) religion of sun worship. the new testament texts, in turn, created a manufactured religion and history

in more recent times, many books have been written translating their content. but although these accounts of sumer, and far ancient history before the earth's upheavals, demolish the official version of events, once again the same old story goes on being told to children and students by official academia. you do not have to delve into the translations for long to see that much of the biblical old testament is simply an edited rewrite of these sumerian stories. the tablets talk of how king sargon was floated on a river in a basket of rushes, as i mentioned earlier. the bible tells this same story of "moses. the tablets describe a place called e.din("the abode of the righteous ones. the bible speaks of eden the garden of "god. the story of genesis is a summary of the same basic story that is

asket of rushes, as i mentioned earlier. the bible tells this same story of "moses. the tablets describe a place called e.din("the abode of the righteous ones. the bible speaks of eden the garden of "god. the story of genesis is a summary of the same basic story that is told in the sumerian tablets in far more detail. interestingly, many of the terms translated into the english version of the old testament as "god" come from words that actually mean gods, plural, and the sumerians said the founders of their civilisation were a race of beings that came to this planet from elsewhere in the 68 t blood brothers 69 heavens bringing great knowledge and technology. as i have already indicated, the sumerians called these beings the anunna and their later semitic name was an.unnak.ki("those who fro

s was especially the offspring of the earlier leaders, enlil and enki. they demanded that human nations fight for them against other peoples committed to a different anunnaki "god. thus the sumer empire, although a wonder for its time, did not reach the heights of the golden age and eventually collapsed, breaking up into warring factions. many of these wars are described in the stories of the old testament when it seems everyone was fighting everyone else in that heart centre of the anunnaki, the middle and near east, from where the major religions have all emerged, including what is now hinduism. this could also be the reason for the theme in the old testament of "worship no other god than me" some researchers have even presented evidence that high-tech weaponry was used in the anunnaki c

sumerian clay tablets are the detailed descriptions of how the anunnaki interbred with human women to create a hybrid race, a fusion of the genes of humans of the time and the "gods. included in the term "human" are the white or nordic race, which are also, originally, of extraterrestrial origin. yet again, this is a constantly repeated theme in every part of the world and can be seen in the old testament narrative, taken from the sumerian, of the sons of god (properly translated, the sons of the gods) who interbred with humanity and created a hybrid bloodline. genesis recounts "when men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of god [the gods] saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose..the nefilim were

unger halfbrother enlil was made commander of the mission because his mother was considered more genetically pure than the female with whom anu conceived enki. this, the accounts reveal, was to be the cause of ongoing conflicts between the halfbrothers, which were to erupt in the wars within the anunnaki that stimulated enormous conflict between their factions within humanity, as described in old testament texts. it is well known by researchers that, although the illuminati agree on the overall agenda of global control, they, too, are constantly at war within themselves as different groups and families seek to be at the top of their greasy pole. this is no surprise when you consider that the illuminati is a front for the anunnaki and the secret society network is their means of covertly ma

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birds. some of them are solarge they can only be seen in their entirety from 1,000 feet in the air! the knowledgewhich allowed wonders like nazca, baalbek, the great pyramid at giza and otheramazing creations to be built with such precision and scale, came from an advancedrace who, in ancient times, lived among a far more primitive general population. thisrace is described as the gods in the old testament texts and other works and in oraltraditions of antiquity. i can hear followers of the bible denying that their book speaksof the gods. but it does. when the word god is used in the old testament it is oftentranslated from a word that means gods, plural- elohim and adonai are two examples.you can easily understand that a race performing technological feats of such magnitudeshould be seen

f eden.this was a centre for the gods, the anunnaki. the sumerian tablets speak of king8sargon the elder being found as a baby floating in a basket on the river and brought upby a royal family. exodus speaks of moses being found as a baby floating in a basketon the river by a royal princess and how he was brought up by the egyptian royalfamily. the list of such coincidences goes on and on.the old testament is a classic example of the religious recycling which has spawnedall the religions. so when you are looking for the original meaning of genesis and thestory of adam you have to go back to the sumerian accounts to see how the story hasbeen doctored. genesis says that god (the gods) created the first man, adam, out ofdust from the ground and then used a rib of adam to create eve, the first

are descendants of the dinosaurs. and while the bodiesof most dinosaurs might have been destroyed, their consciousness would have survivedbecause consciousness is energy and energy is indestructible. it can only be transmutedinto a different form. what happened to that dinosaur consciousness that dominated theearth for 150 million years? as weve seen, the earliest accounts of assyria, babylon,old testament history, china, rome, america, africa, india and elsewhere, featurestories of the dragons. the serpent symbol has also been found in ancient britain,greece, malta, egypt, new mexico, peru and all over the pacific islands. there is anunmistakable resemblance between some dinosaurs and ancient depictions of dragons.several species of small indo-malayan lizards with webbed wings look so muc

e a pincer movement onthe human race. their physical expression lives under the ground and interacts in theunderground bases with human and human-reptile crossbreed scientists and militaryleaders. they also emerge to engage in some human abductions. but the main controlcomes by outright possession. the crossbreeding programme (via sex and test tube) isdescribed in the sumerian tablets and the old testament (the sons of god whointerbred with the daughters of men. these hybrid human-reptile lines carry thereptilian genetic code and thus can be far more easily possessed by the reptilians ofthe lower fourth dimension. as we shall see, these bloodlines became the british andeuropean aristocracy and royal families and, thanks to the great british empire,they were exported across the world to rul

010ad by the arab poet, firdowsi, he describes the birth of a baby called zal, the son of aking called sam. again the king is horrified by the unearthly appearance of his child whohas a very large body as clean as silver, hair as white as an old mans and like snow,and a face compared with the sun. sam calls his son a demon child, a child of the daevas- the watchers. like the patriarchs of the old testament, the iranians appeared to have anaversion to children born with extremely white features. and who is said to be extremelywhite, albino white? the royal hierarchy of the draco.the text of the shahnemeh says of zal:no human being of this earthcould give such a monster birth,he must be of the demon race,though human still in form and face,if not a demon, he at least,appears a party-coloured

ng with humans. from what i hearfrom brotherhood insiders who have seen some of these extraterrestrials, the orions (acruel, but beautiful race according to my contacts) have some kind of alliance with thereptilians. i am sure that the biblical angels were the watchers, the reptilians, winged andotherwise. the very term sons of the gods is translated in the septuagint, the greekversion of the old testament, as angelos- angels. it appears from my research that thereare different reptilian factions: those who are more positive in their attitude to humanityand those who wish to dominate and control. they both became known as watchers orangels, the latter as fallen angels. it could well be that the legends of st michael castingthe dragon onto the earth for the final battle and st george defeat

d as awwimwhich means devastators or serpents. in the dead sea scrolls, noah is described aslooking like the children of the (fallen) angels of heaven whose conception was (due)to the watchers. and to the nefilim. in jewish lore, eve is seen as the ancestral motherof the nefilim and associated with the hebrew words meaning life and snake. eve was,of course, tempted by the serpent according to old testament myth and other sources. inchapter 69 of the book of enoch we find that among the watchers who revealed thesecrets to humans was gadreel, the fallen angel who has been identified with temptingeve. the book of enoch was banned by the roman church which sought to deny theearlier christian belief in the existence of flesh and blood angels and fallen angelsoccupying physical bodies and interb

ier airy-ana or air-an, which means land ofthe arrays or aryans.37the indian v edas also acknowledge the goddess barati (belonging to the barats, andshe was known as brihad the divine. they say her special place was on the saras-vatiriver which happens to be the modern sarus river in the hittite-phoenician land of cilicia.the river entered the sea at tarsus, the alleged home of st paul in the new testament, awork written in accordance with aryan sun myths. also, these phoenicians and aryansworshipped the serpent and the shape-shifting reptilians called the nagas were the serpentgods of the hindus. the v edas, inspired by the aryans, tell how the serpent-humans, thenagas, could cause fantastic damage and instant death. the nagas were also said to haveappeared at the birth of the man who bec

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to be found in the writings of the many philosophers throughout history. only by accepting the bible for what it is, a book written by men and not the "living" word of god, can one approach a true understanding of these scriptures. read from a "satanic" perspective, the bible reveals itself as a history of hebrew magicians and sorcerers. in a careful reading of the bible, the prophets of the old testament are shown to be practitioners of the black arts and jesus christ, in his stance against hypocrisy and self-righteousness, is revealed as a great satanic priest and black magician. to the inquiring mind it is clear why the magi of persia (the wise men, were the first to acknowledge the birth of christ, for through their magical art and the practice of astrology, they recognized him as a n

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he body. occasionally these altered shapes are seen by other people, who mistake them for bodies of flesh. shechinah: pronounced "sheh-kehn-ah" it is the hebrew for the personification of the energy known as ruach eloheem (q.v. it is seen as feminine in nature. similar to the tantrik notion of shakti (q.v. sheeol: pronounced "shee-ool" it is the hebrew for "place of the earth" a word from the old testament meaning ground or earth. in some instances it was translated as "hell" probably for political reasons. according to donald michael kraig, there is no hell in the kabalah because he maintains that reincarnation is a part of the tradition. shin: pronounced "sheen" it is a letter of the hebrew alphabet. the letter shin "a" is used to indicate the ruach eloheem (q.v. when added to the tetrag

gnized channels of sense. the original term that was later to be replaced with the term, extra sensory perception, or esp (q.v) 3) in modern uses the term telepathy refers to the psionic discipline known as "thought transference" called mind speech or mind reading for short. temurah: a system of the literal kabalah (q.v) which transposes letters of the hebrew alphabet, especially words of the old testament. the new words thus formed are said to be important. tephillin: small boxes containing scrolls with prayers written on them. they are worn by male jews during certain prayers. tetragrammaton: from the greek, literally "the name of the four letters" the four-letter name of divinity of the hebrew god, yhvh (q.v) in english. in hebrew "viv. it is a formula that indicates that the supreme di

in the heavens when working a ritual. even the hours of the day and night were assigned the seven ancient planets. a magician who takes astrology into account when working magick is said to observe the times. see hours, magickal. tipheret: hebrew for "beauty" pronounced "tih-fehr-eht" it is the sixth sephirah (q.v) on the tree of life (q.v. torah: hebrew for "law" the first five books of the old testament, commonly called the pentateuch. mystics believe that much of it is in kabalistic codes. trance: an altered state of consciousness (q.v, especially the more withdrawn degrees resembling sleep or sleepwalking. a "waking dream" transmigration (of souls: one doctrine of reincarnation. the idea that when souls reincarnate, they move up and down the evolutionary ladder or scale. i.e, people d

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le we know that the famous tyrian mysteries must have profoundly influenced the hebrew esotericism. when we read of daniel being educated in the palaces of babylon we know that the wisdom of the magi must have been accessible to hebrew illuminati. 11. this ancient mystical tradition of the hebrews possessed three literatures: the books of the law and the prophets, which are known to us as the old testament; the talmud, or [page 4] collection of learned commentaries thereon; and the qabalah, or mystical interpretation thereof. of these three the ancient rabbis say that the first is the body of the tradition, the second its rational soul, and the third its immortal spirit. ignorant men may with profit read the first; learned men study the second; but the wise meditate upon the third. it is a

n; and the qabalah, or mystical interpretation thereof. of these three the ancient rabbis say that the first is the body of the tradition, the second its rational soul, and the third its immortal spirit. ignorant men may with profit read the first; learned men study the second; but the wise meditate upon the third. it is a strange thing that christian exegesis has never sought the keys to the old testament in the qabalah. 12. in our lord's day there were three schools of religious thought in palestine: the pharisees and the sadducees, of whom we read so frequently in the gospels; and the essenes, who are never referred to. esoteric tradition avers that the boy jesus ben joseph, when his calibre was recognised by the learned doctors of the law who heard him speak in the temple at the age of

three negative veils of existence which hang behind the crown, declares itself in manifestation as ten different aspects which are represented by the different names used to denote deity in the hebrew scriptures. these are variously rendered in the authorised version, and a knowledge of their true significance and the spheres to which they belong enables us to read many of the riddles of the old testament. 16. in the briatic world the divine emanations are held to manifest through the ten mighty archangels, whose names play such an important part in ceremonial magic; it is the worn and effaced remnants of these words of power that are the "barbarous names of evocation" of mediaeval magic, not one letter of which may be changed" why this is so may readily be seen when we remember that in h

ing the finished product in its place in the world. this concept kept science back for hundreds of years in western europe, and in the end men of science had to break with religion and endure mystical qabala page 28 persecution as heretics in order to arrive at that conception of evolution which was explicitly taught in the mystic tradition of israel, a tradition with which the writers of the old testament were unquestionably familiar, for their works are full of qabalistic references and implications [page 40] 12. the qabalah does not conceive of god as fabricating creation stage by stage, but thinks of the different phases of manifestation as evolving one from another, as if each sephirah were a pool which, being filled, overflowed into a lower pool. to borrow again from macgregor mather

hat which is effete and outworn, would be certain to occur during the period prior to the emanation of tiphareth, the redeemer. as soon as emanated, the redeemer would compensate the seventies of geburah, even as our lord said "a new law give i unto you. ye shall no longer say, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" now this uncompensated severity of geburah gave us the jealous god of the old testament and all the religious mystical qabala page 207 persecutions that have ever been done in his unbalanced name. it forms the qliphah of geburah, and every cruel and oppressive nature is in sympathy with it. to its sphere goes all the overplus of the force thev emanate that is not absorbed by the opposing force in the universe-all the unslaked revenge, all the unsatisfied lust of cruelty; an

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rming man from the dust of the ground without assistance. if we refer to paradise lost, however, we shall find that milton was familiar with both divine and infernal hierarchies, and that these were graded and charted according to a definite system. anyone who is acquainted with the qabalah will recognise that in milton he meets a fellow qabalist. in the qabalah we find the esotericism of the old testament. i propose to use the qabalistic terminology to explain the esoteric theory of evil because, firstly, it is the one i am most familiar with; secondly, it forms the basis of western occult thought and all medieval magic is based upon it, together with much modern magic; thirdly, it is, in my opinion, singularly lucid, coherent and comprehensive; and being a system consecrated by antiquity

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e been commanded to accept in scripture and by the leaders of religion. but if we are hermetics or gnostics, or even more open-minded kabbalists, we may suspect that the gnostic opinion has virtue, and that the serpent initiated the reformation and salvation of mankind that will ultimately result in the ascent of humanity to the status of gods (the elohim, a status that the jealous god of the old testament concealed from mankind at our time of origin. once we understand that the enochian angels viewed coronzon as equivalent to lucifer or satan, we can learn something about the nature of coronzon by studying the references to the devil or the old serpent that occur in the bible. a very interesting reference is found in the book of revelation "and there was war in heaven: michael and his ang

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lilith, the demon who strangles children in their cribs and visits solitary men in their beds to provoke nocturnal emissions. lilith began her life as a class of babylonian demon known as the lilitu. in addition to the direct personification of the forces of nature, demons were formed by the vilification of the gods and goddesses of other cultures. many of the medieval demons mentioned in the old testament, such as ashtaroth and baal, are the gods of middle eastern peoples other than the hebrews. the modern concept of demons owes many of its key features to the influence of christian folklore and theological doctrine, which were heavily influenced by jewish beliefs through the old testament. in christianity, a demon is not just a malicious spirit, but a spirit of hell sent to earth by the

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rce of miracles is the ultimate source that lies beyond being, either of substance or of form. it is purposeless, knowing neither good nor evil, and for this reason may be used for either good or evil purposes. the god of the bible is not this ultimate source. this much is obvious, since this god has both form and purpose, and manifests to human beings in various ways. however, the god of the old testament was able to channel this primal source of divine energy for his own intentions, and was able to facilitate the use of this divine energy by his worshippers. skilled magicians can bypass the gods, the angels and the saints, and can access this primal creative and destructive power directly through their magic. so the priests of egypt intimated when they wrote in the hermetic books that ma

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nd as lovecraft did. those seeking serious information about the necronomicon should consult the necronomicon files, a comprehensive and surprisingly sane examination of the necronomicon phenomenon. here you will find a link to the complete text of lovecraft's brief bogus history of the necronomicon. concerning the curious connnecting thread that links gnostic theology, the book of enoch, the new testament book of revelation, the elizabethan magician dr. john dee and his communications with the enochian angels, the victorian era secret society of practical magic known as the hermetic order of the golden dawn, the magician and great beast aleister crowley, the dreamer and writer h. p. lovecraft, and the writer and magician kenneth grant (and perhaps i should not exclude myself from this lis

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ors of dictionaries often lump sigil, seal, emblem, token, and sign together as possessing some vague and more or less equivalent occult significance. this is not the case. each has its own specific connotation. all spirits may possess their own sigils. using traditional kabbalistic methods, sigils have been constructed from the various hebrew names of god and the names of angels found in the old testament. for example, the letters of a name denoting some active power or authority of god may be located upon the aiq beker grid, also known as the kabbalah of nine chambers. by drawing a connecting line from letter to letter, a sigil of the name is created. it is one of the mysteries of magic, often commented upon by the ptolemaic greeks, that mankind can summon and control the forces of the g

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to have succeeded in divesting themselves of the superstitious and weird mythological conceptions which they inherited from their heathen ancestors. it is not necessary here to repeat the proofs, of this fact which m. am lineau has brought together,[1] or to adduce evidence from the lives of the saints, martyrs and ascetics; but it is of interest to note in passing that the translators of the new testament into coptic rendered the greek greek a!'dhs by, amenti, the name which the ancient egyptians gave to the abode of man after death,[3] and that the copts peopled it with beings whose prototypes are found on the ancient monuments. persistence of the legend of osiris and the belief in the resurrection. the chief gods mentioned in the pyramid texts are identical with those whose names are gi

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ctangular stone, reminiscent of the later kaaba of mecca. allat is mentioned in the koran as a pagan goddess. she is said to have been joint ruler with allah and judge of the afterlife. allegro, john (marco (1923.1988) british scholar who assisted in the deciphering of the dead sea scrolls, and created a sensation with his book the sacred mushroom and the cross (1970, which suggested that the new testament was written in a secret code for the use of a sect built around the hallucinatory properties of a sacred mushroom drug. according to allegro, jesus never existed and the crucifixion story was a myth, symbolic of the ecstasy of a drug cult. in support of this extraordinary theory, allegro strained philology, comparative linguistics, and semantics in a manner that recalled the eccentriciti

ted that his poem jerusalem was dictated to him. the grandest poem that this world contains; i may praise it, since i dare not pretend to be other than the secretary; the authors are in eternity. again: i have written this poem from immediate dictation, twelve or sometimes twenty or thirty lines at a time without premeditation and even against my will. parts of the jewish bible (the christian old testament) were received through automatic writing, for example 2 chronicles 21:12 says, and there came a writing to him from elijah the prophet saying. in 1833, the book of the german augustinian nun catherine emmerich, the lowly life and bitter passion of our lord jesus christ and his blessed mother, was accepted by catholics as divinely inspired. the remarkable contents of the book came to her

tial messages, but their main purpose was the delivery of religious teaching. the scripts of cleophas, paul in athens, and the chronicle of ephesus, produced by cummins under the alleged influence of philip the evangelist, and cleophas, bear signs of close acquaintanceship with the apostolic circle, an early american spiritualist group which claimed close contact with jesus apostles and other new testament characters. sir oliver lodge claims to have received independent evidence concerning the inspiration of the road to immortality, cummins s fourth book, with communications said to be from the spirit of f. w. h. myers. the quantity of automatically written books is such that it is difficult to mention more than a few. w. t. stead s after death: letters from julia (1914, was widely read by

d from the courtroom triumphantly proclaiming that he was going to demolish other images in wayside shrines. he is since reported to have smashed two more statues, one in ballyfermot and another in clondalkin. he appeared with his fellow iconoclasts on the popular late late show, hosted by gay byrne on rte television on march 7. draper arrogantly cited the fourth and fifth commandments of the old testament and exod. 23:24 as giving him divine sanction to smash all religious statues in ireland, regardless of the rights and views of other people. as reporter eoghan corry stated in an article in the sunday press (march 9, 1986, there isn t a safe statue in the country. meanwhile from los angeles evangelist scott indignantly disassociated himself from the activities of the irish statue smasher

the communicator (subsequently identified as david p. hatch, a los angeles lawyer, who signed the communications x, had passed away. these letters record the impressions of an intelligent traveler in a strange country, his mistakes, prejudices, ideals, and new insights. elsa barker s other publications include the son of mary bethel (1909, the frozen grail& other poems (1910, stories from the new testament for children (1911, the body of love (1912, fielding sargent (1922, the cobra candlestick (1928, the c.i.d. of dexter drake (1929, and the redman cave murder (1930. barker died august 31, 1954. sources: barker, elsa. war letters from the living dead man. london: w. rider& son, 1915. barker, gray (1925.1984) writer on ufos who launched the story of albert k. bender and the men in black, w

sequently he wrote in a letter to falcomer: the entirety of the facts observed and noted by me in the course of various sittings have profoundly shaken my scepticism; and now i can no longer give myself out to be a sceptic, as, for the time being, numerous facts incline me to believe in spiritualism. bible, occultism in the the bible, the holy book revered by jews and with the addition of the new testament, by christians worldwide, has been interpreted in the modern world, generally, as hostile to the occult. this has especially been the case in the wake of the late medieval trials in which witchcraft was reinterpreted as the work of satan. in the post-enlightenment world, in which many occult practices have disappeared, readers of the bible may miss the occult element in the text, as for

calyptic visions of the endtime. at one point in his confrontations with the babylonian psychic advisors, their plotting against him led to his being cast in the famous den of lions. it appears that the babylonian kings employed a wide variety of advisors, including astrologers, and the harshest words concerning astrology in the bible come from this period (dan. 2:27; 5:7.11. christianity the new testament opens with a more positive view of astrology, as three magi (zoroastrian astrologers) have discerned the new star in the heavens as a sign of christ s birth and travel to palestine to offer their worship and acknowledgement. jesus, as an adult, emerges as a worker of signs and wonders who is able to heal, tell people things of which he had no normal knowledge, render accurate prophecies

in response to its appearance, a new science, psychical research, emerged and a new language developed to understand the phenomena. spiritualism presented a broad challenge to the church. present within the movement were all of the biblical gifts of the spirit but in a non-church setting. church leaders responded that spiritualism merely reproduced the pagan phenomena forbidden in the jewish old testament and cited the story of the woman of endor as a clear prohibition of spirit contact. this interpretation still dominates the more conservative segments of christianity. spiritualists countered with a biblical exposition centered upon the new testament, the encounter of the apostles with the long-dead moses and elijah at the mount of transfiguration (matt. 17, and the appearances of the re

