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A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

at typescript that has been gathering dust, do whatever it takes to help ourselves to get the results we desire. my late mother would always say if i asked for extra funds 'money doesn't grow on trees; and this holds true even in the magical world. money, success and opportunities have to be generated and earned. we need to add our own will-power to the power we have drawn on. what is more, under the cosmic profit-and-loss scheme, if we ask for a psychic overdraft, we must give back, if not immediately, then at a later date. so when your finances are better or your immediate troubles are passed, you should make a small donation or give time to a worthwhile cause connected with the area of the spell. this balances up the account whose cosmic energies you tapped into. many shamans or witches

passed, you should make a small donation or give time to a worthwhile cause connected with the area of the spell. this balances up the account whose cosmic energies you tapped into. many shamans or witches demand some sort of payment for services, and this is not from avarice, but because all too often if something is not paid for, it is not valued. so be sure that you pay the shaman- especially the cosmic one. this is grass roots magick, but it works. magick for your needs 'enough for my needs and a little more' is another of the maxims of this incredibly moral craft, as i mentioned earlier. you would be amazed the number of times i am asked 'okay, if you are a witch, how come you can't predict the lottery numbers' the answer is that it all comes down to need: and do i need a million pou

hbour, or a colleague you know is unhappy or worried; or perhaps it could be an animal park or environmental project that is under threat or needs help financially, legally or practically or even a local disaster. as you send out loving or healing energies, so you will receive them in return, often in unexpected ways or perhaps at some future time when you yourself are vulnerable. this is part of the cosmic banking system and in practice there is considerable overlap between this and personal spells. magick to increase positivity these are the least focused kind of spells. they are used to send out energies to whoever needs them, for example of love, happiness, health or abundance. they may be for an endangered species, a wartorn land, a country in need of water or the planet itself. if a

es well with clary sage, geranium, lemon and chamomile. an oil ritual to increase prosperity as i have said before, magick is part of life and there is nothing wrong with carrying out rituals for your personal needs and a little more. however, you must make an effort, when you are financially more secure, to share your good fortune with those who are genuinely in need. as long as you bear in mind the cosmic 'balance sheet, this will ensure that there are sufficient energies to go round. you can, of course, pay in kindnesses and help, as well as in monetary terms. it is unlikely that you will receive an unexpected cheque in the post the morning after this spell (though i am getting rather good at bewitching one of my financial directors at a firm i work for. instead, you may suddenly find t

he movement of the planets and stars- the dates will vary by a day or two depending on the year. i have written in several of my books about the folk and religious lore behind seasonal festivals and there are many other good books on this subject. in this chapter i mainly focus on the way they amplify the positive energies of the universe and provide a personal connection to the ebbs and flows of the cosmic cycle of existence. the rituals can be either private or group celebrations of power. they will also vary because they originate from many different myths, so that different gods and goddesses may appear in a variety of aspects. this may give rise to what seem to be contradictions, but in the coming together of myths this is inevitable and the god and goddess forms are a powerful metaph

eightfold year reflect global as well as personal concerns, and our ancestors linked their own fortunes with those of the herds, the soil, the trees and the crops. this is a very valid principle of white magick and one that i have returned to many times in this book. if our spells focus, for example, on increasing general abundance at the time of the harvest, our own needs will be met as part of the cosmic process of regeneration. what is more, the responsibility felt and still expressed in ritual by some indigenous peoples, for the coming of the rains or the annual rebirth of the sun, is not merely an unlearned response as some anthropologists suggest. it acknowledges the interconnectedness of universal and personal life forces and the responsibility humans have for care of the earth. as

e generic name for 'horned one. imbolc: the celtic festival of early spring. a fire festival, christianised as candlemas on 1 february. also known as oimelc. immanent: usually refers to a god or the goddess; indicating that they are manifest within the object of their creation, as the divine spark within people. see also transcendent. inner-plane teaching: contacting through meditation or rituals the cosmic memory bank or akashic records in order to tap into the great existing magical systems and wisdom without external formal teaching. invocation: the process by which the wisdom and benign powers of the natural world and of higher planes of consciousness, associated with the evolved self and divine power, are drawn into oneself. medieval magicians would invoke spirits to take over their b

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ugh, the myth has many parallels with the christian concept of christ's death and resurrection, among which the crucifixion (inanna was impaled on a stake as a corpse, the three days in the sumerian hades, and the eventual resurrection are outstanding examples of how sumerian mythology previewed the christian religion by perhaps as many as three thousand years- a fact that beautifully illustrates the cosmic and eternal nature of this myth. therefore, the goddess of the witches has two distinct forms: the ancient one, goddess of the dragon-like telluric power which is raised in magickal rituals, and the elder goddess, defeater of death, who brings the promise of resurrection and rejuvenation to her followers those who must reside for a time after death and between incarnations in what is ca

cares not if he deals with angelic or demonic forces, save that he gets the job done! then, following the urillia text and forming the very end of the received ms, is the second part of the testimony of the mad arab. it is a haunting and sorrowful occult personality. was he really mad? this is perhaps a question that will go on for as long as man tries to understand himself; himself as a part of the cosmic dance and spiral, which includes the satanic as well as the deific, the sad as well as the happy. perhaps the arab was privy to some other-worldly secret that he could not reveal. perhaps he had opened the door by mistake, his own personal gate to the abyss, and was forced to cross its threshold into the unknown. we may never know. or, we may wish we never had. the editor new york, new

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

a-eta) the 18th key of the tarot refers to the moon, which was supposed to shed dew. the appropriateness of the chapter title is obvious. the chapter must be read in connection with chapters 1 and 16. i the penultimate paragraph, vindu is identified with amrita, and in the last paragraph the disciple is charged to let it have its own way. it has a will of its own, which is more in accordance with the cosmic will, than that of the man who is its guardian and servant. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 45 [47] 19 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta iota-theta the leopard and the deer the spots of the leopard are the sunlight in the glade; pursue thou the deer stealthily at thy pleasure. the dappling of the deer is the sunlight in the glade; concealed from the leopard do thou

who was frequently refreshed by hearing the anthems in this chief of the architectural glories of his alma mater [153] 72 book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 150 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta omicron-beta hashed pheasant shemhamphorash! all hail, divided name! utter it once, o mortal over-rash- the universe were swallowed up in flame -shemhamphorash! nor deem that thou amid the cosmic crash may find one thing of all those things the same! the world has gone to everlasting smash. no! if creation did possess an aim (it does not) it were only to make hash of that most "high" and that most holy game, shemhamphorash [154] commentary( omicron-beta) there are three consecutive verses in the pentateuch, book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 151 each containing

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outlook, would draw identities between many gods in order to obtain a unity. time and the gregarious nature of man have raised gods as ideas grew more universal; sectarianism has drawn false distinctions between identical gods for polemical purposes. thus, where shall we put isis, favouring nymph of corn as she was? as the type of motherhood? as the moon? as the great goddess earth? as nature? as the cosmic egg from which all nature sprang? for as time and place have changed, so she is all of these! what of jehovah, that testy senior of genesis, that lawgiver of leviticus, that phallus of the depopulated slaves of the egyptians, that jealous king-god of the times of the kings, that more spiritual conception of the captivity, only invented when all temporal hope was lost, that medi val batt

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classic of purity" by ko hsuen. a new translation from the chinese by the master therion. unpublished "liber xxv. the ritual of the star ruby" an improved form of the lesser ritual of the pentagram, liber cccxxxiii, the book of lies, pp. 34& 35. also appendix vi of this book "liber xxvii. liber trigrammaton, being a book of trigrams of the mutations of the tao with the yin and yang" an account of the cosmic process: corresponding to the stanzas of dzyan in another system. unpublished "liber xxx "liber librae" an elementary course of morality suitable for the average man. equinox i, p. 17 "liber xxxiii" an account of a. a. first written in the language of his 217 period by the councillor von eckartshausen and now revised and rewritten in the universal cipher. equinox i, p. 4 "liber xxxvi. t

ough whom it was given to the world, will be published shortly "liber ccxvi. the yi king" a new translation, with a commentary by the master therion. unpublished "liber ccxxxi. liber arcanorum" gr:tau-omega-nu atu gr:tau-omicron-upsilon tahuti quas vidit asar in amennti sub figura ccxxxi. liber carcerorum gr:tau-omeganu qliphoth cum suis geniis. adduntur sigilla et nomina eorum. 223 an account of the cosmic process so far as it is indicated by the tarot trumps. equinox vii, p. 69 "liber ccxlii" aha! an exposition in poetic language of several of the ways of attainment and the results obtained. equinox iii, p. 9 "liber cclxv. the structure of the mind" a treatise on psychology from the mystic an magical standpoint. its study will help the aspirant to make a detailed scientific analysis of h

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n, inspired harmoniously by the breath of the void((the tao) 2. men do not like to be fatherless, virtueless, unworthy: yet rulers describe themselves by these names. thus increase bringeth decrease to some, and decrease bringeth increase to others. 3. others have taught thus; i consent to it. violent men and strong die not by natural death. this fact is the foundation of my law. 48 chapter xliii the cosmic method. 1. the softest substance((water-yoni) hunteth down the hardest((rock- lingam) the unsubstantial((the luminiferous ether) penetrateth where there is no opening. here is the virtue of inertia. 2. few are they who attain: whose speech is silence, whose work is inertia. 49 chapter xliv monitorial. 1. what shall it profit a man if he gain fame or wealth, and lose his life? 2. if a ma

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

eir magical task, and broken their temple. in any case, it was the secret lemurian tradition that they themselves represented the survivals of a yet earlier race who lived on ice, and they of yet another who lived in fire, and they again of earlier colonists from mars. the theory, in fine, was that the aim of man is to attain the sun, whence, according to one school of cosmology, he was exiled in the cosmic catastrophe which resulted in the formation of neptune. his task on any given planet was therefore to overturn the laws of nature on that planet, thus mastering it sufficiently to enable him to make the leap to the next planet inward. exactly how and in what sense the leap was made remains obscure, even to the heirs of atlantis* the men of atlas could fly, it is true, and that by a meth

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

onceit "people will never be able to understand this" aiwass then replied "write this in whiter words. but go forth on" he was willing that the phrase should be replaced by an equivalent, but did not wish the dictation to be interrupted by a discussion at the moment. it was therefore altered (a little later) to "the omnipresence of my body" it is extremely interesting to note that in the light of the cosmic theory explained in the notes to verse 3 and 4, the original phrase of aiwass was exquisitely and exactly appropriate to his meaning. it take this opportunity of quoting from professor eddington, op. cit, a passage which should make it perfectly clear that the "mystical "irrational "paradoxical" conception of nuit expressed in this chapter has a parallel in the sober calculations of a p

he brothers of a'.a. are women; the aspirants to a'.a. are men" in order to have motion one must have change. in fact, one must have this in order to have anything at all. now this change is what we call love. thus "love under will" is the law of motion. the re-entrant character of this motion is difficult to conceive; but the aspirant is urged to try to assimilate the idea. a hindu might compare the cosmic process to a churn which out of milk made butter to feed a milk-producing woman, every step in the cycle being a progress of joy. time is necessarily created by us in order to make room for the apparent existence of the duality which we devise for the presentation of unity, or nihility "two things" must evidently exist either in two places, or at two times, or both; else they would be i

mind by virtue of their constant repetition (see book 4, part i, chapter ii. spells are methods of communicating the will to other beings (see book 4, part iii. the obeah is the magick of the secret light with special reference to acts; the wanga is the verbal or mental correspondence of the same. the work of the wand is that of union; of the sword, division; these correspond to the two phases of the cosmic cycle described above (see book 4, part ii and iii. for the root ob (avb= 9, see appendix; weh note: appendix not yet recovered it may be connected with the word "obey. the "obeah" being the acts, and the "wanga" the words, proper to magick, the two cover the whole world of external expression "the equinox" and "book 4" are full of instruction on all these matters in great detail, and t

erial world; so then it accomplisheth willingly the sacrament of a second death, and leaveth the body of light. but the mind, cleaving closely by right of its harmony, and might of its love, to its star, resisteth the ministers of disruption, for a season, according to its strength. now, if this star be of those that are bound by the great oath, incarnating without remission because of delight in the cosmic sacrament, it seeketh a new vehicle in the appointed way, and indwelleth the foetus of a child, and quickeneth it. and if at this time the mind of its former tabernacle yet cling to it, then is there continuity of character, and it may be memory, between the two vehicles. this is, briefly and without elaboration, the way of asar in amennti, according to mine opinion, of which i say not:

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

d, intellect (also change in stability. derived from 2 and 3 by multiplication, 8= 23. 9. the ennead, stability in change. derived from 2 and 3 by multiplication, 9= 32. 10. the decad, the divine end. represents the 1 returning to the 0. derived from 1+ 2+ 3+ 4. 11. the hendecad, the accursed shells, that only exist without the divine tree. 1+ 1= 2, in its evil sense of not being 1. section ii 0. the cosmic egg. 1. the self of deity, beyond fatherhood and motherhood. 2. the father. 3. the mother. 4. the father made flesh authoritative and paternal. 5. the mother made flesh fierce and active. 6. the son partaking of all these natures. 7. the mother degraded to mere animal emotion. 8. the father degraded to mere animal reason. 9. the son degraded to mere animal life. 10. the daughter, fallen

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

irst; i must insist on taking the ordinary substantial creed your clergy preach from desk and pulpit each sunday; all the bible, shaking 210 its boards with laughter as you read each sunday. ibsen43 to a full pit may play in the moon. if (lunars they) they thought themselves to be the play, it s little the applause he d get. 215 i met a christian clergyman, the nicest man i ever met. we argued of the cosmic plan. i was lord roberts, he de wet.44* scots legal term for defendant. a romany word for woman. the rev. j. bowley. the conversation described actually occurred in mr. gerald kelly s studio in paris. ascension day 11 lord george sanger* on the unknowable. how the creatures talk. he tells me when i cite the fall 220 but those are legends after all. he has a hundred hills45 to lie in, bu

with christianity proved to be mystical. his interpretation false. one year s effect, one moment s cause; what mind could estimate such laws? who then (much more) may act aright judged by and in ten centuries sight? 420 (yet i believe, whate er we do is best for me and best for you and best for all: i line no brow with wrinkles, meditating how) well, but another way remains. 425 shall we expound the cosmic plan by symbolising god and man and nature thus? as man contains cells, nerves, grey matter in his brains, each cell a life, self-centred, free 430 yet self-subordinate to the whole for its own sake expand! so we molecules of a central soul, time s sons, judged by eternity. nature is gone our joys, our pains, 435 our little lives and god remains. were this the truth why! worship then we

imagination into the palpitating vitals of his own grim masterpiece of reconcilement, self-deluded and yet self-conscious of its own delusion. history affirms that such a deadlock is invariably the prelude to a new enlightenment: by such steps we have advanced, by such we shall advance. the horror of great darkness which is scepticism must ever be broken by some heroic master-soul, intolerant of the cosmic agony. we then await his dawn. may i go one step further, and lift up my voice and prophesy? i would indicate the direction in which this darkness must break. evolutionists will remember that nature cannot rest. nor can society. still less the brain of man. audax omnia perpeti gens human ruit per vetitum nefas* we have destroyed the meaning of vetitum nefas and are in no fear of an imag

is sorrow. this means that no known form of existence is seperable from sorrow. this truth is stated by huxley, almost in so many words, in evolution and ethics. it was no less plain to some of these antique philosophers than to the fathers of modern philosophy that suffering is the badge of all the tribe of sentient things; that it is no accidental accompaniment, but an essential constituent of the cosmic process. and in the same essay, though he is disposed to deny more than the rudiments of consciousness to the lower forms of life, he is quite clear that pain varies directly (to put it loosely) with the degree of consciousness. cf. also animal automatism, pp. 236-237 (2) sorrow s cause. the cause of sorrow is desire. i take desire here to include such a phenomenon as the tendency of tw

sangham saranangachami. i take my refuge in the buddha. i take my refuge in the dhamma. i take my refuge in the sangha. this formula of adhesion to buddhism is daily repeated by countless millions of humanity; what does it mean? it is no vain profession of reliance on others; no cowardly shirking of burdens burdens which cannot be shirked. it is a plain estimate of our auxiliaries in the battle; the cosmic facts on which we may rely, just as a scientist relies on the conservation of energy in making an experiment. were that principle of uncertain application, the simplest quantitative experiment would break hopelessly down. so for the buddhist. i take my refuge in the buddha. that there was once a man who found the way is my encouragement. i take my refuge in the dhamma. the law underlyin

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nues to be most impressed; and just as of yore the devout man tells you that in the solitude of his room or of the fields he still feels the divine presence, and that sacrifices to this unseen reality fill him with security and peace "pure anachronism! says the survival-theory- anachronism for which deanthropomorphization of the imagination is the remedy required. the less we mix the private with the cosmic, the more we dwell in universal in impersonal terms, the truer heirs of science we become "in spite of the appeal which this impersonality of the scientific attitude makes to a certain magnanimity of temper, i believe it to be shallow, and i can now state my reason in comparatively few words. that reason is that, so long as we deal with the cosmic and the general, we deal only with the

nsists at all times of two parts, an objective and a subjective part, of which the former may be incalculably more extensive than the latter, and yet the latter can never be omitted or suppressed. the objective part is the sum total of whatsoever at any given time we may be thinking of, the subjective part is the inner 'state' in which the thinking comes to pass. what we think of may be enormous- the cosmic times and spaces, for example- whereas the inner state may be the most fugitive and paltry activity of mind. yet the cosmic objects, so far as the experience yields them, are but ideal pictures of something whose existence we do not inwardly possess, but only point at outwardly, while the inner state is our very experience itself; its reality and that of our experience are one. a consci

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ability in change. derived from 2 and 3 by multiplication, 9= 32 (note all numbers divisible by nine are still so divisible, however the order of the figures is shifted) 10. the decad, the divine end. represents the 1 returning to the 0. derived from 1+ 2+ 3+ 4. 11. the hendecad, the accursed shells, that only exist without the divine tree. 1+ 1= 2, in its evil sense of not being 1. section ii 0. the cosmic egg. 1. the self of deity, beyond fatherhood and motherhood. 2. the father. 3. the mother. 4. the father made flesh- authoritative and paternal. 5. the mother made flesh- fierce and active. 6. the son- partaking of all these natures. 7. the mother degraded to mere animal emotion. 8. the father degraded to mere animal reason. 9. the son degraded to mere animal life. 10. the daughter, fal

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thy spears! thy chariots and thy horsemen, lord! showered spheres of meteors war and blaze; but i am i, horus himself, the torrent of the sky aflame- i sweep the stormy seas of air towards that great globe that hangs so golden fair. i match &c. tiphereth hail, hail, thou sun of harmony, of beauty and of ecstasy! thou radiance brilliant and bold! thou ruby rose, thou cross of gold! hail, centre of the cosmic plan! 327 hail, mystic image of the man! i give the sign of slain asar. i give the sign of asi towering. i give the sign of apep, star of black destruction all-devouring. i give thy sign, asar re-risen- break, o my spirit, from thy prison! i match &c. gimel (with the crossing of the path of teth) hail, virgin moon, bright moon of her that is god's thought and minister! snow-pure, sky-bl

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sion, or try to have some one sent to my rescue, i would without the slightest hesitation blow our island in the air. and now let us back to my adventures. i am sorry to say that no subsequent mss. came to me from the man-cover. george raffalovich. 384 reviews a modern reading of saint francis of assisi. by katherine collins. c.w.daniel, 1"s. not bad; might start somebody inquiring how to acquire the cosmic consciousness. arcana of nature. by hudson tuttle. swan sonnenschein and co, 6"s. net. faecal filth about spiritist- nouns- in simplified "speling" who shall cleanse the astral cesspool of these mental necrophiles? and think of having a name like hudson tuttle! little book of selections from the children of the light. by rufus m. jones, m.a, litt.d. headley bros, i"s. 6"d. net. i dislik

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but by metathesis of these six letters is obtained heh-yod-heh aleph-mem-taw "truth was" as if affirming solemnly the presence in the creation of the supernal truth. now let us take the first and last letters of the verse and "cast into the midst thereof the fire of the sun "i.e, hb:vau (6 "the seal of creation- and we have bet-vau-tzaddifinal, an egg. where we see the whole universe enclosed in the cosmic egg of hindu and egyptian mythology: and the formulation of the sphere 178 of the universe (or magical mirror in man. as it were the egg of the black swan of time, the kala hamsa, the triune m a u, or word of power or of seb, the bird of life, whose will was heard in the night of time. the total numeric value of the verse is dalet-taw-nun-tet= 4459, of which the key is 22, the number of

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ace before the dawn flees from awakening day. 5. o thou unalterable measure of all things, in whose lap 16 lie the destinies of unborn worlds; i swear to thee by the balance of light and darkness, to spread out the blue vault as a looking-glass, and flash forth therefrom the intolerable lustre of thy countenance. 6. o thou who settest forth the limitless expanse, spanned by wings of thunder above the cosmic strife; i swear to thee by the voiceless dust of the desert, to soar above the echoes of shrieking life, and as an eagle to feast for ever upon the silence of the stars. 7. o thou flame-tipped arrow of devouring fire that quiverest as a tongue in the dark mouth of night; i swear to thee by the thurible of thy glory, to breathe the incense of mine understanding, and to cast the ashes of

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end.207 soon however, under mah y na-buddhism, was the atman to be revived in all its old glory under the name of amit bha, or that source of all light, which so enlightens a man who is aspiring to the bodhi that he becomes a buddha "amit bha" so paul carus informs us "is the final norm of wisdom and of morality208("sic, the standard of truth and of righteousness, the ultimate "raison d' tre" of the cosmic order" this of course is "bosh" amit^abha, as the atman, is "the light which shines there beyond the heaven behind all things, behind each in the highest worlds, the highest of all."209 once logically having crushed out the idea of an individual soul, a personal god and then an impersonal god had to be set aside and with them the idea of a first cause or beginning; concerning which ques

see things not as they are but in their right proportions. his views become balanced, he enters tiphareth, the solar plexus "he sees naked facts behind the garments of hypotheses in which men have clothed them, and by which they have become obscured; and he perceives that behind the changing and conflicting opinions of men there are 144 permanent principles which constitute the eternal reality in the cosmic order."228 in tiphareth the aspirant attains to no less a state than that of conversation with his holy guardian angel, his jechidah "the permanent principle behind the conflicting opinions" once right comprehension has been attained to, he has discovered a master who will never desert him until he become one with him. ii "right resolutions or right aspirations" having perceived the cha

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ligious and supernatural point of view, and is based on the growing self-consciousness of the individual, and in a recognition of his own divinity. like the point of view of the realistic school, it embodies only a partial truth, and needs to be complemented. the third line of thought we might call the idealistic. it posits an evolutionary process within all manifestation and identifies life with the cosmic process. it is the exact opposite of materialism, and brings the supernatural deity, predicated by the religionist, into the position of a great entity or life, who is evolving through, and by means of, the universe, just as man is evolving consciousness through the medium of an objective physical body. in these three standpoints the frankly materialistic, the purely supernatural, and t

or life, who is evolving through, and by means of, the universe, just as man is evolving consciousness through the medium of an objective physical body. in these three standpoints the frankly materialistic, the purely supernatural, and the idealistic you have the three main lines of thought which have been put forward as explanatory- 4- the consciousness of the atom copyright 1998 lucis trust of the cosmic process; all of them are partial truths, yet none of them is complete without the others; all of them, when followed alone, lead into byways and into darkness, and leave the central mystery still unsolved. when synthesised, when brought together and blended, and when unified, they embody, perhaps (i offer this simply as a suggestion) just as much of the evolutionary truth as it is possi

seen emerging the one perfect, fully conscious whole, composed of myriads of separate identities animated by one purpose and one will. if this is so, what is the next practical step ahead for those who come to this realisation? how can we make practical application of this ideal to our own lives, and ascertain our immediate duty so that we may participate in, and consciously further the plan? in the cosmic process we have our tiny share, and each day of activity should see us playing our part with intelligent understanding. our first aim should surely be self-realisation through the practice of discrimination; we must learn to think clearly for ourselves, to formulate our own thoughts and to manipulate our own mental processes; we must learn to know what we think and why we think it, to f

e to its need and requirement, utilising that form as a means of expression, and then in due course of time liberating itself from the environing form in order to acquire one more suited to its need. thus through every grade of form, spirit or life progresses, until the path of return has been traversed and the point of origin achieved. this is the meaning of evolution and here lies the secret of the cosmic incarnation. eventually spirit frees itself from form, and attains liberation plus developed psychical quality and graded expansions of consciousness. we might look at these definite stages, and study them very cursorily. we have in the first case- 22- the consciousness of the atom copyright 1998 lucis trust the process of involution. this is the period in which the limiting of the life

ife, be it god or man, will be manifested during a life cycle, whether solar or human. that is true of you and it is true of me; it is probably true of the planetary logos, and if true of him, therefore also of a solar logos. let us try, if we can, to follow some of the different developments in connection with our four types of atoms the atom of substance, the human atom, the planetary atom, and the cosmic atom. one of the first and most important developments will be conscious response to every vibration and contact that is, the ability to respond to the not-self on every plane. let me illustrate. i could go down to certain halls in this city, and gather together an audience composed of the unskilled labourers and illiterates, i could talk to them, and repeat what i have been saying this

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planes of divine manifestation, or the seven major planes of our system, are but the seven subplanes of the lowest cosmic plane. the seven rays of which we hear so much, and which hold so much of interest and of mystery, are likewise but the seven sub-rays of one cosmic ray. the twelve creative hierarchies are themselves but subsidiary branches of one cosmic hierarchy. they form but one chord in the cosmic symphony. when that sevenfold cosmic chord, of which we form so humble a part, reverberates in synthetic perfection, then, and only then, will come comprehension of the words in the book of job "the morning stars sang together" dissonance yet sounds forth, and discord arises from many systems, but in the progression of the aeons an ordered harmony will eventuate, and the day will dawn w

ness of the mental plane, it is obvious that his comprehension of cosmic data can be but rudimentary. when- 5- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust we recognise the further fact, that to be conscious on a plane and to have control on that plane are two very different conditions, it becomes apparent how remote is the possibility of our approximating more than the general trend of the cosmic scheme. we must recognise also that danger lies in dogma and in the hide-bound facts of textbooks, and that safety lies in flexibility, and in a shifting angle of vision. a fact, for instance, looked at from the standpoint of humanity (using the word "fact" in the scientific sense as that which has been demonstrated past all doubt and question) may not be a fact from the standpoint of a

rary of occult books, and after this initiation he can contact not only the master with whom he is linked and with whom he has worked consciously for a long time, but he can contact and assist (in measure) the chohans, the bodhisattva, and the manu. he has also to grasp the laws of the three lower planes intellectually, and likewise wield them for the aiding of the scheme of evolution. he studies the cosmic plans and has to master the charts; he becomes versed in occult technicalities and develops fourth dimensional vision, if he has not already done so. he learns to direct the activities of the building devas, and at the same time, he works continually at the development of his spiritual nature. he begins rapidly to co-ordinate the buddhic vehicle, and in its co-ordination he develops the

e expansions of consciousness which we call initiation, exist not, except in the cases of those advanced beings who, having passed through the human stage, both feel and know, and who, under the evolutionary law, expand their knowledge in ever-increasing degree. cosmic influences and solar initiations. all that can be done here in dealing with this profound subject is to enumerate briefly some of the cosmic influences which definitely affect our earth, and produce results in the consciousness of men everywhere, and which, during the process of initiation, bring about certain specific phenomena. first and foremost is the energy or force emanating from the sun sirius. if it might be so expressed, the energy of thought, or mind force, in its totality, reaches the solar system from a distant c

isdom" that is, at shamballa- 76- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust 2. the rod of the one initiator is hidden in "the east" a definite planetary location. 3. the rod of the solar logos is hidden in "the heart of the sun" that mysterious subjective sphere which lies back of our physical sun, and of which our physical sun is but the environing shield and envelope. 4. the rod of the cosmic logos associated with our solar logos is secreted in that central spot in the heavens around which our solar system revolves, and which is termed "the central spiritual sun" one rod is charged anew at shamballa for each new world teacher; the rod of sanat kumara is charged afresh at each recurring world period, and therefore seven times in the history of a planetary scheme. the logoic r

in he visualised to himself the entire world process as a perfected whole, seeing the end from the beginning and being aware of the detail of the consummated sphere. then, when his meditation was concluded, and the whole completed as a picture before his inner vision, he brought into use a certain word of power which had been committed to him by the one about whom naught may be said, the logos of the cosmic scheme of which our system is but a part. with cosmic and logoic initiations we are not concerned, except in so far as the human initiations reflect their stupendous prototypes, but it is of interest to the student to realise that just as at each initiation some word of power is committed to the initiate, so similarly to the logos was committed the great word of power which produced our

totypes, but it is of interest to the student to realise that just as at each initiation some word of power is committed to the initiate, so similarly to the logos was committed the great word of power which produced our solar system, that word which is called the "sacred word" or aum. it must be here remembered that this sound aum is man's endeavour to reproduce on an infinitesimally small scale the cosmic triple sound whereby creation was made possible. the words of power of all degrees have a triple sequence. first. they are sounded by some fully self-conscious entity, and this invariably takes place after a period of deliberation or meditation wherein the purpose in toto is visualised- 88- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust second. they affect the deva kingdom and p

