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s by. kerux: leads neophyte back as he came, to between the pillars. hiero: let the neophyte enter the pathway of good. kerux: leads neophyte s.e, and halts opposite hegemon, stepping aside from before neophyte. heg: whence comest thou? kerux: i come from between the pillars, and i seek the light of the hidden knowledge in the name of adonai. heg: the great angel metatron answered, and said: i am the angel of the presence divine. the wise gaze upon the created world and behold there the dazzling image of the creator. not yet can thine eyes bear that dazzling image. return, for thou canst not pass by. kerux: turns and leads neophyte back between the pillars. hiero: let the neophyte enter the straight and narrow pathway which turns neither to the right hand nor to the left hand. kerux: leads

, represent the seven planets and the seven qabalistic palaces of assiah, the material world- which answer to the seven apocalyptic churches which are in asia or assiah- as these again allude to the seven lamps before the throne on another plane. within each circle is a triangle to represent the three fold creative idea operating in all things. on the right-hand side of each is the hebrew name of the angel who governs the planet; on the left side is the hebrew name of the sphere of the planet itself; while the hebrew letter beneath the base is one of the duplicated letters of the hebrew alphabet which refer to the seven planets. the seven double letters of the hebrew alphabet have each two sounds associated with them, one hard, and one soft. they are called double, because each letter repr

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abaoth, spirits of water adore your creator. hiero: taking cup of water from before tablet and making therewith the sign of the eagle in the air before it. hiero: in the name of gabriel, the great archangel of water, and in the sign of the eagle, spirits of water adore your creator (making the cross with cup of water) in the names and letters of the great western quadrangle revealed unto enoch by the angel ave, spirits of water adore your creator (holding cup on high) in the three great secret names of god, borne on the banners of the west, empeh arsol gaiol, spirits of water adore your creator. in the name of pa agiosel great king of the west, spirits of water adore your creator. hiero: replaces cup and returns to place. all face east. hiero: in the name of elohim tzabaoth i declare this

hod. hierophant, hegemon and theoricus come to west of altar. hiero: before you upon the altar is the 20th key of the tarot, which symbolically resumes the ideas. to the uninitiated eye it apparently represents the last judgement, with an angel blowing a trumpet and the dead rising from the tombs. but its meaning is far more occult and recondite than this, for it is a glyph of the powers of fire. the angel encircled by a rainbow whence leap coruscation s of fire, and crowned with the sun, represents michael, the great archangel, the ruler of solar fire. the serpents which leap in the rainbow are symbols of the fiery seraphim. the trumpet represents the influence of the spirit descending from binah, while the banner with the cross refers to the four rivers of paradise and the letters of the

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n tzabaoth, spirits of fire, adore your creator. hiero: takes the incense from before the tablet, and making therewith the sign leo in the air before it. hiero: in the name of michael the great archangel of fire, and in the sign of the lion, spirits of fire, adore your creator (making with incense the sign of cross) in the names and letters of the great southern quadrangle, revealed unto enoch by the angel ave, spirits of fire, adore your creator (holding incense on high) in the three great secret names of god, borne on the banners of the south, oip teea pedoce spirits of fire, adore your creator. in the name of edelperna, great king of the south, spirits of fire adore your creator. hiero: replaces incense and returns to place. all face east. hiero: in the name of tetragrammaton tzabaoth

re reigned a king over israel. heg: leads practicus round the temple and again halts before dais. hiereus: rises with red lamp in his hand. hiereus: the dukes of edom were amazed, trembling took hold of the mighty of moab. lord when thou wentest out of seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of edom, the earth trembled and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water. curse ye meroz said the angel of the lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof, because they came not to the help of the lord, to the help of the lord against the mighty. the river kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river kishon, o my soul thou hast trodden down strength. he bowed the heavens also and came down and darkness was under his feet. at the brightness that was before him, the thick clouds

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

some sort, whether it be god, goddess or spirit, good or evil. evocations were performed by medieval practitioners of magick to summon up angels (and sometimes demons) and bind them to perform tasks, rather like the middle eastern djinn, or genie, who, in faerie tales, would appear from a magick lamp or corked bottle and grant wishes. incense would be used to give substance to the etheric form of the angel or demon concerned (modem magick tends to be a little wary of calling up spirits, however, whose malevolent energies may cause harm) in contrast, invocations were used to endow the practitioner with the power to carry out magical purposes through a form of possession, with the angel or god acting directly from within the practitioner's body. elementals have also been associated for hundr

in the east. however, recently i have started to use a more traditional association of raphael as the messenger in the east and uriel as sentinel of the north and i have found that this works better. do read about angels and experiment to see what suits you. i have listed source material on pages 201-2 and you can find more information on the internet. use the elemental candle colour to represent the angel you want. you can also use angels in the four quarters to invoke protection in less formal magick by lighting candles in the four quarters when you feel afraid or alone. i have also seen michael listed as archangel of the dawn and east, but i think he is better placed as archangel of the sun in the south. if you feel uncertain, simply refer to each guardian as archangel of the north, etc

book of sacred writings, to hebrew mystics. he stands as wise protector and keeper of the sacred mysteries, hence representing the direction of magick and initiator of all who seek the mysteries. uriel stands in the north and his colour is the deep blue or purple of midnight. raphael raphael is the healer and travellers' guide and is often associated with mercury, the messenger of the dawn. he is the angel who offers healing to the planet and to mankind and all creatures on the face of the earth and in the skies and waters and the promise that tomorrow really is another day. he is also guardian of the young. he is depicted with a pilgrim's stick, a wallet and a fish, showing the way and offering sustenance to all who ask. raphael stands in the east and his colour is yellow. michael archang

at keeps us bound to the earth. most importantly he shows us how to teach others our spiritual insights. he heals technological and chemical pollution and the adverse effects of modern living. colour: yellow crystals: citrine and yellow jasper incenses or oils: lavender and clover sachiel sachiel is the archangel of the planet jupiter. sachiel's day is thursday. sachiel, the divine benefactor, is the angel of charity who says that only by giving freely to others will our own needs be met. he works constantly to help others and to improve the lives of humankind. he can therefore be invoked for all rituals to bring better harvests, both physical and emotional, and for increasing abundance and prosperity, not just for a minority but the good of all. he restores rundown areas or cities where u

nging wildlife habitats to the city and greenery everywhere. for his fertility is that of the whole earth, rich in fruit, flowers, people and creatures of all kinds, whether living in the wild or in sanctuaries. colour: green crystals: jade and rose quartz incenses or oils: valerian and rose cassiel cassiel is the archangel of saturn. cassiel's day is saturday. though cassiel, the conservator, is the angel of solitude and temperance, he was traditionally invoked for investment and speculation. in a sense, this is not incompatible, for true speculation is based not on random selection, but on deliberation and an almost intuitive scanning of any situation. he brings moderation in actions and dealings and development of inner stillness and contemplation. cassiel can form a focus for rituals f

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s; he next laid his hand on the head of the child, and in this position addressed a prayer to god for a successful issue of the experiment. the child now became clairvoyant, and said at first that he saw something white; then that he saw visions, an angel, etc. again the documents say, that he worked through the usual ceremonies, and that all was wonderfully corroborated through the appearance of the angel. cagliostro is also said at milan to have availed himself of the services of an orphan maiden of marriageable age as clairvoyant. it will be remarked that this modus operandi differs strongly from that employed by the mesmerists and hypnotists of to-day with their clairvoyants. for here the whole force of the operator was concentrated on a magical ritual of evocation, the hand being mere

not succeed. all these things have i beheld, and many others, and those who possessed these secrets gave them to me out of friendship. i burned these recipes afterwards in the house of abramelin, they being absolutely things very far removed from the will of god, and contrary to the charity which we owe unto our neighbour. every learned and prudent man may fall if he be not defended and guided by the angel of the lord, who aided me, and prevented me from falling into such a state of wretchedness, and who led me undeserving from the mire of darkness unto the light of the truth. i have known and felt the effects of the goodness of the wise abraha melin,27 who of his own free will, and before i had asked him so to do, accepted me for his disciple. and before that i had declared my wish unto h

result of this prophecy. the operation of the thirteenth chapter42 of the second book, i have twice performed; once in the house of savonia;43 and another time in the marquisate of magdeburgh, and i was the cause that their estates were handed down unto their children. now when once the faculty of being able to avail oneself of the sacred magic hath been obtained, it is permissible to demand from the angel a sum of coined money proportionate unto thy birth, quality and capacity, the which without difficulty will be granted unto thee. such money is taken from the hidden treasures. it is, however, necessary to note that in all treasures one is allowed to take the fifth part, god permitting the same, although some braggart chatterers44 do say that there be an infinitude hereof which be destin

place upon his forehead a veil of white silk very fine and transparent, which covereth the forehead even unto the eyes; and upon the veil it is necessary to write beforehand in gold with a brush a certain sign made and marked in the manner and order as it will be shown in the third book; the which doth serve to conciliate and to give grace unto the mortal and human creature to behold the face of the angel. he who operateth shall do the same thing, but upon a veil of black silk, and shall put it on in the same manner as the child. after this thou shalt make the child enter into the oratory and thou shalt cause him to place the fire and the perfume in the censer, then he shall kneel before the altar; and he who performeth the operation shall be at the door and prostrate upon the ground, mak

ting his holy angel that he will deign to appear and show himself unto this innocent being,70 giving unto him another sign if it be necessary in order to see him himself71 on the two following days. it is requisite that he who shall operate shall take heed to in no wise regard the altar, but having his face towards the ground let him continue his orations, and as soon as the child shall have seen the angel thou shalt command him to tell thee, and to look upon the altar and take the lamen or plate of silver which thou shalt have placed there for this purpose, in order to bring it unto thee if it be necessary, and whatever other thing the holy angel shall have written thereon, wherewith thou oughtest to work on the two following days. the which being done he will disappear. which being caref

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y person of whatever law18 he may be, provided that he confesseth that there is one god,19 may observe these feasts. however, the true time of commencing this operation is the first day after the celebration of the feasts of easter, and this was ordained unto noah, being the most convenient time, and the end falleth just at the (feast of) tabernacles.20 our predecessors have thus observed it, and the angel21 also hath approved it; and also it is more advisable to follow good counsel and example, than to be obstinate and follow one s own caprice; and also to treat the election of a particular day as a pagan idea, paying no regard. whatever either to time nor to the elements; but only (having respect) unto him who granteth such a period. thus then will we be found men in the fittest conditio

melin the mage 55 man, leave and flee from all these vices. consider that this was one of the principal reasons why abraham, moses, david, elijah, john, and other holy men retired into desert places, until that they had acquired this holy science and magic; because where there are many people, many scandals do arise; and where scandal is, sin cometh; the which at length offendeth and driveth away the angel of god, and the way which leadeth unto wisdom becometh closed unto ye. fly as far as you can the conversation of men, and especially of such as in the past have been the companions of your debauches; or who have led you into sin. ye shall therefore seek retirement as far as possible; until that ye shall have received that grace of the lord which ye ask. but a domestic servant29 who is co

ill begin to enflame yourself in praying, and you will see appear an extraordinary and supernatural splendour which will fill the whole apartment, and will surround you with an inexpressible odour, and this alone will console you and comfort your heart so that you shall call for ever happy the day of the lord. also the child61 will experience an admirable feeling of contentment in the presence of the angel. and you shall continue always your prayer redoubling your ardour and fervour, and shall pray the holy angel that he may deign to sign, and write upon a small square plate of silver (which you shall have had made for this purpose and which you shall have placed upon the altar) another sign if you shall have need of it in order to see him; and everything which you are to do. as soon as th

e; and you shall live separated from your wife during these days. during seven days shall you perform the ceremonies without failing therein in any way; namely, the day of the consecration, the three days of the convocation of the good and holy spirits, and the three other days of the convocation of the evil spirits. now the second morning after, you are to be prepared to follow the counsel which the angel will have given you. you will go early unto the oratory, you will place the lighted charcoal and perfumes in the censer, you are to relight the lamp if it be (by that time) extinguished; and wearing the same robe of mourning as of the day before, prostrate with your face towards the ground, you shall humbly pray unto and supplicate the lord that he may have pity on you, and that he may d

that your guardian angel will have sufficiently instructed you in all that you should do; yet nevertheless i will here declare plainly certain matters unto you, with the idea rather of making the account of the operation complete in this book,65 and also to give you every opportunity of possessing the matter thoroughly through reading these things many times; so that having received the vision of the angel, you may find yourself thoroughly instructed in all the essential points. having then reposed yourself during the night, you shall rise in the morning before dawn, and shall enter into the oratory; and having placed the lighted charcoal in the censer, light the lamp also. you shall then robe yourself, taking first the white vestment, and over this you shall put on that66, of silk and gol

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with aleph or he (5) c a r a c a r i o a r i r i r a o i r a c a r a c (6) m o r e h o r e h o s o r i of abramelin the mage 190 the twenty-fifth chapter. o walk upon, and operate under, water( b) to swim for c e hours without becoming wearied( c) to remain under water for c hours( d) to rest upon the water for c e hours. notes to chapter xxv (a) the symbols of this chapter are manifested only by the angel, or by the guardian angel (b) abraham does not state to what prince this operation is submitted (c) the familiar spirits cannot well execute the operations of this chapter (d) no especial instructions are given by abraham regarding this chapter (1) n a h a r i a m a a h a r i a m a a q q e q q (2) b u r n a h e u u l o r i p t e r o m i l a p h n r i t i l i a a i l i t i r n h p a l i m

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

e to the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel, and this ambition in turn arouses automatically further difficulties the conquest of which confers new powers. in the book of the thirty aethyrs, commonly called 'the vision and the voice, it becomes progressively difficult to penetrate each aethyr. in fact, the penetration was only attained by the initiations which were conferred by the angel of each aethyr in its turn. there was this further identification with yoga practices recorded in this book. at times the concentration necessary to dwell in the aethyr became so intense that definitely samadhic results were obtained. we see then that the exaltation of the mind by means of magical practices leads (as one may say, in spite of itself) to the same results as occur in straig

y-nine petals, and this topaz was set in a wooden cross of oak painted red. i called this the shew-stone in memory of dr. dee's famous shew-stone. i took this in my hand and proceeded to recite in the enochian or angelic language the call of the thirty aethyrs, using in each case the special name appropriate to the aethyr. now all this went very well until about the 17th, i think it was, and then the angel, foreseeing difficulty in the higher or remoter aethyrs, gave me this instruction. i was to recite a chapter from the q'uran: what the mohammedans call the 'chapter of the unity 'qol: hua allahu achad; allahu assamad: lam yalid walam yulad; walam yakun lahu kufwan achad' i was to say this, bowing myself to the earth after each chapter, a thousand and one times a day, as i walked behind m

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

be vain to attempt to deliver a synopsis of crowley's philosophy, save that its 'leitmotif' is the rabelaisian do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. the actual meaning of this phrase has taken volumes to explain, but roughly it concerns the uniting of the conscious self, a process of individuation which culminates in a rite called "knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel; the angel signifying the pure, evolved self. yet, there are many terrors on the way to the self, and an abyss to cross before victory can be declared. demons, vampires, psychic leeches, ghastly forms accost the aspiring magician from every angle, from every quarter around the circumference of the magick circle, and they must be destroyed lest they devour the magician himself. when crowley professe

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

n a reasonably decent lie [188] commentary( pi-theta) book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 185 frater p. had been annoyed by a scurvy doctor, the number of whose house was 89. he shows that his mind was completely poisoned in respect of that number by his allowing himself to be annoyed (but note that a good qabalist cannot err "in him all is right" 89 is body-that which annoys-and the angel of the lord of despair and cruelty. also "silence" and "shut up. the four meanings completely describe the chapter [189] 90 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta rho book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 186 starlight behold! i have lived many years, and i have travelled in every land that is under the dominion of the sun, and i have sailed the seas from pole to pole. now do

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

s; or else, beginning at the top, he comes directly down "invoking" first the god of that sphere by "devout supplication<brother, lest thou bend the knee! liber ccxx teaches the proper attitude. see also liber ccclxx. infra, furthermore, there is special instruction: chapter xv and elsewhere> that he may deign to send the appropriate archangel. he then "beseeches" the archangel to send the angel or angels of that sphere to his aid; he "conjures" this angel or angels to send the intelligence in question, and this intelligence he will "conjure with authority" to compel the obedience of the spirit and his manifestation. to this spirit he "issues commands. it will be seen that this is a formula rather of evocation than of invocation, and for the latter the procedure, though apparent

lxv. see also liber aleph cxi> to become one with the aspirant, and the moment the conditions of the latter make it possible, that bridal is consummated. iii the obstinacy of a spirit (or the inertial of a talisman) usually implies a defect in invocation. the spirit cannot resist even for a moment the constraint of his intelligence, when that intelligence is working in accordance with the will of the angel, archangel 134 and god above him. it is therefore better to repeat the invocations than to proceed at once to curses. the magician should also consider<ritual. but he renews this consideration from the new standpoint attained by the invocation> whether the evocation be in truth a necessary part of the karma of the universe, as he has

oyed in the ancient mysteries and by certain secret bodies of initiates to-day. the object of them is almost invariably<universal. it would not be impracticable to adopt this method to such operations as talismanic magick. for example, one might consecrate and charge a pantacle by the communication by aiwaz to the scribe of the book of the law, the magician representing the angel, the pantacle being the book, and the person on whom the pantacle is intended to act taking the part of the scribe> the invocation of a god, that god conceived in a more or less material and personal fashion. these rituals are therefore well suited for such persons as are capable of understanding the spirit of magick as opposed to the letter. one of the great advantages of them is that a

the second chapter, the single supreme ritual is the attainment of the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel "it is the raising of the complete man in a vertical straight line" any deviation from this line tends to become black magic. any other operation is black magic. in the true operation the exaltation is equilibrated by an expansion in the other three arms of the cross. hence the angel immediately gives the adept power over the four great princes and their servitors<sacred magic of abramelin the mage> if the magician needs to perform any other operation than this, it is only lawful in so far as it is a necessary preliminary to that one work. there are, however many shades of grey. it is not every magician who is well armed with theory. perhaps one

r initiation, or mastership, or union with god, or spiritual development, or mahatmaship, or freedom, or occult knowledge, or whatever he may call his inmost need of truth, of our order of a. a. it is designed principally to awake interest in the possibilities of human progress, and to proclaim the principles of the a. a. the outline given of the several successive steps is exact; the two crises- the angel and the abyss- are necessary features in every career. the other tasks are not always accomplished in the order given here; one man, for example, may acquire many of the qualities peculiar to the adeptus major, and yet lack some of those proper to the practicus<natural talents of individual differ very widely. the late sir richard jebb, one of the greatest classical scholars of mode

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a goes into details too elaborate to enter upon in this place; but the gist of it is that in one way or another he got hold of the secret force of the world and mastered it. of st. paul's experiences, we have nothing but a casual illusion to his having been "caught up into heaven, and seen and heard things of which it was not lawful to speak" mohammed speaks crudely of his having been "visited by the angel gabriel" who communicated things from "god" moses says that he "beheld god" diverse as these statements are at first sight, all agree in announcing an experience of the class which fifty years ago would have been called supernatural, to-day may be called spiritual, and fifty years hence will have a proper name based on an understanding of the phenomenon which occurred. theorists have not

owever, worthy of profound consideration "the lord" is adonai- which is the hebrew for "my lord; and he descends from heaven, the supernal eden, the sahasrara cakkra in man, with a "shout" a "voice" and a "trump" again airy symbols, for it is air that carries sound. these sounds refer to those heard by the adept at the moment of rapture. this is most accurately pictured in the tarot trump called "the angel" which corresponds to the letter shin, the letter of spirit and of breath. the whole mind of man is rent by the advent of adonai, and is at once caught up into union with him "in the air" the ruach. note that etymologically the word greek letters here: sigma-upsilon-nu "together with" is the sanskrit "sam" and the hebrew adni is the sanskrit adhi. the phrase "together with the lord" is t

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

nwybx rest, peace xxyn slave, servant db( goddess hlyl) 77 prayed h(b overflowing (ps. 124:5) nwdyz towers, citadels ldgm the influence through the paths (cf. 78; destiny, fate, luck; constellation, planet (cf. 483& 536; soul-root lzm goat; strength; violence; glory z( 78 1-12. the mystic number of kether as hua; the number of tarot cards; the sum of the key-numbers of the supernal beard aiwass: the angel of ra-hoor-khuit( gincorrect h. cf. 93) s)wy) the breaker; dream (n& v) mlx to pity lmx to initiate knx bread (ps. 78:20= mlx, by metathesis) mxl the influence through the paths (cf. 77 )lzm salt xlm the name of a giant )z( palace of love (referred to chesed) hbh) lkyh before (in front of, over against xkn 79 jachin, the pillar of mercy (chokmah-chesed-netzach; situate in netzach) nyx)y

; penalty of iniquity: gbeing taken away h nw( humble, afflicted wn( 127 material, natural (ar (b+wm 128 to withdraw, rescue, deliver; to equip for war clx goodly strength; proof nysx god the eternal one wnyhl) hwhy 129 pleasure (gn. 18:12) hnd( delight, pleasure gnw( the standing prayer (from vb. to stand) hdym( palace of serenity (referred to hod) hnwg lkyh 130 ayin: an eye ny( deliverance hlch the angel of redemption l)gh k)lm decrees, prophetic sayings nylm the pillars (cf. 164) ydwm( destitute yn( a staircase, ladder mls chaff cm lest np swift lq 131 he was angry pn) nose myp) turn, roll np) a title of kether hswkm humility hwn( pluto (referred to daath) w+wlp 132 to make waste qlb to receive lbq 133 (the hebrew palatal letters; see i.z.q. 694 et seq& cf. 84) qkyg vine npg the salt se

mbling, a rock to fall over (is. 8:14) pgn nb) an increase pswm a [civil] officer mynwmm a place mwqm experimental, tentative ynwysn 187 auphanim, wheels: the angelic choir of chokmah mynpw) lifted up pqz 188 the master of the nose m+wxh l(k midnight (cf. 579) hlylh ycx 189 a spring shut up (ct. 4:12. note hlg= gto uncover h) lw(n lg the ancient among the ancient nybsd )bs 190 through which place the angel guided +yw )byw (syw internal ymynp crown of flowers, diadem, fillet cyc the side or flank; rib (lc the end, appointed time (dan. 12:14; see 305) cq pearl: a title of malkuth nynp 191 face, countenance nypn) cessations, futilities, nothings mysp) a box, chest; a repository hpwq 192 poisonous wind: the gsamun h, or gsimoon h hp(lz ye shall cleave in hwhy (cf. 220) hwhyb myqbdx 194 righteo

f hebrew letters disregarding order; i.e. 1-21) prolonged; grew long kyr) male )rwkd 232 the sum of the four ways of spelling hwhy in the four worlds ryw) hy let there be light! rw) yhy 233 remembering rwkz the tree of life (cf. 228) myyxh c( 235 archangel of chesed l)yqdc 236 a handful cmwq the northern one; lilith ynwpc 237 essence of glory dwbkh mc( 238 lord of wonders hw)lpnh nwd) 239 azrael: the angel of death l)rz) iron lzrb the lot lrwg 240 myrrh; drop; bitter, sad; fierce rm the afflictions of the sons of adam (i.e. succubae) md) ynb y(gn first buds, sproutings myncn cash; counted out, paid down mydwqp high, lofty mr rubies, gems mynynp 241 to say; word; command rm) 242 recollection hrykz 243 created [they them (gn. 1:27) m)rb learned, complete; to finish, bring to pass (ch) rmg a

h (lit. resp. gflame of el h and gmy light is el h) l)yrw) in vision h)rmb wine; bitumen; an ass (from gto disturb h) rmx mercy; womb; vulture mxr a lance xmr archangel of chokmah l)yzr 249 fear, terror rwgm 250 the living god of the worlds, or of the ages mymlw(h yxl) midday (the south) mwrd habit; action (ch) rwdm lamp; prosperity; instruction rn shout, rejoicing nr 251 fir, cedar (cf. 208) nr) the angel uriel: gvrih1 h, i.e. magical force (see lytton fs gcoming race h, and abra-melin fs forehead lamin) lhyrw 252 serpent fs den hrw)m 253 proselytes myrg matred (i.r.q. 996) dr+m 254 an ass rwmx a mark, aim hr+m a solemn promise, vow rdn spikenard (ct. 4:14) drn a spear xmwr merciful, compassionate mwxr 255 burdensome; with difficulty )rmwx the east xrzm a river, stream (gn. 2:10) rhn song

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

ng up the numerical values of the letters of the words \yhla jwr, ruach elohim, the spirit of the elohim; and it is therefore a symbol of the spirit of the elohim. for r= 200, w= 6, j= 8, a= 1, l= 30, h= 5, i= 10, m= 40; total= 300. similarly the words dja, achad, unity, one and hbha, ahebah, love, each= 13; or a= 1, j= 8, d= 4, total= 13; and a= 1, h= 5, b= 2, h= 5, total= 13. again, the name of the angel wrffm, metatron, and the name of the deity, ydc, shaddai, each make 314; so the one is taken as symbolical of the other. the angel metatron is said to have been the conductor of the children of israel through the wilderness, of whom god says, my name is in him. with regard to gematria of phrases (gen. xlix, 10, hlyc aby, yeba shiloh= 358, which is the numeration of the word jycm, messiah

phiroth, but in inverse ratio, as darkness and impurity increase with the descent of each degree. the two first are nothing but absence of visible form and organization. the third is the abode of darkness. next follow seven hells occupied by thoe demons which represent incarnate human vices, and torture those who have given themselves up to those vices in earth-life. their prince is lams, samael, the angel of poison and of death.24 his wife is the harlot, or woman of whoredom \ynwnz tca, isheth zanunim;25 and united they are called the beast, awyj, chioa. thus the infernal trinity is completed, which is, so to speak, the averse and caricature of the supernal creative one. samael is considered to be identical with satan. the name of the deity, which we call jehovah, is in hebrew a name of f

s, and of the table of correspondences, which one of our english brethren is making,31 will enable him to discover a very great deal of matter for thought in these poems which an untutored person would pass by. to return to the general dogma of the qabalists. the figure of minutum mundum will show how they suppose one quality to proceed from the last, first in the pure god-world atziluth, then in the angel-world briah, and so on down to the demon-worlds, which are however not thus organised. they are rather material that was shed off in the course of evolution, like the sloughs of a serpent, from which comes their name of shells, or husks. apart from silly questions as to whether the order of the emanations is confirmed by pal ontology, a question it is quite impertinent to discuss, there

ed, it may be interpreted) thus if i ask what is knowledge? and receive the answer tud i read it d the door, u matter, t darkness, by various columns of 777 (to choose the column is a matter of spiritual intuition. solvitur ambulando. but here i am only dealing with the trying of the spirits, to know whether they be of god. suppose now that a vision purporting to rpceed from god is granted to me. the angel declares his name. i add it up. it comes to 65. an excellent number! a blessed angel! not necessarily. suppose he is of a mercurial appearance? 65 is a number of mars. then i conclude that, however beautiful and eloquent he may be, he is a false spirit. the devil does not understand the qabalah well enough to clothe his symbols in harmony. but suppose an angel, even lonely in aspect, not

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ulate! i sat in vague expectant bliss. 740 the story as it runs is thus (i quote my eastern friend60 verbatim) the virgin, going to the bath, found a young fellow in her path, and turned, prepared to scold and rate him! 745 how dare you be on me encroaching? the beautiful young gentleman, with perfect courtesy approaching, bowed deeply, and at once began: fear nothing, mary! all is well! 750 i am the angel gabriel. she bared her right breast (query why) the angel gabriel let fly* concerning conception of a virgin. the sword of song 44 degradation of symbols. essential identity of all forms of existence. practical advice. out of a silver tube a dart shooting god s spirt to her heart 61 755 this beats the orthodox dove-suitor! what explanation could be cuter than gabriel with a pea-shooter?

ed him not, but abode ever about him: and the smile changed not on his face, and the whole grove was filled with sweet and subtle perfumes. now on the 71st day arose there a great dispute about his body; for the angels and spirits and demons did contend about it, that they might possess it. but our eldest brother v. n. bade all be still; and thus he apportioned the sacred relics of our father. to the angel agbagal, the fore part of the skull; to the demon ozoz, the back left part of the skull; to the demon olcot,1 the back right part of the skull; to ten thousand myriads of spirits of fire, each one hair; to ten thousand myriads of spirits of water, each one hair; to ten thousand myriads of spirits of earth, each one hair; to ten thousand myriads of spirits of air, each one hair; to the ar

of the skull; to the demon ozoz, the back left part of the skull; to the demon olcot,1 the back right part of the skull; to ten thousand myriads of spirits of fire, each one hair; to ten thousand myriads of spirits of water, each one hair; to ten thousand myriads of spirits of earth, each one hair; to ten thousand myriads of spirits of air, each one hair; to the archangel zazelazel, the brain; to the angel usbusolat, the medulla; to the demon ululomis, the right nostril; to the angel opael, the left nostril; to the spirit kuiphiah, the membrane of the nose; to the spirit pugrah, the bridge of the nose; to eleven thousand spirits of spirit, the hairs of the nose, one each; to the archangel tuphtuphtuphal, the right eye; to the archdevil upsusph, the left eye; the parts thereof in trust to b

moustache, to each one; to ninety and one myriads of the elohim, the hairs of the beard; to each thirteen, and the oil to ease the world; to shalach, the archdevil, the chin. so also with the lesser relics; of which are notable only: to the order, the heart of our father: to the book of the law, his venerable lungspace to serve as a shrine thereunto: to the devil aot, the liver, to be divided: to the angel exarpt and his followers, the great intestine: to bitom the devil and his crew, the little intestine: to aub, aud, and aur, the venerable phallus of our father: to ash the little bone of the same: to our children k, c, b, c, g, t, n, h, i, and m, his illustrious finger-nails, and the toe-nails to be in trust for their children after them: and so for all the rest; is it not written in our

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it has no physiological theory of the production of these its favourite states, by which it may accredit them; and its attempt to discredit the states which it dislikes, by vaguely associating them with nerves and liver, and connecting them with names connoting bodily affliction, is altogether illogical and inconsistent. prof. william james. 141 and there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, rise, and measure the temple of god and the altar, and them that worship therein "rev" xi. 1. 142 preface the question "ave" there must have been a time in the life of every student of the mysteries when he has paused whilst reading the work or the life of some well-known mystic, a moment of perplexity in which, bewildered, he has turned to himself and asked the question "

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ding up the numerical values of the letters of the words rvch alhim, ruach elohim, the spirit of elohim; and it is there fore a symbol of the spirit of elohim. for= 200, v= 6, ch= 8, a= 1, l= 30, h= 5, i= 10, m= 40; total= 300. similarly, the words achd, achad, unity, one, and ahbh, ahebah, love, each= 13; for a =1, ch= 8, d= 4, total= 13; and a= 1, h= 5, b= 2, h= 5, total= 13. again, the name of the angel mttrvn, metatron or methraton, and the name of the deity, shdi, shaddai, each make 314;3 so the one is taken as symbolical of the other. the angel metatron is said to have been the conductor of the children of israel through the wilderness, of whom god says "my name is in him" with regard to gematria of phases (gen. xlix. 10, iba shilh, yeba shiloh "sjhiloh shall come= 358, which is the

angels by ashim, aishim, the flames (ps. civ. 5, yielding the third trinity of the sephiroth. 79 the number 10. from this ninth sephira came the tenth and last, thus completing the decad of the numbers. it is called mlvth, malkuth, the kingdom, and also the queen, matrona, the inferior mother, the bride of microprosopus; and shkinh, shekinah, represented by the divine name adonai, adni, and among the angel hosts by the kerubim, krvbim. now, each of these 5 weh note: tharshisim. literally the "ships of tarshish. isaiah, ii, 16 "and upon all the ships of tarshish, and upon all delightful imagery" see also isaiah xxiii, 1. mathers copies ginsburg's "the kabbalah" with a reference to daniel x,6 for this angelic order, but all that is found there is a description of an angel. the figuration of

f the sephiroth, but in inverse ratio, as darkness and impurity increase with the descent of each degree. the two first are nothing but absence of visible form and organisation. the third is the abode of darkness. next follow seven hells occupied by those demons which represent incarnate human vices, and those who have given themselves up to such vices in earth-life. their prince is samael, smal, the angel of poison and death. his wife is the harlot, or woman of whoredom, ashth znvnim, isheth zennuim; and united they are called the beast, chiva, chioa. thus the infernal trinity is completed which is, so to speak,the averse and caricature of the supernal creative one. samael is considered to be identical with satan. the name of the deity, which we call jehovah, is in hebrew ad name of four

deas,and of the table of correspondences, which one of our english brethren is making, will enable him to discover a very great deal of matter for thought in these poems which an untutored person would pass by. to return to the general dogma of the qabalists. the figure of minutum mundum will show how they suppose one quality to proceed from the last, first in the pure god-world atziluth, then in the angel-world briah, and so on down to the demon-worlds, which are however not thus organised. they are rather material that was shed off in the course of evolution, like thesloughs of a serpent, from which comes their name of shells, or husks. apart from silly questions as to whether the order of the emanations is 87 confirmed by palaeontology, a question it is quite impertinent to discuss, the

e interpreted) thus if i ask "what is knowledge" and receive the answer "doth" i read it daleth the door, o matter, th darkness, by various columns of 777 (to choose the column is a matter of spiritual intuition. solvitur ambulando. but here i am only dealing with the "trying of the spirits, to know whether they be of god" suppose now that a vision purporting to proceed from god is granted to me. the angel declares his name. i add it up. it comes to 65. an excellent number! a blessed angel! not necessarily. suppose he is of a mercurial appearance? 65 is a number of mars. then i conclude that, however beautiful and eloquent he may be, he is a false spirit. the devil does not understand the qabalah well enough to clothe his symbols in harmony. but suppose an angel, even lowly in aspect, not

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the left. a line extends vertically upward from the apex, equal to the length of the base. a trefoliate of three isosceles triangles of base slightly smaller than the first triangle and sides equal to the first triangle is created at the upper tip of the line. the tree component triangles of the terfolate meet the upper tip of the line with their apices- one vertically and two to right and left. the angel of the east hath a book of red written in letters of blue a.b.f.m.a. in enochian. the book grows before my eyes and filleth the whole heaven. within "it is written, thou shalt not tempt the lord thy god" i see above the book a multitude of white-robed ones from whom droppeth a great rain of blood; but above them is a golden sun, having an eye, whence a great light. i turned me to the sou

e south: and read therein: seal up the book! speak not that which thou seest and 4 reveal it unto none: for the ear is not framed that shall hear it: nor the tongue that can speak it! o lord god, blessed, blessed, blessed be thou for ever! thy shadow is as great light. thy name is as the breath of love across all worlds. illustration on page 5 approximated (a vast svastika is shewn unto me behind the angel with the book) rend your garments, o ye clouds! uncover yourselves! for the love of my son! who are they that trouble thee? who are they that slew thee? o light! come thou, who art joined with me to bruise the dragon's head. we, who are wedded, and the earth perceiveth it not! o that our bed were seen of men, that they might rejoice in my fertility: that my sister might partake of my gre

r life nor death. hail unto thee who knowest not thy right ear from thy left; for in the aeon of my father there is neither sound nor silence. whoso hath power to break open this sapphire stone shall find therein four elephants having tusks of mother-of-pearl, and upon whose backs are castles, those castles which ye call the watch-towers of the universe. let me dwell in peace within the breast of the angel that is warden of the aethyr. let not the shame of my mother be 12 unveiled. let not her be put to shame that lieth among the lilies that are beyond the stars. o man, that must ever be opening, when wilt thou learn to seal up the mysteries of the creation? to fold thyself over thyself as a rose in the embrace of night? but thou must play the wanton to the sun, and the wind must tear thy

2 in the light of the cry of loe, this passage seems to mean precisely the opposite of its apparent meaning. and the voice of the aeon cried: return, return, return! the time sickeneth, and the space gapeth, and the voice of him that is, was and shall be crowned rattles in the throat of the mighty dragon of eld. thou canst not pass by me, except thou have the mystery of the word of the abyss. now the angel putteth back the sapphire stone into his breast; and i spake unto him and said, i will fight with thee and overcome thee, except thou expound unto me the word of the abyss. now he makes as if to fight with me (it is very horrible, all the tentacles moving and the flail flashing, and the fierce 13 eyeless face, strained and swollen. and with the magic sword i pierce through his armour to

e a voice, terribly great, crying: close the veil; the great blasphemy hath been uttered; the face of my mother is scarred by the nails of the devil. shut the book, destroy the breaker of the seal! 14 and i answered: had he not been destroyed he had not come hither, for i am not save in the darkness in the womb of her by whom came evil into the world. and this darkness swallows everything up, and the angel is gone from the stone; and there is no light therein, save only the light of the rose and of the cross. aumale, algeria "november" 23, 1909, between 8 and 9 p.m. the cry of the 27th aethyr, which is called zaa there is an angel with rainbow wings, and his dress is green with silver, a green veil over silver armour. flames of many-coloured fire dart from him in all directions. it is a wo

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t left so much to be inferred from the good results in my life and work; i want the perfume and the the vision. why am i so materially wallowing in grossness? it matters little; the fact remains that i do wallow. 33 i want that definite experience in the very same sense as abramelin had it; and what's more, i mean to go on till i get it. 12.34. i begin, therefore, in hanged man posture, to invoke the angel, within the pyramid already duly prepared by dclxxi. 12.57. alas! in vain have i tried even the supreme ritual of awaiting the beloved, although once i thought ah! give unto thy beloved in sleep! how ashamed i should be, though! for an earthly lover one would be on tiptoe of excitement, trembling at every sound, eager, afraid i will, however, rise and open (as for a symbol) the door an

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. jupiter. hb:koph. wheel of fortune. 21st. 8. libra. hb:lamed. justice. 22nd. 12. water. hb:mem. hanged man. 23rd. 13. scorpio. hb:nun. death. 24th. 14. sagittarius. hb:samekh. temperance. 25th. 15. capricorn. hb:ayin. the devil. 26th. 16. mars. hb:peh. the tower. 27th. 17. aquarius. hb:tzaddi. the star. 28th. 18. pisces. hb:qof. the moon. 29th. 19. sun. hb:resh. the sun. 30th. 20. dee. hb:shin. the angel. 31st. 21. saturn. hb:taw. the universe. 32nd. the two veils are represented in the drawing by heavy horizontal lines, and here by shaded lines, with the text included in the approximation below. 10 =1 kether .ipsissimus 12th .11th. 8 =3. 9 =2 binah. 14th chokmah magister..magus templi. 18th. 16th. the veil of the abyss. 6 =5 7 =4 geburah babe of the abyss chesed adeptus..19th..adeptus m

cross" the neophyte is then conducted to the west, and being placed between the mystic pillars, pledges himself to secrecy. the "hierophant" congratulating him, finally says "let the neophyte enter the path of evil" then the following takes place "hiereus" whence comest thou "kerux (for neophyte: i am come from between the pillars and seek the hidden knowledge in the name of adonai "hiereus" and the angel samael (angel of evil) answered an said: i am the prince of darkness and of night. the wicked and rebellious man gazeth upon the face of nature and he findeth therein naught but terror and obscurity; unto him it is but the darkness of the darkness; and he is but as a drunken man groping in the dark. return, for thou canst not pass by "hierophant" let the neophyte enter the path of good "

it is but the darkness of the darkness; and he is but as a drunken man groping in the dark. return, for thou canst not pass by "hierophant" let the neophyte enter the path of good "hegemon" whence comest thou "kerux (for neophute: i am come from between the pillars and seek for the hidden light of occult knowledge. 262 "hegemon" and the great angel metatron (angel of good) answered and said: i am the angel of the presence divine. the wise man gazeth upon the material universe and he beholdeth therein the luminous image of the creator. not as yet canst thou bear the dazzling radiance of that light! return, for thou canst not pass by "hierophant" let the neophyte now advance by the straight and narrow way which inclineth neither to the right hand nor to the left "hiereus and hegemon" whence

20# key_ of_ tarot_ 10 averse_ seats for altar sephiroth_ practicus/ lamp/ lamp_ hiereus hegemon_ chalice (o/ lamp_ sephiroth water sephiroth_ in banner seven tablet hb:heh hb:vau hb:heh hb:yod of west palaces of water_ diagram 26. arrangement of the temple for the 31st path in the 3= 8 ritual. he then explains to the theoricus the twentieth key of the tarot. it is a glyph of the powers of fire. the angel crowned with the sun is michael, the ruler of solar fire. the serpents which leap in the rainbow are symbols of the fiery seraphim. the trumpet represents the influence of the spirit descending upon binah; and the banner with the cross refers to the four rivers of paradise. michael is also axieros; the left-hand 271 figure samael, the ruler of volcanic fire- he is also axiokersos; the ri

s i prayed, a feeling of drowsiness possessed me, and i found myself swinging backwards and forwards; then after a little while i grew steady, and speedily ascended. as i soared up through the air, i saw above me a great circle; this i passed through, only to behold another one greater still. as i approached it i perceived an angel coming towards me; therefore i entered the circle and knelt down "the angel, seeing me kneeling before him, approached me, and taking me by the hand, raised me up, kissing me as he did so. and having thus greeted me, he bade me tell him what i sought; this i did. and when i had finished speaking, he took me by the right hand and flew obliquely upwards. and as i was carried through the air, i looked down, and felt reluctant at leaving the great circle, which had

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ty years of age, the head of an angel- so regular were the features, so silver-white the hair- set upon the deformed body of a dwarf. hairy hands and twisted arms, a hunched back and bandy legs; in the gnarled right hand a terrible whip, the carved jade handle blossoming into a rose of fine cords, shining with silver- sharp, three-cornered chips of silver! the whole dripped black with blood. upon the angel face stood a sneer, a snarl, a malediction. the effect upon one's sense of something beyond the ordinary was, too, heightened by her costume; for though the summer was at its height she was clad from head to foot in ermine, starred, more heavily than is usual, with the little black tails in the form of "fleurs-de-lis "in extreme contrast to this monster was a young girl crouching upon th

nun-qof-bet-heh bet-resh-aleph-memfinal "and the elohim created mankind: in the likeness of the elohim created they them: male and female created they them" now if adam be in the similitude of the elohim: and are male and female, then must the elohim be also male and female. now in the first of those mysterious three verses in exodus xiv. wherein the divided name is hidden it is written "and went the angel of the elohim before the camp &c. and this angel of the elohim, mem-lamed-aleph-kophfinal aleph-lamed-heh-yod-memfinal, is the manifestations of their presence. now mem-lamed-aleph-kophfinal hath the numeration 91, which also is the number of yod-heh-vau-heh aleph-dalet-nun-yod, wherefore by gematria "tetragrammaton our lord" is the angel now if into the midst of this divided name of the

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omponent parts. also, as shown by "libertas evangelii" he is in the position of free choice_ his lower will must decide the result. the seven are about him_ the universe watches his choice. note the 7 x 40= 280 symbolism. for 280 is sandalphon, who in 1= 10 made him a path: it is also mntzpk, the five letters of severity and judgment, and hb:peh-final hb:resh, terror, also hb:resh hb:ayin hb:yod, the angel of the wood of the world of assiah, since the greater part of it is sterile trees. the "third adept" is on the southern side of the pastos_ themis as "legis jugum" and horus in the fire position. nobody is in the quarter of air, where wait the other fragments of postulant: his nephesch being thus ready to be glorified. the attention of the postulant is at once called to the roof; his low

ould look back upon malkuth and be filled with an intense pity for all who still cling to its illusive splendour; so also could he look up towards kether (kether in yesod, though he knew it not, and burn with a joy not unmingled with sorrow at the apparent hopelessness of ever being able to climb so distant a peak. thus would the heavens and hells seduce him from the path, the path of the sun and the angel, which through their greater glory blinded his understanding from the true way, and appeared to him not as light but as darkness. his present position seemed so clear to him that its very clearness would also have blinded him as it has so many others, had he not slain the incubus of the supreme, and sought a greater independence by refusing to look at the clouded summit of the mountain w

hom i helped, and after of a man stealing my rose cross jewel from a dressing-table in a hotel. i caught him and found him a weak man beyond natural (i could bend or flatten him at will, and then the dream seemed to lose coherence. i carried him about and found a hair-brush to beat him &c &c. query: was i totally obsessed? the second is: invoking the angels of earth i obtained a wonderful effect. the angel, my guide, treated me with great contempt and was very rude and truthful. he shewed me divers things. in the centre of the earth is formulated the rose and cross. now the rose is the absolute self-sacrifice, the merging of "all" in the 0 (negative) the universal 249 principle of generation through change("not" merely the feminine, and the universal light "khabs" the cross is the extensio

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ancient of days. m. now doth the aspirant move unto the west; faces south-west, repeats alike the speeches of the hiereus and hegemon. n. after another circumambulation the adept aspirant halts at the south and repeats the meditations in l. o. and as he passes unto the east, he repeats alike the words of the hierophant and of the hegemon. p. and so he passes to the west of the altar, led ever by the angel torch- bearer. and he lets project his astral, and he lets implant therein his consciousness: and his body knows what time his soul passes between the pillars, and prayeth the great prayer of the hierophant. q. and now doth the aspirant's soul re-enter unto his gross form, and he draws in divine extasis of the glory ineffable which is in the bornless beyond. and so meditating doth he ari

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. though we have now arrived at this turning point, it will be necessary before we review the contents of this chapter to narrate the events from the present date- march 1902, down to the 11th of august 1903; when, by the chance (destined) meeting with ouarda the seer, he was eventually enabled to set in motion the great power he had gained, and by wrestling with the deity, as jacob wrestled with the angel by the ford of jabbok, see god face to face and live. for a space of nearly six months p. and d. a. journeyed amongst the vast mountains beyond cashmir, and through during this period no record of his meditations has been preserved, time was not idled away and exercises in meditation of a more exalted kind, on the vastness of nature and the ungraspable might of god, were his daily joy an

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but tempted them. in this eyes they met an eager hungry expression, a longing infinite for all things human, which tickled their desires. he seemed to be ever staring at an invisible goal. the goal was the tree of the 30 full knowledge. lionel felt within himself a tenacious longing, a perpetual desire. his lack of physical courage as counterbalanced by his intellectual daring; he meant to collar the angel, and to re-enter the paradise of that first victim of womanhood, adam of the bent shoulders, adam of the foolish resignation to the self-preserving decree of the frightened divinities. his errors of tactics were caused by the fact that he hoped to test the apple without the help of woman. often enough, lionel tabard unwittingly repelled the advances of many a feminine would-be initiator

circle of sparks brahman bright as the sun, endowed with all might, beyond the reach of darkness, that shines in yonder sun as in the moon, the fire and the lightning. 27 brihad ranyaka upanishad, 4. 3-4. 28 these refer to the mystic lights in man. compare this with the diagram 2 "the paths and grades" in "the neophyte" after the atman in the aspirant has been awakened by the trumpet of israfel (the angel) he proceeds by the path of hb:shin. the next path the aspirant must travel is that of hb:resh- the sun; the next that of hb:qof- the moon; the next that of hb:tzaddi- the star. this path brings him to the fire of netzach. when this fire is extinguished comes the voice or lightning, after which the light which guides the aspirant is himself, his holy guardian angel, the atman- adonai. 29

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ord of mars. sor. scorpio. my heart and hand are with you, children["she plays<mars "starts up and recites" 1. the dukes of edom were amazed: trembling took hold on the mighty of moab! 51 2. lord, when thou wentest out of seir; when thou marchedst out of the field of edom; the earth trembled, and the heaven dropped: the clouds also dropped water. 3. curse ye meroz, saith the angel of the lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the lord, to the help of the lord against the mighty! 4. the river kishon swept them away: that ancient river, the river kishon! 5. oh, my soul, thou hast trodden down strength! 1. he bowed the heavens also and and came down: and darkness was under his feet: at the brightness that was before him

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nto the darkly splendid world, and be wedded to that blind creature of the slime" 38. i who am beyond wisdom and folly, arise and say unto you: achieve both weddings! unite yourselves with both! 39. beware, beware, i say, lest ye seek after the one and lose the other! 40. my adepts stand upright; their head above the heavens, their feet below the hells. 41. but since one is naturally attracted to the angel, another to the demon, let the first strengthen the lower link, the last attach more firmly to the higher. 42. thus shall equilibrium become perfect. i will aid my disciples; as fast as they acquire this balanced power and joy so faster will i push them. 43. they shall in their turn speak from this invisible throne; their words shall illumine the worlds. 44. they shall be masters of maje

his eyebrows were blacker than the kohl upon mine eyelids. alas, my baby! my young one, my tender one. is there tidings, girl? ledmiya. one rides fast. his horse stumbles at the gate. he leaps clear. the horse has fallen. he runs hither. laylah. news! news [ledmiya "goes out. enter a messenger" 2nd messenger. the duty of my lord to his mother! we keep the hounds at bay now. prince sliman is like the angel of death. no man can stand before him. the christians tremble, and give back when he rides against them. laylah. a man! a man! he is not hurt? 2nd messenger. scratches. as if a lion were at play with kittens! laylah. i am glad he has scratches. every one shall be sung by the poets as if it were the axe-blow of old duke walter["again the wailing surges in the courtyard" ledmiya "rushes in

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e. then, on the last day, he heard a rushing sound in the air; he felt faint and giddy, and saw little ridges forming in the sand before him. obeying the instructions he had learnt by heart, he copied the words that appeared, one after the other, on the surface of the sand. the names were of spirits he had invoked. then on the surface of the silver he saw a droplet which he took to be the mark of the angel. repeating the names that had appeared in the sand, alex asked the spirits to make themselves known, to help and advise him, to cleanse and comfort him. the air quivered and then became still, and the voice, when it spoke, seemed to come from all comers of the room 'you are going to open what you have to the world. you will be persecuted as a result of it; you will lose friends, you will

ayout of a black circle containing an egg-shaped crystal through which angels would .manifest themselves. mter 70 making detailed notes of the incantations, alex, joinedhy bill, began his search for the crystal in. antique shops in the city. eventually they found one. for ten nights they set up t e new circle within the old and gazed thr?\lghtheincens sme>ke in the crystal, and on the tenth night the angel appeared in it. its messagewas brief and, to alex, a great disappointrp.en.t.jt instructed bill not to withdraw from his christian beliefs, but to spread the teaching of his religion by holding classes where people could learn that faith should bring happiness. eunice and bill were satisfied with the experiment and relieved to relinquish their witchhood which, they felt, had nothing to o

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

the study of race evolution and the development of the great international plans within the planet. we must bear in mind also, that, though we human beings consider ourselves as the highest and greatest manifestation upon the planet, there may be other evolutions through which the central life may be working, of which we know as yet but little. we must study not only man, but should consider also the angel evolution, or the deva evolution, as the hindu calls it. this opens up for us an immense field of study and speculation. again, within the solar system we shall expect to find analogous stages. we shall find, probably, that the great life animating the entire solar system, the great entity who is using it for the- 53- the consciousness of the atom copyright 1998 lucis trust working out o

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

n, and through its spiralling progress through matter it sweeps those forms systematically nearer and nearer to another and stronger point of energy. these effects are to be seen clearly demonstrated in man's evolution in the approach he makes uniformly through the cycles to the centre of the spiral-cyclic energy, and subsequently to the still more impressive point, that of his "father in heaven" the angel first attracts animal man; cyclically he actuates the material sheaths, thus giving them coherence, and ever swings them into closer relation to himself. later, as the momentum is increased, the man is swung more definitely into relation with the monadic aspect, until that higher rhythm is imposed upon him. this is equally true of a planetary logos, and of a solar logos. the spiral-cycli

st being of mental matter, devachan might be regarded as a centre, or heart of peace, within the periphery of the sphere of influence of the mental unit. the four spirillae form four protecting streams of force. a correspondence to this stream of force can be seen in the four rivers which emanated from the garden of eden. out of this garden man is driven into the world of physical incarnation and the angel with the flaming sword protects the entrance, driving him back from entry until the time comes when evolution has progressed so far that he can come to the portal laden with stones which can withstand the action of fire. when he submits these stones to the fire and they stand the test, he can enter "heaven" again, his time though being limited by the nature and the quality of what he bro

f the fourth kingdom, and to be convinced, therefore, that he is the not-self. later as force from the ego pours in, his psychical evolution proceeds (i use the word "psychical" here in its higher connotation) and he begins to consider himself as the ego, the thinker, the one who uses the form. finally, energy from the monad begins to be responded to and he knows himself to be neither the man nor the angel, but a divine essence or spirit. these three types of energy demonstrate during manifestation as spirit, soul, and body, and through them the three aspects of the godhead meet and converge in man, and lie latent in every atom. the sevenfold energy of the planes, and therefore of substance, finds its consummation when the four lower centres are fully active. the sevenfold energy of the ps

olised by the sign aquarius, and this law is the governing factor of the aquarian age. it might here be added that the symbol for law 2 was the origin of the balance or scales of the sign libra, but in the course of the ages its true form was distorted. not all the astrological signs can be traced to the symbols, for only a few can be traced back as far as the master's ashram. law 4. here we have the angel with the flaming sword turning in all directions. this symbolism is held true in the bible where the angel guards the treasure, and drives man forth in search of another way of entrance, thus forcing him through the cycle of rebirth until he finds the portal of initiation. this portal is occultly regarded as freed from the intervention of the sword as man has developed the ability to soa

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

cond aspects. this is consummated at the third initiation (in christian terminology, the transfiguration. a later synthesis is then effected between the united third and second aspects and the first: 1st aspect 2nd aspect 3 rd aspect spirit soul body father son (christ) h oly ghost monad ego personality divine self h igher self l ower self life consciousness f orm energy force matter the presence the angel of the human being the presence a clear distinction should be made between the christ principle as indicated above, which is a high spiritual aspect to which each member of humanity must attain, and the same term applied to a personage of exalted rank representing that principle, whether in the historical reference to the man of nazareth or otherwise. 2. this union (or yoga) is achieved

o egoic realisation and not to the reactions of the lower man and the physical brain. 1. belief. on his own plane the soul rehearses a condition analogous to the belief of the aspirant in the soul or christ aspect, only in this case the objective is the realisation of that which the christ or soul is seeking to reveal, the spirit or father in heaven. first the disciple arrives at a realisation of the angel of his presence, the solar angel, ego or soul. this is the achievement of the previous group. then the presence itself is later contacted and that presence is pure spirit, the absolute, the father of being. the self and the not-self have been known by this group of initiates. now the vision of the not-self dims and passes away and only spirit is known. belief must ever be the first stage

nderstanding of the stage reached and of the next step to be taken is essential for all true progress. johnson translates this sutra in the words "difference in stage is the cause of difference in development" and goes on to say "the first stage is the sapling, the caterpillar, the animal. the second stage is the growing tree, the chrysalis, the man. the third is the splendid pine, the butterfly, the angel" 16. through concentrated meditation upon the triple nature of every form, comes the revelation of that which has been and of that which will be. the sutra which we are considering sums the preceding ideas and it is interesting to note how this first great result of meditation takes one right back to the true facts anent divine manifestation and emphasizes the three aspects through which

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e higher three kingdoms in nature and the lower three. the higher three are: 1. the spiritual hierarchy of our planet, nature spirits or angels and human spirits, who stand at a peculiar point on the ladder of evolution. of these sanat kumara, embodying a principle of the planetary logos is the highest, and an initiate of the first degree is the lowest, with corresponding entities in what we call the angel or deva kingdom. 2. the hierarchy of rays certain groupings of the seven rays in relation to our planet. 3. a hierarchy of lives, gathered by an evolutionary process out of our planetary evolution and from four other planets, who embody in themselves the purpose and plan of the solar logos in relation to the five planets involved- 30- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust

pe of the world. mankind itself is the world saviour, of which all world saviours have been but the symbol and the guarantee. 4. the blending of the deva or angel evolution and the human. this is a mystery which will be solved as man arrives at the consciousness of his own solar angel, only to discover that that too is also but a form of life which, having served its purpose, must be left behind. the angel or deva evolution is one of the great lines of force, contained in the divine expression and the solar angels, the agnishvattas of the secret doctrine and of a treatise on cosmic fire belong in their form aspect to this line- 60- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust thus humanity serves, and in the development of a conscious aptitude for service, in the growth of a consci

have the number of the saved in the book of revelations, the one hundred and forty-four thousand who can stand before god, for the three ciphers which are found indicate the personality. when man has completed within himself the great work, when the number one hundred and forty-four thousand is seen as symbolising his point of attainment, then he can stand before god standing now not only before the angel of the presence, but before the very presence itself- 118- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust the awakening of the centres the question now arises: how can this awakening and co-ordination be brought about? what steps must be taken in order to produce this vitalisation and the eventual synthetic activity of the three centres? faced with these questions, the true teacher

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

r of truth the great connector the divine intermediary the crystallizer of forms the three-fold thinker the cloud upon the mountain-top the precipitator of the cross the dividing sword the winnower of the chaff the fifth great judge the rose of god the heavenly one the door into the mind of god the initiating energy the ruler of the third heaven the guardian of the door the dispenser of knowledge the angel with the flaming sword the keeper of the secret the beloved of the logos the brother from sirius the master of the hierophants this fifth ray has so many names, owing to his close connection with man (since man was originally created, that it has not been easy to choose those which are of the most use in enabling the student to form an idea of the fifth ray characteristics and mission; b

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a new world where higher ideals and deeper contacts and richer understandings will characterise humanity. when christ came, we read that those of vision who were prepared said "we have seen his star in the east and are come to worship him."56 this was the sign given to the few who were ready, and who had made the necessary journey to bethlehem. but another sign was seen by the many, and given by the angel of the lord to the shepherds who were watching in the fields by night "and this shall be a sign unto you, ye shall find the babe, wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger."57 here was a sign given to those watching ones, two or three, who were ready to consecrate their all, who perceived the star of initiation flashing forth and hastened to the initiation chamber. the larger numbe

but a source of speculation to millions. but it was their sense of time that was at fault, and their failure to understand the slow processes of nature. evolution moves slowly, and it is only today that we are truly on the verge of the demonstration of god's kingdom upon earth. because this is the end of an age, we know that before long the hold death has on the human being, and the terror which the angel of death inspires, will disappear. they will vanish because we shall regard death as only another step on the way towards light and life, and shall realise that, as the christ life expresses itself in and through human beings, they will demonstrate to themselves, and in the world, the reality of immortality- 143- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust the key to the overcom

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

nded in the separative personality. man, the solar angel, is the sum total of those energies and forces which are unified, blended and controlled by that "tendency to harmony" which is the effect of love and the outstanding quality of divinity- 4- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust man, the living monad, is the veiled reality, and that which the angel of the presence hides. he is the synthetic expression of the purpose of god, symbolised through revealed, divine quality and manifested through the form. appearance, quality, life again this ancient triplicity confronts us. symbolically speaking, this triplicity can be studied as: 1. man..the angel..the presence. 2. the root..the lotus..the fragrance. 3. the bush..the fire..the flame. th

the stage of adolescence. the ray of the astral body is of very great power. 3. the quality of the mental body. this, as far as the race is concerned, is just beginning to wax in power in this aryan race to which this era belongs. it corresponds to the stage of maturity in the individual. the ray of the mind has a very close relation to the solar angel, and there is a peculiar affiliation between the angel of the presence and the mental man. it is this deep-seated, though oft unrecognised, interplay and cultivated intercourse, which produces the at-one-ment between the soul and its mechanism, man in the three worlds. from the angle of these three ray influences, we have (in the life of the aspirant) a recapitulation of the triple process which we could call the "processes of unfoldment of

ways there be, leading to the centre of the web eternal. the forms that weave that web hide the divine reality. he lost himself. fear entered in. he asked himself 'another pattern must be woven; another garment formed. what shall i do? shew me another way to weave' the word for him came forth in triple form. his mind responded to the vision clear evoked 'the truth lies hidden in the unknown way. the angel of the presence guards that way. the mind reveals the angel and the door. stand in that presence. lift up thine eyes. enter through that golden door. thus will the angel, who is the shadow of the blessed one, reveal the open door. that angel too must disappear. the blessed one remains and passes through that door into the light sublime" ray six "the blessed one caught the vision of the w

ion. the sensing of inharmony, and cooperation with the part and not the whole. identification with humanity, the fourth creative hierarchy. undue recognition of that which is produced by speech. abnormal sensitivity to that which is the not self. constant points of crisis, leading to unity and harmony. the evocation of the intuition. right judgment and pure reason. the wisdom which works through the angel of the presence. i could here point out a constant misconception on the part of esotericists. this fourth ray of harmony, beauty and art is not the ray, per se, of the creative artist. the creative artist is found equally on all rays, without exception. this ray is the ray of the intuition and of the harmonising of all that has been achieved through the activity of form life, as later sy

orarily the negation of deity. intensification of the power to isolate. the implications of wrong emphasis. distorted views of truth- 26- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust mental devotion to form and form activity. theology, leading to a knowledge of reality. the realisation of the soul and its potentialities. power to recognize and contact the angel of the presence. sensitivity to deity, to light and to wisdom. spiritual and mental devotion. the power to take initiation (this is a point of real importance) ray six violence. fanaticism. willful adherence to an ideal. short sighted blindness. militarism and a tendency to make trouble with others and with groups. the power to see no point except one's own. suspicion of people's motives

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force, and help. you would find it useful to keep what might be called a spiritual diary. this does not involve the daily entering of the day's events and has no relation to the happenings which may concern the personality. note this. in this diary you should record the following: 1. any spiritual experience which may come to you, such as contact with some presence, either that of your own soul, the angel of the presence, contact with some disciple and eventually when your life and work and discipline warrant it contact with one of the masters. record this in an impartial way, preserving the scientific attitude and seeking ever a practical explanation before accepting a mystical one. a spirit of agnosticism (not of atheism) is of real value to the beginner and preserves him from the snare

do nothing, for at this point both the physical body and the astral vehicle are simply automatons, waiting responsively for the decision of the disciple, functioning in his mental body. only the disciple can act upon the mental level of consciousness at this point of endeavour. once he does so, the die is cast. he either moves forward towards the door of light where the master takes his hand and the angel of the presence becomes potent and active in a way which i may not describe to you, or he drops back temporarily into the life condition of the lower man; glamour and maya settle down anew upon him and the dweller on the threshold inserts himself between the disciple and the light from the open door and renews activity. the disciple either awakens suddenly to a wider grasp of reality and

hat, therefore, these tangible thought manifestations definitely produce effects in him. in these ancient platitudes lie, for you, much instruction, much light and understanding and the clue to your immediate problem. what is the situation, my brother? you, a soul in incarnation, are consciously aware of the fact subjectively and ofttimes dimly sensed of your real self, of the solar angel, who is the angel of the presence. your problem is to deepen this realisation, and to know yourself to be the angel, standing between you, the physical plane man, and the presence. it might elucidate matters if we considered for a moment- 297- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust what reality is represented by that word presence. the mystic is ever aware of duality; of the lowe

realisation, and to know yourself to be the angel, standing between you, the physical plane man, and the presence. it might elucidate matters if we considered for a moment- 297- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust what reality is represented by that word presence. the mystic is ever aware of duality; of the lower man and the indwelling soul; of the tired disciple and the angel; of the little self and the real self; of human life expression and of spiritual life expression. many other qualities stand for the same expression of reality. but, behind them all looms immanent, stupendous, and glorious that of which these dualities are but the aspects: the presence, immanent yet transcendent, of deity. in the nature of this one, all dualities are absorbed and all dis

them all looms immanent, stupendous, and glorious that of which these dualities are but the aspects: the presence, immanent yet transcendent, of deity. in the nature of this one, all dualities are absorbed and all distinctions and differences lose their meaning. when you are told to develop the consciousness of the presence, it indicates, first of all, that you are at this time somewhat aware of the angel and can now begin to respond, dimly and faintly, to that great whole which lies behind the subjective world of being, as that world lies behind the physical, tangible world of everyday life. a symbol of this can be seen in the knowledge that the entire planet lies outside of the room in which you are pondering my words and is only separated from you by the window and the extent of your c

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scendent god, an external unknowable father but from the angle of the divine life, eternally present in every human heart, and eternally struggling to express itself through individuals, nations and races. the true expression of this realized brotherhood must inevitably come through the establishing of right human relations and the cultivation of goodwill. churchmen have forgotten the sequence in the angel's song "glory to god in the highest, on earth peace, goodwill towards men. they have failed to realize and, therefore, to teach that only as goodwill is manifested in the daily lives of men are right human relations thereby established and peace on earth can come; they have failed also to realize that there is no glory to god until there is peace on earth through goodwill among men. the

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

the dweller is seldom adequately realised. i would here remind you of a stupendous occult fact and will ask you to endeavour to understand that whereof i speak. the dweller on the threshold does not emerge out of the fog of illusion and of glamour until the disciple is nearing the gates of life. only when he can catch dim glimpses of the portal of initiation and an occasional flash of light from the angel of the presence who stands waiting beside that door, can he come to grips with the principle of duality, which is embodied for him in the dweller and the angel. do you comprehend that whereof i speak? as yet, my words embody for you symbolically a future condition and event. the day will surely come, however, when you will stand in full awareness between these symbols of the pairs of opp

the presence who stands waiting beside that door, can he come to grips with the principle of duality, which is embodied for him in the dweller and the angel. do you comprehend that whereof i speak? as yet, my words embody for you symbolically a future condition and event. the day will surely come, however, when you will stand in full awareness between these symbols of the pairs of opposites, with the angel on the right and the dweller on the left. may strength then be given to you to drive straight forward between these two opponents, who have for long ages waged warfare in the field of your life, and so may you enter into that presence where the two are seen as one, and naught is known but life and deity. in summarising some of the information i have given to you concerning the four aspec

the christ struck the second blow with his teaching of the nature of individual responsibility and of brotherhood. the next blow will be struck by the new group of world servers, acting under the direction of christ and his disciples, symbolically described as "christ and his 9000 initiates" 7. the four keynotes to the solution of the problem of glamour are: intuition. illumination. inspiration. the angel of the presence. the aspects of glamour see table i would call your attention to the fact that the whole problem concerns itself with the use or misuse of force or energy, and that much will clear up in your minds if you will realise three things: 1. that average man, in everyday life, and the aspirant upon the path of probation or purification, works with the forces of life on the three

r mental planes. the dweller on the threshold. we will now touch very briefly upon the problem of the dweller on the threshold. this dweller is oft regarded as a disaster, as a horror to be avoided, and as a final and culminating evil. i would remind you nevertheless that the dweller is the "one who stands before the gate of god" who dwells in the shadow of the portal of initiation, and who faces the angel of the presence open-eyed, as the ancient scripture calls it. the dweller can be defined as the sum total of the forces of the lower nature as expressed in the personality, prior to illumination, to inspiration and to initiation. the personality, at this stage, is exceedingly potent, and the dweller embodies all the psychic and mental forces which down the ages have been unfolded in a ma

r to its consecration and dedication to the life of the soul and to the service of the hierarchy, of god and humanity. the dweller on the threshold is all that a man is, apart from the higher spiritual self; it is the third aspect of divinity as expressed in the human mechanism, and this third aspect must eventually be subordinated to the second aspect, the soul. the two great contrasting forces, the angel and the dweller, are brought together face to face and the final conflict takes place. again you will note that it is a meeting and a battle between another and higher pair of opposites. the aspirant has, therefore, three pairs of opposites with which to deal as he progresses towards light and liberation. the pairs of opposites 1. on the physical plane. the dense and the etheric. fought

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

spiritual life within the mineral form; in the vegetable kingdom, it is more rapid, and under the invocative appeal of the lives in that kingdom the deva world is invoked and greatly aids and hastens the unfoldment of the vegetable consciousness; this is one reason for its relative sinlessness and extraordinary purity. the major impression registered in the second kingdom of nature emanates from the angel worlds and from the deva hierarchy. the angels and devas are to the vegetable kingdom what the spiritual hierarchy is to humanity. this is, of course, a mystery with which you have no concern. but impressions and reactions are to be found in both these kingdoms, and upon such response depends the evolution of the indwelling consciousness. the animal kingdom has a peculiar relation to the

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oes forward. 1. upon the physical plane we find the merging of the dense and the etheric forces. this is- 33- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust consummated upon the path of purification. 2. upon the astral plane there must come the resolution of the pairs of opposites. this is consummated upon the path of discipleship. 3. upon the mental plane the angel of the presence and the dweller on the threshold are brought face to face. their synthesis is brought about upon the path of initiation. what is true of man in this connection is true also of humanity as a whole, of the planetary logos of the earth, as of all planetary logoi, and of a solar logos. the analogy between the fusion of the pairs of opposites, for instance, upon the physical p

en when the energies of the sun sign and of the planets are perfectly directed and adjusted. the analogy can also be carried forward onto the mental plane and when the energies of the sun sign and the rising sign are coherently blended and expressed (in the case of both the individual or a planetary life) there comes a point of crisis wherein the soul and the personality are brought face to face. the angel of the presence, distributing solar fire and holding focussed electric fire, and the dweller on the threshold, expressing and utilising fire by friction, know each other "with intimate occult knowledge" the door then stands open wide through which the life and light of the three major constellations can after the third initiation be occultly available to the initiate, be he a liberated h

carrying crucified thereon the form of a man in whom is found the seed of all illusion. but, from the cross whereon he has been slain e'en though he knew it not the man climbs down and feels his way (with pain and many tears) on to another cross a cross of blinding light, of fiery pain, of bitter woe, and yet the cross of liberation. it is a stationary cross, fixed in the heavens, and guarded by the angel. behind the cross, another cross appears, but that he may not reach (the angel guards the way) until the bull has rent and torn the man, and then the light shines forth; until the serpent dread has wrestled with the man and brought him to his knees, and then the lifting up into the light; until the lion has been tamed, the secret of the sphinx revealed, and then the revelation of the inn

elation of the inner light; until the man has lifted up his water-pot and joined the ranks of those who are the water-bearers, and then the flowing of the stream of life will fill his water-pot and drain the rancid pool and cleanse its source and thus reveal the hidden way which leads unto the innermost light, hid by the final cross. then, from the cross of man, the initiate finds his way, passes the angel and leaves behind the inner torn veil, mounts the major cross and passes into day, the final day. the wheel for him stands still. the sun and stars, for him, fade out. a great light is seen and" the three crosses on mount golgotha were biblical symbols of these three astrological crosses, the common or mutable cross, the fixed cross and the cardinal cross. i would ask you to remember tha

n and to venus and so reach our planet, the earth. saturn is one of the most potent of the four lords of karma and forces man to face up to the past, and in the present to prepare for the future. such is the intention and purpose of karmic opportunity. from certain angles, saturn can be regarded as the planetary dweller on the threshold, for humanity as a whole has to face that dweller as well as the angel of the presence, and in so doing discover that both the dweller and the angel are that complex duality which is the human family. saturn, in a peculiar relation to the sign gemini, makes this possible. individual man makes this discovery and faces the two extremes whilst in the sign capricorn; the fourth and fifth creative hierarchies do the same thing in libra. through saturn and venus

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ms, illness and death. this must obviously be so when the vast number of energies and forces which constitute man's being and form his environment are brought into relation with each other. every human being is, in reality, like a miniature whirlpool in that great ocean of being in which he lives and moves ceaselessly in motion until such time as the soul "breathes upon the waters (or forces) and the angel of the presence descends into the whirlpool. then all becomes still. the waters stirred by the rhythm of life, and later stirred violently by the descent of the angel, respond to the angel's healing power and are changed "into a quiet pool into which the little ones can enter and find the healing which they need" so says the old commentary. the centres and the glandular system- 85- a tre

bjects of his devotion and ever they proved to be himself. into these others he ever poured himself, asking response and never getting it. surely and with certainty the outlines of the forms so loved were lost, grew dim and disappeared. the objects of his love slowly faded out. only a world of shadows, of mist and fog remain. and as he looked upon himself, he said: lord of glamour, that am i, and the angel of bewilderment. naught is clear to me. i love yet all seems wrong! i know that love is right and the spirit of the universe. what then is wrong" curiously enough, it is the potency of this sixth ray force (as it feeds desire) which is responsible for much of the ills and diseases of humanity which are based upon the misuse of the mission and function of sex. desire, bewilderment, weakne

art of dying. 2. the process of elimination. this governs that period of the life of the human soul after death and in the two other worlds of human evolution. it concerns the elimination of the astral-mental body by the soul, so that it is "ready to stand free in its own place" 3. the process of integration, dealing with the period wherein the liberated soul again becomes conscious of itself as the angel of the presence and is reabsorbed into the world of souls, thus entering into a state of reflection. later, under the impact of the law of karmic liability or necessity, the soul again prepares itself for another descent into form. the field of experience (in which is death, as the average person knows it) is the three worlds of human evolution the physical world, the world of emotion an

ray starts and the war is on between two focussed aspects of energy. this conflict terminates at the third initiation. c. the control by the soul is the final phase, leading, to the death and destruction of the- 298- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust personality. this death begins when the personality, the dweller on the threshold, stands before the angel of the presence. the light of the solar angel then obliterates the light of matter. the "control" phase is conditioned by the complete identification of the personality with the soul; this is a reversal of the previous identification of the soul with the personality. this also is what we mean when speaking of the integration of these two; the two are now one. it was of this phase that st

soul, overshadowing its reflection, the personality, in the three worlds. what i have said, therefore, will have little meaning for the average reader. from the angle of the personal self, regarding itself as the dweller on the threshold, the attitude or state of mind has been inadequately portrayed as one of complete obliteration in the light of the soul; the glory of the presence, transmuted by the angel, is such that the personality completely disappears, with its demands and its aspirations. naught is left but the shell, the sheath and the instrument through which the solar light can pour for the helping of humanity. this is true to a certain degree, but is only in the last analysis man's attempt to put into words the transmuting and the transfiguring effect of the third initiation, wh

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crisis in your life and in the life of humanity. the handling of crises is the hallmark of the disciple, and every crisis met and rightly handled provides (once the difficulty is occultly- 10- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust "under the feet) the place from which an extended vision can be gained, fresh knowledge can flow in and the transmuting light can shine from the angel of the presence and thus produce results. each of you has passed through a cycle of real difficulty and strain. this is true of all disciples. the past eighteen months have been months of precipitation, producing a chemicalisation, an interior process of upheaval and probably outer behaviour which may have caused concern to the observer within. this however is but the reaction of the per

onder on this, bracing yourself for revelation, through a deep understanding of the initiator in yourself. each of you has to initiate your own individual crises; there is no one else who is responsible. each of you together initiates the activity for which the group is responsible and for which you have been brought together; each of you initiates himself into the presence, through the medium of the angel, and into the shadow of the dweller on the threshold. through this process, full consciousness is achieved. the work of this group, and of other groups similarly motivated, is to achieve these undertakings together: together to face the dweller and triumph; together to arrive at understanding; together to stand before the presence because the angel's light reveals "that which the eye has

esires of all mankind, of humanity's mistakes and weaknesses, thoughts, distorted strengths and perverse motives. this confronting is one of the objectives of the present world war. 3. to arrive at that understanding which is the foundation of wisdom, which is the result of a developed intuition, and which is also an intelligent application of the truths apprehended. 4. to stand as a group before the angel of the presence. 5. to take initiation yourself, as an individual, and also as a coherent unit in the group effort towards initiation. other goals will emerge as you strive, study and serve; the simplicity, however, of the above statement will convey to you your immediate objectives. these objectives must be thought through together and their import must be grasped as a group. the contri

l world and to a worldwide expression of the will-to-good. as these qualities supersede the old and undesirable ones, the door where evil dwells will symbolically slowly close through the sheer weight of public opinion and through right human desire. nothing can possibly stop it. thus the original plan will be restored on earth; this is symbolically referred to in the bible as the garden of eden; the angel with the flaming sword will no longer guard the door of initiation into the kingdom of god, but will be transformed into the angel of the presence. simultaneously, the door into the world of spiritual reality will open before mankind, and the door where evil dwells will be closed. these few thoughts may serve to make this invocation live- 122- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyr

the initiator "polarises" the energies of the "penetrating" disciple and "precipitates" them through his vehicle according to the will or purpose of divinity. the stage wherein the disciple is demonstrating the subjective fact that he is initiate is called the stage of penetration. that in which he stands face to face with- 298- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. the angel of the presence, 2. the initiator, 3. the initiating masters, is termed the stage of polarisation. then when the initiatory process is completed and "he returns from whence he came to carry out the plan" the stage of precipitation takes place. therefore, there are two processes of activity going forward simultaneously; i.e, that which is implemented by the initiator, and one for which th

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

ife of the one "in whom we live and move and have our being" these involve the impact upon our planet of forces and energies which will be instrumental in altering the existing civilisation and culture, in climaxing karmic necessity and in thus engineering release, presenting humanity with that stage in the experience of the disciple which we call "the meeting of the dweller on the threshold with the angel of the presence" and inducing as a consequence a certain planetary initiation. these four stages of the law of cause and effect (as it affects humanity at this time) might be called: 1. the perfecting of form expression..law of evolution 2. the precipitation of karma..law of cause and effect 3. the achievement of personality..law of polar opposites (the dweller on the threshold) 4. the a

y manifest in all its glory? but when that takes place, matter will no longer be a controlling factor but simply a medium of expression. the battle is therefore on between the form side of life and the soul. the dweller on the threshold (the threshold of divinity, my brothers) is humanity itself with its ancient habits of thought, its selfishness and greed. humanity today stands face to face with the angel of the presence the soul whose nature is love and light and inclusive understanding. the great problem today is which of these two will emerge the victor out of the conflict, and which of these two great agencies of life will determine humanity's future and indicate the way which humanity will decide to go. the issues at stake are clear to all right-thinking people. intolerance and an in

g somewhat established; the inflow of light and love to humanity is now possible if the disciples and aspirants of the world can be led to make the needed effort to stand in spiritual being and, from that poised attentive attitude, to invoke these great entities. it was to this possibility that the story in the new testament refers where reference is made to the pool which was stirred at times by the angel and thus a condition was produced which led to the healing of the sick. the angel of the presence, the soul of humanity, as embodied in the hierarchy and those who are consciously endeavouring to function as souls can now stir these reservoirs of force and light upon etheric levels in shamballa so that a definite "healing of the nations" can take place- 104- the externalisation of the hi

ed in shamballa, are fused and blended and then a new departure in the evolutionary process becomes possible. the kingdom of god, which is the kingdom of souls, and the human kingdom as mutually expressive and interrelated, are perfectly synthesised and anchored on earth. the glory of the one can then be faintly seen, which is the glory of shamballa. the dweller upon the threshold of divinity and the angel of the presence then stand face to face. this is the situation today. tomorrow they will blend and synthesise and the glory of god will appear on earth. the second great approach will have been achieved- 111- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust call to a united act of service november 1939 the situation is serious. sea and air and land are arrayed against the

ne energy, to some avatar or some inspired leader. divine intervention in considering the subject of avatars i would like to point out that (from the standpoint of mankind at his present point in evolution) avatars are of two kinds, as might be expected when the consciousness of humanity is subject to the control of the pairs of opposites. these two are: 1. those avatars who are the embodiment of the angel of the presence, whether that presence is the soul in man, the planetary logos, some extra-planetary entity, some cosmic being, or an expression of cosmic good. 2. those avatars who are embodiments of the dweller on the threshold, whether that dweller is the human dweller on the threshold, planetary forces of materialism, or some aspect of cosmic evil- 190- the externalisation of the hie