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the sick. subsequently a 46-year-old mother, paralyzed for several months with a cancerous tumor, claimed that she regained the use of her left arm and was able to walk again after being virtually immobile (see also healing by touch) magus a master magician or adept. the magi, or magicians (plural form of magus, were the wise men of the ancient persian priesthood. it is noted in the christian new testament that three magi brought gifts to the infant jesus. in the later tradition they were given names.kaspar, melchior, and balthasar. and their bones are said to rest in cologne cathedral, germany. the term magus is also used in magical societies like the golden dawn to indicate one of its highest grades, between the master of the temple and the ipsissimus. sources: king, francis. the rites o

ntially followed irenaeus s lead in its con- metals encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1030 sideration of metempsychosis and reincarnation. origen, a christian theologian of the third century with a platonic background, tried to defend some aspects of the metempsychosis doctrine, primarily the prior existence of the soul, but soon gave up, having found the idea contrary to the new testament teachings. metempsychosis found its last great philosophical defender in plotinus (205.270 c.e, the neoplatonic philosopher. he saw repeated births of the soul as a means for its education. by being in the body, the soul learns how desirable is the nonphysical existence, plotinus taught. the idea of reincarnation lingered in the west, passing through a succession of gnostic groups, but e

ce of persia contending for the hebrew people. after the hebrews returned to palestine from their exile, they began to develop their doctrine of angels. seven archangels, including michael and gabriel, emerged into prominence. in one of the uncanonical jewish writings, the assumption of moses, michael disputes with satan for the body of moses, a belief picked up and mentioned in the christian new testament (jude 9. the most important quote concerning michael is found in revelation 12:7: there was war in heaven. michael and his angels fought against the dragon. from this it is deduced that michael is the leader of the celestial hierarchy against lucifer, the head of the disobedient angels. his design, according to genealogist randle holme, is a banner hanging on a cross, and he is represent

. st. catherine laboure of the miraculous medal. garden city, n.y: doubleday echo book, 1965. englebert, omer. catherine laboure and the modern apparitions of our lady. new york: p. j. kennedy& sons, 1958. sharkey, don. the woman shall conquer. kenosha, wis: franciscan marytown press, 1976. the mishna a compilation of jewish oral traditions containing the religious legal decisions relating to old testament laws, gathered together at about the end of the second century by rabbi judah, grandson of gamaliel ii. its doctrines are said to be of great antiquity. it forms the framework of the talmud. the miss lucy westenra society of the undead vampire interest organization named for one of the characters in the novel dracula, the first person dracula turned into a vampire upon his arrival in eng

common to all religious traditions but some traditions have a greater focus upon it. for example, many of the afro-cuban religions (voudou, santeria, macumba) can be described as possession religions, and the being possessed by the deity is central to worship in these groups. in the christian west, possession, with rare exceptions, has been viewed as a negative phenomena. taking the lead from new testament examples in which several people are described as possessed by demons and are healed by jesus, christian leaders have largely equated possession with possession by a demonic force, or even the devil himself. the negative evaluation of possession in the west has been reinforced by the development of secular worldviews that champion the autonomous individual, the maker of choices. such wor

raft act of george ii, still used against mediums during the twentieth century. he died june 1, 1922. sources: pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. powell, ellis t. the essentials of self-government. n.p, 1909. the mechanism of the city. london: p. s. king& son, 1910. the practical affairs of life. n.p, 1918. the psychic element of the new testament. n.p, n.d. powell, evan (1881) british physical medium of paignton, south devon. powell was originally a coal miner and later a tradesman in wales. powell usually sat tied to a chair before a cabinet with drawn curtains. his chief control was black hawk, a native american. movements of objects, psychic lights (see luminous phenomena, and direct voice phenomena were supposedly witnessed a

ical movement. following judge s death in 1896, pryse remained in new york and affiliated with the independent theosophical society of new york, which had broken with judge s successor, katherine tingley. pryse s next books were published by the society s theosophical publishing co. after 15 years in new york, pryse returned to los angeles, where he wrote his most important text, the restored new testament, a theosophical translation of the new testament. it was completed and published in 1914. while continuing to flirt with the larger theosophical society and writing articles for its periodicals, he remained aloof and led independent gatherings in los angeles. in 1925 he founded the gnostic society with six people who met in his home to discuss his metaphysical interpretation of christian

ple who met in his home to discuss his metaphysical interpretation of christianity. the small group is important as possibly the first modern group to describe itself as gnostic. the society disbanded soon after pryse s death on april 22, 1942, but has been revived by stephan a. hoeller. sources: pryse, james morgan. the apocalypse unsealed. los angeles: the author, 1931. reincarnation in the new testament. new york: theosophical publishing co. of new york, 1900. the restored new testament. los angeles: the author, 1914. the sermon on the mount. new york: theosophical society, 1904. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. pryse, james morgan, jr. 1245 psi greek letter used in parapsychology to indicate psychic or paranormal phenomena such as extrasensory perception (esp) or psyc

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

bo went for a short walk before embarking for venus. during one brief stop they saw the ruler of the region engaged in painting. he was clad, like nelson himself, in bib overalls. venus, like mars and the moon, turned out to be a pleasant place without war or conflict, where people lived in harmony under the twelve laws of god (essentially the ten commandments and a couple of verses from the new testament. on venus, the races were strictly segregated. nelson also was told that his own parents were venusians. bucky became a regular visitor at nelson s house. they spent christmas 1956 together. on another occasion, he brought a fully cooked venusian turkey with him. on yet another christmas, bucky took nelson to his home on venus. in the late 1950s and early 1960s, nelson was a minor celebr

nformation sheet on daniel fry. washington, dc, august. reeve, bryant, and helen reeve, 1957. flying saucer pilgrimage. amherst, wi: amherst press. 106 fry, daniel william a ufo supposedly photographed by daniel fry at merlin, oregon, may 1964 (fortean picture library) gabriel in christian and islamic tradition, gabriel is one of the two mightiest angels. he is the only angel mentioned in the old testament, as the destroyer of sodom and gomorrah. he is said to sit on god s left hand and to preside over paradise. mohammed credits gabriel with dictating the koran to him. in more recent times, an entity named gabriel, identifying himself as an archangel, channels through a new york city man named robert baker. gabriel has spoken through baker since 1990. his principal platform is the weekly m

d gray face with slightly heavier features. in each case, telepathic contact occurred, but it was always one-sided, coming from the aliens to preston. he also had two encounters, only an hour a p a rt, with mr. brown robe, as he called a figu re clad in such a garment. it had no facial feat u res, but it was able to communicate ment a l l y. it stressed the importance of ma t t h ew 24 in the new testament, the chapter in which jesus discusses the events that will take place just prior to the second coming. preston noticed that mr. brown robe, gray face, and the others never used the word go d but did talk of a u n i versal intelligence. still, he linked his visitors with bible fig u res. he bel i e ved brown robe, for example, to be a kind of angel, gray face a wa t c h e r from the ol d

rophecy fails. minneapolis: university of minnesota press. ibn aharon, y. n [pseud. of yonah fortner, 1957. diagnosis: a case of chronic fright. saucer news 4, 5 (august/september: 3 6. sky people brinsley le poer trench, author of a series of books proposing esoteric theories about everything from space visitors to the earth s hidden history, held that the sky people called the elohim in the old testament created animal or adamic man, otherwise known as the present human race. the creation occurred via what would now be called genetic engineering, and it was done by a renegade band of elohim called the jehovah. the jehovah, knowing that their experiment was an unauthorized one, removed their creation to an obscure location what the bible calls the garden of eden on mars. in due course, an

saucers, the seeding process accelerated. a space friend told williamson, many of our people are in your world now. there are nearly ten million of them, with six of those million in the united states itself. see also: williamson, george hunt further reading williamson, george hunt, 1953. other tongues other flesh. amherst, wi: amherst press. white eagle white eagle, believed to represent the new testament s saint john, was channeled through british spiritualist medium grace cooke (also known as minesta) from the 1930s until her death in 1979. by the 1950s, white eagle s teachings had found their way to north america. white eagle taught an eclectic mix of christian-based ideas and reincarnation theories as well as the occult doctrine of the great white brotherhood. he advocated kindness to

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le? but ah! i feel already, with a will the best, contentment wells no longer from my breast. but wherefore must the stream so soon run dry and we again thus thirsting lie? i have experienced this in ample measure. and yet this feeling has its compensation; we learn the supernatural to treasure. our spirits yearn toward revelation that nowhere glows more fair, more excellent, than here in the new testament. to open the fundamental text i m moved, with honest feeling, once for all, to turn the sacred, blest original into my german well-beloved. he opens a volume and applies himself to it. tis written: in the beginning was the word! here now i m balked! who ll put me in accord? it is impossible, the word so high to prize, i must translate it otherwise if i am rightly by the spirit taught. ti

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

e. the three manuscripts cited, replete with errors of addition, corruption, and omission, may well be the remnants of volumes given to sheba by king solomon and subsequently handed down through generations. at the very least, biblical scholars agree that the books of enoch are the most important apocrypha and pseudoepigrapha pre-dating the christian era. it has been well established that all new testament authors were more or less influenced by them.18 the translations of the three books of enoch had been long out of print by the time the work of the chariot trust republished them in the early 1970 s. the texts address a wide range of topics. there are numerous messianic references, extensive angeologies and demonologies, elaborate descriptions of the various heavens and hells, lists of d

d. 15 scholem, gershom. kabbalah, keter publishing, jerusalem, 1974. 16 torah b reshith 5:22. 17 work of the chariot trust. books of enoch, los angeles, 1972. includes r.h. charles translation of i enoch and ii enoch; h.oldeburg s translation and hebrew text of iii enoch; and an original translation of the sh ir qoma. 18 r.h. charles discusses the influence of the enochian literature upon the new testament authors in the introduction to his translations of i enoch and ii enoch. on an additional note, it is very likely that the urantia book was largely based on the books of enoch. 19 the name metatron ]vroom is unusual for its two consecutive central letter tets. the ascension and transformation of enoch into metatron is a primary topic in i enoch. metatron is also frequently called the pri

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

to the amount of the writers' indebtedness to hellenised judaism. 3 most scholars are of the opinion that there is very little, if any, christian influence in the hermetica. dodd, who stresses the jewish influence, thinks that "features of the hermetica in which christian influence might be suspected, can be accounted for by hellenistic-jewish ideas which lie behind both the hermetica and the new testament (op. cit p. xv, note. 21 ficino's "pimander"and the "asclepius" thought out philosophy. they are records of individual souls seeking revelation, intuition into the divine, personal salvation, gnosis, without the aid of a personal god or saviour, but through a religious approach to the universe. it is this religious approach, their character as documents of religious experiences, which gi

omprehension of the kind of subjects with which it deals. his remedy for the decayed state of affairs which the decaying middle ages had brought with it is that of the humanist and literary man who is also a pious christian. the remedy was to use the new invention of printing to make christian literature available. hence the labours of his life devoted to the publication and annotation of the new testament and of the greek and latin fathers of the church. this was erasmus' idea of a return to prisca theologia; the return to christian sources by publishing the new testament and the fathers. that he may even have thought of this as a contrast to the kind of prisci theologi to whom the magi returned may perhaps be indicated by his extreme annoyance when an admirer addressed him as "termaximus

me dreaming little man, and perhaps an impostor! magia would not meet with the faith, or credulity, so necessary for its success in the erasmian atmosphere. and erasmus also several times indicates in his letters that he does not think much of cabala,2 although he was a friend of reuchlin. moreover, even the christian basis of the synthesis of the christian magus is shaken when erasmus in his new testament paraphrases, throws doubt on dionysius the areopagite as the author of the hierarchies* this critical impiety, in which erasmus was following the bold valla, greatly shocked the english carthusians4 and must also, one would think, have alarmed his friend john colet, an ardent dionysian. thus in the vicinity of erasmus' critical (and also entirely nonscientific) mind, the whole set-up of

e church with destructive fanaticism. it is a parallel question to the one asked previously, as to how far reformation iconoclasm was aroused by attitudes to the magic of images some of which were relatively new. after the brief interlude of the marian reaction, the england of elizabeth was officially a reformation country, the reform being of an erasmian type, and erasmus' paraphrases of the new testament were placed in all churches. as regards learning at oxford, this meant that the old pre-eminence of oxford in philosophical and mathematical studies was not restored and was replaced by a different type of learning. the central feature of giordano bruno's visit to england was the debate at oxford when he expounded his "new philosophy, the reception of which by the oxford "pedants" he bit

most religious writer but disapproving his lapses into bad magic, as in the passage on making the idols in the asclepius, or by disposing of this passage by assuming that it was not really by hermes but inserted by the magician, apuleius of madaura, when he made the latin translation of the work. this left the way clear to admire hermes without reserve for his remarkable insights into old and new testament truths. the most ancient egyptian writes a genesis which is close to the hebrew genesis; he speaks of the son of god as the word; he describes in a "sermon on the mount (discourse on the mountain of hermes trismegistus to his son tat, corpus hermeticum, xiii) a religious experience which is like christian regeneration; he seems to echo the beginning of st. john's gospel. all these christ

, of his utriusque cosmi. historia.1 a more total contrast than that exhibited by these two works, published within a few years of one another and both dedicated to the king of england could hardly be imagined. casaubon, using humanistic tools on greek scholarship, had convincingly demolished the early dating of the hermetica and had shown that parallels between these writings and the old and new testament and the works of plato and the platonists were to be explained as borrowings by later writers from earlier ones. fludd, totally ignoring the new dating both in this work and in all his other voluminous writings,2 lives in a world in which casaubon might never have been born, the 1 robert fludd, utriusque cosmi, maioris scilicet el minoris, metaphysial, physica atque technica historia, vo

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

me this morning and said in this deranged voice, you can t see him, but he loves you. 8/16/99 this initiation period is pure suffering. every facet of my life has changed. i see communications all around me all the time and reminders of the cipher of az. 8/27/99 there are so many traps of the magus! it is safe to assume that one must never believe, although belief is useful. even all of this old testament flare that has been called forth from my upbringing is a trap. every action must be waged against it s opposite, i must not falter along this way. did i forget to mention that everything both inside and outside of existence is insane? just thought i would clear that up. 10/1/99 the main occurrence of the binding of the necessary was recognized this past friday, in the early afternoon, wh

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL 2

initiate to this day has the serpent symbol on his brow and is known to his fellows by that token as a son of the widow and the lucifer spirit. therefore we shall trace hiram abiff to his next embodiment by that mark, and as evidence given by a party against his own interest is particularly valuable according to law, we call special attention to the following points gained from the catholic latin testament: in 1st samuel 19, king james version, naioth is spoken of as a place where a school of prophets and seers dwelt, samuel among others. naioth is the feminine plural of naja, a serpent, which we have already mentioned as being an egyptian word used in the bible. in the latin version the same place is spoken of as naim, and eusebius says it was located near endor, famous as the abode of th

e properly designated naioth by the hebrews who used the feminine suffix to indicate their negative qualities. but the voluntary clairvoyant and the initiate, represented by the egyptians as having the serpentine uraeus in the forehead, were called naim by the hebrews who used the male suffix to designate the positive spiritual faculty which they possess. and the latin catholic version of the new testament (luke, chapter vii, verses 11 to 15) speaks of the person raised by christ as the widow's son of nain. as the serpent is not fully unfolded until the ninth arch of 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

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here men become "wise as serpents" it is from this class that mystic masonry is recruited with men who have the indomitable courage to dare, the unflagging energy to do and the diplomatic discrimination to be silent. part ii the masonic legend every mystic movement has its legend, which tells in symbolic language its status in the cosmic order and the ideal which it tries to realize. from the old testament, containing the atlantean mystery teaching, we learn that mankind was created male-female, bi-sexual, and that each one was capable of propagating his species without the co-operation of another as is the case with some plants today. later on, we are informed, jehovah removed one pole of the creative force from adam, the early humanity, and that there were henceforth two sexes. the esote

oal. there was within it a golden pot with "manna (man "fallen from heaven" together with a statement of the divine laws which man must learn in his pilgrimage through the wilderness of matter. this symbolic ark contained also a magic wand, an emblem of the spiritual powers, called aaron's rod, which are now latent in everyone on his way to the haven of rest--the mystic temple of solomon. the old testament also tells how humanity was miraculously led and provided for, how after the warfare with the world it was given peace and prosperity by the before mentioned king solomon; in short, stripped of all embellishments the story relates the salient facts of man's descent from heaven, his principal metamorphoses, his transgression of the laws of the god jehovah would wish to guide him in the fu

of judah of which tribe moses spake nothing concerning the priesthood. and it is yet far more evident for that after the similitude of melchisedec there ariseth another priest who is made not after the law of carnal commandments but after the power of an endless life, for he testifies 'thou are a priest for the age, after the order of melchisedec* by so much was jesus made the surety of a better testament* because he continueth ever and has an age lasting priesthood* for the law maketh men high priests who have infirmities, but the word of god which was since the law, maketh the son who is consecrated for evermore. now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum; we have such a high priest who is yet on the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens, a minister of the s

d until sex generation be abolished. in this connection it is significant that the bible narrative begins in the garden of eden, where mankind were male-female and innocent; then in the next chapter we are told of the division of sexes, the transgression of the command not to eat of the tree of knowledge, and the infliction of the penalty--painful parturition and swift death. from then on the old testament tells of war, struggle and strife and in the last chapter makes the prophecy that there shall a sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings. then the new testament opens with an account of the birth of christ, who proclaimed a kingdom of heaven which is to be established. he is later called king and priest after the order of melchisedec, uniting within himself the dual office. i

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

and there is not anything so insignificant in the world that does not depend upon another above: in such a manner, that if the lower moves itself the higher corresponding to it moves towards it. as to the number, therefore, of the different species of creatures, which are enumerated below, the same number is to be found in the upper roots. 28 this doctrine of interdependence runs through the new testament. christ says: take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for i say unto you, that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my father which is in heaven. 29 also: are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your father. 30 gwho? h (mee) and gwhat? h (maah) are the two extremes of this doctrine, representing as they

ld the highest place in the chaldean mythology. under these were the seven planets in their seven orbits, or spheres; the probable germ of the idea of the sephiroth, or media between the highest and lowest worlds. 12 historically interesting as these general origins are, philosophically the most important correspondences are those connected with the sephirah 'hokmah; for in many places in the old testament and in the new, especially in the works of st. paul and st. john, is wisdom described as the creative power. the book of genesis opens with the words gin the beginning h, which in hebrew are rendered by the word b'raishith, which by many qabalists is spelt be'raishith, which means gthrough wisdom h, or through the word or principle which expresses wisdom- namely the logos of philo and st