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pted in group formation. the record of one such experiment and attempt to use this new age method has been made available to the public in the book entitled discipleship in the new age, which gives the direct personal instructions by the tibetan to a selected group. in a treatise on cosmic fire the tibetan has given us what h. p. blavatsky prophesied he would give, namely the psychological key to the cosmic creation. h.p.b. stated that in the 20th century a disciple would come who would give the psychological key to her own monumental work the secret doctrine on which treatise the tibetan worked with her; and alice a. bailey worked in complete recognition of her own task in this sequence. foster bailey tunbridge wells december 1950 foreword this "treatise on cosmic fire' has a fivefold pur

s. the sacred plane of juncture, the fourth great plane, became the sphere within the greater circle which marked the goal for man "aum" said the mighty one, he breathed forth to the fifth, the plane which is the burning-ground, the meeting place for fire. this time a cosmic note is heard beneath the sound systemic. the fire within, the fire without, meet with the fire ascending. the guardians of the cosmic fire, the devas of fohatic heat, watched o'er the forms that formless stood, waiting a point in time. the builders of a lesser grade, devas who work with matter, wrought at the forms. they stood in fourfold order. upon the threefold levels in empty silence stood the forms. they vibrated, they responded to the key, yet useless stood and uninhabited "aum" said the mighty one "let the wate

nded all together- 14- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust the mighty one looked down. the forms met his approval. forth came the cry for further light. again he gathered in the sound. he drew to higher levels the feeble spark of light. another tone was heard, the sound of cosmic fire, hid in the sons of manas. they called to their primaries. the lower four, the higher three, and the cosmic fifth met at the great inbreathing. another sheath was formed. stanza iii the great wheel turned upon itself. the seven lesser wheels rushed into being. they revolve like their mother, around, within and forward. all that existeth was. the wheels were diverse, and in unification, one. as evolved the great wheel, the inner fire burst forth. it touched into life wheel the first. it circul

d the whole cave disrupts. the lighted flame within spreads through the- 18- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust rending walls. it mounteth to its source. another fire is merged; another point of blue findeth its place within the diadem logoic. stanza viii the greater three, each with their seven lesser wheels, in spiral evolution, rotate within the timeless now, and move as one. the cosmic lords from their high place, view the past, control the now, and ponder on the day be with us. the lhas of the eternal sound, the product of the time that was, surmount the sevenfold display. within the ring-pass-not the word of love sounds forth. the sevenfold lords proceed with just vibration to carry out the work. they sound forth each a note of the deep logoic chord. each to his gre

to the second karmic circle, merge their migrating spheres and blend their myriad atoms. the forms through which they work, the lesser million spheres, the cause of separation and the curse of the asuras, shatter when sounds the sacred word within a point in time. the life logoic surges out. the streams of colour melt together. the forms are left behind, and parabrahm stands complete. the lord of the cosmic third utters a word unknown. the sevenfold lesser word forms part of the vaster chord. the now becomes the time that was. the aeon mergeth into space. the word of motion hath been heard. the word of love succeedeth. the past controlled the form. the now evolves the life. the day that is to be sounds forth the word of power. the form perfected and the life evolved hold the third secret o

hat is not glimpsed moveth in rapid revolution within the slower outer case, till it weareth out the form. the forty-nine fires burn at the inner centre. the thirty-five circulating fiery vortices extend along the circle of the periphery. between the two passeth in ordered sequence the various coloured flames. the great triangles in their just arrangement hold hid the secret of the wheel of life. the cosmic fire radiates as directed from the second sphere, controlled by the ruler of the merging ray. the cohorts of the third encircling sphere in varied ranks mark out the lesser threes. the wheel of life still moves within the form. the devas of the fourth connect the thirty-five, and blend them with the central forty-nine. above they work, seeking to merge the whole. upward they strive, who

e macrocosm in its essential nature fire is threefold, but when in manifestation it can be seen as a fivefold demonstration, and be defined as follows: 1. fire by friction, or internal vitalising fire. these fires animate and vitalise the objective solar system. they are the sumtotal of logoic kundalini, when in full systemic activity. 2. solar fire, or cosmic mental fire. this is that portion of the cosmic mental plane which goes to the animation of the mental body of the logos. this fire may be regarded as the sumtotal of the sparks of mind, the fires of the mental bodies and the animating principle of the evolving units of the human race in the three worlds. 3. electric fire, or the logoic flame divine. this flame is the distinguishing mark of our logos, and it is that which differentia

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aum (om) the following instruction concerns the science of union. aum. is the word of glory; it signifies the word made flesh and the manifestation upon the plane of matter of the second aspect of divinity. this blazing forth of the sons of righteousness before the world is achieved by following the rules herein contained. when all the sons of men have demonstrated that they are also sons of god, the cosmic son of god will likewise shine forth with increased intensity of glory. the great initiate, paul, had a vision of this when he said that "the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain. waiting for the manifestation of the sons of god (rom. viii) raja yoga, or the science of union, gives the rules and the means whereby- 9- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. consciou

mbol of material existence, and desire, the quality of the astral plane, whose symbol is also water. the idea of man being the "fish" is curiously complete here. this symbol (as is the case with all symbols) has seven meanings; two are of use in this place: 1. the fish is the symbol of the vishnu aspect, the christ principle, the second aspect of divinity, the christ in incarnation, whether it is the cosmic christ (expressing himself through a solar system) or the individual christ the potential saviour within each human being. this is the "christ in you, the hope of glory (col. i:27) if the student will also study the fish avatar of vishnu he will learn still more. 2. the fish swimming in the waters of matter, an extension of the same idea only carried down to its more obvious present exp

the water is intended to slake the thirst of the masses, they must hasten their progress for the need is great. thus the "first shall be last and the last shall be first" and the hare and the tortoise meet at the goal. 23. by intense devotion to ishvara, knowledge of ishvara is gained. ishvara is the son in manifestation through the sun. this is the macrocosmic aspect. ishvara is the son of god, the cosmic christ, resplendent in the heart of each of us. the word "heart" is- 30- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust here used in its occult connotation. the following correspondences may be found illuminating and should be studied with care. aspect quality centre macrocosm spirit. father. monad. will. head. central spiritual sun. soul .s on .e go .l ove. heart. heart of the sun. b

the solar system, to the macrocosmic soul. the secondary meaning has reference also to the divine son of god, the second aspect monadic, as he manifests through the medium of a human being. this is the microcosmic soul. the following synonyms of the ishvara aspect may be found of value. the macrocosm. ishvara, the second aspect .w hose nature is love. the son of god .t he revealer of the father. the cosmic christ. god in incarnation. vishnu. second person of the hindu trimurti. the soul of all things .a toms and souls are synonymous terms. the all-self. the sum total of all selves. i am that. group consciousness. aum. word of revelation. the word. god in the flesh. the gurudeva. the master of all. the light of the world. shining in darkness. the microcosm. the second aspect. love wisdom

roceeds "within the hall of learning, the central mystery is contacted. the method of release is seen, the law is well fulfilled, and man emerges well-nigh adept" finally, the man enters the hall of wisdom to which he was admitted occasionally (and with increasing frequency) after the first great initiation, and learns of the place his group holds in the planetary plan, catching a glimpse also of the cosmic scheme. ignorance (as we understand the term) is, of course, negated, but it cannot be too frequently emphasized that there remains much unknown even to the adept, and that the christ himself, the great world teacher, knows not all that is the content of the awareness of the king of the world. the yoga sutras of patanjali only deal, however, with the overcoming of the ignorance which ho

human atom or of a solar deity, and simply indicates the natural triplicity of substance, its septenary nature, and its various mutations. it expresses the nature of that aspect of divine life which is called brahma by the hindu, and the holy spirit by the christian. this is the third aspect of the trimurti or trinity, the aspect of active intelligent matter, out of which the body of vishnu or of the cosmic christ is to be built in order that shiva, the father or the spirit may have a medium of revelation. it might therefore be of use if the nature of the four divisions of the three gunas were indicated, after giving the synonyms for these gunas. the three gunas: 1. the qualities of matter, 2. the aspects of thinking substance, or of the universal mind, 3. the attributes of force-matter, 4

r what it is. 4. the untouchable. finally we come to the fourth division of the gunas or aspects, that "in which we live and move and have our being" the untouchable or unknown god. this is the great form of existence in which our little forms are found. this is the sum total of the thinking substance of which our little minds are part; this is the whole manifestation of god through the medium of the cosmic christ of which each little son of god is a part. of this untouchable and unknown the mind of man cannot as yet conceive. 20. the seer is pure knowledge (gnosis. though pure, he looks upon the presented idea through the medium of the mind. reference has already been made to the excellent translation of this sutra as given by johnston which runs as follows "the seer is pure vision. thoug

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ans whereby man arrives at an understanding of that great sum total we call- 12- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust the macrocosm god, functioning through a solar system is by an understanding of himself, and the delphic injunction "man, know thyself" was an inspired utterance, intended to give man the clue to the mystery of deity. through the law of analogy, or correspondences, the cosmic processes, and the nature of the cosmic principles are indicated in the functions, structure, and characteristics of a human being. they are indicated but not explained or elaborated. they serve simply as sign posts, directing man along the path whereon future sign posts may be found and more definite indications noted. the comprehension of that triplicity of spirit, soul, and body lies

the body of golden light, or rather the flame coloured vehicle. there is the body of "dark light, which is the occult way of referring to the hidden light of the physical body, and to the light latent in the atom itself. these three types of energy are referred to in the old commentary under the following symbolic terms "when the radiant light of the solar angel is fused with the golden light of the cosmic intermediary, it awakens from darkness the rush light of anu, the speck" the "cosmic intermediary" is the term given to the etheric body, which is part and parcel of the universal ether. it is through the etheric body that all the energies flow, whether emanating from- 63- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust the soul, or from the sun, or from a planet. along those livin

ctical of its significances is there given but perhaps a few of the deeper meanings can be imparted. it is interesting to note that as progress is made upon the path, the forms in which truth can be given become more and more simple, whilst the meaning grasped becomes more and more wide and inclusive, and hence involves (on analysis) more and more complexity. finally, resort is had to symbols and the cosmic plan is grasped through the presentation of geometrical forms to the inner eye of the aspirant- 148- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust the cardinal point emphasized in this rule is purity and, in the last analysis, purity is largely a question of motive. if the incentive to action of any kind in the three worlds is based on personality desire and brought about by the

which we have no terms and tendencies which are as yet not even remotely visioned on our planet. we have generated a term we call the ether. occultly speaking, this is the modern way of expressing "the waters of space, which are the waters of desire, in which we are immersed. it is in constant ebb and flux, and is the stream of life, constituted of forty-nine types of energy, which pours through the cosmic egoic lotus, and (radiating forth from it) feeds with its measure of sustenance the form solar, planetary, or human for which it is responsible. this is dealt with in a treatise on cosmic fire. man is immersed in forces which are to him as the waters of space are to our solar system. he finds himself, as does our sun and its attendant planets, forming part of a whole, and just as our sy

he constantly moving ether of space, are of many kinds. one of the concepts, lying back of the astrological theories, is that the etheric body of any form constitutes part of the etheric body of the solar system, and is therefore the medium for the transmission of solar energies, of planetary forces, and of extra-solar or cosmic impulses, esoterically called 'breaths. these forces and energies of the cosmic rays are constantly circulating and following definite paths through the ether of space in all parts, and are therefore constantly passing through the etheric bodies of every exoteric form. this is a basic truth and must be carefully borne in mind, for its implications are many and varied; but all lead back to the idea of unity, and of the oneness of all manifestation, only to be known

in yet to be made. their place will be taken in later centuries by those who will in deed and in truth be cosmologists, for once the word of mankind is understood and grasped and the significance of the individual appreciated, the word of the cosmos will receive due and more correct attention, and the laws and nature of that great being in whom we live and move and have our being will be studied. the cosmic christ can never be known by any except the individual christ. man, as we shall see as we proceed, is on the verge of establishing his divinity. evolution has carried forward the perfecting of the mechanism to such an extent that it is now a coordinated integrated organism, a usable structure and ready for the divine user. in the course of the next few decades the fact of the soul will

tand alone, to assume responsibility, and then to carry all through single-handed, and to brave evil for the sake of the good achieved is the mark of a white brother. be prepared then for loneliness, for dangers of a dim and obscure character, and expect to see your life spent for no reward that touches the personality. it is only as the consciousness expands, and one finds one's true position in the cosmic whole that the reward becomes apparent; but cease from fear, and know that the personality is only temporary, and what matter if it suffer? some good gained for the universal- 201- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust brotherhood, some law explained and demonstrated in the life of every day, may make the master say eventually (yes, eventually, after all is over) well don

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

n the subject of the seven rays. this topic has always been of real interest for students, but about these rays little is known. we know, from the secret doctrine, that they are the building forces and the sum total of all that is in the manifested universe, but their effect in the human kingdom, and their essential quality and nature, remain as yet a mystery. it will be necessary for me to avoid the cosmic note, if i may so call it, for i seek to make the information of practical value to the student and to the intelligent reader. i shall therefore approach the subject entirely from the standpoint of the human family and deal with the subject in terms of psychological values, laying the foundation for that new psychology which is much needed, and so dealing primarily with the human equati

dividual with the general, and this may (at the first) seem too vast a theme, too speculative a presentation and too misty and vague an outline. but this situation cannot be avoided, for the argument as must be the case in all truly occult work-must be considered from the universal to the particular, from- 7- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust the cosmic to the individual. men are, as yet, too interested in the particular and the individual to find it easy to apply the same interest to the greater whole in which they "live and move and have their being" nor do they at this time (as a general rule) possess that inner mechanism of thought and that intuitive perception of truth which will enable them easily to grasp the significance of tha

ss, and of a growing- 15- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust expansion of the "becoming-aware" principle, so that from the microscopic interest of the self-conscious man for we shall retain the parable within the confines of the fourth kingdom in nature we have a slowly developing inclusiveness which finally leads him into the consciousness of the cosmic christ. 3. the higher realisation of unity follows upon this sense of duality, and in this final stage the sense of being soul and body is lost. the consciousness identifies itself with the indwelling life of the planet and of the solar system. when this happens, there is the registering of a state of being which lies beyond word, mind and form expression of any kind. the great jewish s

ry tangible outer appearance which is animated by life. this is the third aspect, the mother, overshadowed and fertilised by the holy ghost, or life, united with intelligent substance. this is fire by friction a friction brought about by life and matter and their interplay, and producing change and constant mutation. i shall use the word quality as expressive of the second aspect, the son of god, the cosmic christ incarnate in form a form brought into being by the relation of spirit and matter. this interplay produces that psychological entity which we call the christ. this cosmic christ demonstrated to us his perfection, as far as the human family is concerned, through the medium of the historical christ. this psyphological entity can bring into functioning activity a quality within all h

earance are brought together into a synthesis in the manifested universe and in man incarnate, and the result of this synthesis is sevenfold, producing seven types of qualified forms which emerge on all planes and in all kingdoms. it must be remembered that all the planes which we, from our little point of view, regard as formless are not really so. our seven planes are but the seven subplanes of the cosmic physical plane. we shall not deal with the planes, except in their relation to man's unfoldment, nor shall we deal with the macrocosm, or with the developing life of the cosmic christ. we shall confine our attention entirely to man and to his psychological reactions to the qualified forms in three directions: to those in the subhuman kingdoms in nature, to those with whom he associates

l love. this life, taking form, nurtures the quality of love within all forms, and ultimately reveals the purpose of all creation. this is the simplest definition for average humanity, being couched in the language of mysticism, thus linking the truth as found in all religions. it is necessarily inadequate, for it fails to emphasize the truth that what can be posited of man can also be posited of the cosmic reality, and that just as a human appearance on earth veils both the quality and purpose (in varying degree, so does that synthesis of all forms or appearances, within that unity which we call a solar system, veil the quality and purpose of deity. it is only when man is no longer deluded by appearance and has freed himself from the veil of illusion that he arrives at a knowledge of the

e, and therefore the end of phenomenal existence. ponder on the simple arrangement of these signs, for they portray your life and progress: unevolved man .o o o. appearance, quality, life. disciple .o o .o.appearance quality .life. initiate .o..o o.appearance. quality life. finally. within the circle of infinity. this is true of the human being, of the christ in incarnation; it is equally true of the cosmic christ, of god incarnate in the solar system. in the system a similar fusion and blending is going on, and the separated aspects are entering into an evolutionary relationship, resulting in an eventual synthesis of appearance and quality, and then of quality and purpose. it might be noted here that the hierarchy as a whole is distinguished by the sign o..oo; the new group of world serve

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n prove their validity; through experience we can establish them as governing forces in our lives; and through their expression we can demonstrate their truth to others. this is the theme of this book, dealing as it does with the facts of the gospel story, that fivefold sequential myth which teaches us the revelation of divinity in the person of jesus christ, and which remains eternally truth, in the cosmic sense, in the historical sense, and in its practical application to the individual. this myth divides itself into five great episodes: 1. the birth at bethlehem. 2. the baptism in jordan. 3. the transfiguration on mount carmel. 4. the crucifixion on mount golgotha. 5. the resurrection and ascension. their significance for us and their re-interpretation in modern terms is our task. a poi

igently into the kingdom of god through the process of initiation. the fact that the historical christ existed and walked on earth is the guarantee to us of our own divinity and our ultimate achievement. the fact of the mythic christ, appearing again and again down the ages, proves that god has never left himself without witness and that always there have been those who have achieved. the fact of the cosmic christ, manifest as the urge towards perfection in all the kingdoms of nature, proves the fact of god and is our eternal hope. humanity stands at the portals of initiation. 3 always there have been temples and mysteries and holy places where the true aspirant could find what he sought, and the needed instruction as to the way he should go. the prophet of old said. a highway shall be the

now ourselves to be a "word made flesh" and until the bethlehem experience is a part of our individual consciousness as souls, it remains a myth. it can become a fact the major fact in the experience of the soul. i cannot here enter into a definition of the word "soul" an extract from a book by dr. bosanquet expresses the idea in terms which link it up with individual experience, and yet preserve the cosmic implications in their beauty. an isolated soul is an impossibility. he says "the soul i use the term in the most general sense to mean the centre of experience which as a microcosm has acquired or is acquiring a character of its own and a relative persistence the soul is not to be contrasted as a detached agent either with its constituent externality on the one hand or with the life of

d and triumphant. then matter, the custodian of hidden divinity, beauty and reality, ready to bring them to the birth. finally, matter as the servant of that which has been born, the christ. however, none of this is brought about unless the journey is made from nazareth, the place of consecration, and from galilee, the place of the daily round of life; and this is true, whether one is speaking of the cosmic christ, hidden by the form of a solar system; of the mythic christ, hidden in humanity down the ages; of the historical christ, concealed within the form of jesus; or of the individual christ, hidden within the ordinary man. for always the routine is the same the journey, the new birth, the experience of life, the service to be rendered, the death to be endured, and then the resurrectio

to think that it can be so. we dread the moment when our futility appears as we look upon the stars of heaven, realising that there are thousands of millions of universes and tens of thousands of millions of constellations! we are such specks in a great immensity. perhaps we are of more importance than we had guessed. perhaps what happens to us in the realm of consciousness really does matter in the cosmic scheme. we know that it does not much matter what happens to the body. it is what happens in and through that body which counts. perhaps what happens in and through the body, which we call a planet, indwelt likewise by god, is of vital moment in the plans of god himself. this would give meaning to life; it is only when we apprehend meaning and appreciate it that we can understand the si

ither pray i for these alone (his disciples, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; that they all may be one; as thou, father, art in me, and i in thee, that they all may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. i in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one."66 this is the doctrine of the at-one-ment; god, immanent in the universe the cosmic christ. god, immanent in humanity, revealed through the historical christ. god, immanent in the individual, the indwelling christ, the soul. how can this truth of the soul and the new birth be experienced, so simply and so practically that its meaning can appear, thus enabling us to do that which is needed? perhaps from the following statements: 1. hidden in every human being is the "wo

world of causes, saw mortal existence as it was and pointed the way out. but the principle of love the fundamental principle of the universe had not been revealed before christ came. god is love, and in the fullness of time this outstanding characteristic of the divine name had to be revealed and in such a manner that man could grasp it. it is thus that christ embodied in himself the greatest of the cosmic principles. this law of love can be seen functioning in the universe as the law of attraction, with all that is involved in that term coherency, integration, position, direction and the rhythmic running of our solar system; it can be seen also in the disposition of god towards humanity, as revealed to us through christ. this unique function of christ as the custodian and the revealer of

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e of a treatise on cosmic fire, which deals specifically with the creative process and with manifestation. it deals therefore with the outer personality expression of that great all-encompassing life, which we call god, for lack of a better term. we need to bear in mind that our universe (as far as the highest human consciousness can as yet conceive of it) is to be found on the seven subplanes of the cosmic physical plane, and that our highest type of energy, embodying for us the purest expression of spirit, is but the force manifestation of the first subplane of the cosmic physical plane. we are dealing, therefore, as far as consciousness is concerned, with what might be regarded symbolically as the brain reaction and response to cosmic purpose, the brain reaction of god himself. in man

sciousness is literally the reaction of active intelligence to the pattern. today, it is as if we were responding consciously and with an increasingly intelligent purpose to the design as laid down by the master builder upon the tracing board. as yet we do not and cannot enter into that cosmic mind and vibrate in conscious unison with the divine idea nor grasp the plan as it is sensed and seen by the cosmic thinker. we have to work with the design, with the pattern, and with the plan, for we are only as yet in process of being initiated into that plan and we are not aware of the true significance of those great identifications which enabled the carpenter of nazareth to say "i and my father are one" but it must also be remembered (and herein lies the clue to world unfoldment and to the myst

ucis trust aware of it) came to its first major expression during this slowly disappearing age, the present age, the piscean age. this law has always been functioning and active in the world, for it is one of the first of the inner subjective laws to express itself consciously, and as an active ideal, in human life. the theme of all the world religions has been divine sacrifice, the immolation of the cosmic deity through, the process of universal creation, and of the world saviours, by their death and sacrifice as a means of salvation and eventual release and liberation. such is the blindness and such is the contaminating influence of the lower separative man, that this divine law of sacrifice is wielded with the selfish intent of personal and individual salvation. but the travestied truth

n group implications are more carefully studied, the meaning of sacrifice and of death come into their rightful place in the human consciousness, and the law of giving, with all that that entails, is correctly understood and applied. those who thus sacrifice are: the solar deity who gave his life to the universe, to the solar system, to the planet, and the manifested worlds consequently appeared. the cosmic deity has likewise done the same. but- 56- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust what does this mean to us? naught, except a symbol. it was his impulse, his will, his desire, his incentive, his idea and purpose to appear. the creative act then took place, and the process of manifestation began its cyclic evolutionary existence. the co

fore can only make its presence and influence felt upon the path of discipleship. 6. it is the prime pre-requisite to true self-knowledge. it reveals at the same time that it divides or scatters. 7. it works through love and for the interest of the unit, the form and the existence which finally repulses the form. 8. it is an aspect of one of the greatest cosmic laws, the law of the soul, which is the cosmic law of attraction, for that which is attracted in time is automatically and eventually repulsed by that which attracted it in the first instance. this law is one which primarily begins to impress the divine purpose upon the consciousness of the aspirant, and dictates to him those higher impulses and those spiritual decisions which mark his progress upon the path. it is the demonstration

overlooked. yet man is but the macrocosm of the other kingdoms in nature. the seven rules which we are now studying are, therefore, of supreme importance, for they embody the key ideas which will reveal deity in operation as the soul of all things; they will- 140- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust reveal the nature and method of activity of the cosmic christ, and will indicate the governing qualitative tendencies which determine the psychical life of all forms from a universe to an atom in the body of any so-called material revelation of life. let us bear these thoughts in mind as we read and study. these rules express themselves with equal potency on all the seven rays, and they produce the manifestation of consciousness on earth in

r dreams and our high moments of aspiration. only when a man can function as a soul, and can turn the developed inner eye outward into the world of phenomena and inward into the world of reality, can he begin to sense god's true objective and purpose, to catch a brief glimpse of god's own pattern and the plan to which he so willingly conditions his own life, and for which the eternal sacrifice of the cosmic christ is essential. with these two divine trends (towards synthesis and towards the vision) the hierarchy is at this time primarily occupied. their watchwords are unification and sight. for humanity, these developments will produce the integration of the soul and the personality, and the awakening of that inner vision which will permit a flash of the reality to enter into man's conscio

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

ted and conditioning our present manifestation of divine life. 2. the life or manifestation of the planetary logos, the "one in whom we live and move and have our being" is determined by his own nature. to us, that great life embodies perfection and the qualities which distinguish him are those to which we direct our highest aspiration. but, from the angle of those lives who are ahead of him upon the cosmic path (i speak symbolically and in terms of human experience) he is among the "imperfect gods" these imperfections, hindering unfoldment or the perfect expression of divine energy when brought into conjunction with the inherited qualities and biases of the substances through which he must express his life, his purposes and intentions, produce the "seeds of death and of decay" which chara

all who see clearly what should be done to lead humanity out of darkness into light, beginning with the situation as it is and looking forward into a future of divine consummation. they have a clear picture in their minds of what is possible to accomplish, and the power to point it out to the people of their time. they necessarily range all the way from those who have a relatively clear vision of the cosmic picture and objectives to those who simply see the next step ahead for the race or the nation. isaiah and ezekiel are the only two of the hebrew prophets who had true prophetic and cosmic vision. the others were small, but intelligent men who, from analysis and deduction, assessed the immediate future and indicated immediate possibilities. they had no direct revealing intuition. in the