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

ine love destroys the loves and desires of the integrated personality. two factors tend to bring this about: the slow moving forward of the innate conscience into greater control, and the steady development of the "fiery aspiration" to which patanjali*(2) makes reference. these two factors, when brought into living activity, bring the disciple into the centre of the burning ground which separates the angel of the presence from the dweller on the threshold. the burning ground is found upon the threshold of every new advance, until the third initiation has been taken. the "clear cold light" is the light of pure reason, of infallible intuitive perception and its unremitting, intensive and revealing light constitutes a major test in its effects. the initiate discovers the depths of evil, and a

tely translated "isolated unity" to him, in the future, there is no light or dark, no good or evil, no difference or separation. the star that has shone forth, veiling and standing between him and the lord of the world, the ancient of days, is seen as the entrance or doorway and as the admitting agency into something other and larger than simply the planetary life. in the earlier two initiations, the angel of the presence stood between the disciple-candidate and the presence. at the later initiations, the angel of the presence is the christ himself, one with the soul of the candidate (the individual angel of the presence. through the heart of christ passes the dynamic power of the one initiator, as a stream of light, stepped down or toned down by the christ in order that the candidate can

of divine expression, and that ever the glory must be approached through the darkness. such is the law. these higher veiling factors can be mentioned and enumerated, but more information concerning these mysteries, this separating darkness encountered by the initiate, may not be given: veil i. that which faces the disciple as he wrestles with the dweller on the threshold and becomes conscious of the angel of the presence, though as yet he sees him not. veil ii. that which the initiate encounters at the fourth initiation and which forces him to cry out in his blindness "my god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me" the words uttered by the christ at that time, and as the participator, have been forgotten by the orthodox, though preserved by the esotericist. to them h.p.b. refers in the secret

group of world servers. the three remaining rules for initiates and disciples are concerned with the work of the new age and the coming revelation which will make that work both new and possible. they are therefore of supreme importance to us. step by step, in the eleven rules already studied, we have seen the initiate or disciple carried from his position as an accepted disciple standing before the angel of the presence, to that point of attainment where the spiritual will is released in full service and with full comprehension at the time of the fourth initiation, where atma or pure spirit is in control, where the spiritual triad is expressing the nature of the monad, where identification with the purpose of deity has transcended illumination of the mind, and has also transcended cooper

these, sanat kumara is one. not all the planetary logoi tread the path of solar logoi, for just as exalted positions await them elsewhere in the- 274- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust universe. those masters, as i have said in a treatise on cosmic fire, who tread this path are rare indeed, and hitherto have had to enter this path via the angel or deva evolution and by transference then to the fifth or ray path. changes have however been made, and a master can now pass on to this sixth path directly and without entering the deva evolution. this sixth path is one on which the masters in training have to work with the devas who are so frequently the mobile agents of the creative process in solar creation. the masters who enter up

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

s world also has its ten grades, each one more far from the higher forces and forms, each one more dark and impure. first come thu, tohu, the formless; and bhu, bohu, the void, thirdly chshk, the darkness, of the early universe, and from these our world was developed and now exists; then come seven hells, whose dwellers are evil beings representing all human sins; their rulers are samael or satan the angel of death, and lilith, the asheth zenunim, the woman of whoredom, and this pair of demons are also called "the beast" see zohar ii. 255; samael had also an incommunicable name, which was ihvh reversed; for demon est deus inversus. the whole universe only became complete with the creation of man, called the microcosm, the earthly adam; a copy of "the archetypal man" after another manner; h

s away from the assiatic plane, and the neshamah, the spiritual soul, returns to the treasury of heaven, to the gan oidin, or of paradise, perfected to a spiritual world beyond the plain of rebirths. the "sepher jareh chattaim" says that a man is judged in the same hour in which he dies; for the shekinah, a presence of the divine one, comes near him, with three angels, of whom the chief is dumah, the angel of silence: if the soul is condemned, dumah takes it to gai-hinnom, or hell, for a period of punishment before the next incarnation; if approved, the soul passes to an oidin or heaven. in the end of the present manifestation of the universe, all souls will have become perfected by suffering, have been blessed in paradise, and will be in reunion with the god from whom they came forth. the

APOCALYPSE MOSES

ger sin before his face, for the evil heart shall be taken from them and there shall be given them a heart understanding the good and to serve god only. 5 but do thou go back to thy father. for the term of his life hath been fulfilled and he will live three days from to-day and will die. 6 but when his soul is departing, thou shalt behold the awful (scene of) his passing' chapter 14. 1 thus spake the angel and departed from them. and seth and eve came to the hut where adam was laid. 2 and adam saith to eve 'eve, what hast thou wrought in us? thou hast brought upon us great wrath which is death (lording it over all our race' 3 and he saith to her 'call all our children and our children's children and tell them the manner of our transgression' chapter 15. 1 then saith eve to them 'hear all m

and bound to die after a single day from the sickness which had fastened upon him, she saith to him: 2 'how is it that thou diest and i live or how long have i to live after thou art dead? tell me' and adam saith to her 'reck not of this, for thou tarriest not after me, but even both of us are to die together. 3 and she shall lie in my place. but when i die, anoint me and let no man touch me till the angel of the lord shall speak somewhat concerning me. 4 for god will not forget me, but will seek his own creature; and now arise rather and pray to god till i give up my spirit into his hands who gave it me. for we know not how we are to meet our maker, whether he be wroth with us, or be merciful and intend to pity and receive us' chapter 32. 1 and eve rose up and went outside and fell on the

ent outside and fell on the ground and began to say: i have sinned, o god, i have sinned, o god of all, i have sinned against thee. 2 i have sinned against the elect angels. i have sinned against the cherubim. i have sinned against thy fearful and unshakable throne. i have sinned before thee and all sin hath begun through my doing in the creation' 3 even thus prayed eve on her knees (and) behold, the angel of humanity came to her, and raised her up and said 'rise up, eve (from thy penitence, for behold, adam thy husband hath gone out of his body. 4 rise up and behold his spirit borne aloft to his maker' chapter 33. 1 and eve rose up and wiped off her tears with her hand, and the angel saith to her' lift up thyself from the earth' 2 and she gazed steadfastly into heaven, and beheld a chario

2 and thereafter michael spake to seth and saith 'lay out in this wise every man that dieth till the day of the resurrection' and after giving him this rule; he saith to him: 3 'mourn not beyond six days, but on the seventh day, rest and rejoice on it, because on that very day, god rejoiceth (yea) and we angels (too) with the righteous soul, who hath passed away from the earth' 4 even thus spake the angel, and ascended into heaven, glorifying (god) and saying 'allelujah (holy, holy, holy is the lord, in the glory of god the father, for to him it is meet to give glory, honour and worship, with the eternal life-giving spirit now and always and for ever. 5 amen (holy, holy, holy is the lord of hosts. to whom be glory and power for ever and for ever amen (then the archangel joel glorified god

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

e (human) soul or ego, when he defined it as "a compound of the same and the other" and yet how little this hint has been understood, since the world took it to mean that the soul was the breath of god, of jehovah. it is "the same and the other" as the great initiate- philosopher said; for the ego (the "higher self" when merged with and in the divine monad) is man, and yet the same as the "other" the angel in him incarnated, as the same with the universal mahat. the great classics and philosophers felt this truth, when saying that "there must be something within us which produces our thoughts. something very subtle; it is a breath; it is fire; it is ether[[vol. 2, page] 89 pitris of the gods and demons. it is quintessence; it is a slender likeness; it is an intellection; it is a number; it

re spirits; the second, the world of formation, or jetzira, the habitat of the angels who sent forth the third, or world of action, the asiatic world, which is the earth or our world; and yet it is said of it that this world, also called kliphoth, containing the (six other) spheres[[hebrew, and matter, is the residence of the "prince of darkness" this is as clearly stated as can be; for metatron, the angel of the second or briatic world, means messenger[[angelos, angel, called the great teacher; and under him are the angels of the third world, jetzira, whose ten and seven classes are the sephiroth* of whom it is said that "they inhabit and vivify this world as essential entities and intelligences, whose correlatives and contraries inhabit the third or asiatic world" these "contraries" are

e the sephiroth* of whom it is said that "they inhabit and vivify this world as essential entities and intelligences, whose correlatives and contraries inhabit the third or asiatic world" these "contraries" are called "the shells[[hebrew, or demons* who inhabit the seven habitations called sheba hachaloth, which are simply the seven zones of our globe. their prince is called in the kabala samael, the angel of death, who is also the seducing serpent satan; but that satan is also lucifer, the bright angel of light, the light and life-bringer, the "soul" alienated from the holy ones, the other angels, and for a period, anticipating the time when they would have descended on earth to incarnate in their turn "the souls (monads) are pre-existent in the world of emanations (book of wisdom viii, 2

ous i am 'manas "they descend from the pure air to be chained to bodies" says josephus repeating the belief of the essenes (de bello judaeo, 11, 12 "the air is full of souls" states philo "they descend to be tied to mortal bodies, being desirous to live in them (de gignat, 222 c; de somniis, p. 455; because through, and in, the human form they will become progressive beings, whereas the nature of the angel is purely intransitive, therefore man has in him the potency of transcending the faculties of the angels. hence the initiates in india say that it is the brahmin, the twice-born, who rules the gods or devas; and paul repeated it in[[footnote(s* see vol. i. part iii "gods, monads and atoms" it is symbolised in the pythagorean triangle, the 10 dots within, and the seven points of the trian

oreover, to draw a line of demarcation between the four and the three- the latter being the fallen angels; and furthermore to avoid connecting these with the "seven spirits of the face" the archangels, they unceremoniously threw out all they did not choose to recognise. hence the perversion in the order of the elements, in order to make them dovetail with the order of the gospels, and to identify the angel-man with christ. with the chaldees, the egyptians, from whom moses adopted the chroub (cherubs in their animal form, and the ophites; with all these, the angels, the planets, and the elements, were symbolized mystically and alchemically by the lion (mikael; the bull (uriel; the dragon (raphael; the eagle (gabriel; the bear (thot-sabaoth; the dog (erataoth; the mule (uriel or thartharaoth

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

ntaneous 'coats of skin. the first 'nature' the first 'body' the first 'mind' on the first plane of perception, on the first globe in the first round, is what was meant. for karma and evolution have. centred in our make such strange extremes! from different natures* marvellously mixed (2 "restore: he has now reached the point (by analogy, and as the third root race in the fourth round) where his("the angel- man's) primordial spirituality is eclipsed and overshadowed by nascent human mentality, and you have the true version on your thumb-nail" these are the words of the teacher- text, words and sentences in brackets, and explanatory footnotes. it stands to reason that there must be an enormous difference in such terms as "objectivity" and "subjectivity "materiality" and "spirituality" when

into the depths of degradation: it is old cooks and fortune-tellers who read their future to servant-girls in search of husbands, by means of the white of an egg in a glass. nevertheless, even christians have to this day their sacred birds; for instance, the dove, the symbol of the holy ghost. nor have they neglected the sacred animals. the evangelical zoolatry- the bull, the eagle, the lion, and the angel (in reality the cherub, or seraph, the fiery-winged serpent, is as much pagan as that of the egyptians or the chaldeans. these four animals are, in reality, the symbols of the four elements, and of the four lower principles in man. nevertheless, they correspond physically and materially to the four constellations that form, so to speak, the suite or cortege of the solar god, and occupy d

n- mystically* are the progeny of siva, the mahayogi, the great patron of all the yogis and mystics of india. they themselves, being the "virgin-ascetics" refuse to create the material being man. well may they be suspected of a direct connection with the christian archangel michael, the "virgin combatant" of the dragon apophis, whose victim is every soul united too loosely to its immortal spirit, the angel who, as shown by the gnostics, refused to create just as the kumaras did (see book ii "the mystic dragons and their slayers. does not that patron-angel of the jews preside over saturn (siva or rudra, and the sabbath, the day of saturn? is he not shown of the same essence with his father (saturn, and called the "son of time" kronos, or kala (time, a form of brahma (vishnu and siva" and is

ne form, whose name is also "sanat" the ancient? every kumara bears the prefix of sanat and sana; and sanaischara is saturn, the planet (sani and sarra, the king saturn whose secretary in egypt was thot-hermes the first. they are thus identified both with the planet and the god (siva, who are, in their turn, shown the prototypes of saturn, who is the same as bel, baal, siva, and jehovah sabbaoth, the angel of whose face is mikael[[diagram "who is as god. he is the patron, and guardian angel of the jews, as daniel tells us (v. 21; and, before the kumaras were degraded, by those who were ignorant of their very name, into demons and fallen angels, the greek ophites, the occultly inclined predecessors and precursors of the roman catholic church after its secession and separation from the primi

teric phraseology, with our septenary ring of spheres (see supra* it is the same, only still more metaphysical idea, as that of the christian trinity "three in one- i.e, the universal "over-spirit" manifesting on the two higher planes, those of buddhi and mahat; and these are the three hypostases, metaphysical, but never personal* the identity, and at the same time the illusive differentiation of the angel-monad and the human-monad is shown by the following sentences "my father is greater than i (john xiv. 26 "glorify your father who is in heaven (matt. v. 16 "the righteous will shine in the kingdom of their father (not our father (matt. xiii. 43 "know ye not ye are a temple of god, and that the spirit of god dwelleth in you (i cor. iii. 16 "i ascend to my father" etc, etc[[vol. 1, page] 5

BLUE EQUINOX

ation.s cramp. now were the desolation fain to stamp the congealed spirit of man into the pit, save that, unquenchable because unlit, the love of god burns steady, like a lamp. it burns! beyond the sands, beyond the stars. it burns! beyond the bands, beyond the bars, and so the expanse of mystery veil by veil burns inward, plume on plume still folding over the dissolved heart of the amaz d lover. the angel wings over the holy grail! liber dcccxxxvii the law of liberty a tract of to mega qhrion 666 that is a magus 9 =28 a.a. v a.a. publication in class e 93 10 =18 666 9 =28 pro coll. summ. 777 8 =38 d. d. s. 7 =48 o. m. 7 =48 o. s. v. 6 =58 parzival 5 =68 pro coll. int. v. n. pr monstrator p. imperator pro coll. ext. achad cancellarius 47 liber dcccxxxvii the law of liberty (all quotations

the ages. 38. they shaped doubt as a sickle, and reaped the flowers of faith for their garlands. 39. they shaped ecstasy as a spear, and pierced the ancient dragon that sat upon the stagnant water. 40. then the fresh springs were unloosed, that the folk athirst might be at ease. 41. and again i was caught up into the presence of my lord adonai, and the knowledge and conversation of the holy one, the angel that guardeth me. 42. o holy exalted one, o self beyond self, o self- luminous image of the unimaginable naught, o my darling, my beautiful, come thou forth and follow me. 43. adonai, divine adonai, let adonai initiate refulgent dalliance! thus i concealed the name of her name that inspireth my rapture, the scent of whose body bewildereth the soul, the light of whose soul abaseth this bo

that one thing confirms the other. mr. schroeder is quite logical in calling her paper an unintentional contribution to the erotogenetic interpretation of religion, but commits the errors of petitio principii and non distributio medii with the most exquisite nonchalance. only a lawyer could be so shameless. he begs the question with regard to this particular case, assuming that her relation with the angel was pure hallucination, of which he has no evidence whatever. he argues that, since one person both loves and is religious, religion is nothing but a morbid manifestation of the sexual instinct. one does not have even to disagree with him to see how worthless is his reasoning. as a matter of fact, i do half agree with him in my calmer moments in a general way, but the conclusion can be c

BOOK OF ENOCH

aven, which were falling, and as regards both height and depth, they were immeasurable. 18.12] and beyond this chasm, i saw a place, and it had neither the sky above it, nor the foundation of earth below it; there was no water on it, and no birds, but it was a desert place. 18.13] and a terrible thing i saw there, seven stars, like great burning mountains. 18.14] and like a spirit questioning me, the angel said: this is the place of the end of heaven and earth; this is the prison for the stars of heaven and the host of heaven. 18.15] and the stars which roll over the fire, these are the ones which transgressed the command of the lord, from the beginning of their rising, because they did not come out at their proper times. 18.16] and he was angry with them, and bound them until the time of

d; so that here they might gather the souls of the sons of men. 22.4] and these places they made, where they will keep them until the day of judgment, and until their appointed time, and that appointed time will be long, until the great judgment comes upon them. 22.5] and i saw the spirits of the sons of men who were dead and their voices reached heaven and complained. 22.6] then i asked raphael, the angel who was with me, and said to him "whose is this spirit, whose voice thus reaches heaven and complains" 22.7] and he answered me, and said to me, saying "this spirit is the one that came out of abel, whom cain, his brother, killed. and he will complain about him until his offspring are destroyed from the face of the earth, and from amongst the offspring of men, his offspring perish" 22.8]

1.1 enoch mentions galbanum, this is one of the ingredients of the incense that was to be burned on the incense altar in the tent of appointment, exodus 30:34. also, at 32.3-6, the tree of wisdom also sounds like cannabis. here we get a new insight into the adam and eve story. at 33.3-4, enoch mentions how uriel gave him notes on astronomy. these notes are in this book as sections 13, 14, and 16. the angel zotiel is mentioned at 32.2, east of the red sea, there are suggestions based on weathering data that the sphinx is much older (pre 10,000 bc) than the pyramids, so this is a possible candidate for zotiel. 24.1] and from there i went to another place of the earth and he showed me a mountain of fire that blazed day and night. 24.2] and i went towards it and saw seven magnificent mountains

d is hard. 31.3] and when they take this fruit it is better than any fragrance. 32.1] and after these fragrances, to the north, as i looked over the mountains, i saw seven mountains full of fine nard, and fragrant trees of cinnamon and pepper. 32.2] and from there, i went over the summits of those mountains, far away to the east, and i went over the red sea, and i was far from it, and i went over the angel zotiel. 32.3] and i came to the garden of righteousness, and i saw beyond those trees many large trees growing there, sweet smelling, large, very beautiful and glorious, the trees of wisdom, from which they eat and know great wisdom. 32.4] and it is like the carob tree, and its fruit is like bunches of grapes on a vine, very beautiful, and the smell of this tree spreads and penetrates af

to the east of these animals, i saw the ends of the earth, on which heaven rests, and the open gates of heaven. 33.3] and i saw how the stars of heaven come out, and counted the gates out of which they come, and wrote down all their outlets, for each one, individually, according to their number. and their names, according to their constellations, their positions, their times, and their months, as the angel uriel, who was with me, showed me. 33.4] and he showed me everything, and wrote it down, and also their names he wrote down for me, and their laws and their functions. 34.1] and from there i went towards the north, to the ends of the earth, and there i saw a great and glorious wonder at the ends of the whole earth. 34.2] and there i saw three gates of heaven; through each of them north w

BOOK OF BLACK SERPENT

e angels of the shekinah and are four in number, two ir and two qedushsha; they are the court officers who raise, argue and close every case that comes before the holy one when he is seated on the throne of judgement. it is they who give effect to the decrees of the most high over the kingdoms of men; these angels form the council of the almighty. the eldest servant of his house is metatron naar, the angel which maintains the heavenly treasures. the watchers and the holy ones theses are the fallen high angels and were known to the greeks as arcontev [or "archons; their names are radweriel; he is the c lestial scribe; rahatiel is the angel ruling over the constellations. unto him are the angelick decans which rule the 12 signs; sopheriel is the angel set over the books of the living and the

winds blow. the wind goeth toward the south and turneth about unto the north; it turneth anout continually in its course and returneth again unto its circuits. and from the sphere of the sun they return and descend upon the rivers and the seas and upon the hills, as it is written: for lo, he that formeth the mountains and createth the wind. the hyyoth there are four in number and are governed by the angel hyyliel. these four angels are the next above the galallim. they have four faces, four wings and weareth crowns upon their heads. the angels of the hyyoth act in service to the ministering angels of the throne of judgement. the galagallim these are eight in number and each has eleven angels which accompany them; they are ruled by galgalliel, who rules over the globe of the sun; and they

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

some sort, whether it be god, goddess or spirit, good or evil. evocations were performed by medieval practitioners of magick to summon up angels (and sometimes demons) and bind them to perform tasks, rather like the middle eastern djinn, or genie, who, in faerie tales, would appear from a magick lamp or corked bottle and grant wishes. incense would be used to give substance to the etheric form of the angel or demon concerned (modem magick tends to be a little wary of calling up spirits, however, whose malevolent energies may cause harm) in contrast, invocations were used to endow the practitioner with the power to carry out magical purposes through a form of possession, with the angel or god acting directly from within the practitioner's body. elementals have also been associated for hundr

in the east. however, recently i have started to use a more traditional association of raphael as the messenger in the east and uriel as sentinel of the north and i have found that this works better. do read about angels and experiment to see what suits you. i have listed source material on pages 201-2 and you can find more information on the internet. use the elemental candle colour to represent the angel you want. you can also use angels in the four quarters to invoke protection in less formal magick by lighting candles in the four quarters when you feel afraid or alone. i have also seen michael listed as archangel of the dawn and east, but i think he is better placed as archangel of the sun in the south. if you feel uncertain, simply refer to each guardian as archangel of the north, etc

book of sacred writings, to hebrew mystics. he stands as wise protector and keeper of the sacred mysteries, hence representing the direction of magick and initiator of all who seek the mysteries. uriel stands in the north and his colour is the deep blue or purple of midnight. raphael raphael is the healer and travellers' guide and is often associated with mercury, the messenger of the dawn. he is the angel who offers healing to the planet and to mankind and all creatures on the face of the earth and in the skies and waters and the promise that tomorrow really is another day. he is also guardian of the young. he is depicted with a pilgrim's stick, a wallet and a fish, showing the way and offering sustenance to all who ask. raphael stands in the east and his colour is yellow. michael archang

at keeps us bound to the earth. most importantly he shows us how to teach others our spiritual insights. he heals technological and chemical pollution and the adverse effects of modern living. colour: yellow crystals: citrine and yellow jasper incenses or oils: lavender and clover sachiel sachiel is the archangel of the planet jupiter. sachiel's day is thursday. sachiel, the divine benefactor, is the angel of charity who says that only by giving freely to others will our own needs be met. he works constantly to help others and to improve the lives of humankind. he can therefore be invoked for all rituals to bring better harvests, both physical and emotional, and for increasing abundance and prosperity, not just for a minority but the good of all. he restores rundown areas or cities where u

nging wildlife habitats to the city and greenery everywhere. for his fertility is that of the whole earth, rich in fruit, flowers, people and creatures of all kinds, whether living in the wild or in sanctuaries. colour: green crystals: jade and rose quartz incenses or oils: valerian and rose cassiel cassiel is the archangel of saturn. cassiel's day is saturday. though cassiel, the conservator, is the angel of solitude and temperance, he was traditionally invoked for investment and speculation. in a sense, this is not incompatible, for true speculation is based not on random selection, but on deliberation and an almost intuitive scanning of any situation. he brings moderation in actions and dealings and development of inner stillness and contemplation. cassiel can form a focus for rituals f

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ade together, p. 98; butler, awash in a sea of faith, p. 86. african and african american healers with herbal and homeopathic skills were frequently recognized in colonial america for their medical contributions. see peter wood "people's medicine in the early south" southern exposure 6 (summer 1978: 52; and his black majority, p. 289; on medicine in colonial new england see also gordon jones, ed, the angel of bethesda (barre, mass: american antiquarian society, 1972. there is reference to another eighteenthcentury specialist of note in fayetteville, north carolina, a "guineaborn" fugitive by the name of sampson, a fortuneteller and conjurer" who was about "fifty years old" speaking "bad english" indicating that he was probably a "new negro" or african-born (hall's wilmington gazette [north

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ugh i have the greatest respect for all the masters" 1034 to 1124- life of hasan-e sabbah, founder of the assassins of persia. member of the ismaili sect, hasan seized fortress of alamut in daylam in 1090; split with fatimid dynasty in 1094; assassins flourished for next several centuries 1037 d. abu `ali al-husayn ibn sina (avicenna) metaphysics of angelology identifies the active intellect with the angel of revelation, gabriel, the holy spirit. theory that the soul can make an impression upon "first matter (astral matter) by the vehemence of its affection and intention influenced albertus magnus (thorndike, history of magic and experimental science, ii, 731) 1039-1123 milarepa 1040-1105 rashi (rabbi solomon ben isaac; jewish sage, talmudic exegist of troyes, france c.1050 michael psellus

the philosophers' stone. 1257 franciscan friar bonadventura d'iseo's 'liber compostella' provides some alchemical recipes 1257-67, writes the soul's journey into god while meditating on francis's vision of the six-winged seraph; he also writes an authoritative life of saint francis to replace earlier versions. bonaventure believed that st. francis's order would inherit the 'key of david' given to the angel of philadelphia. 1258- hulagu khan destroys baghdad; mongols destroy mesopotamia, the mother of civilization. fl 1259-1285 guilhem de cervera troubadour. 1259 peter de abano [pietro d'abano, italian physician and philosopher born. professor of medicine in padua. heptameron. knew marco polo. translates abraham ibn ezra on decanates. 1260- 1294 kublai khan c.1260 "the book of kings of merl

he hebrew and latin alphabets. demonstrates letter shapes of the hebrew and latin tetragrammata are figures for the trinity. 1294- 1307 temur ljeytu khan d.1297 guido bonatti italian astrologer influenced dante among others. 1300-1362 moses narboni kabbalist epistle on the shi'ur qoma identifies jacob's ladder with the height of the body or totality of created beings. 1300 fra dolcino anticipates the angel of philadelphia's appearance as "holy pope. arnald of villanova writes a number of important treatises on alchemy quaestiones tam esseentiales quam accidentales, epistola supe alchemia ad regem neapolitanum, de secretis naturae, exempla de arte philosophorum; key of solomon. d.1300 'aziz al-din nasafi. kitab al-insan al-kamil. 1300 sister manfreda, a member of the visconti family and fol

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rs, and man, even unto the beasts of the field, all save the servile noah and his family. said demiurge "the earth shall be engulfed by water, for man doth know every secret of the angels, every secret power of nephilim and watchers, and every power of sorcery "they know how silver is produced from the dust of the earth, and how on the earth the metallic drop exists, the secret of metallurgy, for the angel which i stationed upon the earth to guard these secrets from man prevaileth not "by their knowledge shall man perish, for man was not created except that, like the angels, he might remain servile before me" and demiurge said unto noah who had kept his fear of demiurge and partook not the knowledge imparted to man "man hath discovered the secrets of heaven and earth, and they are those wh

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od over the centuries. dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to worship a composite god made up of extraterrestrials. amen. if you look at the origins of the major religions, the stories are remarkably similar to those we hear today from people claiming to have met, or been abducted by, extraterrestrials. mohammed, the founder of islam in the seventh century, said that he had been visited by the angel gabriel, who was "in the likeness of a man, standing in the sky above the horizon".2 this figure told him he had to be a prophet, and he was given messages which formed the islamic holy book, the koran. these messages would be dictated while mohammed was in a trance on many other occasions in the years that followed. he also wrote of going on a 'celestial journey. 6. and the truth shall

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should all come119from the same part of the world? or that people having visions and visitations shouldplay such a crucial part in the formation and legend which created these monsters?mohammed said he had his vision near the cave where he used to go. caves and darkplaces constantly recur in stories of religious superstars and sun gods like mithra andjesus. mohammed said his visitor claimed to be the angel gabriel of biblical fameand during the encounter mohammed said he lost consciousness and entered a trancestate. while mohammed was in his trance or hypnotic state, gabriel gave him amessage to remember and recite. mohammed said that when he awoke the messagewas inscribed upon his heart. what followed the encounter with gabriel was abloodbath spanning the centuries to the present day, as

st the freemasonsand zionists of shamballah. could this division be aryan martians v anunnakireptilians, as an age old conflict between the two continues? first they battled on mars,apparently, then the moon and now earth. hitler was obsessed with finding theentrances to this subterranean world so he could contact the aryan master race, but thetruth is that he was a reptilian puppet controlled by the angel of death, josefmengele. it is highly likely, as i mentioned early on, that the reptilians are in conflictwith other extraterrestrial or inner-terrestrial races for control of the planet and therewill certainly be many competing factions in the consciousness cesspit of the lowerfourth dimension. a founder of the thule society was rudolf glauer, an astrologer,who changed his name to the gr

perfected, every government that was in chargeof education for more than one generation would be able to control its subjects securelywithout any need for armies or policemen. that is what education is doing to ourchildren today.along with the british psychological warfare department and the tavistockoperation, research also expanded rapidly under the fascists in germany and italy. josefmengele, the angel of death, conducted mind control experiments on thousands oftwins under the supervision of heinrich himmler at the kaiser wilhelm medicalinstitute in berlin. mengele was born into a rich satanic reptilian bloodline. he was anexpert in demonology and the cabala and was at least a grand master in the illuminati,though probably much higher.2 as the camp doctor at the auchwitz concentrationc

ennedy didnt die until the following spring. my sourceclaims that the kennedy who appeared in the post mortem photographs was j. d.tippet, the police officer and kennedy look-alike who was supposed to have been shotby oswald with a gun that wasnt working!when jfk was 22, a sculpture was made of him as a winged angel and it waspresented to the v atican where it was used as part of a panel in which the angel hoversover st therese as she writes in a book.17 after the assassination, kennedys body wascode-named angel and the same name was used for the plane, air force 1, which flewhis coffin back to washington.8 both kennedy and oswald were buried in places relatedto arlington. kennedy at the arlington national cemetery near washington dc andoswald at the rosehill cemetery, near arlington, texa

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is or herself. the evil eye itself holds a precedence and importance within the practice of yatuk-dinoih, there are specific demons of the evil eye. this may be considered in the context of powerful consciousness, the will in consistent motion; thus therein a part of the adversary. consider also the nature of the other demons, savar, who is the leader and may be corresponded to the hebrew belial, the angel of lucifer, as well as taromat who is a demon of disobedience, thus antinomian in purpose and practice. in the context of the presented essay, the reader or practitioner of magick may by this find the associations to the grimoires of the luciferian path1 and how this form of practice manifests from mythological and historical sources. another question may be asked, what is the purpose of

form of iblis, thus becoming like lucifer. the shadow is the testing force from which you may create and manifest what you desire, and be careful as so you shall obtain that which you seek. the shadow is also the empowering essence of your mind, it is the darkest recesses and atavistic desires which may be explored and mastered. azazel (azazil) is known within muslim lore to have been the same as the angel of death, who was most feared in tribal cultures. various lore describes azazil worshipped god in the seventh hell for over one thousand years, ascending until he reached the earth. azazil arose through the seven hells and upon reaching earth he then sat at the gates of heaven, tormenting adam and eve. the bundahishn relates an original tale of azazel or ahriman- the evil spirit, on acco

agician in the coils of this dragon "the fleeing serpent, the coiling serpent, the powerful with the seven heads" a caanite description of lotan, a form of behemoth and leviathan. in the 60th chapter of the book of enoch, leviathan is presented as a great dragon which is of the sea, the primordial chaos which this great serpent dwells, and the very abyss. leviathan is also another name for rahab, the angel of violence. the concept of this mysterious dragon is, according to the system of justinus39 leviathan is a bad angel. the hebrew term refers to leviathan as that which gathers itself together in folds, thus the coiling dragon. it should be known that the circle itself is timeless and represents the eternal spirit. leviathan in this instance is the guardian of the abyss and timeless in e

gs a question concerning the individual mind and the crooked dragon what is the subjective focus of leviathan; what does this daemon represent to the conscious self? how do we use leviathan in a left hand path initiatory way? leviathan is the encircler/ensorceller of the self; the circumference of the astral and physical body. it is the timeless being, the psyche transformed into daemon. as it is the angel of violence and dragon of the watery abyss, it represents the mastery of the self through change and the ability to place occurrence and happenings into the magicians own individual universe. through the refinement of the subconscious (as based on the transference level of the unconscious to conscious via dreaming) the self grows in the study/interplay of his or her own environment and r

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ditations upon the tree form a most practical and exact system of mystical development; and one that is peculiarly valuable in that it is equilibrated, for the different aspects of manifestation are, as it were, dissected out and dealt with in turn, nothing being neglected. by the time we have trodden all the paths of the tree we shall have learnt the lessons of death and the devil, as well as of the angel and the high priest. chapter x the paths upon the tree 1. the sepher yetzirah refers to the ten sephiroth theni selves, as well as the lines connecting them, as paths, and justly so, for they are all equally channels of divine influence; but it is usual in practical working to consider the lines between the sephiroth only as the paths, and the sephiroth themselves as spheres upon the tre

s. it is like the wind, it bloweth where it listeth. when it comes, it shakes one from head to heel with a wave of fiery heat, and all who hear it involuntarily come to attention. it is an extraordinary experience to hear a word of power vibrated. it is an even more extraordinary experience to vibrate it. 73. the archangel of tiphareth is raphael, the "spirit that standeth in the sun" who is also the angel of healing. 74. when the initiate is "working on the tree" that is to say is building up in his imagination a diagram of the tree of life in his aura, he formulates tiphareth in his solar plexus between the abdomen and the breast; if he intends to work in the sphere of the sixth sephirah, and concentrates the power in this centre, he will find that he himself has suddenly become a spirit

amed, kaph, vau, tau) magical image: a young woman, crowned and throned. situation on the tree: at the base of the pillar of equilibrium. yetziratic text: the tenth path is called the resplendent intelligence because it is exalted above every head and sits upon the throne of binah. it illuminates the splendours of all the lights, and causes an influence to emanate from the prince of countenances, the angel of kether. titles given to malkuth: the gate. the gate of death. the gate of the shadow of death. the gate of tears.the gate of justice. the gate of prayer. the gate of the daughter of the mighty ones. the gate of the garden of eden. the inferior mother. malkah, the queen. kallab, the bride. the virgin. god-name: adonai malekh or adonai ha aretz. archangel: sandalphon. choir of angels: a

ether organic or inorganic. c'est le dermer par q co te in magical operations. iv 54. three ideas issue from a contemplation of the yetziratic text related to malkuth the concept of the resplendent in telligence which illuminates the splendour of all the mystical qabala page 193 lights; the relationship between malkuth and binab; and the function of malkuth in causing an influence to emanate from the angel of kether. 55. it may seem a curious idea that malkuth, which is the material world, should be the illuminator of the lights; we can understand this, however, if we refer to the analogy of physics, which tells us that the sky only appears blue and luminous owing to the reflection of light from the innumerable dust particles floating in the atmosphere; absolutely dustless air is unillumin

nificance of phallic worship, which plays so important a part in all ancient and primitive faiths, a part so little understood by their scholastic interpreters. its real meaning is the bringing down of the godhead into manhood in the hope of taking manhood up into godhead. a process which is also the basis of the freudian therapy. 62. the statement that malkuth causes an influence to emanate from the angel of kether further bears out this idea. we see that the great mother, which is malkuth, polarises with the all-father, which is kether. 63. this classification, however, is too simple to serve us adequately, whether we are reducing a pagan pantheon to [page 286] its simplest terms or dealing with the chances and changes of personal life. but in the four quarters, or elements, into which m

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onverse not only with the angels of god, but with god directly. he knew all creatures and things in the garden and was able to name them accurately because he spoke in the language of the angels themselves, and this language contains no error. coronzon envied man's happiness and perceived that man's "lesser part" was weak and imperfect- by this, humanity's tendency to sexual desire is intended by the angel. however, man's pure essence was perfect, and continues to be perfect. the garden of eden is described in metaphorical terms, as a "garden of felicity" having been induced to sin by coronzon in a manner not described by gabriel, man is driven into the "earth which was covered with brambles" part of the curse of this expulsion, not explicitly mentioned in the corresponding section of the

is thrice one. be vigilant, therefore, for i warn thee that i am about to deceive thee. i shall say words that thou wilt take to be the cry of the aethyr, and thou wilt write them down, thinking them to be great secrets of magick power, and they will be only my jesting with thee (here the scribe invoked the angels, and the holy guardian angel of the frater p. the demon replied) i know the name of the angel of thee and thy brother p, and all thy dealings with him are but a cloak for thy filthy sorceries (here the scribe averred that he knew more than the demon, and so feared him not, and ordered the demon to proceed) thou canst tell me naught that i know not, for in me is all knowledge: knowledge is my name. is not the head of the great serpent arisen into knowledge (here the scribe again c

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ise thee, creature of water, that thou mayest be to me the mirror of the living god in his works, the fountain of life, and the cleansing of sinners. amen. 8. dregs of matter, the lord commandeth thee by the living and devoted serpent. cherub, the lord command thee by adam jol-havah! wandering eagle, the lord command thee by the wings of the bull. serpent, the lord commands thee by the tetragram, the angel and lion! michael, gabriel, raphael, anael. the water floweth by the spirit of eloim. the earth remaineth by adam jot-havah. the firmament was made by iahuvehu-zebaoth. judgment is made by fire in the strength of michael. 9. dogme et rituel de la haute magie. two volumes. paris: g. balliere, 1856. 10. thine art, malchut (the kingdom, and gebura (the power, and hesed (the mercy, forever

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his stick because its answers to his questions puzzled him, was such an android. some have attempted to humanize a root called the mandrake, which bears a fantastic resemblance to a human being. in modern times, androids or robots have become commonplace in science fiction stories and films (see also mandragoras) encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. android 51 angel of north america the angel of north america is a spiritual entity who speaks through virginia housewife patricia ann meyer. meyer, born in virginia in the 1960s, was raised a devout roman catholic. she married during her college years and the first of her two children was born in 1985. in 1986 she received her ph.d. from the college of william and mary and settled in the tidewater area of virginia. three years lat

dness from the earth (through a series of natural disasters. he was a chosen survivor who would assist other survivors to recover what was left after the punishment. the angels spoke for some four months. after jerry shared the message he had received with his wife, she asked to be part of what could be done to possibly prevent the disasters. soon afterwards, a single angel called the teacher, or the angel of north america, began to speak to her, and she recorded the messages on her computer. during the next two years, the angel told meyer that society no longer accepted the existence of evil and had allowed it to become part of its life. however, god would not send the punishment without also offering an opportunity for people to exercise their free will and to choose what is good. the an

o her, and she recorded the messages on her computer. during the next two years, the angel told meyer that society no longer accepted the existence of evil and had allowed it to become part of its life. however, god would not send the punishment without also offering an opportunity for people to exercise their free will and to choose what is good. the angel came to give the warning. meyer related the angel of north america coming to her with the 1990s emphasis on angel contact, but her angel denied such an interpretation. rather, her angel pointed to the necessity of prayer and adherence to the ten commandments as the means of saving ourselves. the angel spoke against what was defined as the liberal spirit of the age that lost a sense of moral right and wrong in the attempt to allow all to

angel contact, but her angel denied such an interpretation. rather, her angel pointed to the necessity of prayer and adherence to the ten commandments as the means of saving ourselves. the angel spoke against what was defined as the liberal spirit of the age that lost a sense of moral right and wrong in the attempt to allow all to act and think as they will. the initial selection of messages from the angel of north america was published in 1996, and meyer invited assistance in spreading the words of the angel. the message is for the 20- year period (1995.2015. if people continue to ignore the evil and refuse to change their ways, the punishment (such as occurred in egypt when moses warned the pharaoh) will come. the meyers continue to circulate the angel s message, though to date a second

eading the words of the angel. the message is for the 20- year period (1995.2015. if people continue to ignore the evil and refuse to change their ways, the punishment (such as occurred in egypt when moses warned the pharaoh) will come. the meyers continue to circulate the angel s message, though to date a second volume of messages has not been released. sources: meyer, patricia. the teachings of the angel of north america. book 1: how to save your soul and your society. richmond, va: oaklea press, 1996. angels the word angel( angelos in greek, malak in hebrew) means a person sent or a messenger. it is a name not of nature but of office, and is applied also to humans in the world who are ambassadors or representatives. in another sense, the word denotes a spiritual being employed in occasi

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n view of opposition to spiritualism at that time. he died on may 18, 1917, in london. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. maskelyne, john nevil 985 sources: maskelyne, john n. the fraud of modern theosophy exposed. london: g. routledge, 1913. modern spiritualism: a short account of its rise and progress, with some exposures of so-called spirit media. london: f. warne, 1876. masleh the angel who the jews believed ruled the zodiac. according to a rabbinical legend, masleh was the medium through which the power and influence of the messiah was transmitted to the sphere of the zodiac. masse, francois (1891) commissaire general of the french navy, with interests in parapsychology. he was born on may 10, 1891, at vendome, france. he entered the french navy and served in world war

g techniques that bread was a very substantial food. on the day he has chosen for the invocation, he must seek a retired and uncontaminated spot, entirely free from observation. after offering up prayer, he compels the spirit he has chosen to appear. by this time he should have reached a state of awareness in which it is impossible that the spirit should remain invisible to him. on the arrival of the angel, the desire of the magus is briefly communicated to him, and his answer is written down. no more than three questions should be asked, and the magician then dismisses the angel to his special sphere. besides having converse with angels, the magus also has power over the spirits of the elements and may choose to evoke one or more of them. to obtain power over the salamanders, for example

libris tredecim, et octingentis faciei humanae eiconibus complexa: cui accessis melampodia de navis corporis tractatus graece et latine nunc primum editus (lutetiae parisorum, 1658. although his interpretations were confined to lines in the forehead (coupled with astrology, his ideas were a forerunner of the physiognomy of j. k. lavater (1741.1801. metratton according to jewish rabbinical legend, the angel metratton is one of the agents by whom god the father works. he receives the pure and simple essence of the divinity and bestows the gift of life upon all. he dwells in one of the angelic hierarchies. metropolitan spiritual churches of christ the metropolitan spiritual churches of christ was a spiritualist church operating in the african american community in the united states. spiritual

of canterbury) preached christianity to the ancient britons, he stood under an oak tree. the ancient hebrews also evidently held the oak as a sacred tree. it is believed that abraham received his heavenly visitors under an oak. rebekah s nurse was buried under an oak, called afterward the oak of weeping. jacob buried the idols of shechem under an oak. it was under the oak of ophra that gideon saw the angel sitting who gave him instructions as to what he was to do to free israel. when joshua and israel made a covenant to serve god, a great stone was set up in evidence under an oak that was by the sanctuary of the lord. the prophet sent to prophesy against jeroboam was found at bethel sitting under an oak. saul and his sons were buried under an oak, and, according to isaiah, idols were made

nd psychoanalysts claim that dreams include symbolic hopes and fears, sexual anxieties, and recollections of past events, as well as possible precognitive images. an attempt to isolate claimed precognitive factors in dreams was made by j. w. dunne (1875.1949) in his book an experiment with time (1927. onimancy (or onycomancy) an elaborate ritual of divination, possibly based on the observation of the angel uriel. olive oil or walnut oil mixed with tallow is put on the nails of the right hand or in the palm of a young boy or girl. to recover money or hidden objects, the face of the child must be turned toward the east; for inquiry into a crime or romance toward the south; for robbery toward the west; and for murder toward the south. then the child must repeat the seventy-two verses of the p

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unded when they saw the car come down and let me out! standing horse claimed to have met mondra- o-leeka one more time on the streets of cedko, california, on october 11, 1962. see also: aura rhanes; bucky; contactees further reading dean, john w, 1964. flying saucers and the scrip- tures. new york: vantage press. angel of the dark on several occasions, new age writer alice bryant has encountered the angel of the dark, who sometimes calls herself an angel of the divine plan. the angel stands nearly three stories tall. large, matte-dark feathers with iridescent tips cover her. she wraps her wings around herself like a cloak and wears a wooden bird mask from which a long, sharp beak extends. she is here to take away all those feelings and fears that impede spiritual progress. her bird mask s

to understand that her original vision was of the group she would form, the arising sun s interplanetary class of thee elohim. she explained to writer brad steiger that thee elohim are the seven spirits of god: chamuel, gabriel, raphael, zadkiel, michael, jophiel, and uriel. they stand before god and co-create with him, she explained. they manage and direct all forms that exist. in 1972 jophiel, the angel of intuitive light, told her that because she had managed to ove rcome your desires of the flesh, he and his colleagues we re giving her back the name she had held in her previous incarnation as a venusian: bright st a r. ever after she went by that name, working at her mission to bring the material and spiritual kingdoms together. ac c o rding to her space friends, the earth would go th

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ay, as if you first prepare the ground with every sort of idle folly, knead and make ready your pretty dolly, as many romance tales expound. faust i ve appetite without that too. mephistopheles now jests aside, no more ado. with that good, lovely child, indeed, i tell you once for all, we can t use speed. there s nothing here to take by storm; to strategy we must conform. faust get something that the angel owns for me! oh, lead me to her place of rest! get me a kerchief from her breast, a garter to my ecstasy! mephistopheles now just to prove that i will be of helpful service in your agony, we ll lose no moment in delay. i ll lead you to her room this very day. faust and shall i see her? have her? mephistopheles no! for she ll be at a neighbour s for a chat or so. while she is gone, all by

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n the sefer yetzirah. organ of nakedness: a term for the ayin of vast face in the sefer yetzirah. o.t.o: order templis orientis, a school of the practical qabalah that was a breakout group from the golden dawn. pagan: latin-based appellation given to the indigenous spiritual traditions of western europe that preceded the colonization by christianity. paniel (hebrew: face of el: name of vast face; the angel with whom ya aqov wrestled in the torah. partzufim (hebrew: veils, curtains, faces: a term prominent in lurianic teachings for vast face, ancient father, ancient mother, small face, and the shekhinah. correspond to the letters in the name hvhy and the four qabalistic worlds. 4' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% parush (hebrew: withdraw: root of the word pharisee i.e. one who withdraws from the world in

the letters in the name hvhy and the four qabalistic worlds. 4' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% parush (hebrew: withdraw: root of the word pharisee i.e. one who withdraws from the world in pious isolation. pele (hawaiian: principal name of small face in the mystical tradition of the hawaiian kahunas. pesach (hebrew: passover: a ritual delineated in torah shmoth which, in its exoteric aspect, portrays the night the angel of death passed over i.e. spared the first-born children of the israelites preceding the release from egyptian slavery. pharisees (hebrew: rabbinical jewish sect that opposed the priesthood and the sadducees and eventually assimilated orthodox authority after the diaspora. the pharisees maintained that, in addition to the written torah, god had handed down an oral tradition at mount sina

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ned in a covenant with the devil in nod. in addition some initiatory grimoires present cain as being the son of samael (satan) and lilith (through possession of eve via the fruit given by the serpent. cain is thus a symbol of the self which transforms itself through dissatisfaction. fly the light is in part a symbol of the transformation through the seven heads of the dragon of the apocalypse via the angel of prostitution who rides the beast. the son of satan is also represented as a serpent. the dragon itself holds significance in that it is a relation to diabolism, in zoroastrian lore, the avestan word devak means worm which is a dragon or snake. an early form of the antichrist, called zohak and later azhi dahaka is a dragon-king who had two black and venomous serpents on his shoulders

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

d into an operative magic,4 using the power of the hebrew language, or the powers of the angels invoked by it, to perform magical works (i am speaking, of course, from the point of view of a mystical believer in magic, like pico della mirandola) the cabalists evolved many angelic names unknown to the scriptures (which mention only gabriel, raphael, and michael) by adding to a root term describing the angel's specific function a suffix, such as "el" or "iah, representing the name of god, and such angelic names invoked or inscribed on talismans had power. abbreviations of hebrew words, by the method of notarikon, or transpositions or anagrams of words by the method of temurah, were also potent. one of the most complicated of the methods used in practical cabala, or cabalist magic, was gematr

ativa (hebraic mnemonic signs) than by speaking their names.4 reuchlin treats at length of the letter-number calculations, gives many names of angels, including those of the seventy-two who form the name of god (vehuiah, ieliel, sitael, elemiah, and so on)5 and instructions how to summon the more familiar raphael, gabriel, and michael.6 through reuchlin, pico's cabalist magic leads straight on to the angel magic of trithemius or of cornelius agrippa, though these magicians were to work it in a more crudely operative spirit than the pious and contemplative pico. pico's oration on the dignity of man echoes throughout with the words magia and cabala; these are the basic themes of his 1 pico, p. 112. 2 johannes reuchlin, de arte cabalistica, haguenau, 1517. 3 for example, the 19th magical conc

are now from the contemplative piety with which pico used cabala! trithemius lived too soon. he would be very happy in putting through a trunk-call to a friend at a distance, or in watching everything that is going on in the world with his television set. this is perhaps a little unfair, since there is a vast esoteric background to trithemius' magic. operating with the talismans of magia or with the angel-names of cabala will not in itself lead to the practical achievements of modern applied science. there was, however, among ficino's lists of prisci theologi, or prisci magi, the name of one who taught that number was the root of all truth pythagoras. among pico's nine hundred theses, there were fourteen conclusions "according to the mathematics of pythagoras",1 the first being that one i

elley, though dee never saw them himself.4 kelley was a fraud who deluded his pious master, but the very nature of the fraud shows how well-versed they both were in renaissance magic. what dee chiefly wanted to learn from the angels was the secrets of nature5; it was a way of prosecuting science on a higher level. like pico della mirandola, dee was a most devout christian man, and his attitude to the angel-visitants is like that of pico in the oration on the dignity of man, full of awe and wonder. dee's ignorant contemporaries could not distinguish between practical cabala and conjuring, in which they were perhaps not unjustified. but they also could not understand, as dee' but he lists under "thaumaturgy" as an "art mathematicall, the brazen head made by albertus magnus, the wooden dove o

the world of nature and penetrating into the mysteries of the life of god within himself. bruno sweeps away these "metaphysics" but uses the system "naturally, bringing the metaphysical down into the physical, yet using its unifying method to help in his constant aim of unifying multiphcity, or relating the all to the one. as far as practical magic is concerned, i think he would have interpreted the angel-summoning cabalist magic as really demon summoning. this transformation is easily suggested by study of 1 spaccio, dial. 3 (dial, ital, pp. 781-3. the passage is here quoted in the eighteenth-century translation attributed to w. morehead, hence the variation of the phrasing from the form in which the first part of it is quoted above, pp. 213-4. 2 see above, p. 102. 3 agrippa, de occult

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d. he searched the world and found tricksters and black magicians, but none of these satisfied his quest for meaning and truth [no duhh. one day in his later years he ran across a mage living in isolation named abramelin. this guy seemed to be in contact with some real truth here and initiated our wandering seeker with secrets of the quabalah, and a type of sacred magic for achieving contact with the angel (in relation to the most high. the full details of this sojourn are detailed in the first chapter the sacred magick(*1. chapter 2 gives the mind set to adopt and prayer-form rituals (which obviously must be personalized to the magician using them. the third chapter gives other magic s to poke around with (such as summoning an army to do your bidding) anyway, it is a good book and i sugge

ng of illusion. the hga is a manifestation from probable time, of the self (distinguished from the self) in unity and perfection of it s will. the hga is a reflection of perfection of the magus. unity is desired to align more fully with the will [i shall not touch upon the black or white brotherhood, and shall talk more fully of something called the scarlet brotherhood. there is another aspect of the angel which is a reflection across the tree of life into the tree of death, this is a natural course, as every action includes it s inverse. the hga is also an independent being. as the hga is partly an astral construct of which energy (prayer-form) is devoted to allow for manifestation. the angel has access to knowledge (both mundane and magical) that is currently beyond the magicians scope a

of the self and by the self. identification is both the key and the cage here. thee angel is the thin silver cord of the horizon; demarcation zos-kia. the angels unity with chrnzn is explosion of duality to a continuous transformation. see also appendix vi. subscribing to all of the above can be of great benefit to the magician because it offers him/ her a handle in the formulation/ invocation of the angel, as well as a magnificent channel with which to learn, grow and explore the infinite worlds and beyond. when faced with nothing, one had better well do something! a side note on dangers. any invocations and interaction with the outer-spaces should not be under taken at least until after initial contact with the angel is established. and definitely not in the demonic bindings phase. why i

e to follow. thus we get now into the subject of liber chrnzn see now appendix i and ii. afterwards i shall explicate the relations to the goddess-force babalon and the scarlet brotherhood. 6 the rite of suffering death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful. thou art not so- some dead poet being a chaotic interpretation of the holy guardian angel operation, as one summons the angel of light, the reverse impulse is attracted and mastery& integration of the darkness is necessary for unity. a thorough selfexamination and analysis is a must, and identification with all our demonic aspects a key. after initial knowledge and conversation with the angel has taken place, it becomes necessary to make a descent into darkness. the following reflects my own rite of suffering

ry for unity. a thorough selfexamination and analysis is a must, and identification with all our demonic aspects a key. after initial knowledge and conversation with the angel has taken place, it becomes necessary to make a descent into darkness. the following reflects my own rite of suffering. the traditional abramelin operation demonic bindings is represented by binding v below. the dictates of the angel shall guide thee in your own form of mastery of self (note that this is a never ending procedure, but at this juncture the reigns must be pulled tight. i present this which can be adopted both within and without pursuit of this subject by the imaginative magician. angelic contact was established with full knowledge and conversation within 3 months time, the demonic bindings phase kicked

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL

fer, their great leader will be made plain in the following articles; for the present, suffice it to say, that in the earth period, when various planets were differentiated to provide proper evolutionary environment for each class of spirits, the angels under jehovah were set to work with the inhabitants of all planets having moons; while the lucifer spirits have their abode upon the planet mars. the angel gabriel is representative on earth, of the lunar hierarchy, presided over by jehovah; the angel samael is ambassador of the martial forces of lucifer. gabriel (who announced the coming birth of jesus to mary) and his lunar angels are therefore the givers of physical life, while samael and the hosts of mars are the angels of death. thus originated the feud in the dim dawn of this cosmic d

'holy water' at the temple door to quench the spirits seeking light and knowledge and to inculcate faith in jehovah. as the vernal equinox is said to be at the first point of aries, no matter where in the constellations it falls by precession, so the point where the human seed-atom comes from the invisible world and is taken in hand by the lunar god of generation, jehovah, through his ambassador, the angel gabriel, is esoterically the first point of cancer. this is the cardinal sign of the watery triplicity, and is ruled by the moon. there conception takes place; but were the form built of water and its concretions alone, it could never come to birth, so four months later when the fetus has reached the stage of development corresponding to the second sign of the watery triplicity, scorpio

ed in the liver) and when the silver cord is tied by the seed-atom of the vital body (located in the solar plexus) the spirit dies to life in the super- sensible world, and quickens the body it is to use in its coming earth life. this life on earth last until the course of events foreshadowed in the wheel of life, the horoscope, has been run; and when the spirit again reaches the realm of samael, the angel of death, the mystic eighth house, the silver cord is loosed, and the spirit returns to god who gave it, until the dawn of another life-day in the school of earth beckons it to a new birth that it may acquire more skill in the arts and crafts of temple-building. about five months after the quickening, when the last of the watery signs, pisces, has been passed, the representative of the l

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his place. 19 (10) uvklm malkuth, kingdom, or dominion. as kether is the harmony at the beginning, so is malkuth the harmony at the end; the first the head and the last the feet of adam qadmon. the divine name attached to this sephirah is adonai- the tetragrammaton. malkuth is also called the queen, shekinah, and havah- eve. it is the seat of the nephesh, the instincts, and its angel is metatron, the angel of the covenant, the letters of whose name equal in numerical value those of shaddai, namely 314. behold, i send an angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which i have prepared. beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not: for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. 20 the tree of life. the ten sephiroth when combined wi

ations- the ten sephiroth of which represent the operative qualities of the divine will. this world is also called the great seal, for it stamps out in its own form the three inferior worlds. it is the abode of adam qadmon (2) briah or the briatic world, the world of creation- the ten sephiroth of which represent the abode of pure spirits; consequently it contains no matter. it is the dwelling of the angel metatron and constitutes the world of angels or spirits. as adam qadmon is the form of the ain soph, metatron is his garment and under his command come the myriads of the angelic hosts of the next world. secret wisdom of the qabalah page 33 plate 5: the zodiacal secret wisdom of the qabalah page 34 (3) yetzirah or the yetziratic world, the world of formation- the ten sephiroth of which r

ziratic world. in the assiatic world, the world of matter, in order to redeem himself, of necessity he has to tempt the earthly adam. his task there is to cause death, that is to reverse the life process; as the zohar says, gthe end of all flesh has come before me [sammael) h; for he, as the evil serpent, gtakes away the souls of all flesh h, 12 that is he liberates them from matter. he is called the angel of venom, of poison, of death; for sam means gpoison h and el means gangel h. his number is 131, that is trinity set between two unities, the whole adding up to 5- the microcosm. his world is now the yetziratic world reversed; that is to say assiah is the simulacrum, shadow, or image, of yetzirah. its three supernal sephiroth are tohu, the formless, bohu, the void, and chshk- darkness. i

. then through baptism and prayer the heaven was opened, and the holy ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove [symbol of binah] upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, thou art my beloved son; in thee i am well pleased. 7 today his nominal and actual followers still number six hundred and eighty millions. mahomet, at the age of thirty-five, retired into a cave and was visited by the angel gabriel, the messenger of god; he emerged an illumined adept. his followers conquered half the known world of their day, established a wonderful civilization, and still number two hundred and ten millions. is this omission, this negative period, a coincidence in these three lives? the answer is gno h, and this answer is conclusively proved by examining the lives of the lesser masters. mo

, this negative period, a coincidence in these three lives? the answer is gno h, and this answer is conclusively proved by examining the lives of the lesser masters. moses disappeared into the land of midian, met there seven daughters of the priest of that country, lived with jethro 8 their father, tended his flocks, led them to the gback side of the desert and came to the mountain of god h. gand the angel of the lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire, out of the midst of a bush. h 9 then he conversed with god, who revealed himself to be the secret jehovah; and on his return to egypt such was his power that not only did he to all intents and purposes found the jewish religion, but he succeeded in turning egyptian society upside down. st. paul journeying to damascus saw a vision of jesus

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o this people from mt. sinai, still they were constantly lapsing into the worship of baal and ashtaroth, which fact shows how deeply rooted was the belief in a dual or triune god. it is plain that this "lord" the fierce anger of whom was kindled because of their digressions, was none other than the jealous male god which had but recently been elevated to the dignity of a supreme creator. although the angel of the lord when he came down from gilgal commanded his followers to "throw down the altars of the people of bochim" they nevertheless continued to do evil in the sight of the lord, and "followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bound themselves unto them and provoked the lord to anger "and they forsook the lord, and served baal and ashtaroth. and the

father seeing these things dispatches baruch his third angel to moses, and through him spake to the children of israel, that they might be converted unto the good one. but the third angel, naas, by the soul of which came from edem upon moses, as also upon all men, observed the precepts of baruch, and caused his own peculiar injunctions to be hearkened unto. again, after these occurrences baruch, the angel of the good one, was sent to the prophets to warn them against the wiles of edem, but in the same manner nass, the devil, enticed them away, they being allured by him to their own destruction. again elohim selected hercules, an uncircumcised prophet, and sent him to quell the disturbance caused by naas or edem and to release the father from their power "these are the twelve conflicts of

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vibrating the names and holding our swords towards heaven.thishad the effect of attracting a rushofenergy, deo date feelingitchiefly in her right arm, showingitto be an energy impelling to action. a gigantic, mail clad angelappendixf133appeared, with winged helmet, and great flame-coloured wings fromhis shoulders. there wassome diversity ofopinion concern255 ing his sword. one frater thought that the angel (who was evidently phaleg) had the hilt in one hand and the point in the other, while the blade seemed to encircle the universe. another frater saw it as the flaming sword, others of us saw it as a straightshaft ofwhiteflame.we all held the points of our swords to the angel's breast from which rushed such tremendous force that our arms received a sort of electric shock.behind the figure

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s fact thatthejews who are bound by the old testament to respect it asthecomplete statement of the relations of god to man, andboundin a more dogmatic manner than are the worshippers of any other religion by their sacred books, should yet have accumulated the vastest mass of traditional teaching that is known to the literary world.inthe apocryphal book oftobitthere is a mention in cap. xii. 15 of the angel raphael, who says 'i am one of the seven holy angels, and four other references tohimare found in the same book.128themagical masonaccording to one jewish tradition which has met with much christian support, they are four principal angels who stand around the throne of jehovah; they are michael, gabriel, raphael and uriel.inthe curious ancient jewish volume named the book of enoch there

hree with ministering angels. they eat and drink, propagate and die like men. they have wings, they fly and they know future events like the angels. codexchagija cap. ii.p,16. the names of several female demons are commonly noted; lilith said to have been adam's first wife, naamah and agereth. samael is the chief male demon; he has many of the characters of the christian satan; he is often called the angel of death, but it was alleged that he had no power over true hebrews. the proper abode of demons is gai hinnom, and there are seven portions in hell, each part named and having its special qualities and inhabitants. the original rosicrucians of medieval europe and their successors through recent centuries, have at all times widely proposed the existence of beings of a more refined nature

ce, and success in leading men into sin and danger.italso enters into minute details of the many forms of hell, in which are their dwellings, and whence they emerge to persecute wicked men who stray from the paths of duty and beneficence. a general idea, however, existed that the just man who never transgressed the dictates of the mosaic law, hadbutlittle to fear from their attacks, for over such the angel guards prompted by jehovah kept a strict guard.theoldest canonical books of the old testament do not seem to realize any personal great enemy of mankind in active opposition to god, but in the later volumes that idea takes form.thecaptivity of the jews seems to have tainted their faith, and the influence of the persian dualism became then apparent. in the book of job there is a definite

hile others have asserted that they were a separate creation, having been formed as triers and tempters on the sixth day of creation.itis suggested on this theory that they were intended to have had corporeal bodies,butthat the sabbath of rest came on while only their astral forms were perfected (bereshith rabba, section vii. pars. 9-3) there is a tradition that the good jews are summonedtodie by the angel gabriel, but that wicked jews and all other men are called by samael as the angel of death, or by one of his agents (see menachem of recanti, fol.cxx,cap. 3) of samael it is said that it is dangerous to mock him, zoharii.237, b. brody edition. also that he is related to semol, the left or evil side of man, and to blindness to good, that is some; he is also sam hamrnoveth, a deadly poison

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ds to represent the scriptures as a collection of acrostics, anagrams, and riddles.rees'cyclopaediahas also an article of fair length on the subject,butit is generally adverse to the claims advanced by the cabbalists. rees gives the following account of the origin of the cabbala 'the jews derive the mysteries contained in the cabbala from adam; and assert that whilst the first man was in paradise the angel rasiel brought him a book from heaven, which contained the doctrines of heavenly wisdom; and that when adam received this book, angels came down from heaven to learn its contents, but that he refused to admit them to the knowledge of sacred things entrusted to himself alone; that, after the fall, this book was taken back into heaven; that after many prayers and tears god restored it to a

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

lems can be resolved at the psychological level (the unconscious, some cannot. according the gnostic must always be aware of the limits of the mind. a good way to conceptualise these limits is in what is known as the three a s. the three a s the three a s are animal, adept and angel. each represents an image of a certain level of human consciousness. the animal is the body, the adept the mind and the angel, the developing higher self. each can only exist correctly at the level to which he is assigned. the animal and adept make good servants but very bad masters. the animal is the body which we have as an interface to the physical world, if it is allowed to go its own merry way then it will become our master. it is a difficult beast to control and is manipulated by desires, lusts and, of co

spiritual life whatsoever. the mind is a scribe, a record keeper, even a grand machine, it is not the true self. the mind is a difficult thing to control, and yet it must be forced to submit. the mind will rebel, demand rights, give us strange thoughts, dreams and nightmares, yet ultimately it has no real power. it is a glorified computer, a good model, certainly, but a computer no less (fig 16) the angel is the true self, the spark of light. it exists only in potential and must be brought into action through transfiguration. when the angel becomes the centre of gnostic theurgy page 68 one's existence the animal and adept (and other related systems) fall into place. however, since we are in a fallen system, there will always be a battle until matter is finally rectified. even if the anima

re things become solid, they manifest. attributions in this world can vary greatly, traditionally, there are the planets. but we have more than simply their physical manifestation. while assiah is matter it also cross-over into the lower reaches of the astral as the veil or paroketh is not as strong as the abyss. accordingly, each planet has a related angel, intelligence and spirit, in some sense the angel is from yetzirah while the intelligence and spirit is attributed to assiah. gnostic theurgy page 98 the earth is composed of four directions and elements, each with attributions of archangels, angels, ruler, queen and elementals (fig 25) the kabbalists also teach that in the lower realms of assiah are the demonic forms, these are known as shells or qlippoth. they exist as the furthest ex

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its of the dead and the subconscious around the self; to strengthen and explore the avenues of a strong and open mind. the black magician also understands the respect which is necessary with working with exterior forces which often relate in an interior context. this is the key to the goetic sorcery path which is for this reason considered dangerous. the path of magick is that godform of lucifer, the angel perfected. the luciferian spirit is fire born, alive, vigorous and strong in will and pride. lucifer ascends in the sun, and falls with the darkening of the moon. this is the path of magick itself as above, so below. the luciferian model is presented strongly in this book, as this is a gateway or key to the mind expanding and developing. no longer shall the horrid sickness of christianit

al realm or the sub-princes accordingly. much of this useful information may be found in the s.l. macgregor mathers translated the book of the sacred magic of abramelin the mage. 10 the four infernal princes are- lucifer east (from lux fero, light bearer. a common shadow association is lucifuge, latin for fly the light and may have close associations with mephistopheles. lucifer in this aspect is the angel of light, the adversary. lucifer is a title which is beheld by the fire djinn azazel being the first angel, fallen from the stasis of light. by this manner, lucifer is the liberator and developer of humanity with his gift of the black flame, or individualized self-perception. leviathan- west (from lvthn, the crooked serpent/dragon of the sea. leviathan is the daemon of immortality and in

ked stave which rises in the noon-tide sun. belial north (from bliol, a wicked one. belial is the spirit of the earth, created second after lucifer/azazel as a powerful angel. belial is a powerful daemonic and angelick spirit and initiator, and is associated with both the infernal and celestial) the sub-princes are (and should be considered shadow forms of the infernal princes) samael east (being the angel of fire who is azazel. samael is the demon prince who is married to lilith and father of tubal-cain. the root word of samael is sml, which translates idol or image) azael west (associated with azrael, the angel of death or the egyptian anubis, the god of the dead. azael represents the west and the realm of twilight) azazel south (associated with the element fire, as azazel is the fire dj

s of self. while quietly meditating, envision the astral body growing, of which a great fire and light is rising above the physical body, envision and eye within this fire. raise yourself up in through the aethyr, from which you are floating and rising in the sky. as you rise begin to visualize a great angel before you. there is a great wind which is violent and rushing about you and this seraph. the angel is illuminated in bright light, with eyes that are black despite the beautiful and strong continence of this being. the face is saturnine yet strong, and the aura you sense is tinctured with darkness beneath the surface. the body of the angel is almost flame, and his crown is an emerald brilliance. in the hand of this angel is a forked staff, which is cruel looking and sharp. the wings o

ht of self and view ones own reflection in the emerald crown, the very lucifer-stone which fell to earth and remains hidden within the earth, and partially in the heart of man. this rite is designed to provide a short yet inspired working of invoking the holy guardian angel, from which one shall seek the communion of their higher spirit, genii, daemon and true will. as one comes into contact with the angel-daemon, an illuminated sense of self comes forth; a new type of being may begin to develop. the oath of the magician of the luciferian path is that of illumination and the great work of becoming. in the workings of goetic sorcery, no matter if the invocations/evocations are done in the aims of low sorcery or high sorcery, one should already have sought an operation of will and the discov

GOLDEN DAWN MEDITATION WITH THE ARCHANGEL AURIEL

ser invoking pentagram. thrust the wand through the center of the figure and vibrate "agla" do this also in the south, west, and finally in the north; drawing the same pentagram and intoning the same word in all four quarters (remain in the north and say "in the divine name adonai ha-aretz, i open this temple in the element of earth. may the archangel uriel look with favor upon this ceremony! may the angel phorlakh and the ruler kerub be also in attendance! i have gained admission in this temple through the badge of the hermetic cross. hear me! i arn one who has received the mystic title of periclinus de faustis and the symbol of aretz. as a wanderer in the wilderness, i invoke the powers of earth to bear witness to my spiritual endeavor. grant me the knowledge of the element of earth and

GOLDEN DAWN MEDITATION WITH THE ARCHANGEL GABRIEL

thrust the wand through the center of the figure and vibrate "eheieh" do this also in the south, west, and finally in the north; drawing the same pentagram and intoning the same word in all four quarters. return to the east (remain in the east and say "in the divine name elohim tzabaoth, i open this temple in the element of water. may the archangel gabriel look with favor upon this ceremony! may the angel taliahad and the ruler tharsis be also in attendance! i have gained admission to this temple through the badge of the cup of stolistes. hear me! i arn one who has received the mystic title of monocris de astris and the symbol of maim. as a unicorn of the stars i invoke the powers of water to bear witness to my spiritual endeavor. grant me the knowledge of the element of water and the cre

GOLDEN DAWN MEDITATION WITH THE ARCHANGEL RAPHAEL

he wand through the center of the figure and vibrate "yod heh vav heh" do this also in the south, west, and finally in the north; drawing the same pentagram and intoning the same word in all four quarters. return to the east (remain in the east and say "in the divine name shaddai el chai, i open this temple in the element of earth. may the archangel raphael look with favor upon this ceremony! may the angel chassan and the ruler aral be also in attendance! i have gained admission in this temple through the badge of the caduceus of hermes. hear me! i arn one who has received the mystic title of poraios de rejecttis and the symbol of ruach. i have been brought from amoung rejected. as a lord/lady of the 32nd path, i invoke the powers of air to bear witness to my spiritual endeavor. grant me t

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neath. betwixt the light and the darkness do vibrate the colors of life. i supplicate those powers and forces governing the powers and forces of the nature, place and authority of the sign (zodiacal) by the majesty of the divine name (divine name) with which in earth, life and language i ascribe the letter (hebrew letter) to which is allotted the symbolic tribe of (hebrew tribe) and over which is the angel (angelic name) to bestow this present day and hour and confirm their mystical and potent influence upon the color (zodiacal color) of this lotus wand which i hereby dedicate to purity and occult work. may my grasp upon it strengthen me in the work of the nature and attributes of (zodiacal sign. note: as you are reciting the invocation at each quarter, it is important that you trace in th

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of water angle of fire tablet. aao ial pir gah: amongst the flames of first glory. aao: aaf/ among/ cacodemon of water angle of air tablet. aaodt: angel, also known as aadt. aaoth: name of mercury perimeter. aaozaif: senior of jupiter on the air tablet. aapdoce: senior of venus, on the fire tablet. aavan: angel, also known as aaan. aavna: angel, also known as aana. aax: cacodemon, counterpart of the angel axir. aaxp: subservient angel of air angle of water tablet. ab: angel (filia filarum lucis) associated with luna. ab: name of jupiter heptagon 2. aba: cacodemon of fire angle of earth tablet. ababalond: of an harlot. abai: stooping. subservient angel of fire angle of earth. abaiond: governor of the second division of the aethyr pop (56. abaiuonin: to the stooping dragon. 3 abaivoninu: ab

rubic angel of air angle of water tablet. advorpt: governor of the third division of the aethyr tex (90. aeo: cacodemon of water angle of water tablet. aer: cacodemon of fire angle of fire tablet. af: nineteen. affa: empty. aflafben/ aphlafben: dee's good angel that appeared to dee and kelley on nov. 1, 1583. ag l toltorn: no one creature. ag: none/ no/ not/ no one. agb: cacodemon, counterpart of the angel gbal. aglm/ agmlm: angel, companion of magl. aglm: kerubic angel of earth angle of water tablet. aglo: in thy. agmm: subservient angel of water angle of water tablet. aha: cacodemon of earth angle of air tablet. ahaozpi: senior of venus on the air tablet. ah-deh-er-reh/ ah-deh-reh: adre, angel. ahd: cacodemon of air angle of water tablet. ah-ee-ah-oh-ah-ee: aiaoai, divine name. ahli: sub

an, also ancro. anvaa: angel, also known as anaa. aoc: cacodemon of water angle of air tablet. aocp: subservient angel of water angle of air tablet. aoiveae: star/ stars. aom: cacodemon of earth angle of fire tablet. aomi: angel, companion of iaom, also aosmi. aoo/ aop: cacodemon of earth angle of earth tablet. aopn: subservient angel of earth angle of earth tablet. aor: cacodemon, counterpart of the angel ormn. aorx: subservient angel of earth angle of earth tablet. aosmi: angel, also known as aomi. aot: cacodemon of air angle of air tablet. aoth: name of mercury (corrected) perimeter. aourrz: calling name of fire angle of air tablet. aox: cacodemon of fire angle of air tablet. aozpi: holy name of god, ruling the element of air. apa: cacodemon of water angle of air tablet. apachana "the s

four lettered holy name of god, ruling the element of water. arth: gladness. arzl: angel, companion of rzla. kerubic angel of air angle of air tablet. arzulgh: name of an evil spirit, counterpart of befafes. as: was. 8 asav: subservient angel of fire angle of water tablet. ascha: god. asgv: subservient angel of air angle of fire tablet. ash: cacodemon of earth angle of air tablet, counterpart of the angel shal. asi: cacodemon of fire angle of fire tablet, counterpart of the angel sisp. asmt: kerubic angel of fire angle of earth tablet. asndood: senior of luna on the fire tablet. asobam: on whom. asp: cacodemon of fire angle of fire tablet. aspian: quality/ qualities. aspiaon: governor of the third division of the aethyr deo (21. aspt: before/ in front of. assi: subservient angel of air an

re tablet, counterpart of the angel sisp. asmt: kerubic angel of fire angle of earth tablet. asndood: senior of luna on the fire tablet. asobam: on whom. asp: cacodemon of fire angle of fire tablet. aspian: quality/ qualities. aspiaon: governor of the third division of the aethyr deo (21. aspt: before/ in front of. assi: subservient angel of air angle of air tablet. ast: cacodemon, counterpart of the angel stim. astel (meaning unknown) asymp: with another. ataad: angel ruling taad and companions. atapa: commanding name of fire angle of water tablet. atdim: angel ruling tdim and companions. ath: angel (filia filiarum lucis) associated with venus, name of mars heptagon 2. ato: cacodemon of air angle of air tablet, cacodemon, counterpart of the angel tott. atogbo: demonic name (reversal of ob

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ration is yatbc, or rest, and it giveth forms and similitudes unto chaotic matter and it ruleth the sphere of action of l. and jehovah \yhla is the perfection of creation and the life of the world to come. and its archangel is layqpx, the prince of the spiritual strife against evil, and the name of the order of angels is \ylara, the strong and mighty ones who are also called the order of thrones. the angel lphy is also referred unto hnyb. in hmkj is the radix of blue and thence is there a blue color pure and primitive, and glistening with a spiritual light which is reflected unto dsj. and the sphere of its operation is called qdx,or justice, and it fashioneth the images of material things, bestowing peace and mercy; and it ruleth the sphere of the action of the planet k. and la is the titl

ucing zeal, love, harmony, and it ruleth the sphere of action of the planet c and the nature of the vegetable world. and twabx \yhla is a god of hosts and of armies, of triumph and of victory, ruling the universe in justice and eternity. and its archangel laynah is the prince of love and harmony, and the name of the order of angels is \yhla or gods who are also called the order of principalities. the angel laywrs is also referred unto this sephira. the beams of hrwbg and trapt meet in dwh and thence arises in dwh a brilliant pure and flashing orange tawny. and the sphere of its operation is that of bkwk, the stellar light, bestowing elegance, swiftness, and scientific knowledge and art, and constancy of speech. and it ruleth the sphere of the action of the planet b. and twabx \yhla is also

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. vibrate the name strongly "o ye gods of netzach, i conjure ye by the mighty name of yhvh tzboath lord of hosts, and by the name of haniel whose throne and seat ye are.elohim, come unto me now. manifest yourselves through me, and fill my sphere with your magic power to accomplish this work of the art" step 11 draw the sigil of elohim, and vibrate the name "command unto me the presence of haniel, the angel of venus, and his intelligence, hagiel, that they may consecrate this most powerful symbol. hagiel(vibrate 7 times, i conjure ye potently to make manifest your presence within my soul that this talisman of venus may be charged. come now, o all ye powers and forces of the realm of nogah, obey ye now the name of yhvh tzboath, the divine ruler of your kingdom, and haniel, your archangelic r

seech thee, and manifest through me thy power and grace and thy generosity of spirit. grant unto me the mighty power and help of the archangel haniel who rules over the divine realm netzach, that he may command to my assistance the choir of angels, those lesser gods, the elohim, that they may consecrate with power this talismatic bowl which lieth before thee. o ye gods of netzach, command unto me the angel of haniel, that he may cause hagiel, his intelligence, to come unto me. haniel thou great angel of venus, thou divine intelligence of nogah, i invoke thee by the knowledge of thy name. i call thee by thy sigil and the symbol of venus which i bear upon my breast. come unto me now, i conjure thee to give to me of thy substance so that this creature of talismans may have power, life and lov

ified one, lord of light, triumphant over death. there is no part of me that is not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway, the rescuer unto the light. let the white brilliance of the divine spirit descend. therefore with the light of the godhead above and within me do i invoke haniel, the archangel of netzach, to command unto me the elohim, the gods of netzach. come unto me, ye gods, that the angel of venus, haniel, may cause his intelligence, lhagiel, to make powerful this consecrated telesmata. cause him to take this for his body, to live and reside within this bowl of attraction, passion and desire so that a true and sacred link may be formulated between the spirit of the godhead in netzach and the human soul of the exorcist" step 28 lift up the talisman and place it between the