GAMBLE ELIZA BURT THE GOD IDEA OF THE ANCIENTS OR SEX IN RELIGION

s of the hindoos there is an account of the moon, soma, having been changed into a female called chandra "the white or silvery one" while speaking of the moon, kalisch says "the whole ritual of the phoenician goddess astarte with whom that queen of heaven is identical, and who was the goddess of fertility seems to have been transferred to her"[36 [36] historical and critical commentary of the old testament. to such an extent, in the earlier ages of the world had the female been regarded as the creator, that in many countries where her worship subsequently became identified with that of the moon, luna was adored as the producer of the sun. according to the babylonian creation tablets, the moon was the most important heavenly body. in later ages, the gender of the sun and the moon seems to b

ories and convenient symbols, but names also had a religious significance. we are given to understand that in chaldea and assyria every child was named by the oracle or priest, and that no one thought of changing the appellation which had come to him through this heavenly source.[79 [79] inman, ancient faiths, vol. i, p. 3. inman, in his ancient faiths, calls attention to the fact that in the old testament kings, priests, captains, and other great men have had names bestowed upon them, each of which has some religious signification; that this name was given the individual "at circumcision, or soon after birth" in the ancient names of what are designated as the shemitic races, children were called after the god alone, and sometimes in connection with an attribute. especially were these name

est order. hence, the laws written on the two tables of stone, and which it is claimed were elaborated during their wanderings in the wilderness of sinai for the guidance of these unlettered slaves, show the desire of the priests of later times to invest the "chosen people" with the insignia of enlightenment. regarding the character of the god which they worshipped, we have ample proof in the old testament. it is plain that at the time of their bondage in egypt the jews had become the grossest phallic worshippers, adoring the emblems of generation, with no thought of their earlier significance as pure symbols of creative force in mortals. the fact will doubtless be remembered that, among the jews, to be barren was the greatest curse, and that the principal reward promised to the faithful w

d he will deliver you out of the hand of the philistines "then the children of israel did put away baalim and ashtaroth and served the lord only"[83 [83] i samuel vii, 3,4. the extreme hatred of the schismatic faction for the opposite worship, and the punishments which were meted out to those who should dare to rebel against the chosen faith, are indicated by the language which throughout the old testament is put into the mouth of their lord--a deity which rejoices in the title of a jealous god "if thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known thou nor thy fathers "namely, of the gods of the people which are round ab

n and regeneration. the simoom of the desert and the cold of winter were seth, as were also the genial powers of spring. we are informed by various writers that typhon seth was feminine. she was the early god of the jews. in other words, the jews were formerly worshippers of a female deity. jehovah, iav, was originally female. although the secret meaning of all the allegories contained in the old testament is not fully understood, still the belief that cain, abel, and seth represented the self-triplicated deity at a time when the idea of man as a creator had been accepted, or when his power to reproduce was becoming the highest idea of a creative force, is consistent with what is known of the cabala of the jews, or of the esoteric meaning of the jewish scriptures formerly known only to the

ears noah, another self-triplicated saviour or preserver of man, with his ark or seed vessel, beneath which is veiled the female element. afterward abraham becomes the great father or saviour, and later moses. that, in the time of the latter, the more ancient worship of a creative force in nature represented by the aleim, had, by the masses of the people, been wholly lost, is evident from the old testament writings. the worship of the father, the male power, in opposition to that of the mother, or the female power, constituted the religion of moses. in the religion of the jews, jehovah came to be regarded as wholly male and as spirit, while edam (translated "downward tending, the female principle, was matter, or woman, which finally became identified with the devil. the philosophical doctr

for its own growth. the fundamental doctrine of the christian church to-day is that of a vicarious atonement--a belief which takes away man's responsibility for his own misdeeds. chapter xiii. christianity a continuation of paganism. by comparing the sacred writings of the persians with the history of the events connected with the conception and birth of the mythical christ as recorded in the new testament, the fact is observed that the latter appears to be closely connected with the central figure of persian mythology. it has been found that the visit of the magi, who, following a star, were guided to the spot where the young child lay, was the fulfilment of a persian prophecy, which is to be found in the life of zarathustra as recorded in the zendavesta, while the subsequent history of t

the mother of crishna looked in his mouth and beheld all the nations of the earth. the same story is reported of christ and his mother. finally christ, like crishna, was crucified, and like him was buried. he descended into hell and on the third day arose and ascended into heaven.[129 [129] it will doubtless be urged that i am quoting from the apocryphal gospels--that the genuine books of the new testament are silent concerning many of these eastern legends. we must bear in mind, however, that during the earlier ages of christianity, these finally rejected gospels were, equally with the canonical books, considered as the word of god. the infancy is thought to be one of the earliest gospels. justin martyr was acquainted with it, a.d. 150 to 160. it is referred to by irenaeus, a.d. 190. in t

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a wholesome fear of the magical arts, which, as tradition had informed them, flourished in the nile valley; which same tradition is also familiar to english people through our acquaintance with the book of genesis, whose reputed author was taught in egypt all the science and arts he possessed, even as the bible itself tells us, although the orthodox are apt to slur over this assertion of the old testament narrative.ourpresent world has taken almost no notice of the rosicrucian philosophy, nor until the last twenty years of any mysticism, and when it does condescend to stoop from its utilitarian and money-makingoccupations,itis only to condemn all such studies, root and branch, as waste of time and loss of energy.thevery name of 'christian rosenkreuz, the founder of rosicrucianism, would m

roduction.this philosophy, although at first sight barbarous and crude, yet will be found, when one has grown familiar with the nomenclature, to be a concrete, coherent and far-reaching scheme of theology, cosmology, ethics and metaphysics, serving to throw light on many obscure biblical passages and to suggest original views of the meaning of most of the allegorical descriptions found in the old testament. a copy of a very curious old kabalistic picture from a syriac gospel with a descriptive essay by dr carnegie dickson, a notable scotch rosicrucian adept, has just been given to our library.theworks of the great rosicrucian kabalist, eliphaz levi, are, to those who read french with ease, a mine of mystic lore, full of fine imagery, and replete with magical formulas. hishistoiredela magie

kethorn'ssecretsocietiesshould be read as an introduction to deeper personal research.thework of franz hartmann, namedmagic, white and black,i can recommend to serious enquirers, for it elucidates the real aims of the higher magic, with which alone we are concerned, and it clears away many misconceptions which exist in the minds of the uninitiated. to such as desire to follow more closely the old testament religious element, i should advise a perusal of the commen255 taries ofdrallen barnes on daniel andthebook of revelation, and the symbolical descriptions of the book of46themagicalmasonezekiel. on the christian aspect i recommendthe perfect way,orthe findingofchrist,by the latedra. kingsford; in this volume will be found worked out the broader scheme of christian teaching which is so apt

tedra. kingsford; in this volume will be found worked out the broader scheme of christian teaching which is so apt to be obscured by sectarian forms of worship. the tenets of this work are closely approxi255 mate to those of the earliest of the followers of christian rosencreuz. there is one doctrine for the learned, and a simpler formula..225for those who are unable to bearityet, even as the new testament itself tells us, of the great master who taught his immediate disciples the true keys, but to others he spake only in parables 'and without a parable spake he not unto them. such, my fratres, are suitable subjects for the attention of your members,butthere are many allied topics which might form suitable centres of interest and instruction, for example: the whole range of church architec

nd absorb that higher reflex of the self of the soul, which by reason of its purity and its development, has attained the standard of perfection. we arebutstudents of the higher life, and no adept among us can divine when and where anyone of you may be attacked, or by what trials, but we warn of the risks, and we are happily able to supply the panacea- the universal remedy. notinvain does the new testament of the christian teach the power of will, the efficacy of faith: for such power is not limited -butby the completeness of the faith and the intensityofthewill. let no one fear the powers ofevil-to you it is given to fight and to conquer, with purity and courage, and the high magical power of the pentagram, in which the order instructs you- where is the true student who has succumbed? he

bution. a glance at the doctrines of the kabalah may be most suitably commenced with the consideration of the ideas of the divine. i must premise that although these kabalists were hebrews- teachers of the pentateuchallaws and dogmas to the people as an exoteric religion- yet their esoteric conception of godhead has nothing, or next to nothing, in common with the god of genesis or part of the old testament.thesupreme being of the kabalah is found to be demonstrated after two manners; at one time the inconceivable eternal power proce255 eding by successive emanations into a more and more conceiv255 able existence; formulating his attributes into conceptions of wisdom, beauty, power, mercy and governance; exhibiting these attributes first in a supernal universality beyond the ken of all spir

hilosophic and mystic doctrines of the ancient rabbinic teachers, and, although we find her condemning many of their more modern vagaries, yet she implied the belief that the pure and ancient kabalah was a western offshoot from the wisdom religion of prehistoric times. had she been of opinion that the system had originated -de novo -at any time since the era of ezra (who codified the old- hebrew- testament, she would not have made such constant references to the kabalah, to throw side lights upon the secret doctrine, the elements of which she has promulgated with such learning, and with so much gradually increasing success. several of my previous lectures having been printed, and still accessible, i have felt it necessary this evening to traverse new ground, to eliminate from my purpose th

and a coherent doctrine, at the time of the second temple, when cyrus, sovereign of all asia, holding the jews in captivity, permitted certain of them to return to jerusalem for the express purposetoreestablishing the hebrew cultus which had been forcibly interfered with by nebuchadnezzar, 587b.c.after this return to jerusalem it was that ezra and nehamiah.circa450b.c.,edited and compiled the old testament of the hebrews, or, according to those who deny the mosaic author255 ship and the solomonicregime,it was then that theywrotethe pentateuch.thenewregimewas maintained until 320b.c.,when jerusalem was captured by ptolemy soter, who, however, did not destroy the foundations of the jewish religion; indeed his successor, ptolemy philadephus, caused the hebrew scriptures to be revised and tran

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e are bound together in one symbol. we shall find much light upon the connection between the signs and the tribes shown by the blessings of jacob, and of moses, from the former of which the armorial bearings of the twelve tribes are derived. let us note also that as in the tribes levi was withdrawn, and the two tribes of ephraim and manasseh substituted for the simple one of joseph, so in the new testament, judas is withdrawn from the number of the twelve apostles and his place filled by another, matthias, who is chosen by lot to fill his place.thefollowing is the order by birth of the children of jacob: leah bore reuben);simeon);levi, afterwards withdrawn, and judah (s).bilhah (rachel's maid) bore dan (m )and naphtali (ji.l7).zilpah (leah's maid) bore gad('y),and asher).leah again bore is

earings ascribed to them in royal arch. freemasonry.[a 'lecture for members of the g.d' preserved among the papers of.the revd w.a. ayton. it also has a longer title: on the connection between the twelve tribes of israel and. the twelve zodiacalsigns]"note: elisions in mathers' text have beenrestoredbetween brackets.numerousother individualwordsare at variance from the authorized versionofthe old testament, which he used for thislecture.6.address onthe.pillarsto explain their symbolism briefly and concisely is the object of the present address. in the explanation ofthesymbols of theo=0 degree of neophyte, your attention has been directed to the general mystical meaning of the iuxtaposition.of the two pillars, and therefore i will only beg of you to notice that the hieroglyphics of one are

pprenticemost ancient work is a collection of mystical hymns and addresses in the form of a species of ceremonial ritual for the use of the soul after death, to enable him to unite himself to the body of osiris the redeemer, thenceforth in the ritual is he no longer called the soul but he is called the 'osiris' of whom he is a member 'i am the vine, ye are the branches' said the christ of the new testament 'i am a member of the body of osiris' said the purified and justified soul. the soul luminous and washed from sin in the uncreated and immortal light, united to osiris and justified son of god, such is the subject of the great egyptian ritual, purified by suffering, strengthened by opposition, nor is the 'ritual of the dead' a work of comparatively recent times, for the great egyptolog25

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ncipal dogmatic work, published at amsterdam in 1771. all of his works have been translated into english. the most noticeable differences between swedenborg s system and most other expositions of christian theology are over the doctrines of the trinity and vicarious atonement. swedenborg also denied the divine inspiration of all of the canonical scriptures, rejecting the poetical books in the old testament and the epistles in the new. avignon he moved to berlin where he became librarian to frederick the great and began to translate the works of swedenborg into french3[3. here he met a polish count, thaddeus leszczy grabianka (1740 1807, who was equally enthused with swedenborgian doctrines. when pernety returned to avignon in 1784 grabianka followed (after a visit to the swedenborgians in

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those believing jews who obeyed them, and on the other hand, those perverse jews who rebelled against god's commandments, imitated the pagan culture of the peoples around them, and followed their cultural practices rather than the law of god. pagan doctrines added to the torah it is important to note that the sins of the corrupt jews are often reported in the holy book of the jews itself the old testament. in the book of nehemiah, a kind of history book within the old testament, the jews confess their sins and repent: then those of israelite lineage separated themselves from all foreigners; and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. and they stood up in their place and read from the book of the law of the lord their god [for one-fourth] of the day; and [f

them; nor did they turn from their wicked works (nehemiah 9: 2-4, 26-29, 31-35) this passage expresses the desire that a number of jews had in returning to their faith in god, but in the course of jewish history a different segment gradually gained strength, and came to dominate the jews and later thoroughly altered the religion itself. for this reason, in the torah and the other books of the old testament, there are elements that derive from heretical pagan doctrines, as well as those mentioned above which urge a return to the true religion. for example: in the first book of the torah, it is said that god created the entire universe in six days from nothing. this is correct and derives from the original revelation. but, then it maintains that god rested on the seventh day, though it is a

at pagans applied to their own fictitious gods. one such blasphemous assertion is another that claims that jacob, ancestor of the israelites, wrestled with god, and won. this is clearly a story invented to confer the israelites with racial superiority, in emulation of the racial feelings widespread among pagan peoples (or, in the words of the qur'an "fanatical rage) there is a tendency in the old testament to present god as a national deity that he is god of the isrealites only. however, god is the lord and god of the universe and of all human beings. this notion of national religion, in the old testament, corresponds to tendencies of paganism, in which every tribe worships its own god. in some books of the old testament (for example, joshua) commandments are given to commit horrible viole

e of the plot. throughout the novel, he relates, through the mouths of its protagonists, that the templars were influenced by the kabbalah and that the kabbalists possessed a secret that could be traced back to the ancient egyptian pharaohs. according to eco, some prominent jews learned certain secrets taken from the ancient egyptians, and later inserted these into the first five books of the old testament (pentateuch. but, this secret, which was transmitted secretly, could be understood only by the kabbalists (the zohar, written later in spain, and forming the fundamental book of the kabbalah, deals with the secrets of these five books) after stating that the kabbalists read this ancient egyptian secret also in the geometric measurements of the temple of solomon, eco writes that the templ

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ess, first steps:study, conviction and emotion, faith and education, baptism, initiation, the anointing and living the life of a gnostic:overcoming the dialectic system and life on the path 11 the secret way celestial transfiguration, going beyond the law, the parfait, wisdom from india, the secret of the qadesh and the bridal chamber 12 restoring the bible restoring the bible, what about the old testament? bible narratives, multiple levels of truth and continuing revelation, 13 the gnostic apostolic church churches and temples, the use of ritualism, the monastic life, the gnostic tradition: a brief history of the church, the role and purpose of the gnostic apostolic church, membership and priesthood, sacraments of the church and conclusion. table of contents continued the gnostic handbook

argely mythical tale is that the kabbalah was not developed til at least the 6th century ad and incorporated greek and gnostic images, forms and traditions. indeed it has been suggested by both barbara thiering and gershom scholem that the very image of the tree of life was derived from greek rather than archaic jewish mystical sources. while the kabbalah is of course overlaid with imagery of old testament, jewish, christian (and sometimes gnostic) layers, it is primarily a greek neo platonic model. the tree starts with nothing, the great void or emptiness behind all things, this is known as ain (1st c) ain at various cycles moves through transformative stages and manifests three principles (2nd c) kether the divine will chokmah the logos binah sophia (saturn) we have deliberately chosen g

to divinity, this tendency towards anthropomorphism is a dangerous one. too often man in his suffering desires to bring the gods down to a more physical level, when this happens the currency of divine imagery is debased. while certainly images, legends, myths and godnames have their place, their value is in what they represent rather than in themselves. in regards to the name(s) of god in the old testament there is a real quandary, there are many names for god, though translated under the one title in english. what makes it more difficult is that each name has a different meaning, the name elohim, for example, means mighty ones (note it is plural) and can be applied to any form of demi-god, destructive or constructive, of the light or of darkness. the same applies to the formula of yhvh, w

at each name has a different meaning, the name elohim, for example, means mighty ones (note it is plural) and can be applied to any form of demi-god, destructive or constructive, of the light or of darkness. the same applies to the formula of yhvh, while it has a esoteric meaning, it too, has been twisted to reflect the barbaric and violent storm god that is falsely represented throughout the old testament as the creator. for gnostics there are literally two gods within the old testament period, the original i am, the transcendent one of the light and the barbaric thought form which became the nationalistic warlord of later fundamentalist judaism. for these reasons gnostics tend to avoid the old testament names of god altogether and use the more common terms of the mystery tradition. the p

the son of god. there are many positions in the great chain of being for the logos and sophia and as we study further complex myths and legends of their power will be discussed. however, in their most primal form they work within the triangle of force in the upper world. what about jesus? one of the major debates in christianity has been about the nature of jesus. however, when we examine the new testament in a critical manner some important facts come to light. jesus over and over again claimed to be the messiah and a son of god, but not god himself. he prayed to the father and spoke of god as a separate entity to whom he was obedient. in the gospel of john the identity of jesus is the central theme, the aim of this gospel is to show the reader that jesus is a messiah, the son of god, not

mandment: when he appointed the the gnostic handbook page 31 foundations of the earth: then i was by him, as one brought up with him: and i was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him. proverbs 1:20-33, 8:22,27-30. this great being, both royal and feminine, who being neither god nor the eternal son of god, neither angel nor saint, receives the veneration of the one who accomplishes the old testament, as well of the one who is the begetter of the new testament; who is she, then, but the truest humanity, the purest and most whole of beings, the macrocosmic whole, the living soul of nature and of the universe eternally united and uniting in the process of time with the divine and uniting all that is. the pillar and foundation of the truth, pavel florensky. the importance of sophia can

d together. it is especially difficult when cosmological evil is mixed with issues of ethics and personal suffering. while the iconography of evil certainly appears in all cultures, one of the most potent icons is that of satan. it is a difficult image because most people do not appreciate the various motifs which have been woven together to make the one figure. it is quite clear from old and new testament sources (as well as apocryphal texts) that satan meant something very different at various times. these differences have been overlooked within contemporary christianity due to its desire to frighten the sinner into salvation. for the esotericist it is imperative to decode these perennial motifs are they solve once and for all the mystery of evil. the image of satan has three primary mot

s) that satan meant something very different at various times. these differences have been overlooked within contemporary christianity due to its desire to frighten the sinner into salvation. for the esotericist it is imperative to decode these perennial motifs are they solve once and for all the mystery of evil. the image of satan has three primary motifs within it, these can be found in the old testament, apocryphal sources (with some ot/nt references) and within the new testament. these are mirrored in other esoteric traditions, for example, the old testament view of satan as tester is also found in hinduism. these three motifs can be summarised as follows: 1. the satan-saturn complex the illusion of cosmological evil (perceptional dualism) 2. the watchers evil as ignorance (fallen astr

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s on this theme. in some gnostic traditions the force of the universe expands and it s final manifestation is sophia or wisdom. out of a yearning to know the original creator she gives birth to a demi-god, ialdabaoth who in turn creates the material world. he becomes conceited and arrogant, and his creation (matter) becomes fallen and trapped within his dominion. in this legend the god of the old testament is seen as evil and christ is the only emissary of the light world. in another tradition satanel (the fallen one) creates the physical world, but his creation is sterile and marred. yahweh as the emissary of light rectifies this false creation by breathing life into shells satanel has formed. however, the fallen world cannot be fully rectified and a mixed system of light and darkness is

it can be readily translated into terms of light and relations between objects. when we undertake such an interpolation we find we have all the elements for the creation of a hologram (fig 7. while i agree our religious imagery may only reveal the holographic elements in fig 6 source michael satanel cosmic battle creates matter the alpha event or cosmic battle in the mythological terms of the old testament and related gnostic traditions. gnostic theurgy page 33 a very simplistic and elementary form, it is nevertheless certainly present. if we go further and re-consider the early religious mythologies about the fall and the creation of matter in the light of holography it becomes even more obvious. holograms are made by exposing a piece of film to laser light, which is scattered by the obje

s are central to the process of transforming the electromagnetic field of the gnostic from the dialectic to the static. the kundalini or serpent power based in the lowest centre is energised in such a way that the serpent seed (the taint of the archons) is replaced by the serpent of wisdom (the gnostic theurgy page 77 messiah. it is interesting to find that this transition is reflected in the old testament tale of moses holding up the cross interwined with the serpent to heal the people of israel. the serpent mentioned is numerically equilvant to three hundred and fifty eight, which is also the number of the messiah or christos- the self awakened saviour, the true self of every awakened being. the four attributes of each church as given in the book of revelation are: 1. characteristics of

or sexual centre is where we must make decisions about what we serve, the gnosis or the world, the instincts or higher things. the third day this is the time when the various forms of knowledge (seas) are brought together and the dry land appears. the dry land is the state of concrete knowledge, a solid experience of the gnosis. at this stage we also have the imagery of vegetation. as in the new testament allegory of the sower, we know that seeds and vegetation represent the spiritual wisdom, while the fruits represent the blossoming of these truths within us. from the chakric perspective the solar plexus is where the focus of our lives lie. here we must have a firm hold on the mysteries and be centred on the static world. the colour here is yellow, that of the trained intellect. gnostic

level to another, then some framework is needed to comprehend the process. we can deduce this mathematical mysticism in the works of pythagoras and many of the greek school as well as in the earliest christian and gnostic traditions. in jesus christ, sun of gnostic theurgy page 91 god (david fideler, quest books 1993) for example, we have an outline of the secret numerical codes found in the new testament. in the works of valentinus, the master gnostic, we have an outline of the formation of the universe as a mathematical sequence. valentinus outlined a meticulous system which charted the movement from divine depth, to the dyad of depth and silence, to the four principles, to the ogdoad and then onto the decad and dodecad. as time progressed the kabbalistic form of mysticism became codifi

rth. malkuth. atziluth: the world of fire this is the world of the treasury of light, it is the pleroma, the source of initiative energy forces. in this realm each sephira reflects a facet or the divine energy of the invisible spirit. in this system of attribution malkuth represents the particles of light held captive within matter, rather than the physical shell of earth. the names below are old testament titles which when used in the old testament context relate to the gnostic theurgy page 96 demiurge and the archons, however, when they are removed from their distorted application, a more transcendent interpretation of them can be made. this is an example of how information found in the old testament can transmit esoteric data, while in its outer form transmitting the exact opposite. ket

ed for sulphur, a superb illustration of how notariqon can be used. the notariqon of the tenach is used more within the gnostic and religious communities than within practical esoteric science. it can be seen primarily as an extension of the notariqon technique where parts of a larger word are then used to create other words. for example, the term tenach is the title given to the books of the old testament, it is composed of three letters tau, nun and kaph (final. these are seen as abbreviations for a further three words. tau. torah. the five books of moses. nun. n vee-im. the prophets. kaph. k soovim. rest of the old testament. v visita visit i interiora the interior t terrae of the earth r recificando find i invenies and rectify o occultum the secret l lapidem stone. fig 26 gnostic theur

her formulae of great importance in the esoteric tradition. while many religious groups have translated this formula as jehovah and interpreted it as the personal name of god. it is actually a formula, rather than a name or designation (fig 30) the original ancient israelites understood this and hence avoided pronouncing this divine name using substitute terms such as lord and king. while the old testament accounts have corrupted the name and used it to designate a warrior like archon, the original formulae is still valid and of value. this again illustrates how the origjnal gnosis has unwittingly been passed down inside and behind a text which teaches the exact opposite. y yod atziluth initial force fire h he briah divine pattern water v vau tiphareth activity air h he malkuth result eart