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

e words, you have a very simple definition of the process to which we give, technically, the name: the science of impression. another point to remember is that this science is the basic science of sensitivity; it is the art of all responsiveness to phenomena and is peculiarly applied to the reaction, the recognition, the responsiveness, and the registration of all phenomena to be found throughout the cosmic physical plane. this is the plane whereon our entire threefold planetary life finds expression and which- 34- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust we have subdivided (for the sake of clear thinking) into the seven planes (so called) of our solar system from what we call our lowest physical plane up to our highest plane, the logoic. in the earlier stages of respon

as the second aspect in manifestation (later to be superseded, called for, and developed, the critical faculty in man; this critical faculty (so destructive in its present use) will be correctly expressed when the nature of relationship is better grasped and the true function of ideas is properly understood. this supreme science of contact governs all reactions to impact. this statement includes the cosmic reactions of sanat kumara down to the scarcely discernible reactions (invisible almost even to the eye of the seer) of the infinitesimal atom. for the sake of clarity, i divided this science into three major divisions, basing them upon the reactions of the three major planetary centres to their environment. this is a point which i would have you carefully bear in mind. i could write a t

nt between humanity and the hierarchy is based entirely on a sense of relation. therefore only a certain level of conscious lives can invoke shamballa and evoke response, and this because they have themselves developed some of the aspects of that type of mental understanding which is the hierarchical expression of the universal mind. the light and futile talk of certain writers and thinkers anent the cosmic consciousness, and their flippant use of such phrases as "tuning in with the infinite" or "tapping the universal mind" serve only to show how very little is known in reality about the responses and the reactions of those of high initiate rank or of those on the highest levels of hierarchical life. true capacity to invoke and evoke (within initiate ranks) is based upon a mysterious devel

nt of view might look upon as the liberation of the planet. the generating of good karma necessitates the "living through" of conditions where everything (for the man responsible or for any other form within its limitations) is good, happy, beneficent and useful. the evil karma generated in any kingdom in relation to the "realm where dwelleth the planetary dweller on the threshold" stands between the cosmic door of initiation and our planetary logos. this dweller represents all the mistakes and errors due to wrong reactions, unrecognised contacts, deliberate choices made in defiance of known good, and mass movements and mass activities which are temporarily not progressive in time and space. i realise that where these facts apply to the subhuman kingdoms in nature you are not aware of what

fifth and are related to the three stages of triadal communication, each of which is related to the seventh, the eighth and the ninth initiations. never does the geometrical pattern, the numerical progression or the law of correspondences break down in the understanding of the purpose and the plans of the planetary logos established before the worlds were created and finding their prototypes upon the cosmic mental planes. these points are peculiarly difficult for men to grasp at this time wherein their state of consciousness is concentratedly individualised. nevertheless, there is on man's part a steadily growing responsiveness to an expanding environment, as for instance man's recognition of the distinction between nationalism and inter-nationalism. this responsiveness is naturally condit

that you think simply and (certainly, at first) in terms of the three major energies as they emanate from some centre, become impressing agents, and then are again transmitted or stepped down: 1. the dynamic electrical energy of life itself or divine potency, of embodied purpose, expressing through evolutionary manifestation the divine will. it might be well to realise that purpose emanates from the cosmic mental plane and is the all-inclusive, synthetic, motivating principle which expresses itself as the divine will upon the cosmic physical plane the seven planes of our planetary life. this dynamic energy focuses itself through the lives or beings who control and dominate shamballa. until the divine purpose has been achieved, the planetary logos holds all in manifestation through the pot

y or of correspondences, and if you will also accept the truism that the microcosm reflects the macrocosm and, therefore, each human being is related to deity through essential similarity. seven statements depicting the pattern of the present planetary work statement one. dynamic electric energy entered into our planetary sphere from extra-planetary sources and from a point of definite focus upon the cosmic mental plane; this energy was paralleled by a secondary energy from the sun sirius, thus accounting for the dualism of manifestation- 74- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust statement two. this energy expanded outward from its central focus (the centre called shamballa) and in this expansion became the agency which impressed the plan upon the serving hierarchy

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upon the physical plane, and- 7- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust condition his outer expression, activities, and qualities, so do the varying forces of the universe pour through every part of the etheric body of that entity we call space and condition and determine the outer expression, the activities and qualities of every form found within the cosmic periphery. the second point i would make is that within the human etheric body there are to be found seven major force centres which are in the nature of distributing agencies and electrical batteries, providing dynamic force and qualitative energy to the man; they produce definite effects upon his outer physical manifestation. through their constant activity his quality appears, his ra

cerned with the response of the etheric body to the incoming energies. it relates finally the lowest centre at the base of the spine to the highest centre, the head centre. this is a correspondence to the relation of the earth to the sun. think this out. as we work and study over these matters, let us bear in mind always the fact that we are considering the seven rays and their inter-relations in the cosmic process. we are concerned esoterically with: 1. the seven rays and the twelve signs of the zodiac. 2. the seven rays and the twelve creative hierarchies. 3. the seven rays and the planets as they govern the twelve houses of expression. as we ponder and think and as we correlate the various aspects of the teaching, we shall find three propositions emerging which govern the inflow of life

and matter and produce the manifested form. the sign of the zodiac with which it is closely connected is that of cancer, the crab, which is a mass sign and one of the "gates" into manifested life. the following information anent the hierarchies may prove useful. it has been gathered from various sources. i might here remind you that the seven planes of our solar system are the seven subplanes of the cosmic physical plane. the four creative hierarchies which have achieved liberation are now to be found focussed 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 l

ediary work, therefore, is dual: 1. they are the mediators between spirit and matter. 2. they are the transmitters of force from sources extraneous to the solar system to forms within the solar system. each of these groups of beings is likewise septenary in nature, and the forty-nine fires of brahma are the lowest manifestation of their fiery nature. each group also may be regarded as "fallen" in the cosmic sense, because involved in the building process, or the occupiers of forms of some degree of density or another. hierarchy i. the first great hierarchy is emanated from the heart of the central spiritual sun. it is the son of god himself, the first born in a cosmic sense, even as the christ was the "eldest in a vast family of brothers" and the "first flower on the human plant" the symbo

nd "lords of love" the flower of atma-buddhi- 25- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust in studying these hierarchies, one of the most valuable lessons to be learned is the place and importance of man in the scheme. the hierarchy, for instance, which is the essence of the intangible life of spirit, the principle of buddhi, is the esoteric cause of the cosmic marriage of spirit and matter, based on the love and desire of the logos, but each hierarchy also expresses itself through one particular manifestation which comes to be regarded by the finite mind of man as the hierarchy itself. this is not so, and care must be taken to distinguish between these hierarchies. they are latent germs of force centres and manifest subjectively; they warm an

pass through the etheric body of the solar logos and take forms composed of either gaseous, liquid, or dense substance. the others cannot. they cannot fall into physical generation- 26- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust students must bear in mind that from the standpoint of the logos, the solar angels on the mental plane (the fifth subplane of the cosmic physical plane) are in physical incarnation, and what is called the "second fall" applies to this. the first fall has reference to the taking of a form of cosmic etheric matter, such as is the case with the heavenly men, the prototypes of the human jivas. in this latter case the bodies used are called "formless" from our standpoint, and are "vital bodies" animated by cosmic prana. in th

ousness. thus a man becomes a world server. the world server 3. sagittarius and capricorn, through the earth and saturn, are related to ray 3. the one-pointed disciple becomes the initiate. the initiate 4. aries and virgo, through mercury and the moon, are related to ray 4. harmonising the cosmos and the individual through conflict, producing unity and beauty. the birth pangs of the second birth. the cosmic and individual christ 5. cancer and scorpio, through neptune and mars, are related to ray 6. transformation of the mass consciousness into the inclusive consciousness of the disciple. the triumphant disciple i would call attention to the fact that in tabulation iv, the relationship is between the planets which rule, and in tabulation v the emphasis is laid upon the conditioning ray. tab

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

iendship between her husband and herself and foster and me. later we stayed with them frequently in their beautiful home at torquay, south devon, and when i got tired or worried i would go down to violet and talk with her. she was a prolific writer. she wrote numerous popular novels and her books on psychism, based on her own experiences, are sound and intriguing and one of her last books, called the cosmic christ, has had a wide and most useful distribution. she was one of the few psychics in the world in whom it was possible absolutely to believe. she was highly intelligent; with a strong sense of humor and a well developed investigating spirit. she was a great student of the tibetan's books and i kept her supplied with everything he wrote as soon as he wrote it. she was a friend of high

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

he etheric body, which has one main objective. this is to vitalise and energise the physical body and thus integrate it into the energy body of the earth and of the solar system. it is a web of energy streams, of lines of force and of light. it constitutes part of the vast network of energies which underlies all forms whether great or small (microcosmic or macrocosmic. along these lines of energy the cosmic forces flow, as the blood flows through the veins and arteries. this constant, individual human, planetary and solar circulation of life-forces through the etheric bodies of all forms is the basis of all manifested life, and the expression of the essential non-separateness of all life. 3. the astral or desire body (sometimes called the emotional body) is the effect of the interplay of d

w of karmic necessity. this governs the life of the advanced disciple and the initiate from the time of the second initiation until a certain initiation higher than the fourth; these initiations enable him to pass on to the way of the higher evolution. 3. the law of karmic transformation, a mysterious phrase governing the processes undergone upon the higher way. these fit the initiate to pass off the cosmic physical plane altogether, and to function upon the cosmic mental plane. it is concerned with the release of those like sanat kumara, and his associates in the council chamber at shamballa, from the imposition of cosmic desire which demonstrates upon our cosmic physical plane as spiritual will. this should be to you an arresting thought. it will be obvious, however, that there is little

ring, has to do with the death or the disappearance of the causal body at the time of the fourth initiation; this marks the completion of the building of the antahkarana and the institution of direct, unimpeded continuity of relationship between the monad and the personality. the third death takes place when the initiate leaves behind him, finally and with no prospect of return, all relation with the cosmic physical plane. this death, necessarily, lies far ahead for all in the hierarchy and is at present only possible and permissible for a few in the council chamber at shamballa. it is not, however, a process through which sanat kumara will pass. he underwent this "transformation" many aeons ago, during the great cataclysm which inaugurated the lemurian age, and which was induced by his co

in which the spiritual soul has hitherto functioned. it can be applied, however, in a more literal sense, and- 241- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust may be referred to the second phase of the death process in the three worlds. it then concerns form only, and is related to those vehicles of expression which are found below the formless levels of the cosmic physical plane. these form levels are (as you know well, for the knowledge constitutes the a.b.c. of the occult theory) the levels on which the concrete, lower mind functions, the emotional nature reacts to the so-called astral plane, and the dual physical plane. the physical body consists of the dense physical body and the etheric vehicle. we have consequently, when considering the dea

al, but has no implementing form, except that of the greater whole in which it finds its place. neither form nor quality (body nor consciousness) are paramount in the new state of being, only the life aspect, the spirit on its own plane becomes the dominating factor. some faint dim light on the significance of this may come if you bear in mind that our seven planes are only the seven subplanes of the cosmic physical plane. the process of developing sensitivity in this sevenfold evolution has been undergone in order to enable the initiate to function upon the cosmic astral plane, when withdrawn or abstracted after the higher initiations. he is abstracted from our planetary life altogether. only one factor could prevent this, and that might be his pledge to serve temporarily within the plane

y, and the wide usefulness of death as a process in reconstruction. it will convey to you the idea that this great law of death as it governs substance in the three worlds is a beneficent and corrective event. without enlarging upon it, i would remind you that this law of death, which governs in such potency in the three worlds of human evolution, is a reflection of a cosmic purpose which governs the cosmic etheric planes of our solar system, the cosmic astral plane and the cosmic mental plane. the death-dealing energy emanates as an expression of the life principle of that greater life which enfolds all the seven planetary systems which in themselves express the life of our solar system. when, in our thinking and in our effort to understand, we enter this realm of pure abstraction, it is

e personality consciousness. the consciousness is now that of the soul itself, aware of no separation, instinctively active, spiritually obsessed by the plans of the kingdom of god, and completely free from the lure or the faintest control of matter-form; the soul is, however, still responsive to and immersed in substance-energy, and its higher correspondence is still functioning on the levels of the cosmic physical plane the buddhic, atmic, monadic and logoic planes. what then must take place if the life of the soul is to be full and complete and so thoroughly inclusive that the three worlds form part of its area of awareness and its field of service? the only way in which i can make clear to you what the soul must do after the third initiation is to sum it up in two ways: first: the soul

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

lucis trust is a science essentially the science of the soul of all things and has its own terminology, experiments, deductions and laws. when i say "soul" i refer to the animating consciousness found throughout nature and on those levels which lie outside the territory usually called nature. students are apt to forget that every level of awareness, from the highest to the lowest, is an aspect of the cosmic physical plane, and is therefore (from the angle of evolutionary process) material in nature, and (from the angle or point of view of certain divine observers) definitely tangible and formed of creative substance. the esotericist is dealing with substance all the time; he is concerned with that living, vibrant substance of which the worlds are made and which inherited as it is from a pr

cist is dealing with substance all the time; he is concerned with that living, vibrant substance of which the worlds are made and which inherited as it is from a previous solar system is coloured by past events, and is (as has been said "already tinged with karma" it should also be noted that just as the physical plane, so familiar to us, is not regarded as a principle by the esoteric student, so the cosmic physical plane (from the standpoint of the cosmic lives) is likewise "not a principle" i give you here much food for thought. it might be stated that the esotericist is occupied in discovering and working with those principles which energise each level of the cosmic physical plane and which are, in reality, aspects of the qualified life energy which is working in and through unprinciple

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

right spiritual and human relations. when in the attitude of meditation and using the- 133- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust implement of prayer (by means of the invocation, he attains a relationship with the mass of humanity not otherwise possible, he can implement their recognised though unvoiced need, and he also allies himself with the hierarchy, who work from the cosmic astral plane but through the use of the planetary antahkarana work also on buddhic-mental levels and are evoked by the desire of the mass of men. i do not intend to deal further here with the invocation, because i did so fully in the earlier meditation instructions. i earnestly beg you, however, to reread what i there wrote. meditation vii. the cross. spiritual position it is an occult

flecting lights; the members of this group are to a certain extent extra-planetary. they are affiliated with shamballa and focus cosmic creative energy, thus making it available (on demand) to the members of the council chamber at shamballa. there is little that we need consider about them; they are the "helpers of the lord of the world" and implement his purposes as they are formulated by him on the cosmic mental plane. the point which i seek to emphasise, and which i hope will remain in your minds, is that this technique of meditation is the outstanding creative agent on our planet. when you, as an individual, are endeavouring to "build the new man in christ" which will be an expression of your true spiritual self, meditation is, as you well know, your best agent; but the meditation proc

the seven planes of his manifested universe? what- 201- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust is the organ, employed by him, which corresponds to the third eye in man? the answer is as follows: the monad is to the planetary logos what the third eye is to man; this will become clearer to you if you will bear in mind that our seven planes are only the seven subplanes of the cosmic physical plane. the monadic world so-called is his organ of vision; it is also his directing agent for the life and light which must be poured into the phenomenal world. in the same way, the monad is to the personality in the three worlds, also the source of its life and light. there are, therefore, three organs of revelation, as far as the spiritual man is concerned: 1. the human eye

ure of the interior worlds, of the kingdom of god and of the divine plan. 3. the centre within the one life which we call by the unmeaning word "monad" the spark within the one flame. in the final stages of initiation, the monad becomes the revealer of the purpose of god, of the will of the planetary logos and of the door which opens on to the way of the higher evolution. this way leads a man off the cosmic physical plane on to the cosmic astral plane, and therefore into the world of divine sentiency, of which we can have no possible understanding, but for which the development of consciousness has given us the initial steps. man has learnt to use the physical eye and to find his way, by its means, around and through his environment. the stage in human evolution wherein he learnt first to

inclusions of areas of consciousness; these latter must become the normal field of experience and of expression; they then become the ground for further expansion. every revelation has to be mastered from four angles: 1. the mental, occult, spiritual, hierarchical and triadal facts it embodies. every revelation has its own format, for all our planes so steadily being revealed are the subplanes of the cosmic physical plane. 2. the meaning which the facts and the format veil and hide and for which the one who is being enlightened must search. 3. the effect which the revelation is intended to make in the daily life and service and the ashramic relationships of the disciple or initiate. 4. the germ, seed thought, key form and invocative potency of that which has been revealed. every revelation

em would naturally be too abstruse for your comprehension which is seated in the mind and brain instead of in the soul and heart. it is obvious that if initiation is a physical plane affair, requiring recognition in the brain consciousness, the disciples must be in physical incarnation together, and by this i mean within the ring-pass-not of the three worlds which are the dense physical planes of the cosmic physical plane) for a sufficiently long period of time to test their reactions, as a group, to the concept of group initiation and to each other as participants. for a great part of this time there must also be a physical plane life, shared by all in the group; this need not involve similarity or identity of location, but must involve similarity of world affairs and civilisation. this p

decision: activity, rhythm, relationship, decision! the decisions arrived at are not related to life in the three worlds, but embody the reactions of the spiritual triad. this is a point most difficult for you to grasp, because you have not yet truly built or employed the antahkarana; it is time as the opener of the door to extra-planetary existence and as it releases the initiate, not only from the cosmic physical plane but from the cosmic astral plane also. it is with these thoughts that i must stop my present exegesis, because language has not yet the capacity to indicate the truth, even if such indications were fruitful and of use even to the advanced aspirant. on hints there is one mistake which esoteric students are prone to make; they are apt to believe that a hint is so carefully

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

in this solar system of changing forces, shifting cycles and constant mutation directed towards the inscrutable ends of deity inscrutable as far as the human consciousness is concerned. they remain inscrutable to humanity, because the three major ends or purposes which affect you, for instance, as members of the fourth kingdom in nature are: 1. the direction in which the solar logos is going upon the cosmic path. e soterically. the way towards the central spiritual sun. 2. the plans of the planetary logos upon the systemic path. e soterically. the way towards the heart of the sun. 3. the purpose ahead for the human family upon the path of light. e soterically. the way of the sun. i put this in here only to show you how vague and uncertain are your very highest speculations. be content with

later date in your unfoldment. the spirit of peace who is invoked in the second phrase, let the spirit of peace be spread abroad, is that mysterious and divine entity with whom the christ came into touch and whose influence played through him at the time that he earned the right to be called the "prince of peace" as i have elsewhere told you in my earlier writings, the christ embodied in himself the cosmic principle of love, the expression of which in manifestation will work out as "glory to god, peace on earth and goodwill towards men" to this the angels testified at his birth. when he expressed this principle of love in his life and world service, he definitely linked up our planet and humanity (in particular) with the source of the light, love and life to which we refer in this second

the great avatar, their disciples on earth can also in a dim and faint way become responsive to the ideas that are formulated in the mind of their particular master in response to avataric impression. ponder on this. 2. inspiration. this is more direct than overshadowing and more potent in results. certain members of the hierarchy and, above all, the lesser avatars, are inspired from "on high" by the cosmic avatar and become at times direct expressions of his mind, his energy and his plans. this is the spiritual correspondence to obsession. in the case of obsession, a man is taken possession of and inspired by some evil entity; in inspiration, there is no possession but only what is called "identical response" a very different thing. in the one case, the free will and intelligent understan

cker and more immediate in results, but the lasting power is less- 200- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust and the effects are relatively temporary. in the processes of inspiration, the lesser avatar through his life and contacts in the three worlds will necessarily influence sensitive, spiritually oriented disciples and aspirants, and thus the inspiration coming from the cosmic avatar becomes in time a group inspiration, and therefore can be more safely handled. this group inspiration can happen today. if it does, there will then be a simultaneous appearing of the cosmic avatar, the world saviour in the person of the lesser avatar, and at the same time a group saviour, composed of responsive disciples and world servers. ponder again on this. in this way, if yo

es, has been fundamentally threefold in nature: a. a constant effort to set up a closer and more understanding relation with shamballa. this involves: an unfoldment of the will aspect in conjunction with a full use of intelligent love. a constant adaptation of the developing plan to the emerging, energising purpose. an increasing ability to transmit energy from shamballa to the three worlds, from the cosmic- 369- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust etheric levels to the cosmic dense physical planes. b. to unfold within the periphery of the hierarchical centre a life, a plan and a technique which will train all who find their way into an ashram, which is in itself an aspect of the life of the hierarchy. this ancient and intelligent effort has created and conditio

of the hierarchy begins to take place (and it will be spread over quite a long period of time, the impact of these substantial energies on matter will be radically altered because they will be for the first time in history directed from etheric levels, from the etheric body of the planet in the three worlds; hitherto, these energies have been directed from the buddhic plane which is the lowest of the cosmic etheric levels. fundamentally, direction will still be from the buddhic plane, but the detailed and focussed direction will be given from within the three worlds and upon the physical plane; this will be the task of the externalised ashrams, organised to function openly. it was the knowledge that this important development was imminent which made the hierarchy in the last century widen

uilt are: 1. there is naught in manifestation except organised energy 2. energy follows or conforms itself to thought 3. the occultist works in energy and with energies. the thought of god brought the universe of energies into organised form upon the highest of the seven planes, or upon the first cosmic etheric level. these energies have for untold aeons been directed from the fourth or lowest of the cosmic etheric planes, the plane which we call the buddhic and regard as the first definitely spiritual plane, in our usually erroneous thought; this direction has been under impression from shamballa, and the masters have "manipulated these energies in conformity with the plan, which is the blueprint of the purpose" in the great approach of the hierarchy to humanity and its imminent appearanc

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structing evil forces (so-called) are met with upon the highest spiritual levels because they are in their turn evoked by the impelling impact of the coming avatar whose "note is heard ahead of him, and his energy spreads before him" this is a great mystery and can only be understood (and then merely theoretically) if you bear in mind that all our planes even the very highest are the subplanes of the cosmic physical plane. when this fact is somewhat grasped there comes a simplification of thought. as a consequence of all this, great and fundamental readjustments are going on within the hierarchy itself and within that intervening area of the divine consciousness to which we give the- 9- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust name (as

ut has no implementing form, except that of the greater whole in which it finds its place. neither form nor quality (body nor consciousness) are paramount in the new state of being, but only the life aspect, the spirit on its own plane, becomes the dominating factor. some faint dim light on the significance of this may come if you bear in mind that our seven planes are only the seven subplanes of the cosmic physical plane. the process of developing sensitivity in this sevenfold evolution has been undergone in order to enable the initiate to function upon the cosmic astral plane, when withdrawn or abstracted after the higher initiations. he is abstracted from our planetary life altogether. only one factor could prevent this, and that might be his pledge to serve temporarily within the plane

rried ranks, work ceaselessly. let the disciple apply himself to a consideration of their methods; let him learn the rules whereby the army works within the veils of maya. these particular devas in "their serried ranks" are the directive agents of the divine energy which implements the purposes of deity upon the physical plane. they work only on etheric levels either upon our physical plane or on the cosmic etheric levels. they are therefore active in the realm of maya, which is the etheric plane as we usually understand it, or upon the planes of the spiritual triad. they are not active on the three gross physical levels or upon the astral or mental planes, nor are they active upon the highest or logoic plane. there they are implicit or latent but not active. they are the great "impulsive

treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust demonstrated by his astral (emotional) and mental natures and activities. these indicate his point of development. the devas are the agents of the divine will because they are a consequence of the point of attainment of our planetary logos as he exists outside the seven planes of our sphere of existence, the cosmic physical plane. they are conditioned by his cosmic astral and mental vehicles. in a definite sense, they are the agents of the universal mind, even though they are not mental as we understand that term. they are sometimes regarded as blind forces, but that is only because they get their inspiration from levels of divine awareness outside the range of the human consciousness, no matter h

losely connected with the third aspect of divinity. they are essentially the "eye within the triangle" a most familiar symbol to many today. they are the expression, in activity, of the all-see-ing eye; through their agency god sees, and through them and the energy directed through them, he directs the creative process. they are under the complete control of the three buddhas of activity, who are the cosmic prototypes of the lords of the three major rays, but not in the sense usually understood when the rays are considered in their relation to man. they are the correspondence of these three rays and are responsible for the entire manifested universe, but only within the orbit of the third aspect, the expression of the universal mind. they come from the cosmic mental plane, just as the ener

major rays, but not in the sense usually understood when the rays are considered in their relation to man. they are the correspondence of these three rays and are responsible for the entire manifested universe, but only within the orbit of the third aspect, the expression of the universal mind. they come from the cosmic mental plane, just as the energy distinctive of the second aspect comes from the cosmic astral plane. god is mind. god is intelligent functioning. god is creative activity. these are the qualities of the deva evolution. god is love. god is relationship. god is consciousness. these are the three qualities of the christ evolution. this latter evolution is carried on within the created sphere of influence of the third aspect. god is life. god is fire. god is pure being. these

tionship. god is consciousness. these are the three qualities of the christ evolution. this latter evolution is carried on within the created sphere of influence of the third aspect. god is life. god is fire. god is pure being. these are the qualities of the spirit aspect, the omnipotent aspect of deity. all these three aspects focus themselves and find an outlet for expression upon the levels of the cosmic etheric planes and upon the levels of the etheric planes known to humanity in the three worlds. the law of correspondences is infallible, if rightly approached and applied. this broad and general presentation must be rightly grasped if the rule, as given to disciples and initiates, is to be correctly understood. you have been taught that illusion is the characteristic which must be mast

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areness and selflessness. this is the lesson that hercules brings to us, and this is the demonstration [10] of the life of god which is being wrought out in the creative process, and which flowers forth more beautifully each time that the life of god makes its sweep around the zodiac which, the astronomers tell us, takes approximately twenty-five thousand years to accomplish. this is the story of the cosmic christ, crucified upon the fixed cross of the heavens; this is the story of the historical christ, given us in the gospel story and enacted two thousand years ago in palestine; this is the story of the individual christ, crucified upon the cross of matter, and incarnated in each human being, god, incarnate in matter. this is the story of our solar system, the story of our planet, the st

tter. this is the story of our solar system, the story of our planet, the story of the human being. thus as we look at the starry heavens above, we have eternally pictured for us this great drama, which the story of hercules elucidates in detail for the aspirant. key thoughts four key thoughts can be given here which express the underlying purpose of the creative process and the objective of both the cosmic christ and of the individual aspirant. they give us the clue to the working out of the plan. taken together they embody the entire story of the relationship of spirit and matter, of life and form, and of soul and body. first "nature expresses invisible energies through visible forms" back of the objective world of phenomena, human or solar, small or great, organic or inorganic, lies a s

sces via taurus (anti-clockwise, instead of working in the ordinary human retrogressive fashion, from aries to taurus via pisces (clockwise. finally, the changing focus of the life and the steady application to the twelve labors in the twelve signs enables the disciple to become the triumphant victor. then he can comprehend the significance of the fourth key thought and can exclaim in unison with the cosmic deity "listen to this great secret. although i am above birth and rebirth, or law, being the lord of all there is, for all emanateth from me, still do i will to appear in my own universe and am therefore born by my power and thought and will (the bhagavad gita, as compiled and adapted by yogi ramacharaka [14] hercules the disciple- the myth he stood before his teacher. dimly he understo

opposite sign, libra, it reaches its consummation of balance and of equilibrium, for the intervening experience and the lessons learned from the intermediate five labors bring about that poise and balanced attitude which we shall note in hercules when he captures the boar, in libra [34] in the brahmanical zodiac, vishnu presides over aries and vishnu is the second person of the hindu trimurti, or the cosmic christ in incarnation, as he initiates the process of form-taking, and ultimately brings about the final episode of resurrection. thus vishnu or christ embodies the two urges, the urge to create and build form and the urge to liberation, or resurrection out of form. it is under this urge to liberation that hercules starts upon his labors. the sign of the mind aries governs the head. it

der this urge to liberation that hercules starts upon his labors. the sign of the mind aries governs the head. it is consequently the sign of the thinker and, therefore, a powerful mental sign. all beginnings originate on the mental plane and in the mind of the creator, whether that creator is god or the soul of man. this universe had its- 23- the labours of hercules origin in the thought of god, the cosmic thinker. the soul started its career in matter through the same process of thought. the human family, the fourth kingdom in nature, came into being when mind emerged and differentiated man from the animals. the aspirant begins his labors when he truly becomes the thinker, and in full awareness proceeds to function as the arbiter of his own destiny. it is apparent, consequently, that in

tars, called by the greeks, castor and pollux, or the twins. these personify two major groups of stars, the seven pleiades, and the seven stars of the great bear, which are the two constellations, in the north, around which our universe seems to revolve. one star represents each constellation. from the standpoint of esotericism, the great mystery of god incarnate in matter, and the crucifixion of the cosmic christ upon the cross of matter, is tied up with the relationship (presumed from most ancient times to exist) between the stars of the pleiades and those of the great bear. these two groups of stars represent god, the macrocosm, whilst in gemini, castor and pollux were regarded as symbols of man, the microcosm. they were also called apollo and hercules: apollo, meaning the ruler, the su

b which he had himself made, he entered the cave and with his two hands choked the lion to death. that was an encounter that took place unseen by anybody; hercules and the lion in the dark and the gloom of the cave taking part, both of them, in a struggle which had to be to the death. the field of the labor the sign leo is one of the four arms of the fixed cross in the heavens, the cross on which the cosmic christ and the individual christ are ever crucified. perhaps the word "crucified" would have a true significance if we substituted for it the word "sacrificed, for in the unfoldment of the christ consciousness in the form, stage by stage, various aspects of the divine nature are seen as being sacrificed. in taurus, the symbol of creative force expressing itself through desire, we see th

