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glosses: ursa ivagen, jun. 304; in mhg. himclwagcn, walth. 54, 3^ hcrwagen wackern. lb. 1. 772, 26. the clearest explanation is given by notker cap. 64: selbiu ursa ist pi demo norde mannelichemo zeichenhaftiu fone dien siben glaten sternon, die aller der liut wagc7i heizet, unde nah einemo gloccun joclie^ gescafien sint, unde ebenmichel sint, ane (except) des mittelosten. the anglo-saxons called the constellation wmnes jyisl (waggon's thill, pole, or simply pisl, but carles wccn also is quoted in lye, the engl, charles wain, dan. karlsvogn, swed. harlwagn. is carl here equivalent to lord, as we have herrenwagen in the same sense? or is it a transference to the famous king of christian legend? but, what concerns us here, the constellation appears to have borne in heathen times the full nam

med after spindle and distaff^ as men are after sword and spear, leads us directly to the on. frigg, osin's wife, whose being melts into the notion of an earth-goddess, and after whom a constellation in the sky, orion's belt, is called friggja.r rockr, friggae coins. though icelandic writings do not contain this name, it has remained in use among the swedish country-folk (ihre, sub v. friggerock. the constellation is however called maridrocli, dan. mariroch (magnusen, gloss. 361. 376, the christians having passed the same old idea on to mary the heavenly mother. the greeks put spindle and distaff in the hands of several goddesses, especially aitemis(^pua7j\dkatomother leto, but also athene, amphitrite and the nereids. all this fits in with holda, who is a goddess of

ent still retained in nursery-tales. conf. the stinging fly at the forging, sn. 131. 2 if we read fria for frua, then folia would stand nearer to her as in the norse, whether as attendant goddess or as sister. yet, considering the instability of those goddesses' names, she may keep her place by frouwa too. gaut. slltia. suxia. wara. saga. nanda' 309 gunnr) is unknown to the edda. in cli. xxii. on the constellations i shall come back to these divinities (see suppl. 11. gakt. sippia. sunia. waga. saga. nanda. from surviving proper names or even impersonal terms, more rarely from extant myths, we may gather that several more goddesses of the north were in earlier times common to the rest of teutoudom. frey's beloved, afterwards his wife, was named gcr&r, she came of the giant breed, yet in sn

esents the following passage. eala earendel, engla beorhtast, ofer middangeard monnum sended, and s6i5fa?sta sunnan leoma> torlit ofer tunglas]?u tida gehwane of sylfuni l^e symle inlihtes! i.e, jubar, angelorum spleudidissime, super orbem terrarum hominibus misse, radie vere solis, supra stellas lucide, qui omni tempore ex te ipso luces! mary or christ is here addressed under the heathen name of the constellation. i am only in doubt as to the right spelling and interpretation of the word; an ohg. orentd implies as. earendel, and the two would demand oast. aurvendill, eyrvendill; but if we start with on. orvendill, then as. earendel, ohg. erentil would seem preferable. the latter part of the compound certainly contains entil= wentil^ the first part should> whence did matthesius (in frisch

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ies and excuses. in the same city of constantinople i found two men of our law, namely, simon and the rabbin abrahame, whom we may class with rabbin moses of mayence. in egypt the first time i found five persons who were esteemed and reputed as wise men, among whom were four, namely, horay, abimech, alcaon, and orilach, who performed their operations by the means of the course of the stars and of the constellations, adding many diabolical conjurations and impious and profane prayers, and performing the whole with great difficulty. the fifth, named abimelu, operated by the means and aid of demons, to whom he prepared statues, and sacrificed, and thus they served him with their abominable arts. in arabia they made use of plants, of herbs, and of stones as well precious as common. the divine

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articular 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 condition of grace and reconciled with god, and purer than at another period; and this being an essential point ye ought well to consider the same. it is, however, quite true that the elements and the constellations do perform of themselves certain operations22 but this is to be understood of natural things, as it happeneth that one day is different unto another; but such a difference hath not operation in things spiritual and supernatural, being thus useless for (higher) magical operations. the election of days is still more useless, the election of hours and minutes whereof the ignorant m

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restraint (19) a r i t o n r o c a r o i c l o a t t a o l o r o r a c o r n o t i r a (20) o r i m e l r e m o r e i m o n o n n o n o m i e r o m e r l e i n r o of abramelin the mage 168 no. j is a square of d g squares. belial is the name of one of the four great chiefs of the evil spirits. no. b a is a square of c f squares. orion, the celebrated mythological name of the greek hunter, and of the constellation, is perhaps used here as the name of a spirit. no. b b is a border of b a squares taken from a square of c f squares. kerm a means either a cutting off or else a superinducing. no. b c is a square of b g squares. no. b d is a square of e j squares. bicelon is perhaps from ihlm= diamonds. the root ichl means abiding strength and hardness. no. b e is a border of b c squares from a

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8) myqzx to make them know (ps. 25:4) m(ydwhl nemo (name of magister templi) hymm( an assembly hc( curse hllq 166 under penalty of law (esp. a fine) nwmm byyx the most high nwyl( 167 the unnameable one (a demon) nwmys) fetters (job 36:8) myqyz 168 the supernal parents h)ly )m)w )b) to cover; protect ppx 169 the accentuator mym+ 170 wand [david fs] staff lqm cup lps cloud nn( seasons myd(wm fools; the constellation orion mylysk 171 the original seed (lit. gfrom the chief h; scil. groot h) lyc)m emanating from lc)n the face of god: the name of an angel l)ynp 172 cut, divided (qb he affected( gnot h read) bc(y clusters; grapes mybn( the heel; the end bq( qabalist lbqm the golden image [of nebuchadnezzar (dan. 3 )bhd mlc 173 lighten mine eyes yny( lg i am hwhy thy god kyhl) hwhy ykn) 174 torch

daleth: a door tld the lord of war (ex. 15:3) hmxlm #y) 435 deceived lth his manner (lit. ghis justice h) w+p#m 436 tutor, curator; prefect; administrator spwr+p) hosannah: gsave, we pray! h hn(#wh gsatanas h: the goat satan z( n# 437 balm; the balsam tree nwmsrp) 438 the whole [perfect] stone (deut. 27:6) hmyl# nb) 439 exile, banishment twlg judges my+p# 440 praise; psalm hlht the great dragon (the constellation draco; serpent (lit. gcurls h; see i.r.q. 834; cf. 450& 510) ylt whole; irreproachable; perfect; wholeness; sincerity; perfection mt dead tm 441 a hind tly) truth tm) a live coal tlxg you (masc. pl) mt) 442 the ends of the earth cr) ysp) 443 virgo: a virgin (title of malkuth; a city hlwtb the house of god (cf. 498; also a place name) l) tyb 444 the sanctuary #dqm frogs (drpc 445

terrae rectificando invenies occultum lapidem h: gvisit the interior of the earth; by rectification thou shalt find the hidden stone h) l(yrtyw secret, put away; a hiding-place *nwybx 727 overflowing (ps. 124:5 *nwdyz fetters (job 36:8 *myqyz 729 the curse of satan n (rq jachin, the pillar of mercy (chokmah-chesed-netzach; situate in netzach *nyx)y the accentuator *mym+ 730 seasons *myd(wm fools; the constellation orion *mylysk 732 white *nbl clusters; grapes *mybn( the golden image [of nebuchadnezzar (dan. 3*)bhd mlc 733 the white head: a title of kether hrwwh)#yr 734 to bring forth dlt# torches *mydypl 736 contortions, convolutions (cf. 1351) twlqlq( to eternity *mlw(l 737 blaze, flame (live coal) tbhl) vain pride, or the basis of vanity lbh t# oak; oak-wood *nwl) 738 the lower part, the

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and wrapped like a babe in the womb of its mother. 12. o thou sovran mother of the breath of being, the milk of whose breasts is as the fountain of love, twin-jets of fire upon the blue bosom of night. i know thee! o thou virgin of the moonlit glades, who fondleth us as a drop of dew in thy lap, ever watchful over the cradle of our fate. 13. o thou sovran all-beholding eternal sun, who lappest up the constellations of heaven, as a thirsty thief a jar of ancient wine. i know thee! o thou dawn-wing'd courtesan of light, who makest me to reel with one kiss of thy mouth, as a leaf cast into the flames of a furnace. o glory be unto thee through all time and through all space: glory, and glory upon glory, everlastingly. amen, and amen, and amen. 21 the chapter known as leo the twelvefold glorifi

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that have a definite effect upon it? this may be but a speculation, but it has its points of interest. if we study astronomical books, and seek to ascertain whether astronomers say that this is so, we shall meet with a vast amount of contradictory opinion; we shall find that some astronomers say that within the pleiades is a central point around which our solar system revolves; others say that in the constellation of hercules is the point of magnetic attraction for our solar system. on the other hand, you will find this flatly contradicted. we shall find some astronomers talking about "star-drift" and saying that the drift or trend, of certain stars is in a specific direction; others argue that the distances are so vast that it is impossible to determine whether certain systems are followi

promise and hope of future achievement, and the incentive to persist in our endeavour. the old books of the east have held secreted for many ages the truth about much which is only now beginning to sink into the consciousness of the occidental. they taught the radio-activity of matter thousands of years ago, and so perhaps, after all, there may be an equal amount of truth in their teaching about the constellations. perhaps in the stars that we can see in the distant heavens, and in the life that is evolving within them, we have the objective of our solar logos, and the influences that are flowing towards him, attracting him towards them, and making him, in due course of time, radio-active. in the eastern books they say that in the sun sirius lies the source of wisdom, and that the influen

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tements) it contains within it the seed of thought, the germ of truths, and the clue to the mystery of the universe. suffice it here to say, that the rotation of the spheres within the solar periphery is a recognized occult fact, and indications are available to prove that science itself likewise formulates the hypothesis that the solar ring-pass-not similarly rotates in its appointed place among the constellations. but at this juncture we will not deal with this angle of the subject, but will study the rotary action of the spheres of the system, and of its content all the lesser spheres of every degree remembering ever to keep the distinction clearly in mind that we are dealing now simply with the inherent characteristic of matter itself, and not with matter in co-operation with its oppos

ary standpoint. in addition to these some hints in connection with the microcosmic and macrocosmic centres, we might here give the cosmic correspondences at which it is possible to hint. the cosmos. our solar system, with the pleiades and one of the stars of the great bear, form a cosmic triangle, or an aggregation of three centres in the body of him of whom naught may be said. the seven stars in the constellation of the great bear are the correspondences to the seven head centres in the body of that being, greater than our logos. again, two other systems, when allied with the solar system and the pleiades, make a lower quaternary which are eventually synthesised into the seven head centres in much the same way as in the human being after the fourth initiation. 1. the base of the spine- 10

f initiation to man. such avatars do not come in connection with any particular hierarchy but only in relation to the total system. they produce the blending of the colours, and the synthesis of the units in their groups. at the initiation of a planetary logos, an avatar may appear in his scheme on the seventh globe from that cosmic centre or star which is ensouled by the particular rishi who (in the constellation of the great bear) is his cosmic prototype. this is, for the entity concerned, the- 429- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust taking of a physical form, for our higher planes are but matter from their standpoint. this has been emphasised frequently, as its significance is not yet sufficiently grasped. by means of the appearance of this avatar on the seventh globe

e of its densest physical appearance, and has relation to the transference of deva impulse from one scheme to another. they are connected in this way with the appearance of the self-conscious units, being the primal embodiment of the latent self-consciousness of the atom of deva substance. they set the type for the devas of any particular scheme. once in the history of each scheme, an avatar from the constellation capricorn appears on mental- 430- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust levels. this level is the lowest one on which these interplanetary deities appear. no more can be communicated on this matter "the mystery of the goat" lies hidden here. this avatar makes his appearance in the third round of the third chain, and disappears in the fifth round of the fourth chain

in the kumaras are embodied principles, but in this connection we must remember that this means that the force and energy of one of the principles of the logos are pouring through them via that which to them corresponds to the monad. through them, during their period of incarnation and voluntary sacrifice, the great prototype of the planetary logos begins to make his presence felt, and force from the constellation of the great bear faintly vibrates on earth. at initiation, man becomes aware consciously of the presence of the planetary logos through self-induced contact with his own divine spirit. at the fifth initiation he becomes aware of the full extent of this planetary group influence, and of his part in the great whole. at the sixth and seventh initiations the influence of the planeta

nditions is to be seen working out predominantly in the terror, and present distress in the animal kingdom.58(226) a further factor in cyclic computation lies in the effect of the following stars and constellations upon our system and upon any particular scheme within the system: a. the great bear. b. the little bear. c. the pole star, especially where our planet is concerned. d. the pleiades. e. the constellation of capricorn. f. draco. g. sirius. h. the various constellations and stars of the zodiac. the mystery is hidden in esoteric astrology, and until the subject of energy working through the etheric body, of radioactivity, and of the transmutation of all bodies from a lower state into a higher is better comprehended, the true mystery of the "influence" of these various bodies upon- 4

plane. this literally and occultly constitutes the transmutation of desire into thought. the gaseous devas become eventually the devas of the fourth ether, and from thence in long aeons, find their way to the cosmic fourth ether, the buddhic plane. these three groups are- 534- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust therefore cosmically connected with: 1. the cosmic astral plane and the constellation whence emotional and desire energy originates. 2. the cosmic mental plane, and therefore with the constellation sirius. 3. the cosmic buddhic plane, and the constellation of the pleiades. thus can the whole process be worked out, if man carefully studies his own nature, and the law of analogy. the devas of the gaseous subplane. in dealing with the elementals, or lesser devas, und

vity of the form are working in unison. it requires the two types of force rotary and spiral-cyclic to produce this. scientists are beginning to recognise this more or less, and to realise that it is the law of relativity, or the relation between all atoms, which produces that which is called light, and which, in its aggregated phenomena, forms that composite sphere, a solar system. the motion of the constellations external to the solar sphere is responsible for its form in conjunction with its own rotary motion in space. as the wave lengths of the light from the constellations, and their relation to the sun are better understood, and as the effect of those wave lengths or light vibrations (which are either attractive to, or repulsive to, the sun) are understood, much will be revealed. lit

calculations the fact that our solar system is revolving around a cosmic centre along with six other constellations of even greater magnitude in the majority of cases than ours, only one being approximately of the same magnitude as our solar system. this cosmic centre in turn forms part of a great wheel till to the eye of the illumined seer the entire vault of heaven is seen to be in motion. all the constellations, viewing them as a whole, are impelled in one direction. the old commentary expresses this obscure truth as follows "the one wheel turns. one turn alone is made, and every sphere, and suns of all degrees, follow its course. the night of time is lost in it, and kalpas measure less than seconds in the little day of man. ten million million kalpas pass, and twice ten million millio

from that of a crystal. the knowledge thus appreciated by the chohans is naturally but theoretical and conveys only to their relatively limited consciousness the general nature of the group of constellations, and the force occasionally emanating from them which has at times to be taken into calculation. for instance, the interest awakened in the public mind lately by the giant star betelgeuse in the constellation of orion is due to the fact that at this particular time there has been an interplay of force between our tiny system and this giant one, and communication between the two informing existences. systemic wheels or the atomic life of individual constellations. these again are divided into 343 groups, known to the adept again through a series of characters forming a word which throu

energy into the solar system. entangled closely with the karma of these two cosmic entities, was that of the lesser cosmic entity who is the life of our planet, the planetary logos. it was this triple karma which brought in the "serpent religion" and the "serpents or dragons of wisdom" in lemurian days. it had to do with solar and planetary kundalini, or serpent fire. a hint lies in the fact that the constellation of the dragon has the same relation to the one greater than our logos as the centre at the base of the spine has to a human being. it concerns stimulation, and vitalisation with a consequent co-ordination of the manifesting fires. a clue to the mystery lies also in the relation of this fifth group to the two contracting poles. they are the fivefold links, the "benign uniters" and

ich is their guarantee of attainment along this line of spiritual endeavour. they are animated by wise-compassion. these words should be carefully studied for they hold the clue to the nature of this first path. the adepts who choose this path are called esoterically the "beneficent dragons" and the energy with which they work and the stream of living force upon which they are found emanates from the constellation of the dragon, working through the zodiacal sign libra. this special spiritual energy produces in all those groups which come under its direct influence a profound faculty for identification. this identification does not concern the form nor the soul but only the spiritual point of positive life which in the human unit we call the "jewel in the lotus" it should be remembered in t

ntres of that great existence who is the source of the life of the solar logos. this centre is of course one of the seven constellations. as it is the most potent constellation as far as our system is concerned owing to the fact that this system predominantly expresses love or attractive energy and our logos is as yet polarised in his cosmic astral body, it is not permitted to hint at the name of the constellation. the reason is that if the name were known and if enough people could do the work of occult meditation and visualisation, accompanying the work with a vivid imagination, it might be possible to attract into our system such a downpour of attractive energy from the constellation involved as to unduly speed up the processes of evolution upon our planet, and thus upset the systemic e

se the "dry alchemical fires" to produce the results they desire in aiding the evolutionary process. as they use these "dry fires" the reaction upon themselves is such that they transmute the electrical spark (or the monad within the flame of the planetary life) and break it up in such a manner that it can pass through the systemic etheric web and on to that stream of cosmic energy emanating from the constellation mentioned above. they are then known as "absolute sparks of parental love" or (in the exoteric language of the initiates) they pass on to path vii, that of "absolute sonship- 743- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust the attributes which the adept on this path has to possess prior to taking the needed training for the seventh cosmic method of approach is responsiv

him with human affections and aspirations. s. d, ii, 257. f. they give to men intelligence and consciousness. s. d, i, 204 254 88: alignment: see letters on occult meditation, pp. 1-7. 255 89: the pineal gland. the third eye. s. d, iii, 548. 1. goal of evolution to develop the inner vision. 2. the occult significance of the eye. s. d, iii, 577. 3. the "eye of taurus the bull (compare bull's-eye) the constellation of taurus was called the mother of revelation and the interpreter of the divine voice. s. d, i, 721. 4. the organs of inner vision: a. the exoteric organ..pineal gland..physical. b. the esoteric organ..the third eye..etheric. note: students must be careful to distinguish between the third eye and the pineal gland. see s. d, ii, 308 "the third eye is dead and acts no longer" it ha

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y in man is so constructed that through its three objective manifestations, the triple nervous system, through the seven major plexi, the lesser nerve ganglia, and the many thousands of nerves, the entire objective man can be responsive to: a. the above mentioned types of force. b. energies generated in and emanating from any part of the planetary etheric web of life. c. the solar web of life. d. the constellations of the zodiac which appear to have a real effect upon our planet and of which astrology is as yet the immature study. e. certain cosmic forces which, it will be recognised later, play upon and produce changes in our solar system and consequently upon our planet and upon all forms upon and within that planetary life. this has been touched upon in the treatise on cosmic fire. to a

rget, may however be briefly noted. for the sake of clear understanding we will simply tabulate a number of statements which should be studied with care by the average investigator in this field. i cannot here write a treatise on the energies with which astrology should deal, sorely as such a treatise is needed. astrologers concern themselves primarily with three types of energy: a. the energy of the constellation in which the sun is posited at the time of birth. b. the rising sign to which the man should respond. c. the moon which governs his form aspect, and particularly the physical form. the energy of the particular constellation or sign in which a man is born is more deeply significant than has ever yet been suggested. it embodies or indicates his present problem, sets the pace or tem

iscussion is immaterial. in casting the horoscope of a human being who is born in a particular month, however, it should be borne in mind (which it seldom is) that now the month and the sign do not coincide at all. the sun is really not in leo, for instance, during the month of august. the correct interpretation therefore of a chart is largely psychometrical and dependent upon the thought-form of the constellation which has been built up for ages by the astrologers. energy follows thought. for thousands of years certain types of energy and their consequent qualifying effects on substance and form have been considered to be thus and so. therefore, thus they are, except in the case of the highly evolved, of the true aspirant who has oriented himself, and is thus escaping from the wheel of ex

w deals primarily with the personality for whom the horoscope may be cast and with the events of the personality life. when, through meditation and service, plus the discipline of the lunar bodies, a man comes consciously and definitely under his soul ray, then he comes as definitely under the influence of one or other of the seven solar systems, as they focus their energy through one or other of the constellations and subsequently one or other of the seven sacred planets. eventually, there will be twelve sacred planets, corresponding to the twelve constellations, but the time is not yet. our solar system, as you know, is one of seven. when a man has arrived at this point in evolution, birth months, mundane astrology, and the influences which play upon the form aspect become of less and le

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a sensory apparatus, registering reaction to the environment; there is a consciousness of moods, of quality, of mental reactions to a world of ideas; there is a higher consciousness of plan and of purpose; there is a consciousness of life. it is interesting to note in connection with the deity that this sensory response to environment provides the entire basis for astrology and for the effect of the constellations upon the solar system and the interplanetary forces. we might sum it all up in relation to man as follows: man's form nature reacts in its consciousness to the form nature of deity. the outer garment of the soul (physical, vital and psychic) is part of the outer garment of god. man's self-conscious soul is en rapport with the soul of all things. it is an integral part of the uni

equality of balance and of influence. in a few rare cases this balance is disturbed, and there is a waxing or a waning of influence and of magnetic power. this condition is governed by a cosmic law of rhythm so obscure as to be incomprehensible at this time. an illustration of this waxing and waning of influence and of radiance (synonymous terms in occultism) on a large scale can be seen today in the constellation gemini, wherein one of the- 97- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust twins is increasing in brilliance and power, and the other is decreasing. but this is a somewhat unique example, esoterically. the relation of the constellations to the solar system, which is the basis of astrological research, will be considered later. i seek

his problem can be solved, it will be one of the potent factors in the restoration of world understanding and harmony. it cannot be solved without the cooperation of the men of good will throughout the world. there is little that i can say anent this matter that can be checked and proved, for the clue to the problem is to be found back in the very night of time and, literally, when the sun was in the constellation gemini. at that time the two pillars were set up which, as all masons know, are two great landmarks in masonry. hence the jewish colouring of all the masonic work, though it is not jewish in the sense that that word conveys today. who, therefore, if the facts are of such ancient import, shall say that i speak with accuracy, or establish the right or wrong nature of my conclusions

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possess in the south. this character has survived, and is in marked contrast to its nature amongst the latin races, with whom the northern custom of feasting and giving christmas presents was unknown until recent years."45 at the time of the birth of christ, sirius, the star in the east, was on the meridian line, orion, called "the three kings" by oriental astronomers, was in proximity; therefore the constellation virgo, the virgin, was rising in the east, and the line of the ecliptic, of the equator and of the horizon all met in that constellation. it is interesting also to note that the brightest and largest star in the constellation virgo is called spica; it is to be found in the "ear of corn (sign of fertility) which the virgin holds. bethlehem means the "house of bread" and there is t

ge of christianity is the piscean age, and christ came to the holy land when our sun transitted into that sign. therefore that which was started and had its being in virgo (the birth of the christ child) is consummated in pisces when that christ child, having attained maturity, comes forth as the world saviour. one other astronomical fact is of interest in this connection. closely associated with the constellation virgo, and to be found in the same section of the heavens, are three other constellations, and in these three there is portrayed for us symbolically the story of the child which shall be born, suffer and die and come again. there is the group of stars called coma berenice, the woman with the child. there is centaurus, the centaur, and bo tes, whose name in the hebrew language mea

ich eventually "bruised" him and led him to his death. according to the concordance, the name mary means "the exalted of the lord" as one says these words, the famous picture, by mulillo, of the virgin, standing on the crescent moon and being gathered up into the clouds of heaven, comes to mind. such is the assumption of the virgin into glory. there is another interesting point in connection with the constellation virgo, upon which we might touch. mary, the virgin, in the symbolism of the ancient wisdom, stands for virgin matter, for the substance which nurtures and nourishes and hides within itself the christ child, the christ consciousness. in the last analysis, it is through form and matter that god stands revealed. that is the story of the divine incarnation. matter, overshadowed by th

sness. in the last analysis, it is through form and matter that god stands revealed. that is the story of the divine incarnation. matter, overshadowed by the holy ghost, the third person of the trinity, brings to the birth the second aspect of the trinity, in the person of christ cosmic, mythical and individual. associated with the story-book of the heavens there are three constellations (besides the constellation virgo) which are symbolised by women. there is cassiopeia, the woman enthroned. this is the constellation which is the symbol of the stage in human life at which matter and form are dominant and triumphant; when the inner divine life is so deeply hidden that it shows no sign, and only the material nature controls and rules. then there comes the later stage in the history of the r

lucis trust it is interesting also to bear in mind that asses are definitely associated with the story of mary and her child. two asses are found mentioned in the gospel story, one coming from the north and bearing mary to bethlehem, and the other taking her down into egypt. these are symbols of the two constellations called the northern ass and the southern ass, which are in the neighbourhood of the constellation virgo. we find the human kingdom represented in mary and joseph, with the human unity plus the duality which are so essential to existence itself. in the newborn babe divinity expresses itself. thus, in that little cave, the cosmos is represented. when christ was born in bethlehem, a threefold word sounded forth "glory to god in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward m

of individuality, and under its influence the race arrives at self-consciousness and men can function as individuals. christ, in his teaching, emphasised the significance of the individual and in his life demonstrated the supreme value of the individual, his perfecting, his service and- 113- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust his ultimate sacrifice in the interests of the whole. the constellation aquila is always regarded as interchangeable with the sign scorpio, the serpent, and it is therefore frequently used in this connection when considering the fixed cross of the cosmic saviour. scorpio is the serpent of illusion from which the christ nature finally frees us, and it is to the illusory wiles of this serpent scorpio that adam succumbed in the garden of eden. the "face

s kept in the roman catholic and the higher anglican churches, called the assumption of the virgin and the birth of the virgin mary. one is celebrated on august 15th and the other on september 8th. each year, the sun can be seen entering the sign virgo about the time of the assumption, and the entire constellation is enveloped and lost to sight in the radiant glory of the sun. about september 8th the constellation virgo can be seen slowly reappearing as it emerges from the rays of the sun. this is spoken of as the birth of the virgin. easter day is always decided astronomically. these facts warrant the most careful consideration. this information should be in the hands of all christian people, because then and only then can they arrive at a full and clear understanding of what, in his cosm

