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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

ngelis, sed tertia nocte vadit sicut diffinitum est de ea. this remarkable statement will be found further on to apply to freya, of whom, as well as of hulda and eerhta, gertrude reminds us the more, as she was represented spinning. both john's and gertrude's minne used especially to be drunk by parting friends, travellers and lovers of peace, as the passages quoted have shown. i know of no older testimony to gertrude's minne (which presupposes john's) than that in paidlieb; in later centuries we find 62 worship. plenty of tliem: der brahte, mir sant johans segen, ls. 3, 336. sant johans scgen txvak&n, ls. 2, 262. ich daht an sant t^.a?^s minne, ls. 2, 264. varn (to fare) mit sant gertr'ade minne, anigb. 33. setz sant johans ze blirgen mir, daz du komest gesunt lierwider scliier, hatzl. 19

imilar to the norse loki, but one of those divinities of whom there is least trace to be found in the rest of teutondom, had certainly less foundation than the equally visible and helpful deities of the nourishing earth, and of the quickening, fish-teeming, ship-sustaining water. i can only look upon caesar's statements as a half-true and roughcast opinion, which, in the face of the more detailed testimony of tacitus, hardly avails to cast a^ dporum nimiero eos solos ducimt, quos eernuiit, et quorum opibus aperte juvantur, solan et vulcaiuim et lunam; reliquos lie fania quideiii acceperuiit. li.g. g, 21. compare witli this b.g. 4, 7 where the uisiiietes and tenchtheri say to cjesar: sese iinis suevis concedere, quibus no dii quideia imiiwrtales pares esse possint. 104 gods. doubt on other

2. zio. 107 of all tlie germanic nations, and mentioned side by side with mercury. the evidence is collected on p. 44^ tacitus, in hist. 4, 64, makes the tencteri say right out: communibus deis, et praccipuo deorum marti grates agimus; we have no occasion to apply the passage to wuotan, to whom the highest place usually belongs, as particular races may have assigned that to zio. the still clearer testimony of procopius 12, 15 to the worship of ares among the dwellers in the north^ wliich says expressly: evct 6eov avrov vofil^ovan fieyiatov elvai, ought to be compared with the statements of jornandes on the gothic mars; in both places human sacrifices are the subject, and therefore zeuss, p. 22, is for understanding it of wuotan again, because to him tacitus says that men were sacrificed; b

ng, that the name for the third day of the week, which is what we started with, bears living witness to him at this moment, not only in scandinavia and england (on. tysdagr, swed. tisdag, dan. tirsdag, as. tiwesdseg, but among the common people in swabia and switzerland (ziestag, tiestag, diestik, beside our universal dienstag; schm. 4, 214 brings all the forms together. and there is yet one more testimony to the high antiquity of zio-worship in swabia, which we may gather from an old "wessobrunn gloss' cyuvari= suapa' mb. 7, 375 and diut. 2, 370; which i take to be not teutonoari, as zeuss does, pp. 146-9, but zioivari]\iartem colentes, warian expressing, like lat. colore, both habitare and depairevetv, so that the suevi are oepdirovte'i "apr]o
t first place it beyond doubt, which day of the week is meant. there is an actual hruodtac, a man's name in ohg (graff 5, 362, and an os. hroddag is found in trad. corb. 424, ed. wigand; these may be related to hruodo, hrodo as baldag to balder, and the contraction roydag, rodag would be like roswith for hrodsuith. if roydag should turn out to be the seventli day of the week, it would be a strong testimony to the worship of chrodo; i' it remain the third, we have to add, that the third month also was sacred to mars, and was called hres'emona^ by the anglo-saxons' the kaiserchr. 3750 says, to saturn we offer quicksilver; whereas now saturn's symbol signifies lead. in j\iegenberi:j, saturn is called satjdr. the saxon saturn is supported by hengest's reference to that god (extracted from supp

(superst. a; the passage in the decrees of councils (superst. c) has found its way into many later writings (superst. d, g: like herodias, she appears as domina and hcra. the life of st. caesarius arelatensis mentions a' daemonium, quod rustici dianavi vocant' so that the name was familiar to the common people; that statue of diana in greg. tur. 8, 15 i have spoken of on p. 110. but the strongest testimony to the wide diffusion of diana's cultus seems to be a passage in the life of st. kilian, the apostle of the east franks (t 689: gozbertusdux franciae. volens crebra apud se tractare inquisitione, utrum ejus quem (kilianus) praedicabat, vel dianae potius cultus praeferendus esset. diana namque apud ilium in summa veneratione .habebatur (surius 4, 133; acta sanct. bolland. 8 jul (p. 616. a

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

hose help the presentation of this book would have been impossible. blessed be! table of contents introduction introductory essay prefatory notes chart of comparisons supplementary material to 777 notes on pronunciation the spells (translated) common sumerian words and phrases in english a word concerning the original manuscript banishings bibliography& suggested reading list the necronomicon the testimony of the mad arab of the zonei and their attributes the book of entrance, and of the walking the incantations of the gates the conjuration of the fire god the conjuration of the watcher the maklu text the book of calling the book of fifty names the magan text the urilia text the testimony of the mad arab, the second part preface to the second edition there are three major individuals who m

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

) insanity for the tyro to pick up a work on ceremonial magick like the lesser key of solomon to practise conjurations. it would also be folly to pick up crowley's magick in theory and practise with the same intention. both books are definitely not for beginners, a point which cannot be made too often. unfortunately, perhaps, the dread necronomicon falls into this category. crowley's magick was a testimony of what he has found in his researches into the forbidden, and forgotten, lore of past civilisations and ancient times. his book of the law was written in cairo in the spring of 1904, when he believed himself to be in contact with a praeter-human intelligence called aiwass who dictated to him the three chapters that make up the book. it had influenced him more than any other, and the rem

hose help the presentation of this book would have been impossible. blessed be! table of contents introduction introductory essay prefatory notes chart of comparisons supplementary material to 777 notes on pronunciation the spells (translated) common sumerian words and phrases in english a word concerning the original manuscript banishings bibliography& suggested reading list the necronomicon the testimony of the mad arab of the zonei and their attributes the book of entrance, and of the walking the incantations of the gates the conjuration of the fire god the conjuration of the watcher the maklu text the book of calling the book of fifty names the magan text the urilia text the testimony of the mad arab, the second part preface to the second edition there are three major individuals who m

otic sources, and are evidently of a much later date than the rites of sumer, the overall appearance of the seals is quite unusual, almost surreal. the book begins with an introduction by the alleged author, the mad arab (the name that lovecraft made famous 'abdul alhazred' does not appear in our copy of the ms, and ends with a sort of epilogue by the same arab. we have called the first part "the testimony of the mad arab" and the latter "the testimony of the mad arab, the second part" the second part if the most chilling. the author has, by this stage in the writing of his opus, become fearful for his soul and begins to repeat himself in the text, saying things he has already said in previous chapters as though having forgotten he had said them, or perhaps to stress their importance. the

ny of the mad arab" and the latter "the testimony of the mad arab, the second part" the second part if the most chilling. the author has, by this stage in the writing of his opus, become fearful for his soul and begins to repeat himself in the text, saying things he has already said in previous chapters as though having forgotten he had said them, or perhaps to stress their importance. the second testimony is riddled through with non sequiturs and bits of incantation. he does not finish the book. it trails off where he would have signed it, presumably, in the arab manner, but giving his lineage. instead, it ends before he can name himself or even one relation. we can only imagine with horror what fate befell this noble sage. another problem that confronts the editor is the suspected freque

ans, in almost the same sense that it was, and is, known to the hindus. it is a sacred word, and pertains to the lord of magicians, enki. further, the greek spelling of enki was ea, by which he is most commonly known in the european texts which treat of sumeriology. in the greek alphabet, ea would appear as ha. q.e.d: aum.ha betrays the essential sumerian character of that book. after the initial testimony, we come to the chapter entitles "of the zonei and their attributes, zonei is, of course a greek word and refers to the planetary, or heavenly bodies; for they are "zoned, i.e, having set courses and spheres. they are also known as such in the chaldean oracles. the 'spirits' or bodies that exist beyond the zonei are called the azonei, meaning "un-zoned. whether this refers to the so-call

not to use them; an inconsistency that is to be found in many grimoires of any period and perhaps reveals a little of the magicians's mentality; for there is very little that is evil to the advanced magus, who cares not if he deals with angelic or demonic forces, save that he gets the job done! then, following the urillia text and forming the very end of the received ms, is the second part of the testimony of the mad arab. it is a haunting and sorrowful occult personality. was he really mad? this is perhaps a question that will go on for as long as man tries to understand himself; himself as a part of the cosmic dance and spiral, which includes the satanic as well as the deific, the sad as well as the happy. perhaps the arab was privy to some other-worldly secret that he could not reveal

ecret lore of magic new york, 1972 the sufis new york, 1973 tallqvist, k.l "die assyrische beschworungsserie maqlu nach dem originalem im british museum herausgegeben" acta societatis scientiarum fennicae helsingfors, 1895 thompson, r.c. reports of the magicians and astrologers of nineveh and babylon london, 1900 semitic magic london, 1904 the devils and evil spirits of babylonia london, 1904 the testimony of the mad arab this is the testimony of all that i have seen, and all that i have learned, in those years that i have possessed the three seals of masshu. i have seen one thousand-and-one moons, and surely this is enough for the span of a man's life, though it is said the prophets lived much longer. i am weak, and ill, and bear a great tiredness and exhaustion, and a sigh hangs in my br

elder gods breathed into him. and his body goes to the ancient ones, but his mind is turned towards the elder gods, and this is the war which shall be always fought, unto the last generation of man; for the world is unnatural. when the great kutulu rises up and greets the stars, then the war will be over, and the world be one. such is the covenant of the abominations and the end of this text. the testimony of the mad arab (the second part) ur! nippur! eridu! kullah! kesh! lagash! shuruppal selah! day of living, rising sun day of plenty, gracious sun day of perfect, grand delight day of fortune, brilliant night o shining day! o laughing day! o day of life, and love and luck! seven oldest, wisest ones! seven sacred, learned ones! be my guardians, polished swords be my watchful, patient lords

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

diphues, the holy ghost, the "pure fool" or innocent babe who is also the wandering singer who impregnates the king's daughter with himself as her child; lamed is the king's daughter, satisfied by him, holding his "sword and balances" in her lap. these weapons are the judge, armed with power to execute his will, and two witnesses "in whom shall every truth be established" in accordance with whose testimony he gives judgment "yod" is the creative energy- the procreative power: and yet "yod" is the solitude and silence of the hermitage into which the magician has shut himself "mem" is the letter of water, and it is the mem final, whose long flat lines suggest the sea at peace hb:mem-final; not the ordinary (initial and medial) mem whose hieroglyph is a wave hb:mem<symbolism above out

he gallows made no particular difference. they were only accidents such as might happen to anybody; they had no real bearing on the point at issue. one consequently remembers having one's ears cropped as a lucky escape, while the causal jest of a drunken skeinsmate in an all-night cafe stings one with the shame of the parvenu to whom a polite stranger has unsuspectingly mentioned "mine uncle. the testimony of intuitions is, however, strictly subjective, and shrieks for collateral security. it would be a great error to ask too much. in consequence of the peculiar character of the recollections which are under the microscope, anything in the shape of gross confirmation almost presumes perjury. a pathologist would arouse suspicion if he said that his bacilli had arranged themselves on the sli

is extremely suggestive. the faculties of growth, action, self-recuperation, etc, must be ascribed to similar properties in both cases; and as we have detected, measured and partially explained radioactivity, it must be possible to contrive means of doing the same for life> laboratory experiments in food-values seem to be almost worthless, for reasons which we cannot here enter into; the general testimony of mankind appears a safer guide. it would be unwise to condemn as irrational the practice of those savages who tear the heart and liver from an adversary, and devour them while yet warm. in any case it was the theory of 94 the ancient magicians, that any living being is a storehouse of energy varying in quantity according to the size and health of the animal, and in quality according to

possibly that of a disciple, and that without sacrificing the physical life irrevocably<sacrifice during invocation, however, it may be said without fear of contradiction that the death of the victim should coincide with the supreme invocation. weh addenda: a sworn testimony by crowley declares that he held actual human sacrifice to physical death to be the most efficacious, but that he never did such a thing. on the matter concerning death of the victim in invocation, crowley elsewhere enlarges that this is the ephemeral death of the ego> an example of this sacrifice is given in chapter 44 of liber 333. this mass may be recommended generally for daily pract

so great that he cannot pledge himself to have it ready at any definite time. the student must therefore make his own investigations into the meaning of the 64 hexagrams as best he can. the yi king is mathematical and philosophical in form. its structure is cognate with that of the qabalah; the identity is so intimate that the existence of two such superficially different systems is transcendent testimony to the truth of both. it is in some ways the most perfect hieroglyph ever constructed. it is austere and sublime, yet withal so adaptable to every possible emergency that its figures may be interpreted to suit all classes of questions. one may resolve the most obscure spiritual difficulties no less than the most mundane dilemmas; and the symbol which opens the gates of the most exalted p

prediction of events is further evidence that they are effected by will. thus, any man may fluke a ten shot at billiard, or even make a break of a few strokes. but chance cannot account for consistent success, even if moderate, when it extends over a long period of time. and the ability of the expert to "name his shot" manifests a knowledge of the relations of cause and effect which confirms the testimony of his empirical skill that his success is not chance and coincidence> perform an operation to bring gold- your rich uncle dies and leaves you his money; books- you see the book wanted in a catalogue that very day, although you have advertised in vain for a year; woman- but if you have made the spirits bring you enough gold, this operation will become unnecessary<
tiger, the symbol of the brutal passions of man, gambols about its master's heels; and he bestrides the ass of priapus; he makes his sexual force carry him whither he wills to go. let the magician therefore adventure himself upon the astral plane with the declared design to penetrate to a sanctuary of discarnate beings such as are able to instruct and fortify him, also to prove their identity by testimony beyond rebuttal. all explanations other than these are of value only as extending and equilibrating knowledge, or possibly as supplying energy to such magicians as may have found their way to the sources of strength. in all cases, naught is worth an obol save as it serve to help the one great work. he who would reach intelligences of the type under discussion may expect extreme difficult

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pasm is a normal function of at least one of the organs of the body. that the brain is not damaged by the practice is proved by the fact that many people who claim to have had this experience repeatedly continue to exercise the ordinary avocations of life without diminished activity. we may dismiss, then the physiological question. it throws no light on the main problem, which is the value of the testimony of the experience. now this is a very difficult question, and raises the much larger question as to the value of any testimony. every possible thought has been doubted at some time or another, except the thought which can 34 only be expressed by a note of interrogation, since to doubt that thought asserts it (for a full discussion see "the soldier and the hunchback "equinox" i) but apart

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

yqn rm( time; period of time, season t( floor, ground, bottom (qrq 471 the hekaloth: palaces twlkyh 472 was terrified t(b and god made myhl#(yw 473 the three persons (yn )wh: ht) coalesced) yn)wht) golgoltha: a skull (ar; fig. the supernals; see 475& s.d. 2:33 )tlglwg millers, grinders (traditionally a female occupation) twnx+ 474 death: knowledge t(d wisdom (pl; prov. 1:20. i.r.q. 244) twmkx the testimony [within the ark] td( a ram, he-goat; a prepared sacrifice dt( 475 in golgotha (ar; s.d. 2:33 )tlglwgb priestess tnhk 476 house of justice, a court-house nyd tyb 478 the lesser countenance: a title of the ruach, esp. tiphareth nypn) ry(z 479 grindings. female millers) twnxw+ 480 stones of emptiness (is. 34:11) whwt ynb) lilith, queen of the night tylyl part; open wide q#p opening; vagina;

dt( 475 in golgotha (ar; s.d. 2:33 )tlglwgb priestess tnhk 476 house of justice, a court-house nyd tyb 478 the lesser countenance: a title of the ruach, esp. tiphareth nypn) ry(z 479 grindings. female millers) twnxw+ 480 stones of emptiness (is. 34:11) whwt ynb) lilith, queen of the night tylyl part; open wide q#p opening; vagina; bit, morsel tp hand-drum; bezel pt knowledge (pl (k.d. p.252) tw(d testimony (k.d. p.252) twd( 481 hills tw(bg bound to death; death penalty )tym byyx a ring t(b) the mighty one sings: a title of tiphareth nwryryd) 482 a looking-glass, mirror )yrlqps) 483 constellations; the sphere of the zodiac, referred to chokmah (but see 536) twlzm bearing iniquity nw)#wn 485 daughter of the spring-waters (is. 10:30, gdaughter of gallim h) mylg tb mockeries (job 17:2; cf. 435

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

to venus. man does not persist in the chimerical for more than a few generations. alchemy achieved results so startling and so beneficial to humanity at large--one need only mention the discovery of zinc, antimony, hydrogen, opium, gas itself--that the original ideals were changed for others more limited and more practical--or at least more immediately realizable. nor is this view unsupported by testimony of a sort "great and glorious, rays of our father the sun, says one of the poets of atlas "are they within us. let us call them forth by utterance that is not uttered, by the gesture that is not made, by the working that is above all working, for they are great and glorious, rays of our father the sun. then from our bride that waits for us in the nuptial chamber, green in the green west

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

and hinton's passion that heterosexuality entrains an infinity of ills; jealousies, abortions, diseases, infanticides, frauds, intrigues, quarrels, poverty, prostitution, persecution, idleness, self-indulgence, social stress, over-population, sex-antagonism. they show with poincare's precision that jesus and paul struck at the heart of hell when they proclaimed marriage a scourge, and offered the testimony of john and timothy to support the plea of plato on behalf of paederastic passion. out of the court there slunk mark antony, his toga to his face, one of the legion of lost souls that woman had withered; behind him groped blind samson, disinherited adam, feeling his way along the table where they had piled countless papyri writ with woes of kings and sages woman-wrecked, and many a map o

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

ly nowhere. that the phenomenal world is an illusion is all very well; one girds up one s loins to seek reality: but to prove reality unknowable is to shut all avenues to the truth-loving man, and open all to the sensualist. and, if we accept either of the above philosophies, it does not matter. that we feel it does matter is sufficient refutation, for we must obey the sentence awarded on our own testimony, whether we like it or not. i am aware that this is a somewhat cowardly way of dealing with the question; i prefer to insist that if we once admit that the unknowable (by reason) to consciousness may be known (by concentration) to super-consciousness, the difficulty vanishes. i think huxley goes too far in speaking of a man self-hypnotised into cataleptic trances without medical evidence

tol the merits of this badge of servitude. we see, then, that in this classification a scientist will concur. we need not discuss the question whether or no he would find others to add. buddhism may not be complete, but, as far as it goes, it is accurate. science and buddhism 90 vii. the relative reality of certain states of consciousness whether we adopt herbert spencer s dictum that the primary testimony of consciousness is to the existence of externality, or no;1 whether or no we fly to the extreme idealistic position; there is no question that, to our normal consciousness, things as they present themselves apart from obvious illusion, if even we dare to except this are undisprovable to the immediate apprehension. whatever our reason may tell us, we act precisely as through berkeley had

d. we must distinguish by methods, not by results. a. c. most seriously assure you that honest laborious experiment will be found to verify them in every particular that whatever arguments are brought forward destructive of the reality of dhyana, apply with far more force to the normal state, and it is evident that to deny the latter seriously is ipso facto to become unserious. whether the normal testimony may be attacked from above, by insisting on the superior reality of dhyana and fortiori of samadhi, which i have not experienced, and consequently do not treat of, being content to accept the highly probably statements of those who profess to know, and who have so far not deceived me (i.e. as to dhyana, is a question which it is not pertinent to the present argument to discuss.1 i shall

really there is a raising, as opposed to i raise (the latter being in reality a complex and adult idea, as philosophers have often shown, ever since descartes fell into the trap, one may begin to analyse, as explained above, and the second stage is there is a sensation (vedana) of a raising &c. sensations are further classed as pleasant or unpleasant. when this is the true intuitive instantaneous testimony of consciousness (so that there is a raising &c. is rejected as a palpable lie),1 we procede to sa a, perception. there is a perception of a (pleasant or unpleasant) sensation of a raising &c. when this has become intuitive why! here s a strange result! the emotions of pain and pleasure have vanished. they are subincluded in the lesser skandha of vedana, and sa a is free from them. and t

e hindu philosophy with the idealist; the bhuddistic with that of mr. herbert spencer; the great difference between the two being that the buddhists recognise clearly these (or similar) conclusions as phenomena, mr. spencer, inconsistently enough, only as truths verified by a higher and more correct reasoning than that of his opponents. we recognise, with berkeley, that reason teaches us that the testimony of consciousness is untrue; it is absurd, with spencer, to refute reason; instead we take means to bring consciousness to a sense of its improbity. now our (empiric) diagnosis is that it is the dissipation of mind that is chiefly responsible for its untruthfulness. we seek (also by empiric means, alas) to control it, to concentrate it, to observe more accurately has this source of possib

rd, with spencer, to refute reason; instead we take means to bring consciousness to a sense of its improbity. now our (empiric) diagnosis is that it is the dissipation of mind that is chiefly responsible for its untruthfulness. we seek (also by empiric means, alas) to control it, to concentrate it, to observe more accurately has this source of possible error been sufficiently recognised? what its testimony really is. experience has taught me, so far as i have been able to go, that reason and consciousness have met together; apprehension and analysis have kissed one another. the reconciliation (in fact, remember, and not in words) is at least so nearly perfect that i can confidently predict that a further pursuit of the (empirically-indicated) path will surely lead to a still further and hi

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evidence on his own behalf. now, i thought, 82 the truth will come to light. he stated everything with the utmost clearness and precision; but no one seemed to believe him. the wish to understand him was manifestly wanting in the jury, and from the beginning the judge took sides against him. from time to time, he interrupted him just to bring out what he regarded as the manifest falseness of his testimony "you say that these glasses show truth" he said "who wants to see truth "very few" was penry's reply "why, then, did you make the glasses" went on the judge "if you knew that they would disappoint people "i thought it my duty to" replied penry "your duty to disappoint and anger people" retorted the judge "a strange view to take of duty. and you got money for this unpleasant duty, didn't

rselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. our responsible concern is with our private destiny after all."7 "we must next pass beyond the point of view of merely subjective utility, and make inquiry into the intellectual content itself "first, is there, under all the discrepancies of the creeds, 155 a common nucleus to which they bear their testimony unanimously "and second, ought we to consider the testimony true "i will take up the first question first, and answer it immediately in the affirmative. the warring gods and formulas of the various religions do indeed cancel each other, but there is a certain uniform deliverance in which religions all appear to meet. it consists of two parts"(1) an uneasiness; and"(2) its solution "1. th

touched upon the mystical experiences of mankind. this p. had to the best of his ability done, and though he had only sojourned in europe, in egypt, india, ceylon, china, burma, arabia, siam, tibet, japan, mexico, and the united states of america, so deep had been his study and so exalted had been his understanding that it was considered by the order that he had collected sufficient material and testimony whereon to compile a book for the instruction of mankind. and as frater n.s.f. was a writer of some little skill, the diaries and notes of frater p. were given to him and another, and they were enjoined to set them together in such a manner that they would be an aid to the seeker in the mysteries, and would be as a tavern on a road beset with many dangers and difficulties, wherein the tr

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mothracian mysteries is evidently a straining after effect. they were of a much lower order than the eleusinian, and a great deal more obscure; in fact, even at the time, people could not define with anything like accuracy what the kabiri really were. the student will find more concerning these semi-mythical beings in strabo, diodorus and varro. d llinger says "this much is undoubted on the joint testimony of strabo and mnaseas; the gods whose initiation people received here (samothrace) were axieros "i.e, demeter; axiokersos "i.e, hades; and axiokersa "i.e, persephone- d llinger "the gentile and the jew" eng. edition, 1906, vol. i, pp. 172-186. 12 hence "odic" force; and "obi" or "obeah" witchcraft. illustration on page 271 approximated below_ hb:shin hb:taw hb:qof_ air_ tablet/ of air/ p

ethods of science would imagine that any law of nature was really violated thereby. he would simply set to work to investigate the conditions under which so highly unexpected an occurrence took place; and thereby enlarge his experience and modify his hitherto unduly narrow conception of the laws of nature- huxley "essay on hume" p. 155 "a philosopher has declared that he would discredit universal testimony rather than believe in the resurrection of a dead person, but his speech was rash, for it is on the faith of before the birth of copernicus the sun was universally considered to be a body moving round the earth; it was a fact, and probably whilst it lasted the most universal fact the mind of man has ever accepted; but since that illuminated sage arose, it has been shown to be a simple fa

from the world of those who still lie bound therein. it is possible to conceive of a child being born blind (in a race of blind people) obtaining the use of its eyes when an old man, and thereupon entering a new world; why, therefore, should it be impossible to conceive of a man with all his senses perfect obtaining another sense or entering into another dimension.32 the blind man, if a universal testimony that he believed in the impossibility of the resurrection. supposing such an occurrence was proved, what would follow? must we deny evidence, or renounce reason? it would be absurd to say so. we should simply infer that we were wrong in supposing resurrection to be impossible- e. l vi "the doctrine of transcendent magic" pp. 121, 158, also p. 192 "also see" capt. j. f. c. fuller "the sta

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nly causes disease; if you only fast long enough, you cure cancer and consumption and everything else. now when a man who can print drivel of this sort comes forward and testifies to the wind that blows from the top of a medium's head, it is unlikely that any serious person will take the trouble even to read his statement. worse, the presence of such a person at a sitting entirely invalidates the testimony of his fellow-sitters, even be they such presumably competent persons as mr. w.w.baggalay and the hon. everard feilding "le grande hyst rie" such as must play no small part in the constitution of a person who can persuade himself that the best athletic training is stark starvation, that tobacco is poison, alcohol fatal in doses of three drops, and the use of the reproductive faculties un

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n's theories of immortality. ii. the philosophical aspect of death and immortality. iii. the theological aspect of death and immortality. iv. the common arguments for immortality. part iii "psychological- introductory. i. the moment of death. ii. visions of the dying. iii. death described from beyond the veil. iv. experiments in photographing and weighting the soul. v. death coincidences. vi. the testimony of science- psychical research. vii. on the intra-cosmic difficulties of communication. viii. conclusions. appendices. bibliography. index "the book. has much to recommend it on the score of stimulus to calm reasoning and further research "pall mall gazette "the collaborators may certainly claim that they have brought proven evidence as to the persistence of individual consciousness and

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

had sat on the stool for twenty-four hours without food, water or rest, she was usually ready to confess to anything. the fact that she might recant later was not much help to her; her gaolers could always embroider their evidence with accounts of their valiant attempts to catch satan's imps. 5 perhaps becausethey led such wretched lives, children were often the first to accuse their parents. one testimony was sufficient to hang a person. a child who felt he had been unjustly punished might run to the village gossip with the news that his mother had been visited by an owl at dead of night. the fact that the owl had nested outside his home ever since he could remember would be conveniently ignored, and if the child repented and tried to tell the truth when he saw his mother being taken off

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

he witches all. l it's similar to many well known methods; just puts the pieces together rather differentpocopyright 1998 lucis trust the consciousness of the atom by alice a. bailey copyright 1961 lucis trust copyright renewed 1989 by lucis trust foreword the lectures here presented were delivered in new york during the past winter. the purpose of this series was to present to their auditors the testimony of science as to the relation of matter and of consciousness; to enable the hearers to observe the identical manifestation of these relations and of certain basic laws in successively higher states of being, and thus to bring to them a realisation of the universality of the evolutionary process and its actuality; and to deal somewhat with the nature of the expanded states of consciousnes

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

itual being called pradhana. 46. all this constitutes meditation with seed. 47. when this super-contemplative state is reached, the yogi acquires pure spiritual realisation through the balanced quiet of the chitta (or mind stuff. 48. his perception is now unfailingly exact (or his mind reveals only the truth. 49. this particular perception is unique and reveals that which the rational mind (using testimony, inference and deduction) cannot reveal. 50. it is hostile to, or supersedes all other impressions. 51. when this state of perception is itself also restrained (or superseded, then is pure samadhi achieved. the yoga sutras of patanjali book i the problem of union 1. aum (om) the following instruction concerns the science of union. aum. is the word of glory; it signifies the word made fle

sixth sense, and the synthesis of all the five other senses. result: correct knowledge. 3. right use of the perceiving faculty, so that the new field of knowledge which is now contacted is seen as it is. 4. that which is perceived is rightly interpreted through the subsequent assent of the intuition and the reason. 5. right transmission to the physical brain of that which has been perceived; the testimony of the sixth sense is correctly interpreted, and the evidence is transmitted with occult accuracy. result: correct reaction of the physical brain to the transmitted knowledge. when the process is studied and followed, the man on the physical plane becomes increasingly aware of the things of the soul, and the mysteries of the soul realm or the "kingdom of god" all group concerns and the n

to the transmitted knowledge. when the process is studied and followed, the man on the physical plane becomes increasingly aware of the things of the soul, and the mysteries of the soul realm or the "kingdom of god" all group concerns and the nature of group consciousness are revealed to him. it will be noted that these rules are even now regarded somewhat as essential premises where all accurate testimony is under consideration in world affairs. when these same rules are carried forward into the world of psychic endeavor (both lower and higher) then we shall have a simplification of the present confusion. in an old book written for disciples of a certain degree these words occur and are of value to all probationary and accepted disciples. the translation gives the sense, and is not litera

kinah which streams from the holy of holies into which the man has succeeded in entering. the truth is known and the cause of every form in all the kingdoms of nature stands revealed. this is the revelation of the true magic and the key to the great magical work in which all true yogis and adepts participate. 49. this particular perception is unique and reveals that which the rational mind (using testimony, inference and deduction) cannot reveal. the meaning here might be stated to be that the mind of man in its various aspects and uses can reveal those things which concern objectivity, but only identification with the spirit can reveal the nature and world of the spirit "no man hath seen god at any time, the only begotten son, who is in the bosom of the father, he hath revealed him" until

son, who is in the bosom of the father, he hath revealed him" until a man knows himself as a son of god, until the christ in each man is manifesting and the christ-life has full expression, and until the man is one with that internal spiritual reality which is his true self, the particular knowledge dealt with here (knowledge of god and of spirit, independent of matter or form) is impossible. the testimony of the ages points to a spiritual force or life in the world; the inference to be garnered from the life experience of millions is that spirit exists; the deduction to be gathered from the consideration of the world or of the great maya is that a cause, self-persisting and self-existing, must be back of that maya. only the man, however, who can pass behind all forms and can transcend all

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

they speak of meeting with angelic hosts; they refer to the great cloud of witnesses; they commune with the elder brothers of the race who work in other dimensions and who demonstrate powers about which ordinary human beings know nothing; they speak of a light and of a glory; of a direct knowledge of truth and of a world of phenomena which is uniform to the mystics of all races. that much of the testimony can be discarded on the grounds of hallucination may be true; that many of the saints of old were psychopathic cases and neurotics may be equally true; but there still remains a residue of testimony and a sufficient number of reputable witnesses, substantiating this testimony, to force our belief in its verity. these witnesses to the unseen world spoke with words of power and gave forth

to us by the mechanism of the nerves, and investigated by the chemist, the physicist, the biologist and the anthropologist. they have spoken in no uncertain terms of a realm of contacts and of awareness in which the ordinary senses are useless. they claim to have lived and moved in these subtler realms, and the perseverance displayed in the mystical search for reality, and the similarity of their testimony down the ages lead one to believe in the possibility of that intangible world and of a response apparatus, by means of which it can be contacted. the ranks of these "deluded" mystics and intuitional thinkers number tens of thousands of the best minds of the race. they say to us in the words of walt whitman "i and my kind do not convince by argument; we convince by our presence."10(21) ed

ers should be ordered to her higher and her higher ones to god; her outward senses to her inward, and her inward ones to reason; thought to intuition and intuition to the will and all to unity."18(53) the words of dr. charles whitby, the translator of rene guenon's book, man and his becoming, are pertinent to this chapter on the objectives of the meditation process. he refers to the. overwhelming testimony to the mutually-confirmatory agreement, on all essential points, of the western, hindu, moslem and far-eastern esoteric traditions. the truth we so rashly term unattainable awaits us there in unchanged and changeless majesty, veiled indeed from hasty and scornful eyes but ever increasingly apparent to earnest unbiased seekers. according to plotinus, the act of contemplation which essenti

t to the supreme 'one. if this be so, the present preoccupation with psychic or quasi-psychic matters of the more advanced representative of western thought and science, may or rather must sooner or later be succeeded by an equally serious attention to matters of higher and even of highest import."19(54) thus it will be seen that the claims made for meditation are very high, and the weight of the testimony of the mystics and initiates of all the ages can be brought in corroboration of them. the fact that others have achieved may encourage and interest us but does no more unless we ourselves take some definite action. that there is a technique and a science of union, based on the right handling of the mental body and its correct use may be profoundly true, but this knowledge serves no purpo

e have, through an intense interest and application, reach the same standard of achievement to which meditation brings the eastern aspirant to knowledge. but at this point the parallel breaks down. education in the occident fails to carry its exponents on into the realm of the intuition, or of illumination. in fact, we rather smile at the idea of an illumined consciousness and ascribe much of the testimony available to the hallucinations of the over-stimulated mystic or to the psychopathic cases with which our psychologists are constantly dealing. but it can be proved, i believe, that the developed spiritual perception and an illumined intellect can be part of the equipment of the sane and balanced business man or scientist, and need not necessarily indicate a lack of psychic balance, or e

al in their use that we have come to look upon them simply as something couched in mystical phraseology, which means relatively little more than an attempt of the visionary aspirant to express in words the wonders that he has sensed. it seems, however, on investigation, that there is a good deal of meaning in this special terminology and these symbolic phrases. the uniformity of the language, the testimony of the many thousands of reputable witnesses and the similarity of the related occurrences seem to indicate something in the nature of a genuine phenomenal happening. dr. overstreet, in the enduring quest, mentions a large number of those great individuals for whom it is claimed that they were illumined, and points out that "these men do not reason their way to conclusions, although reas

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

lives and consciousness of the life of the logos of our planet, but all the lives and consciousnesses within our solar system. the nature of this awareness is only possible of comprehension by the man who has arrived at soul-knowledge. the great need at this time is for experts in the life of the soul and for a group of men and women who, undertaking the great experiment and transition, add their testimony to the truth of the statements of the mystics and occultists of the ages. c. the body, the phenomenal appearance. not much need be written here anent this, for the body nature and the form aspect have been the object of investigation and the subject of thought and discussion of thinking men for many centuries. much at which they have arrived is basically correct. the modern investigator

und, god spoke and the worlds were made. it has been said that "the chief agency by which nature's wheel is moved in a phenomenal direction is sound" for the original sound or word sets in vibration the matter of which all forms are made and initiates that activity which characterizes even the atom of substance. the literature and the scriptures of all the ancient nations and great religions bear testimony to the efficacy of sound in producing all that is tangible and visible. the hindus say very beautifully that "the great singer built the worlds, and the universe is his song" this is another way of expressing the same idea. if this is realized and the science of this concept somewhat understood, the significance of our own words and the utterance of sound in speech, becomes almost a mome

erize the passing? that in the minds of those left behind the thought of sorrow will not enter and death beds will be regarded as happier occasions than births and marriages? i tell you, that before so very long this will be deeply so for the intelligent of the race, and little by little for all. you say there are as yet only beliefs as to immortality and no sure evidences. in the accumulation of testimony, in the inner assurances of the human heart, in the fact of belief in eternal persistence as an idea in the minds of men lies sure indication. but indication will give place to conviction and knowledge before another hundred years has elapsed, for an event will take place and a revelation be given to the race which will turn hope into certainty and belief into knowledge. in the meantime

. when this stage has been reached and a man is in conscious touch with the plan then true magical work can begin. men and women, who are beginning to live as souls, can undertake the magical work of the new age, and can inaugurate those changes and that rebuilding which will bring about the manifestation of the new heavens and the new earth, to which all the scriptures of the world bear eloquent testimony. they can then work with forces in etheric matter and so bring into being those physical plane creations and organisations which will more adequately embody the life of god in the aquarian age which is now upon us. it is to this stage that rule xv refers. these words mark the consummation of the magical work, and are equally true of the magical work of a solar logos, of a planetary logos

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

r of temperament, of the wish and desire of the ages wherein man struggled and suffered and relieved the strain of living by constructing a body of thought around a happy immortal being, who was to be free, eventually and finally, from all the difficulties of physical existence. the soul can be regarded as a beautiful vision or as an hallucination, for all that tends to prove its existence is the testimony of the many mystics down the ages to a contact and an experience which can be accounted for in terms of dream life, of brain lesions or of escape reactions, but which rests on no sure foundation. so say the materialists and the upholders of proven scientific facts. belief, verbal testimony, hope, curious and inexplicable psychic happenings, the mass of untrained opinion and the findings

ovided with a firm basis for all our forward looking. had the unfoldments of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in the departments of science and psychology alone, been forecast to the thinkers of the world in the sixteenth century, how strange and impossible it would all have seemed to them! stranger than anything i might here prophecy to you, for we have already seen so much occur, and the testimony to the world of true being is accumulating so fast, that we can no longer stand amazed at any occurrence. the fact of the soul will be brought to the racial recognition in many ways, and the revelation will come along so many lines that all types of minds will be satisfied. i shall indicate only a few. the psychics of the world are increasing greatly in number, and the growing sensitivit

when the true dweller in the body is recognised and the laws of prevision are discovered, and when the power to foresee is generally prevalent, then we shall begin to find ample proof of the existence of the soul. it will be impossible to account for the ordinary phenomena then current without admitting its existence. along these various lines proof of the soul will accumulate. in the massing of testimony and of evidence a fruitful field of activity lies. in the training of the higher types of men in the use of the soul force and soul powers, and in the trained control of the mechanism, that evidence so produced will be seen to be of so high an order and will be so scientifically presented that it will be regarded as of as much importance and as justifiable as any views presented by our l

uce its intensification and its consequent and subsequent radiation, so that, through humanity, light may eventually reach all forms of divine expression. through man's achievement, and through the conquest of darkness by light, the light of consciousness in all forms must be brought to a condition of a "shining glory which will irradiate the planet, and shine forth into the world of planets as a testimony to the glory of- 234- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust the fourth law controlling human destiny is known by the curious name of the law of the tides. it concerns the life of desire and of sensory perception and of feeling. it is closely concerned with the development of awareness, and is an aspect of the law of cycles which controls