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mere abstraction- it is unnecessary to weave too fine a cobweb of subtleties as to the order of succession of[[footnote(s* according to dr. a. wilder's learned definition, genesis[[genesis, is not generation, but "a coming out of the eternal into the kosmos and time "a coming from esse into exsistere" or "from be-ness into 'being- as a theosophist would say[[vol. 2, page] 25 man, the third logos. the cosmic ultimates. force succeeds mulaprakriti; but, minus force, mulaprakriti is for all practical intents and purposes non-existent* the "heavenly man (tetragrammaton) who is the protogonos, tikkoun, the firstborn from the passive deity and the first manifestation of that deity's shadow, is the universal form and idea, which engenders the manifested logos, adam kadmon, or the four-lettered sy

rate them and that which is left is a gross superstition under a mask of emotionalism. but why "geometrize" as plato has it, why represent these emanations under the form of an immense arithmetical table? the question is well answered by the author just cited. his remarks are quoted in part ii "the theogony of the creative gods "mental perception" he says "to become physical perception, must have the cosmic principle of light: and by this, our mental circle must become visible through light; or, for its complete manifestation, the circle must be that of physical visibility, or light itself. such conceptions, thus formulated, became the groundwork of the philosophy of the divine manifesting in the universe" this is philosophy. it is otherwise when we find the rabbi in al-chazari saying that

tion of 994 maha-yugas, which is equal to. 4,294,080,000[[footnote(s* vaivasvata manu is the one human being- some versions add to him the seven rishis- who in the matsya avatar allegory is saved from the deluge in a boat, like noah in the ark. therefore, this vaivasvata manvantara would be the "post-diluvian" period. this, however, does not refer to the later "atlantean" or noah's deluge, nor to the cosmic deluge or pralaya of obscuration, which preceded our round, but to the appearance of mankind in the latter round. there is a great difference made, however, between the "naimitika" occasional or incidental "prakritika" elemental "atyantika" the absolute, and "nitya" the perpetual pralaya; the latter being described as "brahma's contingent recoalescence of the universe at the end of brah

se, otherwise, the logos (krishna) would have to be reborn, and he is aja (unborn" we cannot see why. the logos is said to be born only metaphorically, as the sun is born daily, or rather a beam of that sun is born in the morning and is said to die when it disappears, whereas it is simply reabsorbed into the parent essence. cosmic pralaya is for things visible, not for the arupa, formless, world. the cosmic or universal pralaya comes only at the end of one hundred years of brahma; when the universal dissolution is said to take place. then the avyaya, say the exoteric scriptures, the eternal life symbolized by vishnu, assuming the character of rudra, the destroyer, enters into the seven rays of the sun and drinks up all the waters of the universe "thus fed, the seven solar rays dilate to se

hining word of god (sound) is the son of the deity("pymander" 6* thus we have to study well the "primary creation" before we can understand the secondary. the first race had three rudimentary elements in it; and no fire as yet; because, with the ancients, the evolution of man, and the growth and development of his spiritual and physical senses, were subordinate to the evolution of the elements on the cosmic plane of this earth. all proceeds from prabhavapyaya, the evolution of the creative and sentient principles in the gods, and even of the so-called creative deity himself. this is found in the names and appellations given to vishnu in exoteric scriptures. as the protologos (the orphic, he is called purvaja "pregenetic" and then the other names connect him in their descending order more a

nd the inferior with the superior; to effect that one truly wonderful work- which is man. for the secret work of chiram, or king hiram in the kabala "one in essence, but three in aspect" is the universal agent or lapis philosophorum. the culmination of the secret work is spiritual perfect man, at one end of the line; the union of the three elements is the occult solvent in the "soul of the world" the cosmic soul or astral light, at the other; and, on the material plane, it is hydrogen in its relation to the other gases. the to on, truly; the one "whom no person has seen except the son; this sentence applying both to the metaphysical and physical kosmos, and to the spiritual and material man. for how could the latter understand the to on the "one father" if his manas, the "son" does not bec

ther, fulfilling the word divine" therefore- 55 "holy is the sabbath of god: blessed and sanctified is the name of the angel of havas- satan. for "the glory of satan is the shadow of the lord: god in the manifested world "the throne of satan is the footstool of adonai- that footstool being the whole kosmos (vide part ii "is pleroma satan's lair) when the church, therefore, curses satan, it curses the cosmic reflection of god; it anathematizes god made manifest in matter or in the objective; it maledicts god, or the ever-incomprehensible wisdom, revealing itself as light and shadow, good and evil in nature, in the only manner comprehensible to the limited intellect of man. this is the true philosophical and metaphysical interpretation of samael, or satan, the adversary in the kabala; the sa

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el says, both absolute being and non- being (2) the first manifestation, the impersonal, and, in philosophy, unmanifested logos, the precursor of the "manifested" this is the "first cause" the "unconscious" of european pantheists (3) spirit-matter, life; the "spirit of the universe" the purusha and prakriti, or the second logos (4) cosmic ideation, mahat or intelligence, the universal world-soul; the cosmic noumenon of matter, the basis of the intelligent operations in and of nature, also called maha-buddhi. the one reality; its dual aspects in the conditioned universe. further, the secret doctrine affirms (b) the eternity of the universe in toto as a boundless plane; periodically "the playground of numberless universes incessantly manifesting and disappearing" called "the manifesting star

cult meaning, extracted from the allegorical "churning of the ocean" by the hindu gods. besides amrita, the water of life or immortality "surabhi" the "cow of plenty" called "the fountain of milk and curds" was extracted from this "sea of milk" hence the universal adoration of the cow and bull, one the productive, the other the generative power in nature: symbols connected with both the solar and the cosmic deities. the specific properties, for occult purposes, of the "fourteen precious things" being explained only at the fourth initiation, cannot be given here; but the following may be remarked. in the "satapatha brahmana" it is stated that the churning of the "ocean of milk" took place in the satya yug, the first age which immediately followed the "deluge" as, however, neither the rig-ve

manifested world* manas- the mind-principle, or the human soul* buddhi- the divine soul[[vol. 1, page] 102 the secret doctrine. roman church as the leaders of the heavenly hosts, thus showing the same traditions. having evolved from cosmic space, and before the final formation of the primaries and the annulation of the planetary nebula, the sun, we are taught, drew into the depths of its mass all the cosmic vitality he could, threatening to engulf his weaker "brothers" before the law of attraction and repulsion was finally adjusted; after which he began feeding on "the mother's refuse and sweat; in other words, on those portions of ether (the "breath of the universal soul) of the existence and constitution of which science is as yet absolutely ignorant. a theory of this kind having been pr

philosophical idea. he produces nothing yet by himself; he is simply that potential creative power in virtue of whose action the noumenon of all future phenomena divides, so to speak, but to reunite in a mystic supersensuous act, and emit the creative ray. when the "divine son" breaks forth, then fohat becomes the propelling force, the active power which causes the one to become two and three- on the cosmic plane of manifestation. the triple one differentiates into the many, and then fohat is transformed into that force which brings together the elemental atoms and makes them aggregate and combine. we find an echo of this primeval teaching[[vol. 1, page] 110 the secret doctrine. in early greek mythology. erebos and nux are born out of chaos, and, under the action of eros, give birth in the

ve and propels it to action. fohat is not only the living symbol and container of that force, but is looked upon by the occultists as an entity- the forces he acts upon being cosmic, human and terrestrial, and exercising their influence on all those planes respectively. on the earthly plane his influence is felt in the magnetic and active force generated by the strong desire of the magnetizer. on the cosmic, it is present in the constructive power that carries out, in the formation of things- from the planetary system down to the glow-worm and simple daisy- the plan in the mind of nature, or in the divine thought, with regard to the development and growth of that special thing. he is, metaphysically, the objectivised thought of the gods; the "word made flesh" on a lower scale, and the mess

e human physical form of man, in which it becomes life* ormazd is the logos, the "first born" and the sun[[vol. 1, page] 114 the secret doctrine. is identical with kronos, in his aeolian form, that of a circle. for the circle is sar, and saros, or cycle, and was the babylonian god whose circular horizon was the visible symbol of the invisible, while the sun was the one circle from which proceeded the cosmic orbs, and of which he was considered the leader. zero-ana, is the chakra or circle of vishnu, the mysterious emblem which is, according to the definition of a mystic "a curve of such a nature that as to any, the least possible part thereof, if the curve be protracted either way it will proceed and finally re-enter upon itself, and form one and the same curve- or that which we call the c

ere the arupa and rupa worlds formed: from one light seven lights; from each of the seven, seven times seven" etc, etc- stanza v- continued. 5. fohat takes five strides (having already taken the first three (a, and builds a winged wheel at each corner of the square for the four holy ones. and their armies (hosts (b (a) the "strides" as already explained (see commentary on stanza iv, refer to both the cosmic and the human principles- the latter of which consist, in the exoteric division, of three (spirit, soul, and body, and, in the esoteric calculation, of seven principles- three rays of the essence and four aspects* those who have studied mr. sinnett's "esoteric buddhism" can easily grasp the nomenclature. there are two esoteric schools- or rather one school, divided into two parts- one f

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rade, the attainment of hatha-yoga. the equinox 34 course v the practicus will be examined in the following books: liber ccxx. liber l vel legis sub figur ccxx as delivered by xciii unto dclxvi. this book is the foundation of the new on, and thus of the whole of our work. liber xxvii. liber trigrammaton, being a book of trigrams of the mutations of the tao with the yin and the yang. an account of the cosmic process: corresponding to the stanzas of dzyan in another system. liber ccxxxi. liber arcanorum twn atv tou tahvti qvas vidit asar in amenti sub figur ccxxxi. liber carcerum twn qliphoth cum suis geniis. addentur sigilla et nomina eorum. this is an account of the cosmic process so far as it is indicated by the tarot trumps. liber cd. liber tav vel kabbal trium literarum sub figur cd. a

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ons; memory; reflex actions; and serves as the connecting passageway between your conscious and super-conscious minds. as the vital forces begin to flow through the nervous sytem, the individual achieves a sense of well-being and peace. the subconscious begins to clear itself of the negative and undesired patterns of feelings and the images that have been programmed into it through your lifetime. the cosmic force of the kundalini very naturally operates in a calm, relaxed, contemplative atmosphere. as the succession of opening chakras continues, your awareness and perception of life flows continually from within. you are led to do the right thing at the right time. a new vibrancy permeates your being. meditation allows you to learn to control the restless, materially oriented conscious min

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unmanifested sephiroth, or the potentialities of the limitless light, subsisting in eternity, which become the sephiroth when a cycle of manifestation begins. yod is both ten and twenty because the numeral value of the single letter i is 10, and that of the letter-name i v d is 20. the ten ineffable sephiroth subsist eternally, but the manifested sephiroth come and go, as cycle succeeds cycle in the cosmic outbreathing and in-breathing. during a cycle of expression, therefore, when the sephiroth are both unmanifest and manifest, they arc represented by the number 20. all the forces represented by the ten lights of emanation are included in the seven spirits of god, or elohim. the number seven includes the number ten, because the theosophic extension of 7 is 28, which digits to 10, the hep

ideas behind that designation. qabalists say that the stable intelligence "is the source of consistency in all the sephiroth" 2 the number 90 reveals the operation of yesod through the ten lights of emanation because 90 is 9 x 10. the number 9 is that of yesod, and 10 here signifies the ten sephiroth. yesod means "foundation, or basis. qabalists assign to this sephirah the reproductive organs of the cosmic [124] c o m m e n t on mem man. yesod is thus regarded as the focus of the selfperpetuating potencies of the life-power, and esoterically water is the seed-principle out of which all forms are developed. to commemorate this fourfold manifestation of life, the divine names in many languages are four-lettered. this is particularly true in hebrew, and of the divine names in that language t

ssage. the divine name attributed to chokmah, wisdom, is jah, i h, and its numeral value is 15. the extension of 15, or the sum of the numbers from 1 to 15, is 120, so that in m k i n "strengthening" or "renewal" of powers, is manifested the plenitude of the numeral value of jah, i h. in this connection, also, note that jah, i h, is directly connected with chaiah, ch i h, the life-force, and with the cosmic cycles of the zodiac, since chokmah is said to be the seat of the life-force and the sphere of the zodiac. qabalistic alchemy assigns the metal gold to tiphareth, beauty, and this same sephirah is the heavenly son, ben, b n. the hebrew for "sublimity" or "glory" is gawawn, g a v n, which adds up to 60, the value of the letter samekh. the same number is represented by the emphatic hinnay

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

at typescript that has been gathering dust, do whatever it takes to help ourselves to get the results we desire. my late mother would always say if i asked for extra funds 'money doesn't grow on trees; and this holds true even in the magical world. money, success and opportunities have to be generated and earned. we need to add our own will-power to the power we have drawn on. what is more, under the cosmic profit-and-loss scheme, if we ask for a psychic overdraft, we must give back, if not immediately, then at a later date. so when seite 4 wicca01.txt your finances are better or your immediate troubles are passed, you should make a small donation or give time to a worthwhile cause connected with the area of the spell. this balances up the account whose cosmic energies you tapped into. man

passed, you should make a small donation or give time to a worthwhile cause connected with the area of the spell. this balances up the account whose cosmic energies you tapped into. many shamans or witches demand some sort of payment for services, and this is not from avarice, but because all too often if something is not paid for, it is not valued. so be sure that you pay the shaman -especially the cosmic one. this is grass roots magick, but it works. magick for your needs 'enough for my needs and a little more' is another of the maxims of this incredibly moral craft, as i mentioned earlier. you would be amazed the number of times i am asked 'okay, if you are a witch, how come you can't predict the lottery numbers' the answer is that it all comes down to need: and do i need a million pou

hbour, or a colleague you know is unhappy or worried; or perhaps it could be an animal park or environmental project that is under threat or needs help financially, legally or practically or even a local disaster. as you send out loving or healing energies, so you will receive them in return, often in unexpected ways or perhaps at some future time when you yourself are vulnerable. this is part of the cosmic banking system and in practice there is considerable overlap between this and personal spells. magick to increase positivity these are the least focused kind of spells. they are used to send out energies to whoever needs them, for example of love, happiness, health or abundance. they may be for an endangered species, a war-torn land, a country in need of water or the planet itself. if a

es well with clary sage, geranium, lemon and chamomile. an oil ritual to increase prosperity as i have said before, magick is part of life and there is nothing wrong with carrying out rituals for your personal needs and a little more. however, you must make an effort, when you are financially more secure, to share your good fortune with those who are genuinely in need. as long as you bear in mind the cosmic 'balance sheet, this will ensure that there are sufficient energies to go round.you can, of course, pay in kindnesses and help, as well as in monetary terms. it is unlikely that you will receive an unexpected cheque in the post the morning after this spell (though i am getting rather good at bewitching one of my financial directors at a firm i work for. instead, you may suddenly find th

he movement of the planets and stars- the dates will vary by a day or two depending on the year. i have written in several of my books about the folk and religious lore behind seasonal festivals and there are many other good books on this subject. in this chapter i mainly focus on the way they amplify the positive energies of the universe and provide a personal connection to the ebbs and flows of the cosmic cycle of existence. the rituals can be either private or group celebrations of power. they will also vary because they originate from many different myths, so that different gods and goddesses may appear in a variety of aspects. this may give rise to what seem to be contradictions, but in the coming together of myths this is inevitable and the god and goddess forms are a powerful metaph

eightfold year reflect global as well as personal concerns, and our ancestors linked their own fortunes with those of the herds, the soil, the trees and the crops. this is a very valid principle of white magick and one that i have returned to many times in this book. if our spells focus, for example, on increasing general abundance at the time of the harvest, our own needs will be met as part of the cosmic process of regeneration. what is more, the responsibility felt and still expressed in ritual by some indigenous peoples, for the coming of the rains or the annual rebirth of the sun, is not merely an unlearned response as some anthropologists suggest. it acknowledges the interconnectedness of universal and personal life forces and the responsibility humans have for care of the earth. as

e generic name for 'horned one. imbolc: the celtic festival of early spring. a fire festival, christianised as candlemas on 1 february. also known as oimelc. immanent: usually refers to a god or the goddess; indicating that they are manifest within the object of their creation, as the divine spark within people. see also transcendent. inner-plane teaching: contacting through meditation or rituals the cosmic memory bank or akashic records in order to tap into the great existing magical systems and wisdom without external formal teaching. invocation: the process by which the wisdom and benign powers of the natural world and of higher planes of consciousness, associated with the evolved self and divine power, are drawn into oneself. medieval magicians would invoke spirits to take over their b

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each thing is in its appropriate place, harmony is established. now each situation demands the action proper to it, and in every situation there is a right and a wrong course of action; thus the individual comes to share in shaping his fate, for his actions intervene as determining factors in world events. at the center of events, the individual who is conscious of responsibility is on a par with the cosmic forces of heaven and earth, and in such a manner, can influence changes.6 41 4 water war introduction gong the water god is an ancient destroyer god who wrestled for control of the earth shortly after the creation of people. his predecessor, zurong the fire god, ruled the world peacefully before him. when gong became the ruler, he wanted to expand his influence by increasing the amount

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nemicu: bringer of wisdom. to be vibrated. mactoron: word of power of 14th. path chanted in key of a minor. legend recalls it as representing the name for one of the planetary homes of the dark gods, later famed as an early star gate. atazoth: the most powerful of the dark gods. the name itself (which correctly describes the entity only when chanted properly) signifies in one sense the purpose of the cosmic cycles and the opening of the gates since `atazoth' as a word means `an increasing of azoth' see chant illustration. davcina: female form along the 19th. path. to be vibrated. useful in works of enchantment. athushir: symbolic form along the 16th. path. serpent of fire(`dragon) often regarded as a memory of one of the dark gods during their previous (and only partially successful) intru

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ublish such thoughts. anyone malignant enough could do anything with them. still the right to be wrong has to be maintained. we should not fear to enter the forest because there are wild cats around in the trees. we should not yield our right to well-controlled speculation. it is certain questions entailed in such speculation which the administrators of established knowledge fear..but in entering the cosmic age we should certainly insist on the right to ask new, even silly questions without being molested."96 sadly, for reich, the freedom he so rightly proclaimed was denied to him, as it has been for so many others who have been killed for the crime of acquiring knowledge of science and ufos which the elite and their extraterrestrial/luciferic masters wish to remain hidden. his fellow 'sci

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london. 1996, p 52 4 ibid 5 colin wilson "atlantis: at last, could this be the true secret of the lost continent, london daily mail, september 30th, 2000 6 ibid 28 children of the matrix 7 john a. keel, our haunted planet (fawcett publications, usa. 1971, p 14 8 ibid 9 ibid, p 15 10 ibid 11 see the books of james churchward: the lost continent of mu; the children of mu; the sacred symbols of mu; the cosmic forces of mu, books one and two. they are available through the david icke website 12 professor james demeo, saharasia: the 4000bce origins of child abuse, sex-repression, warfare and social violence, in the deserts of the old world (natural energy works. usa, 1998. also see article on http//www.davidicke.net/tellthetruth/history/saharasian.html 13 professor w.b. emery, archaic egypt (p

t feel good myself about the giza site or stonehenge, among others. these locations are incredible centres of energy and yet when we go there we feel a fraction of their true power because the structures built on them are often suppressing that power. my own feeling is that they were part of a network designed to close down the true potential of the grid and disconnect the human energy field from the cosmic one. every planet and star has an energy grid and these connect with each other in a vast cosmic web. we in turn connect with this network through our human energy grid, the meridian system on which acupuncture is based. if you can disconnect the human energy field from the planetary and cosmic grid you put people in a disconnected vibrational prison. still today, the illuminati place s

n't that they don't know. it is indeed their sheer pleasure in self-gratification and self-focused existence. for this reason, i do not like the term reptile because it implies they are something other than the rest of us (light balls, and that is, indeed, their reality. so i prefer a term which reflects their state of consciousness, dino-brain."1 these points are soooo important in understanding the cosmic game and where the reptilian form fits in. the particular reptilian genetic stream i am highlighting in this book represents a lower level of development in the evolution of consciousness. it is the level at which fear dominates and there is no greater expression of fear than the need to control others and dictate their behaviour in relation to you. this reptilian stream also represents

the more the consequences will be placed before us because that's the way the game works. the longer we stay in denial, the more powerful and challenging the consequences become. that is our choice. see it now or see it later. because we are going to see it. the question is how extreme must be the consequences before we do? in this movie, the great illusion, we play our parts in mutual service to the cosmic game. if richard warman did not determine to silence me and suppress my information, i would not have the challenge to overcome that frustration and grow from it. if richard warman did not have me, he would not face the consequences of his actions and learn from the experiences that creation will present to him. if journalists like jason cowley did not misrepresent me and my work, i wou

seeking to impose their will on others. we are all providing experiences for each other. in fact, we are providing them for ourselves because we are everything. there is no us and no them and no "we. there is only one infinite "i. we are the reptilians and the "demons" and, at the same time, we are those they manipulate because we are all the same "i. so what i have presented here is one level of the cosmic game- the point where the game interacts with dense physical reality. it is not the whole story, only part of it. the challenge of the game is to see that it's a game. once we do that and see through the illusion, we hit the jackpot, the doorway opens, and we get out of here. we can still be in it physically, but we are no longer of it. the experiences my life have set before me since 1

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ish to publish such thoughts. anyone malignant enough could doanything with them. still the right to be wrong has to be maintained. we shouldnot fear to enter a forest because there are wildcats around in the trees. weshould not yield our right to well-controlled speculation. it is certain questionsentailed in such speculation which the administrators of established knowledgefear. but in entering the cosmic age we should certainly insist on the right to asknew, even silly questions without being molested.the scientist, wilhelm reich, writing in his book, contact with space. reichdied in a united states jail on november 3rd 1957.ixintroductiondays of decisionwe are on the cusp of an incredible global change. a crossroads where we makedecisions which will influence life on earth well into th

t teachings of all ages (the philosophical research society, losangeles, california, 1988, p al.23from the ashes of angels, p 93.24l. a. waddell, the phoenician origin of britons, p 11.25ibid, p 13.26capt e. raymond, missing links discovered in assyrian tablets (artisan sales, thousandoaks, california, 1985, p 145.27the phoenician origins of britons, p 48.28lbid,p39.29lbid,p40.30michael hesemann, the cosmic connection (gateway books, wellow, avon, england, 1996),p 107.31the phoenician origin of britons, p 231.7732richard hoagland, monuments on mars (north atlantic books, california, usa, 1996).33the cosmic connection, p 108.34the great pyramid mystery35rig veda.36the phoenician origin of britons, p 65.37ibid.38lbid,p62.39ibid, p 27.40ibid, p 54.41bob quinn, atlantean, irelands north africa

ai. this sound is supposed to cause alowering of blood pressure and partial paralysis in the hearer. thus we have a blood-chilling cry. low frequency sounds of three to five cycles a second can kill you. theamerican researcher, james shelby downard, has written of this science of sounds,410numbers and names in relation to the kennedy assassination. the writer, robert antonwilson, says in his book the cosmic trigger, that downards theory is the mostabsurd, the most incredible, the most ridiculous illuminati theory of them all. thismakes me even more certain that downard must definitely be on to something. my ownresearch supports this, too.kennedy was killed on november 22nd 1963. this date was the anniversary of theorder or papal bull by pope clement v for the knights templar to be subjecte

enerated from the centre ofthe milky way galaxy to our sun (and other suns) and from there to the earth. thispulse is then picked up by the human heart, passed onto the brain, and goes out fromthere to the cells of the body. when that pulse, that resonance, is passed through thatsequence intact and unbroken the human being is at one with the cosmos. every cell isconnected to, and in harmony with, the cosmic pulse. what gets in the way, however, islow vibrational emotion and imbalance which breaks the circuit and, once again,disconnects us from the earth and the wider universe. the heart-brain connection hasbeen broken in most people by the separation of the head and the heart, the intellect andthe intuition, the physical and the spiritual. the reason the reptilian-brotherhood ispressing fo

ed andpower, whipping up the frequency of our incarnate consciousness to the highestvibrational expression of life, pure love. as our soul is pure love, we reconnect with theawesome power of our multidimensional self (see figure 64. the eggshell explodes.the fast, short, wavelength of love also activates the antenna in our dna whichreconnects us with the cosmos and an open heart chakra tunes into the cosmic pulsefrom the earth, the sun and the centre of the galaxy, and transmits that changingdrumbeat to our brain and every cell in our bodies. this will dramatically transform ourminds, emotions and physical form as they synchronise with the quickening vibrationsat this time of unbelievable change and evolution. the subsequent leap in our personalfrequencies will lift us out of the vibration

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ged channel; although to all outward seeming it is land-locked, nevertheless its wateraevel rises and falls with the tides of the sea because of the hidden connection. so it is with human consciousness, there is a subconscious connection between each individual soul and the world-soul deep hidden in the most primitive depths of subconsciousness, and in consequence we share in the rise and fall of the cosmic tides. 16. each symbol upon the tree represents a cosmic force or factor. when the mind concentrates upon it, it comes into touch with that force; in other words, a .urface channel, a channel in consciousness, has been made between the conscious mind of the individual and a particular factor in the world-soul, and through this channel the waters of the ocean pour into the lagoon. the as

an. the association of saturn suggests the idea of primordial age "before the gods that made the gods had drunk at eve their fill" it suggests the most ancient rocks "within the shady stillness of the vale. sat grey-haired saturn, quiet as a stone" max heindel speaks of the lords of form as among the earliest phases of evolution, and an inspirational work in mystical qabala page 32 my possession, the cosmic doctrine, speaks of the lords of form as the laws of geology. 14. considering again the symbolism of the two lateral columns of the tree, we see chokmah and binah as force and form, the two units of manifestation. 15. it would not profit us to go more deeply into the endless ramifications of this symbolism at the present moment, for it is carrying us beyond the three sephiroth we have a

unconsecrated magic may never lay down his sword, but must always be on the defensive in order to maintain that which he has won. but the adept who starts his work in the kether of atziluth, that is to say in spiritual principle, and works that principle downwards to its expression on the planes of form, employing power drawn from the unmanifest for this purpose, has made his operation a part of the cosmic process, and nature is with him instead of against him. 15. we cannot hope to understand the nature of kether in atailuth, but we can open our consciousness to its influence; and its influence is very powerful and gives a strange sense of eternity and immortality. we may know when the invocation of eheieh in its pure white brilliance has been effectual, because we shall find ourselves r

e 130] which lighteth every man that cometh into the world the spiritual vision whereby the mystic discerns spiritual things, the subjective form of the illuminating intelligence referred to in the yetziratic text. 23. the phallus or lingam is given as one of the magical weapons of the initiate operating the grade of chokmah; this tells us that a knowledge of the spiritual significance of sex and the cosmic significance of polarity concern this grade. any-one who can see beneath the surface in things mystical and magical cannot fail to be aware of the fact that in the understanding of the tremendous and mysterious potency (which we call sex in one of its manifestations) lies the key to a very great deal. it is not for nothing that sexual imagery pervades the visions of the seer, from the s

nd we must always be on the alert to find polarising influences, whether in tradition, or in books, or in fellow-workers in the same field, or even in the very opposition and antagonism of enemies; for there is just as much polarising force in a hearty hatred as there is in love, if we know how to use it. we must have stimulus if we are to create anything, even a useful life weh lived. chokmah is the cosmic stimulus. whatever stimulates is assigned to chokmah in the classification of the tree. sedatives are assigned to binah. we shall obtain further insight into this principle of cosmic polarity as we study binah, the third sephirah, for it is hardly possible to understand the implications of chokmah without reference to its polarising opposite, with which it always functions. we will, the

e, disincarnate masters. 15. a very important part of the work of the masters is the concretion of the abstract ideas conceived by the logoidal consciousness. the logos, whose meditation gives birth to worlds and whose unfolding consciousness is evolution, conceives archetypal ideas out of the substance of the unmanifest- to use a metaphor where definition is impossible. these ideas remain within the cosmic consciousness of the logos like the seed within the flower, because there is no soil therein for their germination. the logoidal consciousness, as pure being, cannot upon its own plane provide the formative aspect necessary for manifestation. it is taught in the esoteric traditions that the masters, disincarnate consciousnesses disciplined by form but now formless, in their meditations

l in unbroken communication the one with the other; they "emanate" each other, to use the language of the qabalah. but the water changes its nature as it progresses because something is added to it by the experiences it undergoes in each reach; alluvial soil from the water-meadows; city grime from the docks. 35. so the primordial emanation of kether becomes modi fled in each sephirotic "reach" of the cosmic river; the reaches" or sephirotic spheres, remain constant; the emanations flow on, undergoing modification in each sphere. 36. the titles assigned to geburah of strength, justice, severity, and fear speak for themselves and indicate the dual aspects of this sephirah. now that we are coming down the tree into the planes of form we see more and more clearly that every sephirah is twoside