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that the position has become to him perfectly natural, indicates that the cross, which has upheld him for so long, has now disappeared. the man with the water jar upon his head indicates to us poise, equilibrium and balance. for this balance, the understanding of the law of magnetic impulse has prepared him. that is the law of polar union and its symbol is the originator of the zodiacal sign for the constellation libra balance and service. these are the two expressions of divinity which are, today, man's next great objective. service is usually interpreted as exceedingly desirable and it is seldom realised how very difficult service essentially is. it involves so much sacrifice of time and of interest and of one's own ideas, it requires exceedingly hard work, because it necessitates delib

ings far more to the server (in a worldly sense) than to the served. and yet, in spite of all this which indicates wrong motives and false aspiration, service of a kind is constantly and readily being rendered. humanity is on its way to a right understanding of services; it is becoming responsive to this new law and is learning to react to the steadily imposing will of that great life who informs the constellation aquarius, just as our solar logos informs our solar system and our planetary logos informs our earth planet. the idea of service is, at this time, the major idea to be grasped for (in grasping it) we open ourselves wide to the new incoming influences. the law of service is the expression of the energy of a great life, who, in cooperation with him "in whom we live and move and hav

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

lesser light (a true light in its own right) of the personality is absorbed into the greater light of the angel or soul. the angel, therefore "occultly obliterates" the dweller who becomes lost to sight in the radiant aura of the angel. this has been symbolically portrayed for us in the picture book of the heavens when, according to catholic festivals, the assumption of the virgin takes place and the constellation virgo is lost to sight in the radiance of the sun. there you have the three factors: 1. the virgin .m aterial form .p ersonality .d weller. 2. the sun. spiritual nature. soul. angel. 3. the earth .a spiring man. the disciple. the personality remains; it still exists but it is seen no more as of old. the light of the angel envelops it; the burning ground has done its work and the

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

t. 1. the impression of shamballa by: a. members of the great white lodge on sirius. the recipients of this impression are the highest members of the great council, presided over by the lord of the world. so subtle is this impression that these great lives can only receive it with accuracy when in full joint conference of the entire council, and also after due preparation. b. from one or other of the constellations which are at any particular time astrologically en rapport with our planet. this impression can only be received by the great council when sitting in conclave with a majority of its members present. this, i would have you note, does not entail the attendance of the entire council. c. from a triangle of circulating energy, emanating from the two planets which with our planet- 25

e grasp of the greatest mind of the age, mounting into more than astronomical figures if that statement even conveys sense to your minds. this extent cannot be computed, even in terms of light years; this cosmic etheric area is the field of untold energies and the basis of all astrological computations; it is the playground of all historical cycles cosmic, systemic and planetary and is related to the constellations, to the worlds of suns, to the most distant stars and to the numerous recognised universes, as well as to our own solar system, to the many planets, and to that planet upon which and in which we move and live and have our being, as well as to the smallest form of life known to science and perhaps covered by the meaningless term "an atom" all are found existing in space space is

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

test out conclusions over the course of a few years. if you can do this, there may come to you an awakening of the intuition which will translate modern astrology into something of real moment and significance to the world. it is intuitional astrology which must eventually supersede what is today called astrology, thus bringing about a return to the knowledge of that ancient science which related the constellations and our solar system, drew attention to the nature of the zodiac and informed humanity as to the basic interrelations which govern and control the phenomenal and subjective worlds- 3- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. three basic statements. the statement is frequently made that astrology is an exact science but that is fa

many mathematical computations. astrology is based, curiously enough, upon illusion for, as well you know, the zodiac is naught but the imaginary path of the sun through the heavens, and this as it appears from the standpoint of our totally insignificant planet. the sun is not, as stated, in any sign of the zodiac. it simply appears to be so as it passes between our little sphere, the earth, and the constellations at any particular time or season. in ancient days it was believed that the earth was the centre of the solar system and that around it revolved the sun and all the other planets. this was the exoteric knowledge and position, though not the esoteric understanding. later, when further discoveries brought more light to the human mind, our planet was decentralised and the truth was

pendous subject and are occupied with the exoteric fringes of that great veil which has been thrown wisely over planetary lore (a treatise on cosmic fire, p. 1051) the following is a list incomplete but adequate for our purposes of the major influences which find their way from far distant sources into our planetary life and produce definite effects upon individual man and humanity as a whole. 1. the constellation of the great bear. i. 2. the seven sisters of the pleiades. 3. sirius, the dog star- 9- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. the seven solar systems of which ours is one. ii. 2. the seven sacred planets of which ours is not one. 3. the five non-sacred planets or "hidden" planets. 1. the seven planetary centres. iii. 2. the sev

tellations. we thus have a ninefold energy impact. this is a major chart but it should be remembered that there are other impacts of relative insignificance. to these would be added other streams of energy which definitely play upon and affect our planetary life, such as those coming from that great star, betelgeuse, or from antares and other stupendous suns and solar systems which are related to the constellations of the zodiac and whose force reaches us through these constellations and not directly. besides these, it should be remembered that technically we should also add the radiatory influence which comes direct to us from the planet, the earth, upon which we live. then, and only then, can you have a fairly complete analysis and picture of the energies to which the etheric body of man

e upon him. the effect of the emanation of our planet, the earth, is a correspondence to the effect of that aggregate of atoms and molecules which we call the dense physical body and of its response to the pull and the attraction of any or all of the subtler bodies. as regards the influence of the seven solar systems, i should suggest (more i cannot do) that they are linked up astrologically with the constellations, the great bear, the pleiades, and sirius. they are intimately related to them, but their exact effect is a transmitted one and cannot be noted as producing noticeable results, as yet, upon humanity and the other kingdoms in nature. the effect of the three great constellations also cannot be noted by individual man until such time as he becomes conscious of the monadic vibration

as they have esoterically been called. this is a correspondence in the lives of these great entities to the manner in which an advanced individual can offset the influence of the planets and thus so dominate his personality life that prediction and certainty, as to activity and circumstance, are no longer possible. the soul is dominating, and the planets cease to condition the life. so it is with the constellations and the planetary logoi. they can offset the lower influences as they awaken to and respond to the infinitely higher vibrations of the three major constellations. 2. the creative hierarchies. it might here be appropriate if i interpolated a chart or a tabulation which may be found suggestive of some of these interlocking energies which play through, traverse, return, stimulate a

cussed upon the cosmic astral plane; hence their potency even when out of manifestation. the fifth creative hierarchy exists on the highest etheric level and will join the other four hierarchies when the sixth creative hierarchy has measured up to cosmic opportunity and is itself nearing liberation. the following is a tabulation showing some of the astrological relationships in connection with 1. the constellation of the great bear. 2. the pleiades or the seven sisters. 3. sirius. 4. the seven solar systems. tabulations i and ii the seven creative hierarchies in active planetary expression 1. the hierarchy of creative powers is divided esoterically into seven (4 and 3) within the twelve great orders. 2. three hierarchies are in this greater cycle of profound significance, the fourth or hum

e first or highest creative hierarchy which is, in its turn, related to the third ray of active intelligence. it was the product of the first solar system. the development of illumination through an awakened intelligence is the first goal of humanity. 9. the fifth creative hierarchy (also numbered 8) is on the verge of liberation. it is peculiarly connected with the tenth creative hierarchy, with the constellation capricorn and with the human personality which veils and temporarily hides the christ principle behind both form and mind. eight is, under some numerical systems, regarded as the number of the christ. 10. the greater builders and the lesser builders, working on the second and third planes of our solar system, have their activities reflected in the work of the lunar lords and the

energy into the solar system. entangled closely with the karma of these two cosmic entities, was that of the lesser cosmic entity who is the life of our planet, the planetary logos. it was this triple karma which brought in the "serpent religion" and the "serpents or dragons of wisdom" in lemurian days. it had to do with solar and planetary kundalini, or serpent fire. a hint lies in the fact that the constellation of the dragon has the same relation to the one greater than our logos as the centre at the base of the spine has to a human being. it concerns stimulation, and vitalisation with a consequent co-ordination of the manifesting fires. a clue to the mystery lies also in the relation of this fifth group to the two contracting poles. they are the five-fold links, the "benign uniters" an

or the development and eventually the control of the form side of life- 31- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust secondly, the twelve constellations are concerned primarily with the stimulation of the soul within the form, producing subjective activity which, in its turn, causes changes in the outer expression, through the fusion of the energy of the constellation with the energy of the planets. the effect produced falls into two stages: 1. the first stage wherein the sun sign dominates the man and he is gradually fitted to respond to the soul. his latent possibilities for this life are unfolded. the effect of the sun sign is sometimes called "the potency of the sun of probability" 2. the second stage wherein there is increasing response t

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 human being or a planetary logos. when astrologers understand the true significance of the constellation gemini, the twins, and the dual forces which pour through this sign (the "forces in conflict" as they are sometimes called or "the quarrelling brothers) and beat upon our planetary life, then the true method of resolving the dualities will be known. it is interesting to note also that seven of the symbols which express the twelve signs of the zodiac are dual in their nature, and

l life. goal: identification with the soul. produces responsiveness to the twelve zodiacal constellations. iii. fire by friction. path of evolution 6th hierarchy; life experiment; human life. goal: identification with the personality. produces responsiveness to the planetary influences. 3. the great wheel and spiritual unfoldment. before i give you the remaining part of the chart which deals with the constellations as conductors of cosmic energies or as transmitters of their own energy, i would like to remark that much that i shall say will be based upon: 1. the wheel of life and the path of man, the human being, as he passes through the signs according to the mode recognised by orthodox astrology. he, as well as the planets, apparently retrogrades through the signs and appears to pass thr

onstellations as conductors of cosmic energies or as transmitters of their own energy, i would like to remark that much that i shall say will be based upon: 1. the wheel of life and the path of man, the human being, as he passes through the signs according to the mode recognised by orthodox astrology. he, as well as the planets, apparently retrogrades through the signs and appears to pass through the constellations from aries to taurus. but this is all part of the great illusion. 2. the wheel of life and the path of man, the divine or spiritual soul, as he passes through the signs of the zodiac according to the mode studied by the esoteric astrologer. this is the path of reality as the other is the path of illusion. this carries the disciple around the path from commencement in aries to co

y them in your minds as you read and study. i have frequently referred to the fact that the entire science of astrology is based upon a non-existent condition. it has no basis in material fact and yet is eternally based on truth. the zodiac is, as you well know, the imaginary path of the sun in the heavens. it is therefore largely an illusion, from the exoteric point of view. but at the same time the constellations exist, and the streams of energy which pass and repass, intermingle and interlock throughout the body of space are by no means illusions but definitely express eternal relationships. it is the misuse of the- 38- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust various energies which has created the illusion. this illusory path is consequent

xoteric fact. the sun was in aries at the beginning of this great cycle, but it is not in exactly the same position today when it is "found" in that sign. also it should be remembered that as it is necessary to know the moment of birth and the place of birth in casting the horoscope of the individual, so in order to have a perfectly correct understanding and accurate deductions in connection with the constellation, the planets and our earth there should be a fixed time from which to reckon. that fixed time is as yet unknown in exoteric astrology, though the hierarchy possesses the needed information and it will be made available when the right time comes. it is the knowledge of this inner information which constitutes the basis of the statements which i have made or will make which will se

e of astrology and some reference to the matter is in order at this point. i would remind you of the occult truism which states that interpretation and right understanding are based upon the stage of the development of the individual. h.p.b. remarked in the secret doctrine that for some people the highest principle of which they can be consciously aware might be a very low one for another person. the constellations and the planets which govern them may, and do, have one effect upon the mass and another upon the average individual man, and still a third effect upon the disciple or the initiate. as the various energies and forces circulate throughout the etheric body of our solar system, their reception and effect will depend upon the state of the planetary centres and upon the point of unfo

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

and the emerging purpose and will of the soul. when, however, one comes to a consideration of the astrological implications to astronomical happenings the story is very different. people hear the statement made that we are now transitting into the sign aquarius which means that from the angle of the zodiac, which is the imaginary path of the sun in the heavens, the sun appears to be going through the constellation aquarius. this is an astronomical fact at this time and has nothing to do with astrology. the influence, however, of the sign through which the sun may be passing at any particular world period is irrefutable and i can prove it to you here and now. prior to the jewish dispensation when moses was leading the children of israel out of egypt the sun was in the sign taurus. it was pa

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

ine will will have a dual effect and be destructive as well as constructive, according to the quality of the bodies which react to it. different types of men respond distinctively to any inflow of energy, and a tremendous psychic stimulation is at this time going on, with results both divinely beneficent and sadly destructive. it might be added also that certain astrological relationships between the constellations are releasing new types of force which are playing through our solar system and on to our planet and thereby making possible developments hitherto frustrated in expression, and bringing about the demonstration of latent powers and the manifestation of new knowledges. all this must be most carefully borne in mind by the worker in the field of human affairs if the present crisis i

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

life, and is also identified with the "isolated unity" of sanat kumara. few of the great lives who form the inner group of the council chamber at shamballa are now of greater advancement than he; the "supernal three" the "radiant seven" the "lives embodying the forty-nine fires" the "buddhas of activity" and certain "eternal spirits" from such centres of dynamic spiritual life as sirius, or from the constellation which at any one time forms a triangle with our sun and sirius" and a representative from venus are of- 92- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust greater far greater advancement. otherwise, all initiates of the sixth degree, and a few of the masters who have undergone specialised training because they are upon the first ra

erned, and that is why the words "the will of god holds sway" occur in this rule. it is their supreme task to see that, in the council chamber of shamballa, that purpose is ever held steadily within the "area of preparation (i know not how else to word it) of that council. they function, in a peculiar sense, as linking intermediaries between the logos of our solar system and the informing life of the constellation libra; they relate these two great centres of energy to our planetary logos. in the last solar system they were the planetary logoi of three planets in which the mind principle reached its highest stage of development; they embody in themselves in a most peculiar manner the wisdom aspect of the second ray, as it expresses itself primarily through what has been called in the bhaga

tiation. i would call your attention to the word act; i am not here referring to process. his work only begins at the third initiation when the planetary logos is the initiator. at that initiation, the will aspect begins to function. the buddha behind the initiatory process is extremely active at this time; he works through the christ and the lord of the second ray, drawing the needed energy from the constellations capricorn and aquarius. 3. the act of identification. this involves what has been called a "moment of opening-up" during which the initiate sees that which lies within the cosmic intent and begins to function not only as a planetary unit but as a cosmic focal point. the buddha of activity, responsible for this type of planetary activity, works with the lord of the first ray and

eparatory thesis covering a vast field or area of information. the first two volumes dealt with the sevenfold nature of man and with the influence of the seven basic energies or rays upon his unfoldment and his history, and (in a briefer manner) upon the world in which he lives and upon the environment which aids and conditions him. in the third volume we took into consideration the influences of the constellations and planets upon the man and upon our planet, the earth, and gave much time to the consideration of esoteric astrology; the rays, the signs, the constellations and the planets are all of them closely interrelated and the human being is the recipient of the energies and forces which they emanate or distribute. this makes the man what he essentially is at any one time whilst in in

the material is gathered together into a coherent whole. i suggest that you study and compare, read and search topically and extract all that i have said about the various nations, their governing constellations and their planetary rulers. this will facilitate research into the relation of the planetary centres to the systemic centres, the sacred planets and the energies pouring through them from the constellations which they "rule" in the esoteric sense. this is one of the paradoxes of occultism but it can be understood if the student remembers that the centres in his etheric body rule in so far as they are receptive or non-receptive to the influences emanating from the planet, via the planetary centres. it would not be advisable for me to give out the relation of the planetary centres to

ential synthesis underlying all life human, planetary, systemic and cosmic; it reveals also that the law of attraction, the law of magnetic work, and the cosmic law of synthesis are three aspects of one law for which, as yet, we have no name. it might be said that the masters working on the second path are working in relation to and in contact with certain great lives who work on the periphery of the constellation libra, the balances. this is due to the fact that those masters who can work with magnetic energies, and with the three above laws, have achieved a point of balance which makes their work possible; it involves also a poised attention and directive power, permitting the inflow of energies from libra which could not otherwise enter our planetary life at all. these libran energies e

hical energies and with the forces of the kingdoms of nature in the three worlds; the master receives instruction in the handling of the energies which are extra-planetary but within the solar ring-pass-not. those masters whose decision it is to tread the second path are taught the control and direction of systemic energies and of certain energies emanating from libra and from one of the stars in the constellation of the great bear. in the more advanced stages of their work, and when the master is far more advanced than the word indicates, he works consciously upon the cosmic mental plane; his activities will then be concerned with the relation of the energies of the great bear to the pleiades, and their dual relationship (a higher correspondence to atma-buddhi) to the solar system and onl

path which leads into a triangle (if i may so express it) formed of three lines of energy of differing and greatly varying vibratory effectiveness. this triangle is in the nature of an open door, presenting unique and unprecedented opportunity to those who discover this path. just as one of the seven paths produced ultimately relationship to the pleiades, so this path relates our solar system to the constellation of the great bear. you have, therefore, the following triangle composed of one stream of energy emanating from the great bear, another stream of energy issuing from the heart of the sun or from our solar logos, and the base line constituted of the seven streams of energy which come from our seven sacred planets. the potency and the effectiveness of this triangle is therefore uniq

has been playing upon men ever since it came into incarnation, and the last one hundred fifty years have seen that potency become extremely effective. two factors have enhanced this effect: 1. the sixth ray of idealism or of devotion is the ray which normally governs the astral plane, controlling its phenomena and colouring its glamour. 2. the stream of energy, coming into our planetary life from the constellation pisces, has for two thousand years conditioned human experience and is peculiarly fitted to blend with and complement this sixth ray energy and to produce exactly the situation which is today governing world affairs. the united activity of these two great streams of cosmic energy, playing upon and through the third planetary centre, humanity, has created the unique condition in w

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

e- the myth elaboration of the myth labor i the capture of the man-eating mares the myth the meaning of the myth the sign the three initial impulses in aries the sign of the mind constellations in aries the crux of the test labor ii the capture of the cretan bull the myth the meaning of the labor four symbolic words the story of the labor the theme of illumination the theme of sex significance of the constellations nature of the tests the disciple and sex labor iii- part 1 gathering the golden apples of the hesperides the myth the nature of the test- 1- the symbols labor iii- part 2 gathering the golden apples of the hesperides the field of the labor the three symbolic constellations the lesson of the labor labor iv- part 1 the capture of the doe or hind the myth synthesis of the signs mea

e stars at-one-ment with capricorn symbols the three symbolic constellations the lesson of the labor labor v the slaying of the nemean lion the myth the number five the story of the myth the field of the labor the three symbolic constellations the lesson of the labor labor vi seizing the girdle of hippolyte- 2- the labours of hercules the myth introduction interpretations of the myth the two ways the constellations and stars the mutable cross and the planetary rulers significance of the sign and its polar opposite keynotes labor vii the capture of the erymanthian boar the myth prologue reflections of a libran the rulers of libra and its opposite sign the constellations and stars some highlights from the lecture by alice bailey labor viii destroying the lernaean hydra the myth introduction

ymanthian boar the myth prologue reflections of a libran the rulers of libra and its opposite sign the constellations and stars some highlights from the lecture by alice bailey labor viii destroying the lernaean hydra the myth introduction psychological analysis of the myth the nine heads of the hydra fighting the hydra: modern version applications to life what is death scorpio, the sign of magic the constellations and the stars labor ix killing the stymphalian birds the myth interpretation of the labor silence two gates, three constellations the chrysalis symbol the spirit of truth the spirit of right three gifts three constellations- 3- the labours of hercules details of the story labor x the slaying of cerberus, guardian of hades the myth prologue interpretations of the labor in caprico

ellations, which symbolically (and often in a most amazing fashion) embody the disciple's problem and indicate the solution. these we shall have to consider, for the labor, the sign, and the allied constellations with the forces let loose through their combination, constitute a complete story which is full of instructive elements. i would like to point out for the sake of clarity, therefore, that the constellations symbolize the threefold spirit aspect; that the sign gives us the field of activity of the soul, and that the labor portrays the work of the disciple, living on the physical plane and endeavoring to demonstrate on the battlefield of the world his innate divinity and latent powers. in these three we have spirit, soul and body summarized. life, consciousness and form meet in hercu

symbol of this sign, and in the celestial chart it will be observed that the little group of stars called pleiades are represented just at the shoulder of the bull. now, in egyptian sculpture, or painting, the pleiades are sometimes represented by the figure of a dove with wings outspread over the bull's saddle. the dove as we remember, is the bird sacred to venus, and as the pleiades are part of the constellation taurus and, as we shall see, more taurian in nature, if possible, than taurus itself, the dove becomes a specially appropriate symbol for this little star-group (the zodiac: a life epitome, walter h. sampson, p. 24 [46] the theme of sex from this extract and many others which could be adduced, it is apparent how closely linked with sex, in its lower and in its higher aspects, is

disappears in the attractiveness of the outer form and in the glamor which the soul attracts around itself. it should be remembered here that the opposite sign to taurus is that of scorpio, and these two signs constitute the [47] field of a stupendous effort on the part of hercules; for in one he wrestles with the problem of sex, and in the other, he overcomes the great illusion. significance of the constellations the three constellations connected with this sign are orion, eridanus, auriga; and the nature of the work in taurus is beautifully foretold by the three pictures in the heavens which they present to us. the ancient name of orion was "the three kings, because of the three beautiful stars found in orion's belt. the three kings represent the three divine aspects of will, love and i

tification with group purpose, the disciple will arrive at liberation from the control of sex. he will succeed in following the example of hercules and will ride the bull of desire over to the mainland where, in the temple of god, he will hand it over into the care of the cyclops who were early initiates, having the single eye about which we have been speaking, the eye of shiva, the bull's eye in the constellation taurus. for hercules himself was not only the disciple, but he was, in his lower nature, the bull, and in his higher nature the cyclops. when the bull of desire has been handed over to the cyclops, to the initiate with the single eye, which is himself, the soul, the three divine aspects, will begin to manifest: brontes, steropes and arges will guard the sacred bull, and hercules

s he looked at the christ "he must increase, but i must decrease (st. john, iii, 30) thus [65] we have a most significant constellation, because it holds before the eyes of man the thought of the increasing potency of the spiritual life and the decreasing power of the personal self. the story of man's growth to maturity and the history of the soul's gradually increasing control are told for us in the constellation gemini. in the ancient zodiac of denderah, this sign is called "the place of him who cometh, and the thought of an emerging spiritual being is held before us. it is represented by- 40- the labours of hercules two figures, the one male, the other female; one, the positive, spirit aspect, and the other, the negative, matter aspect. the coptic and the hebrew names signify "united, a

hat the physical body is not a principle (the substitution of the egyptian sacred scarab for the crab seems a recognition of the quality of cancer in its higher aspects when the native is an aspirant or disciple, for we go round the zodiac many times) there are eighty-three stars in this sign, the brightest of which is of the third- 52- the labours of hercules magnitude, and in the very center of the constellation there is a cluster of stars; praesepe, the manger [88] called by modern astronomers "the beehive. the latter is a marvellous symbol of the collective organization of the human family, and is one of the reasons why this is always regarded as a mass sign. in the mass, instinct rules; therefore, cancer is the sign of instinct, of herd life, of mass reaction. it represents the subcon

st, and on the twenty-fifth of december down the centuries the birth of the world savior has been celebrated; but in very ancient days, the birthday of the infant sun gods was in cancer. we are told "the birthday of the infant jesus, being arbitrarily set by the priests, produces a serious discrepancy, as we are told he was born in a manger. the manger is found in the sign of the summer solstice, the constellation cancer, which was called the gate of the sun through which souls were said to descend from their heavenly home to earth, just as at the winter solstice in december, they were said to return to their heavenly or celestial home, the constellation capricorn, the other gate of the sun. capricorn was the sign from which sungods were said to the born at the winter solstice and made sac