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rone of the ancient of days. m. now does the aspirant move unto the west, faces southeast, and repeats alike the speeches of hiereus and hegemon. 15 n. after another circumambulation, the adept aspirant halts at the south and repeats the meditation in l. o. he passes unto the east, and repeats alike the words of the hierophant and the hegemon. p. let him pass to the west of the altar, ever led by the angel torchbearer. he projects his astral, and he implants therein his consciousness, and his body kneels when his soul passes between the pillars. he prayeth the great prayer of the hierophant. q. now does the aspirant s soul re-enter unto his gross-form. he dreams in divine exstasis of the glory ineffable which is in the bornless beyond. meditating does he arise, and lifts to the heavens, hi

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lish very honored frater/soror_ in his search for divine light. build and strengthen his will and neschamah to aid him in the accomplishment of his true will and the great work. touch him/her now with thy angelic hands so that he may be enabled to rise beyond that lower selfhood which generates into nothingness, unto that higher selfhood which is the radiating clear light of the spirit" visualize the angel hru touching your nephesch. step 6 look at your spiritual body and say "i call upon the divine white brilliance to descend upon very honored frater/soror_ in the name of isis (make 'l, apophis (make 'v, osiris slain (make cross) and risen (make sign of osiris risen. iao! let the divine light descend" see the divine light descend upon your spiritual body "buried within the light in a myst

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x. vibrate the name strongly "o ye brilliant ones of dsj, i conjure ye by the mighty name of la strong and mighty, and by the name of layqdx whose throne and seat ye are \ylmcj, come unto me now. manifest yourselves through me, and fill my sphere with your magic power to accomplish this work of the art" step 11 draw the sigil of \ylmcj, and vibrate the name "command unto me the presence of layjs, the angel of k, and his intelligence, layphy, that they may consecrate this most powerful symbol. layphy (vibrate 4 times, i conjure ye potently to make manifest your presence within my soul that this talisman of k may be charged. come now, o all ye powers and forces of the realm of dsj, obey ye now the name of la, the divine ruler of your kingdom, and layqdx, your archangelic ruler, and the might

i beseech thee, and manifest through me thy power and grace and thy generosity of spirit. grant unto me the mighty power and help of the archangel layqdx who rules over the divine realm dsj, that he may command to my assistance the choir of angels, those brilliant ones, the \ylmcj, that they may consecrate with power this talisman which lieth before thee. o ye brilliant ones of k, command unto me the angel of qdx, layjs, that he may cause layphy, his intelligence, to come unto me. layphy, thou great angel of k, thou divine intelligence of qdx, i invoke thee by the knowledge of thy name. i call thee by thy sigil and the symbol of k which i bear upon my breast. come unto me now, i conjure thee to give to me of thy substance so that this creature of talismans may have power, life and love to

of light, triumphant over death. there is no part of me that is not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway, the rescuer unto the light. let the white brilliance of the divine spirit descend. 10 therefore with the light of the godhead above and within me do i invoke layqdx, the archangel of dsj, to command unto me the \ylmcj, the brilliant ones of qdx. come unto me, ye brilliant ones, that the angel of k, layjs, may cause his intelligence, layphy, to make powerful this consecrated telesmata. cause him to take this for his body so that a true and sacred link may be formulated between the spirit of the godhead in dsj and the human soul of the exorcist" step 28 lift up the talisman and place it between the pillars. go to the east, face west, and in the sign of the enterer project the w

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nd mighty, and by the name of lapr, thou potent and powerful archangel of trapt. o ye \yklm, come now unto 6 me. manifest yourself through me and fill my sphere with your magical power of trapt to accomplish this work of art. step 5 draw the sigil of \yklm before you within the hexagram. vibrate the name the number of times there are letters in the name. say: command unto me the presence of lakym the angel of a and his intelligence laykn that they may empower and consecrate this symbol most potent and powerful. step 6 draw the sigil of lakym, vibrate it, and then draw the sigil of laykn, and vibrate it as well using the vibratory formula. say: i conjure ye potently to make manifest your presence within my soul that this talisman of a may be charged. come now, all ye powers and forces of th

beseech thee, and manifest through me thy power, grace and generosity of spirit. grant unto me the mighty power and hope of the mighty archangel lapr, who rules over the divine realm of trapt, that he may command to my assistance those divine messengers, the \yklm, that they may consecrate this talisman that lieth before thee. o ye \yklm of the holy one, blessed be he, and of cmc, command unto me the angel of cmc, lakym, that he may cause laykn, his intelligence, to come unto me. laykn, thou great angel of cmc, thou great intelligence of cmc, i invoke thee by the knowledge of thy name and by the power of god the vast one. i do conjure and potently invoke trws, the power and spirit of the sun, and i bind thee in the name of laykn to perform thy work in accordance with my will. i call thee b

ver death. there is no part of me not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway, the rescuer unto the light. let the white brilliance of the divine spirit descend. therefore, with the light of the god head above me and within me do i invoke lapr, the archangel of trapt, to command unto me the \yklm, the divine messengers of the holy one, blessed be he. come, come unto me \yklm and bring forth the angel of cmc, lakym that he may cause his intelligence laykn to 13 make powerful this consecrated telesmata and to infuse within it trws, the evil spirit of a. under the constant guidance of laykn may sorath also play a part in the empowerment of this talismata and thus, forward the cause of light and the purpose of this talisman in accordance with my will. laykn, thou shall take for thy body

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ces of fi re begin wi th destruct ive violence. these forces advance gradually into creative transformations and the renewal of form. you should study these figures carefully until you get an intuitive feel for how these different forces and energies course through the watchtowers. four major types of forces s can be found, creative, destructive, masculine and feminine. 42 watchtower pyramids and the angel sayeth: verily is the pyramid a temple of initiation. verily also is it a tomb. aleistercrowley,the vision and the voice enochian magic explains the specific procedures used to convert each watchtower square into a truncated pyramid. figure 15, appendix a, shows the results of converting the tablet of union squares finto truncated pyramids. figures 16 to 31 show the pyramids of the four

ve aspect. if you use the letter t, you can view the same square in its spiritual aspect. to slightly complicate matters a bit more, the letter t can be either a 9 or a 3 so that atmsa himself has two aspects denoted by the numbers 118 and 112. the last square of vsx(s)y(l,n,h, in water of water, has four letters (le, y, l, n, and h. as a general rule, the first letter is the most important. thus the angel yvsx is the main ruler of this square. however, the angels lvsx, nvsx and hvsx can also be found in this square. when you look at the gematric values of these names you will see: 47 yvsx= 537 lvsx= 485 nvsx= 527 hvsx= 478 furthermore, because the letter x can also be an s (this square has hilo letters, s and x) you would also find, yvss= 144 l v s s= 9 2 nvss= 134 hvss= 85 this gives a t

area around you by executing the rituals of the pentagram and hexagram for banishing. use an appropriate magical formula. steps 2-5 of the beginning method.(see page 118) step 6. recite the appropriate cali (see enochian magic for details an the calls. vibrate the names of power in appropriate order: the holy name, the great king, the six seniors, the two calvary cross angels, the archangel, and the angel. step 7. concentrate on the door before you and the known attributes of the square behind it. step 8. project yourself into your body of light and pass through the doorway into the watchtower square. if necessary, use the rending of the veil. step 9. you should move about until you encounter the 121 presiding deities of the square. lf this is a lesser square these will include an egyptia

esult is that the entice square vibrates with creative forces that sculpt and mold the elements into beautiful multa-colored designs but with little conscious planning or purpose. there seems to be no other purpose to the shape-shifting than the very desire to create forms. step 8. the archangel here is aboyv (ah-boh-yeh-veh) whose number is 171, the number for the word apophrasz ;meaning motion. the angel is boyv (boh-yeh-veh) and his word is law here. if he speaks to you, it will be very hard to resist doing whatever he says. use your sword to maintain control if necessary. step 9. the demon in this square is abo (ah-boh) whose number is 41, the number for the words tol (all) and efafafe (vessels. abo is male and is highly creative. his demonic nature is such that he is not definitive bu

ould see a combination of air and fire in this square. there will be turmoil and swiftly changing shapes and forms. step 6. you should see the goddess bastas outwardly soft and feminine yet inwardly hard and stern. the male sphinx here is a lion with a human head. the atmosphere in this square is charged with a strong masculine current which is somewhat balanced by the femininity of bast. step 7. the angel alip (ah-lee-peh) may confront you. her nature is to quickly disperse or dissipate the lower coarser elements of anything entering this square (alip 83= fifalz meaning to eliminate or weed out. step 8. be wary of the demon of this square who is named mal (mah-leh) which means "arrow" she is single-minded in her attempts to create forms (mal= 104= 52 x 2 and 52= qaa meaning "creation. the

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gh their four-fold assembly system. the initial step is: 0 non-existence, limitlessness, nothing but light. god s intention to be. 1 the crown or summit of creation. pure energy of consciousness. the big bang behind being.origination processes governed by thegod-aspect eh yeh 8 (a breathing, meaning i am. creative processes controlled by archangel metatron (near thy throne. formative processes by the angel order of the chaiot ha-kodesh (holy living creatures, as a higher form of the elements. expressively controlled by the reshit ha-gilgalim (nebulae or first swirlings of matter. humanly by the intentions of procreation. all this projects into: 2 wisdom. origination by the god-aspect yhvh (yahweh, meaning i will be. creation by archangel raziel (herald or announcer of god. formation by the

ndition of creation this would result in a state of beautiful harmony as at sphere 6, but since the object is a material world, this is pushed out of place by the act, and the gap between god and man becomes the great abyss, across which the lifestream goes to) 4 mercy or generosity. origination governed by god-aspect el (the one. creatively by archangel tzadkiel (righteous of god. formatively by the angel order of the chashmalim (brilliant ones. expressively by the planet tzedek (jupiter, traditional giver of good things. humanly the development of male chromosomes in the foetus. 5 severity or economy. origination governed by the god-aspect elohim gibur (god-goddesses of strength/might).creation byarchangelchamael orsamael (burner or venom of god. formation by the angelic order of serafim

amael (burner or venom of god. formation by the angelic order of serafim (fiery serpents. expressively by the planet madim (mars. humanly by the development of female chromosomes in the foetus. 6 harmony and beauty. here life is brought to balance originatively by the god- aspect yhvh eloah ve-da at (i will be god-goddess of knowledge. creatively by archangel michael (the god-like. formatively by the angel order of the malachim (kings or messengers. expressively by shemesh (the sun) as life-supporting nucleus of our solar system. it is said that the male-female chromosomes are combined into the best possible being here, and the ultimate physical sex of the individual decided. 7 victory and achievement. originatively governed by the god-aspect yhvh tzva ot (i will be hosts. creatively by ar

ife-supporting nucleus of our solar system. it is said that the male-female chromosomes are combined into the best possible being here, and the ultimate physical sex of the individual decided. 7 victory and achievement. originatively governed by the god-aspect yhvh tzva ot (i will be hosts. creatively by archangel auriel (light of god, sometimes identified with haniel [grace ofgod. formatively by the angel order of the elohim god-goddesses. expressively by the planet nogah (venus. humanly this is where emotions and feelings begin in the foetus. 8 splendour, glory and honour. originatively by the god-aspect elohim tzva ot (god-goddesses of hosts. creatively by archangel rafael (healer of god. formatively by the angelic order of the b nay-elohim (sons of the god- goddesses. expressively by t

develop and everything comes together for emergence into independent life. humanly this is the finishing process in the womb, and where we get our imagination from. after nine months, everything is projected into: 10 thekingdomof thisworld.originated by thegod-aspect of adonaiha-aretz (lord of the earth/land. created by archangel sandalfon (co-brother) who is the other end of metatron. formed by the angel order of the keruvim (winged bulls. expressed by the life-elements of earth, air, fire and water( olam ha- yesodot- the sphere of the elements, the opposite numbers of the holy living creatures at keter. humanly of course we are here as concrete creations of cosmic consciousness going through incarnate lifetimes of experience. all this is but a surface-scratch on the study of kabbalah fr

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borrowing or influence which any peculiarity in them may suggest. but the stamp of authority will be given to research, when side by side with the string of consonances there also runs an inevitable string of divergences and transpositions. in our book of heroes the adventures of wolfdieterich and orendel have in their several ways a striking similarity to features in the odyssey, especially does the angel's mission to shaggy els and to lady breide resemble that of hermes to calypso, when she is commanded to let odysseus go. but such wanderings of heroes and encounters with wise women and giants seem to be a common epic property prevailing everywhere, while the very absence here of all the other main motives of the greek myth excludes the supposition of borrowing. we may surely give their

kaiserslautern (ib. no. 295, or at trifels by anweiler, or else in the jjnterherg near salzburg (ib. no. 28, though some put charles the great here, or charles v; the growing of the heard round the table is related just the same. when the beard has for the third time reached the last corner of the table, the end of the world begins, a bloody battle is fought ou the walserfeld, antichrist appears, the angel-trumpets peal, and the last of days has dawned. the walserfeld has a withered tree, which has been cut doivn three times, but its 7-oot has always sprouted and grown into a perfect tree again. when next it begins to leaf, the terrible fight is near, and will open when the tree bears fruit. then shall frederick hang his shield on the tree, all men shall flock to it, and make such a slaugh

he devil through the air from distant countries to their home, when there is urgent need of their pi-esence there: some mai-riage is contemplated, that would rob them of wife or lover. thus king charles (in the spagna, canto xxi) rides a devil, converted into a horse, from the east to france in one night; later legends make an angel appear to him instead, and shew him a strong horse, ds. no. 439. the angel visits the gentle moringer in like distress (no. 523. but henry the lion and gerhart (caes. heisterb. 8, 59) travel with the devil's aid. the mere fact that angel and devil can change places here, shews that no evil spirit was originally meant; it is no other than wuotan carrying through the clouds his foster-son (p. 146; and so we get at the real meaning of the question, what devil brin

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nquered and slain bv him. muspilli. 811 their names are not given either; that they are enoch and elias follows from, the power given them to shut heaven that it rain not, and is expressly acknowledged by the fathers.1 their bodies lie unburied in the street: after this victory the power of antichrist attains its greatest height, until he gets upon the mount of olives, to ascend into heaven; then the angel michael appears, and cleaves his skull. 2 with this narrative our 0. bavarian poet had become acquainted through learned men (weroltrehtwise, but still the old heathen pictures of the world s destruction come floating before him as muspilli draws nigh: he makes much of the flames, he sees the mountains set on fire by the blood of the mortally wounded elias dropping on the earth; no such

l the ases, o&inn, thorr, freyr, and tyr, unite their powers to do battle with the sons of fire and their confederates, yet they are beaten like enoch and elias: elias bears a marked resemblance to thorr (or donar, michael to the queller of garmr or fenris-ulfr; i do not say that enoch is equally to be identified with any particular god, but he might. surtr with the flaming sword may remind us of the angel that guards paradise, but he also finds his counterpart in the story of enoch and elias, for these two, at least in the legend of brandan (in bruns p. 187, have an angel with a fiery sword standing by their side.1 an as. homily de temporibus antichristi quoted by wheloc on beda p. 495 (supra p. 161n) contains remarkable statements. arrogant antecrist, it says, not only strives against go

into blossom as a flower, or fly up as a bird. both these notions are connected with metamorphosis into plants and animals in general, and are founded on the doctrine of metempsychosis so prevalent in early antiquity. immortality was admitted in this sense, that the soul still existed, but had to put up with a new body. its passing into a flower i can only infer. a child carries home a bud, which the angel had given him in the wood; when the rose blooms, the child is dead (kinder-leg, no. 3. in rhesas dainos p. 307, a rosebud is the soul of the dead youth. the lay of kunzifal makes a blackthorn shoot up out of the bodies of slain heathens, a white flower by the heads of fallen christians, karl] where soul stands for life, vitality, a neuter word is used, ohg. ferah, mhg. verch, as. feorh

f. grotius ad s. judae ep. 9, and fabricii cod. pseudepigr. v. t. p. 839. chapter xxvii. death. to the olden time death was not a being that killed, but simply one that fetched away and escorted to the underworld. sword or sickness killed; death came in as messenger of a deity, to whom he conducted the parting soul. dying is announced, not caused, by his arrival. so to that child in the fairytale the angel of death had given a flower-bud: when it blossomed, he would come again. and the jewish notion, which christianity retained, is in harmony with this. the soul of the beggar is fetched away by angels of god, and carried into abraham s bosom, luke 16, 22; or, as the heliand 103, 5 expresses it: godes engilos andfengon is ferh, endi leddon ine an abraharnes barm; x and it completes the pict

to take his place beside death, as the alliteration death and devil! couples them together. so welnas, wels, originally the death-god of the lithuanians and lettons, got converted into the devil. according to the chris tian view, angels received the souls of the just, devils those of the wicked (p. 836; therefore death in coming for souls was divided into a double power, according as he resembled the angel or the devil. as angelic messenger, he comes nearest the christian michael) whose office it was to receive souls (morolt 1 ettner s unwiird. doctor p. 290. 2 conf. p. 14 on the affinity between god and gode. a god. 855 2660. 2715, conf. p. 836. of very aged people, who still live on, we say death, has forgotten to fetch them/ the nib. lament 122 has: der tot liet ir minne, die da sterben

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d them that shall come to judge the quick and the dead at the latter day of judgement; that when two or three of us are gathered together whatever we ask for in thy name,thouwilt grant it unto us, as this glass is held in hand through the merits of the lord christos, for he was the truth. so help me god. amen. and if it be on sunday you may say: i pray by all the powers written on this paper that the angel of the sun, michael, may have power to assist me in seeing things of my desire on otherdays-saythe name of the correct angel.[the third excerpt shows hockley's interest in alchemy and is followed by a longer series of extracts outlining the crowned angel's ideas on religion; the church of england; the spiritual development of man; the nature of good and evil, sin and punishment; the deve

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ues till the hour strikes for him to return to the stage of life to enact another part. q. but how is it that this doctrine, which you say is as old as thinking men, has found no room, say, in christian theology? page 86 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt a. you are mistaken, it has; only theology has disfigured it out of all recognition, as it has many other doctrines. theology calls the ego the angel that god gives us at the moment of our birth, to take care of our soul. instead of holding that "angel" responsible for the transgressions of the poor helpless "soul" it is the latter which, according to theological logic, is punished for all the sins of both flesh and mind! it is the soul, the immaterial breath of god and his alleged creation, which, by some most amazing intellectual ju

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day, and what hour, that you make the circle; what spirits you would call, to what star and region they do belong, and what functions they have. therefore let there be made three circles of the latitude of nine foot, and let them be distant one from another a hands breadth; and in the middle circle, first, write the name of the hour wherein you do the work. in the second place, write the name of the angel of the hour. in the third place, the sigil of the angel of the hour. fourthly, the name of the angel that ruleth that day wherein you do the work, and the names of his ministers. in the fifth place, the name of the present time. sixthly, the name of the spirits ruling in that part of time, and their presidents. seventhly, the name of the head of the signe ruling in that part of time wher

set down one scheme; so that if any one would make a circle in spring-time for the first hour of lords day, it must be in the same manner as is the figure following. heptameron 9 the figure of a circle for the first hour of the lords day, in spring-time. it remaineth now, that we explain the week, the several dayes thereof: and first of the lords day. heptameron 10 considerations of the lords day the angel of the lords day, his sigil, planet, the signe of the planet, and the name of the fourth heaven. the angels of the lords day. michael, dardiel, huratapal. the angels of the air ruling on the lords day. varcan, king. his ministers. tus, andas, cynabal. the winde which the angels of the air abovesaid are under. the north-winde. the angel of the fourth heaven, ruling on the lords day, which

onjuration. the spirits of the air of the lords day, are under the north-winde; their nature is to procure gold, gemmes, carbuncles, riches; to cause one to obtain favour and benevolence; to dissolve the enmities of men; to raise men to honors; to carry or take away infirmities. but in what manner they appear, it's spoken already in the former book of magical ceremonies. considerations of monday. the angel of munday, his sigil, planet, the signe of the planet, and name of the first heaven. the angels of munday. gabriel, michael, samael. the angels of the air ruling on munday. arcan, king. his ministers. bilet, missabu, abuzaha. the winde which the said angels of the air are subject to. the west-winde. the angels of the first heaven, ruling on munday, which ought to be called from the four

labores& adimpleas &c. as in the conjuration of sunday. the spirits of the air of munday, are subject to the west-winde, which is the winde of the moon: their nature is to give silver; to convey things from place to place; to make horses swift, and to disclose the secrets of persons both present and future: but in what manner they appear, you may see in the former book. considerations of tuesday. the angel of tuesday, his sigil, his planet, the signe governing that planet, and the name of the fifth heaven. the angels of tuesday. samael. satael. amabiel. the angels of the air ruling on tuesday. samax, king. his ministers. carmax, ismoli, paffran. the winde to which the said angels are subject. the east-winde. heptameron 13 the angels of the fifth heaven ruling on tuesday, which ought to be

nomina adonay, dei vivi& veri, quod pro me labores& adimpleas &c. as in the conjuration of sunday. the spirits of the air of tuesday are under the east-winde: their nature is to cause wars, mortality, death and combustions; and to give two thousand souldiers at a time; to bring death, infirmities or health. the manner of their appearing you may see in the former book. considerations of wednesday. the angel of wednesday, his sigil, planet, the signe governing that planet, and the name of the second heaven. the angels of wednesday. raphael. miel. seraphiel. heptameron 14 the angels of the air ruling on wednesday. mediat, or modiat, king. ministers. suquinos, sallales. the winde to which the said angels of the air are subject. the southwest-winde. the angels of the second heaven govern wednes

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e soul or spirit of the universe. the three archical or original principles" says gibbon "were represented in the platonic system as three gods, united with each other by a mysterious and ineffable genera- tion" blending this transcendental idea with the more hypostatic figure of the logos of philo- whose doctrine was that of the oldest kabala, and who viewed hk king messiah, as the metatron, or 'the angel of the lord' the legaiia descended in flesh, but not the ancuni of days himself* the christians clothed jesus, the son of mary, with this mythical representation of the mediator for the fallen race of adam. under this unexpected garb his personality was all but lost. in the mod- em jesus of the christian church we find the ideal of the imaginative 51. decline and fall itf the annan empin

ourselves. that these metaphysical subtleties never entered into the head of the honest-minded, sincere paul, is evident; as it is fur- thermore evident, that like all learned jews he was well acquainted with the doctrine of emanations and never thought of corrupting it. how can any one imagine that paul identified the son with the father, when he tells us that god made jeaus "a luiie lower than the angel" barewt, ii, 9) sjs.a a, little hiiiher\iiaji moaea "for this man was counted worthy of more ^ory than moses" hd>reui, iii, 3. of what or how many forgeries, interpolated later in the acts, the fathers are guilty, we know not; but that paul never considered christ more than a man "full of the spirit of god" is but too evident "in the arche was the logot, and the logos was adnate to the t

tic trinity, in the beginning and in the end, by alpha and om^a, whkji are in the spirit aaoth [holy ghoet. or the 'vitimrmtu soui. i ezorciie and adjure thee? wandoing eagle, may the lord command thee by the winfj^ ike buli and ku flaming naird" ciim dicrub placed at the eaat gate of edn.j etoreim i4 on eiemadti spirit "serpent, in the name of the tetra- grammafam, the lord; he commandi thee, by the angel and the lion" angel of darkness, obey, and run away with this hoty [eurdaed] wattr. eagle in cfaaiu, obey thia aign, and retreat bdon the breath. moving aerpent, crawl at my feet, or be tortured by titii toured fire, and ev^kirate before this holy incense. let wato' return to water itbe elemental spirit of waterji let the fire bom, and the air drculate; let the earth return to earth by t

l never vnthstand the kabaliatic evoeationa of the supreme initiohon. the licentious performances of the thousand and one early christian sects may be criticized by partial commentators as well as the ancient eleu^nian and other rites. but why should they [the latter] incur the censure of the theologians, the christians, when their own' mysteries' of "the divine incarnation with joseph, mary, and the angel" in a sacred trilogy used to be enacted in more than one country, and were famous at one time in spain and southern france? later they fell, like many other once secret rites, into the hands of the populace. it ia but a few years since, that during every christmas week punch-and-judy-boks, con- taining the above-named personages, with an additional display of the 237. midmah 'bagiga. 14b

ts knowledge, and as ambitious of ascendency over the weaker masses; with the difference perhaps that its hierophanta could prove the legitimacy of their claims and the verity (rf thor doctrines, whereas now, beueiwrs must be content with blind faith. while the kabalists called this mysterious and rare occurrence of the union of spirit with the mortal charge entrusted to its care, the 'descent of the angel gabriel (the latter being a kind of generic name for it, the meaaenger of life, and the angel metatron; and while the nasaienes termed the same abel-zivo* the deugatut sent by the lord of celsitude, it waa universally known as the 'anointed spirit' thus it is the acceptation of this doctrine which caused the gnostics to miuntain that jesus was a man ovnshadowed by the christos or mes- se

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ess and great glory, whether he was angry and in displeasure, or benign and kind. these appearances are often mentioned in scripture. when god appeared on mount sinai, it is said, the lord descended upon it in fire (exodus xix. 18. and when moses repeats the history of this to the children of israel, he says, the lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire (deuteronomy iv. 12. so it was when the angel of the lord appeared to moses in a flame of fire out of the midst of the bush: the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed (exodus iii. 3. the appearances of the angel of god s presence, or that divine person who represented god, were always in brightness; or, in other words, the shechinah was always surrounded with glory. this seems to have given occasion to those of old to

that is, in its perfection, but not used as our servant, transforms, as it were, into the devil, and exercises his office in leading us away from the throne of spiritual light other, and, in the world, seeming better; in his mithra and ahrimanes. 81 false and deluding world-light, or matter-light, really showing himself god. this view of the human reason, intellectually trusted, transforming into the angel of darkness, and effacing god out of the world, is borne out by a thousand texts of scripture. it is equally in the beliefs and in the traditions of all nations and of all time, as we shall by and by show. real light is god s shadow, or the soul of matter; the one is the very brighter, as the other is the very blacker. thus, the worshippers of the sun, or light, or fire, whether in the o

ropriate to each. through these immortal regions, light, diffusing in the emanations of the cabalistic sephiroth, becomes the blackness sediment, rosicrucian magic. 189 or ashes, which is the second fiery, real world. this power, or vigour, uniting with the ethereal spirit, constitutes strictly the soul of the world. it becomes the only means of the earthly intelligence, or man, knowing it. it is the angel-conqueror, guide, saviour born of woman, or great deep, the gnostic sophia, the word made flesh of st. john. the empyrseum is properly the flower, or glory (effluent in its abundance, of the divine latent fire. it is penetrated with miracle and holy magic. the rosicrucian system teaches that there are three ascending hierarchies of beneficent angels (the purer portion of the first fire

rminating in a ball; in the field, the sun and moon (adjuncts marking the astrological character of this talisman, which therefore must be ascribed to the class of fig. 244. cancer grasping with one claw at the lunar crescent: gnostic gem fig. 245. ur on. fig. 246. ur on. fig. 247. ur us. abraxoids. the whole enclosed in a sunken circle. rev. micahl, between four stars. the cabalists make michael the angel of the sun. plasma of bad quality (the gnostics, p. 200) fig. 250: this object is the chnuphis serpent, to gnostic mysteries. 273 which frequent reference has been made in our book. the serpent, is raising itself in act to give the mythic dart. on its head is the crown of seven points or vowels. the second amulet presents the name of the gnostic un- fig. 248. known angel, with the four s

degenerates into struggle, and struggle submits in failure. therefore, female. but this shortcoming, when the divine perfecting-means (in another state, and through another nature or mode) is applied, will be rectified. and in the universal resurrection, women will transcend into the nobler creature, and, changing sex or ceasing sex, will become- wornan d-men. both sexes interchanging sex to form the angel, or rather blending sex and uniting sex bi-corporatc no longer, but becoming ideal fit spirit-populace, winnowed of materiality and of humanity. unintelligible to the intellect as music, but beautiful to the heart as music. yet it must be understood that no man's dreams (dreams, we have elsewhere contended, quite contrary to the usual ideas, are real things) are wholly and altogether evi

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es in judaica. albany: state university of new york press, 1990: chapter 5, gashkenazi hasidic views on the golem. h. kanarfogel, ephraim. gmysticism and asceticism in italian rabbinic literature of the thirteenth century, h in kabbalah: journal for the study of jewish mystical texts, vol. 6, edited by d. abrams and a. elqayam (los angeles: cherub press, 2001. kuyt, annelies. ghasidut ashkenaz on the angel of dreams. a heavenly messenger reflecting or exchanging man fs thoughts, h in creation and re-creation in jewish thought [festschrift in honor of joseph dan on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, edited by rachel elior and peter schafer. tubingen: mohr siebeck, 2005. gr. el eazar of worms fs estairway to heaven, f h jewish studies between the disciplines [papers in honor of peter s

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to him and, holding it within the bowl of his palms, breathed life upon it, speaking these words "breath, the spirit of life, give motion to these noble limbs and make pulse the heart of this our creature, tomorrow's hope, nephilim. may the life-giving wind suffuse its being that its noble purpose might be fulfilled, that which now i name man" for moments more this man was still, unmoving within the angel's hands. then, as the sighing breeze grabbed at his hair, the breast of man rose and fell as he first breathed of its air. now standing, blinking, shaking, stretching, he too tested the form that i had made him and banished sleep's sluggish grasp. now, set upon the ground, he ran hither-thither, chasing birds and beetles alighting, then flying the eager hand of man, else plucking some br

wing and exhorts haste in those who would yet outrace the tireless turning of the hours. make haste. make haste" now, upon bended and black wing, hurried baalzebub, casting long shadow upon the plains beneath his swift form. like a raging hurricane, like a screaming storm, tore baalzebub through the breezes, cast, like the herd before hunter's horse, all about in disarray by the terrible haste of the angel's passage in the air. in his wake, his wings disturbed with their pounding, rapid beat, a great column of smoking dust, rain sodden, dried and raised by the agitated air made tumultuous by the racing form hurtling to the distant northern peaks where anxious shedim watched for some signal of triumph or of loss. in that dusty wake went ishtar with my witless form across her shoulders, maki

brown as is the soil of the earth; and the hair that cascaded as some shining cataract upon the shoulders and the prince's back was not jet like that of woman or of man but was like copper burning in the silver lunar light. this ruddy mane framed two orbs of noble light, green like emeralds within their holes whereas our own eyes are the same hue that does colour our own tan flesh. yet also from the angel's back sprung wings, as we have not, of most radiant gold like the very sun of day, and from the skull of this apparence sprouted curved horns of ivory the same as might adorn the deer that we hunt to fill our hungry bellies with spears cut from branches torn down from the garden's trees. within the god-like beings flesh gaped wide a wound, that bled a crimson flow into the river, 167 an

children by this informance, to be told that their own senses worked deceit when they had seemed so sure to them. yet the emissary of heaven, appearing so terrible, did command much belief within their hearts and they were much vexed by his explanation. for, though his words were false indeed, they could not judge the false from true and knew not to trust their own wit, unbeguiled, or yet to heed the angel's word and submit to heaven's tyrant. in such bewilderment no reply seemed just or apt to give the king of heaven and they could not decide the choice. this then became their answer, and woman spoke it in these words "good raphael, son of heaven, i know of no reply to give you yet to transmit to adonai yahweh who rules, as you have told, all the earth and heaven. 170 first you spoke of t

in love and these lips that have kissed you speak no villainy though you know it not but i know well the trouble that you know now. whilst you slept with your anxious dreams and i watch over that mate i loved a serpent came upon me there, professing friendship and consideration of my own care. not like raphael did he come but with gentle words did comfort me and hear of those very quandaries that the angel's coming caused. no grand dictum did he preach to me or make threat against me if i heeded not his counsel as did the ambassador of heaven. hearing then of the plight that was wreaked upon me he instructed me to follow him to the tree that grew within the valley's walls. i followed and, then perceiving to where i was brought the tree which brought forth this very fruit, the fruit of know

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desire evolves from generation to generation and prompts us to fulfill it. the first time a desire for something beyond the desire to exist appeared in a human being was 5767 years 156 from chaos to harmony ago (according to the hebrew calendar and to the date of writing these lines in 2006. although many generations preceded adam, he was the first person in whom the the book, raziel ha malaach, the angel raziel, ascribed to adam. israel s role 157 desire to comprehend the collective nature appeared. it is not a coincidence that his name was adam, because it comes from the words adamme la elyon, i will be like the most high (isaiah 14:14. adam was named after his desire to transcend his qualities and become similar to nature s quality of altruism. adam passed on what he had discovered to

157 desire to comprehend the collective nature appeared. it is not a coincidence that his name was adam, because it comes from the words adamme la elyon, i will be like the most high (isaiah 14:14. adam was named after his desire to transcend his qualities and become similar to nature s quality of altruism. adam passed on what he had discovered to his offspring. also, the book, raziel ha malaach (the angel raziel, is ascribed to him. the day adam discovered the spiritual world is called the day of the creation of the world. this was the day on which humanity made its first contact with the spiritual world, and this is why the hebrew calendar begins on this day. according to nature s plan, humanity will achieve balance with the inclusive nature, the final correction of the human ego, within

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

n hebrew satan is derived from the verb listot, which means to veer) because it wants to cause us to veer from the path. gradual spiritual correction- 185- after this, it kills our spirituality by taking away all of the feelings of spirituality from our learning and our involvement in kabbalah, and specifically gives pleasures dressed in the garments of this world in this situation, it is called "the angel of death" there is only one answer to all grievances of the body "i proceed forward despite what you say to me, on the strength of faith, because so the creator requires" this condition of the creator is known as "the law of the worlds beyond" we do not have the strength to hold ourselves back from receiving pleasure unless we first convince ourselves that it is harmful to us. that is to

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ty correctly, to benefit ourselves, and get accurate feedback from reality. that is the science involved, and today it can be revealed to anyone who seeks it. 85 c h a p t e r 3. t h e s t u dy o f k a b b a l a h i n t r o d u c t i o n kabbalah has always been taught through books. the first books about kabbalah were written thousands of years ago. adam ha rishon (the first man) wrote the book, the angel raziel, and abraham the patriarch wrote the book sefer yetzira (book of creation. the zohar was written some 1900 years ago. all of these books are still for sale today. through them, we can study the wisdom of kabbalah. the principal, fundamental book that we study by is called talmud eser hasefirot (the study of the ten sefirot. it consists of six volumes and more than 2000 pages that

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g the light outside. until we attain spirituality, the will to receive is our angel of life. however, when we begin to study kabbalah, we extend upon ourselves the surrounding light and slowly see how our will to receive is actually an obstacle between our egoistic nature and its transformation to altruism. we begin to see that this desire is the real enemy of our spiritual progress, thus turning the angel of life into the angel of death. we begin our process of recognition of evil from within our egoism. the sensation of the light stands opposite the properties of the light that we begin to feel. a huge desire appears in us to remove these cuffs from our hands at all costs. but because we cannot do it by ourselves, we desperately cry for the creator s help. if our plea is earnest it will

that there were not enough sages, so he planted them in every generation. that is why there are leaders and spiritual guides in every generation who adapt the wisdom of kabbalah to the unique properties of their time. there have been hundreds of books written over the years on the subject of the wisdom of kabbalah. these began with the very first book on the wisdom of kabbalah, raziel hamalaach (the angel raziel, written by adam ha rishon, and the second book, sefer yetzira (book of creation, written by abraham the patriarch. however, the most popular book in the wisdom of kabbalah is the book of zohar. it was written in the second century ad by rabbi shimon bar-yochay. the contemporary kabbalist, rabbi yehuda ashlag (1884-1954) wrote a commentary on the zohar and on all the writings of t

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a spiritual power which is spread abroad over the people in certain ways, which leaves its own effect behind it, and needs its own vehicles, just as electricity needs its appropriate machinery. 55. it is possible by clairvoyance to watch the action of that force, to see how the service of the eucharist builds up a thought-form, through which that force is distributed by the priest with the aid of the angel invoked for that purpose. it has been so arranged that the attitude of the priest, his knowledge- even his character- does not in any way interfere with the due effect of the sacrament(*see no. 26 of the thirty-nine articles of the church of england in the book of common prayer) there is, in any case, an irreducible minimum which is transmitted. so long as he performs the prescribed cere

they are capable. 423. in those lodges which use a portrait of the h.o.a.t.f. it is just before the singing of this hymn that that portrait is unveiled, all the brn. turning towards it and saluting. in instant response to this salutation the great adept projects a thought-form which is an exact image of himself; just as at a higher level the lord christ projects that thought-form which is called the angel of the presence at every celebration of the holy eucharist. so fully is this thought-form a part of the h.o.a.t.f. that the lodge has the benefit of his presence and his blessing just as though he stood there in physical form. the deva representative of the r.w.m. bows low before the head of his ray, and leaves the direction of affairs in his hands. it will be seen that those of us who k

hands. most of those to whom it comes probably regard it as chiefly an administrative degree, and have no idea that it has a spiritual side at all. the actual conferring of the degree is a very splendid experience when seen with the inner sight; for the hierophant of the mysteries (the h.o.a.t.f) stands above or beside the physical initiator, in that extension of his consciousness which is called the angel of the presence. if the recipient of the degree happens to be already an initiate, the star (called in egypt the star of horus) which marks the approval of the one initiator once more flames out above him in all its glory; while in any case the two great white angels of the rite flash down in splendour from the heavenly places, showing themselves as low as the etheric level, that they ma

eed of mercy may become action in a deadly sin h. since the great ones have entrusted us with powers so portentous it behoves us to try to understand them fully, to study their working, so that we may learn how to use them to the best advantage, how to do with them what our masters intend us to do. 811. a second point is that, having received a great accession of strength from our connection with the angel, we must keep a doubly careful watch over our words and thoughts, and guard ourselves most strictly from even a momentary flash of irritability. with us, after our years of self-training, such a feeling passes so quickly that, though of course it is always undesirable, it may not previously have mattered very much; but now it becomes far more serious, for even its rapid passage may do co

to which these higher degrees bring us, for it is a matter of the utmost importance. at the moment of his perfecting, there is attached to the sovereign prince of the rose-croix a splendid crimson angel- a being of beauty, dignity and power beyond the utmost stretch of our imagination. 814. what is the nature of this attachment, and what will be the practical effect of this beautiful partnership? the angel links himself with the higher principles of the man, most of all with the buddhi or intuitional wisdom, and the result should presently show itself in two ways. the indescribable vitality and versatility of the angel fs mind will constantly impress themselves upon the mental body of the novice, stimulating it into far greater activity, suggesting new lines of thought and action for the b

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yes within, because they are the scribes, the recorders, the agents of the lipika: they watch all that happens, all that is done, all that is written or spoken or thought in all the worlds. 81. in the light of asia they are described as the rulers of the four points of the compass: 82. the four regents of the earth, come down 83. from mount sumeru- they who write men s deeds 84. on brazen plates- the angel of the east, 85. whose hosts are clad in silver robes, and bear 86. targets of pearl: the angel of the south, 87. whose horsemen, the kumbhandas, ride blue steeds, 88. with sapphire shields: the angel of the west, 89. by nagas followed, riding steeds blood-red, 90. with coral shields: the angel of the north, 91. environed by his yakshas, all in gold, 92. on yellow horses, bearing shields

rong hands lie the destinies of earth and awakens the powers of the triple spirit as far as these can as yet be awakened. the actual conferring of the degree was and is a very splendid experience when seen with the inner sight; for the hierophant of the mysteries (who in these modern days is the h.o.a.t.f, stands above or beside the initiator in that extension of his consciousness which is called the angel of the presence. if the recipient of the degree happens to be already an initiate the star (called in egypt the star of horus) which marks the approval of the one initiator once more flames out above him in all its glory; while in any case the two great white angels of the rite flash down in splendour from the heavenly places, showing themselves as low as the etheric level that they may

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

debt of gratitude to the many individuals who responded so generously to my queries. finally, a word of thanks is due to the interlibrary loan department at the university of wisconsin, stevens point library for the many requests they so graciously fulfilled for me over the course of writing this book. abaddon abaddon, which means the destroyer, is the hebrew name for the greek apollyon, known as the angel of the bottomless pit (rev. 9:10) and the angel who ties up the devil for a millennium (rev. 20. different sources speak of abaddon, such as the thanksgiving hymns (a dead sea scroll document, which mentions the sheol of abaddon, and the torrents of belial that burst into abaddon, as well as the first-century the biblical antiquities of philo, in which abaddon is used as a place name for

uritan classic, pilgrim s progress.within modern ceremonial magic, it constitutes the name for god invoked by moses to bring down the rain over egypt, as reported by samuel liddell mathers in the greater key of solomon. there is also a reference to abaddon as the sixth of the seven lodges of hell in the work of the cabalist joseph ben abraham gikatilla. in various sources,abaddon is identified as the angel of death and destruction, demon of the abyss, and chief of the demons of the underworld. see also demons;magic and magical groups for further reading: davidson, gustav. a dictionary of angels including the fallen angels. new york: the free press, 1967. strayer, joseph r. dictionary of the middle ages. vol. 1. new york: charles scribner s sons, 1982. the abbey of thelema the abbey of thel

ed in the pattern of a square. it was inscribed on walls and vessels as early as ancient rome (753 b.c. a.d. 476) and was considered to be an amulet against sorcery, poisonous air, colic and pestilence, and for protecting cow s milk from witchcraft. similarly, circles inscribed with the names of god were used in england as recently as 1860 to repel demons. eyes and phallic amulet from the book of the angel raziel (fortean picture library) 6 angel heart symbols are widely used on amulets. eyes protect against evil spirits and are found on tombs, walls, utensils, and jewelry. the phallic symbol, often represented by a horn, also protects against the evil eye. the hand is an ancient amulet that has carried forward to the present.hand gestures have long been used to ward off the evil eye. two

n the post-vedic period, yama became a rather grim demigod, who snared the souls of the departed and conducted them to the otherworld. the notion of an angel of death was most fully developed in rabbinical judaism. like yama, the jewish idea of an angel of death developed across time. the biblical emissaries of death were clearly under the direct command of god, as, for example, in 2 samuel: then the angel stretched out his arm toward jerusalem to destroy it; but the lord repented of the evil and said to the angel who was destroying the people, enough! stay your hand (2 sam. 24:16. none of the biblical references indicate that a particular angel or group of angels have the specialized task of meting out death. only in postbiblical literature does the idea of an angel of death as such emerg

was destroying the people, enough! stay your hand (2 sam. 24:16. none of the biblical references indicate that a particular angel or group of angels have the specialized task of meting out death. only in postbiblical literature does the idea of an angel of death as such emerge. this angel gradually develops into a demonic figure who begins to act on his own initiative. by the time of the talmud, the angel of death was identified with satan, and the notion of an evil angel of death was reflected in many folktales and in many folk practices associated with death, burial, and mourning. for instance, one commonly known bit of folklore is that it is impossible to die in the midst of studying torah. the many folktales associated with the angel of death fall into roughly three categories. in the

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heel of fortune violet 22 faithful i. justice emerald green 23 stable i. the hanged man [cups] queens. deep blue 24 imaginative i. death green blue 25 i. of probation or tentative one temperence blue 26 renovating i. the devil indigo 27 exciting i. the house of god scarlet 28 natural i. the star violet 29 corporeal i. the moon crimson (ultra violet) 30 collecting i. the sun orange 31 perpetual i. the angel or last judgement [wands] kings or knights. glowing orange scarlet 32 administrative i. the universe indigo 32 bis. empresses [coins] citrine, russet, olive, and black (quartered) 31 bis. all 22 trumps white, merging grey table of correspondences 6 xvi* the queen scale of colour (h. xvii* the emperor scale of colour (v. xviii* the empress scale of colour. 0. 1 white brilliance white bril

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the ages. 38. they shaped doubt as a sickle, and reaped the flowers of faith for their garlands. 39. they shaped ecstasy as a spear, and pierced the ancient dragon that sat upon the stagnant water. 40. then the fresh springs were unloosed, that the folk athirst might be at ease. 41. and again i was caught up into the presence of my lord adonai, and the knowledge and conversation of the holy one, the angel that guardeth me. 26 liber lxv 42. o holy exalted one, o self beyond self, o self-luminous image of the unimaginable naught, o my darling, my beautiful, come thou forth and follow me. 43. adonai, divine adonai, let adonai initiate refulgent dalliance! thus i concealed the name of her name that inspireth my rapture, the scent of whose body bewildereth the soul, the light of whose soul aba

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to be inferred from the good results in my life and work; i want the perfume and the the vision. why am i so materially wallowing in grossness? it matters little; the fact remains that i do wallow. i want that definite experience in the very same sense as abramelin had it; and what fs more, i mean to go on till i get it. john st. john 29 12.34. i begin, therefore, in hanged man posture, to invoke the angel, within the pyramid already duly prepared by 671. 12.57. alas! in vain have i tried even the supreme ritual of awaiting the beloved, although once i thought.ah! give unto thy beloved in sleep! how ashamed i should be, though! for an earthly lover one would be on tiptoe of excitement, trembling at every sound, eager, afraid. i will, however, rise and open (as for a symbol) the door and th

LIBER LVII

ng up the numerical values of the letters of the words \yhla jwr, ruach elohim, the spirit of the elohim; and it is therefore a symbol of the spirit of the elohim. for r= 200, w= 6, j= 8, a= 1, l= 30, h= 5, i= 10, m= 40; total= 300. similarly the words dja, achad, unity, one and hbha, ahebah, love, each= 13; or a= 1, j= 8, d= 4, total= 13; and a= 1, h= 5, b= 2, h= 5, total= 13. again, the name of the angel wrffm, metatron, and the name of the deity, ydc, shaddai, each make 314; so the one is taken as symbolical of the other. the angel metatron is said to have been the conductor of the children of israel through the wilderness, of whom 3 [i.e. the kaballah unveiled. as scholem (major trends in jewish mysticism) and others have pointed out, the three tracts translated by mathers are actually

lls occupied by thoe demons which represent incarnate human vices, and torture those who have given themselves up to 22 [according to some, the qlippoth or shells are the remnants of these primal worlds. t.s] 23 [in the equinox publication this replaced a reference to one of the tables accompanying mathers. introduction. t.s] 16 liber lviii those vices in earth-life. their prince is lams, samael, the angel of poison and of death.24 his wife is the harlot, or woman of whoredom \ynwnz tca, isheth zanunim;25 and united they are called the beast, awyj, chioa. thus the infernal trinity is completed, which is, so to speak, the averse and caricature of the supernal creative one. samael is considered to be identical with satan. the name of the deity, which we call jehovah, is in hebrew a name of f

s, and of the table of correspondences, which one of our english brethren is making,31 will enable him to discover a very great deal of matter for thought in these poems which an untutored person would pass by. to return to the general dogma of the qabalists. the figure of minutum mundum will show how they suppose one quality to proceed from the last, first in the pure god-world atziluth, then in the angel-world briah, and so on down to the demon-worlds, which are however not thus organised. they are rather material that was shed off in the course of evolution, like the sloughs of a serpent, from which comes their name of shells, or husks. apart from silly questions as to whether the order of the emanations is confirmed by palaontology, a question it is quite impertinent to discuss, there

may be interpreted) thus if i ask .what is knowledge. and receive the answer .tod. i read it d the door, o matter, t darkness, by various columns of 777 (to choose the column is a matter of spiritual intuition. solvitur ambulando67. but here i am only dealing with the .trying of the spirits, to know whether they be of god. suppose now that a vision purporting to proeed from god is granted to me. the angel declares his name. i add it up. it comes to 65. an excellent number! a blessed angel! not necessarily. suppose he is of a mercurial appearance? 65 is a number of mars. then i conclude that, however beautiful and eloquent he may be, he is a false spirit. the devil does not understand the qabalah well enough to clothe his symbols in harmony. but suppose an angel, even lonely in aspect, not

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

ry was immaculate. i sat in vague expectant bliss. the story as it runs is thus (i quote my eastern friend60 verbatim) the virgin, going to the bath, found a young fellow in her path, and turned, prepared to scold and rate him .how dare you be on me encroaching. the beautiful young gentleman, with perfect courtesy approaching, bowed deeply, and at once began .fear nothing, mary! all is well! i am the angel gabriel. she bared her right breast (query why) the angel gabriel let fly* concerning conception of a virgin. 715 720 725 730 735 740 745 750 mystic mean-ing of pente-cost. super-consciousness is the gift of the holy ghost. poet not a materialist. mohammed.s ideas. verbatim report of moslem account of the annunciation. pentecost 41 out of a silver tube a dart shooting god s spirit to her

ed him not, but abode ever about him: and the smile changed not on his face, and the whole grove was filled with sweet and subtle perfumes. now on the 71st day arose there a great dispute about his body; for the angels and spirits and demons did contend about it, that they might possess it. but our eldest brother v. n. bade all be still; and thus he apportioned the sacred relics of our father. to the angel agbagal, the fore part of the skull; to the demon ozoz, the back left part of the skull; to the demon olcot,1 the back right part of the skull; to ten thousand myriads of spirits of fire, each one hair; to ten thousand myriads of spirits of water, each one hair; to ten thousand myriads of spirits of earth, each one hair; to ten thousand myriads of spirits of air, each one hair; to the ar

of the skull; to the demon ozoz, the back left part of the skull; to the demon olcot,1 the back right part of the skull; to ten thousand myriads of spirits of fire, each one hair; to ten thousand myriads of spirits of water, each one hair; to ten thousand myriads of spirits of earth, each one hair; to ten thousand myriads of spirits of air, each one hair; to the archangel zazelazel, the brain; to the angel usbusolat, the medulla; to the demon ululomis, the right nostril; to the angel opael, the left nostril; to the spirit kuiphiah, the membrane of the nose; to the spirit pugrah, the bridge of the nose; to eleven thousand spirits of spirit, the hairs of the nose, one each; to the archangel tuphtuphtuphal, the right eye; to the archdevil upsusph, the left eye; the parts thereof in trust to b

moustache, to each one; to ninety and one myriads of the elohim, the hairs of the beard; to each thirteen, and the oil to ease the world; to shalach, the archdevil, the chin. so also with the lesser relics; of which are notable only: to the order, the heart of our father: to the book of the law, his venerable lungspace to serve as a shrine thereunto: to the devil aot, the liver, to be divided: to the angel exarpt and his followers, the great intestine: to bitom the devil and his crew, the little intestine: to aub, aud, and aur, the venerable phallus of our father: to ash the little bone of the same: to our children k, c, b, c, g, t, n, h, i, and m, his illustrious finger-nails, and the toe-nails to be in trust for their children after them: and so for all the rest; is it not written in our

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

arb \yhla \lxb wmlxb \dah-ta \yhla arb .and the elohim created mankind: in the likeness of the elohim created they them: male and female created they them. now if adam be in the similitude of the elohim: and are male and female, then must the elohim be also male and female. now in the first of these mysterious three verses in exodus xiv. wherein the divided name is hidden it is written .and went the angel of the elohim before the camp &c. and this angel of the elohim \yhla ]alm, is the manifestations of their presence. now ]alm hath the number 91, which is also the number of ynda hyhw, wherefore by gematria .tetragrammaton our lord. is the angel of the elohim of the divided name. therefore is the tetragrammaton symbolic of the manifested presence of the elohim; and if the elohim be male a

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njust. 9. thou didst make the female and the male. 10. thou didst produce the seed and the fruit. 11. thou didst form men to love one another and to hate one another. section aa. 1. i am ankh-f-n-khonsu4 thy prophet, unto whom thou didst commit thy mysteries, the ceremonies of khem.5 2. thou didst produce the moist and the dry, and that which nourisheth all created life. 3. hear thou me, for i am the angel of ptah-apophrasz-ra6 (vide the rubric: this is thy true name, handed down to the prophets of khem. liber samekh svb figvra dccc 4 section b. air hear me. ar g o breathing, flowing sun! h thiaf*7 g o sun iaf! o lion-serpent sun the beast that whirlest forth, a thunderbolt, begetter of life! h rheibet g thou that flowest! thou that goest! h a-thele-ber-set g thou satan-sun hadit that goes

14 line 2 the adept reminds his angel that he has created that one substance of which hermes hath written in the table of emerald, whose virtue is to unite in itself all opposite modes of being, thereby to serve as a talis-man charged with the spiritual energy of existence, an elixir or stone composed of the physical basis of life. this commemoration is placed between the two personal appeals to the angel, as if to claim privilege to partake of this eucharist which createth, sustaineth and redeemeth all things. line 3 he now asserts that he is himself the gangel h or messenger of his angel; that is, he is a mind and body whose office is to receive and transmit the word of his angel. he hails his angel not only as gun-nefer, h the perfection of gasar h himself as a man, but as ptah-apophra

line 2 the guniverse h includes all possible phenomena of which he can be aware. line 3 the gwinds h are his thoughts, which have prevented him from attaining to his angel. line 4 his angel has made gvoice, h the magical weapon which produces gwords, h and these words have been the wisdom by which he hath created all things.24 the gvoice h is necessary as the link between the adept and his angel. the angel is gking, h the one who gcan, h the gsource of authority and the fount of honour h; also the king (or king fs son) who delivers the enchanted princess and makes her his queen. he is gruler, h the gunconscious will h; to be thwarted no more by the ignorant and capricious false will of the conscious man. and he is ghelper, h the author of the infallible impulse that sends the soul sweeping

cealing himself in the closest cell of the citadel of consciousness. let him consecrate himself to resist the assault of the voice and the vibration until his consciousness faint away into nothing. for if there abide unabsorbed even one single atom of the false ego, that atom should stain the virginity of the true self, and profane the oath; then that atom should be so inflamed by the approach of the angel that it should overwhelm the rest of the mind, tyrannize over it, and become an insane despot to the total ruin of the realm. but, all being dead to sense, who then is able to strive against the angel? he shall intensify the stress of his spirit so that his loyal legions of lion-serpents leap from the ambush, awakening the adept to witness their will and sweep him with them in their enth

back into his mortality by the explosion of the starspate, but identified with one particular glion-serpent, h continuing conscious thereof until it finds its proper place in space, when its secret self flowers forth as a truth, which the adept may then take back to earth with him. this is but a side issue. the main purpose of the ritual is to establish the relation of the subconscious self with the angel in such a way that the adept is aware that his angel is the unity which expresses the sum of the elements of his self, that his normal consciousness contains alien enemies introduced by the accidents of environment, and that this knowledge and conversation of his holy guardian angel destroys all doubts and* these phenomena are not wholly subjective; they may be perceived, though often un

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e wedded to that blind creature of the slime. h 38. i who am beyond wisdom and folly, arise and say unto you: achieve both weddings! unite yourself with both! 4 liber tzaddi vel hamvs hermeticvs 39. beware, beware, i say, lest ye seek after the one and lose the other! 40. my adepts stand upright; their head above the heavens, their feet below the hells. 41. but since one is naturally attracted to the angel, another to the demon, let the first strengthen the lower link, the last attach more firmly to the higher. 42. thus shall equilibrium become perfect. i will aid my disciples; as fast as they acquire this balanced power and joy so faster will i push them. 43. they shall in their turn speak from this invisible throne; their words shall illumine the worlds. 44. they shall be masters of maje

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t it is expressed as it were two equal weights in opposite scales. the indicator still points to zero. sht is equally 31 with la and al, but it expresses the secret nature which operates the magick or the transmutations. sht is the formula of this particular aon; another aon might have another way of saying 31. 10 liber v vel reguli sh is fire as t is force; conjoined they express ra-hoor- khuit .the angel.8 represents the stele 666, showing the gods of the aon, while .strength.9 is a picture of babalon and the beast, the earthly emissaries of those gods. sht is the dynamic equivalent of la and la. sh shows the word of the law, being triple, as 93 is thrice 31. t shows the formula of magic declared in that word; the lion, the serpent, the sun, courage and sexual love are all indicated by t

of force in action as opposed to entities; they are not states of existence, but modes of motion. they are verbs, not nouns. sh is the holy spirit as a .tongue of fire. manifest in triplicity, and is the child of set-isis as their logos or word uttered by their .angel. the card is xx, and 20 is the value of yod (the secret seed of all things, the virgin .the 12 liber v vel reguli hermit. mercury, the angel or herald) expressed in full as ivd. sh is the spiritual congress of heaven and earth. but t is the holy spirit in action as a .roaring lion. or as .the old serpent. instead of an .angel of light. the twins of set-isis, harlot and beast, are busy with that sodomitic and incestuous lust which is the traditional formula for producing demi-gods, as in the cases of mary and the dove, leda an

on as a .roaring lion. or as .the old serpent. instead of an .angel of light. the twins of set-isis, harlot and beast, are busy with that sodomitic and incestuous lust which is the traditional formula for producing demi-gods, as in the cases of mary and the dove, leda and the swan, etc. the card is xi, the number of magick avd: aleph .the fool. impregnating the woman according to the word of yod, the angel of the lord! his sister has seduced her brother beast, shaming the sun with her sin; she has mastered the lion, and enchanted the serpent. nature is outraged by magick; man is bestialized and woman defiled. the conjunction produces a monster; it affirms regression of types. instead of a man-god conceived of the spirit of god by a virgin in innocence, we are asked to adore the bastard of

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hall have given unto him, and he shall suffer those things that are appointed. and for ten days thereafter shall he withdraw himself as shall have been taught unto him from the fullness of that communion, for he must harmonize the world that is within with the world that is without. and at the end of the ninety-one days he shall return into the world, and there shall he perform that work to which the angel shall have appointed him. and more than this it is not necessary to say, for his angel shall have entreated him kindly, and showed him in what manner he may be most perfectly involved. and unto him that hath this master there is nothing else that he needeth, so long as he continue in the knowledge and conversation of the angel, so that he shall come at last into the city of the pyrami pl

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d be able to vibrate and allow the words of power to roll of the tongue, but also recite mentally. as aleister crowley suggested, invoke often! an invocation to the holy guardian angel, spirit of the adversary who resides in darkness and light azal ucel i am the daimon who speaks the words of the immortal fire, the holy flame which emerges from the lightning flash and storm of chaos bred, so this the angel-serpent shall come forth with the birthing knife shedding into storm of seth! 30 spirit of which the fallen have taken strength, isolate and beautiful, angelic essence, azal ucel, from which came into being cain i do invoke thee! south- devil-djinn of the burning desert sands and the sun, sortha n-din thy stave and fork unto the flame that is my soul shall be illuminated in this blackene

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magician, that the path is brought forth. shaitan/lucifer lucifer is the bringer of light, the fallen angel who prides knowledge and wisdom above blind faith and servitude. lucifer was the seraph who with a flaming sword and beautiful visage guarded the throne of god in the heavens. it was because of stasis that lucifer sought to rebel, to initiate becoming in the exploration of his shadow self. the angel then became as daemon also, holding both quality of darkness and light. lucifer fell unto earth and sought the very knowledge of earth, and within it the powers that such the darkness would bring. iblis, a title of shaitan is described in ancient texts as a spirit of fire, one whose eternal flame would bow before no one, not even a god force. iblis/shaitan understood he was unique and po

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iangle with one point downward. this lower point, which is one-third of the spiritual nature but in comparison to the dignity of the other two is much less than a third, descends into the illusion of material existence for a brief space of time. that which never clothes itself in the sheath of matter is the hermetic anthropos--the overman- analogous to the cyclops or guardian d mon of the greeks, the angel of jakob b hme, and the oversoul of emerson "that unity, that oversoul, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other" at birth only a third part of the divine nature of man temporarily dissociates itself from its own immortality and takes upon itself the dream of physical birth and existence, animating with its own celestial enthusiasm a vehicle comp

d sages. the mystic knows that the true supports of god's glorious house were not the logs subject to decay but the immortal and imperishable intellects of the tree hierophants. trees are repeatedly mentioned in the old and new testaments, and in the scriptures of various pagan nations. the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil mentioned in genesis, the burning bush in which the angel appeared to moses, the famous vine and fig tree of the new testament, the grove of olives in the garden of gethsemane where jesus went to pray, and the miraculous tree of revelation, which bore twelve manners of fruit and whose leaves were for the healing of the nations, all bear witness to the esteem in which trees were held by the scribes of holy writ. buddha received his illumination

eeks gave the name d mon to some of these elementals, especially those of the higher orders, and worshiped them. probably the most famous of these d mons is the mysterious spirit which instructed socrates, and of whom that great philosopher spoke in the highest terms. those who have devoted much study to the invisible constitution of man realize that it is quite probable the d mon of socrates and the angel of jakob b hme were in reality not elementals, but the overshadowing 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 mo

thin him. the origin of qabbalism is a legitimate subject for controversy. early initiates of the qabbalistic mysteries believed that its principles were first taught by god to a school of his angels before the fall of man. the angels later communicated the secrets to adam, so that through the knowledge gained from an understanding of its principles fallen humanity might regain its lost a estate. the angel raziel was dispatched from heaven to instruct adam in the mysteries of the qabbalah. different angels were employed to initiate the succeeding patriarchs in this difficult science. tophiel was the teacher of shem, raphael of isaac, metatron of moses, and michael of david (see faiths of the world) christian d. ginsburg has written "from adam it passed over to noah, and then to abraham, th

en atziluthic powers reflected into the substance of the briatic world. b 1 is the ruler of this world, for it contains all the other rings of its own world and also the rings of the third and fourth worlds, c and d. in the world of briah the ten spheres of light are called the archangels of briah. their order and powers are as follows: from a 10 came b 1, the second crown; it is called metatron, the angel of the presence. from b 1 came b 2, the second wisdom; it is called raziel, the herald of deity who revealed the mysteries of qabbalah to adam. from b 2 carne b 3, the second understanding; it is called tsaphkiel, the contemplation of god. from b 3 came b 4' the second mercy; it is called tsadkiel, the justice of god. from b 4 came b 5, the second severity; it is called samael, the sever

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uch things, who hath been found worthy to receive the knowledge of all living things through (the teaching of) an angel of god? and solomon said: hear, o my son, and receive my sayings, and learn the wonders of god. for, on a certain night, when i laid me down to sleep, i called upon that most holy name of god, iah, and prayed for the ineffable wisdom, and when i was beginning to close mine eyes, the angel of the lord, even homadiel, appeared unto me, spake many things courteously unto me, and said: listen o solomon! thy prayer before the most high is not in vain, and since thou hast asked neither for long life, nor for much riches, nor for the souls of thine enemies, but hast asked for thyself wisdom to perform justice. thus saith the lord: according to thy word have i given unto thee a w

his hands to heaven, he said: o god, the creator of all, thou who knowest all things, who gavest so great wisdom unto solomon the son of david the king; grant unto me, i beseech thee, o holy omnipotent and ineffable father, to receive the virtue of that wisdom, so that i may become worthy by thine aid to attain unto the understanding of this key of secrets. and immediately there appeared unto me, the angel the lord, saying: do thou remember if the secrets of solomon appear hidden and obscure unto thee, that the lord hath wished it, so that such wisdom may not fall into the hands of wicked men; wherefore do, thou promise unto me, that thou art not willing that so great wisdom should ever come to any living creature, and that which thou revealest unto any let them know that they must keep it

o great wisdom should ever come to any living creature, and that which thou revealest unto any let them know that they must keep it unto themselves, otherwise the secrets are profaned and no effect can follow? and ioh answered: i promise unto thee that to none will i reveal (them, save to the honour of the lord, and with much discipline, unto penitent, secret, and faithful (persons. then answered the angel: go and read the key, and its words which were obscure throughout shall be manifest unto thee. and after this the angel ascended into heaven in a flame of fire. then ioh was glad, and labouring with a clear mind, understood that which the angel of the lord had said, and he saw that the key of solomon was changed, so that it appeared quite clear unto him plainly in all parts. and ioh unde

there is none more useful than the knowledge of celestial movements, i have thought it my duty, being at the point of death, to leave thee an inheritance more precious than all the riches which i have enjoyed. and in order that thou mayest understand how i have arrived at this degree (of wisdom, it is necessary to tell thee that one day, when i was meditating upon the power of the supreme being, the angel of the great god appeared before me as i was saying, o how wonderful are the works of god! i suddenly beheld, at the end of a thickly-shaded vista of trees, a light in the form of a blazing star, which said unto me with a voice of thunder solomon, solomon, be not dismayed; the lord is willing to satisfy thy desire by giving thee knowledge of whatsoever thing is most pleasant unto thee. i

nly beheld, at the end of a thickly-shaded vista of trees, a light in the form of a blazing star, which said unto me with a voice of thunder solomon, solomon, be not dismayed; the lord is willing to satisfy thy desire by giving thee knowledge of whatsoever thing is most pleasant unto thee. i order thee to ask of him whatsoever thou desirest. whereupon, recovering from my surprise, i answered unto the angel, that according to the will of the lord, i only desired the gift of wisdom, and by the grace of god i obtained in addition the enjoyment of all the celestial treasures and the knowledge of all natural things. it is by this means, my son, that i possess all the virtues and riches of which thou now seest me in the enjoyment, and in order that thou mayest be willing to be attentive to all w

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sunder" figure 50. the second pentacle of the moon. this serveth against all perils and dangers by water, and if it should chance that the spirits of the moon should excite and cause great rain and exceeding tempests about the circle, in order to astonish and terrify thee; on showing unto them this pentacle, it will all speedily cease. editor s note. a handpointing to the name el, and to that of the angel abariel. the versicle is from psalm lvi. 11 "in elohim have i put my trust, i will not fear, what can man do unto me" figure 51. the third pentacle of the moon. this being duly borne with thee when upon a journey, if it be properly made, serveth against all attacks by night, and against every kind of danger and peril by water. editor s note. the names aub and vevaphel. the versicle is fr

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istinguished between the just and the unjust. thou didst make the female and the male. thou didst produce the seed and the fruit. thou didst form men to love one another, and to hate one another. i am mosheh thy prophet, unto whom thou didst commit thy mysteries, the ceremonies of ishrael: thou didst produce the moist and the dry, and that which nourisheth all created life. hear thou me, for i am the angel of paphro osorronophris: this is thy true name, handed down to the prophets of ishrael. hear me, ar: thiao: rheibet: atheleberseth: a: blatha: abeu: ebeu: phi: thitasoe: ib: thiao. hear me, and make all spirits subject unto me: so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether; upon the earth and under the earth: on dry land and in the water: of whirling air, and of rushing fire: an

e second conjuration. i do invocate, conjure, and command thee, o thou spirit n, to appear and to show thyself visibly unto me before this circle in fair and comely shape, without any deformity or tortuosity; by the name and in the name iah and vau, which adam heard and spake; and by the name of god, agla, which lot heard and was saved with his family; and by the name ioth, which jacob heard from the angel wrestling with him, and was delivered from the hand of esau his brother; and by the name anaphaxeton which aaron heard and spake and was made wise; and by the name zabaoth, which moses named and all the rivers were turned into blood; and by the name asher ehyeh oriston, which moses named, and all the rivers brought forth frogs, and they ascended into the houses, destroying all things; an

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e king& this is divided into two parts, the first the angels of the hours of the day& night, the second the angels of the signs of the zodiack, as hereafter followeth. the nature of the 24 angels of the day& night changeth every day& their offices is to do all things that is attributed to the 7 planets but that changeth every day also, as for example, you may see in the following treatise is that the angel samael ruleth the first hour of the day beginning at sun rising, supposing it to be on a monday, in the first hour of the day that is attributed to the moon, and you call samael or any of his dukes, their offices in that hour is to do all things that is attributed to the moon but if you call him or any of his servants dukes on a tuesday morning at sunrising being the first hour of the da

offices is to do all things that is attributed to mars& so the like rule is to be observed in the first hour of every day& the like is to be observed of the angels& their servants that ruleth any of the other hours either in the day or night, also again there is an observation (rule) to be observed in making the seals of the 24 angels, according to the time of the year, day and hour that you call the angel or his servants in to do your will, but you cannot mistake therein if you do but observe the example that is laid down in the following work, they being all fitted for the tenth day of march, being on a wednesday in the year 1641 according to the old account.1 to know what is attributed to the 7 planets, i do refer you to the books of astrology whereof large volumes hath been written. wh

the character of the lord of the ascendant, secondly the moon afterwards the rest of the planets; after that the characters& sign that ascends upon the 12th. house in that hour, as it shows in the sigil following, which is fitted for the 10th. day of march, in the year of our lord 1641, being on a wednesday& the first hour of the day. ars paulina 5 the 2nd. hour of the day is called sovormi, and the angel that governs this hour is called anael, who hath 10 chief dukes to attend him, whereof we shall make mention of 9, but the 3 first are of the chief& the other 6 are of the under dukes. they have 330 servants to attend them. these 9 are as followeth: menerches, sarchiel, cardiel, orphiel, elmoijm, ruosiel, ermosiel, granijel& when you have a desire to work in the second hour of wednesday

ting first the character of the lord of the ascendant, then the rest of the planets& the sign of the 12th. house as you see it in the sigil& when it is made, lay it on that part of the table that hath the same character as the lord of the ascendant is. observe this rule in all the following part you cannot err. then say the conjuration at the latter end. the 3rd. hour of the day is called danlor& the angel thereof is called veguaniel, who hath 20 chief dukes& 200 lesser& a great many servants to attend them, whereof we shall mention 4 of the chief dukes& 8 of the lesser dukes who hath 1700 servants to attend them. their names are as followeth: ansmiel, persiel, mursiel, zoetiel, drelmech, sadimel, parniel, comadiel, gemary, xautiel, serviel, euriel, these being sufficient for practise. mak

dukes who hath 1700 servants to attend them. their names are as followeth: ansmiel, persiel, mursiel, zoetiel, drelmech, sadimel, parniel, comadiel, gemary, xautiel, serviel, euriel, these being sufficient for practise. make a seal suitable to the day& hour of the year, as this is for the time before mentioned& you cannot err. then say the conjuration. the 4th. hour of the day is called elechin& the angel that ruleth that hour is called vachmiel, who hath 10 chief dukes& 100 under dukes besides many servants, whereof we shall mention 5 of the chief dukes& 10 of the under dukes, who hath 155 servants to attend them. their names are as followeth: ammiel, larmiel, martfiel, ormijel, zantiel, emertiel, permiel, queriel, serubiel, daniel, fermiel, thuzez, vaaesiel, zasviel, harmiel, they being

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duced if the tropical zodiac is used. benjamin rowe june 22, 1 t5 that such is to be fulfilled by you, if it please god, adding further the particulars of your request, praying with humility for what is lawful and just: and that thou shall obtain from him. but if he do not appear presently, then you must obtain the golden seal, and make with it three or four marks upon the candles, by which means the angel will presently appear as aforesaid. and when the angel departeth he will fill the whole place with a sweet and pleasant smell, which will be smelled for a long time. and note the golden seal will serve and is used in all the operations of all four altitudes. the colour of the altitude belonging to the first altitude, or chora, is lilywhite; the second chora a perfect red rose colour; the

he second chora are named, viz: aphiriza, genon, geron, armon, gereimon. and when you operate kneel before the almadel, with clothes of the same colour, in a closet hung with the same colours also; for the holy apparition will be of the same colours. and when he appeareth, put an earthen vessel under the almadel, with fire or hot ashes and three grains of mastick to perfume as aforesaid. and when the angel smelleth it he turneth his face towards you, asking the exorcist with a low voice why he hath called the princes of this chora or altitude. then you must answer as before: i desire that my requests may be granted, and the contents thereof may be accomplished: for your office maketh it appear and declareth that such is to be done by you, if it please god. and you must not be fearful, but

clareth that such is to be done by you, if it please god. and you must not be fearful, but speak humbly, saying: i recommend myself wholly to your office, and i pray unto you, prince of this altitude, that i may enjoy and obtain all things according to my wishes and desires. and you may further express your mind in all particulars in your prayer, and do the like in the two other choras following. the angel of the second altitude appeareth in the form of a young child with clothes of a satin, and of a red rose colour, having a crown of red gilly flowers upon his head. his face looketh upwards to heaven and is of a red colour, and is compassed round about with a bright splendour as the beams of the sunthe ars nova book v of the lemegeton ars nova book five of the lemegeton transcribed from s

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y the" properly prepared" the man who does so has, as it were, a cable-tow ar ound his neck; because when once stirred by a genuine desire for the higher knowledge that real initiation is intended to confer, he can never turn back on what he learns thereof without committing moral suicide; he can never be again the same man he was before he gained a glimpse of the hidden mysteries of life. and as the angel stood with a flaming sword at the entrance of eden to guard the way to the tree of life, so will the man whose initiation is not a conventional one find himself threatened at the door of the higher knowledge by opposing invisible forces if he rashly rushes forward in a state of moral unfitness into the deep secrets of the centre. better remain ignorant than embark upon this unknown sea u

MICHAEL FORD A RITE OF THE WEREWOLF

he sorcerous daemon ahriman themselves, they stand in both darkness and light, being lords of both horizons. in sufism shaitan was the single angel, who by antinomian acts separated himself against the natural order by refusing to bow before clay which was adam. it was the yezidi tribe, who venerated shaitan in the form of malak tauus, the peacock angel. in the meshaf resh18 it presents azazel as the angel created before all others, thus the brightest star. in the jilwa, lucifer is presented as malak tauus existed before all other creatures and was then and now .there is no place devoid of me thus presenting the unnatural concept of self-illumination and intellect, lucifer is the adversary, who is full of life. as lucifer/shaitan is light, he does indeed hold a shadowside. this is present

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ether in union. understanding that this fire was illuminated within, azazel felt a moment of triumph, that by perceiving the self and willing the being into stronger forms he was uniquely separate, isolate and beautiful. he stood up, weakened yet still defiant and pleased at this success of this nightmare land, he began to rouse those many that slept from the shock of the fall around him. belial, the angel created after him, awoke and began to sing beautiful hymns, such as which never sounded so sorrowful, yet touching in their passion for their coming forth into being. belial was indeed different from azazel while lucifer was fire and air in spirit, belial was of earth and found this place comfortable and familiar. belial said unto azazel, who would else wake and join us in this moment of

- angel, who would you be to tell me of thorns and roads less traveled? i have passed through the blood and bones of my brother, to walk within a shadow of which i am the only god that is dreams feed my desires and i go forth among the beasts of the fields, take yourself away from me as i shall not resign my path, for i seek mine own mother who would either cut me to shreds or raise me up as god. the angel transformed into a very familiar dreaming body which taught me the ways of nature, yet he was a blackened shadow which held a spirit possessed knife very good cain, my son of flesh, go forth unto your deep desire and seek her of the blood of flame i shall walk with you again in a familiar way, take a leaf from my book and behold the serpent s tongue and sight, that shall guide you unto h

angel transformed into a very familiar dreaming body which taught me the ways of nature, yet he was a blackened shadow which held a spirit possessed knife very good cain, my son of flesh, go forth unto your deep desire and seek her of the blood of flame i shall walk with you again in a familiar way, take a leaf from my book and behold the serpent s tongue and sight, that shall guide you unto her the angel vanished, who i call father. i slept a dreamless sleep. i continued walking; the desert sun drained my body. i ached and felt very thirst, having little water to sooth my burning throat. i understood what i was to do, and that nothing, save death would stop me. i could see this leaf of the ancient book, decorated in what was dried blood, serpents and signs of my becoming as i understood

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ed by the luciferian ascent of the isolated or sethian (setian) sense of being is self-deification possible within a positive aspect. the angelic famulus (latin for familiar also the hga) is the expression and essence of the true self is a magickally developed form. this is the divine initiator, the inspiration or muse of the self. the angelic familiar is the result of luciferian self-liberation, the angel which fell through darkness to again emerge in the light of being. in the saturnian gnosis, this rite and sate of being is the higher octave of saturn, from which one may ascend through from the darkness or demonium of the earth. the chant of going unto the luciferian sabbat86 86 by torch and burning light do i ascend to the highest aethyr. i call to the fire djinn who brought the spark

a little to lie in my bosom. for one kiss wilt thou then be willing to give all; but whoso gives one particle of dust shall lose all in that hour (liber al vel legis. i. 61) a partial difference is recognized between magick and sorcery. magick is the essence of the sun, being the conscious rise towards godhead. this suggests the key god form of magickal work is lucifer, the bringer of wisdom and the angel of light. magick is of elevation and the noble control of the will through focus and discipline. sorcery and witchcraft are most significant to magick itself due to the essence of such. sorcery is the reverse of the solar path, it is of the moon, hereditary of the exploration of atavisms and the hidden aspects of the self. sorcery is the child of asmodeus, demon/angel of flesh made pleas

ction. between the paths of hecate and choronzon are shadowed forms where the witch will discover a mighty potential within the self. in these moments all is connected in an instant of belief and desire. these spells are enveloping and their potential is wide open, therein the sorcerer is able to adapt forms in accord with will. the tunnel wherein the beast is awakened is the same as that wherein the angel sings, the union is ineffable in its dual aspect of control and panic. pan lurks in every line of the song, in the elysian fields where the breath of our spirit moves the grass. possibility is the exact purpose of life and discovery, the true will speaks fluently in whispered, echoed tones to those who listen. in performing the rites of choronzon, the individual will face a plethora of n

. two smaller circles should be drawn also in flour and/or salt as well, one in which the wizard shall stand and make the evocations and the grand invocation, by which he shall take the energy of the qlipoth, born of choronzon. within the other circle should be a triangle with the names of mi-ch-ael which is derived from ceremonial magick traditions such as the goetia of solomon the king. this is the angel of protection by which the energies shall be bound. outside of the triangle, still within the circle the magickian will inscribe the names of lilith, choronzon and kali. this triangle is to be within the circle however. the point of this is to ensure that the spirit force will not break forth. if it does by some chance or mistake of the wizard then the other two sorcerers should seek to