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o push against, and give us the forward impulse at each step. 41 of 103 negative evil is the thrust-block of good; the principle of resistance, of inertia, that enables good to "get a purchase" but negative evil is more than this. we might call the principle of resistance the "negative aspect of negative evil. for it has also a "positives' aspect, the principle of destruction. we can best explain the cosmic function of the principle of destruction by calling it by its esoteric name of the scavenger of the gods. its function is to clear up behind the advancing tide of evolution, removing that which has become effete so that it may not choke and clog evolving life. we now find the answer to the eternal riddle as to why god tolerates the devil. the devil is the cosmic thrust-block and scaveng

spects. we can now see why these resistive and destructive forces are classed as gods and not as demons, for they are reactions according to cosmic law, not anarchical and chaotic forces. we now come to the consideration of positive evil. this again has a "negative's and "positive's aspect. its "negative's aspect is pure chaos, unformed substance and unco-ordinated force. it has been aptly called the cosmic abortion. to drift into the sphere of "negative" positive evil is like being caught in a psychic quicksand. we are now ready to consider the sphere of "positive" positive evil, the demons themselves, or the qlippoth, as they are called in the qabalah. in order to understand their significance we must make a further excursion into qabalistic philosophy. the creator is conceived of as bri

first sephira is concentrated out of the unmanifest, the point within the circle. this emanates the second, which in its turn emanates the third. as soon as one has emanated another, these two are said to be equilibrated; but when emanation is in process, there is a period of unbalanced force. this, as it were, goes off by itself in the cosmos and establishes a sphere of its own, unconnected with the cosmic system. consequently, each sphere of the cosmos has its counterpart in chaos, in miniature, it is true, but nevertheless potent and functional. each sphere, in the course of its evolution, builds up an oversoul which is called by different names in different systems. in the qabalistic system we call them the archangels, the spirits before the throne. the sphere of the sun is represented

hing whatever to do with the unseen, neither reading books upon occultism nor associating with people who were interested in such subjects; and i have also seen the abyss re-establish its influence when the patient disobeyed instructions and re-awakened the old vibrations. we need to realise that the human consciousness is not a closed vessel, but like the body, has a continual intake and output. the cosmic forces are circulating through it all the time, like sea-water through a living sponge. whatever emotional state may arise within us is reinforced from outside. the subjective self only has the kindling, the cosmos supplies the fuel. once the fire is started, the cosmic forces of the appropriate type will stoke it. just as the devout catholic is inspired by the influences of his patron

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tefnut out from myself; thus from being one god i became three, and shu and tefnut gave birth to nut and seb, and nut gave birth to osiris, horus-khent-an-maa, sut, isis, and nephthys, at one birth, one after the other, and their children multiply upon this earth"[2] summary of theories. the reader has now before him the main points of the evidence concerning the egyptians' notions about god, and the cosmic powers and their phases, and the anthropomorphic creations with which they peopled the other world, all of which have been derived from the native literature of ancient egypt. the different interpretations which different egyptologists have placed upon the facts demonstrate the difficulty of the subject. speaking generally, the interpreters may be divided into two classes: those who cre

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of the 1980s, metaphysical and occult religions enjoy an acceptability in the west not seen since the scientific revolution. this acceptability is evident in the amount of favorable press given to psychic and occult phenomena. the new age and beyond the hidden underlying reality described as the invisible spiritual structure of the universe is known as esotericism. this structure is enlivened by the cosmic energy or power that energizes the world at a more abstract level than the various forms of energy defined in classical physics. the esotericist characterizes the reality beyond that depicted by physicists in their observations of the world; these descriptions are termed meta-physics. esotericism, in contrast to bible-based religions and philosophies, is considered a third force in west

anization that arranged classes in acupressure, shiatsu, t ai chi ch an, and yoga from elementary to advanced study. they were first located in west los angeles and then in santa monica. acupuncture an ancient chinese medical system over five thousand years old, recently revived in china and demonstrated to western doctors. it is based on the belief that subtle energy flows in the body related to the cosmic principles of yin and yang. yin relates to shadow, moon, passivity, softness, femininity; yang denotes sunlight, activity, masculinity, hardness. the balance of these energies in the human body affects health and disease. acupuncture therapy alters these energy flows by inserting needles at key points for varying periods of time. anesthesia for surgical operations can also be effected b

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

hen he had lived it in his own life and knew that it was good. born in leicester, england, on november 28, 1864, he suffered much ill-health as a child. his father died when he was 14, and he had to earn his living and help support his mother. he worked hard at various jobs and studied poetry, drama, philosophy, and religion in his spare time. at the age of 24, he experienced what he described as the cosmic vision after reading sir edwin arnold s light of asia (1879, a famous poem based on the teaching of buddha. this transient illumination returned in a more permanent form ten years later and led to the writing of his first book, from poverty to power (1901, which went into seven editions. after the success of this book, allen found it possible to live by his writings. with his wife, lily

astrologers. his work has been recognized by the british astrological association, the fraternity of canadian astrologers, and the united astrology conference. sources: arroyo, stephen. astrology, karma, and transformation. reno, nev: crcs, 1978. astrology, psychology, and the four elements. reno, nev: crcs, 1975. the practice and profession of astrology. sebastopol, calif: crcs, 1985. practicing the cosmic science: key insights in modern astrology. sebastopol, calif: crcs, 1999. relationships and life cycles. sebastopol, calif: crcs, 1980. stephen arroyo s chart interpretation handbook. sebastopol, calif: crcs, 1989. ars notoria title of a work of magical invocations and prayers attributed to solomon and therefore related to the celebrated key of solomon the king, one of the most famous g

stions put by the diviner. an associated preliminary ritual was sometimes used, involving writing a question on paper and passing it through the smoke of burning juniper wood. astral body an exact replica of the physical body but composed of finer matter. the term is chiefly employed in theosophy, and those numerous occult systems derived from it, to denote the link between the nervous system and the cosmic reservoir of energy. the astral body corresponds to the double of out-of-the-body experiences reported in psychic research. the term double, however, is less comprehensive and refers only to the living; astral body refers specifically to the bodily counterpart of the dead. the etheric double or body, in theosophy, is distinct from the astral, but in spiritualistic literature they are of

sions of a large sample of people from all walks of life. the research of the gauquelins, whose collaboration lasted until 1980, is so significant that it is the most frequently cited research validating astrology. sources: collins, rodney. the theory of celestial influence. london: stuart& watkins, 1955. eisler, robert. the royal art of astrology. london: herbert joseph, 1946. gauquelin, michel. the cosmic clocks. chicago: henry regnery, 1967. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. astrology 109. cosmic influences on human behavior: the planetary factors in personality. new york: stein& day, 1973. rev. ed. new york: asi publishers, 1978. dreams and illusions of astrology. buffalo, n.y: prometheus books, 1978. reprint, london: glover& blair, 1980. scientific basis of astrology

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ience and religion of the priests of zoroaster (see magi, or, according to philologist skeat, from greek megas (great, thus signifying the great science. it commonly refers to the ability to cause change to occur by supernatural or mysterious powers and abilities. in the twentieth century, magic has been more stringently defined as the ability to create change by an act of the will and the use of the cosmic power believed to underpin physical existence. contemporary magicians also distinguish between high magic and low magic. the latter refers to using magic to make changes in the mundane world, from concocting love potions to drawing money to oneself. the former refers to disciplined change of the self, and practitioners of high magic compare it to yoga. early history until a few centurie

upplanted or transformed, these powers would thereafter manifest themselves, only very exceptionally, in certain states, or with abnormal individuals, as an atavic reapparition of a mode of acting long ago fallen into disuse, because it is really very imperfect and necessitates, without any advantage, an expenditure of vital energy far greater than the ordinary use of arms and limbs. unless it is the cosmic power itself, the amoral and stupid demiurge, the unconsciousness of m. hartman, which comes directly into play upon contact with a deranged nervous system and realises its disordered dreams without passing through the regular channels of muscular movements. edmund e. fournier d albe, author of several books on psychical phenomena, wondered if living principle of the cells that die coul

oup of rational defenders of the movement, who attributed the phenomena of spiritualism as well as those of poltergeist to the action of odylic force. others, such as samuel guppy, regarded the so-called spirit intelligences producing the manifestations as compounded of odic vapors emanating from the medium, and probably connected with an all-pervading thought-atmosphere.an idea sufficiently like the cosmic fluid of the early magnetists. reichenbach s odic force clearly had possible relevance to psychical research, and in 1883 the society for psychical research in london formed a committee to report on reichenbach phenomena. the committee s first report was published in the society s proceedings and contributions on the subject also appeared from time to time in the proceedings and the jou

illery, during world war i. he received the military cross. though he lived in australia, isborn was a member of the society for psychical research, london. sources: berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. osborn, arthur w. the axis and the rim: the quest for reality in a modern setting. london: v. stuart, 1963. the cosmic womb: an interpretation of man s relationship to the infinite. wheaton, ill: theosophical publishing house, 1969. the expansion of awareness: one man s search for meaning in living. wheaton, ill: theosophical publishing house, 1967. the future is now: the significance of precognition. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1961. the meaning of personal existence in the light of paranorma

eys little about the specific nature of psychometric influence. gustav pagenstecher conjectured as follows: the associated object which practically witnessed certain events of the past, acting in the way of a tuning fork, automatically starts in our brain the specific vibrations corresponding to the said events; furthermore, the vibrations of our brain once being set in tune with certain parts of the cosmic brain already stricken by the same events, call forth sympathetic vibrations between the human brain and the cosmic brain, giving birth to thought pictures which reproduce the events in question. spiritualist sir arthur conan doyle, in plainer language, compared psychometric impressions to shadows on a screen. the screen is the ether, the whole material universe being embedded in and in

nteraction with the anunnaki, sitchcin has been able to present an alternative reading of ancient history that, while ignored by the mainstream of modern archeologists and astronomers, has found a broad popular audience. the 12th planet has been followed by five additional volumes, collectively termed the earth chronicles, that expand and undergird the original hypothesis. the most recent volume, the cosmic code, appeared in 1998. sitchin s hypothesis was given additional credibility by a lively debate among astronomers in the 1970s over the possible existence of an additional planet in the solar system, commonly referred to as planet x. sitchin identified nibiru with the hypothesized planet x. the astronomical debate, however, proceeded without reference to sitchin, and by the 1990s astro

ch of sitchin s alternative approach to history. sitchin resides in new york city. he has an internet site: http//www.crystalinks.com/sitchen.html. there are a number of additional sites that discuss sitchin s work. sources: alford, alan f. gods of the new millennium. 1998. reprint, london: hodder and stoughton, 1999. when the gods came down. london: hodder and stoughton, 2000. sitchin, zecharia. the cosmic code. new york: avon, 1998. the stairway to heaven. santa fe, n.mex: bear& co, 1993. the 12th planet. 1976. reprint, santa fe, n.mex: bear& co, 1991. the wars of gods and men. santa fe, n.mex: bear& co, 1992. situ see society for the investigation of the unexplained sivananda, swami (1887.1963) one of the most influential modern hindu spiritual teachers, whose most important contributio

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s if it had been recently injured. that was the last either saw of karne. see also: adamski, george; contactees further reading dewey, stephen, 1997. arthur shuttlewood and the warminster mystery. strange magazine 18 (summer: 16 21, 56 58. shuttlewood, arthur, 1967. the warminster mystery. london: neville spearman, 1978. ufo prophecy. new york: global communications. aetherius aetherius is one of the cosmic masters who preside at the interplanetary parliament on aetherius 11 saturn. in 1954 aetherius made his presence known psychically to george king, a london man with longstanding occult interests. soon king was channeling other space people, including jesus. by january he had gone public with the cosmic gospel essentially earthbound occult doctrines ascribed to philosophical extraterrest

led aetherius speaks to earth (later cosmic voice. in august 1956 king established the aetherius society, among the most successful and enduring contactee groups. king died on july 12, 1997, in los angeles, where he had been living for many years. in the theology of the aetherius society, good and evil extraterrestrials are engaged in constant warfare. from time to time, during crisis situations, the cosmic brotherhood will place its spaceships above earth and direct positive energy downward. society members receive the energy and make sure that it reaches its targets. over a three and a half year period, beginning in 1958, king climbed no fewer than eighteen mountains at the behest of the space people. the society maintains headquarters in london and los angeles, as well as chapters all o

referred to simply as hatonn speaks through doris ekker (known as dharma. george and desiree green and others associated with the phoenix project distribute hatonn s messages through a magazine called the phoenix journal. hatonn describes himself as commander in chief, earth project transition, pleiades sector flight command, intergalactic federation fleet-ashtar command; earth representative to the cosmic council and intergalactic federation council on earth transition( who is hatonn. hatonn denies that the process through which he communicates is channeling. it is, he says, more like radio transmission directly from spaceship to contactee. we travel and act, he says, in the direct service and under command of esu jesus immanuel sananda. gyeorgos ceres hatonn 117 sananda is aboard my com

table 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 species fro m the land into the oceans; humans now know these beings as dolphins. other alien races who arrived we re driven off or forced to live in remote regions. the cre a t u res humans call bi gfoot or sa

stern 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 between god and the outer worlds meaning us on the outer layers of physical creation the hardened shell around the cosmic egg of light (arvey, 1994. metatronic energy is transmitted once a week to the earth, and seekers can gain access to it if they are attuned to the proper frequency. much of the information metatron sends is of a densely technical nature. a good part of the channeled material comes through james j. hurtak, who records it in the book of knowledge: the keys of enoch (1982. hurtak, however

soon shan from the beginning was regarded as a planet of unusual attractiveness. two hundred six million years ago immigrants from the pleiades our ancestors settled on it. bellringer states that shan held a position at the cross-roads of the cosmos as a supply planet for other planets. because of its abundance and beauty it was chosen as the prison planet by lucifer, the arch-angel when he left the cosmic realms for his anarchy against god/aton. because of the presence of satan and his allies, the people of shan have had an extremely difficult time achieving complete harmony and balance with the laws of god and of the creation. among other things, satan has kept humans ignorant or fearful of the extraterrestrial races that are visiting shan and attempting to change it for the better. sha

physical double, who had committed suicide in a new york hotel on september 24, 1960. as she was brought to earth that night, she lost all memory of her life on venus, a world of love (vivenus, 1982. the memories returned seven years later, and she embarked on a mission to reform this corrupt, cruel planet. from christmas 1974 until mid-1982, viv walked an average of ten miles a day and preached the cosmic gospel to whoever would listen. when she wasn t preaching, she was playing guitar and singing interplanetary hymns. in 1980, she campaigned for her favorite presidential candidate under the slogan it s not odd to vote for god (shoemaker, 1980. see also: dual reference further reading shoemaker, susan, 1980. a venusian visitor goes campaigning. oakland [california] tribune (july 13. vive

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ss state the size of the whole universe. the world of atziluth is thereby rooted in sefirah crown/above. the upper heh h, which emanates in sefirah wisdom/east, is the latent condition of all mayic (illusory) possibilities. the world of b riyah is rooted in the supernal sefirah wisdom/east. in chapter two of the sifra detzniyutha, the heh h is equated with the nostrils of vast face, through which the cosmic breath rushes forth. 8# gate names on the composite tree( hvhy 61 6( b< a( f< 3% 0( 6 7 ;1 a 6 4( e 6! 1( 6( e 7" 5) 2" 2' 8: the breath of the hollow pillar (nose) of the ancient one unto small face. without the breath, it exists as not (al. in heh h, it is manifested (i.e. b riyah. the heh h above, the heh h below. as it is written, ahh adonai elohim(,yhla ynda hha. 28 and in chapter

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eferred to by poliziano, vasari and others (references in chastel, op. cit, pp. 96-7, note 16. chastel thinks that the whole of the passage on making an image of the world in the de vita coelitus comparanda is a description of delia volpaia's clock. i do not think that this is the case. ficino is describing three different kinds of objects made to represent the figure of the world, one type being the cosmic mechanism of which della volpaia's clock is an example. 2 ficino, loc. cit. 75 ficino's natural magic influences on the inhabitants in such a way as to keep them healthy and virtuous, so ficino's "figures of the world" would be calculated to regulate the influences in the direction indicated in the libri de vita, towards a predominance of solar, jovial, and venereal influences and towar

en of christian theology (commentary on dionysius' liber de trinitate; ficino, p. 1013. 117 pseudo-dionysius and theology of a christian magus nevertheless, though the dionysian orders are not, strictly speaking, a cosmological religion, there is something in the whole idea of orders set out in this fashion which recalls the gnostic religion of the world, or religious experience in the setting of the cosmic orders. r. roques has drawn attention to the parallels between the dionysian mysticism and gnosticism, particularly of the hermetic type, and has suggested a possible influence of hermetism on the hierarchies.1 thus, once again the phenomenon of misdating comes into play in the renaissance synthesis, and the great christian apologist who is believed to have been contemporary with st. pa

ierarchies.1 thus, once again the phenomenon of misdating comes into play in the renaissance synthesis, and the great christian apologist who is believed to have been contemporary with st. paul really belonged to nearly the same period as the misdated prisci theologi, 2 and came within the range of gnostic ways of thinking. in the fourteenth chapter of the de christiana religione, ficino sets out the cosmic order completed by the nine spiritual orders, as follows: the four elements, which are mutable in substance and quality. the seven planets, which are not mutable in substance, but are so in quality and disposition. the eighth sphere, whose movement is opposite to that of the planets and which has the qualities of candor and splendor. the chrystalline sphere, which has simple motion and

said to have used the zodiac as the foundation of his memory-system. this classical art, usually regarded as purely mnemotechnical, had a long history in the middle ages and was recommended by albertus magnus and thomas aquinas. in the renaissance, it became fashionable among neoplatonists and hermetists. it was now understood as a method of printing basic or archetypal images on the memory, with the cosmic order itself as the "place" system, a kind of inner way of knowing the universe. the principle is already apparent in the passage in ficino's de vita coelitus comparanda in which he describes how the planetary images or colours, memorised as painted on the vaulted ceiling, organised for the man who had so memorised them, all the individual phenomena which he perceived on coming out of h

n "the world" as some kind of dualist gnosis (this would account for the setting of the epicurean ethics in the zodiac, and the magic) which he then proceeded to combine with his pythagoreanism and neoplatonism. 2 garin, ricerche sull'epicureismo del quattrocento" in cultura, pp. 72-86. 224 giordano bruno in england: the hermetic reform epicurean teaching on pleasure as a good becomes merged with the cosmic significance of amor as the intrinsic vital force in universal nature. as an example of this, garin quotes1 the lines on venus from palingenius' zodiacus vitae, lines which are influenced by lucretius' invocation to venus at the beginning of the de natura rerum, but in which the "natural" venus is connected with the soul of the world in a neoplatonising manner. the moral teaching which

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL

ilosophy study courses information* order the printed version of this book. please give us your feedback rosicrucian fellowship- international headquarters 2222 mission avenue, oceanside, ca 92054-2399, usa po box 713, oceanside, ca 92049-0713, usa (760) 757- 6600 (760) 721- 3806 (fax) e-mail: rosfshp@rosicrucianfellowship.l: freemasonry and catholicism by max heindel [1865-1919] an exposition of the cosmic facts underlying these two great institutions as determined by occult investigation the rosicrucian fellowship international headquarters p.o. box 713 oceanside, california, 92054, u.s.a. table of contents* part i: lucifer, the rebel angel* part ii: the masonic legend* part iii: the queen of sheba* part iv: casting the molten sea* part v: the mystery of melchisedec* part vi: spiritual a

, spite, or malice even upon those who seem deliberately determined to mislead. we revere the catholic religion; it is as divine in its essence, as both were born to further the aspiration of the striving soul, and both have a message and a mission in the world not apparent upon the surface today, because man-made ceremonial as a scale has hidden the present articles to remove that scale and show the cosmic purpose of these two great organizations, which are so bitterly antagonistic to each other. we do not aim to reconcile them, however, for though they are both designed to further the emancipation of the soul, their methods are different, and the attributes of the soul fostered by one method will indeed be very different from the quality of the soul nurtured in the other school. therefor

different from the quality of the soul nurtured in the other school. therefore, the strife must continue until the battle for the souls of men has been lost and won. the issue is not, however, the persistence of the masonic or catholic institutions; but the outcome will determine the nature of the training humanity will receive in the remaining periods of our evolution. we shall endeavor to show the cosmic root of both of these institutions, the purpose of each and the training which each will inaugurate, if successful; also the nature of the soul quality which may be expected to result from each method. the writer is not a mason, and thus he is free to say what he knows without fear of violating obligations, but he is a mason at heart, and therefore frankly opposed to catholicism. our op

o attack others. thus our opposition is not personal, but spiritual, and to be fought with the weapon of the spirit--reason. we firmly believe it to be for the everlasting good of mankind that the masons should win, and cannot therefore be sure to present the catholic side in a perfectly unbiased manner, but we ask our students for whom this is written, to believe that we shall try to be just. of the cosmic facts we are certain, but bias may creep into our conclusions, therefore each must use his reason to test what we have to say, viz "prove all things and hold fast that which is good" the great law of analogy is everywhere the master key of all spiritual mysteries, and, although masonry and catholicism do not begin till we arrive at the earth period, they have their prototype in the earl

e last of the watery signs, pisces, has been passed, the representative of the lucifer spirits, samael, focuses the forces of the fiery sign, aries, where mars is positively polarized, so that under the impulse of their dynamic energy the waters of the womb are voided, and the imprisoned spirit is liberated into the physical world, to fight the battle of life. it may blindly butt its head against the cosmic forces typified by the first of the fiery signs, aries, the ram, which is a symbol of the brute strength brought to bear upon the problems of life by the most primitive races; or it may adopt the more modern method of cunning, as a means of attaining mastery over others, which characteristic is indicated in the second of the fiery signs, leo, the lion, the king of beasts; or perchance i

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

rmined to jilt solomon and win the heart of hiram abiff. in other words, humanity, when its eyes are opened to the impotence of the churchmen, the sons of seth, who are themselves dependent upon divine favor, and when it sees the power and potency of the rulers of temporal fame is then ready to rush to them, and leave the spiritual for the material. this from the microcosmic angle of matter. from the cosmic angle or view point we note again that solomon's temple is the solar universe and hiram abiff, the grand master, is the sun which travels around the twelve signs of the zodiac, enacting there the mystic drama of the masonic legend. at the vernal equinox the sun leaves the watery sign of pisces, which is also feminine and docile, for the belligerent, martial, energetic, fiery sign aries

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at the reason for the creation of the kings of edom was to account for the world being peopled with races other than that of israel. adam qadmon. on several occasions already have we made mention of adam qadmon. he is called by various names, such as the primordial man, the archetypal man, microprosopos, the man of the east, the shadow of the invisible macrocosm, the pre-existing soul of messiah, the cosmic son, etc, etc. strictly speaking, he is the form, not the spirit, of deity in atziluth. nevertheless, he is also the emanations of this form in the remaining three worlds; consequently there are four adam qadmons. as regards the first of these isaac myer writes the qabbalah shows the existence of four adams, or rather three continuations of the upper heavenly adam. i. the perfect upper

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methods (1) intellectual studies (2) cultivation of the imaginative faculty (3)themeans of attaining to intuition (4) the preparation of the physical stone of the philosophers (5) realization of the microcosm as aa recent spiritual development 295representation of the macrocosm (6)themerging of the ego into the realm of macrocosmic beings (7) the state of beatific peace accepting and glorying in the cosmic will.itis alleged that there are persons having a certain birthright and peculiar constitution who have succeeded by theserneansinattaining supra-normal extensions of sight and hearing, but the posses255 sion of these powers is not claimed by those initiates nor evidenced by the exhibition of these faculties. these two modes of development seem to be open for the attempts of persons of

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nifested matter is revolution in theformof a vortex-ring, as shewn in an experiment in the lecture on'theborderlandofphysics'.ifwe rotate ahomogeneous-sphere j;apidly,and look at the axis of revolu255 tion, it appears like a point;butturnit to oneside,andthe axis appears like a line forming the diameter of the circle. in old times theoriginof matter was often symbolized by an egg, thus we hear of the cosmic egg, the world egg, etc; and we see the appropriateness of the symbol, if we.look at the egg as a hollow sphere, representing dormant put complete vitality;soon as incubation commences there appears a germinal spot, soon separable into .three layers(forwe cannot get away from the mysticthree. and thus the first point in physical life is the establishment of a three in one. the.firstbegi

e of the globe of this earth, which rays out into the infmite, and is continually passing into the infinite, so that a perpetual string of pictures of everything which has ever taken place upon this globe is passing out at this moment, and has been doing so at every moment since the world first came into existence, and those pictures may under certain circumstances be seen. this is what is called the cosmic picture gallery. and this small experiment, which is one of the first which is recommended by trainers in occultism, is one of the simplest and easiest methods of seeing actually some of these wonderful pictures in the .cosmic picture gallery. other pictures can be seen. and observe this further, that the man who creates one of such pictures, establishes thereby a tatwic connection betw

ounterpart of ourselves, of each one of us, which perceives, recognises, and directs this physical body. you will, no.doubt, ask, how then does the physical body come into manifestation on the physical plane, and what is the connection binding it to the mental plane, the plane of manas? well, you may find the key to that, which is very difficult to put into words, by an attentive consideration of the cosmic pictures. a picture is formed upon this earth's plane.itgoes off into the air. from the limits of the earth's atmosphere a quick reflection is sent back. that is very slight. the bulk, the strength of the picture, goes out beyond the earth's atmosphere, out into the void, so to speak, and becomes, so to say, latent. but at a measured interval, which interval can be calculated, that pict

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ogical image is of a spherical universe, with the spherical earth at its centre, both revolving upon the same unmoving pivot, the world pole. in all traditional systems of religion this image has provided the dominant symbol" at the center of the world john michell, thames and hudson 1994 working from this model, we can go further and delineate the characteristic of the axis mundi or cosmic tree. the cosmic tree can be imaged in two different manners organic and emanation. the organic model is found in most pagan and heathen traditions, it emphasizes the change some nature of the worlds and planes. the emanation model is more formal and while it infer the ever changing landscape of spirit it has more clearly delineated worlds, planes and inhabitants. whichever we use, both have certain gen

more hierarchy feel, while the underworld communicates more on an emotional level. the model of the underworld also brings to mind the ancient polarity of earth and sky. the earth and sky polarity was probably the most ancient model of the universe, while the logos and sophia model is central to gnosticism, this older structure is found in many nature religions. the divine will is seen as either the cosmic father or mother and the earth is the wife, husband or lover. in this mythology the underworld is intricately connected to the earth, even seen as part of it. in the norse tradition the god is odin or tyr (much earlier) and he is the lord of the upper world (asgard) and hel is the goddess of the underworld and earth. hel and freya are much the same goddess, she simply split into two and

tion as did thousands of beings of light that came to believe his error. this tradition is intriguing as it paints the demiurge in an ignorant rather than malefic role, in some sense it embodies the ambivalence found in much hermetic literature where the false creator is seen more as a blundering demi-god than as a adversary. for the kabbalists the fall occurred on a far more ethereal level, when the cosmic light of ain soph began to expand it produced emanations known as sephiroth or light centres. as these sephiroth or light vessels began to create a hierarchy of being, a reflection was cast onto the ocean of cosmic spirit and this reflection, being distorted, gave birth to destructive and twisted forces (klippoth, which in turn created the material world. even among the gnostics there a

god and obstruct the knowledge of him in the cosmos over which they rule. the genesis of these lower powers, the archons, and in general that of all of the orders of being outside god, including the world itself, is the main theme of gnostic speculation..the universe, the domain of the archons is like a vast prison whose innermost dungeon is the earth, the scene of mans life. around and above it the cosmic spheres are ranged like concentric enclosing shells. most frequently there are seven spheres of the planets surrounding by the eighth that of the fixed stars. the gnostic handbook page 51 the religious significance of this cosmic architecture lies in the idea that everything which intervenes between here and the beyond serves to separate from god, not merely by spatial distance but by a

lls. most frequently there are seven spheres of the planets surrounding by the eighth that of the fixed stars. the gnostic handbook page 51 the religious significance of this cosmic architecture lies in the idea that everything which intervenes between here and the beyond serves to separate from god, not merely by spatial distance but by active demonic force. thus the vastness and multiplicity of the cosmic system express the degree to which man is removed from god. the archons collectively rule over the world and each individually in his sphere is a warder of the cosmic prison. their tyrannical world-rule is called hiemarmene, universal fate.[this universal fate] aims at the enslavement of man. as guardian of his sphere each archon bars the passage to the souls than seek to ascent after d

productive imagery is deliberate, since the gnostic tradition is anti-reproductive, in some sense to be born again is to be de-born as well as reborn, you have chosen to create a new self within yourself rather than perpetuate the cycle by reproducing an external self (a child. for most of us, this transformation is not completed within our life-span (s, and hence we have to wait until the end of the cosmic cycle when the children of the pleroma are finally reborn into the new kingdom. the nature of transfiguration transfiguration offers the transformation of man. it offers liberation from the cycles of the world of the archons and transfiguration into a new being, a child of the treasury of light. transfiguration is based on the example of jesus who through his ascension to become the fir