ch begins in aries, the ram, and ends in pisces, the fishes. a close analysis of the symbolism of the zodiacal signs deepens in one the strong conviction of the eternal picturing of truth and the constant holding before our eyes of the story of the evolution of matter in form, of consciousness, of spirit and of life. argo stretches all the way from cancer to capricorn and is one of the largest of the constellations. it has in it sixty-four stars, of which the brightest is canopus. its symbolism [92] therefore, covers the life of the aspirant from the time he takes incarnation until he has reached his goal. we use the word "ship" quite frequently in a symbolic sense, speaking of the "ship of state, the "ship of salvation, and conveying ever the idea of security, of progress, and of the achi

fy the two polarities, masculine and feminine, positive and negative- 61- the labours of hercules in this constellation is the exceedingly bright star, which is one of the four royal stars of the heavens. it is called regulus the ruler, the lawgiver, holding in its significance the thought that man can now be a law unto himself, for he has that within him which is the king or the ruler. hidden in the constellation is also a vivid group of stars, called "the sickle. to the ancient initiates, who saw all the external constellations as personifications [105] of forces and as symbols of an unfolding drama vaster than even they could understand, the constellation conveyed three major thoughts: first, that man was the ruler, the king, god incarnate, an individual son of god; second, the man was

g, god incarnate, an individual son of god; second, the man was governed by law, the law of nature, the law that he makes for himself, and the spiritual law to which he will eventually subordinate himself; third, that the work of an individual is to apply the sickle and to cut out, or cut down, that which hinders the application of the spiritual law and so hinders the flowering forth of the soul. the constellation leo has in it ninety-five stars, two of them of the first magnitude. its egyptian name, we are told, meant "a pouring out, the nile giving its fullest irrigation at that season. this has also an interesting esoteric significance for, according to the teaching of the ageless wisdom, the human family came into existence through what is technically called "the third outpouring, whic

ion, redeem it. all this is implicit in the sign of the virgin and its labor. in the secret doctrine is a clear statement of the whole message of this sign "matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this turn of the spiral; and soul is the vehicle on a higher turn of the spiral for the manifestation of spirit, and these three are a trinity synthesized by life which pervades them all. the constellations and stars the three constellations in close proximity to that of virgo are: coma berenice, the mother of the form only; the centaur, the man riding upon a horse or the horse with a man's head and torso, representing the human being, for man is an animal plus a god. this is the lowest of the constellations and it is notable that hercules, though he had passed through five gates f

pid, blinking owl, and those who think themselves wise are too often full of solemnity and a bit stodgy, but wisdom should be "enthusiastic. something to ponder, that. and there may be intrigue, the winding ways of man-made laws invite it; or there is straightforward conduct, and the libran may be characterized by materialistic or by spiritual attitudes. over and over again on this journey round, the constellations are all harmonious, good and for a purpose; it is our receptivity and use of them that determines what we manifest. it correlates with painful exactness the impressions gained by the casual tourist, and the man who goes and lives for a while in a country, and really knows its people. sometimes one [129] thinks that an intelligence test should be given before a visa is issued. su

t not sell short the future to the uncertain present; to be kind to men, yet uncompromisingly true to the spirit- such are the problems that the aries person will constantly meet, in one form or another. the individual who is consecrated and true to the spirit acts as the spirit in terms of human needs (ease and adaptability: libra at-one with its opposite sign, aries- 79- the labours of hercules the constellations and the stars there are three constellations in libra, all of special interest. first there is the southern cross that has never been seen in the occident since the time of the crucifixion, when it was seen at jerusalem. now the cross is receding. let us try to grasp the dramatic presentation in this great symbol. four bright stars make up this cross; four, the number of the mat

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inued from previous page] have chosen the crescent for their national arms. venus has always been identified, since the establishment of roman catholic dogmatism, with satan and lucifer, or the great dragon, contrary to all reason and logic. as shown by the symbologists and astronomers, the association between the serpent and the idea of darkness had an astronomical foundation. the position which the constellation of draco at one time occupied showed that the great serpent was the ruler of the night. this constellation was formerly at the very centre of the heavens, and is so extensive that it was called the great dragon. its body spreads over seven signs of the zodiac; and dupuis "who" says staniland wake "sees in the dragon of the apocalypse a reference to the celestial serpent" remarks

shadow of things to come; but the body (or substance) is of christ" or jehovah, that function of this power that "made the barren woman. a mother. for they are the gift of jehovah. which is a key to the objection which her husband made to the shunamite, as to her going to the man of god "for it is neither the seventh day nor the day of the new moon (2 kings, iv, 23) the living spiritual powers of the constellations had mighty wars, marked by the movements and positions of the stars and planets, and especially as the result of the conjunction of the moon, earth, and sun. bentley comments on the hindu "war between the gods and the giants" as marked by the eclipse of the sun at the ascending node of the moon, 945 b.c, at which time was born* or produced from the sea, sri (sarai, s-r-i, the wi

brahma sprang from a lotus. theoretically, the kalpas are infinite, but practically they are divided and sub-divided in space and time, each division- down to the smallest- having its own dhyani as patron or regent. padmapani (avalokiteshwara) becomes, in china, in his female aspect, kwan-yin "who assumes any form, at pleasure, in order to save mankind" the knowledge of the astrological aspect of the constellations on the respective "birth-days" of these dhyanis- amitabha (the o-mi-to fo, of china, included: e.g, on the 19th day of the second month, on the 17th day of the eleventh month, and on the 7th day of the third month, etc, etc- gives the occultist the greatest facilities for performing what are called "magic" feats. the future of an individual is seen, with all its coming events ma

ory of the human evolution is traced in heaven as it is traced on underground walls. humanity and the stars are bound together indissolubly, because of the intelligences that rule the latter. modern symbologists may scoff at this and call it "fancy" but "it is unquestionable that the deluge has (ever) been associated in the legends of some eastern peoples not only with the pyramids, but also with the constellations" writes mr. staniland wake("the great pyramid. the "old dragon" is identical with the "great flood" says mr. proctor (in "knowledge" vol. i, p. 243 "we know that in the past the constellation of the dragon was at the pole, or boss, of the celestial sphere. in stellar temples. the dragon would be the[[vol. 2, page] 353 the astronomical dragon. uppermost or ruling constellation. i

mr. staniland wake("the great pyramid. the "old dragon" is identical with the "great flood" says mr. proctor (in "knowledge" vol. i, p. 243 "we know that in the past the constellation of the dragon was at the pole, or boss, of the celestial sphere. in stellar temples. the dragon would be the[[vol. 2, page] 353 the astronomical dragon. uppermost or ruling constellation. it is singular how closely the constellations. correspond in sequence and in range of right ascension with the events recorded respecting the (biblical) flood" the reasons for this singularity have been made clear in this work. but it shows only that there were several deluges mixed up in the memories and traditions of the sub-races of the fifth race. the first great "flood" was astronomical and cosmical, while several othe

rain, and harmonizes with the eleventh sign of the zodiac- aquarius, or the waterman (nineteenth century, 1882, p. 236. but even this is preceded in the old records by the preastronomical cosmic flood, which became allegorized and symbolized in the above zodiacal or noah's flood. but this has nothing to do with atlantis. the pyramids are closely connected with the ideas of both the great dragon (the constellation, the "dragons of wisdom" or the great initiates of the third and fourth races, and the floods of the nile, regarded as a divine reminder of the great atlantic flood. the astronomical records of universal history, however, are said to have had their beginnings with the third sub-race of the fourth root-race or the atlanteans. when was it? occult data show that even since the time

ill more of the divine nature of which it is better (for others) to remain in ignorance (book xi, ch. 17. this "dragon" having a septenary meaning, the highest and the lowest may be given. the former is identical with the "self-born" the logos (the hindu aja. he was the second person of the trinity, the son, with the christian gnostics called the naasenians, or serpent-worshippers. his symbol was the constellation of the dragon* its seven "stars" are the seven stars held in the hand of the "alpha and omega" in revelation. in its most terrestrial meaning, the term "dragon" was applied to the wise men. this portion of the religious symbolism of antiquity is very abstruse and mysterious, and may remain incomprehensible to the profane. in our modern day it so jars on the christian ear that it

ird and fourth races. thus, while in theogony the kabiri-titans were seven great gods: cosmically and astronomically the titans were called atlantes, because, perhaps, as faber says, they were connected[[footnote(s* who adds that the egyptians had various ways of representing the angles of the poles. also in perry's view of the levant there is "a figure representing the south pole of the earth in the constellation of the harp" in which the poles appear like two straight rods, surmounted with hawks' wings, but they were also often represented as serpents with heads of hawks, one at each end* faber and bishop cumberland would make them all the later pagan personifications, as the former writer has it, of "the noetic ark, and no other than the patriarch (noah) and his family) see his "kabiri"

nroo. wheat seven cubits high("book of the dead" chap. xcix, 33; and clvi, 4* the reader is referred to stanza vii, verse 3, book i, wherein this verse is explained in another of its meanings, and also to the "book of the dead" chap. cix, v. 4 and 5 "i am the queen of these regions" says the egyptian isis "i was the first to reveal to mortals the mysteries of wheat and corn. i am she who rises in the constellation of the dog (dog-star. rejoice, o egypt! thou who wert my nurse (book i, chap. xiv* sirius was called the dog-star. it was the star of mercury or budha, called the great instructor of mankind, before other buddhas. the book of the chinese y-king, attributes the discovery of agriculture to "the instruction given to men by celestial genii "woe, woe to the men who know nought, observ

e with the whole zodiac and every other constellation, when the pole had been inverted" speaking of the circular zodiac, given also by denon, he says- there "the lion is standing on the serpent, and his tail forming a curve downward, from which it is found that though six or seven hundred thousand years must have passed between the two positions, yet they had made but little difference between in the constellations of leo and the hydra; while virgo is represented very differently in the two. in the circular zodiac, the virgin is nursing her child; but it seems that they had not had that idea when the pole was first within the plane of the ecliptic; for in this zodiac, as given by denon, we see three virgins between the lion and the scales, the last of which holds in her hand an ear of whea

that the said calendar does not prove that the hindus knew anything of astronomy at that date, and assure their readers that, calendars notwithstanding, the indian pundits may have acquired their knowledge of the lunar mansions headed by krittika from the phoenicians, etc. however that may be, the pleiades are the central group of the system of sidereal symbology. they are situated in the neck of the constellation of taurus, regarded by madler and others, in astronomy, as the central group of the system of the milky way, and in the kabala and eastern esotericism, as the sidereal septenate born from the first manifested side of the upper triangle, the concealed[[diagram. this manifested side is taurus, the symbol of one (the figure 1, or of the first letter of the hebrew alphabet, aleph[[he

id or life (ragon) the more mystic meaning of 5 is given in an excellent article by mr. subba row, in "five years of theosophy (pp. 110, et seq "the twelve signs of the zodiac" in which he gives some rules that may help the inquirer to ferret out "the deep significance of ancient sanskrit nomenclature in the old aryan myths and allegories" meanwhile, let us see what has been hitherto stated about the constellation capricornus in theosophical publications, and what is known of it generally. every one knows that[[diagram] is the tenth sign of the zodiac into which the sun enters at the winter solstice, about december 21st. but very few are those who know- even in india, unless they are initiated- the real mystic connection which seems to exist, as we are told, between the names makara and ku

mphitrite's unwillingness to wed poseidon, and in triton their son. the latter, whose body above the waist is that of a man and below a dolphin, a fish, is, again, most mysteriously connected with oannes, the babylonian dag, and further also with the (fish) avatar of vishnu, matsya, both teaching mortals wisdom. the dolphin, as every mythologist knows, was placed for his service by poseidon among the constellations, and became with the greeks, capricornus, the goat, whose hind part is that of a dolphin, thus shown identical with makara, whose head is also that of an antelope and the body and tail those of a fish. this is why the sign of the makara was borne on the banner of kama deva, the hindu god of love, identified, in atharva veda, with agni (the fire-god, the son of lakshmi, as correc

und; and, it includes divine and infernal magic, and the universal and the individual quintessence of being. thus, the five mystic words or vowels (vide infra) uttered by brahma at "creation" which forthwith became the panchadasa (certain vedic hymns, attributed to that god) are in their creative and magical potentiality, the white side of the black tantrik five "makaras" or the five m's "makara" the constellation, is a seemingly meaningless and absurd name. yet, even besides its anagrammatical significance in conjunction with the term "kumara" the numerical value of its first syllable and its esoteric resolution into five has a very great and occult meaning in the mysteries of nature. suffice it to say, that as the sign of makara is connected with the birth of the spiritual "microcosm" an

nd of "the natural genesis" does- very fortunately, for us- quite the reverse. he demonstrates most triumphantly our esoteric (buddhist) teachings, by showing them identical with those of egypt. let the reader judge from his learned lecture on "the seven souls of man* says the author "the first form of the mystical seven was seen to be figured in heaven by the seven large stars of the great bear, the constellation assigned by the egyptians to the mother of time, and of the seven elemental powers" just so, for the hindus place in the great bear their seven primitive rishis and call this constellation the abode of the saptarishi, riksha and chitra-sikhandinas. but whether it is only an astronomical myth or a primordial mystery, having a deeper meaning than it bears on its surface, is what th

he pralayas, the final destiny of nations, o lanoo" moreover there must have been a good reason why an asiatic nation should locate its great progenitors and saints in the ursa major, a northern constellation. it is 70,000 years, however, since the pole of the earth pointed to the further end of ursa minor's tail; and many more thousand years since the seven rishis could have been identified with the constellation of ursa major. the aryan race was born and developed in the far north, though after the sinking of the continent of atlantis its tribes emigrated further south into asia. hence prometheus is son of asia, and deukalion, his son, the greek noah- he who created men out of the stones of mother[[footnote(s* the equivalent of this name is given in the original[[vol. 2, page] 769 the so

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placed by the kabalists in the "archetypal world" the same hierarchy, with the same numbers, is found in the japanese system, in the "beginnings" as taught by both the shinto and the buddhist sects. in this system, anthropogenesis precedes cosmogenesis, as the divine merges into the human, and creates[[footnote(s* this relates to the cosmic principles* the seven creative rishis now connected with the constellation of the great bear[[vol. 1, page] 214 the secret doctrine. midway in its descent into matter- the visible universe. the legendary personages- remarks reverentially omoie "having to be understood as the stereotyped embodiment of the higher (secret) doctrine, and its sublime truths" to state it at full length, however, would occupy too much of our space, but a few words on this old

sed the seven nature-powers that were prior to himself, and were summed up in him as his seven souls, of which he was the manifestor as the eighth one (hence the eighth sphere. the seven rays of the chaldean heptakis or iao, on the gnostic stones indicate the same septenary of souls "the first form of the mystical seven was seen to be figured in heaven, by the seven large stars of the great bear, the constellation assigned by the egyptians to the mother of time, and of the seven elemental powers (see the seven souls, etc) as well known to every hindu, this same constellation represents in india the seven rishis, and as such is called riksha, and chitra-sikhandinas[[vol. 1, page] 228 the secret doctrine. esotericism, came out from the moon (a triple mystery- astronomical, physiological, and

d. but as it is the sixth- on the downward scale of spirituality- the last and seventh being the terrestrial spirits (elementals) which gradually form, build, and condense his physical body- this sixth group evolves no more than the future man's shadowy form, a filmy, hardly visible transparent copy of themselves. it becomes the task of the fifth hierarchy- the mysterious beings that preside over the constellation capricornus, makara, or "crocodile" in india as in egypt- to inform the empty and ethereal animal form and make of it the rational man. this is one of those subjects upon which very little may be said to the general public. it is a mystery, truly, but only to him who is prepared to reject the existence of intellectual and conscious spiritual beings in the universe, limiting full

the application to such periods of the natural measure of day or night, or of the day divided into the light and the dark. it would also be discovered that there was a longest and shortest solar day, and two solar days of equal day and night, within the period of the solar year; and the points in the year of these could be marked with the greatest precision in the starry groups of the heavens or the constellations, subject to that retrograde movement thereof, which in time would require a correction by intercalation, as was the case in the description of the flood, where correction of 150 days was made for a period of 600 years, during which confusion of landmarks had increased. this would naturally come to pass. with all races in all time; and such knowledge must be taken to have been in

eses of wolf) since the discovery of the spectroscope, its magic power has revealed to its adepts only one single transformation of a star of this kind; and even that one showed directly the reverse of what is needed as proof in favour of the nebular theory; namely- a star transforming itself into a planetary nebula. as told in the observatory (vol. i, p. 185, the temporary star which appeared in the constellation cygnus, in november, 1876, discovered by j. f. j. schmidt, exhibited a spectrum broken by very brilliant lines. gradually, the continuous spectrum and most of the lines disappeared, leaving finally one single brilliant line, which appeared to coincide with the green line of the nebula. though this metamorphosis is not irreconcileable with the hypothesis of the nebular origin of t

iac* even accepting, for argument's sake, his cautious 3700 years b.c. as the correct age of the science, this date proves in the most irrefutable way that it was not the greeks who invented the zodiac, for the simple reason that they did not yet exist as a nation thirty-seven centuries b.c- not as an historical race admitted by the critics, at any rate. bailly then calculated the period at which the constellations manifested the atmospheric influence called by job "sweet influences of the pleiades (in hebrew, chimah, see job xxxviii. 31; of the cesil (orion; and that of the desert rains with reference to scorpio, the eighth constellation; and found that in presence the eternal conformity of those divisions of the zodiac and names of the planets applied in the same order everywhere and alw

s in india as in northern europe "try, if you can, with the present system of autochthonous civilizations, so much in fashion in our day, to explain how nations with no ancestry, no traditions or birthplace in common, could have succeeded in inventing a kind of celestial phantasmagoria, a veritable imbroglio of sidereal denominations, without sequence or object, having no figurative relation with the constellations they represent, and still less, apparently, with the phases of our terrestrial life they are made to signify" had there not been a general intention and a universal cause and belief, at the root of all this (pneumatologie, vol. iv, p. 61) most truly has dupuis asserted the same "il est impossible de decouvrir le moindre trait de ressemblance entre les parties du ciel et les figu

solstitial points. an observation of the rising of the pleiades in the evening, seven days before the autumnal equinox, also belongs to the year 3000 before our era. this and similar observations collected in ptolemy's calendars, though he does not give their authors, these observations, which are older than those of the chaldeans, may well be the work of the hindus. they are well acquainted with the constellation of the pleiades, and while we call it vulgarly the "poussiniere" they name it: pillaloo-codi- the "hen and chickens" this name has therefore, passed from people to[[vol. 1, page] 664 the secret doctrine. people, and comes to us from the most ancient nations of asia. we see that the hindus must have observed the rising of the pleiades, and have made use of it to regulate their yea

rine. people, and comes to us from the most ancient nations of asia. we see that the hindus must have observed the rising of the pleiades, and have made use of it to regulate their years and their months; for this constellation is also called krittika. now they have a month of the same name, and this coincidence can only be due to the fact that this month was announced by the rising or setting of the constellation in question. but what is even more decisive as showing that the hindus observed the stars, and in the same way that we do, marking their position by their longitude, is a fact mentioned by augustinus riccius that, according to observations attributed to hermes, and made 1,985 years before ptolemy, the brilliant star in the lyre and that in the heart of the hydra were each seven d

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n that place i saw an inexhaustible spring of righteousness and many springs of wisdom surrounded it, and all the thirsty drank from them and were filled with wisdom, and their dwelling was with the righteous and the holy and the chosen. 48.2] and at that hour that son of man was named, in the presence of the lord of spirits, and his name brought to the head of days. 48.3] even before the sun and the constellations were created, before the stars of heaven were made, his name was named in front of the lord of spirits. 48.4] he will be a staff to the righteous and the holy, so that they may lean on him and not fall, and he will be the light of the nations, and he will be the hope of those who grieve in their hearts. 48.5] all those who dwell upon the dry ground will fall down and worship in

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f the ace of wands, but not so heavy, and also the sigil of his scale is shown; beneath the rushing feet of his steed are waving flames and fire. he is active- generous- fierce- sudden- impetuous. if ill dignified, he is evil-minded- cruel- bigoted- brutal. he rules the celestial heavens from above the twentieth degree of scorpio to the first two decans of sagittarius: and this includes a part of the constellation hercules (hercules is always represented with a club) fire of fire king of the salamanders. vi. the queen of the thrones of flame queen of wands a crowned queen with long red-golden hair, seated upon a throne, with steady flames beneath. she wears a corslet and buskins of scale-mail, which latter her robe discloses. her arms are almost bare. on cuirass and buskins are leopard's h

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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 dead. the chief of the watchers is named azazel, who governs with uzza and uzziel. the merkabah in the merkabah vision of ezekiel it is written "and i looked and behold a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire enfolding itself and a splen

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. an herb, perhaps because of its suggestive appearance, would acquire a picturesque name. the name would stick and, before long, be taken at its face value, dragon's blood is an excellent example. this gum resin was given the name because of its reddish-brown color, similar to dried blood, and because it comes from such plants as calamus draco, dracaena draco, pterocarpus draco, etc, named after the constellation draco the dragon, of the northern hemisphere. it is not the actual dried blood of a dragon, though many people believe it is! here are some other herbs, together with their local names, so that the next time you come across an old recipe calling for, say, the tongue of a horse and the eye of a cat, youll know what was really meant. lesson ten: herbalism/ 149 wiccan name adder's m

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s these technologically advanced extraterrestrial and other-dimensional beings created mystery schools and a secret society network in atlantis and lemuria to pass on levels of their knowledge to chosen initiates. legends claim that a race came to the earth from sirius, the "dog star" and brightest in the sky, which is some 8.7 light years from here. the term "dog star" comes from its position in the constellation of canis major and it is also known as orion's dog" the legends and accounts say that the beings from sirius brought an infusion of highly advanced knowledge to atlantis and lemuria-mu and founded the atlantean mystery school. according to robert temple in the sirius mystery (destiny books, vermont, usa, 1998, the dogon tribe in mali, africa, claim that beings from sirius visited

ct and unhuman form (reptilian) and they warned the people of instant death if they ever depicted them as they really looked. thus the "gods" were portrayed symbolically. hanging from the necklace of the mysteries is a large hand, full of symbols. among these are the all-seeing eye, symbolising, credo points out, the "watchers (the same as the illuminati image on the us dollar bill; also there is the constellation of orion, which modern researchers have constantly connected with extraterrestrial activity on earth, especially the reptilians; and a star of david, which is not, contrary to accepted belief, an ancient "jewish" symbol at all. as some jewish historians have stated, it is a far ancient symbol found all over the world, and only became associated with the jewish faith when the bank

edible and magnificent diversity of the human physical form and there are endless bloodlines among us, not just those of the anunnaki reptilians. from what i gather from my research and insider information, there has been a long battle in many parts of the galaxy between the blond-haired, blue-eyed "nordics" of lyra, the pleiades, aldebaran and elsewhere, and factions of a reptilian race based in the constellations of draco and orion and within the sirius network. it is possible that at least some of the reptilians originated on the earth and were driven out or, literally, forced underground at some point by the "nordics. this is not to say that all of these peoples are involved, only that significant groups of them are. this battle on earth is symbolised by stories such as the phoenician

ncestors of the larger portion of the race of human beings" nordic-reptilian interbreeding? the lyra constellation is widely associated in ufo research and the stories of abductees with a blond-haired, blue-eyed race. aldebaran, a giant red star with a diameter about forty times that of the sun, is another nordic-related location, not least within the secret society network of the nazis. it is in the constellation of taurus and one of the brightest stars in the 90 children of the matrix northern hemisphere. many abductees tell of loving experiences with tall, blond beings claiming to come from the pleiades, as they do with some reptilian experiences, and it is important to stress here, and to keep in mind throughout this book, that i am not suggesting for a moment that all of these "nordic

round the world, including diana, artemis, athene, semiramis, barati, britannia, hecate, rhea, persephone("first serpent) and so on. these same names have also been used to symbolise esoteric concepts like the phases of the moon and female energy, but at its foundation this goddess worship of the illuminati would seem to relate to the dna transmitted through the female and possibly originating in the constellation of orion. i have heard this dna source symbolised in various cultures as the dragon queens, the orion queen or queens, and the "snake mother. from what i am told by insiders and serious researchers, the full-blown reptilian society has its own version of queen bees, which produce the eggs from which the bloodlines and their offshoots, originate. artemis, a key illuminati goddess