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ept must now pass an examination on [f. 34. z2 consecration and invocation the adept must now pass an examination on [h. the adept must now pass an examination on assigned ritual work [h1. reading list for z.a.m *1. astral projection, ritual magick and alchemy by francis king *2. fama fraternitas (provided *3. confessio (provided) 4. the middle pillar by israel regardie 5. the gospel of john- new testament 6. the book of revelations- new testament 7. genesis- old testament 8. ezekiel- old testament 9. the philosopher's stone- by israel regardie 10. catenea- by homeri 11. lexicon of alchemy- by rulandus 12. philosophy of natural magic- by agrippa 13. egyptian magic- by florence farr 14. the kabbalah unveiled- by s.l. mathers 8 15. zanoni- bulwer lytton 16. history- sword of wisdom- by ithel

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t after our goods with invented lying tinctures, but desire to make you partakers of our goods. we do not reject parables, but invite you to the clear and simple explanation of all secrets; we seek not to be received by you, but call you unto our more than kingly houses and palaces, by no motion of our own (but lest you be 8 ignorant of it) as forced thereto by the spirit of god, commanded by the testament of our most excellent father, and impelled by the occasion of this present time. chapter xiii what think you, therefore, o mortals, seeing that we sincerely confess christ, execrate the pope, addict ourselves to the true philosophy, lead a worthy life, and daily call, entreat, and invite many more unto our fraternity, unto whom the same light of god likewise appeareth? consider you not t

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it, carving great stone figures of giants which he brought to life. at first all went well but after a time the giants began to fight among themselves and refused to work. viracocha decided that he must destroy them. some he turned back into stone. the rest he overwhelmed with a great flood.3 very similar notions were, of course, found in other, quite unconnected, sources, such as the jewish old testament. in chapter six of the book of genesis, for example, which describes the hebrew god s displeasure with his creation and his decision to destroy it, i had long been intrigued by one of the few descriptive statements made about the forgotten era before the flood. according to the enigmatic language of that statement, there were giants in the earth in those days .4 could the giants buried i

reach only to that which is near; let them see only a little of the face of the earth. then the heart of heaven blew mist into their eyes which clouded their sight as when a mirror is breathed upon. their eyes were covered and they could only see what was close, only that was clear to them. in this way the wisdom and all the knowledge of the first men were destroyed.4 anyone familiar with the old testament will remember that the reason for the expulsion of adam and eve from the garden of eden had to do with similar divine concerns. after the first man had eaten of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the lord god said, behold, the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil. now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live for ev

had begun to renew itself, and the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off; so noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. and noah went forth. and builded an altar unto the lord, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. and the lord smelled the sweet savour. 8 maya history and religion, p. 332. 9 sir j. g. frazer, folklore in the old testament: studies in comparative religion, legend and law (abridged edition, macmillan, london, 1923, p. 107. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 188 tezpi and his family went forth from their ark, multiplied and repopulated the earth. 10 memories of a terrible flood resulting from divine displeasure are also preserved in the popol vuh. according to this archaic text, the great god decided to

18 another tierra del fuegan tribe, the pehuenche, associate the flood with a prolonged period of darkness: the sun and the moon fell from the sky and the world stayed that way, without light, until finally two giant condors carried both the sun and the moon back up to the sky. 19 13 new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, p. 440; atlantis: the antediluvian world, p. 105. 14 folklore in the old testament, p. 104. 15 new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, p. 445. 16 folklore in the old testament, p. 105. 17 ibid, p. 101. 18 john bierhorst, the mythology of south america, william morrow& co, new york, 1988, p. 165. 19 ibid, pp. 165-6. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 190 north america meanwhile, at the other end of the americas, among the inuit of alaska, there existed the traditi

ery widely indeed. more than 500 deluge legends are known around the world and, in a survey of 86 of these (20 asiatic, 3 european, 7 african, 46 american and 10 from australia and the pacific, the specialist researcher dr richard andree concluded that 62 were entirely independent of the mesopotamian and hebrew accounts.25 20 new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, p. 426. 21 folklore in the old testament, pp. 111-12. 22 new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, p. 431. 23 ibid, pp. 428-9; folklore in the old testament, p. 115. in this version the character of michabo is called messou. 24 from lynd s history of the dakotas, cited in atlantis: the antediluvian world, p. 117. 25 frederick a. filby, the flood reconsidered: a review of the evidences of geology, archaeology, ancient literature

ory of the dakotas, cited in atlantis: the antediluvian world, p. 117. 25 frederick a. filby, the flood reconsidered: a review of the evidences of geology, archaeology, ancient literature and the bible, pickering and inglis ltd, london, 1970, p. 58. andree was an eminent german geographer and anthropologist. his monograph on diluvial traditions is described by j. g. frazer (in folklore in the old testament, pp. 46-7) as a model of sound learning and good sense set forth with the utmost clearness and conciseness. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 191 for example, early jesuit scholars who were among the first europeans to visit china had the opportunity in the imperial library to study a vast work, consisting of 4320 volumes, said to have been handed down from ancient times and to con

ible for the deluge.31 there are japanese traditions according to which the pacific islands of oceania were formed after the waters of a great deluge had receded.32 in oceania itself a myth of the native inhabitants of hawaii tells how the 26 reported in charles berlitz, the lost ship of noah, w. h. allen, london, 1989, p. 126. 27 world mythology, pp. 26-7. 28 ibid, p. 305. 29 folklore in the old testament, p. 81. 30 ibid. 31 world mythology, p. 280. 32 e. sykes, dictionary of non-classical mythology, london, 1961, p. 119. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 192 world was destroyed by a flood and later recreated by a god named tangaloa. the samoans believe that there was once an inundation that wiped out almost all mankind. it was survived only by two human beings who put to sea in a b

rom the waters a woman who announced herself as the daughter of manu. the couple married and produced children, thus becoming the ancestors of 37 the gods of the greeks, pp. 226-9. 38 world mythology, pp. 130-1. 39 new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, p. 362. 40 ibid, satapatha brahmana (trans. max muller, cited in atlantis: the antediluvian world, p. 87. 41 ibid. see also folklore in the old testament, pp. 78-9. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 194 the present race of mankind.42 last but by no means least, ancient egyptian traditions also refer to a great flood. a funerary text discovered in the tomb of pharaoh seti i, for example, tells of the destruction of sinful humanity by a deluge.43 the reasons for this catastrophe are set out in chapter clxxv of the book of the dead, wh

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e dr. john j. robinson in the consultants committee on semitic philology. a satirist of some talent, ibn aaron collaborated on the i go to see series, which took a wickedly mirthful look at various ufo personalities, cults and groups. rabbi ibn aaron s key contribution, however, was his extraterrestrialism series published in saucer news, which postulated that ancient documents, including the old testament, were really specific accounts of extraterrestrial visitations. a linguist of great talent, he postulated that many biblical passages had been mistranslated, especially when aramaic texts were mistaken for hebrew. for example, the phrase ruach elohim usually translated spirit of god or wind of god may actually refer to a specific form of energy used by a race of extraterrestrial beings

e alleged alien, a planetary name or a strange turn of phrase. for example, george adamski s long-haired visitor from the sky calling for peace on earth and good will, one orthon, decodes readily to the name jesus. the name adamski means son of adam he is said to have returned from the dead with a new name and renewed youth, apparently raised by orthon and friends in a bizarre parallel to the new testament s promise of redemption and resurrection. in the west virginia flap of the mid-1960s, we can see now that the beings with funny names who appear dotted among the so-called mothman accounts predict the latter, along with the very real and tragic silver bridge disaster, for anyone who took the trouble to decode their names. but indrid cold and carl ardo appear in 1966 and 1967, and the cla

the ufo cults have clearly influenced even kenneth grant s so-called typhonian oto, which appears to use valid magical currents to pursue the hideous old ones of h.p. lovecraft s fictional cthulhu mythos. phil dick s last efforts were marred by insipid trivial ufo cult channelings- the kind of stuff that was old hat to hardened ufologists by the late 1950s. compare phil dick s musings in the last testament with, for example, the mark probert or dick miller or gloria lee bird materials of ufo contactee lore. the magick of the black lodge can be defined and thus identified in only one way and by one set standard: the subversion of the true will. this is the essence of black magick, and is its only true definition. aleister crowley explained it this way: the magical will is in its essence two

undy the morning of the magicians by pauwels and bergier the occult reich by j.h. brannan the spear of destiny by trevor ravenscroft the eye in the triangle by israel regardie the confessions of aleister crowley by aleister crowley the autobiography of malcolm x as told to alex haley magick without tears by aleister crowley, edited by regardie thus spoke zarathustra by friedrich nietzche the last testament by greg rickman valis by philip k. dick 84 allen h. greenfield the transmigration of timothy archer by philip k. dick radio free albemuth by philip k. dick what is enlightenment? john white, editor cosmic consciousness by richard bucke. m.d. hitler m a dit by hermann rauschning the fellowship by brad steiger the silencers by timothy green beckley the silver bridge by gray barker the siri

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ces to 2 by aiq bkr, the number for divine will. the two main words of the phrase (i.e, kafafam komselha) add up to 866, the names of the three governors of khr, the 20th aethyr, the aethyr of the wheel (zildron= 255, parziba=189, totokan=422 and 255+189+422=866. aiq bkr reduces 866 to 2. the letters of kika add up to 666 which crowley adopted as his own number, being that of the beast of the new testament. the word kika means "mystery" aiq bkr demonstrates how close this formula is to mzkzb: 1746 and 666 both reduce to 9 because both are formulas of slow but sure cyclic spiritual development. the number 666 is equal to elzap-mika-lnnia which means "the way of the great beast" the word lnnia (beast) is 174 which is the number for olora which means "man" the number 666 is also equal to iakh

years, but the important thing here is that a 227 change in the very nature of things is immanent. the guide will lament his replacement, although he will openly admit that his replacement is superior to himself. when crowley entered lea, this guide called his replacement the "beast" and implied that it was crowley himself. crowley was, of course, known as the beast 666 (a reference from the new testament book of revelations) but the-`beast'in lea is of a different sort. the fact of the matter is that the guide of lea intends the beast to be any who can enter consciously into lea. you will be the beast yourself when you enter this aethyr. the guide is a part of your own psyche. it is that part which is dying as you learn and grow in enochian magick. zen buddhism teaches that we are never

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giving way to christianity, though to us it has sunk into such utter darkness: such expressions as frauja, halja, sibja, unhul ?o, skohsl, anz, fairguni, sauil (as well as sunna, vaihts, alhs, gudja, hunsl, dulj^s, jiuleis, midjun-gards, aiihns, a]7n, blotan, inveitan, must have heathen notions lying at their base, and these would offer themselves far more abundantly if portions of the gothic old testament had reached us. after the lapse of a few centuries we find the other dialects all more or less corrupted when compared with the gothic, and as a long xll preface. interval had then passed since the conversion of most of the races, heathenism must have retreated farther from the language also and the poetry. nevertheless the fragment of muspilli, the abrenuntiatio, the merseburg lay and a

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as holz yestohlen hett; praetorius says more definitely, weitbeschr. 1, 447: the superstitious folk declared the dark spots on the moon to be the man that gathered sticks on the sabbath and was stoned therefor. the dutch account makes the man steal vegetables, so he appears in the moon with the bundel moes on his shoulders (westendorp p. 129. the english tradition seems pretty old. chaucer in his testament of creseide 260-4 de scribes the moon as lady cynthia: her gite (gown) was gray and ful of spottis blake, and on her brest a cliorl paintid ful even bering a bush of thornis on his bake, which for his theft might clime no ner the heven. in eitson s anc. songs (lond. 1 790, p. 35 is a song upon the man in the moon, beginning thus: mon in the mone stond and strit (standeth and strideth, on

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magnetic waves correspond to some aspects of what rosicrucians call vibration.[122] plate 3 [123] according to modern theory, electrons, as electromagnetic wave-functions, are the entities that hold atoms together in molecules. the foresight displayed by frater dalton in declaring that when atoms combine to form molecules, they are held together by the strong affinity of vibration, is therefore a testament to the efficacy of rosicrucian principles. the aura which surrounds atoms is a function as much of the electrons which surround the nucleus as the positive nature of the nucleus itself. modern chemists acknowledge the existence of polarity in atoms as being due to the positive influence of their inner nature. the nucleus. the nuclei of atoms exert an influence far beyond the bounds of th

tion in san jose, california, at 3:15 p.m. pacific standard time, on wednesday, august 2, 1939. hundreds attended the services, and several thousand letters, telegrams, and cables were received from every civilized country in the world, expressing sorrow at the loss of his physical presence and personality, but joy at his final attainment. in accordance with an expressed wish in his last will and testament, his mortal ashes were interred in rosicrucian park, beneath a symbolic triangle in the beautiful akhnaton shrine, a reproduction of a temple in egypt in which he had performed an initiation. it is now visited annually by great numbers of members, and his friends and admirers.[134] ralph m. lewis, f.r.c. imperator for the worldwide jurisdiction (the americas, australasia, europe, africa

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hey may prove the germ of a more full and able essay by one of your learned correspondents. it would trespass too much upon your space to attempt to elucidate the origin and various modes of divination by the crystal, of the antiquity and wide-spread belief in which there exist innumerable testimonies, sacred and profane; from the divine responses by the urim and thummim, men255 tioned in the old testament" to josephus, who in his history declares it to be more than200years since the stones of the ephod hadgivenan answer by their extraordinary lustre; and from porphyry, iamblichus, and psellus, to the magiciansofcairo and the peepers and speculators in england at the present day. with respect to the 'superstitious rites, the long fastings, themysticalwords, the concentric""itwould seem fro

odox, is not among these, but cheerfully admits the force of sir g. wilkinson's observations: just as other orthodox divines cheerfully allow ustoadmit the fact of the existence of the countless worlds for millions of years, and of the sun not going round the earth but the earth round the sun, and to agree with the chevalier bunsen and others that the current views of history derived from the old testament areuntenable.255zoist.therosicrucianseerivcontributionstothezoist[thezoistwas a periodical published in thirteen volumes between 1844 and 1856.itconsisted principally of correspondence and book reviews mainly concerned with mesmerism, natural medicine, and, in later volumes, spiritualism. hockley stated that he had made four contributions but only the following three have been traced.]on

nterest, i shall be much gratified by receiving your views thereon. may i now ask them seriatim? c.a-'yes.'propositions a.deniedbytheharmonialsociety,and tobesupportedbydrrice:propositioni-'thebible is the word of god, being a full revelation from him to man, in itself complete, and never to be either enlarged or diminished' c.a.-itis the word of god, becauseitwas written by his will, and the new testament by his inspiration; but it is not all correct.theoriginal manuscript was in some places wrong, and that is much altered now.thematerial points were quite right, and now remain so. proposition2-'abeing exists, the antagonist of god, and all righteousness, called the "devil "satan "beelzebub &c' ca.-abody of evil does exist in direct opposition to god, and that evil is the enemy of mankind

m induced, from the great interest now taken in spiritual philosophy, to offer some remarks, obtained by spiritual communica255 tion, upon the theorems contained in your two papers, marked a. andb,-inthe hope that yourself and friends 'being actuated, so far as you can discover your own minds, by a desire for truth' may be led seriously and carefully to sift the pure christian precepts of the new testament, and its substantial principle of the atonement through jesus christ, from the dogmas and practices of its professed disciples, and more especially its mammon-loving priests, and may thereby be enabled to guard yourselves from the irremediable evils into which you may otherwise be led by acorrespondencewithrobertowen163however shortitmay be, let it be earnest, straightforward, and someth

iring or maliciously destroying rooms, homes or other buildings-slandering or spreading evil reports-invocation or calling of evil spirits-knowing them to beso-ormaking use of anything through their aid a disobedience in principal of god'sword-ido not mean to say minorpoints-suchas might be overlooked or misunderstood but those glaring facts which are laid down and so strictly enjoined in the new testament. again i repeat that the minor ones are not of importance in any way. for these offences there are very few others that are not punished everlastingly and yet so lastingly that to those who bear them, they appear everlasting, until the time cometh that they shall be released from their suffering.122therosicrucianseercompare, and in this water live many monsters-monsters out ofnumber-thee

len from his highdegree-heis the power of evilalwaysat enmity with god,alwaysstrivingto rule his creator by gainingman-thegreatest of acquisitions-over to him and subservient to his will. this power of evil so strong it was necessary that god should send into the world, to arm man with a weapon by which he might defeat the power of evil. this weapon is his word given by his son to man, in the new testament, having given that word to man as a sureji6therosicrucianseerremarks by thec.a.:spirits both good and evil,but more especiallythe latter, can communicate with man before their gradual rise towards happiness, after that they lose all their knowledge of man and therefore have no desire to communi255 cate withthem-whena manifestation is desired by good through undeveloped spirits-evil spiri

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only be evidence for the gradual spread of literacy and an increasing availability of artists outside the capital. some parts of the pyramid texts were probably recited at private funerals long before they were first written down on private tomb walls and coffins. 23. extracts from the pyramid texts occur on tomb walls and coffins right down to the ptolemaic period (332 30 bc. it is a remarkable testament to the longevity of egyptian culture that educated people living in this period could read and appreciate texts composed over 2,000 years earlier. 24. see kurt sethe, dramatische texte zu alt gyptischen mysterienspielen (leipzig, 1928. egyptologists have been unable to agree on the nature of the rituals recorded in this text. they have been interpreted as a coronation ceremony, or as par

when yam comes to collect the treasure, he is challenged by seth. in the ugaritic myth, baal kills the sea monster, scatters the pieces of its body, and declares himself king. the damaged egyptian version probably ended with seth defeating yam and claiming astarte as his prize. see also anat; eye of ra; renenutet; seth references and further reading: a. l. perlman. asherah and astarte in the old testament and in ugaritic literature. berkeley: 1978. j. b. pritchard. palestinian figurines in relation to certain goddesses known through literature. new haven: 1943. primary sources: h&s; astarte and the sea; p. leiden i 343 345.4; hmp aten (aton) aten was a form of the sun god promoted by king amenhotep iv in the fourteenth century bce. this king changed his name to akhenaten, which probably m

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you, what reward (or merit) have ye? do not even the publicans the same? and if you salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even publicans so? these are christ's words. but genesis says "cursed be canaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren" and, therefore, christian but biblical people prefer the law of moses to christ's law of love. they base upon the old testament, which panders to all their passions, their laws of conquest, annexation, and tyranny over races which they call inferior. what crimes have been committed on the strength of this infernal (if taken in its dead letter) passage in genesis, history alone gives us an idea, however inadequate. at the close of the middle ages slavery, under the power of moral forces, had mainly disappeared fro

as something synonymous with the kingdom of heaven, or the paradise, since according to every orientalist of note nirvana is a synonym of annihilation! a. taken literally, with regard to the personality and differentiated matter, not otherwise. these ideas on reincarnation 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 ancient philosophical treatises between soul and spirit, that has occasioned the many misunderstandings. it is also one of the many reasons why buddha, plotinus, and so many other initiates are now accused of having longed for the total extinction of their souls-"absorption unto the deity" or "reunion with the universal soul" meaning, according to modern ideas, annihilation. the pers

a (sans) the most celebrated avatara of vishnu, the "savior" of the hindus and the most popular god. he is the eighth avatara, the son of devaki, and the nephew of kansa, the indian herod, who while seeking for him among the shepherds and cowherds who concealed him, slew thousands of their newly-born babes. the story of krishna's conception, birth, and childhood are the exact prototype of the new testament story. the missionaries, of course, try to show that the hindus stole the story of the nativity from the early christians who came to india. kshetraj a or kshetraj esvara (sans) embodied spirit in occultism, the conscious ego in its highest manifestations; the reincarnating principle, or the "lord" in us. kumara (sans) a virgin boy or young celibate. the first kumaras are the page 157 th

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headaches and pre-flulike symptoms for a couple of days following. in view of this, we constructed a permanent circle and triangle, according to the .rules. in the lesser key, and all workings were conducted in the fashion outlined in the lesser key. using the long conjurations and constraints to the spirit given in the lesser key itself is exhilarating. the long sentences, punctuated by the old testament names of god and biblical quotations, quickly raises excitement to a fever pitch, and once the spirit can be discerned, it must then be abjured to remain within the triangle of art. the shapes which the spirits assumed were rarely exactly that described within the lesser key (hereafter lk, but generally similar. we found that once a spirit had appeared to us in a particular form, then it

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the otherworld- to know the short-cuts, and make a few friends (or contact relatives) over there. having done this, they have to interact with these spirits in a given way, to get them to execute your will. so clergymen pray, shamans stuff sacred mushrooms into their orifices in order to meet their ancestors, whilst demonologists threaten entities into submission by thundering out bits of the old testament. by the eighteenth century, and the rise of science, the idea of animal magnetism arose in the west, being the first manifestation of the energy model of magick. this model places emphasis on the presence of subtle energies which can be manipulated via a number of techniques. along came bulwer lytton and his idea of vril energy, eliphas levi and the astral light, mediums& ectoplasm, west

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nnot enter upon the practical part without interruption. i do not recollect what books i mentioned to you. were i quite at leisure and wishing to know more on this subject, i should 3 chacombe vicarage 1st april 1889 the letters 25 search out all there is in the brit[ish] mus[eum] in ms, but this would be a long task. the printed books which will help you most are basil valentine's "last will and testament" and "triumphant chariot of antimony. these are translated into english. then there are two commentators who have tried to enlighten his obscurity, who are kerckringius and johannes fabre, but the latter is the best. paracelcus has written much on it, and revealed much, but he has concealed as much as he has revealed. cornelius agrippa has been translated into english, for i have seen a

oad, sw, who would be very likely to have it. i believe he has removed to another no. in clapham road, but i have sent away his last catalogue, and it may be that 314 is where he has removed to. there is also a folding chart of the same, but containing rather more in basil valentine's "two treatises &c. to which the name johannes worlidge is signed. this is generally bound up with his "last will& testament. it seems to me that as you do not know these first principles, you would do well to belong to the so-called "rosicrucian society of england. in it all the first principles are taught in successive degrees. it is all from the holy qabbalah. there is an examination for every degree, which is a very good discipline. they teach what the t[heosophical] s[ociety] never has done, and never wil