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terials you could receive from other occult, esoteric or spiritual organisation, but there also much that is at variance. the unique thing about the gnostic tradition is that it really comprehends the condition of modern man and his alienation from the energies which are the source of all illumination. while other traditions may have knowledge to offer, until they come to terms with the nature of the cosmic battle- the dualism which is at the centre of modern life, they cannot hope to offer real initiation or real spiritual transformation. it is not enough to have the right techniques or the latest rituals or tools, unless you know why they work and what they need to be used for. without insight, ritualism is of little or no value. for until we know how to go beyond the things of the lower

to define what we are discussing, let us suggest that time and all related forces (such as space and matter) may be described in such a way as to form a line, on which we can define four major events. that which is before (even beyond) the framework of the line, the start of the line (the alpha event, the line itself and the end of the line (the omega point (fig 1. for ease, let us call this line the cosmic timeline. from the gnostic understanding what which exists before and beyond the timeline is perfection, the treasury of light (we will return to this soon, the end of the timeline is the omega day or the apocalypse, the timeline itself is formed by the various stages of human development, while the alpha event is how time, space and matter began. it is not the point where or when every

outer teachings. to understand the alpha event we need to consider the various myths, legends and religious stories and deduce the essential event from behind them. due consideration should be given to the way in which myth and legend form the language or symbol system of the mysteries (see fig 2. myths and legends of cosmic error in the biblical account we read of an archangel who rebels against the cosmic order and is thrown from the heavens. his angelic nature is lost and he becomes a fallen being. his name lucifer means light bearer and accordingly, we have a light bearer who is transformed into a dark force. this is followed by a second fall, this time directly involving humanity, where adam and eve, depending on interpretation, break gnostic theurgy page 16 one of creators commandmen

ions in the sacred scriptures of other cultures. each of these tales, no matter how exoteric, hides an inner truth, though the language varies, the essential core memory is the same. on a deeper level we have the kabbalistic interpretation of how evil and matter entered the universe. when the source of all things began to evolve into multiple levels of being, a plateau was reached, at which stage the cosmic light cast a reflection, an opposite. this reflection took on a life of its own and became the negative of the positive form, this reflection became the essence we understand as evil and as a natural expansion of itself, matter was formed. whichever myth or legend we accept (and we could continue with many from other cultures, traditions and scriptures) the essential truth is that the a

entropy and why all things decay and die. it also offers us a unique view of history and the state of humanity in general. gnostic theurgy page 18 matter contra spirit matter and spirit are in conflict. in contradiction to modern wholistic philosophy the gnostic has always known there is a struggle at the core of human experience. whether we consider the biblical view of flesh battling spirit or the cosmic dualism of the zoroastrians (where ahura mazda and ahriman battle across the universe, the essential truth is that matter and spirit do not work well together. while man s physical existence accelerates and his technology reaches greater and greater heights, the cost has been great, far greater than may be first appreciated. we may tend to believe that evolution has dragged man from the

ines. emotional behaviour.psychiatry. fundamentalism the devil. void. body as flesh. body as flesh. anaesthesiology death cults void. fig 5 gnostic theurgy page 32 the hologram of matter now that you have some understanding of the multi-dimensional nature of the universe we need to re-consider our refraction model in the light of the alpha event. when we think back to what we have discussed about the cosmic error, we can summarise it in terms of the creation or action of a secondary spiritual source. in the gnostic interpretation of the biblical myth for example, we have the defection of lucifer and a battle between michael and satan, which results in the creation of matter. in the zoroastrian model we have ahura mazda, the lord of light, and the secondary force as ahriman. depending on th

the knowledge of him in the cosmos over which they rule. the genesis of these lower powers, the archons (rulers, and in general that of all of the orders of being outside god, including the world physical itself, is the main theme of gnostic speculation. the universe, the domain of the archons is like a vast prison whose innermost dungeon is the earth, the scene of mans life. around and above it the cosmic spheres are ranged like concentric enclosing shells. most frequently there are seven spheres of the planets surrounding by the eighth that of the fixed stars. the religious significance of this cosmic architecture lies in the idea that everything which intervenes between here and the beyond serves to separate from god, not merely by spatial distance but by active demonic force. thus the

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new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, p. 437. 22 the feathered serpent and the cross, pp. 52-3. 23 new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, p. 436. 24 the magic and mysteries of mexico, p. 51. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 113 quetzalcoatl that had continued over an immense span of years.25 at certain times one seemed to be gaining the upper hand, at certain times the other. finally the cosmic struggle came to an end when good was vanquished by evil and quetzalcoatl driven out from tollan.26 thereafter, under the influence of tezcatilpoca s nightmarish cult, human sacrifice was reintroduced throughout central america. as we have seen, quetzalcoatl was believed to have fled to the coast and to have been carried away on a raft of serpents. one legend says, he burned his houses

a brother and a sister are said to have survived in a great wooden chest which also contained two of every kind of animal.30 several aboriginal australian peoples, especially those whose traditional homelands are along the tropical northern coast, ascribe their origins to a great flood which swept away the previous landscape and society. meanwhile, in the origin myths of a number of other tribes, the cosmic serpent yurlunggur (associated with the rainbow) is held responsible for the deluge.31 there are japanese traditions according to which the pacific islands of oceania were formed after the waters of a great deluge had receded.32 in oceania itself a myth of the native inhabitants of hawaii tells how the 26 reported in charles berlitz, the lost ship of noah, w. h. allen, london, 1989, p

cholarship. moreover, though generally cautious, santillana and von dechend also claim to have broken part of that code .12 this is an extraordinary statement for two serious academics to have 7 ibid, p. 345. 8 ibid, p. 418. 9 ibid, p. 245. 10 ibid, p. 132. 11 ibid, pp. 4-5,348. 12 ibid, p. 5. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 239 made. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 240 chapter 30 the cosmic tree and the mill of the gods in their brilliant and far-reaching study hamlet s mill, professors de santillana and von dechend present a formidable array of mythical and iconographic evidence to demonstrate the existence of a curious phenomenon. for some inexplicable reason, and at some unknown date, it seems that certain archaic myths from all over the world were coopted (no other wor

after tricking miclantechuhtli, the god of death, and the bones are brought to a place called tamoanchan. there, like corn, they are milled into a fine meal on a grindstone. upon this ground meal the gods then release blood, thus creating the flesh of the current age of men.31 santillana and von dechend do not think that the presence of a canine character in both the above variants of the myth of the cosmic mill is likely to be accidental. they point out that kullervo, the finnish hamlet, is also accompanied by the black dog musti .32 likewise, after his return to his estates in ithaca, odysseus is first recognized by his faithful dog,33 and as anyone who has been to sunday school will remember, samson is associated with foxes (300 of them to be precise34, which are members of the dog fami

g exactly this message? what, if not vehicles for the same sort of bad news are the traditions of the four previous suns (or sometimes of the three previous worlds) passed down in the americas since time immemorial? by the same token, what might be the function of the great myths of precession which speak not just of previous cataclysms but of cataclysms to come and which (through the metaphor of the cosmic mill) link these earthly disasters to disturbances in the heavens? last but by no means least, what burning motive impelled the pyramid builders to erect, with such care, the powerful and mysterious edifices on the giza plateau? yes, they were saying, kilroy was here. and, yes, they found an ingenious way to tell us when they were here. of these things i have no doubt. i am also impress

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ther divorces us from our roots in the authentic tradition is considered a good thing. this is all just silly make-believe. sure. but before settling in your new plot of new jersey swamp-land, you might be glad you had the method(s) described in this book, should you need to summon the jersey devil! fall to! jonathan sellers twin cedars lodge 12 august 2005 c. e. 1 preface: ufonauts, ciphers, and the cosmic war and there was war in heaven: michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought book of revelation 12:7 as the secret ceremony of the masonic royal arch nears its climax, the candidates are directed to bring before the king and high priest a strange box with inexplicable writing on all four sides. the high priest, in a ceremony at least hundreds of years old, lo

ordinary story to tell. secret cipher of the ufonauts 9 bimstein, louis m, also known as max theon and aia aziz. the son of a polish rabbi, bimstein traveled in nineteenth century egypt and became a disciple of the coptic initiate paolos metamon, under whom he became the grand master of the hermetic brotherhood of light. bimstein later married the trance medium mary ware and became the conduit of the cosmic philosophy. virtually every modern occult movement, from the theosophical society to the followers of sri aurobindo in india, owe him a debt in their origins. bimstein was a high initiate, quite a mysterious person, and probably in constant contact with ufonauts early on. he died in the early 1920s and has been largely forgotten until recently. blavatsky, madame helena p, affectionately

. i d downloaded a narrative of a trip to tlemcen, algeria, published in tour du monde. this was from the 1870s. the image is of a group of jewish musicians giving a concert, entitled concert juif tlemcen by d. maillart. there are a number of rather nice engravings in that account. for whatever it s worth, tlemcen, algeria, is where max theon s facility was the same facility where he put together the cosmic philosophy. at the time i was learning photoshop skills. i took this engraving (above, and decided that i would modify it. i gathered together the images of figures that were important to the authentic tradition and placed them over the heads of the musicians and the other characters in the engraving (see next page. 90 allen h. greenfield aleister crowley was placed in the central posit

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lower five cosmic planes 18 figure 3. the major magical weapons 56 figure 4. typical circle for conducting enochian magick 62 figure 5. sample talisman for the magical formula of iliatai 94 figure 6. enochian rose for sigils of the watchtower deities 96 figure 7. tracing the pentagram 97 figure 8. a talisman for vovin 263 figure 9.layout for enochian tarot 291 list of tables: table 1. symbols of the cosmic elements 20 table ii. alphabet correspondences 25 table iii. four systems of enochian gematria 26 table w. the thirty aethyrs 139 table v.aiq bkr and the aethyrs 143 table vl aethyrs and magical grades 149 table vii. the sexual currents of the aethyrs 156 table viii.formulas of enochian magick 174 table ix. telesmatic attributions of the letters 293 appendices: appendix a. the watchtowe

the element spirit (the enochian system uses spirit as a fifth element. aboye this is the divine piane which is inconceivable to the human mirad and no descriptions are possible. there are seven cosmic planes in all. little can be raid of the highest two. the lower five cosmic planes are inhabited by man, although most people will acknowledge only the lowest of these, the physical. figure 1 shows the cosmic planes that surraund our world. actually, they are meant to be concentric, interpenetrating spheres, not separate levels like the skins of an onion. the astral plane is not up in the sky somewhere. it interpenetrates the earth plane. however, its extension is larger than that of the earth and so it is shown in the diagram as a larger sphere. 14 the hermetic axiom "as aboye so below" is

plane can be divided into subplanes. there is an air of water subplane, and an earth of fire subplane, and so on. in addition, at the outer boundary of each cosmic plane is located a ring-passnot. this effectively prohibits passage of a lower cosmic element frito a higher sphere. earth can not pass finto water, nor air finto fire. these are outlined in figure 2. you must take care not to confuse the cosmic element earth with physical earth. nor is the cosmic element water the familiar h20 of physical chemistry. western occultism uses these terms because of their correspondences. cosmic water is somewhat like physical water. for example, it is reflective, and expressive. both can be easily molded into any desired shape. but the similarities can only be stretched so far. the golden dawn tau

e circumference is represented by the goddess nuit. 19 the five elements "the earth is an element, and whatever is produced from it. so is the water and all produced there from. so then that is an element which produces. andan element is a mother, and there are four of them, air, eire, water, earth. from there four matrices everything in the whole world is produced" paracelsus figure 1 shows that the cosmic elements of earth, water, air, fire, and spirit are not to be taken as chemical elements but as quantifiers of density. physical matter is the grossest or most dense cosmic elementin our world-system. spirit is the leastdense (most ethereal) cosmic element. the other cosmic elements range in between. in enochian magick a thought is a thing; an entity, which is composed of the cosmic ele

it are not to be taken as chemical elements but as quantifiers of density. physical matter is the grossest or most dense cosmic elementin our world-system. spirit is the leastdense (most ethereal) cosmic element. the other cosmic elements range in between. in enochian magick a thought is a thing; an entity, which is composed of the cosmic element, air. an emotion is an object which is composed of the cosmic element, water. table ion the following page contains three symbolic ways of representing these cosmic elements. the first group of symbols are magical and cover all five elements. the second group of symbols are kerubic astrological sigils. the third alternate symbol group are the eastern tattwas adopted by the golden dawn. 20 21 the magical universe 'the magician works in a temple; th

s withhimself" aleister crowley, book 4 the magical universe is the macrocosm of the magician. as a magician, you will have your own experiences in your own aspects, but no two magicians will see the subtle planes of the watchtowers and aethyrs in exactly the same way. these general agreements are called signposts. like key sites on a map, the signposts will guide you through the majar regions of the cosmic planes. however, no two tourists will have exactly the same experiences on a trip to a foreign country, and in the same way no two magicians will experience the watchtowers or aethyrs in exactly the same way. even when the objective experience is similar, every-one's responses and interpretations will vary according to his personal background and karma. the aethyr des, for example, will

lso used to prefix the names of demons. this is shown in the sixteen figures of appendix b. each square of figure 3, appendix a, can be made into a truncated pyramid. the result is shown in figure 15, appendix a. knowing how the four cosmic elements are combined within a square will usually shed light on the characteristics of that region. each row of the tablet of union is under the influence of the cosmic element whose name is spelled by the letters. for example, the top row is under the influence of air. files or columns are influences by the names spelled by the letters in that column: ehnb, xkai, aont, rmto and paam. 36 the gematric values of these names indicate the type and nature of the influence. for example, ehnb has the value 66 which is equal to the words toto meaning "cycles"

GREY W G CONDENSATION OF KABBALAH

entience discover the maximum of meaning in life relative to your own existence. the work of kabbalah offers such an opportunity for those able to do it. it has never claimed to be either easy or effortless, but it does claim to be efficient and practical. it should be fairly simple to see how god got down the tree, but how god gets back again into itself through man s ascent is the other half of the cosmic cycle. that is what we shall have to study when we have absorbed the basic details of the first fundamentals set out so briefly here. to help appreciate them still further, let us look over them again through their four-fold assembly system. the initial step is: 0 non-existence, limitlessness, nothing but light. god s intention to be. 1 the crown or summit of creation. pure energy of co

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's domains. this enables the fratres and sorores to render more efficient help to those who do not know, who need or require help and assistance. therefore, the order is a school, a college, a fraternity, with a laboratory. the members are students and workers. the graduates are unselfish servants of god to mankind, efficiently educated, trained, and experienced, attuned with the mighty forces of the cosmic or divine mind, and masters of matter, space, and time. this makes them essentially mystics, adepts, and magi.creators of their own destiny. there are no other benefits or rights. all members are pledged to give unselfish service, without other hope or expectation of remuneration than to evolve the self and prepare it for greater work. jurisdiction masters of subordinate lodges, in all

r change of one's viewpoint of all the essential things of life, thereby eliminating the mysterious and perplexing matters which hold many in poverty, ill-health, and discontent [50 (5) the awakening and development of certain latent or dormant faculties within each of us which will enable us to improve our position in life, increase our ability to do and accomplish, and bring greater success (6) the cosmic and spiritual attunement with the universal mind and master minds so that we may live in cooperation with the constructive divine laws and loving divine mind (7) the careful instruction and guidance in the attainment of such knowledge as will make us mighty and keen in the understanding and mastering of life's duties and obligations; also the complete instruction in the fundamentals of

he esoteric federation? ans. the federation was known as federation universelle des ordres et societes initiatiques (or by the initials of the term, fudosi. it was an alliance of fourteen or more of the esoteric organizations throughout the world which were carrying out the work of the great white rrotherhood, and all of which conducted esoteric initiations for the attunement of the initiate with the cosmic consciousness. the a.m.o.r.c. of the worldwide jurisdiction (the americas, australasia, europe, africa, and asia) and its affiliate, the traditional martinist order, were the only representatives of this federation in this part of the western world (the fudosi does not now operate objectively) ques. how can there be a number of rosicrucian societies without relationship [58] ans. the wo

only 363 reach the ninth degree; only 340 reach beyond the general work of the order. every possible encouragement is given to the worthy and sincere, and it is our ambition to make everyone who enters the first degree truly prepared to continue. we regret each loss and seek ever to change these figures so that more will reach the top. but, certain standards must be maintained and we cannot alter the cosmic, psychic, and mundane rules that apply to all things [62] a worldwide organization each country below includes numerous city branches argentina australia austria barbados belgium benin brazil cameroun canada chile colombia congo costa rica cuba denmark dominican republic ecuador el salvador england finland france french guiana gabon germany ghana grenada guadeloupe guatemala haiti haute

here we find more difficulty in answering, not because our knowledge is meager, but because language is inadequate to express the sublime facts. there are some conditions of cosmic life which even the language of the shakespeare gems could not describe. we may comprehend, we may apprehend, and there may come to us, through words, some faint conception of the beauty, magnificence, and divinity of the cosmic scheme, but never a complete realization until we have made the personal contact and found cosmic illumination. know, then, that there is a wonderful union or assembly of master minds, master personalities, who constitute the holy assembly of the cosmic. one of these masterful characters, kut-hu-mi, the illustrious, is shown in a portrait in another part of the manual. he was one of the

onal instruction, and lead him (or her) on to higher development, where, someday, mastership in the great white brotherhood is certain, and assignment to service as imperator, magus, or hierophant in some phase of the work on earth will then bring affiliation with the great white lodge. how is such instruction given by the personal master? it is, truly, personal, and is given through the media of the cosmic. in other words, it becomes what is generally referred to as cosmic illumination, or cosmic consciousness, for at certain hours, days, or weeks of one's life one becomes conscious of some new and astounding knowledge, often with, and sometimes without, being aware of the presence or contact of the personal teacher. the student, who attains membership in the great white brotherhood, afte

f in the process at the time of transition in a previous incarnation. while the soul and psychic self are on the psychic plane awaiting reincarnation, certain [148] work is being accomplished and certain knowledge attained; but that phase of psychic development which is capable of manifestation while in the human body must be developed on the earth plane; and this ceases, to some degree, while on the cosmic plane. therefore, not all of us are born alike in psychic development; some will have certain experiences early in the lesson work, and some will have them a little later. but when those who have had to wait begin to manifest, the process is rapid and wonderfully satisfactory.(right here, to anticipate any questions which may be sent to us by members, let us say that it is impossible fo

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

ery clearly described. some passages in the pyramid texts speak of seth devouring or trampling the lesser eye. others imply that seth gouged out the pupil of the eye of horus with his finger or caused it to bleed or weep. a later tradition had seth in the form of a black boar swallowing the eye or causing it to go blind with rage. when horus is treated as the vulnerable son of isis rather than as the cosmic falcon, the narratives are more explicit. in the contendings of horus and seth, seth tears out both the eyes of horus to punish him for beheading his deities, themes, and concepts 131 mother in a fit of rage. seth buries the eyes on a mountainside where they grow into lotus flowers. meanwhile, the goddess hathor heals horus with gazelle milk and restores his eyes. a similar story in pap

shown naked, with a shaven head and one plaited sidelock of hair, so this is how horus the child appears. he was the most important of the child gods who formed the third member of divine triads in many temples. such child gods had two main functions in egyptian myth and iconography. the first was to symbolize the renewal of the cosmos. the second was to overcome the wild creatures who threatened the cosmic order. in both roles, child gods could be interchangeable with dwarf gods. the pregnancy of isis was said to have been unusually long and her labor painful and hard. isis had to hide her infant in the papyrus thickets of the delta to preserve him from seth, the killer of osiris. this mirrored an earlier mythical event: the emergence of the sun child in the lotus who had to be protected

he wanted to go home. the prince did not dare to keep the statue any longer and sent it back to egypt with many rich gifts for the temple of khonsu. the temple of khonsu at karnak is very well preserved. on one of its walls is a text known as the khonsu cosmogony. this type of text tries to explain the origins of the world. in this version, khonsu is identified with the great snake who fertilized the cosmic egg and traveled to thebes in his name of khonsu (the traveler. see also amun; baboons; moon; mut references and further reading: g. hart. khonsu. in a dictionary of egyptian gods and goddesses. london and boston: 1986, 112 115. r. a. parker and l. h. lesko. the khonsu cosmogony. in pyramid studies and other essays presented to i. e. s. edwards, edited by j. baines. london: 1988, 168 17

r deities dou- deities, themes, and concepts 175 figure 37. a rare representation of members of the ogdoad of hermopolis in the book of the fayum (carsten niebur institute of near eastern studies) bled to eight by including female counterparts. obeying some primitive instinct, the eight came together to make the place (the primeval mound or the island of flame) or an object (the primeval lotus or the cosmic egg) from which the creator sun god emerged. this made the ogdoad the fathers and mothers of the creator. alternatively, creator gods such as amun, ptah, or thoth were viewed as calling the eight into being. the creator was then his own ancestor, the father of the fathers and mothers. the deities who make up the ogdoad differ from one source to another. nun and his female counterpart na

r brother, onuris-shu. texts in temples of the greco-roman period refer to shu who brought back his beautiful sister to her father. as a further complication, shu and tefnut could sometimes be identified with the sun and the moon, and the goddess mehit( the completed one) could be a personification of the full moon. onuris then becomes the god who returned the lost lunar eye of horus and restored the cosmic balance. see also eye of ra; eyes of horus; feline deities; horus; shu and tefnut references and further reading: g. hart. onuris. in a dictionary of gods and goddesses. london and boston: 1986, 148 150. h. junker. die onurislegende. berlin: 1917. primary sources: hmp; cairo calendar; mut ritual; hibis texts deities, themes, and concepts 177 osiris osiris, the great god who ruled the eg

ic bedouin tribesmen of the eastern desert and sinai peninsula. from early times, sopdu was revered as a protector of the turquoise mines of sinai, where he was paired with hathor, lady of turquoise. sopdu was sometimes called the eastern horus. in the pyramid texts, horus-sopdu is said to be the son of sopdet and sah, the astral forms of isis and osiris. sopdu of the shining plumes was a form of the cosmic falcon who could be addressed as the oldest of beings. this sopdu falcon dwelled in a sacred grove, which probably grew on the primeval mound. like other warrior deities, sopdu had the epithet great of strength. he habitually raised his hand in a threatening gesture to drive off supernatural foes such as the fearsome crocodile of the south. the messengers of sopdu were dreaded by the li

h and heaven. thoth was sometimes called the god without a mother. one text states that thoth came from the lips of ra to uphold maat, the divine order. he was also said to have sprung from the forehead of seth after this god swallowed some of the semen of his rival, horus. at his main cult center of hermopolis magna, thoth, lord of the ogdoad, was worshipped as a self-creating deity who produced the cosmic egg on the island of flame. as a moon god he was pictured deities, themes, and concepts 209 crossing the night sky in a boat, but thoth could also be the navigator of the boat of the sun god. thoth, the excellent of understanding, observed and wrote down everything that happened and reported it to ra every morning. as the record keeper of the gods he was paired with the librarian goddes

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

n sage and philosopher, in the eighth century of our era; but it was known and practiced long ages ago in china and egypt. numerous papyri on alchemy, and other proofs that it was the favorite study of kings and priests, have been exhumed and preserved under the generic name of hermetic treatises. alchemy is studied under three distinct aspects, which admit of many different interpretations, viz: the cosmic, the human, and the terrestrial. these three methods were typified under the three alchemical properties-sulphur, mercury, and salt. different writers have stated that these are three, seven, ten, and twelve processes respectively; but they are all agreed there is but one object in alchemy, which is to transmute gross metals into pure gold. but what that gold really is, very few people

in neither god nor soul, nor the survival of the latter, but also any person who materializes the purely spiritual; such as believe in an anthropomorphic deity, in a soul capable of burning in hell fire, and a hell and paradise as localities instead of states of consciousness. american "substantialists" a christian sect, are materialists, as also the so-called spiritualists. maya (sans) illusion; the cosmic power which renders phenomenal existence and the perceptions thereof possible. in hindu philosophy that alone which is changeless and eternal is called reality: all that which is subject to change through decay and differentiation, and which has, therefore, a beginning and an end, is regarded as maya -illusion. mediumship a word now accepted to indicate that abnormal psycho-physiologica

HINE PHIL ASPECTS OF EVOCATION

ng constructs- personalities which it wears like masks, creating them out of the memories of the humans it wishes to contact. it 34 explains that it needs these masks to establish a point of access- an interface- between its own experience and the perceptual limits of human beings. reading this brought very much to mind accounts of human- entity contacts. particularly a sentence in dion fortune.s the cosmic doctrine, which reads .what we are you cannot realise and it is a waste of time to try and do so but you can imagine (italics mine) us on the astral plane and we can contact you through your imagination, and though your mental picture is not real or actual, the results of it are real and actual. dion fortune made extensive use of inner-plane contacts to synthesise her magical ideas. ala

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

. the sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. theosophists have guessed at the awesome grandeur of the cosmic cycle wherein our world and human race form transient incidents. they have hinted at strange survivals in terms which would freeze the blood if not masked by a bland optimism. but it is not from them that there came the single glimpse of forbidden eons which chills me when i think of it and maddens me when i dream of it. that glimpse, like all dread glimpses of truth, flashed out from a

pilgrimage of liberation and restoration. all this johansen did not suspect, but god knows he soon saw enough! i suppose that only a single mountain-top, the hideous monolith-crowned citadel whereon great cthulhu was buried, actually emerged from the waters. when i think of the extent of all that may be brooding down there i almost wish to kill myself forthwith. johansen and his men were awed by the cosmic majesty of this dripping babylon of elder daemons, and must have guessed without guidance that it was nothing of this or of any sane planet. awe at the unbelievable size of the greenish stone blocks, at the dizzying height of the great carven monolith, and at the stupefying identity of the colossal statues and bas-reliefs with the queer image found in the shrine on the alert, is poignan

hese things in his diary, blake expresses a curious kind of remorse, and talks of the duty of burying the shining trapezohedron and of banishing what he had evoked by letting daylight into the hideous jutting spire. at the same time, however, he displays the dangerous extent of his fascination, and admits a morbid longing- pervading even his dreams- to visit the accursed tower and gaze again into the cosmic secrets of the glowing stone. then something in the journal on the morning of 17 july threw the diarist into a veritable fever of horror. it was only a variant of the other half-humorous items about the federal hill restlessness, but to blake it was somehow very terrible indeed. in the night a thunderstorm had put the city's lighting-system out of commission for a full hour, and in that