3200bc, the period of the battles between the nordics and the serpent cult recorded in the edda (figure 31. the temple of set website tells us "the great pyramid of giza is one of the last early monuments connected with the idea of a setian afterlife as well as a solar one. the great pyramid had a special air shaft for the king's akh to fly to the star alpha draconis, which is the star of set in the constellation of the thigh (today's 'big dipper."25 alpha draconis is the alleged base of the "draco" reptilian "royalty. it was known to the egyptians as thurban, an arabic word meaning dragon, and the pyramid builders aligned their structures with thurban/alpha draconis, which was the pole star around 3000bc. the hyksos tribe, who invaded and ruled egypt from around 1785-1580 bc, were set wo

ilar terms were applied to many of these pre-christian "jesus" figures. the name "jesus" is also a greek translation and if he did exist, which he didn't, his name was certainly not jesus. jesus was born to a virgin the virgin mother of the sun god is an ancient theme found all over the world. this could relate to the solar myth that the sun was "born" in a new or virgin moon and at certain times the constellation of virgo rose with the sun. it is also far from impossible that the artificial impregnation of women by the "gods" may have been 208 children of the matrix an ancient origin to this concept, too. so many "heroes" like merovee and alexander the great were said to be the result of their mothers being impregnated by a non-human entity and not by intercourse with their husbands. albe

signs) by medieval monks and they placed john the baptist in the position where aquarius is located (king arthur and the 12 knights of the round table are also sun and zodiac symbolism) in the roman julian calendar john the baptist dies on august 29th and john jackson points out in christianity before christ (american atheists, 1985 "on that day, a specially bright star, representing the head of the constellation of aquarius, rises whilst the rest of the body is below the horizon, at exactly the same time as the sun sets in leo (the kingly sign representing herod. thus the latter beheads john, because john is associated with aquarius, and the horizon cuts off the head of aquarius!"28 the reference to the "man carrying the water pitcher" in luke's gospel is more aquarius symbolism. john th

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ays that thepyramids at giza align with the stars on the belt of orion as they would have been in10,500 bc when orion was at the lowest point in its cycle (the orions are anotherextraterrestrial race operating on this planet, i understand. and hancock and otherresearchers suggest that the lion-bodied sphinx at giza, which is believed to be farolder than originally dated, would have directly faced the constellation of leo the lionat that same time, 10,500 bc. research continues under the ocean off japan into afantastic structure which could also date to 10,500 bc at least. there are many whohave questioned these findings, especially the synchronisation of the giza pyramids toorion, but at the very least they have triggered an important area of investigation, evenif they prove not to be accu

are covered in reptilian images, a feature of all the ancient cultures,including the egyptian, the central american and the indian. professor phillip calahanin his study of the surviving and mysterious round towers of ireland has said that theyare positioned with remarkable synchronicity to the star constellations of the northernsky at the winter solstice. and the towers most perfectly align with the constellationof. draco. the head and eyes of the draco formation, as designed on the ground inireland, are, according to calahan, located either side of lough neagh right in thefigure 4: the draco dragonconstellation to which so many ancientmonuments appear to be aligned. 24centre of northern ireland. the eastern side of lough neagh is close to the capital,belfast.16 so the head of the draco c

jan van helsing, writes in his book, secret societies of the20th century,10 of how the vril and thule societies believed they were correspondingwith extraterrestrials through two mediums known as maria orsic and sigrun in a lodgenear berchtesgaden in december 1919. according to vril documents, he says, thesechannellings were transmitted from a solar system called aldebaran, 68 light yearsaway in the constellation of taurus where two inhabited planets formed the sumeranempire. the population of aldebaran is divided into a master race of blond-haired, blue-eyed, aryans, known as light god people and several other human-like races whichhad mutated to a lower genetic form due to climatic changes, the channellings said.11 inexcess of 500 million years ago the aldebaran sun began to expand so c

of theinner city. at its centre is thesign for aries, the ram or lamb.similar satanic pentagramscan be identified in the streetplan of rome, the old city ofjerusalem, the land aroundrennes-le-chateau, thepyramid site at giza, and nodoubt over london and othercities and sites. across thepotomac river fromwashington is the home of theunited states military- thepentagon building which wasaligned to the constellation oftaurus.9 a pentagon, of course,is the centre of a pentagram. ifyou drive through the centre ofthe white house pentagramyou come to a remarkablebuilding at 1733 16th street.note the number: 1733. thenumber 17 recurs over andover in the story of rennes-le-chateau, and 33 is the official number of degrees in the scottish rite. this building hasthe feel of an egyptian temple with t

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's 7.4 astronomical correlations with great pyramid there are numerous relationships of the great pyramid to various astronomical bodies. the two main constellations which are related to the pyramid are taurus (the bull) and orion (the hunter. both these constellations are in the same portion of the sky. taurus is located just above orion. 7 .4.1 the taurus/pleiades connection the star alcyone in the constellation taurus marks the foundation setting (i.e, when construction was initiated on the great pyramid) date of the great pyramid.6 alcyone is one of the brightest stars in the pleiades, which is part of the taurus constellation. the ascending passageway in the great pyramid has a score line on it which pointed to alcyone in 2144 bc. alcyone is lined up with the sun and just above it and

of december, shown in figure 7.4.1-1, and first week of january loads to another important connection, that of the great pyramid and the orion constellation (see figure 7.4.2-1. figure 7.4.2-1. orion constellation research by one of the early great pyramid surveyors, sir flinders petrie, revealed that the king's chamber's northern air duct generally pointed to the star thuban (alpha draconis) in the constellation draco (the dragon, which was the pole star at the time of the pyramid's creation, and the southern air duct pointed to one of the stars in the constellation orion's belt around 2600 bc. more precise modern measurements7 have also shown that the king's chamber's north and south air ducts and the queen's chamber southern air duct date the pyramid at 2450 bc. the details of this dis

the three stars in orion's belt around the 13th-15th of december each year. in the first week of this year, 1997, at sunrise and sunset the sun was lined up with the three stars in orion's belt and with the axis of the gravity wheel experiment. figure 7.4.2-2. correlation of orion with great pyramid in other words, there appears to be a huge energy conduit (see figure 7.4.2-3) between our sun and the constellation orion which stimulates the gravity wheel forcefields to totally close to all known local forces (i.e, gravity, electromagnetic, inertial, and radioactivity; and then the entire gravity wheel experiment tries to lift off toward orion. during december and january, the sun, earth, and orion are lined up. at sunrise and sunset, the axis of the gravity wheel experiment is lined up wit

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the hawk and the twin serpents are later presented in the persian descriptions of the adversary, firstly a symbol of ahriman was a hawk attacking a sparrow and the twin serpents appearing from an ahrimanic kiss on the shoulders of the king zohak, who later became azi dahaka, the storm demon. while these similarities cannot be assumed to be directly related, they are by all instances interesting. the constellation of the bull or bull s thigh is related to set. often called bull of double brilliance, this is perhaps the brightest constellation around the north celestial pole otherwise known as the great bear or little dipper. the mummified hawk that is called the lord of the south is connected with set in this aspect. this is the seker god who early on was considered close to set before his

called bull of double brilliance, this is perhaps the brightest constellation around the north celestial pole otherwise known as the great bear or little dipper. the mummified hawk that is called the lord of the south is connected with set in this aspect. this is the seker god who early on was considered close to set before his transformation in accordance with osiris. the home of set is khepesh, the constellation. set was considered the eighth child of the gods of annu, and was of nuit. as the god of darkness and storms he was alone the one who could withstand the stare of the serpent apep, thus controlling the storm demon and later it becoming a part of sethan himself. set as being not only the lord of the south, he later was associated with the north, becoming the lord of the northern s

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

y, those seven glorious ones are (103) netcheh-netcheh, aqet-qet, an-erta-nef-bes-f-khenti-heh-f,[4 (104) aq-her-unnut-f,[5] tesher-maa-ammi (105 -het-anes,[6 [1. british museum papyrus no. 10,477 reads# which agrees with many of the variants given in naville, todtenbuch, bd. ii, p1. liii. the papyrus of nebseni agrees with that of ani; no. 19,471 has the curious reading. 2. the egyptian name for the constellation of the great bear. see brugsch, astronomische und astrologische inschriften, p. 123. 3. some such words as have been omitted. see naville, todtenbuch, bd. il, pl. lv. 4. i.e "he doth not give his flame, he dwelleth in the fire" 5. i.e "he goeth in at his hour" 6. i.e "he that hath two red eyes, the dweller in het-anes" according to brugsch (dict. g og, p. 64, het-anes, i.e, the "

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ok, zodiacs old and new. the argument over the sidereal zodiac was basically about the adjustment of the horoscope chart to reflect the procession of the equinoxes. the tropical, or moving, zodiac begins each year at the point where the sun is located at the spring equinox. however, that position changes slightly each year. thus the divisions of the zodiac no longer reflect the actual position of the constellations in the heavens. the sidereal zodiac retains the actual position of the 12 signs. had bradley merely been a champion of fagan s unfashionable ideas, he would not be remembered today. however, he became the director of the llewellyn foundation for astrological research and in the later 1940s conducted statistical studies that anticipated the work of francoise and michel gauquelin

o see as an elaborate hoax, a number of amateur ufo buffs were attracted to the evidence of the impressive pictures. meier s basic claim was that on the afternoon of january 28, 1975, he had seen a flying saucer land. from it a beautiful woman named semjase came forth and engaged him in conversation for an hour and a half. she told him that she was from a people that had originated on a planet in the constellation lyra, but that a war had driven her people to pleiades. along the way, the pleiadians had discovered earth and periodically visited it. in fact, some had settled here and intermarried with humans, then in a rather primitive state. in subsequent visits with semjase, meier would take many photographs and even rides in the space ships. inventor/ consultant fred bell would also claim

o study the historical aspects of astrological theory, which led him to propose and champion what is known as the sidereal zodiac. fagan was concerned with adjusting the horoscope chart to reflect the procession of the equinoxes. the tropical zodiac, still used by most astrologers, begins each year at the point where the sun is located at the spring equinox. however, that position, in relation to the constellations that gave the 12 signs of the zodiac their names, changes slightly each year. over the centuries the drift has been considerable, and the divisions of the zodiac no longer reflect the actual position of the constellations in the heavens. the sidereal zodiac adjusts for the actual position of the 12 signs. fagan presents his argument for the sidereal zodiac in several books, begi

n encounter with a beautiful being in a brilliant glowing body. in the years since she had experienced a number of ufo sightings and telepathic contact with whales and dolphins. st. germain confirmed that king had been abducted in 1947, taken aboard a spacecraft, and given a medical examination. the being she had seen in 1961 was an extraterrestrial. king came to know this person as a resident of the constellation known as the pleiades. within a short time, p taah, the pleiadian who had been in touch with her through the years, began to speak through her and in 1989 she made her first appearances as a channel. in the fall of 1991, in north queensland, australia, a group of people gathered weekly for a set of channeling sessions with p taah in which he laid out his basic teachings and answe

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

. these not only contain descriptions of the primeval paradise, but also include the traditions of the tree of knowledge and of the original promise made to the woman. the garden of the hesperides produced golden fruit, guarded by a dangerous serpent.this fierce reptile encircled with its folds a mysterious tree.and hercules procured the fruit by encountering and killing the serpent. the story of the constellation, as related by eratosthenes, is applicable to the garden of eden and the primeval history of mankind. this serpent, said that ancient writer, alluding to the constellation, is the same as that which guarded the golden apples, and was slain by hercules. for, when the gods offered presents to juno on her nuptials with jupiter, the earth also brought golden apples. juno, admiring th

net mars by the use of a wire bust with rubber over it, and a false face. the wire bust fitted snugly on the shoulders of the medium and was inflated with air when in use. when not in use it could be made into a small package and concealed. numerous mediums have given descriptions of martian life. eva harrison s wireless messages from other worlds (london, 1916) introduced planetary visitors from the constellation orion. the medium george valiantine, through dr. barnett predicted martians would communicate with us before we communicated with them. the martian fascination of mansfield robinson should also be mentioned. through a mrs. james, the author claimed to have obtained a martian alphabet, a martian trance control oumaruru, and gave a number of martian revelations based on trance excu

and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. playfair, guy lyon. the indefinite boundary. london: souvenir press, 1976. the unknown power. 1975. reprinted as the flying cow. london: souvenir press, 1975. this house is haunted: the true story of a poltergeist. london: souvenir press, 1980. pleiades the pleiades is a star cluster an approximately 400 lightyear distance from earth and near the constellations of orion and taurus in the night sky. the cluster includes seven bright stars that are easily seen with the naked eyes. in more recent years, astronomers equipped with telescopes have found the cluster to contain some 400 stars and to be surrounded by a nebula. as with many of the heavenly bodies, the pleiades has attracted the speculation of people who have imposed a mythologic

ommunication was may 27, 1876. he was seen clairvoyantly by moses as a communications link between himself and malachi in the chain of spirit influence from melchizedek to jesus. precession of the equinox astrology as it is known today was developed between the fourth and first centuries b.c.e. in the mediterranean basin. at the beginning of the year, marked by the spring equinox, the sun rose in the constellation aries. after several centuries of observations, around 125 b.c.e, a greek astrologer named hip- encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. precession of the equinox 1235 parchus discovered that very gradually the sun was moving in relation to the zodiac; that is, the precession of the equinoxes. there is some evidence that the phenomenon had been discovered earlier, but s

one degree every 71 years. most western astrologers use what is termed the tropical zodiac. the beginning of the year is marked by positioning 0 aries at the point where the sun is located on the spring equinox. however, that point changes slightly every year, hence the zodiac moves slightly every year. some astrologers use what is termed a sidereal equinox, in which the sun s true alignment with the constellations is retained. in the sidereal zodiac, the traditional relationship of the zodiac with the seasons of the year is lost. this movement is slight from year to year but over the centuries makes a real difference. it takes approximately 2,150 years for the spring equinox to move from one sign to another and approximately 27,000 years for the wobble to make that point to return to its

hat allowed instantaneous travel between planets in different star systems. then in 1995, the u.s. government announced that it had been carrying on secret parapsychological research, the last phase of which had been given the name project star gate. not as well-known, in 1991 mark roberts (1934, an independent spiritual searcher, found what he had termed the real stargate, an ancient painting of the constellation pleiades located at the entrance to a cave. he believes the painting to be a presentation of a cosmic-portal. the painting seems to connect decades of studies in archeology of egypt, an ancient alphabet (ogham, and ancient symbols of the pleiades. the portal seems to point toward ancient visitors to earth. the real stargate provides a mental doorway to step into a new consciousne

ion of planetary motion is quite possible without it. the idea of naming the various constellations in the sky for gods and animals is ancient; the singling out of the 12 constellations that constitute the zodiac goes back at least to the second millennium b.c.e. in ancient mesopotamia. the zodiac as it appears in modern astrology was certainly in use by the sixth century b.c.e. each culture gave the constellations of the zodiac different names, the modern western zodiac being derived from the greeks. the designation of 12 constellations, a worldwide phenomenon, relates to the division of the year by the moon s 12 complete orbits through the zodiac in each solar year. in modern astrology, two different zodiacs are popularly recognized. the sidereal zodiac reflects the actual location of th

eeks. the designation of 12 constellations, a worldwide phenomenon, relates to the division of the year by the moon s 12 complete orbits through the zodiac in each solar year. in modern astrology, two different zodiacs are popularly recognized. the sidereal zodiac reflects the actual location of the constellations in the night sky. practitioners of vedic astrology use this zodiac. the position of the constellations relative to the beginning of the years shifts slightly each year due to the phenomenon known as the procession of the equinoxes. most western astrologers use the tropical zodiac as defined by ptolemy in the second century c.e. according to ptolemy, the astrological year would begin each spring equinox and it would assume that the sun was at 0 degrees aries. due to the progressio

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

human race originally occupied a planet located betwe e n mars and ju p i t e r. they visited this planet just b e f o re natural forces we re set to destroy it, offering to re m ove the inhabitants to a suitable place if they agreed to live by kuran law. t h e inhabitants refused, and the kuran withdrew. the residents of the doomed planet managed to escape on their own. some went to a planet in the constellation of pegasus, and the o t h e r, to the ku r a n s displeasure, colonize d e a rth and became our ancestors. eart h p roved an inhospitable place, not sufficiently e vo l ved to have achieved the cosmic harmonies that give rise to peaceable, we l l- adjusted races. the new colonists, more ove r, i n t e rf e red with eart h s ecology, forcing its p revious, reigning, intelligent sp

actees (fortean picture library) sem-ya-see. meier would produce many more photographs, claim more contacts, recount trips into space and through time, and become the most controversial contactee since george adamski. meier s aliens came from the pleiades star system and from a planet named erra, one of ten planets in orbit around a sun known as tayget. the aliens got there from another planet in the constellation of lyra, where thousands of years ago a war forced much of the population to flee to other worlds. at one point 2.8 million years ago, as they were exploring the new galactic neighborhood, the new pleiadians found earth, then housing primitive human beings. some pleiadians intermarried with humans, but their educational efforts only led to a war with earthlings, who used the newl

merk s craft had landed. see also: lemuria; williamson, george hunt further reading williamson, george hunt, 1959. road in the sky. london: neville spearman. mersch ac c o rding to colorado contactee da ve schultz, six extraterrestrial races are visiting earth. on e is the mersch. the mersch are six feet tall, weigh two hundred pounds, and have bald heads and slanted eyes. their home planet is in the constellation scorpio. they are active in abductions and mutilation of cattle and other animals in western states. see also: abductions by ufos; contactees; olliana olliana alliano further reading sprinkle, r. leo, ed, 1982. proceedings: rocky mountain conference on ufo investigation. laramie, wy: school of extended studies, university of wyoming. metatron metatron is a divine interface betwee

ember 15, 1995. sahn is now the fourth planet in the orbit of coeleno (see-lee-no. few human beings have noticed the transition because the space people have gone to great lengths to conceal their operation. if the sky looks familiar, appearances are deceptive; the familiar stars and planets have been replaced by hovering starships, which take care to remain in precisely the same configuration as the constellations of old. only the most observant have realized that the sun is emitting more intense light but looks smaller (because we are now seven million miles farther away from our new sun so as to adjust for the differences from the old one. our new moon is brighter because of coeleno s more brilliant light. soon shan will be moved into the spiritually advanced fourth dimension, but not b

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chariot used as the basis for its translation. based upon astronomical information in the book itself, the work of the chariot translator attributed authorship of the sefer yetzirah to master abraham in the nineteenth century bce. an adjunctive note to the translation points out that the procession of the equinoxes acts as an unforgeable clock, allowing us to determine that the correspondence of the constellations given in the sixth chapter to the twelve hebrew months (with no variations in the six texts considered) occurred during the time of abraham, circa 4000 years ago. allowing for 4' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% an optimal variation of plus or minus 800 years ago, it is still not anywhere within the range of medieval times. a check on the data logs of the old chaldeans, egyptians, and greeks i

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

ans made of the right venus materials and at the right astrological moment. such images were held to capture the spirit or power of the star and to hold or store it for use. not only the planets had attached to each of them a complicated pseudo-science of occult sympathies and image-making, but the twelve signs of the zodiac each had their plants, animals, images, and so on, and indeed so had all the constellations and stars of the heavens. for the all was one, united by an infinitely complex system of relationships. the magician was one who knew how to enter into this system, and use it, by knowing the links of the chains of influences descending vertically from above, and establishing for himself a chain of ascending links by correct use of the occult sympathies in terrestrial things, of

moral behaviour and constant wars, for the egyptian natural religion with its neoplatonic basis, and the egyptian good moral laws "mercurio egizio sapientissimo" is for bruno the name of the divine wisdom itself,3 and the spaccio della bestia trionfante outlines a coming religious and moral reform. the peculiarity of the reform in the spaccio is that it begins in the heavens; it is the images of the constellations of the zodiac and of the northern and southern constellations which are reformed or cleansed through a council of the planetary gods which is summoned by jupiter for this purpose. amongst the speakers in this celestial council conducting the celestial reform are the divine sophia, isis, and momus. the idea of a reform beginning in the heavens with the rearranging or cleansing of

writers amongst which are several hermetica. some of these are the same as some in the corpus hermeticimr, others are otherwise unknown and one of these is the kore kosmou. the editio princeps of the anthology (bks. i and ii) was at antwerp in 1575. see scott, i, pp. 82 ff. 217 giordano bruno in england: the hermetic reform if we thus purge our habitations, o ye gods, if we thus renew our heaven, the constellations and influences shall be new, the impressions and fortunes shall be new, for all things depend on this upper world' these words are part of a speech made by jupiter in the spaccio to an assembly, or general council, of the celestial gods. the almighty thunderer feels that he grows old, and he is in a mood of penitence. casting his eye around the heavens he perceives that the imag

are either in the ugly forms of animals, like that great deformed bear, the ursa major, or like aries and taurus and other animal forms of the zodiac, or their images recall shameful actions of the gods, like the lyre which reminds of the thefts of mercury, or hercules and perseus, who are his own bastards. the assembled gods in their conclave are therefore to consider each in turn the images of the constellations, beginning with the bear and the other northern constellations, passing along the twelve signs of the zodiac, and concluding with a survey of the southern constellations.2 jupiter had perhaps provided each member of the celestial board with a copy of one of those illustrated editions of hyginus, which have cuts of the constellation images beside the letterpress describing their

eir shameful mythological associations (one of bruno's later mnemonic works is illustrated by cuts of the gods of the planets which are identical with those of an edition of hyginus published in 1578 in paris.)3 at any rate, the student of the spaccio will find it useful to have an illustrated hyginus beside him, for bruno has taken much of his mythology from that work, and it is to the images of the constellations, reviewed in their order, that he attaches the theme of his amazing work, which is about a universal religious and moral reform. as each constellation image is discussed, vices associated with it are deplored and the virtues opposite to these vices are praised. more than that, there is an active movement of ascent and descent going on; the vices are thrown out by the gods, cast

l, ital, pp. 595 ff. 3 hyginus, fabularum liber, paris, 1578. see below, p. 328. 218 giordano bruno in england: the hermetic reform is the sum of all the vices which are opposite to the virtues. this is stated by bruno in the dedication of the work to philip sidney "then the triumphant beast is driven out, that is the vices which predominate, and oppose the divine part (of the soul).1 the list of the constellations and of the virtues and vices he connects with them is given twice by bruno, first in the dedication to sidney, and again in the dialogues where the reform movement is described in detail as the gods work through the heavens. in the second dialogue, where he is discussing the triumphant virtues in the abstract, he is still following the order he has assigned to them in the conste

he dialogues where the reform movement is described in detail as the gods work through the heavens. in the second dialogue, where he is discussing the triumphant virtues in the abstract, he is still following the order he has assigned to them in the constellations. it has to be realised that he has absolutely clearly imprinted on his memory, after the manner of a magic memory system, the order of the constellation images, and on this the whole argument depends. the following are some examples of the virtue-vice movements, the ascent of virtues and descent of vices, which take place as the gods reform the heavens. to ursa major and minor there ascend truth, being, goodness, which drive out deformity, falsehood, and defect.2 in cephus, wisdom (sophia) replaces ignorance and foolish faith' na