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

century that fervent adherence and service which in former ages could be obtained from the average layman by the expounding of theological dogmas, the threat of hell, and the performance of elaborate rites and ceremonies."1 the kingdom of god is now in process of rapid formation, as all those with forward-seeing vision and a realisation of the rapidly emerging beauty and divinity of man can bear testimony. we are passing through the transition period between the old age and the new, and the true mission of christ, so deeply and frequently obscured by theological implications and disputations, embodies in itself the coming revelation. the development of humanity guarantees the recognition of christ and his work and its participation, consciously, in the kingdom of god- 1- copyright 1998 lu

ion of divinity. from the rational point of view, the question as to the historical accuracy of his story remains as yet unsolved, though his teaching upon the fatherhood of god and the brotherhood of man is endorsed by the best minds of the race. those who can move in the world of ideas, of faith and of living experience testify to his divinity and to the fact that he can be approached. but such testimony is often passed over lightly as being mystical, futile and incapable of proof. individual belief is, after all, of no value to anyone except to the believer himself, or as it tends to increase testimony until the total assumes such proportions that it eventually becomes proof. to fall back upon the "way of belief" can be indicative of a living experience, but it can also be a form of sel

o fall back upon the "way of belief" can be indicative of a living experience, but it can also be a form of self-hypnotism and a "way of escape" from the difficulties and problems of daily life. the effort to understand, to experiment, to experience and to express what is known and believed is frequently too difficult for the majority, and they then fall back upon a belief which is based upon the testimony of the trusted, as the easiest way out of the impasse. the problem of religion and the problem of orthodox christianity are not one and the same thing. much that we see around us today of unbelief and criticism, and the negation of our so-called truths, is based upon the fact that religion has been largely superseded by creed, and doctrine has taken the place of living experience. it is

training himself whilst doing this to walk in the light of the soul, realising that in service to his fellowmen and in forgetfulness of self he prepares himself to stand before the portal of initiation. upon that path he meets those who, like himself, are learning to be citizens of the kingdom. this has been the knowledge and the message of all true christians down the centuries, and their united testimony bears witness to the reality of the kingdom, to the fact that those who seek it truly can find it, and that those who make enquiry as to its existence shall not be disappointed. the way into the kingdom is found by questioning and answering, by seeking and finding, and by the obedience to that inner voice which can be heard when all other voices are stilled. when that voice is heard we c

lderness story. the whole world of material things, of desire and of ambition, was arrayed before christ, and because he reacted as he did, and because none of these aspects of life could affect him, we too can stand free, assured of our own ultimate victory. christ as man achieved victory. we too can do the same. to this triumph of the soul over matter and of reality over the unreal, christ gave testimony in the wilderness experience, and it is towards the same goal that all who follow in his steps are moving. the triumph which was his will be ours when we meet the problem in the spirit in which he met it, turning the light of the soul upon it, and resting back upon past experience. in the baptism initiation, christ's purity and freedom from evil had been demonstrated before men. now they

s' in which the collective life of our ancestors is still operative is the normal psychology of the primitive, a state of 'natural somnambulism' with its distinctive forms of sensitiveness, telepathy, and second-sight, a direct apprehension akin to the artist's of the whole in its parts, of the essential in a multiplicity of detail."34 to this the symbols of the devil and of father christmas bear testimony embodiments of the primal dualities in the realm of quality. man's entire existence, as man, is spent swinging between these pairs of opposites, until eventually the balance is achieved and, from then on, he moves towards that which is divine. it might profit all of us if we pondered long and deeply at times upon these two extremities of human existence good and evil, light and dark, lif

n, of depression or of blindness in which we may temporarily find ourselves. but the doubt in the world today will be solved only when men bring to bear upon the problems of humanity, of god and of the soul, not only the clear cool light of the intellect, illumined by the intuition, but also the potency of past experience. if the sense of god has persisted in the world for untold ages, and if the testimony of the mystics and saints, the seers and the saviours of all time is historical and verifiable as it is then that testimony, in its wealth and universality, constitutes a fact as scientific as any other. these are days when a scientific fact seems to have some glamorous appeal. cycles of mysticism, cycles of philosophy, cycles of scientific expression, cycles of rank materialism such is

ence in order that it may seek a new centre, the process may be recognised as `radio activity' as far as humanity is concerned."8 it was these processes, carried on in the form nature, which led eventually to the revelation to the apostles of the essential nature of the master they loved and followed, and it is this aspect of christ the inner radiant reality to which the mystics of all times bear testimony, not only in connection with christ, but in lesser degree in connection with each other also. once the world of the senses has been transcended, and the higher correspondences have become active, revealing the inner world of beauty and truth, there will come to the mystic a realisation of a subjective world whose characteristics are light, radiance, beauty and indescribable wonder. all t

fied. this is a forgotten truth. yet it is all part of the evolutionary process whereby god is revealed through humanity. the great and natural phenomenon which humanity will some day through self-expression and also under the law reveal in itself includes the beauty which shone forth from christ as he stood transfigured before his three friends, was recognised by god his father, and received the testimony of moses and elias, the law and the prophets, the past and that which bears witness to the future. one point might here be brought out. in the oriental correspondence to these five crises in the life of jesus christ, this third episode is called the "hut" initiation, and the words of st. peter as he suggests that they should make three "huts" one for christ and one for moses and one for

d have our being. god is immanent in all his creatures, or he is not. god is transcendent and beyond manifestation, or else there is no basic reality, purpose or origin. probably the growing recognition in men's minds that he is both immanent and transcendent is true, and we can take our stand upon his fatherhood, knowing ourselves to be divine because christ and the church of all ages have borne testimony to it. this time the word spoken differs from the previous one. the first part of the pronouncement made by the initiator who stands silently behind the scenes as jesus takes initiation after initiation is practically the same as that at the baptism initiation, except for one expressed command. he said "this is my beloved son, in whom i am well pleased" but added this time "hear ye him"

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

guaranteeing the power of the hierarchy and its freedom from any psychological problems inherent in group work and from any mystical or occult disturbances is its stability, its coherency and the surety of its touch on life. the mystic and the occultist are frequently passing through a cycle of insecurity and of transition from doubt as to the future's possible revelations, into a faith that the testimony of the ages is based on incontrovertible fact. the average mystic and occult student therefore lacks stability in his environing conditions and faith in his group affiliations. the greatest contribution to world thought at this time is the emerging recognition everywhere to be found of the finiteness of man's knowledge, of the insufficiency of his accumulated wisdom to cope with the worl

on earth, to inaugurate the new age, and to materialise the kingdom of god on the physical plane. to this future day of appeal or world prayer much thought and preparation should be given, so that the results achieved can be even more definite and potent than in the first quite successful attempt. prayer or appeal is either a potent way of setting certain great forces in motion or it is not. the testimony of the ages is in favour of its efficacy along these lines. 3. to hold before humanity, as part of the living instruction which the men of good will will teach and live out in their daily lives, the necessity of a great group participation in a day of forgiveness and of forgetting. this may be possible in a few years' time, but could be effectively tried in 1942. this is a forgiveness wh

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

is moving forward upon the path of evolution out of the fourth kingdom into the fifth can be brought about consciously, scientifically and with the full consent and cooperation of the aspirant. the day has now come when belief can (and does) give place to knowledge a knowledge gained through the acceptance of a hypothesis in the first place, a conviction that this hypothesis is backed by adequate testimony and planned experience. the reasoning mind of the disciple can then take the successes and failures he encounters in his training and learn the intended lessons; he finds that progress upon the path brings a man into closer, conscious touch with those who have walked this way before and that the way into the hierarchy is a way of discipline, of increasing enlightenment, of service to his

ulous claims put out by the ignorant about us. h.p.b, her predecessor, stated in certain instructions sent out to the esoteric section of the theosophical society that she bitterly regretted ever mentioning the masters, their names and functions. a.a.b. has been of the same opinion. the masters, as portrayed in the theosophical society faintly resemble the reality; much good has been done by this testimony to their existence, and much harm by the foolish detail at times imparted. they are not as pictured; they do not issue orders to their followers (or rather devotees) to do thus and so, to form this or that organization, nor do they indicate certain individuals as being of supreme importance and hierarchical status; they know full well that disciples, initiates and masters are known by th

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

e contrasts provide a perspective and a background which will inspire hope for the future and confidence in the ultimate destiny of man. the past is in reality more like the prenatal stage than an ordinary living process; it is a preface to a richer and a more enlightened life; it is a preliminary period to a culture and a civilization which will redound to the glory of god and constitute a vital testimony to the divinity of man. when the birthing process is over, a new humanity will be seen active upon the earth, a new race of men new because differently oriented. there are necessarily many lesser problems but those dealt with in this book cover the major ones with which humanity is at this time confronted, and which must find some solution during the next twenty-five years. this will hav

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

christ, makes its appearance on earth. the churches in all countries have familiarised the public with the phrase "the kingdom of god; the esotericists and occultists everywhere have publicised the fact of the hierarchy during the past century; the spiritualists have laid the emphasis upon the aliveness of those who have passed over into the hidden world of being, and their guides have also borne testimony to the existence of an inner, spiritual world. all this creates a unique preparedness which presents the christ with unique opportunities and unique problems. all these spiritual forces and many others, both within and without the world religions and the philosophical and humanitarian groups, are working at this time under direction, are closely related and their activities most intimate

itself felt in the life of the progressing son of god; he knows the meaning of intelligence; he realises the significance of love and its attractive quality. now because of these two recognitions he becomes aware of the potency of will and of the reality of the divine intention which that will must (at any cost) implement. this was the major crisis of the christ. there are in the gospel story (as testimony to this divinely progressing unfoldment) four recorded moments wherein this universal or monadic realisation showed itself. let us look at each one of them for a moment: 1. there is, first of all, his statement to his parents in the temple "wist ye not that i must be about my father's business" we should note here that he was twelve years old at the time and, therefore, the work with whi

the obvious and simple meaning and it ties in with the spiritual aspiration of all men everywhere. the use of this invocation or prayer and the rising expectancy of the coming of the christ hold out the greatest hope for mankind today. if this is not so, then prayer is no use and only an hallucination, and the scriptures of the world, with their proved forecasting. are useless and deceiving. the testimony of the ages proves that none of this is so. prayer always is answered and always has been; great sons of god have ever come on humanity's demand and always will, and he for whom all men wait today is on his way. chapter three the reappearance of the christ world expectancy god transcendent, greater, vaster and more inclusive than his created world, is universally recognised and has been

and in this spirit of expectancy comes the antidote to the spirit of fear and horror which has descended upon our unhappy planet. humanity today looks in two directions: towards the devastated earth and the agonised hearts of men; it also looks towards the place from whence the christ will come, which they symbolically call "heaven" where there is the same expectancy, where there is uniformity of testimony and of prediction, and where all the indications of "the time of the end" are with us, is it not reasonable to believe that a great event is in process of taking place? if, in the midst of death and destruction, there is to be found a living faith (and there is such a faith everywhere) and a burning zeal which pierces through the darkness to the centre of light, does that not warrant the

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

ind you that i use the word "energy" in reference to the spiritual expression of any ray and the word "force" to denote the use to which men make of spiritual energy as they seek to employ it and usually, as yet, misapply it. i would point out that ataturk, the turkish dictator, within certain personality limitations of relatively negligible moment, made good use of first ray energy, and only the testimony of future historical records will indicate fully how wisely, sanely and disinterestedly he used this type of force for the attainment of first ray objectives. it might be apposite here to point out that such first ray exponents of force are often misunderstood and hated. they may and often do misuse the energy available but they also use it constructively within the desired limits of the

gible will begin to work far more subjectively than heretofore. it will recognise the existence of senses which are super-sensory and which are extensions of the five physical senses, and this will be forced upon science because of the multitude of reliable people who will possess them and who can work and live in the worlds of the tangible and the intangible simultaneously. the mass of reputable testimony will be incontrovertible. the moment that the subjective world of causes is proven to exist (and this will come through the indisputable evidence of man's extended senses) science will enter a new era; its focus of attention will change; the possibilities of discovery will be immense and materialism (as that word is now understood) will vanish. even the word "materialism" will become obs

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

usion, a revelation has precipitated upon the mental plane and owing to failure rightly to apprehend and interpret it or to apply it usefully it has developed into an illusion and enters upon a career of deception, of crystallisation and of misinformation. the theme of this technique is, therefore, concerned primarily with: 1. the process of revelation. this process has been and today is the main testimony and guarantee of the existence, behind the scenes of the phenomenal life, of a revealing group or agency whose task is of a triple nature: a. to gauge the unfoldment of the human consciousness and to meet its constant appeal and demand for further light and knowledge. b. to judge what is the next needed revelation and what form it should take, through what medium it should emerge, and wh

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

dvance is as a shining light which shineth ever more until full enlightenment has been- 36- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust achieved. x. sequential revelation of relationships i would like to refer you back to page 52 where i outlined this extra-ordinary science which is inherently in itself the evidence of evolution, of the essential dualism in manifestation, and the testimony, unalterable and incontrovertible, to the unfoldment of consciousness. at the same time, it proceeds upon the basic premise that the various phases of consciousness which are steadily and sequentially revealed in time and space are (from the point of view of the eternal now) the sum total of the states of consciousness of the "one in whom we live and move and have our being" all these ph

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nt good can emerge even at this time from a study of these matters, provided the student of esotericism rests not content with study (using it as an escape from the disastrous present) but parallels his understanding of the causes and conditions by a strenuous effort to be of aid in a practical and a definitely physical sense. this is the dominant emerging fact to which all that i have said bears testimony: world conditions today precipitated as they are by human greed and ignorance are nevertheless basically conditioned by the will-to-good which is the primary quality of the energies and forces coming forth from the great lives in which all that exist live and move and have their being. the law of the universe (and what is law but the working out of the purposes of these all-embracing liv

of the conflict between the lords of the dark face and the lords of the shining countenance (see volume ii of the secret doctrine or the vishnu purana. a.a.b) in the earlier activity, the fourth active constellation was gemini and in the atlantean it was sagittarius. the effect then was on the physical plane (the earliest was on the mental) and the great flood eventuated to which the bible bears testimony. it brought about the destruction of the humanity of the time, but released the indwelling life for further experience and development. 1. leo, capricorn and pisces. the effects produced are mass effects and the rulers of these constellations which move into activity at this time are those listed in one of the earlier tabulations which i gave you. leo. ruler: the sun, veiling uranus, the

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

lot of people eager to testify to their wickedness and to the saving power of christ, giving the impression that god was personally interested as to whether (as one of them testified) she apologised to her cook for rudeness. to me, good manners and not god should have been sufficient incentive. anyway, a charming woman got up elderly, smart and twinkling with humor "i am sure you have a wonderful testimony to make" said the leader "no" replied the lady "no, the battle is still on between christ and me and it's quite debatable who will come out on top" that battle is always on and, in the case of a gemini who is awake and serving, it becomes a very vital matter and also a rather private one. gemini people are also supposed to be chameleonlike in nature and changeable in quality and often do

temptation is there to tell it. only beginners with a theoretical, imaginative event in their consciousness claim such experiences. but with deliberation i have related the two above subjective events (or was the- 25- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust first subjective) because it is time that people of standing and who are recognised as sane and intelligent should add their testimony to that of the frequently discredited mystic and occultist. i have a good standing as an intelligent, normal woman, an effective executive and creative writer and i choose to add my certain knowledge and conviction to the witness of many others down the ages. all this time, i was given to good works. i was an ardent y.w.c.a. worker. i was present (on sufferance on account of my youth) at

e bishop of that diocese would, of course, have to know the details. i remember well the evening in which i put the situation flatly and baldly to walter, after having a long talk with the bishop. i made him see that his fate did lie in my hands and that it would be the part of wisdom for him to stop knocking me about. i told him that any time i could get a divorce from him on the strength of the testimony of the doctor who had looked after me when ellison was born and who had seen me with bruises all over my body. this threat from the point of view of the episcopal church was potent. his career as a priest would be over. he was a proud man and (being inwardly shocked by the publicity) from that day on he never laid a finger on me. he sulked and would not talk for days on end and gave me t

us claims put out by the ignorant about us. h.p.b, her predecessor, stated in certain instructions sent out to the esoteric section of the theosophical society that she bitterly regretted ever mentioning the masters, their names and functions. a.a.b. has been of the same opinion. the masters, as portrayed in the theosophical society faintly resemble the reality and much good has been done by this testimony to their existence, and much harm by the foolish detail at times imparted. but they are not as pictured; they do not issue orders to their followers (or rather devotees) to do thus and so, to form this or that- 145- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust organisation nor do they indicate some persons as of supreme importance as being in incarnation, knowing full well tha

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

tuation or reproduction. it was in lemurian times that troubles connected with the misuse of the sex life- 36- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust began; this was, in a peculiar sense, the essential primeval evil, and concerning this fact, ancient legends and hints are found throughout the earliest records and writings. there is much misinterpreted testimony to this effect, and when men can read the records more correctly and with right interpretation, they will understand the way out, because they will see more clearly the underlying causes. cancer is a gift to modern man from the atlantean humanity, and the scourge of this disease was the major factor which devastated the inhabitants of old atlantis. the roots of this dire evil are deep-se

rial aid which as yet has not been provided in the outer scientific field. to bring this about, collaboration of a conscious medium (not a trance medium, but someone who is consciously clairvoyant and clairaudient) will be required. there are many such growing up among the children of today, and the next generation after them will provide still more. the separating veil will disappear through the testimony of the thousands of those who can see phenomena and hear sounds which lie outside the range of the tangible. you say that the spirits state that they cannot stand electricity. what is meant is that they cannot stand electricity as it is at present applied. this is an instance of the inaccurate statements passed on by ignorant mediums or by those who on the other side have no more underst

the possibility of complete finality and negation, and an end of all activity, of all heart reaction, of all thought, emotion, desire, aspiration and the intentions which focus around the central core of man's being. the longing and the determination to persist and the sense of continuity still rest, even to the most determined believer, upon probability, upon an unstable foundation and upon the testimony of others who have never in reality returned to tell the truth. the emphasis of all thought on this subject concerns the central "i" or the integrity of deity. you will note that in this rule, the emphasis shifts from the "i" to the constituent parts which form the garment of the self, and this is a point worth noting. the information given to the disciple is to work for the dissipation

f rebirth and of fresh opportunity..the destruction of the form in battle is of small importance to those who know that reincarnation is a basic law of nature and that there is no death- 260- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust june message, 1940. you say there are as yet only beliefs as to immortality, and no sure evidences. in the accumulation of testimony, in the inner assurances of the human heart, in the fact of belief in eternal persistence as an idea in the minds of men, lie sure indication. but indication will give place to conviction and knowledge before another hundred years has elapsed, for an event will take place and a revelation be given the race which will turn hope into certainty and belief into knowledge. in the meantime, le

day, though on a small scale) and the numbers of those expressing it are vast indeed, the inference is that the antahkarana is firmly established; the rainbow bridge can then be traversed and crossed, and life in abundance and in a new and impelling sense, and a fresh impulsing sense can also flow through humanity into the subhuman kingdoms in nature. this is evidence of divinity, and outstanding testimony of man's divine origin, and the hope, the saving hope, of the world. the energy and the forces constitute the sumtotal of all that is. this is another basic truism or platitude upon which the science of occultism is built and which the healing art must recognise. there is, in manifestation, nothing else of any kind whatsoever. disease itself is a form of active energy, demonstrating in f

o their continued activity, it was decided by them but for humanity that the rapid hard way was to be tried. since that time three factors have been present: 1. the factor of tremendous progress in raising the consciousness of mankind, en masse, to much higher intellectual levels. to this the growth of education, the discoveries of science and the control of the material plane and of the air bear testimony. 2. the factor of worldwide distress, of economic disaster, of world wars, of natural cataclysms- 393- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust and of the myriad occurrences and difficulties which make individual life, national life and planetary life so hard these days. no one is exempt and there is no distinction shown. 3. the factor of the g

uality of conscious knowledge and the fruit of all experience. these are the gifts of soul and form combined. this law x is the forerunner of many new laws concerning the relation of soul to form or of spirit to matter; this one is given first for two reasons: 1. it can be applied by disciples and thus proven to be true to the mass of men, and above all, to the scientific world. 2. in the mass of testimony and in the type of death (called at this stage "transference) the fact of the hierarchy and of shamballa can be established. there are three sources of the abstraction which we call "death" if we exclude accident (which may be incident to other people's karma, war (which involves planetary karma) and natural catastrophes (which are connected entirely with the body of manifestation of the

d by adhering either to the soul or to the form. he has taken all they had to give which throws light on the spiritual law of sacrifice. it is interesting to note how the soul becomes at this point simply the intermediary between the personality and the initiate of high degree. but now there is nothing more to relate, to report or to transmit, and as the sound reverberates the soul disappears, as testimony of response. it is now but an empty shell, but its substance is of so high an order that it becomes an integral part of the buddhic level, and its function there is etheric the principle of life is renounced and returns to the reservoir of universal life. i would have you take notice of the importance of form activity. it is the form which shatters the connection (the usually despised, b

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cter building, integration and alignment processes, as well as with laying the foundation for what could be given out when humanity reached its present stage. now the preparatory work has been done and has proved effective; it will be continued for those who need its aid, but the more advanced work can be made exoteric. this planned externalising of the teaching must go on all the time. it is the testimony of the hierarchy that the points of crisis in the evolutionary process have accomplished their intent and have demonstrated success. these points of crisis are ever succeeded by "points of revelation" and it is with such points of revelation that we are at this time occupied. august 1942 my brothers: i would like first to remind you briefly of three points which i made in my last instruc

strictly material. the other three stages of human meditation are as follows: 5. worship. this is the united recognition and the subsequent reflection of humanity upon the fact of divine transcendence and divine immanence. it is implemented by the world religions and it created that path of return to the centre or source of divine life to which the world religions and the heart of man bear equal testimony- 152- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust 6. invocation and evocation. this form of spiritual, dynamic meditation is largely in the hands of the new group of world servers and of the men and women of goodwill in every land. these will be generally unknown to each other, but they are all creatively striving and creatively thinking towards the worldwide uplift

t which lies beyond the planet and is fused and blended in a solar sense with the voice of him who has brought all into being, and with the will of him who is carrying all forms of his livingness towards the perfection which he purposes; in so doing, the great processes of redemption are furthered, to which all world saviours (in relation to humanity) are the symbol, the guarantee and the eternal testimony. in giving you these two meditations, i would remind all who undertake to use these meditative forms that they will not prove effective and of the needed vital potency unless the one who thus meditates identifies himself with the purpose and objective of the meditation, dedicates himself to cooperation with this objective and redeems all aspects of his own life in conformity with the foc

e present world upheaval and with its steady approach to the western hemisphere, it is not easy for world disciples with their unusual sensitivity to detach themselves from the general psychic condition. yet the aim of each pledged and obligated disciple (such as you are, my- 339- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust brother, by your own proving which is the only sure testimony) must be to hold a subjective attitude of detached contact an occult paradox! and at the same time to carry forward the life of active service upon the physical plane. this is your problem and one which you will have increasingly to face in the future. the present situation must and will touch all nations and every disciple will be tested and will have to express the utmost that is in hi

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ngles of people, pledged to use the invocation and to extend its use through the world. it is my specific plan to help mass world thought and thus evoke the avatar, and likewise to provide a world group through which the new forces and energies can function, the new ideas can spread. and the coming world order find adherents. 4. to prepare the general public for the coming one by pointing out the testimony of the past, the recognition of the universal need for divine intervention and the holding out of hope to the distressed, the doubting and the tortured. in his appearance lies hope, and history testifies that it has frequently happened at times of world crisis. such are the possibilities which i present to your understanding. i have told and taught you much in past years. i have often as

e found the path to god; they have trodden it and accepted its conditions, endured its disciplines, rested back in confidence upon its realities, received its rewards and found their goal. arrived there, they have "entered into the joy of the lord" participated in the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, dwelt in the glory of the divine presence, and then returned to the ways of men, to serve. the testimony to the existence of this path is the priceless treasure of all the great religions and its witnesses are those who have transcended all forms and all theologies, and have penetrated into the world of meaning which all symbols veil. these truths are part of all that the past gives to man. they are our eternal heritage, and connected with them there is no new revelation but only participat

cal and social ideologies and world religions, the will of god and the love of god, the purpose of divinity and the plans whereby that purpose is brought into activity all focus through that centre of which we are each consciously a part, humanity itself. there are, therefore, three great spiritual centres on the planet: shamballa, the spiritual hierarchy, and humanity. there is definite biblical testimony to this highest of all centres, shamballa. at moments of crisis in the earthly life of christ we read that a voice spoke to him, the voice of the father was heard by him, affirming his sonship and setting the seal of approval upon his acts and work. at that moment a great fusion of the two spiritual centres the hierarchy and shamballa, the kingdom of god and the world of spirit was broug

coming world readjustments. they have sought to protect the sufferers, organising methods of relief, guiding the minds of army leaders, and arousing public opinion to take those steps which will eventually lead to right human relations. temporarily, the german people and the japanese have been left to their fate and to the tender mercies of the armies of evil; the present debacle in germany is a testimony as to what evil can bring upon those who follow it. with all these modes of strengthening the forces of light and of extricating humanity from the descended evil, the hierarchy has also been occupied with lines of activity which may not be disclosed, because they concern the handling of the subjective forces of evil. the potency of these forces will be realised if the length of time whic

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

les are, however, different. they are the result of tried experience and of age-long undertakings and assuming neither the form of laws nor the limitations of a command they are recognised by those for whom they exist and hence evoke from them a prompt intuitive response. they need no enforcement but are voluntarily accepted, and are put to trial in the belief that the witness of the past and the testimony of the ages warrant the effort required for the expressed requirements. this is true of the fourteen rules which we are now going to study. i would remind you that only the initiate consciousness will truly comprehend their significance, but also that your effort so to do will develop in you the beginning of that initiate consciousness, provided you seek to make practical and voluntary a

all thought, emotion, desire, aspiration, and the intentions which focus around the central core of a man's- 66- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust being. the longing and the determination to persist and the sense of continuity still rest, even to the most determined believer, upon probability, upon an unstable foundation, and upon the testimony of others who have never in reality returned to tell the truth. the emphasis of all thought on this subject concerns the central "i" or the integrity of deity. you will note that in this rule, the emphasis shifts from the "i" to the constituent parts which form the garment of the self, and this is a point worth noting. the information given to the disciple is to work for the dissipation

ry rarity) a major "spiritual excitement" it produces effects and stimulation; it indicates future receptivity to dimly sensed truths and is allied if you could but realise it with the entire phenomena of prevision. a registration of some aspect of intuitional understanding is an event of major importance in the life of the disciple who is beginning to tread the path to the hierarchy. it provides testimony, which he can recognise, of the existence of knowledges, wisdom and significances of which the intelligentsia of humanity are not yet aware; it guarantees to him the unfolding possibility of his own higher nature, a realisation of his divine connections and the possibility of his ultimate highest spiritual attainment; it steadily supersedes soul knowledge, and the energy pouring in to hi

al for the entire group. all who respond to the life-giving force of aquarius and to the light-giving force of taurus can and will work in the new group of world servers, even though they have no occult knowledge and have never heard of their co-workers under that name. forget this not. recognition of the successful work of the new group of world servers will be accorded by the hierarchy, and the testimony of the recognition will be the appearing of a symbol in the aura of the group of the entire group. this will be a symbol projected by the hierarchy, specifically by the christ. what that symbol will be it is not for me to say. it is not yet fully earned, and only its dim and uncertain outline can be seen from the level on which the masters work, and not at all from the level on which the

iples in the world, and can discover those aspirants who can be helped and trained. let me bring another point to your attention. in the phenomenal world of the average human being who has not yet passed through the initiatory experience of the rebirth, the emphasis has ever been and is today upon the dual relationship of the sexes and to this our novels, plays, movies and affairs of all men bear testimony. creativity expresses itself mainly through the propagation of the race, brought about through the relation of male and female, or of the positive and negative poles in the human family. this is right and good and part of the divine plan. even though men have prostituted their capacities and debased their relationships, the basic plan is divine and ideal. after the first initiation, the

ly one picture; their horizon is limited to only one point of the compass (speaking esoterically. to the mass of humanity, the aspect of reality which was visioned and for which men lived and died was the material world, material comfort, material possessions and material enterprises; to this the labour movement today and the tendencies already apparent in the united nations bear incontrovertible testimony. to a much smaller group of human beings the world of the intelligence appears paramount, and the concrete mind is the desired ruler or controlling factor. all, therefore, remains within the area of material control and interest. the solar plexus centre is consequently the dominant factor, because even in the case of the intelligentsia it is desire for material well-being, for territoria

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

constellations the lawgivers interpretation of the test labor xii the capture of the red cattle of geryon the myth interpretation of the story significant aspect of the sign the second coming of the christ the new group of world servers interpretation of the test the purpose of the study of the hercules myth summary of lessons learned in each zodiacal sign the path of the soul through the zodiac testimony as to the effectiveness of zodiacal energies on earth life the crosses journey through the signs- 4- the labours of hercules the zodiac the presiding one looked forth upon the sons of men, who are the sons of god. he saw their light and where they stood upon the way which leads back to the heart of god. the way sweeps in a circle through the twelve great gates, and, cycle after cycle, th

on of a concealed deity lies at the heart of all religions" this is the mystic realization and the object of the search that humanity has carried on down the ages. the exponents of the world religions have embodied in their teaching one aspect of the search, accepting the fact of god as a basic premise, and with their heart's love and devotion and worship proving the reality of his existence. the testimony of the mystics of all time and races is so vast that it now in itself constitutes a body of proven facts and cannot be gainsaid. the scientific investigators have sought through a knowledge of the form to find truth, and have brought us to a position of wide knowledge and at the same time to a paralleling conception of our profound ignorance. we have learned much of the outer garment of

of force. this is where [12] science so wonderfully has led us, and this is where the astrologer, the occultist, the idealist and the mystic also meet and testify to a concealed deity, to a living being, to a universal mind, and to a central energy. in the unfolding drama of the heavens, in the conclusions of the scientific enquirer, in the mathematical computations of the astrologers, and in the testimony of the mystic, however, we can see a steadily emerging manifestation of this concealed divinity. little by little, through the study of history, of philosophy and of comparative religion, we see the plan of that deity becoming significantly apparent. in the passage of the sun through the twelve signs of the zodiac, we can see the marvellous organization of the plan, the focusing of the e

ind. for it was only when he had blocked the opening of the personal emotions (postpituitary, thrown away even his trusty club, refused symbolically to lead any longer a personal, selfish life, that he could, entering by the opening represented by the ante-pituitary, subdue the lion of the personality in the cave. these correlations are so exact that they present in little and in large an awesome testimony to the unflawed integrity of the plan "as above so below. a striking correlation between biological and spiritual truths [112] labor vi seizing the girdle of hippolyte (virgo, august 22nd- september 21st [from now on the chapters will be based on the informal lectures given by a.a.b, her finished material for a proposed book having run out. therefore, a rewrite will be offered plus mater

dead" and in the labor in virgo,he slayed the queen of the amazons, though she offered him, the girdle, and then he had to rescue another maiden, hesione, from the belly of the whale, to compensate for the life he had unnecessarily taken. so the war between the sexes is of ancient origin; indeed is inherent in the duality of humanity and the solar system. to this fact our divorce courts bear loud testimony; and competition arises in business as well as in the home. there are small [117] but important points in the story not to be overlooked. what did hippolyte contribute to the error? perhaps this: she proffered to hercules the girdle of unity, given her by venus, because she had been told that the presiding one had so ordered, not because she felt unity. did she do it under compulsion but

at makes men brothers; it views the earth as a series of disparate nations, rather than as one world. hercules had to see the hydra as one monster, not a beast with nine different heads. as long as he sought to dissever the heads, one by one, he remained unsuccessful. when he finally dealt with it as a unit, he gained the victory. 9. cruelty. the satisfaction men experience in hurting others is a testimony to the existence of evil tendencies that corrode the mind. delight in causing suffering to our fellow men is a disease. this ugly head of the hydra must be destroyed once and for all before a man can declare himself to be humanised. modern life offers many examples of brutality and wanton cruelty. in many families sensitive children are taunted, ridiculed and disparaged by those who refu

t, and if we can get a wide enough retrospect, it should surely be possible to demonstrate the truth of this contention. how then can these energies be effective? it is said that it is through the thought form that they are transmitted. we glibly use the phrase "energy follows thought. here the reality of this belief is put to a cosmic test. death is also said to be "a figment of our imagination. testimony as to the effectiveness of zodiacal energies on earth life in the larger picture certain interesting facts emerge. we can say, for instance, that between four and five thousand years ago the sun was somewhere in the sign taurus, the bull. then we had the worship of the bull in egypt and in india, and the sacrifice of the sacred ox, as in the mysteries of mithras. approximately two thousa

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tails with which they are compared by darwin. why not candidly admit the argument in favour of the hermaphroditism which characterises the old fauna? occultism proposes a solution which embraces the facts in a most comprehensive and simple manner. these relics of a prior androgyne stock must be placed in the same category as the pineal gland, and other organs as mysterious, which afford us silent testimony as to the reality of functions which have long since become atrophied in the course of animal and human progress, but which once played a signal part in the general economy of primeval life. the occult doctrine, anyhow, can be advantageously compared with that of the most liberal men of science, who have theorised upon the origin of the first man. long before darwin, naudin, who gave the

arding this as a miniature sun, with an external envelope of cloudy matter, apparently of partially-condensed water, but red-hot, or probably still hotter within. his vaporous atmosphere is evidently of enormous depth, and the force of gravitation being on his visible outer surface two-and-a-half[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 137 egyptian belief. has all the weight of scientific testimony* and there is more than one such tradition in the puranic allegories, as has been shown. moreover, the doctrine that the first race of mankind was formed out of the chhayas (astral images) of the pitris, is fully corroborated in the zohar "in the tzalam (shadow image) of elohim (the pitris, was made adam (man (cremona, ed. iii, 76a; brody, ed. iii, 159a "qabbalah" isaac myer, p. 420) it

could not exist for the primeval, ethereal man of the occult teachings. the whole issue of the quarrel between the profane and the esoteric sciences depends upon the belief in, and demonstration of, the existence of an astral body within the physical, the former independent of the latter. paul d'assier, the positivist, seems to have proven the fact pretty plainly* not to speak of the accumulated testimony of the ages, and that of the modern spiritualists and mystics. it will be found difficult to reject this fact in our age of proofs, tests, and ocular demonstrations. the secret doctrine maintains that, notwithstanding the general cataclysms and disturbances of our globe, which- owing to its being the period of its greatest physical development, for the fourth round is the middle-point of

beams of light falling on the paths leading to wisdom (see rig veda iv. 5-13) it means "ways" or paths. they are, in short, the seven rays which fall free from the macrocosmic centre, the seven principles in the metaphysical, the seven races in the physical sense. all depends upon the key used "rig veda" x. 10, 5, 2[[vol. 2, page] 192 the secret doctrine (a) the "fall" occurred, according to the testimony of ancient wisdom and the old records, as soon as daksha (the reincarnated creator of men and things in the early third race) disappeared to make room for that portion of mankind which had "separated" this is how the commentary explains the details that preceded the "fall "in the initial period of man's fourth evolution, the human kingdom branched off in several and various directions. t

me a woman* nevertheless, whatever the allegory may mean, even its exoteric meaning necessitates a divine builder of man "a progenitor" do we then believe in such "supernatural" beings? we say, no. occultism has never believed in anything, whether animate or inanimate, outside nature. nor are we cosmolators or polytheists for believing in "heavenly man" and divine men, for we have the accumulated testimony of the ages, with its unvarying evidence on every essential point, to support us in this; the wisdom of the ancients and universal tradition. we reject, however, every groundless and baseless tradition, which, having outgrown strict allegory and symbolism, has found acceptance in exoteric creeds. but that which is preserved in unanimous traditions, only the wilfully blind could reject. h

made by science and corrects her false premises. yet, in this particular, geology and even botany and zoology support the esoteric teachings. it has been suggested by many geologists that the australian native- co-existing as he does with an archaic fauna and flora- must date back to an enormous antiquity. the whole environment of this mysterious race, about whose origin ethnology is silent, is a testimony to the truth of the esoteric position "it is a very curious fact" says jukes "that not only these marsupial animals (the mammals found in the oxfordshire stone-field slates, but several of the shells- as for instance, the trigonias and even some of the plants found fossil in the oolitic rocks- much more nearly resemble those now living in australia than the living forms of any other part

nd and the descendants of the atlantean noah, sprang up a mixed race of righteous and wicked. on the one side the world had its enochs, moseses, various buddhas, its numerous 'saviours' and great hierophants; on the other hand, its 'natural magicians' who, through lack of the restraining power of proper spiritual enlightenment. perverted their gifts to evil purposes" we may supplement this by the testimony of some records and traditions. in the "histoire des vierges: les peuples et les continents disparus" the author says "one of the most ancient legends of india, preserved in the temples by oral and written tradition, relates that several hundred thousand years ago there existed in the pacific ocean an immense continent which was destroyed by geological upheaval, and the fragments of whic

scendants of catarrhine apes, and our ancestor, a piece of sea slime. nevertheless, as expressed by faber "the fictions of ancient poetry. will be found to comprehend some portion of historical truth" however one-sided the efforts of the learned author of the "mysteries of the kabiri- efforts directed throughout his two volumes to constrain the classical myths and symbols of old paganism "to bear testimony to the truth of scripture- time and further research have avenged, partially at least, that "truth" by showing it unveiled. thus it is the clever adaptations of scripture, on the contrary, which are made to bear evidence to the great wisdom of archaic paganism. this, notwithstanding the inextricable confusion into which the truth about the kabiri- the most mysterious gods of antiquity- w

nied) to prove undeniably in the opinion of science the claim here advanced, it is but a question of time. moreover, as already stated, human stature is little changed since the last racial cycle. the giants of old are all buried under the oceans, and hundreds of thousands of years of constant friction by water would reduce to dust and pulverize a brazen, far more a human skeleton. but whence the testimony of well-known classical writers, of philosophers and men who, otherwise, never had the reputation for lying? let us bear in mind, furthermore, that before the year 1847, when boucher de perthes forced it upon the attention of science, almost nothing was known of fossil man, for archaeology complacently ignored his existence. of giants who were "in the earth in those days" of old, the bib

terre" p. 154) the same is repeated by lartet, an authority, who attributes a tall stature to those who were submerged in the deluge (not necessarily "noah's) and a smaller stature to the races which lived subsequently. as for the evidence furnished by ancient writers, we need not stop at that of tertullian, who assures us that in his day a number of giants were found at carthage- for, before his testimony can be accepted, his own identity* and actual existence would have to be proven. but we may turn to the scientific journals of 1858, which spoke of a sarcophagus of giants found that year on the site of that same city. as to the ancient pagan writers- we have the evidence of philostratus, who speaks of a giant skeleton twenty-two cubits long, as well as of another of twelve cubits, seen