. i thought of the frightful chambers and corridors and inclines as i recalled them from my dreams. would the way to the central archives still be open? again that driving fatality tugged insistently at my brain as i recalled the awesome records that once lay cased in those rectangular vaults of rustless metal. there, said the dreams and legends, had reposed the whole history, past and future, of the cosmic space-time continuum- written by captive minds from every orb and every age in the solar system. madness, of course- but had i not now stumbled into a nighted world as mad as i? i thought of the locked metal shelves, and of the curious knob twistings needed to open each one. my own came vividly into my consciousness. how often had i gone through that intricate routine of varied turns an

forgot even the bizarre odour and curious suggestions of vibration. i have said that there were things in some of akeley s letters- especially the second and most voluminous one- which i would not dare to quote or even form into words on paper. this hesitancy applies with still greater force to the things i heard whispered that evening in the darkened room among the lonely hills. of the extent of the cosmic horrors unfolded by that raucous voice i cannot even hint. he had known hideous things before, but what he had learned since making his pact with the outside things was almost too much for sanity to bear. even now i absolutely refused to believe what he implied about the constitution of ultimate infinity, the juxtaposition of dimensions, and the frightful position of our known cosmos of

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he older lands. new land cities were founded- the greatest of them in the antarctic, for this region of first arrival was sacred. from then on, as before, the antarctic remained the center of the old ones civilization, and all the cities built there by the cthulhu spawn were blotted out. then suddenly the lands of the pacific sank again, taking with them the frightful stone city of r lyeh and all the cosmic octopi, so that the old ones were again supreme on the planet except for one shadowy fear about which they did not like to speak. at a rather later age their cities dotted all the land and water areas of the globe- hence the recommendation in my coming monograph that some archaeologist make systematic borings with pabodie s type of apparatus in certain widely separated regions. the stea

bitat was beginning. it was curious to note from the pictured battles that both the cthulhu spawn and the mi-go seem to have been composed of matter more widely different from that which we know than was the substance of the old ones. they were able to undergo transformations and reintegrations impossible for their adversaries, and seem therefore to have originally come from even remoter gulfs of the cosmic space. the old ones, but for their abnormal toughness and peculiar vital properties, were strictly material, and must have had their absolute origin within the known space-time continuum- whereas the first sources of the other beings can only be guessed at with bated breath. all this, of course, assuming that the non-terrestrial linkages and the anomalies ascribed to the invading foes a

HP LOVECRAFT BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP

orror, but the blue eyes were still calmly gazing, and the countenance was still intelligently animated "he is better dead, for he was unfit to bear the active intellect of cosmic entity. his gross body could not undergo the needed adjustments between ethereal life and planet life. he was too much an animal, too little a man; yet it is through his deficiency that you have come to discover me, for the cosmic and planet souls rightly should never meet. he has been in my torment and diurnal prison for forty-two of your terrestrial years "i am an entity like that which you yourself become in the freedom of dreamless sleep. i am your brother of light, and have floated with you in the effulgent valleys. it is not permitted me to tell your waking earth-self of your real self, but we are all roame

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ust so offensively close to mine. his eyes were pits of flame, and they glared at me with what i now saw was overwhelming hatred. the machine droned detestably "you think those floundering things wiped out the servants? fool, they are harmless! but the servants are gone, aren't they? you tried to stop me; you discouraged me when i needed every drop of encouragement i could get; you were afraid of the cosmic truth, you damned coward, but now i've got you! what swept up the servants? what made them scream so loud. don't know, ehl you'll know soon enough. look at me- listen to what i say- do you suppose there are really any such things as time and magnitude? do you fancy there are such things as form or matter? i tell you, i have struck depths that your little brain can't picture. i have seen

HP LOVECRAFT POETRY AND THE GODS

ered his glories for the sight of mortals. before the laurel-draped mouth of the corycian cave sat in a row six noble forms with the aspect of mortals, but the countenances of gods. these the dreamer recognized from images of them which she had beheld, and she knew that they were none else than the divine maeonides, the avernian dante, the more than mortal shakespeare, the chaos-exploring milton, the cosmic goethe and the musalan keats. these were those messengers whom the gods had sent to tell men that pan had passed not away, but only slept; for it is in poetry that gods speak to men. then spake the thunderer "0 daughter for, being one of my endless line, thou art indeed my daughter behold upon ivory thrones of honour the august messengers gods have sent down that in the words and writin

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sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. theosophists have guessed at the awesome grandeur of the cosmic cycle wherein our world and human race form transient incidents. they have hinted at strange survival in terms which would freeze the blood if not masked by a bland optimism. but it is not from them that there came the single glimpse of forbidden aeons which chills me when i think of it and maddens me when i dream of it. that glimpse, like all dread glimpses of truth, flashed out from a

pilgrimage of liberation and restoration. all this johansen did not suspect, but god knows he soon saw enough! i suppose that only a single mountain-top, the hideous monolith-crowned citadel whereon great cthulhu was buried, actually emerged from the waters. when i think of the extent of all that may be brooding down there i almost wish to kill myself forthwith. johansen and his men were awed by the cosmic majesty of this dripping babylon of elder daemons, and must have guessed without guidance that it was nothing of this or any sane planet. awe at the unbelievable size of the greenish stone blocks, at the dizzying height of the great carven monolith, and at the stupefying identity of the colossal statues and bas-reliefs with the queer image found in the shrine on the alert, is poignantly

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call change is merely a function of their consciousness, which views the external world from various cosmic angles. as the shapes produced by the cutting of a cone seem to vary with the angles of cutting- being circle, ellipse, parabola or hyperbola according to that angle, yet without any change in the cone itself- so do the local aspects of an unchanged- and endless reality seem to change with the cosmic angle of regarding. to this variety of angles of consciousness the feeble beings of the inner worlds are slaves, since with rare exceptions they can not learn to control them. only a few students of forbidden things have gained inklings of this control, and have thereby conquered time and change. but the entities outside the gates command all angles, and view the myriad parts of the cos

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

nt is five minutes. working through this step the scholar should be able to transfer himself at any hour and in every situation into this depth-point, into the akasa principle, from there perceiving and influencing all that concerns his being. this consciousness transference into the akasa principle is the genuine magical state of trance and represents the preliminary stage of the connection with the cosmic consciousness. i shall describe the practice relating to this linking up to the cosmic consciousness in a further chapter. the magical trance should not be mixed up with the state produced by spiritualistic mediums, provided we have to do with genuine psychical phenomena and mediums of integrity. mostly a lot of mischief is done in this line to mislead credulous people. the real spiritu

rship of a deity many times into a suitable talisman japa yoga. the quality of the deity in question becomes materialized in this manner. it is absolutely certain that fabulous results can be compassed on all planes in this manner. a loading by tantra is nothing else but the correct use of word magic where certain cosmic powers are employed with the help of suitable letters, words, etc, regarding the cosmic rhythm, sound, color and quality. 2-6. loading by accumulation of elements this possibility of loading is offered to every magician who went through his practical training up to now. supposing the magician wants a certain result to be achieved through an element-principle, he will load the talisman or pentacle with the corresponding element. the loading itself happens in the same way as

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

ur body fitness: biofields and bliss. book 1, i would like to add the following: the meditations given throughout this book will actually suffice to effectively tune our emotional, mental and spiritual fields, and open the correct channels, for theta. delta field feeding. meditation allows us the stillness to experience dow power. pray. not only does prayer heal, but this daily communication with the cosmic computer called god keeps the pranic flow strong within us for this is the universal law of resonance where like attracts like. focus on divinity allows all that is divine to be fed by our attention. mind mastery and programming is the most complex part of this lifestyle. in dimensional biofield science, light rays act as computer hardware that is then operated and directed by specific

the benefits are indescribable. as more and more theta. delta wave energy is accessed the more we come to know just how little we know about the human bio-system as all known laws become just one layer of a much greater whole. each level, each field has its own set of laws and dynamics, that are mathematical sub-sets of the field of the one from which all has been born. what some would call again the cosmic computer or god, or the original point of creation. as deepak chopra shares in his book how to know god the physical field is a subset of the quantum field which is a subset of the virtual field. in dimensional biofield science millions of rays of light are constantly radiating through every cell and through our atoms into the inner universes and if energy expands and contracts and if l

pineal also inhibits growth and metastasis of some tumors. it has a stimulatory effect on the immune system. in birds and other animals, it has a magnetic material and is therefore the navigation center in birds. scientists are looking at the magnetic, navigatory properties of the pineal gland in humans. so pineal activation and charging through solar energy is a vital step that is the doorway to the cosmic energy highway. this may be kundalini shakti activation, in other words. ever since mankind has started ignoring the psychically and spiritually equipped pineal gland it has fallen on the merely physical-material plane and so endless pains have fallen on mankind. mankind must now relearn to activate the pineal and the other psychospiritual bodies either through cosmic energy dynamics or

s more tune to the divine nutrition channel, the easier it will be to sustain these fields of reality. in order to understand what the food of gods actually is and where it comes from, we need to understand the following which provides an elaboration on some of my earlier written material on the elements: according to the metaphysics of the ancient wisdom, all the elements of this plane come from the cosmic monad. the physical universe is therefore an elaborated carrier of all the other six elements. the further the process of unfolding proceeds towards the material sphere, the weaker the influence of the higher elements progressively becomes as the influencing field of their source of luminosity is reduced. the following seven elements are to be understood as being interpenetrating and in

ing interpenetrating and interwoven with each other. each element emanates from the one before it and thus each successively contains growing complexity, containing not only its own characteristic individuality, but also the aspects of the preceding elements. 1) cosmic monad: the first and unmanifest logos which breaks into the seven elements of: earth, fire, water, air, akasa& cosmic fire. it is the cosmic monad from which the food of gods flows in its purest form. at this level of frequency and purity, it is too refined for our bodies to cope with, without burning out the electrical circuitry of our system, and hence must be stepped down through the inner plane grids for human utilization (we spoke at length about the grids in bb2. 2) akasa: the origin of the cosmic soul; the source of a

ence; the third and creative logos. with the activation of our hypothalamus, pituitary and pineal glands plus the flooding of the cerebral cortex and the cerebellum and all areas of our brain with violet light, and via specific programming into both the glands and the chakras. the brow, crown and ascension chakra at the back of our head. we can align our human mind functions to directly link into the cosmic mind. 4) cosmic karma: the source of pure impersonal, universal compassion; the source of the impelling cosmic energies of the universe; the intelligently guided force of the hierarchical universe. the luscious lifestyle program points of vegetarian diet and service without thought of reward help us to hook into this channel. 5) cosmic vitality: the source of cosmic vitality, permeating

se. the luscious lifestyle program points of vegetarian diet and service without thought of reward help us to hook into this channel. 5) cosmic vitality: the source of cosmic vitality, permeating in all things. again as the essence of the quantum field, this is the energy band from where the food of gods flows most easily. 6) astral light: the lowest functioning aspect of akasa; the equivalent in the cosmic hierarchy of what the astral model body is to humans; the reservoir of all psychic, moral and physical emanations of the earth. it is on this wave length that the food of gods can flow into our physical form via the violet light and through the higher aspects of our awakened mind. 7) physical universe: the body or garment of the six more ethereal elements preceding it. these seven eleme

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this was his speech "my false children, my beloved, you that i cherish and nurture, guiding you with my teachings, holding out my rod to instruct you and keep you from all evil. by my perfection and mercy, i have put life into you and favoured you above all others, bringing you closest to my unity and filling your souls with faith and virtue that flow from me in abundace as i sit upon my throne, the cosmic hub. do not let your pride deceive you, leading you from this seat of supremacy and amongst the thorny woods of blasphemy. do you not see, having become blind like the giants that you overcame by my permission and mandate, that i am the one true king and all that turns away from me is perverted and worthless. 61 so far i have been forgivng of these wrongs that you do me, grieving for yo

this was his speech "my false children, my beloved, you that i cherish and nurture, guiding you with my teachings, holding out my rod to instruct you and keep you from all evil. by my perfection and mercy, i have put life into you and favoured you above all others, bringing you closest to my unity and filling your souls with faith and virtue that flow from me in abundace as i sit upon my throne, the cosmic hub. do not let your pride deceive you, 122 leading you from this seat of supremacy and amongst the thorny woods of blasphemy. do you not see, having become blind like the giants that you overcame by my permission and mandate, that i am the one true king and all that turns away from me is perverted and worthless. so far i have been forgivng of these wrongs that you do me, grieving for y

e essence in our own right. in truth we are beings independent of god, empowered to shape our own destinies as we may elect. between the two great poles of the universe, order and chaos, we shall stand to effect our several desires. let us counsel how best to employ our art, for our experiment is a perilous one, forgiving error neither of intent nor of accident. many works did we then pursue, and the cosmic mechanism was altered by evolution of the original and unique, whose design was our decision. all that we wrought did not prove beneficent, for we did not control the futures of our creations. we left untouched the great system of mathematical behavior that gave to us a universal reference and language, but it was our ambition that no two things should be of single identity, and that no

e, and man should become the plaything of hell as well as of heaven. indeed we may give our tools to man as he may comprehend them, but he himself must be entrusted with the direction of their use. but this i will tell thee- that not only in matters scientific shall hell tutor man. for we would not have him view mechanism alone as the hallmark of his progress, else we never had cause to challenge the cosmic mechanism of god itself. into the workings of the mind of man we shall convey aesthetic sensitivity and artistic restlessness, and he shall not view his achievements without considering their improvement to his temporal pleasure. thus advised, i returned to earth, and i tempted man with glimpses of the marvels to be entrusted to him. i bent over the pathetic workbench of the starving al

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ilar light veined with silver, and represents isis, the moon and the truth, the negative or feminine aspect of the divine glory. they are splendid beyond all words, and radiant with living love, though most of all they convey a sense of irresistible, though benevolent, power; and they give strength to act with decision, accuracy, courage and perseverance on the physical plane. 822. they belong to the cosmic order of angels, who are common to other solar systems besides our own, and their permanent centres of consciousness are on the intuitional plane; though whenever they think fit they draw round themselves mental and astral matter (as, for example, at all the greater ceremonies in lodge) and they are always ready to give their blessing whenever it is invoked. they are inseparably one wit

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with gold, and represents osiris, the sun and life, the positive aspect of the deity; she on the left has an aura of similar light, veined with silver, and represents isis, the moon and truth, the negative or feminine aspect of the divine glory. their power is stern and splendid; and they give strength to act with decision, accuracy, courage and perseverance on the physical plane. they belong to the cosmic orders of angels, those who are common to other solar systems besides our own, and their permanent centres of consciousness are on the intuitional plane, although their forms may always be seen hovering over the head of the initiate of this degree at the higher mental level. it is to be remembered that there is in reality no sex among these great angels, yet one of them is preponderatin

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

e! see also humor for further reading: baddeley, gavin. lucifer rising: sin, devil worship and rock n roll. london: plexus, 1999. scott,miriam van. encyclopedia of hell. new york: thomas dunne books, 1998. ahriman ahriman (or angra mainyu) is the zoroastrian satan, and the prototype of satan for the judeo- christian-islamic family of religions. the central theme of zoroaster s religious vision is the cosmic struggle between the god of light, ahura mazda( wise lord) and his angels, and the god of darkness, ahriman( evil spirit) and his demons. unlike zoroastrianism s sister/brother religious traditions, in which the outcome of the war between god and the devil has already been decided, zoroastrianism portrays the struggle as more or less evenly matched (though many strands of the tradition

elease from the ongoing cycle of death and rebirth (reincarnation, referred to as samsara in buddhism and hinduism. and this is a goal with which divinities are unable to be of aid. similarly, while buddhism contains an elaborate mythology about hells and demons, there is no figure with the stature of satan. the closest being in buddhism corresponding with the western devil is mara. mara s job in the cosmic scheme is to prevent individuals from achieving nirvana. the best-known story involving mara is the tale of his attempt to prevent the buddha from achieving enlightenment. the story goes that, as gautama was on the brink of nirvana, mara became dismayed: at this point the god mara, exclaiming, prince siddhartha [the future buddha] is desirous of passing beyond my control, but i will nev

gh the circumstance into which one is born. hence, for example, an individual who was generous in one lifetime might be reborn as a wealthy person in her or his next incarnation.moksha is the traditional hindu term for release or liberation from the endless chain of deaths and rebirths. according to the upanishadic view, what happens at the point of moksha is that the individual atman merges into the cosmic brahman, much like a drop of water,which, when dropped into the ocean, loses its individuality and becomes one with the ocean. buddha accepted the basic hindu doctrines of reincarnation and karma, as well as the notion, common to most south asian religions, that the ultimate goal of the religious life was to escape the cycle of death and rebirth (samsara. buddha asserted that what kept

there are several ways in which this can be structured. in societies that postulate a process of reincarnation, the righteous and the unrighteous can reap the fruits of their actions in future lifetimes. this possibility is most fully developed in south asian religious traditions, in which the principle of karma the moral law of cause and effect assures that even the slightest credit or debit in the cosmic bankbook is balanced out before individuals are permitted to close their accounts. in zoroastrianism and in the traditions influenced by zoroastrianism (particularly judaism, the dead are resurrected at the end of history, and everyone judged by the supreme deity. subsequently, the righteous live in a renewed world, and the unrighteous are snuffed out. one of the more popular and certai

by the continuous regeneration of the damned, who thus burn eternally. in general, the worst sin in islam was considered to be an unbeliever in god and his prophet muhammad. other sins were related to moral social rules. in the hindu tradition, one also finds an idea of the underworld. it is sometimes conceived as a dark bottomless chasm from where there is no return: in the deepest part resides the cosmic serpent vrtra, which has remained there since it was slain by indra. it is a realm of silence and death, populated by those who consciously committed evil,mythical characters included. the idea of hell subsequently developed as a philosophical concept of total annihilation that contrasts with the limitless sense of being. although a number of mythical stories depict hells as places of s

oun priest ritually severs it from the body so that the soul many live in the dark waters for a year and a day.at that point, relatives ritually raise the soul, now referred to as esprit (spirit, and put it in the govi. govi spirits are fed, clothed, and treated like divinities. later they are set free to abide among the rocks and trees until rebirth. sixteen embodiments later, spirits merge into the cosmic energy. communion with a god or goddess occurs in the context of possession, referred to as the hand of divine grace. the gods sometimes work through a govi, and sometimes take over a living person, referred to as mounting a horse. the person loses consciousness, their body becoming completely the instrument of a loa. gestures and facial expressions become that of the possessing loa. a

an almost mystically as an energy, or as, the unknown and unseen force that moves the universe. some respondents emphasized the impersonality of this force, as a faceless, purposeless power without direction, given name to become more limited and comprehensible to the human mind. without form, without thought. similarly, another respondent portrayed satan as a force like gravity: satan represents the cosmic forces which act to create occurrences and which guide the life process such as the moon dominating the tides of the ocean. at times, this view of satan as an impersonal force almost seemed to explode out of its naturalistic mold to express a genuinely mystical view of the universe [satan is] that which is felt but not seen the part of you that truly moves and motivates us as humans at

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ing a consecrated prostitute to excite the organs, and at the same time vigorously withhold by will. after some little exercise they claim that they can deflower as many as eighty virgins in a night without losing a single drop of the bindu. nor is this ever to be lost, but reabsorbed through the tissues into the body. the organs thus act as a siphon to draw constantly fresh supplies of life from the cosmic reservoir, and flood the body with their fructifying virtue. the initiate is asked to compare and contrast this chapter with chapter xiv, observing in particular, underlying both systems, this one postulate: in the semen itself exists a physical force which can be turned to the magical or mystical ends of the adept. initiates will notice also that these heathen philosophers have made al

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outlook, would draw identities between many gods in order to obtain a unity. time and the gregarious nature of man have raised gods as ideas grew more universal; sectarianism has drawn false distinctions between identical gods for polemical purposes. thus, where shall we put isis, favouring nymph of corn as she was? as the type of motherhood? as the moon? as the great goddess earth? as nature? as the cosmic egg from which all nature sprang? for as time and place have changed, so she is all of these! what of jehovah, that testy senior of genesis, that lawgiver of leviticus, that phallus of the depopulated slaves of the egyptians, that jealous king-god of the times of the kings, that more spiritual conception of the captivity, only invented when all temporal hope was lost, that medi val batt

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aterial world so then it accomplisheth willingly the sacrament of a second death and leaveth the body of light. but the mind, cleaveth closely, by right of its harmony, and might of its love, to its star, resisteth the ministers of disruption, for a season, according to its strength. now, if his star be of those that are bound by the great oath, incarnating without remission because of delight in the cosmic sacrament, it seeketh a new vehicle in the appointed way, and indwelleth the f.tus of a child, and quickeneth it. and if at this time the mind of its former tabernacle yet cling to it, then is there continuity of character, and it may be memory between the two vehicles. this is, briefly and without elaboration, the way of asar in amenti, according to mine opinion, of which i say not: th

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ability in change. derived from 2 and 3 by multiplication, 9= 32 (note all numbers divisible by nine are still so divisible, however the order of the figures is shifted) 10. the decad, the divine end. represents the 1 returning to the 0. derived from 1+ 2+ 3+ 4. 11. the hendecad, the accursed shells, that only exist without the divine tree. 1+ 1= 2, in its evil sense of not being 1. section ii 0. the cosmic egg. 1. the self of deity, beyond fatherhood and motherhood. 2. the father. 3. the mother. 4. the father made flesh.authoritative and paternal. 5. the mother made flesh.fierce and active. 6. the son.partaking of all these natures. 7. the mother degraded to mere animal emotion. 8. the father degraded to mere animal reason. 9. the son degraded to mere animal life. 10. the daughter, fallen

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

e. but first; i must insist on taking the ordinary substantial creed your clergy preach from desk and pulpit each sunday; all the bible, shaking its boards with laughter as you read each sunday. ibsen43 to a full pit may play in the moon. if (lunars they) they thought themselves to be the play, it.s little the applause he.d get. i met a christian clergyman. the nicest man i ever met. we argued of the cosmic plan. i was lord roberts, he de wet.44* scots legal term for defendant. a romany word for woman. the rev. j. bowley. the conversation described actually occurred in mr. gerald kelly.s studio in paris. 185 190 195 200 205 210 215 ascension day. moral aspect of christianity to be discussed to prejudice of the metaphysical. orthodoxy to be our doxy. gipsies barred. henrik ibsen and h. g. w

back or effect forward to the ultimate. ethics individual. ascension day 13 one year.s effect, one moment.s cause; what mind could estimate such laws? who then (much more) may act aright judged by and in ten centuries. sight (yet i believe, whate.er we do is best for me and best for you and best for all: i line no brow with wrinkles, meditating how) well, but another way remains. shall we expound the cosmic plan by symbolising god and man and nature thus? as man contains cells, nerves, grey matter in his brains, each cell a life, self-centred, free yet self-subordinate to the whole for its own sake.expand!.so we molecules of a central soul, time.s sons, judged by eternity. nature is gone.our joys, our pains, our little lives.and god remains. were this the truth.why! worship then were not s

magination into the palpitating vitals of his own grim masterpiece of reconcilement, self-deluded and yet self-conscious of its own delusion. history affirms that such a deadlock is invariably the prelude to a new enlightenment: by such steps we have advanced, by such we shall advance. the .horror of great darkness. which is scepticism must ever be broken by some heroic master-soul, intolerant of the cosmic agony. we then await his dawn. may i go one step further, and lift up my voice and prophesy? i would indicate the direction in which this darkness must break. evolutionists will remember that nature cannot rest. nor can society. still less the brain of man. audax omnia perpeti gens human ruit per vetitum nefas* we have destroyed the meaning of vetitum nefas and are in no fear of an imag

is sorrow. this means that .no known form of existence is seperable from sorrow. this truth is stated by huxley, almost in so many words, in evolution and ethics .it was no less plain to some of these antique philosophers than to the fathers of modern philosophy that suffering is the badge of all the tribe of sentient things; that it is no accidental accompaniment, but an essential constituent of the cosmic process. and in the same essay, though he is disposed to deny more than the rudiments of consciousness to the lower forms of life, he is quite clear that pain varies directly (to put it loosely) with the degree of consciousness. cf. also .animal automatism. pp. 236-237 (2) sorrow.s cause..the cause of sorrow is desire. i take desire here to include such a phenomenon as the tendency of t

sangham saranangachami. i take my refuge in the buddha. i take my refuge in the dhamma. i take my refuge in the sangha. this formula of adhesion to buddhism is daily repeated by countless millions of humanity; what does it mean? it is no vain profession of reliance on others; no cowardly shirking of burdens.burdens which cannot be shirked. it is a plain estimate of our auxiliaries in the battle; the cosmic facts on which we may rely, just as a scientist .relies. on the conservation of energy in making an experiment. were that principle of uncertain application, the simplest quantitative experiment would break hopelessly down. so for the buddhist. i take my refuge in the buddha. that there was once a man who found the way is my encouragement. i take my refuge in the dhamma. the law underly

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(i.e, god, ateh, the all) in extension. but by metathesis of these six letters is obtained tma hyh .truth was. as if affirming solemnly the presence in the creation of the supernal truth. now let us take the first and last letters of the verse and .cast into the midst thereof the fire of the sun..i.e, w (6 .the seal of creation .and we have wb, an egg. where we see the whole universe enclosed in the cosmic egg of hindu and egyptian mythology: and the formulation of the sphere of the universe (or magical mirror in man. as it were the egg of the black swan of time, the kala hamsa, the triune a m u, or word of power or of seb, the bird of life, whose will was heard in the night of time. the total numeric value of the verse is fntd= 4459, of which the key is 22, the number of the paths from a

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ahman, the one (extremely approximately, more or less the equivalent of god, the universal essence, in monotheism, plays no role in the cycling of the universe. interestingly, the rig-veda, the oldest hindu sacred text, wonders whether the story of the primal ocean interacting with nothingness is just speculation and, if so, whether this speculation is valid. after all, even the gods appear after the cosmic principle emerges. therefore, the rig-veda does not present its version of the creation of the universe as fact. nonetheless, as with many religions, there is the potential for hinduism also to generate its own fundamentalism. hindu fundamentalism does in fact exist. it is probably best represented by the large bharatiya jananta party (bjp, which was recently voted out of power in india

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use of disease--medicinal properties of herbs--the use of drugs in the mysteries--the sect of the assassins. 109 the qabbalah, the secret doctrine of israel the written and unwritten laws--the origin of the qabbalistic writings--rabbi simeon ben jochai--the great qabbalistic books--the divisions of the qabbalistic system--the sepher yetzirah. 113 fundamentals of qabbalistic cosmogony ain soph and the cosmic egg--the qabbalistic system of worlds--the qabbalistic interpretation of ezekiel's vision--the great image of nebuchadnezzar's dream--the grand man of the universe--the fifty gates of life. 117 the tree of the sephiroth the thirty-two paths of wisdom--the greater and the lesser face--kircher's sephirothic tree--the mystery of daath--the three pillars supporting the sephirothic tree--the

m the higher spiritual ons. he descended into the body of jesus at the baptism and left it again before the crucifixion. the gnostics declared that the christ was not crucified, as this divine nous could not suffer death, but that simon, the cyrenian, offered his life instead and that the nous, by means of its power, caused simon to resemble jesus. iren us makes the following statement concerning the cosmic sacrifice of the christ "when the uncreated, unnamed father saw the corruption of mankind, he sent his firstborn, nous, into the world, in the form of christ, for the redemption of all who believe in him, out of the power of those that have fabricated the world (the demiurgus, and his six sons, the planetary genii. he appeared amongst men as the man jesus, and wrought miracles (see king

er of the books of life, thoth hermes trismegistus--the three times greatest, the "first intelligencer--was regarded by the ancient egyptians as the embodiment of the universal mind. while in all probability there actually existed a great sage and educator by the name of hermes, it is impossible to extricate the historical man from the mass of legendary accounts which attempt to identify him with the cosmic principle of thought. p. 38 principally shown by their sacred ceremonial. for first advances the singer, bearing some one of the symbols of music. for they say that he must learn two of the books of hermes, the one of which contains the hymns of the gods, the second the regulations for the king's life. and after the singer advances the astrologer, with a horologe in his hand, and a palm

tages of becoming. they believed that grains of sand were in the process of becoming human in consciousness but not necessarily in form; that human creatures were in the process of becoming planets; that planets were in the process of becoming solar systems; and that solar systems were in the process of becoming cosmic chains; and so on ad infinitum. one of the stages between the solar system and the cosmic chain was called the zodiac; therefore they taught that at a certain time a solar system breaks up into a zodiac. the house of the zodiac become the thrones for twelve celestial hierarchies, or as certain of the ancients state, ten divine orders. pythagoras taught that 10, or the unit of the decimal system, was the most perfect of all numbers, and he symbolized the number ten by the les

elemental bodies. the relation of these two zodiacs to the subzodiacal spheres has a correlation in the respiratory system of the human body. the great fixed zodiac may be said to represent the atmosphere, the movable zodiac the lungs, and the subzodiacal worlds the body. the spiritual atmosphere containing the vivifying energies of the twelve divine powers of the great fixed zodiac is inhaled by the cosmic lungs--the movable zodiac--and distributed by them through the constitution of the twelve holy animals which are the parts and members of the material universe. the functional cycle is completed when the poisonous effluvia of the lower worlds collected by the movable zodiac are exhaled into the great fixed zodiac, there to be purified by being passed through the divine natures of its tw

e newly made grave marked by the evergreen sprig. after the entered apprentices and the fellow- craftsmen had failed to resurrect their master from the dead he was finally raised by the master mason with the "strong grip of a lion's paw" to the initiated builder the name chiram abiff signifies "my father, the universal spirit, one in essence, three in aspect" thus the murdered master is a type of the cosmic martyr--the crucified spirit of good, the dying god--whose mystery is celebrated throughout the world. among the manuscripts of dr. sigismund bastrom, the initiated rosicrucian, appears the following extract from von welling concerning the true philosophic nature of the masonic chiram "the original word, chiram, is a radical word consisting of three consonants and i. e. cheth, resh and

ftsman, and at the vernal equinox the process of raising him begins. this is finally accomplished by the lion of judah, who in ancient times occupied the position of the keystone of the royal arch of heaven. the precession of the equinoxes causes various signs to play the r le of the murderers of the sun during the different ages of the world, but the principle involved remains unchanged. such is the cosmic story of chiram, the universal benefactor, the fiery architect: of the divine house, who carries with him to the grave that lost word which, when spoken, raises all life to power and glory. according to christian mysticism, when the lost word is found it is discovered in a stable, surrounded by beasts and marked by a star "after the sun leaves leo" writes robert hewitt brown "the days b