39. 4 see above, pp. 28-31. 5 spaccio, dedication (dial, ital, pp. 561-2. 6 ibid (dial, ital, p. 560. see above, p. 217. 220 giordano bruno in england: the hermetic reform which is being formed in the spaccio, a personality whose powers are being formed into a successful whole. what kind of personality? that we can know by looking round the heavens and reading off the victorious good qualities in the constellations. it is a predominantly solar personality, for apollo is the patron of magic and divination, and this personality is the prophet and leader of a revival of magical religion. the triumph of good solar characteristics is witnessed in, for example, draco, where apollo with his magic charms the dragon,1 and in corvus in which magia divina triumphs over bad forms of magic.2 another mo

leader of a revival of magical religion. the triumph of good solar characteristics is witnessed in, for example, draco, where apollo with his magic charms the dragon,1 and in corvus in which magia divina triumphs over bad forms of magic.2 another most important influence in this character is that of jupiter. the jovial characteristics of benevolent law-giving and tolerance are seen to prevail in the constellations bootes,3 aquila,4 aries,5 libra,6 and others. there is also a strong venus influence, making for friendship and love, harmonising of discords, and the tempering of mars, or of forces making for war. venus triumphs in the pleiades7 and in gemini,8 and in dclphinus,9 she overcomes mars. good saturnian qualities, such as deep study and contemplation are preserved, for example in pe

r salvation is achieved in the cosmological setting, the "triumphant beast" of the sum of the vices, the bad influences coming from the stars, is cast out by their good opposites, and the divine virtues or powers predominate in the reformed personality. animal form or the form of the "beast" is used in a strangely ambivalent manner in the spaccio. sometimes the animal forms in the sky, that is in the constellation images in animal form, seem to represent the vices which are being expelled from the reformed personality. but when the gods are discussing capricorn, they allow this animal to remain in heaven to testify to the truth of the religion of natural magic which worships "the divine in things".2 elsewhere it is said that though the celestial images in animal form may seem to signify vi

al to remain in heaven to testify to the truth of the religion of natural magic which worships "the divine in things".2 elsewhere it is said that though the celestial images in animal form may seem to signify vices yet they are also not without divine virtue; hence the egyptians from the natural forms of beasts ascended to the penetration of the divinity.3 thus, though the animal forms of some of the constellation images signify vices contrary to the virtues which the reform proclaims, yet animal form itself as the representative of deus in rebus is vindicated by the celestial animal forms, and particularly by that of capricorn. the ethical reform drives the beast images out of heaven when those beasts are understood as allegories of vices. the religious reform maintains the beasts in heav

th his "egyptianism, the epicureanism of palingenius in the setting of the zodiac is suggestive. bruno's "egyptian" or hermetic reform is envisaged by him as having a close relevance to the times in which he lived. the spaccio contains a politico-religious message which is announced in the heavens, that is, in the discussions about the images of the forty-eight constellations and their reform. in the constellation bootes, in its reformed state, there rises the law. this law is based on what is useful for human society. it should protect the poor and weak, control tyrants, encourage arts, 1 ibid, pp. 83-4. 2 in book viii of the de immenso, bruno cites palingenius as one with whom he partially agrees and partially disagrees (op. lat, i (ii, pp. 292 ff. the passage explicitly about palingeniu

in his anti- catholic propaganda becomes quite understandable. the argument on law continues under the next two constellations, corona borealis and hercules. the crown is to be given to the prince who will crush the pernicious pedants who decry good works,1 and hercules, though his image is banished from heaven because it recalls jupiter's fault, will go down to earth to do new good works.2 when the constellation cassiopeia comes under review, before the other gods have had time to determine anything about her, mars jumps up and demands furiously that her image shall remain in the sky because her character so much resembles the spanish character (cassiopeia was punished by neptune for boasting of being fairer than the nereids) but her pride, arrogance, and falsehood are made to go down ou

ff. 3 ibid, dial. 2 (dial, ital, pp. 705 ff* ibid, dial. 3 (dial, ital, pp. 766 ff. 5 ibid (dial, ital, p. 771. 227 giordano bruno in england: the hermetic reform sects are to be healed by the return to the egyptian religion and the kind of moral law which bruno associates with it. yet this reform he envisages as remaining in some manner associated with the church, for the altar, discussed under the constellation of that name, is to remain in heaven with the centaur, half beast (in the egyptian sense of god) and half man beside it.1 the centaur is admired for having healed the sick and shown a way to mount up to the stars. he is to remain in heaven, for where there is an altar, there must be a priest for the altar. under the corona australis, apollo asks what is to be done with this crown

boundaries and coasts of others; for by no proposal of unstable counsels, by no hope of changeable fortune, by no occasion of external administrations or suffrages will he be induced, on a pretence of investing him with mantles and adorning him with crowns, to give up (otherwise than by force of necessity) the blessed care of tran- 1 ibid, dial. 3 (dial, ital, p. 825. cf. also what is said under the constellation centaur (ibid, pp. 823 ff. the centaur is christ, understood as a hermetic christ, or a benevolent magus. 228 giordano bruno in england: the hermetic reform quillity of spirit, for he is more liberal of his own goods than greedy for those of others. let others, therefore, make attempts on the vacant kingdom of portugal; let others be solicitous over the belgian dominion. why shou

cause they despise good works and preach the certitude of their faith and justification; for the whole of christianity tends to goodness of life (toute la chrestiente tend a bien vivre."1 this accords perfectly well with the teaching of the spaccio and its' document, p. 40. 230 giordano bruno in england: the hermetic reform condemnation of the "pedants" who despise good works, and in which, under the constellations fluvius eridanus and ara there are obscure remarks which evidently refer to the eucharist, or to some magical interpretation of it.1 mocenigo, in one of his reports about bruno to the venetian inquisitors in 1592, reports him as having said "that the church to-day does not proceed as the apostles used to proceed, for they converted men by their preaching and the example of a goo

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

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s an attempt by the hierarchs of fire, the lucifer spirits, to bring us the imprisoned spirit 'light' that by it we may see and know. catholicism is an activity of the hierarchs of water, and places '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 wate

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earliest worship of the woman and child was much simpler than was that which came to prevail in later ages, at a time when every religious conception was closely veiled beneath a mixture of astrology and mythology. after the planets came to be regarded as active agencies in reproduction, and powerful in directing all mundane affairs, the virgin of the sphere while she represented nature was also the constellation which appeared above the horizon at the winter solstice, or at the time when the sun had reached its lowest point and had begun to return. at this time, the 25th of december, and just as the days began to lengthen, this virgin gave birth to the sun-god. it is said that he issued forth from her side, hence the legend that gotama buddha was produced from the side of maya, and also

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ld us that d.d.c.f. approved of such groups, as also did s.a. and that indeed s.a. had once formed such a group himself.theobjects of the group were: to concentrate forces of growth, progress and purification, every sunday at noon, and the progress was rst, the formulation of the twelve workersnearbutnot in 36; and formulation round london; 3rd, formulation round the earth; 4th, formulation among the constellations.thengradually reverse the process, bringing the quintessenceofthe greater forces to the lesser.theprocess was to take about an hour."thegroup had disbanded by190iso it seems that annie horniman'sbanishing ceremony was to little avail,ifitever took place. florence also believed in propagating hermetic beliefs, and once she had assimilated the teachings of the second order (her tr

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northern hemisphere: four great stars at the corners of a trapezium, three stars for a belt to the hero, and three stars for his sword; three stars close together above suggest his head.thethree brightest stars are named rigel, betelgeux and bellatrix.thename arcturus occurs in job ix v. 9, where job says of god 'which maketh arcturus';butin the revised version the word becomes 'the bear, meaning the constellation ursa major.thehebrew word isashorayish.arcturus is the brightest star visible in our sky, it is in the constellation named bootes. in job xxxviii, 32, we read 'canst thou guide arcturus with his sons, but in the revised version we find 'canst thou guide the bear with her train [or her sons' in job xxxvi, 9, the hebrew word ayish is translated 'the north, so this may be a reason f

influencesofpleiades'.therevised version here adds, theclusteror thechainof the pleiades. in amos, also, v. 8 we read,'theseven stars, and in the revised version the words become'thepleiades'.thepleiades form a cluster of stars which are very easy of observation and they are recognised by many persons today.theyare found mentioned byaratusand by ptolemy, as seven notable stars; they are placed in the constellation taurus..ithas been suggested that the word was originally the greek wordpeleiades,the rock-pigeons, flying from orion the hunter.thereis an old tradition that the pleiades were originally seven' innumber,butthatone has been lost: thenumberis of course: indefinite and varies with the eyesight of the observer, some; persons can count fourteen "theoriginal hebrew word in the three v

when they saw the star they rejoiced' so they appear to have had two views of this star; one while they were in the east, before they started upon their journey, and a second appearance after leaving jerusalem which continued until it stopped over the place where jesus lay.thefamous astronomer kepler,1620,considered that this star must have been a view of the conjunction of jupiter and saturn in the constellation pisces, which occurred, it is calculated, in may,b.c.7; but professor pritchard remarks that a similar and even closer conjunction occurred 59 years earlier. the conjunction mentioned by kepler, however, was not a close one, for the two planets did not approach each other more closely than twice the diameter of the moon and so would not have looked likeonestar to any observer 'th

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preme god;and,the ram is also the symbol of thesun.and so, when the sun is rising at the vernal equinox in the sign of the ram, we have thelordon his own throne, so to speak, and that is one reason for what otherwise might be a very curious fact, that from that timetillnow the vernal equinox has been said to take place on the first: point of aries, a conventional sign. long ago the sun movedoutof the constellation, but still astronomers kept up an imaginary zodiac, an ecliptic with imaginary divisions, called after the old signs, and they stuck to the name of aries. i have no doubt any astronomer could give you a dozen reasons why. the occult reason why is, that thatsign-thesun on his own throne, symbolising the male principleslain..the lamb slain before the foundation of the .184 the sorc

e infernal serpent of darkness and of sensuality;thetree of eden and the tree of calvary, the tree of death andthetreeoflife'-thattree aspiring upwards asthetree of life towards the shakra or the zodiac,thegreatwheel of the divine law. this is the glyph as expounded both. in east and west. we need to gobuta very little bit further on.firstweget the fish. andatthetime of christ the sun passed outofthe constellation of aries at the vernal equinox, andintotheconstellation of pisces. and then we have the glyph ofthewe have thevescicapisces, we have the mitre.as the bishop'sthe esoteric teachingonthezodiac 187symbol-wehave endless glyphs. and there we pick up again the reminiscence of the last period of the kali yuga- the previous pisces' month,if!may use the expression- when the worshipofdagon

xact nature of the tatwic currents which belong to that plane to which it is polarised. the rules of the old astrologers and the characteristics which they affixed to [he star groups give us a267 great clue. i have not anything like time to go intoitnow;butanyonewho has the patience to followitout can easily do so, andifyou look at the direction of the earth's axis, look at the characteristics of the constellations round the pole star and the characteristics of the constellations round the celestial equator, you will see sorrow, suffering, tribulation, and trial, tbe characteristics of this material plane, and you will see many other things, all of which interpreted will give you a very exact account of the materialist man or woman, the dangers, the troubles, the sufferings that are in sto

l see sorrow, suffering, tribulation, and trial, tbe characteristics of this material plane, and you will see many other things, all of which interpreted will give you a very exact account of the materialist man or woman, the dangers, the troubles, the sufferings that are in store for them. on the other hand, look in precisely the same way at the pole of the ecliptic and at the signs of thezodiac,the constellations round that great belt, and you will see the influx of life, rest, peace, and happiness. so you get a key to the character of systems of worlds and of individuals according to the way in which they are respectively polarised.itisavery difficult conception to follow, and i fear i have not done very much towards elucidatingit;but i shall be very pleased to answer any question, and

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ncense or myrrh! a rose, representing m! a cup of wine, representing n! a lamp, representing o! bread and salt, representing l! the altar draped in black. it is also important to get an astrological figure of the position of the heavens at the time of consecration. however, the zodiacal wheel is also appropriate for the consecration of the lotus wand. to be more specific, an actual time figure of the constellations will aid the adept should he or she wish to chose to utilize this method. you may want to mark off your area of which you are going to do the consecration with some type of border line using masking tape or chalk and bordered with the symbols of the zodiac in its appropriate direction. have the lotus wand wrapped immediately following the end of the ceremony in white silk or lin

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tic to suppose that it had enjoyed widespread distribution only in the americas when there was so much evidence linking it to other parts of the ancient world? for example, archaeo-astronomers making use of the latest starmapping computer programmes had recently demonstrated that the three world-famous pyramids on egypt s giza plateau formed an exact terrestrial diagram of the three belt stars in the constellation of orion.14 nor was this the limit of the celestial map the ancient egyptian priests had created in the sands on the west bank of the nile. included in their overall vision, as we shall see in parts vi and vii, there was a natural 11 ibid, pp. 266-9. 12 the ancient kingdoms of mexico, p. 67. 13 mysteries of the mexican pyramids, p. 221. 14 the orion mystery. graham hancock finger

per (2) draw a circle around the dot, about half an inch away from it (3) enclose that circle in a second, larger, circle. the dot represents the sun. the smaller of the two concentric circles represents the earth s orbit. the larger circle represents the rim of the ecliptic. around the perimeter of this larger circle, therefore, you should now draw twelve boxes, spacing them evenly, to represent the constellations of the zodiac. since there are 360 in a circle, each constellation can be considered to occupy a space of 30 along the ecliptic. the dot is the sun. the inner of the two concentric circles is the earth s orbit. we know that the earth travels on this orbit in an anticlockwise direction, from the west towards the east, and that every twenty-four hours it also makes one complete ro

eassured by regular celestial motions such as these. it is equally easy to understand why the four cardinal points of the year the spring and autumn equinoxes, the winter and summer solstices should everywhere have been accorded immense significance. even greater significance was accorded to the conjunction of these cardinal points with the zodiacal constellations. but most significant of all was the constellation in which the sun was observed to rise on the morning of the spring (or vernal) equinox. because of the earth s axial precession, the ancients discovered that this constellation was not fixed or permanent for all time but that the honour of housing or carrying the sun on the day of the vernal equinox circulated very, very slowly among all the constellations of the zodiac. in the w

the morning of the spring (or vernal) equinox. because of the earth s axial precession, the ancients discovered that this constellation was not fixed or permanent for all time but that the honour of housing or carrying the sun on the day of the vernal equinox circulated very, very slowly among all the constellations of the zodiac. in the words of giorgio de santillana: the sun s position amongst the constellations at the vernal equinox was the pointer that indicated the hours of the precessional cycle very long hours indeed, the equinoctial sun occupying each zodiacal constellation for almost 2200 years.1 the direction of the earth s slow axial precession is clockwise (i.e, east to west) and thus in opposition to the direction of the planet s annual path around the sun. in relation to the

hrough all 12 houses of the zodiac, spending 2160 years in each sign and making a complete circuit in 25,920 years. the direction of this processional drift, in opposition to the annual path of the sun, is: leo. cancer. gemini. taurus. aries. pisces. aquarius. to give one example, the age of leo, i.e. the 2160 years during which the sun on the vernal equinox rose against the stellar background of the constellation of leo, lasted from 10,970 until 8810 bc. we live today in the astrological no man s land at the end of the age of pisces, on the threshold of the new age of aquarius. traditionally these times of transition between one age and the next have been regarded as ill-omened. that, in a nutshell, is the meaning of precession of the equinoxes. and that is exactly what is involved in the

n from one myth to another. thus, even though none of the familiar mills and whirlpools is in sight, we should perhaps sit up and pay attention when we learn that orion, the great hunter of greek myth, was the owner of a dog. when orion tried to ravish the virgin goddess artemis she produced a scorpion from the earth which killed him and the dog. orion was transported to the skies where he became the constellation that bears his name today; his dog was transformed into sirius, the dog star.38 precisely the same identification of sirius was made by the ancient egyptians,39 who linked the orion constellation specifically to their god osiris.40 it is in ancient egypt too that the character of the faithful celestial dog achieves its fullest and most explicit mythical elaboration in the form of

tion of sirius was made by the ancient egyptians,39 who linked the orion constellation specifically to their god osiris.40 it is in ancient egypt too that the character of the faithful celestial dog achieves its fullest and most explicit mythical elaboration in the form of upuaut, a jackal-headed deity whose name means opener of the ways .41 if we follow this way opener to egypt, turn our eyes to the constellation of orion, and enter the potent myth of osiris, we find ourselves enveloped in a net of familiar symbols. the reader will recall that the myth presents osiris as the victim of a plot. the conspirators initially dispose of him by sealing him in a box and casting him adrift on the waters of the nile. in this respect does he not resemble utnapishtim, and noah and coxcoxtli and all th

igned by mysterious hands to voyage eternally through time and space towards some as yet unidentified objective? from this altitude, though the southern sky was partially occluded by the vast bulk of the pyramid of khafre, i could see all the western sky as it arched down from the celestial north pole towards the distant rim of the revolving planet. polaris, the pole star, was far to my right, in the constellation of the little bear. low on the horizon, about ten degrees north of west, regulus, the paw-star of the imperial constellation of leo, was about to set. under egyptian skies just above the 150th course, ali hissed at us to keep our heads down. a police car had come into view around the north-western corner of the great pyramid and was now proceeding along the western flank of the m

est, the top 22 courses of khafre s pyramid, still clad with their original facing stones, seemed to float like an iceberg on the ocean of moonlight. knowing that we could not stay long in this bewitching place, i sat down and gazed around at the heavens. over to the west, across limitless desert sands, regulus had now set beneath the horizon, and the rest of the lion s body was poised to follow. the constellations of virgo and libra were also dropping lower in the sky and, much farther to the north, i could see the great and little bears slowly pacing out their eternal cycle around the celestial pole. i looked south-east across the nile valley and there was the crescent moon still spreading its spectral radiance from the bank of the milky way. 18 ibid, p. 87. 19 one is irritated by the nu

inches high, it was, i knew, more than 200 feet in length and emerged into open air at the pyramid s 103rd course of masonry. presumably by design rather than by accident, it pointed to the circumpolar regions of the northern heavens at an angle of 32 30. this, in the pyramid age around 2500 bc, would have meant that it was directed on the upper culmination of alpha draconis, a prominent star in the constellation of draco.23 much to my relief the japanese rapidly completed their tour of the king s chamber and left, stooping, without a backward glance. as soon as they had gone i crossed over to the other side of the room to take a look at the southern shaft. since i had last been here some months before, its appearance had changed horribly. its mouth now contained a massive electrical air

anachronisms and enigmas i looked around the grey-walled chamber of unas, up and down the long registers of hieroglyphs in which the pyramid texts were inscribed. they were written in a dead language. nevertheless, the constant affirmation, repeated over and over again in these ancient compositions, was that of life eternal life which was to be achieved through the pharaoh s rebirth as a star in the constellation of orion. as the reader will recall from chapter nineteen (where we compared egyptian beliefs with those of ancient mexico, there were several utterances which voiced this aspiration explicitly: oh king, you are this great star, the companion of orion, who traverses the sky with orion. you ascend from the east of the sky being renewed in your due season, and rejuvenated in your d

are on earth assemble for you, they place their hands under you, they make a ladder for you that you may ascend on it into the sky, the doors of the sky are thrown open to you, the doors of the starry firmament are thrown open for you.5 the ascending pharaoh was identified with, and frequently referred to, as an osiris. osiris himself, as we have seen, was frequently linked to and associated with the constellation of orion. osiris-orion was said to have been the first to have climbed the great ladder the gods had made. and several utterances left no doubt that this ladder had not extended upwards from earth to heaven but downwards from heaven to earth. it was described as a rope-ladder6 and the belief was that it had hung from an iron plate suspended in the sky.7 were we dealing here, i wo

n spends roughly 2160 years in each of the twelve zodiacal constellations. a full cycle of precession of the equinoxes therefore takes almost 26,000 years to complete (12 x 2160 years. it follows that one and a half cycles takes nearly 39,000 years (18 x 2160 years. in the time of herodotus the sun on the vernal equinox rose due east at dawn against the stellar background of aries at which moment the constellation of libra was in opposition, lying due west where the sun would set twelve hours later. if we wind the clock of precession back half a cycle, however six houses of the zodiac or approximately 13,000 years we find that the reverse configuration prevails: the vernal sun now rises due east in libra while aries lies due west in opposition. a further 13,000 years back, the situation re

h of egypt, whose name becometh sah [orion, whose leg is long, and his stride extended, the president of the land of the south. 20 osiris and the lords of eternity occasionally referred to in the texts as a neb tem, or universal master ,21 osiris is depicted as human but also superhuman, suffering but at the same time commanding. moreover, he expresses his essential dualism by ruling m heaven (as the constellation of orion) and on earth as a king among men. like viracocha in the andes and quetzalcoatl in central america, his ways are subtle and mysterious. like them, he is exceptionally tall and always depicted wearing the curved beard of divinity.22 and like them too, although he has supernatural powers at his reign, we have seven divine pharaohs up to and including thoth (i.e, ra, shu, g

driven out or killed. the myths say that quetzalcoatl and viracocha never came back (although, as we have seen, their return to the americas was expected at the time of the spanish conquest. osiris, on the other hand, did come back. although he was murdered by set soon after the completion of his worldwide mission to make men give up their savagery, he won eternal life through his resurrection in the constellation of orion as the allpowerful god of the dead. thereafter, judging souls and providing an immortal example of responsible and benevolent kingship, he dominated the religion (and the culture) of ancient egypt for the entire span of its known history. 30 ibid, p. 2. 31 ibid, 2-11. for quetzalcoatl and viracocha see parts ii and iii. interestingly enough, osiris was said to have been

heltering in caves, following a hunting-gathering way of life and so on and so forth. so its rather unsettling to discover that civilized people seem to have been present in giza in 10,450 bc, who understood the obscure science of precession extremely well, who had the technical capacity to work out that they were witnessing the lowest point in orion s precessional cycle and thus the beginning of the constellation s 13,000 year upwards journey and who set out to create a permanent memorial of that moment here on the plateau. by putting orion s belt on the ground in the way they did they knew that they were freezing a very specific moment in time. a perverse thought occurred to me: how can we be so sure that the moment that they were freezing was 10,450 bc? after all, orion s belt takes up

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and 29 in kalewala describe such a hunt with all its ceremonial. ostiaks in taking an oath kneel on a bearskin, in heathen sacrifices they covered the victim with a bearskin (p. 1010, and long afterwards they hung bearskins about them in the service of the devil (p. 1018. as the bear was king of all beasts, the terms applied to him of' old one' and' grandfather' suggest those of the thunder-god. the constellation of the great bear (p. 725) would of itself seem an evident trace of his worship even among the greeks. coming down from northern asia to the tribes of the caucasus, we again meet with the most remarkable coincidences. the tcherkesses (circassians) keep up a worship of the boar (p. 215, as did the ancient aestyi and germani. both tcherkesses and ossets glorify the same elias (p. 1

up of stai's with their myth of the wild hunt? i have lefc it doubtful on p. 727. we might, for one thing, see such a connexion in orion's as. name of hoar-throng (eoforj^ryng; and secondly add, that the three stars of his belt are called the distaff of fricka, who as' holda' heads the furious host, and looks after her spinsters just at the time of his appearing at christmas. can it be, that when the constellation takes name from fricka, her spindle is made prominent; and when wuotan or a giant-hero lends his name, the herd of hunted boars is emphasized? the greek fable unfolds itself yet more fully. orion is struck blind, and is led to new light by kedalion, a marvellous child who sits on his shoulders. might not we match this hliud giant with our headless wild huuter^ a feature that stri

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eathen antiquity had plenty of lore and legend. it is a very remarkable statement of jornandes cap. 11, that in sulla s time the goths under dicenaeus, exclusive of planets and signs of the zodiac, were acquainted with 344 stars that ran from east to west. how many could we quote now by their teutonic names? the vulgar opinion imagines the stars, related to each individual man as friend or foe. 1 the constellation that shone upon his birth takes him under its protection all his life through; this is called being born under a good or lucky star. from this guidance, this secret sympathy of dominant constellations, fate can be foretold. conversely, though hardly from native sources, it is said in the renner 10984 that every star has an angel who directs it to the place whither it should go. 1

. 2, 3. 724 sky and staes. each other, of equal size and brightness, perhaps the twins? this is another instance of the connexion we found between stars and eyes; and the toe translated to heaven is quite of a piece with the tongues and the correspondence of the parts of the body to the macrocosm, p. 568 (see suppl. the milky-way and its relation to irmin i have dealt with, pp. 356-8. amongst all the constellations in our sky, three stand pro minent to the popular eye: ursa major, orion and the pleiades. and all of them are still known by native names; to which i shall add those in use among the slavs, lithuanians and finns, who give them the same place of honour as we do. the great bear was doubtless known to our ancestors, even before their conversion, as ivaggon, wain; which name, unbor

henish irmin-street (p. 357 note, is handed over to the holy apostle, who now staff in hand, paces the same old heavenly path; in some parts peter s staff is preferred. the esthonians call orion warda iahlied, spear stars, from wardas spear, and perhaps staff, like st. james s staff. the lithuanians szenpjuwis, hay- star? from f szen foenum (nesselmann 515, as august is called szenpjutis; because the constellation rises at hay-harvest? perhaps also with reference to the three-mowers? for in the same way several slav nations have the name kosi scythes, boh. kosy (jungm. 2, 136, pol. kosij (linde 1092a, sloven, koszi (murko 142) mowers. other slavic names of orion are shtupka (bosn. bible, 3, 154, for which we ought to read shtapka, in vuk shtaka crutch, crosier, from our stabchen, carniol

is vouched for by glosses alone, is not to be relied on. thus i do not consider it proved as yet that the names plough and eburdrung really belong to orion. by plough the irish fairy-tales 2, 123 mean the wain rather than orion, and who knows but the throng of boars may really stand for the tase (from u) 2 and the lat. suculae (see suppl. still more unsafe and slippery is the attempt to identify the constellations of the east, founded as they are on such a different way of looking at the heavens. three are named in job 9, 9: ttfy ash, nd 3 kimeh ^d3 ksil; 3 which the septuagint renders tixetase, ecnrepos, dp/crovpos, the vulgate arcturus, orion, hyades/ and luther the wain, orion, the glucke (hen/ in job 38, 31 kimeh and ksil are given in the lxx as trxemse, fipicov, in vulg. as pleiades

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things as i shall demand of him, in the name of the father, son, and holy ghost. i entreat thee, setchiel, chedustaniel, and corael, by the whole host of heaven, seraphims, cherubims, thrones, dominations, virtues, powers, principalities, archangels and angels, by the great and giorious spirits orphaniel, tetra, pagiel, salmia, pastor, salun, azimor, and by your star which is jupiter, and by all the constellations of heaven, and by whatsoever you obey, and hy your character which you have given and proposed and confirmed, that you attend unto me according to the prayers and petitions which i have made unto almighty god, and that you forthwith send unto me one of your messengers who may willingly and truly and faithfully fulfil all my desires, wishes and commands, and that you the secret g