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shed inquiries into the sects of these infidels (who cannot be counted, so numerous they are, and who have no end of revealed books. as they (the sramana and brahmins) surpass other learned men in their treatises on morals, on physical and religious sciences, and reach a high degree in their knowledge of the future, in spiritual power, and human perfection, they brought proofs based on reason and testimony, and inculcated their doctrines so firmly that no man could now raise a doubt in his majesty even if mountains were to crumble to dust, or the heavens were to tear asunder" this work "was kept secret, and was not published till the reign of jahangir (ain i akbari, translated by dr. blochmann, p. 104, note* karakorum mountains, western tibet* according to the same tradition the now desola

her on this point, he would say no more. this was at meerut, in 1880. no doubt the mystification played, in the last century at calcutta, by the brahmins upon colonel wilford and sir william jones was a cruel one. but it had been well deserved, and no one was more to be blamed[[vol. 1, page] xxxi introductory. in that affair than the missionaries and colonel wilford themselves. the former, on the testimony of sir william jones himself (see asiat. res, vol. i, p. 272, were silly enough to maintain that "the hindus were even now almost christians, because their brahma, vishnu and mahesa were no other than the christian trinity* it was a good lesson. it made the oriental scholars doubly cautious; but perchance it has also made some of them too shy, and caused, in its reaction, the pendulum of

only hand on: i cannot create new things. i believe in the ancients and therefore i love them (quoted in "science of religions" by max muller) the writer loves them too, and therefore believes in the ancients, and the modern heirs to their wisdom. and believing in both, she now transmits that which she has received and learnt herself to all those who will accept it. as to those who may reject her testimony- i.e, the great majority- she will bear them no malice, for they will be as right in their way in denying, as she is right in hers in affirming, since they look at truth from two entirely different stand-points. agreeably with the rules of critical scholarship, the orientalist has to reject a priori whatever evidence he cannot fully verify for himself. and how can a western scholar accep

k, but which could not be passed by in silence, lest the reader should look down on this work as a fairy tale indeed- a fiction of some modern brain. thus, the past shall help to realise the present, and the latter to better appreciate the past. the errors of the day must be explained and swept away, yet it is more than probable- and in the present case it amounts to certitude- that once more the testimony of long ages and of history will fail to impress anyone but the very intuitional- which is equal to saying the very few. but in this as in all like cases, the true and the faithful may console themselves by presenting the sceptical modern sadducee with the mathematical proof and memorial of his obdurate obstinacy and bigotry. there still exists somewhere in the archives of the french aca

test aryans, now become europeans and christians, show this veneration in their cosmogonies. as thomas taylor* the most intuitional of all the translators of greek fragments, shows, no nation has ever conceived the one principle as the immediate creator of the visible universe, for no sane man would credit a planner and architect with having built the edifice he admires with his own hands. on the testimony of damascius[[peri archon) they referred to it as "the unknown darkness" the babylonians passed over this principle in silence "to that god" says porphyry, in[[peri apoches empsuchon "who is above all things, neither external speech ought to be addressed, nor yet that which is inward" hesiod begins his theogony with "chaos of all things was the first produced* thus allowing the inference

ereas the crime of our neighbour's parent is ever gladly punished by hanging. yet the crime is the same. so far the "blessings of christianity" do not seem to have made any appreciable advance on the morals of the converted pagans. the above is not a defence of pagan gods, nor is it an attack on the christian deity, nor does it mean belief in either. the writer is quite impartial, and rejects the testimony in favour of either, neither praying to, believing in, nor dreading any such "personal" and anthropomorphic god. the parallels are brought forward simply as one more curious exhibition of the illogical and blind fanaticism of the civilized theologian. for, so far, there is not a very great difference between the two beliefs, and there is none in their respective effects upon morality, or

being than those that rule our little world? is it absolutely necessary that every corporeal being should be clothed in "coats of skin" like those that adam and eve were provided with in the legend of genesis? corporeality, we are told, however, by more than one man of science "may exist under very divergent conditions* do not we know through the[[footnote(s* nevertheless, it will be shown on the testimony of the bible itself, and of such good christian theologians as cardinal wiseman, that this plurality is taught in both the old and the new testaments* see "the plurality of the worlds" wherein the list of many men of science, who wrote to prove the theory, is given* professor a. winchell- arguing upon the plurality of the worlds- makes the following remarks "it is not at all improbable t

the dhyan-chohans, the devas and pitris, of the east, are no real beings but fictions. on this point materialistic science is inexorable. to support its position, it upsets its own axiomatic law of uniformity in the laws of nature, that of continuity, and all the logical sequence of analogies in the evolution of being. the masses of the profane are asked, and made, to believe that the accumulated testimony of history, which shows even the atheists of old- such as epicurus and democritus- believing in gods, was false; and that philosophers like socrates and plato, asserting their existence, were mistaken enthusiasts and fools. if we hold our opinions merely on historical grounds, on the authority of legions of the most eminent sages, neo-platonists, mystics of all the ages, from pythagoras

is solar zodiac by the malayalim-speaking people of southern india- why should that people have abandoned their ancestral zodiac to burden themselves with that of the greeks? everything proves, on the contrary, that these zodiacal figures have been transmitted to the greeks by the chaldees, who got them from the brahmans (see recueil de l'academie des inscriptions, 1853) but all this is very poor testimony. let us remember, however, also that which was said and accepted by the contemporaries of volney, who, in his "ruins of empires" p. 360, remarks that as aries was in its fifteenth degree 1447 b.c, it follows that the first degree of "libra" could not have coincided with the vernal equinox more lately than 15,194 years b.c, to which, if you add 1,790 years since christ, it appears that 16

llows that about this time, or some fourteen days after the commencement of kali-yug, the hindus saw four planets emerge successively from the sun's rays; first saturn, then mars, then jupiter and mercury, and these planets appeared united in a somewhat small space. although venus was not among them, the taste for the marvellous caused it to be called a general conjunction of all the planets. the testimony of the brahmins here coincides with that of our tables; and this evidence, the result of a tradition, must be founded on actual observation[[vol. 1, page] 663 the eye of taurus. 3rd. we may remark that this phenomenon was visible about a fortnight after the epoch, and exactly at the time when the eclipse of the moon must have been observed, which served to fix the epoch. the two observat

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ut deny the spirit of the lord. 67.11] and those same waters will undergo a change in those days; for when those angels are punished in those days, the temperature of those springs of water will change, and when the angels come up, that water of the springs will change, and become cold. 67.12] and i heard the holy michael answering and saying "this judgment, with which the angels are judged, is a testimony for the kings and the mighty who possess the dry ground. 67.13] for these waters of judgment serve for the healing of the bodies of the kings, and for the lust of their bodies; but they do not see, and do not believe, that these waters will change, and will become a fire which burns forever" 68.1] and after this, my great-grandfather enoch gave me the explanation of all the secrets, in a

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etics, is perhaps the most important. it is here that the order of the trial is dealt with 'who are the fit and proper judges for the trial of witches?'is the first question. it goes on to the method of initiating a process; the solemn adjuration and re-examination of witnesses; the quality and condition of witnesses; whether mortal enemies may be admitted as witnesses. here we are told that 'the testimony of men of low repute and criminals, and of servants against their masters, is admitted. it is to be noted that a witness is not to be disqualified because of every sort of enmity. we learn that, in the case of witchcraft, virtually anybody may give evidence, though in any other case they would not be admitted. even the evidence of young children was admissable. it is obvious from the abo

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

the motive behind the murder was enmity arising out of ethnic rivalries among the african slaves "among the plantation negroes" stated the report "witchcraft is supposed to be the weapon of crusquet's poisoner's tribe" a case from illinois in 1779 involved moreau and manuel, two bondmen who plotted successfully to poison some slaves and their owners. the narrative of this affair, abstracted from testimony that chronicled details of a "buried poison" a ritual with a horn filled with "boiling blood" and statements given against the accused by several "negro countrymen" is especially interesting for its revelations of divided loyalties among africans and african americans in the early national period. black intraracial tensions were also noted by pieter kalm, a swedish visitor to the republi

eatly feared for their powers to inflict supernatural harm. a dispute occurring at the turn of the nineteenth century illustrates the intimidation that the occasional poisoning specialist/conjurer could produce both within and outside their immediate communities. john, a north carolina bondman, was brought to trial in the general assembly in 1800 for the murder of a white slaveholder. in damaging testimony against him, other slaves "told of being rubbed by john and falling ill, of resorting to an eold negro conjurer f to ward off john's powers" and "of hearing john wish for a rattle snake's head" after boasting that he could create a toxin that "one of the most skilful [sic] doctors" of conjuration could not counter. because of the fear he aroused among his fellow slaves and the strength o

20q0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006 from the slave quarters at garrison plantation, maryland" historical archeology 21 (1987: 115.17. for references, see thomas alvord, the devil in britain and america (ann arbor: gryphon books, 1971; tom peete cross "witchcraft in north carolina" studies in philology 16, no. 3 (1919: 219; m. drake patten "african-american spiritual beliefs: an archeological testimony from the slave quarter (proceedings of the dublin seminar for new england folklife, wonders of the invisible world: 1600.1900, ed. peter benes, june, 1992, pp. 44.52; leland ferguson, uncommon ground: archeology and early african america, 1650.1800 (washington, d.c: smithsonian institution press, 1992. 15. with respect to africans and anglican settlers in colonial virginia, mechal sobel

ritique of the slaveowner's domination of a slave's erotic life. perhaps these anecdotes should be seen as fantasies, rendered complex and disturbing by the physical subordination suffered by the black male slave. for the full account see the life of william grimes, the runaway slave, written by himself (new york, 1825, pp. 24.25. chapter 4 "medical doctors can't do you no good" 1. addie battle's testimony, in james blackwell "a comparative study of five negro store-front churches in cleveland (master's thesis, western reserve university, cleveland, 1949, pp. 312.15. 2. ibid. on women preachers in the black spiritualist tradition, see yvonne chireau "prophetess of the spirits" in women preachers and prophets through two millennia of christianity, ed. beverly kienzle and pamela walker (berk

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bers are often trained by the cia or other elite organisations. they are part of the problem-reaction-solution process, a cover for the assassination of 'difficult' people, and a means to destabilise societies. at the hearing into the death of aldo moro, several members of the red brigade said they knew of high level us involvement in his murder. on november 10th 1982, the court heard devastating testimony from a close associate of moro, gorrado guerzoni. he said that a top united states politician had threatened moro that unless he changed his policies he would be dealt with. moro wanted to stabilise italy, the us politician wanted to destabilise her. aldo moro's wife, in her evidence, also said that a "high ranking united states political figure" had told her husband "either you stop you

, lord keynes, from britain, and the us treasury secretary, harry dexter white (cfr, who, with alger hiss, the secretary general at the launch of the united nations, would later be exposed as communist spies. the technical secretary at bretton woods was virginius frank coe, an official of the us treasury. he was appointed secretary of the new imf until it was revealed in 1952 during congressional testimony that he was also a member of dexter white's communist ring! these were the guys who created the imf, world bank, and gatt. the role of the world bank (not to be confused with a world central bank) is to make loans to governments for large capital projects. these have been used, as intended, to finance projects in poor countries designed to meet the needs of the multinationals. these incl

s involvement in iran-contra and the drug running. he says that planes chartered by the cia and packed with cocaine flew directly into the homestead airforce base in florida using a cia code signal. in 1986, the reagan-bush administration admitted that adolfo chamorro's contras, who were supported by the cia, were helping a colombian drug trafficker transport drugs into the united states, and the testimony of john stockwell, a former high ranking cia official, revealed that drug smuggling was an essential component of the cia operation with the contras. george morales, one of south america's biggest traffickers, testified that he was approached in 1984 to fly weapons to the contras. in return, he says, the cia helped him to smuggle thousands of kilos of cocaine into the united states via a

id emery, conspiracy nation, vol. 1, no. 88 65 jim marrs, crossfire: the plot that killed kennedy (carrol and graf publishers, new york, 1989)p582 66 conspiracy nation, vol. 1, no. 88 67 the world order, our secret rulers, p80 68 chatham house, london, may 10th 1982 69 the rockefeller file, pl58 70 ibid p180 71 george bush, the unauthorised biography, p250 72 ibid p247-247 73 ibid 74 ibid p249 75 testimony to the senate foreign relations committee, february 17th 1950 76 valdamar valerian, the matrix (arcturus, 1988) 77 russell s. bowen, the immaculate deception, the bush family crime exposed (american west publishers, carson city, usa, 1991) p30-31 78 the world order, our secret rulers, pl23 79 the immaculate deception, the bush family crime exposed, p30-31 80 see final judgement, p306-313

he career details of a number of people named throughout this book. among the nbc directors named in the mullins article were: john brademas (cfr, tc, bil, a director of the rockefeller foundation; peter g. peterson (cfr, former head of kuhn, loeb, and co (rothschild, and a former secretary of commerce; robert cizik, chairman of rca and of first city bancorp, which was identified in congressional testimony as a rothschild bank; thomas o. paine, president of northrup co (the big defence contractor) and director of the (elite-controlled) institute of strategic studies in london; donald smiley, a director of two morgan companies, metropolitan life and us steel; thornton bradshaw, chairman of rca, director of the rockefeller brothers fund, atlantic richfield oil, and the aspen institute of hum

ecause the elite guard around jim jones numbered between 120 and 200. while the people's temple membership was predominantly black, the elite guard was overwhelmingly white. elite guard or cia guard? despite the official figure of 900 dead, only 400 were found and the 380 .and the truth shall set you free speculation was rife over what happened to the other 500. it was at this point, according to testimony by the military commander investigating jonestown, that he was told by us government official, robert pastor, to stop identifying the bodies. pastor was the top aide to zbigniew brzezinski. surely identification of the bodies was essential if you really wanted to know what happened! in the days following this order from brzezinski's aide, the missing 500 bodies were miraculously found. w

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ent, policeman, or judge. jim shaw writes "the mason swears to keep the secrets of another mason, protecting him even if it requires withholding evidence of a crime. in some degrees treason and murder are excepted. in other, higher degrees, there are no exceptions to this promise to cover up the truth. the obligations, if the masonic teachings are to be believed, may require a mason to give false testimony, perjure himself, or (in the case of a judge) render a false verdict in order to protect a mason."16 this has always been the way of the illuminati serpent cult in all its forms. and the vast majority of the world's political leaders, high administrators of government, judges, policemen, and media owners, have made that oath. does anyone still wonder why the truth has never come out unti

shaw, the former 33rd degree mason, said "the mason swears to keep the secrets of another mason, protecting him even if it requires withholding evidence of a crime. in some degrees treason and murder are excepted. in other, higher degrees, there are no exceptions to this promise to cover up the truth. the obligations, if the masonic teachings are to be believed, may require a mason to give false testimony, perjure himself, or (in the case of a judge) render a false verdict in order to protect a mason."4 for satanists the severe consequences of revealing secrets or refusing to carry out an order, are not threats, they are promises. the llluminati and their satanic networks place their people in the major positions of power in all the areas they need to control to prevent proper investigati

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ous just to dismiss them all. andone thing is quite provable. these very ceremonies involving the ritual murder of children,and the use of women called breeders to produce babies and aborted foetuses for sacrificeto a demon god, are most certainly performed today and this satanic structure of abuseand ritual murder is controlled by the very secret society network the templars helped toexpand. the testimony of one templar, squin de flexian, said they all had to swear neverto leave the order and to further its interests by any means, right or wrong. no crimecommitted for the honour or benefit of the order was considered to be sinful. he also madeallegations about sacrificing babies and aborting foetuses.16it is the same with the inner circles of the freemasons. credo mutwa, the zulushaman, t

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anyone else in american history. seventeenth president andrew johnson 1865-1869 brig general albert pike (1809-1891) confederate the critical importance of this symbolism pointed out above, namely, that the presidency of the united states is to be controlled by freemasonry, is thoroughly documented by christian author, ralph epperson, in his book "the new world order. on page 171, epperson quotes testimony given in march, 1867, before the house judiciary committee, by general gordon granger. general granger related a meeting between himself, president andrew johnson, who was a mason, and albert pike, the most famous of all masons. general granger reported his surprise that president johnson considered himself to be subordinate to albert pike. this subordination is detailed in the oath the

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yramid was used as a tomb for cheops, the egyptian king during whose reign the pyramid was supposedly built. the rosicrucian society believes that the pyramid was used as an initiation chamber to test advanced adepts. some believe that it is an interstellar beacon to guide alien spacecraft to planet earth. whatever the great pyramid is, it is not a tomb nor has it ever been. as a minimum, it is a testimony that advanced technology existed on the earth, rivaling our own, over 6000 year ago. a recent test case by japanese scientists to duplicate the effort with modern construction technology and engineering failed. 4.3 mathematical relationship of the great pyramid the great pyramid has a base to height ratio of 2 to sqrt(phi- fi, where phi is the golden ratio and is equal to (1+sqrt(5)/2. p

ramid. figure 5.3.2-1. inner ear vortex resonances 5.4 shape power and sacred geometry a prominent shape power geometric shape, the pyramid, was constructed with various "sacred geometry" and "sacred math" fundamentals. one could ask then "are these various mathematical patterns and numbers built into the pyramid because they are related to the shape power energy production or are they there as a testimony that advanced technological civilizations have been on the earth before the dawn of history or do they serve other functions" experimentation on the energetic aspects of pyramid power shows that exact proportions of the great pyramid were not an important factor in its generation of power.4 we have, in fact, proved that the generation of pyramid power is a function of the edges convergin

DION FORTUNE CEREMONIAL MAGIC UNVEILED

al magic? does my initiation oath require me to deny these matters or to profess my ignorance of them? if so, it requires me to tell lies. the "golden dawn" is alleged to owe its origin to the discovery by mathers of a set of mysterious cipher manuscripts; these manuscripts exist, for i have talked with trustworthy persons who have seen them; but as they were in cipher, they were not able to bear testimony concerning their contents. in these manuscripts mathers is supposed to have found the outline of the "golden dawn" rituals and the system of correspondences which is the key to its teaching, including the correct attribution of the tarot trumps on the tree of life, which enables them to be linked lip with the astrological signs, a secret that students have iong sought to discover. it is

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western occultism. it is our basis, our standard of measurement, and our textbook. mystical qabala page 44 13. to understand a sephirah, then, we need to know firstly its primary correspondences in the four worlds; its secondary correspondences in the four systems of practical occultism mentioned above; and, thirdly, any other correspondences we can by any means gather together, in order that the testimony of many witnesses may yield the truth. of this gathering of correspondences there can be no end, for the whole cosmos on all its planes corresponds in endless sequences. we are constantly adding to our knowledge if we are good students of occult science. no better simile than that of the card-index system could possibly have been found. 14. but yet again we must remind the reader in this

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ppened" fortunately for all concerned i had kept a diary and had a day-to-day record of the whole transaction. if it had not been for this i should not have known where i was. at the end of the interview i was dazed and exhausted, and lay down on my bed in my clothes and slept the sleep of utter exhaustion till next morning. i suppose i slept for about fifteen hours. soon after this she wanted my testimony again. she wished to get rid of my immediate superior, and wanted to find sufficient grounds to justify her in doing so. she repeated her previous maneuvers, but this time i had not got a diary record to fall back upon, and to my intense surprise i found myself agreeing with her in a series of entirely baseless charges against the character of a man i had no reason to believe to be other

own council concerning the psychic precautions i had taken against my new friends, and no one was aware that the cross had been specially magnetised against psychic attack. nevertheless, the woman who would have attacked if she could, felt its influence and feared it. auto-suggestion and imagination play so large a part in so-called psychic impressions that one is chary of accepting confirmatory testimony from a psychic who knows what is expected of him, but a spontaneous reaction is in my opinion evidential. when the treatment of miss l. had progressed some way towards her final recovery, much interesting information was elicited. she told us that she had distinct memories of dealings with black magic in her previous lives. this, she said, had been confirmed by several independent psychi

him, but a spontaneous reaction is in my opinion evidential. when the treatment of miss l. had progressed some way towards her final recovery, much interesting information was elicited. she told us that she had distinct memories of dealings with black magic in her previous lives. this, she said, had been confirmed by several independent psychics, and i would certainly have been willing to add my testimony to theirs had i been asked. as a child, she used to day dream that she was a witch, willing the death or misfortune of those who annoyed her, and she also averred, though whether this was true or not i cannot say, that her wishes were so effectual that she was frightened and tried to abandon the practice. she also volunteered that she was in the habit of visualising herself standing befo

y" when one of these stories is being told we should be wise to give more attention to the bearing of the person who is telling it than to the facts alleged. this will usually yield the more valuable information. it is the most difficult thing in the world to get a genuine victim to speak. a woman who is broadcasting the tale of her own shame is usually a woman scorned, and the reliability of her testimony in the matter is in inverse ratio to her loquacity. do not let us forget that it takes two to make a scandal as well as a quarrel, and the person who admits a mistake and asks for help to retrace wandering footsteps is much more likely to be worth helping than the one who claims to be even as the angels in heaven, where there is neither marrying nor giving in marriage. so great is the ne

andering footsteps is much more likely to be worth helping than the one who claims to be even as the angels in heaven, where there is neither marrying nor giving in marriage. so great is the need for caution in assessing the facts in a charge of immorality that the law courts will not accept the evidence of the victim, even on oath and under cross-examination, unless it is supported by additional testimony. equally well does the doctor know the same type of mentality, and a common form of mental derangement is called 49 of 103 old maid's insanity, even in the textbooks. i could cite cases by the dozen in exemplification of the preceding statements, but they have not sufficient occult interest to justify their inclusion in these pages. if the leader of the group is a woman, a different set

nd that every effort will be made to help you, even if you have to admit that you have not been wholely blameless yourself. in coming to the police and telling them frankly the position of affairs you have, in popular language "turned king's evidence" and the authorities will go a long way to protect anyone who does this. do not be deterred by the fact that you cannot bring forward any additional testimony in support of your statement. the police may tell you that there is not sufficient evidence for them to apply for a warrant; nevertheless, they will make enquiries, and the very fact that the police are making enquiries will be sufficient to frighten black mailers out of their wits and probably out of the country, nor will they usually stop to make the threatened disclosures en route, bu

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nformation thus received i was enabled to answer his anxious inquiries; and as i rode along in company with him during the rest of the day, i was greatly pleased in finding in him an intelligent and warm-hearted brother mason. it was his first meeting with a brother in the territory, and we employed the time we were together in relating each to the other his masonic experience, and bearing mutual testimony to the satisfaction we had derived from the order, and to its peculiar adaptability to our condition in this new country. a friendship was thus formed through the instrumentality of masonry which could not otherwise have found existence. xiv true to his oath-a legend of the new jersey coast rev. william hollinshed is a retired clergyman of the presbyterian church, and at this writing is

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rely, have repeatedly averred that in performing this rite they themselves did not move the medicine lodge; for nothing is easier than in the state of nervous excitement they were then in to be self-deceived, as the now familiar phenomenon of table-turning illustrates. but there is something more than these vulgar arts now and then to be perceived. there are statements supported by unquestionable testimony, which ought not to be passed over in silence, and yet i cannot but approach them with hesitation. they are so revolting to the laws of exact science, so alien, i had almost said, to the experience of our lives. yet is this true, or are such experiences only ignored and put aside without serious consideration? are there not in the history of each of us passages which strike our retrospec

troit: omnigraphics, 1992. corliss, william r, ed. handbook of unusual natural phenomena. glen arm, md: sourcebook project, 1977. angels of mons a story by british author arthur machen, first published in the london evening news for september 14, 1915, on the apparition of phantom english bowmen from the field of agincourt during the terrible retreat from mons in world war i. the story quoted the testimony of an officer as follows: on the night of the 27th i was riding along the column with two other officers. as we rode along i became conscious of the fact that in the fields on both sides of the road along which angelseaxisce ealdriht encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 54 we were marching i could see a very large body of horsemen. the other two officers had stopped talking

lose friend was found dead in evening clothes in a foreign city at the time his phantasm was seen; but such occurrences are very rare. in the majority of cases there is some mediumistic intervention or some sufficiently potent driving motive to achieve the manifestation to nonsensitive people provided they happen to be in a receptive state. an instance of the first is cromwell varley s oft-quoted testimony before the london dialectical society in 1869: in the winter of 1864.5 i was busy with the atlantic cable. i left a gentleman at birmingham to test the iron wire. he had seen something of spiritualism but he did not believe in it. he had a brother whom i had never seen in life. one night in my room there were a great number of loud raps. when at length i sat up in bed i saw a man in the

d: the face was always too indistinct to be quite convincing to me, though some of his children had no doubt at all of the identity. i may add, none of the menservants in the house in the least resembled the figure and were all young men; whilst the outside men were all attending the funeral, which was taking place at the church four miles off, at the very time the photograph was being done. this testimony induced barrett to change his opinion. the famous british conjurer j. n. maskelyne in his account of his own experience of drowning (reported in phantasms of living) spoke about whether an objective apparition is simply an effigy or the actual presence of the person whom it represents. he stated: one thing, however, did appear to my mental vision as plainly as though it were actually bef

o automatic literature the claims of discarnate authorship present a delicate problem. angelo brofferio knew a writing medium to whom boccaccio, bruno and galileo dictated replies that for the elevation of thought were assuredly more worthy of the greatness of that automatic writing encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 130 trio than on the level of the medium: i could cite competent testimony to the fact. according to cesare lombroso, dante, or one who stood for him, dictated to scaramuzza three cantos in terza rima. i read only a few strophes of this but so far as i could judge they were very beautiful. many famous writers wrote in a semitrance, having but an imperfect recollection of the work afterwards. harriet beecher stowe, the author of uncle tom s cabin, claimed that s

les scribners s sons, 1979. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. avebury 133 burl, aubrey. rings of stone. new haven, conn: ticknor& fields, 1980. the stone circles of the british isles. new haven, conn: yale university press, 1976. thom, alexander. megalithic sites in britain. oxford: oxford university press, 1967. avenar a fifteenth-century astrologer who promised the jews, on the testimony of the planets, that their messiah should arrive without fail in 1444, or at the latest, in 1464. he gave, for his guarantors, saturn, jupiter, the crab, and the fish. the jews were said to have kept their windows open to receive the messenger of god who did not arrive. averroes (1126.1198) name generally used for abul-walid mohammed ibn- ahmad ibn-mohammed ibn-rushd, one of the greatest

every member of the household was accounted for when the bell ringing occurred. however, no comment was passed by him on the sequel to major moore s story as told in the ipswich journal. readers of the paper sent 14 communications of similar happenings in different parts of england, some of them recurring and having an ancestry of 100 years. in my life (1901, dr. alfred russel wallace quoted the testimony of professor anstead: a neighbour and friend of mine at great bealings has had the most wonderful things happen in his house, which no one has ever been able to find a cause for. he has often told me about the bells ringing when no one was in the house. he was a very clever man, and i am sure what he says is true, and many people in the neighbourhood were witnesses of it. sources: podmor

e came to believe that he was a typical serial killer who had set up the demon possession idea as a defense should he ever be caught. this latter hypothesis now dominates serious thinking about berkowitz. in 1987, berkowitz converted to christianity. from his prison cell, he now has a webpage, http//www.inetworld.net/hutrcc/ davidb.htm, hosted by a christian church in san jose, california. in his testimony published on that site, he mentioned that before he began his killing spree he had read the satanic bible written by anton lavey, the founder of the church of satan. as a result, he began to dabble in the occult and do satanic rituals. he does not mention demon voices. sources: abrrahamsen, david. confessions of the son of sam. new york: columbia university press, 1999. david berkowitz

up and saucer at a picnic at simla in 1880 in the sinnett garden under the ground at a designated spot; the clairvoyant discovery of the lost brooch of mrs. hume in a flower bed; the astral dispatch of marked cigarettes to places she indicated; and the mahatma scripts imposed over the text of private letters which the post had just delivered. there is no end of these and similar miracles, and the testimony of the truth is sometimes so surprising that one can conclude that imposture occasionally blended with genuine psy- encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. blavatsky, helena petrovna 195 chic performance. the general character of blavatsky s phenomena is of a different order from those of the spiritualist medium. her early physical phenomena subsided at a later age, although t

fterward into lord brougham s hands, he concluded: how these things were produced neither lord brougham nor i could say, but i conjecture that they may be produced by machinery attached to the lower extremities of mr. home. throughout this passionate controversy lord brougham preserved an inflexible silence. brewster never appealed to him. d. d. home, on the other hand, challenged lord brougham s testimony. this was half promised but not given. however, a conversation is recorded by cox in his book the mechanism of man (1876, in which he claimed that lord brougham stated to him: we were both perfectly satisfied at the time that it was no trick, and that some unknown power was in action. i said well, brewster, what do you think of it? and he said only there are more things in heaven and ear

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s case was unique in one respect.she was sexually assaulted by a man who took her for a real woman. this resulted in a profound injury and serious illness to the medium. materialized spirits seldom came in numbers and their range of activity was limited. the marvelous stories of c. v. miller s mediumship, which was powerful enough to make 12 materialized figures appear at once, rest mostly on the testimony of w. reichel. corroboration by a repetition of the occurrence is also wanting in the case of the peripatetic ghosts of george spriggs, which were said to walk about the house and in the garden, and in the case of the open-air materializations of william eglinton, in which the spirits walked 66 feet away from the medium. crookes was the first modern scientist who studied materializations

the kluski seances the animal apparitions were seen to be in the charge of human apparitions. the only animal that seemed to be able to act independently of a keeper was the pithecanthropus, he said. generally the animal and human apparitions were not active at the same time. when the animal was fully materialized and active, the keeper was passive and kept in the background, and vice versa. the testimony of clairvoyants also suggested that when animal apparitions were seen the necessary link was furnished by a friend of the sitter. materializations and apports in experiments with medium thomas lynn at the british college of psychic science, objects were photographed while supposedly in the process of materialization. they showed flecks and masses of a luminous material, possessing string

ng the same effect, found the fallen ring, when picked up, almost burning hot. col. w. a. danskin described a seance in baltimore in how and why i became a spiritualist (1869, in which a secretly marked iron ring, seven inches smaller than the circumference of the medium s head, was repeatedly placed around the medium s neck. from the banner of light (january 11, 1868, he reproduced the following testimony, signed by thirty-two names: we, the undersigned, hereby testify that we have attended the social meetings referred to; and that a solid iron ring, seven inches less in size than the young man s head was actually and unmistakably placed around his neck. there was as the advertisement claims, no possibility of fraud or deception, because the ring was freely submitted to the examination of

ted controversy that grew up around him, an arbitration board was instituted for the investigation of the medium. among the members were dr. ganymed de souza, presi- minnesota zen meditation center encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1040 dent of the republic; a dr. brant of the institute of technology; and 18 other men of high position and learning. after the investigation and the testimony of witnesses, the board established that the majority of the manifestations occurred in daylight, that they occurred spontaneously and in public places, that the manifold intellectual phenomena could not easily be based on trickery, and that the statements of persons whose integrity was reputed could not easily be doubted. mirabelli s automatic writing was reportedly inspired by the spir

idea of natural law is a concept imposed upon nature by scientists, who have observed its regularities. a miracle, they say, is a religious affirmation in the face of an extraordinary event that affects the individual positively. calling an event a miracle is but one evaluation among several (e.g, coincidence, trickery) that can be made about the occurrence. according to hume, no amount of human testimony can prove a miracle. hume s philosophy created a scientific environment in which the evaluation of an anomalous extraordinary event could only be explained as a phenomenon already understood. it is on this basis that, in spite of a popular belief in the paranormal, many scientists generally refuse to investigate the nature and evidence of so-called miracles. this resistance is odd since

08. frank podmore considered it perhaps the strongest evidence yet obtained for the identity of any communicator. in the road to immortality (1932, a book supposedly written by myers through geraldine cummins, a stupendous vista was opened up, apparently by myers, of the soul s progression through the after-death states. as regards the authorship of the book, sir oliver lodge received independent testimony through gladys osborne leonard from myers of his communications through cummins. lodge saw no reason to dissent from the view that the remarkable accounts of the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh states are the kind of ideas which f. w. h. myers may by this time [1932] have been able to form. sources: berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical re

cs, a problematic instance of psychic phenomena is the story of the william eglinton letter. from the boat vega, the letter was claimed to be astrally conveyed first to bombay, then with the superimposed script of blavatsky carried to calcutta, where it fell from the ceiling in mrs. gordon s home while olcott pointed to the apparition of two brothers outside the window. according to mrs. gordon s testimony, olcott told her that the night before he had an intimation from his chohan (teacher) that k. h (a mahatma) had been to the vega and had seen eglinton. if the delivery of this letter was fraudulent (and it has been convincingly argued by experts that the k. h. letters were written by blavatsky, the only excuse for olcott is that he acted unconsciously from suggestions fed him by blavatsk

th ed. personation 1201 became, in her own belief, possessed by the spirit of c. d, personating his words and gestures and speaking in his character. after this date she continually held conversation, as she believes, with c. d. s spirit; he sometimes speaking aloud through her mouth, sometimes conversing with her in the inner voice. occasionally he wrote messages through her hand, and i have the testimony of a member of her family that the writing so produced resembled that of c. d. occasionally also, a. b. had visions in which she claimed to see c. d. and what he was doing at the moment. at other times she professed to hear him speaking or to understand by some inner sympathy his feelings and his thoughts. podmore believed the phenomena to be a delusion. an account of personation experie

spectres, ghosts, etc. paris: f. schoell, 1812. phelps, eliakim (fl. 1850) presbyterian minister and early mesmeric healer of stratford, connecticut, whose house was the scene of alarming poltergeist disturbances from march 10, 1850, for a period of eight months. the documents on the phenomena consist mostly of letters written to the new haven journal during the progress of the events. additional testimony from neighbors was collected and published by c. w. elliott in his book mysteries or glimpses of the supernatural (1852. the phenomena started with the mysterious displacement of objects when the family was at church. after their return, inanimate things began to fly about and stuffed effigies were discovered in empty rooms. the following letter in the new haven journal describes the ear

ct. journal of parapsychology 24, no. 3 (september 1960. poimandres (or poemander) texts of the hermetica, ascribed to hermes trismegistus. poland poland s history of staunch roman catholic beliefs has offered an interesting perspective on that country s interest in parapsychology and the paranormal. for observers, the belief in miracles and other spiritual phenomena alone might have qualified as testimony to belief in the supernatural. in 2000 the country s roman catholic population was estimated at 80 percent of all poles. eastern orthodoxy shares the majority of the remaining population but remaines isolated to the eastern frontier, representing approximately one percent-still making it second to roman catholicism. other communities of protestants and buddhists exist on a small scale. p

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

r words, it is about things that people, many of them living, say happened to them, things far outside mainstream notions about what it is possible to experience, but, at the same time, things that seem deeply real to at least the sincere experients (that is, those persons who have had the experiences. not everyone, of course, is telling the truth, and when there is reason to be suspicious of the testimony, that consideration is noted. mostly, though, i let the stories tell themselves; i have left my own observations and conclusions in this introduction. though much of the material is outlandish by any definition, i have made a conscious effort to relate it straightforwardly, and i hope readers will take it in the same spirit. no single person on this earth is guiltless of believing someth

s have found little relationship between these experiences and psychopathology (cardena, lynn, and krippner, 2000, 4. the authors stress that psychotherapists must understand the difference if they are to treat their clients effectively. psychological research into extraordinary encounters of the sort with which this book is concerned is in its infancy. still, to anyone who looks carefully at the testimony regarding otherworldly contacts, it becomes apparent that such phenomena do not arise from a single cause. there is, for example, little in common between the average channeler and the average witness to a close encounter of the third kind (a ufo sighting in which, according to a classification system defined by the late astronomer and ufologist j. allen hynek, the presence of animated c

ld stories indistinguishable from those re l a t e d by re a l abductees. other investigators and o b s e rvers disputed these conclusions, pointing to methodological and logical pro b l e m s in the experiment, and subsequent efforts by other re s e a rchers to replicate it failed. on e later study indicated that nearly one-third of abductees consciously re m e m b e red their experiences; their testimony, folklorist t h o m a s e. bu l l a rd concluded, was indistinguishable f rom corresponding accounts emerging under hypnotic re g ression. still, hypnosis and its vagaries would play a large and continuing ro l e in the controversy surrounding the abduction p h e n o m e n o n. in the late 1970s budd hopkins, a new york city artist and sculptor, working with psychologist and hypnotist ap

luded that a real phenomenon of strikingly consistent features existed, that abductions were not simply an assortment of random fantasies. he noted patterns that had escaped even the most attentive investigators, including doorway amnesia the curious failure of abductees to remember the moment of entry or departure from the ufo. besides establishing the uniform nature of hypnotic and non-hypnotic testimony, bullard determined that the phenomenon s features remained stable from investigator to investigator, thus casting doubt on a favorite skeptical argument concerning investigator influence on the story. beyond that, bullard wrote, it was difficult to say more, except that something goes on, a marvelous phenomenon rich enough to interest a host of scholars, humanists, psychologists and soc

realities and to take better care of each other and the world we live in. mack wedded the contactee message to the abduction experience, to the consternation of hopkins, jacobs, and others who refused to draw larger metaphysical inferences from the abduction experience. jacobs, if anything, went to the opposite extreme. a history professor at temple university, jacobs worked with abductees whose testimony, usually under hypnosis, led him to the radical hypothesis that the abducting extraterrestrials are creating a population of hybrids to replace the human race at some point in the not-distant future. from their interactions with their re a d e r s and other members of the public, hopkins and jacobs came to suspect that the abduction experience, far from rare, was ubiquitous. ho pkins, fo

nt for change, a message for our future. simi valley, ca: new solutions publishing. a message from darryl anka, n.d. http//www. bashartapes.com/about/message2.html being of light in his best-selling life after life (1976) raymond a. moody writes of near-death experiences in which persons undergo visionary encounters of what seems to be a kind of heavenly realm. in out-of-body states, according to testimony moody collected, percipients observe a brilliant light at the end of a tunnellike passage. a telepathic message from the light asks the observer something like, are you prepared to die? or what have you done with your life? immediately afterward, the dying person experiences a life review in which significant events are rapidly played out either in order of their occurrence or all at onc

us airships (ufos. some newspapers had speculated, seriously or otherwise, that extraterrestrial visitors were flying the ships. when hamilton s story was rediscovered decades later, after ufos had entered popular consciousness, it was widely published in the ufo literature, which cited it as an example of an early close encounter of the third kind. in 1976, however, writer jerome clark collected testimony from an elderly woman who had known the hamilton family. she recalled hearing the elder hamilton tell his wife that he and his friends from a local liars club, one of them the newspaper editor, had made up the story. several years later ufo historian c 55 thomas e. bullard came upon a letter hamilton had written to a missouri paper, the atchison county mail (may 7, 1897, cheerfully confe

and others waved to the occupants, who waved back. the objects showed up for the last time the next night, though no beings were visible. interviewed in 1973 by j. allen hynek, native witnesses stuck by the story. gill, who left the country in september 1959, stands by the report even today. it remains among the most impressive and puzzling of ce3s. far stranger and much harder to believe was the testimony of a young brazilian, antonio villas-boas. villas-boas came to the attention of ufologists in november 1957, when he wrote a letter to a journalist who had written about ufos. soon afterward, the journalist, joao martins, brought villas-boas to rio de janeiro, where he and physician/ufologist olavo t. fontes, of the national school of medicine of brazil, interviewed and examined him. the

socorro, new mexico, april 24, 1964 (fortean picture library) few days later, since he had sought no publicity and discussed it only with friends and family members, who eventually leaked it to the local press. like simonton, wilcox had an unimpeachable reputation among locals, and psychological testing revealed no abnormalities. wilcox made no subsequent attempt to exploit his story. though his testimony made no sense even in 1964 scientists had abandoned the hope of an inhabited mars wilcox seemed neither crazy nor dishonest. as comparable claims came to the fore, some ufologists speculated that ufo occupants were lying to hide their true identity and purpose. at the extreme this led theorists such as john a. keel and jacques vallee to move beyond ufology s venerable extraterrestrial hy

k. he observed a glowing pancake- shaped object hovering above the park g round. a door opened, a ladder emerged, and about ten small figures, dressed in onepiece suits and helmets, climbed down to collect soil and grass samples, which they scooped up with little shove l s (ho p k i n s, 1981. an extensive investigation by thre e new yo rk based ufologists uncove red a body of apparent confirming testimony from an a s s o rtment of witnesses. in the most remarkable ce3 of the 1990s, a large group of children at ariel school, ruwa, zimbabwe, while on recess on the morning of september 16, 1994, reportedly observed the landing of a ufo just beyond the playground. they also saw one or two occupants, small figures (slightly more than three feet tall) with large, slanted eyes and long black hai