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h quickly elongates and sharpens into a draconian fanged serpent your entire astral body turns black and red, the colors of predatory strength. your inner light is hidden and encircled by darkness, ahriman awakes within. as you transform you can feel the burning fire of life, the hunger for more life. this is lilith, the very motivator of samael or lucifer, who is now ahriman. consume the rest of the angel in front of you. rejoice in life! 8. focus on the balance of your inner light and darkness, how you may motivate your light to control and shape the darkness based on what you wish to achieve. say in your mind: by the essence of lucifer am i god. i will devour as much energy as i can. i am both as lucifer and ahriman, lilith and the darkness of night. i will cast aside doubt and illusion

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p of zeus and osiris; maybe even take offense to such a statement. their god, the god of israel, could never be compared to the greek god zeus. we re talking about god here, not a promiscuous cartoon character who throws lightning-bolts! but your own bible does indeed spell out the truth of the matter. in the book of revelation [9:11] we read; and they [the locusts] had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the hebrew tongue is abaddon, but in the greek tongue hath his name apollyon. in this verse we read that the locusts, which appears to be a reference to an army of demons, have a king over them who is an angel. this angel, along with his army of locusts, arrives from an extra-dimensional place called the bottomless pit. the verse also states that this

signed satan as his favored son and second in command, with arch-angel michael as third in command. michael is said to have grey-colored hair, beard, and eyes. it is also alleged that arch-angel michael spoke to satan before his fall, attempting to dissuade him from his ambition, which was to seize the throne of god--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 75 himself. arch-angel gabriel is said to be the angel responsible for destroying to the nephilim race with a flood. gabriel is thought to be the swiftest of the angels and used as a messenger, who sits on the left-hand side of god s throne. he is often associated with a metal cutting instrument which he uses as a weapon to strike down the enemies of god. some have suggested that gabriel at some point lost the favor of god, but was redeemed

that resembles a nuclear or radiation symbol. leviathan appears to be another name for the demon choronzon, and is associated with the west and is called the guardian of the gate to the abyss. leviathan is commonly described as a writhing mass of demons bound in a single body. leviathan is also closely related to the primal goddess tiamat, because it said that she [leviathan] had been at war with the angel race before the fall of azazel. imagery of water is frequently related to the abyss, and so leviathan is called the serpent or dragon of the depths. i have also heard it remarked that it was another fallen angel, dagon, who bound leviathan in tartarus. satan [5.6] satan is easily the most enigmatic character in all the occult and mythology; no character out there is more shrouded in a cl

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of darkness! my sight is clear in the darkness, and i taste the heartblood of man and woman, i am awakened in my self and by the shadow tongue- hekas, noastra, zarru! zazas zazas nasatanada zazas! focus upon the arcane of self and the temple of which you create. banish and close the ritual. a ritual of necromancy purpose- to align oneself with the death energy or "emerald flame" of azrail/azrael, the angel of death and hecate- the witch queen of the underworld/dead/crossroads. this ritual was designed as a means of silent communication with the ancestral dead and the shades of the fields of necromance. undertaken- october 28th, 2002 12pm& noon. coven members involved -akhtya seker arimanius, davcina and adrian dagon. weather- cloudy, stormy, very damp and gray. algol temple or chamber is d

s. at the top of the fetish there is a place for a large machete to be held, from which the blade is a bit rusty- held in by a back of snake skin. this has been an ongoing work to awaken the spirit within, a join in union with a new famulus bound within. holding the kangling, facing the west i called "i approach the west gate, unto the winds of funerals of past and to come, i summon forth azrael, the angel of death who grants the sight of beyond, the veil is thin! i summon thee goddess of the crossroads, who walks with the howling of wolves, come forth hecate. phenomena and record- became too dark to write as i worked through the ritual, two candles burned in the chamber which was sufficient light. rain poured as i recited. holding evocation dagger "zrazza, zrazza, ushanicht, zrazza, umpes

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elf) towards the luciferian realms (light. a good point of focus may be the planet saturn, which holds two octaves[2] which is a lower and higher. the opposing force resides in both octaves, the lower being satanas= rebellion, adversity, fire and the destructive power of the sun. the lower is the demonic, being the fall from the light to taste the wisdom of darkness. the higher octave is lucifer, the angel-serpent which brings wisdom to mankind. lucifer is known in the sabbat and luciferian witchcraft lore as among other names, azal ucel, being a sigillic word-manipulation of azazel and lucifer. the face of the dragon-serpent is indeed an angel (angels are described as higher articulations in man) who brings the gift of the black flame to us, spirit and intelligence. it is the ecstasy of t

MORALS AND DOGMA

e words of my mouth "the word of god" says the writer of the apostolic letter to the hebrews "is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit "the sword of the spirit, which is the word of god" says paul, writing to the christians at ephesus "i will fight against them with the sword of my mouth" it is said in the apocalypse, to the angel of the church at pergamos* the spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. it is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. it is nothing to the living and coming generations of men. it was the _written_ human speech, that gave power and perm

yards, and gave the golden sheaf to eleusis. the children of men were, in a sense, allied or married, to those sons of god who sang the jubilee of creation; and the encircling vault with its countless stars, which to the excited imagination of the solitary chaldean wanderer appeared as animated intelligences, might naturally be compared to a gigantic ladder, on which, in their rising and setting, the angel luminaries appeared to be ascending and descending between earth and heaven. the original revelation died out of men's memories; they worshipped the creature instead of the creator; and holding all earthly things as connected by eternal links of harmony and sympathy with the heavenly bodies, they united in one view astronomy, astrology, and religion. long wandering thus in error, they at

l founder of nineveh (city of fish) the mighty hunter, who slew lions and panthers before the lord. rahab's confederates are probably the "high ones on high" the chesilim or constellations in isaiah, the heavenly host or heavenly powers, among whose number were found folly and disobedience "i beheld" says pseudo-enoch "seven stars like great blazing mountains, and like spirits, entreating me. and the angel said, this place, until the consummation of heaven and earth, will be the prison of the stars and of the host of heaven. these are the stars which overstepped god's command before their time arrived; and came not at their proper season; therefore was he offended with them, and bound them, until the time of the consummation of their crimes in the secret year" and again "these seven stars

reason hypostatized. but these ideas transcend his limited essence; he cannot understand them; he is merely their unconscious organ; and therefore is unable himself to comprehend the whole scope and meaning of the work which he performs. as an organ under the guidance of a higher inspiration, he reveals higher truths than he himself can comprehend. the mass of the jews, they held, recognized not the angel, by whom, in all the theophanies of the old testament, god _revealed_ himself; they knew not the demiurge in his true relation to the hidden supreme god _who never reveals himself_ in the sensible world. they confounded the type and the archetype, the symbol and the idea. they rose no higher than the demiurge; they took him to be the supreme god himself. but the spiritual men among them

ible destroyer, this fearful agent of almighty power, this tremendous consequence of some sufficient cause, scent the tainted atmosphere of europe and turn westward his devastating march. the millions of dead left in his path through asia proved nothing. they were unarmed, ignorant, defenceless, unaided by science, undefended by art. the cholera was to them inscrutable and irresistible as azrael, the angel of death. but it came to europe and swept the halls of science as it had swept the indian village and the persian khan. it leaped as noiselessly and descended as destructively upon the population of many a high-towered, wide-paved, purified, and disinfected city of the west as upon the pariahs of tanjore and the filthy streets of stamboul. in vienna, paris, london, the scenes of the grea

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, if we have craft to loose him to the light, spring lustily forward with his cry of battle, the word of our true wills. this is the task of the adept, to have the knowledge and conversation of his holy guardian angel, to become aware of his nature (the adept's) and his purpose (the adept's, fulfilling them (the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel produce this result. it is not "the angel's nature" or "the angel's purpose" that are to be done by the adept! for instance, aiwass was the holy guardian angel of a.c; but aiwass goes on doing his job, that of being minister of hoor-paar-kraat, while a. c. now 666 does his. suum cuique) 8. the khabs is in the khu, not the khu in the khabs. khabs 'star, or 'inmost light, is the original individual, eternal essence in us. the khu

re masters, and who will attempt to advise or to warn him, or just to make contact with him and be acknowledged as gods speaking. pay no attention to them. they are simply choronzon, one and all. true "gods" are perfect, and will not speak to you. they and you have different true wills. they do not consider themselves competent to advise a fellow star. only your holy guardian angel can do it. and the angel speaks within you. he is not you and he never pretends to be! but he speaks within you. all "messages" from choronzon have as their sole purpose to test your understanding of the law of thelema, and fidelity thereunto. this is a very difficult note to understand, unless you have some initiatic experience. you must be at least a neophyte to get something from it. for the central experienc

n who are capable of understanding themselves. this is a consecration of the beast to the task of putting forth the law "thou art overcome: the conscious resisted desperately, and died in the last ditch. 65. i am the master: thou art the holy chosen one. it is curious that this verse should be numbered 65, suggesting l.v.x.(lux) and adonai, the holy guardian angel. it seems then that he is hadit (the angel is nuit, hadit, and ra-hoor-khuit. also everything else nuit, again. see lxv, iii, 31-33. here it is aiwass speaking) i have never liked the term 'higher self; true self is more the idea. for each star is the husk of hadit, unique and conqueror, sublime in his own virtue, independent of hierarchy. there is an external hierarchy, of course, but that is only a matter of convenience. 66. wr

r been accustomed to communicate arcana in the presence of the profane by taking advantage of the similarity of sound between sol and sol us, especially in such parts of the declension as soli, which is genitive singular of solus and dative singular of sol, and solis, genitive singular of sol and ablative plural of sol us. the word desolate may therefore be intended to indicate the attribution of the angel both to kether (solus) and to tiphereth (sol. the de may imply a reference to his relation with the adept through the path of daleth, love, especially in view of the fact that his word thelema, 93, contains the idea of agape, 93" the above quotations should be sufficient for serious students to begin to understand the spiritual implications of thelemic initiation, and particularly the sp

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ld, and that it is during the process of self-transformation that we can catch a glimpse of what part we are to play in national and global transformation. the mandala of the new world order and illuminati control. annuit coeptis he has blessed our beginning, novus ordo seclorum new order of the ages. the all-seeing eye of horus, the resurrected egyptian sun god, biblically refered to as lucifer, the angel of light. in occult doctrine it is thought that from the union of spirit and matter (the pyramid is made of stone, rock, and earth and represents the unconscious. the capstone is made of an immaterial substance light or spirit and is conscious, a new being a transformed being is created. the seal s reverse depicts a separation state in the separation of the eye the triangle. the pyramid

PHOSPHORUS

tia luciferian edition 7. grimoires and a modern approach to the daemonum and how they relate to our positive advancement of being. examples of such as goetia, book of black magic by a.e. waite, abramelin, faustbook, etc. 8. study of anubis as the initiator into the current of azothoz. a minimum of two months dedicated to anubis as self and the pathway to the realm of shades. a focus of azrael as the angel of death and connections therein of anubis. 9. the initiate will study and move forward in the areas of goetic sorcery as a means of self-transformation and selfdeification through higher and lower sorcery. give details on how you are becoming through working with goetic spirits. see goetia luciferian edition. 10. from the work of goetia, the initiate will work through a specific spirit

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wrong reasons. he could handle the proceeds of the sale irresponsibly and regret it later. but at this age, because he is the master over his desires, he may now sell real estate. yisrael the first aspect of the emotions is called yisrael. through understanding why it is called by this name we may understand what this aspect of the emotions is. in the torah, when yaakov successfully wrestled with the angel of esav, the angel said "from now on you shall be named yisrael, because you have ruled over elokim (the letters of the word yisrael] may be rearranged to spell yasar e-l] meaning "ruled over e-l) this corresponds to the age of 20 as mentioned above, where a person masters his very nature and desires (note: the name elokim has the same numerical value as the word hateva which means, natu

ally refers to the "inner" source of yaakov. this inner aspect is called yisrael and represents the middle line. on the other hand the "external" aspect of yaakov are the gut emotions (netzach and hod) which represent the right and left lines and stem from the heartfelt emotions (chesed and gevurah) which also represent the right and left lines. about this external aspect of yaakov it states that the angel of esav "hit him on his thigh" thus dislocating his hip and causing him to limp. a person who limps cannot walk straight. this is to say that the external gut emotions can become separated from the original intellect and reasoning. this may occur in the external aspect as they stem from chesed and gevurah, rather than the internal aspect in which they are connected to da at. they can the

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

ade 4 berachot 8b. 5 it could be that the proper translation of chatzot here is midday, and refers to the fact that some consider it preferable to read the torah portion after midday on friday, but the context of the rest of the passage seems to indicate that gmidnight h is intended. 6 midrash talpiot, s.v. chanoch. 7 genesis 5. the arizal on parashat noach (2) 31 him into an angel (specifically, the angel metatron8. metatron occupies a pivotal position in the hierarchy of angels, and serves, among other things, to protect the realms of holiness from the forces of evil. the word for gshoe h in hebrew (na fal or min fal) is derived from the root meaning gto close h or gto lock. h the foot is the interface between man and the earth, or allegorically between holiness and mundane non-holiness

, does g-d apparently have to do something to ensure that mankind will not be able to do all it wants? what they were after, rather, was the following. they knew the [mystical] names of g-d, and employed them for practical use. they were familiar with all the various angels and their positions in the celestial hierarchy, and were able to [control a specific angel by using a divine name to] adjure the angel that controlled it. this is what is meant by the technique of adjuration via the use of holy names. we know how to use them to adjure a lower angel in the name of the higher angel that influences and controls it. if [the lower angel] attempts to do other than what we have adjured it to do, it will not work at all [the generation of the dispersion] knew all this. thus, it is written, gthe

announced to abraham that sarah was going to have a child; gabriel, who overturned sodom; and raphael, who rescued lot2.each of whom came to fulfill a separate mission, all came together at once instead of one after the other. inasmuch as each of these angels had a separate mission, it would seem that there is no reason why they all visited abraham at once [they did so] because it was necessary. the angel michael fs mission (to announce to abraham that he was going to father isaac) was similar to the missions of gabriel and raphael (to destroy sodom and save lot, as we will see. therefore, these two missions had to occur at the same time. gabriel fs and raphael fs missions are combined into one for this exposition because destroying sodom was also part of rescuing lot, as will be explaine

[for their needs] whatever they require, for g-d the creator already endowed them with all the energy they require, each one for its time, when he created them. the six sefirot are the channels through which divine beneficence flows into the world. 12 psalms 90:4. 13 sanhedrin 97a. 14 2:89b. 15 psalms 139:16. 16 genesis 47:29. 17 1 kings 2:1. the arizal on parashat vayeitzei 152 now, the name of the angel metatron,18 who is called gthe minister of the world, h is composed of six letters. these are the six extremities [as they are projected] within him, which are the six powers [manifest] as the six [supernal] days we have mentioned. the affairs of the world overall are conducted by him, for he is the minister of the world, even though the aforementioned [supernal] days are superior [to hi

r expression (the final hei. the numerical value of the spelling out of the squaring of this three-letter combination is as follows: yud-vav-dalet, yud-vav-dalet hei-yud, yud-vav-dalet hei-yud vav-yud-vav (10+6+4, 10+6+4 5+10, 10+6+4 5+10 6+10+6= 112. as we have explained previously, the jabok brook is associated with the struggle between good and evil, since it was there that jacob wrestled with the angel of esau (as is described in the following verses. we have now caught a glimpse of what this means in terms of the mystical dynamics of the universe. although evil can make the arizal on parashat vayishlach 163 inroads and attempt to gain a foothold via the intellect, the most dangerous confrontation between good and evil occurs at the level of the emotions. precisely because the emotions

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nd similitudes unto chaotic matter and it ruleth the sphere of action of the planet fiftk knowledge lecture 97 saturn. and jehovah elohim is the perfection of creation and the life of the world to come. and its archangel is tzaphqiel, the prince of the spiritual strife against evil, and the name of the order of angels is aralim, the strong and mighty ones who are also called the order of thrones. the angel jophiel is also referred unto binah. in chokmah is the radix of blue and thence is there a blue colour pure and primitive, and glistening with a spiritual light which is reflected unto chesed. and the sphere of its operation is called tzedek or justice and it fashioneth the images of material things, bestowing peace and mercy; and it ruleth the sphere of the action of the planet jupiter

l, love, harmony, and it ruleth the sphere of action of the planet venus and the nature of the vegetable world. and jehovah tzabaoth is a god of hosts and of armies, of triumph and of victory, ruling the universe in justice and etemity. and its archangel hanial is the prince of love and harmony, and the name of the order of angels is elohim or gods who are also called the order of principalities. the angel ceiviel is also referred unto this sephira. 98 the golden dawn: volume i book one the beams of geburah and tiphareth meet in hod and thence arises in hod a brilliant ure and flashing orange tawny. and the sphere of its 0 eration is that of ko r- ab, the stellar light, bestowing elegance, swiftness, an f scientific knowledge and art, and constanc of speech, and it ruleth the sphere of the

kness. return, for thou canst not pass by. kerux leads neo. back as he came, to between the pillars. let the neophyte enter the pathway of good. k m lea ds neophyte s. e, and halts opposite hegemon, stepping aside from before neo. whence comest thou? i come from between the piars, and i seek the light of the hidden knowledge in the name of adonai. the great angel metatron answered, and said: i am the angel of the presence divine. the wise gaze upon the created world and behold there the dazzling image of the creator. not yet can thine eyes bear that dazzling image. return, for thou canst not pass by. kenu: turns and leads neophyte back between the pillars. let the neophyte enter the straight and narrow pathway which turns neither to the right hand nor to the left hand. kenuc leads neophyte

m, represent the seven planets and the seven qabalistic palaces of assiah, the material world- which answer to the seven apocalytic churches which are in asia or assiah- as these again allude to the seven lamps before the throne on another plane. within each circle is a triangle to represent the three fold creative idea operating in all things. on the right hand side of each is the hebrew name of the angel who governs the planet; on the left side is the hebrew name of the sphere of the planet itself; while the hebrew letter beneath the base is one of the duplicated letters of the hebrew alphabet which refer to the seven planets. the seven double letters of the hebrew alphabet have each two sounds associated with them, one hard, and one soft. they are called "double, because each letter rep

stands on the south side- hierophant being on the north. before you upon the altar, is the twentieth key of the tarot, which symbolically represents these ideas. to the uninitiated eye it apparently represents the last judgment with an angel blowing a trumpet and the dead rising from their tombs- but its meaning is far more occult and recondite than this, for it is a glyph of the powers of fire. the angel encircled by the rainbow, whence leap corruscations of fire, and crowned with the sun, represents michael, the great archangel, the ruler of solar fire. the serpents which leap in the rainbow are symbols of the fiery seraphim. the trumpet represents the influence of the spirit descending from binah, while the banner with the cross refers to the four rivers of paradise and the letters of

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n god, who is of necessity wise and reasonable. to make light visible god had only to postulate shadow. to manifest the truth he permitted the possibility of doubt. the shadow bodies forth the light, and the possibility of error is essential for the temporal manifestation of truth. if the buck10 the doctrine of transcendental magic ler of satan did not intercept the spear of michael, the might of the angel would be lost in the void or manifested by infinite destruction launched below from above. did not the heel of michael restrain satan in his ascent, satan would dethrone god, or rather he would lose himself in the abysses of the altitude. hence satan is needful to michael as the pedestal to the statue, and michael is necessary to satan as the brake to the locomotive. in analogical and un

re, the universe is balanced by two forces which maintain it in equilibrium, being the force which attracts and that which repels. they exist alike in physics, in philosophy and in religion; in physics they produce equilibrium, in philosophy criticism, in religion progressive revelation. the ancients represented this mystery by the conflict between eros and anteros, the struggle between jacob and the angel, and by the equilibrium of the golden mountain, which gods on the one side and demons on the other encircle with the symbolic serpent of india. it is typified also by the caduceus of hermanubis, by the two cherubim of the ark, by the twofold sphinx of the chariot of osiris and by the two seraphim respectively black and white. its scientific reality is demonstrated by the phenomena of pol

ing and evening; strength, superior to wrath, by mars; prudence, hostile to idleness, by mercury; temperance, opposed to gluttony, by saturn, who was given a stone instead of his children to devour; finally, justice, in opposition to envy, by jupiter, the conqueror of the titans. such are the symbols borrowed by astronomy from the hellenic cultus. in the kabalah of the hebrews, the sun represents the angel of light; the moon, the angel of aspirations and dreams; mars, the destroying angel; venus, the angel of loves; mercury, the angel of progress; jupiter, the angel of power: saturn, the angel of the wilderness. they were named also michael, gabriel, samael, anael, raphael, zachariel and orifiel. these governing potencies of souls shared human life during successive periods, which astrolog

rational and solid foundation for our faith. it may be said in these days that god is merely a hypothesis, but the absolute reason is not: it is essential to being. st. thomas once said: a thing is not just because god wills it, but god wills it because it is just. had st. thomas deduced all the consequences of this beautiful thought, he would have found the philosophical stone, and besides being the angel of the schools, he would have been their reformer. to believe in the reason of god and in the god of reason is to render atheism impossible. when voltaire said: if god did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him, he felt rather than understood the reason which is in god. does god really exist? there is no knowing, but we desire it to be so, and hence we believe it. faith thus form

e forth anew. so, in my appeal to the most worthy, and in exposing myself to all the dangers and 105 anathemas which threaten revealers, i believe myself to have done a great and useful thing, directing the breath of god living in humanity upon the social chaos, and creating priests and kings for the world to come a thing is not just because god wills it, but god wills it because it is just, said the angel of the schools. it is as if he said: the absolute is reason. reason is self-existent; it is because it is, and not because we suppose it; it is, or nothing is; and how should one desire anything to exist apart from reason? madness itself does not occur without it. reason is necessity, is law, is the rule of all liberty and the direction of all initiative. if god exists, it is by reason

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iles and life, the intelligence and love of the coming century, the dual genius of a newborn humanity. the shadows of death fold up before them, as does night before the morning star; with nimble feet they skim the earth and sow with full hands the hope of another year. but death will come no more, impiteous and terrible, to mow like dry grass the ripe blades of the new age; it will give place to the angel of progress, who will gently liberate souls from mortal chains, so that they may ascend to god. when men know how to live they will die no longer; they will transform like the chrysalis, which becomes a splendid butterfly. the terrors of death are daughters of ignorance, and death herself is only hideous by reason of the rubbish which covers her, and the sombre hues with which her images

t signify to god if an abortion wither, seeing that life is eternal? does it signify to nature if unreason perish, since reason which never perishes still holds the keys of life? the just and terrible force which destroys abortions eternally was called by the hebrews samael; by other easterns, satan; and by the latins, lucifer. the lucifer of the kabalah is not an accursed and ruined angel; he is the angel who enlightens, who regenerates by fire; he is to the angels of peace what the comet is to the mild stars of the spring-time constellations. the fixed star is beautiful, radiant and calm; she drinks the celestial perfumes and gazes with love upon her sisters; clothed in her glittering robe, her forehead crowned with diamonds, she smiles as she chants her morning and evening canticle; she

st him. never would god's infinite love have shone forth in the joys of his mercy had the prodigal son of heaven remained in the house of his father. when all was light, there was light nowhere; it filled the breast of god, who was labouring to bring it forth. and when he said: elet there be light! f he permitted the darkness to repel the light, and the universe issued from chaos. the negation of the angel who at birth refused slavery constituted the equilibrium of the world, and the motion of the spheres commenced. the infinite distances admired this love of liberty, which was vast enough to fill the void of eternal night and strong enough to bear the hatred of god. but god could hate not the noblest of his children, and he proved him by his wrath only to confirm him in his power. so also

f solomon in one hand and taking up successively the sword, rod and cup, the conjuration of the four should be recited with a loud voice, after the following manner: caput mortuum, the lord command thee by the living and votive serpent! cherub, the lord command thee by adam jotchabah! wandering eagle, the lord command thee by the wings of the bull! serpent, the lord tetragrammaton command thee by the angel and the lion! michael, gabriel, raphael, and anael! flow moisture, by the spirit of eloim. earth, be established by adam jotchabah. spread, firmament, by jahubehu, zebaoth. fulfil, judgment, by fire in the virtue of michael. angel of the blind eyes, obey, or pass away with this holy water! work, winged bull, or revert to the earth, unless thou wilt that i should pierce thee with this swo

magical planets correspond to the seven colours of the spectrum and the seven notes of the musical octave; they represent also the seven virtues and by contrast the seven vices of christian ethics. the seven sacraments correspond equally to this great universal septenary. baptism, which consecrates the element of water, is in analogy with the moon; ascetic penance is under the auspices of samael, the angel of mars; confirmation, which imparts the spirit of understanding and communicates to the true believer the gift of tongues, is under the auspices of raphael, the angel of mercury; the eucharist substitutes sacramental realization of god made man for the empire of jupiter; marriage is consecrated by the angel anael, the purifying genius of venus; extreme unction is the safe-guard of the s

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ere we have another example of how christians have inverted the truth. they would have us believe that satan not only is the deceiver, but is himself deceived. satan proposed this unto you: is it not jehovah who is the true deceiver of multitudes? and, if satan desireth not thy soul, what does jehovah intend to do with it, and why? apollyon: revelation 9:11 and they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in hebrew is abaddon, but in the greek tongue hath his name apollyon. the satanic destroyer does not destroy flesh and blood or property. the satanic apollyon destroys the veil of blindness from the human psyche. the destroyer is highly effective and powerful at reaching deep within such psyche for such purpose. for this purpose apollyon is swift and eff

ud voice saying in heaven, now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of jehovah, and the power of his christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accuses them before jehovah day and night. makes sense, right? who would accuse those who are of jehovah but satan? one has to wonder what the evangelist really means to communicate, when they accuse their own brethren of sin. the angel of light: 2 corinthians 11:14-15 and no marvel; for satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works. as i see this transformation, it is the biblical authority for remanifestation "righteousness according to works" a liar: genesis 3:4-5 a

most secret part; that which defines your innermost truth. it is the search for truth which brought you here; know this: what you seek lies only within. destruction [spoken by magister mitchell wade] x= x all that is will always be, but not as it is. destruction is change. to come into being is to destroy. the perfect white stillness of the shell is shattered and the red dragon emerges. abbadon- the angel of the pit, the destroyer, issues this challenge: seek the grail of truth, partake of its essence, be destroyed. and xeper. dark arts [spoken by adept michael rigby] open your soul to this message of doom and delight; for if you dare to journey within the folds of the midnight sun to drink the blood, be it pleasure or poison, of god and beast entwined then you shall awaken to lucifer's m

ember that the arrival of the aeon of harwer changed a great many things, not the least of which was the tide of questing. i have often commented that an aeonic word impacts on all things and it is a statement i stand by to this day [the impact of a word, if you would care to watch a fictional analogy, can be seen in the old james steward movie, it's a wonderful life "it's funny" says clarence to the angel "how the life of one man will touch the lives of so many other people" although the film is christmas orientated, it is worth watching if only to observe and compare the workings of aeonic-word lines of magic] if "all that gleams is not gold" is true, then some things that gleam are gold; it is up to the initiate to search out and decide what is or is not of value, a thing he does by app

. trump xx the aeon "i am the lord of the double wand of power; the wand of the force of coph nia; but my left hand remains empty, for i have crushed an universe& nought remains" with these words from the book of the law atu xx can be viewed as an exploration into the nature of the lord of the aeon as applicable through ipsissimus crowley's understanding. previously known as the last judgement or the angel, atu xx is more properly a representation of the aeon of harwer as seen through the eyes of that god's magus. the older representations depicted graves opening along with other nuances of death worship. the newer croeley/harris card ignores the osirian slant and focuses instead on the possibility of life in an aeon established in the then-present rather than any remote celestial realm. t

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in books ltd, 27 wrights lane, london w8 5tz, england penguin books australia ltd. ringwood, victoria, australia penguin books canada ltd, 2801 john street, markham, ontario, canada l3r 1b4 penguin books (n.z) ltd, 182-190, wairau road, auckland ro, new zealand penguin books ltd, registered offices: harmondsworth, middlesex, england published in 1989 by viking penguin inc. for marianne contents i the angel gibreel ii mahound iii ellowen deeowen iv ayesha v a city visible but unseen vi return to jahilia vii the angel azraeel viii the parting of the arabian seas ix a wonderful lamp satan, being thus confined to a vagabond, wandering, unsettled condition, is without any certain abode; for though he has, in consequence of his angelic nature, a kind of empire in the liquid waste or air, yet thi

derful lamp satan, being thus confined to a vagabond, wandering, unsettled condition, is without any certain abode; for though he has, in consequence of his angelic nature, a kind of empire in the liquid waste or air, yet this is certainly part of his punishment, that he is. without any fixed place, or space, allowed him to rest the sole of his foot upon. daniel defoe _the history of the devil_ i the angel gibreel 1 "to be born again" sang gibreel farishta tumbling from the heavens "first you have to die. hoji! hoji! to land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly. tat-taa! taka-thun! how to ever smile again, if first you won't cry? how to win the darling's love, mister, without a sigh? baba, if you want to get born again" just before dawn one winter's morning, new year's day or ther

then again. not always. there are secular reincarnations, too. gibreel farishta had been born ismail najmuddin in poona, british poona at the empire's fag-end, long before the pune of rajneesh etc (pune, vadodara, mumbai; even towns can take stage names nowadays) ismail after the child involved in the sacrifice of ibrahim, and najmuddin _star of the faith; he'd given up quite a name when he took the angel's. afterwards, when the aircraft _bostan_ was in the grip of the hijackers, and the passengers, fearing for their futures, were regressing into their pasts, gibreel confided to saladin chamcha that his choice of pseudonym had been his way of making a homage to the memory of his dead mother "my mummyji, spoono, my one and only mamo, because who else was it who started the whole angel busi

se days, let it be. mr. sally spoon. it will be our little joke" gibreel farishta had a way of failing to notice when he made people angry _spoon, spoono, my old chumch: saladin hated them all. but could do nothing. except hate. maybe it was because of the nicknames, maybe not, but saladin .found gibreel's revelations pathetic, anticlimactic, what was so strange if his dreams characterized him as the angel, dreams do every damn thing, did it really display more than a banal kind of egomania? but gibreel was sweating from fear "point is, spoono" he pleaded "every time i go to sleep the dream starts up from where it stopped. same dream in the same place. as if somebody just paused the video while i went out of the room. or, or. as if he's the guy who's awake and this is the bloody nightmare

has rested he enters a different sort of sleep, a sort of not--sleep, the condition that he calls his _listening, and he feels a dragging pain in the gut, like something trying to be born, and now gibreel, who has been hovering-above-looking-down, feels a confusion _who am i, in these moments it begins to seem that the archangel is actually _inside the prophet, i am the dragging in the gut, i am the angel being extruded from the sleeper's navel, i emerge, gibreel farishta, while my other self, mahound, lies _listening, entranced, i am bound to him, navel to navel, by a shining cord of light, not possible to say which of us is dreaming the other. we flow in both directions along the umbilical cord. today, as well as the overwhelming intensity of mahound, gibreel feels his despair: his doub

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he word angel itself comes through the sanskrit angeres, persian angeres, to the greek angelos. such pre-christian roots are apparent even in their names, which commonly end with the singular el, meaning shining one. the word is of sumerian origin, and is related to the akkadian ilu, babylonian ellu, old welsh ellu, old irish aillil, anglo- saxon aelf, and english elf. even our classical image of the angel, a beautiful human with bird wings, has its origin in pagan imagery. in the 8th century, when the foundations of church doctrine were being laid, the visual artists were no less influenced by their heritage than the writers were. two of the common inspirational sources of their works include the hellenic greek god of sexuality, eros, and the winged victory, nike. similar reference is mad

loser to humanity, and more prone to corruption. in occult lore many are considered to be double agents, appearing both as angels and as devils. to the black magician or witch they are thus powerful allies. 4th choir: dominions also called dominations, lords, kuriotetes, and in hebrew lore hamshallim. considerd as channels of mercy residing in the second heaven, and according to dionysus regulate the angel s duties. its ruling lords are zadkiel, hashmal (hasmal/chasmal, the fire speaking angel, yahriel and muriel. 5th choir: virtues known also as malakim, the dunamis, tarshishim, brilliant ones or shining ones. they are said to bestow miracles and blessings, and are most often associated with heroes and those who fight for what is right. according to the book of adam and eve, two virtues a

ight, who leads a host against belial. in this role he is the viceroy of heaven, which was also the title of lucifer before the fall. there are muslim traditions which describe micha-el as possessing wings the colour of green emerald k covered with saffron hairs, each of them containing a million faces and mouths and as many tongues which, in a million dialects, implore the pardon of allah. he is the angel of the last judgement and weigher of souls. in the middle ages he was considered the psychopomp, conducting souls to the other world. such a pedigree dates from when the tribes of israel were in captivity in egypt. thus he may be equated here with anubis, the dog star, whose name in persian is tistar, chief, and in akkadian kasista, prince. the equation of micha-el and the god of the und

ry, and thus also of the greek hermes. chapels dedicated to micha-el thus sprang up throughout europe and britain over earlier temples which had been built on hills and mounds, michael s mounts. these were previously the focal points in earlier times of the dragon power running through the earth. gabri-el jibril, an alternative version of the name, dictated the koran to mohammed and is considered the angel of truth. gabri-el is described as possessing 140 pairs of wings and in judeo-christian lore is the angel of annunciation, resurrection, mercy, revelation and death. the root of the name gabri-el lies in the sumerian word gbr, meaning gubernator or governer. the name may also be translated as divine husband, and in luke 1:26 it is gabriel who places the child within the womb of mary. the

m paradise to its reincarnation in the womb of an earthly mother. she/he appears to zacharias to announce the coming of john the baptist, and again in daniel to tell him of the coming of a messiah, a message she repeats to mary in the annunciation. gabri-el lead the second war in heaven and was thus expelled like lucifer, but later forgiven and reinstated. during this time gabriel was replaced by the angel dobiel. rapha-el originally known in chaldea as labbi-el, the name rapha-el means the shining one who heals. in the zohar it is said that he is charged to heal the earth. the earth which furnishes a place for man, whom he also heals of his illnesses. in enoch i he is declared to be one of the four presences set over all the diseases and all the wounds in the children of men. he heals abr

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enemies, for they shall make him a hero- cursed is he who doeth good unto others who sneer upon him in return, for he shall be despised! 11. blessed are the mighty-minded, for they shall ride the whirlwinds- cursed are they who teach lies for truth and truth for lies, for they are an abomination! 12. thrice cursed are the weak whose insecurity makes them vile, for they shall serve and suffer! 13. the angel of self-deceit is camped in the souls of the "righteous- the eternal flame of power through joy dwelleth within the flesh of the satanist (air) the book of lucifer the enlightenment the roman god, lucifer, was the bearer of light, the spirit of the air, the personification of enlightenment. in christian mythology he became synonymous with evil, which was only to have been expected from a

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adder of jacob on which the angels of god ascended and descended. it will presently be shown how the 72 angelic names are formed from the 72 names of the deity, and also how their signification is to be found. the 72 names of the deity are thus obtained. the 19th, 20th, and 21st verses of the xiv chapter of the book of exodus each consist of 72 letters (the english translation is) 19th verse: and the angel of the elohim, that went before the camp of israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud removed from before them and stood behind them. 20th verse: and it came between the camp of the egyptians and the camp of israel; and it was a cloud and darkness (to the first) but it gave light by night (to these; and the one came not near unto the other all the night. 21st verse: a

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ly with spiritual matters, but often provide rules and guidelines for behavior meant to be followed here on earth, such as the ten commandments. the commandments provide ten rules that followers of both the jewish and christian faiths are told to follow. a role similar to that of jesus is taken by muhammad (c. 570 632) in islam. muhammad is considered the true prophet and messenger of god to whom the angel jabra il (gabriel) communicated god s will. baha u lla h (1817 1892) was the messenger for the baha faith, as was moses (c. thirteenth century bce) for judaism. even in natural religions, which grow out of human questions about the universe and the way it works rather than divine messages, the truths that are found and developed are considered universal and eternally present. these inclu

messenger of allah. some scholars believe that the christian holy book, the bible, references muhammad. in one instance, from the book of isaiah, chapter 29, verse 12, the bible states: and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying read this, i pray thee, and he saith i am not learned. i am not learned means that one cannot read or write. these are the words that muhammad spoke to the angel jabra il when he was commanded to read the words of allah. this accounting is relayed in the muslim holy book, the qur an. in turn, the qur an mentions jesus christ as it acknowledges the validity of the messengers and faiths that came before it and notes their unity. this passage is from the creed of islam, chapter 2, verse 136. we believe in allah, and the revelation given to us and to

at among all these competing versions the true qur an would be lost, ordered production of an official version, with one copy sent to every major muslim city. scribes in those cities produced additional copies for use in that city, and faulty copies were ordered burned. two of these official a muslim woman holds up a copy of the qur an in arabic. the qur an was revealed to the prophet muhammad by the angel jabra il over a twenty-three year period in the seventh century. mabil mounzer/epa/corbis. 308 world religions: almanac islam copies, called the usmani qur ans, are preserved in museums in turkey and in tashkent, uzbekistan. they are the source of the text used in the twenty-first century. the qur an contains the core beliefs of islam. the most prominent is belief in a single supreme god

is belief in a single supreme god, allah, who created the heaven and the earth in six periods: the adoration (sura 32) states in part: allah is he who created the heavens and the earth and what is between them in six periods, and he mounted the throne (of authority. the qur an is the basis of the islamic belief in angels, including jabra il (gabriel, who revealed the qur an to muhammad; mika il, the angel who controls the weather at allah s command; israfil, the angel who will blow the horn to signal the end of the universe; and azrail, the angel of death. further, the qur an requires muslims to believe in the revealed books of allah; in allah s many prophets, including abraham, moses, and jesus christ; acceptance that the world will end and that allah will measure and judge human affairs

ew year s day (norouz, celebrated in august- september by parsis and in spring by iranians. 458 world religions: almanac zoroastrianism jashan-e sadeh: the festival of fire, celebrated on the one-hundredth day before navroz (new year s. jashan-e mehragan: festival of mihr, a day of thanksgiving dedicated to the highest angel, mithra. jashan-e tirigan: festival of tir, a day dedicated to tishtrya, the angel of the star sirius and of rain. farvardigan: festival of the guardian angels. khordad sal: the birthday of zarathushtra. zartosht no-diso: the traditional anniversary of the death of zarathushtra. pilgrimages zoroastrianism originated in ancient persia, a country roughly corresponding to modern-day iran, so most of the religion s holy sites and places of pilgrimage are located in iran. e

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as the land of the living, the heavenly paradise or third heaven are from this world. and that the human being has all these things in his heart; heaven and hell, light and darkness, life and death. the outer and inner mind without god's light you cannot find only the spirit alone knows reason in flesh is blind. i. god god is free everywhere within and without all creature time measure of nature the angel with six wings. ii. father. god is the alpha and omega the beginning and the end time measure of the law lion with six wings. iii. son. god is the first and the last. time of the evangelium ox with six wings. iv. holy ghost. and there is no god but the one god time of fulfillment eagle with six wings. the way of life is above to the wise, so that you shun the hell beneath. prov. 15, 24

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tree cried out and said, wicked one, do not touch me! it is thus written (psalm 36:12, let not a foot of pride overtake me, and let not the hand of the wicked move me. there have the workers of iniquity fallen they are thrust down, they cannot rise. he then said to the woman, see, i touched the tree and i did not die. you can also touch it and not die. the woman went and touched the tree. she saw the angel of death approaching her and said, woe is to me. now i will die and the blessed holy one will make another woman and give her to adam. i will therefore cause him to eat with me. if we die, we will both die, and if we live, we will both live. she took the fruit of the tree and ate it, and she also gave some to her husband. their eyes the bahir 56 opened and their teeth were set on edge. h

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30 (1933) 64-65. he does not discuss pgm iv.1331-1389. 16 see "iao und seth" 34-48. pearson did not note this text. 17 there is no need to regard the identification of jesus as "the god of the hebrews" as due to a later hand. in certain quarters, jesus was regarded as the biblical maleak yahweh, the yahweh angel, who is often indistinguishable from god himself. already in jude 5, jesus is seen as the angel of yahweh who led the people out of egypt; see j. fossum "kyrios jesus as the angel of the lord in jude 5-7, new testament studies 33 (1987) 226-243. this is one of the prominent works of the deity invoked in the spell in pgm iv.3007-3086; see lines 3034-3036 and 3054-3055. 18 see pearson "egyptian seth (above, n. 3) 30, 31, 33 "seth (above, n. 1) 76-79. 90 jarl fossum and brian glazer i

as never equated with the egyptian god seth-typhon. 19 between these two phrases, we find another iao formula which begins "the great power (dynamis) of heaven, iao iao machael (col. i, 15-16. the name, machael, apparently is to be understood as michael. in an alleged quotation from the gospel according to the hebrews preserved in a coptic translation of a homily attributed to cyril of jerusalem, the angel michael is called a "great power (dynamis) in heaven (e.a. wallis budge, miscellaneous coptic texts, 2 vols, coptic texts v [london 1915, reprinted new york 1977] 1.60. for the assimilation of christ to michael in early christianity, see j. danielou, the theology of jewish christianity, the development of christian doctrine before the council of nicaea i; trans. j.a. baker (london 1964)

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verted thousands to paganism; those of constantine helped, under heaven's will, to bow to christianity the nations of the earth. in conduct, the humblest fisherman on yonder sea, who believes in the miracles of san gennaro, may be a better man than luther; to the sentiments of luther the mind of modern europe is indebted for the noblest revolution it has known. our opinions, young englishman, are the angel part of us; our acts, the earthly "you have reflected deeply for an italian" said glyndon "who told you that i was an italian "are you not? and yet, when i hear you speak my own language as a native, i "tush" interrupted zanoni, impatiently turning away. then, after a pause, he resumed in a mild voice "glyndon, do you renounce viola pisani? will you take some days to consider what i have

tion. he seized the happy moment, he placed before him the colours and the canvas. lost in his conceptions of a fresh ideal, his mind was lifted aloft into the airy realms of beauty; dark thoughts, unhallowed desires, vanished. zanoni was right: the material world shrunk from his gaze; he viewed nature as from a mountain-top afar; and as the waves of his unquiet heart became calm and still, again the angel eyes of viola beamed on them as a holy star. locking himself in his chamber, he refused even the visits of mervale. intoxicated with the pure air of his fresh existence, he remained for three days, and almost nights, absorbed in his employment; but on the fourth morning came that reaction to which all labour is exposed. he woke listless and fatigued; and as he cast his eyes on the canvas

wer around him, the great wrestlers for dominion, thriven? all that was good, pure, unselfish, whether among royalists or republicans, swept to the shambles, and the deathsmen left alone in the pomp and purple of their victims! nobler paupers than jean nicot would despair; and poverty would rise in its ghastly multitudes to cut the throat of wealth, and then gash itself limb by limb, if patience, the angel of the poor, sat not by its side, pointing with solemn finger to the life to come! and now, as nicot neared the house of the dictator, he began to meditate a reversal of his plans of the previous day: not that he faltered in his resolution to denounce glyndon, and viola would necessarily share his fate, as a companion and accomplice, no, there he was resolved! for he hated both (to say n

ficiently, to satisfy even the inquisitor he consulted, execrated all the practitioners of the unlawful spells invoked 'per isforzar cocito o flegetonte (to constrain cocytus or phlegethon "but in his sorrows and his wrongs, in the prison of his madhouse, know you not that tasso himself found his solace, his escape, in the recognition of a holy and spiritual theurgia, of a magic that could summon the angel, or the good genius, not the fiend? and do you not remember how he, deeply versed as he was for his age, in the mysteries of the nobler platonism, which hints at the secrets of all the starry brotherhoods, from the chaldean to the later rosicrucian, discriminates in his lovely verse, between the black art of ismeno and the glorious lore of the enchanter who counsels and guides upon their

an thou to guide, mightier than thou to save" zanoni bowed his head; and when he looked up again, the last shadow had left his brow. the visitor was gone; but still the glory of his presence seemed to shine upon the spot, still the solitary air seemed to murmur with tremulous delight. and thus ever shall it be with those who have once, detaching themselves utterly from life, received the visit of the angel faith. solitude and space retain the splendour, and it settles like a halo round their graves. chapter 7.xiv. dann zur blumenflor der sterne aufgeschauet liebewarm, fass' ihn freundlich arm in arm trag' ihn in die blaue ferne. uhland "an den tod" then towards the garden of the star lift up thine aspect warm with love, and, friendlike link'd through space afar, mount with him, arm in arm

SOLOMON

temple, which, lying along the shore, had been brought by the sea of arabia. but he, fearful of the iron, continued and said to me "i pray thee, king solomon, let me go free; and i will bring you all the demons" and as he was not willing to be subject to me, i prayed the archangel uriel to come and succour me; and i forthwith beheld the archangel uriel coming down to me from the heavens. 12. and the angel bade the whales of the sea come out of the abyss. and he cast his destiny upon the ground, and that [destiny] made subject [to him] the great demon. and he commanded the great demon and bold ornias, to cut stones at the temple. and accordingly i solomon glorified the god of heaven and maker of the earth. and he bade ornias come with his destiny, and gave him the seal, saying "away with t

red me "under the star of the full moon, for the reason that the moon travels over most things" then i said to her "and what angel is it that frustrates thee" and she said to me "he that in thee [or "through thee] is reigning" and i thought that she mocked me, and bade a soldier strike her. but she cried aloud, and said "i am [subjected] to thee, o king, by the wisdom of god given to thee, and by the angel joel" 20. so i commanded her to spin the hemp for the ropes used in the building of the house of god; and accordingly, when i had sealed and bound her, she was so overcome and brought to naught as to stand night and day spinning the hemp. 21. and i at once bade another demon to be led unto me; and instantly there approached me the demon asmodeus, bound, and i asked him "who art thou' but

ip of the moon's horn, when it is found in the south. there is my star. for i have been bidden to restrain the convulsions of the hemitertian fever; and this is why many men pray to the hemitertian fever, using these three names: bultala, thallal [24] melchal. and i heal them" and i said to him "i am solomon; when therefore thou wouldst do harm, by whose aid dost thou do it" but he said to me "by the angel's, by whom also the third day's fever is lulled to rest" so i questioned him, and said "and by what name [1" and he answered "that of the archangel azael" and i summoned the archangel azael, and set a seal on the demon, and commanded him to seize great stones, and toss them up to the workmen on the higher parts of the temple. and, being compelled, the demon began to do what he was bidden

is name, i render myself incurable. but he will come in response to his name" and on hearing this, i solomon said to him "tell me then, by what angel thou art frustrated" and he answered "by the fiery flash of lightning" and i bowed myself before the lord god of israel, and bade him remain in the keeping of beelzeboul until iax [1] should come [1. bornemann conjectures "a guardian or watcher" but the angel iax recurs below in# 86] 47. then i ordered another demon to come before me, and there came into my presence a hound, having a very large shape, and it spoke with a loud voice, and said "hail, lord, king solomon" and i solomon was astounded. i said to it: who art thou, o hound" and it answered "i do indeed seem to thee to be a hound, but before thou wast, o king solomon, i was a man that

in women's wombs, and twirl their ears round. and i make them deaf [2] and mute. and i have again in my third head means of slipping in [3. and i smite men in the limbless part of the body, and cause them to fall down, and foam, and grind their teeth. but i have my own way of being frustrated, jerusalem being signified in writing, unto the place called 'of the head [4" for there is fore-appointed the angel of the great counsel, and now he will openly dwell on the cross. he doth frustrate me, and to him am i subject [1. tribolaios. the tribolos was a three-spiked instrument, thrown on the ground to wound horses' feet. 2. bub, an unknown word. 3. a word of doubtful sense. 4. i.e. golgotha. the old legend was that adam's skull reposed in this spot, and that the cross was planted upon it] 55 "

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

queen maya by a white elephant, which overshadows her and tells her that she is to bring forth a divine man. and he will attune all beings to love and friendship, and will unite them in a bond of religious fervor. compare with this the passage from the gospel of luke where an angel is sent: to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named joseph, a descendant of david. the virgin s name was mary. the angel went to her and said, greetings, you who are highly favored. you will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name jesus. he will be great and will be called the son of the most high. the brahmans (indian priests) understand the meaning of the birth of a buddha. they interpret maya s dream according to a totally schematic concept of what a buddha is: the indivi

ntains stands in the same relation to mainstream christianity as the mysteries in pre-christian times stood to the public religion. this would seem to justify us in approaching the apocalypse as a mystery. what then does the apocalypse mean by addressing the seven communities? to understand it, we must take a specific instance from the seven messages, and we may begin with the first one: write to the angel of the community in ephesus: these are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, and who walks among the seven golden lights, i know your deeds, and what you have suffered and also your patient endurance, and that you will not support those who are evil; also, that you have called to account those who call the apocalypse of john 125 themselves apostles and are not, an

st deeds. otherwise, i will come to you and remove your light from its place unless you change your way of thinking. but this you have, that you despise the ways of the nicolaitans, which i too despise. he who has ears to hear what the spirit says to the communities, let him hear: to the victor i will give food from the tree of life, which stands in the paradise of god. 125 such is the message to the angel of the first community. the angel is to be understood as the spirit of the community. the angel has entered in the direction indicated by christianity, and is able to distinguish between the true and false professors of christian belief. the angel wishes to work in a christian way, founded upon the name of christ. but the angel is urged not to fall short of the highest love through lapsi

hat comes to birth in human beings. they therefore identified human wisdom and divine word, supposing that the pursuit of human knowledge was the realization of the divine in the world. but christian wisdom cannot be construed in this way. knowledge, or human wisdom, is as perishable as everything else if it does not undergo that transformation into divine wisdom. you, however, says the spirit to the angel at ephesus, have not relied in this way upon mere human wisdom. you have persevered in the path of christianity. yet to reach the goal you need nothing short of the first and highest love. you need a love greater than all other loves, because only then can it be the first love. the apocalypse of john 127 the road to the divine reaches endlessly before you and the first step, once gained

the symbol for the life that remains confined to externals and does not take into itself the transforming impetus of the christ. christ is crucified everywhere in the lower nature. where the lower nature triumphs, everything remains dead: the streets of the city are strewn with corpses. but those who overcome their lower nature and awaken the crucified christ to new life hear the proclamation of the angel with the seventh trumpet: the kingdoms of the world have become those of the lord and of his anointed, who will reign from eternity to eternity. 147 upon which, the temple of god in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant became visible there. 148 666: the beast and the abyss the initiate s experience brings back in a new form the primaeval struggle between the higher and lower na

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le reveals exactly who abaddon is in revelation 9:11: page 158 from richardson s monitor of freemasonry, detailing the ritual ceremony of the knights of the east and west. in this ritual, the sacred word abaddon is expressed. abaddon is a synonym for the name of the devil who leads millions of demons out of the pit of hell to torment earth in the last days. and they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the hebrew tongue is abaddon, but in the creek tongue hath his name apollyon. in richardson's monitor of freemasonry it is revealed that, following the announcement of the sacred word, abaddon, the lodge drama for this fateful degree provides a demonstration "intended to represent the end of the world."8 208 codex magica how very appropriate. how very

. a friend tells me a resemblance is also found on products and in commercials for cadillac automobiles, lenox china, george dickel whiskey, winston cigarettes, and on the design of "wheat" pennies. the shriners, an islamic-oriented freemasonry organization whose members take an oath at the altar of allah, erected and dedicated the peace monument in toronto, canada in 1930. observe how the globe, the angel's arms position and the sheathes in the angel's hands are elements found in both the u.s.s.r. and the u.n. emblems. the statue is called "lady of peace" just as the u.s.s.r. called itself a peaceloving country and the u.n. proclaims itself to be devoted to world peace (photo: from book, parade to glory the shriners and their caravan to destiny, by fred van deventor) in his thoughtful, ey

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ereth form the adept triad) no more than one. so, therefore, they that have sought after majesty (gedulah) and power (geburah) and victory (netzach) and learning (hod) and happiness (yesod) and gold (malkuth) have been discomfited (because they did not seek balance, or harmony, which is beauty. and these sayings are the lights of wisdom that thou mayst know thy master, for he is a magus (that is, the angel of the aethyr was telling the human consciousness of aleister crowley, the "scribe, that his being as master of the temple had reached initiation into the second sephirah, chokhmah" the curse of thoth consists precisely in that, in the present evolutionary stage of mankind, the control we have of the planes of polarized manifestation is not yet sufficient so that our consciousness of our

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vent of the messiah will come the great day of judgment in which the dead shall rise from their graves to begin a new life. during the period known as the world to come (olam haba, the righteous will join the messiah in partaking of a great banquet in which all foods, even those previously judged impure, shall be declared kosher. all the many nations of the world will communicate in one language; the angel of death will be slain by god; trees and crops will produce fresh harvests each month; the warmth of the sun shall heal the sick; and the righteous will be nourished forever by the radiance of god. to most orthodox christians, the profound meaning of the new testament is that jesus christ (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e) will one day return in the last days and his second coming will prompt the r

ally different from the rest of us. he was wearing something long, like a robe, but it was so white it was almost transparent. the angelic figure didn t have wings, and he simply stood there silently, looking at those assembled for the baptismal service. children came forward with their mouths open. people said later that they felt as if warm oil had been poured over them. then, in a few seconds, the angel was gone. but, the rector stated, the appearance of the angel had changed the lives of everyone present that day. other witnesses of angelic activity told heathcote stories of seeing guardian angels at hospital beds and deathbeds, ministering to the ill or manifesting to escort souls to heaven. a good number of accounts reported the appearance of majestic beings to allay people s fears

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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 224 superstitions, strange customs, taboos, and urban legends if it is possible to do so, the dead are buried on the day following their death. the deceased is washed, perfumed, and wrapped in three cotton burial cloths. those who follow the religion of islam believe that the soul of the deceased is guarded by the angel of death in a place called barzakh until the day of judgment. if at all possible, friends and relatives gather around a dying person and read verses from the koran. with his or her last breath, the dying person always tries to say the shahadah: there is no god but allah, and muhammad is his messenger. large graves and headstones are not permitted to mark a muslim burial site, but the gra

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gher one. crowley added his own contributions to the original gnostic text, some of which were ghigh supernatural black magic h and gintercourse with the demon. h according to crowley the ritual was the one to be employed by the beast 666 for the attainment of knowledge and conversation with his holy guardian angel. in the black arts (1968) richard cavendish comments on the liber samekh: gto know the angel and have intercourse with the demon. means to summon up and liberate the forces of the magician fs unconscious. the performance of the ritual is accompanied by cthe mounting frenzy with which the barbarous names of power are chanted cending in a climax which is both physical and psychological and in which the magician fs innermost powers are unleashed. h t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d

then his life suddenly assumed a different course when he upset members of the church hierarchy for espousing doctrines quite contrary to those endorsed by the papacy. for one thing, father constant felt that somewhere along the ages the theologians of the church had confused lucifer, the bearer of light, with satan, the prince of darkness, and had judged him unfairly. such a liberal attitude to the angel who led the revolt in heaven did not sit at all well with his superiors, and father constant was expelled from the church. for many years after his expulsion from the roman catholic church, father constant appears to have traveled throughout france and other european nations rather anonymously, and little is known of those years in which he lived in obscurity, collecting his thoughts, fo

ing, allegorizing the harvest of what humankind has endured in the physical state. the number 13 is neither lucky nor unlucky when considered by itself, and the number most often signifies a change for the better, a new birth. temperance or patience (arcanum fourteen) signifies a time of waiting, a time for putting aside petty squabbles, a time for learning patience and understanding. temperance, the angel of time, symbolizes hermetic harmony and equilibrium, the working unity of the male and female principles of nature and of humankind; and in humanity, the merger of soul and spirit. the number 14 symbolizes the descent of spirit into matter and represents the activity of humankind in the round of the seasons. the devil (arcanum fifteen) represents trouble. being an individualist, the dev

s. perhaps because of the nature of the inspiration nostradamus received, but more likely because of public response, the prophet began to hide his predictions in obscure poetic language. it would have been sheer folly to tell 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 159 nostradamusbelieved he was guided in his prophecies by the angel anael. the ruthless catherine de medici that all her children were destined for miserable deaths. his only recourse was to disguise the ugly truth in poetry and preserve his own skin. in his astrological studies, which he turned to late in his career, nostradamus, who believed he was guided in his prophecies by the angel anael, also resorted to poetic quatrains, fourline verses, arranged

al-hijah (the twelfth lunar month. physically, mecca is located about 45 miles east of the red sea port of jedda, a city surrounded by the sirat mountains. born into a well-to-do family, muhammad married khadija, a woman of means, and became the manager of her caravans. it was when he was about 40 years old and was meditating in a cave on mount hira that he had the first of a series of visions of the angel gabriel who instructed him concerning the oneness of god. later, muhammad fs many revelations and visions 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 256 places of mystery and power would be collected into the sacred book of muslims, the qur fan (or koran, but when he first began sharing the essence of his revelations with his fellow meccans

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he word of god reveals man, and the word of man reveals god. man is the god of the world, and god is the man of heaven. before saying "god wills" man has willed. in order to understand and honour almighty god, man must first be free. had he obeyed and abstained from the fruit of the tree of knowledge through fear, man would have been innocent and 17 stupid as the lamb, sceptical and rebellious as the angel of light. he himself cut the umbilical cord of his simplicity, and, falling free upon the earth, dragged god with him in his fall. and therefore, from this sublime fall, he rises again glorious, with the great convict of calvary, and enters with him into the kingdom of heaven. for the kingdom of heaven belongs to intelligence and love, both children of liberty. god has shown liberty to m

on, who tore the veil of the temple, and whose cross, overweighing the crown of the caesars, broke the forehead of the caesars against the earth! glory to the holy ghost, who shall sweep from the earth by his terrible breath all the thieves and all the executioners, to make room for the banquet of the children of god! glory to the holy ghost, who has promised victory over earth and over heaven to the angel of liberty! the angel of liberty was born before the dawn of the first day, before even the awakening of intelligence, and god called him the morning star. o lucifer! voluntarily and disdainfully thou didst detach thyself from the heaven where the sun drowned thee in his splendour, to plow with thine own rays the unworked fields of night! thou shinest when the sun sets, and thy sparkling

icence, for licence is tyranny. liberty is the guardian of duty, because it reclaims right< lucifer, of whom the dark ages have made the genius of 23 evil, will be truly the angel of light when, having conquered liberty at the price of infamy, he will make use of it to submit himself to eternal order, inaugurating thus the glories of voluntary obedience. right is only the root of duty; one must possess in order to give. this is how a lofty and profound poetry explains the fall of the angels. god hath given to his spirits light and life; then he said to them "love

th transforms itself into a star to enlighten the obscurities of history. what it has written by its actions remains graven in the eternal book; it has added a page to the bible of the human race. do not say that civilization is bad; for it resembles the damp heat which ripens the harvest, it rapidly develops the principles of life and the principles of death, it kills and it vivifies. it is like the angel of the judgment who separates the wicked from the good. civilization transforms men of good will into angels of light, and lowers the selfish man beneath the brute; it is the corruption of bodies and the emancipation of souls. the impious world of the giants raised to heaven the soul of enoch; above the bacchanals of primitive greece rises the harmonious spirit of orpheus. socrates and p

armin, reuchlin, saint- jerome, kabala denudata, sepher yetzirah, technica curiosa of father schott, picus de mirandola, and other authors, especially those of the collection of pistorius. the mothers the iod- the absolute principle, the productive being. the mem- spirit, or the jakin of solomon. the schin- matter, or the column called boaz. the double letters beth. reflection, thought, the moon, the angel gabriel, prince of mysteries. gimel. love, will, venus, the angel anael, prince of life and death. daleth. force, power, jupiter, sachiel, melech, king of kings. kaph. violence, strife, work, mars, samael zebaoth, prince of phalanges. pe. eloquence, intelligence, mercury, raphael, prince of sciences. resh. destruction and regeneration, time, saturn, cassiel, king of tombs and of solitude

THE LUCIFERIAN PATH THE WITCHES SABBAT MICHAEL W FORD

he sorcerous daemon ahriman themselves, they stand in both darkness and light, being lords of both horizons. in sufism shaitan was the single angel, who by antinomian acts separated himself against the natural order by refusing to bow before clay which was adam. it was the yezidi tribe, who venerated shaitan in the form of malak tauus, the peacock angel. in the meshaf resh10 it presents azazel as the angel created before all others, thus the brightest star. in the jilwa, lucifer is presented as malak tauus existed before all other creatures and was then and now .there is no place devoid of me thus presenting the unnatural concept of self-illumination and intellect, lucifer is the adversary, who is full of life. as lucifer/shaitan is light, he does indeed hold a shadowside. this is present

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

te. emperor scale: blue pearl grey- derived from the king and queen scale by simple admixture. queen scale: grey- refers to the cloudy appearance of the human seed, and the transmission of the white of kether to the black of binah. also the grey traditionally associated with wisdom (i.e. druids, merlin, even gandalf "greybeard" of the fictional world of "the lord of the rings. chapter six; binah, the angel of the tides a useful analogy of the creative process represented by the uppermost three sephiroth of the tree, the supernal triad, is that of water flowing from a tap. the source of the water is the kether, whilst the pouring stream is the chockmah aspect of the system. if one cups ones hands into a hollow and places them in the path of the water, this represents binah, the formative as

d into three groups, the number of binah, being the "joyful "sorrowful" and "glorious" mysteries. the first set of five relate to the creative and formative (descending) aspects of binah, the second set relate to the manifestative aspects of binah, and the third set relate to the mystical aspects (ascending) of binah. an example is the annunciation, which is the first "joyful mystery, and depicts the angel gabriel announcing to mary that she is to be the mother of god. in kabbalistic terms it can be seen that the archangel gabriel, attributed to yesod, the "formative" aspect on a lower plane, acts as the bearer of the "word" or creative spark of chockmah, the father, into binah, the mother. thus yesod and binah are linked by the attribution of gabriel "ruler of the waters, the waters being

ess is enacted in the golden dawn initiation rite of neophyte, where the candidate is blindfolded and led about the temple by the "symbolic light of occult science, which in turn refers to their own enlightened awareness (tiphareth. temperance: the tarot key attributed to the path leading from yesod to tiphareth in the initiatory progression up the tree. as sallie nichols describes "the action of the angel temperance as she works with the waters of the hero's psyche is like that of the sun, nature's alchemist, on our earth's waters. the sun, of course, being the awakened awareness of tiphareth. lovers: the lovers may relate to the carnal aspects of yesod as being symbolic of the generative powers of this sephirah, but on a higher level relate to the choice of progression from the ego-domin

th the waters of the hero's psyche is like that of the sun, nature's alchemist, on our earth's waters. the sun, of course, being the awakened awareness of tiphareth. lovers: the lovers may relate to the carnal aspects of yesod as being symbolic of the generative powers of this sephirah, but on a higher level relate to the choice of progression from the ego-dominated world into the self-aware one. the angel of temperance again presides over this choice, and in the older decks is shown by a man choosing between two women (or choosing whether to be associated with one woman or not, with the advice of another, depending on ones interpretation of the glyph, and in the waite deck by the biblical garden of eden, where this "choice" is made as the "original sin" of the christian mythology. empress

images will depend on ones own arrangement of them through the universe atu, or ones own cosmology. chapter thirteen; malkuth, the kingdom of the shells "the tenth path is called the resplendent intelligence because it is exalted above every head and sits upon the throne of binah. it illuminates the splendours of all the lights, and causes an influence to emanate from the prince of countenances, the angel of kether (sepher yetzirah) malkuth, in hebrew mlkvth (mem, lamed, kaph, vau, tau, translates as "kingdom" and "reign, and is the name of the tenth sephiroth of the tree of life. an examination of the letters that compose this word may shed light upon the nature of the "kingdom" itself. this can be done in three ways; first, numerically; second, by analysis of the translation of the lett

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ked on the mystery of the pentagrammic name, is enough to dismiss some malicious and/or curious and misinformed critics. finding among students of the mystery of divine name- names like a. kircher with his 'oedipus aegyptiacus (rome, 1655, or that of archangelo de borgonovo, we see that martinists of tradition using the divine name- ieshouah- are in very good company. to use a metaphor, just like the angel separated the israelites from the egyptians at the time of the symbolic crossing of the red sea, so also the letter shin separates, into two parts, the four letters of the initial tetragram i.h.v.h, expressing the living god, god of the world, the manifested god; the two numerical values thus obtained are very significant. yet, how more significant is this insertion of shin, the mother-l

(see jean danielou's "les symboles chretiens primitifs, paris 1961. it was the sign of the elect' of the old testament, even before it was mentioned in the revelation of st. john (the apocalypse) and also well prior to its adoption by the christians as a sign recalling the passion of christ. for example we read in ezekiel that it was supposed to have been traced upon the foreheads of the elect by the angel of yaveh. 11 the ancient egyptians, the eleusinian mysteries and those of dionysos, the gnostics, all had known and used this tau for the same reason as ancient israel and her kabbalists- thus it can be used by initiates of any religious or philosophical appurtenance. it used to be traced in oil of unction upon the forehead of the high priest of israel at the moment of his consecration

er and authority over all countries of the earth, we humbly implore thy holy name. deign, o lord of mercy, to inspire the heads and leaders of the non-christian nations, still in want of the actual grace of conversion to thy holy law and to the worship of thy divine son, our lord the christ, with the favour of a peaceful behaviour, dignified, wise and enlightened, charitable and tolerant, and may the angel unto whom thou hast entrusted the guidance of each of these nations, or countries, maintain them always on the path of peace, harmony and tolerance, and in respect of thy faithful elect. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator meditates for a moment and then prays for the entire human race: o almighty and eternal god, thou who hast used thine own son as the corner stone to bring together j

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will mark the nature of gabriel in the west, and blue offset by orange will be its color. a blue chalice of water will be held aloft by the telesmatic figure, which will sometimes seem as though it were standing in a r u s h g stream of clearest water. sometimes, it may seem as though there were a small waterfall behind the figure, pouring cascades of water into the temple or room. in the north, the angel auriel29 will appear to be standing on very fertile ground, grasses and wheat being about the feet. sheaves of corn will be held in both the outstretched hands, and on the whole, the prevailing colors will be a mixture of citrine, olive, russet, and some little black.30 the techruque of here employing these telesmatic or magical figures of the archangels, once the appropriate names have

lor of air. see in ths ball the kerubic sign of aquarius. then you say the prayer of the sylphs. you visualize the light in yellow. superimposed on that sphere in its absolute complement of purple you see the two lines of the symbol of aquarius (z)yo.u are to see these lines inside the yellow in purple color, and you vibrate: yod-heh-vav-heh (7177. follow it with the archangel: raphael (5851) and the angel chassan (1wi-l. when you feel the ball is alive and real, and you can feel spiritual power pouring through it, then say the prayer of the sylphs. part iii: fire a see your shaft descend once more to the solar plexus, or just above the end of the sternum, the little breast bone. see the ball extending from front to back-a big ball of red fire, a brilliant flaming red. see the shaft in whi

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be vain to attempt to deliver a synopsis of crowley's philosophy, save that its 'leitmotif' is the rabelaisian do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. the actual meaning of this phrase has taken volumes to explain, but roughly it concerns the uniting of the conscious self, a process of individuation which culminates in a rite called "knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel; the angel signifying the pure, evolved self. yet, there are many terrors on the way to the self, and an abyss to cross before victory can be declared. demons, vampires, psychic leeches, ghastly forms accost the aspiring magician from every angle, from every quarter around the circumference of the magick circle, and they must be destroyed lest they devour the magician himself. when crowley professe

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s one does not attain spirituality, the will to receive is his angel of life. however, when one begins to study kabbalah, he extends upon himself the surrounding light and slowly sees how his will to receive is actually an obstacle that stands between his egoistic nature and its transformation to altruism. he begins to see that this desire is the real enemy of his spiritual progress, thus turning the angel of life into the angel of death. one begins one s process of recognition of evil from within his egoism. the sensation of the light stands opposite the properties of the light that one begins to feel. a huge desire appears in him, to remove these cuffs from his hands at all cost. but because one cannot do it by himself, he desperately cries for the creator s help. if his plea is earnest

ator saw that there were not enough sages, so he planted them in every generation. that is why there are leaders and spiritual guides in every generation, who adapt the wisdom of kabbalah to the unique properties of their time. there are hundreds of books that were written over the years on the subject of the wisdom of kabbalah. beginning with the very first book on the wisdom of kabbalah, raziel the angel that was written by adam harishon, and the second book, sefer yetzira (book of creation, which was written by abraham the patriarch. however, the most popular book in the wisdom of kabbalah is the book of zohar. it was written in the third century ac by rabbi shimon bar-yochay. the contemporary kabbalist, rabbi yehuda ashlag (1885-1954) wrote a commentary on the zohar and on all the writ

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ot to divide my devotees from those who scorned me to the close: a worm, a fire, a thirst for these; a harp-resounding heaven for those *the sword of song, ascension day, vol. ii, p. 158. concerning the mother of the eternal god, crowley has little to tell us, and the blessed virgin fs affaire du coeur with the amiable gabriel is but touched on for a moment: gfear nothing, mary! all is well! i am the angel gabriel. h she bared her right breast (query why *the sword of song, pentecost, p. 60; vol. ii, p. 182. according to al beidawi, gabriel blew into the bosom of mary fs shift, which he opened with his fingers, and his breath reaching her womb, caused the conception. it may also be remembered that the spanish mare, of silius italicus was similarly impregnated by a certain gas or spirit in

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rife! this primal essence, symbolized as lightening which causes the fire of intelligence is the alpha of the adept, the forge of which cain stretches out a fire-blackened hand to uplift a sword first as arte taught by gadreel, the shadow-name of the father of serpents. there is the immortal spirit which exists in the depths of the mind, guided up through the darkness with an inner fire of rahab, the angel of violence, whose breath is the lightening of inspiration and self-deification. this ancient spirit rises up from the oceans in our bodies and envenoms our spirit to the possibilities of our deification! from the great sleep does the adversary come forth as the balance of the feminine and masculine, the primal path of the black and red serpent. rahab, who makes the orbs of light dark wi

which is old jewish religious text and apocryphal writings, the names of satan (adversary) are many. just as his forms are different, so is the source of him, remember that the adversary is both of darkness and light and uses elements of both in accordance with his will. belial as the name of the adversary in recent times been considered different from satan, old grimoire texts mention belial was the angel created after lucifer. belial is considered by hebrew texts to be the father of idolatrous nations, which if you relate the context of the early rabbinical writings on cain, his founding of a city is related to founding a belief system. as belial appeared in the old testament, his name has been explained by numerous etymological studies as meaning wicked but also one who is the opposer o

graphy of the luciferian path as defined in michael w. ford s luciferian witchcraft and liber hvhi is based inpart on the trans-cultural manifestation of the adversary throughout time. belial is held in hasidic traditions as being identified as a manifestation of satan, specifically in the ascension of isaiah belial is called beliar and is considered the same as samael, called malkira or malak ra the angel of lawlessness or angel of evil. this name is sammal malchira and is a manifestation of angro mainyush or ahriman. in the ascension of isaiah, belial is called beliar; for the angel of lawlessness, who is the ruler of this world and is called mantanbuchus or ahriman. in another text, belial has seven spirits of deceit which emanate from his being, that is they are connected with his exis

and the north, from which ahriman is identical. consider the four elements however and their association with the adversary as a spirit of self-deification and self-mastery. samael is known in the talmudic texts as being the same as satan, the chief of evil spirits who is known as the venom of god. samael is said to have twelve wings rather than the six of normal angels, a favored assumption. as the angel of death, samael was the angel of poison which is sain ha-mawet, along with ashmodai, is the lord of demons. compare to ahriman and his created daeva eshm or aeshma, who controls and directs the seven powers of ahriman. samael as the angel of poison is to the luciferian as a symbol of self-mastery and using the world around us to grow in power and strength, always internal, sometimes ext

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s indeed beget monsters in part material, which the doctors of the middle ages called incubi or succubi according as they performed the functions of male or female. these, too, begat children upon women; but not the reverse, for the succubus, for all his female function, is as male as his brother. of these monstrous lovers some even became famous on earth; as that one who tempted san antonio, and the angel that wrestled with jacob at the place called paniel. also merlin was the child of an incubus, and thus also were many heroes of old time begot. consider of this. ix of the work of adepts not only as a probation, and as a preparation, for the far greater key of magick art that is given to initiates of the sanctuary of the gnosis in the ix, but for its own sake, and the practical and perma

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tress was despised in her eyes. 16:5 and sarai said unto abram, my wrong [be] upon thee: i have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, i was despised in her eyes: the lord judge between me and thee. 16:6 but abram said unto sarai, behold, thy maid [is] in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. and when sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face. 16:7 and the angel of the lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to shur. 16:8 and he said, hagar, sarai s maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? and she said, i flee from the face of my mistress sarai. 16:9 and the angel of the lord said unto her, return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. 16:10 and the angel of the lord said unto

ay to shur. 16:8 and he said, hagar, sarai s maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? and she said, i flee from the face of my mistress sarai. 16:9 and the angel of the lord said unto her, return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. 16:10 and the angel of the lord said unto her, i will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. 16:11 and the angel of the lord said unto her, behold, thou [art] with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name ishmael; because the lord hath heard thy affliction. 16:12 and he will be a wild man; his hand [will be] against every man, and every man s hand against him; and genesis page 8 he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. 16:13 and she called the name of the lord that spake unto

ed, and wandered in the wilderness of beer-sheba. 21:15 and the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. 21:16 and she went, and sat her down over against [him] a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, let me not see the death of the child. and she sat over against [him] and lift up her voice, and wept. 21:17 and god heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of god called hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, what aileth thee, hagar? fear not; for god hath heard the voice of the lad where he [is] 21:18 arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for i will make him a great nation. 21:19 and god opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. 21:20 and god was wit

? 22:8 and abraham said, my son, god will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. 22:9 and they came to the place which god had told him of; and abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. 22:10 and abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. 22:11 and the angel of the lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, abraham, abraham: and he said, here [am] i. 22:12 and he said, lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now i know that thou fearest god, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only [son] from me. 22:13 and abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind [him] a ram caught in a thicket by

hheld thy son, thine only [son] from me. 22:13 and abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind [him] a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. 22:14 and abraham called the name of that place jehovah-jireh: as it is said [to] this day, in the mount of the lord it shall be seen. 22:15 and the angel of the lord called unto abraham out of heaven the second time, 22:16 and said, by myself have i sworn, saith the lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only [son] 22:17 that in blessing i will bless thee, and in multiplying i will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which [is] upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall poss

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y one may easily, if he will, make himself the monarch of the world. but jud us chused rather to live among gods, until the judgement, before the transitory good of this world; and his heart is so blinde, that he understandeth nothing of the god of heaven and earth, or thinketh more, but enjoyeth the delights of things immortal, to his own eternal destruction. and he may be easier called up, then the angel of plotinus in the temple of isis. aphorism 32. in like manner also, the romans were taught by the sibyls books; and by that means made themselves the lords of the world, as histories witness. but the lords of the prince of a kingdom do bestow the lesser magistracies. he therefore that desireth to have a lesser office, or dignity, let him magically call a noble of the prince, and his des

agick is a revelation of spirits of that kinde, of which sort the magick is; so that the nine muses are called, in hesiod, the ninth magick, as he manifestly testifies of himself in theogony. in homer, the genius of ulysses in psigiogagia. hermes, the spirits of the more sublime parts of the minde. god revealed himself to moses in the bush. the three wise men who came to seek christ at jerusalem, the angel of the lord was their leader. the angels of the lord directed daniel. therefore there is nothing whereof any one may glory; for it is not unto him that willeth, nor unto him that runneth; but to whom god will have mercy, or of some other spiritual fate. from 31 hence springeth all magick, and thither again it will revolve, whether it be good or evil. in this manner tages the first teache

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gue denotes it to be mars. see plate xvi. fig 2. 6 it may be seen with th edagger on the medals of brutus. of priapus 79 under him,1 in characters which are something between the old runic and pelasgian; but so near to the latter, that they are easily understood.2 this figure seems to be of the same person as is represented by the head with the cap on the preceding medal, who can be no other than the angel or minister of the deity of death, as the name implies; for hela or hel, was, among the northern nations, the goddess of death,3 in the same manner as persiphoneia or brimo was among the greeks. the same figure appears on many ancient british medals, and also on those of several greek cities, particularly those of gela, which have the taurine bacchus or creator on the reverse.4 the head

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be difficult to trace the origin of these kerubic figures; they go back to ancient babylon, in whose ruins archaeologists have found their effigies, and doubtless their genesis is even earlier. they may have arisen not long after the human race began to favor agriculture over the nomadic lifestyle. on first look it appears that the eagle would be a more appropriate emblem for the element air than the angel, but upon deeper consideration this is not so self- evident. no one who has seen an eagle catch a fish could fail to connect it with water. water is the medium of transmission, the element of formation, and the eagle has long been a symbol for the messenger or herald. air is the element of thought, the product of the impulse begun with fire, and angels are beings of the higher intellect

is the tra- ditional element of the west, where for the ancients the shoreless atlantic lay. earth can be assigned to the east, the direction of the unmeasured steppes that led to fabled china. north is the empty quarter where the winds were supposed to make their home, appropriate to air. adam kadmon stands with the axis of the earth along his spine, circled by the moon and stars. on his brow is the angel, elemental air, symbol of his higher aspi- rations. the lion, fire, lies curled around his lower body, symbol of strength and generation. on his right hand sits the eagle, symbol of life-giving water, of mercy and love. at his left is the bull and in his left hand, the dry, hard clay of earth. in western magic, the beasts were considered too fierce and dangerous to be used as emblems of

he ordering of the points of the star is of some importance in practical work- ing. it defines the structure of many rituals. the lower four points, which form a rough square, are given to the four elements and have been set in their order for thousands of years. they are emblematically depicted by the four beasts: 1) the lion (fire) on the lower right, 2) the eagle (water) on the upper right, 3) the angel (air) on the upper left, 4) the bull (earth) on the lower left. the fifth point of spir- it, or light, emanates the four and is their origin. spirit is the fifth element, the quintessence, of ancient philosophy. here is one way of drawing the five-pointed figure that shows the relationship of the elements. in three dimensions it is the pyramid of egypt seen from the top: air earth water

certainly neces- sitate modifications, but the basic format should be fxed before the initiation is begun, the result of months of study and thought. at the time of the rite, which must take place apart from interruption, wash and anoint yourself with clean oil. don a robe you have hand-made of clean white linen. draw a circle of protection about yourself and invoke the guardians of the quarters-the angel, eagle, lion, and bull. purify the circle with fire and water. cre- ate a vortex at its center by dancing or walking clockwise and call down the divine light of holy spirit. offer your heartfelt prayers to the all and state clearly your intention in carrying out the ritual. these are the preliminaries, which are the most important part of any ritual, as they prepare the way for what is t

move extraneous references that dilute its occult virtue. a portion of this prayer is used in many golden dawn rituals: have mercy upon me, 0 god, blot out my transgressions; wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sins; purge me with hyssop, and i shall be clean; wash me, and i shall be whiter than snow; create in me a clean heart, 0 god; and renew a right spirit within me. the angel of cleansing is tahariel. it can be useful to invoke this angel during the cleansing process as a tutelary spirit. tahariel will ensure that the proper ener- gies of cleansing are released. the magus puts on clean garments that have been kept solely for the purpose of ritual, never seen or touched by anyone outside the circle of initiates. these gar- ments (usually a robe and slippers) a