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en an initiate has responded, the officiant shall move onward until each member of the covine has rendered their answer. as he moves past each initiate, they shall scatter the ground with an offering of grain. returning to the north the officiant shall lay down the two signs at the sides of the stang and then turn to address the covine- remember that which you have spoken and guard it well as the testament of thy soul. for i who have come to sow the world-field shall return to reap and to judge on the day of its harvest. hear ye then my tale, hear ye the corn-king s riddle spun upon the wheel of the year and the day. for with one step the world is begun and with the next all things are done! on the first day i awoke within the furrow. on the second day i knelt in prayer neath the sun. on t

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l elements" tbe word 'eternal' by which our theologians interpret the words 'for ever and ever' does not exist in tbe hebrew language, either as a word or meaning. there is no' hebrew word which propeiiy expresses eternity; chvf, tnilam, according to le clerc, only imports a time whose beginning or end is not known* while showing that this word does not mean infinite duration, and tbat in the old testament the word forever only signifies a long time. arch- bishop tillotson has completely perverted its sense with respect to tbe idea of bell-torments. according to bis doctrine, when sodom and gomorrah aie said to be su fering 'eternal fire' we must understand it (xdy in tbe sense of tbat fire "not being extinguished till both cities were entirdy consumed" but, as to hell-fire the words must

fame by combining the teachings of all these grand masters of true philosophy "prove all things; hold fast that which is good" ought to be the motto of all brothers on earth. not so is it with the interpreters of the biue. the seed of the reformation was sown on the day that the second chapter of the caiiudic eputle ofjamet jostled the eleventh chapter of the eptgue to the hd^rewa in the same new testament. one who believes in paul cannot believe in james, peter, and john. the paulists, to remain chris* tians with their apostle, must withstand peter "to the face; and if peter "was to be blamed" end loaa vorong, then he was not infauible. how then can his successor) boast of his infallibihtyp every kingdom divided agunst itself is brought to desolation; and every house divided against itsel

r by jesus, practised by a few christian ascetics, and gradually abandoned and even entirely forgotten by the christian church. the iniiiaud nazars had ever held to this rule, which had to be fol- lowed before their time by the adepts of every age; and the disciples of john were but a dissenting branch of the essenes. therefore we cannot well confound them with all the juaart spoken of in the old testament, and who are accused by hosea with having separated or consecrated themselves to boaketh, nif3 (see hebrew text; which word implied the greatest possible abomination. to infer, as some critics and theo- logians do, ihat it means to separate one's self to duutxty or continence, is either advisedly to pervert the true meaning, or to be totally ignorant of the hebrew language. the eleventh

eated with such contempt from the first, and deprecatingly called "the galilean" nathaniel inquiies, at the very beginning of his career" can there any good thing come out of nazareth (john, i, 46) and merely because he knows himhebrew religionists, but rather a class of chaldoean theurgistsp besides, as the new testament is noted for its mistranslations and trans- parent falsifications of texta, we may justly suspect that the word naza- reth was substituted for that of nataria, or twzari; and that it [the text] originally read" can any good thing come from a nobori, or nazarene" a follower of st. john the baptist, with whom we see him [jesus] assodat- ing from his first appearance on the stage of action

onostica etc "had two meanings one obvious for the vulgar; the other mystical, and recog- nisable by the inuiated alone. it was perhaps the signet of some chief 331. king: the onoiliet, ek, p. li5(latea.)i tlie author pibcea this urcophftgna ftmoiu tbe earliest productioos of tlut irt which later inundated the world with moaaici and engraviiisb. rcpresetitiag the events mid peraonagei of the 'new testament' 332. tertulluut: dt pudicitia, vn. i. ste the gnodiet and uuitbemaitu, p. liulited. 333. tkg gnotiiei, ete. pi. i, p. 200 (lit ed. digitizecoy google iso isis dnteilra) teacher or apostle* this affords a fresh pmia that the gnostics and early orthodox) christians were not so wide apurt in their secret doe- trine. king deduces from a quotation from epiphanius, that even as late as 400 a

act that each class of men was issued from a more or less noble limb of brahma. gautama- buddha's philosophy was that taught from the beginning of time in the impenetrable secresy erf the inner sanctuaries of the pagodas. we need not be surprised ther^ore to find again, in all the fundamental dogmas of the gnostics, the metaphysical tenets of both brfthntanism and buddhism. they held that the old testament was the revelation of an inferior being, a subordinate divinity, and did not contain a ungle sen- tence of their sophia, the diviue wisdom. as to the new testament, it had lost its purity when the compilers became guilty of interpolations. the revelation of divine truth was sacrificed by them to promote selfish ends and maintain quarrels. the accusation does not seem so very improbable t

t; until by the contact of matter itself she pro- duces the creator of the material world. he is the demiurge, called by the ophites dda-baoth, and, as we shall directly show, the parent of the jewish god in the opinion of some sects, and held by others to be the 'lord god' himself. it is at this point of the kabalistic-goostic cosmogony that the mosaic bibu begins. having accepted the jewish old testament as their standard, no wonder that the christians were forced by the exceptional position in which they were placed through their own ignorance, to make the best of it. the first groups of christians, whom renan shows numbering but trom seven to twelve men in each church, belonged unquestionably to the poorest and most ignorant classes. they had and could have no idea of the highly philos

ere are three that bear record in heaven, the father, the word, and the holy ghost: and these three are one" this verse, which has been "appointed to be read in churches" is now known to be spurious. it is not to be found "in any greek manu- script, save one at berlin" which was transcribed from some interpolated paraphrase between the lines. in the first and second editions of eras- mus' the new testament, printed in 1516 and 1519, this fusion to these three heavenly witnesses is omitted; and the text is "not contained in any greek manuscript which was written earlier than the fifteenth century* 300. london. 177 .85, 4 voli. digitizecoy google 178 isis unveiled it was not menlioiied by any of the greek ecclesiastical writers nor by the early latin fathers, ao anxious to get at every proof

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241 ciple, and express the sign of aquarius, with its watery or lunar hints, its twin-fishes, and its jonah-like anagrams of the redeemer. hence the boat-like, elongated, peculiar form called the vesica piscis, which is the oblong shuttleshaped frame continually set over doors and windows and elsewhere in gothic churches, to contain effigies of the saviour, or virgin mary, or groups from the new testament in connection with these two sacred persons. a doorway in barfreston church, kent, supplies an excellent example of the employment of this oblong figure; which is also babylonian, and means the female member as its starting-point in a previous part of our book we give various figures of the prows or cutwater-heads of gondolas, in which we clearly show the origin of their peculiar form, w

alchemy. gassendus asserts, as the opinion of flood, that the key of the bible mysteries is really to be found in the processes of alchemy and of the hermetic science; that the mystical sense of scripture is not otherwise explainable than by the philosopher's stone; and that the attainment of the great art or of the secrets which lie locked, is heaven, in the rosicrucian profundities. old and new testament, and their historical accounts, are alike hermetic in this respect. the grand magisterium the great work, as the alchemists call it is mythed by moses in genesis, in the deliverance from egypt, in the passage of the red sea, in the jewish ceremonial law, in the lives of the patriarchs and prophets, such as abraham, david, solomon, jacob, job. in this manner the true cabalists are suppose

uth, but only apparent truth. secondly. so long as nature must have a farther or a whereto beyond the present apparent whole (and forward to which, in the necessity of things, it must pass) it may be reasonable that is, all of truth apparent* but not beyond. the cabalists (rosicrucians, the brothers of the crucififd rose) say that man is unintelligible, that nature is unintelligible, that the old testament, with its genesis, its pentateuch; that the new testament, with christianity and the scheme of redemption, that all is unintelligible without their secret to the world wholly forbidden interpretation. buddhist ideality. 321 but it cannot be true truth; or abstract, positive truth. man is made. man is not a maker. in other words, man gets nothing that is outside of him. he only obtains th

glet says, les deux divinit s dont-il s agit, sont tr s souvent et tr s pieusement adordes sous le figure du linga (le phallus des anciens, et de 1 yoni, dans leur myst rieuse conjonction. l yoni se nomme aussi bhaga (pudendum muliebre. madheri, douce; et argha, vase en forme de bateau. benares is the peculiar seat of the linga or phallic worship. no less than forty-seven lingas are* puranas (new testament, the modern scriptures of the hindus, as distinguished from the vedhas (as bible, or more ancient scriptures. wilson on hind sects. as. res. vol. xvii. as. res. vol. xvii. pp. 208-210. chinese hint. the chinese pagodas are phalli, storied tors, or obelisks; abounding in bells to be agitated in the winds to drive-off the crowds of roving malignant spirits. the whole of china may be mystic

lows (judges viii. 22 &c) the worship of gideon s ephod. the ephod made by gideon with the spoil of the midianites became after his death an object of idolatry (ibid. p. 41. we have also micah s images and the teraphim. we learn from st. jerome (who received it by tradition from the ancient jews, and indeed it is so stated in numbers xxv. 1, 2 &c, xxiii. 28, and numerous other passages of the old testament) that the jews adored baal phegor (baal-pheor, the priapus of the greeks and romans. it was, he says, principally worshipped by women; colentibitus maxime feminis (baal-phegor. maimonides observes that the adoration offered to this idol, called pehor, consisted in discovering. chemosh, probably the same as baal-pheor, also received the homage of the jews, as also did milcom, molech, baal

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elliot. gnegative theology and positive assertion, h in daat, nos. 32-33 (1994. through a speculum that shines. vision and imagination in medieval judaism. princeton: princeton university press, 1994: chapter six. gvisionary gnosis and the role of the imagination in theosophic kabbalah. h 20081 14 addendum: pre-kabbalistic streams of jewish mysticism* to fill the span between the close of the old testament and early kabbalah, a muchsimplified selection of streams representative of.or having influence upon.jewish mysticism can be outlined thus: 1. early beginnings a. pseudepigrapha (ca. 200 bce onward) b. philo (ca. 20 bce to 50 ce) c. qumran= dead sea scrolls: 100 bce onward) d. rabbinic and synagogue traditions (100 ce onward) e. miscellaneous magic texts and other goccult h works 2. merk

siasticus, through the pseudepigrapha, and on into the talmudic sayings of the fathers (pirqe aboth. an enduring treatment of all this is o. s. rankin fs israel fs wisdom literature (edinburgh: t&t clark ltd, 1936; rpt 1954 and 1964; rpt new york: schocken books, 1969) a generous compendium of pseudepigrapha (which includes some material which does not really belong under this heading) is the old testament pseudepigrapha, edited by james h. charlesworth: volume 1: apocalyptic and testaments; volume 2: expansions c legends, wisdom c prayers, odes, psalms, fragments (garden city: doubleday and company, 1983 and 1985. it is a collection of utmost value, far more inclusive than the previous standard, apocrypha and pseudepigrapha of the old testament, edited by r. h. charles (2 vols, oxford: cl

hekhalot, a most informative source is martha himmelfarb fs ascent to heaven in jewish and christian apocalypses (new york/ oxford: oxford university press, 1993. on a somewhat different tack, though holding onto the thread begun with the last two selections, is markus n.a. bockmuehl fs revelation and mystery in ancient judaism and pauline christianity [wissenschaftliche untersuchungen zum neuen testament. 2. reihe 36 (tuebingen: j.c.b. mohr [paul siebeck, 1990)14 assuming that the reader is reasonably familiar with the hebrew bible, the next step would be to acquire some knowledge of early rabbinic thought and method. the sages by e. e. urbach (see note 2) is an excellent start. three anthologies serve as introductions to their respective texts: 1. the classical midrash: tannaitic commen

KETAB E SIYAH

t i had done, came the voice of auriel, the fourth of the brothers for they were my brethren no more "what proof" he inquired "what proof shall we bring to make firm our prosecution so that with cunning and clever words the adversary cannot escaped his deserved fate? what arguments can we devise that can thwart his and overthrow him and give us victory in god's judicious court? how shall we bring testament to his evil and thus stem its monstrous tide? if we cannot bring proof of his sin then how can we deliver our father from the serpent's tongue? yet what proof is there of his guilt that we can show before our lord whose eyes see all truth and yet now see not this perfidy that has the seed of ruin in its cankered womb. what testimony then shall expound his guilt that all the world may kno

other to me no more, is truly guilty of all that i disclosed. if you have any reason to doubt my word or if my judgement and understanding of my brothers speech and deed is not satisfying to your discernment then summon to yourself all your sons, all the elohim that serve you in heaven and upon the earth below, the ancient dominion of the giants that we vanquished so long ago, and call upon their testament for none of us cannot recount an instance where our false brother came to us, perverting by his deceitful tongue. lord, all heaven cries 'vengeance! 18 vengeance against the evil one who brings ruinous contention to our most beautiful dominion which we both love and serve devotedly' tarry no longer, liege. it serves us not. rather act delayless and judiciously before the villain's crime

s, orchestrater of the stars, proclaimer of destiny, keeper of wisdom, judge of the world, castigator of sin, scourge of evil, most high, most merciful, most just, most sagacious, most perfect, most mighty, most noble, most majestic, my god, my lord, my father, i need speak little in prosecution for my noble brother, michael, has already spoken much. i shall, however, say this thing, my brother's testament is wholly just not deviating by the smallest part from that which i myself have known. i vouch most wholeheartedly for my brother's words, finding them to be true to my own testament. as satanael came heinously to michael so he came to me also, speaking the very same words as he spoke to michael 31 and, in reply to such wickedness, i gave to him the same reply as my brother gave, renounc

s, orchestrater of the stars, proclaimer of destiny, keeper of wisdom, judge of the world, castigator of sin, scourge of evil, most high, most merciful, most just, most sagacious, most perfect, most mighty, most noble, most majestic, my god, my lord, my father, i need speak little in prosecution for my noble brother, michael, has already spoken much. i shall, however, say this thing, my brother's testament is wholly just not deviating by the smallest part from that which i myself have known. i vouch most wholeheartedly for my brother's words, finding them to be true to my own testament. as satanael came heinously to michael so he came to me also, speaking the very same words as he spoke to michael and, in reply to such wickedness, i gave to him the same reply as my brother gave, renouncing

orchestrater of the stars, proclaimer of destiny, 34 keeper of wisdom, judge of the world, castigator of sin, scourge of evil, most high, most merciful, most just, most sagacious, most perfect, most mighty, most noble, most majestic, my god, my lord, my father, i need speak little in prosecution for my noble brother, michael, has already spoken much. i shall, however, say this thing, my brother's testament is wholly just not deviating by the smallest part from that which i myself have known. i vouch most wholeheartedly for my brother's words, finding them to be true to my own testament. as satanael came heinously to michael so he came to me also, speaking the very same words as he spoke to michael and, in reply to such wickedness, i gave to him the same reply as my brother gave, renouncing

e of my wealth, divided amongst you like the unclean spoils of war, and though you know it not you stand at a junction in your history and must decide upon the path of your future. now is the time, the chance, to choose your destinies for the universe moves to war and both heaven and earth shall, once more, be clad in the crimson cloak of dispute. though you have abused me so with greed and false testament i forgive you of all wrongs against me and, more than this magnanimity, 42 offer you a place behind my standard in this war amongst the elohim. my brothers, you know my innocence of those charges, until this time, yet would desire a share in my dominion in the kingdom of adonai yahweh but i offer you a worthier prize for that which michael has offered you is, with the passing of aeons, n

t i had done, came the voice of auriel, the fourth of the brothers for they were my brethren no more "what proof" he inquired "what proof shall we bring to make firm our prosecution so that with cunning and clever words the adversary cannot escaped his deserved fate? what arguments can we devise that can thwart his and overthrow him and give us victory in god's judicious court? how shall we bring testament to his evil and thus stem its monstrous tide? if we cannot bring proof of his sin then how can we deliver our father from the serpent's tongue? yet what proof is there of his guilt 71 that we can show before our lord whose eyes see all truth and yet now see not this perfidy that has the seed of ruin in its cankered womb. what testimony then shall expound his guilt that all the world may

er to me no more, is truly guilty of all that i disclosed. if you have any reason to doubt my word or if my judgement and understanding of my brothers speech and deed is not satisfying to your discernment then summon to yourself all your sons, all the elohim that serve you in heaven 79 and upon the earth below, the ancient dominion of the giants that we vanquished so long ago, and call upon their testament for none of us cannot recount an instance where our false brother came to us, perverting by his deceitful tongue. lord, all heaven cries 'vengeance! vengeance against the evil one who brings ruinous contention to our most beautiful dominion which we both love and serve devotedly' tarry no longer, liege. it serves us not. rather act delayless and judiciously before the villain's crime is

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE ONE

lifications of mystic as well as egyptologist. the ritual of the dead, generally speaking, is a collection of hymns and prayers in the form of a series of ceremonial rituals to enable the man to unite himself with osiris the redeemer. after this union he is no longer called the man, but osiris with whom he is now symbolically identified "that they also may be one of us" said the christ of the new testament "i am osiris" said the purified and justified man, his soul luminous and washed from sin in the immortal and uncreated light, united to osiris, and thereby justified, and the son of god; purified by suffering, strengthened by opposition, regenerate through selfsacrifice. such is the subject of the great egyptian ritual. the 17th chapter of the theban recension consists of a very ancient

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

er to some extent some of the more obvious gaps between the sections of it which are already well known. the origins of masonry the actual origins of freemasonry, as i have said in a previous book, are lost in the mists of antiquity. masonic writers of the eighteenth century speculated uncritically upon its history, basing their views upon a literal belief in the history and chronology of the old testament, and upon the curious legends of the craft handed down from operative times in the old charges. thus it was put forward in all seriousness by dr. anderson in his first book of constitutions that adam, our first parent, created after the image of god, the great architect of the universe, must have had the liberal sciences, particularly geometry, written on his heart, while others, less fa

rom egypt, as has been shown in the hidden life in freemasonry, they have reached us for the most part through the jews. the tradition which has most influenced our modern masonry is that of the jewish mysteries, so the greater part of our ceremonies and s s are now cast in a jewish form. 265. in the hidden life in freemasonry it has been explained that many of the traditions preserved in the old testament have a basis in fact, although the actual events of jewish history were magnified and distorted through the lens of an almost fanatical patriotism by the later compilers of the records. the jewish scriptures as we have them today were almost entirely rewritten after the return from the captivity; and the priestly writers who did this work transfigured in a glow of enthusiastic romance th

the idea of personifying the children of israel as one being who might shed blessing over all nations; and they attempted to arouse among them the sense of unity necessary for this purpose partly by means of ritual. there were also the schools of the prophets, who were trained in the mysteries and studied the deeper teaching enshrined in the ancient rites. one such school is mentioned in the old testament as existing at naioth under the direction of the prophet samuel(*sam, xix, 20) and there were others later at bethel and jericho(*ii kings, ii, 2, 5) 272. these schools were not so much concerned with prophecy in our modern sense of foretelling the future, as with endeavouring to instruct the people by preaching; they seem to have resembled in many ways the preaching friars sent out by t

LEFT HAND PATH AND RIGHT HAND PATH

il. this tendency can be seen in the dual meaning of the word right, in the etymology of words such as sinister, which in latin means both left and unlucky, and in taboos such as the islamic prohibition against touching holy texts with one's left hand. consequently, the left hand has often been used as a symbol for the rejection of traditional religion. the word right as used with hand in the old testament is generally the hebrew word yamin meaning stronger, more dextrous. the word for left is smowl meaning dark. god gives and creates with his right hand, it is his wonderful ability to do all things. with his left hand he punishes. this hints at the obic nature of the lhp. it should be noted that the terms "left" and "right" as applied to politics, meaning "liberal" and "conservative" resp