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

ccompanied by great waves of bliss that can get quite intense (and potentially addictive. for one reason or another, you may find yourself unable or unwilling to become active in your geviyah. most people will sporadically become conscious in their dream state, and be blessed with more or less occasional ecstatic visions originating from the dream state. the frequency of such experiences is not a testimony to one s spiritual advancement. some people have one profound experience that changes and effects them for their entire life. others have numerous experiences, but still seem to regress to baser ego states and cling to a long shopping list of desires. your spiritual advancement will be reflected in the emergence of higher qualities of character that results from the decreased identificat

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

ent authority that the renaissance accepted hermes trismegistus as a real person of great antiquity and as the author of the hermetic writings, for this was implicitly believed by leading fathers of the church, particularly lactantius and augustine. naturally, it would not have occurred to anyone to doubt that these overwhelmingly authoritative writers must be right, and it is indeed a remarkable testimony to the prominence and importance of the hermetic writings and to the early and complete success of the hermes trismegistus legend as to their authorship and antiquity that lactantius, writing in the third century, and augustine in the fourth, both accept the legend unquestioningly. after quoting cicero on the fifth mercury as he "who gave c.h, ii, p. 328. 6 hermes trismegistus letters an

curium primo termaximum, mox platonem mandavit interpretandum".1 ficino made the translation in a few months, whilst the old cosimo, who died in 1464, was still alive. then he began on plato.2 it is an extraordinary situation. there are the complete works of plato, waiting, and they must wait whilst ficino quickly translates hermes, probably because cosimo wants to read him before he dies. what a testimony this is to the mysterious reputation of the thrice great one! cosimo and ficino knew from the fathers that hermes trismegistus was much earlier than plato. they also knew the latin asclepius which whetted the appetite for more ancient egyptian wisdom from the same pristine source.3 egypt was before greece; hermes was earlier than plato. renaissance 1 dedication by ficino to lorenzo de' m

d the form of such a character (that is the form of the cross' there is indeed such a passage in ficino, in the de vita coelitus comparanda,2 where he explains that the form of the cross is a powerful form for capturing the influences of the stars; and that it was sculptured on the breast of serapis. ficino thinks, however, that the form of the cross was revered among the egyptians, not only as a testimony to the "gifts of the stars, but also as a presage of the coming of christ. one wonders whether this passage in the de vita coelitus comparanda might be a major source of bruno's egyptianism. he had only slightly to change ficino's argument, that the egyptian cross powerful in magic was a presage of christianity, into the argument that the egyptian cross was the true cross, representing t

mages and of characters, it can be used for good' moses was a great magus (this is the report of a fellow-prisoner on bruno's talk in prison, not his own words in answer to interrogation, who had learned magic from the egyptians to such good effect that he was able to overcome pharaoh's magicians.2 in reply to interrogation as to what was his view of christ's miracles, bruno said that they were a testimony to his divinity, but he thought that a still greater testimony was the gospel law. when others, such as the apostles, did miracles this was in virtue of christ; so that, although externally the miracles of christ and of an apostle or a saint were the same, nevertheless christ's miracles 1 sommario, p. 101. 2 sommario, pp. 86-7. 353 giordano bruno: return to italy were done through his ow

i.e. that the soul pre-exists) was in vogue amongst all the wise men there, those fragments of trismegist do sufficiently witness. for though there may be suspected some fraud and corruption in several passages of that book, in reference to the interest of christianity; yet this opinion of the praeexistency of the soul, in which christianity did not interest itself, cannot but be judged, from the testimony of those writings, to have been a branch of the wisdome of that nation: of which opinion not only the gymnosophists and other wise men of egypt were, but also the brachmans of india, and the magi of babylon and persia; as you may plainly see by those oracles that are called either magical or chaldaical, which pletho and psellus have commented upon. to these you may adde the abstruse phil

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ght and imparting knowledge to all whom he shall place under your care. in the absence of the master, you will succeed to higher duties; your acquirements must therefore be such that the craft may never suffer for want of proper instruction. from the spirjt which you have hitherto evinced, i entertain no doubt that your future conduct will he such as to merit the applause of your brethren and the testimony of a good conscience. brethren of_ lodge:such is the nature of our constitution; that as some must of necessity rule and teach, so others must learn to submit and obey. humility in both is an essential duty. the officers who are appointed to govern your lodge are sufficiently conversant with the rules of propriety and the laws of the institution to avoid exceeding the powers with which t

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

radical feminist, barbara walker, in her occult book, now is the dawning, p. 281. egyptians believed that the phoenix was the representative of a god who "rose to heaven in the form of a morning star, like lucifer, after his fire-immolation of death and rebirth" wow! in one sweet, short, and simple sentence, we have conclusive proof that the phoenix bird is a symbol of lucifer! listen now to the testimony of another former witch, william schnoebelen, in his book, satan's door revisited, p. 4 "the phoenix, of bunnu is believed to be a divine bird going back to egypt. this phoenix destroys itself in flames and then rises from the ashes. most occultists believe that the phoenix is a symbol of lucifer who was cast down in flames and who. will one day rise triumphant. this [belief] also relate

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

ands the pine cone, a symbol indicating life, and which is said to have the same significance as the crux-ansata, or cross, among the egyptians. in later ages, the tree of life, i. e, the divine man, or cross, or both together, furnish immortal food to those who lay hold upon them, exactly in the same manner as did netpe, the goddess of wisdom, or spiritual life, in former times. according to the testimony of barlow, this is the subject "most frequently symbolized on early christian sepulchral tablets and monuments"[13] christ's body was the "bread of life" and his blood was the "wine from the tree of life" of which to partake was life eternal. the cross, as in earlier religions, represented completeness of life. the jambu tree, the buddhist god-tree, is in the shape of a cross.[14 [13] es

re, that warms the world with feeling and desire" in a former work the fact has been mentioned that the first clue obtained by herr bachofen, author of das mutterrecht, to a former condition of society under which gynaecocracy, or the social and political pre-eminence of women, prevailed, was the importance attached to the female principle in the deity in all ancient mythologies. according to the testimony of various writers, om, although comprehending both elements of the deity, was nevertheless female in signification. sir william jones observes that om means oracle--matrix or womb.[27] upon this subject godfrey higgins, quoting from drummond, remarks [27] see anacalypsis, book iii, ch. ii "the word om or am in the hebrew not only signifies might, strength, power, firmness, solidity, tru

ld. this writer remarks that ham, instead of representing an individual, is but a greek corruption of om or aum, the great androgynous god of india, a god which is identical in significance with aleim, vesta, and all the other representatives of the early dual, universal power "in the old language god was called al, ale, alue, and aleim, more frequently aleim than any other name" according to the testimony of higgins, aleim denotes the feminine plural. the heathen divinities ashtaroth and beelzebub were both called aleim, ashtaroth being simply astarte adorned with the horns of a ram. ishtar not unfrequently appears with the horns of a cow. we are informed by inman that whenever a goddess is observed with horns--emblems which by the way always indicate masculine power--it is to denote the

s, who although represented on various coins as a "bearded venerable figure" appears with the limbs, features, and character of a beautiful young woman. sometimes this deity is portrayed with sprouting horns, and again with a crown of ivy. the phrygian attis and the syrian adonis, as represented in monuments of ancient art, are androgynous personifications of the same attributes. according to the testimony of the geographer dionysius, the worship of bacchus was formerly carried on in the british islands in exactly the same manner as it had been in an earlier age in thrace and on the banks of the ganges. in referring to the idean zeus in crete, to demeter at eleusis, to the cabairi in samothrace, and dionysos at delphi and thebes, grote observes "that they were all to a great degree analogo

rimeval hermaphrodite, or the great father and the great mother blended together in one person" the fact that a trinity in unity, representing the female and male energies symbolized by the organs of generation, formerly constituted the deity throughout asia is acknowledged by all those who have examined either the literature or monumental records of oriental countries. the rev. mr. maurice bears testimony to the character of eastern religious ideas in the following language "whoever will read the geeta with attention, will perceive in that small tract the outlines of all the various systems of theology in asia. the curious and ancient doctrine of the creator being both male and female, mentioned on a preceding page, to be designated in indian temples by a very indecent exhibition of the m

a period of several thousand years, there existed various sects, those who worshipped the male as the only creative force, others who adored the female as the origin of life, and those who paid homage to both, as alike important in the office of reproduction. it would seem that the fierce wars which had devastated the land had ceased prior to the beginning of the tower of babel. according to the testimony of moses, the lord himself declared "behold the people is one" this unanimity of belief, as is plainly shown, was of short duration, for the tower arose "upright and defiant" not, however, as an emblem of the primeval dual or triune god in which the female energy was predominant, but as a symbol of male creative power. it was the type of virility which in the subsequent history of religi

m intended for sepulchres; and as the egyptians, taught by their ancient chaldean victors, connected astronomy with their funereal and religious ceremonies, they seem in this to be not far astray, if we but extend the application to their sacred bulls and other animals, and not merely to their kings, as herodotus would have us suppose"[55 [55] the round towers of ireland, p. 159. according to the testimony of inman, the pyramid is an emblem of the trinity--three in one. the triangle typifies the flame of sacred fire emerging from the holy lamp. with its base upwards it typifies the delta, or the door through which all come into the world. with its apex uppermost, it is an emblem of the phallic triad. the union of these triangles typifies the male and female principles uniting with each oth

se of the god of life which embraced the idea of the moving force throughout nature, were, in course of time, appropriated by the rulers of the people. it is stated that the name of a certain egyptian god appears first in connection with royalty, that "his name was substituted for some earlier divinity whose hieroglyphics were chiselled out of the monuments to make place for his" according to the testimony of rawlinson, the god hea is represented by the great serpent, which occupies a conspicuous position among the symbols of the gods on the black stones recording babylonian benefactions. now these flat black stones are themselves said to symbolize the female element in the deity, in contradistinction to the obelisks, which prefigure the male, while the serpent, for reasons which have alre

d commandment was very literal in its signification" the same writer remarks that in thibet, too, where a worship very nearly identical in ceremony and doctrine with that of the roman papists exists amongst the lamas, the name of om is still sacred. the iav of the jews was equally revered, but in the later ages of their career they seem to have lost sight of its true meaning. according to inman's testimony and that of other etymological students, the true signification of the cognomen jacob is the female principle. it is believed by various writers that the story of jacob and esau as related in genesis has an esoteric as well as an exoteric meaning--that jacob has reference to the female creative energy throughout nature, or, rather, to the great mass of people who in an early age of the h

idea. none of the attributes of women, not even that holy instinct--maternal love, can by many of them be contemplated apart from the ideas of grossness which have attended the sex-functions during the ages since women first became enslaved. as an illustration of this we have the following from an eminent philologist of recent times, a writer whose able efforts in unravelling religious myths bear testimony to his mental strength and literary ability "the chaldees believed in a celestial virgin who had purity of body, loveliness of person, and tenderness of affection, and she was one to whom the erring sinner could appeal with more chance of success than to a stern father. she was portrayed as a mother with a child in her arms, and every attribute ascribed to her showing that she was suppos

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

ing__1 _fromthenewworldthe other day i came across an affidavit of theodore l. mason,m.d.,residing in state of new york, king's county,cityof brooklyn, who affirmed that in the month of september 1857 he was called to attend the wife of charles f. waite, who was duly delivered of a child. captain and mrs waite were boarders in the house of mrs sarah webb, washington street, city of brooklyn. this testimony calls for a certain interpretation.drmason was probably called in at the end of the month in question, but my actual birth date wasoct.2nd.so, seventy-nine years later, waite described hisownbirthto his inquisitive american correspondent, haroldvoorhis-whosubsequently identified the boarding-house and sent waite a descriptionofthe site:206 washington street (which was onthecorner of conc

ing public an intelligent conception of thewritingsofa.j. davis, or is it an effort to mislead and confuse the enquirer, and as shakespeareput it "damnwithfaint praise"thegreatestprophetand seerofall time'.14it was probably ajustcriticism, for although waite recognized the importanceofdavis'sworkand felt it desirablethatthere should be a digest of'theessentialparts of his doctrine, philosophy and testimony to worl? of spirits and natural law therein'(harmonialphilosophy,p. xi) he didnotfindthepreparationofthebooka congenial task. his personal antipathy to'theseership and writingsofdavis' were clear to others as heworkedonthebookthroughout1916. mercy phillimore recalledthat56a.e.waite-magicianofmanyparts_ he usedtocome fairly often to our library to borrow and consult the davis books. this

in more prosaic vein he added that,'itis certainly a greattruththat the divine has made itself abased sothatnone at last shall be leftoutofthe union (letter of may 1905. nicoll utilized allthatwaite had written, and his lectures (which were later printed in his bookthegardenofnuts)putforward many of waite'sownideas-inparticular the doctrineoftheholyassembly, which, nicoll told his audience 'is a testimony catholictoall mysticism. it is concernedwithawithdrawnbrotherhood in whose hands the experimental knowledge ofgodhas remained and has increased. it is the doctrineofthe esotericchurchof the illuminated'(p.69).whathis audience madeofall this isnotrecorded,butthe vision of rows of earnest young ministers, sternly calvinist in outlook, busily notingdowntheheterodox doctrinesofa. e. waite is

o-therapist (in thesense of one engaging in psycho-spiritual healing)whohad joined the independent and rectifiedrite(as soror prudentia in libramine) and offered to restore his physical balance. whatever process she used, it worked:'thatis no ordinary power which works in her simple processes, and the result is an almost startling restoration, accompanied by renewed mental freshness. to bear this testimony is a matter of common justice, more especially as ibroughtwithme no living faith, except in heruttersincerity, and my detachment couldnothave been encouraging('thewayofthe soul in healing, intheoccultreview,january1914).drsevern's pupil, helen worthington, maintained the role of 'personal physician' towaite-inhispersonaof frater sacramentum.regis-forthe restofhis life. an unspecified ill

nthusiasts for god and the soul,whobelieve that the revelation of the indwelling spirit and the. overshadowing deity can alone accomplish a conversion in the life of mankind; we invite them in the name of their divine and sacred zeal to co-operate in the first mystic propaganda which has been seriously attempted in this century. ix to such we would proclaim, on the faith of an unbroken historical testimony, and on the evidence of innumerable witnesses, that it ispossiblein this life, and in this body, to know god, and that the processis enshrined in the secretlanguage of so-calledalchemy,in the allegories of transcendental freemasonry, in the occult initiations of the mysteries, and in the books of the christian mystics.xfrom the same circle of esoteric literature it is believed there may

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

ue in scotland or in england three hundred years ago, and of which we find perhaps only a few obscure traces existing to-day, may be much more clear and definite in brittany or the channel islands. others again still farther afield. when i was writingthedeviz'smistressi found in the confession of isabel goudie distinct traces, but no more, of the 'moon paste. but what it was, and how prepared, no testimony in this country gave the smallest clue. hints in hesiod, and other classical authors, showed that the formula was used in thessaly, and medieval italians spoke of bringing the moon down from heaven. still they eluded me, till at last i ran it to earth in morocco, as recorded in the notes of emile mauchamp and others. the key fitted exactly: not only isabel goudie but the thessalian witch

devil',saysthe chronicle. had it beeninmedievalcatholicitaly, instead of presbyterian scotland, she. would have been canonized, and the story been widely published, instead of being relegated to an obscure ms volume and well nigh or quite forgotten. then, again the witches of isabelgoudie's coven went wild rides, and made expeditions far and wide, always, however, wakingintheir beds,butsubsequent testimony showed that, in some cases at least, the things that they fancied they had done only in fancy, had been materially accomplished. these things also are paralleled today in the experience of those who have dreamed of.visiting friends or relatives on. some of the fields of battle, and have afterwards heard that they were veritably seen there, in dream or vision, the notable point in such ex

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

n of cheops. this man left a pyramid much smaller than his father s.1 1 herodotus, the history (translated by david grene, university of chicago press, 1987, pp. 187-9. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 284 site plan of the giza necropolis herodotus saw the monuments in the fifth century bc, more than 2000 years after they had been built. nevertheless it was largely on the foundation of his testimony that the entire subsequent judgement of history was based. all other commentators, up to the present, continued uncritically to follow in the greek historian s footsteps. and down the ages although it had originally been little more than hearsay the attribution of the great pyramid to khufu, the second pyramid to khafre and the third pyramid to menkaure had assumed the stature of unassai

nts of the gods 368 museums. we shall consider these lists in more detail later in this chapter. they are known respectively as the palermo stone (dating from the fifth dynasty around the twenty-fifth century bc, and the turin papyrus, a nineteenth dynasty temple document inscribed in a cursive form of hieroglyphs known as hieratic and dated to the thirteenth century bc.6 in addition, we have the testimony of a heliopolitan priest named manetho. in the third century bc he compiled a comprehensive and widely respected history of egypt which provided extensive king lists for the entire dynastic period. like the turin papyrus and the palermo stone, manetho s history also reached much further back into the past to speak of a distant epoch when gods had ruled in the nile valley. manetho s compl

years earlier).27 if schwaller s interpretation is correct and there is every reason to suppose it is it suggests that the greek historian s priestly informants must have had access to accurate records of the precessional motion of the sun going back at least 39,000 years before their own era. the turin papyrus and the palermo stone the figure of 39,000 years accords surprisingly closely with the testimony of the turin papyrus (one of the two surviving ancient egyptian king lists that extends back into prehistoric times before the first dynasty. originally in the collection of the king of sardinia, the brittle and crumbling 3000-year-old papyrus was sent in a box, without packing, to its present home in the museum of turin. as any schoolchild could have predicted, it arrived broken into co

heoretically, therefore, the knowledge of what atom bombs do has become part of the permanent historical legacy of mankind, whether we choose to benefit from that legacy or not is up to us. nevertheless the knowledge is there, should we wish to use it, because it has been preserved and transmitted in written records, in film archives, in allegorical paintings, in war memorials, and so on. not all testimony from the past is accorded the same stature as the records of hiroshima and nagasaki. on the contrary, like the canonical bible, the body of knowledge that we call history is an edited cultural artefact from which much has been left out. in particular, references to human experiences prior to the invention of writing around 5000 years ago have been omitted in their entirety and myth has b

rtake the earth today, obliterating the achievements of our civilization and wiping out almost all of us. suppose, to paraphrase plato, that we were forced by this cataclysm to begin again like children, in complete ignorance of what had happened in early times .1 under such circumstances, ten or twelve thousand years from now (with all written records and film archives long since destroyed) what testimony might our descendants still preserve concerning the events at the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki in august 1945 of the christian era? it is easy to imagine how they might speak in mystical terms of explosions that gave off a terrible glare of light and immense heat .2 nor would we be too surprised to find that they might have formulated a mythical account something like this:

18. 7 ibid. 8 ibid. 9 ibid, p. 19. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 468 the king is a flame, moving before the wind to the end of the sky and to the end of the earth. the king travels the air and traverses the earth. there is brought to him a way of ascent to the sky..10 is it possible that the constant references in archaic literatures to something like aviation could be valid historical testimony concerning the achievements of a forgotten and remote technological age? we will never know unless we try to find out. and so far we haven t tried because our rational, scientific culture regards myths and traditions as unhistorical. no doubt many are unhistorical. but at the end of the investigation that underlies this book, i am certain that many others are not. for the benefit of futu

t bauval, personal communication. 24 see part vii. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 476 refuse to recognize those experiences unless they have come down to us in the form of bona fide historical records? and is it arrogance or ignorance which leads us to draw an arbitrary line separating history from prehistory at about 5000 years before the present defining the records of history as valid testimony and the records of prehistory as primitive delusions? at this stage in a continuing investigation, my instinct is that we may have put ourselves in danger by closing our ears for so long to the disturbing ancestral voices which reach us in the form of myths. this is more an intuitive than a rational feeling, but it is by no means unreasonable. my research has filled me with respect for t

tion to save ourselves from a similar cataclysmic fate. in making these latter suggestions i am, of course, fully aware that there are many who will be scornful and will assert the uniformitarian view that all things will continue as they have done since the beginning of creation. 34 but i am also aware that such scoffers in the last days 35 are those who for one reason or another are deaf to the testimony of our forgotten ancestors. as we have seen, this testimony appears to be trying to tell us that a hideous calamity has indeed descended upon mankind from time to time, that on each occasion it has afflicted us suddenly, without warning and without mercy, like a thief in the night, and that it will certainly recur at some point in the future, obliging us unless we are well prepared to be

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

at the end of life the movements cancel out each other. crowley s references to his wars with the black lodge are scattered throughout his writings and bear further study. from these writings, one can come to understand that the form of the attack upon the magician can range from political repression to seduction. the great magicians, theosophists and other western sources have devoted even more testimony to the other side of the coin the great white brotherhood or the secret chiefs or the masters. in the early days of the magical revival, the existence of an inner order was taken for granted. this was followed by a long epoch of expose, disillusionment and world weariness. but now, revisionist historians are finding evidence that these groups, usually described in mythic terms, are as ma

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

he history of germany, which other nations may well envy us: not content with suspecting the book's genuineness (as though the united middle ages had been capable of such a product, its statements, sprung from honest love of truth, were cried down, and the gods it attributes to our ancestors were traced to the intrusion of roman ideas. instead of diligently comparing the contents of so precious a testimony with the remnants of our heathenism scattered elsewhere, people made a point of minimizing the value of these few fragments also, and declaring them forged, borrowed, absurd. such few gods as remained unassailed, it was the fashion to make short work of, by treating them as gallic or slavic, just as vagrants are shunted oif to the next parish let our neighbours dispose of the rubbish as

soil. and these views are confirmed by what we know to be true of poetry and legend. if the heathens already possessed a finely articulated language, and if we concede to them an abundant stock of religious myths, then song and story could not fail to preface. vll lay hold of these, and to interweave themselves with the rites and customs. that such was the case we are assured by tacitus; aud the testimony of jornandes and eginhart leaves not the smallest room for doubt respecting later ages. those primitive songs on tuisco, on mannus and the three races that branched out of him, are echoed long after in the genealogies of ingo, iscio, hermino; so the hygelac of the beowulf-song, whom a tenth century legend that has just emerged from oblivion names huglacus magnus (haupt 5, 10, is found ye

hachelhreite; then in l. hesse, a hachelsherg near volkmarsen, and a hachelhevg by mei'zhausen (bailiw. witzenhausen. but if a hakel= wood can be proved, the only trace of a higher being must be looked for in herand, and that may be found some day; in ch. xxxiii, i shall exhibit hakol in the on. hekla as mountain, hence wooded heights, woodland. in any case we here obtain not only another weighty testimony to woden-worship, but a fresh confirmation of the meaning i attach to the' wiitende heer; and we see clearly how the folktale of hackelberg came to be preserved in westphalia and l. saxony 1 kirchhof's wendunmiit no. 283, p. 342. deiit. sag. no. 171. the braunschw. anz. 1747, p. 1940 says the wild hunter hackelnberg lies in the steiufeld, under a stone on which a mule and a hound are car

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

en (sup. i, 836, means sacrificing to the water-sprite. the vita s. sulpicii biturig (died 644) relates (acta bened. sec. 2, p. 172: f gurges quidam erat in yirisionensium situs agello (vierzon, in biturigibus) aquarum mole copiosus, utpote daemonibus consecratus; et si aliquis causa qualibet ingrederetur eundem, repente funibus daemoniacis circumplexus amittebat crudeliter vitam/ a more decisive testimony to the worship of water itself is what gregory of tours tells of a lake on mt. helanus (de gloria confess, cap. 2: mons erat in gabalitano territorio (gevaudan) cognomento helanus, lacum habens magnum. ad quern certo ternpore multitude rusticorum, quasi libamina lacui illi exubens, 1 sup. i, 342: the lazy maid, on carrying home her first grass, is ducked or splashed, to prevent her going

inds me of the nona unda in the waltharius 1343, and the fluctus decumanus [every tenth wave being the biggest, festus, and ov. trist. i. 2, 50. there must also have been another god of the sea, geban (p. 239, conf. p. 311. then, 1 the komans appear to have much elaborated their cultus of rivers and brooks, as may be seen by the great number of monuments erected to river-gods. i will here add the testimony of tacitus, ann. 1, 79: sacra et lucos et aras patriis amnibus dicare. 2 gallus ohem s chronik von eeichenau (end of 15th cent) quoted in schonhuth s eeichenau, freib. 1836, p. v: the isle is to this day esteemed honourable and holy; unchristened babes are not buried in it, but carried out and laid beside a small house with a saint s image in it, called the chindli-bild. ea, island. sea

o vouch for this, i at least can only find at p. 142 of opp. pia et spirit. mogunt. 1605, that paulus lived opposite treves, on cevenna, named mons pauli after him; but of apollo and the firewheel not a word [and other authorities are equally silent. midsummee fikes. 621 secundum quod ipse testimonium perhibet, dicens: me oportet minui, ilium autem crescere/ much older, but somewhat vague, is the testimony of eligius: nullus in festivitate s. johannis vel quibuslibet sanctorum solemnitatibus solstitia) aut vallationes vel saltationes aut casaulas aut cantica diabolica exerceat/1 in great cities, paris, metz, and many more, as late as the 15-1 6-1 7th centuries, the pile of wood was reared in the public square before the town hall, decorated with flowers and foliage, and set on fire by the

ate et hieme semper virens: cujus ilia generis sit, nemo scit. ibi etiam est fons, ubi sacrificia paganorum solent exerceri, et homo vivus immergi, qui dum immergitur (al. invenitur, ratum erit votum populi. to sink in water was a good sign, as in the ordeal (ba. 924; conf. chap. xxxiv, witch s bath. 3 esculus jovi sacra, pliny 16, 4 (5. 652 teees and animals. called ellorn, e/z-horn. 1 arnkiel s testimony 1, 179 is beyond suspicion: thus did our forefathers also hold the ellhorn holy, and if they must needs clip the same, they were wont first to say this prayer " dame ellhorn, give me somewhat of thy wood, then will i also give thee of mine, if so be it grow in the forest." and this they were wont to do sometimes with bended knees, bare head and folded hands, as i have ofttimea

r hestr bleikalottr at lit, er hann kalla^i freyfaxa, hann gaf frey vin sinom (supra, pp. 93. 211) pcnna hest hdlfann. a]?essom hesti haffti hann sva mikla elsko (love, at hann strengdi]?ess heit (vow, at hann skyldi]?eim manni at bana versa, er)?eim hesti rr5i an hans vilja/ brand s atrunaft refers, no doubt, to the same circumstance of his horse being hallowed and devoted to the god. a striking testimony to this is found in olafs tryggvasonar saga: 3 tidings came to the king, that the traendir (men of drontheim) had turned back to the worship of freyr, whose statue still stood among them. when the king commanded them to break the image, they re plied: f ei munum ver briota liknesjci freys, jrviat ver hofum leingi 1 sviftr, gen. svirms, like masr, manns. 2 reminding of the germ. beast-apo

nes 2 ubi viperae reddebantur dignoscitur appellari. about votum i expressed my mind, p. 650n; census signifies the goth, gild, gilstr, ohg. kelt, kelstar (p. 38-9 and ra. 358. the two words voturn and 1 as the gold of the swan-rings was made into pots, and what remai was the goldsmith s profit. 2 printed text: locus ille census devotionis, ubi viperae reddebantur. snake. 685 census are no slight testimony to the genuineness and oldness of the biography. here then we have a striking instance of an idol made of gold, and moreover of the christian teacher s en deavour to preserve the sacred material, only converting it into a christian form. what higher being the snake represented to the lombards, we can scarcely say for certain; not the all- encircling world-snake, the mrsgarss-ormr, iormun

GRIMOIRE OF TURIEL

ow, and promise unto thee that i will hasten unto thee, and appear clearly unto thee at all times and places, and in the secret grimoire all hours, days, and minutes, from this time forward until thy life s end, wbensoever thou shalt call me by my name, or by my office, and will come unto thee in what form thou shalt desire, whether it be visibly or invisibly; i will answer a! thy desires. and in testimony whereof, and before all the powers of heaven, i have hereunto set, subscribed, and confirmed my character unto thee. so help me god. fiat. amen. the character of turiel. fimethe imperator's greetings i am delighted that the rosicrucian press, printing and publishing department of the supreme grand lodge of the a.m.o.r.c, has again decided to publish a new edition of the official manual

HEKAS

aft within sabbatic lore is indicative of a simple truth which is only to be known by those who have experienced it at first-hand- when you stand within the circle cast true about you like the horizon itself, then you are at the very instant of the tradition's beginning; you stand there at one, through the power of lineage, with the first-born of witchblood, and your presence within the circle is testimony to the pact which preserves the lineage from today until the last-to-die of the line has stepped therein: this is the course of the tradition amongst the race of men. for myself i need to look no further than the circle for the origination of the way! there burns the first fire and the vision amongst the flames, there the cipher writ amongst the forms of charm and wort, there lie both he

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

modern successors have, with few exceptions, completely lost. and this vidya has passed into what is now known as the inner teachings of the mahayana school of northern buddhism. those who deny it are simply ignorant pretenders to orientalism. i advise you to read the rev. mr. edkin's chinese buddhism-especially the chapters on the exoteric and esoteric schools and teachings-and then compare the testimony of the whole ancient world upon the subject. q. but are not the ethics of theosophy identical with those taught by buddha? a. certainly, because these ethics are the soul of the wisdom-religion, and were once the common property of the initiates of all nations. but buddha was the first to embody these lofty ethics in his public teachings, and to make them the foundation and the very esse

e a different set of things and beings even on this our plane, including in it all our planets. how much more different then must be external nature in other solar systems, and how foolish is it to judge of other stars and worlds and human beings by our own, as physical science does! q. but what are your data for this assertion? a. what science in general will never accept as proof-the cumulative testimony of an endless series of seers who have testified to this fact. their spiritual visions, real explorations by, and through, physical and spiritual senses untrammeled by blind flesh, were systematically checked and compared one with the other, and their nature sifted. all that was not corroborated by unanimous and collective experience was rejected, while that only was recorded as establis

tication, or looking into futurity, is memory. furthermore, remember that memory is one thing and mind or thought is another; one is a recording machine, a register which very easily gets out of order; the other (thoughts) are eternal and imperishable. would you refuse to believe in the existence of certain things or men only because your physical eyes have not seen them? would not the collective testimony of past generations who have seen him be a sufficient guarantee that julius caesar once lived? why should not the same testimony of the psychic senses of the masses be taken into consideration? q. but don't you think that these are too fine distinctions to be accepted by the majority of mortals? a. say rather by the majority of materialists. and to them we say, behold: even in the short

at we have to question, but the clothes worn during the perpetration of the crime; and if these are burnt and destroyed, how can you get at them? q. aye! how can you get at the certainty that the crime was ever committed at all, or that the "man in the clean shirt" ever lived before? a. not by physical processes, most assuredly; nor by relying on the page 61 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt testimony of that which exists no longer. but there is such a thing as circumstantial evidence, since our wise laws accept it, more, perhaps, even than they should. to get convinced of the fact of reincarnation and past lives, one must put oneself in rapport with one's real permanent ego, not one's evanescent memory. q. but how can people believe in that which they do not know, nor have ever seen

that of conventional religions? a. as it differs on almost all the other points, so it differs on this one. what you call "faith" and that which is blind faith, in reality, and with regard to the dogmas of the christian religions, becomes with us "knowledge" the logical sequence of things we know, about facts in nature. your doctrines are based upon interpretation, therefore, upon the secondhand testimony of seers; ours upon the invariable and unvarying testimony of seers. the ordinary christian theology, for instance, holds that man is a creature of god, of three component parts-body, soul, and spirit-all essential to his integrity, and all, either in the gross form of physical earthly existence or in the etherealized form of post-resurrection experience, needed to so constitute him fore

dless of the undeniable truism of the latter, that there is but one element in the universe, chemistry placed metals in the class of elements, and is only now beginning to find out its gross mistake. even some encyclopedists are forced to confess that if most of the accounts of transmutation are fraud or page 142 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt delusion, yet some of them are accompanied by testimony which renders them probable. by means of the galvanic battery even the alkalis have been discovered to have a metallic basis. the possibility of obtaining metal from other substances which contain the ingredients composing it, of changing one metal into another must therefore be left undecided. nor are all alchemists to be considered impostors. many have labored under the conviction of o

i think it is supposed to include among other things manifestations and phenomena, physical and psychical, that are violations of the laws now known by physicists and metaphysicians, and perhaps not explained or claimed to be explained or understood even by theosophists themselves. in this group may be included spiritualism, mesmerism, clairvoyance, mind-healing, mind-reading and the like. i took testimony on this question, and found that while a belief in any one of these sorts of manifestations and phenomena is not required, while each member of the society is at liberty to hold his own opinion, yet such questions form topics of inquiry and discussion, and the members as a mass probably believers individually in phenomena that are abnormal and in powers that are superhuman as far as scie

n, and phenomena commonly thought supernatural, it seemed to me that the court, though not assuming to determine judicially the question of their verity, would, before granting to occultism a franchise, inquire whether at least it had gained the position of being reputable or whether its adherents were merely men of narrow intelligence, mean intellect, and omnivorous credulity. i accordingly took testimony on that point, and find that a number of gentlemen in different countries of europe, and also in this country, eminent in science, are believers in occultism. sir edward bulwer lytton, a writer of large and varied learning, and of solid intellect, is asserted to have been an occultist, an assertion countenanced by at least two of his books. the late president wayland, of brown university

of the most philosophical inquiry. sir william hamilton, probably the most acute and, undeniably, the most learned of english metaphysicians that ever lived, said at least thirty years ago: however astonishing, it is now proved beyond all rational doubt that in certain abnormal states of the nervous organism perceptions are possible through other than the ordinary channels of the senses. by such testimony theosophy is at least placed on the footing of page 174 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt respectability. whether by further labor it can make partial truths complete truths, whether it can eliminate extravagances and purge itself of impurities, if there are any, are probably questions upon which the court will not feel called upon to pass. i perceive no other feature of the petitio

HOWE THE ALCHEMIST OF THE GOLDEN DAWN

just time to go to the brit. mus. rusenstein is there, but only in german, so that is of no use to me. i copied a process out ofjo. joachim becher from his "experimentum chymicum novum. my cold got worse and has been very troublesome. in haste. chacombe vicarage 28 december 1892 by this post i return your boerhaave's chemistry or rather harris'[s. what there is in boerhaave is a kind of negative testimony. although so able a chemist in the ordinary sense, he had not the occult perception in his karma, and so opposes alchemy, merely because he was unable to attain to it. something beyond ordinary intelligence and skill is required to achieve success in that, and above all things- silence. at p. 9 of harris, there is a good description of the process of making sublimate, which might be usef

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

lessen and finally to cease altogether. a rising wind blew out most of the candles, so that the scene grew threatening dark. someone roused father merluzzo of spirito santo church, and he hastened to the dismal square to pronounce whatever helpful syllables he could. of the restless and curious sounds in the blackened tower, there could be no doubt whatever. for what happened at 2.35 we have the testimony of the priest, a young, intelligent, and well-educated person; of patrolman william j. monohan of the central station, an officer of the highest reliability who had paused at that part of his beat to inspect the crowd; and of most of the seventy-eight men who had gathered around the church's high bank wall- especially those in the square where the eastward fa ade was visible. of course t

sort of secret and co rdinated action. curwen, it was clear, formed a vague potential menace to the welfare of the town and colony; and must be eliminated at any cost. late in december 1770 a group of eminent townsmen met at the home of stephen hopkins and debated tentative measures. weeden's notes, which he had given to capt. mathewson, were carefully read; and he and smith were summoned to give testimony anent details. something very like fear seized the whole assemblage before the meeting was over, though there ran through that fear a grim determination which capt. whipple's bluff and resonant profanity best expressed. they would not notify the governor, because a more than legal course seemed necessary. with hidden powers of uncertain extent apparently at his disposal, curwen was not a

e bulk of the dirt and cinders, he took up the book and looked at the bold inscription on its cover. it was in a hand which he had learned to recognise at the essex institute, and proclaimed the volume as the 'journall and notes of jos: curwen, gent. of prouidence-plantations, late of salem' excited beyond measure by his discovery, ward shewed the book to the two curious workmen beside him. their testimony is absolute as to the nature and genuineness of the finding, and dr. willett relies on them to help establish his theory that the youth was not mad when he began his major eccentricities. all the other papers were likewise in curwen's handwriting, and one of them seemed especially portentous because of its inscription 'to him who shal come after& how he may gett beyonde time& ye spheres'