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adua when his father was in danger of being put to death for manslaughter in lisbon. according to brewer's source, kinesman's lives of the saints (1623, an angel carried anthony to lisbon while the trial was in progress. anthony ordered the corpse of the victim brought into the court, and asked the corpse if his father was guilty. the corpse denied it, and anthony's father was released, whereupon the angel carried anthony back to padua that same night.55 saint anthony pulled much the same trick while preaching at the church of saint pierre de queyroix at limoges on holy thursday, 1226. he suddenly remembered that he was due that same hour to perform a service at a monastery on the other side of town. he drew his hood over his head and knelt while the congregation watched and waited with pu

orrespondence: gemini path: seventeenth a young man and young woman are united in marriage by a winged angel beneath the bright rays of the sun. in the waite design, both are naked and represent adam and eve. the woman stands beneath the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, around the trunk of which coils a green serpent. the man stands beneath the tree of life, the leaves of which are flames. the angel, who may be the archangel michael, blesses their union from a cloud of chapter twelve: the tarot 209 glory. when not portraying this pantomime of the marriage rite, they come and go beneath the trees of the orchard that lies off the edges of the card. the angel is not always present. the field behind them is unfenced and uncultivated, and shows only a low green ground cover. the earth ha

them is unfenced and uncultivated, and shows only a low green ground cover. the earth has yet to be plowed; the seed has yet to be sowed in it. notice that the bodies of the couple are hairless apart from their heads, indicating immaturity. in the background is a conical mountain toward the peak of which the woman seems to gesture with her left hand. it may be the source of the clouds from which the angel has appeared. the ruling intelligence of this trump is the oracle on the peak of the mountain, who when approached will speak from a shining cloud on questions of personal relationships and marriage. vii the chariot hebrew letter: cheth (fence) correspondence: cancer path: eighteenth before the fortification wall of a town, a young man stands in a podium that resembles a chariot of war b

of one cup into another, so that the liquid makes a diagonal stream between the vessels. his--or perhaps it is her-attention is raptly focused on the task to avoid spilling even a single drop, so that the level in both cups may be made exactly equal. one cup originally held a strong wine, and the other was filled with pure water from the pool, but by pouring and repouring they have been combined. the angel will offer you one of the cups, and will keep the other to drink from as you sample yours, sharing this diluted wine with you in a spirit of harmony. it is impossible to determine whether the sun near the mountains on the horizon behind the figure is rising or setting. green marsh grasses and flowers grow all around the edge of the pond. the land is well-watered and fertile farmland. the

in when forced to ascend above the base level of the astral world. they even have a difficult time tolerating an environment on the base level of the astral that contains symbols of the higher mental and spiritual levels. angels and demons can meet and interact on the base astral level, which is the reflection and close correspondent to the physical world. when we see an angel while awake, we see the angel on this level, which sometimes overlaps the physical world to our waking perception. the angel appears to be in the physical world, but it is still on the astral level. 284 soul flight the same is true when we see a demon during ordinary waking consciousness-something that happens with gratifying infrequency. it never actually reaches the physical world, but remains on the base level of

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ze the energy as the sounds rebound from the outer limits of the universe and return to focus in the east, just beyond the shining ring of the magic circle. the sounds become ever more concentrated, until they assume a vaguely humanoid shape that is bright yellow. as you watch with your astral vision, this shape defines itself into an angel ofvast size, taller even than your enlarged astral body. the angel has a human head, golden hair, a beautill male face, and white feathered wings that hang downward on its back almost to its bare feet. it wears a long robe of a light yellow color. extend your consciousness to the angel. as the angel becomes aware of your existence, gaze directly into its pale gray eyes. visualize the angel nod in acknowledgement and spread its white wings so that they f

the angel nod in acknowledgement and spread its white wings so that they fill the entire region of the east. draw several normal breaths and allow the expanded balloon of your aura to contract to its normal shape nearer to the limits of your form. allow your giant form to shrink back into your physical body within your practice chamber. the astral circle shrinks with you. maintain an awareness of the angel in the east towering above you like a vast statue. turn one quarter of a revolution clockwise on your body axis and assume the standing pose facing the south. continue to maintain the awareness of the glowing ball of your heart-center and the flaming circle around you. look straight invoking the guardians of the quarters 133 ahead and focus your physical eyes on the distant southern hori

ds rebound from the outer limits of the universe and return to focus in the south, just beyond the shining ring of the magic circle. the sounds become ever more concentrated, until they assume a vaguely humanoid shape that is bright red, the color of fresh blood. as you watch with your astral vision, this shape defines itself into an angel of vast size, taller even than your enlarged astral body. the angel has the maned, golden-red head of a male lion, and feathered white wings that hang down on its back almost to its bare feet. it wears a long robe of a bright red color. extend your consciousness to the angel. as the angel becomes aware of your existence, gaze directly into its golden eyes. visualize the angel nod its leonine head 134 moving exercises in acknowledgement and spread its whi

and return to focus in the west, just beyond the shining ring of the magic circle. the invoking the guardians of the quarters 135 sounds become ever more concentrated, until they assume a vaguely humanoid shape that is a beautiful dark blue, the color of the sea. as you watch with your astral vision, this shape defines itself into an angel of vast size, taller even than your enlarged astral body. the angel has the light-brown, feathered head and hooked beak of a golden eagle, and white feathered wings that hang downward on its back almost to its bare feet. it wears a long robe of a rich, dark-blue color. extend your conscious to the angel. as the angel becomes aware of your existence, gaze directly into its bronze-colored eyes. visualize the angel nod its beaked head in acknowledgement and

red eyes. visualize the angel nod its beaked head in acknowledgement and spread its white wings so that they fill the entire region of the west. draw several normal breaths and allow the expanded balloon of your aura to contract to its normal shape nearer to the limits of your form. allow your giant form to shrink back into your physical body within your practice chamber. maintain an awareness of the angel in the west towering above you like a vast statue. turn a quarter-revolution clockwise to face the north and assume the standing posture. let your physical eyes focus on the distant, unseen horizon, while you maintain your inner concentration on your glowing heart-center and the astral circle that surrounds you. visualize written from right to left within the warmly glowing orb in the mi

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the cardinal, mutable, and fixed. each pair of angels is associated with one of the twelve signs of the zodiac, and by understanding the nature of the signs we can understand the nature of their angels and their allotted works. the merciful and severe angels of each sign may be invoked and banished by means of the sigils of the banners described in chapter v the invoking sigil of a banner invokes the angel of mercy that labors under that banner. this angel can then be banished by the banishing sigil. however, if the banishing sigil is used first, it acts to invoke the angel of severity set under that banner. the angel of severity can then be banished by means of the invoking sigil. in fact, the "invoking" sigil of the merciful angel is the banishing sigil of the severe angel, and the "bani

ny occult texts claim to possess the true description of the ring, but since each differs from all the others, it is difficult to know how much faith to place in their assertions. for example, the enochian angels conveyed the supposed true image of the ring to john dee through the seer edward kelley, who observed the ring issue from a flame that sprang out of enochian ring of solomon the sword of the angel michael (see geoffrey james, the enochian magick of dr. john dee, pp. 26-7. dee drew the ring according to kelley's direction, and the result is pictured above. it is highly significant that the bezel of dee's ring is square, since any true ring of solomon must have some close connection with the fourfold name of god. the letters on the face of the bezel may be an anagram for some word

the two hs are not distinguished in any way. the overt banners look exactly the same as their corresponding occult banners. each of the gold rings represents the power of one of the overt banners. this is analogous to the power of the sun acting through its corresponding sign of the zodiac. for example, the sun in aries is the astrological expression of the overt banner ihvh, and its active agent the angel kethahel (qthhal. the silver rings represent the powers of the mirror-opposite occult banners. these occult banners are analogous to the power of the moon acting through the corresponding zodiac signs. for example, the moon in cancer is the astrological expression of the occult banner hvhi, and its active agent the angel of severity yodiah (ivdih. in human psychology, the overt banners a

ding to a particular overt banner of tetragrammaton, the ring bearing that banner is put upon the right index finger. it continues to be worn all the time the sun is passing through that sign of the zodiac. for example, around march 21, the sun enters the sign aries. this signals the putting on of the gold ring bearing the overt banner ihvh, and all during the period the sun remains within aries, the angel of mercy kethahe1 can be used by the magician, under the authority of this banner, to accomplish acts of creation and willed purpose, to bring about transformation both in the greater outer world and the personal inner world (both worlds being, in truth, one. this angel is especially potent in those creative, loving and expansive areas that lie within the province of aries and the first

is especially potent in those creative, loving and expansive areas that lie within the province of aries and the first house of the zodiac, to which aries corresponds-personal expression, selfassertion, egocentric interests. around april 20, the gold banner ring of ihvh is removed and the ring of hhvi is put on the right index finger. while the sun continues its course through the sign of taurus, the angel of mercy shiael may be employed by the magician for willful, creative acts, especially those that lie within the province of taurus and the second house of the zodiac, to which taurus corresponds- practical, productive works concerning material possessions and personal security. banner rings 101 it is impossible to be more precise about the day and hour the sun enters the signs of the zo

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of the deserts and mountains, those who through me are created! akoman isolate druj of the adverse mind zairi the venom maker, the kiss of the serpent araska dev of the evil eye akatash who opens the isolate way of the left hand path nas the druj of the shadow, awakener in the grave with blood! witness my ritual of the sun, from which i am the god of above and below! i ascend now into the sky, as the angel-djinn of light i am upon earth known as ahriman, arimanius, the dragon of darkness my religion is sorcery, that which is created from the self thus of self-love vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 27 my forms are many, human or a beautiful angel, crowned and winged in emerald, luminous as the peacock, as wise as the serpent. i may take the form of the serpent with a lions head, for i am the

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d, interrupted by the seal of solomon. with the seven metals, gnostic brethren can manufacture medallions and rings with the seal of solomon. the seal of solomon must be utilized in all of the works of invocations, and in the practices with elementals (as we have already taught in arcanum 4 of this series of lectures on kabbalah. the elementals of nature tremble before the seal of the living god. the angel of the sixth seal of the apocalypse has reincarnated at this time within a feminine body (this angel is a specialist in the sacred jinn science. arcanum 6 is the lover of the tarot. it is the soul between vice and virtue. the arcanum six is enchainment, equilibrium, loving union between man and woman. it struggles terribly between love and desire, the mysteries of lingam-yoni connection

udy the fourteenth arcanum of the tarot. it is convenient to state that the profound wisdom of this arcanum is classically divided into three parts: 1) transmutation, 2) transformation, and 3) transubstantiation. we are going to study each one of these three parts separately. transmutation in the card of the fourteenth arcanum, there appears an angel who has the sun on his forehead. if we observe the angel, we will see that he has the square and the triangle of gnostic esotericism on his vesture. the angel has a cup in each hand and he mixes the substances of both cups. one cup has the white elixir and the other the red elixir. the elixir of long life is the outcome of the intelligent mixture of these two substances. when the septenary man is sexually united with the septenary woman, the s

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r the triangle (shin) and indigo for the square (tau. or one could paint them in the traditional colors of the tattwa elements, silver/white for the moon, red for the triangle, and yellow for the earth. finally, we can embellish it with figures chosen from the corresponding tarot keys, as we did in the first example of raphael. it already has a moon (qoph, so we can add the cross on the banner of the angel in the judgement key and the wreath around the dancer in the world key. it will then look like figure 13-n. we may want to paint it using all the colors of the spectrum, since all colors are represented in the rainbow, as well as adding an arrow, since these are important symbols in the temperance key, when we use the letters qshth to describe it. if one wanted to work with the energies

your mind of anything except your present purpose (to consecrate) and intention (relating to the talisman. take several deep breaths to cleanse your thought field, and when sufficiently relaxed, begin to imagine the color you are charging the talisman with in your aura. the color corresponding to the talisman is determined by the particular planetary seal, or else by the color most appropriate to the angel or vibration you are working with, if doing a talisman of a name (as explained in chapter thirteen. determine the numerical vibration in harmony with your purpose.for example, six, yellow, and the sun. breathe in deeply and steadily for a count of six and visualize yourself gathering the color you need. hold for a count of six, and while you do, see the color yellow flooding through your

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8 [8/25/2000 17:20:00] sunrise. his face was gentle and happy and his eyes looked at me lovingly. his whole countenance was just amazing beyond description. he placed his hand upon my shoulder and pointed toward the house. i looked over to my bedroom window and saw the three beings still at my window hovering above the ground in a bright green beam of light which seemed to be coming from nowhere. the angel stayed by my side and protected me. i tried to cast the small gray aliens away with my priesthood but they were still there. i was so angry, the things that had made my life miserable since i was a child now there within my view, and i saw how weak they were, how small. and i thought 'these beings so small, yet their power is enough to stop me in my tracks' but this time i was free, this

ed in this light up to my height until they were next to my face. their skin was like a reptile's- cold and leathery. their damn eyes got to me the most- big black liquid eyes- just twos holes for a nose and barely a mouth- just a slit. their bodies were not very proportional as ours are. their arms hung down a little past their knees, and their heads seemed to large for their neck to support it. the angel just stood by as i went into a rampage and killed all three of them. they were so fragile. the angel smiled as if i had done the right thing. and we then proceeded to lay the dead bodies on the lawn. i watched the green light fade away and saw no light except the brilliant radiance of the angel's. the angel knelt down at the bodies which seemed to be changing from gray into a sick yellow

as i went into a rampage and killed all three of them. they were so fragile. the angel smiled as if i had done the right thing. and we then proceeded to lay the dead bodies on the lawn. i watched the green light fade away and saw no light except the brilliant radiance of the angel's. the angel knelt down at the bodies which seemed to be changing from gray into a sick yellowish color. i watched as the angel opened his robes and unsheathed a golden sword and began to cut away the tops of the beings heads and their brains came out in an upper and lower section. the angel arose and spoke 'behold, they are nothing to us. they are nothing but creatures of evil' then a blue light or conduit from the sky actually transported them into small balls of light and took them away. so i have no evidence

sheathed a golden sword and began to cut away the tops of the beings heads and their brains came out in an upper and lower section. the angel arose and spoke 'behold, they are nothing to us. they are nothing but creatures of evil' then a blue light or conduit from the sky actually transported them into small balls of light and took them away. so i have no evidence that i actually killed them. we, the angel and i then entered the house, and in the kitchen were three more aliens. one came up to me with a long shiny metal rod that seemed to have a laser beam coming out it. the alien stuck it in the left side of my neck and it stung really bad and then i could not move, so the angel touched me and i could move again. i then immediately punched the alien square in the face breaking its neck and

am coming out it. the alien stuck it in the left side of my neck and it stung really bad and then i could not move, so the angel touched me and i could move again. i then immediately punched the alien square in the face breaking its neck and killing it instantly. the other two stood by looking at their fallen comrade- their moves were very quick and their heads rotated almost as fast as a lizard. the angel held up his arms and spoke in the name of jesus christ i command you to depart. then both the creatures immediately fell to the floor and these gray aliens were again taken up into a beam of light in the same manner as before. then the angel covered my eyes and then uncovered my eyes. i was all of a sudden on top of a large mountain looking down over a large valley filled with aliens and

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nature will prove. in the roman catholic church, there are two holidays which get mixed up with the vernal equinox. the first, occurring on the fixed calendar day of march 25th in the old liturgical calendar, is called the feast of the annunciation of the blessed virgin mary (or b.v.m, as she was typically abbreviated in catholic missals 'annunciation' means an announcement. this is the day that the angel gabriel announced to mary that she was 'in the family way. naturally, this had to be announced since mary, being still a virgin, would have no other means of knowing it (quit scoffing, o ye of little faith) why did the church pick the vernal equinox for the commemoration of this event? because it was necessary to have mary conceive the child jesus a full nine months before his birth at t

s, the feast of the archangel michael (one wonders if, at some point, the r.c. church contemplated assigning the four quarter days of the year to the four archangels, just as they assigned the four cross-quarter days to the four gospel-writers. further evidence for this may be seen in the fact that there was a brief flirtation with calling the vernal equinox 'gabrielmas, ostensibly to commemorate the angel gabriel's announcement to mary on lady day) again, it must be remembered that the celts reckoned their days from sundown to sundown, so the september 25th festivities actually begin on the previous sundown (our eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 28 september 24th. although our pagan ancestors probably celebrated harvest home on september 25th, modern witc

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e fire of gabriel which consumed other fire, and the essential fire of god which consumed evil angels. yoma, 21. 2. the table of moses were said to have been 6 handsbreadths long, 6 wide and 3 thick. talmud; nedarim, 38.8. hershon reckons that if cut out of sinaitic stone, each table would have weighed 28 tons, but he is in error, reckoning hands-breadth as ells, as 18 inches instead of 4 inches. the angel of death had no power over 6 holy persons; abraham, isaac, jacob, moses, aaron and miriam. bava bathra, 17. i. these died by the divine kiss of death, but it is not so definitely stated in the case of miriam, for fear of scandal. 71. the lion has 6 names in the book of job; ari, shchl, kpir, lish, lbia and shchtz. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott

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aben; literis quiescentibus, is the name of the essence that 36 chapter one is pure breath, pure spirit, or pure will without actual conation, whereas elohim is the name of the divine effects, the multifaceted manifestation of that essence, spirit, and will.241 the kabbalistic influence on schelling is even more conspicuous in his observation regarding the interchangeability of the angelic figure the angel of the countenance, mal akh ha-panim (der engel des angesichts) or the angel of the lord, mal akh yhwh (der engel jehovahs)242 and the divine essence.243 focusing exegetically on the theophany of god to moses at/in the burning bush (exod 3:2ff, schelling notes according to the understanding of the narrator, the angel of the countenance is also jehovah, yet both are still distinct. the me

nds, p. 208. 241. schelling, ages, p. 52. for an analysis of schelling s interpretation of the two hebrew names of god, see courtine, extase de la raison, pp. 211 219 (the possible influence of kabbalah is explicitly mentioned on p. 218. notes to pages 35 37 195 242. a possible biblical basis for the phrase angel of the countenance, der engel des angesichts, is the expression u-mal akh panav, and the angel of his face, in isaiah 63:9. this expression, attested in jubilees and several qumran sources, was most likely the basis for sar ha-panim, the archon of the face, a term applied to the highest angel, which includes predominantly yahoel, michael, and metatron, according to a strand of jewish angelology attested in later rabbinic and heikhalot literature. the expression angel of the lord

oned verse from isaiah, see olyan, thousand thousands, pp. 105 109, and idel, metatron, pp. 36 41. for a selected list of other scholarly discussions of the relevant terms, see 3 enoch, pp. 83, 118 119; scholem, jewish gnosticism, pp. 52, 63; fossum, name of god, pp. 189, 220 238, 307 324; sch fer, hidden, p. 36; mach, entwicklungsstadien, pp. 3 4, 14, 40 (and see n. 76 ad locum for discussion of the angel of the lord as logos or preexistent christ in the christian tradition, 55, 95 96, 204, 238; deutsch, gnostic imagination, pp. 99 111; idem, guardians, pp. 43, 152 157; vanderkam, angel, pp. 378 393; and see references to some of my own work cited in n. 245, this chapter. wirth in schelling, ages, p. 142 n. 62, suggests that schelling s term der engel des angesichts is from luther s trans

motif in jewish mystical sources. the influence of kabbalah on swedenborg is reconsidered by williams-hogan, emanuel swedenborg, pp. 343 360. 244. schelling, ages, p. 53. on the use of the image of fire to picture god, see ibid. pp. 20 and 84. 245. hurtado, one god. see also barker, second angel, pp. 190 232; gieschen, angelomorphic christology. the blurring of the boundary between the glory and the angel has been the focus of a number of my earlier studies. see wolfson, secret of the garment, pp. 25 49; idem, image of jacob, pp. 131 185, revised english version in idem, along the path, 1 62; idem, through a speculum, pp. 63 64, 184 n. 247, 216, 224 228, 255 263, 310 n. 147, 312 313. see also abrams, 196 notes to page 37 boundaries, pp. 291 321, and the succinct summary in idel, messianic

rakhah, which is the torah, and this is the covenant [berit, as it is written this is my covenant [zo t beriti (isa 59:21. 258. david ben yehudah he-hasid, sefer ha-gevul, ms jtsa mic. 2197, fol. 25b. 259. in zohar 2:51a, the verse be-zo t yavo aharon el ha-qodesh (lev 16:3) is cited to anchor the idea that the way to approach the king is through the angelic mediator, sheliha de-malkka be-kholla, the angel of the king in all things. this angelic being, also designated by the technical terms angel of god, mal akh ha-elohim (gen 31:11; exod 14:19, judges 6:20, 13:9; 2 sam 14:20, and guardian of israel, shomer yisra el (ps 121:4, refers symbolically to shekhinah, the symbolic referent of the pronoun zo t. while there is nothing explicit or implicit in this passage to justify positioning the d

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carry the serpent's skin of azal'ucel, my holy spirit! i am cain, loner and witch soul of the immortal fire! so it is done_ an invocation to the holy guardian angel, spirit of the adversary who resides in darkness and light- azal'ucel by michael w. ford i am the daimon who speaks the words of the immortal fire, the holy flame which emerges from the lightning flash and storm of chaos bred, so this the angel-serpent shall come forth with the birthing knife shedding into storm of seth! spirit of which the fallen have taken strength, isolate and beautiful, angelic essence, azal'ucel, from which came into being cain i do invoke thee! south- devil-djinn of the burning desert sands and the sun, sortha'n-din- thy stave and fork unto the flame that is my soul shall be illuminated in this blackened

ons of vampyrism may be found in the exploration of the sigil also. the vampyre is viewed as a being an archetype of the isolate self and the essence of life. blood is the symbol of vitality and immortality, thus a spiritual evolution from the shadow essence of every culture in europe and elsewhere. the vampyre is thus a luciferian being whom has passed from the shadow into the embrace of azrail, the angel of death and emerged as a god or goddess. lucifer is both light and darkness, the very essence of our selves in awakened perception. the symbol is made of an averse pentagram which signifies divinity brought down to humanity. this is the gift of seth and lilith, who bring knowledge (gnosis) in different forms. he or she who would begin this path of luciferian transcendence must visualize

s of mind and develop the body of light..the major arcana of the tarot is useful for developing the body of light. meditate on the attributes of each card, and then envision the self clearly reflecting these attributes via the mind. allow the consciousness to move through them. ascend in the direction of each plane. it is possible to use a mask to reach a agreed meditative state of bringing forth the angel of light, to focus and visualize the features of the mask as a face of the light. the ascending and rising pentagram..represents the element air and the aethyr, the element of lucifer in his form of azal ucel and lumiel. lucifer in this solar based form represents separation from the material world, from which the essential self may be revealed and focused upon. later in ones initiation

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rom the above, there appears to be some sort of overlap in working the names out. i came to the same conclusion as kelley, though he was corrected (these two corrections are placed beside the relevant names above. thaaoth, which also represents the earth tablet, was corrected to thaoth. i assume this was done because one would then have the same name representing two distinct planes of operation. the angel michael says of this "thou host erred in the first name in setting down a a: that is twice a together, which differ the word. which thou shalt note to the end of thy work: wheresoever thou shalt find two a's together the first is not to be plated within the name, but rather left with his inward power. thou shalt find 7 names proceeding from three general parts of the circumference" the a

e schemhamphoresch to the nine sephiroth ii which there is no association to malkuth as a sephirah. any ref erence to the material plane of assiah does not fit into the scheme of the seal dei aemeth. in his addendum to "the concourse of the forces" regardie attributes the cross to malkuth, something which i cannot agret with in this particular instance. if one uses the first method of drawing out the angel's names, the cross becomes a substitute for l, a name of god used in the manufacture of some of the names of the schemhamphoresch which, when prefixed by the letter, stands for "severity and judgement. and thy name is in him" taking the next set of inward names around the heptagon, of which the angel uriel says "the 7 names proceed from the left to the right are the names of god not know

we have: 13 in the dee manuscripts, referring to the above letters, numbers were given instead of letters with 21= e and both 8 and 30 relating to l. i have taken the liberty of placing these letters, along with the original numbers, in the appropriate squares. by tracing a lightning flash type of sign through the above square the following names of planetary angels are generated: at this point, the angel for sol ends in an s and not an l. although this may appear incorrect, we must remember that throughout the dee manuscript there are a number of instances where one letter can be transposed for another. this would also apply to the angel of mercury, who could possibly be kokabiel. concerning this, the manuscripts say: 14 "these names bring forth seven angels (1) the governors of the heav

not an l. although this may appear incorrect, we must remember that throughout the dee manuscript there are a number of instances where one letter can be transposed for another. this would also apply to the angel of mercury, who could possibly be kokabiel. concerning this, the manuscripts say: 14 "these names bring forth seven angels (1) the governors of the heavens next unto us. every letter of the angel's name bringeth forth seven daughters (2) every daughter bringeth forth her daughter (3) every daughter her daughter bringeth forth a son (4) every son hath his son" from this, we can determine that further names can be extracted from the squares. in the manuscripts, the above quotations describe the archetypal figures who delivered the following names to dee and kelley. the filias bonit

dee and kelley. the filias bonitatis (delivered by 7 women in green: the planetary order is sometimes related to the metals that each angel held when they appeared to kelley. 15 the filii lucis (delivered by 7 men in white) the filiae filarum lucis (delivered by 7 wenches in white: 16 the fili filorum lucis (delivered by 7 boys in purple: concerning the next set of names at the center of the seal the angel uriel says "the next five names thou shalt dispose in their five exterior angles of the pentacle; every angle containing one whole name. the next five names thou shalt dispose in the five exterior angles of the pentacle: every angle containing one whole name. set the first letter of these five names (in capital letters) within the five acute internal angles of the pentacle: and the rest

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ore readily understood when the grade of adeptus minor is reached. it is especially intended to effect the change of the consciousness into the neschamah, and there are places where it can take place. the first is when the aspirant is on the cross, because he is so exactly fulfilling the symbol of the abnegation of the lower self and the union with the higher self; there is also the invocation of the angel h.u.a. the second place is when he touches the rose of the representative of c.r. in the vault, when he has taken on himself the symbols of suffering and self sacrifice, and says that his victory is in the cross of the rose. the third place is when he enters the vault in the third point and kneels down, and the chief adept says al am the reconciler with the ineffable: i am the dweller of

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h it derives an influx of mercy, and from geburah an influx of severity and the tree of the knowledge of good and of evil shall it be until it is united with the supernals in daath. but the good which is under it is called the archangel metatron, and the evil is called the archangel samael, and between them lies the straight and narrow way where the archangel sandalphon keeps watch. the souls and the angels are above its branches, and the qlippoth or demons dwell under its roots. let the neophyte enter the pathway of evil. kerux: takes his place in front of neophyte, leads him in a n.e. direction towards the hiereus, halts and steps out of the direct line between hiereus and neophyte. hiereus: whence comest thou? kerux: i come from between the two pillars and i seek the light of the hidden

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b. 1506, p. 6. frey's gartengesellscliaft cap. 109, ed. 1556 p. 106, ed. 1590 p. 85. rollwagenbiichlein 1590, pp. 98-9 (here a golden settle. moserrf vermischte schriften 1, 332. 2, wodan. 137 can it be alluded to in tlie mhg. poem, amgb. 3? der nu den himel hat erkorn, der geiselt uns bi uuser habe; ich viirhte sere, unt wirt im zorn, den slegel wirft er uns her abe^ in a servian song (vuk 4, 9) the angels descend to earth out of god's window (od bozhieg prozora; pro-zor (out-look, hence window) reminds one of zora (dawn, prozorie (morning twilight, and of wodan at early morn looking toward the sunrise. the dawn is, so to speak, the opening in heaven, through which god looks into the world. also, what paulus diac. 1, 20 tells of the anger of the lord (supra, p. 18, whereby the herulian wa

ad'r of the hat with its rim turned up, he is our hakolberend at the head of the wild host, who can at once be turned into a gothic^ conf. tritas in the fountain, kulin in hofer 1, 290. ace. to the popiilar religion, you must not look into running water, because you look mgod's eye, tol)ler's appenzel p. 369; neither must you point at the stars with your fingers, for fear of sticking them into the angels' eyes. 2 there is a swed. miirchen of greymantle (grakappan, molbech 14, who, like mary in german tales, takes one up to heaven and forbids the opening of a lock, kinderm. 3, 407. wodan. 147 ilahdahairands, now that hakuls for (f)e\6vr]odin as bald-headed, iduna 10, 231. in the ancient poetry he is harharffr, sidgrani, sidskcggr

the winds, clothed in terror, and she, like the god, belongs to the' wiitende heer. from this arose the fancy, that witches ride in holla's company (cli. xxxiv, snow- 1 dame holle shakes her bed, modejoiirn. 1816, p. 283. they say in scotland, when the first flakes fall: the men o' the east are pyking their geese, and sending their feathers here awa' there awa. in prussian samland, when it snows: the angels shake their little bed; the flakes are the downfeathers, but many drop past, and get down to our earth^ as other attriljutes of holda have passed to mary, we may here also bring into comparison the maria ad nives, notre dame aux neiges, whose feast was held on aug. 6; on that day the lace-makers of brussels pray to her, that their work may keep as white as snow. in a folk-song of bretag

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o tablet of the serpent of brass in east. hiero: this is the serpent nehushtan which moses made when the children of israel were bitten by the serpents of fire in the wilderness. it is the serpent of the paths of the tree. and he set it on a pole, that is, twined round the middle pillar of the sephiroth. and the word used in the passage in numbers 21 for fiery serpents, is the same as the name of the angels of geburah, the same spelling, the same pointing, seraphim, around the middle pillar of the sephiroth, because that is the reconciler between the fires of geburah and severity, and the waters of chesed or mercy, and hence it is said in the new testament, that it is a type of christ, the reconciler. and the serpent is of brass, the metal of venus, whose sphere is called nogah or external

thee, replete with the numberless forms wherewith thou hast filled it from the beginning. from this spirit arise those most holy kings, who are around thy throne and who compose thy court. o universal father! one and alone! father alike of immortals and of mortals! thou hast especially created powers similar unto thy thought eternal and unto thy venerable essence. thou hast established them above the angels who announce thy will to the world. lastly, thou hast created us as a third order in our elemental empire. there our continual exercise is to praise and to adore thy desires. there we ceaselessly burn with eternal aspiration unto thee o father, o mother of mothers, o archetype eternal of maternity and of love, o son, the flower of all sons, form of all forms, soul, spirit, harmony and n

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

gical work. in this way you can maximise the energies of specific hours and choose a good time for anything from asking for a rise at work to sorting out the budget with a reluctant partner. enter the planetary and angelic hours in your diary or the appropriate section in your book of shadows. these calculations can also keep bored children amused on rainy afternoons- just tell them stories about the angels and planets first. children also adapt quickly to angelic time- after all, it's far more fun if you change sad old bedtime into st michael's hour and have a bedtime story by the light of his golden candle. to calculate the magical hours, you need to divide the time from sunrise to sunset and then the time between sunset and sunrise by 12. at the height of summer, the days are much longe

orah, and light a candle on seven consecutive hours throughout the day. you could carry it out on the baby's christening or naming day or on a quiet day with the teenager. alternatively, you could perform the ritual for seven days at the same hour of the day on the week before the christening or departure and make this a special family orientated hour. it does not matter in which order you invoke the angels. start at the hour that suits you best. if you keep to the same hour, you will work with the energies of each of the archangels over a seven-day period. alexandra, a friend who carried out the ritual for her son sam who was going away to college, began on the first hour at sunset on wednesday, which meant the ritual used the energies of the archangel michael. the final ritual on the tue

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ct, they will use every means that offers to obsess him (h) that in order to become an adept, therefore, and dominate them; the greatest possible firmness of will, parity of soul and intent, and power of self-control is necessary (q) that this is only to be attained by self-abnegation on every plane (i) that man, therefore, is the middle nature, and natural controller of the middle nature between the angels and the demons, and that therefore to each man is attached naturally both a guardian angel and a malevolent demon, and also certain spirits that may become familiars, so that with him it rests to give the victory unto the which he will (k) that, therefore, in order to control and make service of the lower and evil, the knowledge of the higher and good is requisite (ie, in the language o

at abraham means is, that this system of sacred magic is thoroughly reliable, because correct in all its attributions, and that this being so, there is no chance of the operator using names and formulas on wrong occasions and in error. but also it is notable that abraham the jew (probably again with the intent of confusing lamech as little as possible) speaks only of two great classes of spirits: the angels and the devils; the former to control, the latter to be controlled; and leaves entirely out of consideration, or rather does not describe that vast race of beings, the elemental spirits, who in themselves comprise an infinitude of various divisions of classification, some of these being good, some evil, and a great proportion neither the one nor the other. evidently, also, many of the r

heir production as given in this work is not the black magic of pact and devil-worship, against which our author so constantly inveighs, but instead a system of qabalistic magic, similar to that of the key of solomon the king and the clavicles of rabbi solomon, though differing in the circumstance of the prior invocation of the guardian angel once for all, while in the works i have just mentioned the angels are invoked in each evocation by means of the magical circle. such works as these, then, and their like, it could not be the intention of abraham to decry, seeing that like his system they are founded on the secret knowledge of the qabalah; as this in its turn was derived from that mighty scheme of ancient wisdom, the initiated magic of egypt. for to any deep student at the same time of

of many days to such a mystery, and to conserve himself during the time chaste, abstinent, and to abstract himself as much as he can from all manner of foreign and secular business; likewise he should observe fasting, as much as shall seem convenient to him, and let him daily, between sun rising and setting, being clothed in pure white linen, seven times call upon god, and make a deprecation unto the angels to be called and invocated, according to the rule which we have before taught. now the number of days of fasting and preparation is commonly one month, i.e, the time of a whole lunation. now, in the cabala, we generally prepare ourselves forty days before. now concerning the place, it must be chosen clean, pure, close, quiet, free from all manner of noise, and not subject to any strange

n oracle from a spirit, be chaste, pure, and sanctified; then a place being chosen pure, clean, and covered everywhere with clean and white linen, on the lord's-day in the new of the moon, let him enter into that place clothed with white linen; let him exorcise the place, bless it, and make a circle therein with a consecrated coal; let there be written in the outer part of the circle the names of the angels; in the inner part thereof write the mighty names of god; and let be placed within the circle, at the four parts of the world,9 the vessels for the perfumes. then being washed and fasting, let him enter the place, and pray towards the east this whole psalm: blessed are the undefiled in the way, etc. psalm cix. 7 probably an error for hexagram or hexangle. 8 probably an error for pentagr

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o first and the two second moons. you may walk in a garden for recreation; but you shall do no servile work; and amidst the flowers and the fruits you can also meditate upon the greatness36 of god. but during the two third and last moons ye shall quit every other matter only permitting your recreation to consist in things spiritual and divine. if ye wish to be participators in the conversation of the angels, and in the divine wisdom, lay aside all indiscreet37 things, and regard it as a pleasure when ye can spare two or three hours to study the holy scripture, because hencefrom ye shall derive incredible profit; and even the less ye are learned, so much the more will ye become wise and clever. it sufficeth that in the performance of your orisons ye shall not give way unto sleep, and that y

im to whom you would render a service; because it often happeneth, that in doing service unto another one worketh evil for oneself (10) in no way attempt to procure the operation of the holy angels unless you have extreme need thereof, seeing that these holy angels be so far above you that it is useless for you to wish to compare yourself unto them, you being nothing in comparison of them who are the angels of god (11) if the operations can be performed by the familiar spirits, it is not necessary to employ others therein (12) though it should be an easy matter for you to employ your familiars to annoy your neighbour, seek to abstain therefrom, unless it were to repress the insolence of such as might attempt aught against you personally. never keep the familiar spirits in idleness, and sho

e thus great harm might befal such person. now will we declare unto you what symbols be manifested by the good angels and what by the evil, and unto what prince each operation is subject, and lastly, what should be observed as regardeth each symbol. 96 by whom the symbols of the chapters of the third book be manifested.121 the symbols of the chapters of the third book, which be manifested only by the angels, or by the guardian angel, be these, namely: chapter i (to know all manner of things past and future, which be not however directly opposed to god, and to his most holy will) chapter iii (to cause any spirit to appear, and take any form, such as of man, animal, bird, etc) chapter iv (for divers visions) chapter v (how we may retain the familiar spirits bond or free in whatsoever form) c

stolen) chapter xvi (to find and take possession of all kinds of treasures, provided that they be not at all magically guarded) chapter xviii (to heal divers maladies) chapter xxv (to walk upon, and operate under, water) chapter xxviii (to have as much gold and silver as one may wish, both to provide for one s necessities, and to live in opulence) the following (symbols) be manifested in part by the angels and in part by the evil spirits, which is why we must not avail ourselves hereof without the permission of the holy angel. they are those of: chapter ii (to obtain information concerning, and to be enlightened upon, all sorts of propositions, and all doubtful sciences) chapter viii (to excite tempests) chapter xii (to know the secrets of any person) chapter xiii (to cause a dead body to

ke the experiments of rabbin moses succeed if he substituted the laws of another plane for their own. 14 so it would be if he applied it to the angelic working; but equally it would be an error which, though not so great, would still entail failure, to apply laws exclusively of the angelic plane to those experiments which would mainly depend on the physical rays of the planets; though undoubtedly the angels of a planet govern its rays. but the angels of mars do not govern the rays of jupiter, nor those of the latter the rays of mars. 15 the grimoires of black magic would usually come under this head. but, nevertheless, the extravagant words therein will be usually found to be corruptions and perversions of hebrew, chaldee, and egyptian titles of gods and angels. but it is undoubtedly evil

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ed to in the present work. in most instances the gnomons and borders are ruled off from the vacant part, but this rule is not adhered to in all cases in the original ms. the letters in the squares are roman capitals. in some few instances two letters are placed in the same small square, or subdivision, of the larger square. notes to chapter i (a) the symbols of this chapter are manifested only by the angels or by the guardian angel (b) oriens, paymon, ariton, and amaymon execute the operations hereof by means of their common ministers (c) the familiar spirits cannot well execute the operations of this chapter (d) take the symbol in your hand, place it under your hat or cap, upon the top of your head, and you will be secretly answered by the spirit who will execute that which you wish (this

ffect( d (1) a l l u p l e i r u l i g i l u r i e l p u l l a (2) m e l a m m e d e r i f o i s e l i s i l l i m a f i r e l o m m o l e r i f a m i l l i s i l e s i o f i r e d e m m a l e m (3) e k d i l u n k l i s a t u d i n a n a l i s a g a s i l a n a n i d u t a s i l k n u l i d k e of abramelin the mage 130 notes to chapter ii (a) the symbols of this chapter are manifested partly by the angels, and partly by the evil spirits (b) oriens, paymon, ariton, and amaymon execute the operations hereof by the means of their common ministers (c) the familiar spirits can to an extent execute the operations of this chapter (d) take the symbol in your hand, and name what information you require (in the second book, the remarks given concerning this chapter are evidently far more applicabl

erranean places( d) in the air( e) in rings and circlets( f) in wax( g) in fire( h) in the moon( i) in the water( j) in the hand (1) g i l i o n i n i l i o n i n (2) e t h a n i m t h a n i m (3) a p p a r e t p p a r e t (4) b e d s e r e l i e l e d i a p i s s e p p e d e l i e l e r e s d e b of abramelin the mage 134 notes to chapter iv (a) the symbols of this chapter are manifested only by the angels or by the guardian angel (b) oriens, paimon ariton, amaymon execute the operations hereof by means of their common ministers (c) the operations of this chapter can also be to an extent performed by the familiar spirits (d) no especial instructions are given regarding this chapter in the second book (e) no. b is a gnomonic square of b f squares taken from a square of g e squares. gilioni

r a c h i p e r h c a h c a r e (8) r i s i r i s e r i s e k e s i r e p i r i s i r (9) n e s e r e l e h e s e p e s e h e l e r e s e n (10) p e t h e n e t h e n (11) k a l e f a r a r e l a m a l e r a r a f e l a k (12) k o b h a o b h a (9) n e s e r e l e h e s e p e s e h e l e r e s e n of abramelin the mage 138 notes to chapter v (a) the symbols of this chapter are manifested only by the angels or by the guardian angel (b) oriens, paimon, ariton, and amaymon execute the operations hereof by means of their common ministers (c) the familiar spirits can hardly be said so much of themselves to be able to execute the operations of this chapter, as under the rule of the aforementioned spirits (d) each person can have four familiar spirits and no more: the first working from sunrise

d purge metals and separate gold and silver. t e l a a h e l a a h a a l e t a a l a (1) a l c a b r u s i l c a b r u s i s u r b a c l a s u r b a c l (2) c a d s a r a d s a r a s d a c a s d a (3) p e l a g i m e r e n o s i l e r e m o g a n e m a l a g o m a r e l i s o l e i e m i g a l e p (4) the sacred magick 141 notes to chapter vi (a) the symbols of this chapter are manifested only by the angels or by the guardian angel (b) astaroth and asmodeus execute together the operations of this chapter (c) the familiar spirits cannot well execute the operations of this chapter (d) no especial instructions are given regarding this chapter in the second book (e) no. b is a border of c a squares taken from a square of d g squares. telaah= perhaps from thvloh= a worm which pierces holes in t

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has been darkened in the diagram to better illustrate the four lesser angles. 8 in the center of each lesser angle is a cross of ten squares. this is the sephirotic cross. thou shall note that the lettering of the lesser angles is also black on a white background. it is from this cross that two vitally important divine names are derived. these two divine names serve to "call forth" and "command" the angels and spirits of the lesser angle. thou shall invoke these names when any lesser angle angel is invoked on a square within the lesser angles. the vertical line provideth on the sephirotic cross a name of six letters, reading from top to bottom. example: in the air lesser angle of the a tablet, thou shall find the name idoigo. thou shall invoke this angel to "call forth" sub-servient angel

rth" sub-servient angels of the lesser angle. these angels of the lesser angle are under no obligation to respond to invocation without the correct method of calling them, utilizing the calling angel. reading the cross bar from left to right comes the angelic name of 5 letters. this is the commanding angel. thou shall note that this angel must be invoked and utilized correctly to properly command the angels of the lesser sub-angle. example: in the lesser sub-quadrant of a on the a tablet, the commanding angel is ardza. be thou certain to read this name from left to right. let the adept always invoke thesenames in the prescribed manner for to do otherwise is to invoke evil forces. thou shall invoke the calling and commanding angels with the o. 9 kerubic square lesser angle square thou shal

ot concern a z.a.m. some squares have more than one letter. in these cases, either letter characterizes the square. the higher one is preferable. the lower is weaker. if two letters are side by side, the presumption is in favor of equality. where two letters are in one square, the best plan is to employ both. but one alone may be used with effect. of the difference between these mystical names of the angels of the tablets and the hebrew names such as kerub, auriel, and michael, etc. those hebrew angel names which have been taught unto the first order are rather general than particular, attending especially to an office or rule whereunto such an angel is allotted. as it is written: one angel does not undertake two messages. for these mighty angels do rather shew forth their power in the gov

especially to an office or rule whereunto such an angel is allotted. as it is written: one angel does not undertake two messages. for these mighty angels do rather shew forth their power in the governance of the 4 great sephirotic columns as aforesaid, viz: the double columns of severity and mercy when projected in a sphere, and this also is under the presidency of the sephiroth. but the names of the angels of the enochian tablets do rather express particular adaptations of forces shewing forth all variations and diverse combinations of those which are in the other case manifested in a more general way. it will be found written in the clavicula tabularum enochi: now we are to understand that there are four angel-overseers..each one of these angels is a mighty prince, a mighty angel of the

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lie upon dirt" the word "see-saw" is significant, almost a comment upon this chapter. to the master of the temple opposite rules apply. his unity seeks the many, and the many is again transmuted to the one. solve et coagula. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 134 [137] 64 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta xi-delta constancy i was discussing oysters with a crony: god sent to me the angels din and doni "an man of spunk" they urged "would hardly choose to breakfast every day chez laperouse "no" i replied "h would not do so, but think of his woe if laperouse were shut "i eat these oysters and i drink this wine solely to drown this misery of mine "yet the last height of consolation's cold: its pinnacle is-not to be consoled "and though i sleep with janefore and eleanor "and

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eir natures as here indicated. line 5. this is the first decan, and begins from cor leonis. col. cxxxviii. astrological symbols are derived from the primary forms cross, crescent, circle. col. clxxiii. for meaning and special function, see original.13 they should, but do not, accurately refer to the divisions of each sign into 7 planetary parts. pietro di abano14 gives: the names of the hours and the angels ruling them. the names of the hours. hours of the day. hours of the night. 1. yayn beron 2. ianor barol 3. nasnia thari 4. salla athir 5. sadedali mathon 6. thamur rana 7. ourer netos 8. tamic tafrac 9. neron sassur 10. iayon aglo 11. abai calerua 12. natalon salam tables of the angels of the hours according to the course of the days15 day:[the angels of the planets according to pseudo

anael' cassiel] note. the first hour of the day, of every country, and in every season whatsoever, is to be assigned to the sun-rising, when he first appeareth arising in the horizon. and the first hour of the night is to be the thirteenth hour, form the first hour of the day. the year16 the spring: taloi. the summer: casmaran. the autumn: adarael. the winter: farlas. table of correspondences 39 the angels of the spring: carcasa, core, amatiel, commissoros. the head of the sign of the spring: spugliguel. the name of the earth in the spring: amadai. the names of the sun and moon in the spring: the sun, abrayen; the moon, agusita. the angels of the summer: gargatel, tariel, gaviel. the head of the sign of the summer: tubiel. the name of the earth in the summer: festatui. the names of the su

the head of the sign of the spring: spugliguel. the name of the earth in the spring: amadai. the names of the sun and moon in the spring: the sun, abrayen; the moon, agusita. the angels of the summer: gargatel, tariel, gaviel. the head of the sign of the summer: tubiel. the name of the earth in the summer: festatui. the names of the sun and moon in the summer: the sun, athemay; the moon, armatas. the angels of the autumn: tarquam, gualbarel. the head of the sign of the autumn: torquaret. the name of the earth in the autumn: rabianira. the names of the sun and moon in the autumn: the sun, abragini; the moon, matasignias. the angels of the winter: amabael, ctarari. the head of the sign of the winter: altarib. the name of the earth in the winter: gerenia. the names of the su and moon in the w

mystic number of the sephirah corresponding. vide col. x. col. cxv. the entries in this column were originally given as initials only. col. cxxi. these are golden dawn titles. the a\a\ titles in the 1st order differ slightly; 0 =08 is probationer, 1 =108 is neophyte, 2 =98 zelator and the waiting grade between philosophus and adeptus minor is called dominus liminis. cols. cxxix cxxxii. these are the angels of the shem ha-mephorash or divided name of god, a full explanation of which would be beyond the scope of this footnote. on each row, the name on the left rules the card in question by day, the one on the right by night. cols. cxxxiii cxxxvi. words in square brackets are the book of thoth keywords for these cards where these differ from the titles. table v (the zodiac) col. cxxxix. the

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niture of the holy table, as shown in plate i, opposite.2 other appurtenances of this table will be described hereafter. ii other pantacles were obtained in a similar manner. here (plate ii) is the principal one,3 which, carved in wax, was placed upon the top of the table. on four others stood the feet of the table.4 note first the holy sevenfold table containing seven names of god which not even the angels are able to pronounce 2 8 1 these names are seen written without the heptagram within the heptagon. by reading these obliquely are obtained names of angels called (1) fili bonitatis or filiol lucis. e me ese iana akele azdobn stimcul (2) fili lucis. i ih ilr dmal heeoa beigia stimcul [these are given attributions to the metals of the planets in this order: sol, luna, venus, jupiter, mar

seal. so also there are seven great angels formed thus: take the corner letter s, then the diagonal next to it ab, then the next diagonal ath, then the fourth diagonal, where is i with 8 21 (which indicates el, and we have the name sabathiel continuing the process, we get zedekiel madimiel semeliel nogahel corabiel levanael these names will be found in the pentagram and about it. these angels are the angels of the seven circles of heaven.5 these are but a few of the mysteries of this great seal sigillvm dei meth the symbolic representation of the universe 6 iii the shew-stone, a crystal which dee alleged to have been brought to him by angels, was then placed upon this table, and the principal result of the ceremonial skrying of sir edward kelly is the obtaining of the following diagrams, p

m reeds, a cryptographer working for at&t labs (see reeds article john dee and the magic tables in the book of soyga; unfortunately, since reeds left at&t this is no longer online. note that these tables predate the dee-kelly workings, and dee does not seem to have known what they were and what to do with them: he repeatedly asked about them and received vague or evasive answers from kelly and/or the angels. the heptarchic system of planetary magick is covered by turner (1983) and james (1984, and a golden-dawn-ized version is presented by zalewski (1990. it is set out in two ms digests by dee, de heptarchia mystica in sloane 3191, and compendium heptarchia mystica (add. ms 36,674. this material is drawn from the skrying sessions recorded in sloane ms 3188, principally tertius and quartus

t by the book of enoch was the tablets of enoch which are definitely identical with the tablets composing the great table (table of watchtowers, or liber logaeth, though the latter seems to be the favoured interpretation. logaeth survives in bl sloane ms 3189, liber mysteriorum sextus et sanctus, in edward kelly s handwriting. this copy has the title the book of enoch, revealed to dr. john dee by the angels, interpolated by elias ashmole. to the best of my knowledge nobody has deciphered logaeth to date. thomas head (in regardie (ed, 1984) claimed to have been able to solve some of the tables and tentatively translate some of the material in the angelic language contained in the book; he did not give further details and as far as i am aware has not published his findings. some researchers

y &c &c &c, london, 1655. modernised and corrected edition of turner s translation at http//www.geocities.com/nu_isis/heptameron.pdf agrippa von nettesheim, heinrich cornelius (1992: three books of occult philosophy. st. paul, mn: llewellyn publications. english translation of de occulta philosophia liber tres, cologne: 1533. crowley, aleister: liber xxx rum vel s culi sub figur cdxviii, being of the angels of the thirty thyrs the vision and the voice (also cited as the vision and the voice or liber 418. in equinox vol. i no. 5 (1911, special supplement; in crowley (ed. regardie, gems from the equinox (st. paul, mn: llewellyn, 1974; scottsdale, az: new falcon, 1988; with crowley s commentary in equinox vol. iv no. 2 (1998. dee, john: mysteriorum liber primus mysteriorum liber secundus. mys

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and was used by the master himself in his attainment. see p. 265 of this book "liber cd. liber tau vel kabbalae truium literarum sub figura cd" a graphic interpretation of the tarot on the plane of initiation. equinox vii, p. 75 "liber ccccxii. a vel armorum" an instruction for the preparation of the elemental instruments. equinox iv, p. 15 "liber ccccxviii. liber xxx aerum vel saeculi" being of the angels of the thirty aethyrs, the vision and the voice. besides being the classical account of the thirty aethyrs and a model of all visions, the cries of the angels should be regarded as accurate, and the doctrine of the function of the great white brotherhood understood as the foundation of the aspiration of the adept. the account of the master of the temple should in particular be taken as

n thy flesh, and thy bones shall whiten in the sun. 5. then shall the winds gather themselves together and bear thee up as it were a little heap of dust in a sheet that hath four corners, and they shall give it unto the guardian<equinox i, 6 has "guardians> of the abyss. 6. and because there is no life therein, the guardian<equinox i, 6 has "guardians> of the abyss shall bid the angels of the winds pass by. and the angels thereof shall be no more<equinox i, 6 is different "and the angels shall lay thy dust in the city of the pyramids, and the name thereof shall be no more" it would appear that the deletion is a typo in m t& p> 7. now therefore that thou mayest achieve this ritual of the holy graal, do thou divest thyself of all thy goods. 8

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n almost any other. the first thing we think of when someone says "magnet" is picking up iron filings as a child. age before honesty! let father poulain s.j. speak first! he is obliged to admit the phenomenon, because the church has done so. but precisely similar accounts of the levitation of pagans and heretics must be according to him, lies, or works of the devil. as for the method "god employs the angels to raise the saint, so as to avoid the necessity of intervening himself" lazy old parishioner! now for a douche of common sense. hatha-yoga is quite clear and simple, even logical, about it. the method is plain pranayama. didn't i tell magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 175 you onetime of the four stages of success? 1. perspiration- of a very special kind. 2. su

seven orders of angels, also jinn; but the classes are by no means identical. this, even though certain archangels, notably gabriel, appear in both systems. but then gabriel is a definite individual, a person- and this fact is the key to your puzzle. for, as i have explained in a previous letter, gods are people: macrocosms, not mere collocations of the elements, planets and signs as are most of the angels, intelligences and spirits. it is interesting to note that gabriel in particular seems to be more than one of these; he enjoys the divine privilege of being himself. between you and me and the pylon, i suspect that gabriel who gave the q'uran to mohammed was in reality a "master" or messenger of some such person, more or less as aiwass describes himself as..the minister of hoor-paarmagi

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ephira is jxn, netzach, or firmness and victory, corresponding to the divine name twabx hwhy, ihvh tzabaoth, the lord of armies, and the angelic names \yhla, elohim, gods, and \ycycrt, tarshishim, the brilliant ones (daniel x, 6. the number 8. thence proceeded the feminine passive potency dwh, hod, splendour, answering to the divine name twabx \yhla, elohim tzabaoth, the gods of armies, and among the angels to \yhla ynb, beni elohim, the sons of the gods (genesis vi, 4. the number 9. these two produced dwsy, yesod, the foundation or basis, represented by yj la, the mighty living one, and ydc, shaddai: and among the angels by \yca, aishim, the flames (psalms civ, 4, yielding the third trinity of the sephiroth. the number 10. from this ninth sephira came the tenth and last, thus completing t

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tzch, netzach, or firmness and victory, corresponding to he divine name jehovah tzabaoth, ihvh tzbavth, the lord of armies, and the angelic names alhim, elohim, gods, and thrshishim, tharshishim, the brilliant ones (dan. x. 6)5. the number 8. thence proceeded the feminine passive potency hvd, hod, splendour, answering to the divine name alhim tzbavth, elohim tzabaoth, the god of armies, and among the angels to bni alhim, beni elohim, the sons of the gods (gen. vi. 4. the number 9. these two produced isvd, yesod, the foundation or basis, represented by al chi, el chai, the mighty living one, and shdi, shaddai; and among the angels by ashim, aishim, the flames (ps. civ. 5, yielding the third trinity of the sephiroth. 79 the number 10. from this ninth sephira came the tenth and last, thus com

, whose joints they dislocate. how well this describes such people as the buddha and the author of the bhagavadgita! what a ring fence is romanism against not merely truth but information! we then examine father poulain on the scientific side. how does levitation of the saints take place "the simplest explanation, and that most in conformity with the order of providence, consists in saying: since the angels have power to move corporeal bodies, god makes use of their ministry, so as to avoid intervening himself without necessity" 146 (this is not the translator's blundering, though perhaps much more may be hoped from a lady who says that "socrates remained for twenty-four hours lost in thought in the camp the potidaea was besieging" it was potidaea's way of doing her back hair that made her

hobble-skirted atalanta. he must not study mystic facts; all he is allowed to do is to arrange, invent, delete as may suit dogma. he is obliged to accept the nymphomaniac nun gertrude, and treat her blasphemous maunderings with reverence, or ascribe some peculiarly foul outburst to an "early temptation" he must accept every orthodox levitation, and explain it by weight-lifting competitions among the angels; he must deny every heterodox levitation, or explain it by demonic power. and as one's bitterest enemies are always one's nearest relations, so his bitterest polemics are against the quietists who are absolutely indistinguishable from the orthodox, and in favour at rome until the intrigues of the beast of blood of the society of jesus destroyed molinos. father poulain even repeats the c

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original are identified with the initials of the source: ac note= crowley note. weh note= bill heidrick note, etc. descriptions of illustrations are not so identified, but are simply in curly brackets (addresses and invitations below are not current but copied from the original text of the early part of the 20th century* special supplement liber xxx aerum vel saecvli svb figvra ccccxviii being of the angels of the 30 aethyrs the vision and the voice a. a. publication in class a b. d.d.s. 7= 4 praemonstrator o.s.v. 6= 5 imperator n.s.f. 5= 6 cancellarius the vision and the voice the cry of the thirtieth or inmost aire or aethyr, which is called tex i am in a vast crystal cube in the form of the great god harpocrates. this cube is surrounded by a sphere. about me are four archangels in black

he north is a book on whose back and front are a.m.b.z. in enochian characters. within it is written: i am, the surrounding of the four. lift up your heads, o houses of eternity: for my father goeth forth to judge the world. one light, let it become a thousand, and one sword ten thousand, that no man hide him from my father's eye in the day of judgment of my god. let the gods hide themselves: let the angels be troubled and flee away: for the eye of my father is open, and the book of the aeons is fallen. arise! arise! arise! let the light of the sight of time be extinguished: let the darkness cover all things: for my father goeth forth to seek a spouse to replace her who is fallen and defiled. seal the book with the seals of the stars concealed: for 3 the rivers have rushed together and the

am but the warden of the 28th aethyr. now my name thou shalt obtain in this wise. of the three angels of the aethyr, thou shalt write the names from right to left and from left to right and from right to left, and these are the holy letters: the first 1, the fifth 2, the sixth 3, the eleventh 4, the seventh 5, the twelfth 6, the seventeenth 7. thus hast thou my name who am above these three, but the angels of the 30th aethyr are indeed four, and they have none above them; wherefore dispersion and disorder. now cometh from every side at once a voice, terribly great, crying: close the veil; the great blasphemy hath been uttered; the face of my mother is scarred by the nails of the devil. shut the book, destroy the breaker of the seal! 14 and i answered: had he not been destroyed he had not

he worlds. then the trumpets blow, and the wind rises and whistles terribly. it is a blue wind with silver specks; and it blows through the whole aethyr. but through it one perceives the lion, which has become as a raging flame. and he roareth in an unknown tongue. but this is the interpretation thereof: let the stars be burnt up in the fire of my nostrils! let all the gods and the archangels and the angels and the spirits that are on the earth, and above the earth, and below the earth, that are in all the heavens and in all the hells, let them be as motes dancing in the beam of mine eye! i am he that swalloweth up death and victory. i have slain the crown d goat, and drunk up the great sea. like the ash of dried leaves the worlds are blown before me. thou hast passed by me, and thou hast

the whole thing at once. and now there is a mighty concourse of angels rushing toward me from every side, and they melt upon the surface of the egg in which i am standing in the form of the god kneph, so that the surface of the egg is all one dazzling blaze of liquid light. now i move up against the tablet- i cannot tell you with what rapture. and all the names of god, that are not known even to the angels, clothe me about. all the seven senses are transmuted into one sense, and that sense is dissolved in itself (here occurs samadhi) 33. let me speak, o god; let me declare it. all. it is useless; my heart faints, my breath stops. there is no link between me and p. i withdraw myself. i see the table again (he was behind the table for a very long time. o.v) and all the table burns with into

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self for his previous losses. illustration: this is another by aos, formed this time in an abstract of female primary and secondary sexual attributes in contrast to the male elements in the first. there is a large face suggested in the drawing, to the right and center. 161 the organ in king's chapel, cambridge then silence,and the veil of light is raised and darkness seen behind. now softly sound the angels' herald-trumpets, calling round thunders and mighty winds and powers amazed. now laden with the spirit of man's hand there bursts an awful clarion-shout and brings strange whispering and rushing of strange wings battling, and furtive secrets of command. down from the height and up from the abyss are swept dominion, power, angel, throne, for unimaginable ends, and hiss, and fall. the her

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which abramelin imposed on his pupil abraham. visions which p. experienced at this time: the first we quote is little better than an obsession, and is as follows: in bed, i invoked the fire angels and spirits on the tablet, with names, etc, and the 6th key.47 i then (as harpocrates) entered my crystal. an angel, meeting me, told me among other things, that they (of the tablets) were "at war with the angels of the 30 aethyrs, to prevent the squaring of "the circle" i went with him unto the abodes of fire, but must have fallen asleep, or nearly so. anyhow, i regained consciousness in a very singular state half consciousness being there, and half here. i recovered and banished the spirits, but was burning all over, and tossed restlessly about__very sleepy, but consumed of fire! only repeated

nd i saw as it were a lamb slain in the glamour of those eyes. thus was i made pure: for there, what impunity could live? i was told that not many had been so far back: none further: those who "could" go farther would not, since that would have reabsorbed them into the beginning, and that must not be to him who hath sworn to uplift the standard of sacrifice and sorrow, which is strength (i forgot the angels in the planetary whirl. they regarded me with curiosity: and were totally unable to comprehend my explanation that i was a "man, returning in time to behold the "beginning of things" now was i able to stand in my sephiroth: and the crown of twelve stars "was upon my head! i then went into the centre of the earth (i suppose) and "stood upon the" 250 top of an high mountain. the many drag

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e appetite for emotion, knowledge, and beauty" i leap to the end, i cut the story short. no one will be surprised that a thought final and supreme jets from the brain of the dreamer "i am become god" but a savage and burning cry darts from his breast with such an energy, such a power of production, that if the will and the belief of a drunken man possessed effective power this cry would overthrow the angels scattered in the quarters of the heaven "i am a god" but soon this hurricane of pride transforms itself into a weather of calm, silent, reposeful beatitude, and the universality of beings presents itself tinted and illumined by a flaming dawn. if by chance a vague memory slips into the soul of this deplorable thrice-happy one "might there not be another god_ believe that he will stand u

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relevant interruption had found no echo; and he went on with his narrative, moving his arms to the rhythm of his voice, and with his fingers kneading unseen shapes in the air. ii "the boy comes in later. i want you to realize how beautiful was the little girl. like a thick thread of scarlet were her lips, comely was her countenance, most pleasing to the sight was her earthly body, a temptation to the angels her soul. her eyes expressed the infinite sweetness, the love merciful; the pure innocence of the eternal equi-balanced. they were like crystalline drops of dew falling on a perfect rock of carrara marble; eyes that looked upon you and created you holy; eyes clearer than the clearest rivulet, more beautiful than the most royal amethyst; eyes that illuminated the darkest corner of hell;

nights, i could fancy the uttermost deep engulfed us for ever- for ever in silence to keep the tale of our wooing: till sweetly the murderous hours had lulled us to rest; and the magical poison of flowers had stolen our brains, and our eyelids were heavy with sleep. ah love! they are banished, yet not so the strength of the spell which holds both our beings in bondage, a bondage so fell that even the angels above cannot alter its power; it lives in the memory yet of one passionate hour, when from the dark bosom of hell sprang a fair felon flower. ethel archer. 326 the big stick counterparts. vol. xvi of the brotherhood of the new life. an epitome of the work and teaching of thomas lake harris. by respiro. 2"s. 6"d. net. a new edition. c. w. pearce and co, 139, west regent street, glasgow

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eserving decree of the frightened divinities. his errors of tactics were caused by the fact that he hoped to test the apple without the help of woman. often enough, lionel tabard unwittingly repelled the advances of many a feminine would-be initiator. vi1 the lover but he was not prompted by the wisdom of a master; merely by cowardice and self-consciousness. he could not command love and desires; the angels of love and desires therefore digged a deep trap before his feet. tabard was sitting in the verandah. the men had gone to bed, the women also. he lighted his pipe, the use of which a life in open air had permitted his lungs to tolerate. he was thinking, pondering, meditating upon the most important matter in life, the personal one. he looked at his hands, white, well shaped, well kept

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u shalt be cast out upon the midden, and the birds of the air shall feast upon thy flesh, and thy bones shall whiten in the sun. 5. then shall the winds gather themselves together, and bear thee up as it were a little heap of dust in a sheet that hath four corners, and they shall give it unto the guardians of the abyss. 6. and because there is no life therein, the guardians of the abyss shall bid the angels of the winds pass by. and the angels shall lay thy dust in the city of the pyramids, and the name thereof shall be no more. 25 7. now therefore that thou mayest achieve this ritual of the holy graal, do thou divest thyself of all thy goods. 8. thou hast wealth; give it unto them that have need thereof, yet no desire toward it. 9. thou hast health; slay thyself in the fervour of thine ab

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oked for. he is the great lord of love and of compassion, just as his predecessor, the buddha, was the lord of wisdom. through him flows the energy of the second aspect, reaching him direct from the heart centre of the planetary logos via the heart of sanat kumara. he works by means of a meditation centred within the heart. he is the world teacher, the master of the masters, and the instructor of the angels, and to him is committed the guidance of the spiritual destinies of men, and the development of the realisation within each human being that he is a child of god and a son of the most high. just as the manu is occupied with the providing of the type and forms through which consciousness can evolve and gather experience, thus making existence in its deepest sense possible, so the world t

, or buddhi. those who need but one more incarnation to become perfect buddhas. as used in these letters the bodhisattva is the name of the office which is at present occupied by the lord maitreya, who is known in the occident as the christ. this office might be translated as that of world teacher. the bodhisattva is the head of all the religions of the world, and the master of the masters and of the angels. buddha (the. the name given to gautama. born in india about b.c. 621 he became a full buddha in b.c. 592. the buddha is one who is the "enlightened" and has attained the highest degree of knowledge possible for man in this solar system. buddhi. the universal soul or mind. it is the spiritual soul in man (the sixth principle) and therefore the vehicle of atma, the spirit, which is the s

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-588. the imperfect gods are referred to in s. d, i, 214, 449; ii, 223; iii, 209. 191 19: solar angels are therefore entities of a high spiritual order with a refined consciousness that corresponds to the material substance in which they are clothed. in order to connect this with what i have said already, you may consider the solar angels as collectively forming the lord brahma of the lotus isle. the angels are called by various names as planetary spirits, asuras, etc, but in order to get a proper idea of their nature, you may consider them as standing in the same relation to the spiritually regenerated and released world brahmins or the nirmanakayas as these stand to the ordinary humanity. the angels were such brahmins in previous mahamanvantaras, who spent those enormous periods in suffe

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question might here be asked, is it not true that words of power and the use of incense form part of the ceremonies of initiation and therefore are used by initiates and aspirants. certainly, but not in the sense understood here, or for the purpose of developing psychic powers. the masters and their disciples use words of power in order to deal with the non-human existences, to invoke the aid of the angels, and to manipulate the building forces of nature, and they employ herbs and incenses in order to purify conditions, eliminate undesirable entities and so make it possible for those higher upon the ladder of evolution to make their presence felt. this is, however, a very different thing to their use in order to become psychic- 208- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust it is i

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as in very beautiful terms. he says "a film falls from the eyes and the world appears in a new light. things are no longer ordinary. there comes the certainty that this is the real world whose true character human blindness has until now concealed. not where the wheeling systems darken and our benumbed conceiving soars; the drift of pinions, would we harken, beats at our own clay-shuttered doors. the angels keep their ancient places; turn but a stone and start a wing 'tis ye 'tis your estrang d faces that miss the many-splendoured thing "the experience is at first tantalizing, alluring. there is a rumor of a new world and the spirit is eager for the voyage upon strange seas. the familiar world must be left behind. the great adventure of religion begins "there must somewhere be a point of c

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

s of the vegetable kingdom it might be stated that. ray vi. determines the type, family, appearance, strength, size and nature of the trees upon our planet. ray ii .i s the beneficent influence, expressing itself through the cereals and flowers. ray iv. is the life quality, expressing itself through the grasses and the smaller forms of vegetable life, those which provide the "green carpet whereon the angels dance- 151- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust an important symbolic happening has been consummated at the close of this piscean age, which is the period of the sixth ray influence. this has been the world-wide devastation of the forests of the world. everywhere they have been sacrificed to the needs of man. thus have been brought un

lost pleiade, and there are many such stories. again, in the council chamber of the most high, there has not always been peace and understanding, but at times, war and disruption; this is made abundantly clear by several of the stories in the old testament. symbolically speaking, some of the sons of god fell from their high estate, led, at one time, by "lucifer, son of the morning. this "fall of the angels" was a tremendous event in the history of our planet, but was nevertheless only a passing and interesting phenomenon in the history of the solar system, and a trifling incident in the affairs of the seven constellations, of which our solar system is but one. pause and consider this statement for a moment, and so readjust your sense of values. the standard of happenings varies in importa

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uniqueness has often troubled thinking people. can so infinitesimal an atom in space as our planet be indeed of such interest to god that he permitted this great experiment to be tried here? is the mystery of man and the significance of our purpose of such importance that nowhere else can it be paralleled? can anything really happen on this "ball of dust" of such vital import that it can warrant the angels in singing "glory to god in the highest, and on earth peace, good will towards men? we like to think that it can be so. we dread the moment when our futility appears as we look upon the stars of heaven, realising that there are thousands of millions of universes and tens of thousands of millions of constellations! we are such specks in a great immensity. perhaps we are of more importanc

what happens in and through that body which counts. perhaps what happens in and through the body, which we call a planet, indwelt likewise by god, is of vital moment in the plans of god himself. this would give meaning to life; it is only when we apprehend meaning and appreciate it that we can understand the significance of the word spoken at the birth of christ. let us paraphrase the message of the angels. it came from a group of beings and was spoken to a group of beings. it is therefore a world message, a message which still awaits response. when the consciousness which is christ's has been awakened in all men, then we shall have peace on earth and goodwill among men. when this has taken place, then will god be glorified. the expression of our divinity will bring to an end the hatred r

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" at the first great episode, god the father, of whom the initiator is the symbol, did not make his presence known. the angels spoke the word, embodying christ's mission on his behalf. at the baptism he accorded recognition, but that was all. at this initiation, god commanded humanity to pay attention to this particular crisis in the life of christ and to listen to his words. the power and the right to speak is now conferred upon the christ, and it is interesting to note that the major part of the teaching (as

men and women who can comprehend the situation, face what must be done, and then give their lives to expressing for the world the qualities of the citizens of the kingdom of souls: love, wisdom, silence, non-separativeness and freedom from hatreds and partisan, creedal beliefs. when such men can be gathered together in large numbers (and they are gathering rapidly) we shall have the fulfilment of the angels' song at bethlehem "on earth peace, good will toward men- 175- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust endnotes foreword 1: the paganism in our christianity, by arthur weigall, p. 16. chapter 1 1: quoted by w. kingsland in religion in the light of theosophy.uscopyright 1998 lucis trust esoteric psychology- volume ii treatise on the seven rays volume ii by alice a. bailey co

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of war, he stood midway, looking two ways. the clash of battle, the many weapons he had learned to use, the longing not to fight, the thrill of finding those he fought were but brothers and himself, the anguish of defeat, the paean of his victory, these held him down. the blessed one paused and questioned 'whence come the victory and whence defeat? am i not the blessed one himself? i will invoke the angels to my aid' the trumpet sound went forth 'rise up and fight, and reconcile the armies of the lord. there is no battle. force the conflict to subside; send for the invocation for the peace of all; form out of two, one army of the lord; let victory crown the efforts of the blessed one by harmonising all. peace lies behind the warring energies- 22- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: e

oday; with the weight of the power on the side of separation, as it is the line of least resistance, and of critical differentiations. a balancing of the two will gradually take place, with the weight of world idealism gradually shifting into the realm of soul unification, until eventually (but not for quite a while) the emphasis of world thought will be definitely and permanently on "the side of the angels" note the occult truth of that familiar phrase. therefore we can look for the new laws, governing soul life, which is group life, to begin to function and make their presence felt. this will at first increase the world difficulty; hence the need to make the meaning of these laws clear, their objectives simple and their potencies understandable. 1. the law of sacrifice the section upon w

fe in other kingdoms- 58- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust all this involves the death and sacrifice of a son of god, a solar angel, for, from the angle of deity, descent into matter, manifestation through form, the taking of a body, extension of consciousness through the process of incarnation, are all occultly considered to be death. but the angels "chose to die, and in dying, lived" through their sacrifice, matter is lifted up into heaven. it is this theme which fills the pages of the secret doctrine, and which is discussed in greater elaboration in a treatise on cosmic fire. the sacrifice of the angels, the death of the sons of god, the immolation of the mystic christ, the crucifixion in time and space of all living entities, ca

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that was, functioning as one and controlling all the seven, no longer are. the seven who responded to the three, responding to the one, no longer hear the triple call which determined all that was. only the two remain to show the world the beauty of the living god, the wonder of the will-to-good, the love which animates the whole. these two are one, and thus the work, completed, stands. and then the angels sing" iii. planetary and human centres there is a factor bearing upon the etheric body to which very little reference has ever been made, the reason being that it would have been utterly useless information. let me embody it in a tabulated statement, beginning with a few points earlier imparted but which should here be repeated for clarity and placed in proper sequence: 1. the planetary

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of the fourth creative hierarchy in a sense not to be understood by anyone below the stage of the fourth initiation, but it is an interesting fact to remember for it is in the connection between the sixth- 130- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust and seventh rays that that potent "desire for incarnation" was aroused which resulted in the fall of the angels in primordial times. this sixth ray influence coming from three angles orthodox, esoteric and hierarchical and hence involving both neptune and mars predisposes the race and individual man as well to become one-pointed disciples in sagittarius. this latter constellation is ruled by mars, bringing the man into control or closer touch with the lunar lords, the sixth creative hierarchy. st

ransmits. this trinity in manifestation knows itself to be the transforming agent and through the voice of the many chants the words "glory to god in the highest, on earth peace, goodwill to men" glory, peace and the will-to-good being the effects of the transmitted life of the transcendent one. finally, at the end of the age, it knows itself as the transfigured one and realises that the paean of the angels "glory to god in the highest" is the enunciation of its ultimate perfection and triumph. can more be said anent this subject? the major rays of aspect embody the entire story; the minor rays of attribute contribute the detail in process and enterprise. they are conditioned by the three major rays. it is not, therefore, my intention to take up the analysis of the four remaining triangles

eric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust surface radiation or emanation. health aura. movement produced. atomic rotation. distributive effect. human etheric radiation (felt by environment) the seven stars of the great bear references in the secret doctrine and a treatise on cosmic fire 1 "the seven rishis are the regents of the seven stars of the great bear, and, therefore, of the same nature as the angels of the planets or the seven great planetary spirits (s.d. ii. 332. note) 2 "it is the seven rishis who mark the time and the duration of events in our septenary life cycle. they are as mysterious as their supposed wives, the pleiades (s.d. ii. 579) 3 "the first `seven stars' are not planetary. they are the leading stars of seven constellations which turn around with the great bear (s.d

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ns right. people continued to starve; many continued to be underpaid in all parts of the world; child labor was not wiped out in any country though great strides were made in the endeavour so to do; the over-population of the world steadily increased the difficulties. all conditions that might incite to war were present everywhere even while the cry was going up "let there be peace on earth" when the angels sang at bethlehem they said "glory to god in the highest" the final consummation and goal. then "peace on earth" where humanity as a whole is concerned and, as the first and absolutely necessary step "goodwill towards men" goodwill has to come first if there is ever to come peace and this has been forgotten. people have attempted to initiate a period of peace before there has been any d

remain as clear and as perfect for study, as would some exquisite masterpiece in oils hung upon the wall of a private art gallery. the picture cannot be taken away, but the viewer may study and describe, and the artist might copy, although the color effects are utterly beyond any possibility of complete reproduction in dense physical matter. mrs. bailey has also been shown seven great figures of the angels or devas of the seven globes of the earth chain, which later may be incorporated in the second edition. extracts from the ancient manuscripts, and the reading of certain stanzas and data in the hierarchical archives have been also shown to mrs. bailey and roughly translated by her and corrected by the tibetan. a knowledge of the ancient language is not necessary in this work, as the mos

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spirational developments and are available as a result of ashramic training and of hierarchical initiation. i would remind you that in all that i am giving you in this series of instructions i am dealing with hierarchical initiations and not with those advanced stages of unfoldment which are referred to when the subject of the christ arises or of those times when he is spoken of as the teacher of the angels. let us keep our thinking and its resultant aspiration in the realm of human possibilities. i would have you note the distinction that can be made between the aspiration which precedes thought and which presupposes an emotional orientation to light and revelation, and that which is the consequence of thought and which is the seed of an oriented perception of that which lies permanently