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s, ra, seth, shu, and thoth (see deities, themes, and concepts. these include most of the deities who make up the ennead of heliopolis, and it is often argued that the pyramid texts largely represent the theology of the solar temple at heliopolis. a stellar element was also important in the pyramid texts. the king was destined to join the imperishable stars, and the god osiris was identified with the constellation of orion and the goddess isis with the dog star, sirius.20 the cult of osiris is hardly known before the fifth dynasty, but he gradually became the most important funerary god. one thing the pyramid texts are not is a collection of narrative myths. they do contain numerous allusions to myths, many of which are difficult to interpret. some passages include what have been called my

certainly the great southern constellation known to the greeks as orion. the pyramid texts describe sah of the long stride as a stellar manifestation of osiris. as the lone star, sopdu-hor acted as the herald of the sun god morning and evening. various forms of horus were equated with other planets such as mars, jupiter, and saturn. it is possible that the planet mercury was associated with seth. the constellation we know as the great bear was interpreted by the egyptians as several deities guarding seth s bull form or its severed leg. this is one of the few recognizable parts of the star maps that decorate the ceilings of some royal tombs. the babylonian concept of the stars of the zodiac was introduced into egypt by the greeks. three decan stars were assigned to each zodiacal sign. nut c

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corded everything in his diary- the large, nervous, and often undecipherable, hieroglyplis telling their own story of growing frenzy and despair, and of entries scrawled blindly in the dark. he had to keep the house dark in order to see out of the window, and it appears that most of his time was spent at his desk, peering anxiously through the rain across the glistening miles of downtown roofs at the constellation of distant lights marking federal hill. now and then he would fumblingly make an entry in his diary, so that detached phrases such as "the lights must not go "it knows where i am "i must destroy it; and "it is calling to me, but perhaps it means no injury this time; are found scattered down two of the pages. then the lights went out all over the city. it happened at 2.12 a.m. acc

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est. in winter it would be in the east, but mostly if in the small hours of morning. midwinter evenings seemed least dreadful to him. only after two years did i connect this fear with anything in particular; but then i began to see that he must be looking at a special spot on the celestial vault whose position at different times corresponded to the direction of his glance-a spot roughly marked by the constellation corona borealis. we now had a studio in london, never separating, but never discussing the days when we had sought to plumb the mysteries of the unreal world. we were aged and weak from our drugs, dissipations, and nervous overstrain, and the thinning hair and beard of my friend had become snow-white. our freedom from long sleep was surprising, for seldom did we succumb more than

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ver forget that awakening. remember, gentlemen, that before that eon long sleep he had lived consciously for thousands of terrestrial years amidst the alien and horrible wonders of yaddith. there was a hideous gnawing of cold, a cessation of menacing dreams, and a glance through the eye-plates of the envelope. stars, clusters, nebulae, on every hand- and at last their outline bore some kinship to the constellations of earth that he knew "some day his descent into the solar system may be told. he saw kynath and yuggoth on the rim, passed close to neptune and glimpsed the hellish white fungi that spot it, learned an untellable secret from the close glimpsed mists of jupiter, and saw the horror on one of the satellites, and gazed at the cyclopean ruins that sprawl over mars' ruddy disc. when

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of the books of magic" or "seek the mysteries" or "travel through difficult territory" the egyptian word shta -ti may have been etymologically connected with certain forms of the name of set. by the time of the magical papyri the words meaning "belonging to set" or "of the secret place" had coalesced in the common tongue. the egyptians associated certain night sky features with set, particularly the constellation ursa major and the planet mercury. they called mercury sbq which simply means "the unknown" in the book of coming forth by day, the afterlife book of the osiris cult, there is an interesting confession of the good followers of osiris: i have come hither to see thy beauty, my hands raised in praise of thy true name. if i enter the secret seat, i speak with set. but if one veils hi

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ron. 9. charlemagne. 10. a babylonian gem. 11 and 12. early french (also babylonian. 13. middle french. 14. later french. 16. valois. 17. henry of navarre. 18. in england, thus. 19. bourbon. 20. egyptian sculptures: fleur-de-lis; asp. architerctural finials. 171 fig. 41. 21. finial: meaning the fleur-de-lis. 22. finial* the opinion of m. dupuis was (see his learned memoir concerning the origin of the constellations, that libra was formerly the sign of the vernal equinox, and aries of the nocturnal, autumnal equinox; that is, that since the origin of the actual astronomical system, the procession (precession) of the equinoxes had carried forward by seven signs the primitive order of the zodiac. now, estimating the procession (precession) at about 70 years to a degree, that is, 2115 years to

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

ions is short. pilots surviving crashes of whole squadrons have been silenced. when four british jets, all without collision, crashlanded at the same time in foggy flying weather, it was "explained" that all four ran out of fuel at one time. not so, they were "pushed" down. 118 your own reading for the past ten years will tell you of a number of unexplained disappearances and accidents to planes. the constellation over brazil. the dc-3 in lake michigan, apparently torn a part and its blankets, etc, shredded mysteriously. on august 2, 1947, the british south american airways plane, lancastrian star dust, mysteriously vanished on a flight over the andes. it would not have been so surprising if the craft had disappeared in the high peaks of the andes, but she was due to land at the airport at

leus experienced some tortuous changes in shape and structure, as such as we will note again in the great comets of 1881 and 1882. in the monthly notices of the royal astronomical society, there is detailed description of all of the six comets of 1880, and there is added the following: in addition to the six comets, an object was observed by mr. swift, of rochester, new york, on april 11, 1880 in the constellation ursa major (big dipper) in ra 11h 28m and declination 68, and supposed by him to be a faint comet. however, no motion was detected in one hour. it was not a nebula for it could not be found again after a period of bad weather. like harrison's object, this was farther north than usual for a comet and quite far from the sun. if a comet, it should have manifest motion in an hour. th

o tell the truth, lest he be led away to the "funny farm" or etc of the like. 155 the case is proved (b& jemi) in the summer of 1881, a routine announcement appeared in the form of a letter to the editor of the german astronomical publication, astronomishce nachrichten: while scanning the western sky on the evening of (may 22nd) with the unassisted eye, i detected a hazy-looking object just below the constellation columba, which, for my familiarity with that part of the heavens, i regarded as new. on examining it with a small marine telescope i found it half and five and one-half magnitude and the head of a comet and telegraphed (the news) to mr. ellery at melbourne this announcement was signed: john tebbutt, observatory windsor, n.s. wales, 1881, june18th. this seems to be an entirely nor

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of the tree of life there are both a god fs name and its according magical number (parpola 1998: 281.285. however, we can console ourselves that it was difficult to understand relationships between sumerian and akkadian gods already in their times. even in the most exact-to-be bilinguals, concepts about the beginning of the world among sumerians and akkadians differ (clifford 1998: 67. figure 4. the constellations of hydra and leo as depicted on an astrological tablet of the seleucid era, the eight-pointed star on the left is named dsag.me.gar. jupiter (vat 7847; bottom side. lion (leo) is depicted stepping forth. this plate has been described in depth by n. postgate, who brings out the division of zodiac into subzodiacs on this tablet, while these subzodiacs are connected to different to

e contains the names of celestial bodies and related gods with data concerning them. e.g. mulgal (g62, akkadian kakkabu rabu ebig star f, can mean the moon, the bright star sirius, jupiter, saturn, and in astrological texts also a meteor. the combination mulrab-bu (g367) is pronounced and translated similarly to the previous one, but it means jupiter, venus, or the not too conspicious star oph in the constellation of ophiuchus (gossmann 1950: 18, 183. eplanet f can be met in three forms: dudu.idim, muludu.idim or mulbi-ib-bu. udu.idim, akkadian bibbu in itself means ewild sheep f; while fixed stars are a peacefully pasturing flock, planets as gtraveling h stars are wild sheep or even beasts lurking for sheep (hommel 1909: 217. however, it seems we might have to abandon the classical widesp

ewolf f is ur.idim. figure 5. eplanet f (akkadian bibbu) in two forms: dudu.idim and mulbi-ib-bu. in cuneiform texts, wedge signs are usually not as clearly grouped and are often written downright carelessly. handwriting of the ancient scribes is sometimes a problem in assyriology. the above-mentioned dudu.idim could also mark jupiter, venus, and mercury, but sometimes also mars, saturn, or even the constellation of scales. although theoretically it is possible to collect all planet names and gods related to them, their reading and interpretation have changed quite a lot in time (kugler 1907: 293; gossmann 1950; borger 1981; rochberg 1998: 28.29. sometimes, instead of naming the sun, the moon, and venus, a number as a symbol of the corresponding god is 17 used together with the determinat

by brown (brown 2000: 65. some authors (borger 1981: 238,267) have proposed to read nig instead of gar and pa instead of sag3, preferring different possible phonetic values of the same signs. another frequent name of jupiter n beru, written mulne2-bi-ru (g144, g298, can mean jupiter in culmination or in other specific positions, but can also denote the north star( umi) and canopus( car, and even the constellation perseus or a meteor. another widespread designation of jupiter mul.ul.pa.e3.(a) elord of the bright dawn f (meaning jupiter in the east) shows a possibility to classify the names of jupiter by its place on the firmament. it may appear that mulsag.me.gar means ejupiter in culmination f while mulud.al.tar means ejupiter in the west f. d.ulpae refers to the god .ulpae (also .ulpa fe

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in complete anarchy, god sent the archangel michael down from heaven to confine the corrupt angels in the valleys of earth until doomsday. the giants that these angels had fathered were destroyed, but their evil spirits went on wreaking havoc until they were wiped out by the flood sent by god. according to hebrew myths, by robert graves, semyaza is now eternally residing in the sky in the form of the constellation orion, hanging between heaven and earth, with his head pointing downwards. see also fallen angels; nephilim for further reading: davidson, gustav. a dictionary of angels including the fallen angels. 1967. new york: free press, 1971. ronner, john. know your angels: the angel almanac with biographies of 100 prominent angels in legend and folklore, and much more. murfreesboro, tn:ma

so if placed under the same conditions. as an answer to god s challenge, shemhazi and azazel came down to earth to show that angels could do better. 252 sheol almost immediately, however, they were overcome by desire for an attractive woman, and begat horrible giants (later destroyed in the flood. shemhazi repented his sin, and hung himself upside down in the sky, where he remains to this day as the constellation orion. azazel, on the other hand, refused to repent, and remains on the earth to this day, encouraging women to wear jewelry and cosmetics as part of their efforts to lead mortal men into sin. see also nephilim; semyazi for further reading: davidson, gustav. a dictionary of angels including the fallen angels. new york: free press, 1967. ronner, john. know your angels: the angel a

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honeycomb of happiness, let us drink, let us drink! 13. it is the wine that tinges everything with the true tincture of infallible gold. 14. there are deep secrets in these songs. it is not enough to hear the bird; to enjoy song he must be the bird. 24 liber liberi vel lapidis lazuli 15. i am the bird, and thou art my song, o my glorious galloping god! 16. thou reinest in the stars; thou drivest the constellations seven abreast through the circus of nothingness. 17. thou gladiator god! 18. i play upon mine harp; thou fightest the beasts and the flames. 19. thou takest thy joy in the music, and i in the fighting. 20. thou and i are beloved of the emperor. 21. see! he has summoned us to the imperial dais. the night falls; it is a great orgy of worship and bliss. 22. the night falls like a s

LIBER LVII

he 11 letters, 5 a identical, and 6 diverse. thus it interlocks pentagram and hexagram. ah tyb, the house of he the pentagram; see idra zuta qadisha, 694 .for h formeth k, but j formeth dwy..77 both equal 20. 74 [marcelo motta took this number on declaring himself a master of the temple. t.s] 75 [the reference is to one of the golden dawn admission badges. t.s] 76 [co is also the hebrew names for the constellation of the great bear. t.s] 77 [comparing this with the mathers translation, this appears to be a loose paraphrase of von rosenroth.s glosses rather than a direct quote; the relevant paragraphs are 696 and 697. t.s] 50 liber lviii note 4+ 1+ 8= 13, the 4 reduced to 1 through 8, the redeeming force; and 418= j= 8. by aiq bkr, abrahadabra= 1+ 2+ 2+ 1+ 5+ 1+ 4+ 1+ 2+ 2+ 1= 22. also 418=

LIBER LXXVIII

ds to confusion; the princes may be called emperors without harm. remember only that the horsed figures refer to the yod of tetragrammaton, the charioted figures to the vau. a description of the cards of the taro 13 if ill dignified, he is evil-minded.cruel.bigoted.brutal. he rules the celestial heavens from above the twentieth degree of h to the first two decans of i: and this includes a part of the constellation hercules (hercules is always represented with a club) b of b king of the salamanders. vi the queen of the thrones of flame queen of wands a crowned queen with long red-golden hair, seated upon a throne, with steady flames beneath. she wears a corslet and buskins of scale-mail, which latter her robe discloses. her arms are almost bare. on cuirass and buskins are leopard's heads wi

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ed through the direction of rotation. certain forces of the most formidable character may be invoked by circumambulation widdershins when it is executed with intent towards them, and the initiated technique. of such forces typhon is the type and the war of the titans against the olympians the legend (teitan, titan, has in greek the numerical value of 666. h (for example, if invoking the powers of the constellation of the bear, associated with typhon-set in graco-egyptian magick, one might used widdershins motions, from the apparent motion of the stars about the pole star. as noted, while in section a. the entity invoked is hailed as gasar-un-nefer h, the opening of section c. is strikingly close to the beginning of an invocation of set-typhon in the leiden papyrus (the greek text of which

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nificant has ever appeared) was 1917: axel olrik, gyggdrasil, h danske studier 14 (1917: 49.62, used the confluence of oak tree and large stag to assign the provenance of yggdrasil to denmark or western norway. uno holmberg (harva, gvalhall och varldstradet, h finsk tidskrift for vitterhet, vetenskap, konst och politik 48 (1917: 349.377, thought that eikthyrnir was an icelandic invention based on the constellation ursa major. ein(d)ridi (lone-rider) thor name. the name is found in stanza 19 of the haustlong of thjodolf of hvin, one of the very earliest skalds, in the scene in thor fs duel with hrungnir in which the whetstone is lodged in the god fs head. elsewhere in this stanza einridi is called both earth fs son and odin fs son. it is also found in the vellekla of einar helga- deities, t

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in the tuat or underworld in the seeming form of apep (once he mastered this chaotic aspect) and man-god on earth. at kom ombo as well as other places set was called nubti and sutekh, although later identified with the god baal, whom the hyskos held as their highest god. set is called a mighty warrior who had his kingdom in the north, specifically in the northern sky where he dwelled in a star of the constellation of khepesh or the thigh. as typhon has long been associated with set the common traits of his nature are clear. consider the nature of typho as the greeks called him, his nature was of the beast and he corrupted the natural order, the course of nature. set was of this nature as well, an anti-nature in that his spirit was against the natural laws and went forth upon its own course

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the vernal equinox the vital essences of the earth--the blood of the bull- which, pouring from the wound made by the sun god, fertilize the seeds of living things. dogs were held sacred to the cult of mithras, being symbolic of sincerity and trustworthiness. the mithraics used the serpent a an emblem of ahriman, the spirit of evil, and water rats were held sacred to him. the bull is esoterically the constellation of taurus; the serpent, its opposite in the zodiac, scorpio; the sun, mithras, entering into the side of the bull, slays the celestial creature and nourishes the universe with its blood. click to enlarge the birth of mithras. from montfaucon's antiquities mithras was born out of a rock, which, breaking open, permitted him to emerge. this occurred in the darkness of a subterranean

soul of osiris "the sacred serpent" and "the retiring of the bull" the last appellation has reference to the ceremony of drowning the sacred apis in the waters of the nile every twenty-five years. click to enlarge the lion-faced light-power. from montfaucon's antiquities. this gnostic gem represents by its serpentine body the pathway of the sun and by its lion head the exaltation of the solar in the constellation of leo. click to enlarge a symbolic labyrinth. from montfaucon's antiquities. labyrinths and mazes were favored places of initiation among many ancient cults. remains of these mystic mazes have been found among the american indians, hindus, persians, egyptians, and greeks. some of these mazes are merely involved pathways lined with stones; others are literally miles of gloomy cav

ee "morals and dogma" by albert pike) p. 46 rose again, until at last osiris also tried. the moment he was in the chest typhon and his accomplices nailed the cover down and sealed the cracks with molten lead. they then cast the box into the nile, down which it floated to the sea. plutarch states that the date upon which this occurred was the seventeenth day of the month athyr, when the sun was in the constellation of scorpio. this is most significant, for the scorpion is the symbol of treachery. the time when osiris entered the chest was also the same season that noah entered the ark to escape from the deluge. plutarch further declares that the pans and satyrs (the nature spirits and elementals) first discovered that osiris had been murdered. these immediately raised an alarm, and from thi

ieces. the fourteenth part (the phallus) she reproduced in gold, for the original had fallen into the river nile and had been swallowed by a fish. typhon was later slain in battle by the son of osiris. some of the egyptians believed that the souls of the gods were taken to heaven, where they shone forth as stars. it was supposed that the soul of isis gleamed from the dog star, while typhon became the constellation of the bear. it is doubtful, however, whether this idea was ever generally accepted. among the egyptians, isis is often represented with a headdress consisting of the empty throne chair of her murdered husband, and this peculiar structure was accepted during certain dynasties as her hieroglyphic. the headdresses of the egyptians have great symbolic and emblematic importance, for

ts, placed in the form of a square. this signified that isis, or nature, the first matter (alchemical terminology, was the essence- of the four elements (life, light, heat, and force, which quintessence generated all things. numerous stars are represented on this girdle, thereby indicating their influence in darkness as well as the influence of the sun in light. isis is the virgin immortalized in the constellation of virgo, where the world mother is placed with the serpent under her feet and a crown. of stars on her head. in her arms she carries a sheaf of grain and sometimes the young sun god. the statue of isis was placed on a pedestal of dark stone ornamented with rams' heads. her feet trod upon a number of venomous reptiles. this indicates that nature has power to free from acidity or

t "all the gods of antiquity resolved themselves into the solar fire, sometimes itself as god, or sometimes an emblem or shekinah of that higher principle, known by the name of the creative being or god" the egyptian priests in many of their ceremonies wore the skins of lions, which were symbols of the solar orb, owing to the fact that the sun is exalted, dignified, and most fortunately placed in the constellation of leo, which he rules and which was at one time the keystone of the celestial arch. again, hercules is the solar deity, for as this mighty hunter performed his twelve labors, so the sun, in traversing the twelve houses of the zodiacal band, performs during his pilgrimage twelve essential and benevolent labors for the human race and for nature in general, hercules, like the egypt

e horizon at the moment at which we fix the birth of our lord jesus christ. among certain of the arabian and persian astronomers the three stars forming the sword belt of orion were called the magi who came to pay homage to the young sun god. the author of mankind--their origin and destiny contributes the following additional information "in cancer, which had risen to the meridian at midnight, is the constellation of the stable and of the ass. the ancients called it pr sepe jovis. in the north the stars of the bear are seen, called by the arabians martha and mary, and also the coffin of lazarus "thus the esotericism of pagandom was embodied in christianity, although its keys are lost. the christian church blindly follows ancient customs, and when asked for a reason gives superficial and un

f the zodiac into twelve sections, each being sixteen degrees in width and thirty degrees in length. these divisions were called the houses of the zodiac. the sun during its annual pilgrimage passed through each of these in turn, imaginary creatures were traced in the star groups bounded by these rectangles; and because most of them were animal--or part animal--in form, they later became known as the constellations, or signs, of the zodiac. there is a popular theory concerning the origin of the zodiacal creatures to the effect that they were products of the imagination of shepherds, who, watching their flocks at night, occupied their minds by tracing the forms of animals and birds in the heavens. this theory is untenable, unless the "shepherds" be regarded as the shepherd priests of antiqu

egyptians, and persians. therefore these six months symbolic of the 6,000 years of misery and suffering caused by the evil genius of the persians, ahriman, who sought to overthrow the power of ahura-mazda. those who hold the opinion that before its revision by the greeks the zodiac consisted of only ten signs adduce evidence to show that libra (the scales) was inserted into the zodiac by dividing the constellation of virgo scorpio (at that time one sign) into two parts, thus establishing "the balance" at the point of equilibrium between the ascending northern and the descending southern signs (see the rosicrucians, their rites and mysteries, by hargrave jennings) on this subject isaac myer states "we think that the zodiacal constellations were first ten and represented an immense androgeni

figures) this retrograde motion is called the precession of the equinoxes. this means that in the course of about 25,920 years, which constitute one great solar or platonic year, each one of the twelve constellations occupies a position at the vernal equinox for nearly 2,160 years, then gives place to the previous sign. among the ancients the sun was always symbolized by the figure and nature of the constellation through which it passed at the vernal equinox. for nearly the past 2,000 years the sun has crossed the equator at the vernal equinox in the constellation of pisces (the two fishes. for the 2,160 years before that it crossed through the constellation of aries (the ram. prior to that the vernal equinox was in the sign of taurus (the bull. it is probable that the form of the bull an

to the time at which the sun reached the segment of the heavens named taurus. albert pike describes the reverence which the persians felt for this sign and the method of astrological symbolism in vogue among them, thus "in zoroaster's cave of initiation, the sun and planets were represented, overhead, in gems and gold, as was also the zodiac. the sun appeared, emerging from the back of taurus" in the constellation of the bull are also to be found the "seven sisters--the sacred pleiades--famous to freemasonry as the seven stars at the upper end of the sacred ladder. in ancient egypt it was during this period--when the vernal equinox was in the sign of taurus--that the bull, apis, was sacred to the sun god, who was worshiped through the animal equivalent of the celestial sign which he had im

letters of the hebrew alphabet were derived from groups of stars, and that the starry handwriting on the wall of the heavens referred to words spelt out, with fixed stars for consonants, and the planets, or luminaries, for vowels. these, coming into ever-different combinations, spelt words which, when properly read, foretold future events. as the zodiacal band marks the pathway of the sun through the constellations, it results in the phenomena of the seasons. the ancient systems of measuring the year were based upon the equinoxes and the solstices. the year always began with the vernal equinox, celebrated march 21 with rejoicing to mark the moment when the sun crossed the equator northward up the zodiacal arc. the summer solstice was celebrated when the sun reached its most northerly posit

on at the winter solstice, december 21. four of the signs of the zodiac have been permanently dedicated to the equinoxes and the solstices; and, while the signs no longer correspond with the ancient constellations to which they were assigned, and from which they secured their names, they are accepted by modern astronomers as a basis of calculation. the vernal equinox is therefore said to occur in the constellation of aries (the ram. it is fitting that of all beasts a ram should be placed at the head of the heavenly flock forming the zodiacal band. centuries before the christian era, the pagans revered this constellation. godfrey higgins states "this constellation was called the 'lamb of god' he was also called the 'savior' and was said to save mankind from their sins. he was always honored

am, although, due to the existing discrepancy between the signs of the zodiac and the actual star groups, it actually rises in the sign of pisces. the summer solstice is regarded as occurring in cancer (the crab, which the egyptians called the scarab--a beetle of the family lamellicornes, the head of the insect kingdom, and sacred to the egyptians as the symbol of eternal life. it is evident that the constellation of the crab is represented by this peculiar creature because the sun, after passing through this house, proceeds to walk backwards, or descend the zodiacal arc. cancer is the symbol of generation, for it is the house of the moon, the great mother of all things and the patroness of the life forces of nature. diana, the moon goddess of the greeks, is called the mother of the world

ty of spontaneously detaching from its own body any limb that has been hurt or mutilated, and reproducing another in its place (the symbolical language of ancient art and mythology) this water sign, being symbolic of the maternal principle of nature, and recognized by the pagans as the origin of all life, was a natural and consistent domicile of the moon. 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

rom 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 stars, and the spirit from god. all that the intellect can conceive of comes from the stars [the spirits of the stars, rather than the material constellations" the constellation of capricorn, in which the winter solstice theoretically takes place, was called the house of death, for in winter all life in the northern hemisphere is at its lowest ebb. capricorn is a composite creature, with the head and upper body of a goat and the tail of a fish. in this constellation the sun is least powerful click to enlarge the microcosm. from schotus' margarita philoso

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

them, and they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants. and azazel [azael] taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals [of the earth] and the art of working them. semjaza taught enchantments, and root cuttings, arma-ros the resolving of enchantments, baraqijel astrology, kokabel the constellations, ezeqeel the knowledge of the clouds [weather lore, araqiel the signs of the earth [husbandry, shamsiel the signs of the sun, sariel the course of the moon) according to that collection of ancient cabalistic lore, the zohar, great azael and his cohorts had had to assume tangible bodies in order to descend upon the earth. because of their revolt against higher authority and the t