HP LOVECRAFT BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP

usly gave me. he assures me on his professional honor that joe slater was but a low-grade paranoiac, whose fantastic notions must have come from the crude hereditary folk-tales which circulated in even the most decadent of communities. all this he tells me- yet i cannot forget what i saw in the sky on the night after slater died. lest you think me a biased witness, another pen must add this final testimony, which may perhaps supply the climax you expect. i will quote the following account of the star nova persei verbatim from the pages of that eminent astronomical authority, professor garrett p. serviss "on february 22, 1901, a marvelous new star was discovered by doctor anderson of edinburgh, not very far from algol. no star had been visible at that point before. within twenty-four hours

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

over the corpses. granting the above, and bearing in mind the credulity p. 97 of all classes of society, it is not difficult to see how the tales originated; but to say that, because such obviously impossible statements occur in certain depositions, the latter are therefore worthless as a whole, is to wilfully misunderstand the popular mind of the seventeenth century. we have the following on the testimony of the rev. george creighton, minister of virginia, co. cavan. he tells us that "divers women brought to his house a young woman, almost naked, to whom a rogue came upon the way, these women being present, and required her to give him her mony, or else he would kill her, and so drew his sword; her answer was, you cannot kill me unless god give you leave, and his will be done. thereupon t

rraign'd and condemn'd; and in this time, one hughes testify'd, that her neighbour (called howen, who was cruelly bewitchd unto death about six years before, laid her death to the charge of this woman [she had seen glover sometimes come down her chimney, and bid her, the said hughes, p. 185 to remember this; for within six years there would be occasion to mention it [this hughes now preparing her testimony, immediately one of her children, a fine boy well grown towards youth] was presently taken ill in the same wofal manner that goodwin's were; and particularly the boy in the night cry'd out, that a black person with a blue cap in the room tortur'd him, and that they try'd with their hand in the bed for to pull out his bowels. the mother of the boy went unto glover on the day following, an

d threshold taken up, upon which they were immediately struck with so strong a smell of brimstone that they were scarce able to bear it; that the stench spread through the whole house, and afflicted several to that degree that they fell sick in their stomachs, and were much disordered" the above were the principal facts sworn p. 218 to in the court, to which most of the witnesses gave their joint testimony "there was a great quantity of things produced in court, and sworn to be what she vomited out of her throat. i had them all in my hand, and found there was a great quantity of feathers, cotton, yarn, pins, and two large waistcoat buttons, at least as much as would fill my hand. they gave evidence to the court they had seen those very things coming out of her mouth, and had received them

ir families, both publickly and privately; most of them could say the lord's prayer, which it is generally said they learnt in prison, they being every one presbyterians "judge upton summed up the whole evidence with great exactness and perspicuity, notwithstanding the confused manner in which it was offered. he seemed entirely of opinion that the jury could not bring them in guilty upon the sole testimony of the afflicted person's visionary images. he said he could not doubt but that the whole matter was preternatural and diabolical, but he conceived that. had the persons accused been really witches and in compact with the devil, it could hardly be presumed that they should be such constant attenders upon divine service, both in public and private" unfortunately his brother on the bench w

ISIS UNVEILED

idiu dtr maumuit. bk. x, eh. ot in autnouuu werht, p. 828: 1844. digitizecoy google origin of the papal tuba and ke^ 31 of being allowed by the brthmanaa of the pagodas to see. in one of his translations we fouad passages which reveal to us the undotjtud origin of the keys of st. peter, and account for the subsequent adoption of the afmbol by their hounesaes, the popes of rome. he shows us on the testimony of the agruahada pariiukai, which he freely translates as "the book of spirits (pitris, that centuries before our era the inhiaiei of the temple chose a superior councc, pie- sided over by the brakmdtma or supreme chief of all these inuiaiea; that this pontificate could be exercised only by a brahmana who had reached the age of eighty years* and that the brahmdima was sole guardian of th

ed by the bishop himself, his vicar-general, 160. after this, why should the soman catholics object to the chums of the %iiritual- ut? if, without inocrf, they believe in the 'materialisation' of mary and john, foe ignatius, how can they logically deny tbe malerialication of katie and john (king, wneo it is attested by tbe earful espoimcnts of mr. crookes, the english diemist, and tlie cumulative testimony trf a large numba of witnesses? 161. tbe 'mother of god' takes precedence thoefore (rf god? 162. see the jvne ni for july, 1s75; n. y. digitizecoy google s4 isis unveiled secretary, and six canons of uie cathedral church of mes^na, all of whom have mgned that attestation with their names, and confirmed it upon oath "both the epistle and image were found upon the high altar, where they ha

enomena to this power of the devil, that outrival the 'miracles' of the apostolic ages. and what do we see this french 210. le tptntirme daiu it monde, p. 68. 211. ibid, pp. 78, 7b, digitizecoy google 104 isis unveiled author, notwithstadding his iacorrigible rationahsm, forced to admit aster having narrated the greatest wonders? watch the fakirs as he would, he is compelled to bear the strongest testimony to their perfect honesty in the matter of their miraculous phenomena "never" he says "have we succeeded in detecting a sin^ one in the act of dec t" one fact should be noted by all who, without having been in india, still fancy they are clever enough to expose the fraud of pretended magicians. this skilled and cool observer, this redoubtable materialist, after his long sojourn in india

om it also was the secret name of the creator. wherever bacchus was worshiped there was a tradition of a place called nysa, and a cave where he was reared. beth-san or scythopolis in palestine once bad that designation; so had a spot on mount parnassus. but diodorus declares that nysa was between phoenicia and egypt; euripides states that dionysoa came to greece from india; and diodorus" adds his testimony "osiris was brought up in nysa, in arabia the happy; he was the son of zeus, and was namcxl from his father [nominative zeus, genitive dioa\ and the place dio-npaoa" the zeus or jove of nysa. this identity of name or title is very significant. in greece dionysos was second only to zeus, and pindar says "so fmthci zeiu govemi all thiiigi^ uki bacchtu he governs tjao" but outside of greece

populace at mount sinai; unless we admit that moses was an initiated priest, an adept, who knew how to lift the veil which hangs behind all such exoteric worship, but kept the secret "and moset buiu altar, and caued the name of it jekotak-tiiaail" or lao-nin. what better evidence is required to show that the siniutic god was in- differently bacchus, osiris, and jehovah? mr. sharpe appends bis testimony that the place where osiris was bom "was mount sinai, called by the eg3t)tians mount nisaa? the brazen serpent was a ni, vfni, and the month of the jewish passover nuan. if the mosaic 'lord god' was the only living god, and jesus his only son, how account for the rebelhous language of the latt^f with- out hesitation or qualification he sweeps away the jewish lex taliont* and substitutes

ions and professicm of faith "tlie rabble deaires nothing better than to be deceived. as regards myself, therefore/ vrill alwayg be a philowpber vriih mytdf, but i vaat be priett with the people "holy is god the father of all being, holy ib god, whose wisdom is carried out into execution by his own powers, holy art thou, who through the word had created all! therefore, i believe in thee, and bear testimony, and go into the life and light" thus speaks hermes trismegistus, the heathen divine. what christian bishop could have said better than that? the apparent discrepancy of the four gospels as a ^i^iole does not prevent every narrative given in the new testament however much disfigured having a ground-work of truth. to this are cunningly adapted details made to fit the later exigencies of t

about niepang, or niepana (nirvftna" says wong-chin-fu. who can deny the truth of this accusation after reading the works of the abb dubois, for instance? a missionary who passes forty years of his life in india, and then writes that the "buddhists admit of no other god but the body of man, and have no other object but the satisfaction of their senses" utters an untruth which can he proved on the testimony of the**ie talapoins of siam and bunnah; laws which prevail unto day and which sentence a ahdn, or punghi (a learned man: sanskrit pandit, as well as a simple talapoin, to death by digitizecoy google the steict chastity op eastern mystics 321 decapitation for the crime of unchastity. no foreigner can be admitted into their kyutru, or vih&rat (monasteries; and yet there are french writers

tm. xiv, 3, 4. digitizecoy google st. augustine's 'holy kisses' unorthodox 331 tatterdemalions, almost naked, with fierce looks" that ludan describes as paul's fouowers* we should hesitate to believe such an infamous story. how much less probable then that men who were platonisls as well as christians should have ever been guilty of such preposterous rites. payne knight seems never to suspect the testimony of epiphanius. he argues that "if we make allowance for the willing exaggerations of religious hatred, and consequent popular prejudice, the general convic- tion that these sectarians had rites and practices of a licentious character appears too strong to be entirely disregarded^ if he draws an honest line of demarcation between the gnostics of the first three centuries and those medieva

oduction of father calmet, who transformed chnst and john into k* and arjuna to fit tbe hindft mind! the trifling fact that buddhism and platonism both antedated christianity, and that the vedaa had already degenerated into br&hmanism before the days of moses, makes no difference. the same with regard to apolloniua of iv^i- although his thaumatuigicaj powers could not be denied in the face of the testimony of emperors, their courts, and the populations of several cities; and although few of these had ever heard of the najcarene prophet whose 'miracles' had been witnessed by a few apostles only, whose very individualities remmn to this d^ a problem in history, yet apouonius has to be accepted as the "monkey of chrisl" bong atrudi' be wriui 'with tbcir grckt rcmffibbikie to cktholkicin. hie

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

tur fratres? cur crucis? cur ros- crucis? gassendus, 1630. dedication in the first edition (1870. to john camden hotten, as a mark of respect, i dedicate this book, hargrave jennings* it is somewhat unusual, i believe, for an author to dedicate a book to his publisher; but the unflagging industry of mr. hotten, in his double capacity of author and bookseller, has always surprised me, and as some testimony to this activity, and to the fact that he has found or made time to write or edit some seven-and-twenty different works, i have, without asking his permission, much pleasure in penning the above. london, january 1st, 1870. preface to the present edition he authors of this important book such must obviously be the fact of any work speaking with authority in regard of that extraordinary br

rsian talisman. chapter the fourteenth. can evidence be depended upon? examination of hume s reasoning. ur evidence for the truth of the christian religion is less than the evidence for the truth of our senses; because, even in the first authors of our religion, it was no greater. it is evident it must diminish in passing from them to their disciples; nor can any one rest such confidence in their testimony as in the immediate object of his senses. this is wrong. the testimony of some men is more valid than is the evidence of the senses of some others. all depends upon the power of the mind judging. it is a general maxim, that no objects have any discoverable connection together. all the inferences which we can draw from one to another are founded merely on our experience of their constant

is the evidence of the senses of some others. all depends upon the power of the mind judging. it is a general maxim, that no objects have any discoverable connection together. all the inferences which we can draw from one to another are founded merely on our experience of their constant and regular conjunction. it is evident that we ought not to make an exception to this maxim in favour of human testimony, whose connection with any event seems in itself as little necessary as any other. it may be.put to any person who carefully considers hume s previous position as to the fixedness of the proofs of the senses, whether this last citation does not upset what he previously affirms. o miracles and experience. 121 the memory is tenacious to a certain degree. men commonly have an inclination to

nsible to shame when detected in a falsehood. these are qualities in human nature. this is a mistake; for they are not qualities in human nature. they are the qualities of grown men, because they are reflective of the state of the man when he is living in community, not as man. contrariety of evidence, in certain cases, may be derived from several different causes: from the opposition of contrary testimony from the character or number of the witnesses from the manner of their delivering their testimony or from the union of all these circumstances. we entertain a suspicion concerning any matter of fact when the witnesses contradict each other when they are but few, or of a doubtful character-when they have an interest in what they affirm-when they deliver their testimony with hesitation, or

n concerning any matter of fact when the witnesses contradict each other when they are but few, or of a doubtful character-when they have an interest in what they affirm-when they deliver their testimony with hesitation, or, on the contrary, with too violent asseverations. there are many other particulars of the same kind, which may diminish or destroy the force of any argument derived from human testimony. now, we contest these conclusions; and we will endeavour to meet them with a direct overthrowing answer. the recognition of likelihood not to say of truth is intuitive, and does not depend on testimony. in fact, sometimes our belief goes in another direction than the testimony, though it be even to matters of fact. hume resumes with his cool, logical statements: the reason why we place

answer. the recognition of likelihood not to say of truth is intuitive, and does not depend on testimony. in fact, sometimes our belief goes in another direction than the testimony, though it be even to matters of fact. hume resumes with his cool, logical statements: the reason why we place any credit in witnesses and historians is not derived from any connection which we perceive priori between testimony and reality, but because we are accustomed to find a conformity between them. just so! we would add to this, because we are accustomed to find a conformity between them. we are now arrived at the grand dictum of cool-headed, self-possessed hume, who thought that by dint of his logical clearness, and by his definitions, he had exposed the impossibility of that unaccountable thing which me

se, education, and learning as to secure us against all delusion in themselves of such undoubted integrity as to place them beyond all suspicion of any design to deceive others. now, to this our answer is, that our own senses deceive us; and why, then, should not the asseverations of others? hume adduces a number of circumstances which, he insists, are requisite to give us a full assurance in the testimony of men; but nothing can give us this assurance in other men's testimony that he supposes. we judge of circumstances ourselves, upon our own ideas of the testimony of men not upon the testimony itself; for we sometimes believe that which the witnesses, with the fullest reliance upon themselves, deny. we judge upon our own silent convictions, that is, upon all abstract points. it is for th

between them. hume says that where there is an opposition of arguments, we ought to give the preference to such as are founded on the greatest number of past observations. so we ought, if the world were real; but, as it is not, we ought not. things unreal cannot make things real. hume declares that if the spirit of religion join itself to the love of wonder, there is an end of common sense. human testimony, in these circumstances, loses all pretensions to authority. a religionist may be an enthusiast, and imagine he sees what has no reality. he may know his narrative to be false, and yet persevere in it with the best intentions in the world, for the sake of promoting so holy a cause. even where this delusion has not taken place, vanity, excited by so strong a temptation, operates on him mo

ning both but mere conceits? it is strange, a judicious reader is apt to say, remarks hume, upon the perusal of these wonderful histories, that such prodigious events never happen in our days. but such events do occur, we would rejoin; though they are never believed, and are always treated as fable, when occurring in their own time. it is experience only, says hume, which gives authority to human testimony. now, it is not experience only which induces belief, but recognition. it is not ideas, but light. we do not go to the thing in ideas, but the thing comes into us, as it were: for instance, a man never finds that he is awake by experience, but by influx of the thing waking whatever the act of waking is, or means. when two kinds of experience are contrary, we have nothing to do but to sub

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

on is suggested in order that the goal of inducing these men to place themselves at& under you disposal (hypnotically or under truth-serum, is a goal, the which could have far greater impact, due to co-relation of experiences remembered hypnotically by men who have not seen or even written to each other, at all, for nearly or over ten years. in this, with such men as witnesses, giving irrefutable testimony it is my belief that were, not the navy, but the airforce, confronted with such evidence (ie chief of research) there would be either an uproar or a quiet and determined effort to achieve safely "that which" the navy failed at. they did not fail to, i hope you realize, achieve metallic& organic invisibility nor did they fail to, unbesoughtedly (sic) achieve transportation of thousands of

he name, date& section& page number of that paper& the other one. thus this papers "morgue" will divulge even more positive proof already published of this experiment. the name of the reporter who skeptically covered& wrote of these incidents (of the restaurant-barroom raid while invisible& of the ships sudden awol) and who interviewed the waitresses can thus be found, thus his and the waitresses testimony can be added to the records. once on this track, i believe that you can uncover considerably more evidence to sustain this (what would you call it--scandal or discovery) you would need a dale carneigie to maneuver these folks into doing just as you wish. it would be cheaper than paying everyone of all these witnesses& much more ethical. the idea is, to the layman type of person, utterly

KETAB E SIYAH

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 know of it and make him accursed for his crime, driving him ever as a broken exile, 10 once haughty and noble when he was great and wore the princely mantle that we shall wear, bent over with weariness and defeat like an old beggar or a starved hound? how shall we win this most righteous victory" michael in reply spoke thus, with all ea

per 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, indeed i wish and pray most solemnly that i was in error and my brother innocent and not even yet does my alert and lucid mind believe that which i now report. my ears and eyes refute their own testimony and deny knowledge of the deeds and speech to which they are unerring witnesses. alas and woe that such is not so and that my once beloved brother, yet in his treason brother 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 t

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 know of it and make him accursed for his crime, driving him ever as a broken exile, once haughty and noble when he was great and wore the princely mantle that we shall wear, bent over with weariness and defeat like an old beggar or a starved hound? how shall we win this most righteous victory" michael in reply spoke thus, with all ears

per 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, indeed i wish and pray most solemnly that i was in error and my brother innocent and not even yet does my alert and lucid mind believe that which i now report. my ears and eyes refute their own testimony and deny knowledge of the deeds and speech to which they are unerring witnesses. alas and woe that such is not so and that my once beloved brother, yet in his treason brother 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 t

LAITMAN M FROM CHAOS TO HARMONY

t because of the children or because of the parents who needed our care. but today, the ego has become so overblown that we take nothing into consideration. the proliferation of divorce and single-parent families testify to this fact, despite the great difficulties they pose for the children. the recent increase in the number of old-age homes, an unheard of institution in the past, is yet another testimony to the disintegration of families. the intensification of the ego has global effects, too. these consequences are far-reaching and place us in an unprecedented situation: on the one hand, globalization shows us how connected we all are in economy, culture, science, education, and every other realm. on the other hand, our egos have evolved to the point that we cannot stand other people. i

ed. 97 6 the road to freedom each of us perceives him or herself as an individual being, a unique, independently acting entity. it is no coincidence that for many centuries, humanity has been fighting to obtain a certain measure of personal freedom. the concept of freedom concerns all creatures. we can see how animals suffer when they are taken captive, when their freedom is denied. this is stark testimony to nature s disagreement when any creature is enslaved. yet, our understanding of the concept of freedom itself is rather vague. if we examine it in depth, almost nothing will remain of it. thus, before we demand an individual s freedom, we must assume that each individual actually knows what both freedom, and the aspiration for freedom, actually are. but first and foremost, we have to s

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

the creator is called a "higher return" this is the reason that a return to the creator, a merging with the creator, an awareness of the creator can be considered as nothing other than concurring with him in certain qualities. it is this return to the creator that is known as tshuva. one can determine that such a return has been achieved only if the creator himself "testifies" to it. what is this testimony? it is that one now has the ability to constantly feel his presence, which makes it possible to be with the creator in all thoughts. in this manner, one can tear oneself away from the desires of the body. only we as individuals can feel whether indeed we have returned to the creator. the strength gained when we perceive the creator enables us to gradually return to the creator completely

LAITMAN M THE KABBALAH EXPERIENCE

ensation of the creator or its absence, according to our own attributes. we will stop looking at life as others do. while others say, thank god another day went by. i stayed healthy, i did a few things, we, on the other hand, will start evaluating ourselves in greater detail: am i closer to the creator today? do i have a desire for him? even if our evaluations are negative, they are nonetheless a testimony to our progress. k a b b a l a h v s. a s c e t i c i s m q: if i understand correctly, the spiritual path begins with the formation of the screen within me, meaning with the restriction on reception of pleasures. does that not lead to self-oppression? if i have to give up on pleasures, won t that bring me to asceticism, which judaism forbids? a: contrary to all other religions and philo

LAITMAN M THE PATH OF KABBALAH

o we have to justify the creator s actions when we feel bad? the wisdom of kabbalah is also called the wisdom of truth. it is called this because a person who learns it learns to gradually feel the truth in an increasingly acute way. one cannot lie to oneself when standing before the creator. it is then clear that the feeling in one s heart is the only truth there is. but is the bad feeling not a testimony to man s accusation of the creator? the good feeling in and of itself is already gratitude to the creator. we speak to the creator with our hearts; there is no need for words. thus, in order to justify the creator, we must always feel good. when we hear that there is murder, oppression, and terrorism in the world, we must recognize that this is the best possible thing for our world, and

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

e response, and as large and small doses of a drug have been found to kill and stimulate respectively, so have they been found to act on metals. 209. gamong such phenomena, h asks professor bose, ghow can we draw a line of demarcation and say: ehere the physical process ends, and there the physiological begins f? no such barriers exist. h 210. psychic experience and trained clairvoyance add their testimony to this conclusion, and affirm that without a shadow of doubt the same kind of life can be seen pulsating in the body of a tiger or an oak tree or a fragment of mineral substance. as the secret doctrine expressed it: 211. with every day, the identity between the animal and physical man, between the plant and man, and even between the reptile and its nest, the rock, and man- is more and m

s athene and the wings of mercury- just as king arthur received the mystic sword excalibur from the lady of the lake. and even christ said: gi do nothing of myself, but as my father hath taught me, and he that sent me is with me. h 488. the t c of g c r c, it is said, has already been heard in his favour in the lodge. this phrase has a double sense. it may undoubtedly be taken as referring to the testimony to the candidate which has already been given by his proposer and seconder. but it has also another and more esoteric meaning, which has been beautifully expressed by bro. wilmshurst in masonic initiation as follows: 489. this does not mean of good reputation. it means that on being tested by the initiating authorities he must be found spiritually responsive to the ideals aimed at and gr

hall be no war between the united states of america and england; we are of one brotherhood, and the freemasons of the united states have decided that there shall be no war, now or ever, between the two countries, and i am delegated to come here and tell you this, representing over a million of brothers, and ask you in return to say there shall be no war. h(*op. cit, p. 75) 570. this is a splendid testimony to the power of the masonic tie. it is unfortunate that an attempt made later to prevent the great european war should have failed; for the prussian grand lodges, when a similar appeal was made to them, refused to support the movement for peace. 571. the next question asked is as to the principles on which our order is founded, which are usually given as brotherly love, relief and truth

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

ies of the craft from another standpoint altogether, seeing in them a plan of man s spiritual awakening and inner development. thinkers of this school, on the record of their own spiritual experiences, declare that the degrees of the order are symbolical of certain states of consciousness which must be awakened in the individual initiate if he aspires to win the treasures of the spirit. they give testimony of another and far higher nature upon the validity of our masonic rites- a testimony that belongs to religion rather than to science. the goal of the mystic is conscious union with god, and to a mason of this school the craft is intended to portray the path to that goal, to offer a map, as it were, to guide the feet of the seeker after god. 19. such students are often more interested in

masonic square as a decorative pattern on a vase found in aphidna on the mainland of greece is of interest as showing that with the spread of minoan culture to the mycenaean settlements the symbols of the minoan mystery religion too were carried abroad (see plate vii, 1, following p. 50) 260. the statuettes 261. but these evidences of masonic symbolism, decisive as they are, are surpassed by the testimony presented by a number of statuettes and votive figures found in crete or in the outposts of minoan civilization, which are represented in such indubitably masonic attitudes (some of which now belong to the higher degrees) that even the most sceptical student must acknowledge that no chance can explain this similarity (see plates vii and viii following p. 50) it would not be in accordance

h the best-known and most important in classical times were the eleusinian. there seems to be a widely-spread delusion, the origin of which we can trace to the writings of the christian fathers, that the mysteries of antiquity were kept secret because they contained much that was improper, and that would not bear the light of day. that is not so in the least, and i am in a position to bear direct testimony, having been myself an initiate of the mysteries, that there was nothing whatever in them of an objectionable character. the teachings were all of the highest and purest nature, and they could not but benefit very greatly all who had the privilege of being initiated into them. in classical and post-classical times many of the greatest men have borne witness to their worth. a few quotatio

of the jewish mysteries of the collegia with the culdee rites. the culdees of york were among the guardians of the masonic tradition in the tenth century, and the old charges tell us that an assembly of masons was held at york during the reign of king athelstan, when a reorganization of the craft took place. for many centuries york was a powerful centre of masonry; and we have a curious piece of testimony given in 1835, by godfrey higgins, who claimed to be in possession of a masonic document by which he could prove that no very long time ago the culdees or chaldaeans of york were freemasons, that they constituted the grand lodge of england, and that they held their meetings in the crypt under the great cathedral of that city(*quoted in waite s new encyclopaedia, art. culdees) as we shall

59 contain a devout invocation of the names of the father, son, and holy ghost; of our gracious mother mary; and of her blessed servants, the holy four crowned martyrs of everlasting memory(*gould, concise history, p. 19) from the brother-book of 1563 we learn that they had a greeting and a grip which might not be described in writing(*gould, hist. of freem, vol. i, p. 128) and a curious piece of testimony came to light at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when a certain architect, who had joined a survival of the stonemasons and was subsequently admitted into masonry, recognized the e.a. grip as identical with that of the steinmetzen of strasburg(*ibid, p. 146) a ceremony of admission was in use among them; but what it was is not known(*concise history, gould, p. 22) 533. at dabera

to be initiated into the mysterys of masonry, suspecting it to be the remains of the mysterys of the antients(*gould. concise history, p. 54) he was initiated into the order on january 6th, 1721, and says: i was the first person made a freemason for many years. we had great difficulty to find members enough to perform the ceremony(*gould. concise history, p. 223) the manningham letters also offer testimony that the rituals of speculative masonry belong to an earlier period than 1717. dr. manningham, deputy grand master of the grand lodge of england, writes in 1757 of: 599. one old brother of ninety, who i conversed with lately; this brother assures me he was made a mason in his youth, and has constantly frequented lodges, till rend red incapable by his advanc d age, and never heard, or kne

ites in 1757 of: 599. one old brother of ninety, who i conversed with lately; this brother assures me he was made a mason in his youth, and has constantly frequented lodges, till rend red incapable by his advanc d age, and never heard, or knew, any other ceremonies or words, than those us d in general amongst us; such forms were deliver d to him, and those he has retain d(*ibid, p. 249) 600. this testimony is significant, for a mason ninety years old in 1757 would have been fifty years of age in 1717, so that if he was initiated in his youth, our ceremonies must date at least from the last half of the seventeenth century. it will be remembered that the judgment of r. f. gould is precise upon this matter: 601. if we once get beyond or behind the year 1717, i.e, into the domain of ancient ma

the mysteries. other lodges existed both in england and the sister-kingdoms, and other equally valid streams of tradition began to emerge in different centres. york was for unnumbered years a powerful and hallowed sanctuary of speculative masonry; and the old lodge at york proclaimed itself a grand lodge in 1725. it is even possible that it may have called itself such before, for there is written testimony in 1778 from the then york grand secretary to the effect that the grand lodge at york antedated the lodge of london by twelve or more years(*a. e. waite. emblematic freemasonry, p. 59) 617. it is clear that ancient york workings existed, and that something of their tradition, passing through irish and ancient masonry, is with us to-day, blended with the traditions inherited from anderson

ive evidence whenever possible from reliable historians, so far as their works are available to me. this book is written in australia, far away from the chief centres of masonic life and learning, and i have consequently had to depend largely upon the resources of my own library. if i had access to a larger selection of masonic volumes i should no doubt be able to find other fragments of valuable testimony. 732. the jacobite movement 733. there has been a persistent tradition among continental writers upon masonry that the jacobites had much to do with the development of the higher degrees of the eighteenth century; and, as bro. r. r. gould points out, colour is lent to this view by the fact that the earliest names mentioned in connection with freemasonry in france are those of well-known

development of the higher degrees of the eighteenth century; and, as bro. r. r. gould points out, colour is lent to this view by the fact that the earliest names mentioned in connection with freemasonry in france are those of well-known adherents of the stuarts, although he himself rejects the hypothesis for lack of sufficient evidence(*gould. hist. freem, iii, 78) we have the direct and personal testimony of baron von hund, the founder of the rite of the strict observance, given in 1764, that he himself was received into the order of the temple in paris in 1743 by an unknown bro, the knight of the red feather, in the presence of lord kilmarnock(*at that time grand master of the grand lodge of scotland, and master of lodge kilwinning on his election to that high office in 1742. ibid, p. 53

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

neful effects of their music were thrown b 19 20 baphomet (sigil of baphomet) out of court before they ever got rolling. in 1985, however, a nevada judge agreed to hear one such case involving the suicide of two young men, based on the accusation that a backward masked message on a judas priest album had subliminally urged them to do it. the case went to trial in 1990. after the judge blocked the testimony of a variety of self-proclaimed satanic experts, the trial devolved into technical argument between competing psychologists. the judge eventually decided in favor of judas priest and their record label. a similar case was brought against ozzy osbourne of black sabbath fame in 1991 with similar results. see also heavy metal music for further reading: aranza, jacob. backward masking unmask

eled yet more speculation. scattered sightings of similar figures from california to north dakota were reported from time to time during the same period. in almost every instance, speculation though no real evidence held them to be cattle mutilators. in benton county,arkansas, authorities examined rock altars with symbols painted on them. in august 1979 they circulated a document paraphrasing the testimony of an alleged cult defector. according to his testimony, the cult consisted of wealthy, seemingly respectable citizens, including lawyers, doctors, and veterinarians who owned helicopters and a van with a telescoping lift. in the dark of night, these satanists would use that to extend a man out to the cow, and he would mutilate it from a board platform on the end of the boom and would ne

angels. and while scripture does not condemn these actions, the traditional interpretation of these passages is that these sons of god are fallen angels. this history of interpretation provided biblical legitimation for the notion of incubi and succubi. the idea seems to have been mediated to the middle ages by st. augustine, who wrote, it is a widespread opinion, confirmed by direct or indirect testimony of trustworthy persons, that the sylvans and fauns, commonly called incubi, have often tormented women, solicited and obtained intercourse with them (augustine 1942, 15:23. such demons most often attack/seduce human beings at night, thus conveniently explaining why monks, nuns, and priests have erotic dreams. although sterile themselves, incubi (demons in male forms) could supposedly imp

, ill-conceived 1988 hollywood movie, crossroads, directed by walter hill. it was also the subject of alan greenberg s lyrical novel-as-screenplay love in vain: the life and legend of robert johnson (1983. in 1999 no less than muddy waters s son big bill morganfield wrote and recorded left hand blues, which does not mention johnson by name but is manifestly about his faustian bargain. besides the testimony of johnson s relatives, those who believe that the legend was contemporary with johnson point to the texts of three of his own songs to argue that johnson consciously encouraged the belief, as had other blues performers, for reasons of self-aggrandizement. in the first half of me and the devil blues, the devil knocks on the singer s door: and i said, hello, satan, i believe it s time to

on found guilty of witchcraft. it has been said that at least some prickers used a trick bodkin, the metallic shaft of which would retract into the handle as the bodkin as pressed into the skin of the accused. when alternated with a real bodkin that evoked blood and cries of pain when inserted, the spectacle could be quite convincing. eventually, so many innocent people were executed by the false testimony of prickers that in 1662 pricking for witchcraft was outlawed. after some of the prickers where imprisoned and, in some cases, executed, the practice quickly died out. witches marks or witches teats can also refer to special marks believed to serve the purpose of feeding familiars or imps, who were believed to have a craving for human blood. individuals with supernumerary nipples sometim

where he assaulted them in a spabath. there were also claims of cutting and stabbing. medical personnel concluded that five young girls had been abused after eighteen of the children were examined. the derens and two of their teachers were subsequently charged with abduction and sexual assault. the mr. bubbles case led to a great deal of controversy. defense attorneys asserted that the children s testimony had been generated in response to repeated interrogation and leading questioning by authorities and parents. the defense also noted that parents had exchanged rumors among themselves, creating an atmosphere of suspicion that led them to accept the accusations as true. because the child abuse unit was unstaffed at the time,much of the interrogation of the children was performed by a proba

nt sexual behavior of the most gross and irresponsible sort and at a time when they have no ability to know what is proper behavior. they have been taught to associate violence, stabbing, cutting with sexuality and the effect is worse than if they had been abused. the judge finally ruled that the children had been subjected to too much input from parents and law enforcement officers, making their testimony inadmissible. all charges against the derens and their employees were dropped. mr. bubbles case 181 see also crime; satanic ritual abuse for further reading: ceci, s. j, and m. bruck. jeopardy in the courtroom: a scientific analysis of children s testimony. washington, dc: american psychological association, 1995. hatty, s. e. of nightmares and sexual monsters: struggles around child abu

ring families ran away from home and accused her father of raping her. both parents pleaded guilty. this incident convinced authorities that the boy s description of what seemed to be a sex ring was factual. by the end of the year, a dozen people had been charged (all pleaded not guilty) and eighteen children had been taken into foster care. the actual trial began in early 1994. the most dramatic testimony involved accusations of satanic ritual sex orgies at a wide variety of different sites. there was, however, a dramatic twist when two prosecution witnesses testified that they had been blackmailed into confirming the children s story: the substance of the threat was that if they failed to confirm the lie, they would have their own children taken away into foster care. a half-dozen of the

a dramatic twist when two prosecution witnesses testified that they had been blackmailed into confirming the children s story: the substance of the threat was that if they failed to confirm the lie, they would have their own children taken away into foster care. a half-dozen of the accused were acquitted or cleared. the other half-dozen were convicted, despite the obvious manipulation of witness testimony, lack of physical evidence, and the improbably broad scope of the accusations. like many other instances of alleged satanic ritual abuse, in this case authorities interviewed the children in ways that have been shown to implant false information. there were also indications that the children were actually intimidated into making accusations. most significantly, the children began reveali

a number of ritual abuse cases emerged following a conference that took place in christchurch in 1991. a workshop on satanic ritual abuse was part of the program. following the conference, the notion of ritual abuse was promoted by the mass media. partially because of the media attention, and partially because of a new zealand law that allowed child molesters to be convicted on the uncorroborated testimony of young children, the stage was set for a ritual abuse panic. in one such case, peter ellis, an employee of the christchurch civic child care centre, was convicted of child abuse. following an extensive police investigation, he was accused of sadistically abusing at least seven small children, both in the center and at other locations. the case began seventeen days after the christchurc

LIBER ALEPH

abus of savage tribes in such matter as love constrain that true love which is born in us; and by this constraint come ills of body and mind. either the force of repression carries it, and creates neuroses and insanities; or the revolt against that force, breaking forth with violence, involves excesses and extravagances. all these things are disorders, and against nature. now then learn of me the testimony of history and literature as a great scroll of learning. but the vellum of the scroll is of man.s skin, and its ink of his heart.s blood. k liber aleph vel cxi 4 d legenda de amore (fables of love) he fault, that is fatality, in love, as in every other form of will, is impurity. it is not the spontaneity thereof which worketh woe, but some repression in the environment. in the fable of a

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

ly nowhere. that the phenomenal world is an illusion is all very well; one girds up one.s loins to seek reality: but to prove reality unknowable is to shut all avenues to the truth-loving man, and open all to the sensualist. and, if we accept either of the above philosophies, it does not matter. that we feel it does matter is sufficient refutation, for we must obey the sentence awarded on our own testimony, whether we like it or not. i am aware that this is a somewhat cowardly way of dealing with the question; i prefer to insist that if we once admit that the unknowable (by reason) to consciousness may be known (by concentration) to super-consciousness, the difficulty vanishes. i think huxley goes too far in speaking of a man .self-hypnotised into cataleptic trances. without medical eviden

ol the merits of this badge of servitude. we see, then, that in this classification a scientist will concur. we need not discuss the question whether or no he would find others to add. buddhism may not be complete, but, as far as it goes, it is accurate. science and buddhism 108 vii. the relative reality of certain states of consciousness whether we adopt herbert spencer.s dictum that the primary testimony of consciousness is to the existence of externality, or no;1 whether or no we fly to the extreme idealistic position; there is no question that, to our normal consciousness, things as they present themselves.apart from obvious illusion, if even we dare to except this.are undisprovable to the immediate apprehension. whatever our reason may tell us, we act precisely as through berkeley had

d. we must distinguish by methods, not by results..a. c. most seriously assure you that honest laborious experiment will be found to verify them in every particular.that whatever arguments are brought forward destructive of the reality of dhyana, apply with far more force to the normal state, and it is evident that to deny the latter seriously is ipso facto to become unserious. whether the normal testimony may be attacked from above, by insisting on the superior reality of dhyana.and fortiori of samadhi, which i have not experienced, and consequently do not treat of, being content to accept the highly probably statements of those who profess to know, and who have so far not deceived me (i.e. as to dhyana, is a question which it is not pertinent to the present argument to discuss.1 i shall

lly .there is a raising. as opposed to .i raise (the latter being in reality a complex and adult idea, as philosophers have often shown, ever since descartes fell into the trap, one may begin to analyse, as explained above, and the second stage is .there is a sensation (vedana) of a raising &c. sensations are further classed as pleasant or unpleasant. when this is the true intuitive instantaneous testimony of consciousness (so that .there is a raising &c. is rejected as a palpable lie),1 we procede to sa a, perception .there is a perception of a (pleasant or unpleasant) sensation of a raising &c. when this has become intuitive.why! here.s a strange result! the emotions of pain and pleasure have vanished. they are subincluded in the lesser skandha of vedana, and sa a is free from them. and

e hindu philosophy with the idealist; the bhuddistic with that of mr. herbert spencer; the great difference between the two being that the buddhists recognise clearly these (or similar) conclusions as phenomena, mr. spencer, inconsistently enough, only as truths verified by a higher and more correct reasoning than that of his opponents. we recognise, with berkeley, that reason teaches us that the testimony of consciousness is untrue; it is absurd, with spencer, to refute reason; instead we take means to bring consciousness to a sense of its improbity. now our (empiric) diagnosis is that it is the dissipation of mind that is chiefly responsible for its untruthfulness. we seek (also by empiric means, alas) to control it, to concentrate it, to observe more accurately.has this source of possib

rd, with spencer, to refute reason; instead we take means to bring consciousness to a sense of its improbity. now our (empiric) diagnosis is that it is the dissipation of mind that is chiefly responsible for its untruthfulness. we seek (also by empiric means, alas) to control it, to concentrate it, to observe more accurately.has this source of possible error been sufficiently recognised?.what its testimony really is. experience has taught me, so far as i have been able to go, that reason and consciousness have met together; apprehension and analysis have kissed one another. the reconciliation (in fact, remember, and not in words) is at least so nearly perfect that i can confidently predict that a further pursuit of the (empirically-indicated) path will surely lead to a still further and hi

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

for example, numerous representations from the viking age of the encounter between thor and the midgard serpent, from scandinavia and also from england. we have numerous small hammer-shaped amulets, which must be representations in the human world of the protective power conferred by thor fs hammer. we even have dies for casting such hammers and for casting christian crosses, an eloquent piece of testimony to the mission and conversion. some small objects with human form have been interpreted as representations of various gods in sculpture. although these carvings and objects are understood by application of the texts, archaeologists are quite confident in their identifications, and our understanding of scandinavian mythology would be less rich without them. some adventurous scholars have

LOGOMACHY OF ZOS

oes not explain our correct though instinctive apprehensions, inspirations. and certain dreams. all believe in the extraordinary proceeds from our once-virgin astonishment at existence itself which induces a propensity towards the marvelous that receives a check only by redirection and relearning. but our reasoning and our learning are both forged by presumptions. if experience gives authority to testimony, recognition by ideas does the same. we are never fully aware of things except by the influx of sexual will awakening us. pain and pleasure: neither exists without a medium. we make our own evil. there is no malignity in nature. man, in his efforts to violate nature is himself violated. truth is an equation of time-space; untruth is unrelated to immediacy. life is insatiable desire, pers