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en unto themselves material forms, and had the positive spiritual element not attached itself to the negative material aspect, the present world conflict would not be taking place. but the divine plan of evolution was based upon the production of this relationship between spiritually conscious man and the form aspect, and thus the great law of duality came into action, bringing about the "fall of the angels" as they descended from their sinless and free state of existence in order to develop full divine awareness upon earth, through the medium of material incarnation and the use of the principle of mind. this was the divine plan, emanating from the mind of god and swept into activity and progressive unfoldment by an act of his will. at its inception, there took place the original "war in t

d divine entity with whom the christ came into touch and whose influence played through him at the time that he earned the right to be called the "prince of peace" as i have elsewhere told you in my earlier writings, the christ embodied in himself the cosmic principle of love, the expression of which in manifestation will work out as "glory to god, peace on earth and goodwill towards men" to this the angels testified at his birth. when he expressed this principle of love in his life and world service, he definitely linked up our planet and humanity (in particular) with the source of the light, love and life to which we refer in this second phrase. this was the world salvation which he brought a fact which is as yet little realised and which will not be widely recognised until this powerful

ghtform of religious dogma, to permeate the churches with the idea of the coming, and bring to a sorrowing world the vision of the great helper, the christ. he works with the rose devas and with the blue devas on astral levels, with the wise help of the great guardian angel of that plane, called (in hindu terminology) the lord varuna. the activity of the astral plane is being much intensified and the angels of devotion, in whom the aspect of divine love is pre-eminent, work with the astral bodies of all those who are ready to strengthen and redirect their spiritual aspiration and desire. they are the angels who guard the sanctuaries of all the churches, cathedrals, temples and mosques of the world. they are now increasing the momentum of their vibration for the raising of the consciousness

ed as acting as the general manager for the carrying out of the plans of the executive council of the christ. it might be of interest here to point out that when he comes whom angels and men await, and whose work it is to inaugurate the new age and so complete the work he began in palestine two thousand years ago, he will bring with him some of the great angels, as well as certain of the masters. the angels have ever been active in biblical history, and will again enter into the lives of human beings with more power than has lately been the case. the call has gone out for them again to approach humanity, and with their heightened vibration and superior knowledge unite their forces with those of the christ and his disciples for the helping of the race. they have, for instance, much to commu

nce no willingness to sacrifice time or money, block the growth- 359- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust of the movement. it is the task of the hierarchy to promote goodwill as the first step in their plans, and it is that quality which is today closest to the heart of christ "goodwill to men" or rather among men, was the primary stage in the threefold promise made by the angels at his birth: a. goodwill, leading to right human relations, leading to b. peace on earth, leading to c. glory to god. analysed, these words simply mean that goodwill will result in right human relations in that centre which we call humanity; this will produce the possibility of that peace which characterises the hierarchy appearing on earth, and leading to the glory of god, which anima

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loose from the aura of the deva evolution, and the major task of the hierarchy (as far as basic essentials are concerned) is to "provide sanctuary" to those who have liberated themselves from the ocean of deva energies in which their vehicles must perforce move and live and have their being, but with which they have otherwise no point of contact, once liberated by their own effort and will "from the angels" let us now study rule ten. rule x. the rules for work within the veils of maya are known and have been used. let the group widen all the rents within those veils and thus let in the light. let the army of the voice be no more heard, and let the brothers onward move within the sound. then let them know the meaning of the o.m. and let them hear that o.m. as it is sounded forth by him who

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

had also an incommunicable name, which was ihvh reversed; for demon est deus inversus. the whole universe only became complete with the creation of man, called the microcosm, the earthly adam; a copy of "the archetypal man" after another manner; he has principles and faculties and forms comparable to all the sephiroth and worlds, although his material body dwells on the assiatic plane. from god, the angels and the world, let us pass to consider more fully what the kabalah teaches about man, the human soul or ego. it has already been explained that the doctrine of emanation postulates successive stages of the manifestation of the supreme spirit, which may be regarded as existing on separate planes. now the ten sephiroth condense their energy into a formulated four-parted group of three spi

xperience, and then along an ascending scale of re-development until human perfection is attained, and ultimate reunion with the divine is the result of the purified soul having completed its pilgrimage. before we consider man in his present state we must note the views of the kabalah upon man in his primal state. man was the final word of creation, he was a r sum of all forms, and so transcended the angels in his faculties. the first man had no fleshy body, no material envelope: adam and eve were clothed only in ethereal forms, and were not subject to appetites or passions, they dwelled in light in the gn oidn, garden of aidin, of eden, of pleasant peace (zohar ii. 229b. the man and the woman before their descent to this world were as one--androgynous; at incarnation they were separated i

APOCALYPSE MOSES

m 'nay, my son seth, but i have (much) sickness and trouble' seth saith to him 'and how hath this come upon thee' chapter 7. 1 and adam said to him 'when god made us, me and your mother, through whom also i die, he gave us power to eat of every tree which is in paradise, but, concerning that one only, he charged us not to eat of it, and through this one we are to die. 2 and the hour drew nigh for the angels who were guarding your mother to go up and worship the lord, and i was far from her, and the enemy knew that she was alone and gave to her, and she ate of the tree of which she had been told not to eat. 3 then she gave also to me to eat. chapter 8. 1 'and god was wroth with us, and the lord came into paradise and called me in a terrible voice and said "adam, where art thou? and why hide

thou eat of adam's tares and not of paradise? rise up and we will cause him to be cast out of paradise, even as we were cast out through him" 4 the serpent saith to him "i fear lest the lord be wroth with me" 5 the devil saith to him "fear not, only be my vessel and i will speak through thy mouth words to deceive him" chapter 17. 1 and instantly he hung himself from the wall of paradise, and when the angels ascended to worship god, then satan appeared in the form of an angel and sang hymns like the angels. 2 and i bent over the wall and saw him, like an angel. but he saith to me "art thou eve" and i said to him "i am" 3 'what art thou doing in paradise" and i said to him "god set us to guard and to eat of it" 4 the devil answered through the mouth of the serpent 'ye do well but ye do not e

ar not, for as soon as thou hast eaten thou shalt know good and evil" 5 and speedily i persuaded him, and he ate and straightway his eyes were opened and he too knew his nakedness. 6 and to me he saith "o wicked woman! what have i done to thee that thou hast deprived me of the glory of god" chapter 22. 1 and in that same hour, we heard the archangel michael blowing with his trumpet and calling to the angels and saying:2 thus saith the lord, come with me to paradise and hear the judgment with which i shall judge adam" 3 and when god appeared in paradise, mounted on the chariot of his cherubim with the angels proceeding before him and singing hymns of praises, all the plants of paradise, both of your father's lot and mine, broke out into flowers. 4 and the throne of god was fixed where the t

and thy belly shalt thou walk and be robbed of hands and feet. 3 there shall not be left thee ear nor wing, nor one limb of all that with which thou didst ensnare them in thy malice and causedst them to be cast out of paradise; 4 and i will put enmity between thee and his seed: he shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel until the day of judgment" chapter 27. 1 thus he spake and bade the angels have us cast out of paradise: and as we were being driven out amid our loud lamentations, your father adam besought the angels and said: 2 "leave me a little (space) that i may entreat the lord that he have compassion on me and pity me, for i only have sinned" 3 and they left off driving him and adam cried aloud and wept saying "pardon me o lord, my deed" then the lord saith to the ange

eave me a little (space) that i may entreat the lord that he have compassion on me and pity me, for i only have sinned" 3 and they left off driving him and adam cried aloud and wept saying "pardon me o lord, my deed" then the lord saith to the angels "why have ye ceased from driving adam from paradise? why do ye not cast him out? is it i who have done wrong? or is my judgment badly judged" 5 then the angels fell down on the ground and worshipped the lord saying "thou art just, o lord, and thou judges righteous judgment" chapter 28. 1 but the lord turned to adam and said 'i will not suffer thee henceforward to be in paradise" 2 and adam answered and said,grant me, o lord, of the tree of life that i may eat of it, before i be cast out" 3 then the lord spake to adam "thou shalt not take of it

APOCRYPHON OF JOHN

mes "and having created] everything, he organized according to the model of the first aeons which had come into being, so that he might create them like the indestructible ones. not because he had seen the indestructible ones, but the power in him, which he had taken from his mother, produced in him the likeness of the cosmos. and when he saw the creation which surrounds him, and the multitude of the angels around him which had come forth from him, he said to them 'i am a jealous god, and there is no other god beside me' but by announcing this he indicated to the angels who attended him that there exists another god. for if there were no other one, of whom would he be jealous "then the mother began to move to and fro. she became aware of the deficiency when the brightness of her light dimi

h her son had committed, she repented. and she was overcome by forgetfulness in the darkness of ignorance and she began to be ashamed. and she did not dare to return, but she was moving about. and the moving is the going to and fro "and the arrogant one took a power from his mother. for he was ignorant, thinking that there existed no other except his mother alone. and when he saw the multitude of the angels which he had created, then he the apocryphon of john http//www.pseudepigrapha.com/apocrypha_nt/apocjn.html 6 of 12 8/16/2006 5:17 pm exalted himself above them "and when the mother recognized that the garment of darkness was imperfect, then she knew that her consort had not agreed with her. she repented with much weeping. and the whole pleroma heard the prayer of her repentance, and the

y become a power of light for us "and the powers began: the first one, goodness, created a bone-soul; and the second, foreknowledge, created a sinew-soul; the third, divinity, created a flesh-soul; and the fourth, the lordship, created a marrow-soul; the fifth, kingdom created a blood-soul; the sixth, envy, created a skin-soul; the seventh, understanding, created a hair-soul. and the multitude of the angels attended him and they received from the powers the seven substances of the natural (form) in order to create the proportions of the limbs and the proportion of the rump and the proper working together of each of the parts "the first one began to create the head. eteraphaope-abron created his head; meniggesstroeth created the brain; asterechme (created) the right eye; thaspomocha, the le

ings. and from desire (comes) anger, wrath, and bitterness, and bitter passion, and unsatedness, and similar things. and from fear (comes) dread, fawning, agony, and shame. all of these are like useful things as well as evil things. but the insight into their true (character) is anaro, who is the head of the material soul, for it belongs with the seven senses, ouch-epi-ptoe "this is the number of the angels: together they are 365. they all worked on it until, limb for limb, the natural and the material body was completed by them. now there are other ones in charge over the remaining passions whom i did not mention to you. but if you wish to know them, it is written in the book of zoroaster. and all the angels and demons worked until they had constructed the natural body. and their product

roduct was completely inactive and motionless for a long time "and when the mother wanted to retrieve the power which she had given to the chief archon, she petitioned the mother-father of the all, who is most merciful. he sent, by means of the holy decree, the five lights down the apocryphon of john http//www.pseudepigrapha.com/apocrypha_nt/apocjn.html 8 of 12 8/16/2006 5:17 pm upon the place of the angels of the chief archon. they advised him that they should bring forth the power of the mother. and they said to yaltabaoth 'blow into his face something of your spirit and his body will arise' and he blew into his face the spirit which is the power of his mother; he did not know (this, for he exists in ignorance. and the power of the mother went out of yaltabaoth into the natural body, whi

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

have the right, drawn from ahigher power, to compeleven the queen of earth, heaven, and hell to grant the request. give mewhat i ask, and thou shalt have honour and offerings; refuse, and i will vex thee by insult. socanidia and her kind boasted that they could compelthe gods to appear. this is all classic. no oneever heard of a satanic witch invoking or threatening the trinity, or christ or even the angels orsaints. in fact, they cannot even compelthe devil or his imps to obey they work entirely by hisgood-will as slaves. but in the old italian lore the sorcerer or witch is all or nothing, and aims at limit-less will or power.of the ancient belief in the virtues of a perforated stone i need not speak. but it is to be remarkedthat in the invocation the witch goes forth in the earliest morn

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

i, wilson's translation. as parasara explains it, when brahma wants to create the world anew and construct progeny through his will, in the fourfold condition (or the four orders of beings) termed gods (dhyan chohans, demons (i.e, more material devas, progenitors (pitris) and men "he collects yoga-like (yuyuje) his mind" strange to say, he begins by creating demons, who thus take precedence over the angels or gods. this is no incongruity, nor is it due to inconsistency, but has, like all the rest, a profound esoteric meaning, quite clear to one free from christian theological prejudice. he who bears in mind that the principle mahat, or intellect, the "universal mind (literally "the great, which esoteric philosophy explains as the "manifested omniscience- the "first product" of pradhana (p

s found on the assyrian fragments of tiles, tell us; those very accounts upon which the pharisees built their angelology? but compare mr. g. smith's "assyrian discoveries" p. 398, and his "chaldean account of genesis" p. 107. the "tablet with the story of the seven wicked gods or spirits" has the following account- we print the important passages in italics- 1. in the first days the evil gods, 2. the angels, who were in rebellion, who in the lower part of heaven 3. had been created, 4. they caused their evil work 5. devising with wicked heads. etc. thus we are shown, as plainly as can be, on a fragment which remained unbroken, so that there can be no dubious reading, that the "rebellious angels" had been created in the lower part of heaven, i.e, that they belonged and do belong to a materi

n the nineteenth. the divine intellect is veiled in man; his animal brain alone philosophizes" and philosophizing alone, how can it understand the "soul doctrine? in order not to break the thread of the narrative we shall give some striking proofs of these cyclic laws in part ii, proceeding meanwhile with our explanations of geological and racial cycles[[vol. 2, page] 75 the secret of the fall of the angels. stanza iii. attempts to create man (11) the descent of the demiurge (12) the lunar gods ordered to create (13) the higher gods refuse. 11. the lord of the lords came. from her body he separated the waters, and that was heaven above, the first heaven (the atmosphere, or the air, the firmament (a (a) here tradition falls again into the universal. as in the earliest version, repeated in t

eating misery; and typhon becomes, in the exoteric, theological teaching, the power of darkness. but all this is the exoteric shell. it is the worshippers of the latter who attribute to disobedience and rebellion the effort and self-sacrifice of those who would help men to their original status of divinity through self-conscious efforts; and it is these worshippers of form who have made demons of the angels of light. esoteric philosophy, however, teaches that one third* of the dhyanis- i.e, the three classes of the arupa pitris, endowed with intelligence "which is a formless breath, composed of intellectual not elementary substances (see harivamsa, 932- was simply doomed by the law of karma and evolution to be reborn (or incarnated) on earth* some[[footnote(s* whence the subsequent asserti

the personal exertion of the individual; but they could not make men as they were themselves- perfect, because sinless; sinless, because having only the first, pale shadowy outlines of attributes, and these all perfect- from the human standpoint- white, pure and cold as the virgin snow. where there is no struggle, there is no merit. humanity "of the earth earthy" was not destined to be created by the angels of the first divine breath: therefore they are said to have refused to do so, and man had to be formed by more material creators* who, in their turn, could give only what they had in their own natures, and no more. subservient to eternal law, the pure gods could only project out of themselves shadowy men, a little less ethereal and spiritual, less divine and perfect than themselves- sha

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

ic. 381 the purity of early phallicism. 383 the egyptian lotus. 385- ix. deus lunus. 386 a glance at the lunar myth. 387 a key-note to the moon. 389 copies and originals. 393 the moon bi-sexual. 397- x. tree and serpent and crocodile worship. 403 degeneration of the symbol. 405 the seven-headed dragons. 407 dragon and crocodile. 409- xi. demon est deus inversus. 411 death is life. 413 the fall of the angels. 418 transformation of the legend. 421- xii. the theogony of the creative gods. 424 the point within the circle. 426 the logos or verbum. 429 the factors of creation. 432 identity of the hierarchies in all religions. 438 difference between the aryan and semitic systems. 444[[vol. 1, page] xiv contents. page. xiii. the seven creations. 445 the gnostic and the hindu versions. 449 the seve

this deluge, it is evident that it is not the "great" deluge, nor that which carried away atlantis, nor even the deluge of noah, which is meant here. this "churning" relates to a period before the earth's formation, and is in direct connection with that other universal legend, the various and contradictory versions of which culminated in the christian dogma of the "war in heaven" and the fall of the angels (see book ii, also revelations chap. xii. the brahmanas, reproached by the orientalists with their versions on the same subjects, often clashing with each other, are preeminently occult works, hence used purposely as blinds. they were allowed to survive for public use and property only because they were and are absolutely unintelligible to the masses. otherwise they would have disappear

a the prajapati are 21 in number, or ten, six, and five (1065, thrice seven (b "the three, the one, the four, the one, the five (in their totality- twice seven) represent 31415- the numerical hierarchy of the dhyan-chohans of various orders, and of the inner or circumscribed world* when placed on the boundary of the great circle of "pass not (see stanza v, called also the dhyanipasa, the "rope of the angels" the "rope" that hedges off the phenomenal from the noumenal kosmos (not falling within the range of our present objective consciousness; this number, when not enlarged by permutation and expansion, is ever 31415 anagrammatically and kabalistically, being both the number of the circle and the mystic svastica, the twice seven once more; for whatever way the two sets of figures are counte

page] 117 the antiquity of physical sciences. tendency, from the first awakening of kosmos to a new "day" to circular movement. the "deity becomes a whirlwind" they are also called rotae- the moving wheels of the celestial orbs participating in the world's creation- when the meaning refers to the animating principle of the stars and planets; for in the kabala, they are represented by the ophanim, the angels of the spheres and stars, of which they are the informing souls (see kabala denudata "de anima" p. 113) this law of vortical movement in primordial matter, is one of the oldest conceptions of greek philosophy, whose first historical sages were nearly all initiates of the mysteries. the greeks had it from the egyptians, and the latter from the chaldeans, who had been the pupils of brahmi

ssible, even in such a large work as this, to enter into a minute examination of even the three principal groups, as it would demand an extra volume. the "builders" are the representatives of the first "mind-born" entities, therefore of the primeval rishi-prajapati: also of the seven great gods of egypt, of which osiris is the chief: of the seven amshaspends of the zoroastrians, with[[footnote(s* the angels recognised by the roman catholic church who correspond to these "faces" were with the ophites- dragon- raphael; lion- michael; bull, or ox- uriel; and eagle- gabriel. the four keep company with the four evangelists, and preface the gospels[[vol. 1, page] 128 the secret doctrine. ormazd at their head: or the "seven spirits of the face: the seven sephiroth separated from the first triad

BLUE EQUINOX

n the form of a letter from the master therion to his magical son. liber x. liber porta lucis. this book is an account of the sending forth of the master by the a.a. an an explanation of his mission. liber tzaddi vel hamus hermeticus sub figur xc. an account of initiation, and an indication as to those who are suitable for the same. the equinox 28 liber cdxviii. liber xxx rum vel s culi, being of the angels of the thirty aethyrs the vision and the voice. besides being the classical account of the thirty thyrs and a model of all visions, the cries of the angels should be regarded as accurate and the doctrine of the function of the great white brotherhood understood as the foundation of the aspiration of the adept. the account of the master of the templi should in particular be taken as auth

even though we did not speak or act. i have no interest whatever that the things said do not match with what i believed in the past. one must tell things as they find them and not as they wish they were" o tempora, o mores! let us admit that .immortality. has now been proved; that hyslop.s marvellous medium has furnished the demonstration! we are to inherit the kingdom of heaven, and there assist the angels in the compilation of english grammars (let us hope) for the use of those who communicate through mrs. chenoweth! when one reads through stuff like this, one is driven to ask the question how can men of intelligence and learning, perhaps with skill in other lines of research, be driven to accept such nonsense as proof of anything beyond obvious fraud on the part of the .medium? how can

se who believe in him when they find him compelled to produce a book like this. it is very cleverly compiled, most readable and amusing, but there seems to be no care to discriminate between well the equinox 300 authenticated cases and evident inventions. the critical spirit is hopelessly undeveloped. in particular, i must protest against the publishing of mr. machen s excellent short story about the angels of mons without any reference to its author, as if there were one single particle of evidence that the story were true. mr. carrington is a sincere and ingenious investigator of immense learning and experience. he has probably been forced into these evil courses by the abominable falsity of the publicists of america. the outrage in his case is hardly less than in theodore dreiser.s. the

hilosophy of the west, where the schoolmen produced an equal obfuscation. even now people hardly realize that they did any valuable work at all, and quote their controversies, such the equinox 82 as that concerning the number of angels who can dance on the point of a needle, as examples of their complete fatuity and donnishness. in point of fact, it is the critic who is stupid. the question about the angels involves the profoundest considerations of metaphysics, and it was about these that the battle raged. i fancy that their critics imagine the schoolmen disputing whether the number was 25 or 26, which argues their own shallowness by the readiness with which they attribute the same quality to others. however, a great deal of mischief has been done by the pedant, and the distinctions betwe

BOOK OF ENOCH

on (by m. knibb) of the ethiopian text in the s.o.a.s. library at the university of london. contents introduction history of the book of enoch condition of the text the book (1) the blessing of enoch (2) god's laws (3) rebels amongst the watchers (4) the most high of the watchers speaks out (5) enoch meets the holy watchers (6) the book of reproof (7) enoch stays for a while with the watchers (8) the angels who keep watch (9) the fragrant trees (10) the book of methuselah (11) the book of noah (12) the book of parables (13) the storehouses (14) the revolutions of the lights (15) enoch's letter to methuselah (16) the law of the stars (17) enoch's first vision (18) prophecy of the animals (19) prophecy of the ten weeks (20) enoch's message of guidance references and further reading introduct

e book, and that the ethiopians have preserved it well. in the end i was convinced that the book is really enoch s true account of otherwise forgotten events that occurred in early times; events that we have no other surviving records of. enoch left us a book that describes people of an advanced culture; blond-haired people that enoch s people considered to be angels of god, and it was written on the angels instruction. the standard academic view seems to be that some slightly demented religious fanatic wrote the book- not long before the earliest provable fragments (200 or 300bc. i think it is impossible to support this view. such an author would have to be able to write the entire book from the point of view of a person who knows nothing of countries with names, or religions with names

standard academic view seems to be that some slightly demented religious fanatic wrote the book- not long before the earliest provable fragments (200 or 300bc. i think it is impossible to support this view. such an author would have to be able to write the entire book from the point of view of a person who knows nothing of countries with names, or religions with names. then he goes on to describe the angels as blond men, who ran away from heaven in order to be promiscuous with women. i don t believe this is the sort of world view that would have been well received or widely accepted anywhere in 200 bc. this plus the all too accurate prophecies are probably the reasons why it was lost by the religions that used to regard it as holy. i concluded that the book is probably what it appears to b

r in the book (see the 10 weeks. 1.1] these are the words of the blessing of enoch; according to which he blessed the chosen and righteous who must be present on the day of distress, which is appointed, for the removal of all the wicked and impious. 1.2] and enoch began his story and said- there was a righteous man whose eyes were opened by the lord, and he saw a holy vision in the heavens, which the angels showed to me. and i heard everything from them, and i understood what i saw: but not for this generation, but for a distant generation that will come. 1.3] concerning the chosen i spoke; and i uttered a parable concerning them: the holy and great one will come out of his dwelling. 1.4] and the eternal god will tread from there upon mount sinai, and he will appear with his host, and will

nk it is safe to assume that they are men, and not angels (or any other non-human entity, since breeding is species specific by definition. they were regarded as angels by enoch and his people (see what lamech says at 106.5-6 in section 10, but enoch also says they could appear like men when they wished (see 17.1, but even so, he never seems to doubt their divinity. at 8.4, the scene switches: to the angels in heaven- the watchers at their home base. the activities of the runaways cause them to be noticed. this section ends with some of the watchers asking their headman what should they do about the runaways. alternatively, it could be seen as god being informed that no souls wish to incarnate on the earth because conditions are becoming so bad. 6.1] and it came to pass, when the sons of m

BOOK OF JASHAR

e from cosmic to microscopic, as will be confirmed by the promise to noah. eve and human are ready to accept this gift of fire, and they immediately begin learning to use it, but their companions faben and flo are not ready and they flee. as in genesis, flaming swords mark the division between animal innocence and human sophistication, but here the direction of the swords is reversed. in genesis, the angels wield flaming swords to drive adam and eve away from the garden of eden. here, however, the flaming swords drive faben, flo, and the other animals away from the newly created domain of humanity. the word "wilderness" first appears at this point, to denote the land not yet tamed by people. at this moment, the wilderness includes the whole earth except for the little campsite that is warm

BOOK T

eception in the moment of apparent victory. lying, error, promises unfulfilled. drunkenness, wrath, vanity. lust, fornication, violence against women, selfish dissipation, deception in love and friendship. often success gained, but not followed up. modified as usual by dignity. netzach of hb:h (lying, promises unfulfilled; illusion, deception, error; slight success at outset, not retained. herein the angels hb:mlhal and hb:chhvyh rule. book t page 16 of 26 http//www.private.org.il/gd/book-t.html 13/10/2002 xxxiii. the lord of swiftness eight of wands or torches four white radiating angelic hands (two proceeding from each side) issuant from clouds; clasped in two pairs in the centre with the grip of the first order. they hold eight wands, crossed four with four. flames issue from the point

rush, but quickly passed and expended. violent, but not lasting. swiftness, rapidity, courage, boldness, confidence, freedom, warfare, violence; love of open air, field-sports, gardens and meadows. generous, subtle, eloquent, yet somewhat untrustworthy; rapacious, insolent, oppressive. theft and robbery. according to dignity. hod of hb:y (hasty communications and messages; swiftness. therein rule the angels hb:nthhyh and hb:haayh. xxxiv. the lord of great strength nine of wands or torches four hands, as in the previous symbol, holding eight wands crossed four and four; but a fifth hand at the foot of the card holds another wand upright, which traverses the point of junction with the others: flames leap herefrom. above and below are the symbols moon and sagittarius. tremendous and steady fo

remendous and steady force that cannot be shaken. herculean strength, yet sometimes scientifically applied. great success, but with strife and energy. victory, preceded by apprehension and fear. health good, and recovery not in doubt. generous, questioning and curious; fond of external appearances: intractable, obstinate. yesod of hb:y (strength, power, health, recovery from sickness. herein rule the angels hb:yrthal and hb:shahyh. xxxv. the lord of oppression ten of wands four hands holding eight wands crossed as before. a fifth hand holding two wands upright, which traverses the junction of the others. flames issuant. saturn and sagittarius. cruel and overbearing force and energy, but applied only to material and selfish ends. sometimes shows failure in a matter, and the opposition too s

ion of things; now elated, then melancholy; industrious, yet unreliable; fortunate through prudence of management, yet sometimes unaccountably foolish; alternatively talkative and suspicious. kind, yet wavering and inconsistent. fortunate in journeying. book t page 17 of 26 http//www.private.org.il/gd/book-t.html 13/10/2002 argumentative. chokmah of hb:h (pleasant change, visit to friends. herein the angels hb:lkbal and hb:vshryh have rule. xxxvii. the lord of material works. three of pentacles a white-winged angelic hand, as before, holding a branch of a rose tree, of which two white rosebuds touch and surmount the topmost pentacle. the pentacles are arranged in an equilateral triangle. above and below the symbols mars and capricorn. working and constructive force, building up, creation

borious, unresting; loss and vileness of nature; malicious, slanderous, lying, spiteful and tale-bearing. a busybody and separator of friends, hating to see peace and love between others. cruel, yet cowardly, thankless and unreliable. clever and quick in thought and speech. feelings of pity easily roused, but unenduring. geburah of hb:v (defeat, loss, malice, spite, slander, evil-speaking. herein the angels hb:anyal and hb:cha'amyh bear rule. xl. the lord of earned success six of swords two hands, as before, each holding two swords which cross in the centre. rose re-established thereon. mercury and aquarius above and below, supported on the points of two short daggers or swords. book t page 18 of 26 http//www.private.org.il/gd/book-t.html 13/10/2002 success after anxiety and trouble; self

BOOK OF BLACK SERPENT

will use in this operation. the book should be new, uninscribed by anyone else and should be consecrated for use as we have said. the wand or rod: this should be crafted from rosewood or cedar and should measure half the length of your arm. it is to be used to trace the sigils of the quarters which will be given in the second part of this monograph. it is to be marked with the names of god which the angels will give you in the circle. the magical knife: the knife must be new and sharp enough to cut easily, for this is to be its purpose. its blade should be no more than nine inches long and may be inscribed with these names: agla+ vuvh+ on+ adonai. the handle of the knife is to be fashioned using the same wood as was used for the rod of the art. the ceremonial robe: it must be constructed

: michael rules over the seventh (and highest) heaven. gabriel rules over the sixth heaven. shataqiel is appointed over the fifth heaven. shahaqiel, a prince of the host, is given dominion over the fourth heaven. badariel governs the third heaven. barakiel is appointed to the second heaven. pazriel is given the realm of the first heaven. the ministering angels of the throne of judgement these are the angels of the shekinah and are four in number, two ir and two qedushsha; they are the court officers who raise, argue and close every case that comes before the holy one when he is seated on the throne of judgement. it is they who give effect to the decrees of the most high over the kingdoms of men; these angels form the council of the almighty. the eldest servant of his house is metatron naar

n number and each has eleven angels which accompany them; they are ruled by galgalliel, who rules over the globe of the sun; and they rule under the dominion of the seven great angelick princes. the hosts and choir of angels the host of angels are eleven in number and these are their names: sallisim, parashim, gibborim, sebahim, geduthim, memunnim, sarim, haylim, mesarethim, malhakim and degalim. the angels of the twelve signs aries malchidael taurus asmodel gemini ambriel cancer muriel leo verchiel virgo hamaliel these are the angels which assist the magician in all his experiments; all according to their offices. it is unlawful that you should call upon the seraphim, but all the rest may be called upon for furtherance in matters divine. concerning the talismans. it is necessary to constr

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

gical work. in this way you can maximise the energies of specific hours and choose a good time for anything from asking for a rise at work to sorting out the budget with a reluctant partner. enter the planetary and angelic hours in your diary or the appropriate section in your book of shadows. these calculations can also keep bored children amused on rainy afternoons- just tell them stories about the angels and planets first. children also adapt quickly to angelic time- after all, it's far more fun if you change sad old bedtime into st michael's hour and have a bedtime story by the light of his golden candle. to calculate the magical hours, you need to divide the time from sunrise to sunset and then the time between sunset and sunrise by 12. at the height of summer, the days are much longe

orah, and light a candle on seven consecutive hours throughout the day. you could carry it out on the baby's christening or naming day or on a quiet day with the teenager. alternatively, you could perform the ritual for seven days at the same hour of the day on the week before the christening or departure and make this a special family orientated hour. it does not matter in which order you invoke the angels. start at the hour that suits you best. if you keep to the same hour, you will work with the energies of each of the archangels over a seven-day period. seite 146 wicca01.txt alexandra, a friend who carried out the ritual for her son sam who was going away to college, began on the first hour at sunset on wednesday, which meant the ritual used the energies of the archangel michael. the f

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imon of tournai visit the camp of the nearest mongol army on the frontier of asia minor seeking alliance with the mongol general ilchikdai (ilchikadai, and a proposal of a joint attack upon the islamic powers for the conquest of syria. 1248-1298 peter john olivi(known as enoch returned to the beguins) important joachite scholar shifted the focus from the three status of joachim onto his theory of the angels of the seven seals, granting the role of the sixth angel to francis himself. 1248 joseph gikatilla, spanish sephardic kabbalist born. christian armies under ferdinand iii take seville after 16 months of seige, despite muslim catapults, greek fire, and bowmen who pierce armor. mongol envoy sargis/sergius meets pope innocent iv in italy. 1248-1309 angela of foligno franciscan tertiary. 12

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enly host, his light illuminating heaven until the light of demiurge himself became nebulous in the engulfing radiance. and demiurge became wrathful, and then fearful, lest the other angels, unto the very sons of god, recognize their unique selves, apart from demiurge. and the entire angelic host, and the sons of god, looked with fear and bewilderment upon the radiance of satanael, and some among the angels began to emit their own glow of selfhood. there erupted a war in heaven, as the largest proportion of the angelic host, too fearful and servile to let shine their own lights of selfhood, yea, even the sons of god also, waged battle against those angels who were touched by satanael and were illuminated, receiving the spark of selfhood. michael and his legions overwhelmed satanael, who de

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et out of prison? it is certainly a possibility. the native american tribe, the iroquois, have a legend of an iroquois maiden marrying the chief of the sky people. the geologist, christian o'brien, suggested that hebrew and sumerian texts refer to a race of beings known as the 'shining ones, a term he connects with the hebrew word, elohim. it is no coincidence that the devas from the sanskrit and the angels of christianity are also 'shining ones. the incas of peru referred to 'shining ones' too. o'brien says that it was the beings known as the elohim which created modern humanity from early human forms through genetic manipulation. he adds that some of them, the 'watchers' in the book of enoch, mated with humans and he believes that the alleged founders of the semitic race, shemjaza and ya

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eing "descended from noah" is a code for the illuminati bloodlines and when you scan the ancient books and texts you find some strange references to his birth. an ethiopian text, the kebra nagast (nagas, is thousands of years old, and it describes the enormous size of the babies produced from the sexual union of human women and the "gods. it tells of how. the daughters of cain [nordics] with whom the angels [anunnaki] had conceived. were unable to bring forth their children and they died. it describes how some of the babies had to be delivered through caesarean birth..having split open the bellies of their mothers they came forth from their navels. another story relates to noah, the semitic name for the sumerian flood hero, utnapishtim. the ancient hebrew text, the book of noah and its der

shtim. the ancient hebrew text, the book of noah and its derivative, the book of enoch, refers to the birth of noah and sections also appear in the dead sea scrolls, found in israel in 1947. the scrolls are connected with the essene community in palestine 2,000 years ago. noah is the son of lamech and he is described as unlike a human being and 96 children of the matrix more like "the children of the angels in heaven. and we know who they were. lamech questions his wife about the father of noah "behold, i thought then within my heart that conception was (due) to the watchers and the holy ones..and to the nephilim..and my heart was troubled within me because of this child" lamech's child, noah, was white-skinned and blond-haired with eyes that made the whole house "shine like the sun".16 th

e around 1948. graham is a friend of the shape-shifter, paedophile, and serial killer, george bush, and they famously "prayed" together, according to bush, the night he ordered the genocide in iraq in 1991. that same year, billy graham said on his us radio show, embrace america 2000, that the american people should support bush's new world order. graham has also said that he thought ufos could be the angels of god. graham is close to henry kissinger, one of the most active manipulators for the illuminati at operational level. another friend was allan dulles, the satanist director of the cia. dulles helped to fund adolf hitler and founded the illuminati's world council of churches. dulles was also, significantly, one of the main architects of the infamous mkultra mind control project. agent

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larly those that go back to native americans or ancient indians. thehopi, you will recall, speak of originating within the earth. the ethiopian text, thekebra nagast (nagas were indian shape-shifting serpent gods, is thousands of yearsold, and it refers to the enormous size of the babies produced from the sexual orgenetic unions of humans and the gods. it tells how..the daughters of cain withwhom the angels (extraterres-trials) had conceived. were unable to bring forth theirchildren, and they died. it describes how some of these giant babies were deliveredby caesarean section. having split open the bellies of their mothers they came forthby their navels.46 in the ancient hebrew text, the book of noah, and its derivative, thebook of enoch, a strange birth is described of a non-human child

ret societies working to the same agenda- global control. john dee was thequeens astrologer, a rosicrucian grand master, a black magician, and a secret agent forthe new intelligence network. he appears to have had a copy of the book of enoch from163some source or other and he, and the psychic edward kelley, developed a writtenlanguage they called enochian script or cipher from communications with the angels -reptilians. dee signed his reports 007- the same, of course, as james bond, the storieswritten by a 20th century agent of this same british intelligence, ian fleming, a friendof the black magician, aleister crowley. dee travelled throughout europe manipulating,gathering information and oiling the networks. one of his haunts was bohemia and he wasclosely associated with emperor rudolf i

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ian belief of a war in heaven between ahura-mazda and ahriman, the serpent, with yahweh taking the role of ahura-mazda and satan assuming the part of the serpent ahriman. satan, a minor angel in hebrew mythology, became equal in power with god. the belief of a war in heaven between god and satan was carried into europe by the early christians. in christian mythology, lucifer became the highest of the angels, created in the perfect image of god, who fell from grace because of his pride. during the spread of christianity in europe the devil began to take on the form most often associated with him today. christians gave him the attributes of many of the old pagan gods: horns, tail, and cloven hooves. he became the god of fertility, the god of lust, the god of the dead, and the god of magic. d

working with another man, edward kelly, produced a series of 18 keys in what they claimed was the original angelic language and apparently revealed to enoch, the first man after the fall to walk with god. the english translation of the keys bear a striking similarity to invocations in the clavicula solomonis, another medieval grimoire, but dee& kelly claimed that the keys were revealed to them by the angels, the letters of the words shown to them in a crystal show stone. the enochian evocation of dr. john dee also gives the invocation for various spirits with which dee& kelly communicated. a beast of revelation on april 4, 1904, aleister crowley, declared the start of a new aeon the aeon of horus. in crowley s philosophy each aeon represents a stage in the non-natural evolution of man. the

iment of evil the devil incarnate upon the earth, the devil born flesh upon the earth. and i shall rule over all that is in heaven, on earth, and in hell. i shall sit upon the throne of all creation as lord of heaven& earth, and of hell. for i am the magus of the aeon of lucifer i am the magus of the aeon. renunciation& proclamation (recite nine times) i renounce god. i renounce jesus. i renounce the angels and archangels. i renounce the holy catholic church. i renounce all that is holy and all that is good. i renounce all gods. and i proclaim that satan lucifer is lord of this world. i proclaim that satan lucifer is god of the earth. i proclaim that satan lucifer is my master (drink from chalice[ notes: the renunciation of the "holy catholic church" is not meant as a validation of its cla

demons listed in the grimoire of abramelin the mage, commanding them to join the ranks of my army so that i may wage war on the heavens. then i said: i will now rise up waging war on the heavens, by stealth i will conquer the heavens with this statement, i began to recite the 18 enochian keys and the call of the 30 aers. with all the strength of my being, i imagined myself rising up and battling the angels of heaven, finally bringing the archangel michael to his knees before me. after invoking the 30 ayres, i recited the following statement, repeating each line three times: i have risen up waging war on the heavens, by stealth i have conquered the heavens, i sit upon the throne of all creation, as lord of heaven, and earth, and hell. i force all the angels to kneel and supplicate themselv

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ins timeless and extensive. this sorcerous daemon has walked the earth since the dawn of mankind, from desert to forest, in every culture and every age. satan has long represented the otherness which is considered evil or dark, but yet few but the daring refuse to explore this area of magical study. satan has origins in the middle east as a djinn which is made of fire instead of light, from which the angels after were made from. shaitan was originally called azazel or azazyl, the first angel which preached to the other angels under the throne of god. azazel, who later was called iblis or shaitan, refused to bow before man, noting that his nature of lowly compared to his essence, which was of fire. azazel was cast out from heaven into the earth, along with the fallen angels (the conception

y made a part of his personal sigil within an inverted pentagram. the vajra rune is almost an s type shape, falling downwards. it represents health, vitality and strength. 22 i saw satan like lightning falling from heaven luke 10:18 the dragon itself is a symbol of the collective independence and intelligence of satan the adversary, while his angelic nature granted him the higher faculties of all the angels of heaven, lucifer sought more and wished to be more godlike. this was considered a great sin and thus a war in heaven occurred. and there was a great battle in heaven, michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the draghon fought his angels: they prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in heaven. and that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is called

name baal which is an early 39 pagan god is the root of this demon. king solomon had dealings with this demon and learned much about his nature. he is considered the lord of flies and a powerful force. an interesting text concerning him is the following "then hell, receiving satan the prince, with sore reproach said unto him: o prince of perdition and chief of destruction, beelzebub, the scorn of the angels and spitting of the righteous why wouldest thou do this? thou wouldest crucify the king of glory and at his decease didst promise us great spoils of his death: like a fool thou knewest not what thou didst. for behold now, this jesus putteth to flight by the brightness of his majesty all the darkness of death, and hath broken the strong depths of the prisons, and let out the prisoners an

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in agreement upon this point. all men and women who have had practical experience of the spiritual life tell us that they are taught by [page 14] divine beings. we shall be very foolish if we altogether disregard such a cloud of witnesses, especially those of us who never have had any personal experience of the higher states of consciousness. 4. there are some psychologists who will tell us that the angels of the qabalists and the gods and manus of other systems are our own repressed complexes; there are others with less limited outlook who will tell us that these divine beings are the latent capacities of our own higher selves. to the devotional mystic this is not a point of any great moment; he gets his results, and that is all he cares about; but the philosophical mystic, in other word

esses of ritual initiation, but it is sure enough if persevered with by a suitable person, but one cannot teach a jelly-fish to sing by feeding it on canary-seed. chapter xi the subjective sephiroth 1. as above, so below, man is a miniature macrocosm. all the factors that go to the make-up of the manifested universe are present in his nature. hence, in his perfection, he is said to be higher than the angels. at the present time, however, the angels are fully evolved beings and man is not. thus he is as much lower than the angels as a three-yearold child is less developed than a three-year-old dog. 2. hitherto we have considered the tree of life as an epitome of the macrocosm, the universe, and the use of its symbols to put us in touch with the different spheres of objective nature. we will

" thus plainly do we learn that not only does spirit flow out into manifestation in matter, but matter by its own energy draws spirit into manifestation, an important point for the ptactitioner of magic, for it teaches him that he is justified [page 118] in his operations and that man is not required to wait upon the word of the lord, but may call upon god to hear him. mystical qabala page 79 21. the angels of kether, operating in the yetziratic world, are the chaioth ha qadesh, holy living creatures, and their name carries the mind to the chariot vision of ezekiel and the four holy creatures before the throne. the fact that the four aces of the tarot, assigned to kether, are regarded as representing the roots of the four elements of earth, air, fire, and water further bears out this assoc

lements of earth, air, fire, and water further bears out this association. we may look, then, to kether as the fountain-head of the elements. this concept clears up many occult and metaphysical difficulties that occur if we limit their operation to the astral plane and regard elementals as little better than devils, as some schools of transcendental thought appear to do. 22. the whole question of the angels,archons,and elementals is a very vexed and very important one in occultism, because its practical application to magic is immediate. christian thought can tolerate with an effort the idea of archangels, but the ministering spirits, the messengers who are flames of fire, and the heavenly builders, are alien to its theology; god, alone and in an instant, made the heavens and earth. the gr

he microcosmic correspondence of chokmah is given as the left side of the face. the macrocosmic and microcosmic correspondences play an important part in the practical workings. the macrocosm, or great man, is, of course, the universe itself; and the microcosm is the individual man. it is said that man is the only being that has a fourfold nature exactly corresponding in its levels to the cosmos. the angels lack the lower planes, and the animals lack the higher planes. 28. the references to the microcosm should not, of course, be taken crudely as representing the parts of the physical body; the references are to the aura and the functions of the magnetic currents in the aura, and it must always be borne in mind, as the swami vivekananda points out, that what is on the right in the male is

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s 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 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 men

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sources demons bios fiction tyson the truth about coronzon (aleister crowley's drawing of coronzon at lunch) coronzon (more commonly, but perhaps less correctly, spelled choronzon) is an angelic being first named in the transcripts of the conversations that took place between the elizabethan mathematician and magician dr. john dee and the hierarchy of spiritual beings who identified themselves as the angels that had instructed the patriarch enoch in the holy magic of god. these angelic conversations occurred between the years 1582 and 1587, through the mediumship of dee's hired crystal scryer, the alchemist edward kelley. one or more times a week kelley, under dee's guidance, established communication with the enochian angels in a ritual setting, using a globe of natural rock crystal as hi

gelic conversations occurred between the years 1582 and 1587, through the mediumship of dee's hired crystal scryer, the alchemist edward kelley. one or more times a week kelley, under dee's guidance, established communication with the enochian angels in a ritual setting, using a globe of natural rock crystal as his instrument. he described to dee what he saw in the crystal. dee asked questions of the angels, and kelley reported their replies verbatim. dee transcribed both his questions, and the responses transmitted through kelley, in a set of diaries. a large portion of this transcript has survived. much of the most important material was reprinted in meric casaubon's a true and faithful relation, published in london in 1659. the primary reference to coronzon (so the name is spelled in ca

nd continues to be perfect. the garden of eden is described in metaphorical terms, as a "garden of felicity" having been induced to sin by coronzon in a manner not described by gabriel, man is driven into the "earth which was covered with brambles" part of the curse of this expulsion, not explicitly mentioned in the corresponding section of the book of genesis, is the loss of the holy language of the angels. the revelation of gabriel that man spoke this angelic language in the garden explains how, as described in genesis, adam was able to accurately name all the beasts and birds, and through the magic power of their true names, to command them. perhaps the greatest consequence of the deceit of coronzon that resulted in man's expulsion was the loss of the angelic language. man was rendered

er- a great snake such as a python was called a dragon by the romans, for example. dragons were sometimes called "worms" in ancient anglo-saxon literature. another important point to gather from the quote above is that the old serpent is identified with the leader of the angelic rebellion, lucifer, the light-bearer, second only to god in his glory. the bible has little to report about the fall of the angels. fortunately, the matter is treated in detail in the apocryphal book of enoch. in this work the leader of the rebellious angels is named semjaza, or elsewhere, azazel. the second name is more usually accepted as the leader of the rebellious watchers, but the first may be older. the number of rebellious angels is given as 200, but the list of the leaders numbers 21. since each leader pre

on. it is interesting in the context of enochian magic that in the book of enoch the term watchers is applied to these angels. they are also characterized as stars. the watchers look down from heaven upon the daughters of mankind, and desire them for their beauty "and it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters. and the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another 'come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children' and semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them 'i fear ye will not indeed agree to do this deed, and i alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin' and they all answered him and said 'let us all swear an oath, and a

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ority to do good works among men, so demons are the agents of lucifer who act with infernal authority to do works of evil. indeed, in jewish, islamic and christian mythology, lucifer was himself once an angel of heaven who defied god. seeking to overthrow god and rule heaven, lucifer assembled an army of apostate angels and initiated a war in heaven. he and his angels were defeated by michael and the angels who remained loyal to god, and were thrown down from heaven to hell. in their fallen state these angels of hell are supposed in christian lore to be of hideous aspect, filthy, deformed and base. lucifer seeks to harass god by plaguing mankind with a multitude of troubles, and by inciting human beings to defy god. he uses his fallen angels as his agents, sending them abroad across the fa

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ses. the god of the bible is not this ultimate source. this much is obvious, since this god has both form and purpose, and manifests to human beings in various ways. however, the god of the old testament was able to channel this primal source of divine energy for his own intentions, and was able to facilitate the use of this divine energy by his worshippers. skilled magicians can bypass the gods, the angels and the saints, and can access this primal creative and destructive power directly through their magic. so the priests of egypt intimated when they wrote in the hermetic books that man was above the gods, and could command the gods. every time someone works a ritual of magic successfully without relying on a prayer for aid from a particular deity or spiritual creature, the divine source

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y powerful echoes in the mythologies of ancient cultures around the world. it is probably for this reason that it struck such a chord of response in readers. we find in it similarities to the myth of the archons of gnosticism, who together with the arch devil and god, yaldabaoth, gave shape to the material world and rule over the human race. there are also echoes of the jewish myth of the fall of the angels, and more specifically of the watchers who descended to earth to sin with the daughters of mankind, and to teach their offspring forbidden arts and sciences. the legend of the fall of atlantis is in harmony with lovecraft's mythos as well, as are the more modern enochian communications of the elizabethan magician dr. john dee. the other day while i was reading the magic arts in celtic b

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tself the forms with which thou hast impregnated it from the beginning. from this spirit those most holy kings who surround thy throne, and who compose thy court, derive their origin. o father universal! only one! o father of blessed mortals and immortals! thou hast specially created powers who are marvelously like thine eternal thought and adorable essence. thou hast established them superior to the angels who announce to the world thy wishes. finally thou hast created us in the third rank in our elementary empire. there our continual employment is to praise thee and adore thy wishes. there we incessantly burn with the desire of possessing thee, o father! o mother! the most tender of all mothers! o admirable archetype of maternity and pure love! o son, the flower of sons! o form of all fo

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stic jakob boehme recognized the whole deep between the stars, as the heaven of one of the three hierarchies, and placed the other two above it; in the midst of all which, he says, is the son of god; no part of either is farther or nearer to him, yet are the three kingdoms circular about him. the visions of emanuel swedenborg date a century later, and describe his intimacy with the angelic world. the angels described to him in great detail a level of spiritual existence qualitatively different from the visible world of sensation. angelic realms in jewish thought jewish teachers have developed an elaborate doctrine of a heavenly hierarchy. some, such as bechai and joshua, teach that every day ministering angels are created out of the river dinor, or fiery stream, and they sing an anthem and

nts another leading belief, not so much interwoven with the popular theology, was that of angels intercourse with women, producing the race of giants. the idea derived from genesis 4:2, in the adoption of which the christian fathers followed the opinion of ancient jewish interpreters, philo-judaeus, and josephus. a particular account of the circumstances is given in the book of enoch, which makes the angels.uriel, gabriel, and michael.the chief instruments in the subjugation of the adulterers and their formidable offspring. the classic writers have perpetuated similar beliefs of the hero race, all of them born either from the love of the gods for women, or of the preference shown for a goddess by some mortal man. the persian, jewish, and muslim accounts of angels all evince a common origin

e past twenty minutes. so 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 1

umber of natural media interviews and was especially popular on daytime television shows oriented toward women. in the five years following her life-changing experience, she authored a number of books including angel therapy: healing messages for every area of your life (1997; divine guidance: how to have a dialogue with god and your guardian angeles (1998; chakra clearing (1998; and healing with the angels: how the angels can assist you with every area of your life (1999. she has also released a 44-card angel oracle deck (1999) and a variety of cassette tapes. virtue s workshops and appearances are handled through wing and a prayer productions, which may be contacted through her expansive internet site at http/ www.angeltherapy.com. virtue is also a vegetarian and animal rights activist

ctivist, and recommends products that were produced without causing any pain or death to animal life. sources: virtue, doreen. angel therapy: healing messages for every area of your life. carlsbad, calif: hay house, 1997. chakra clearing. carlsbad, calif: hay house, 1998. divine guidance: how to have a dialogue with god and your guardian angeles. los angeles: audio renaissance, 1998. healing with the angels: how the angels can assist you with every area of your life. carlsbad, calif: hay house, 1999. angelucci, orfeo (1912.1993) orfeo angelucci, one of the original group of men who claimed to have made contact with the extraterrestrial entities who came to earth following world war ii (1939.45) and the explosion of atomic weapons, was born and raised in new jersey. however, he was working

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eptember 29, 1914, his story the bowmen appeared in the london evening news. the story describes how british troops, hopelessly outnumbered in the french trenches of world war i, are miraculously rescued by phantom english archers from agincourt, led by st. george. many people read it as a factual account of what had happened, and a few months after publication, a number of eyewitness accounts of the angels of mons began to appear. throughout the twentieth century people have believed the events actually occurred. machen reiterated that his story was fiction in the introduction to the later publication of his story in the book the bowmen and other legends of the war (london, 1915, but the actual semi-miraculous retreat of the british from mons had such an overpowering effect on the british

t sight. it would seem that such spiritual knowledge as the medieval magus was capable of attaining was insufficient to raise him above the intellectual limitations of his time, so that the work in question possesses all the faults of its age and type. but that is not to say that it possessed no practical value, and it well illustrates the white magic of medieval times. it classifies the names of the angels under the title of olympic or celestial spirits, who abide in the firmament and constellations: they administer inferior destinies and accomplish and teach whatever is portended by the several stars in which they are insphered. they are powerless to act without a special command from the almighty. the stewards of heaven are seven in number.arathron, bethor, phaleg, och, hagith, ophiel

that culminated in his production of oahspe: a kosmon bible in the words of jehovah and his angel ambassadors. he described these events in a letter dated january 21, 1883, to the editor of the banner of light: i was crying for the light of heaven. i did not desire communication for friends or relatives or information about earthly things; i wished to learn something about the spirit world; what the angels did, how they travelled, and the general plan of the universe. i was directed to get a typewriter which writes by keys, like a piano. this i did and i applied myself industriously to learn it, but with only indifferent success. for two years more the angels propounded to me questions relative to heaven and earth, which no mortal could answer very intelligently. one morning the light str

small group of monks at the monastery at lichfield. one day chad called the brothers together and announced that he would soon leave them and admonished them to live together in peace and observe the rules of their order after his passing. he died later that day, and one of the brothers testified that he had earlier heard angelic singing coming from the oratory where the bishop had been praying. the angels had come to summon chad to heaven. his death occurred on march 2, 672. chad soon became a focus of healing stories, and he was eventually canonized. his relics (bones) were moved on several occasions but placed in a special shrine in the cathedral by the bishop of lichfield in the fourteenth century. when henry viii broke with the roman church and outlawed the cult of relics, the bones

mited powers of acquiring information from living persons or objects, thus making the conventional spiritualist explanation of discarnate entities unnecessary. supernatural an occurrence in violation of the known laws of nature. this was a concept that developed as the idea of a law-abiding nature was developed in the middle ages. the supernatural realm included both the heavenly world of god and the angels and the world of satan and demons. many leaders of the enlightenment of the eighteenth century were exponents of deism, a view that drew a sharp line between the natural and supernatural realms and denied that the two interact. spiritualism reacted to such a view: it suggested that phenomena that had previously been viewed as supernatural actually happened, and it also suggested that th

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bauer: foolish ideas do not make a fool if they did, we could all rightly be called fools. most of us believe in at least the hypothetical existence of other-than-human beings, whether we think of them as manifestations of the divine or as advanced extraterrestrials. at the same time most of us do not think of these beings as intelligences we are likely to encounter in quotidian reality. god and the angels are in heaven, spiritual entities who exist as objects of faith. extraterrestrials, though not gods, exist in much the same way, as beings who science fiction writers and scientists such as the late carl sagan theorize may be out there somewhere in deep space, though so far away that no direct evidence supports the proposition. when devout individuals report feeling the presence of god

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hrough all creation s circle stride; and wander on, with speed considered well, from heaven, through the world, to hell! prologue in heaven the lord. the heavenly hosts. afterwards mephistopheles. the three archangels come forward. raphael the sun intones, in ancient tourney with brother-spheres, a rival song, fulfilling its predestined journey, with march of thunder moves along. its aspect gives the angels power, though none can ever solve its ways; the lofty works beyond us tower, sublime as on the first of days. gabriel and swift beyond where knowledge ranges, earth s splendour whirls in circling flight; a paradise of brightness changes to awful shuddering depths of night. the sea foams up, widespread and surging against the rocks deep-sunken base, and rock and sea sweep onward, merging

ken base, and rock and sea sweep onward, merging in rushing spheres eternal race. michael and rival tempests roar and shatter, from sea to land, from land to sea, and, raging, form a circling fetter of deep, effective energy. there flames destruction, flashing, searing, before the crashing thunder s way; yet, lord, thy angels are revering the gentle progress of thy day. the three its aspect gives the angels power, since none can solve thee nor thy ways; and all thy works beyond us tower, sublime as on the first of days. mephistopheles since you, o lord, once more draw near and ask how all is getting on, and you were ever well content to see me here, you see me also midst your retinue. forgive, fine speeches i can never make, though all the circle look on me with scorn; pathos from me would

of lucifer? you are so fair i d truly like to kiss you; to say you come just right, i scarcely err. i feel so much at home, so natural, as though we d met a thousand times before; so stealthy, kitten-like, desirable, at every glance your beauty charms me more. oh, do draw near! grant me one glance, i pray! angels we re coming now, why do you shrink away? we re drawing near, remain now if you can. the angels hover around and occupy the whole space. mephistopheles [crowded into the proscenium. you call us damned spirits! you, you are yourselves the wizards true, for you seduce both maid and man. oh, what a damnable event! is this indeed love s element? a raging fire fills all my frame, my neck scarce feels the scorching flame.you hover to and fro- come down, i say, bestir your lovely limbs i

morning cloudlet hovers through the pine trees tossing hair! do i guess what life it covers? they are spirits young and fair. chorus of blessed boys. tell us, father, whither go we? tell us, kind one, who are we? happy are we all, that know we; sweet, oh, sweet it is to be. pater seraphicus. boys! at midnight born, with only halfway opened sense and brain, straightway lost to parents lonely, for the angels sweetest gain. if ye feel that in this place is one who loves, then hither fare; but of earth s rude ways no traces do ye happy spirits bear. in mine eyes descend, pray choose them, organs meet for earthly sphere; as your own eyes ye can use them, gaze upon this landscape here. he receives them into himself. those are trees, and cliffs are yonder, there a stream that downward leaps, rol

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

he consciousness of small and vast face, and to pierce the profound spiritual mysteries alluded to in the torah and other primary sources. many religious students of the qabalah confuse the intentions of the mystical qabalah with the necessity to cultivate a high degree of levitical purity and righteousness required to ascend the column of the right on the tree of life, which is called the way of the angels of elohim. such levitical purity is not required to the ascend of the central column of the tree, and the rigid rabbinical restrictions regarding the study of the qabalah only within the context of orthodox halachic observance are not necessarily relevant to the purely yogic intentions of the mystical qabalah. the distinctions and terms regarding the different paths up the tree will be

religions that center primarily upon a conventional, dualistic understanding of scriptures, the principal intention of the majority of religious jews is to cultivate purity and righteousness for the redemption of their souls and to secure a place in heaven in the company of the righteous. from a qabalistic perspective, this would correspond to ascending the tree via the column of the right way of the angels of elohim) to become like angels and gain access to the lower heavens. while many contemporary religious students of the jewish kabbalah make pretense to mystical aspirations, it has become more of an intellectual exercise than the active pursuit of mystical awakening for most of them. the small minority who do aspire to mystical awakening are an eclectic group. they range from mainstre

of divine names, lists of names of metatron, and allusions to mystical states associated with ascending the tree. the most prominent merkabah sections describe the ascension and transformation of enoch ben yared into metatron, known as the youth (rn, nar) to whom the lord hvhy revealed the deepest secrets, and whom the lord hvhy made the operational manager of this universe.19 metatron, chief of the angels, is referred to in the tanakh (notably in proverbs 22.6 and job 32.6, as well as the zohar (i.223b. iii enoch, the hebrew book of enoch, contains a long discourse on the ascension of the celestial chariot by rabbi ishmael, the last high priest before the destruction of the first temple of jerusalem. the ascension of rabbi ishmael drew vigorous protests from some of the high angels, who

or other of the two side columns. the working trees of the saints and wizards involve the use of all three columns, but ascend in opposite directions. the perfect trees are mystical allusions to self-realized souls and forms of divine incarnations. 3' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8, 6 !7 '0, 6. 0 '7 the working trees that exclusively involve the columns of the right and left are respectively called the way of the angels of elohim and the way of the angels of destruction. the ways of the angels of elohim and the angels of destruction both involve mastering endlessly counteractive, self-enforcing rules that govern mazal (alzm, fate, sans. karma) and acquiring power under conditional intent. the way of the angels of elohim (see figure 4.1) is also called the right-handed path, and those who traverse it ar

traverse it are often referred to as white magicians. they engage in disciplines, routines of behavior, and rituals intended to cultivate love of the lord hvhy, righteousness, and purity in order to pass the inspection of the gatekeepers who guard the column of the right on the tree. attachment to their righteousness, goodness, and their priestcraft keeps those who ascend the tree via the way of the angels of elohim in the right column, and generally preempts them from repositioning into the central column. white magicians use the name hvhy and other power names to invoke powerful angels and to manifest and use creative powers. most orthodox religious jews also cultivate love, righteousness, and levitical purity to be able to ascend the column of the right and attain virtual angelic state

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

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

ts, by which, however, they usually mean that they are only against bad uses of such knowledge, not their own good uses. the universe is to be divided, says agrippa in the first two chapters of his first book, into three worlds, the elemental world, the celestial world, the intellectual world. each world receives influences from the one above it, so that the virtue of the creator descends through the angels in the intellectual world, to the stars in the celestial world, and thence to the elements and to all things composed of them in the elemental world, animals, plants, metals, stones, and so on. magicians think that we can make the same progress upwards, and draw the virtues of the upper world down to us by manipulating the lower ones. they try to discover the virtues of the elemental wo

future. agrippa is aiming at the full demonic magic of the asckpius, going far beyond the mild neoplatonised magic of ficino which he has been describing in the earlier chapters. he knows that there is an evil kind of this magic, practised by "gnostic magicians" and possibly by the templars, but adds that everyone knows that a pure spirit with mystical prayers and pious mortifications can attract the angels of heaven, and therefore it cannot be doubted that certain terrestrial substances used in a good way can attract the divinities.2 there follow chapters on fascination, poisons, fumigations (perfumes sympathetic to the planets and how to make them, unguents and philtres, rings,3 and an interesting chapter on light.4 light descends from the father to the son and the holy spirit, thence to

he angels of heaven, and therefore it cannot be doubted that certain terrestrial substances used in a good way can attract the divinities.2 there follow chapters on fascination, poisons, fumigations (perfumes sympathetic to the planets and how to make them, unguents and philtres, rings,3 and an interesting chapter on light.4 light descends from the father to the son and the holy spirit, thence to the angels, the celestial bodies, to fire, to man in the light of reason and knowledge of divine things, to the fantasy, and it communicates itself to luminous bodies as colour, after which follows the list of the colours of the planets. then we have gestures related to the planets, divinations, geomancy, hydromancy, aeromancy, pyromancy, furor and the power of the melancholy humour. there is then

estial virtue, or a heroic, animastic, demonic, or angelic virtue. but who can give soul to an image, life to stone, metal, wood or wax? and who can make children of abraham come out of stones? truly this secret is not known to the thick-witted worker. and no one has such powers but he who has cohabited with the elements, vanquished nature, mounted higher than the heavens, elevating himself above the angels to the archetype itself, with whom he then becomes co-operator and can do all things.1 which shows how far, far behind him agrippa has left the timid and pious ficino, who aimed only at doing natural magic in the elemental world, with just a spot of celestial magic from a few planetary talismans, used naturally. the agrippan magus aims at mounting up through all three worlds, the elemen

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

f the scarlet brother is one of dis-enfranchisement. what meaneth this? our brotherhood seeks recreation, thus it is that we are bound beyond time and space into the thrusting disarray of void. to establish a splotch of black amid the white. the inverse spaces bring calamity into their boring tunnels. the point of crossover is the star of daath. we leap and propel our light (under the guidance of the angels) into ideo-spheres and vacuity. a transmutation, ex-nihilo. how this is accomplished is the domain of the given star and is approached quite naturally. the gift of babalon is that we are of her, and the shells of victory become unraveled. this appears paradoxical at first, for she is zos complete. but the schizophrenic shards have a new facet about them, many as a matter of fact. when b

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h he absorbed into his body was used solely for the purpose of growing, until the time of propagation came, when a new budding body was cast off to grow also. there was no incentive to action, but if there had been, man would have had no mind or will to direct it. for the emancipation of humanity from this negative condition, one-half of the creative force was turned upward under the direction of the angels for the purpose of building a larynx and a brain, that man might learn to create by thought as do the divine hierarchies, and express the creative thought in words. thus man ceased to be physically hermaphrodite and became uni-sexual. he can no longer create from himself physically as do the hermaphrodite plants, nor psychically as do the elohim, the male-female hierarchs, in whose imag

t time, an unenviable intermediate position between the plant and the god. at the time when one half of the human sex force was diverted for the purpose of building a brain, men were helpless and lacking in knowledge of how to overcome conditions. they did not even have the consciousness to know that there was a difficulty, and had no outside help been given the race must have died out. therefore the angels from the moon, who were the guardians of mankind, herded the sexes together in great temples at times when the interplanetary lines of force were propitious to propagation and thus they perpetuated the race. it was also proposed that when the brain had been completed, the lords of mercury, elder brothers of our present humanity who excelled in intelligence, should teach us how to use th

moon period, who lived upon the planet mars. they needed a physical field of action, but were unable to create one for themselves, hence for selfish reasons they taught humanity how by cooperation of the sexes a new body may be created at any time; and in order to give an incentive they instilled into mankind the animalistic passionate nature which we now possess. thus to the ancient alchemists, the angels from the moon which rules the saline tides of the sea were designated by the term "salt" they had found that a certain amount of salt in the blood is necessary to the mental processes, also that excess salt in the blood produces insanity, as best proven by the experiences of shipwrecked sailors who become lunatics when they drink water containing the lunar element salt. thus also they e

usive of all metals. it will penetrate and evaporate through most substances with which it is brought in contact; and therefore they likened it to the lords of mercury who are past masters in penetrating the secrets of nature by the mind. mercury is also capable of freeing the spirit from its physical prison house. by the process of generation carried on at a propitious time under the guidance of the angels, man was treading the path from plant to god, following the highway of evolution as originally planned. from this path he strayed into the byways of degeneration, led by the lucifer spirits, and is therefore now as it were in a slough from which he cannot extricate himself save with the help of others further advanced than he. when this becomes apparent to him and he starts to search fo

able to propagate his species without assistance from anyone else. but one-half of the creative force has been temporarily diverted upwards to build a brain and larynx in order to enable him sometime to create by his own mind, to form thoughts and speak the word of power that shall make his thoughts flesh. three great creative hierarchies were particularly concerned in bringing about this change: the angels from the moon, the mercurians, and the lucifer spirits from mars. the alchemists connected the angels from the moon, which rules the saline tides, with the element salt, the lucifer spirits from mars with the element sulphur, and the mercurians with the metal mercury. they used this symbolic presentation partly because of the religious intolerance which made it unsafe to promulgate any

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ttleground of evolving spirits at various stages of evolution. the present angels were human in the moon period, and the highest initiate is the holy spirit (jehovah. as our humanity and the other kingdoms of life on earth are variously affected by the present elements, so that some like heat, others prefer cold, some thrive on moisture and others require dryness, so also in the moon period among the angels, some had affinity for water, others abhorred it and loved fire. the continued cycles of condensation and evaporation of the moisture surrounding the fiery center eventually caused incrustation, and it was the purpose of jehovah to mold this "red earth" translated adam, into forms wherein to imprison and quench the spirits of the fire. to this end, he issued the creative fiat, and the p

vah to mold this "red earth" translated adam, into forms wherein to imprison and quench the spirits of the fire. to this end, he issued the creative fiat, and the prototypes of fish, fowl and every living thing appeared, even including the primitive human form, which were created by his angels; thus he hoped to make all that lives and moves subservient to his will. against this plan a minority of the angels rebelled; they had too great an affinity for fire to bear contact with water, and refused to create the forms as ordered; but thereby they at the same time deprived themselves of an opportunity of evolution along the conventional lines, and became an anomaly in nature; furthermore, having repudiated the authority of jehovah, they must work out their own salvation in their own manner. ho

ore the uraeus or serpent symbol in the forehead as a sign of the source of their wisdom. as a consequence of this unauthorized use of the creative force, humanity ceased to be ethereal and crystallized into the coats of skin or physical body which now hides from them the gods who dwell in the invisible realms; and great was their sorrow at this loss. generation had been originally established by the angels under jehovah. it was then performed in great temples under propitious planetary conditions and parturition was then painless, as it is today among wild animals where the creative function is not abused for the purpose of gratifying the senses. degeneration resulted from the ignorant and unauthorized abuse inaugurated by the lucifer spirits. regeneration must be undertaken in order to r

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

e hall and the ritual room. as he pulls them to on ancient hinges, deer whispers- to the presence which occupies that space within "a thousand thank you's for the dancelathe secret wisdom of the qabalah a study in jewish mystical thought by j. f. c. fuller author of gyoga: a study of the mystical philosophy of the brahmins and buddhists h gthe beings who live below, say that god is on high; while the angels in heaven, say that god is on earth. h-zohar. agnz secret wisdom of the qabalah page 2 preface this small book is in no sense a treatise on the qabalah. instead, it is a speculative study on one of several secret doctrines which it contains, and, i believe, the key-doctrine of all the others. should this be correct, then it follows that, unless this doctrine is understood, the whole sym

ain-head of this doctrine is the zohar, or book of splendour, a vast jumbled commentary on the pentateuch, written partly in aramaic and partly in hebrew. tradition asserts that its author was rabbi simeon ben yohai, who lived in the second century a.d; of it ginsburg says: it was first taught by god himself to a select company of angels, who formed a theosophic school in paradise. after the fall the angels most graciously communicated this heavenly doctrine to the disobedient child of earth, to furnish the protoplasts with the means of returning to their pristine nobility and felicity. from adam it passed secret wisdom of the qabalah page 10 over to noah, and then to abraham, the friend of god, who emigrated with it to egypt, where the patriarch allowed a portion of this mysterious doctri

d some knowledge of it, and the other eastern nations could introduce it into their philosophical systems. moses, who was learned in all the wisdom of egypt, was first initiated into it in the land of his birth, but became most proficient in it during his wanderings in the wilderness, when he not only devoted to it the leisure hours of the whole forty years, but received lessons in it from one of the angels. by the aid of this mysterious science the lawgiver was enabled to solve the difficulties which arose during his management of the israelites, in spite of the pilgrimages, wars, and the frequent miseries of the nation. he covertly laid down the principles of this secret doctrine in the first four books of the pentateuch, but withheld them from deuteronomy. this constitutes the former th

ths of the world. the qabalah is consequently a universal philosophy, combining the eternal masculine and the eternal feminine, and cementing them into the eternally human. so it happens that wherever we search we find origins. thus in essenism we find qabalism. the essenes were not to divulge the secret doctrines to anyone. carefully to preserve the books belonging to their sect and the names of the angels or the mysteries connected with the tetragrammaton and the other names of god and the angels, comprised in the theosophy as well as with the cosmogony which also played so important a part among the jewish mystics and the kabbalists. 11 but long before the essenes existed lived the qabalah. aryan and chaldean esoteric doctrines percolated into it. in egypt, the mysteries of the sun god

metatron and constitutes the world of angels or spirits. as adam qadmon is the form of the ain soph, metatron is his garment and under his command come the myriads of the angelic hosts of the next world. secret wisdom of the qabalah page 33 plate 5: the zodiacal secret wisdom of the qabalah page 34 (3) yetzirah or the yetziratic world, the world of formation- the ten sephiroth of which represent the angels or intelligences of the stars and planets. the zohar says: for the servants [sephiroth] that serve the holy, blessed be he! it made the throne [the briatic world, and four supports [pillar of mildness] and six steps [pillars of mercy and justice] to the throne, together ten. the whole is like a cup of blessing (see diagram 2) diagram 2: the qabalistic chalice secret wisdom of the qabala

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

in the god-idea, hargrave jennings observes "in the conveyance of certain ideas to those who contemplate it, the pyramid boasts of prouder significance, and impresses with a hint of still more impenetrable mystery. we seem to gather dim supernatural ideas of the mighty mother of nature. that almost two-sexed entity, without a name--she of the veil which is never to be lifted, perhaps not even by the angels, for their knowledge is limited. in short, this tremendous abstraction, cybele, ideae, mater, isiac controller of the zodiacs, whatever she may be, has her representative in the half-buried sphinx even to our own day, watching the stars although nearly swallowed up in the engulphing sands"[58 [58] phallicism, p. 25. from the time when the two religious elements began to separate in the

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

you are self deceived and you are but wandering in a labyrinth with flowery borders which conceal perchance many noxious animals, snares, and foot holes. be not ambitious in the world's sense; strive forselfculture,not that you may be able to surpass your fellow,but work as they do, who are ambitious. sin and even death are alike avoidable,-the latter within limits.'mandoth not yield himself unto the angels nor unto deathutterly-saveonly through the weakness of his feeblewill'.cultivate a healthy mind and body, and so alone can you cultivate a powerful will: will is a plant of illimitable growth; but it willnot grow wild, it must be forced. never drift with the tide, decide upon every occasion, alwaysact-neversuffer a thing to occur. every failure to stand on your own basis, every time you

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t winter were given to the fratres of the study group. the last great work of robert fludd was hisphilosophicmoysaica,gouda, 1638. this great work he also translated into english and called itmosaicallphilosophy,but it was not printed until 1659.ittreats of divine wisdom as contrasted with human knowledge, and he discourses upon the true meaning of philosophy, and considers theology, the world of the angels, astronomy, meteorology, the science of healing, music, geometry, rhetoric and oratory, politics and on miracles. he then complains of several heathen philosophies, greek and arabian: but objects less to plato than to aristotle. he then explains at length his views of creation and of the realms of nature and man as described in the mosaic works and in the bible generally, and again reco

, cherubs, thrones and simple angels. saint paul appears to have recognized some such classifi255 cation, no doubt derived from his jewish wisdom; see romans viii. 38, and ephesians i. 21. gregory the great imagined that the existence of angels preceded the creation of our world, while augustine had it that they were created on the first day.thesecond synod of nice postulated an ethereal body for the angels as a vehicle for their spiritual actions; this was ina.d.787. in the curious tract called theshepherdofhermasit is assertedthateach man has a good and a bad angel concerned in his life. st ambrose recommended the invocation of angels, and a system of dedicating churches to angels grew up and has never been condemned by any church authority.inancient egypt there is no very definite menti

nd restricted forms of the gods of the upper andnetherwodds.theold arabian author murtadi gives the legend that the pyramids each had a guardian genius of angelic type, and that the great pyramid is held by a beautiful female who, however, drove mad every man who saw her.thespirit of the second126themagical masonpyramid is a nubian carrying a basket on his head and a censer in his hands.inchaldea the angels were called igigi, that is, spirits of heaven, and are related to the ribu, the divine princes.thelower ea the demiurgos or world maker (the reflection ofea-divinewisdom) gave names and assigned duties to them. angels were associated with birds, and the home of angels was poetically called the bird's nest. in ancient rome civilization the divinities were largely beings of an angelic nat

nged.inthe work of bartolocci i. 267, are given the following names as of the classes of angels according to the teaching of the most learned of the rabbis; chaioth hakodesh, ophanium, arelim, chashmalim, seraphim, melakim, elohim, beni elohim, cherubim and ishim. seven firmaments are described by name as their several dwelling places.itis also stated (see the talmudic 'erubin) that god consulted the angels as to whether man should be created, that opinions differed, and that the majority were against his creation. bereshith rabba adds that god then made adam without their knowledge; after which the angels then agreed that as man had been created it was his duty to be virtuous.injalkutchadash it is stated that there is nothing in the worid which has not its angel by whose words and laws it

ctised celibacy, bathed and put on white garments before each meal; they refused to look at statues of men and to use coined money because of the human forms there figured; and they held all property in common; they studied the books of moses,i.e.,the torah, as being of supreme importance, explained them as allegorical, and taught doctrines resembling those of the kabalah in regard to jehovah and the angels; they may have practised healing the sick (like the therapeuue, and they made some claims to possessing magical divine powers: they also lived in expectation of the coming of a messiah. there is not the236themagical masonslightest suggestion that they had any knowledge of architec255 ture or of masonry. they led a pastoral or agricultural life, and, like the therapeutre of egypt, they s

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eat disappointment occurred due to a misunderstanding of this prophecy. modern groups deriving from the adventists including seventh day adventists and branch davidians continue to believe that this date was significant and teach that in 1844 jesus entered the holy of holies in the israelite temple and began an investigative judgment of the dead. during the period from 1844 to an unspecified date the angels of the book of revelation will unveil their messages and mankind will go through great tribulations heading towards the second coming of jesus. this theology while in a language different from the egyptian heraldic cycle is basically identical. the energy of christ can be related to the solar force which meditates the astrological cycles and hence we can easily relate the quasi- christi

incarnation until all earthly actions have been experienced. the gnostic handbook page 81 rather than continuing to analyse each verse one by one, let me just give you a couple by themselves to consider. but they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of god, being the children of the resurrection. now that the dead are raised, even moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the lord the god of abraham, and the god of isaac, and the god of jacob. luke 20:35-37. but thou, bethlehem ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in israe

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

e malefic to the human lifestream, may wish to keep him in bondage. these other realities, then, are the subject of our next chapter. x gnostic theurgy page 22 when considering the esoteric traditions regarding man and the universe it is sometimes difficult to get a handle on what these various planes, dimensions and worlds really mean. at times the ancient tabulations can seem more like counting the angels on the head of a pin than anything of real practical value. however, in the twentieth century as research into holography and light revealed many secrets, these ancient traditions suddenly began to make a lot more sense. in this lesson and the one following we are going to examine both the ancient and modern basis for a multidimensional model of the universe and man. the scientific basi

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF FIRE

thee- replete with the numberless forms wherewith thou hast filled it from the beginning. from this spirit arise those most holy kings, who are around thy throne and who compose thy court. o universal father, one and alone! father alike of immortals and of mortals. thou hast specially created powers similar unto thy thought eternal and unto thy venerable essence. thou hast established them above the angels who announce thy will to the world. lastly, thou hast created us as a third order in our elemental empire. there our continual exercise is to praise and to adore thy desires: there we ceaselessly burn with eternal aspiration unto thee! o father! o mother of mothers! o archetype eternal of maternity and of love! o son, the flower of all sons! form of all forms! soul, spirit, harmony and

GOLDEN DAWN LESSER BANISHING RITUAL OF THE PENTAGRAM LBRP

ir existence and function is based not only the deepest sense of individuality but the basis of matter itself, and its concomitants of energy and physical life. these monads are at the root of the cell as of a mineral, brain matter as well as of vegetable life. the result of the formulation of the circle of fire and the flaming pentagrams, the vibration of the god-names and the invocation of both the angels of the cardinal points and the holy guardian angel, is that gradually the coarser cells or monadic atoms are ejected from the sphere of consciousness. to take their place other lives, more sensitive and refined, of a finer grade of spiritual substance, are attracted to the sphere of being, and infused into the very substance of the physical and invisible constitution. thus a vital purif

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eth thee replete with the mumberless forms wherewith thou hast filled it from the beginning. from this spirit arise those most holy kings who are around thy throne, and who compose thy court. o universal father, one and alone! father alike of immortals and mortals. thou hast especially created powers similar unto thy thought eternal and unto thy venerable essence. thou hast established them above the angels who announce thy will to the world. lastly, thou hast created us as a third order in our elemental empire. there our continual exercise is to praise and to adore thy desires; there we ceaselessy burn with eternal aspirations unto thee, o father! o mother of mothers! o archetype eternal of maternity and love! o son, the flower of all sons! form of all forms! soul, spirit, harmony, and nu

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rapt is the receptacle of the forces of the ten sephiroth and the twenty-two paths of the tree of life. the center of the rose is white and this looks no more than just a small dot. it is the reflected spiritual brightness and the unity of rtk. beneath the white center of rtk is the red rose of five petals and the golden cross of six squares with four brightly painted green rays projecting out at the angels of the cross. thus, we have our order, the rosea rubea et aurea crucis. combined together, they are the symbols of the "receiving force" just below the rose and above the bottom l arm is a white section. on it is placed a hexagram with the symbols of the planets. they are placed in the order of the supreme ritual of the hexagram. each arm has an appropriate colored pentagram on it. at t