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

vil as a beautiful woman (elizabeth hurley) who searches for a simple soul to grant seven wishes. fast-paced action with elliot s every wish consistently being sabotaged by the devil, who wants him to regret his superficial, soulless desires. evil doings are replaced by magical happenings. the narrative concludes with the moral intervention of a wise angel. beelzebub beelzebub appeared in the old testament only once, never in the apocalyptic literature, and a number of times in the new testament. although the origin of his name is uncertain, beelzebub shared the destiny of many heathen gods of beelzebub (dover pictorial archive) bells 25 canaan who were turned into demons when the jews began to filter in and developed what eventually became monotheistic judaism. baal was mocked by the jews

ws began to filter in and developed what eventually became monotheistic judaism. baal was mocked by the jews as baalzebub, lord of flies, who created and controlled flies in the philistine city of ekron. but he was originally baal the prince, the chief god in the canaan pantheon. baalzebub appeared in kings 2:1 as the god called upon by king ahaziah (c. 850 849 b.c) to cast out demons. in the new testament his name was transformed into beelzebub, and was used to refer to the devil.he was called the prince of devils by the pharisees and as such he appeared in luke 11:19 when jesus, upon healing somebody, was accused of casting out demons through beelzebub. in contemporary usage, beelzebub is an alternate name for satan. see also demons; satan for further reading: eliade,mircea, ed. encyclop

medieval heretic groups for rejecting such basic christian beliefs as the doctrine of incarnation, christ s two natures, the virgin birth, and bodily resurrection. they also repudiated the church hierarchy and sacraments, particularly baptism of water and matrimony, and followed an ascetic lifestyle that included celibacy, vegetarianism, and even ritual suicide.most cathars accepted only the new testament, which they read in its catholic version. the universe was seen by cathars as constituted of two coexisting spheres: the kingdom of the good god who was spiritual and suprasensible, and who had created the invisible heaven, its spirits, and the four elements; and the kingdom of the evil god, satan, creator of the material world, and who, being unable to make the human soul, had captured

in robinson 1981, 9f. this evil deity, who is alternately designated the demiurge (a term originally utilized by plato to refer to a demigod who creates the world in the timaeus, also creates the human body for the purpose of trapping human spirits in the physical world. our true home is the absolute spirit, the pleroma. a standard tenet of gnostic christianity was that yahweh, the god of the old testament, was one and the same as this evil demiurge. pointing to the discrepancy between the jealous, vengeful god of the old testament and the teachings of the gentle jesus, these gnostics asserted that jesus was a teacher sent from the pleroma to guide us back to our true home, and that the father to which he referred was different from yahweh. see also archon; gnosticism for further reading:

d unbelievers were tormented for eternity. in the christian tradition in particular, underworld devils acquired employment tormenting the souls of the damned, though the earliest christian idea was that stern, righteous angels tormented the damned. as the righteous angels were imaginatively removed from hell, satan, ruler of all other devils, became king of the underworld. as portrayed in the new testament, demons constitute the infernal equivalent of god s celestial host.while angels go about helping human beings and doing good, demons harass humanity and go about doing evil. christian scriptures relate many stories about exorcisms in which possessed individuals are freed from demons. according to the gospels, healing the sick and the deranged by exorcising demons constituted a major aspe

plying that most christian churches are unchristian. the difference between conservative and liberal faith traditions is that conservatives interpret scripture literally, with the idea that the bible must be embraced as a whole rather than piecemeal. liberals, on the other hand, distinguish between what they regard as the core of jesus teachings and what might be understood as the folklore of new testament times. this folklore would include the prescientific belief in demons and the like, which liberal christians feel can be ejected without disturbing the central message of the gospels. conservative christians generally view liberal christianity as being under the sway of demonic forces. furthermore, in line with the apostle paul s assertion in 1 corinthians cited above, conservative chris

worldwide. although in oriental mythologies the dragon is seen as a beneficent animal and is often a symbol or a portent of prosperity, in most european mythologies it is viewed as a demonic beast hostile to humanity. in christian symbolism, for instance, the dragon represents the chief of the fallen angels, the devil. one of the inspirations for the christian devil via hebrew scriptures (the old testament) is derived from the babylonian female dragon monster, tiamat. in early christian thought, the dragon represents the devil or the devil s servant, and has the allegorical role of representing the antichrist, or more generally, evil passions, paganism, or the oppressive powers of this world. in chapter 12 of book of revelation, it is described as large and red, with seven heads and ten ho

odies a purely symbolic meaning as the enemy of israel, that is to say the assyrians, the babylonians, or the egyptians. an account of god s hostility toward pharaoh is reported by the prophet ezekiel, who speaks of pharaoh as the great dragon that lies in the midst of his streams (ezek. 29:3, into whose jaws he will put hooks and whom he will have thrown into the wilderness. elsewhere in the old testament, the dragon is represented also as a symbol of mourning and desolation. one of the most discussed chapters of the old testament is daniel 7, which reports a dream, alleged to have occurred in the first year of belshazzar, king of babylon, in which daniel sees the four winds of heaven stirring up the great sea. out of the sea emerge, one after the other, a series of beasts, four in number

LIBER 777

whoredom, said to be the wife of samael \ynwnz tca= 864 \ycdq cwdq, qadosh qadeshim, holy of holies. doubtless there is an arcanum concealed here, possibly along the lines of you can prove anything with gematria if you try hard enough. transcriber s endnotes 55 line 5. ashteroth. historically a middle eastern goddess (a.k.a. ishtar, astart, asherah, etc, denounced and maliciously mis-spelt by old testament writers and given an inexplicable sex change by medieval demonologists. line 6. chiva, the beast; said to be the offspring of samael and isheth zanunim (see mathers introduction to kaballah unveiled, para 61. only a hideous fudge (to wit (a) mis-spelling the name as ahija (b) writing each letter out in full and (c) counting h in full as ah rather than the more usual hh) can get this name

ounting h in full as ah rather than the more usual hh) can get this name to add to 666. line 7. asmodai. appears in the apocryphal book of tobit. sometimes also known by the latinised form asmodeus. the name is possibly a modification of aeshma deva, an evil spirit from persian mythology. line 8. belial. said to be the chief of the evil spirits in some late jewish apocalyptic literature (e.g. the testament of the 12 patriarchs, but in the old testament the name was a mere term of abuse meaning masterless or worthless. line 9. lilith. she gets everywhere. line 10. naamah. the sister of tubal-cain (see masonic symbolism; but in the zohar she gets turned into another version of lilith. col. cix. rather than use planetary symbols to distinguish the kings and dukes as in the printed edition, i

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

us consider the esoteric idea-mongers of christianity, swedenborg, anna kingsford, deussen and the like, of whom i have taken caird as my example. i wish to unmask these people: i perfectly agree with nearly everything they say, but their claim to be christians is utterly confusing, and lends a lustre to christianity which is quite foreign. deussen, for example, coolly discards nearly all the old testament, and, picking a few new testament passages, often out of their context, claims his system as christianity. luther discards james. kingsford calls paul the arch heretic. my friend the .christian clergyman. accepted mark and acts.until pushed. yet deussen is honest enough to admit that vedanta teaching is identical, but clearer! and he quite clearly and sensibly defines faith.surely the mo

ohn; and, that hill being shelled, doth swear his forces never had been there. i got disgusted, called a parley (here comes a white-flag treachery) asked .is there anything you value, will hold to. he laughed .chase me, charlie. but seeing in his mind that i would no be so converted .shall you. he added .grope in utter dark? the book of acts and that of mark are now considered genuine. i snatch a testament, begin reading at random the first page. he stops me with a gesture sage .you must not think, because i say st. mark is genuine, i would lay such stress unjust upon its text, as base thereon opinion. next. i gave it up. he escaped. ah me! but do did christianity. as for a quiet talk on physics sane ac lente, i hear the british don spout sentiments more bovine than a sane yak250 ever woul

y idol punish you. no earnest student of religion or draw poker should fail to commit this anecdote to memory. 767. mr chesterton.80.i must take this opportunity to protest against the charge brought by mr. chesterton against the englishmen .who write philosophical essays on the splendour of eastern thought. if he confines his strictures to the translators of that well-known eastern work the .old testament. i am with him; any modern biblical critic will tell him what i mean. it took a long time, too, for the missionaries (and tommy atkins) to discover that .budd. was not a .great gawd. but then they did not want to, and in any case sympath and intelligence are not precisely the most salient qualities in either soldiers or missionaries. but nothing is more absurd than to compare men like si

u that i come, however unworthy, to take up the sword that huxley wielded; i tell you that the oppressor of science in her girlhood is already at work to ravish her virginity; that a moment.s hesitation, idleness, security may force us back from the positions so hardly won. are we never to go forward, moreover? are our children still to be taught as facts the stupid and indecent fables of the old testament, fables that the archbishop of canterbury himself would indignantly repudiate? are minds to be warped early, the scientific method and imagination checked, the logical faculty thwarted.thousands of workers lost each year to science? and the way to do this is not only through the negative common-sense of indifference; organise, organise, organise! for a flag we offer you the stainless lot

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

of medieval origin, for a society that actually engaged in slaveholding, it is argued, would hardly derive slaves and the rest of the population from a single progenitor, and more important, the division into three groups is typical of medieval social thinking, even if the three groups would ordinarily be laborers, warriors, and priests. thomas hill argued for an ultimate connection with the old testament story of the sons of noah. although rigsthula offers a social-foundation myth, it had little effect on the mythology as it is understood for the purposes of this book. snorri never recounts any aspect of it, and there are no kennings based on it or references to it elsewhere, with the possible exception of the reference to all the holy families as the kin of heimdall in voluspa, stanza 1

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

lled with the fear of god, a fear supposedly diminished by pernicious and godless darwinism. judaism judaism is the oldest monotheistic religion still in existence today. like islam, but unlike christianity, it rejects any pictorial representation of god. but unlike both christianity and islam, judaism does not affirm that satan is the inventor of evil. jews and christians alike recognize the old testament, in particular, its first five books, called the torah in hebrew. thus, there exists in judaismalso the potential for a literal interpretation of the genesis creation myth. on the other hand, jews do not recognize jesus christ as the messiah, and the christian view of the new testament is not shared by them. nonetheless, jews, muslims, and christians alike are people of the book; that is

at as it may, many orthodox rabbis see the theory of evolution as being compatible with the jewish faith. some, however, do not. on the other hand, expectedly, all agree that god played and plays a role in the events that unfold in the universe. one can say that observant jews believe in the spirit of the torah but do not necessarily equate it with actual fact. further, jews consider that the old testament should be read and understood in conjunction with jewish scholarly texts such as the talmud, for example. interestingly, many jewish people understand that science, too, evolves and that, for some jews, current scientific knowledge simply represents our best understanding of what ultimately god did. concerning the teaching of id in public schools in the united states, several orthodox an

urvival and proliferation. this is exactly how darwin envisioned evolution by natural selection. and as we showed, his vision was confirmed in the above case well over six decades ago. what all creationists and neocreationists reject, however, is the notion of macroevolution, the appearance of new species from old ones. this concept, unlike microevolution, clearly violates the precepts of the old testament that stipulate that kinds were fixed by god once and for all. in other words, species cannot evolve into other species, such as amphibians evolving from fishes and h. sapiens evolving from australopithecus. they claim, with some degree of justification, that no one has ever seen a mouse sprouting wings in order to become a bat. but evolutionary biology never claimed that such deep transf

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

the candidate in the role of the victim.71 it is something of a puzzle that such a thing should appear at so high a level on the tree, almost in the presence of the deity. even more puzzling is the fact that the principal officers play a significant role in this drama. let us back off from the symbolism for a moment, and seek a broader perspective. the point is often made that the god of the old testament is a god of vengeance and destruction, while the god of the new testament is a god of love and forgiveness. many of the people who make this point seem to be seeking to advance some ideas of their own about which is better, but i think it would be a mistake to dismiss the god of vengeance. after all, such a deity is found in many places. the hindu deity, for example, has the qualities of

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

or knowledge, and is derived from the greek gnosis. the members of the order claimed to be familiar with the secret doctrines of early christianity. they interpreted the christian mysteries according to pagan symbolism. their secret information and philosophic tenets they concealed from the profane and taught to a small group only of especially initiated persons. simon magus, the magician of new testament fame, is often supposed to have been the founder of gnosticism. if this be true, the sect was formed during the century after christ and is probably the first of the many branches which have sprung from the main trunk of christianity. everything with which the enthusiasts of the early christian church might not agree they declared to be inspired by the devil. that simon magus had mysteri

acadabra) disappears in eleven decreasing stages; as in the figure. and what is very remarkable, a body with three heads is folded up by a serpent with eleven coils, and placed by sorapis: and the eleven volves of the serpent form a triangle similar to that formed by the eleven diminishing lines of the abracadabra" nearly every religion of the world shows traces of astrological influence. the old testament of the jews, its writings overshadowed by egyptian culture, is a mass of astrological and astronomical allegories. nearly all the mythology of greece and rome may be traced in star groups. some writers are of the opinion that the original twenty-two letters of the hebrew alphabet were derived from groups of stars, and that the starry handwriting on the wall of the heavens referred to wor

y christians observe friday, which is sacred to the virgin (venus, upon which day they shall eat fish and not meat. the sign of the fish was one of the earliest symbols of christianity; and when drawn upon the sand, it informed one christian that another of the same faith was near. aquarius is called the sign of the water bearer, or the man with a jug of water on his shoulder mentioned in the new testament. this is sometimes shown as an angelic figure, supposedly androgynous, either pouring water from an urn or carrying the vessel upon its shoulder. among oriental peoples, a water vessel alone is often used. edward upham, in his history and doctrine of budhism, describes aquarius as being "in the shape of a pot and of a color between blue and yellow; this sign is the single house of saturn

rved by disciples of pythagoras and others who have since contacted his philosophy. method of securing the numerical power of words the first step in obtaining the numerical value of a word is to resolve it back into its original tongue. only words of greek or hebrew derivation can be successfully analyzed by this method, and all words must be spelled in their most ancient and complete forms. old testament words and names, therefore, must be translated back into the early hebrew characters and new testament words into the greek. two examples will help to clarify this principle. the demiurgus of the jews is called in english jehovah, but when seeking the numerical value of the name jehovah it is necessary to resolve the name into its hebrew letters. it becomes, and is read from right to lef

number of days in the year. this number furnishes the key to the mystery of abraxas, who is symbolic of the 365 ons, or spirits of the days, gathered together in one composite personality. abraxas is symbolic of five creatures, and as the circle of the year actually consists of 360 degrees, each of the emanating deities is one-fifth of this power, or 72, one of the most sacred numbers in the old testament of the jews and in their qabbalistic system. this same method is used in finding the numerical value of the names of the gods and goddesses of the greeks and jews. all higher numbers can be reduced to one of the original ten numerals, and the 10 itself to 1. therefore, all groups of numbers resulting from the translation of names of deities into their numerical equivalents have a basis i

the knowledge of how to become as the gods might remain the sole possession of the worthy. lest that knowledge be lost, however, it was concealed in allegories and myths which were meaningless to the profane but self-evident to those acquainted with that theory of personal redemption which was the foundation of philosophical theology. christianity itself may be cited as an example. the entire new testament is in fact an ingeniously concealed exposition of the secret processes of human regeneration. the characters so long considered as historical men and women are really the personification of certain processes which take place in the human body when man begins the task of consciously liberating himself from the bondage of ignorance and death. the garments and ornamentations supposedly worn

use were not the logs subject to decay but the immortal and imperishable intellects of the tree hierophants. trees are repeatedly mentioned in the old and new testaments, and in the scriptures of various pagan nations. the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil mentioned in genesis, the burning bush in which the angel appeared to moses, the famous vine and fig tree of the new testament, the grove of olives in the garden of gethsemane where jesus went to pray, and the miraculous tree of revelation, which bore twelve manners of fruit and whose leaves were for the healing of the nations, all bear witness to the esteem in which trees were held by the scribes of holy writ. buddha received his illumination while under the bodhi tree, near madras in india, and several of the

lization of the profundity of his people's doctrines, is usually permeated with that most dangerous form of ignorance, modernism, and is prone to regard the qabbalah either as an evil to be shunned like the plague or as a ridiculous superstition which has survived the black magic of the dark ages. yet without the key which the qabbalah supplies, the spiritual mysteries of both the old and the new testament must remain unsolved by jew and gentile alike. the sephirothic tree consists of ten globes of luminous splendor arranged in three vertical columns and connected by 22 channels or paths. the ten globes are called the sephiroth and to them are assigned the numbers i to 10. the three columns are called mercy (on the right, severity (on the left, and, between them, mildness, as the reconcili

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 1

, 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 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, h

re; for accursed be he who will take the name of god in vain, and who will employ for evil purposes the knowledge and good wherewith he hath enriched us. i command thee, my son, to carefully engrave in thy memory all that i say unto thee, in order that it may never leave thee. if thou dost not intend to use for a good purpose the secrets which i here teach thee, l command thee rather to cast this testament into the fire, than to abuse the power thou wilt have of constraining the spirits, for i warn thee that the beneficial angels, wearied and fatigued by thine illicit demands, would to thy sorrow execute the commands of god, as well as to that of all such who, with evil intent, would abuse those secrets which he hath given and revealed unto me. think not, however, o my, son, that it would

al solomon possessed knowledge inspired by the wise teachings of an angel, to which he appeared so submissive and obedient, that in addition to the gift of wisdom, which he demanded, he obtained with profusion all the other virtues; which happened in order that knowledge worthy of eternal preservation might not be buried with his body. being, so to speak, near his end, he left to his son roboam a testament which should contain all (the wisdom) he had possessed prior to his death. the rabbins, who were careful to cultivate (the same knowledge) after him, called this testament the clavicle, or key of solomon, which they caused to be engraved on (pieces of) the bark of trees, while the pentacles were inscribed in hebrew letters on plates of copper, so that they might be carefully preserved in

ed prior to his death. the rabbins, who were careful to cultivate (the same knowledge) after him, called this testament the clavicle, or key of solomon, which they caused to be engraved on (pieces of) the bark of trees, while the pentacles were inscribed in hebrew letters on plates of copper, so that they might be carefully preserved in the temple which that wise king had caused to be built. this testament was in ancient time translated from the hebrew into the latin language by rabbi abognazar, who transported it with him into the town of arles in provence, where by a notable piece of good fortune the ancient hebrew clavicle, that is to say, this precious translation of it, fell into the hands of the archbishop of arles, after the destruction of the jews in that city; who, from the latin

ll be obedient unto thee. but all this will only be true, when accompanied by the pentacles which hereinafter follow, seeing that the seals, characters, and divine names, serve only to fortify the work, to preserve from unforeseen accidents, and to attract the familiarity of the angels and spirits; which is one reason, my son, that before making any experiment, i order thee to read and re-read my testament, not once only but many times, so that being perfectly instructed in the several ceremonies thou mayest in no way fail, and that thus what shall have previously appeared to thee difficult and lengthy, may become in process of time easy and of very great use. figure 3. a circle for the consecration of pentacles the key of solomon page 42 i am about to endow thee with many secrets, which i

e end thou and thine shall feel the just wrath of an offended deity. however, god not having forbidden honest and lawful pleasures, thou mayest perform boldly the operations which follow, it being always especially necessary to distinguish between the good and the evil, so as to choose the former and avoid the latter, which is why i command thee to be attentive to all that is contained in this my testament. book one page 43 chapter ix. of the experiment concerning things stolen, and how it should be performed. my beloved son, if thou findest any theft, thou shalt do as is hereinafter ordained, and with the help of god thou shalt find that which hath been taken away. if the hours and days be not otherwise ordained in this operation, thou must refer to what hath already been said. but before

MEANING OF MASONRY

, hieroglyphics and the whole circle of arts and sciences" in other words he became in a real sense a master mason and, as such, qualified himself for his subsequent great task of leadership of the hebrew people and the formulating of their religious system and rule of life as laid down in the pentateuch. the mosaic system continued, as we know, along the channel indicated in the books of the old testament, and then, after many centuries and vicissitudes, effloresced in the greatest of all expressions of the mysteries, as disclosed in the gospels of the new testament (or new witness, involving the supersession of all previous systems under the supreme grand mastership of him who is call ed the light of the world and its saviour. concurrently with the existence of the hebrew mysteries under

giving affirmation and ocular testimony to precisely the same fact as the churchman affirms when he recites in his creed the words" he came down from heaven, and was incarnate and was made man" by a tacit and quite unwarranted convention the members of the craft avoid mention in their lodges of the christian master and confine their scriptural readings and references almost exclusively to the old testament, the motive being no doubt due to a desire to observe the injunction as to refraining from religious discussion and to prevent offence on the part of brethren who may not be of the christian faith. the motive is an entirely misguided one and is negated by the fact that the" greater light" upon which every member is obligated, and to which his earnest attention is recommended from the mom

observe the injunction as to refraining from religious discussion and to prevent offence on the part of brethren who may not be of the christian faith. the motive is an entirely misguided one and is negated by the fact that the" greater light" upon which every member is obligated, and to which his earnest attention is recommended from the moment of his admission to the order, is not only the old testament, but the volume of the sacred law in its entirety. the new testament is as essential to his instruction as the old, not merely because of its moral teaching, but in virtue of its constituting the record of the mysteries in their supreme form and historic culmination. the gospels themselves, like the masonic degrees, are a record of p reparation and illumination, leading up to the ordeal

constituting the record of the mysteries in their supreme form and historic culmination. the gospels themselves, like the masonic degrees, are a record of p reparation and illumination, leading up to the ordeal of death, followed by a raising from the dead and the attainment of mastership, and they exhibit the process of initiation carried to the highest conceivable degree of attainment. the new testament is full of passages in masonic terminology and there is not a little irony in the failure by modern masons to recognize its supreme importance and relevancy to their lodge proceedings and in the fact that in so doing they may be likening themselves to those builders of whom it is written that they rejected the chief corner stone. they would learn further that the grand master and exempla