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

divine natures of these philosophers themselves. in his notes to apuleius on the god of socrates, thomas taylor says "as the d mon of socrates, therefore, was doubtless one of the highest order, as may be inferred from the intellectual superiority of socrates to most other men, apuleius is justified in calling this d mon a god. and that the d mon of socrates indeed was divine, is evident from the testimony of socrates himself in the first alcibiades: for in the course of that dialogue he clearly says 'i have long been of the opinion that the god did not as yet direct me to hold any conversation with you' and in the apology he most unequivocally evinces that this d mon is allotted a divine transcendency, considered as ranking in the order of d mons" the idea once held, that the invisible el

performed transmutations of metals could all have been dupes, imbeciles, or liars. those assuming that all alchemists were of unsound mentality would be forced to put in this category nearly all the philosophers and scientists of the ancient and medi val worlds. emperors, princes, priests, and common townsfolk have witnessed the apparent miracle of metallic metamorphosis. in the face of existing testimony, anyone is privileged to remain unconvinced, but the scoffer elects to ignore evidence worthy of respectful consideration. many great alchemists and hermetic philosophers occupy an honored niche in the hall of fame, while their multitudinous critics remain obscure. to list all these sincere seekers after nature's great arcanum is impossible, but a few will suffice to acquaint the reader

hile he still fulfilled the office of a teacher, even as the gospel and all the elders testify; those who were conversant in asia with john, the disciple of the lord (affirming) that john conveyed to them that information. and he remained among them up to the time of trajan. some of them, moreover, saw not only john, but the other apostles also, and heard the very same account from them, and bear testimony as to the'(validity of) the statement. whom then should we rather believe? whether such men as these, or ptolem us, who never saw the apostles, and who never even in his dreams attained to the slightest trace of an apostle" commenting on the foregoing passage, godfrey higgins remarks that it has fortunately escaped the hands of those destroyers who have attempted to render the gospel nar

umined intellect can grasp its import? such is undoubtedly the case. albert pike, who has gathered ample evidence of the excellence of the doctrines promulgated by the mysteries, supports his assertions by quoting from the writings of clement of alexandria, plato, epictetus, proclus, aristophanes, and cicero, all of whom unite in lauding the high ideals of these institutions. from the unqualified testimony of such reputable authorities no reasonable doubt can exist that the initiates of greece, egypt, and other ancient countries possessed the correct solution to those great cultural, intellectual, moral, and social problems which in an unsolved state confront the humanity of the twentieth century. the reader must not interpret this statement to mean that antiquity had foreseen and analyzed

MEANING OF MASONRY

h explanation must always be difficult, the subject has been treated here with as much simplicity of statement as is possible and rather with a view to indicating to what great heights of spiritual attainment the craft degrees point as achievable, than with the expectation that they will be readily comprehended by readers without some measure of mystical experience and perhaps unfamiliar with the testimony of the mystics thereto. purposely these papers avoid dealing with matters of craft history and of merely antiquarian or archaeological interest. dates, particulars of masonic constitutions, historical changes and developments in the external aspects of the craft, references to old lodges and the names of outstanding people connected therewith--these and such like matters can be read abou

ides the storage-batteries and conductive medium of the spirit's energies just as telegraph wires are the media for transmitting electrical energy. but the true master mason, in virtue of his mastership, knows how to control and apply those energies. they culminate and come to self-consciousness in his head, in his intelligence. and in this respect we may refer to a very heavily veiled scriptural testimony, the import of which goes quite unperce*ed to the uninstructed reader. the gospels record that the passion of the great exemplar and master concluded" at the place called golgotha in the hebrew tongue; that is, the place of a skull; that is to say it terminated in the head or seat of intelligence and in a mystery of the spiritual consciousness. the same truth is also testified to, though

e grand geometrician of the universe from the ceiling of the lodge, where it is located in the elementary grades of the craft, to the floor, where it is found in the royal arch degree surrounded with flaming lights and every circumstance of reverence and sanctity. how many masons are there in the order to-day who recognize that, in this piece of symbolism, masonry is 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

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

manipulation and awakening. the vampire who is able to alter his/her form in the dream is an awakened avatar of the great vampiric spiral force. for if opened one is able to take on the personal and psychic attributes of the god form they most assume. the wolf offers speed, the bat offers flight, excellent night vision (in bat assumed forms on the dream plane, from personal experience and others testimony, you are usually able to see perfectly compared to the bats' own lack of eyesight) and a heightened predatory instinct involving the smell for blood and the speed of quick attack. the beast-wolf form is excellent for sexual congress and demonic awakenings, exploring the hidden aspects of the self on numerous levels. smoke and mist are ideal for observing and surrounding or positioning ne

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

ymarine shells, and the stranding at great elevations of marine mammals, porpoises, walruses, and seals.(p. 57)it looks as though in the midst of some cataclysmic catastrophe of ten thousand years ago the wholealaskan world of living animals and plants was suddenly frozen in mid-motion in a grim charade.(p. 58)evidence thus converges from numerous directions to support the conclusion that, on the testimony ofradio-carbon and other dating techniques, immense physical and climatic changes occurred on earthatlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation167 appendix b: book abstracts some 11,000 years or so agowhen an ice age that probably never existed came to an end, and anapparently uniformitarian regime was abruptly terminated (p. 68)in siberia the picture is everywhere one of appalli

pyramids, it is thought, were constructed in the 4thdynasty.the copper ageit is remarkable that so few antique copper implements have been found (in europe, although a knowl-edge of that metal must have been the preliminary stage in the manufacture of bronze (sir w.r. wilde,from p. 238)the fact that there was in europe, asia, or africa and no copper or tin age prior to the bronze age isconclusive testimony that the manufacture of bronze was an importation into those continents fromsome foreign country (p. 267)the fact that in america alone of all the world is found the copper age, which must necessarily havepreceded the bronze age, teaches us to look westward of europe and beyond the sea for that foreigncountry (p. 267)gigantic menthe adites are remembered by the arabians as a great and ci

c missile treaty of 1972 (world disarmament per iron mountain. 1972 pepsi corporation opens its first franchise in russia in exchange for import of soviet wines andspirits. 1972 a mysterious epidemic of dengue hemorrhagic fever hits cuba and affects 300,000 cubans. morethan 150 die, including over 100 children. evidence exists that the cia released dengue-infected mos-quitoes on the island. court testimony in 1984 by cuban counter-revolutionary terrorists supports thisconclusion. atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation397 appendix f: general chronology of events 1972 in bakersfield, california, a woman hears sounds of machinery and voices coming from under herbasement floor, indicative of underground tunneling. 1972 central security service (css) created at fort meade. 1972 st

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

deep that none were left unscaved? how did the traditions of so many civilizations who never made contact come to contain so many corresponding details? even minor, seemingly trivial ones! imagine it, you arrive to a crime scene and start the investigation by talking to witnesses. and although i d hate to make the truth a popularity contest (wink wink, you d be could forgiven for disregarding the testimony of 2 witnesses who report a story wildly different than the other observers. fortunately for me (whew, a popularity contest requires contest, and there is none, or none who do; even occultists speak about the flood that wiped out the noble nephilim. bottom line: a wicked race of both humans and non-humans--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 8 an angry creator, a small family warned by a

MOODY RAYMOND A LIFE AFTER LIFE

what color clothes that person had on, and how they got me out, and even about all the conversation that had been going on in the area. and my father said "well, yes, these things were true" yet, my body was physically out this whole time, and there was no way i could have seen or heard these things without being outside of my body. finally, in a few cases, i have been able to get the independent testimony of others about corroborating events. in assessing the evidential value of such independent reports, however, several complicating factors arise. first, in most of the cases the corroborating event itself is attested to only by the dying person himself and by at most a couple of close friends and acquaintances. second, even in the exceptionally dramatic, well-attested instances i have co

s have borne out the assertions of the persons involved. in some cases, due to the passage of time and/or the death of the persons who carried out the resuscitation, records are not available. the reports for which substantiating records are not available are no different from those in which records are available. in many instances when medical records have not been accessible, i have secured the testimony of others-friends, doctors, or relatives of the informant-to the effect that the near-death event did occur. 1 have heard that, after five minutes, resuscitation is impossible, yet you say that some of your cases have been "dead" for up to twenty minutes. how is this possible? most numbers and quantities one hears quoted in medical practice are means, averages, and are not to be taken as

as to be unreadable, his pupils dilate, his body temperature begins to go down etc. this is the clinical definition, and it has been employed for centuries by physicians and laymen alike. in fact, most people who have ever been pronounced dead were adjudged so on the basis of this criterion. there is no question but that this clinical standard was met in many of the cases i have studied. both the testimony of physicians and the evidence of medical records adequately support the contention that "deaths" in this sense did take place. 2 "death" as the absence of brain wave activity. the advancement of technology has brought the development of more sensitive techniques for detecting biological processes, even those which might not be observable overtly. the electroencephalograph (eeg) is a mac

MORALS AND DOGMA

e brahmins that ever lived, if assembled in one conclave like the cardinals, could not gain a right to compel a single human being to believe in the hindu cosmogony. no man or body of men _can_ be infallible, and authorized to decide what other men shall believe, as to any tenet of faith. except to those who first receive it, every religion and the truth of all inspired writings depend on _human_ testimony and internal evidences, to be judged of by reason and the wise analogies of faith. each man must necessarily have the right to judge of their truth for himself; because no one man can have any higher or better right to judge than another of equal information and intelligence. domitian claimed to be the lord god; and statues and images of him, in silver and gold, were found throughout the

_mar-kuri, says movers, is _mar, the sun. in the hebrew, aoor, is light, fire, or the sun. cyrus, said ctesias, was so named from _kuros, the sun _kuris, hesychius says, was adonis. apollo, the sun-god, was called _kurraios, from _kurra, a city in phocis. the people of _kurene, originally ethiopians or cuthites, worshipped the sun under the title of _achoor_ and _achor. we know, through a precise testimony in the ancient annals of tsur, that the principal festivity of _mal-karth, the incarnation of the sun at the winter solstice, held at tsur, was called his _rebirth_ or his _awakening, and that it was celebrated by means of a pyre, on which the god was supposed to regain, through the aid of fire, a new life. this festival was celebrated in the month _peritius (barith, the second day of wh

e its path throughout its future existence. the air is one vast library on whose pages is forever written all that man has ever said or even whispered. there, in their mutable, but unerring characters, mixed with the earliest, as well as the latest signs of mortality, stand forever recorded, vows unredeemed, promises unfulfilled; perpetuating, in the movements of each particle, all in unison, the testimony of man's changeful will. god reads that book, though we cannot. so earth, air, and ocean are the eternal witnesses of the acts that we have done. no motion impressed by natural causes or by human agency is ever obliterated. the track of every keel which has ever disturbed the surface of the ocean remains forever registered in the future movements of all succeeding particles which may occ

and ocean are the eternal witnesses of the acts that we have done. no motion impressed by natural causes or by human agency is ever obliterated. the track of every keel which has ever disturbed the surface of the ocean remains forever registered in the future movements of all succeeding particles which may occupy its place. every criminal is by the laws of the almighty irrevocably chained to the testimony of his crime; for every atom of his mortal frame, through whatever changes its particles may migrate, will still retain, adhering to it through every combination, some movement derived from that very muscular effort by which the crime itself was perpetrated. what if our faculties should be so enhanced in a future life as to enable us to perceive and trace the ineffaceable consequences of

d have been devout catholics; born in the jewish quarter of aleppo, we should have contemned christ as an imposter; in constantinople, we should have cried"_allah il allah, god is great and mahomet is his prophet" birth, place, and education give us our faith. few believe in any religion because they have examined the evidences of its authenticity, and made up a formal judgment, upon weighing the testimony. not one man in ten thousand knows anything about the _proofs_ of his faith. we believe what we are taught; and those are most fanatical who know least of the evidences on which their creed is based. facts and testimony are not, except in very rare instances, the ground-work of faith. it is an imperative law of god's economy, unyielding and inflexible as himself, that man shall accept wi

utter elaborate and high-wrought eulogies upon the order. everywhere you assume that you are what you should be, and nowhere do you look upon yourselves as you are. is it true that all our actions are so many acts of homage to virtue? explore the recesses of your hearts; let us examine ourselves with an impartial eye, and make answer to our own questioning! can we bear to ourselves the consoling testimony that we always rigidly perform our duties; that we even _half_ perform them? let us away with this odious self-flattery! let us be men, if we cannot be sages! the laws of masonry, above others excellent, cannot wholly change men's natures. they enlighten them, they point out the true way; but they can lead them in it, only by repressing the fire of their passions, and subjugating their s

rtunate. the swine, also, are indifferent to the great riddles of the universe, and are happy in being wholly unaware that it is the vast revelation and manifestation, in time and space, of a single thought of the infinite god. exalt and magnify faith as we will, and say that it begins where reason ends, it must, after all, have a foundation, either in reason, analogy, the consciousness, or human testimony. the worshipper of brahma also has implicit faith in what seems to us palpably false and absurd. his faith rests neither in reason, analogy, or the consciousness, but on the testimony of his spiritual teachers, and of the holy books. the moslem also believes, on the positive testimony of the prophet; and the mormon also can say_"i believe this, because it is impossible_ no faith, however

th in what seems to us palpably false and absurd. his faith rests neither in reason, analogy, or the consciousness, but on the testimony of his spiritual teachers, and of the holy books. the moslem also believes, on the positive testimony of the prophet; and the mormon also can say_"i believe this, because it is impossible_ no faith, however absurd or degrading, has ever wanted these foundations, testimony, and the books. miracles, proven by unimpeachable testimony have been used as a foundation for faith, in every age; and the modern miracles are better authenticated, a hundred times, than the ancient ones. so that, after all, faith must flow out from some source within us, when the evidence of that which we are to believe is not presented to our senses, or it will in no case be the assur

essence and inscrutable plans, and of that great nature which we are not made capable to understand. let him steer far away from all those vain philosophies, which endeavor to account for all that is, without admitting that there is a god, separate and apart from the universe which is his work: which erect universal nature into a god, and worship it alone: which annihilate spirit, and believe no testimony except that of the bodily senses: which, by logical formulas and dextrous collocation of words, make the actual, living, guiding, and protecting god fade into the dim mistiness of a mere abstraction and unreality, itself a mere logical formula. nor let him have any alliance with those theorists who chide the delays of providence and busy themselves to hasten the slow march which it has i

and horus, seem to have been the model of all other ceremonies of initiation subsequently established among the different peoples of the world. those of atys and cybele, celebrated in phrygia; those of ceres and proserpine, at eleusis and many other places in greece, were but copies of them. this we learn from plutarch, diodorus siculus, lactantius, and other writers; and in the absence of direct testimony should necessarily infer it from the similarity of the adventures of these deities; for the ancients held that the ceres of the greeks was the same as the isis of the egyptians; and dionusos or bacchus as osiris. in the legend of osiris and isis, as given by plutarch, are many details and circumstances other than those that we have briefly mentioned; and all of which we need not repeat h

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

and hinton's passion that heterosexuality entrains an infinity of ills; jealousy, abortions, diseases, infanticides, frauds, intrigues, quarrels, poverty, prostitution, persecution, idleness, self- indulgence, social stress, over-population, sex-antagonism. they show with poincares's precision that jesus and paul struck at the heart of hell when they proclaimed marriage a scourge, and offered the testimony of john and timothy to support the plea of plato on behalf of paederastic passion. out of the court there slunk mark anthony, his toga to his face, one of the legion of lost souls that woman had withered; behind him groped blind sampson, disinherited adam, feeling his way along the table where they had piled countless papyri writ with woes of kings and sages woman-wrecked, and many a map

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

led grand master; geoffroy de saint-omer* guillaume de tyr, histoire des croisades, vol. 2 (paris: editions guizot, 202. guillaume was born in jerusalem around 1130 and became counselor to amaury of jerusalem and tutor of his son baudoin, royal chancellor in 1173, and archbishop in 1174. he fulfilled numerous missions and attended the council of latran in 1176. he died from poisoning in 1193. his testimony of the strong campaign against the templars that was based on a conflict over ecclesiastical rights makes guillaume's history of the crusades particularly valuable. in his historia orientalis (written in the thirteenth century, jacques de vitry, bishop of acre, who was closely aligned with the templars, ceaselessly refers to guillaume's book. the crusades and the templars 63 paien or pay

ord in our discussion of the statutes of the scottish lodges. reverend george hickes wrote on this subject in 1678 "they [the freemasons] were obliged to receive the masons' word, which is a secret signal that they possess to identify each other throughout the whole world. he who holds it can bring his brother mason to his side without hailing him and without your seeing the signal" although this testimony dates from an era when masonry had become largely speculative, it is probable that it refers to a very old craft tradition. french: language of the crafts although often given to excessive imagination, peladan justly noted that from the twelfth to sixteenth centuries, the language of the crafts was french:12 before the idea of internationalism had been expressed* the high dignitaries of

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he was not? look at yourself in the mirror. if you find this uncomfortable, so much the better. the truth of becoming is the manifest being. the "job" of becoming something you were not before is yours alone. truly others before you have blazed trails. some have even been iconoclastic in their self-delivery and [re]manifestation of the gift. so the priesthood of set stands as convincing and noble testimony that those who are initiates of it have preceded even yourself. but each of you, for reasons as different as your needs and expressions, now believes yourself to be on a path leading to the priesthood. each has felt or will feel the startling touch of set upon your brow. with fits and starts you pursue your manifold futures. in keeping with an ancient and proven tradition- one which i ha

PIKE CUMMINGS THE SPURIOUS RITES OF MEMPHIS AND MISRAIM

chicago about b i j a v j f, which had no connection with the rite established here by marconis.31 evidence of continued activities of this old boston rite, or a revival of one of wilson s various activities, was found in recent years. the prime mover is a man who headed a clandestine massachusetts symbolic lodge, as shown by court records in the archives of the grand lodge of massachusetts. the testimony in the legal prosecution of the frauds is interesting reading. matthew mcblain thompson, of american masonic federation notoriety, also included the rites of memphis and misrain in his list of orders or degrees, as is shown by his testimony in the trial at salt lake city,utah, in b j c c,when he was convicted of fraudulent use of the mails of the united states, fined$ f, a a a, and sente

can masonic federation notoriety, also included the rites of memphis and misrain in his list of orders or degrees, as is shown by his testimony in the trial at salt lake city,utah, in b j c c,when he was convicted of fraudulent use of the mails of the united states, fined$ f, a a a, and sentenced to serve two years in the federal penitentiary. his pretension to scottish recognition was exposed by testimony showing that the grand lodge of scotland does not recognize these rites as belonging to freemasonry.32 the rite of memphis in england on october c e, b i f j, w. grey clarke, grand secretary of the grand lodge of england, issued a circular (see the freemason, september c d, b i h b) directing masters of lodges to see that no member of the reformed order of memphis, or rite of the grand l

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

issolve the impediments of, and percolate through, the heavy body and opaque brain "know" says synesius "that the quintessence and hidden thing of our stone is nothing else than our viscous celestial and glorious soul drawn out of its minera by our magistery" hence the entire trend of the preliminary neophyte grade of the golden dawn is towards the purification of the personality. it fulfills the testimony of the hermetic art so that the light within could be fermented and perfected by the ceremonial method of initiation. purification and consecration- this is the insistent and uncompromising theme caught by the candidate's ear "unpurified and unconsecrated thou canst not enter our sacred hall!"fire and water assist in these several consecrations until, eventually, the candidate is placed

of the letters together, but a jumble of the sexes should be avoided in the same form. the image built up should be divided into as many parts as there are letters, commencing at the upper part and so on in order. in addition to this method of determining the sex of the telesmatic image of a name, certain names are inherently masculine, others feminine, and some epicene, irrespective of the mere testimony of the letters. sandalphon, for instance is thus analysed: samekh male peh female nun male vau male daleth female nun male lamed female therefore masculine predominates, and if it were an ordinary name you would make a masculine form out of it. but as this name is especially applied to the feminine kerub, it is an exception to the rule; it is an archangelic name, belonging to the briatic

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

risk any violent rupture of the bonds of a departing soul. death is never instantaneous; it is, like sleep, gradual. so long as the blood has not become absolutely cold, so long as the nerves can quiver, a man is not wholly dead, and if none of the vital organs are destroyed the soul can be recalled, either by accident or by a strong will. a philosopher declared that he would discredit universal testimony rather than believe in the resurrection of a dead person, but his utterance was rash, for it was on the faith of universal testimony that he believed in the impossibility of resurrection. supposing such an occurrence were proved, what would follow? must we deny evidence or renounce reason? it would be absurd to say so. we should infer rather that we were wrong in supposing resurrection t

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

re nothing else than the game of tarot, the antique allegories of which were remarked and appreciated for the first time in the modern world by the learned archaeologist, court de gebelin. the double triangle of solomon is explained by st. john in a remarkable manner. he says, gthere are three which give record in heaven. the father, the word and the holy spirit h; and gthere are three which give testimony on earth. the spirit, the water and the blood. h thus, st. john agrees with the masters of hermetic philosophy, who attribute to their sulphur the name of ether, to their mercury that of philosophical water, and to their salt the qualification of the dragon's blood or menstruum of the earth. blood or salt corresponds by opposition with the father, azotic or mercurial water with the word

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

road to the fairy knowe the secret commonwealth of robert kirk( 1644-97, minister of aberfoyle, is one of the most important books about fairies ever written. it is quite the fullest account of the subject from the seventeenth century, a period when many country people in england as well as scotland still believed implicitly in fairies and antiquarians such as john aubrey laboured to record their testimony. kirk and aubrey recognized that in their day something valuable was fast being lost from the culture. fairy belief had long been dying from natural causes- chaucer as far back as the fourteenth century suggested that fairies were things of the past- but now the process was being accelerated by events. one was the seizure of political control by protestant radicals under cromwell's commo

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eferred, but he had seen pythagorean domination of sicily and italy come to grief. so perhaps he was not so anxious as some might suppose to duplicate the pythagorean experiment in greece itself. whereas pythagoras died a violent death and left none of his personal works for posterity, plato lived a full life and left a rich heritage for scholars. and initiates. of the future. that, certainly, is testimony to his wisdom. the chimaera "the secret worship of the logos in the cosmos, the divine spark in every human form" bibliography. asimov, isaac, asimov's biographical encyclopaedia of science and technology. garden city, new york: doubleday and company, 1972. barker, sir ernest, greek political theory: plato and his predecessors. london: methuen and company ltd, 1918. brlitz, charles, myst

d it supports dark rites and heretical acts. while i doubt that many of the modern gnostic groups will take up the practices of the antiarchal ones, there is a value in studying their rites and beliefs and looking for the gems of truth that have survived the ages. references gnosis kurt randolph gnosticism and early christianity r.m. grant gnosticism: an anthology r.m. grant gnosis: character and testimony robert haardt gnosis: a selection of gnostic texts werner foerster gnostic ethics and mandean origins edwin m.yamanchi gnosticism: it's history and influence benjamin walker the gnostic religion hans jonas the encyclopedia of religion mircea eliade scribners encyclopedia of religion and ethics religion satanic theology: an exploration of the left-hand path in this essay, i shall endeavor

. according to christian doctrine, perhaps satan has this authority because man was given the ability to reason by jehovah? revelation 2:9 i know thy works, and tribulations, and poverty (but thou art rich, and i know the blasphemy of them which say they are jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of satan. this is one of my favorites, for here we find that christian allegations refute their own testimony. if one is known as rich, how and why do christians acknowledge the individual as poor, unless their motive is un-christian, and if such motive be non-christian, be such motive satanic? revelation 2:24 but unto you i say, and unto the rest of thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of satan, as they speak; i will put upon you none other burden. ho

no way, however, to erase or undo contagion. the best you can hope for is to identify and evaluate it and attempt to explain it. mental health professionals requested to evaluate suspected victims must be carefully selected. having a victim evaluated by one of the self-proclaimed experts on satanic ritual abuse or by some other overzealous intervenor may result in the credibility of that victim's testimony being severely damaged. in order to evaluate the contagion element, investigators must meticulously and aggressively investigate these cases. the precise disclosure sequence of the victim must be carefully identified and documented. investigators must verify through active investigation the exact nature and content of each disclosure outcry or statement made by the victim. second-hand in

heart& rejoice! we are one; we are none. this is certainly the most tragic and poignant passage in the book of the law because of its prophetic irony. crowley died frustrated and confused, tears in his eyes as he fought the coming of his final coma [cf. john symonds, the great beast] the "red gleam in his eyes" i suspect, resisted the dissolution of his personality into nuit. his death was indeed testimony to the promise of the "love" of nuit [see #i-29/32. by becoming one, he and nuit ceased to exist as entities who could be contrasted to one another; they became indeterminate. consider also the paradox of the "magical death" of the self when becoming a magister templi (8=[3] a:.a. see "one star in sight" in magick in theory and practice, and also the "cry of the thirteenth aethyr" in lib

d details of which version of the nineteenth key was used on which occasions, as well as comments to tie this work in with my initiatory progress in general. the purpose of this current section of the paper is to simply add one or two comments to tie the others together. it should be obvious to even the most casual reader that a tremendous series of advances are borne witness to in the developing testimony of the records of my workings. from very tentative beginnings in the lower ten aethyrs, the workings develop into a more rationally applied analysis of the relationship between self and not-self in the middle ten aethyrs, followed by the sublimity of the naked essence of self alone in the final series of ten. the accompanying essays chart these changes as they were noted at the time, and

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

le power of metaphor, had recommended flight _to be born again,first you have to_ and she was a creature of the sky, she drank lalique champagne, she lived on everest, and one of her fellow-olympians had flown; and if he could, then she, too, could be winged, and rooted in dreams. she didn't make it. the lala who was employed as gatekeeper of the everest vilas compound offered the world his blunt testimony "i was walking, here here, in the compound only, when there came a thud _tharaap. i turned. it was the body of the oldest daughter. her skull was completely crushed. i looked up and saw the boy falling, and after him the younger girl. what to say, they almost hit me where i stood. i put my hand on my mouth and came to them. the young girl was whining softly. then i looked up a further ti

escued from the arabian sea, spent, sick and fainting. the pilgrimage was over. mirza saecd awoke in a hospital ward to find a cid man by his bedside. the authorities were considering the feasibility of charging the survivors of the ayesha expedition with attempted illegal emigration, and detectives had been instructed to get down their stories before they had had a chance to confer. this was the testimony of the sarpanch of titlipur, muhammad din "just when my strength had failed and i thought i would surely die there in the water, i saw it with my own eyes; i saw the sea divide, like hair being combed; and they were all there, far away, walking away from me. she was there also, my wife, khadija, whom i loved" this is what osman the bullock-boy told the detectives, who had been badly shak

SATANIC RITUALS

f our tears; thou was to convey them to the cosmos and thou hast not done so, for this intercession would disturb thy eternal sleep of happy satiety. thou has forgotten the poverty thou didst preach, vassal enamoured of banquets! thou hast seen the weak crushed beneath the press of profit while standing by and preaching servility! oh, the hypocrisy! that man should accept such woe unto himself is testimony to his blindness-that very affliction thou didst credit thyself to cure. o lasting foulness of bethlehem, we would have thee confess thy impudent cheats, thy inexpiable crimes! we would drive deeper the nails into thy hands, press down the crown of thorns upon thy brow, and bring blood from the dry wounds of thy sides. and this we can and will do by violating the quietude of thy body, pr

n and lust, and the domovoy, or house genii. the khlystys invoked biblical gods of pleasure, as well as dark, forboding demons like balaam, and persian deities like kors. in the ritual of these "seekers after joy" their whirlings and circumambulations, followed by frenzied sexual release, were virtually indistinguishable from the ecstatic flailing about of the dervishes. undoubtedly the strongest testimony to the influence of foreign sects upon the khlysty was their dogma of "repentance through sin"-the proposition that physical intercourse with a "divine" or chosen one (one in whom a god or the flame of god dwelt) would abolish and transform sin into virtue. this doctrine has overt resemblance to and varies only slightly from one preached by the brethren of the free spirit in france, germ

SATANICON

e relevant to diabolism! 4 create! utilize the natural talents you possess to their utmost. creation is the hallmark of the gods, whether it is material or spiritual! 5 create goals for yourself in all phases of your life and strive to attain them! 6 covet that which is pleasing to you! 7 gratify the sexual urge! 8 develop the ability to transform into the animal state! 9 be willing to give false testimony against that which is deserving! 10 practice the liturgies of evil with reverence and imagination, within the black chapel and in their social applications! 11 destroy that which deserves to be destroyed! 12 knowledge, imagination, strength-in-purpose and action all add up to results! 13 occasional solitude is essential for imaginative thought and reflection on life! 14 satan is the orig

SIFRA DETZNIYUTHA

rteen kings of war in seven.150 seven kings in earth appear as victors in war.151 there are nine that ascend on the levels,152 who run according to their wish, and there is none to prevent them. five kings exist in terror.153 in the presence of four- not, they can stand.154 four kings come out before four,155 they hang on them like grapes in a cluster, bound up in them are seven runners that give testimony, and not do they remain in their places. 18 the tree that mitigates is placed within.156 birds attach themselves and nest on its branches.157 below it shelters that chayah (hyx, living being) that rules over this tree, which has two paths to walk, seven pillars surround it,158 with the four chayot (tvyx, living beings) that are moved in the four directions, the serpent turns swiftly with

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

be death. one is then no longer in the world, but under it, in the underworld. one has descended into hades.5 it will be well for such a person not to go under, and if a new world comes into being either the seeker vanishes from sight, or emerges once more, transfigured, and looks out upon a new sun and a new earth. out of the fire of the spirit the universe has been reborn. birth and rebirth in testimony of what happened to them in the mysteries we have the accounts of the initiates themselves. menippus relates how he traveled to babylon in order to be taken the mysteries and mysteriosophy 7 to hades and brought back again by the followers of zoroaster. 6 he says that in the course of his wanderings he crossed the great water, and that he passed through fire and ice. we hear that the mys

SZYMANSKI GREG SEARCHING FOR THE ILLUMINATI DEEP WITHIN THE BOWELS OF THE VATICAN

ip was involved in vatican financial dealings, and whose founder, lucio gelli, was deeply connected with roberto calvi. march 25, 1979: arrests on false charges of mario sarcinelli and paolo baffi of the bank of italy. the two men were pressing for action on the investigation of the financial dealings of roberto calvi and banco ambrosiano. july 11, 1979: murder of giorgio ambrosioli following his testimony concerning michele sindona's financial dealings with calvi and other vatican interests, the activities of p2 and its members among powerful government and business circles, and the connections between calvi, sindona, and bishop paul marcinkus of the vatican bank. july 13, 1979: murder of lt. col. antonio varisco, head of the rome security service, who was investigating the activities and

safety as she has come up missing after going public with details of her lifelong experience in the illuminati, including childhood torture and brainwashing, svali has disappeared. 26 jul 2006 by greg szymanski in january, a woman named svali told an incredible story about being born into the illuminati and witnessing a young child being sacrificed in the catacombs of the vatican. her eyewitness testimony was verified by an italian woman named maria, who said she suffered through the same type of gruesome ceremony, telling her story to this reporter only weeks before she reportedly took her own life jumping from the vatican roof in the early 1980's. having interviewed both women, the details of the vatican child sacrifice were remarkably similar right down to the detailed description of t

TELESMATIC FIGURES

in tylzta. the image would be of aryzty, and in aysa, it would be an elemental form. thou shall determine the sex of thy form by the predominance of masculine or feminine in the totality of the letters. thou shall avoid a jumbling of the sexes in the same form. divide into as many parts as there are letters commencing from the first letter and the upper part downward in order. irrespective of the testimony of the letters, some forms are inherently masculine or feminine based on tradition and sacred writings. example: sandalphon has a predominance of masculine letters but tradition dictates this form to be feminine. should thou wish to build up an elemental form of the name, thou will employ the colors of the path to which the letters apply. while this may at first seem awkward to the adept

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

small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth- recorded in revelation 11:15, 18 god's incomparable will and plan shall prevail. his christ and his people shall reign triumphant forever, and the evil shall be judged. and what of the illuminati, the destroyers of the earth, the ones whom satan's servant, oppenheimer, trumpeted were the "destroyer of worlds" the scriptures give testimony to their fate; they too, shall be judged, so that god "shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth" power the hunger for power motivates the human disciples in the illuminati structure. because they serve satan, they instinctually know they are also serving the will of his human hierarchy. they expect to be rewarded for this service to the evil side. george bernard shaw, who maintaine

t above killing those who oppose his ambitious personal goals or who stand in the way of the attainment of the objectives of the order of the illuminati "in freemasonry it is permitted to kill" consider the military trial of the freemason, cabrinovic, assassin of the archduke ferdinand of austria, hungary, a fateful event that touched off the deadly and fiery conflict of world war i. cabrinovic's testimony at his trial provides us a graphic example of the rebellious spirit of the men of the secret societies and orders. asked if he had conspired with other freemasons to murder the archduke and thus set off a saga of anarchy and mayhem throughout europe, cabrinovic told the military court "yes, i knew we were all freemasons, and this strengthened my resolve. freemasonry strengthened my inten

tionship to these events, their extraordinary meaning, and the profound effect they had on her. in a simple, direct, factual manner, she tells how his friendship, personal interviews, and the understanding of his teachings, helped her to resolve a life crisis, and discover an insightful way of living. this book voices the quality of the clear light of truth which casts no shadow. it is a personal testimony to the sacred life and teachings of krishnamurti, that gold light of eternity. an advertisement for a biography of india's theosophy guru, krishnamurti. occultist annie besant, who took over as leader of theosophy after the death of its founder, once touted krishnamurti as the "christ of the new age" tbe guru's pose here shows he's "on the square" and honors the trifold deity of illumini

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 1

n the other side. while the various representatives of religious orthodoxy may often look upon such stories as visions wrought by the severity of a painful ordeal and a subsequent misinterpretation of accepted religious teachings, and while the proponents of the material sciences may consider these experiences delusions, those who have survived such near-death encounters cannot be shaken from the testimony of their own personal experiences, regardless of the accepted dogmas and doctrines taught by the various religious bodies or the physical sciences concerning the afterlife. father andrew greeley (1928, who has a ph.d. in sociology and is a best-selling novelist as well as a roman catholic priest, has been keeping tabs on the spiritual experiences of americans since 1973. together with co

betans also observed that a strand subsisted between the [soul body] and the [physical] body. like h, miss k. realized that once [the cord] was loosed the reentry into the body would have been impossible. she said, this is what death means. those men and women of a judeo-christian belief construct who have undergone the near-death experience (nde) sometimes quote ecclesiastes 12:5 7 as scriptural testimony to the reality of the spiritual body and its ability to separate itself from the flesh: or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel be broken at the cistern: then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return to god who gave it. one frequently observed quality of the silver cord which

ked to demonstrate hypnosis at a party in october of 1952. it was some weeks later, on the evening of november 29, that bernstein gained the woman s consent to participate in an experiment in age-regression. the amateur hypnotist had heard stories of researchers having led their subjects back into past lives, but he had always scoffed at such accounts. he had been particularly skeptical about the testimony of the british psychiatrist sir alexander cannon, who reported that he had investigated over a thousand cases wherein hypnotized individuals had recalled past incarnations. mrs. s, who later became identified as ruth simmons (and many years later by her actual name, virginia tighe, was not particularly interested in hypnotism, either, nor in becoming a guinea pig for bernstein s attempt

ish are much too reverent about the dead to employ such a brutal word. bridey demonstrated little knowledge of ireland s history from 1800 to 1860. bridey and brian s honeymoon route was hopelessly untraceable and appeared to be confused with the trip that she had made to antrim as a child of 10. the principal difficulty in accepting the whole of bridey s story lay in the fact that so much of the testimony was unverifiable. while most psychical researchers agree that the bridey murphy case is not a consciously contrived fraud, they will not rule out the role that some psychic or extrasensory ability may have played in the memory of the irish woman allegedly reborn in a colorado housewife. other investigators have suggested that mrs. s, virginia tighe, could have had several acquaintances t

ume focuses on deformities and other anomalous markings with which certain children are born and cannot be traced back to inheritance, prenatal, or perinatal (formed during birth) occurrences. although stevenson concedes that nobody has as yet thought up a way that reincarnation could be proved in a laboratory test tube, he argues that even in the laboratory the scientist cannot escape from human testimony of one kind or another. in his essay the evidence for survival from claimed memories of former incarnations, which won the american society for psychical research s 1960 contest in honor of william james (1842 1910, stevenson discussed a t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d afterlife mysteries 69 number of hypotheses that he feels dese

about his life on earth through their mediumship. on april 3, 1848, david fox and some neighbors began digging in the cellar and discovered charcoal, quicklime, strands of human hair, and portions of a human skull. based on the evidence provided by the spirit of the murdered man, a former tenant was accused of having perpetrated the deed, but the authorities refused to arrest or prosecute on such testimony. the fox family was growing weary of all the attention that they were receiving both from the spirit world and from the populace of hydesville and the surrounding area. john and margaret thought they might be able to get rid of the ghostly noises if they sent maggie and katie away from the house for a while. the girls were sent to their older sister leah, 34, who was living in poverty in

ame almost as if she were a full-time boarder at the cook household. when florence cook married, her husband complained that it was like being married to two women. katie began to materialize at unexpected moments, and some nights she even went to bed with the medium and her long-suffering spouse. many people became thoroughly convinced of the validity of katie king s existence because of crookes testimony. others whispered scandal and made much of the many hours the physicist had spent alone with florence cook and her alleged spirit friend. crookes, however, stood firm in his convictions that he had not been duped and summed up his investigations by stating that it was unimaginable to suggest that an innocent schoolgirl of fifteen should be able to devise and to carry out such a gigantic

lirey, but the pope ordered him to cease such efforts or face excommunication. critical researchers in the twentieth century found an alleged memo from bishop d arcis written in 1389 and presumably intended for the pope in which the bishop claimed to know the identity of the painter who was responsible for creating the shroud images. the french scholar ulysee chevalier (1841 1923) believed in the testimony of the memo and so did the jesuit herbert thurston (1856 1939. dr. john a. t. robinson, the english theologian, also accepted the document at first, but he later rejected its allegations and accepted the shroud as genuine. in the 1990s, parisian researchers determined that the so-called d arcis memo was no memo at all, but merely a clerk s draft in poor latin, never dated nor signed nor

the statue was carried through the streets of syracuse at the head of a procession of 30,000 people. since that day, thousands of pilgrims have flocked to the shrine of the little madonna, including more than a hundred bishops and archbishops and several cardinals. her glassed-wall case, capped with a bronze cross, is surrounded by dozens of crutches and braces that have been left there as silent testimony of hundreds of miracle healings. hopeful that their city would become known as the italian lourdes, the citizens of syracuse purchased a 12-acre site and constructed a lattice-type pagoda shrine for the madonna. large ramps lead up to the entrance and the 400-foot high walls. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d religious phenomena 249

achieved new depths of inhumanity against the albigenses. no man was spared in their wrath. no woman was spared their violence. it has been observed that no roman, hunnish, muslim, or mongol conqueror ever annihilated a christian community with greater savagery. since most of the albigensian communities were first sacked, then burned, their records and their libraries were destroyed. because the testimony of exactly what the cathars really believed was wrung out under extreme pain from those who survived the massacres and endless sieges long enough to be tortured and burned at the stake, it has been difficult to gain access to their true belief structure until recent times. research now indicates that far from the devil-worshipping heretics that pope innocent iii decreed warranted extermi