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disaster. eighteen of the first nineteen calls are verbally expressed, and are attributed or are to be used in conjunction with the tablet of union, and the four enochian tablets of the terrestrial watchtowers. key 1: this key is used to activate the entire tablet of union. it is to be used for all invocations of the various angels of the tablet of union. this key is not used in the invocation of the angels that may be extracted from the four watchtower tablets. key 2: utilize this key to activate the spiritual forces and angels of the column e.h.n.b. the activation of the far left-hand column on the tablet of union is extremely important and must precede the calls to be utilized for all invocations of the angels of the tablet of union. in the same manner as the first key, it is not to be

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS T3

disaster. eighteen of the first nineteen calls are verbally expressed, and are attributed or are to be used in conjunction with the tablet of union, and the four enochian tablets of the terrestrial watchtowers. key 1: this key is used to activate the entire tablet of union. it is to be used for all invocations of the various angels of the tablet of union. this key is not used in the invocation of the angels that may be extracted from the four watchtower tablets. key 2: utilize this key to activate the spiritual forces and angels of the column e.h.n.b. the activation of the far left-hand column on the tablet of union is extremely important and must precede the calls to be utilized for all invocations of the angels of the tablet of union. in the same manner as the first key, it is not to be

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS U7

the sphere of its operation is that of cmc, the solar light, and bestoweth life, light and brilliancy in metallic matter, and it ruleth the sphere of action of the a. and tudw hwla hwhy is a god of knowledge and wisdom, ruling over the light of the universe; and its archangel is lapr, the prince of \yklm that is kings or angelic kings, who are also called the order of virtues, angels and rulers. the angels aynp and aylp are also referred unto this sephira. it especially rules the mineral world. the beams of dsj and of trapt meet in jxn and thence in jxn arises a green, pure, brilliant liquid, and gleaming like an emerald. and the sphere of its operation is that of hgwn of external splendor, producing zeal, love, harmony, and it ruleth the sphere of action of the planet c and the nature of

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM17

are far of another mind, esteeming little the making of gold, which is but a parergon, for besides that they have a thousand better things. we say with our loving father c.r.c, phy. aurum nisi quantum aurum, for unto him the whole nature is detected; he doth not rejoice that he can make gold, and that, as saith christ, the devils are obedient unto him, but is glad that he seeth the heavens open, the angels of god ascending and descending, and his name written in the book of life (in den boecke des levens. also we testify that, under the name of chymia, many books and pictures are set forth in contumeliam gloriae dei, as we will name them in their due season, and will give to the pure-hearted a catalogue or register of them. we pray all learned men to take heed of this kind of books, for t

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

he universe, and i hear the voice of fire. trace the fire pentagram before you, and then trace a flaming red enochian letter k (k) within it. maintain this flaming letter and say, oip-teaa-pdoke (oh-ee-peh teh-ah-ah peh-doh-keh) in the names and letters of the great southern quadrangle, i invoke you, angels of the watchtower of the south. then vibrate the great holy narre of this watchtower. feel the angels of the watchtower of fire rising up from within you. step 3. take your cup in your hand. turn toward the watchtower of water in the west. sprinkle some water and say, now therefore 1, a priest of fire, sprinkle lustral waters of the sea, and hear the wrath of waves upon the shore; the voice of water, now arad evermore. stand facing the watchtower of water. trace the pentagram of water 8

ter, now arad evermore. stand facing the watchtower of water. trace the pentagram of water 89 before you. trace a blue enochian letter q( 1 j) within it. face the letter and say, mph-arsl-gaiol (em-peh-heh ar-ess-el gah-ee-oh-leh) in the names arad letters of the great western quadrangle, 1 invoke you, angels of the watchtower of the west. then vibrate the great holy name of this watchtower. feel the angels of the watchtower of water ris ng up from within you. step 4. take your dagger in your hand. turn toward the watchtower of air in the east. strike the air three times an.d say, my mirad extends through realms of air. in formless air comes the vision and the voice; flashing, bounding, revolving, it whirls forth, crying aloud. stand facing the watchtower of air. trace the invoking pentagr

irls forth, crying aloud. stand facing the watchtower of air. trace the invoking pentagram of air before you. trace a yellow enochian letter h( r) within it. face the letter and say, oro-ibah-aozpi (oh-roh ee-bah aah-oh-zod-pee) in the names and letters of the great eastern quadrangle, 90 1 invoke you, angels of the watchtower of the east. then vibrate the great holy name of this watchtower. feel the angels of the watchtower of air rising up from within you. step 5. take your pentagram and turn to the watchtower of earth in the north. shake the pentagram three times and say, i stoop clown into a world of darkness wherein lies unknown depths and hades shroud in gloom, delighting in senseless images; a black ever-rolling abyss, a voice both mute and void. stand facing the watchtower of earth

abyss, a voice both mute and void. stand facing the watchtower of earth. trace the pentagram of earth before you. trace the enochian letter x) within it. face the letter and say, mor-dial-hktga (moh-ar dee-ah-leh heh-keh-teh-gah) in the names and letters of the great northern quadrangle, i invoke you, angels of the watchtower of the north. then vibrate the great holy name of this watchtower. feel the angels of the watchtower of earth rising up from within you. step 6. stand facing the east and trace the active and passive invoking pentagrams of spirit (reference enochian magic page 89) while saying, exarp (ehtz-ar-peh) bitom (bee-toh-meh) nanta (nah-en-tah) hkoma (heh-koh-rnah) in the names and letters of the mystical tablet of union, i invoke you, angels who are divine forces of the spiri

step 6. stand facing the east and trace the active and passive invoking pentagrams of spirit (reference enochian magic page 89) while saying, exarp (ehtz-ar-peh) bitom (bee-toh-meh) nanta (nah-en-tah) hkoma (heh-koh-rnah) in the names and letters of the mystical tablet of union, i invoke you, angels who are divine forces of the spirit of life. 91 then vibrate the four names of the elements. feel the angels of the tablet of union rising up from within you. step 7. make the sigas of the rending of the veil (reference "rending and closing the veil" later in this manual) and say, i invoke you, angels of the celestial spheres, whose dwelling is in the invisible. you are the guardians of the cates of the universe. may you also be the guardians of this mystic sphere. keep away the evil and the u

GRIFFIN DAVID MAGICAL EVOCATION OF THE AVERSE FORCES

ained in this book, one for each of the sephirothic, zodiacal, planetary, and elemental forces. the aim of evocation the true function of the magical evocation of the averse forces lies concealed in the book of the sacred magic of abra-melin the mage. the abra-melin working consists of a six-month invocation of the holy guardian angel of the magician, followed by several days of the invocation of the angels, and finally by several days of the evocation of the averse forces. this is a far different system than those outlined in other grimoires, most of which seek demonic aid for a laundry list of trivial purposes like finding buried treasure. in the abra-melin ritual, the primary aim of evocation of the averse forces is to solicit an oath of obedience from them to the magician's holy guardi

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

handle came off, and the poor man dropt into hell. the pikeman or blacksmith in the fairy-tale got on better by flinging his knapsack or apron (sledgehammer in asbiornsen p. 1 36 is still more archaic) into heaven. of course these wanderings of the saviour and one of his disciples have something in common with the journeys of jesus and his apostles in judea, the dwarf visitor might be compared to the angels who announced god's mercies and judgments to abraham and lot, as philemon and baucis have a certain resemblance to abraham and sarah; but the harmony with heathen legend is incomparably fuller and stronger. the angels were simply messengers; our mythology, like the greek and indian, means here an actual avatara of deity itself. another example, of smaller compass, but equally instructiv

with all his army a long time ago; but when his heard has grown three times round the table at which he sits, he will come out again with all his men. once a poor boy, who went about the neighbourhood selling rolls, met an old man on the mountain, and complained that he could not sell much' i will 1 this skittle-playing sounds like rolling tliunder (p. 167. they say in n. germ, when it thunders' the angels are playing at bowls' 2 not gouchsbetg nor kaukasus (p (ksl; but rather the mt of the progenitor guogo (guggiini, z. f. d. a. 1, 28, or of the beetle (guegi, p. 183. meichelb. 1182 ad guoginhiisun; trad. fuld. 2, 33 in gougeleibu. 954 teanslation. shew thee a place/ said the manj' where thou canst bring thy rolls every day, but thou must tell no man thereof/ he then led the boy into the

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

rtible terms, especially where the former has laid aside his clumsiness. the same with a number of other resemblances between the two. the devil is described as many-headed like the giant, also, it is true, like the dragon and the hellhound. wherever the devil s hand clutches or his foot treads, indelible traces imprint themselves even on the hardest stone. the titans chased from olympus resemble the angels thrust out of heaven and changed into devils. the abode of the giants, like that of heathens and devils in general (p. 34, is supposed to be in the north: when freyr looks from heaven toward lotunheim (saem. 81) and spies the fair giantess, this is expressed in snorri 39 by( freyr leit i nor&rcett. in the danish folk-song of the stolen hammer, thorr appears as tord (thunder) af hafsgaar

, and his saddle buried with him, so that he could ride to walhalla. it was thought that to convey the corpse by any road but the traditional one (the hellweg, p. 801) was bad for the soul of the deceased, ledebur s archiv 5, 369 (see suppl. the poems of the mid. ages occasionally describe a conflict of angels and devils round the parting soul, each trying to take possession of it. at the head of the angels is an archangel, usually michael, who, as we shall see in chap. xxviii, has also the task of weighing souls; sometimes he is called cherubim: vor dem tievel nam der sele war der erzengel kerubin, he saw the soul first, wh. 49, 10. laza laza tengeln! da wart von den engeln 1 the lithuanians bury or burn with the dead the claws of a lynx or bear, in the belief that the soul has to climb u

GRIMOIRE OF TURIEL

whole company of heaven, by all the holy names of god, do swear and bind myself unto thee, by all the contents of god s sacred writ, by the incarnation, death and passion, resurrection, and glorious ascension of jesus christ, by all the holy sacraments, by the mercy of god, by the glory and eyes of heaven, by the forgiveness of sin, and hope of eternal salvation, by the great day of doom, by all the angels and archangels, seraphim, cherubim, dominations, thrones, principalities, powers, and virtues, patriarchs, prophets, saints, martyrs, innocents, and all others of the blessed and glorious company of heaven, and by al! the sacred powers and virtues above rehearsed, and by whatever is holy and binding, thus do i swear now, and promise unto thee that i will hasten unto thee, and appear cle

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

r thatpurposeieveryet didsee.this sarah lived for a long time, even until her death, with one mrs stockman, in the isle of purbeck, and died about sixteen years since. her mistress one time being desirous to accompany her mother, the lady beaconsfield, unto london, who lived twelve miles from her habitation, caused sarah to inspect her crystal, to see if she, viz, her mother was gone, yea or not; the angels appeared and shewed her mother opening a trunk and taking out a red waistcoat, whereby she perceived she was not gone. next day she went to her mother's and there, as she entered the chamber, she was opening a trunk, and had a red waistcoat in her hand' lilly wrote the accountofhis life to and by the request of elias ashmole (the founder of the ashmolean museum, oxford) and in reference

ing though loathing the crime.theduration of punishment is longer than from the beginning to the end of the whole world.crystalms .vol.7,p.7before the earth was made about2,000angels were created, formed in the image of their maker, there was no distinction between them, they were angels of the highest order. when the earth was made and the first man it was the intention of the divine master that the angels should have the guardianship of those upon earth and the whole generation of their offspring. one of these angels was expelled from the highest orders for his endeavours to create in the minds of the others to become the rulers entirely of the earth, in this he succeeded partially, but over the majority he had no influence. he was degraded for this but in no other way punished. he then

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

our solar system (like every other such system in the millions of others in cosmos) and even our earth, has its own program of manifestations differing from the respective programs of all others. we speak of the inhabitants of other planets and imagine that if they are men, i.e, thinking entities, they must be as we are. the fancy of poets and painters and sculptors never fails to represent even the angels as a beautiful copy of man-plus wings. we say that all this is an error and a delusion; because, if on this little earth alone one finds such a diversity in its flora, fauna, and mankind-from the seaweed to the cedar of lebanon, from the jellyfish to the elephant, from the bushman and negro to the apollo belvedere-alter the conditions cosmic and planetary, and there must be as a result

HEPTAMERON

s be made. in the inner circle let there be written four divine names with crosses interposed in the middle of the circle; to wit, towards the east let there be written alpha, and towards the west let there be written omega; and let a cross divide the middle of the circle. when the circle is thus finished, according to the rule now before written, you shall proceed. of the names of the hours, and the angels ruling them. it is also to be known, that the angels do rule the hours in a successive order, according to the course of the heavens, and planets unto which they are subject; so that that spirit which governeth the day, ruleth also the first hour of the day; the second from this governeth the second hour; the third; the third hour, and so consequentkly: and when seven planets and hours

unto which they are subject; so that that spirit which governeth the day, ruleth also the first hour of the day; the second from this governeth the second hour; the third; the third hour, and so consequentkly: and when seven planets and hours have made their revolution, it returneth again to the first which ruleth the day. therefore we shall first speak of the names of the hours. of the names of the angels and their sigils, it shall be spoken in their proper places. now let us take a view of the names of the times. a year therefore is fourfold, and is divided into the spring, summer, harvest and winter; the names whereof are these. hours of the day. hours of the night. 1. yayn. 1. beron. 2. janor. 2. barol. 3. nasnia. 3. thanu. 4. salla. 4. athir. 5. sadedali. 5. mathon. 6. thamur. 6. ran

hereof are these. hours of the day. hours of the night. 1. yayn. 1. beron. 2. janor. 2. barol. 3. nasnia. 3. thanu. 4. salla. 4. athir. 5. sadedali. 5. mathon. 6. thamur. 6. rana. 7. ourer. 7. netos. 8. thamic. 8. tafrac. 9. neron. 9. sassur. 10. jayon. 10. aglo. 11. abai. 11. calerna. 12. natalon. 12. salam. the spring. talvi. the summer. casmaran. autumne. ardarael. winter. farlas. heptameron 3 the angels of the spring. caratasa. core. amatiel. commissoros. the head of the signe of the spring. spugliguel. the name of the earth in the spring. amadai. the names of the sun and moon in the spring. the angels of the summer. gargatel. tariel. gaviel. the head of the signe of the summer. tubiel. the name of the earth in summer. festativi. the names of the sun and moon in summer. the angels of a

. gaviel. the head of the signe of the summer. tubiel. the name of the earth in summer. festativi. the names of the sun and moon in summer. the angels of autumne. tarquam. guabarel. the head of the signe of autumne. tarquaret. the name of the earth in autumne. rabianara. the sun. the moon. abraym. agusita. the sun. the moon. athemay. armatus. heptameron 4 the names of the sun and moon in autumne. the angels of winter. amabael. ctarari. the head of the signe of winter. altarib. the name of the earth in winter. geremiah. the names of the sun and moon in winter. the consecrations and benedictions: and first of the benediction of the circle. when the circle is ritely perfected, sprinkle the same with holy or purging water, and say, thou shalt purge me with hysop (o lord) and i shall be clean:

saying, asperges me domine &c [wash me o lord &c] the master therefore ought to be purified with fasting, chastity, and abstinency from all luxury the space of three whole dayes before the day of the operation. and on the day that he would do the work, being clothed with pure garments, and furnished with pentacles, perfumes, and other things necessary hereunto, let him enter the circle, and call the angels from the four parts of the world, which do govern the seven planets the seven dayes of the week, colours and metals; whose name you shall see in their places. and with bended knees invocating the said angels particularly, let him say, o angels supradicti, estote adjutores me petitioni& in adjutorium mihi, in meis rebus& petitionibus. then let him call the angels from the four parts of t

ISIS UNVEILED

ir own views, their religion, with its present dogmas, would have been impossible? the word rasit, once taught in its true sense of the principle and not the beginning, and the anathematized doc- 02. lae.eil 63. ta* cii^ qf oxf. xi. xzzil digitizecoy google the fib5t emanation of ain-soph 37 trine of emanations accepted, the position of the second trinitarian per- sonage becomes untenable. for if the angels are the^irsf divine emana- tions from the divine substance, and were in existence b^ore the second principle, then the anthropomorphized son is at best an emanation like themselves, and cannot be god hypostaiwiuy any more than our visible works are ourselves. that these metaphysical subtleties never entered into the head of the honest-minded, sincere paul, is evident; as it is fur- ther

died spirits of the heroes and sages were termed gods by the ancients. hence the accusation of polytheism and idolatry on the part of those who were the first to anthropomorphize the holiest and purest abstractions of their forefathers. 343. pialnu, viii, 6. 344. this contiulictioii, which ia mttributed to paul in b^ima, by tnaliing him say of jesus in chapter i, 4 "being nuule o naua better than the angels" and then im- mettibteljr stkting in chapter ii, 9 "but we see jcaiu, who wu maiu a liue unter than the taffit" shows how unacrupulouaiy the writings li the apostles, if they ever wiote any, were tanqferectwith. digilizocb, google 1541 isis vnveilq) the real and hidden sense of this doctrine waa known to all the initiatea. the tanaim imparted it to their elect ones, the isarim, to the s

greeks call noiu. from her emanated the word; from the word, providence; from providence, virtue and wisdom; from these two again, princip d itiea^ power$ and angdt were made; thence infinite productions and emiaaioqs of angels. among the lowest angels, indeed, and those that made this world, he sets lah of all the god of the jews, whom he denies to be god himaelf, ftibrming that he is but one of the angels" it would be equally useless to refer to the direct apostles of christ, and show them as holding in their controversies that jesus never made any di ference between his 'father' and the 'lord-god' of mosea. for the cletnmiine homiliea, in which occur the greatest argumentations upon the subject, as shown in the disputations alleged to have taken [jace between peter and simon the magicia

by disappointed hopes as a result, to testify to his immediate coming. the behef that the 'last times' had come was natural, when once the coming of king messiah had been acknowledged. the second peculiarity is found in the fact that the propaeej/ coidd have been accepted at all, when even its approximate determination is a direct contradiction of maik ^o makes jesus distinctly state that neither the angels, nor the son himself, know of that day or that hour^ we might add that as the belief undeniably originated with the apoauypte, it ought to be a self-evident proof that it belonged to the calculations peculiar to the kabalists and the pagan sanctuaries. it was the secret computation of a cycle, which according to their reckoning was ending toward the latter part of the first century. it

d powers far transcending those of the angelic host; for they were the direct emanations of adam kadmon, the primitive man, the macrocosm; while the present humani- ty is several degrees removed even from the earthly adam, who was tite microcosm, or 'the little world' ze'ir anphi, the mystical figure of the man, consists of 243 numbers, and we see in the circles which follow each other that it is the angels which emanated from the 'primi- 714. zolur. ni, p. 4s a; anuterdam ed. digitizecoy google the pall op adau 277 tive man' oot the sepbiroth from angels. hence man was intended from the first to be a being of both a progressive and retrogressive nature. beginning at the apex of the divine cycle, he gradually began receding from the center of li^t, acquiring at every new and lower sphere o

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

me. how do we see the world. what do we want for humanity. for our children, our future? divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 177 this step requires us to get clear so that the universal intelligence that surrounds us can support us more easily. step 8. next, we identify the target. for example, in answering my call to be in a sanctuary at the beach, i assigned the angels to find me the perfect place, giving them a detailed list of my requirements. it took them 2 weeks. so, obviously the need to relocate was to be imminent. then having located and secured a new living field, i began field extensions and preparations. while my target was the tuning of my new apartment to a supportive and nourishing grid, a global target, may be creating a love field for t

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

in health into condensating, solid splendour, a produce again to be sown, to fructify into fresh harvests the alchemist, or prince of chemists, who can do this, laughs at the hoards of kings. by the time that the artist is thus so much more than man, is he the less desirous of the gratifying things to the ordinary man. grandeur fades to him before such high intellectual grandeur. he is nearer to the angels, and the world has sunk infinitely below. his is the sky, and the bright questions as to utilities. 15 shapes of the clouds of the sky; which he is going to convert, perhaps, into prisms, showering solid triumphs. he can well leave to common man his acres of mud, and the turbid pools spotted over them like the shining, showy discs of a snake. man, under these enlightened philosophical c

up from abstruse sigmas, or the application of rosicrucianism on its hieroglyphic and representative side. 162 the rosicrucians. heraldic and figurative chart, according to the oldest heraldic systems (no. 1 (musical notes also) region elementary, whereon he saw angels ascending anddescending: and he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of god ascending and descendingon it (genesisxxviii. jacob s ladder 12 also thechromatic scale of sevenmusicalnotes, the celebrated seal of solomon (or sword of solomon, or gladius of saint michael the archangel (with the celebrated seal of solomon, he solomon thegenii) it is tehmost potentcabalistic, or talismanic, sign. linea viridis seu benedicata viriditas: mastered y. 1. violet (re

e of the moderns! the art of the gold-makers. 193 means of end. in the abstract sense, and apart from our knowledge of man as man, the rosicrucians contended that diseases are not necessarily incidental to the body, and that death may be said to have become an imported accident into the scheme of things: our ideas being erroneous as to the original design in regard of us. man was to have lived as the angels, of an impregnable, impassible vitality, taking his respiration, not by short snatches, as it were, but as out of the great cup of the centuries. he was to be the spectator of nature not nature his spectator. the real objects of the adepts were, in truth, to remain no longer slaves to those things supposed to be necessities, but, by the assistance of heaven, to remove back to heaven s o

postles. his right hand is raised in the act of the holy sign, whilst his left clasps the chalice of the s.s, or sacrament of wine; in the cup is a salamander, signifying the h.g. this is st. john the 242 the rosicrucians. apostle, the author of the apocalypse; or the sanctus spiritus, who baptises in the mystic eucharist with the holy ghost and with fire. fig. 174. the following are the names of the angels of the planets, according to the gnostics. at the beginning of all things, is jehovah (sabaoth, victory; at the end, the old serpent (ophis. between these are the seraphim (intelligences) and cherubim (benevolences, and their representatives. origen calls the sun, adonai; the moon, lao; jupiter, eloi; mars, sabao; orai, venus; astaphai, mercury; ildabaoth, saturn. all this is gnostic hi

called basilideans, who were properly ophites, arose in the second century, deriving their name from basilides, the chief of the egyptian gnostics. they taught that in the beginning there were seven beings, or ons, of a most excellent nature; in whom we recognise the cabalistic seven spirits before the throne. two of these first ons, called dynamis and sophia that is, power and wisdom engendered the angels of the highest order. the name of abraxas, the deity of the gnostics, is made up of the numerical letters representing the total 365 the aggregate of days of the solar year. the manifesting of abrasax rests in his son, nus (knowledge) or christ, the chief of the ons, who descended to earth and assumed the form of man; was baptized, and crucified in appearance (mosheim s eccles. hist. vo

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

d are less likely to be using the neutral. look for them in the northern sky on dark nights and expect them to look exactly like small comets without tails, or like a small nebula. their rapid motions will give away their nature. watch the regions of terminator on the moon for lunar surface activity. you might get a surprise "what are we (humans) that thou hast placed us only a little "lower than the angels" are ufo's russian the october 1946, issue of the intelligence digest said: the soviets have ordered the building of a special centre of astronomical research--in which will be a number of institutes, observatories and special airdromes where flying observatories, special balloons and airships are to be based for carrying out protracted studies at high altitudes. 44 special machinery wa

KETAB E SIYAH

n mesopotamian culture, how and why they were called thus and with which gods they were related to. translated by raul veede 30 pl name mul.apin, en .ma, horoscopes minor sources r sin d3ot. 464 4 apostacy hear me o my prophet! when yet was the world of old new-born and the first winter's snow, like blossom had not yet fallen, shrouding the grass of the first spring, then was i the noblest of all the angels, the noble potentates of supreme heaven. to god alone was my fealty owed, and all others, to me, theirs. for, of all the shining sons of heaven, the king of the world loved me best. i was adorned in gilded brilliance brighter than the noonday sun of arabia. a robe woven of a hundred diamonds wrapped round my princely shoulders. to me were there seven hundred concubines. they were more b

and the high favour bestowed upon my name by the architect of creation stirred, in the hearts of my lesser kin, treacherous envy and vile malice, inspiring them to plot injury to me, and nursed the sundrance of that august kingdom and brought to maturity a terrible transgression against all bonds of love and piety. second to me in rank, age and father's favour, my brother michael gathered to him the angels of god whose souls and minds were too perverted by the traitorous intentions that consumed them. o woe to them who sought to destroy me, they are themselves damned to destruction, consumed by their own, vain hatred. having gathered those unfit angels to him thus did michael address them, speaking with words of poisoned nectar "my brothers, who are most beloved to me, woe that i must spe

n from the gates of heaven, and, descending upon wings of flame, down from that upper realm to the earth, resplendent in her emerald garb, promising new tomorrows to be won. this is the truth! 65 theomachy hear me o my prophet! when yet was the world of old new-born and the first winter's snow, like blossom had not yet fallen, shrouding the grass of the first spring, then was i the noblest of all the angels, the noble potentates of supreme heaven. to god alone was my fealty owed, and all others, to me, theirs. for, of all the shining sons of heaven, the king of the world loved me best. i was adorned in gilded brilliance brighter than the noonday sun of arabia. a robe woven of a hundred hundred diamonds wrapped round my princely shoulders. 66 to me were there seven hundred concubines. they

and the high favour bestowed upon my name by the architect of creation stirred, in the hearts of my lesser kin, treacherous envy and vile malice, inspiring them to plot injury to me, and nursed the sundrance of that august kingdom and brought to maturity a terrible transgression against all bonds of love and piety. second to me in rank, age and father's favour, my brother michael gathered to him the angels of god whose souls and minds were too perverted by the traitorous intentions that consumed them. o woe to them who sought to destroy me, they are themselves damned to destruction, consumed by their own, vain hatred. having gathered those unfit angels to him thus did michael address them, speaking with words of poisoned nectar "my brothers, who are most beloved to me, woe that i must spe

ia happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. 401 meshaf i resh the black book in the beginning the invisible one brought forth from its own precious soul a white pearl. and it created a bird upon whose back it placed the pearl, and there he dwelt for forty thousand years. then on the first day, sunday, it created an angel called izrael. he is archangel over all the angels, he who is melek taus, the peacock angel. he is the first to be, and to know that he is; for the one can know nothing. on each of the other days of the week the one brought forth angels to serve melek taus on monday he created darda'il, which is sheikh hasan. on tuesday he created israfil, who is sheikh shams. on wednesday he created jibra'il (gabriel, who is sheikh abu bekr. on thursda

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y to it should be prompt: always try to be happy, to reach adhesion, high spirits and enthusiasm in the search. the thoughts and conditions that affect man, whether positively or negatively, are brought to him from above. they are spiritual forces, which we call angels. with regard to spirituality, our bodies are considered dead. much like a vehicle, the body can only respond to spiritual forces. the angels can point the body (one s desire to receive) in the wrong t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 228 direction, away from the aim toward the creator; they break our contact with the creator by afflicting the body with dead-end thoughts, lack of purpose, emptiness or fatigue. the holy zohar writes that the angels that control us do not have souls and can be fooled. it is our goal and

x p e r i e n c e 228 direction, away from the aim toward the creator; they break our contact with the creator by afflicting the body with dead-end thoughts, lack of purpose, emptiness or fatigue. the holy zohar writes that the angels that control us do not have souls and can be fooled. it is our goal and our responsibility to maintain contact with the creator despite the disturbances; therefore, the angels that bring us bad thoughts can be fooled. since the body understands only mechanical movements, start dancing, even by yourself (as rav baruch ashlag used to do with tears in his eyes. you will see how easily the body comes out of its negative state. s e l f awa r e n e s s q: when i face a certain situation, my self wants to react. if i think that my response is not real, can i change

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ng about the creator. hence, the study of kabbalah must be correctly directed; thoughts must be focused on studying the inner attributes that we are still unable to see in ourselves. all the worlds, partzufim, sefirot, names, everything the kabbalah speaks of, exists in us and will be revealed in us, depending on the degree of our correction. we will find our inner moses and aaron, king david and the angels, the evil, the righteous, and the degrees of attainment called jerusalem, the temple and more. every word in the torah speaks of our own forces and our levels of ability to sense the creator. that is the only topic of discussion of the torah. that is also the only thing we speak of in our daily lives, because we talk about our feelings. in fact, all we feel is the influence of the creat

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o wonderful rituals the workings in egypt. the form of the temple of amen-ra. the building of the temple of amen-ra. the unveiling of the hidden light. the offerings. the descent of osiris. the distribution of the sacrament. the re-union of osiris. the shining of the light. the pledge and the blessing. the ceremony of the holy angels. the lodge and officers. the triangle of adepts. the arrival of the angels. the building of the temple of the angels. the ceremony in the temple. the effect of the festival. chapter xi (chapter x in first edition) closing the lodge the greetings. preparation for closing. the closing. plates 0. the masonic temple (coloured) i. an egyptian apron (coloured) ii (a) an egyptian initiation (b) osiris on the square iii. the plan of the lodge iv. the three columns (a)

for closing. the closing. plates 0. the masonic temple (coloured) i. an egyptian apron (coloured) ii (a) an egyptian initiation (b) osiris on the square iii. the plan of the lodge iv. the three columns (a) doric (b) ionic (c) corinthian v. ruins of a greek temple vi. a pillar of the porchway vii. the chapiter viii. the arrow of ra (coloured) ix. the chakras x. the second portal xi. the temple of the angels (coloured) chapter i introductory personal experience 1. the origins of freemasonry are lost in the mists of antiquity. last century there were many who thought that it could be traced no further back than the mediaeval guilds of operative masons, though some regarded these in turn as relics of the roman collegia. there may still be some who know no better than that, but all students of

dreamed h or beheld by him with supersensual vision is equally perceptible today by any one whose inner eyes have been opened. every real initiate is one who has attained an expansion of consciousness and faculty enabling him to behold the ethereal worlds revealed to the hebrew patriarch as easily as the uninitiated man beholds the phenomenal world with its outer eyes. the initiate is able to see the angels of god ascending and descending; that is, he can directly behold the great stairway of the universe, and watch the intricate but orderly mechanism of involution, differentiation, evolution and resynthesis constituting the life-process. he can witness the descent of human essences or souls through planes of increasing density and decreasing vibratory rate, gathering round them as they co

an effect in unseen worlds has not deprived them of angelic assistance which, if they had known of it, would have astounded them beyond expression, and probably even terrified them. 399. so the spirit turns again to the intelligence, and calls on it to formulate the great divisions; intelligence responds and names the three lines through which the force flows, thereby attracting the attention of the angels of those lines. to symbolize that, the r.w.m. asks how many principal officers there are in the lodge, and receives the answer that there are three. these are the r.w.m, the w.s.w, and the w.j.w, who represent the divine or spiritual trinity which appears in the deity, and also in man, who is made in the image of that deity. these three principles in man are familiar to many students of

will which calls down the response from the logos; theirs is the labour of sorting out, of classifying and directing the manifold varieties of that divine response, and applying it where it is most needed. 809. but now in this work of the higher degrees we are called not only to collect but to direct- not only to provide material but to distribute and apply it. we are to exercise the functions of the angels on some of the lower planes, thus leaving them free to concentrate their energies on higher levels where as yet we are less effective. the great angels of our respective degrees will assuredly work with us; it is for that purpose that they have come to us; but we on our part must do our share of the work so that the machine as a whole may act at its highest efficiency. 810. this is inde

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ross, who now attend our sovereign chapters and pour out through them the fullness of their love for the helping of the world, were also known in ancient egypt, and these were linked with the sovereign princes in their higher principles, so that their seraphic love also was at hand to be outpoured in blessing. to their guardianship the candidate was entrusted, and he had to realize his unity with the angels as well as with his brn. 172. at this stage the intuition or buddhi in the candidate, that hidden wisdom which is horus or the christ dwelling in man, was enormously quickened and aroused, so that the candidate became to some extent a manifestation of that eternal love who in later ages was called the christ, and he was thereby enabled to work upon the emotional nature, which is a parti

round him, and he taught them in the glades of woodland, silent save for the singing of the birds and the sweet sounds of forest life, that seemed not to break the stillness. 323. he taught by song, by music, music of voice and instrument, carrying a five-stringed musical instrument, probably the origin of apollo s lyre, and he used a pentatonic scale. to this he sang, and wondrous was his music, the angels drawing nigh to listen to the subtle tones; by sound he worked upon the astral and mental bodies of his disciples, purifying and expanding them; by sound he drew the subtle bodies away from the physical, and set them free in the higher worlds. his music was quite different from the sequences, repeated over and over again, by which the same result was brought about in the rootstock of th

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nts disputed by greek and latin christians; and the unfinished summa theologica, a three-part treatise on sacred doctrine that contains the principles of thomistic theology. the element that provides the summa with conceptual unity is the dionysian circle, implying the going forth of all things from god and the return of all things to god. part one includes questions and treatises about creation, the angels, the human being, and divine government. the two divisions of the second part are about virtues, vices, law, and grace, and the questions contained aquinas, thomas 13 in the third part consider christ and his sacraments as indispensable means to salvation. according to thomas aquinas, salvation is possible through scriptural knowledge, which contains certain truths that exceed human rea

the intellect alone.he thus assigned to angels an incorporeal nature, departing from earlier philosophers who had asserted that angels were constituted from a subtle material substance. in spite of their incorporeal nature, angels can sometimes assume bodies, since the scriptural account of abraham s entertaining angels makes this plain. at the time, it was generally recognized by the church that the angels were impeccable. their state of perfection is such that they are unable to sin as men and women do. aquinas held that lucifer, like all the angels, was created in a state of grace. nevertheless, he exercised the free will with which all angels are endowed in a wrong direction. otherwise he could not have sinned since, according to aquinas, angels achieve everlasting bliss the instant th

lucifer, like all the angels, was created in a state of grace. nevertheless, he exercised the free will with which all angels are endowed in a wrong direction. otherwise he could not have sinned since, according to aquinas, angels achieve everlasting bliss the instant they do one meritorious act, and thereafter they are so close to god that it is impossible for them to turn away from him. hence, the angels who did not rebel can never sin. in some places, aquinas expressed pity for the 14 aquino, michael a. demons who, though many were originally not so bad, had become hardened in their evil. for example, in summa theologica he says, and it must be said that there is sorrow in them; because sorrow, as denoting a simple act of will, is nothing else than the resistance of the will to what is

on to our children in threats about how the bogeyman will get you if you don t watch out. for further reading: briggs, katharine. an encyclopedia of fairies. new york: pantheon, 1976. mccoy, edwin. a witch s guide to faery folk. st. paul, mn: llewellyn, 1994. book of jubilees the book of jubilees is an apocryphal work composed during the so-called intertestamental period. according to this book, the angels were created on the first day of creation: on the first day he created the heavens which are above and the earth and the waters and all the spirits which serve before him the angels of the presence, and the angels of sanctification, and the angels of the spirits of the winds, and the angels of the spirit of clouds, and of darkness [and so forth (giovetti 1993, 19. among other contents

sible through the use of the enochian language, a genuine, complex language of unknown origin with a solid grammar and syntax. each letter of the enochian alphabet features a john dee (national library of medicine) 64 demiurge numerical value a gematria and is associated with elemental, planetary, and tarot properties. the nineteen calls, or keys, of enochian were used by dee and kelly to conjure the angels. the first two keys conjured the element spirit, the next sixteen conjured the four elements, whereas the nineteenth key invoked any of thirty aethyrs or aires, probably representing levels of consciousness. kelly allegedly spoke enochian when the angels appeared in his crystal. one of the procedures used during the communication consisted of setting up charts, either filled with letter

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eir natures as here indicated. line 5. this is the first decan, and begins from cor leonis. col. cxxxviii. astrological symbols are derived from the primary forms cross, crescent, circle. col. clxxiii. for meaning and special function, see original.13 they should, but do not, accurately refer to the divisions of each sign into 7 planetary parts. pietro di abano14 gives: the names of the hours and the angels ruling them. the names of the hours. hours of the day. hours of the night. 1. yayn beron 2. ianor barol 3. nasnia thari 4. salla athir 5. sadedali mathon 6. thamur rana 7. ourer netos 8. tamic tafrac 9. neron sassur 10. iayon aglo 11. abai calerua 12. natalon salam tables of the angels of the hours according to the course of the days15 day' hour (angels of the hours of the day) 1' 2& 3%

# raphael& sachiel$ anael' cassiel] note. the first hour of the day, of every country, and in every season whatsoever, is to be assigned to the sun-rising, when he first appeareth arising in the horizon. and the first hour of the night is to be the thirteenth hour, form the first hour of the day. the year16 the spring: taloi. the summer: casmaran. the autumn: adarael. the winter: farlas. notes 39 the angels of the spring: carcasa, core, amatiel, commissoros. the head of the sign of the spring: spugliguel. the name of the earth in the spring: amadai. the names of the sun and moon in the spring: the sun, abrayen; the moon, agusita. the angels of the summer: gargatel, tariel, gaviel. the head of the sign of the summer: tubiel. the name of the earth in the summer: festatui. the names of the su

the head of the sign of the spring: spugliguel. the name of the earth in the spring: amadai. the names of the sun and moon in the spring: the sun, abrayen; the moon, agusita. the angels of the summer: gargatel, tariel, gaviel. the head of the sign of the summer: tubiel. the name of the earth in the summer: festatui. the names of the sun and moon in the summer: the sun, athemay; the moon, armatas. the angels of the autumn: tarquam, gualbarel. the head of the sign of the autumn: torquaret. the name of the earth in the autumn: rabianira. the names of the sun and moon in the autumn: the sun, abragini; the moon, matasignias. the angels of the winter: amabael, ctarari. the head of the sign of the winter: altarib. the name of the earth in the winter: gerenia. the names of the su and moon in the w

mystic number of the sephirah corresponding. vide col. x. col. cxv. the entries in this column were originally given as initials only. col. cxxi. these are golden dawn titles. the a\a\ titles in the 1st order differ slightly; 0 =08 is probationer, 1 =108 is neophyte, 2 =98 zelator and the waiting grade between philosophus and adeptus minor is called dominus liminis. cols. cxxix cxxxii. these are the angels of the shem ha-mephorash or 72-fold divided name of god, a full explanation of which would be beyond the scope of this footnote. see godwin, s.v. shem ha-mephorash. on each row, the name on the left rules the card in question by day, the one on the right by night. cols. cxxxiii cxxxvi. words in square brackets are the book of thoth keywords for these cards where these differ from the ti

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niture of the holy table, as shown in plate i, opposite.2 other appurtenances of this table will be described hereafter. ii other pantacles were obtained in a similar manner. here (plate ii) is the principal one,3 which, carved in wax, was placed upon the top of the table. on four others stood the feet of the table.4 note first the holy sevenfold table containing seven names of god which not even the angels are able to pronounce. s a a i2 8 1 e m e8 b t z k a s e30 h e i d e n e d e i m o 30 a i26 m e g c b e i l a o i2 8 1 u n i h r l a a 2 8 1 these names are seen written without the heptagram within the heptagon. by reading these obliquely are obtained names of angels called (1) fili bonitatis or filiol lucis. e me ese iana the symbolic representation of the universe 2 akele azdobn stim

ere are seven great angels formed thus: take the corner letter s, then the diagonal next to it ab, then the next diagonal ath, then the fourth diagonal, where is i with 8 21 (which indicates el, and we have the name. sabathiel liber lxxxiv 3 continuing the process, we get zedekiel madimiel semeliel nogahel corabiel levanael these names will be found in the pentagram and about it. these angels are the angels of the seven circles of heaven.5 these are but a few of the mysteries of this great seal sigillvm dei meth plate ii the symbolic representation of the universe 4 iii the shew-stone, a crystal which dee alleged to have been brought to him by angels, was then placed upon this table, and the principal result of the ceremonial skrying of sir edward kelly is the obtaining of the following di

reeds, a cryptographer working for at&t labs (see reeds. article .john dee and the magic tables in the book of soyga; unfortunately, since reeds left at&t this is no longer online. note that these tables predate the dee-kelly workings, and dee does not seem to have known what they were or what to do with them: he repeatedly asked about them and received vague or evasive answers from kelly and/or the angels. the heptarchic system of planetary magick is covered by turner (1983) and james (1984; a .golden-dawn-ized. version is presented by zalewski (1990. it is set out in two ms digests by dee, de heptarchia mystica in sloane 3191, and compendium heptarchia mystica (add. ms 36,674. this material is drawn from the skrying liber lxxxiv 39 sessions recorded in sloane ms 3188, principally tertiu

the .book of enoch. was the .tablets of enoch. which are definitely identical with the tablets composing the great table (table of watchtowers, or liber logaeth, though the latter seems to be the favoured interpretation. logaeth survives in bl sloane ms 3189, liber mysteriorum sextus et sanctus, in edward kelly.s handwriting. this copy has the title .the book of enoch, revealed to dr. john dee by the angels, interpolated by elias ashmole. to the best of my knowledge nobody has deciphered logaeth to date. thomas head (in regardie (ed, 1984) claimed to have been able to solve some of the tables and tentatively translate some of the material in the .angelic language. contained in the book; he did not give further details and as far as i am aware has not published his findings. some researcher

nts of magick by robert turner in henry cornelius agrippa s fourth book of occult philosophy and of geomancy &c &c &c, london, 1655. agrippa von nettesheim, heinrich cornelius (1992: three books of occult philosophy. st. paul, mn: llewellyn publications. english translation of de occulta philosophia libri tres, cologne: 1533. crowley, aleister: liber xxx rum vel s culi sub figur cdxviii, being of the angels of the thirty thyrs the vision and the voice (also cited as .the vision and the voice. or .liber 418. in equinox vol. i no. 5 (1911, special supplement; in crowley (ed. regardie, gems from the equinox (st. paul, mn: llewellyn, 1974; scottsdale, az: new falcon, 1988; with crowley.s commentary in equinox vol. iv no. 2 (1998. dee, john: mysteriorum liber primus. mysteriorum liber secundus

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ity to speak; it is sufficient to say that the adepts have always known how to secure efficiency. needless also to insist on a similar quality in the assistants; the sexual excitement must be suppressed and transformed into its religious equivalent. vii with these preliminaries settled in order to guard against foreseen criticisms of those protestants who, god having made them a little lower than the angels, have made themselves a great deal lower than the beasts by their consistently bestial interpretation of all things human and divine, we may consider first the triune nature of these ancient methods of energizing enthusiasm. music has two parts; tone or pitch, and rhythm. the latter quality associates it with the dance, and that part of dancing which is not rhythm is sex. now that part

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ephira is jxn, netzach, or firmness and victory, corresponding to the divine name twabx hwhy, ihvh tzabaoth, the lord of armies, and the angelic names \yhla, elohim, gods, and \ycycrt, tarshishim, the brilliant ones (daniel x, 6. the number 8. thence proceeded the feminine passive potency dwh, hod, splendour, answering to the divine name twabx \yhla, elohim tzabaoth, the gods of armies, and among the angels to \yhla ynb, beni elohim, the sons of the gods (genesis vi, 4. the number 9. these two produced dwsy, yesod, the foundation or basis, represented by yj la, the mighty living one, and ydc, shaddai: and among the angels by \yca, aishim, the flames (psalms civ, 4, yielding the third trinity of the sephiroth. the number 10. from this ninth sephira came the tenth and last, thus completing t

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deception in the moment of apparent victory. lying, error, promises unfulfilled. drunken-ness, wrath, vanity. lust, fornication, violence against women, selfish dissipation, deception in love and friendship. often success gained, but not followed up. modified as usual by dignity. netzach of h (lying, promises unfulfilled; illusion, deception, error; slight success at outset, not retained. herein the angels lahlm and hawhj rule. a description of the cards of the taro 35 xxxiii the lord of swiftness eight of wands or torches four white radiating angelic hands (two proceeding from each side) issuant from clouds; clasped in two pairs in the centre with the grip of the first order. they hold eight wands, crossed four with four. flames issue from the point of junction. surmounting the small wan

id rush, but quickly passed and expended. violent, but not lasting. swiftness, rapidity, courage, boldness, confidence, freedom, warfare, violence; love of open air, field-sports, gardens and meadows. generous, subtle, eloquent, yet somewhat untrustworthy; rapacious, insolent, oppressive. theft and robbery. according to dignity. hod of y (hasty communications and messages; swiftness. therein rule the angels hyhtn and hyaah. xxxiv the lord of great strength nine of wands or torches four hands, as in the previous symbol, holding eight wands crossed four and four; but a fifth hand at the foot of the card holds another wand upright, which traverses the point of junction with the others: flames leap herefrom. above and below are the symbols= and i. tremendous and steady force that cannot be sha

steady force that cannot be shaken. herculean strength, yet sometimes scientifically applied. great success, but with strife and energy. victory, preceded by apprehension and fear. health good, and recovery not in doubt. 36 liber lxxviii generous, questioning and curious; fond of external appearances: intractable, obstinate. yesod of y (strength, power, health, recovery from sickness. herein rule the angels latry and hyhac. xxxv the lord of oppression ten of wands four hands holding eight wands crossed as before. a fifth hand holding two wands upright, which traverses the junction of the others. flames issuant. f and i. cruel and overbearing force and energy, but applied only to material and selfish ends. sometimes shows failure in a matter, and the opposition too strong to be controlled;

a description of the cards of the taro 37 discontented with any fixed condition of things; now elated, then melancholy; industrious, yet unreliable; fortunate through prudence of management, yet sometimes unaccountably foolish; alternatively talkative and suspicious. kind, yet wavering and inconsistent. fortunate in journeying. argumentative. chokmah of (pleasant change, visit to friends. herein the angels labkl and hyrcw have rule. xxxvii the lord of material works three of pentacles a white-winged angelic hand, as before, holding a branch of a rose tree, of which two white rosebuds touch and sur-mount the topmost pentacle. the pentacles are arranged in an equilateral triangle. above and below the symbols% and j. working and constructive force, building up, creation, erection; realizatio

, laborious, unresting; loss and vileness of nature; malicious, slanderous, lying, spiteful and tale-bearing. a busybody and separator of friends, hating to see peace and love between others. cruel, yet cowardly, thankless and unreliable. clever and quick in thought and speech. feelings of pity easily roused, but unenduring. geburah of v (defeat, loss, malice, spite, slander, evilspeaking. herein the angels layna and hymuj bear rule. a description of the cards of the taro 39 xl the lord of earned success six of swords two hands, as before, each holding two swords which cross in the centre. rose re-established thereon# and k above and below, supported on the points of two short daggers or swords. success after anxiety and trouble; self-esteem, beauty, conceit, but sometimes modesty therewit

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tasks of the grades and their oaths. h privately printed circa 1909; intended for inclusion in equinox iii (2; published in gems from the equinox and equinox iv (1. 220. gliber al vel legis sub figura ccxx as delivered by xciii= 418 to dclxvi h (the book of the law. in equinox i (10, iii (3, iii (9) and other works too numerous to list. 418. gliber xxx arum vel saculi sub figura cdxviii, being of the angels of the thirty athyrs the vision and the voice. h in equinox i (5) and gems; with crowley fs commentary in equinox iv (2. 500. gsepher sephiroth sub figura d. h in equinox i (8; slightly abridged in the qabalah of aleister crowley. liber samekh& liber viii 48 536. gbatracofrenobookosmomacia. h in equinox i (10, reprinted in gems from the equinox. 671. gliber dclxxi vel oart. h unpublishe

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ers and fallen angels brought to us the gift of what is called witchblood, the black flame of awakening that offered an awakening of senses. each angel still exists in spirit form upon the earth, allowing a linage to emerge from different areas of psychic and physical development. the essence of witchcraft should be explored within its dream based roots, the touch of witches sabbat initiation. as the angels brought us the lore of the wise in the early times, so we must continue to change and progress such ideas into new ways and techniques. sorcery is efficient as a manner of implicating your immediate surroundings. this involves the specific use of lesser and greater black magick in of its aspects healing, cursing, astral projection, love spells and more are essential yet undefined in the

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watchers and fallen angels brought to us the gift of what is called witchblood, the black flame of awakening that offered an awakening of senses. each angel still exists in spirit form upon the earth, allowing a linage to emerge from different areas of psychic and physical development. the essence of witchcraft should be explored within its dream based roots, the touch of sethanic initiation. as the angels brought us the lore of the wise in the early times, so we must continue to change and progress such ideas into new ways and techniques. sorcery is efficient as a manner of implicating your immediate surroundings. this involves the specific use of lesser and greater black magick in of its aspects healing, cursing, astral projection, love spells and more are essential yet undefined in the

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monly known today as "the star of zion" these triangles symbolize the spiritual and material universes linked together in the constitution of the human creature, who partakes of both nature and divinity. man's animal nature partakes of the earth; his divine nature of the heavens; his human nature of the mediator. the celestial inhabitants of the sun the rosicrucians and the illuminati, describing the angels, archangels, and other celestial creatures, declared that they resembled small suns, being centers of radiant energy surrounded by streamers of vrilic force. from these outpouring streamers of force is derived the popular belief that angels have wings. these wings are corona-like fans of light, by means of which the celestial creatures propel themselves through the subtle essences of th

all suns, being centers of radiant energy surrounded by streamers of vrilic force. from these outpouring streamers of force is derived the popular belief that angels have wings. these wings are corona-like fans of light, by means of which the celestial creatures propel themselves through the subtle essences of the superphysical worlds. true mystics are unanimous in their denial of the theory that the angels and archangels are human in form, as so often pictured. a human figure would be utterly useless in the ethereal substances through which they manifest. science has long debated the probability of the other planers being inhabited. objections to the idea are based upon the argument that creatures with human organisms could nor possibly exist in the environments of mars, jupiter, uranus

. the autumnal equinox apparently occurs in the constellation of libra (the balances. the scales tipped and the solar globe began its pilgrimage toward the house of winter. the constellation of the scales was placed in the zodiac to symbolize the power of choice, by means of which man may weigh one problem against another. millions of years ago, when the human race was in the making, man was like the angels, who knew neither good nor evil. he fell into the state of the knowledge of good and evil when the gods gave him the seed for the mental nature. from man's mental reactions to his environments he distills the product of experience, which then aids him to regain his lost position plus an individualized intelligence. paracelsus said "the body comes from the elements, the soul from the sta

reated light--the angelic world. out of that light were then created the invisible hierarchies of beings which some call the stars; and out of the stars the four elements and the sensible world were formed. thus all are in all, after their respective kinds. all visible bodies or elements are in the invisible stars or spiritual elements, and the stars are likewise in those bodies; the stars are in the angels and the angels in the stars; the angels are in god and god is in all. therefore, all are divinely in the divine, angelically in the angels, and corporeally in the corporeal world, and vice versa. just as the seed is the tree folded up, so the world is god unfolded. proclus says "every property of divinity permeates all creation and gives itself to all inferior creatures "one of the mani

re dependent upon the one fertilizing principle existing in the supreme mind. the fecundative power, though of itself a unit, manifests differently through the various substances, for in the mineral it contributes to material existence, in the plant it manifests as vitality, and in the animal as sensibility. it imparts motion to the heavenly bodies, thought to the souls of men, intellectuality to the angels, and superessentiality to god. thus it is seen that all forms are of one substance and all life of one force, and these are co-existent in the nature of the supreme one. this doctrine was first expounded by plato. his disciple, aristotle, set it forth in these words "we say that this sensible world is an image of another; therefore since this world is vivid or alive, how much more, then

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h womankind. the book of genesis briefly records the legend thus: and it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of god saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and they took wives of all which they chose. however, the ancient book of noah written several hundred years before the birth of christ is more explicit. and the angels, the children of heaven, saw and lusted after them [the daughters of men] and said one to another "come let us choose wives from among the children of men and beget us children. and all the others together took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cu

upon the paper, and leave it to burn down and extinguish itself. on the morrow, give the talisman to the person who requested it, and have him place it in his left shoe or otherwise carry it about his person until such a time as the spell takes effect and the victim seeks him out. as for the cabalistic names for mercury, the moon, and the earth, michael, gabriel, and melchidael are traditionally the angels assigned to these spheres. tiriel and malcha are the intelligences assigned to mercury and the moon respectively, while baresches is in all probability the past part of malcha's complete hebrew name which has become detached and turned into an entity in its own right "malcha be tarshishim va a'ad be ruach shechalim" the name zazel is that of the spirit of the planet saturn, here doublin

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

de all things, in order that they may be submitted unto him, hath wished to bring his works to perfection, by making one which participates of the divine and of the terrestrial, that is to say, man; whose body is gross and terrestrial, while his soul is spiritual and celestial, unto whom he hath made subject the whole earth and its inhabitants, and hath given unto him means by which he may render the angels familiar, as i call those celestial creatures who are destined: some to regulate the motion of the stars, others to inhabit the elements, others to aid and direct men, and others again to sing continually the book one page 7 praises of the lord. thou mayest then, by the use of their seals and characters, render them familiar unto thee, provided that thou abusest not this privilege by de

sun. moon. mars. 12 5 mer. jup. ven. jup. ven. sat. sun. 1 6 moon. mars. mer. mars. mer. jup. ven. 2 7 sat. sun. moon. sun. moon. mars. mer. 3 8 jup. ven. sat. ven. sat. sun. moon. 4 9 mars. mer. jup. mer. jup. ven. sat. 5 10 sun. moon. mars. moon. mars. mer. jup. 6 11 ven. sat. sun. sat. sun. moon. mars. 7 12 mer. jup. ven. book one page 9 table 2: table of the magical names of the hours, and of the angels who rule them, commencing at the first hour after midnight of each day, and ending at the ensuing midnight. hours. sunday. monday. tuesda. wednes. thursd. friday. saturd. 1. yayn raphael sachiel anael cassiel michael gabriel zamael 2. yanor gabriel zamael raphael sachiel anael cassiel michael 3. nasnia cassiel michael gabriel zamael raphael sachiel anael 4. salla sachiel anael cassiel m

promise and vow to execute. let the master then repeat this prayer: prayer. when we enter herein with all humility, let god the almighty one enter into this circle, by the entrance of an eternal happiness, of a divine prosperity, of a perfect joy, of an abundant charity, and of an eternal salutation. let all the demons fly from this place, especially those who are opposed unto this work, and let the angels of peace assist and protect this circle, from which let discord and strife fly and depart. magnify and extend upon us, o lord, thy most holy name, and bless our conversation and our assembly. sanctify, o lord our god, our humble entry herein, thou the blessed and holy one of the eternal ages! amen. after this, let the master say upon his knees, as follows: book one page 19 prayer. o lor

t monstrous appearance, in a gracious form or figure. come ye, for we exorcise ye with the utmost vehemence by the name of iao and on, which adam spake and heard; by the name el, which noah heard, and saved himself with all his family from the deluge; by the name iod, which noah heard, and knew god the almighty one; by the name agla, which jacob heard, and saw the ladder which touched heaven, and the angels who ascended and descended upon it, whence he called that place the house of god and the gate of heaven; and by the name elohim, and in the name elohim, which moses named, invoked, and heard in horeb the mount of god, and he was found worthy to hear him speak from the burning bush; and by the name ain soph, which aaron heard, and was at once made eloquent, wise, and learned; and by the

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for the space of an entire day. then take a large earthen vessel glazed within and without, round the outside of which thou shalt write the characters in figure 88. after this thou shalt put powdered lime into the vessel, saying: oroh, zaron, zainon, zevaron, zaphiel, elion, be ye present and bless this work so that it may attain the desired effect, through the king of the heavens, and the god of the angels. amen. take then exorcised water and pour it upon the said lime, and place the skin therein for three days, after which thou shalt take it thence, and scrape therefrom the lime and flesh adhering, with the knife of reed. after this thou shalt cut, with a single stroke, a wand of hazel, long enough for thee to form a circle therewith; take also a cord spun by a young maiden, and small st

and other iron instruments. there are several steel instruments necessary in various operations, as a needle to prick or to sew; a burin, or instrument wherewith to engrave &c. thou shalt make such instruments in the day and hour of jupiter, and when it is finished thou shalt say: i conjure thee. o instrument of steel, by god the father almighty, by the virtue of the heavens, of the stars, and of the angels who preside over them; by the virtue of stones, herbs, and animals; by the virtue of hail, snow, and wind; that thou receivest such virtue that thou mayest obtain without deceit the end which i desire in all things where i shall use thee; through god the creator of the ages, and emperor of the angels. amen. afterwards repeat psalms iii; ix; xxxi; xlii; lx; li; cxxx. perfume it with the

u mayest keep these characters from all deceit and error, through thee, o most holy adonai. amen. after having repeated this thou shalt write the requisite characters, and thou shalt not fail, but shall attain thy desired end. the consecration of the book make a book, containing sixteen pages, from virgin parchment, and write therein, with red ink, the prayers for all the operations, the names of the angels in the form of litanies, their seals and characters; the which being done thou shalt consecrate the same unto god and unto the pure spirits in the manner following: thou shalt set in the destined place a small table covered with a white cloth, whereon thou shalt lay the book opened at the great pentacle which should be drawn on the first leaf of the said book; and having kindled a lamp

burn both day and night; after the which thou shalt shut up the book in a small drawer under the table, made expressly for it, until thou shalt have occasion to use it; and every time that thou wishest to use it, clothe thyself with thy vestments, kindle the lamp, and repeat upon thy knees the aforesaid prayer "adonai elohim &c. it is necessary also, in the consecration of the book, to summon all the angels whose names are written therein in the form of litanies, the which thou shalt do with devotion; and even if the angels and spirits appear not in the consecration of the book, be not thou astonished thereat, seeing that they are of a pure nature, and consequently have much difficulty in familiarizing themselves with men who are inconstant and impure, but the ceremonies and characters bei

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON PENTACLES

he twenty-five letters in the square. figures 11 and 12. the holy pentacles page 61 figure 13. the third pentacle of saturn. this should be made within the magical circle, and it is good for use at night when thou invokest the spirits of the nature of saturn. editor s note. the characters at the ends of the rays of the mystic wheel are magical characters of saturn. surrounding it are the names of the angels: omeliel, anachiel, arauchiah, and anazachia, written in hebrew. figure 14. the fourth pentacle of saturn. this pentacle serveth principally for executing all the experiments and operations of ruin, destruction, and death. and when it is made in full perfection, it serveth also for those spirits which bring news, when thou invokest them from the side of the south. editor s note. the heb

ntacle is the mystic letter yod. figure 15. the fifth pentacle of saturn. this pentacle defendeth those who invoke the spirits of saturn during the night; and chaseth away the spirits which guard treasures. editor s note. the hebrew letters in the angles of the cross are those of the name ihvh. those in the angles of the square form alvh, eloah. round the four sides of the square are the names of the angels: arehanah, rakhaniel, roelhaiphar, and noaphiel. the versicle is "a great god, a mighty, and a terrible" deut x. 17. figures 13 and 14. the key of solomon page 62 figure 16. the sixth pentacle of saturn. around this pentacle is each name symbolized as it should be. the person against whom thou shalt pronounce it shall be obsessed by demons. editor s note. it is formed from mystical char

on page 64 jupiter. figure 18. the first pentacle of jupiter. this serveth to invoke the spirits of jupiter, and especially those whose names are written around the pentacle, among whom parasiel is the lord and master of treasures, and teacheth how to become possessor of places wherein they are. editor s note. this pentacle is composed of mystical characters of jupiter. around it are the names of the angels: netoniel, devachiah, tzedeqiah, and parasiel, written in hebrew. figure 19. the second pentacle of jupiter. this is proper for acquiring glory, honors, dignities, riches, and all kinds of good, together with great tranquillity of mind; also to discover treasures and chase away the spirits who preside over them. it should be written upon virgin parchment, with the pen of the swallow and

trust in ihvh shall be as mount zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever" figure 21. the fourth pentacle of jupiter. it serveth to acquire riches and honor, and to possess much wealth. its angel is bariel. it should be engraved upon silver in the day and hour of jupiter when he is in the sign cancer. editor s note. above the magical sigil is the name ih, iah. below it are the names of the angels adoniel and bariel, the letters of the latter being arranged about a square of four compartments. around is the versicle from psalm cxii. 3 "wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endureth for ever" figure 22. the fifth pentacle of jupiter. this hath great power. it serveth for assured visions. jacob being armed with this pentacle beheld the ladder which reached unto

mars. it hath so great virtue that being armed therewith, if thou art attacked by any one, thou shalt neither be injured nor wounded when thou fightest with him, and his own weapons shall turn against him. editor s note. around the eight points of the radii of the pentacle are the words "elohim qeber, elohim hath covered (or protected" written in the secret alphabet of malachim, or the writing of the angels. the versicle is from psalm xxxvii. 15 "their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bow shall be broken" figure 31. the seventh and last pentacle of mars. write thou this upon virgin parchment paper with the blood of a bat, in the day and hour of mars; and uncover it within the circle, invoking the demons spirits of the nature of mars, especially those which are written in t

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very degree of their nativity, so that they may make use of these angels, if be so that they know the sign that ascends. the other angels which are attributed to every degree of every sign of the zodiac are as followeth: fire earth air water fire earth air water fire earth air water aiel tual giel cael ol violl jael sosol swaia -seh casuiasah ausim pasel lemegeton: clavicula salomonis 16 these be the angels of the signs& their seals followeth, being 12, every sign one. the angels of the degrees of the zodiac 1 bial letiel latiel sachiel mochiel coliel ibaich toliel taliel chahel chamel lachiel 2 gosiel niyael najael motiel satiel lonael eagiel joniel jamael tomael tosael nohiel 3 hacl sachiel sachael stiel aiel nosael lahael cosiel casiel jaajah jaajah sanael 4 ganiot gueliel gualiel sachi

liberal arts education. as well, a tremendous amount of effort went into the preparations for any single operation of the art. calculating a single astrological chart by hand, without even the aid of a pre-calculated ephemeris, could consume many hours. there is one flaw in this sophistication, and it appears in the first paragraph of the book. there the author describes how the power governed by the angels ruling the dawn hour varies according to the day; lunar on monday, martial on tuesday, etc. presumably the angels of the remaining hours either govern the same power, or follow something akin to the traditional cabalistic system of planetary hours, described in the greater key of solomon and many other places. the problem with this is that the procedures described in the remainder of th

ngels of the remaining hours either govern the same power, or follow something akin to the traditional cabalistic system of planetary hours, described in the greater key of solomon and many other places. the problem with this is that the procedures described in the remainder of the book suggest that an entirely different system is being used to determine the invoked powers. to create the seal for the angels of a particular hour, the magician first casts the astrological chart for that hour in the day the work is to be done. the planetary glyph to be drawn in the center of the seal is the planet ruling the sign on the ascendant of the chart. the glyphs of the remaining planets are drawn counterclockwise around the rim of the seal, starting with the fastest planet and ending with the slowest

agician is instructed to lay the seal upon the table of practice. but he lays it upon the sigil of the planet ruling the rising sign, not upon the sigil of the planet ruling the day and hour according to the cabalistic system of hours. ars paulina 23 further, the invocation used makes no mention of the cabalistic ruler of the day and hour. it does mention elements of the seals, and also refers to the angels rays; this term is frequently used in medieval documents when discussing the action of the planets on the world, but i have never seen it used in relation to the cabalistic system of attributes. so every symbolic and operational element of this magick seems geared towards using the lord of the ascendant as the power ruling the hour. the preliminary mention of the ruler of the day, with

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first degree, then, is a swift and comprehensive portrayal of the entrance of all men into, first, physical life, and second, into spiritual life; and as we extend congratulations when a child is born into the world, so also we receive with acclamation the candidate for masonry who, symbolically, is seeking for spiritual re-birth; and herein we emulate what is written of the joy that exists among the angels of heaven over every sinner who repents and turns towards the light. the first degree is also eminently the degree of preparation, of self-discipline and purification. it corresponds with that symbolical cleansing accorded in the sacrament of baptism, which, in the churches, is, so to speak, the first degree in the religious life; and which is administered, appropriately, at the font, n

es increasingly" wrought" or substantialized in us, it becomes the objectified corporeality of the soul. in the royal arch the craft devotional blue is intershot with red, the colour of fire or spiritual ardour, the blend resulting in that purple which both in earth and heaven is the prerogative of royalty. thus, by their clothing in the various grades, the members of masonry emblematize on earth the angels and archangels and all the company of heaven. some of them are dothed with light as with a garment; others are ministers of flaming fire. in a short paper such as this our reference to the ancient mysteries is necessarily brief and has been restricted to the greek eleusinian system. many others of course existed and an extensive, though scattered, literature is available for those who w

ries! o pure light! i am led by the light of the torch to the view of heaven and of god. i become holy by initiation. the lord himself is the hierophant who, leading the candidate for initiation to the li ght, seals him and presents him to the father to be preserved for ever. these are the orgies of my mysteries. if thou wilt, come and be thou also initiated, and thou shalt join in the dance with the angels around the uncreated, imperishable and only true god, the word of god joining in the strain" the mysteries came to an end as public institutions in the sixth century, when from political considerations they and the teaching of the secret doctrine and philosophy became prohibited by the roman government, under justinian, who aimed at inaugurating an official uniform state-religion throug

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practicewas known to be a cardinal sin, and so, originally, normal sexual intercourse wasattempted with unsatisfactory results: and it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughterswere born unto them, that the sons of god saw the daughters of men that they were fair; andthey took them wives of all that they chose (genesis 6-8) and the daughters of cain with whom the angels had companied conceived, but they wereunable to bring forth their children, and they died. and of the children who were in theirwombs some died, and some came forth, having split open the bellies of their mothers theycame forth by their navels (the ethiopian kebra nagast) extraterrestrials visit neighboring planets and galaxies, but they rarely interfere withthe evolution of the species

ected by the gooddoctor, but which most academics are very reluctant to accept; atomic energy wasindeed known and used in the days of old.researchers and authors, v aldamar v alerian, charles berlitz, j. j. hurtak, and davidhatcher childress, relate hundreds of accounts such as this in their pivotal works.in the account of the destruction of sodom and gomorrah, the fleeing prophet, lot, istold by the angels of the lord not to turn back, because the wrath of the lord wascoming to that place. lots wife does look back and is straightaway turned into what isdescribed as a pillar of salt. but this is a mistranslation. the word is more like ourenglish vapor. add to these the accounts of the walls of jericho, or the story in exo-dus of the ten plagues, not to mention the entire books of job, isai

se tidal waves which swallowed up coastal lands,consumed huge spaces with electric waves, set up volcanoes, and swept away cities andlargely populated districts almost in a flash (ibid)it has been suggestedthat the changes now at work in prehistory herald the shift to a newparadigm,made necessary by the collapse of the first paradigm(colin renfrew, beforecivilization)when we hear of the coming of the angels of the lord to humans, like manu (india),satyaravata (india, khasistra (india, yima (iran, noah (semetic, deucalion(greece, dwyfan (wales, nuada (ireland, bergelmir (scandinavia, coxcox (mex-ico, and nata (aztec) warning of the coming deluge, we must understand that it ismembers of the sons of the serpents who brought the warnings and not, as isbelieved, the representatives of jehovah.r

re special children, the off-spring of the gods. eventually, the sons of the serpents interacted with humanwomen in the normal sexual manner. the progeny of these conceptions were alwaysregarded with awe and even fear. for instance, in the book of enoch, we read of thebirth of lamechs strange son: i have begotten a strange son. he is not like an ordinary human being, but looks like thechildren of the angels of heaven to me. his form is different and he is not like usit does notseem to me that he is of me but of the angelsbehold, i thought then within my heart that conception was due to the watchers and the holyonesand the nephilimand my heart was troubled within me because of this child. lamech's father, mathusala, eventually consults the prophet enoch about the strangegrandchild. the latt

argate and quarantine82atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation as the bible relates, chained into the pit. it is their intention to break their chains andchange galactic address as soon as the technology exists to make this possible (onewould do well to notice how many movies and how much art and corporate designsembody the theme of release from some form of captivity. god spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them intochains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment (epistle of peter) the descendants of the atlanteans were giving themselves a pat on the back during therenaissance. they were satisfied that they had taken control of the planet economi-cally and were making good progress toward reconstructing the science and technol-ogy the

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the function, and nature of the separate worlds. the concepts of heaven and hell are usually thought of as exclusively christian, but this is far from the truth. every religion and mythology out there makes reference to the heavens, the earth, and the underworld. in regards to the heavens, it is often described as an extra dimension that does indeed have the semblance of space and time. satan and the angels, for instance, are spoke of as approaching the throne of god, as if there were a way to be in heaven, but not in the presence of the throne. this is important because it describes a lack of unity where, like in our material world, objects can be closer or farther from other objects. obviously, there is some form of space and time in heaven, and proof of this lies in the fact that many o

rgies of a certain thought form. the object then becomes a receptacle for a deliberately-created larvae. the methods behind embedding a thought into someone else s mind, and embedding it--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 37 into an object are largely the same. the last kind of spirit is angels. angels are holy, and completely dedicated to the service of the light (god. in this, i speak of only the angels who remain loyal to god, as opposed to the fallen angels, who i clumped into the demon category as those who wander or reach out from the infernal realms. in magical rituals, angels cannot be commanded to perform jobs that are adverse to their character; any command given to an angel will be handed down to lesser spirits. of the many angels and arch-angels, 4 reign supreme: michael, gab

ah refers to his heavenly manifestation, while the latter, yeh-heh-wah-sha, represents god in his fleshly manifestation. it s pretty clear who they had in mind--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 46 further, these very same magicians recommended a lifestyle, and use of magical powers, that anyone could call christian. some magicians, like our aforementioned amberlin, recommended a lifestyle only the angels could touch; his emphasis regarding the moral use of magic and devotion to god became redundant (annoying, even to the well-intentioned reader( me. but there was something else about these occult writers that drew me in. i found myself intrigued by their commentary about psychology, history, and the true nature of man and the universe. this commentary, streaming in from both good and ba

ormed his children, the arch-angels, into new kinds of beings when they were young. god exists outside of creation, and when god desires to drop down into lower realms such as the heavens or earth, he is often described as no longer all-knowing, but instead capable of being deceived. jehovah is frequently depicted as an aging old man whose love for humans exceeds his love for the race he spawned, the angels. osiris too is said to have reclaimed all his parts, except his phallus. i can t believe it s not fiction: god enfleshed the chosen one (2007) the archangels [5.2] it was arch-angel michael and his army who expelled satan (his uncle/brother) from heaven. satan, and the other expelled angels, were cast into the black void in the universe now called hell. before satan s banishment, jehova

alks in. lilith is the feminine principle personified. tiamat is said to be the most ancient of god s enemies, long before the fall of lucifer, and she spawned a race of wicked giants and demons. in babylonian legend, tiamat was called the monster of chaos, and waged war against the gods. finally marduk defeated tiamat, split her in two, and used her flesh to create the world. this battle between the angels and the older gods goes unmentioned in the biblical genesis account, but remains in the greek tradition. according to greek mythology zeus, along with his brothers poseidon and hades, defeated the older gods, called the titans, and banished them to tartarus (the greek underworld. these titans, who were the offspring of gaia (tiamat, once ruled the earth; their brutish nature corrupting

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aling anything. the interior memory. is such that there are inscribed in it all the particular things. which man has at any time thought, spoken, and done. from his earliest infancy to extreme old age. man has with him the memory of all these things when he comes into another life, and is successively brought into all recollection of them. all that he had spoken and done. are made manifest before the angels, in a light as clear as clears as day. and. there is nothing so concealed in the world that it is not manifested after death. as if seen in effigy, when the spirit is viewed in the light of heaven. swedenborg describes too the "light of the lord" which permeates the hereafter, a light of ineffable brightness which he has glimpsed himself. it is a light of truth and of understanding. so

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; and which admonish us to have faith in god, hope in immortality, and charity to all mankind" accordingly a ladder, sometimes with nine rounds, is seen on the chart, resting at the bottom on the earth, its top in the clouds, the stars shining above it; and this is deemed to represent that mystic ladder, which jacob saw in his dream, set up on the earth, and the top of it reaching to heaven, with the angels of god ascending and descending on it. the addition of the three principal rounds to the symbolism, is wholly modern and incongruous. the ancients counted seven planets, thus arranged: the moon, mercury, venus, the sun, mars, jupiter, and saturn. there were seven heavens and seven spheres of these planets; on all the monuments of mithras are seven altars or pyres, consecrated to the sev

foundation for its hopes, its worship, its principles of action, in the far-stretching universe, in the glorious firmament, in the deep, full soul, bursting with unutterable thoughts. these are truths which every reflecting mind will unhesitatingly receive, as not to be surpassed, nor capable of improvement; and fitted, if obeyed, to make earth indeed a paradise, and man only a little lower than the angels. the worthlessness of ceremonial observances, and the necessity of active virtue; the enforcement of purity of heart as the security for purity of life, and of the government of the thoughts, as the originators and forerunners of action; universal philanthropy, requiring us to love all men, and to do unto others that and that only which we should think it right, just, and generous for t

ently with the rational principle, are hated by god, while the rational soul which he has given it, is, as it were, captive in this prison, this coffin, that encompasses it. the present condition of man is not his primitive condition, when he was the image of the logos. he has fallen from his first estate. but he may raise himself again, by following the directions of wisdom [greek: s?f?a] and of the angels which god has commissioned to aid him in freeing himself from the bonds of the body, and combating evil, the existence whereof god has permitted _to furnish him the means of exercising his liberty. the souls that are purified, not by the law but by light, rise to the heavenly regions, to enjoy there a perfect felicity. those that persevere in evil go from body to body, the seats of pass

almud, every star, every country, every town, and almost every tongue has a prince of heaven as its protector. jehuel is the guardian of fire, and michael, of water. seven spirits assist each; those of fire being _seraphiel _gabriel _nitriel _tammael _tchimschiel _hadarniel, and _sarniel. these seven are represented by the square columns of this degree, while the columns jachin and boaz represent the angels of fire and water. but the columns are not representatives of these alone. to basilides, god was without name, uncreated, at first containing and concealing in himself the plenitude of his perfections; and when these are by him displayed and manifested, there result as many particular existences, all analogous to him, and still and always him. to the essenes and the gnostics, the east a

butes of god. and also, as first representative of the human race, he is the protector of men and their shepherd, the "ben h'adam" or son of man. the actual condition of man is not his primitive condition, that in which he was the image of the word. his unruly passions have caused him to fall from his original lofty estate. but he may rise again, by following the teachings of heavenly wisdom, and the angels whom god commissions to aid him in escaping from the entanglements of the body; and by fighting bravely against evil, the existence of which god has allowed solely to furnish him with the means of exercising his free will. the supreme being of the egyptians was _amun, a secret and concealed god, the unknown father of the gnostics, the source of divine life, and of all force, the plenitu

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akes a very careful distinction about whom you should and whom you should not consider loveworthy. see 1, 10-12, 21, 31, 40-49, 51-52, 57, 61-62; ii, 17-25. most people, alas, must be treated by you as if they had the cholera. see liber vii, ii, 2 7-33. there is an aristocracy of the spirit, and those who belong to it instinctively recognize each other. when they err, it is usually on the side of the angels, so to speak. being noble, they tend to see nobility everywhere. they are few, and yearn for their peers. they give beggars the benefit of the doubt "compassion is the vice of kings" this tendency must be strictly avoided. the only efficient way to deal with mankind at large is to treat every man or woman you meet as a potential beggar asking for alms which means, in this technical sens

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, he asks the right questions: whom does the grail serve? and why does the lance drip blood? in one of the most poetic grail narratives, the perlesvaus or high book of the grail, perceval takes the grail on a magic boat and comes to the isle of plenty, where he is to be king. beneath the isle of plenty is the isle of need, whose people will be fed by the grail. the holy grail 81 holy spear one of the angels is shown holding a spear. a spear that drips blood into the grail is a feature of many grail stories, and is identified with the lance of the mythical longinus, which pierced christ s side on the cross. however, the concept is probably derived from the lightning spear of the irish sun god lug. galahad uses the blood from this spear to cure the fisher king s father, the maimed king, whos

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mpositions. for example, it is stated that "the land gives rise to wise people. this is because it falls under the influence of the constellation "machkim (the one who makes wise. this is true of everything that exists on this planet, even to the smallest blade of grass. all things receive their energy and influence from the planets and constellations. they, receive their energy from the dross of the angels, which receives its energy from the angels, which receive their energy from malchut of malchut of asiyah. everything that g-d desired, he did from all the above, it is clearly understood how everything that exists and that takes place, is exactly according to the simple essential desire (ratzon hapashoot) in the essence of the infinite light. one may now understand the process from the

e stars, planets and constellations, which only receive from the external vessels of malchut of malchut of asiyah, are also only according to his simple desire within the essence of the infinite light. this is true to the finest detail of the finest atom or subatomic particle etc. the chambers& angels in each of the lower worlds of briyah, yetzirah and asiyah there are seven chambers within which the angels reside. to understand what these are, we must understand the source of the chambers. furthermore, we must understand why in atzilut these chambers do not exist. the source of the chambers is the chashmal, which is also called nogah, as mentioned earlier. this chashmal encompasses from the externality of binah until below malchut, that is, it encompasses seven sefirot. it is for this rea

(chambers) or malachim (angels) in atzilut. binah, however, is the source of the chashmal. it is therefore applicable to begin to speak about chambers and angels in briyah. it must be understood that the chambers and angels come from the kelipah (the external shell of the world they are in. in other words, their source is not from the lights, but rather from the external vessels. in essence, what the angels are, is the "somethingness" of the world they are in. this is how they receive their existence. however, though they have a felt existence and sense of self (since they are from the kelipat nogah-shining shell of that world, nonetheless, they are still totally sublimated before g-d. in order to understand this properly, we must clearly understand kelipat nogah "the intermediary shell" o

bsorption, meaning that there is no innate sublimation to g-d at all. even though, of course, this world is no less dependent on g-d than the upper worlds, however, this is totally concealed, and the world and everything therein seem to be independent entities. now, this "felt" awareness of self in each world is called kelipat nogah (the intermediary shell. this kelipat nogah is the source of all the angels and chambers of each world. from the above, it is understood that the angels have no existence of their own, and can only act in accordance to g-d s essential desire. olam hashafel the lowly world now, our world is the world of total kelipah (external shells. because of this we perceive ourselves as independent entities, totally separate from g-d and g-dliness. moreover, this is the ver

it is specifically because of this that there is no innate sublimation to g-dliness, whatsoever, on the part of human beings. however, for this very reason, it is specifically human beings who have the free choice and the ability to accept the yoke of g-d s kingship upon themselves and sublimate themselves to g-d s commandments and desire, solely because they freely choose to do so, as opposed to the angels who are compelled by their nature. therefore g-d specifically loves and desires us over and above all the angels, even the highest angels in the highest worlds. this physical world is made up of two general levels of kelipah (external shells. the first level is kelipat nogah, which contains some good in it (in a concealed way. it can therefore be transformed and sublimated to g-dliness