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rrive at the effect and end which thou desirest to attain. book one page 13 chapter ii of the days, and hours, and of the virtues of the planets when thou wishest to make any experiment or operation, thou must first prepare, beforehand, all the requisites, such as candles and incense, which thou wilt find described in the following chapters: observing the days, the hours, and the other effects of the constellations which may be found in this chapter. it is, therefore, advisable to know that the hours of the day and of the night together, are twenty-four in number, and that each hour is governed by one of the seven planets in regular order, commencing at the highest and descending to the lowest. the order of the planets is as follows: shbthai, shabbathai, saturn; beneath saturn is tzdq, tze

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im samael, madiel& mael. therefore these genijs that are under these signs& are governed by gabriel are to be observed on mondays, towards the north at the 1st& 8th. hours of the day& at night at the 3rd& 10th. hours. they appear like kings having green& silver robes or like little children or women delighting in hunting. so in the next place, we are to observe the season of the year according to the constellations of the celestial bodies, otherwise we shall loose our labor, for if a genijs be of the igneal hierarchy its in vain to observe him in any other season but when the enters these signs which is of his nature, that is. so if it be a genij of the earth, he is to be observed when the enters& so the like in the rest. otherwise thus: those genijs that are of the order of fire are to be

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decay, and enlightenment. many modern assassinations are committed at important sites on the earth grid, sothat they constitute a ritual slaying (see jack the ripper crimes, as well as the execu-tions of john fitzgerald kennedy and lady diana spencer. lady spencer was murdered in ritual fashion, exactly on the same day that the ripperclaimed his first victim, august 31. this is also the day when the constellation of the vir-gin (virgo) descends below the horizon into the underworld. virgo is connected with illus-trious females and mothers. the ripper murders were committed at the behest of themasonic lodges of england. author stephen knight, who exposed the names behind it, aswell as the reason for the atrocities, died two years after his book, the brotherhood, cameout. his death has neve

ture of our nations capitol by david ovasonthis amazing study reveals once and for all that esoteric astrology played a major role in the foundingof the united states, and that the personages behind this were attempting to make ritual sites of theamerican cities, as had been done centuries previous. each u.s. city is connected in some way to a star,as are all the edifices in washington, d.c.siriusthe constellation of canis major, the greater dog, would have risen over jenkins heights, where thenorth wing of the capitol was almost completed. dominating this part of the skies would be the scorch-ing dog star, sirius, a brilliant white and yellow star (p. 4)the extraordinary truth is that the very existence of the washington monument is intimately linked withthe egyptian star sirius, the siho

proponent of this chilling, racial evolutionary theory was notdarwin but herbert spencer, whose ideas were based on race. spencer was more explicit than darwin inhis conclusion. only one race was capable of ascending to the highest levels of the evolutionary spiral.the others would be left behind (p. 39)ultima thuletule or tula, is the name of the central sun, or galactic center. to the right of the constellation oforion and near sirius. ophiuchus, the serpent bearer, is the nearest constellation (see p.58)thule is the same as hyperborea, that the greeks knew as the heavens, not the north pole. the blue degrees or blue starnamed after the compacted clusters of stars and galaxies of galactic center.osirisplutarch suggested this comes from os, meaning many and iri, meaning eyes. osiris was

nd several times in 1909 (see p. 65.)tuatin egyptian means the underworld. interestingly the celtic tribe tuatha de danaan, did retreat into thesidhe, the portals to the underworld.hathorthe cow goddess. the word galaxy meant mothers milk and refers to the milky way in particular.hathor was therefore connected with the milky way.the beehiveoften used as a cryptic representation of the pleiades in the constellation of taurus. in latin, bee isapis, which also means bull.tiamatcalled rahab in the bible, rahab the seat of babylon.psalm 89:10-11 thou hast broken rahab to piecesjob 26:12-13 by his wisdom he hath cut rahab to pieces (see p. 90.)merthe hebrews called the planet tiamat, or mot, or rahab, by the name of mer. those from this planetwere the original mer-men, half-man, half-fish, or re

of the world. astro-theology, the parentsubject of common astrology and astronomy, exposes the occult roots of religion, government and bigbusiness. knowledge of these roots will empower, inform and clarify your perception of the seem-ingly complex dynamics of the world (includes 600+ digital slides).what connection do the symbols of government, religion, royalty and the corporate world have with the constellations and the zodiac? who was jesus christ? was he the founder of christianity? what has the church been concealing for 2,ooo years? what are the gospels, and why were there 12 disciples? who are the serpents of wisdom and why is the serpent symbol so feared and revered? what do the symbols on flags, heraldry and money mean? who are the biblical magi? why has the role of women been re

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its details symbolic. the universe itself supplied man with the model for the first temples reared to the divinity. the arrangement of the temple of solomon, the symbolic ornaments which formed its chief decorations, and the dress of the high-priest, all had reference to the order of the universe, as then understood. the temple contained many emblems of the seasons-the sun, the moon, the planets, the constellations ursa major and minor, the zodiac, the elements, and the other parts of the world. it is the master of this lodge, of the universe, hermes, of whom khurum is the representative, that is one of the lights of the lodge. for further instruction as to the symbolism of the heavenly bodies, and of the sacred numbers, and of the temple and its details, you must wait patiently until you

bing the cause than in limiting the effect, the man of thought and contemplation falls into unfathomable ecstacies in view of all the decompositions of forces resulting in unity. all works for all. destruction is not annihilation, but regeneration. algebra applies to the clouds; the radiance of the star benefits the rose; no thinker would dare to say that the perfume of the hawthorn is useless to the constellations. who, then, can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand? who, then, understands the reciprocal flow and ebb of the infinitely great and the infinitely small; the echoing of causes in the abysses of beginning, and the avalanches of creation? a fleshworm is of account; the small is great; the

g that is good, if we resolve to make it so; and with equanimity and patience may shelter ourselves from its inclement pitiless pelting. if it develop our patience, and give occasion for heroic endurance, it hath done us good enough to recompense us sufficiently for all the temporal affliction; for so a wise man shall overrule his stars; and have a greater influence upon his own content, than all the constellations and planets of the firmament. compare not thy condition with the few above thee, but to secure thy content, look upon those thousands with whom thou wouldst not, for any interest, change thy fortune and condition. a soldier must not think himself unprosperous, if he be not successful as alexander or wellington; nor any man deem himself unfortunate that he hath not the wealth of

a with the chaldaic, syriac, and egyptian oriental philosophy. the secret pythagorean doctrines of numbers were preserved by the monks of thibet, by the hierophants of egypt and eleusis, at jerusalem, and in the circular chapters of the druids; and they are especially consecrated in that mysterious book, the apocalypse of saint john. all temples were surrounded by pillars, recording the number of the constellations, the signs of the zodiac, or the cycles of the planets; and each one was a microcosm or symbol of the universe, having for roof or ceiling the starred vault of heaven. all temples were originally open at the top, having for roof the sky. twelve pillars described the belt of the zodiac. whatever the number of the pillars, they were mystical everywhere. at abury, the druidic templ

fullness or _plenitude[[greek? a] of the divine emanations. with the ophites, a sect of the gnostics, there were seven inferior spirits [inferior to ialdabaoth, the demiourgos or actual creator _micha l, suri l, rapha l, gabriel, thauthabaoth, erataoth, and _athaniel, the genii of the stars called the bull, the dog, the lion, the bear, the serpent, the eagle, and the ass that formerly figured in the constellation cancer, and symbolized respectively by those animals; as _ialdabaoth, iao, adona, elo, ora, and _astapha_ were the genii of saturn, the moon, the sun, jupiter, venus, and mercury. the word appears in all these creeds. it is the _ormuzd_ of zoroaster, the _ainsoph_ of the kabalah, the _nous_ of platonism and philonism, and the _sophia_ or _demiourgos_ of the gnostics. and all thes

e, and fire flashing from his mouth. horus, who aided in slaying him, became the god of the sun, answering to the grecian apollo; and typhon is but the anagram of python, the great serpent slain by apollo. the word typhon, like eve, signifies _a serpent, and _life.[2] by its form the serpent symbolizes life, which circulates through all nature. when, toward the end of autumn, the woman (virgo, in the constellations seems (upon the chald an sphere) to crush with her heel the head of the serpent, this figure foretells the coming of winter, during which life seems to retire from all beings, and no longer to circulate through nature. this is why typhon signifies also a serpent, the symbol of winter, which, in the catholic temples, is represented surrounding the terrestrial globe, which surmoun

er of the gods. an image was borne there, representing the corpse of a young man, over whose tomb tears were shed, and to whom funeral honors were paid. at samothrace, in the mysteries of the cabiri or great gods, a representation was given of the death of one of them. this name was given to the sun, because the ancient astronomers gave the name of gods cabiri and of samothrace to the two gods in the constellation gemini; whom others term apollo and hercules, two names of the sun. athenion says that the young cabirus so slain was the same as the dionusos or bakchos of the greeks. the pelasgi, ancient inhabitants of greece, and who settled samothrace, celebrated these mysteries, whose origin is unknown: and they worshipped castor and pollux as patrons of navigation. the tomb of apollo was a

n with the model of the first temple reared to the divinity. the arrangement of the temple of solomon, the symbolic ornaments which formed its chief decorations, and the dress of the high priest--all, as clemens of alexandria, josephus and philo state, had reference to the order of the world. clemens informs us that the temple contained many emblems of the seasons, the sun, the moon, the planets, the constellations ursa major and minor, the zodiac, the elements, and the other parts of the world. josephus, in his description of the high priest's vestments, protesting against the charge of impiety brought against the hebrews by other nations, for contemning the heathen divinities, declares it false, because, in the construction of the tabernacle, in the vestments of the sacrificers, and in t

learned bishop of alexandria, and philo, adopt all these explanations. hermes calls the zodiac, the grent tent--tabernaculum. in the royal arch degree of the american rite, the tabernacle has four veils, of different colors, to each of which belongs a banner. the colors of the four are white, blue, crimson, and purple, and the banners bear the images of the bull, the lion, the man, and the eagle, the constellations answering 2500 years before our era to the equinoctial and solstitial points: to which belong four stars, aldebaran, regulus, fomalhaut, and antares. at each of these veils there are three words: and to each division of the zodiac, belonging to each of these stars, are three signs. the four signs, taurus, leo, scorpio, and aquarius, were termed the _fixed_ signs, and are appropr

above the world. it enters into this dark matter, wherein the hostile principles, each seconded by his troops of genii, are ever in conflict, there to submit to one or more organizations in the body which is its prison, until it shall at last return to its place of origin, its true native country, from which during this life it is an exile. but one thing remained--to represent its return, through the constellations and planetary spheres, to its original home. the celestial fire, the philosophers said, soul of the world and of fire, an universal principle, circulating above the heavens, in a region infinitely pure and wholly luminous, itself pure, simple, and unmixed, is above the world by its specific lightness. if any part of it (say a human soul) descends, it acts against its nature in d

senting the candidate a crown, supported by a sword. it was placed near his head, and he repelled it, saying "mithras is my crown" then he was declared the soldier of mithras, and had the right to call the other initiates fellow-soldiers or companions in arms. hence the title _companions_ in the royal arch degree of the american rite. then he passed, porphyry says, through the degree of the lion--the constellation leo, domicile of the sun and symbol of mithras, found on his monuments. these ceremonies were termed at rome leontic and heliac; and _coratia_ or _hiero-coracia, of the raven, a bird consecrated to the sun, and a sign placed in the heavens below the lion, with the hydra, and also appearing on the mithriac monuments. thence he passed to a higher degree, where the initiates were ca

s cabiri as samothrace had. for the worship of the cabiri spread from that island into etruria, phrygia, and asia minor: and it probably came from ph nicia into samothrace: for the cabiri are mentioned by sanchoniathon; and the word _cabar_ belongs to the hebrew, ph nician, and arabic languages. the dioscuri, tutelary deities of navigation, with venus, were invoked in the mysteries of samothrace. the constellation auriga, or pha ton, was also honored there with imposing ceremonies. upon the argonautic expedition, orpheus, an initiate of these mysteries, a storm arising, counselled his companions to put into samothrace. they did so, the storm ceased, and they were initiated into the mysteries there, and sailed again with the assurance of a fortunate voyage, under the auspices of the dioscur

at death conducts him to the tribunal of the great judge. these genii are the media of communication between man and the gods; and the soul is ever in their presence. this doctrine is taught in the oracles of zoroaster: and these genii were the intelligences that resided in the planets. thus the secret science and mysterious emblems of initiation were connected with the heavens, the spheres, and the constellations: and this connection must be studied by whomsoever would understand the ancient mind, and be enabled to interpret the allegories, and explore the meaning of the symbols, in which the old sages endeavored to delineate the ideas that struggled within them for utterance, and could be but insufficiently and inadequately expressed by language, whose words are images of those things a

al point on the equator. the explanation of his anticipating that point belongs to the science of astronomy; and to that we refer you for it. the consequence is, what is termed the precession of the equinoxes, by means of which the sun is constantly changing his place in the zodiac, at each vernal equinox; so that now, the signs retaining the names which they had 300 years before christ, they and the constellations do not correspond; the sun being now in the constellation pisces, when he is in the sign aries. the annual amount of precession is 50 seconds and a little over [50" 1. the period of a complete revolution of the equinoxes, 25,856 years. the precession amounts to 30 or a sign, in 2155.6 years. so that, as the sun now enters pisces at the vernal equinox, he entered aries at that pe

gn aries. the annual amount of precession is 50 seconds and a little over [50" 1. the period of a complete revolution of the equinoxes, 25,856 years. the precession amounts to 30 or a sign, in 2155.6 years. so that, as the sun now enters pisces at the vernal equinox, he entered aries at that period, 300 years b.c, and taurus 2455 b.c. and the division of the ecliptic, now _called_ taurus, lies in the constellation aries; while the _sign_ gemini is in the _constellation_ taurus. four thousand six hundred and ten years before christ, the sun entered gemini at the vernal equinox. at the two periods, 2455 and 300 years before christ, and now, the entrances of the sun at the equinoxes and solstices into the signs, were and are as follows _b.c_ 2455. vern. equinox, he entered taurus from aries

oment at the individual stars which composed and were near to the respective constellations, we may find something that will connect itself with the symbols of the ancient mysteries and of masonry. it is to be noticed that when the sun is _in_ a particular constellation, no part of that constellation will be seen, except just before sunrise and just after sunset; and then only the edge of it: but the constellations _opposite_ to it will be visible. when the sun is in taurus, for example, that is, when taurus _sets with_ the sun, scorpio rises as he sets, and continues visible throughout the night. and if taurus rises and sets with the sun to-day, he will, six months hence, rise at sunset and set at sunrise; for the stars thus gain on the sun two hours a month. going back to the time when

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se family. whether true or not, it is certain that these magnificent dwellings were built by masons who lived in the censive district of the temple+ according to macrobe, the wolf represents the initiate, he who has received the light, because of the kinship the ancients felt existed between the wolf and the sun "in fact" they said "the flocks flee and disappear when the wolf approaches just like the constellations, flocks of stars, disappear before the light of the sun (cavel, histoire pittoresque de la franc macnneire, 361) 134 the origins of freemasonry from ancient times to the middle ages could easily find work with the numerous master masons residing in that quarter, notably on rue de la mortellerie (later the rue de l'hotel de ville, which earned its name from the many mortar-maker

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ou shall know them and their accursedness shall stain the earth. of ye times and ye seasons to be observed whenever thou would'st call forth those from outside, thou must mark well the seasons and times in which the spheres do intersect and the influences flow from the void thou must observe the cycle of the moon, the movements of the planets, the sun's course through the zodiac and the rising of the constellations. ye ultimate rites shall be performed only in the seasons proper to them, these be: at candlemas (on the second day of the second month, at beltane (on the eve of may, at lammas (on the first day of the eighth month, at roodmas (on the fourteenth day of the ninth month, and at hallowmas (on november eve. call out to dread azathoth when the sun is in the sign of the ram, the lion

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

n she learned of this and banished callisto, even though she had tried to resist zeus advances. shortly afterward, when callisto gave birth to a son, arco, zeus jealous wife, hera (juno, turned her into a bear and callisto fled. arco was rescued and 15 years later pursued and caught his mother during a hunt. to prevent him from killing her, zeus whisked them both up into the sky where they became the constellations of the great bear and arctophylax, or guardian of the bear. artemis and actaeon 37 sacred grotto artemis is seen bathing in her secret cave at the heart of the valley of gargaphie near thebes. she carved the arches from the living rock, and made the pool from a spring of pure water. daughter of the river artemis is attended by the nymph crocale whose father was ismenus, god of t

cheiron archery, medicine, and music; he, in turn, tutored apollo s son asclepius, as well as the hero jason and his own great-grandson achilles (see pp. 52 53 and p. 63. cheiron was an immortal, but ceded his immortality to prometheus (see pp. 24 25) to escape an eternity of pain after heracles accidentally wounded him (see p. 51. zeus granted him the lesser immortality of the skies, where he is the constellation centaurus. king midas 40 a vain boast the god pan, playing his pipes to a group of impressionable nymphs on mount tmolus, boasted that his music was better than that of the god of music, apollo. apollo challenged him to a contest, with the mountain god as judge. king midas midas, king of phrygia, was unlucky in his dealings with the gods. doomed (at his own request) in his early

out upon the adventurous life of a hero. hercules serpent serpent the labors of hercules 51 guardian serpent ladon, the terrifying serpent that guarded the apples, had 100 heads (although they are not shown here) each of which spoke a different language. like the sphinx (see p. 48, he was a child of the monsters typhon and echidna. when he was killed, the grief-stricken hera set him in the sky as the constellation draco. sleeping hesperides sources vary as to whether there were three or four hesperides. those shown on the left are aigle, erytheia, and hesperia. so peaceful here, the theft of the apples caused them unspeakable sorrow. in one story, nereus (or prometheus) advised hercules to trick atlas, who supported the sky, into fetching the golden apples. while he was away hercules held

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nanimate, vegetative, living, or speaking beings, including the climates, which affect the economies, as stated before. furthermore, they are the source of the compositions of the four foundations of fire, vapor, water and earth, from spiritual compositions to physical compositions. 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

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

hout acknowledgement, but in this instance that does not mean very much. some abstruse teaching relative to the tarot and other germane matters is scat10 the golden dawn tered through several of these order documents. one matter which i have never seen taken up by astrological writers is that concerning starting the zodiac with the star regulus in leo. the teaching emphasizes that were this done, the constellations and the signs would coincide "within the zodiac" wrote louis macniece in his book astrology "there are twelve constellations. these bear the same names as the twelve signs used by the astrologers, but astrologically they have nothing to do with the case. if you are told that the sun was in that particular sign when you were born between march 31 and april 30-this does not mean t

years to come full circle. the signs that most modem astrologers deal with are 12 exactly equal sections of the total circle of the zodiac. each section measures 30" and it makes no difference what fixed stars are contained in it "this disconcerting fact provides ready ammunition for opponents of astrology as all students of the subject know, due to the precession of the equinoxes, the signs and the constellations are now separated by as much as a whole sign. this has led to two distinct schools in astrology, the tropical and the sidereal. the adoption of the order recommendation, could lead to some closing of the distance between these two approaches. one of the things that slightly puzzles me occasionally is the frequency with which the almost wholly untutored beginner invariably select

mbol of the ace of wands, but not so heavy, and also the sigil of his scale is shewn. beneath the rushing feet of his steed are waving flames of fire. he is active, generous, fierce, sudden and impetuous. if ill-digrufied he is evilminded, cruel, bigoted, brutal. he rules the celestial heavens from above the 20th degree of scorpio to the first two decans of sagittarius and this includes a part of the constellation hercule (who also carries a club. fire of fire. king of the salamanders. vi. queen of the thrones of flame. queen of wands a crowned queen with long red-golden hair, seated upon a throne, with steady flames beneath. she wears a corselet and buskins of scale mail, which latter her robe discloses. her arms are almost bare. on cuirass and buskins are leopards' heads winged. the same

the north pole of our earth now points. another very important difference is that, throughout the true tarot, the teaching assigns the commencing point of the zodiac to the bright star "regulus" which is in leo. and it measures right ascension and longitude from that point, and not from a suppositious point divided by the equinox and called the 0" of aries (though in reality now far removed from the constellation of that name, which has been adopted by modern or western astronomy and astrology. by this now usual way of reckoning, and the precession of the equinoxes, it has gradually come to pass that the signs (or divisions, each of 30, of the zodiac) no longer coincide with the constellations of the same name, and each decade of years shows them slowly but surely receding. but the tarot

his now usual way of reckoning, and the precession of the equinoxes, it has gradually come to pass that the signs (or divisions, each of 30, of the zodiac) no longer coincide with the constellations of the same name, and each decade of years shows them slowly but surely receding. but the tarot method of reckoning from the star named regulus has, it will be seen, the effect of making the signs and the constellations coincide "regulus" is also named cor leonis "the heart of the lion "regulus" means "star of the prince."l'regulus"coincides with the position of the "heart" in the figure of leo upon the star maps <219 (note: the principia or fundamental ideas of this astronomical view of the tarot may be found, as least in its essential form, in the astronomical writings of claudius ptolemy of

the signs, constellations and other astronomical divisions noted. the expansion of this scheme, and its allocation to other forms of universal symbolism, such as the tarot cards, hebrew letters, and enochian tablets, has its roots in the synthetic genius of the golden dawn. the idea of projecting the tree of life into a solid sphere, having application among other things to the starry heavens and the constellations <220> certainly is peculiar to this system alone. most of the fundamentals inhering in the other aspects of the golden dawn teaching may be found in exoteric occult literature of past centuries. but, as again i must insist, the peculiar practical application of them as exemplified in the golden dawn routine can nowhere else be found, save, of course, in other authentic esoteric

hall know that the great "king star" or "heart of the lion" which is in leo upon the path of the ecliptic and one of the "four tiphareth points (see later) of the celestial heavens, is the commencement and ruler of all our reckoning of longitude (or ecliptic. the path of the sun itself is the commencement of our reckoning of the latitude in the searching out of our hidden wisdom. also the dragon, the constellation draco, surroundeth the pole kether of our celestial heavens. but the northern pole and kether of the material planet (even of our erthe, earth) looketh constantly unto binah, for as much as she is under sorrow and suffering. when, oh lord of the universe, shall she turn from her evil ways so that she shall again behold kether? wherefore she is now a place of trial. for each thing

m 22"-30' of cancer to 7"-30' of virgo within the limits of 45" latitude. star groups corresponding to above. tail of draco. head and forepart of ursa minor, left arm and part of head and chest of bootes. the greater part of the northernmost dog of canes venatici. tail and back of ursa major (ancient italian name was septemtriones, the 7 ploughing oxen. this includes the celebrated seven stars of the constellation called "charles wain" by the english "seven rishis" by the hindus, and in the egyptian book of the dead, ch. xvii "the seven bright ones who follow their lord, the thigh <223> of the northern heaven (note: in the zodiac of denderah, and in the tablet of edfu, that ursa major is represented as the thigh of an ox.-s.r.m.d) 12. princess (knave) of cups. rules from north pole to 45"

the paths, aleph, beth, gimel, vau, cheth, caph, mem, qoph, and shin, and so many of the others will be even quadrupled. but although tiphareth and yesod will be concealed, there will be four especial points where the influence of each will be indicated. as projected in the before-described celestial sphere, kether will govem a radius of 10" around the north pole, thus embracing the whole body of the constellation draco. chokmah will be on the 60" north latitude; embracing a radius of 10, the right foot of hercules; the left arm, hand, and part of head of bootes. also on the other side of the heavens, a radius of 10" including the head and shoulders of cepheus, and the head of lacerta. binah, has a similar radius and is posited on the same parallel of <232> latitudes, and includes the pole

e ccliptrc circle 04 tiphcreth wiih northern 4 point. hamisphere southern hemisphere acf5. s.a.'s key plan of the paths nort aern herntsphere southern hemisphere 605 <235> s.a.'s kfx plan of the tarot northern hemisphere star rqulus southern hemisphere 606 tree of life in a sphere 607 the esoteric system of astrological divination.-i.r) in the book "t" it is written''also the dragon (i.e. draco, the constellation at the northern pole of the heavens) surroundeth the pole kether of the celestial heavens."it is further laid down that the four aces (symbolised by the princesses and amazons, rule the celestial heavens from the northern pole of the zodiac unto the 45th degree of latitude north of the ecliptic, and from the thrones of the four aces which rule in kether. and again it is stated th

hat constellation actually in the heavens or not. conversely also, for the south of the equator (as in the country of australia) his quitting the equinoctial point southward will translate the same effect of aries. but this rule shall not for one moment affirm that aries and libra are identical in nature. nor that the zodiac proper is inoperative. nor that the nature of the sun is not modified by the constellation in which he is. but only that the direct effect of the physical impact of his rays falling upon a cer< 240> table showing the order of the passage of the 4 aces, above the signs, in the dominion of the princesses. nee of life in a sphere 611 tain portion of the earth's surface, will be in proportion to the duration of their action, in the excitement they produce in the terrestria

olive rather vertical than horizontal, and acting moderately <253> now these four formulae will imply four simultaneous movements in the revolution of the forces symbolised by the four aces round the northern pole. the first and most forcible in its immediate action will be that answering unto the earth of malkuth of yetzirah, transmitting unto kether of assiah, and following the convolutions of the constellation draco. it is called the direct or creeping formula and for this reason the dragon may be wingless and footed as regards its symbolic representation. this formula has been thorthe golden dawn: volume n book eight direct or creeping formula oughly explained in the beginning of this section on the revolution of the aces. in the expressions earth of malkuth, etc, it should be remembe

e auy signs, and by the ace of pentacles the earthy signs. yet through the forces of the revolution of the serpent as well, the forces of the aces will be in their turn modified by the zodiacal natures in the body of the serpent. and as before said the action of these formulae will be simultaneous though differing in degree, and of them all that first explained which followeth the convolutions of the constellation draco is the strongest in operation. and it is to be noted that in two of these formulae, the heads of the serpents are with the order of the signs, and in the other two against the natural order of succession of them in the zodiac. also the action of the spirit of malkuth of yetzirah transmitting unto kether of assiah will equal that of continued vibratory rays, acting from the