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and said, bert, i wish there was someone or something on earth that adored me as much as rex worships you. i watched him all evening. he lay there at your feet the whole time, looking up at you as a devotee might look up to his god. terhune was shocked by his guest s comments. good lord, man! he exclaimed. rex has been dead now for more than a year and a half. healy turned pale, but stood by the testimony of his own senses: i can swear that he was lying at your feet all evening just as i ve seen him do since he was a puppy. some weeks later, a longtime friend of terhune s, rev. appleton grannis, paid a visit to sunnybank, and after a stroll around the estate and a pleasant afternoon meal, remarked that he thought bert fancied collies. terhune replied that was true. in fact all the dogs th

t was quick to decree that he should be executed and his body burned and reduced to ashes. the infamous werewolf peter stubbe of cologne revealed that he possessed a magic belt that could instantly transform him into a wolf. to return to human form, he had but to remove the belt. although the authorities never found his magical werewolf belt, they beheaded him for his crimes in 1589. according to testimony in the case against jacques roulet in 1598, a group of hunters came upon two wolves devouring the body of a 15-year-old boy. since they were wellarmed, the men pursued the wolves and were astonished to see the pawprints slowly becoming more humanlike. at last, they tracked down and apprehended a tall, gaunt man with long matted hair and beard, barely clothed in filthy rags, his hands red

of hypnotic procedures during police investigations are concerned that too many law enforcement officers consider hypnosis as a kind of magical way to arrive at the truth of a case. the american society of clinical hypnosis has certified about 900 psychologists, only five of whom specialize in forensic hypnosis and assist in police work. federal courts and about a third of the state courts allow testimony of hypnotized individuals on a case-by-case basis. dr. william c. wester, a nationally recognized psychologist, has used hypnotism to assist victims and witnesses of crimes to remember the details of more than 150 cases. wester agrees that hypnosis is not magic, but maintains that it is an effective tool in police work. hypnosis doesn t always lead to an arrest, wester told janice morse

evolution remains a fascinating, yet unproved, hypothesis, simply because the elusive missing link remains undiscovered. the alleged link between humans and their anthropoid cousins may have been provided by visitors from another world. some believe that not only did the ancient astronauts carefully guide the evolution of humankind, they also assisted early builders in erecting great monuments as testimony to their presence. for instance, there is the cheops pyramid, the tallest structure in antiquity, which, discounting a number of skyscrapers in the united states, still ranks as the ninth tallest architectural marvel in the world today. it has been estimated that more than 2,300,000 stone blocks of an average weight of two and one-half tons went into the construction of this last resting

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onger. the wealthy merchant philip english; goodwife proctor, the wife of successful farmer and tavern keeper, john proctor; martha cory, the wife of another prosperous farmer, giles cory. sarah good fs four-year-old daughter, dorcas, was also put in chains as an accused witch. two magistrates, john hathorne and jonathan corwin, were sent out from the general court of massachusetts colony to hear testimony that described tales of talking animals, dark shapes, red cats, and a tall man, who was undoubtedly the devil himself. when 71-year-old rebecca nurse was arrested for witchcraft against her neighbors, the townsfolk realized that if she could be named as a witch, no one was safe from such accusations. nurse was considered a veritable saint by the village, a woman noted for her piety and s

instruct against ignorance, and to direct cautious action. the judges of the great tribunals examined, tried, and tortured female witches at a ratio of 10.1, 100.1, or 10,000.1, depending upon the authority cited. only in the scandinavian countries were men accused of being witches and sorcerers at an equal or larger percentage than women. once an accused woman found herself in prison through the testimony of someone who had allegedly seen her evil powers at work, she might well be as good as dead. at the height of the witchcraft mania in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, an accusation was equivalent to guilt in the eyes of many judges. sadly, a neighbor woman jealous of the gwitch fs h youth and beauty, a suitor angered by her rejection, or a relative who sought her inheritance, may

confess so that she might be put to death. in a vicious and most perplexing paradox of justice, the learned men held that even though the accusation of nearly anyone was enough to land a t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 108 magic and sorcery woman in prison as a witch.and if she got as far as prison she was thereby considered guilty.all the testimony counted for naught unless the witch confessed her guilt. no one, under common justice, could be put to death for witchcraft on the evidence of another fs testimony. what is more, the witch must confess without torture by the court. therefore, in order to fully comply with the law, the judges turned the accused witches over to the blackhooded torturers so they, themselves, would not be th

night. the craze of witch-hunting may have been first formulated by the clergy, but by 1600 such jurists as boguet, jean bodin, and pierre de lancre had eagerly assumed the mantles of determined inquisitors. in his book discours des sorciers (1610, boguet recounted his official investigation of a family of werewolves and his observation of them while they were in prison in 1584. according to his testimony, the members of the gandillon family walked on all fours and howled like wolves. their eyes turned red and gleaming; their hair sprouted; their teeth became long and sharp; their fingernails turned horny and clawlike. in another case recounted in his book, boguet told of eightyear- old louise maillat, who in the summer of 1598 was possessed by five demons, who identified themselves as wo

large as a cat; another was something like a dog with sandy spots; and a third resembled a greyhound with long legs. it seemed the other three got away before the two witch-hunters got a good look at them. on this particular occasion, six townspeople whom hopkins had gathered as volunteers in the watching part of the ordeal swore that they, too, had seen the imps approaching the witch, and their testimony was often used by hopkins to silence those skeptics who might doubt the reality of demonic familiars. the gswimming h part of hopkins fs threepart test was a foolproof method of determining the guilt or innocence of a witch. hopkins would have the witches bound in a painful position with their right thumb to their left big toe and their left thumb to their right big toe, then he would or

he could solve his money problems by snatching a rich family fs child. lamarca had panicked on august 23rd and left the baby in a dense thicket to die. the kidnapper was found guilty of murder and died in the electric chair. although handwriting analysis may provide valuable leads that in some cases may lead to the discovery of the perpetrator of a crime and that person fs subsequent arrest, the testimony of graphology by itself has not been accepted by appellate courts in the united states. in spite of the claims made by graphologists, the courts have ruled that it does not meet the requirements of the kind of science t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d prophecy and divination 139 that may be relied upon in a court of law. in those in

designed and transported them. if this were not enough of an impossible situation, the particular andesite used in much of the tiahuanacan construction can only be found in a quarry that lies 50 miles away in the mountains. the surgeons of tiahuanaco were skilled in trepanning the brain, as were the egyptian physicians. posnansky uncovered skulls with well-healed bone grafts, which offered silent testimony to the skill of the ancient doctors and their knowledge of anatomy. some archaeologists receptive to posnansky fs theories argue that the credibility of cultural coincidence is stretched considerably when related to brain operations. it is possible to accept the fact that two widely separated cultures, such as the egyptians and the unknown people of tiahuanaco, may have developed a form

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year cycle.the sacrifice of the god was liable to be confused with a sacrifice to the god by those who were not fullyacquainted with the cult. the recorders claimed that all child-murders, of which the witches were accused,were sacrifices to the devil. child-murders were, however, seldom substantiated and were not more frequentamong the witches than among other classes of society. when the actual testimony of the witches is given,and not the generalisations of biassed christians, there is no doubt that the person or animal who died wasregarded as the god.in traditional accounts of the fairies the seven-year cycle and the human sacrifice to the god are preserved.thomas of ercildoune[16] was carried away by the fairy queen; he remained with her for more than threeyears, she then sent him bac

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coming along the road on his ass reached his enemies. they met him at the gate and refused him entrance "but" said martin "i come with the peace of jesus christ" and such was the power of this presence that they could not close the city gates against him. but the palace doors were closed. martin refused to see the ithacans or to receive the communion with them, and their fury at this is eloquent testimony of their sense of his power. they appealed to maximus, who delivered over martin bound to them. but in the night maximus sent for martin, argued, coaxed, persuaded him to compromise. the schism would be great, he persisted, if martin continued to exasperate the ithacans. martin said he had nothing to do with persecutors. in wrath the emperor let him go, and gave orders to the tribunes to

bidding of an ecclesiastical authority which finds it more convenient to deny everything than to examine the least thing "by permission, sir; it is in religious matters, above all, that authority can never by wrong. in religion, good is hierarchy, and evil is anarchy; to what would the influence of the priesthood be reduced, in effect, if you set up the principle that one must rather believe the testimony of one's senses than the decision of the church? is not the church more visible than all your miracles? those who see miracles and who do not see the church are much more to be pitied than the blind, for there remains to them not even the resource of allowing themselves to be led "sir, i know all that as well as you do. but god cannot be divided against himself. he cannot allow good fait

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, and makes the first turn around the altar saying: o eternal, may this incense which i offer thee within these circumferences become a true image of the purity of my words and intentions, for thy greatest glory and justice. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator throws more incense into the censer and makes his second turn around the altar saying: o eternal, may this perfume which i offer thee in testimony of the purity of my 19 soul have the same success as the one which zerubbabel offered thee in babylon for the deliverance of the remnants of israel. o eternal, deliver me from the slavery of darkness which surrounds and keeps me in privation of thy will and of thy science. hear my prayer so that my words and my will may conform with thine. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator again thro

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described above comprise the second stage of magic as analysis is the first, so ceremonial magic as a distinct method is the third. i will iterate that charlatans and misguided enthusiasts have done only too much to confirm general opinion in the belief that magic is sheer quackery, but the earnest student who has applied faithfully these fundamental principles, will, by his enriched nature, bear testimony to its value, both therapeutic and spiritual. ceremonial magic has been misunderstood by overzealous b e p e r s principally because there has been no general understanding of the principles here laid down as rudiments of the work. except in the rare cases of those born with a definite flair, it is quite impossible to succeed in ceremonial magic until a great deal of development has been

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the bridge tragedy. some future investigator of the paranormal may wander into those hills someday, talk with these people, and write a whole chapter of a learned book on demonology repeating this piece of folklore. other scholars will pick up and repeat his story in their books and articles. the presence of the devil in west virginia in november 1967 will become a historical fact, backed by the testimony of several witnesses. those of us who somewhat sheepishly spend our time chasing dinosaurs, sea serpents, and little green men in space suits are painfully aware that things often are not what they seem; that sincere eyewitnesses can and do grossly misinterpret what they have seen; that many extraordinary events can have disappointingly mundane explanations. for every report i have publi

was that the pennsylvanian skies were "most remarkable" ships in the atlantic were reporting huge luminous "cigars" discharging small globes of light which sailed toward new york and long island. and on long island and neighboring connecticut, those globes were cutting nightly capers. during my frequent treks out to long island, i saw several of the objects myself and i collected some eyewitness testimony that boggled my already much-boggled mind. one family of seven people swore they had seen a circular object land near a wooded area on long island. they stopped their car to watch and were astonished when they saw two figures, normal-human-sized beings, exit through a door in the object as a large black car crossed the field and stopped nearby. the two beings got into the car and it drov

because of the crowds that were now streaming back there nightly to watch for the newest sensation flying saucers. i started searching for a private place where i could carry out my observations quietly. don, dan, mary, and myself had interviewed a number of people in the little community of gallipolis ferry, a couple of miles south of point pleasant on route 2, and i had been impressed by their testimony. house lights frequently dimmed there and television sets often acted up late at night. great blobs of light had been seen on top of the wooded hills in the sparsely settled animal preserve called the chief cornstalk hunting grounds just south of the village. one resident was having trouble with poltergeist phenomenon. lights moving through his house, rappings on the doors and windows, t

gious "miracles" usually share the same physical characteristics as our ufo entities; that is, long fingers, dusky complexions, pointed features. the flying saucer lore of the past twenty-seven years has been built on three main components (1) the sighting reports, usually poorly investigated by amateurs and believers, or based entirely on fragmented and often inaccurate newspaper stories (2) the testimony of the contactees (3) messages received through spirit mediums and esp. in recent years a new element has been added by the few scientists pulled into the controversy. this is the tiresome use of probabilities to explain that there must be zillions of other planets and therefore there must be uncounted numbers of inhabited places in the universe. in the early 1960s exobiology became the

ossroads for their appearances. modern hairy monsters and ufos select the same sites, and quite a few ufo contacts have occurred near crossroads or on highways still under construction at points where old highways once intersected. derenberger's first contact with cold was on a newly completed highway yards from an old intersection. across the river, the vast "indian" mounds of ohio stand as mute testimony of some earlier culture almost identical to the culture which constructed the great mounds of great britain. the latter were joined by straight tracks or "leys" which formed a complicated grid system. i wondered if a similar ley grid may not have once existed in west virginia and i studied aerial photos and old maps looking for such a system. there are tiny traces. here and there, but mo

has testified she was put in a hypnotic daze by a stranger who told her to shoplift four dresses. shirley cromartie, 32, and a mother of three, pleaded no contest thursday and was given a suspended sentence after law enforcement officers and a psychiatrist testified they believed she was telling the truth. mrs. cromartie holds a security clearance to work in the florida white house, according to testimony. she said a woman met her in a parking lot and asked the time, then ordered her to take the items and bring them to her. mrs. cromartie testified she fell into a daze when the young woman released a jasminelike scent from her left hand "i just sort of lost my will. it was a terrifying experience" she testified. mrs. cromartie joined the key biscayne white house housekeeping staff about a

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

) insanity for the tyro to pick up a work on ceremonial magick like the lesser key of solomon to practise conjurations. it would also be folly to pick up crowley's magick in theory and practise with the same intention. both books are definitely not for beginners, a point which cannot be made too often. unfortunately, perhaps, the dread necronomicon falls into this category. crowley's magick was a testimony of what he has found in his researches into the forbidden, and forgotten, lore of past civilisations and ancient times. his book of the law was written in cairo in the spring of 1904, when he believed himself to be in contact with a praeter-human intelligence called aiwass who dictated to him the three chapters that make up the book. it had influenced him more than any other, and the rem

otic sources, and are evidently of a much later date than the rites of sumer, the overall appearance of the seals is quite unusual, almost surreal. the book begins with an introduction by the alleged author, the mad arab (the name that lovecraft made famous 'abdul alhazred' does not appear in our copy of the ms, and ends with a sort of epilogue by the same arab. we have called the first part "the testimony of the mad arab" and the latter "the testimony of the mad arab, the second part" the second part if the most chilling. the author has, by this stage in the writing of his opus, become fearful for his soul and begins to repeat himself in the text, saying things he has already said in previous chapters as though having forgotten he had said them, or perhaps to stress their importance. the

ny of the mad arab" and the latter "the testimony of the mad arab, the second part" the second part if the most chilling. the author has, by this stage in the writing of his opus, become fearful for his soul and begins to repeat himself in the text, saying things he has already said in previous chapters as though having forgotten he had said them, or perhaps to stress their importance. the second testimony is riddled through with non sequiturs and bits of incantation. he does not finish the book. it trails off where he would have signed it, presumably, in the arab manner, but giving his lineage. instead, it ends before he can name himself or even one relation. we can only imagine with horror what fate befell this noble sage. another problem that confronts the editor is the suspected freque

ans, in almost the same sense that it was, and is, known to the hindus. it is a sacred word, and pertains to the lord of magicians, enki. further, the greek spelling of enki was ea, by which he is most commonly known in the european texts which treat of sumeriology. in the greek alphabet, ea would appear as ha. q.e.d: aum.ha betrays the essential sumerian character of that book. after the initial testimony, we come to the chapter entitles "of the zonei and their attributes, zonei is, of course a greek word and refers to the planetary, or heavenly bodies; for they are "zoned, i.e, having set courses and spheres. they are also known as such in the chaldean oracles. the 'spirits' or bodies that exist beyond the zonei are called the azonei, meaning "un-zoned. whether this refers to the so-call

not to use them; an inconsistency that is to be found in many grimoires of any period and perhaps reveals a little of the magicians's mentality; for there is very little that is evil to the advanced magus, who cares not if he deals with angelic or demonic forces, save that he gets the job done! then, following the urillia text and forming the very end of the received ms, is the second part of the testimony of the mad arab. it is a haunting and sorrowful occult personality. was he really mad? this is perhaps a question that will go on for as long as man tries to understand himself; himself as a part of the cosmic dance and spiral, which includes the satanic as well as the deific, the sad as well as the happy. perhaps the arab was privy to some other-worldly secret that he could not reveal

ecret lore of magic new york, 1972 the sufis new york, 1973 tallqvist, k.l "die assyrische beschworungsserie maqlu nach dem originalem im british museum herausgegeben" acta societatis scientiarum fennicae helsingfors, 1895 reports of the magicians and astrologers of nineveh and babylon london, 1900 thompson, r.c. semitic magic london, 1904 the devils and evil spirits of babylonia london, 1904 the testimony of the mad arab this is the testimony of all that i have seen, and all that i have learned, in those years that i have possessed the three seals of masshu. i have seen one thousand-and-one moons, and surely this is enough for the span of a man's life, though it is said the prophets lived much longer. i am weak, and ill, and bear a great tiredness and exhaustion, and a sigh hangs in my br

elder gods breathed into him. and his body goes to the ancient ones, but his mind is turned towards the elder gods, and this is the war which shall be always fought, unto the last generation of man; for the world is unnatural. when the great kutulu rises up and greets the stars, then the war will be over, and the world be one. such is the covenant of the abominations and the end of this text. the testimony of the mad arab (the second part) ur! nippur! eridu! kullah! kesh! lagash! shuruppal selah! day of living, rising sun day of plenty, gracious sun day of perfect, grand delight day of fortune, brilliant night o shining day! o laughing day! o day of life, and love and luck! seven oldest, wisest ones! seven sacred, learned ones! be my guardians, polished swords be my watchful, patient lords

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in the wrong way. so do we have to justify the creator when we feel bad? the wisdom of kabbalah is also called the wisdom of truth. it is called so because a person who learns it learns to gradually feel the truth in an increasingly acute way. one cannot lie to oneself when standing before the creator. he finds that the feeling in his heart is the only truth there is. but is the bad feeling not a testimony to man s accusation of the creator? the good feeling in and of itself is already gratitude to the creator. we speak to the creator with our hearts; there is no need for words. thus, in order to justify the creator, i must always feel good. 56 of 273 when we hear that there is killing, oppression and terrorism in the world, we must work on ourselves in such a way so as to feel that this i

THE STAR IN THE WEST BY CAPTAIN FULLER A CRITICAL ESSAY ON THE WORKS OF ALEISTER CROWLEY

igate the conditions under which so highly unexpected an occurrence took place, and thereby enlarge his experience, and modify his hitherto unduly narrow conceptions of the laws of nature *huxley fs hume, p. 155. git will be said that these are miracles, but we reply that miracles, when they are genuine, are simply facts for science. h ga philosopher has declared that he would discredit universal testimony rather than believe in the resurrection of a dead person, but his speech was rash, for it is on the faith of universal testimony that he believed in the impossibility of the resurrection. supposing such an occurrence were proved, what would follow? must we deny evidence, or renounce reason? it would be absurd to say so. we should simply infer that we were wrong in supposing resurrection

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commandeth, fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith i have fed you in the wilderness, when i brought you forth from the land of egypt. 16:33 and moses said unto aaron, take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the lord, to be kept for your generations. 16:34 as the lord commanded moses, so aaron laid it up before the testimony, to be kept. 16:35 and the children of israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of canaan. 16:36 now an omer [is] the tenth [part] of an ephah. 17:1 and all the congregation of the children of israel journeyed from the wilderness of sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the

o rings [shall be] in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it. 25:13 and thou shalt make staves [of] shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. 25:14 and thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them. 25:15 the staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it. 25:16 and thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which i shall give thee. 25:17 and thou shalt make a mercy seat [of] pure gold: two cubits and a half [shall be] the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof. 25:18 and thou shalt make two cherubims [of] gold [of] beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat. 25:19 and make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end [even] of

n the other end [even] of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof. 25:20 and the cherubim shall stretch forth [their] wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces [shall look] one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be. 25:21 and thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that i shall give thee. 25:22 and there i will meet with thee, and i will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which [are] upon the ark of the testimony, of all [things] which i will give thee in commandment unto the children of israel. 25:23 thou shalt also make a table [of] shittim wood: two cubits [shall be] the length thereof, and a cubit the br

ou shalt make a vail [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made: 26:32 and thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim [wood] overlaid with gold: their hooks [shall be of] gold, upon the four sockets of silver. 26:33 and thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy [place] and the most holy. 26:34 and thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy [place] 26:35 and thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side. 26:36 and thou shalt ma

their sockets [of] brass. 27:19 all the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court [shall be of] brass. 27:20 and thou shalt command the children of israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always. 27:21 in the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which [is] before the testimony, aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the lord [it shall be] a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of israel. 28:1 and take thou unto thee aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest s office [even] aaron, nadab and abihu, eleazar and ithamar, aaron s

n of gold round about. 30:4 and two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it, page 49 exodus by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make [it] and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal. 30:5 and thou shalt make the staves [of] shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. 30:6 and thou shalt put it before the vail that [is] by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that [is] over the testimony, where i will meet with thee. 30:7 and aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it. 30:8 and when aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the lord throughout your generations. 30:9 ye shall offer no strange incense the

hekels] and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty [shekels] 30:24 and of cassia five hundred [shekels] after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin: 30:25 and thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil. 30:26 and thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony, 30:27 and the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense, 30:28 and the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the laver and his foot. 30:29 and thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy. 30:30 and thou shalt anoint aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that [they] may minister

ff from his people. 30:34 and the lord said unto moses, take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum [these] sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like [weight] 30:35 and thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure [and] holy: 30:36 and thou shalt beat [some] of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where i will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy. 30:37 and [as for] the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the lord. 30:38 whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people. 31:1 and the lord spake u

lver, and in brass, 31:5 and in cutting of stones, to set [them] and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship. 31:6 and i, behold, i have given with him aholiab, the son of ahisamach, of the tribe of dan: and in the hearts of all that are wise hearted i have put wisdom, that they may make all that i have commanded thee; 31:7 the tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that [is] thereupon, and all the furniture of the tabernacle, 31:8 and the table and his furniture, and the pure candlestick with all his furniture, and the altar of incense, 31:9 and the altar of burnt offering with all his furniture, and the laver and his foot, 31:10 and the cloths of service, and the holy garments for aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons

shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations [for] a perpetual covenant. 31:17 it [is] a sign between me and the children of israel for ever: for [in] six days the lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed. exodus page 50 31:18 and he gave unto moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of god. 32:1 and when the people saw that moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto aaron, and said unto him, up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for [as for] this moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of egypt, we wot not what is become of him. 32:2 and aaron said unto them, bre

TRUE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

istress, and to be summoned to her service on certain nights (quoted in valiente, witchcraft for tomorrow, hale, 1978, p 32) i do not doubt that bits of pagan folklore survived on the continent through the first millenium- northern europe remained overtly pagan until the high middle ages. but what has this to do with wicca? farrar, for his part, explains the lack of references to a goddess in the testimony at the infamous witch trials by asserting that "the judges ignored the goddess, being preoccupied with the satan-image of the god (what witches do, p 33. but it is the evidence of that reign of terror which lasted from roughly 1484 to 1692 which brings the whole idea of a surviving religious cult into question. it is now the conventional wisdom on the witchburning mania which swept like

ity en masse until the hitlerian brutality of our own century. but, no such confessions were forthcoming, though the wretches accused, before the torture was done, would also be compelled to condemn their own parents, spouses, loved ones, even children. they confessed, and to anything the inquisitors wished, anything to stop or reduce the pain. a priest, probably at risk to his own life, recorded testimony in the 1600s that reflected the reality underlying the forced "confessions" of "witches. rev. michael stapirius records, for example, this comment from one "confessed witch "i never dreamed that by means of the torture a person could be brought to the point of telling such lies as i have told. i am not a witch, and i have never seen the devil, and still i had to plead guilty myself and d

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

exertion of his great characteristic attribute. to heighten this enthusiasm, the male and female saints of antiquity used to lie promiscuously together in the temples, and honour god by a liberal display and general communication of his bounties.4 herodotus, indeed, excepts the greeks and egyptians, and dionysius of halicarnassus, the romans, from this general custom of other nations; but to the testimony of the former we may oppose the thousand sacred prostitutes kept at each of the temples of corinth and 1 priap. carm. 34. ed sciappii. 2 see plate iii, fig. 3. 3 ver. 613. 4 herodot. lib. ii. of priapus 105 eryx;1 and to that of the latter the express words of juvenal, who, though he lived an age, later, lived when the same religion, and nearly the same manners, prevailed.2 diodorus sicu

that in the said assemblies there was an extreme pleasure and enjoyment. that they made love in full liberty before all the world. that some were employed in cutting off the heads of toads, while others made poison of them; and that they made the poison at home as well as at the sabbath. after describing the different sorts of poisons prepared on these occasions, de lancre proceeds to report the testimony of other witnesses to the details of the sabbath.1 jeannette de belloc, called atsoua, a damsel of twenty-four years of age, said that she had been made a witch in her childhood by a woman named oylarchahar, who took her for the first time to the sabbath, and there presented her to the devil; and after her death, mary martin, honneste homme: que n antmoins il y a deux ans qu elle s est r

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

contained. fortunately for those who desire to project their astral bodies, drugs are not necessary to achieve useful results- 44. hansen, 99. chapter th re the land of fairy t he description of the vast meadow of the blocula, with its central meeting house and smaller enclosed grassy space for the keeping of horses and other mounts, that we met with in the previous chapter in connection with the testimony of the accused witches of mora, sweden, is relevant in illustrating the strong connection that exists between traditional european witchcraft and the fairies. the blocula is certainly an astral place, and is very similar to numerous descriptions of the land of fairy. the accused witches characterized it as "a delicate large meadow, whereof you can see no end" and the enc:losed grounds of

re, but instead inherited it along with the stone circles of the much more ancient inhabitants of the lands they occupied. chapter f o u r religious bilocatio d escriptions of soul flight and communications with spirits are often encountered in the writings of saints, martyrs, priests, monks, and nuns. the church accepted the reality of the projection of the astral double, and sometimes relied on testimony of the event as proof of saintliness. it was known as bilocation, the seeming appearance of an individual in two places at once. one is the physical body and the other is the astral double, which at times can be observed and is mistaken for the physical body. it is not a projection through space, as was wrongly assumed by the church, but a projection through mind, for all human minds are

fifteen years old, was many times lifted up five feet or more into the air, an event witnessed by the entire convent del sacco. similarly, saint angela of brescia (1474-1540, who founded the order of ursuline nuns, was in 1529 seen to levitate during holy services by the entire congregation of the church, and remained suspended for "a long time."63 a primary accusation of those giving eyewitness testimony against women thought to be witches is that they flew through the air. as pointed out earlier, the power of flight is essential to the archetype of the witch. astral flight was mistaken for physical flight when those who observed witches to fly involuntarily shared their astral vision. the ability to see the astral world overlapping the physical world can be contagious, and can be passed

learer and more perfect case of astral projection could scarcely be found. saint clare achieved an altered state of consciousness due to her fever, and her strong desire to be present in the church of saint francis carried here there in her astral body, or at least bore her astral body to the astral reflection of the church, where she was able to perceive all that transpired, and according to her testimony, even believed herself to participate in the taking of communion. yet it is evident that she was not present in her physical body, or else she would have been observed by the other nuns. it sometimes happens that those who project their astral body to locations in the physical world are observed by other human beings, but that is not the usual case. usu- 64. arnold. 103. chapter four: re

y may have seen that or they may have seen an image of a flying saucer or they may have hallucinated it under the influence of microwave radiation, or any of a number of things may have happened. the fact is that the witnesses were exposed to an event and as a result they experienced a highly complex alteration of perception which caused them to describe the object or objects that figure in their testimony. beyond there-the physical phenomenon and the perception phenomenonwe have the third component, the social phenomenon. that's what happens when the reports are submitted to society and enter the cultural arena. that's the part which i find most interesting. clark: before we go into that, let's clarify your views on the nature of the physical aspect. when i asked you if there was such a t

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

d. the meanings are listed below: reuben: beginning of strength, the excellence of dignity, the excellence of power. simeon: anger as an instrument of cruelty. levi: wrath as an instrument of cruelty. judah: glory, praise, triumph, dominion. issachar: labor, service, debt. zebulun: a safe haven, place of peace, tranquility. dan: stern judgement, retribution. naphtali: eloquence, free speech, true testimony. gad: triumph after adversity, asher: abundance, wealth, luxury. joseph: fruitfulness, blessings. benjamin: lawlessness, violence. to employ urim and thummim as an oracle, it would be necessary to consider the meaning of the tribes in concert with the astrological meaning of their related signs of the zodiac. the particular banner of the name selected shows which tribe and related sign s

ogical meaning of their related signs of the zodiac. the particular banner of the name selected shows which tribe and related sign should be applied to the question. for example, if the question were put to the oracle "what is the likely outcome of my forthcoming visit to relatives" and the banner drawn was vhhi, pointing to naphtali and the sign gemini, the response would be free speech and true testimony, indicating the revelation of some family secret. it is possible that urim and thummim were used for more than just divination by lot. according to the torah, the high priest employed them as a 86 tetragrammaton focus during deep meditation until he attained the exalted state of ruach ha-qadesh, the holy ruach, during which the enlightenment of god enters into a human. at this point the

st the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. 206 tetragrammaton and they overcame him by the blood of the lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time (rev. 12:7-9, 11-2. it is vital to grasp that the imagery in the keys is apocalyptic if we are to gain any understanding of its

WAITE ASPECTS OF MASONIC SYMBOLISM

there is no real intimation. it is assuredly an instruction for the candidates that they must keep the secrets of the masonic order secretly, but such a covenant has reference only to the official and external side. the bare recitation of the legend would have been sufficient to enforce this; but observe that the candidate assumes the part of the master-builder and suffers within or in him- as a testimony of personal faith and honor in respect to his engagements. but thereafter he rises, and it is this which gives a peculiar characteristic to the descriptive title of the degree. it is one of raising and of reunion with companions- almost as if he had been released from earthly life and had entered into the true land of the living. the keynote is therefore not one of dying but one of resur

he was first lamented as dead and then his revivification was celebrated with great joy. there is no need, however, to multiply the recurrence of these events in the old mysteries nor to restrict ourselves within their limits, for all religions have testified to the necessity of regeneration and have administered it's imputed processes. that which is most important- from my point of view- is the testimony belonging to christian times and the secret tradition therein. the christian mysteries of course, to speak of this it is necessary to trend on subjects which at the present are excluded, and very properly so, from discussion in a craft lodge, when they are presented from a religious and doctrinal angle. i shall not treat them from that standpoint, but rather as a sequence of symbolism in

, progressing and developing therein, as if a brother should read the mysteries of nature and science with new eyes cast upon the record, which record is everywhere, but more especially in his own mind and heart. it is the complete surrender to the working of the divine, so that an hour comes when proprium meum et tuum dies in the mystical sense, because it is hidden in god. in this state, by the testimony of many literatures, there supervenes an experience which is described in a thousand ways yet remains ineffable. it has been enshrined in the imperishable books of plato and plotinus. it glimmers forth at every turn and corner of the remote roads and pathways of eastern philosophies. it is in little books of unknown authorship, treasured in monasteries and most of which have not entered

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

as to make him deny a belief in fidlers green, which old sailors used to tell about: the paradise where old sailors went, which lay at the far side of hell. so i think it possible that though there may have been cases of people denying christianity, these were very few. to say it is 'proof because many witches were tortured until they admitted repudiating christianity is like saying that similar testimony is proof that they flew through the air on broomsticks. my great trouble in discovering what their beliefs were is that they have forgotten practically all about their god; all i can get is from the rites and prayers addressed to him. the witches do not know the origin of their cult. my own theory is, as i said before, that it is a stone age cult of the matriarchal times, when woman was

WILLIAM WESCOTT THE CHALDEAN ORACLES OF ZOROASTER TRANSLATION

of these in the rectores mundorum, the divine regents or powers already referred to. as it is said "mind is with him, power with them" the word "intelligible" is used in the platonic sense, to denote a mode of being, power or perception, transcending intellectual comprehension, i.e, wholly distinct from, and superior to, ratiocination. the chald ans recognised three modes of perception, viz, the testimony of the various senses, the ordinary processes of intellectual activity, and the intelligible conceptions before referred to. each of these operations is distinct from the others, and, moreover, conducted in separate matrices, or vehicula. the anatomy of the soul was, however, carried much farther than this, and, although in its ultimate radix recognised as identical with the divinity, ye

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

right, male and female, good and evil, judgment and mercy, pure and impure. but in the realm of divine unity the world of unbounded space and immeasurable time, not to speak of the unspeakable beyond the pleroma the poetic balance is such that, at root, shadow is light, left is right, male is female, good is evil, judgment is mercy, and pure is impure. for many kabbalists, according to abulafia s testimony, not to mention non-enlightened jews, truth is predicated on a discrimination between opposites that preserves their antinomical difference. the phenomenon of time is an illustration of this larger point. as ralph waldo emerson aptly put it, the wings of time are black and white/ pied with morning and with night. 67 for select initiates, however, enlightenment consists of discerning the

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

n. the celebrant by a gesture causes the philosophus to approach his throne in the east. celebrant may you enter into the practice of the presence of god, by which you will attain the consciousness of god in the spirit, of god who is within. let your heart be filled with holy expectation, and you shall hear in a high symbolism the divine voice speaking in the universe and the christ spirit giving testimony concerning itself and concerning the path of your attainment. the celebrant rises and still standing on the dais of his throne: celebrant by the power in me vested as the master of the portal, i declare that the veil is parted and i give you the sign of its rending. stretch forth your hands in front of you, with the palms outward, as in the act of dividing a veil or setting curtains asid

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

summit of a sacred tree? in the sweep and under the shade^ of primeval forests, the soul of man found itself filled with the nearness of sovran deities. the mighty influence that a forest life had from the first on the whole being of our nation, is attested by the' march-fellowships' marjca, the word from which they took their name, denoted first a forest, and afterwards a boundary. the earliest testimonies to the forest-cultus of the germans are furnished by tacitus. germ. 9: ceterum nee cohibere parietibus deos, neque in uuam humani oris speciem adsimulare ex magnitudine coelestium arbitrantur. litcos ac nemora consccrant, deorumque nominibus adpellant secretum illud quod sola reverentia vident^ germ. 39, of the semnones; stato tempore in silvcim auguriis patrum et prisca fonnidinc sacr

fiendish, bloodthirsty being, and appears to live yet as a form of protestation or cursing in exclamations of the low german people, as in westphalia: woudan, woudan! firmenich 1, 257, 260; and in mecklenburg: wod, wod (see suppi. proofs of the general extension of woden's worship present themselves, for one thing, in the passages collected in the preceding chapter on mcrcurius, and again in the testimonies of jonas of bobbio (pp. 56 and 121) and paulus diaconus, and in the abrenuntiatio, which deserves to be studied more closely, and lastly in the concurrence of a number of isolated facts, which i believe have liitherto been overlooked. if we are to sum up in brief the attributes of this god, he is the 1 a word that has never been fully explained, goth, vopis dulcis, 2 cor. 2, 15, ohg. w

r freyja are suggestive of liber and libera (dionysus and proserpina, or even her mother demeter; of sun and moon. mary could replace the divine mother and the goddess of beauty; verbally frigg agrees better with libera, and adam of bremen's fricco, if he was god of love, answers in name to liber, in character to freyr. the passage quoted from paul diac. is one of the clearest and most convincing testimonies to the harmony between the german and norse mythologies. an author of charles the great's time tells us that the langobards named wodan's wife frca, and she is called frigy in the edda, he cannot have drawn this from norse tradition, much less can his narrative through saxo's intermediacy have become the source of the northern faith. but in favour of freyja too we possess a weighty pie

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

rited self can find no other unity."2 here lies man's problem, and here lie his triumph and the expression of his essential divinity. the- 87- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust higher self exists, and finally and inevitably must gain the victory over the lower self. one of the things that is happening today is the discovery of the existence of this higher self, and many are the testimonies to its nature and qualities. through a consideration of the self in every man we are steadily approximating an understanding of divinity. behind the manifestation of jesus christ lay aeons of experience. god had been expressing himself through natural processes, through humanity as a whole, and through specific individuals, as the ages slipped away. then christ came, and in process of

aming am i, of form divine. without hand and foot, rich in unthinkable might, sight without eyes, hearing without ears, free from all form, i know. but me none knows. for i am spirit, am being" 9 the mass of literature that has been written in an attempt to portray the wonder of the transfiguration and the vision of god, is an outstanding phenomenon of the religious life, and one of the strongest testimonies to the fact of the revelations. the very simplicity of the story as related in the gospels has a majesty and a convincing power of its own. the apostles saw a vision and they participated in an experience wherein christ jesus stood before them as perfected man, because fully divine. they had shared with him his service; they had left their various vocations in order to be with him; the

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

the claim that one is an initiate of a certain status is never permissible, except among those of the same rating and then it is not necessary. the world is full of disciples. let them acknowledge it. let them stand together in the bonds of discipleship and make it easier for others to do the same. thus will the existence of the masters be proved and proved in the right way through the lives and testimonies of those they train. another happening about the same time carried conviction to me of another world of events. it is something which at the time it occurred i could not have imagined, having no indication that such a happening was possible. twice i had a dream in full waking consciousness. i called it a dream because i could not imagine at that time what else it could possibly be. now

ARTHUR E WAITE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY

cal side of this story is in a similar position to that of the perpetuation myth, of which it is an early version. there is nothing that can be taken seriously. but this is not to say that in either case there is no vestige of possibilities behind. modern science tends more and more to show us that the transmutation of metals is not an idle dream and- speaking on my own part- there are well-known testimonies in the past on the literal point of fact which i and others have found it difficult to set utterly aside. so also there are few things more certain in history than is the survival of knights templar after their proscription and suspension as an order. with this fact in front of us it is not as a hypothesis improbable that there or here the chivalry may have been continued in secret by