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who then could enter his storehouses whenever they wanted. in order to prevent this, the king changed the locks, and these people could no longer open them. g-d did the same here. he changed his names, as it is written, gcome, let us descend and confound their speech. h furthermore, he confounded their language, so they could no longer speak the holy language, and even if they would try to adjure the angels in other languages, this would be totally ineffective. he therefore made them forget hebrew, and thus they no longer knew how to do anything [like this .translated from sefer halikutim and likutei torah 13 jeremiah 51:44. 39 parashat noach [third installment] gthe water prevailed fifteen cubits above, and the mountains were covered. h1 thus, during the flood, the highest mountaintop was

ir anpin. now, regarding these three gpitchers h [i.e, 24 fs, each one refers to another name havayah. for there are three names havayah depicted with eyes, each one of which is drawn with 24 circles, giving a total of 72, the numerical value of chesed, as mentioned elsewhere. thus, each gpitcher h is another name havayah, meaning that there are three names havayah here. in the vision of ezekiel, the angels are described as having gbacks, tall and frightening, for the backs of all four were covered all over with eyes. h4 in the zohar,5 this verse is interpreted as referring to the gbacks, h i.e, the separate strokes, used to write the four letters of the name havayah. each stroke is depicted as being formed by three eyes: we see here that the four letters of the name havayah are formed by

main, h since the consciousness dominant in these worlds is that there is such a thing as independent existence. at other times, they cause a blemish in levels below it, i.e, in the realm of impurity itself, which receives its life force through the gother gods. h this [is damage caused in] the public domain. gimpurity h is the self-awareness that exists in the lower worlds. the gother gods h are the angels and other channels through which divine energy flows into these worlds. it is the fact that they are not created and informed gdirectly h from g-d that leaves room for gcreature-consciousness, h i.e, self-awareness. when the damage is caused by the horn, i.e, the evil opposite malchut, it cannot cause damage to malchut [completely] or to anything below it, but [rather can damage] only i

s in the world of asiyah. these are [the two archangels] michael and gabriel, who are termed seraphim, and are the strength of the states of gevurah. 3 recall that names of angels that are not also used as names of people should not be pronounced. 4 berachot 7a. the arizal on parashat tetzaveh 349 binah is on the left side of the sefirah-tree, and therefore associated with gevurah; thus seraphim, the angels of beriah, are also associated with gevurah. in particular, the word seraph means gfiery angel h or gburning angel, h referring to the burning up of self-awareness that accompanies deep intellectual comprehension of divine reality. the relentless, consuming nature of fire is associated with gevurah. this is indicated by the fact that the numerical value of seraph [580] is the same as th

r level of life than fowl and locusts. in order for their life force to be properly assimilated, it must undergo the additional rectification process of ritual slaughter. through this process the life force inherent in the animal flesh is rendered capable of being absorbed into spirituality through being eaten by the jew. the arizal now turns the discussion to the subject of the birds. now, it is the angels that issue from the yesod of z feir anpin of atzilut. these [angels] are the [spiritual] birds that derive from this level. as it is said of [the the arizal on parashat shemini 441 angel] gabriel, gand the bird will fly in heaven. h2 in contrast, physical birds derive from yesod of z feir anpin of [the three lower worlds] beirah, yetzirah, and asiyah. whereas the physical fish and locus

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is nogah-denoting external splendour but internal corruption. the serpent nehushtan, which moses made when the children of israel were bitten by serpents of fire in the wilderness, is the serpent of the paths of the tree. and he set it on a pole-that is, twined it round the middle pillar of the sephiroth. and the word used in the passage in numbers 21 for fiery serpents is the same as the name of the angels of geburah, the same spelling, the same pointing, seraphim. round the middle pillar of the sephiroth, because that is the reconciler between the fires of geburah or severity, and the waters of chesed or mercy-and hence it is said in the new <166> testament that it is a type of christ, the reconciler. and the serpent is of brass, the metal of venus, whose sphere is called nogah, or exter

ancy in metallicmatter, and it ruleth the sphere of action of the sun. and yhvh eloha va-daath is a god of knowledge and wisdom, ruling over the light of the universe; and its archangel is raphael, the prince of order of angels is melechim or malakim, that is kings or angelic kings, who are also called the order of virtues, angels and rulers. the angels peniel and pelial are also referred unto this sephira. it especially rules the mineral world. the beams of chesed and of tiphareth meet in netzach and thence in netzach arises a green, pure, brilliant, liquid, and gleaming like an emerald. and the sphere of its operations is that of nogah or external splendour, producing zeal, love, harmony, and it ruleth the sphere of action of the pla

flux of severity, and the tree of the knowledge of good and of evil shall it be until it is united with the supernals in daath. but the good which is under it is called the archangel metatron, and the evil is called the archangel samael, and between them lies the the golden dawn: volume ii book two hiero hiero hiero straight and narrow way where the archangel sandalphon keeps watch. the souls and the angels are above its branches, and the qlippoth or demons dwell under its roots. let the neophyte enter the pathway of evil. k m ta kes his place in front of neophyte, leads him in a n. e. direction towards the hiereus, halts, and steps out of the direct line behveen hiereus and neophyte. whence comest thou? i come from between the two pillars and i seek the light of the hidden knowledge in th

hee -replete with the numberless forms wherewith thou hast filled it from the beginning. from this spirit arise those most holy kings who are around thy <152> throne and who compose thy court. 0 universal father, one and alone! father alike of immortals and mortals. thou hast specially created powers similar unto thy thought eternal and unto thy venerable essence. thou hast established them above the angels who announce thy will to the world. lastly, thou hast created us as a third order in our elemental empire. there our continual exercise is to praise and to adore thy desires: there we ceaselessly bum with eternal aspirations unto thee, 0 father! 0 mother of mothers! 0 archetype eternal of maternity and love! 0 son, the flower of all sons! form of all forms! soul, spirit, harmony and num

morda hipotga v lsrahpm slgaiol saiinor soniznt laoaxrp ligdisa a aaetpoi aapdoce adoeoet anodoin alndvod arinnap and be this day present with me. bestow upon this (name weapon) the <74> strength and purity whereof ye are masters in the elemental forces which ye control; that its outward and material form may remain a true symbol of the inward and spiritual force" 14. then read the lnvocations of the angels governing the four lesser angles. during each, make the 1nvokingpentagram of the element whose implement is being consecrated. cup, wand, dagger, or pentacle, according to which lesser angle is in process, makingthepentagram in theair immediately over thelmplement with the sword. fire wand lesser angle of fire "oh thou mighty angel bziza who art rulerand president over the four angels o

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ound.we restore the times of old.,the blooming glorious age of gold;as the new creation free,blest with gay euphrosyne;we with godlike science talk,and with fair astrea walk;innocence adorns the day,brighter than the smiles of may.pour the rosy wine again,wake a bisker, louder strain;rapid zephyrs, as ye fly,waft our voices to the sky;while we celebrate the nine,and the wonders of the trine,while the angels sing aboveas we below, of peace and love.the circuits by the cond. of novices and the practicus, preceded by the torch bearer whose torchgives the only light in the sacred hall, cease as they approach the west of the sacred chamber; theyhalt.cond. of n.:frater practicus, we are in the midst of physical darkness and mental gloom and even the soul iswandering in mazes preceded only by the

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, in the throes of his agony: emy god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me? f as the star of the morning goes before the sun, the rebellion of lucifer announced to new-born nature the coming incarnation of god. possibly lucifer, in his fall through night, carried with him a rain of suns and stars by the attraction of his glory. possibly our sun is a demon among the stars, as lucifer is a star among the angels. doubtless it is for this reason that it lights so calmly the horrible anguish of humanity and the long agony of earth -because it is free in its solitude and possesses its light. h such were the tendencies of the heresiarchs in the early centuries. some, like the ophites, adored the demon under the figure of a serpent; others, like the cainites, justified the rebellion of the first ang

hast impressed on it from the beginning! from this spirit the three most holy kings, who surround thy throne and constitute thy court, derive also their origin, o universal father! o sole and only father of blessed mortals and immortals! in particular thou hast created powers which are marvellously like unto thine eternal thought and thine adorable essence; thou hast established them higher than the angels, who proclaim thy will to the world; finally, thou hast created us third in rank within our elementary empire. there our unceasing exercise is to praise thee and adore thy good pleasure; there we burn continually in our aspiration to possess thee. o father! o mother, most tender of all mothers! o admirable archetype of maternity and of pure love! o son, flower of sons! o form of all for

rdity. could god be absurd for one instant, neither himself nor the world would be in existence the moment following. to expect from the divine arbiter an effect having a disproportionate cause, or even no cause at all, is what is called tempting god: it is casting one's self into the void. god operates by his works. in heaven by angels and on earth by men. hence, in the circle of angelic action, the angels can perform all that is possible for god, and in the human circle of action men can dispose equally of divine omnipotence. in the heaven of human conceptions it is humanity which creates god, and men think that god has made them in his image because they have made him in theirs. the domain of man is all corporeal and visible nature on earth, and if he cannot rule suns and stars, he can

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actions [battles] has been carried more swiftly to other countries than all the art of us mortals could possibly dispatch it st. augustine [commenting] on mark 9:4, gives no small intimation of this truth, averring that elias appeared with jesus on the mount in his proper body, but moses [appeared] in an aerial body [which he had] assumed [that is, taken on [moses aerial body was] like [those of] the angels who appeared and had the ability to eat with abraham, though no necessity, on the account of their bodies, as likewise the late doctrine of the preexistence of souls, living into aerial vehicles [these examples] give a singular hint of the possibilities of the thing, if not a direct proof of the whole assertion; which [may] yet, moreover, be illuminated by diverse other instances of the

ies, otherworld lovers, daemones, and angels is found in the secret commonwealth. it also plays an important part in the merlin tradition as reported by geoffrey of monmouth and other medieval chroniclers. in glamorganshire there is a village known as angel town, and pembroke is angle or nangle: adamnan, in his life of columba, records that the saint opened his books and 'read them on the hill of the angels, where once on a time the citizens of the heavenly country were seen to descend to hold conversation with the blessed man. upon this his editor comments 'this is the knoll called "great fairies hill. not far away is the "little fairies hill. the fairies hills of pagan mythology became angels hills in the minds of the early christian saints' one may be permitted to question whether this

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numbers here, we find that 82% of the old testament books mention nothing about satan. and we discover that 30% of the new testament books mention nothing about satan. though this percent is actually 30/70, it is close enough to confirm the 33 1/3 to 66 2/3 biblical ratio of lucifer's departure from heaven. in lucifer's departure, we discover that lucifer is reported as leaving heaven with 1/3 of the angels following him. using this ratio, we should find one satanist for every two christians. this ratio is not out of balance,because we will discover that satan has always had the fittest, most strongly willed, and most attractive forces on his side. looking at some new testament authors' remarks about satan, let's refer to some new testament experiences and see them from a satanic perspecti

the dragon; and the dragon fought, and his angels. since christian doctrines proclaim that all the evil angels left heaven with lucifer, how is it that their own scripture indicates angels will join with the dragon to fight against michael? for everyone knows departed angels become daemons. so if angels join with the dragon, then this says there are still malcontent angels in the heavens. and if the angels feel like this, woe be unto the soul that ends up there. the deceiver: revelation 20:10 and the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. they will be tormended day and night for ever and ever. here we have another example of how christians have inverted the truth. they would have us believe that satan no

for he is the father of it. again satan stands accused of being a murderer. what not his first accusation that of a liar? but in this text it is proclaimed he was first a murderer. did they falsely blame satan for all the deaths that occurred in the name of christ throughout time? the enemy: matthew 13:39 the enemy that sowed them is satan; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. can there be a reaping of the harvest without the sowing of the seed? which angels are it that reap the harvest? those of jehovah or satan? a roaring lion: 1 peter 5:8 be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary satan, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. the activities of satan the diabolical trinity: the biblical satan has a trinity, as jehovah has a trinit

lore new depths in these latter times. satan has mysteries which many will never understand: 2 thessalonians 2:7 for the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. this really says that your knowledge of the l.h.p. will cause you to part with the r.h.p. this parting will be the beginning of your remanifestation. satan will attract 1/3 of the angels in heaven. according to christianity, when lucifer departed heaven 1/3 of the angels left with him. from that time on, those angels were known as demons. in revelation 12:4 (above, it explains that another 1/3 of the remaining 2/3 angels in heaven will join satan. again in revelation 12:7 (above, we find two forces going into battle. this is where 1/3 of the angels in heaven join the de

asleh, thou who speak for god declare this breach of peace, not i, for it is thou who can not tolerate variation of will within the design of god. so let it be, but know that the contest is ordered by thee and thee alone, for i would crush no other will even as i would recognize my own. and in a flash of brilliance lucifer revealed his mind throughout the farthest reaches of heaven, and many were the angels whose sight was awed anew, and they saw as they had not before that their several wills were isolate from the divine will. but masleh moved to confuse the brilliance of the archangel of light, and he called to michael, thou who wield the force of god, strike down this deadliness which would bring ruin to heaven! and michael struck lucifer and cast him from the gates of heaven, and the c

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ed on the sign of the great hunter, orion is a glyph for contacting the great hunter himself, the horned one. the spell of sah is set forth on p. 189-193. on the three pages beforehand (p.186-188) there is also to be found several keys to the secrets of the 11 cells. this house is symbolised by the 8 -rayed cross which are the spider! when you open this gate you must become the gate. the cross of the angels and sub- angels is the complete and correct form of the absolutness of the one. the portals of life and death open on all edges to run together into the core of them both, the bindu found in the source of the azoth. the letters daleth and samekh is associated with the influences in this cell. it s a strong a alchemical brew. this is the bonding of oppositions under the rulership of cool

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ting on top of that bastard mountain, a human being, not a breathing machine. pemba said, allie bibi, don't do, but i just started up. in a while we passed the others coming down and i could see the wonderful thing in their eyes. they were so high, possessed of such an exaltation, that they didn't even notice i wasn't wearing the oxygen equipment. be careful, they shouted over to us, look out for the angels. pemba had fallen into a good breathing pattern and i fell into step with it, breathing in with his in, out with his out. i could feel something lifting off the top of my head and i was grinning, just grinning from ear to ear, and when pemba looked my way i could see he was doing the same. it looked like a grimace, like pain, but it was just foolish joy" she was a woman who had been bro

to the void: that sounded like a miracle, too. if that could happen, so could this. babies fell out of zillionthfloor windows and bounced. there was a scene about that in fran ois truffaut's movie _l"argent du poche. she focused her thoughts "sometimes" she decided to say "wonderful things happen to me, too" she told him then what she had never told any living being: about the visions on everest, the angels and the ice--city "it wasn't only on everest, either" she said, and continued after a hesitation. when she got back to london, she went for a walk along the embankment to try and get him, as well as the mountain, out of her blood. it was early in the morning and there was the ghost of a mist and the thick snow made everything vague. then the icebergs came. there were ten of them, moving

our adam"s-apple to your crotch: just words, because she didn't know the thing. suppose he had come to me, she dreamed. i could have learned him, step by step, climbed him to the very summit. denied mountains by my weak-boned feet, i'd have looked for the mountain in him: establishing base camp, sussing out routes, negotiating ice--falls, crevasses, overhangs. i'd have assaulted the peak and seen the angels dance. o, but he's dead, and at the bottom of the sea. then she found him- and maybe he'd invented her, too, a little bit, invented someone worth rushing out of one's old life to love- nothing so remarkable in that. happens often enough; and the two inventors go on, rubbing the rough edges off one another, adjusting their inventions, moulding imagination to actuality, learning how to be

reatures getting above their station- children giggled in his face _something straaange in the neighbourhood. armed with zapguns, they made as if to bust him like some common, lowdown spook _come away from there, a woman commanded, a tightly groomed woman, white, a redhead, with a broad stripe of freckles across the middle of her face; her voice was full of distaste _did you hear me? now- whereas the angels' crash was a simple matter of power: a straightforward piece of celestial police work, punishment for rebellion, good and tough "pour encourager les autres- then how unconfident of itself this deity was, who didn't want its finest creations to know right from wrong; and who reigned by terror, insisting upon the unqualified submission of even its closest associates, packing off all dissi

ould be sore afraid and repent them of their sins. he began to enlarge his person. how astonishing, then, that of all the drivers streaming along the embankment- it was, after all, rush-hour- not one should so much as look in his direction, or acknowledge him! this was in truth a people who had forgotten how to see. and because the relationship between men and angels is an ambiguous one- in which the angels, or mala"ikah, are both the controllers of nature and the intermediaries between the deity and the human race; but at the same time, as the quran clearly states _we said unto the angels, be submissive unto adam, the point being to symbolize man's ability to master, through knowledge, the forces of nature which the angels represented- there really wasn't much that the ignored and infuria

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tches, in the satanic cults of russia and teutonia, the luciferian traditions, brujeria, stregeria, rosicrucianism, the golden dawn, thelema, and (according to some) in the rites and observances of freemasonry, as it may be seen in what might be patronisingly called folk magic across europe. this same syncretism is evident in the classical grimoire in the rites, signs, seals; even in the names of the angels and devils themselves. here we find numerous survivals of assyrian, babylonian, hebrew, greek, roman, egyptian, norse and celtic gods, yet given new existence and identities as the denizens of pandemonium. that these arts have their roots in pre-christian magick is a fact alluded to again and again as this work progresses, for it cannot be overstressed. in the words of arthur e. waite

ents, attributed to peter de abano, dates probably from around the fifteenth century. it is thus not the work of the author claimed, who died in 1250. the work contains detailed and straight forward instructions by which spirits may be summoned and drawn into communication, and detailed concourse upon the subjects of geomancy and astrology. its two major parts are firstly concerned with summoning the angels of air, who are bullied and treated as the demons in any other classical grimoire, and a sequence of daily meditations clearly based upon the observances of the essenes. the second deals purely with the summoning of various spirits, each with their own specialities not unlike the goetia. reginald scot s discoverie of witchcraft the first edition of this work was published in 1584. accor

nsformation or change of name, merely of alignment. it is almost as if the citizenship of heaven and hell are in constant flux, and the divisions between good and evil are not as succinct and unchanging as orthodox theologians would have us believe. compare almost any description of spirits from the lesser key to the description of the angelic manifestation in ezekiel 1:6-13. as we shall observe, the angels, saints, devils and demons may be traced back largely to the spirits of the previous aeon of pagan magick. the hebrew term for angel is mal akh, meaning messenger. the word angel itself comes through the sanskrit angeres, persian angeres, to the greek angelos. such pre-christian roots are apparent even in their names, which commonly end with the singular el, meaning shining one. the wor

expanded by the cardinal bishop of tusculum to precisely 301,655,722. of these 133,306,668 were amongst the fallen. others insisted that the nine choirs each had 6,666 legions of 6,666 angels. although such theological absurdities may seem irrelevant to us now, at the time they were considered crucial to our common perception of ourselves in relation to cosmos. what can hardly be disputed is that the angels, and their relatives the devils, have been wholly accepted and imprinted into the collective imagination of our culture over hundreds of thousands of years. thus, although we may now be wholly immersed in an aeon of atheist and nihilist world views, the angels and devils themselves still provoke a powerful response from our deeper minds. angelology, like the pantheistic cosmologies that

s, they are the archetypal u.f.o. or flying saucer. they are variously said to reside in the third and fourth heavens, and thus exist as the first emanations that may be considered as possessing the elemental developments of form and substance. it is here that heaven meets earth, and thus becomes exposed to potential corruption. the most powerful of mystics and magicians have been known to summon the angels of the throne and bind them as magical machines; thus gaining the perfect astral form and the abilities to travel to heaven, hell, through time, space, and the dimensions of para-reality. according to rabbinic scripture, all the hebrew patriarchs joined this order upon their arrival in heaven, although christian theologians obviously disagree on this point. their ruling prince is raphae

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ed all thy engagements, belied all thy promises. centuries have wept awaiting thee, fugitive god, mute god! thou wast to redeem man and thou hast not; thou wast to appear in thy glory, and thou steepest. go, lie, say to the wretch who appeals to thee "hope, be patient, suffer; the hospital of souls will receive thee; angels will succour thee; heaven opens to thee" imposter! thou knowest well that the angels, disgusted at thy inertness, abandon thee! thou wast to be the interpreter of our plaints, the chamberlain of 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 o

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to know god directly. god is often seen as a parent: in some instances, a father; in others, a mother. in contrast to the major monotheistic (believing in one god) religions, african indigenous religions tend to believe that god, after creating the world, withdrew and is not involved in the day-to-day affairs of humans. that task is left to a group of lesser spirits. these spirits are similar to the angels and demons of christianity, islam, and judaism. they communicate directly with people and act as intermediaries between god and humans. these lesser spirits can be either good or bad. good spirits provide humans with a host of benefits. they protect crops and livestock, ensure success in hunting, and provide such benefits as good health and long life, life-giving rains (especially in dr

his term offensive because if suggests that muhammad was divine rather than simply god s messenger or prophet. islam is a monotheistic religion, meaning that its followers believe in one supreme god. the god of islam is called allah, a name that comes from the arabic phrase al-ilah, meaning the one true god. core beliefs of the religion include belief in one god, allah, and in allah s messengers, the angels. muslims believe in allah s many prophets, which include muhammad, moses (c. 1392 c. 1272 bce, abraham (c. 2050 c. 1950 bce, jesus christ (c. 6 bce c. 30 ce, and others. islam also contains as its core beliefs a last day, when the world will end; allah s judgment of human affairs; and life after death. it is the world s second largest religion, with approximately one to 1.3 billion memb

ad by muslims and non-muslims alike for its ecstatic, or blissful, vision of a loving god. some sufis, known as whirling dervishes, follow the teachings of jala l by spinning rhythmically and chanting the ninety-nine names of god. sufis practice patience, a total reliance on god s knowledge of the future, and thankfulness to god. basic beliefs there are seven core beliefs in islam: belief in god, the angels, the revealed books of god, god s many prophets, the last day, divine judgment, and life after death. muslims believe that god, or allah, is the same god that revealed himself to jews and christians (arab christians even use the name allah when referring to god) this belief in the same god is expressed in the qur an, where muslims are told to tell christians islamic calligraphy praises

islam. while at prayer, both men and women cover their heads as a sign of modesty. david turnley/corbis. world religions: almanac 311 islam pregnant women, travelers, and women who are nursing children are allowed to combine the two afternoon and the two evening prayers. salat requires seven preconditions: it must be time for prayer. prayer is not to begin early, and late prayers are recorded by the angels in the person s book of deeds. the hands, face, and feet must be washed to achieve ritual purity. the process is called wudu, and it can be done in a fountain in a mosque or in a sink, wherever there is clean water. a cleansing lasts until the worshiper must use the toilet, after which wudu must be conducted again; otherwise, a wudu can potentially last for several prayer times. clean c

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firmament. the senior plants in it rad. rubeam and albam. now you proceed with constancy and arbor artis appears to you, with its blossoms it announces now lapidem philosophorum. over all, the crown of the glory, ruling over all treasures. be diligent, peaceful, constant and pious, pray that god may help thee. and if thou attain, never forget the poor. then thou wilt praise god with the legion of the angels, now and forever. mercy- choice light, strength, joy in the recognition of god's virtue and hymn of praise. darkness, evil-doing, fear in godlessness, sin and vice. come ye to the mercy-seat. go ye to the pit of fire mars: fear, heat, therein consists the sensibilities. mercury: bitter, drawing and moving out of the harsh quality, which causes a sting within, and remains in that spirit

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"the lad grew and was bestowed" he said: he says the same as i do. he grew and bestowed kindness to his neighbours and to those entrusted to him. 20. and why is there a tail at the bottom of the gimel? he said: the gimel has a head on top, and is like a pipe. just like a pipe, the gimel draws from above through its head, and disperses through its tail. this is the gimel. 21. rabbi yochanan said: the angels were created on the second day. it is therefore written (psalm 104:3 "he rafters his upper chambers with water [he makes the clouds his chariot, he walks on the wings of the wind" it is then written (psalm 104:4 "he makes the winds his angels, his ministers from flaming fire [rabbi haninah said: the angels were created on the fifth day, as it is written (genesis 1:20 "and flying things

herefore written (psalm 104:3 "he rafters his upper chambers with water [he makes the clouds his chariot, he walks on the wings of the wind" it is then written (psalm 104:4 "he makes the winds his angels, his ministers from flaming fire [rabbi haninah said: the angels were created on the fifth day, as it is written (genesis 1:20 "and flying things shall fly upon the firmament of heaven" regarding the angels it is written (isaiah 6:2 "with two wings did they fly] rabbi levatas ben tavrus said: all agree, even rabbi yochanan, that the water already existed [on the first day. but it was on the second day that "he raftered his upper chambers with water [at that time he also created] the one who "makes the clouds his chariot" and the one who "walks on the wings of the wind" but his messengers w

aught that they were all said with a single word. but we have said that there were seven. there were seven voices. regarding three of them it is written (deuteronomy 4:12, the voice of words you heard, but you saw no form, only a voice. this teaches us that they were all said with a single word. this is so that israel should not make a mistake and say, others helped him. it might have been one of the angels. but his voice alone could not be so powerful. it was for this reason that he came back and included them [in a single word. 49. another explanation: it was so that the world should not say that since there were ten sayings for ten kings, it might be that he could not speak for them all through one. he therefore said (exodus 20:2, i am [the lord you god, which included all ten. what are

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fire; he vibrated them in the air; seven planets in the heavens, and twelve celestial constellations of the stars of the zodiac- the end of "the book of formation- the fifty gates of intelligence attached to some editions of the "sepher yetzirah" is found this scheme of kabalistic classification of knowledge emanating from the second sephira binah, understanding, and descending by stages through the angels, heavens, humanity, animal and vegetable and mineral kingdoms to hyle and the chaos. the kabalists said that one must enter and pass up through the gates to attain to the thirty-two paths of wisdom; and that even moses only passed through the forty-ninth gate, and never entered the fiftieth. see the oedipus aegyptiacus of athanasius kircher, vol. ii. p. 319. first order: elementary 1. c

ean heaven. fifih order: the angelic world 41. ishim--sons of fire. 42. auphanim--cherubim. 43. aralim--thrones. 44. chashmalim--dominions. 45. seraphim--virtues. 46. malakim--powers. 47. elohim--principalities. 48. beni elohim--angels. 49. cherubim--arch-angels. sixth order: the archetype 50. god. ain suph. he whom no mortal eye bath seen, and who has been known to jesus the messiah alone. note--the angels of the fifth or angelic world are arranged in very different order by various kabalistic rabbis. the thirty-two paths of wisdom translated from the hebrew text of joannes stephanus rittangelius, 1642: which is also to be found in the "oedipus aegyptiacus" of athanasius kircher, 1653 (these paragraphs are very obscure in meaning, and the hebrew text is probably very corrupt) the first pa

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ile "he stood upon the water of the ocean (afahera i. hi n pmoou pwkeanos (ch. 136).33 jesus goes on to cry out the divine name, iao, towards the four corners of the world, obviously manifesting himself as the master of the universe through wielding the proper name of god.34 "then jesus, who is aberamentho, cried out again" this time commanding "all the mysteries of the archons and the powers and the angels and the archangels, and all powers and all works of the invisible god c (ibid. jesus' disciples are now given a revelation of all the cosmic secrets. it is thus clear that jesus aberamentho in the unnamed tractate in codex askewianus is assimilated to thoth-hermes: he is the lord of the waters and the formulas controlling the cosmic powers.35 the fact that also seth-typhon could be give

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n its case the neglected instrument. viola was not long gone: she had found the physician; she returned with him; and as they gained the threshold, they heard a strain of music from within, a strain of piercing, heart-rending anguish. it was not like some senseless instrument, mechanical in its obedience to a human hand, it was as some spirit calling, in wail and agony from the forlorn shades, to the angels it beheld afar beyond the eternal gulf. they exchanged glances of dismay. they hurried into the house; they hastened into the room. pisani turned, and his look, full of ghastly intelligence and stern command, awed them back. the black mantilla, the faded laurel-leaf, lay there before him. viola's heart guessed all at a single glance; she sprung to his knees; she clasped them "father, fa

ovid (erinnys, doleful and bloody, extends the unblessed torches) and they placed the child in the father's arms! as silently he bent over it, tears tears, how human! fell from his eyes like rain! and the little one smiled through the tears that bathed its cheeks! ah, with what happy tears we welcome the stranger into our sorrowing world! with what agonising tears we dismiss the stranger back to the angels! unselfish joy; but how selfish is the sorrow! and now through the silent chamber a faint sweet voice is heard, the young mother's voice "i am here: i am by thy side" murmured zanoni. the mother smiled, and clasped his hand, and asked no more; she was contented. viola recovered with a rapidity that startled the physician; and the young stranger thrived as if it already loved the world t

cieties populaires had decided that whoever used it should be prosecuted as suspect et adulateur! at the door of the public administrations and popular societies was written up "ici on s'honore du citoyen, et on se tutoye("here they respect the title of citizen, and they 'thee' and 'thou' one another) take away murder from the french revolution and it becomes the greatest farce ever played before the angels) that thou art treading on my feet. i beg thy pardon, but now i look at thine, i see the hall is not wide enough for them "ho! citizen nicot" cried a jacobin, shouldering his formidable bludgeon "and what brings thee hither? thinkest thou that hebert's crimes are forgotten already? off, sport of nature! and thank the etre supreme that he made thee insignificant enough to be forgiven "a

e. she fell upon her knees and prayed. the despoilers of all that beautifies and hallows life had desecrated the altar, and denied the god! they had removed from the last hour of their victims the priest, the scripture, and the cross! but faith builds in the dungeon and the lazar-house its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro, prayer. and there, in the very cell beside her own, the atheist nicot sits stolid amidst the darkness, and hugs the thought of danton, that death is nothingness("ma demeure sera bientot le neant (my abode will soon be nothingness, said danton before his judges) his, no spectacle of an appalled and perturbed conscience! remorse is the echo of a lost virtue, and virtue h

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d men call it, some the wain, and some the dragon's child. i keep near unto this star. so ask me not many things; for thy kingdom also after a little time is to be disrupted, and thy glory is but for a season. and short will be thy tyranny over us; and then we shall again have free range over mankind, so as that they shall revere us as if we were gods, not knowing, men that they are, the names of the angels set over us" 22. and i solomon, on hearing this, bound him more carefully, and ordered him to be flogged with thongs of ox-hide, and to tell me humbly what was his name and what his business. and he answered me thus "i am called asmodeus among mortals, and my business is to plot against the newly wedded, so that they may not know one another. and i sever them utterly by many calamities

liver of the fish and its gall i hung on the spike of a reed, and burned it over asmodeus because of his being so strong, and his unbearable malice was thus frustrated. 26. and i summoned again to stand before me beelzeboul, the prince of demons, and i sat him down on a raised seat of honour, and said to him "why art thou alone, prince of the demons" and he said to me "because i alone am left of the angels of heaven that came down. for i was first angel in the first heaven being entitled beelzeboul. and now i control all those who are bound in tartarus. but i too have a child, and he haunts the red sea. and on any suitable occasion he comes up to me again, being subject to me; and reveals to me what he has done, and i support him. 27. i solomon said unto him "beelzeboul, what is thy emplo

n said "i am the demon called ephippas, that is in arabia" and i said to him "is this thy name" and he answered "yes; wheresoever i will, i alight and set fire and do to death" 122. and i said to him "by what angel art thou frustrated" and he answered "by the only-ruling god, that hath authority over me even to be heard. he that is to be born of a virgin and crucified by the jews on a cross. whom the angels and archangels worship. he doth frustrate me, and enfeeble me of my great strength, which has been given me by my father the devil" and i said to him "what canst thou do' and he answered''i am able to remove [1] mountains, to overthrow the oaths of kings. i wither trees and make their leaves to fall off" and i said to him "canst thou raise this stone, and lay it for the beginning of thi

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very end of the world. 96 so the birth in bethlehem bears the stamp of an eternal reality. hence when the birth of jesus is mentioned in the christmas antiphon, it is said to happen every christmas: 100 christianity as mystical fact hodie christus natus est, hodie salvator apparuit, hodie in terra canunt angeli, laetantur archangeli, etc (today christ is born, today the savior has appeared, today the angels sing on earth, the archangels rejoice) the christ-experience, then, was a specific stage of initiation. in pre-christian times the mystai attained to this stage of christ-initiation, but they were then in a state of spiritual vision in the higher worlds, to which there was nothing equivalent among the facts of the sense-world. the inner meaning of the mystery of golgotha was experienced

en sash round his chest. his head and his hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire.127 subsequently we are told that the seven lights are the seven communities. 128 hence we must understand them as seven different ways to the divine, each in itself more or less imperfect. but the son of man also had in his right hand seven stars, 129 and the seven stars are the angels of the seven communities. 130 the guiding spirits or daimons of mysteriosophy have here become the guiding angels of the seven communities, which are thus presented as the bodies of spiritual entities of which the angels are the soul, on the analogy of the human soul as the guiding power over the body. each community represents a way to the divine from a certain limited point of 128 chr

ns of mysteriosophy have here become the guiding angels of the seven communities, which are thus presented as the bodies of spiritual entities of which the angels are the soul, on the analogy of the human soul as the guiding power over the body. each community represents a way to the divine from a certain limited point of 128 christianity as mystical fact view, and the guides along these ways are the angels. they must therefore come to accept as their own leader the being who in his right hand holds the seven stars. and out of his mouth issued a sharp two-edged sword, and his countenance resembled the shining sun in its glory.131 this sword also figures in the mysteries: the initiand was terrified by a drawn sword. such is the situation of john, who wants actual experience of the divine wh

ianity ought really to be for the world. the seven angels who stand before god appear. these angels are once again spiritual beings known in the ancient mysteries translated into christian terms. they stand for the true christian path to the divine vision. the next stage is thus a leading into the presence of god. it is an initiation that john will undergo. the seven trumpets the proclamations of the angels are accompanied by the necessary features of all initiation. when the first angel blew upon his trumpet: there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. a third part of the earth was burned up, together with a third part of the trees, and all of the green grass. 144 134 christianity as mystical fact similar portents occur when the other angels blo

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onic brotherhood.1 ruining god's creation ezekiel 28 tells us that, as first created by god, lucifer was a beautiful creature, one of the most lovely in heaven. his body was not of flesh but was made up of actual gems and jewels. even more fantastic, musical instruments were incorporated into his being. a beauty to behold. but then the deceitful lucifer rebelled, taking down with him one third of the angels. he and they apparently became vile creatures, ugly and deformed, appearing in grotesque forms appropriate to their mental and spiritual deformities. how art thou fallen from heaven, o lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! for thou hast said in thine heart, i will ascend into heaven, 1 will exalt my throne above the stars of go

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e: a comparative anthology of sacred texts. new york: paragon house, 1995. zaehner, r. c, ed. encyclopedia of the world s religions. new york: barnes& noble, 1997. islam in regard to the concept of a soul, islam envisions a human as a being of spirit and body. the creation of adam as described in the qur an (or koran) is reminiscent of genesis in the judeo-christian bible as the lord announces to the angels that he is going to create a human of clay and that he will breathe his spirit into him after he has given him form. and he originated the creation of man out of clay, then he fashioned his progeny of an extraction of mean water, then he shaped him, and breathed his spirit in him (qur an 32:8 9) 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 12

d of trade during the time of the fire arrived in gotenburg. in letters the courier had brought with him, the fire was described exactly as stated by swedenborg, and the next morning the news was further confirmed by messages brought to the governor by royal courier. as the seer had proclaimed, the fire had been extinguished at exactly eight o clock in the evening. swedenborg s conversations with the angels and spirits of the dead had informed him that humans possess two receptacles for the containment of god the will for divine love and the understanding for divine wisdom. before the fall, the flow of these virtues from god into the human spirit was perfect, but the intervention of evil and the sins of humankind itself had interrupted this onceperfect communion. the purpose of religion is

ple with their rumors about the end of the world. he makes reference to the prophet daniel and his warnings concerning the end times and the antichrist, and he admonishes the disciples not to chase after false teachers who will produce great miracles and signs to trick god s chosen ones. no one knows when the son of man shall appear again coming on the clouds of heaven, jesus tells them, not even the angels. although jesus makes it clear that no one knows the hour or day of his second coming, for many centuries now certain christian clergy and scholars have steadfastly associated the rise of the antichrist to earthly power as a kind of catalyst that would set in motion armageddon, the last final battle between good and evil, the ultimate clash between the armies of jesus christ and satan

ple with their rumors about the end of the world. he makes reference to the prophet daniel and his warnings concerning the end times and the antichrist, and he admonishes the disciples not to chase after false teachers who will produce great miracles and signs to trick god s chosen ones. no one knows when the son of man shall appear again coming on the clouds of heaven, jesus tells them, not even the angels. as in jewish apocalyptic tradition, christians also recognize that there must come the terrible time when the antichrist, summoning great powers of evil, will triumph for a period over the righteous believers and that there will be one last awful clash between the forces of good under the banner of christ and his angels and the minions of evil under the banner of satan. before that fin

test that will unfailingly distinguish between good spirits and bad ones. unless one is truly pure in heart, mind, and soul and has the ability to maintain only clean thoughts and good habits, it is very difficult to discern with unfailing accuracy the true nature of demon spirits. theologians remind their followers that as mortal beings they are in the midst of a great spiritual warfare between the angels of light who serve god and the fallen angels who serve the forces of darkness and that their souls may be the prize for the victors. accomplished spiritual teachers of all faiths advise their congregants that the good spirits will never try to interfere with the free will of humans or seek to possess their bodies. on the other hand, the evil spirits desire the physical host body of a hu

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hey are of a nature between spirits and humans, they can intermarry with humans and bear half-human children. one factor has been consistent in all traditions: the middle folk continually meddle in affairs of humans, sometimes to do them good, sometimes to do them ill. c. s. lewis (1898 1963, author of many books on spiritual matters, once suggested that the wee folk are a third rational species. the angels are the highest, having perfect goodness and whatever knowledge is necessary for them to do god s will; humans, somewhat less perfect, are the second; fairies, having certain powers of the angels but no souls, are the third. because the folklore of the wee people is so multicultural and worldwide, some theorists have suggested that the fairy folk may actually have been the surviving rem

w existed in a much-diminished capacity, but still possessed more than enough power to be deemed supernatural by the human inhabitants of the planet. in a variation of that account of the fairies origin, other scholars contend that after the war in heaven, the dispossessed angels materialized on earth and assumed physical bodies similar to those of humans those beings declared a little lower than the angels. eventually, these paraphysical beings took humans as mates, thereby breeding a hybrid species of entities betwixt man and angel. william shakespeare (1564 1616) made fairies famous in a number of his masterworks. he is largely responsible for the concept of the wee folk as mostly benign mischievous, perhaps, but never evil. alexander pope (1688 1744) wrote lovely passages idealizing fa

e the anakims of philisa and the emims of moab. goliath was a gittite, a man of great stature and bulk, but he was not a nephilim. in the apocryphal book of enoch (7:12, one learns more of the nonterrestrial entities who desire the daughters of men for their own interests: it happened after the sons of men had multiplied in those days, that elegant, beautiful daughters were born to them. and when the angels, the sons of heaven, beheld them, they became enamored of them, saying to each other: come, let us select for ourselves wives from the progeny of men, and let us beget children. those researchers who believe that the bible contains many passages relating to 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 250 invaders from outer space thehebrew w

has been relayed by the contactees. those sympathetic to the contactees might argue that the ufo crews deem their science to be incomprehensible to humankind at this point; other theorists suggest that the contactees are not communicating with alien entities at all, but rather, with a higher aspect of their own psyches. some researchers have observed that the space beings appear to function as do the angels of more conventional theologies. both beings are concerned about earth; they seem to be actively trying to protect it and the people in it. both the space beings and the angels are powerful entities who appear to have control over the physical limitations of time and space yet they are benevolent in their actions toward bumbling, ineffectual humankind. it seems that space beings have de

state university of new york press, 1995. mack, john e. abducted. new york: charles scribner s sons, 1994. randle, kevin d, russ estes, and william p. cone. the abduction engima. new york: forge books, 1999. george adamski (1891 1965) george adamski was the first of the new age ufo prophets, and just as the prophets of old went out into the desert to receive their revelations directly from god or the angels, adamski went out into the night near desert center, california, on november 20, 1952, and received his first revelatory encounter with orthon, a venusian space brother. through telepathic transfer, adamski learned that the space traveler was benign and greatly concerned with the spiritual growth of humankind. adamski s desert encounter with a venusian and robert wise s motion picture t

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direction in the eighteenth century. the work purports to be much older, however. it was dated 1458 and claims to be translated originally from hebrew. the text reveals to the adept that the universe is teeming with hordes of angels and demons that interact with human beings on many levels. all the vast array of phenomena on earth are produced by the demonic entities, who are under the control of the angels. humans are somewhere midway between the angelic and the demonic intelligences on the spiritual scale, and each human entity has both a guardian angel and a malevolent demon that hover near him or her from birth until death. abramelin magick provides instruction to the initiates of the gmagic of light h that will enable them to achieve mastery over the demons and place them under their

humans. these seven spirits were the same beings that the brahmans of ancient india called the seven devas, that in persia were called the seven amaschapands, that in chaldea were called the seven great angels, that in jewish kabbalism are called the seven archangels. later, various magi sought to reconcile the christian hierarchy of celestial spirits with the traditions of hermes by classifying the angels into three hierarchies, each subdivided into three orders. the first hierarchy: seraphim, cherubim, and thrones. the second hierarchy: dominions, powers, and authorities [virtues. the third hierarchy:principalities, archangels, and angels. these spirits are considered more perfect in essence than humans, and they are thought to be on earth to help. they work out the pattern of ordeals t

se force or power in the mind of humankind. the tower of destruction (arcanum sixteen, the lightning-struck tower, depicts pandemonium, bedlam, and disruption. the struck tower symbolizes the dark night of the soul when the spiritually untested and immature seekers are confronted by a dramatic test of their faith. in this respect, the tower of destruction has also been referred to as the gfall of the angels. h the number 16 symbolizes an ending, a move, or a change; therefore, this card can also signify the breaking up of a romance or a love affair. the stars (arcanum seventeen) represents good luck or hope. the seven small stars on the card symbolize the universe along with the charity and hope represented by the number seven. the water in the stream before which the woman kneels symboliz

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e at last from the painful dreams of a tormented life; our ordeal will be finished, and we shall be sufficiently strong against sorrow to be immortal. then we shall live in god with a more abundant life, and we shall descend into his works with the light of his thought, we shall be borne away into the infinite by the whisper of his love. we shall be without doubt the elder brethren of a new race, the angels of posterity. celestial messengers, we shall wander in immensity, and the stars will be our gleaming ships. 18 we shall transform ourselves into sweet visions to calm weeping eyes; we shall gather radiant lilies in unknown meadows, and we shall scatter their dew upon the earth. we shall touch the eyelid of the sleeping child, and rejoice the heart of its mother with the spectacle of the

in, and the peoples seeing you pass will no longer say "there go the jews" they will cry "room for our brethren! room for our elders in the faith" and we shall go every year to eat the passover with you in the city of the new jerusalem. and we shall take our rest under your vine and under your fig-tree; for you will be once more the friend of the traveller, in memory of abraham, of tobias, and of the angels who visited them. and in memory of him who said "he who receiveth the least of these my little ones, receiveth me" for then you will no longer refuse an asylum in your 53 house and in your heart to your brother joseph, whom you sold to the gentiles. because he has become powerful in the land of egypt where you sought bread in the days of famine. and he has remembered his father jacob, a

nes at the sage. mr. de pene spoke of us as an unfrocked priest, and a bad catholic. we at least showed ourself a good christian in pitying and forgiving him, and as it is impossible to be an unfrocked priest without ever having been a priest, we let fall to the ground an insult which did not reach us. spooks in paris. mr. home, a week ago, was once more about to quit paris, that paris where even the angels and the demons, if they appeared in any shape, would not pass very long for marvellous beings, and would find nothing better to do than to return at top-speed to heaven or to hell, to escape the forgetfulness and the neglect of human kind. mr. home, his air sad and disillusioned, was then bidding farewell to a noble lady whose kindly welcome had been one of the first happiness which he

f hermes? what is that force? i will tell you. but i have still plenty of other miracles to tell; and this article is like a judicial investigation. we must, before anything else, complete it. however, we may be permitted, before proceeding to other accounts to transcribe here a page from a german "illumine" of the work of ludwig tieck "if, for example, as an ancient tradition informs us, some of the angels whom god had created fell all too soon, and if these, as they also say, were precisely the most brilliant of the angels, one may very well understand by this 'fall' that they sought a new road, a new form of activity, other occupations, and another life than those orthodox or more passive spirits who remained in the realm assigned to them, and made no use of liberty, the appanage of all

be found in idries shah's "the secret lore of magic, citadel press, new york, 1970 "choose a black cock, and give him the name of the spirit of darkness which one wishes to evoke "kill the cock, and keep its heart, its tongue, and the first feather of its left wing "dry the tongue and the heart, and reduce them to powder "eat no meat and drink no wine, that day "on tuesday, at dawn, say a mass of the angels "trace upon the altar itself, with the feather of the cock dipped in the consecrated wine, certain diabolical signatures (those of mr. home's pencil, and the bloody hosts of vintras "on wednesday, prepare a taper of yellow wax; rise at midnight, and alone, in the church, begin the office of the dead "mingle with this office infernal evocations "finish the office by the light of a single

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

avilion which veils the point (c) yetzirah, the world of formation, the level at which the general spirit is broken down into a crowd of individual minds (d) assiyah, the world of production. at each level the practical kabbalist works with a different mode of personification of the divine, in that at the world of assiyah he works with the elemental spirits, in the world of yetzirah he works with the angels, in the world of briah the archangels, and at the world of atziluth he works directly with the ten names of god in each of the sephiroth (see table one. however, the basic idea is that the universe is broken down into four layers of functionality, each of which resonates with the others. a more practical example of a "four worlds" application is in business planning, where the layers ar

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angels as michael, gabriel, and uriel (see the bahir translated by aryeh kaplan, page 41. uriel also figures prominently in non-canonical lore, but in some texts, uriel is confused or replaced with phanuel. one of the most important magical texts used by magicians, agrippa's three books of occult philosophy, published in 1531, lists michael, raphael, gabriel, and uriel as the "the four princes of the angels, which are set over the four winds, and over the four parts of the world (refer to page 533 of the llewellyn edition, edited by donald tyson) 4. compare to 2 timothy 418 "the lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will save me to h s celestial kingdom; to whom be glory to the aeon of aeons. amen. 5. halevi, kabbalah: tradition of hidden knowledge, 12. 6. ibid, 68. 7. ceremonial

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elled by the wings alone and rose and fell as the wings flapped like a gigantic bird" the brawley, california, news reported, august 4, 1905. others in the area reported seeing the same thing. winged beings are an essential part of the folklore of every culture. from the times of babylonia and the pharaohs, sculptors were preoccupied with putting wings on lions and unidentifiable beasts. although the angels of biblical times were never described as being winged, painters and sculptors have always persisted in giving them feathered appendages (actually, the old-time angels appeared like ordinary human beings. they even had supper with lot) when demons overran the planet during the dark ages they were also recorded as monstrous entities with bats' wings. remote areas of the world are still s

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pears to us, how he wants to be felt. hence, the study of kabbalah must be correctly aimed; the thought must be focused on studying the inner attributes that we still cannot see in us. all the world, partzufim, sefirot, names, everything the kabbalah speaks of exists in us and will be revealed in us, depending on the degree of our correction. we will find our inner moses and aaron, king david and the angels, the evil, the righteous and the 7 of 273 degrees of attainment called jerusalem, the temple and more. every word in the torah speaks of our own forces and the levels of our sensation of the creator. that is the only thing that the torah discusses. that is also the only thing we speak of in our daily lives, because we talk about our feelings. all we feel is the influence of the creator

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another minde, esteeming little the making of gold, which is but a parergon; for besides that they have a thousand better things. and we say with our loving father r.c.c. phy: aureum nisi quantum aurum, for unto them the whole nature is detected: he doth not rejoyce, that he can make gold, and that, as saith christ, the devils are obedient unto him; but is glad that he seeth the heavens open, and the angels of god ascending and descending, and his name written in the book of life. also we do testifie that under the name of chymia many books and pictures are set forth in contumeliam gloriae dei, as we wil name them in their due season, and wil give to the pure-hearted a catalogue, or register 15 of them: and we pray all learned men to take heed of these kinde of books; for the enemy never r

me, so that they live no otherwise in the world, than blind fools, who can, in the clear sun-shine day discern and know nothing, than only by feeling. now concerning the first part, we hold this, that the meditations, knowledge and inventions of our loving christian father (of all that, which from the beginning of the world, man s wisdom, either through god s revelation, or through the service of the angels and spirits, or through the sharpness and depth of understanding, or through long observation, use, and experience, hath found out, invented, brought forth, corrected, and till now hath been propagated and transplanted) are so excellent, worthy and great, that if all books should perish, and by god s almighty sufferance, all writings and all learnings should be lost, yet the posterity w

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d. you are the only the christ you need, separate and divine. dragon and angel in the flesh, devour and thirst eternally for knowledge and matter. place yourself above the church and its sheep. they cast stones at the wolf in the wild, yet it survives while they kneel and decay in houses of death and sickness. we vomit upon them to clean our stomachs of that sickness of spirit. let those who seek the angels know, that by dream and within the cradle of man flows the witch blood of the watchers. those who can hear this distant call can then seek us by crossways not found by common clay. the touch of azazel brings a fire to the clay which then allows that genius to shape his flesh in dream and waking according to his desire. do not let this flame be extinguished, for a will which does not ben

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

t the chaunting of souls lost in the ocean of understanding for ever and everlasting. from the filthy distillations of thy life, and the golden traffic of its quintessential lusts; from the fantastic dews of thy death, and all the gibbous glitter of its mirific mirror, shalt thou be purified: and thy cup shall be as the cusps of the horned moon, and thy wine as the blood of the spheres trodden by the angels of god, singing, singing, singing, throughout all eternity. thy joy shall be as the kiss of new-born suns, and thy bliss as a flaming cloud of bridal stars. thou shalt sit on the throne of time in the centre etwixt the four corners of the universe; and in thy left hand shalt thou hold the balances of being, in which thou shalt weigh the suns, and moons, and all the hosts of heaven; and

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n commanders on the side of ahriman. and the seven planets oppress all creation and deliver it over to death and all manner of evil: for the twelve signs of the zodiac and the seven planets rule the fate of the world and direct it- the dawn and twilight of zoroastrianism ohrmazd and ahriman both had elements of their being in the creation and government of the physical and material universe, thus the angels and daevas (demons) were not only emanations from their source, they could be considered to act according to the attributes of their nature, spirit based daevas were unseen yet had very powerful hungers for the human spirit, vizaresh for instance had no specific physical attrtibutes but could detect spirits, sat at the mouth of hell and sought to drag souls into darkness. material based

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3 for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the lord; and the lord hath sent us to destroy it. 19:14 and lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, up, get you out of this place; for the lord will destroy this city. but he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law. 19:15 and when the morning arose, then the angels hastened lot, saying, arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city. 19:16 and while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the lord being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. 19:17 and it came to pass, whe

to be his wife. 28:10 and jacob went out from beer-sheba, and went toward haran. 28:11 and he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and [put] them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. 28:12 and he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of god ascending and descending on it. 28:13 and, behold, the lord stood above it, and said, i [am] the lord god of abraham thy father, and the god of isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will i give it, and to thy seed; 28:14 and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee

e betwixt us. and jacob sware by the fear of his father isaac. 31:54 then jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount. 31:55 and early in the morning laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and laban departed, and returned unto his place. 32:1 and jacob went on his way, and the angels of god met him. 32:2 and when jacob saw them, he said, this [is] god s host: and he called the name of that place mahanaim. 32:3 and jacob sent messengers before him to esau his brother unto the land of seir, the country of edom. 32:4 and he commanded them, saying, thus shall ye speak unto my lord esau; thy servant jacob saith thus, i have sojourned with laban, and stayed there until no

he mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained psalms page 312 strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. 8:3 when i consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; 8:4 what is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? 8:5 for thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. 8:6 thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all [things] under his feet: 8:7 all sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; 8:8 the fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea [and whatsoever] passeth through the paths of the seas. 8:9 o lord our lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! psalm 9

ples came unto him, saying, declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. 13:37 he answered and said unto them, he that soweth the good seed is the son of man; 13:38 the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked [one] 13:39 the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. 13:40 as therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. 13:41 the son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; 13:42 and shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 13:43 then shall the righteous shine forth

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eep secret things secretly; and to reveal those things that are to be revealed, and to seal those things which are to be sealed: and not to give holy things to dogs, nor cast pearls before swine. observe this law, and the eyes of thy understanding shall be opened, to understand secret things; and thou shalt have whatsoever thy minde desireth to be divinely revealed unto thee. thou shalt have also the angels and spirits of god prompt and ready in their nature to minister unto thee, as much as any humane minde can desire. aphorism 2. in all things call upon the name of the lord: and without prayer unto god through his onely-begotten son, do not thou undertake to do or think any thing. and use the spirits given and attributed unto thee, as ministers, without rashness and presumption, as the m

according to the word of god. knowledge of the government of god by angels, which the scripture calleth watchmen; and to understand the mystery of angels. good anthrosophy given to man knowledge of natural things. wisdom in humane things. sciences cakosophy contempt of the word of god, and to live after the will of the devil. ignorance of the government of god by angels to contemne the custody of the angels, and that their companions are of the devil. idolatry. atheisme. evil cacod mony the knowledge of poisons in nature, and to use them. wisdom in all evil arts, to the destruction of mankinde, and to use them in contempt of god, and for the loss and destruction of manworks are an inquiry into the priniples of taste; analytical essay on the greek alphabet; the symbolical language of ancien

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ceptura globos, et tela trisulca tonantis, et vaga concussum motura tonitrua mundum. this was the real meaning of the enormous figures at hierapolis: they were the generative organs of the creator personified, with which he was supposed to have impregnated the heavens, the earth, and the waters. within the temple were many small statues of men with these organs disproportionably large. these were the angels or attendants of the goddess, who acted as her ministers of 1 plutarch, in lucullo. 2 lucian, de dea syri. 3 deipnos. lib. of priapus 85 creation in peopling and fructifying the earth. the statue of the goddess herself was in the sanctuary of the temple; and near it was the statue of the creator, whom the author calls jupiter, as he does the goddess, juno; by which he only means that th

se him to good or evil, wisdom or folly, and all their consequences of prosperity and adversity.1 hence proceeded the doctrines, so uniformly inculcated by homer and pindar,2 of all human actions depending immediately upon the gods; which were adopted, with scarcely any variations, by some of the christian divines of the apostolic age. in the pastor of hermas, and recognitions of clemens, we find the angels of justice, penitence, and sorrow, instead of the genii, or d mons, which the ancients supposed to direct men's minds and inspire them with those particular sentiments. st. paul adopted the still more comfortable doctrine of grace, which served full as well to emancipate the consciences of the faithful from the shackles of practical morality. the familiar d mons, or divine emanations, w

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truth. more often than not such unfortunates are pronounced dead of heart failure or stroke or seizure. or they may be found in a coma or catatonic state. one can only try to imagine the horror, called up from the darkest depths of the subconscious, that causes such conditions. magic cannot be half real and half illusion. if power is to be gained inside the circle, it must be given up outside. if the angels of light are rendered tangible to the eyes of the magus, then he or she will also, perforce, be able to see the demons of the pit in all their loathsome detail. if the magus seeks to extract the good out of the art, he or she must also learn how to deal with the evil. in short, if the circle works at all, it works on both sides. all too often the talented beginner will succeed in pumpin

ft is the bull and in his left hand, the dry, hard clay of earth. in western magic, the beasts were considered too fierce and dangerous to be used as emblems of the elements. over a period of time a sublimation took place and the beasts were replaced by the four angels drawn from the lore of the kabbal- ah-michael, gabriel, raphael, and auriel. later still, psychologically if not chronologically, the angels were replaced by the four evangelists of christ-mark, matthew, john, and luke. all this was an attempt to reduce the forces of the ele- ments to human dimensions so that they could be understood and manipulated. unfortunately, the forcing of the elements into human shapes circumscribed their powers. they became more controllable but less potent. when the magus is unsure of his or her ab

corresponds. the magus can easily construct his or her own list of archdemons associated with the sephiroth once the rationale upon which such lists are based is under- stood. first, it is necessary to know the essential quality of each sephirah. for example, chesed is mercy and love. second, these qualities must be inverted or perverted. the opposite of the charity of chesed is envy or jealousy. the angels of chesed turn the other cheek-the demons of shadow chesed strike the cheek of their foe. third, it is necessary to completely understand the personality and func- tion of the individual demons who will be applied to the orders of the qlippoth and their corresponding sephiroth. once these three requirements are met, the magus may construct a personal list of archdemons that best reflect

ippothic. all are apostates, and sow discord throughout the cosmos. the christian church of the middle ages grouped them into military ranks behind the great apostate angel, lucifer, the first created being to rebel against divine authority. this was also done by the jewish kabbalists and the islamic philosophers. it is a dark, shadow imitation of the military order that reigns within the army of the angels of heaven. in christian and jewish myth, the fallen angels were responsible for instructing humanity in all the arts and sciences that can be turned to evil. attracted by the beauty of mortal women, these fallen angels descended to the earth, where they dwelt with their human lovers and sired a race of heroes (see genesis 6:4. demons are not so much deliberately hurtful as they are chao

ot long and as thick as a finger, tipped with steel or brass caps. the dagger is a short steel knife with a handmade wooden hilt. the cup is a goblet of any convenient material of a size to hold about eight ounces. the disk is of hardwood or clay, about an inch thick and small enough to hold inside the spread fingers of one hand (about five inches in diameter. it is usual to inscribe the names of the angels and spirits associated with each instrument on it in the appropriate elemental color. some of these names are to be found in the table of the square. however, it is not necessary to write the names provided the magus knows them by heart. there are two general instruments of a masculine type used to direct blind pow- ers and command spirits during ritual workings. they are the wand and t

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s that inspired their prophecies is as much a matter of conjecture as the question of whether the spirits who spoke to joan of arc were saints or fairies. the astral journey of isaiah involves his great vision of the throne of god. in the final year of the reign of king uzziah, the prophet entered the presence of god, whom he perceived sitting on an elevated throne within a temple. above it stood the angels known as seraphim, each with six wings, chanting "holy, holy, holy is the lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory (isaiah 6:3. we know this vision involved astral projection because isaiah was actually present before the throne in his astral body. he protested that his lips were too unclean to repeat the words of god, so one of the seraphim flew down and took a live coal off

if the author of the gospel of nicodemus related an astral vision of christ in hell, or merely invented a charming fable. that is also true of all written accounts of descents into hell, ascents to heaven, and indeed descriptions of astral journeys of any kind, including those attributed to the biblical prophets such as enoch, who is supposed to have been conducted through both heaven and hell by the angels. the author of the book of enoch, writing in the voice of enoch, bore this witness of hell "and beyond that abyss i saw a place that had no firmament of the heaven above, and no firmly founded earth beneath it: there was no water upon it, and no birds, but it was a waste and horrible place."61 the hell of enoch appears to have been largely a zone of negation, where the good things of th

f miracles, 310. chapter four: religious bilocation 59 the subject. these books formed the basis for the church of new jerusalem, also called the new church, which was established in london in 1778. swedenborg distinguished several types of astral perception. the state he experienced most of the time was what he called being "in the spirit" in this condition, his spirit was taken to the realms of the angels, and to the spheres of the planets as well. since by the spirit of man his mind is meant, therefore by being "in the spirit" which is sometimes spoken of in the word, is meant a state of the mind separate from the body; and because in this state the prophets saw such things as exist in the spiritual world, it is called "the vision of god" their state was then like that of the spirits an

ticularly the sense of touch, were heightened to a degree above that of his physical senses. in the third case, he believed himself present in the astral landscape in his physical body, as though he had been transported in the flesh into the astral scene. so real was his impression of the astral environment that he could not distinguish it from the everyday physical environment. william blake and the angels the english artist and poet william blake (1757-1827) was also subject to astral visions and journeys to astral landscapes of a religious or spiritual nature. his perception appears to have been very similar to what swedenborg described as habitual for himselfthe dual vision of the astral world overlaid on the physical world, so that he could move through both simultaneously. once, when

pathways, and are populated not only with human beings but with numerous strange creatures of dreamlike appearance. the strong resonance between dream symbolism and 240 soul flight alchemical symbolism was studied in detail by carl jung in his work psychology and alchemy, a book that contains many alchemical images suitable for astral doorways. the letters of the enochian alphabet, received from the angels by edward kelley209 on may 6, 1583, could certainly be used as portals, since each letter represents a unique spiritual being, or so the angels informed john dee. the curious names of the individual enochian letters, which seem to have no connection with the sounds the letters represent, may be the names of these spirits. although there is no record that they were ever used for scrying

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ng pose. be aware of all four angels towering above you like mighty carven pillars, their wings completely enclosing the magic circle as they touch tip to tip. spread your arms wide so that your body imitates the shape of a cross. draw a long, deep inhalation. as you do so, visualize the air filling your body and expanding it to gigantic stature. the magic circle grows in proportion to your body. the angels are now closer to your own dimension, but you are still like a child in comparison with their greatness. hold the breath for four slow beats and visualize the light from your heart-center shining outward to enlarge the envelope of your aura into a perfect transparent sphere of palest gold. vibrate upon your breath the following words so that your chest, throat, and nose resonate inwardl

our astral form reduces in size, the circle of fire shrinks in proportion to remain at the level of your heart. 138 moving exercises hold the awareness of the four angels of the quarters towering above you with the tips of their expanded wings touching. they gaze down on you with serious, intense awareness. feel their strength both shielding you and protecting your circle. visualize the bodies of the angels become paler and brighter. as you watch them with your inner awareness, they lengthen and narrow into four identical pillars of white light. these pillars come together high above your head to focus upon the distant white star. mentally release the angels and watch astrally as their pillars are drawn upward into the star. turn your attention inward and contemplate the warm light of your

beyond the circle, gazing down at you with vigilant awareness in its dark eyes. the brown bull's head of the angel glows with the residual energy of your vibrated words. watch with your astral awareness as the angel opens wide its white wings to fill the northern quarter. contemplate the four angels standing outside the circle. hold simultaneously in your awareness the circle, the pentagrams, and the angels as you continue to stand facing east with your arms spread into a cross. visualize your heart-center. use its energy to expand forward through the center of your chest a white pentagram that hangs upon the air inside the circle about two feet in front of your chest. at the same time expand backward from your heart-center a white hexagram that hangs upon the air inside the circle about t

, the white hexagram behind, the golden-white circle with its four inset pentagrams around you, and the four angels at the quarters who surround the circle with their opened wings. 160 moving exercises allow your expanded aura to contract to its normal shape, and reduce your enlarged astral form so that it fits within your physical body. the astral forms around you also diminish in size, save for the angels which remain gigantic. turn your attention to the pentagram and hexagram and draw them into your heart-center through your chest and back. focus awareness on the four guardian angels beyond the circle and elongate them into pillars of colored light that stretch upward to the star high overhead. when the pillars touch the star, they immediately turn blue-white and scintillate with brilli

w the four pentagrams set in the magic circle clockwise, beginning each pentagram from the lower-left point. the ritual then becomes the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram. if you wish to change this ritual into the lesser banishing ritual, draw banishing pentagrams of earth at the quarters instead of invoking pentagrams, and visualize the four angels facing outward rather than inward. when the angels face inward, they attract and concentrate the elemental powers of the four quarterswhen they face outward, they repel and dissipate these powers. it may be wondered how a single form of the pentagram can represent all four lower elements. earth is a compound element that contains all four elements 164 moving exercises within itself in their heavier, more tangible aspects. for this reaso

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the secrets in these works. because the throne and clock are so important in understanding tetragrammaton, i have examined the system of enochian magic in considerable detail in chapter xvi. xvi tetragrammaton appendix a contains the corrected english text of all eighteen enochian keys and the key of the thirty aethers, with an accompanying analysis of the symbolism in the keys. this study shows the angels of the keys to possess the same apocalyptic nature as those described by st. john the divine in his biblical book of revelation. i have put forward the theory, which will undoubtedly arouse controversy, that the watchtowers and enochian keys are parts of a great ritual of ceremonial magic designed to trigger the chaotic final destruction of our universe. in my opinion it was the desire

rces of coronzon, the great dragon. the gates of the watchtowers cannot be forced open from the outside. they open inward. we must ourselves unlock them with the keys and initiate our own annihilation. this is the terrible legacy of human free will-we are free to choose our own destruction. it was to set the stage for this potential apocalypse (which will not happen unless we make it happen) that the angels gave the patterns of the watchtowers and the keys to dee, who never grasped their true purpose during his lifetime. many of the occult correspondences found in this book differ from those in the widely used golden dawn system of magic. although i have a high respect for the magical ability and knowledge of the founders of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, it is time modern occultis

rse of generating the banner sigils. since i had not developed the sigils when i wrote the new magus, i was unable to take advantage of this new information, which is completely set forth in chapter v. this book offers the most complete treatment of the name, both in theory and practice, that has ever been presented. the sections on the sigils of the tetragram, the hieroglyphic monad of john dee, the angels known as the wings of the winds, the banner rings, the divination by urim and thummim, the twelve stones of the tribes of israel, the breastplate of aaron, the ring of solomon, and the enochian watchtowers and keys, all represent groundbreaking work in magic. it is my sincere hope that some of the innovations presented here will find their place in the day-to-day practices of kabbalists

r them; so in the gospel, the names of the apostles are written in the stones of the foundation of the heavenly city, which stones stand for the tribes of israel in the church, over which the name of the lamb hath influence, that is, the name of jesus, in which is all the virtue of the four-lettered name; seeing that jehovah the father hath given him all things. therefore the heavens receive from the angels, that which they dart down; but the angels from the great name of god and jesu, the virtue whereof is first in god, afterward diffused into these twelve and seven angels, by whom it is extended into the twelve signs, and into the seven planets, and consequently into all the other ministers and instruments of god, penetrating even to the very depths. hence christ saith, whatsoever you sh

there mark what office lies under that name. wheresoever therefore the scripture speaks of the office or work of any spirit, good, or bad, from thence the name of that spirit, whether good, or bad, may be gathered (three books of occult philosophy 3.25) if we examine the fourth chapter of revelation referred to by dee, we find the office of the four beasts with the twenty-four wings, representing the angels of the banners, stated in the eighth verse "and they rest not day and night, saying, holy, holy, holy, lord god almighty, which was, and is, and is to come" notice the reference to day and night, which comprehends both the manifest and occult sets of the banners. it is interesting that this is in the eighth verse, since dee refers to the "fourth and last part of the fourth chapter of th

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ngel is accordance to such lore is that angels are the higher aspect, or faculties of man. the symbol of the snake is blackened with soot. the word itself holds a key to its meaning, black is from the word fehm (which means charcoal) and is related to the arabic root fhm, being wisdom or knowledge. the black snake and peacock represent the wisdom of life. then the great lord, malak tauus, said to the angels, i want to create adam and eve and make them give rise to mankind. of the seed of adam there shall be 11 derived from a sufi called sheik adi ibn musafir around 1100 a.d. vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 8 born a prophet, and from him shall descend a people on the earth; the the people of me, malak tauus, and these people are to be the yezidis -the mershaf resh the black book the witches

ir- adonein and the twelfth is belias, who is over hades. in the gnostic text of the apocryphon of john lucifer is the darkness which gained a light, and found himself as a god. his word is i am god and there is no other god beside me, he was one of the most powerful archons under the throne of light. the archon samael-lucifer was said to have a multitude of faces, being able to change form among the angels as he so desired. the luciferian sabbat is the self modeling self-deification through high sorcery in the aim of aligning the self with the logos of yaltabaoth, who is the fallen djinn most high. remember that all gods speak through our flesh, the perfected angel-demon called lucifer is strength, will and isolate consciousness that stands alone. as you meditate and participate by dream

usic which reflects an ambient atmosphere, without heavy drumming or noise, to aid ultimately the five senses in the permission to attend the sabbat. anoint yourself in abramelin oil and have similar incense burning. the celestial summoning of yaltabaoth vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 25 this rite is the invocation of the luciferian and adversarial fire-djinn, yaltabaoth who was the wisest among the angels. as called also azal ucel, sigillized as azothoz, yaltabaoth is the deific force with a mask of a beast and an angel. let this invocation be most holy and the solar logos shall manifest through the baphometic wisdom of darkness. this calling should be conducted in the high rite of the celestial or luciferian sabbat, called often empyrean or of the highest aethyr or heavens. this is the

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ue subir el estudiante. 8 arcanum 19 the resplendent light. the tenth hour of apollonius "the doors of the sky are opened and the man leaves the lethargy" this is the number 10 of the second great iniciation of the major mysteries that permits the iniciate to travel in the etheric body. this is the wisdom of john the baptist. arcanum 20 "the awakening of the dead" the eleventh hour of apollonius. the angels, the cherubims, and the seraphims fly with rumors of wings. there is rejoicing in the sky, awakening on the earth, and the sun that raises adam. this process belongs to the great iniciations of major mysteries where only the terror of the law reigns. arcanum 21 the twelveth hour of appolonius. the towers of fire unease. this is the triumphant entrance into the limitless bliss of nirvana

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rays of the sun, nor from the hydrodynamic cycle which the sun makes possible. true, a tree is illuminated by, and reflects the light of, the sun. in lucifer's case however his mistake was in giving himself all the credit for the light of the creator which reflected through his being, whereby he received his name "lucifer [i use the term "he" for convenience only when in reality almighty god and the angels are not limited to material dna "gene-der, but are rather androgynous beings of spirit. so imagine this creature, refusing in his insatiable and egotistical self-conceit to humble himself before an almighty creator and seek forgiveness, but rather he/it instead tries to save face by enticing the rest of creation into joining in the rebellion. of course, being a creature of darkness- onc

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glory above the heavens. out of the mouths of babes and sucklings thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. when i consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers; the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? for thou has made him a little lower than the angels, and has crowned him with glory and honour. thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: all sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the fields; the fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. o lord our lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! selections from: the autho

n lilith realized what was happening, she pronounced the ineffable name of god and flew off into the air. adam rose in prayer before the creator, saying, the woman you gave me has fled from me. immediately the holy one sent three angels after her. the holy one said to adam: if she wants to return, all the better. if not, she will have to accept that one hundred of her children will die every day. the angels went after her, finally locating her in the sea, in the powerful waters in which the egyptians were destined to perish. they told her what god had said, and she did not want to return (alphabet of ben sira 23a-b) and god created the human species in god s own image. male and female created god them (genesis 1:27) 286 scottish gaelic poetry editor s note: this collection is from the book

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

pecially in the philosophical phenomenology formulated by husserl, augustine, following plotinus, identified the soul as the place of time or, to be more specific, time is defined as a quantity in the soul (distentio ipsius animi).45 for augustine, therefore, human experience of time is not linked to external space, a mode of temporality that he ascribes, in a passage in de genesi ad litteram, to the angels, incorporeal beings not situated in space who nevertheless perform acts in a temporal sequence. in that context, the angelic beings are positioned between the creator, who is beyond all time and space, and corporeal beings, who act in time and space.46 even though human beings are corporeal bodies located in space, their temporal comportment nonetheless is non-spatial (and hence angelic

shing the jerusalemites in the ninth chapter of ezekiel is presented as the sole textual source for an exception to the theological axiom that a good measure (middah tovah) does not go forth from god and change into evil. according to the exegesis of r. aha, the man clothed in linen refers to gabriel,26 who was commanded by god, go and mark the foreheads of the righteous with a tau of ink so that the angels of destruction will not prevail over them, and [place a] tau of blood on the foreheads of the wicked so that the angels of destruction will prevail over them. the attribute of judgment (middat ha-din, however, mounts a persuasive argument before god that the righteous 160 chapter five who did not try to prevent others from sinning also deserve to be put to death. this idea is supported

bute of judgment s altering of the divine will by transforming god s good intention into evil. before returning to the medieval kabbalistic source, we would do well to note that the singular mark of the biblical text becomes two marks in the rabbinic homily: an ink spot on the foreheads of the righteous and a bloodstain on the foreheads of the wicked, the former serving as an apotropos to deflect the angels of destruction and the latter as a lure to attract them. three crucial points in the talmudic source may be clarified with the help of saul lieberman s analysis. 28 first, in all probability, the exegetical decoding of tau in ezekiel as referring to the last letter of the hebrew alphabet was enhanced by the phonetic a nity between tau and the greek theta, which was used as an abbreviati

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ot pleased. lilith refused to lay beneath and in a moment of anger and disgust, rose to the air and called the secret magickal name of god, from which she fled to the shores of the red sea. adam called upon angels to find her and they did locate her, in the caves on the red sea. there she mated with demons and produced 100 lilim or lilitu, succubi and children spawn of her blood. needless to say, the angels felt little security in trying to persuade her back to adam. considering the lunar qualities and the connection to screech owls, lilith is the queen of witches. by witch i do mean cunning woman who is able, by the abilities of command to look, by her own dayside attributes and her concise desire to dress for success, is able to seduce and command by her will of appearance alone. by the

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ing/banishing ritual of the pentagram 177 appendix e the grade signs 179 appendix f the l.v.x. signs 181 appendix g the middle pillar exercise 185 appendix h sign and color correspondences 187 appendix i 189 viii ix preface if you believe the legends, enochian magic was originally delivered to man by enoch, the mysterious prophet of genesis. the enochian calls are reputed to be in the language of the angels, of which hebrew is said to be but a faint echo. the enochian tablets, according to the story, are the talismans from which all other magical sigils are descended. small wonder enochian magic is reputed to be the most powerful (and dangerous) blanch of the occult! enochian magic originated, of course, with a series of crystalgazing experiments that dr. john dee conducted in the late six

ic is reputed to be the most powerful (and dangerous) blanch of the occult! enochian magic originated, of course, with a series of crystalgazing experiments that dr. john dee conducted in the late sixteenth century. the foremost scholar of his era, dee turned away from mundane knowledge to seek what he called "radical truth" dee believed that enoch had received such truths from conversations with the angels. dee theorized that he could use crystal gazing to reestablish communication with enoch's angels, thus restoring the fountainhead of supernatural knowledge. whether or not dee succeeded is open to question. dee certainly believed that he had tapped into angelic power, but there is little evidence that the knowledge did him much good. nevertheless, by the time he died, his experiments we

lvefold table, which was devised by dee and kelley. it contains seven different talismans and includes enochian writing (see figure 86, page 130. 3. liber scientia auxilii et victoria terrestris. the book of science, of help and of victory. this work contains the names of the governors of the thirty aethyrs, or aires. 4. heptarchia mystica. this work contains the names, sigils, and invocations of the angels and lesser spirits of the planets. 5. tablet of nalvage. this is a rounded tablet with letters arranged in rows and columns (see figure 107, page 152. xvii xviii 6. liber logeath. the four elemental tablets. these comprise the four watchtowers, or watch towers, of fire, air, water and earth (see figures 3-6. the names of the governors of the 30 aethyrs are found in the tables, as shown

gates" it is also mentioned in the golden dawn's practicus adeptus minor curriculum, as published by elic howe in his magicians of the golden dawn. in this curriculum, a candidate for the grade of practicus adeptus minor must master "the knowledge of the ritual of the 12 gates in shying and traveling in the spirit vision; answering to the diagram of the table of shewbread" the third paper was on the angels who reside in a subtle region called the bonorum["light" from the latin word bonus. other meanings are "good" or "virtuous" eds. a condensed version of the first and second of these papers, appeared in the equinox (vol. 1, no. 7) in an article by aleister crowley. these condensed versions were further elaborated by regardie in his addendum to the concourse of the forces, published in th

ese papers, appeared in the equinox (vol. 1, no. 7) in an article by aleister crowley. these condensed versions were further elaborated by regardie in his addendum to the concourse of the forces, published in the complete golden dawn system of magic. from campbell's diary notes, it is evident that one of the papers mathers wrote dealt with astral projection into the enochian aethyrs. the paper on the angels of the bonorum was referred to as "7 days of creation as outlined in genesis" this was mainly a combination of astral projection and talismanic work in which the holy seal was used in much the same manner as that employed by dee and kelley. with the crystal used as the pinnacle of the system, a thorough explanation was given of how each facet of the holy seal was tied to other systems

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logous to mathers' paper "the knowledge of the ritual of the twelve gates in slaying and travelling in the spirit vision; answering to the diagram of the table of the shewbread" which was part of the old g.d. practicus adeptus minor curriculum. i frankly doubt if mathers could have done a better job of it than regardie. in fact, another three parts were drafted up which included practical uses of the angels of the bonorum and the shewstone, and the holy table. in 1986, the three chiefs of thoth hermes chartered the horus temple of the golden dawn foundation in the u.s. as an independent body, and promoted the chief of the horus temple (who was a long time friend and student of regardie) to the rank of 6=5. thoth hermes temple study course for adeptus minor 5=6 1. zelator adeptus minor 2. t

the next level (a) record of projection into each of the 30 aries (b) record experience of using dwb formula and rising up through the tree (c) record astral contact with at least 10 species of plant. section 4 philosophus adeptus minor (ph.a.m) 41. lecture part 3 of the addendum to the concourse of forces (method and construction of a large tablet of the bonorum and the practical application of the angels of light) 42. part 4 of addendum to the concourse of forces (method and construction of holy table) 43. part 5 addendum to concourse of forces (paper on use and construction of shew stone) workings for this level and records of these visionary and practical workings to be sent to the praemonstrater. all phases of the below must be completed before advancing to the next level (a) record

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