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

hen we realize that it refers to a face inside a space helmet, which appearedto our ancestors as two faces or heads. the men of brass or bronze was also a title used for the visitors possibly due tothe metallic suits they wore. they also seem to have communicated in strange voices(many-tongues. can this not also be explained in practical terms? can the referencesabout the fallen angels in the old testament, book of enoch, and the dead seascrolls, for example, not be based on actual fact? the nephilim had to begin calibrations of the earth in relation to the neighboring plan-ets and stars almost immediately after ascent from their subterranean havens.although they were in no immediate hurry, they believed they could leave the planetwhenever they desired. earth was certainly not their home

can the same set of facts beapproached from another angle?atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation25 chapter 4lemuria and homo atlantisas we continue to review even more coherent and provocative hypotheses and theo-ries concerning atlantis, pre-diluvian history, and the coming of evil, we note howscriptures, especially the bible, contain references to key events:the history of the old testament is the history of atlantis (comyns beaumont)some key modern writers, such as brinsley la pour trench, barbara marciniak, andwilliam bramley have espoused other important theories that seek to account for thepresence of evil in the world. these accounts relate to the same idea of alien visitationand colonization. in this case, the alien invaders are referred to either as the serpentpeople

eves and their curiosity toward the high mysteries, thematriarchal cults of the priestess began. these cults of power women existed down tomedieval times, when the brotherhood of the snake, under the guise of catholicism,rose up to destroy them, en masse. the eves have never been forgiven for their aban-donment of the alien hegemony. their decision sealed their fate. that the compilers ofthe old testament and the creators of the anthrocentric, monotheistic religions pro-pound the subservience of woman should be enough proof of whom they serve. thefollowing passage reveals the wrath of the atlanteans, not only toward their firstborn, but also toward the eves:because thou hast done this, though art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of thefield; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and

lestadversary of all other gods jehovah, not in the serpent which spoke only words of sym-pathy and wisdom. under the evil insinuations of their demon thevetat, the atlantis race became a nation ofevil magiciansthe giants and magicians and all flesh died and every man.and author jack barranger also expresses the travesty of mans perplexity:we have been lead to believe that the entity that the old testament describes as a mass mur-derer and heinous leader is the god of the universe. we have been lead to think that theslaughter of human beings in the name of god is a divine act. and all through these passages is the reference to more than one god. a perfect exam-ple follows:thou shalt not revile the gods (exodus 22:28) scholar and genius, ignatius donnelly wrote of the tribulations: it sound

modern scientist isgoing to publicly espouse. and azazel taught men to make swords, and knives and shields and breastplates and madeknown to them the metals of the earth and the art of working with themand they were leadastray, and became corrupt in all their ways.the war of the gods is recorded in the bible. v eiled references to it include the term,first born. this euphemism turns up in the old testament. we read of jehovah, forinstance, striking down the first born of the pharaoh for moses. later, in the newtestament, herod goes after the first born of the so-called israelites in his search forthe christ child. few ask what is productive in attacking those without any sin, whenthe resources would be better used striking at the actual enemy. little in theologicalatlantis, alien visitatio

. 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 when the imagery is replaced by fact. jehovahannounces to mosess question, i am the god of thy fathers. scholars have pointedout that mosess doubt as to the nature and pre-eminence of jehovah is strange, to saythe least, and that jehovah should need no

with the contestbetween the red and white dragons, which is the dream of uther pendragon, father ofking arthur. the very name pendragon means head of the dragons, that is, the raceof good serpents, from which the celts and gaels descended. other cultures havesimilar leitmotifs expressing the same story. the saxon tale of st. george and thedragon is a perfect fictional rendition of it. in the old testament, passages relating tothe twins, jacob and esau, may well refer obliquely to the pre-diluvian bipartisanismand their ongoing antagonism.in your limbs lie nations twain,rival races from their birth;one the mastery shall gain,the younger oer the elder reign.the meaning behind the euphemisms of the combating serpents or dragons has todo with the antagonism within the biology of the homo atla

archangels and familiars,we must realize that this has to do with very physical phenomena. let us look now beyondthe masque to see what lies at the origin of these specific occult sciences and why the profu-sion of occultism among the european aristocratic intelligentsia at this time. the living macroscope86atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation enochian magic is named after the old testament prophet, enoch. but the name actuallygoes further back to the sumerian enki, one of the original annunaki. it is more than signif-icant that dee chose this name for his divination.sir john dee was actually successful in his enterprise. he succeeded in opening hisportal and entering into dialogue with oversouls from another dimension. this was notthe first time in earth history that this

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

siris, jesus christ is often spoke of a demon hunter and civilizer. with the story of osiris predating the story of jesus christ by more than a 1,000 years, how does one reconcile the timelines? it is, for me, easy; i suspect that most of the events described in the bible refer to a far earlier date than commonly thought. i am absolutely certain that this is the case in regards to the bible s old testament, whose pre-diluvian accounts are probably that of atlantis. proof of this fact lies in the many unoriginal stories contained in the bible, stories which appear to be nothing more than retellings of earlier mythological accounts. although christians claim that jesus is the son of god and made a noble sacrifice for mankind, they often have trouble in describing the nature of said sacrifice

MOODY RAYMOND A LIFE AFTER LIFE

ations, cultures, and eras- the bible in our society the bible is the most widely read and discussed book dealing with matters relating to the nature of the spiritual aspect of man and to life after death. on the whole, however, the bible has relatively little to say about the events that transpire upon death, or about the precise nature of the after-death world this is especially -rue of the old testament. according to some biblical scholars, only two passages in all of the old testament speak unequivocally of life after death: isaiah 26:19: thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust for. the earth shall cast out the dead' daniel 12:2: and many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life

authors of these various works could have influenced one another. such an assertion could be supported in some cases, but not in others. plato admits that he derived some of his insights partly from the religious mysticism of the east, so he might have been influenced by the same tradition which produced the tibetan book o f the dead. the ideas of greek philosophy, in turn, influenced certain new testament writers, and so it could be argued that paul's discussion of the spiritual body has some of its roots in plato. on the other hand, in most cases it is not easy to establish that such influence could have taken place. each writer seems to bring up a few interesting details which also recur in my interviews, yet which he could not have gotten from earlier authors. swedenborg read the bible

MORALS AND DOGMA

be, and how they are spoken of by our brethren of the york rite. the holy bible, square, and compasses, are not only styled the great lights in masonry, but they are also technically called the furniture of the lodge; and, as you have seen, it is held that there is no lodge without them. this has sometimes been made a pretext for excluding jews from our lodges, because they cannot regard the new testament as a holy book. the bible is an indispensable part of the furniture of a christian lodge, only because it is the sacred book of the christian religion. the hebrew pentateuch in a hebrew lodge, and the koran in a mohammedan one, belong on the altar; and one of these, and the square and compass, properly understood, are the great lights by which a mason must walk and work. the obligation o

er of nations. when christianity had grown weak, profitless, and powerless, the arab restorer and iconoclast came, like a cleansing hurricane. when the battle of damascus was about to be fought, the christian bishop, at the early dawn, in his robes, at the head of his clergy, with the cross once so triumphant raised in the air, came down to the gates of the city, and laid open before the army the testament of christ. the christian general, thomas, laid his hand on the book, and said_"oh god! if our faith be true, aid us, and deliver us not into the hands of its enemies_ but khaled_"the sword of god_ who had marched from victory to victory, exclaimed to his wearied soldiers_"let no man sleep! there will be rest enough in the bowers of paradise; sweet will be the repose never more to be foll

enigmatical language of the platonists, and paul often indulged in incomprehensible rhapsodies, the meaning of which could have been clear to the initiates alone. it is admitted that the cradle of gnosticism is probably to be looked for in syria, and even in palestine. most of its expounders wrote in that corrupted form of the greek used by the hellenistic jews, and in the septuagint and the new testament; and there was a striking analogy between their doctrines and those of the jud o-egyptian philo, of alexandria; itself the seat of three schools, at once philosophic and religious--the greek, the egyptian, and the jewish. pythagoras and plato, the most mystical of the grecian philosophers (the latter heir to the doctrines of the former, and who had travelled, the latter in egypt, and the

n the latter; and furnished the gnostics with some of their most striking theories. it is a significant fact, that while christ spoke often of the pharisees and sadducees, he never once mentioned the essenes, between whose doctrines and his there was so great a resemblance, and, in many points, so perfect an identity. indeed, they are not named, nor even distinctly alluded to, anywhere in the new testament. john, the son of a priest who ministered in the temple at jerusalem, and whose mother was of the family of aharun, was in the deserts until the day of his showing unto israel. he drank neither wine nor strong drink. clad in hair-cloth, and with a girdle of leather, and feeding upon such food as the desert afforded, he preached, in the country about jordan, the baptism of repentance, for

d god to be. they lived in continence and abstinence, and had establishments similar to the monasteries of the early christians. the writings of the essenes were full of mysticism, parables, enigmas, and allegories. they believed in the esoteric and exoteric meanings of the scriptures; and, as we have already said, they had a warrant for that in the scriptures themselves. they found it in the old testament, as the gnostics found it in the new. the christian writers, and even christ himself, recognized it as a truth, that all scripture had an inner and an outer meaning. thus we find it said as follows, in one of the gospels "unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of god; but unto men _that are without, all these things are done in parables; that seeing, they may see and not

ey may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand. and the disciples came and said unto him 'why speakest thou the truth in parables--he answered and said unto them 'because it is given unto _you_ to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to _them_ it is not given" paul, in the 4th chapter of his epistle to the galatians, speaking of the simplest facts of the old testament, asserts that they are _an allegory. in the 3d chapter of the second letter to the corinthians, he declares himself a minister of the new testament, appointed by god "not of the letter, but of the spirit; for the letter killeth" origen and st. gregory held that the gospels were not to be taken in their literal sense; and athanasius admonishes us that "should we understand sacred writ acc

nthropopathism of the jewish scriptures, the alexandrian jews endeavored to purify the idea of god from all admixture of the human. by the exclusion of every human passion, it was sublimated to a something devoid of all attributes, and wholly transcendental; and the mere being [greek, the good, in and by itself, the absolute of platonism, was substituted for the personal deity[[hebrew] of the old testament. by soaring upward, beyond all created existence, the mind, disengaging itself from the sensible, attains to the intellectual intuition of this absolute being; of whom, however, it can predicate nothing but existence, and sets aside all other determinations as not answering to the exalted nature of the supreme essence. thus philo makes a distinction between those who are in the proper se

rological character is assigned even to jehovah. he is described as seated on the pinnacle of the universe, leading forth the hosts of heaven, and telling them unerringly by name and number. his stars are his sons and his eyes, which run through the whole world, keeping watch over men's deeds. the stars and planets were properly the angels. in pharisaic tradition, as in the phraseology of the new testament, the heavenly host appears as an angelic army, divided into regiments and brigades, under the command of imaginary chiefs, such as massaloth, legion, kartor gistra etc--each gistra being captain of 365,000 myriads of stars. the seven spirits which stand before the throne, spoken of by several jewish writers, and generally presumed to have been immediately derived from the persian amshasp

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

o establish sexual abstinence as a religious rule for all, indiscriminately, is insensate "yet there are those who have dared and achieved thereby (see liber 175. certainly: but others have achieved without it, and anyway, once you achieve, why not outgrow the old toys and go on to other things? we take judaism as an example only because the sexual morality preached in the west is essentially old testament stuff it is useless that christians should pretend they are christians when they persist in interpreting their 'jesus' in the same terms that orthodox jews ascribe to a 'good 'rabbi! were we to believe for one moment that the gospels are the biography of an actual, historical, person, we would have to remember that 'jesus' was hated by the jewish priesthood, and was tortured to death thr

nators of the nazi party. the fact that the nazis destroyed all copies of the book of the law in germany, and seized all translations of a. c.'s works, and put the outer head of the 0. t. 0 (who, incidentally, was married to a jewess) in a concentration camp is not mentioned. equally, these people seem not to realize that the nazis treated them exactly as the jews treated the "heathen" in the old testament. hitler was a personification of all of jehovah's attributes only, this time, turned against "his people .even the concept of the superiority of the aryan race' and the inferiority of the 'semites' mirrors the ineffable presumption of the people elect and its attitude towards its fellowmen. all karma has to be paid, and the jews paid theirs. as compensation, through two thousand years of

ompensation, through two thousand years of persecution they had to sharpen their wits until today they compose one of the most intelligent and efficient cultural groups on the surface of the planet. if the nazis had been half as intelligent, they would have married jewish women and sterilized only the men. germany might have won the war, then. but the nazis were stupid. they were as stupid as old testament jews. when a book is the only book that by chance is preserved and by design transmitted throughout fifteen centuries, it may well become the book. the bible is one of the most brutish, most cruel, most fanatic cultural records extant. its religious fables are either naive or fatuous. it has neither the loftiness of the pyramid texts nor the human compassion of the sumerian. ft has neith

oman is a star 'come unto me 'is a foolish word; for it is i that go? reader, the choice is yours; the kings of the earth shall be kings for ever; the slaves shall serve. there is no law beyond do what thou wilt. while we are on the subject of kings, we must touch upon that lie "that thou must die" verse 49 of chapter one should be consulted in connection with this; also the golden bough, the new testament of the bible, and the mystery of osiris in any good textbook of egyptology. for ten thousand years tribes all over the world sacrificed their kings. compassion being the vice of kings, the kings were, quite often, willing to be sacrificed. this was a magickal operation to buy energy for the people, but it was based on a wrong interpretation of the bloody sacrifice, for which see book fou

ery difficult. it seems as if they were given to meet some contingency which has not yet arisen. for example, this verse might be appropriate in case of the institution of a false cultus by impostors. the doctrine is that hadit is the nucleolus (to borrow a term from biology) of any star-organism. to mock at hadit is therefore evidently very much what is meant by the mysterious phrase in the 'new testament' with regard to the unpardonable sin, the 'blasphemy against the holy ghost. a star forsaken by hadit would thus be in the condition of real death. it is this state which is characteristic of the 'black brothers, as they are described in other parts of this comment, and elsewhere in the holy books of the a'.a. it is not necessarily had it who is speaking; it may be aiwass, the magus of t

totality of his defects perfection, defines god as faeces so that he may flatter himself with the epithet divine. the whole manoeuvre is described as religion. true humility is always able to understand true pride. the devastating description above is directed at those who criticize the book of the law as lacking "christian" virtues. it reminds one of the descriptions of the pharisees in the new testament "pharisees; however, are truly a state of mind, and not a class of society; unless one wishes to remark on the astounding regularity with which one finds pharisees in priestly togae as soon as any method of theurgy ceases being a method and becomes an established dogma. 78. lift up thyself! for there is none like unto thee among men or among gods! lift up thyself, o my prophet, thy statu

l implications of thelemic initiation, and particularly the spiritual nature of the lord of the aeon, whose word this third chapter of al is. while it is true that initiates made use of sol and solis as long as latin was the courtesy-language in the west, the concept of god in a lonely place much precedes it. the jews 'having the half, sensed this worship of god in high, lonely places. in the new testament we find that "john the baptist" called himself the "voice in the wilderness "jesus" is said to have wandered in the desert. it is true that in this aeon the hermit is not to be found in the desert. geographically speaking. for "you can be lonely among men, too "says the snake (the snake, no less) in st. exupery's little prince. there is a practical aspect to this whole question that had

ormous. the great bursts of economic, scientific and moral progress following the two world wars are here for anyone to see. what the nazis did in the matter of torture during thirty years, and for which they were universally condemned, was done for a thousand years by the roman catholic church, with general approval of the learned; and was even boasted of as an achievement by the jews of the old testament. social conscience has progressed. we live in the most enlightened times of known history; the loud cries of denunciation of social injustice are denouncing things that in our times affect only minorities; two hundred years ago they affected practically everybody, and were denounced by just a handful of honest men who were persecuted, put to death, or if they were lucky ignored as crackp

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

surrounding the cabala is that magic spells and rituals based upon its system possesses an extremely potent effect over all forms of matter. such magical formulae are naturally much sought after and books containing them are hard to come by. the tree of life the cabala is the secret teaching of the ancient hebrews concerning the inner meaning to the simplistic doctrines and philosophy of the old testament, and forms the basis of modern occult thought. it is immensely complex, and it takes many years of earnest study and practice to master the merest fraction of it. the central symbol in cabalism is the tree of life, giving the path to perfection. the idea is that you follow a complex path of spiritual enlightenment up the tree passing through each sepher (divine emanation) until you achie

isiac is derived from aphrodite, the love goddess of the ancient greeks whom the romans called venus. sex backed by a definite thought or desire is a powerful magical force. you can make the irresistible combination of sex and magic work real wonders for you< the cabala is the secret teaching of the ancient hebrews concerning the inner meaning to the simplistic doctrines and philosophy of the old testament, and forms the basis of modern occult thought. one tradition surrounding the cabala is that magic spells and rituals based upon its system possess an extremely potent effect over all forms of matter. spirits communicate with us through dreams, visions and omens, and can see the future with their unseeing eyes. the signs and omens most people receive are simple everyday occurrences, but t

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

oor members. like some inscriptions, certain texts from the theodosian code (a 483 a.d. compilation of earlier texts) reveal the germination of several of the charitable institutions that spread so widely during the middle ages. law 5, for instance de pistoribus offers the example of a kind of adoption performed by craftsmen of certain collegia if a colleague left any orphans upon his death. as a testament to the collegiates' relationship and the charity it inspired, these colleagues are described as brothers (fratibus suis) in an inscription of the collegium of velabre from the time before christianity. at the death of one of its members, the collegium could be counted on to step in to ensure honorable obsequy and to oversee the fulfillment of the prescribed rites. among the romans, the s

ranted certain privileges, no doubt the same enjoyed by a sanctuary. the comacine masters were recognized as particularly skilled architects. they contributed a great deal to the gradual development of architecture in northern italy over the course of the seventh, eighth, and ninth centuries. nevertheless, their art hardly evolved at all. their churches were faithful copies of the roman basilica, testament to the workers' knowledge of traditional rules. they did introduce into their ornamentation, however, all kinds of animals and motifs derived from byzantine and eastern sources, proof of their contacts with the roman collegia and the byzantine regions of italy. they made particular use of the endless cord, woven into complicated designs and known as the comacine knot. the houppe dentelee

u iiiieme stecle en france, vol. 1, 23 ff. speculative freemasonry 227 historical foundations of the scripture should not be disregarded; abraham, david, solomon, and all other biblical characters truly existed. but god made these men the heralds of his son yet to come upon the earth. therefore, it is necessary to search through all they said and did, and in doing so, we will find christ "the old testament" saint augustine said "is nothing other than the new testament covered with a veil and the new testament is merely the old one unveiled" the divine plan transposed into the tangible figure of christ helps us to move from the macrocosmic symbolism of the temple to its microcosmic symbolism. even more, in giving resonance to the millenary symbolism of this point, christianity gave it new l

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

ifications of mystic as well as egyptologist. the ritual of the dead, generally speaking, is a collection of hymns and prayers in the form of a series of ceremonial rituals to enable the man to unite himself with osiris the redeemer. after this union he is no longer called the man, but osiris, with whom he is now symbolically identified "that they also may be one of us" said the christ of the new testament "i am osiris" said the purified and justified man, his soul luminous and washed from sin in the immortal and uncreated light, united to osiris, and thereby justified, and the son of god; purified by suffering, strengthened by opposition, regenerate through self-sacrifice. such is the subject of the great egyptian ritual. the 17th chapter of the theban recension consists of a very ancient

ned it round the middle pillar of the sephiroth. and the word used in the passage in numbers 21 for fiery serpents is the same as the name of the angels of geburah, the same spelling, the same pointing, seraphim. round the middle pillar of the sephiroth, because that is the reconciler between the fires of geburah or severity, and the waters of chesed or mercy-and hence it is said in the new <166> testament that it is a type of christ, the reconciler. and the serpent is of brass, the metal of venus, whose sphere is called nogah, or external splendour, as shewn further by the alchemical symbol of venus, wherein the circle of the sun is exalted above the cross of corrosion. and therefore it is said in the zohar that "alone of the shells is the serpent nogah found in holiness" and he is called

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with energy and force that will tend to bring about the results desired. one major injunction in the greater key of king solomon is worthy of note here: i command thee, my son, to carefully engrave in thy memory all that i say unto thee, in order that it may never leave thee. if thou dost not intend to use for a good purpose the secrets which i here teach thee, i command thee rather to cast this testament into the fire, than to abuse the power though wilt have of constraining the spirits, for i warn thee that the beneficent angels, wearied and fatigued by thine illicit demands, would to they sorrow execute the commands of god, as well as to that of all such who, with evil intent, would abuse those secrets which he hath given and revealed unto me the traditional magical squares and sigils

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ve been co-sufferers with them, they have lived under the same yoke of bondage and oppression, and this community of endurance has doubtless tended to engender something akin to sympathy between the two parties. beyond this vague acknowledgment of the saviour of mankind, and an equally uncertain homage which they profess to render to the prophets arid apostles, as well as to the old fr. 1 and new testament scriptures, the yezeedees practise no rites distinctively christian. their ceremonial washings at sheikh adi, which have been thought by some to be borrowed from the sacrament of holy baptism, have a much closer resemblance to an almost universal practice among the heathen, who deem it an act of devotion to bathe in the pools near which their temples are erected. and not only are these a

eikh adi, but many other streams and ponds are held sacred by the yezeedees, and are frequented by them on particular occasions for the same purpose. mr. layard is mistaken when he states that the "yezeedee year begins with that of the eastern christians" it began this year (1850) on the 17th of april, and the inscriptions on fn. 1. the cosmogony of the yezeedees is different from that of the old testament scriptures. they sometimes speak as though they agreed with us on this subject; but i am persuaded that they believe the world to have existed long before adam. from several remarks which dropped from their sheikhs, i am inclined to think that they hold the eternity of matter. p. 129 all their monuments are dated from the hegira. the festival of the new year must always be kept on wednes

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ospel according to st. matthew, and in several hebrew copies, as follows. the sacred word malkuth substituted for kether, which is its kabalistic correspondent, and the equipoise of geburah and chesed, repeating itself in the circles of heavens called eons by the gnostics, provided the keystone of the whole christian temple in this occult versicle. it has been retained by protestants in their new testament, but they have failed to discern its lofty and wonderful meaning, which would have unveiled to them all the mysteries of the apocalypse. the triangle of solomon 17 there is, however, a tradition in the church that the manifestation of these mysteries is reserved till the last times. malkuth, based upon geburah and chesed, is the temple of solomon having jakin and boaz for its pillars; it

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emained green, and with great strength and endurance. as kirk has added in parentheses that the hair of the tedder should be that which bound a corpse to a bier, there is an additional symbolic binding or connecting to the powers of the dead, those ancestors living in the fairy hills. the bowing of the head to look between the legs has many connections, not the least of which are found in the old testament, from jewish mystical practices. the prophets adopted a meditative pose, just as jewish mystics do to this day, whereby the head and feet were joined together, with the head between the legs, like a deep bow. this united the crown, or seat of divine consciousness in the head, with the kingdom, or expression of divinity in matter, the feet. thus the seer could foretell the future, for he