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

oice to the inarticulate majority, the black "folk" i have emphasized wherever possible the words and experiences of african american witnesses over those of scholarly interpreters. relayed by persons of varying status.including former slaves and their descendants, men and women "in the pews" staunch secularists, and nonbelievers. african american sources feature vivid personal remembrances, oral testimonies, and rich ethnographic descriptions. for a people who have relied on the oral transmission of knowledge and culture as black americans have, the spoken narrative of folklore is as vital as the written documentation on which many histories of african american religion are based. as argued by the historian william piersen, folklore can function as "moral truth" rather than "historical tr

y. before this time, the term alluded mainly to performances by traveling magicians or the acts of suspected witches, both black and white.[41] there is an additional cultural source that deserves mention. some black american conjure specialists claimed a direct connection to\ 56\ american indians, a relationship that would be most fully drawn in late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century ex-slaves f testimonies. some black american specialists declared that their skills came from knowledge of indian shamans and supernatural practitioners. harriet collins, who practiced folk medicine in texas, acknowledged that african and native american beliefs provided the foundations for her own healing practices "my mammy learned me lots of doctorin f, she claimed "what she larnt from old folkses in afric

isings against the institution of slavery. one rebellion, the new york conspiracy of 1712, drew together a diverse group of american-born blacks, native american indians (or mestizos, and africans of the "nations of carmantee and pappa" together, the group initiated a "riot" with the intent of striking out for their freedom by "destroy[ing] all the whites in the town" this was, according to later testimonies, done in retaliation for "some hard usage they apprehended to have received from their masters" setting fire to a building in one of the central districts, the conspirators attacked the inhabitants as they tried to save the burning structure. after a brief skirmish that left nine white persons dead, the insurrection was crushed by the local militia, and nearly all of its thirty-nine pa

pentecostals described similar acts of supernatural intervention "he reveals to me the revelation of his mysteries" wrote c. s. reese of black magic page 68 of 144 http//content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006 memphis, in the church of god in christ magazine "he gives me power to cast out devils, to lay hands on the sick, and they recover" other pentecostal testimonies emphasized visionary\ 110\ experiences and acts of supernatural healing "i saw a man standing near my bedside, who said to me, eyou have a very bad stomach and you will have to have an operation, f" stated one account "then suddenly the man disappeared. i then turned to the lord and began to pray" after praying for "ten days" claimed the writer "god truly healed me of my infirmities" r

ater. c sick clients are anointed and given medicine concocted by the "doctor" those with other troubles are given lucky charms made of crosses. professor anthony george c attracts large crowds to his "spiritual" meetings. c he works his audience into frenzied enthusiasm by a recital of the people he has cured or given lucky numbers and often these individuals come to the meetings and give verbal testimonies of his powers. c he also gives lucky charms and clairvoyant interviews.[38] while many urban supernatural practitioners were not associated with churches, their shared emphasis on healing, coupled with their diversity in style and approach, exemplifies what one historian of african american religion has termed "therapeutic pluralism" supernatural specialists who viewed healing as a sac

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

and sandra tanner, at www.utlm.org. sandra tanner is the great, great, granddaughter of brigham young. mormon satanism so the mormon religion was founded by freemasons, uses freemasonic, illuminati, and ancient rituals and symbols, and is big into blood atonement and terrible vengeance for revealing the secrets. it has all the signs of being a front for satanism and so it is. i have received many testimonies from the victims of mormon satanism and mind control and the following story is indicative of all of them. it comes from a woman who was brought up in the mormon faith in utah. she told me that "most of the early faithful were from the merovingian bloodline, which is illuminati" and 324 children of the matrix that the abuse of children was handed down through the generations to create

ountless others who have seen that baba is a manufactured myth. the accounts of his sexual abuse of children, teenagers, and adult men, are enormous, and he is described as a thoroughly vicious piece of work. he is famous for producing "vibhuti, an ash substance, and "valuable" watches, rings, and trinkets "out of nowhere, by manifesting them from another dimension. the baileys, and the stream of testimonies they have compiled, proved that the "vibhuti" was manufactured in tablets from roasted cow dung and kept hidden between baba's third and fourth fingers until required to "manifest. the "valuable" jewellery turned out to be worthless trinkets purchased in the local village and elsewhere. baba "materialised" a ring for david bailey, which, the living god told him, was of great commercial

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when they visited st. petersburg, and he made arrangements for kate fox-jencken when the czar desired to consult her for the safe conduct of the coronation ceremonies. william eglinton, elizabeth d esperance, and eusapia palladino were the next mediums who engaged his attention. his wife was herself mediumistic and helped him in his work. in a case of partial dematerialisation (1896, he recorded testimonies of an astounding occurrence with d esperance. his most important book, animismus und spiritismus (1890, was published in answer to dr. edward von hartmann s spiritualism. f. w. h. myers reviewed it in proceedings of the society for psychical research, where he stated: i may say at once that on the data as assumed i think that mr. aksakof has the better of his opponent. in the book aksa

convinced were we that they were really cavalry, that at the next halt one of the officers took a party of men out to reconnoitre and found no one there. the night then grew darker and we saw no more. confirmations poured in. similar visions of phantom armies were related from different battle fronts. books were written on the occurrence. harold begbie, in on the side of the angels (1915, quoted testimonies of soldiers. a dying prisoner spoke of the reluctance of the germans to attack the english lines because of the thousands of troops behind us. machen continued to reiterate that the story was complete fiction. a claim in 1930 added another feature to the story. friedrich herzenwirth, a director of the german espionage system, published his memoirs in february 1930 and declared that the

daurus, and the cock was offered to him in sacrifice. the serpent and the dog were sacred to him, and his symbol of the serpent coiled about a staff still remains as the sign of medical practice. asclepius is also featured in the hermetic literature connected with hermes trismegistus( thrice-greatest hermes. sources: edelstein, emma jeanette levy. asclepius: a collection and interpretation of the testimonies. new york: arno press, 1975. ashcroft-nowicki, delores (1929) delores ashcroft-nowicki, the head of the servants of the light, a contemporary school of ritual magic, is a sensitive psychic who came from a family of psychics. as a youth, she studied at the royal academy of dramatic art and later at trinity college, the course of her education being interrupted by an early brief marriage

dged open the slate by means of a small rubber wedge; the letter, when abstracted, was dropped on to a sort of gridiron arrangement that lay on the carpet. it was promptly drawn backward under a slit in the door into the next room, where lizzie bangs, the other sister, steamed the envelope. in the meantime the ink in the cup had time to evaporate so that it appeared to have been used. a number of testimonies vouching for the bangs sisters are printed in james coates s photographing the invisible. but there is no doubt that some of the charges of fraud brought against them in their early career were well borne out. in 1880 and in 1891 they were seized as masquerading materialized spirits under very damaging circumstances, and in 1890 a colonel bundy charged them in the religio-philosophical

d william hope, he reversed his opinion. this change resulted from his own inability to produce any spirit photographs under test conditions (where the possibility of fraud was ruled out) and the discovery that every spirit photograph could consistently be traced to some existing photograph of which it was an exact copy. while he never discounted the possibility of genuine spirit photographs, his testimonies became an important force in killing the phenomenon. barlow died in 1964, and eric j. dingwall inherited his collection of photographs. dingwall deposited them at the british museum. sources: barlow, fred. report on an investigation into spirit- photography. proceedings of the society for psychical research 41. dingwall, e. j. the need for responsibility in psychology. in a skeptic s h

tial telegraph, 1848, the first volume of a remarkable book containing a summary of his experiments with eight somnambulists and spirit communications from 36 entities that claimed to have died over a period dating back two hundred years. the communications give a detailed description of spirit spheres and afterlife. in january 1849, a second volume of the same book was published. it included the testimonies of the sitters, many of whom were very skeptical and on their guard against deception. in 1860 a third volume appeared. adele maginot was the medium for these sittings. she furnished striking proof of the personal identity of the communicators. in his book, modern spiritualism (1902, spiritualist historian frank podmore observes, in the whole literature of spiritualism i know of no rec

logy. 5th ed. 242 like the work of his italian colleague archbishop gioseppe davanzati, calmet s study of vampirism was set off by waves of vampire reports form germany and eastern europe. vampirism, for all practical purposes, did not exist in france and was largely unknown to the scholarly community there until the early eighteenth century. calmet was impressed with the detail and corroborative testimonies of incidents of vampirism coming out of eastern europe and believed that it was unreasonable to simply dismiss them. as a theologian, he recognized that the existence and actions of such beings could have an important bearing on various theological conclusions concerning the nature of the afterlife. calmet thought it necessary to establish the veracity of such reports and to understand

skepticism, but afterward testified that he witnessed a paranormal filling. he said that one woman had a very decayed tooth which was black and he saw it fill with something white which appeared to be a kind of ceramic substance. when finished, she had a new white tooth (bond has stated that several dentists and scientists have witnessed such healing but would not allow their names to be used for testimonies) this type of healing is bound to attract skepticism from individuals who have had no firsthand experience of the healing sessions. such healing goes beyond that claimed by other spiritual healers and is not subject to explanations such as spontaneous remission because the alleged paranormal production of porcelain and rare metals in dental cavities would have to be either fraudulemt o

uries received by those who tried to catch her in fraud. the worst experience befell her in helsingfors in 1893, when an attempt to violate yolande caused nearly two years of indisposition, turning her hair white and grey. the outrage followed the most enigmatic phenomenon of her mediumship: the partial dematerialization of her body from the waist down. aksakof made an investigation and, with the testimonies of those present, published the full story in his book a case of partial dematerialization (1898. this alleged phenomenon occurred on the evening of december 11, 1893, at the house of a professor seiling, with some 15 people present at the seance. fourteen years later, hereward carrington published a lengthy criticism of the case in the proceedings of the american society for psychical

ing with laura pruden, of cincinnati. in the latter case, carrington admitted that the evidence was not so conclusive; indeed, his detailed account fails to show anything but a strongly imaginative possibility of fraud. henry slade, monck, eglinton, watkins, and w. h. powell were the best-known exponents of slate writing. the commotion caused by the slade trial resulted in some interesting public testimonies. william barrett, in a letter quoted in the book psychography by moses, declares that he noted the same suspicious circumstances to which lankester alluded and also that slade always sat with his back to the light and sideways, so that the front of his person was in comparative shade, though generally in full view. barrett suspected fraud, but instead of forcibly interrupting slade to

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states in the identity of primitive christianity with modern spiritualism (1874, at moravia, at one time, i saw an arm projected from the aperture of the cabinet, which with the hand, was fully three and a half feet in length. it remained in view, in free motion, for a time sufficient for all to observe and remark upon it. its enormous length and size startled all present. despite such startling testimonies, the inference that telekinetic effects are produced by materialized hands should not be drawn hastily. julien ochorowicz noticed an alternative character about these manifestations: a well-materialized hand, when clearly visible, was mechanically inactive. mechanical effects were generally produced by invisible hands. the same held true for chemical, luminous, and acoustic effects. ph

down to the ground, and disappeared. he did this three times in succession. in trying to compare this phenomenon to something, i can find nothing better than the figure in a jack-in-the-box, which comes out all of a sudden. hands that melted like snow the appearance of human organs or of complete bodies was followed by their dissolution. this phenomenon was observed under dramatic circumstances. testimonies of this phenomenon were numerous: frank l. burr, editor of the hartford times, in a letter to home s wife, gave his account of one of home s last seances, held march 14, 1855, before his departure to england: turning this strange hand palm towards me, i pushed my right forefinger entirely through the palm, till it came out an inch or more, visibly, from the back of the hand. in other w

g him the sensation of a blow against the elbow when it did so. when a light was struck the chair was seen hanging on mr. sergeant cox s arm and his hand was still grasping that of mr. eglinton. an immediate examination of the chair showed that the back of it was in good condition, with none of the woodwork loose or broken. in planchette; or, the despair of science (1880, epes sargent quoted many testimonies of similar occurrences with charles read of buffalo and other mediums. gambier bolton wrote of his experience with cecil husk as follows: with mrs. cecil husk, on half a dozen occasions, in my own room and using my own chairs, i have held both hands of another experimenter with my two hands, about fifteen inches from the top of the back of one of the chairs, when with a sudden snap the

at palladino was growing old and that she was strongly tempted not to disappoint her clients when genuine power failed. on the whole, the phenomena were less striking and abundant as the years passed. on one or two occasions she succeeded in discharging an electroscope without anybody being able to find out how it was done. in consequence of this report and under the effect of a growing number of testimonies to the genuine powers of palladino, the council of the society for psychical research reconsidered its attitude and delegated in 1908 a committee of three very capable and skeptical investigators: w. w. baggally, a practical conjurer; hereward carrington, an amateur conjurer, whose book the physical phenomena of spiritualism (1907) is a reliable authority on fraudulent performances; an

otions of religion entertained by the cingalese; and it is difficult to conceive that it could have been engrafted on them without forming an original part. i have frequently had the curiosity to converse with black men of different castes concerning this tradition of adam. all of them, with every appearance of belief, assured me that it was really true, and in support of it produced a variety of testimonies, old sayings, and prophecies, which have for ages been current among them. the origin of these traditions i do not pretend to trace; but their connection with scripture history is very evident, and they afford a new instance how universally the opinions with respect to the origin of man coincide. we are further informed by this writer that a large chair fixed in a rock near the summit

ed the doors, attempted to set the house on fire, stabbed esther in the back with a knife, and piled up seven chairs in the parlor and pulled one out near the bottom allowing them to fall with a crash. this lasted for nearly a year. walter hubbell, the actor, was supposedly a witness. in 1907, the psychical researcher hereward carrington interviewed some of the surviving witnesses at amherst. the testimonies he gathered confirmed hubbell s narrative. the staus poltergeist one case occurred in the home of the joller family in switzerland. in 1860-62, disturbances broke out in staus, in the home of mr. joller, a lawyer. knocks were first heard by a maid, who also claimed she was haunted by grey shapes and the sound of sobbing. in the autumn of 1861, she was dismissed and another maid hired

s of the sitters, and even on the limited surface of a ring. once he rapped out a popular tune unknown in his day and answered in explanation that they (the spirits) go everywhere, to our theaters and other places. there are some rare cases on record in which raps were produced in the distance. the seeress of prevorst (frederica hauffe) could cause raps in the houses of others. there were similar testimonies in the mediumship of d. d. home. cromwell fleetwood varley stated before the london dialectical society that he heard raps in his home after his arrival from a seance with d. d. home. the next morning he received a letter from home which disclosed that the medium knew of the occurrence. countess panaigai wrote in a letter to human nature (vol. 11) that in a sitting with home the name o

cyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1330. person-centered astrology. lakemont, ga: csa press, 1972. the planetarization of consciousness. new york: harper, 1972. rhythm of wholeness: a total affirmation of being. wheaton, ill: theosophical publishing house, 1983. ruggles, a. d (ca. 1853) early american spiritualist medium, the subject of experiments by prof. robert hare. according to testimonies in contemporary periodicals, ruggles s abilities included xenoglossia, the skill of writing and speaking in foreign languages that one does not understand. ruhani satsang a major branch of the radhasoami satsang spiritual movement of india, stemming from the guru sawan singh (1858.1948, a disciple of baba jaimal singh. central to the teaching is the concept of an inner light and inner

ion was nullified on technical grounds and slade quickly left for the continent before lankester could obtain a fresh summons. however, slade wrote from prague, czechoslovakia, offering exhaustive private tests to lankester if he would let him come. to this he received no answer, nor did slade come to london again until 1878, and later in 1887 under the assumed name of dr. wilson. armed with many testimonies of spiritualists and other people of distinction against the blot of the conviction, slade spent interesting months on the continent in the hague, in berlin, and in denmark. in berlin, bellachini, the famous conjurer, testified on oath to his powers. in st. petersburg the seances were satisfactory, but owing to the disturbed state of russia the investigation did not assume the characte

nd, behind it, above it, or below it, nor by any contrivance connected with the bath, the camera, or the camera-slide. trail taylor, editor of the british journal of photography, said that at no time during the preparation, exposure, or development of the pictures was mr. hudson within ten feet of the camera or darkroom. appearances of an abnormal kind did certainly appear on several plates. such testimonies as these from the lips of skilled and disinterested witnesses would naturally seem to raise spirit photography to the level of a genuine psychic phenomenon. but a careful analysis of the evidence, such as is given by eleanor sidgwick in her article on spirit photographs. in the proceedings (no. 8, 1891) of the society for psychical research shows how even a trained investigator can be

FRATER TENEBROUS CULTS OF CTHULHU

rs. his avatar manifests as a human figure dressed in black, with jet black skin but caucasian features. in this form he is recognisable as the black man of the witches sabbath an incarnation commonly associated with satan. he is depicted in seventeenth century tracts on witchcraft as a creature with ebony skin, the long black robe of a priest, and a conical hat a description substantiated by the testimonies of individuals in both europe and lovecraft s own new england. nyarlathotep s physical appearance also compares quite strikingly to that of the astral entity, aiwaz, who communicated the text known as the book of the law to aleister crowley in cairo, 1904, thus inaugurating the present aeon of horus. crowley describes aiwaz as, a tall dark man in his thirties, with the face of a savage

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

n your great mercy you did not utterly consume them nor forsake them; for you [are] god, gracious and merciful. now therefore, our god, the great, the mighty, and awesome god..you [are] just in all that has befallen us; for you have dealt faithfully, but we have done wickedly. neither our kings nor our princes, our priests nor our fathers, have kept your law, nor heeded your commandments and your testimonies, with which you testified against them. for they have not served you in their kingdom, or in the many good [things] that you gave them, or in the large and rich land which you set before 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 jewi

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ated with them; peculiar, undisciplined barbarians will be vigorously supported by rulers. because they go on living with perversion, they will be ruined. chapter five: the gnostic concept of time the gnostic handbook page 55 "and dharma becomes very weak in the kali age, and people commit sin in mind, speech, and actions. quarrels, plague, fatal diseases, famines, drought, and calamities appear. testimonies and proofs have no certainty. there is no criterion left when the kali age settles down. people become poorer in vigour and lustre. they are wicked, full of anger, sinful, false, and avaricious. bad ambitions, bad education, bad dealings, and bad earnings excite fear. the whole batch becomes greedy and untruthful. many sudras will become kings, and many heretics will be seen "there wil

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g in them; but they seem to proceed by regular gradation, without leaps. among all branches of the teutonic race there shew themselves innumerable varieties of dialect, each possessing an equal right; so likewise in the people's religion we must presuppose a good many differences: the difficulty is to reconcile in every case the local bearings of the matter with the temporal. if the more numerous testimonies to wuotan in lower germany would lead us to infer that he was held in higher esteem by saxons than by alemanns or bavarians, we must remember that this (apparent) preference is mainly due to the longer continuance of heathenism in the north; that in the first few centuries after conversion the south too would have borne abundant witness to the god. upper germany has now scarcely a sing

os ad gloriam sublimari; praeterea infantes exponi lamiis, et nunc fnistatim discerptos edaci ingluvie in ventrem trajectos congeri, nunc praesidentis miseratione rejectos in cunas reponi. quis vel caecus hoc ludificantium daemonum non videat esse nequitiam? quod vel ex hoc patet, quod mulierculis et viris simplicioribus et infirmioribus in fide ista proveniunt' i will add some equally conclusive testimonies from various parts of france, and all of the 13th cent, to the character of these night excursions; their analogy to the preceding will not fail to be perceived. the acta sanct. 32 jul. p. 287^ draw from a parchment ms. of the 13th cent, the following, which has also got into the legenda aurea cap. 102, though wanting in the older biographies of germanus' hospitatus (s. germanus 1 bj 7

ezen wirt dein man mazleide buoz' ls. 3. 64. 3 herodotus 2, 111 speaks of a blind man recovei'ing sight yiiualkb? ovpv pi.\j/dfi vos toiis 6(pda\fj.olis, 7jris trapa rbu iixivrrjs dvopa ixovvof !rehealing, but contrariwise to bewitch and injure. here are testimonies to both kinds' ut clerici vel laid 2>hi/lacte7-ia yelfalsas scriptiones aut ugafuras, quae iniprudentes pro febribus aut aliis pestibus adjuvare putant, nullo modo ab illis vel a quoquam christian fiant, quia magicae artis insignia sunt/ capitul. 6, 72' admoneaut sacerdotes non ligaturas ossium vel herharum cuiquam adhibitas prodesse, sed haec esse laqueos et iusidias antiqui hostis/ c

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ed with the worship of elements. it is the last, the all but indestructible remnant of heathenism; when gods collapse, these naked sub stances come to the front again, with which the being of those had mysteriously linked itself (see suppl. to this effect i have already expressed myself (pp. 82-84) in watek. 583 speaking of a worship of nature by our ancestors, which, is indeed supported by early testimonies, but these are often perverted into an argument against the heathen having had any gods. the gods stood and fell from other causes. water the limpid, flowing, welling up or running dry; fire the illuminating, kindled or quenched; air unseen by the eye, but sensible to ear and touch; earth the nourishing, out of which everything grows, and into which all that has grown dis solves; these

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

mma's article in the last number but one ofthezoist,to offer the following notes upon the subject, trusting they 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. wi

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same confidence in the depth and sincerity of that peace which appeared in akeley s final and queerly different letter. after all, he was a man of much simplicity and with little worldly experience. was there not, perhaps, some deep and sinister undercurrent beneath the surface of the new alliance? led by my thoughts, my eyes turned downward to the powdery road surface which had held such hideous testimonies. the last few days had been dry, and tracks of all sorts cluttered the rutted, irregular highway despite the unfrequented nature of the district. with a vague curiosity i began to trace the outline of some of the heterogeneous impressions, trying meanwhile to curb the flights of macabre fancy which the place and its memories suggested. there was something menacing and uncomfortable in

KARR DON NOTES ON THE STUDY OF EARLY KABBALAH JEWISH MYSTICISM IN ENGLISH

ew haven: yale university press, 1998: chapter two: gabraham abulafia: ecstatic kabbalah and spiritual messianisms h and appendix one: gego, ergo sum messiah: on abulafia fs sefer ha-yashar. h. the mystical experience in abraham abulafia. albany: state university of new york press, 1988. studies in ecstatic kabbalah. albany: state university of new york press, 1988. jacobs, louis. jewish mystical testimonies. new york: schocken books, 1976: chapter six: gthe prophetic mysticism of abraham abulafia. h. kaplan, aryeh. meditation and kabbalah. york beach: samuel weiser, inc, 1982: chapter 3: grabbi abraham abulafia. h. kiener, ronald. gfrom ba fal ha-zohar to prophet to ecstatic: the vicissitudes of abulafia in contemporary scholarship, h in gershom scholem fs major trends in jewish mysticism

ersity of chicago press, 1990. alexander fs introductions are particularly helpful. a very instructive set of anthologies (if you can get past the lame illustrations) is louis jacobs f chain of tradition series published by behrman house (new york: 1. jewish law (1968) 2. jewish ethics, philosophy and mysticism (1969) 3. jewish thought today (1970) to these could be added jacobs f jewish mystical testimonies (new york: schocken books, 1977. 20081 30 for full bibliographic information on various stages of jewish mysticism, refer to my series on sources in english. gnotes on the study of merkabah mysticism and hekhalot literature in english h. with an appendix on jewish magic. gsefer yezirah in english h. gnotes on the study of early kabbalah in english h [the current paper. gnotes on the zo

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

which the ignorant would perpetuate, or in the spans and arches of their temples which time has not entirely obliterated. they wrote in characters that neither the vandalism of men nor the ruthlessness of the elements could completely efface, today men gaze with awe and reverence upon the mighty memnons standing alone on the sands of egypt, or upon the strange terraced pyramids of palanque. mute testimonies these are of the lost arts and sciences of antiquity; and concealed this wisdom must remain until this race has learned to read the universal language--symbolism. the book to which this is the introduction is dedicated to the proposition that concealed within the emblematic figures, allegories, and rituals of the ancients is a secret doctrine concerning the inner mysteries of life, whi

ows: they constituted the sun in the 15th part of leo, the moon in the 15th part of cancer, saturn in the 15th part of capricorn, jupiter in the 15th part of sagittary, mars in the 15th part of scorpio, venus in the 15th part of libra, mercury in the 15th part of virgo, and the horoscope in the 15th part of cancer. conformably to this geniture, therefore, to these conditions of the stars, and the testimonies which they adduce in confirmation of this geniture, they are of opinion that the destinies of men, also, are disposed in accordance with the above arrangement, as maybe learnt from that book of sculapius which is called muriogenesiv (i.e. ten thousand, or an innumerable multitude of genitures) in order that nothing in the several genitures of men may be found to be discordant with the

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most happy and satisfied in their pursuits, who have the loftiest ends in view. artists, mechanicians, and inventors, all who seek to find principles or develop beauty in their work, seem most to enjoy it. the farmer who labors for the beautifying and scientific cultivation of his estate, is more happy in his labors than one who tills his own land for a mere subsistence. this is one of the signal testimonies which all human employments give to the high demands of our nature. to gather wealth never gives such satisfaction as to bring the humblest piece of machinery to perfection: at least, when wealth is sought for display and ostentation, or mere luxury, and ease, and pleasure; and not for ends of philanthropy, the relief of kindred, or the payment of just debts, or as a means to attain so

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es was immediately copied at the abbey of saint pierre sur dives (calvados) and, soon after, throughout ile de france and normandy. the cathedrals of strasbourg, laon, noyon, senlis, and soissons were cradles of similar associations, whose members were both ardent christians and artists beyond compare. in a letter of 1140 addressed by the abbot aymon to the masons of tuttebury in england, we have testimonies of the bursts of faith that animated these men* this piece of correspondence provides us with* hist. litt. de la france par les religteux benedictines, vol. 12 (paris: m. paulin, 1865-1866, 356; mabillon, ann. benedict, vol. 128 (paris: billaine, 1668-1701, n. 67. it should be noted that the english legend places among the ancestors of the order a certain aymon, son of hiram, who was t

r who, placed under the jurisdiction of an abbey, shared the legal status of the area in which he lived, to submit at the same time to royal jurisdiction so that his affairs would prosper."17 joint allegiance to the templars and to the royalty ensured commissions from both. this state of affairs does not make the historian's task an easy one. templar documents are fairly scarce* we do have useful testimonies that help us pick up the trail of craftsmen in the former templar censive district: the old epitaph records in paris churches; street names; records of pious and charitable foundations, chapels, and trade groups. all of these are sources of evidence that help us follow through the centuries until the french revolution the existence of what we call templar communities. the example of th

and the necessity to heed the demands of the divine. the initiatory ritual of death and resurrection is the ascetic reflection of the model of christ's passion. more than any other profession, that of construction illustrated this concept perfectly through the different kinds of knowledge it required and the conjunction of science and beauty in its art, and by its purpose, whose grandest and most testimonies are god's dwellings on earth: churches and cathedrals. the art and learning that finds expression in the smallest detail of every work is based on intangible foundations as they are touching on perfection. this thereby establishes the tradition as well as the path to which a person must necessarily be initiated in order to take part in the work. on the practical and social plane, freem

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

isible wights which haunt houses seem rather to be of our subterranean inhabitants, which appear often to men of the second sight, than [to be] evil spirits or devils. though they throw great stones, pieces of earth, and wood, at the inhabitants, they hurt them not at all [just] as if they acted not maliciously like devils, but in sport like buffoons and drolls. all ages have offered some obscure testimonies of it [that is, the existence of otherworldly beings] such as pythagoras' doctrine of transmigration; socrates' daemone that gave him precautions of future dangers; plato's classing them into various vehiculated species of spirits; dionysius areopagita's marshalling [of] nine orders of spirits [from] superior [to] subordinate; the [classical] poets [in] their borrowing from the philoso

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

ayal of the mysteries to the uninitiated; the betrayer would be punished not just with the confiscation of property but with death. we know that the poet aeschylus was accused of representing certain contents of the mysteries on the stage. he escaped death only by the mysteries and mysteriosophy 3 taking refuge at the altar of dionysus and legally proving that he was not an initiate.3 the ancient testimonies to the mysteries are at once revealing yet full of ambiguity. the initiates were convinced that to tell what they knew would be sinful, and indeed that it would be sinful for the uninitiated to hear it. plutarch mentions the terror of the initiand, and compares his position to a preparation for death.4 a special mode of life was one of the requirements for a subsequent initiation. the

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ey still continue to conceal secrets and occasionally yield surprising information that forces new historical interpretations of past societies. there are other places that have become mysterious sites because of unusual occurrences. the claimed miraculous healing at lourdes, france, the accounts of spiritual illumination at jerusalem and mecca, and the sacred visions at taos, new mexico, provide testimonies of faith and wonder that must be assessed by each individual. there are also the lost civilizations and mysterious places that may never have existed beyond the human imagination. more than 2,500 years ago, legends first began about atlantis, an ideal society that enjoyed an abundance of natural resources, great military power, splendid building and engineering feats, and intellectual

isciple of the materialistic religion of test tubes, chemical compounds, and mathematical formulas still cannot answer the ultimate question what lies beyond physical death? some scientists compromise because their instincts or desires prompt them to hope that life goes on, and they point to the research being done with those men and women who have survived the near-death experience (nde) and the testimonies of medical personnel who have observed individuals undergoing deathbed visions. while some scientists may argue that the answers that come forth from those who have experienced nde are subjective, other researchers insist that such reports do provide valuable clues to the dimensions of reality that lie beyond physical death. throughout history there have been men and women who have bee

d babies. the tribunal judges of the inquisition examined, tried, and tortured female witches over male witches at a ratio of (depending upon the authority) 10 to 1, 100 to 1, or 10,000 to 1. and beginning with the brutal search for the devil s mark, the inquisitors directed their tortures toward the private parts of the body. once a woman accused of witchcraft found herself in prison through the testimonies of witnesses who had seen her alleged evil powers at work (these could be a neighbor woman jealous of her beauty, a suitor disappointed at her rejection of his love, a relative who sought her share of an inheritance, she was often as good as condemned. at the height of the witch hunt mania, an accusation was the equivalent of guilt in the eyes of judges. and few lawyers would dare defe

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ey still continue to conceal secrets and occasionally yield surprising information that forces new historical interpretations of past societies. there are other places that have become mysterious sites because of unusual occurrences. the claimed miraculous healing at lourdes, france, the accounts of spiritual illumination at jerusalem and mecca, and the sacred visions at taos, new mexico, provide testimonies of faith and wonder that must be assessed by each individual. there are also the lost civilizations and mysterious places that may never have existed beyond the human imagination. more than 2,500 years ago, legends first began about atlantis, an ideal society that enjoyed an abundance of natural resources, great military power, splendid building and engineering feats, and intellectual

sciousness is a brain state wherein one loses the sense of identity with one s body or with one s normal sense perceptions. a person may enter an altered state of consciousness through such things as sensory deprivation or overload, neurochemical imbalance, fever, or trauma. one may also achieve an altered state by chanting, meditating, entering a trance state, or ingesting psychedelic drugs. the testimonies of mystics and meditators who claim that their ability to enter altered states of consciousness has brought them enlightenment or transcendence are generally regarded with great skepticism among the majority of scientists in western society. other researchers, especially those in the field of parapsychology, maintain that western science must recognize the value of studying altered sta

l journeys of the soul or are they only vivid dreams or hallucinations? dr. hornell hart s investigation of out-ofbody experiences (also known as astral projection) and psi phenomena led him to theorize that the brain was but an instrument by which consciousness expressed itself, rather than a generator that produced consciousness. hart contended that the available evidence strongly supported the testimonies of those individuals who claimed that their personal consciousness had observed scenes and acted at long distances away from their physical bodies. dr. eugene e. bernard, professor of psychology at north carolina state university, who studied astral projection extensively, stated that he found it highly improbable that so many people who were apparently psychologically healthy were hav

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ey still continue to conceal secrets and occasionally yield surprising information that forces new historical interpretations of past societies. there are other places that have become mysterious sites because of unusual occurrences. the claimed miraculous healing at lourdes, france, the accounts of spiritual illumination at jerusalem and mecca, and the sacred visions at taos, new mexico, provide testimonies of faith and wonder that must be assessed by each individual. there are also the glost h civilizations and mysterious places that may never have existed beyond the human imagination. more than 2,500 years ago, legends first began about atlantis, an ideal society that enjoyed an abundance of natural resources, great military power, splendid building and engineering feats, and intellectu

by them, but by their persecutors. in zell fs thought, such an injustice would be much as if the nazis had succeeded in eradicating judaism to the extent that, generations later, the common opinion of what the jewish faith was all about was derived solely from the anti- semitic propaganda of the third reich.just as the opinion of what wicca is all about has been largely derived from the tortured testimonies of those who were put on trial for witchcraft by the inquisition. zell fs analogy makes the point that today fs wiccans may no longer be tortured or burned alive at the stake, but they still suffer from persecution of character at the hands of unknowing, indifferent, or biased journalists, clergypersons, and educators. m delving deeper adler, margot. drawing down the moon: witches, dru

y erected as tombs, yet not a single body has been found in any of them. other places have become mysterious sites because things have happened there that are impossible to document fully, yet physical evidence remains that promotes further speculation. the claimed miraculous healings at lourdes, the accounts of spiritual illumination at jerusalem and mecca, and the sacred visions at taos provide testimonies of faith and wonder that must be assessed by each individual. this chapter also deals with accounts of vanished civilizations.places where ruins are found that offer mute evidence to the majesty and glory of prior cultures. no one can dispute the evidence of the mayan temples, the splendor of tiahuanaco, the mystique of angkor wat, but scholars fiercely debate the intricacies of the pu

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ke great care of him, perhaps he is consumptive. has you wife been ill for a long time? cheer up, she will die of it! hope and work is the message of heaven to us by the voice of all good souls. despair and die, hell cries to us in every word and movement, even in all the friendly acts and caresses of imperfect or degraded beings. whatever the reputation of any one may be, and whatever may be the testimonies of friendship that that person may give you, if, on leaving him, you feel yourself less well disposed and weaker, he is pernicious for you: avoid him. our double magnetism produces in us two sorts of sympathies. we need to absorb and to radiate turn by turn. our heart loves contrasts, and there are few women who have loved two men of genius in succession. one finds peace through the pr

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who were not married and women were forbidden to study kabbalah. but it was the ari who determined that from his generation onward, the kabbalah is permitted to all: men, women and children, provided they are imbued with a desire for spirituality, which testifies to the maturity of their souls. the desire and one s passion for spirituality, one s search for the meaning of life, those are the only testimonies to one s readiness to study the wisdom of kabbalah. moreover, rabbi kook answered the question of, who can study kabbalah? with the simple words: anyone who wishes it. prior knowledge there is no need for any prior knowledge in order to study kabbalah. it is a science that deals with one s spiritual contact with the creator. just as a child leaves its mother s womb naked and wet, so do

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ht flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live: 4:43 [namely] bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the reubenites; and ramoth in gilead, of the gadites; and golan in bashan, of the manassites. 4:44 and this is the law which moses set before the children of israel: 4:45 these [are] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which moses spake unto the children of israel, after they came forth out of egypt, 4:46 on this side jordan, in the valley over against beth-peor, in the land of sihon king of the amorites, who dwelt at heshbon, whom moses and the children of israel smote, after they were come forth out of egypt: 4:47 and they possessed his land, and the land of og

ll not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which [are] round about you; 6:15 (for the lord thy god [is] a jealous god among you) lest the anger of the lord thy god be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth. 6:16 ye shall not tempt the lord your god, as ye tempted [him] in massah. 6:17 ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the lord your god, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee. 6:18 and thou shalt do [that which is] right and good in the sight of the lord: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the lord sware unto thy fathers, 6:19 to cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the lord hath spoken. 6:20 [and] when thy son asketh thee in time to come, sayin

s statutes, which he hath commanded thee. 6:18 and thou shalt do [that which is] right and good in the sight of the lord: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the lord sware unto thy fathers, 6:19 to cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the lord hath spoken. 6:20 [and] when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, what [mean] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the lord our god hath commanded you? 6:21 then thou shalt say unto thy son, we were pharaoh s bondmen in egypt; and the lord brought us out of egypt with a mighty hand: 6:22 and the lord shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon egypt, upon pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes: 6:23 and he brought us out from thence, that

and bowed himself to king solomon: and solomon said unto him, go to thine house. 2:1 now the days of david drew nigh that he should die; and he charged solomon his son, saying, 2:2 i go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man; 2:3 and keep the charge of the lord thy god, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself: 2:4 that the lord may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, if thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of israel. 2:

, and keep my commandments [and] my statutes, according to all the law which i commanded your fathers, and which i sent to you by my servants the prophets. 17:14 notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the lord their god. 17:15 and they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that [were] round about them [concerning] whom the lord had charged them, that they should not do like them. 17:16 and they left all the commandments of the lord their god, and made them molten images [even] two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and serv

lord, and all the men of judah and all the inhabitants of jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the lord. 23:3 and the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the lord, to walk after the lord, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all [their] heart and all [their] soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. and all the people stood to the covenant. 23:4 and the king commanded hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the lord all the vessels that were made for baal, and for t

have willingly offered all these things: and now have i seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee. 29:18 o lord god of abraham, isaac, and of israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee: 29:19 and give unto solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all [these things] and to build the palace, for the which i have made provision. 29:20 and david said to all the congregation, now bless the lord your god. and all the congregation blessed the lord god of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the lord, and the king. 29:21 and they sacrificed sacrifices unto the lord, and offered burnt of

he house of the lord, and all the men of judah, and the inhabitants of jerusalem, and the priests, and the levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the lord. 34:31 and the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the lord, to walk after the lord, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book. 34:32 and he caused all that were present in jerusalem and benjamin to stand [to it] and the inhabitants of jerusalem did according to the covenant of god, the god of their fathers. 34:33 and josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries th

, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of assyria unto this day. 9:33 howbeit thou [art] just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly: 9:34 neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them. 9:35 for they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works. 9:36 behold, we [are] servants this day, and [for] the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good ther

] ever of old. 25:7 remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness sake, o lord. 25:8 good and upright [is] the lord: therefore will he teach sinners in the way. 25:9 the meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way. 25:10 all the paths of the lord [are] mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. 25:11 for thy name s sake, o lord, pardon mine iniquity; for it [is] great. 25:12 what man [is] he that feareth the lord? him shall he teach in the way [that] he shall choose. 25:13 his soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth. 25:14 the secret of the lord [is] with them that fear him; and he page 321 psalms will shew them his covenant. 25:15 mine eyes [are] ever

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