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

nd which consisted of threeprincipal parts. first the proceeding from the doctrine of the "soul of the world. second, thatderived from the consideration of numbers, letters and sacred words; and, third that resulting from apure and holy life, and these all summed up in one great system of esoteric ethereal truth. the soulof the world is a difficult matter to express, if not to comprehend. we say, the constellations of thezodiac govern the earthly animals. every star has its peculiar nature, property and function; the sealand character of which it impresses through its rays upon plants, minerals and animal life. theaffinities of these planets and stars are of great power, although it hath been taught, that each planetis active but one day in the seven fold, and further that the precious sto

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

t, but the principles of which are preserved notwithstanding, as are all other secrets, in the symbolism of the kabalah. it will be understood readily that in order to read the stars one must know the stars themselves; now, this knowledge is obtained by the kabalistic domification of the sky and by mastering the celestial planisphere, as rediscovered and explained by gaffarel. in this planisphere the constellations form hebrew letters, and the mythological figures may be replaced by the symbols of the tarot. to this same planisphere gaffarel refers the origin of patriarchal writing, and the first lineaments of primitive characters may very well have been found in the chains of starry attraction, in which case the celestial book would have served as the model of enoch's, and the kabalistic

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

artin, author of a very curious treatise on alphabetic characters, have determined the ancient magi in the choice of the tarot figures, which are considered by this man of learning, as by ourselves, an essentially hieratic and primitive book. thus, in his opinion, the chinese tseu, the hebrew aleph and the greek alpha expressed hieroglyphically by the figure of the juggler, would be borrowed from the constellation of the crane, in the vicinity of the celestial fish, a sign of the eastern hemisphere. the chinese tcheou, the hebrew beth and the latin b, corresponding to pope joan or juno, were formed from the head of the ram; the chinese yn, the hebrew ghimel and the latin g, represented by the empress, would be derived from the constellation of the great bear, etc. the kabalist gaffarel, wh

isphere. the chinese tcheou, the hebrew beth and the latin b, corresponding to pope joan or juno, were formed from the head of the ram; the chinese yn, the hebrew ghimel and the latin g, represented by the empress, would be derived from the constellation of the great bear, etc. the kabalist gaffarel, whom we have cited more than once, erected a planisphere in the writing of the stars 99 which all the constellations form hebrew letters; but we confess that the configurations are frequently arbitrary in the highest degree, and upon the indication of a single star, for example, we can see no reason why a o should be traced rather than a n or z; four stars will also give indifferently a m, k, or x, as well as an. we are deterred therefore from reproducing a copy of gaffarel's planisphere, exam

RUBY TABLET OF SET

ones celebrant: gin the name of set, the prince of darkness, we embark upon the journey inward to seek truth about our selves. o majesty of set, lord of the secret spheres and dark tunnels beyond the hidden gate, hear us, look upon us, and go with us on this journey. enfold us with the powers of darkness; let them become one with us as we are become one with the eternal set, whose seat is behind the constellation of the thigh. as we turn our eyes and ears within to seek our question and come to know our most exalted and sublime selves, arm us with the pentagram of set and the sceptre of tcham, and fortify us with the courage to stand before maat and look upon ourselves in her dark mirror. h gwe invoke and greet the presence of the great old ones who walk serene and primal in the undimensi

olstice working for the illumination of the relationship between woden and set classification: v2- a41.w- 1 author: stephen e. flowers ii date: north solstice, xix html revision: october 26, 1998 ce subject: woden/odin, set reading list #3 #14 #17 the north solstice working for the illumination of the relationship between woden and set [performed outside, with the altar facing the north star, and the constellation of the thigh to the left. the pentagram of set is affixed beneath the north star, with images of set to the left and woden to the right. arrange the altar according to setian custom [dress for working: according to setian custom [ring the bell nine times with the words] the nine unknown are forever with me [light the black flame of set with the words] i now ignite the black flame

ursa major] from thy abode behind the stars of the thigh, step forth, o mighty lord of darkness. from thy place of exile come forth to tell thy secrets long hidden. i, thy adept, call upon thee to show thyself to my own inner eye that i may gaze upon thy greatness. by thy gift i shall know what i will. fare now forth and stand westward in the northern sky [the working. now set and woden flow from the constellations through the angles of the pentagram. set: to the upper-left point, out to a locus horizontally aligned with the lower-left point, inward along the horizontal line, and down the left-descending line to the nethermost point. woden: to the upper-right point, out to a locus horizontally aligned with the lowerright point, inward along the horizontal line, and down the right-descendin

f set and woden 1. here woden, the master of inspiration, speaks and identifies his place as the north star "north" means "downward" or "leftward" and the north star is at the pole or axis of the earth. therefore it is "close to our plane" and a gateway or access-point to the starry realms. woden refers to his eye (the one which remains with his essence) as the north star, which is at the head of the constellation known as ursa minor or in germanic tradition the lesser wain or wain of the moon. also the fact that the moon is closer to the earth than the sun is reemphasized. 2. in this passage woden states that he became the blood-brother of set, making a pact with him. this is reminiscent of the blood-brotherhood between woden and loki, but we learn that this pact was made for rulership of

physical reality of man is the result of this mixture of the conscious essence with the earth. 3. in the third passage we discover something about when this might have taken place. woden says that set came to the northern heavens as the result of an exile from egypt, and that they again came into proximity as a result- woden in the lesser or lunar vehicle and set in the greater or solar vehicle (the constellation of the thigh is identical to that of ursa major) the ongoing relationship between the various deities of darkness and the darkness which is light is also stated, and a certain identity between woden/set/satan/lucifer as historical manifestations is made clear. eternal affinity of essence is shown by temporal affinity of form. 4. both gods now have their seats in the northern sky

bestowed on man by the primal god of consciousness, and on astro/cosmological processes which relate to the inner link between woden and set. it is clear that what is known as the gift of set and the gift of woden are identical, and that it is the gift of consciousness. the syntax here is rather obscure, but it would seem to indicate that at some "time before" this act of giving was carried out, the constellations of the ursae "were one- i.e. all matter/energy was condensed in an intermanifestation phase, and the stuff of these stars, along with all others, was amassed. this is an inter-consciousness phase in which the paradigms of consciousness in a macro/microcosmic model were manifested, a sign of which is the similarity of the constellations of the ursae or wains. the greater one is m

al to invite set in, a polygon is used. crowley chose the triangle in liber 418 and this proved efficacious. the magician should be in a triangle, big enough to be comfortable and to hold the necessary tools. in the case of a desert setting, the triangle could be made large enough for considerable movement, like dancing. one point should face south, the direction of set. alternatively it can face the constellation of the great bear, associated with set, or the country egypt. another alternative is to try a trapezoid with the short side facing south. it can be designed with rope, drawn in the sand or dirt, or drawn with chalk. another possibility is to make a iron triangle large enough to sit on. the base of heaven was alleged to have been made of iron, implying that divinity rested on set

ally me, and the self which is really set is the same one self. implications for greater black magic in the crystal tablet of set, page 32, we read "in g.b.m. the magician does not wish to present an artificial image at all, but rather to unveil his innermost self" and who is this "innermost self? let us look to the invocation on page 36. i am become one with the eternal set, whose seat is behind the constellation of the thigh" the mention in the invocation of the historical referent star constellation makes clear that we are referring to set by name. naming implies identification, and identification we now can recognize through the rigors of this paper, is a function of mind. therefore, we see now that a self with a particular mental pattern (a mind) which is named set is sought for mergi

s known to be haborym and whose title is daimon of incindiarism. through the power of that art which is mine to command do i unite form and function within the depths of my eternal being, and am thus become essence in my own right, my self a being unique. a neb kekui set! hail set, lord of darkness! ami pert em kehr! who comes forth by night! i call forth the goddess blumoza, whose seat is behind the constellation draco. may the rays of the goddess be channelled through the nine angles. i shall receive into my being the elder essence of the draconian current which first came into being long ages past. the cults of the dragon of the deep waxed strong in the temples of ancient xem. when thuban sank down from earth's polar axis the setian priesthood gave way to the priesthoods of mentu and la

he new aeon can be seen in their brightest and most joyous. the radiance of the sun is unequalled in the trump. the fiery central form sends its rays out to a world already far advanced from the biological soup of its beginnings. the world's population has identified correlations between the random placements of the stars and attempted to perform magic through the meanings which might be found in the constellations. the sun of the aeon of harwer illuminated the starry shapes and produced new and more appropriate interpretations. astrology played its own part in aleister crowley's approach to life, but magus lavey's impression of "god in sports clothes" is a more accurate description of the general subject. while astrology can be a powerful tool in the practice of magic, it is an implement

june 18, xxiii html revision: dec. 11, 1998 ce subject: wedding ceremony reading list [scriptual readings] in the name of the first form, i enter into the realm of creation to work my will upon the universe. o majesty hear me, look upon me, and go with me upon this journey. enfold me with your powers; let them become as one with me as i am become one with your enternal form, whose seat is behind the constellation of the thigh. as i send forth my most exalted and sublime self, arm it with your sign, this ankh, and the sceptre of tcham that it may defy all constraints, dismay all challengers, and cast down all that is moved to appear against it. let my eyes become your eyes, my strength become your strength, my will become your will. as a fire in the darkness i am become; as air in the sky

he priest now raises the peacock feather to the pentagram of set [setians] let the sleeper awake, and let percival return and witness our rite [priest] our ritual is now consecrated by the presence of our brother, percival, and the magus merlin; it is to their honour we gather. this is a time that is not a time, in a place that is not a place, on a day that is not a day, between worlds and beyond the constellation of the thigh. we are one with the master of the holy pentagram, lord of the abyss, the supreme high priest of darkness. set [setians] let our "selves" become one with the essence of the lord of darkness [priest- fire the incense (here the incense shall be refilled and fired if required] and by the light of the black flame we shall merge by summoning the dragon through merlin's wo

's serpent, and earth of the secretly guarded treasure, the dark elixir of truth's grail. finally, out of respect for the new magus of the order of the leviathan, whose magical name is orm, the dragon, i completed the summoning with his symbol. again, the theme of the gates of hell (the great pentagram) is completed by the previous invocation of set, the fifth direction, to form the eye of set in the constellation of the thigh. by having each pylon member perform the operation at midnight in their own time zone, we can accomplish three goals: 1) the special orientation of the participants to the eye of set will all be close to exactly the same. 2) we will meet the injunction of set to "speak to me at night" from the bocfbn. 3) we will probably meet the scheduling needs of more pylon member

SATANGEL

aught the science of meteorology. gadreel: god is my helper. identified by enoch as the one who lead eve astray, although eve protested strongly that she had..copulated with no false beguiling serpent. also taught men how to make tools and weapons. kasdaye: taught women how to abort. kashdejan: taught the curing of diseases including those of the mind. kokabel: taught astronomy and the science of the constellations. penemue/penemuel: who taught the art of writing although through this many went astray until this day, for men were not created for such a purpose to confirm their good intentions with pen and ink. is also able to cure stupidity. pharmaros: who brought us pharmacy, herb lore, and diagnosis. satanail/salamiel: great prince amongst grigori. according to enoch he and his crew were

SEPHER YETZIRAH WESTCOTT

of wisdom under a covenant. 49. the dragon, tli, theli. the hebrew letters amount in numeration to 440, that is 400, 30 and 10. the best opinion is that tali or theli refers to the 12 zodiacal constellations along the great circle of the ecliptic; where it ends there it begins again, and so the ancient occultists drew the dragon with its tail in its mouth. some have thought that tali referred to the constellation draco, which meanders across the northern polar sky; others have referred it to the milky way; others to an imaginary line joining caput to cauda draconis, the upper and lower nodes of the moon. adolphe franck says that theli is an arabic word. 50. happiness, or a good end, or simply good, tubh. 51. misery, or an evil end, or simply evil, roh. 52. this hebrew version omits the al

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

o denote the presence of god" heraldry borrowed this emblem directly from the scriptures (ps. lxiii, 2; 1 kings viii, 11, etc. yet, as totten pointed out, not a single ray of light breaks through the clouds. god thus becomes a captive within the circle (which can represent the serpent, as jehovah is a captive of the cabalists (see sephiroth, part 1. totten discovered that the state department had the constellation of stars. by its arrangement. constitutes the most serious deviation from the fundamental law which authorized the establishment of the seal. the honorary a. loudon snowden, superintendent of the mint of the united states, objected to the appearance of the "13 stars embraced in an oblong or depressed circle [which design he considered] doubtless the result of an unappreciative en

the seal of solomon. totten wrote:25* the legal specifications of the group of stars as "a constellation" warrants some degree of regularity in the "heraldic" arrangement. but why now a six-pointed constellation of five-pointed stars? this is a clear lapse from the developed standpoint. in the first realization of the seal, as cut from the original die, the stars were conceived as six-pointed and the constellation was very naturally made six-pointed to match. but the lapse was soon discovered from comparison with the stars upon the flag, so while they were changed to the five-pointed order in the websterian die, the six-pointed form of the constellation was unfortunately retained and still mars the realization -28- of our crest. it should be manifest that the very same deference paid to an

nation. grant our supplication, we beseech thee, through jesus christ our lord. amen [emphasis supplied] washington's prayer was adapted from his circular letter to the governors; its use of the phrase "our blessed religion" reflected in unmistakable terms washington's conviction that the united stales was a christian nation. a very early drawing in columbian magazine29 of the coat of arms shows the constellation of five-pointed stars scattered over the whole field, as in the painting in st. paul's chapel. it's glory also breaks through the clouds. however, the stars on the washington medal (1792) made at the mint by dr. rittenhouse were six-pointed and its olive branch leaves were 15 rather than 13 in number.30 the diplomatic medal also showed the glory "breaking through the clouds"31 an

l of solomon crest.38 the kentucky penny of 1791 was adorned with a triangle of 15 stars.39 the use of these symbols on the coins, currency and the small seal provides us with conclusive proof of the existence of a directing influence behind the adoption of these occult signs at the time of the founding of our nation -31- the heraldry of american heroism never used the solomonic seal before 1942. the constellation in the crest appeared on the four decorations of the legion of merit, created by congress july 20, 1942. the degrees of chief commander, commander, officer and legionnaire are awarded to the personnel of the armed forces of friendly foreign nations, and of the u. s. and the philippines. this decoration was the first specific award in u.s. history to foreigners, and the first to h

TECHNICIANS GUIDE TO THE LEFT HAND PATH

in the iind dynasty. set s original worship as a night time polar deity suffered a decline with the rise of solar worship in the ivth dynasty. the great pyramid of khufu is one of the last early monuments connected with the idea of a setian afterlife as well as a solar one. the great pyramid had a special air shaft for the king s akh to fly to the star alpha draconis, which is the star of set in the constellation of the thigh, principle of the seven faces of darkness. during the middle kingdom, set was reduced to a symbol of upper egypt and apparently seen only during the setian festival of heb-sed, or tying together. it was during this time that set was first blamed for the murder of osiris, a semitic corn god who had arrived in the iiird dynasty. previously, osiris had died of drowning

e the pharoanic line. during this time of expanding borders, set was extraordinarily popular, as can be seen from pharaohs names such as seti (set s man) and setnakt (set is mighty. two important setian texts were produced: first, the tale of two brothers, which tells how set (identified with the god bata) undergoes a series of metamorphoses (xeperu) that changed him from a farm hand to a star in the constellation of the thigh. the second text is the book of knowing the spiral force of re and the felling of apep. this protective formula, which ramses iii, son of setnakt, inscribed on certain border monuments, shows two setian particularities. firstly, it has an unnamed god coming into being in the psychic (subjective) realm as the god xephra- previously it had been held that neith, a godde

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e. the illumined father christian rosencreutz possessed the wisdom and the wealth through the transmutation of base metals to elevate the common people of europe. the manifestos also shared some startling assertions, among them: 1. the end of the world was near, but those who had become enlightened by the new reformation would be initiated into a higher consciousness. 2. new stars had appeared in the constellations of cygnus and serpentarius that predicted the destruction of the roman catholic church. 3. the illumined father divined the secret code that god placed in the universe in the beginning of time and blessed those who possess such magic. 4. the transmutation of base metals into gold and precious gems is a natural miracle that has been revealed to such magi as christian rosencreutz

fit into the general concept of conventional living, and they make for most interesting, albeit unusual, friends and companions. aquarians must be free of mental and emotional tensions if they are to be healthy. pisces, the fish, february 20 to march 20, is a water sign. pisces, the fishes swimming in opposite directions, has been known by that designation since the astrologers of babylonia named the constellation two fishes as long ago as 2000 b.c.e. although pisces people are industrious workers, they do not possess a great deal of stamina. it seems that fate often picks on pisceans, and they are more liable to come into contact with suffering. for this reason, nursing, social work, medicine, and missionary work tend to attract pisceans, and they are generally willing to make sacrifices

THE GOD SET

and above all magic. he is said to have opened the mouth of the other gods, and is the patron of the sem ritual. his cult titles include "great of magic" and "eternal. there is indeed evidence that set is set apart from other gods to die (bonnet's commentaries on the pyramid texts. the astronomical cult, which placed the afterlife in the region of the northern heavens- particularly in and around the constellation of the great bear was replaced in the fourth dynasty by a growing sun cult centering on re and horus. the great stellar monument that imhotep designed were replaced by the solar pyramids of the fourth and fifth dynasty's (notably cheops took no chances in the great pyramid's design- although outwardly a solar monument he had a hole bored through the stones aligned with the positi

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

shall melt: 13:8 and they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces [shall be as] flames. 13:9 behold, the day of the lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. 13:10 for the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. 13:11 and i will punish the world for [their] evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and i will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. 13:12 i will make a man more precious than fine gold; even

TURNER ROBERT ARBETEL OF MAGICK

spirits are obedient unto thee; so that at length thou shalt be certain of the greatest thing of all, that thy name is written in heaven. aphorism 26. there is another way which is more common, that secrets may be revealed unto thee also, when thou art unwitting thereof, either by god, or by spirits which have secrets in their power; or by dreams, or by strong imaginations and impressions, or by the constellation of a nativity by celestial knowledge. after this manner are made heroick men, such as there are very many, and all learned men in the world, plato, aristotle, hippocrates, galen, euclides, archimedes, hermes trismegistus the father secrets, with theophrastus, paracelsus; all which men had in themselves all the vertues of secrets. hitherto also are referred, homer, hesiod, orpheus

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

to f these divine emblems and contemplate their interaction. it becomes evident that the images of the zodiac were not suggested by the con- stellations when we try to trace correspondences between the mythic figures and the stars. beyond a few bright locator stars which are accepted by convention to define key features in the images-the three bright stars that form the belt of orion, for example-the constellations and the signs are not contiguous. this looseness in the relationships allowed other cultures, such as the ancient chinese, to assign com- pletely different mythic figures to the heavens. however, merely because the signs are not defined by the stars does not lessen their importance as archetypes. the zodiac of the chaldeans is at least 4,000 years old, and has scarcely changed

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

of the names of egypt [fn#338] plutarch seems to be confounding osiris with menu, the god of generation, who is generally represented in an ithyphallic form. the festival of the phallus survived in egypt until quite recently [sec. xxxviii. the sun is consecrated to osiris, and the lion is worshipped, and temples are ornamented with figures of this animal, because the nile rises when the sun is in the constellation of the lion. horus, the offspring of osiris, the nile, and isis, the earth, was born in the marshes of buto, because the vapour of damp land destroys drought. nephthys, or teleute, represents the extreme limits of the country and the sea-shore, that is, barren land. osiris (i.e, the nile) overflowed this barren land, and anubis[fn#339] was the result.[fn#340 [fn#339] the egyptian

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up three fingers, suggesting that between us we have only three eyes. so i got mad and started to punch him, but he ran out and that ended it! selections from: paul reps, ed. zen flesh, zen bones. garden city, doubleday anchor (a233, 1961. pp. 92, 28. 236 haiku from the japanese poets (basho) the oak tree stands noble on the hill even in cherry blossom time (ransetsu) waking before dawn, see how the constellations are all turned around (masahide) since my house burned down, i now own a better view of the rising moon (soseki) the leaves never know which leaf will be the first to fall. does the wind know (soseki) a rain cloud darkens red maples clinging to crags by a waterfall (basho) hello! light the fire! i ll bring inside a lovely bright ball of snow! selections from: peter beilenson& ha

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s the season of for marriage. sixth 7 years, the height of intelligence arrives. seventh 7 years, the maturity of reason. eighth 7 years, perfection of both. ninth 7 years, equity and mildness, passions become gentle. tenth 7 years, the end of desirable life. solon the athenian lawgiver, and hippocrates the physician, also used this 7-year division of life. the pleiades, a group of seven stars in the constellation taurus, was thought of mighty power over earthly destiny; there were seven also of the hyades, daughters of atlas; and the seven stars which guided the sailors. ursa major, in which the hindus locate the sapta rishi, seven sages of primitive wisdom, are a group of the first importance and are easily recognized. duncan, in his astro-theology, gives 7 stages of life with associated

eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott note also the number of 7 pipes in the musical instrument at the mouth of the old deity pan, the great whole, a sun god (not the later rural pan. 78. an ancient symbol of the universe was a ship with seven pilots, in the center of the ship, a lion; possibly from an idea that the sun first rose in leo. note aries supplanted taurus, as the constellation in which the sun rises at the vernal equinox; taurus was the sign at the early fabulous periods of the earth it was displaced about 300 b.c. the sign becomes changed every 2150 years by the precession of the equinoxes. pisces has now followed aries; but the sun is still said to enter the sign aries at the vernal equinox about march 21st. its actual position in march 1900 was near

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remark from tiqqunei zohar, the literary stratum of zoharic literature, composed in all likelihood in the first half of the fourteenth century in castile. this passage occurs in an exposition of the theosophic principle (well-entrenched by the time of this text s composition) that the various names of god are correlated with different limbs of the imaginal body, a term i have employed to describe the constellation of sefirot as they are visually configured in the kabbalist s imagination: ehyeh [keter [is set] atop being [al hawayah, and this breath-of-the-heart [hevel de-libba] governs213 the voice of yhwh [tif eret; it is the cause of all causes [illat al kol ha-illot, hidden and concealed, and it is not revealed, and it governs and rules [rakhiv u-shalit] over everything. ehyeh indicates

helling, pp. 10, 67, 84; koj ve, le concept, pp. 262 277. 225. schelling, ages, pp. 6, 8. in preparation of this study, i have consulted the original german of die weltalter in schelling, s mtliche werke, vol. 8. it is possible that scholem s account in major trends, p. 218, of the emanation of the sefirot as the autogenesis of god s personality, the transformation of the void of no-identity into the constellation of the i, from ayin to ani (in hebrew these two words have the same consonants, is indebted to german idealism, and especially schelling. this possibility is enhanced by the fact that in this very context scholem characterizes the emanation of the sefirot as a dialectic process whose thesis and antithesis begin and end in god. biale, gershom scholem, p. 137, already noted that sc

f temporality underlies the comment of cordovero s student abraham azulai, hesed le-avraham, 6:4, p. 244, that the reality of the different gradations of soul (nefesh, ruah, and neshamah) is dependent on the time of the supernal coupling [zeman ha-ziwwug ha-elyon. azulai s point is that the precise disposition of the soul, created as a consequence of the union in the divine will, is determined by the constellation of forces above at the precise moment of conception below. this idea rests on the understanding of time articulated in the body of this chapter. 149. cordovero, following a long-standing kabbalistic tradition, assumes a homologous relation between primal adam and the jewish male. see wolfson, ontology, pp. 131 155. in the extended version of this study, which appears as the first

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