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talionis("an eye for an eye, semi-private administration of justice, inequality before the law (higher classes were more protected, but when found guilty were subject to more severe punishments, and the drawing of little distinction between deliberate and accidental crime. sumerian science was comparable to egyptian, but significantly inferior in medicine, geometry, and architecture. in the "old testament" of the bible a distinction between religion and politics is drawn, with the former assuming the right to criticize the latter. the hebraic kingship is notable as being primarily secular in responsibility; interaction with and representation of yahweh was the responsibility of a separate priesthood. ancient hebrew religion progressed through four stages (1) pre-mosaic animism and magic (

ur stages (1) pre-mosaic animism and magic (2) national monolatry (one god but toleration of others (3) monotheism, and (4) dualism [adapted from persian zoroastrianism (after zaratustra, ca. 600 bce. dualism involves a conflict between two opposing forces of the cosmos in persia ahura mazda vs. ahriman, and later in israel yahweh vs. satan. the hebraic ten commandments are now dated by most "old testament" scholars to ca. 600 bce, some 700 years later than the exodus. in the hebraic system, yahweh is not intelligible through reason or logic, but rather through prophesy and the history of events, whether or not the events' outcomes seem appropriate("theodicy. hence the hebrews adopted a linear concept of time, as well as the notion of a "covenant" between mankind and yahweh; mankind is thu

pe. frederick ii("the great) reigned in prussia from 1740 to 1786. his domestic policies were progressive, although his foreign policy was as warlike as those of his neighbors. culturally the 16th and 17th centuries were a time of transition between medieval/renaissance knowledge and the new, scientific climate of the enlightenment. in hobbes' time ancient history was still known only by the "old testament" other histories being considered later and inferior to it. while scripture put creation at 4004 bce, histories began ca. 400 bce, with large episodes of later history being unknown. the universe was generally thought to be earth-centric, and the non-christian/european world was considered to be "savage" it was difficult for intellectuals to know just what to believe! even the noted gali

vage" it was difficult for intellectuals to know just what to believe! even the noted galileo published his authority of scripture in 1614, and isaac newton devoted many years to biblical studies. he wrote "if any question at any time arise concerning christ's interpretations, we are to beware of philosophy and vain deceit and oppositions of science falsely so-called, and have recourse to the old testament" a generation after he published his famous principia, newton was still trying to discover the exact plan of solomon's temple, which he considered the best guide to the topography of heaven. thomas hobbes (1588-1679) took a scientific, materialistic approach to the objective universe, asserting that the supernatural or subjective universe was beyond rational understanding. politics belon

nes know that issues related to them remain with us still. the author states "because the patterns of relationships repeat themselves through generations, a family's dynamic balance today is not composed simply of the interaction of the personalities of those now present, but includes members of the family who are no longer present or who have died long ago" in psychological terms then, this is a testament to the appropriate focus upon ancestor issues within the ritual and study of setians. personality development consists of passage through stages of life characterized, for most people, as periods of stability lasting for six to eight years, and periods of transition lasting for three to five years. love relationships tend to occur during the transition stages, as the "other" often is per

christ, but equally from the greeks, egyptians, indians, israelites, and persians. theories as to their origins abound, but the most cogent one is that they derived from the heretical jewish sects, like the essenes. this is based in part on the geographical evidence of early gnostic writings, and on the teachings themselves. one of the prominent themes in their writings is their hatred of the old testament, it's god, and it's laws, which was in accord with many radical jewish offshoots of that time. within this generally anarchistic philosophy, however, there arose specific groups that were so irreverent that the others seem the embodiment of submissiveness in comparison. they have been labeled many different ways; libertine, antinomian, licentious, and so on. i have chosen the term "antia

o them as "antiarchal. antiarchy means simply "against rule, or "against rulers. it refers to groups of people who actively oppose any kind of ruling authority, usually governmental but also religious. the antiarchal gnostics were against the biggest ruler of all, god not the beingness that they saw as the source of all real life, but the god who directly rules over this world, the god of the old testament. gnostics differentiated between the two gods by proposing that they are of two different realities. the reality of this world was seen as a place of suffering and spiritual darkness. the reality of a purely transcendent world which was seen as the realm of the pure spark of life, knowledge, love and light. this alien realm was seen as the true reality. the world of the dark lord, our ph

taminate them, and make it more difficult to transcend to the highest reality after death. they claimed that the body was of this "dark" world, and therefore should be disdained. they represented the majority of gnostic groups, though the degree of asceticism varied greatly from one group to another. the other group, the antiarchists, determined which "acts" were specifically forbidden by the old testament (the book of the dark god, and pursued them with tenacity. by doing this they hoped to undermine to authority of the dark lord, and free themselves and others from the slavery of his laws. they claimed that christ sanctified this activity when he said "do not resist evil (mat. 5:39) this view was often promoted by the most prominent gnostics. simon magus is often considered to be the fir

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the shekinah, who is the female aspect of the metatron. the shekinah was exiled after the fall of adam and eve, and according to rabbinical lore the entire purpose of the torah is to lead the shekinah back to god and unite her with him. micha-el originally a chaldean deity, the name micha-el translates as who is as god. along with gabriel he is one of the only two angels actually named in the old testament. it was he who vanquished satan from heaven in single combat. it is also he who will descend from heaven with the key to the abyss and a great chain in his hand and will bind the beast for 1000 years (revelations: 20:1. according to jewish lore it is micha-el who appeared to moses in the midst of the burning bush. he appears again in the burial scene where he disputes with satan the poss

concept of the devil was a fairly late development in the monothiestic legacy. the early hebrews attributed all events, whether good or bad, to the one god. he encapsulated both darkness and light, destruction and creation, corruption and purity. such is clearly stated in isaiah 45:7; i form the light, and create darkness: i make peace, and create evil: i the lord do all these things. in the old testament it is god himself who slays the first born of egypt, sends plagues and famine, strikes down with lightning, and demands of abraham that he sacrifice his first born son. the idea of a separate evil only gradually arrives from the 2nd century b.c. the dilemma of evil created a paradoxical tension between the essentially monist concept of a single divinity underlying existence and the duali

and the dualistic principle of a lord of light and a lord of darkness. whilst the rabbis have extricated judaism from these early conflicts, the modern christian church remains befuddled by the confusion arising from these two essentially contradictory concepts. standing in the centre of the ensuing maelstrom is none other than the dark one himself. the idea of a devil does not appear in the old testament. rather, we find ha-satan, the opposer. yet this title was a common term for an opponent of any kind, and this was most probably a title of office as in a modern prosecution. it is thus morally neither good nor evil, but rather an agent of neutrality. in enoch i the scribe describes his first meeting with the lord (en xl:6) where he also witnesses uriel arguing against the satans and ref

it is thus morally neither good nor evil, but rather an agent of neutrality. in enoch i the scribe describes his first meeting with the lord (en xl:6) where he also witnesses uriel arguing against the satans and refusing them permission to come before the lord to accuse those from the earth. the myth of the fall originates in the book of enoch, and is outside of the canon. yet by the time the new testament was compiled the influence of enoch had been absorbed, along with elements of the persian zoroastrian religion, judea being under persian rule from the 6th to 4th centuries b.c. in their cosmology there are two principles of ahura mazda, being creative, and ahriman, being destructive. so evenly matched are they that the slightest flux can topple the balance, and mortal-kind are constantl

evolved, so did this shadow, until it broke away from god and became a separate power having its own free will. however, with this separation came the natural dualistic attribution of god s other characteristics, so that the shadow also becomes his destructive and malign aspect, whilst the light becomes everything good. in the book of jubilee, compiled approximately a hundred years after the old testament, this shadow has acquired the title of mastema, a hebrew word meaning adversity. from this moment it is this accusing angel that becomes responsible for all the darker things previously imputed to god. it was the mastema who hardened the pharoah s heart and assisted the egyptian sorcerers against israel. this is reflected in the book of job. satan has been speaking ill of job, and god gi

eem to actually believe in him anymore- such is as he has commanded. as with all liars his story is inconsistent, and there are many conflicting versions of how he and his fellows came to exist. later christianity adopted the legend of the fall, a theme most popular throughout the middle east. the following canaanite scripture was recorded five centuries before the hebrew scribes produced the old testament, and concerns the legend of shaher, who was born of the pit, helel, which is the womb of the mother goddess. compare with isaiah 14:12-14 as we know it now; how hast thou fallen from heaven, helel s son shaher! thou didst say in thy heart, i will ascend to heaven. above the circumpolar stars i will raise my throne and i will dwell on the mount of council in the back of the north. i will

s of satan s brides. arch-demoness corresponding to the qulippoth of malkuth. naberius (goetia, 24th spirit. marquis commanding 19 legions. appears as a black crane fluttering about the circle. makes men cunning in arts and sciences, especially rhetoric. restores lost dignities and honours. possibly from the ancient babylonian god of writing, logic, and history nabium, who is mentioned in the old testament as nabu. naphula, vapula (goetia, 60th spirit. duke commanding 36 legions. appears as a winged lion. teaches handicrafts, philosophy, and other sciences. ningiszida (sumerian, lord of the tree. horned serpent who, according to akkadian incantations, watches over the demons exiled to the underworld. olam ha-qlippoth (aramaic, world of shells. the other side of the qabballa. olivier. once

e again god destroyed him. nevertheless, christian theologians say he is alive and well as the demon of insolence and pride. raum (goetia, 40th spirit. formerly of the order of thrones, now an earl commanding 30 legions. appears as a crow. steals treasure from king s palaces, destroys cities and men, tells fortunes, brings love between friends and foes. rephaim (syrrian, hebrew. giants of the old testament. originally ancient cthonian spirits. rimmon (babylonian, roarer. originally a god of thunderstorms, later identified as an archangel commanding the same, now hell s only doctor. rofocale (hebrew. the second name of lucifer, also a specific devil with control of the world s treasury. according to the grand grimoire, lucifer rofocale is the prime minister of hell. ronove (goetia, 27th spi

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to escape fear? if you have to fear god, why not be "satan fearing" and at least have the fun that being god fearing denies you? without such a wholesale fear religionists would have had nothing with which to wield power over their followers. the teutonic goddess of the dead and daughter of loki was named hel, a pagan god of torture and punishment. another "l" was added when the books of the old testament were formulated. the prophets who wrote the bible did not know the word "hell; they used the hebrew sheol and the greek hades, which meant the grave; also the greek tartaros, which was the abode of fallen angels, the underworld (inside the earth, and gehenna, which was a valley near jerusalem where moloch reigned and garbage was dumped and burned. it is from this that the christian churc

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g bottomless [a, not+ bussos,bottom. in reference to satanic magic however it is considered to have a number of different meanings which are used by different groups. firstly the abyss is more commonly understood as being a reference to the satanic underworld wherein satan and his demonic army reside. this interpretation largely stems from christian sources, most especially revelations in the new testament 'and the fifth angel sounded, and i saw a star from heaven fallen unto the earth: and there was given to him the key to the pit of the abyss. and he opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up a smoke out of the furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit'(15) according to andrew collins, writing in the black alchemist (abc books. 1988, the friends

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

of mind, are the result of material interactions. matsuri: festival. mecca: a city in present-day saudi arabia, the holiest site of islam, where the religion was founded. meditation: quiet reflection on spiritual matters. menorah: a seven-branched candelabrum; at hanukkah, a ninebranched candelabrum is used. messiah: the expected deliverer and king of the jews, foretold by the prophets of the old testament; used by christians to refer to jesus christ. metaphysical: having to do with the philosophical study of the nature of reality and existence. metaphysics: the branch of philosophy that deals with explanations for the most general questions of being, such as what brought the world into being, and the nature of space, time, god, and the afterlife. world religions: almanac xxiii words to kn

on for nine years, writing kitab-i-aqdas, or the book of laws, the most holy book of baha s. with the death of the old ottoman sultan, or leader, baha u lla h was finally released from prison in 1877. he settled in nearby bahji. he lived out the rest of his life there, continuing his writing and teaching. baha u lla h died of a fever in 1892. baha u lla h s successors baha u lla h left a will and testament that named his son, abdu l-baha( servant of baha in arabic; 1844 1921, as his successor. another son, muhammad ali, claimed that the will was a fake, and that he was the next rightful leader of the baha s. muhammad ali even took his claims to the ottoman authorities. abdu l-baha eventually excommunicated his brother, officially banning him from membership in the faith. in 1908 a group of

: in christianity, the belief that god took on bodily form through jesus christ, making jesus at once fully human and fully divine. indulgence: in the roman catholic church, the belief that paying money to the church would allow a person to get into heaven or be forgiven for sins that were not yet committed. messiah: the expected deliverer and king of the jews, foretold by the prophets of the old testament; used by christians to refer to jesus christ. original sin: the sin that fell upon humankind when adam and eve ate of the forbidden fruit in the garden of eden; this act, in turn, led to the separation of humans from god. resurrection: the rising of jesus christ from the dead three days after his crucifixion, or death on a cross. sacrament: a sacred rite, or ceremony. saint: in christian

rinity makes god a combination of god the father, the son, and the holy spirit. symbols. the cross and the simplified sketch of a fish are two dominant christian symbols. worship. religious services are held in churches. most christians pray and observe the sacraments, or rites, of baptism and holy communion. dress. there is no special dress for christians. texts. the bible, consisting of the old testament, of jewish origin, and the new testament, written after the time of jesus, is the sacred text of christianity. sites. the holy land (the places in israel, jordan, and the west bank connected with the birth, life, and death of jesus) contains sites sacred to all christians. observances. christmas and easter are the two major holy days in the christian calendar. christmas observes the day

e first to begin preaching to the gentiles (those who were not jewish. through the writings and teachings of paul, christianity slowly began to separate itself from judaism. the new religion adapted many of the forms of worship of the older judaism, even incorporating its holy book, the tanakh, into its teachings. christians refer to the world religions: almanac 123 christianity tanakh as the old testament. at the same time christianity was developing its own texts. the four gospels, written in the first and second centuries, detail the life of jesus. christians soon also developed two primary sacraments, or sacred ceremonies: baptism and the lord s supper. baptism is a religious ceremony in which a person is dipped in or sprinkled with water as a sign of being cleansed of sin. in the chri

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

gular members of the congregation. a ceremony called ordination gave a person holy orders or the duties of a priest. meanwhile, missionaries spread the gospel (a term meaning good news) of christ, finding converts throughout the roman empire (a convert is a person who changes their religious beliefs) the first pope, or leader of the church, was established at the end of the first century. the new testament was collected by about 130 ce, and this helped to spread christianity. persecution of early christians for the first few centuries of its existence, christianity was a martyr s religion (martyrs are people who sacrifice their lives for the sake of their beliefs) some of the worst persecutions of early christians happened during the reigns of the roman emperors from about 81 to 305 ce. th

ite churches, or oriental orthodox and assyrian churches. rise of the eastern orthodox church doctrinal disputes over the trinity were at the heart of the disagreement between the western church, centered in rome, and the eastern church, centered in constantinople. in 1014 the western church included filioque in the nicene creed, the life and deeds of jesus are portrayed in the gospels of the new testament. they include (clockwise from left) his birth, baptism, the last supper, and his resurrection from the dead. arte& immagini srl/corbis. world religions: almanac 131 christianity the statement of the chief beliefs or tenets of christianity. that statement read, in part, i believe in one god the father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible, and in one

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e is no need to regard the identification of jesus as "the god of the hebrews" as due to a later hand. in certain quarters, jesus was regarded as the biblical maleak yahweh, the yahweh angel, who is often indistinguishable from god himself. already in jude 5, jesus is seen as the angel of yahweh who led the people out of egypt; see j. fossum "kyrios jesus as the angel of the lord in jude 5-7, new testament studies 33 (1987) 226-243. this is one of the prominent works of the deity invoked in the spell in pgm iv.3007-3086; see lines 3034-3036 and 3054-3055. 18 see pearson "egyptian seth (above, n. 3) 30, 31, 33 "seth (above, n. 1) 76-79. 90 jarl fossum and brian glazer indicated by the phrase "seth seth the living christ, in our coptic magical text. the later phrase,"iao iao seth seth, would

palindrome; for the decipherment of which see tardieu "aberamentho" 416. in the glossary at the end of the greek magical papyri in translation, it is said that "no meaningful decipherment of the word has been put forward (331. for thoth's connection with the flood of the nile, see d. bonneau, la crue du nil (paris 1964) 234f. 33 the preposition, hijn, is used in the coptic translation of the new testament texts describing jesus walking upon water (matt 14.25-26; mark 6.48-49; john 6.19. 34 see g. scholem, origins of the kabbalah, ed. r.j. zwi werblowsky and trans. a. arkush (new york 1987) 31-32. 35 in the two other places where the phrase "jesus who is aberamentho, is found, the context provides no clue to the nature of the carrier of the nai setian divination don webb v the tarot is not

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n of the word) is largely spitting out what he has learned- such spit is said to be "purifying (see for example the pyramid texts concerning the "mouth of set. life enters the body either through the right ear or the nostrils. life has a scent and one can be aware of it, smelling sweet incense or lotus flowers. explorations with these modes is an ongoing interest of the order of setne khamuahethe testament of solomon translated by f. c. conybeare pdf formatted by p. yardley 1. testament of solomon, son of david, who was king in jerusalem, and mastered and controlled all spirits of the air, on the earth, and under the earth. by means of them also he wrought all the transcendent works of the temple. telling also of the authorities they wield against men, and by what angels these demons are b

y sevens is common in babylonian and jewish folk-lore. as examples i may cite the testamentum of reuben, ch. 2, and the seven evil spirits of the n.t. possibly, however, the seven planets are here in question; though this is unlikely, for they do not tally with the description given. 2. rom. xv. 6 has the same phrase. for "thirty-three" we should read "thirty-six" elements. note that later in the testament these seven spirits are not among the kosmokrators, a proof that the document before us is a composite one. 3. paul speaks of the kosmokrators in eph. vi. 12 "our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness" see iren. haer. i. i. 10] 35. so i solomon questioned them one by one, beginning with the

the spirit of the dead to enter oneself] 41. likewise also the seventh said "i am the worst, and i make thee worse off than thou wast; because i will impose the bonds of artemis. but the locust [1] will set me free, for by means thereof is it fated that thou shalt achieve my desire. for if one were wise, he would not turn his steps toward me [1. this refers to the closing incident narrated in the testament, the sacrificing by solomon of five locusts to moloch. tatian, orat. ad graecos, cap. 12, speaks of artemis magos. she is the same as hecate] 42. so i solomon, having heard and wondered, sealed them with my ring; and since they were so considerable, i bade them dig the foundations of the temple of god. for the length of it was 250 cubits. and i bade them be industrious, and with one murm

md. 3. this prophecy corresponds roughly to the one which lactantius, instit. div. lib. iv. c. 18, quotes from an apocryphal book of solomon] 66. and i solomon, having heard this, glorified god. and though i marvelled at the apology of the demons, i did not credit it until it came true. and i did not believe their words; but when they were realized, then i understood, and at my death i wrote this testament to the children of israel, and gave it to them, so that they might know the powers of the demons and their shapes, and the names of their angels, by which these angels are frustrated. and i glorified the lord god of israel, and commanded the spirits to be bound with bonds indissoluble. 67. and having praised god, i commanded another spirit to come before me; and there came before my face

ar. but since beelzeboul, ruler of the spirits of air and of those under the earth, and lord of earthly ones, hath a joint kingship with us in respect of the deeds of each one of us, therefore i went up from the sea, to get a certain outlook [2] in his company [1. cp. jude 13. that jude here indulges in no mere metaphor is clear from the words which follow, which embody the belief detailed in the testament of solomon, p. 40. 2 "descent, or spiritual assault] 68 "but i also have another character and role. i metamorphose myself into waves, and come up from the sea. and i show myself to men, so that those on earth call me kuno[s]paston [1, because i assume the human form. and my name is a true one. for by my passage up into men, i send forth a certain nausea. i came then to take counsel with

nder [1] and smear it on the lips, reciting the following charm 'the fever which is from dirt. i exorcise thee by the throne of the most high god, retreat from dirt and retreat from the creature fashioned by god' and at once i retreat [1. pliny, nat. hist. xx. 20, notes the same use of coriander "seminis grana tria in tertianis devorari iubent aliqui ante accessionem, vel plura illini fronti" the testament evidently belongs to pliny's age] 88. the seventeenth said "i am called ieropa l. on the stomach of men i sit, and cause convulsions in the bath and in the road; and wherever i be found, or find a man, i throw him down. but if any one will say to the afflicted into their ear these names, three times over, into the right ear 'iudariz, sabun, den' i at once retreat" 89. the eighteenth said

e, and i became weak as well as foolish in my words. and after that i was obliged by her to build a of idols to [1, and to rapha, and to , and to the other idols [1. fem. so rom. xi. 4] 130. i then, wretch that i am, followed her advice, and the glory of quite departed from me; and my was darkened, and i became the sport of idols and . wherefore i wrote out this , that ye who get of it may pity, and attend to the last things [1, and not to the first. so that ye may find grace for ever and ever. [1. cp. rev. ii. 1r the of zos from of the by kenneth grant and are the degenerate of coeval with those described in the second chapter. the popular conception of witchc

terrible (job xxxviii, 4-7) he believed that "when at last it shall actually the of institutions, then indeed shall all men dwell beneath the of "the rock."46 (deut. xxxii, 4; psalms xci, 1: . xxvi, 4 and xxxii, 2) totlen insisted that the had a scriptural basis. his "cap" on the is the cornerstone; his "rock" is in the old . yet his own research and documentation on the meaning of the seal proved the contrary. he was always the optimist, even when he wrote that he could not "but feel. the certainty that a hidden hand blazoned the heraldry of this great ."47 george rawlinson;s massive -volume of the great monarchies o/ the world48 provides us with vital and pertinent