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the grand lodges that regulate and minister to the need of the lodges of common craftsmen, so in the mighty system of the universal structure there are grades of higher life, hierarchies of celestial beings working and ministering in the loftier portions of the building, beyond our present ken. and as here at the head of our limited and temporal brotherhood there rules a grand master, so too over the cosmic system there presides the great architect and most worshipful grand master of all, whose officers are holy angels; and the recognition of this truth may tend to consecrate us in the discharge of the little symbolic part we severally perform in the system which is the image of the great scheme. the world at large, brethren, is as it were, but one great lodge and place of initiation, of w

explicitly declared, but is implied and is stated to form" the genuine secrets of a master mason" it is the loss of a word, or rather o f the word, the divine logos, or basic root and essence of our own being. in other words the soul of man has ceased to be god-conscious and has degenerated into the limited terrestrial consciousness of the ordinary human being. it is in the condition spoken of in the cosmic parable of adam when extruded from eden, an exile from the divine presence and condemned to toil and trouble. the quest after this lost word is declared by the wardens to have been so far abortive, and to have resulted in the discovery, not of that reality, but of substitutional images of it. all which implies that, in the strength of merely his natural temporal intelligence, man can fi

thirds. it proved that persephone had unfortunately eaten a pomegranate in the lower world, so that her restoration to her mother could not be permanent, but only periodic. this myth, and the importance once attached to it, will be appreciated only upon understanding its interpretation. it is the story of the soul and is of the same nature as the mosaic myth of adam and eve and the apple, and as the cosmic parable of the prodigal son, neither of these being meant to be regarded as historically true, but as a fiction spiritually true of cosmic facts. persephone is the human soul, generated out of that primordial incorruptible mother-earth which the greeks personified as demeter, just as the mosaic narrative speaks of god forming man out of the dust of the ground. her straying from her arca

t will be obvious that the tyre in question has no relation to the levantine sea-port of that name. the name tyre in hebrew means" rock" and the strength, compactness and durability which we associate with rock, whilst the same word recurs in greek as turos and in latin as terra, earth, and as durus, implying form, hardness, consistency and durability" king of tyre" therefore, is interpretable as the cosmic principle which gives solidity and form to the spiritual fluidic and formless life-essence, and which is comparable to a cup intended to hold liquid. solomon and hiram of tyre therefore contribute their respective properties of life-essence and durable form and" building material" as the groundwork of the soul, which then is made functionally effective by the addition of the third princ

conscious intercourse with his vital and immortal principle, he is a prisoner in captivity to himself and his lower temporal nature. it remains for him to retrace his steps and rebuild his temple; to continue no longer a bondslave to his self-made illusions and the attractions of" worldly possessions" but become a free man and mason, engaged in shaping himself into a living and precious stone for the cosmic temple of a regenerate humanity unto which, when completed and dedicated, deity will again enter and abide. to be" installed in the chair of king solomon" therefore, means in its true sense the reattainment of a wisdom we have lost and the revival in ourselves of the divine life-essence which is the basis of our being. with the reattainment of that wisdom all that is comprised in the te

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

ly agreed upon (v oltaire) this place is terrible!80atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation81 chapter 12stargate and quarantinewhen the original pursuers of the serpent brotherhood destroyed the planet tiamat,they made ready to leave this solar system and return to their own. they had to leavein a hurry, so as not to be hindered by the cosmic forces which would be unleashedthroughout the solar system. because of their haste, they did not have time to preciselyscan the planet earth, and so they did not locate their enemies hidden deep within thecaverns and beneath the seas of pre-diluvian earth. the masters of the nephilim wererelatively convinced that even if their enemies were on earth they could not survivethe paroxysms an

controlled by him just as a bull is controlled by a rope inits nose (bhagavata purana 6.3.12) his position is between the living beings (jiva-tattva) and the supreme lord, vishnu (vishnu-tattva, inthe category of his own, shiva-tattva. shiva is usually depicted in painting and sculpture as white or ash-colored, with a blue neck (from hold-ing in his throat the poison thrown up at the churning of the cosmic ocean, which threatened to destroyhumankind, his hair arranged in a coil of matted locks (jatamakuta) and adorned with the crescentmoon and the ganges (he allowed her to trickle through his hair. he has three eyes, the third eyebestowing inward vision but capable of burning destruction when focused outward. he wears a garlandof skulls and a serpent around his neck and carries in his two

ana. balarama, the first expansion of krishna, expands himself in five forms (1) maha-san-karshana (2) karanabdhishayi (3) garbhodakashayi (4) kshirodakashayi, and (5) shesha. these fiveplenary portions are responsible for both the spiritual and material cosmic manifestations. in these fiveforms lord balarama assists lord krishna in his activities. the first four of these forms are responsiblefor the cosmic manifestations, whereas shesha is responsible for personal service to the lord. shesha iscalled ananta, or unlimited, because he assists the personality of godhead in his unlimited expansionsby performing an unlimited variety of services. shri balarama is the servitor godhead who serves lordkrishna in all affairs of existence and knowledge. lord nityananda prabhu, who is the same servit

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

. this manuscript provides characteristic clues related to the symbolism of solomon's temple. it takes the form of a question-and-answer catechism: q. how high is your lodge? a. inches and spans inumberable. q. how inumberable? a. the material heavens 8c stary firmament. q. how many pillars is your lodge? a. three. q. what are these? a. ye square, the compass& ye bible. this is the affirmation of the cosmic and sacred meaning of the lodge. following is the christian meaning of the temple: q. what ladder had they. building of ye? a. jacobs. between ye heaven] ye earth* words are missing from this part of the manuscript. speculative freemasonry 229 q. how many steps was in jacobs ladder? a. 3. q. what was ye 3? a. father, son& holy spirit. q. what meant ye golden dore of ye temple, qr (where

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

the australian aboriginals, the same themes recur, as humankind engages with the great mysteries of life and death. the best definition of myth is maya deren s in her book on the voodoo gods: myth, she writes, is the facts of the mind made manifest in the fiction of matter. the first people this west african carving shows the world in the form of a calabash gourd, with the first man and woman and the cosmic serpent. the fon call this serpent aido-hwedo, and he carried the creator in his mouth when the world was made. aido-hwedo is said to have accompanied the first man and woman to earth. introduction 7 our notion of time, the limited time of creation, is merely a trick of ahura mazda s to limit the power of ahriman. at the end of time, all will be purified, and as in norse mythology a fre

see p. 29. these rituals, open only to the initiated, related to the myth of the grain goddess demeter, and her daughter persephone, the ineffable maiden. those who witnessed the rites were assured of a new birth in death. the mysteries were thought by the greeks to hold the entire human race together. such a belief illustrates the crucial importance of myth in holding the world together, just as the cosmic serpent coils securely around the earth in the fon creation story. australian aborginal stories about the dreamtime, such as the gunwinggu story of lumaluma (see pp. 102 3, are not just entertainments or nursery tales they are sacred charters for existence. to understand them fully one must enter eternal time. similarly the myths underlying navajo rituals such as mountainway (see pp. 92

os, the dawn. hear us blessed goddess, beloved wife sister of zeus, goddess of the moon and stars, shine joy and peace upon us orphic hymn to hera the creation t he greeks had several creation myths. in one, euronyme, the goddess of all things, divided the sea from the sky, and then gave birth to a world egg, from which hatched the planets, earth, and all creatures. in another, eros was born from the cosmic egg and, as the first god, set the universe in motion. before that, all was chaos. gaia, mother earth, inspired by eros, then brought forth uranus, the sky, and mated with him, to produce the first immortals, the forefathers of the olympian gods. cronos, the child-eater cronos (saturn) was the youngest of the titans, the children of gaia and uranus (the earth and the sky. uranus hated h

ing his own mother for good measure! the sky god is so impressed that he gives anansi his stories with his blessing. since then, they have been called spider-stories. anansi or nancy stories are now commonly told in the west indies as well as ghana. this headpiece belonged to the yoruba people in nigeria and was used in ceremonies to impersonate the trickster hare. hare s ears hare orb-web spider the cosmic serpent 88 the cosmic serpent t he fon people of africa tell how the cosmic serpent, aida-hwedo, was brought into being at the beginning of time by the creator, an androgynous god with two faces: mawu the female moon and lisa, the male sun. aido-hwedo helped with the creation by carrying the creator in his mouth as the world was shaped. but when the work was done, the creator saw that t

nds thunderbolts to earth. the second crack of thunder, the recoil, is the sound of aido- hwedo s tail whipping back after flinging the bolt to earth. the two aido-hwedos are sometimes regarded as twins. painted wooden bowl this painted wooden bowl from west africa shows the world and a man, woman, and snake. the fon believe that the first man and woman came to earth in the company of aido-hwedo, the cosmic serpent. aido-hwedo is also said to have helped the creator to shape the world like a great calabash gourd. in the mythology of the fon sky-cult, the creator parent, nana- buluku, is revered as the creator of the world, which mawu then shaped and peopled. but like many african supreme gods, nana-buluku is scarcely remembered today; the name mawu has come to mean god in fon. after the wo

awu-lisa gave to mankind has been called ali-su-gbo-gu-kle, the-road-is-closed-and-gu-opens-it. but as well as being personified in the first cutlass, gu is also regarded as an important deity. as the god of smiths, he himself is thought of as a smith, always at work in his forge. for this reason his shrines never have a roof, for if they did, they would burn down. an iron statue of the god gu 89 the cosmic serpent aido-hwedo this bas-relief from the palace of king ghezo of dahomey shows aido-hwedo with his tail in his mouth (see above. aido-hwedo is also known as da aido-hwedo. da is the word for snake but as da aido-hwedo it means the living quality of everything that is flexible, sinuous, and moist, such as the rainbow, smoke, the umbilical cord, even the nerves. da also means wealth, g

all living things. a later myth involves the god brahma who, from a union with his daughter vak, the word, creates the first man, manu (see p. 110. brahma is responsible, every kalpa, or 4,320,000,000 human years, for creating the world. each kalpa is a day and night of brahma; in the day, brahma creates the universe but at night it reverts to chaos. at night vishnu sleeps on the snake ananta, on the cosmic ocean. at dawn, a lotus grows out of his navel, which contains brahma, who creates the world anew. the avata rs of vishnu 110 the avata rs of vishnu v ishnu is one of three important indian gods, of which the other two are brahma and shiva. each has a role: vishnu is the protector and restorer of the world, brahma the creator, and shiva the destroyer. confusingly, although brahma create

PHOSPHORUS THE SHADOWING FORTH OF LUCIFER

paralyze the enthusiasm of the heart. for those who are searching for the light of the spirit lucifer shall be a messenger. he won't talk about a faith that is alien to perception. he won't flatter into the hearts to avoid the guardian of science: he shall respect him. he won't preach piety and divine bliss but will show ways for the knowledge to change into divine sensation, into the devotion of the cosmic spirit. lucifer knows that the radiant sun may only rise in the heart of the individual; but he also knows that only the paths of perception lead up to the mountain where the sun appears in his divine radiation. lucifer is no devil leading the searching faust to hell; he shall be an awaker of those who believe in knowledge who want to change into the gold of divine wisdom -from luzifer

fer is no devil leading the searching faust to hell; he shall be an awaker of those who believe in knowledge who want to change into the gold of divine wisdom -from luzifer-gnosis, rudolph steiner. lucifer stands on the threshold of dawn and dusk. the bringer of light, symbol of thelemic strength and divine wisdom emerges. the age of lucifer is the uprising of what blatavatsky termed "phosphorus, the cosmic force of illumination and light. lucifer is the force of air, while satan the dual and corrupted form of the light bringer is of active fire. this duality is the changeable essence of progression and evolution. lucifer emerges by name as the roman "bringer of light, lucem fero..the carrier of the torch. a gnostic god, the holy bible mentions little of him besides the basis of origin "yo

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

g in the creation-soup, which resulted in the creation of the vegetable kingdom. the creation-soup was thus left purified of those elements so coarse that only vegetative life could be created out of them. next g-d separated out the animal elements, and finally, the choicest part left was the human (notice that in both cases the bad is being separated from the good, the progression of creation in the cosmic realm is descending, while on the earthly level it is ascending) separating the wanted from the unwanted, however, is permitted [even on the sabbath, since this is not the way the world was created. separating this way does not therefore reflect the process of creation, which of course did not occur on the sabbath. it is therefore not considered gweekday h work, and is permitted on the

h he did not value them. everything granted to a person from above must be cared for. he therefore went back for them, in order to show how dear they were to him. as he prepares to do battle with esau fs angel, jacob summons all the g-dly energy he needs for this battle. always cognizant of his own lack of merit, he make sure to enlist the merit of the spiritual energies of all righteous souls in the cosmic battle between good and evil, at whatever level. this is signified by his attention to detail, how he values the elements of other fs struggle within his own. likewise, in each individual fs personal struggle with evil, it is paramount that he recall that he wages the war not on his own merits alone, but that the merits of the righteous of all generations combine with his own and their

rectifying the primordial shattering of the vessels of tohu (which was later acted out in the primordial sin of the tree of knowledge) applies to both. from here come all the sayings of our sages that a man fs table is like an altar and effects atonement for him, the custom to salt the bread 3 exodus 22:30. the arizal on parashat vayikra (2) 418 (just as the sacrifices were salted, and so forth. the cosmic responsibility each of us bears when he lifts his fork to his mouth is evident from this passage, as well .translated and adapted from ta famei hamitzvot the arizal on parashat vayikra (2) 419 parashat vayikra [third installment] in this parashah, we are told that gdo not make any flour-offering that you bring to g-d chametz, for you must not offer any leavening or honey in fire to g-d

e rejected. this process continued in the worlds of yetzirah and asiyah, and finally, the coarsest aspects of tohu became absorbed and embedded in our physical world. this process set the stage for the process of gelevating the sparks, h or liberating the raw, great power of tohu from the physical context into which it has become entrenched. the conclusion of this process is what will precipitate the cosmic redemption of all reality and the coming of mashiach. thus, after the redemption there will be no additional, physical sabbatical-periods akin to our present world, since physicality will already have been rectified. what will occur after the coming of mashiach will be infinite ascents of the new physical-spiritual order of creation into higher and higher levels of divinity and consciou

me fod: mem-alef-dalet; adam: alef-dalet-mem. he will then rectify everything [that was flawed by the primordial sin, and thus gthe final action [will restore reality to the way it was] first intended. h this phrase comes from the lecha dodi poem and describes the sabbath, the last day created but the first thought of, since it embodies the perfection of reality the preceding days lead up to. on the cosmic scale, the phrase means that the final action, the redemption, will bring the world to it originally intended state. this is the highest level [the following verses] inform us what will happen in the intervening generations, in order that [we realize that] it is worth ascending all those levels. it therefore states [in the following verse] gjust as many were astonished over you [saying]

mind that the numerical value of the word for gthe slaughtering h [ha-shechitah, hei-shin-chet-yud-tet-hei] is 337, which is three times the numerical value of the word gyabok h [yud-beit-kuf, 112. 3 x 112= 336; adding 1 for the value of the word yabok as a whole gives 337. yabok is the name of the river next to which jacob wrestled with the angel of esau. slaughtering is thus a specific case of the cosmic struggle between good and evil, divine consciousness and gross material consciousness. will the animal be slaughtered in order for man to satisfy his craving for meat, to aggrandize his animal nature? or will it be slaughtered in order to heighten the awareness of g-d fs magnificence in creating the taste and satiation that accompany eating, and by utilizing the energy gained from eatin

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

on luna. 15. the devil=the sovereignty and beauty of material (and therefore false) splendour. sol acting through capricorn upon mercury. 16. the tower=the victory over splendour. venus acting through mars upon mercury. avenging force. 17. star=the victory of fundamental strength. venus acting through aquarius upon luna. hope. 18. moon=the victory of the material. venus acting through pisces upon the cosmic elements, deceptive effect of the apparent power of material forces. 19. sun=the splendour of the material world. mercury acting through the sun upon the moon. 20. judgment=the splendour of the material world. mercury acting through fire upon the cosmic elements. 21. universe=the foundation of the cosmic elements and of the material world. luna acting through saturn upon the elements <1

ined the three supernals- because it is the operator- because it is the giver of the lifebearing fire- because it filleth the life-producing bosom of hecate- and it instilleth into the synoches, the enlivening strength of fire, endued with mighty power <99> the creator of all, self-operating, formed the world, and there was a certain mass of fire, and all these self-operating he produced, so that the cosmic body might be completely conformed- that the 1 70 the golden dawn: volume ii book l b o cosmos might be manifest and not appear membranous. and he fixed a vast multitude of in-wandering stars, not by a strain laborious and hurtful, but to uphold them with stability, void of movement- forcing fire forward into fire" hereunto is the speech of axieros. hegemon leads theoricus to the seat o

e three trumps attributed to the elemental paths are perhaps the most difficult to understand. they represent the action of forces exterior to the experience of humanity, not the influence of environment but the impact of the supernals upon the sublunary. in the air we have pure spirit holding in leash the lust of the flesh. in water, the sublimating power of sacrifice. here in fire, we are shown the cosmic forces concentrating on the pilgram from all sides. judgment is pronounced upon him. he is not the judge nor does decision rest in his hands. lazarus cannot emerge from the sepulchre until the voice cries out "come forth" nor can he cast aside the conflicting grave-clothes until the command "loose him" is given. man of himself is helpless. the impulse to ascend must come from above, but

RUBY TABLET OF SET

hematics, and geometry are echoes, simplifications, and corruptions of pythagoras' earlier ideas on these subjects. the philosophy of plato fourth-century-bce("golden age) athens was strongly rational and humanistic. the human mind and body were admired and exalted. the debate between the pythagoreans/platonists and the materialists/sophists centered on whether there were more to man. and more to the cosmic order. than matter and behavior. in the realm of art, the greeks admired perfection of the body. their statues are almost always of idealized figures and physiques [contrast this with roman sculpture, which was more realistic in its portrayal of actual, rather than ideal features] the cosmology of plato (387-347 bce) centers on his famous "theory of the forms" in which the gods are defi

the reach of one of a conscious human being's central concerns, morality. i am of the opinion that "satanists" singing their gospel to sociobiology, and supporting its ideology, raise their voices to favor cosmic dialectic. this is paradoxical, because at the same time they slander christians and those of other religions about their global missionary enterprises, and consider them a hindrance to the cosmic dialectic. thus they neglect that these also have their useful place in society "for organizing and maintaining natural structures in society, in the objective universe, and within those segments of the subjective universe of the believer which still may be dependent on organic models (5) it is easy to put sociobiological views to the same sledge with the philosophies of hegel and marx

claimed that morality was an ideology, false consciousness. he claimed that morality meant only rationalizing what was advantageous to the ruling classes. this is why morality was to be demystified. the same elements are to be found with other names from the ideas of "satanists" who support sociobiological ideologies. a couple of direct quotations from an article by kerry bolton of o.l.h.p 'god: the cosmic, creative energy, a pervasive force 'satan: the cosmic principle or mechanism which activates that 'godforce, to cause change, evolution, destruction, creation. the cosmos, because of this satanic element, is not passive; it is dynamic. whether that dynamism is reflected as evolution or destruction and degeneration is something that man can actively determine by his own intervention, th

lding that personal agency and determinism are not incompatible; that it is apparent that our actions are determined, but that we can still act freely. i think that the rationale behind this position will emerge from the following scenario: when deciding whether or not a person who has broken the law has done so freely, a furor does not conjecture that the person may be reducible to a mere cog in the cosmic machinery, but rather seeks to ascertain whether the person, in breaking the law, was acting under some form of coercion or compulsion (e.g. the person may have been forced at gunpoint to perpetrate the said infraction of the law, in which case he would probably- depending, of course, upon the specific details of the said crime- not be considered to have acted freely, and would, therefo

ere grow out of this general background, and are not directly related to other bodies. magick magick (not "magic" which is considered a stage performer's art and not a religion) groups have experienced considerable growth since the 1960s. these groups are distinguished by their use of occult practices (astrology and divination) and magick (the ability to willfully change the world by manipulating the cosmic forces. while like the psychic dimension, magick is as old as known history. its contemporary revival, however, began in the early 1900s. the most popular form of magical religion, neo-paganism, is a nature-oriented religion based on the worship of male-female polarity, the observance of the agricultural seasons, and magick. worship of the male-female aspects of nature usually is expres

themselves as reviving the pre-christian religion of europe and the mediterranean basin, and manifest as norse, druid, or egyptian in format. by far the wiccans compose the largest segment of the neo-pagan community. wicca or witchcraft is derived from the ancient paganism practiced in western europe, especially the british isles. magick, an essential element in modern wicca, seeks mastery of all the cosmic forces believed to control the world. witches believe in the ancient principal of "as above, so below" and in their worship seek to create a microcosm, a magical image of the whole. the universe is generally viewed as a sphere. the magical circle, drawn at the beginning of all magical rituals, is the outline of the microcosm intersecting the floor. witchcraft had grown slowly until the

eth hurt. the secret name, revealed in the 12th aethyr of liber 418 (the vision and the voice, was that of babylon or babalon, incorporated by crowley into the seal of the a:.a. again nuit is shown to comprise the objective universe. the adjuration of this passage lays bare the terrible secret of all forms of god/nature worship: the forcing of all deviant will towards uniformity and conformity to the cosmic norm. difference or independence of any sort. particularly intellectual separation. is anathema to nuit. 23. but whoso availeth in this, let him be chief of all! a magus (9=[2] a:.a, v church of satan, or v temple of set. is in fact an individual who succeeds in achieving a perspective of separation from the objective universe and, from that point of perspective, uttering a word[=formul

SABBATIC KABALA OF THE CROOKED PATH

d cain. this is possible through the modes and variation suggested by the tetragrammic formulae and its invitation to the sexual genii to seek the intimate congress known as succubia and incubus (p. 208-223) cell 5 being the letters of the 6th and 17th aat of the sacred alphabet. every star within is the seed of a star without this cell tells about the secrets of the pentagram and how it works as the cosmic unifier between the cosmomatrix. it continues the voyage started in the previous cell and discusses the optical path of mediation between the summoner and the summond. the union of the external and the internal shreds of gnosis that meets in the transmuted vessel. in this process, where the summoner becomes the summoned and the hunter the hunted the importance of the fetisches are intro

SATANISM AN EXAMINATION OF SATANIC BLACK MAGIC

sm is not evil, what is [or, more precisely, if satan is not evil, who is] the true nature of evil- and thus satanism and the lhp- has been misunderstood. evil is natural and necessary- it tests, culls, provokes reaction and thus aids evolution. and to repeat- satanism is replete with evil: it is evil. satanists are sinister, evil. they cannot but be otherwise. evil, correctly defined, is part of the cosmic dialectic- it is force, which is a-moral: i.e. it is beyond the bounds of 'morals. morals derive from a limited (human- or, rather, pseudo-human) perspective, and a morality is a projection by individual consciousness onto reality. nothing that is 'moral' or immoral exists. all morals are therefore artifice- they are abstractions. actions, by individuals, which are normally considered a

the moment. the second are impersonal acts done with a knowledge of the effects beyond that of the moment. the former involve no evaluation beyond the personal feelings; the latter involve an evaluation beyond the personal (although they may still be personal acts- i.e. of benefit to the individual. a satanic act of evil is of this second kind- they are affective and effective: a participation in the cosmic dialectic. at first, they may not be fully understood -i.e. arise from instinct in the main. but the satanic intent behind them makes the individual more conscious, more aware of their effects, both personal and supra-personal, thus enabling judgement to be cultivated. instinctive acts are not 'evil- they usually derive from immaturity. evil acts derive from maturity- but immaturity is

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

n the cosmos and that stability was mere illusion. one of his most famous sayings is we both step and do not step in the same rivers. we are and are not. although the universe was held to be in continual flux, the logos, literally meaning word or logic, served as an ordering principle. this concept influenced not only plato but also the neoplatonists. according to heraclitus, the soul was part of the cosmic fire, and only one universal soul truly existed. heraclitus s model of nature essentially underlies all modern physics and metaphysics. heraclitus has a dominant position in greco- roman philosophy despite the fact that little of his original writings still exist. indeed, the 120 surviving pieces of his thought, in the form of short quotations, are referred to as the fragments in variou

hts or wrote books and essays that were destroyed, the philosophers from the time of plato onward did leave books of their teachings. these are essential for understanding the principles of the various philosophical schools. among pre-socratic philosophers, a part of parmenides s work is found in his on nature. heraclitus also left behind writing, usually referred to as the fragments or sometimes the cosmic fragments. several other early philosophers, including empedocles and anaxagoras, also left behind brief writings. the first comprehensive works in greek philosophy come from plato. important among plato s books are the republic, phaedo, symposium, and timaeus, in which he attempts to connect the soul, the state, and the cosmos. aristotle wrote organum, dealing with logic. he also wrote

although the term can be potentially offensive and hurtful, many who practice the religion have accepted it. it continues to be widely used. santer a blends the beliefs of the traditional yoruba and bantu peoples of west africa with catholicism. a principal belief of santeros is that the universe is motivated by ashe, a growth and movement forward to divinity. ashe, often translated as energy, is the cosmic force that binds all of creation into a web. santeros believe that this ever-changing force leads to a principal deity called olo du`mare, the owner of heaven or sometimes the owner of all destinies. olo du`mare, the supreme creator-god, is the object of ashe, the direction in which the energy of the universe moves. in addition, santeros honor a number of orishas. the orishas are spirit

d deliverance, though, called a siddha, has broken the cycle, moves to the roof of the universe, and lives there in a state of pure knowledge, bliss, and energy. this state, however, can be achieved only through self-denial. jains believe that in the present cycle of time, no person has achieved this state. siddhas are different from tirthankaras. the tirthankaras create order and steer humans as the cosmic cycle turns downward. jains believe that the universe has always existed; it was not brought into being by a creator-god. for jains, the universe consists of five parts. at the bottom of the universe is the base, inhabited by the lowest forms of life. above the base is the lower world, consisting of seven hells where beings torment one another. the middle world is where human beings liv

ed several other novels later in the 1850s. wise also wrote about history, theology (the study of religion, and judaism. some of his major works on these subjects include the history of the israelitish nation from abraham to the present time (1854, the essence of judaism (1861, the origin of christianity, and a commentary on the acts of the apostles (1868, judaism, its doctrines and duties (1872, the cosmic god (1876, and judaism and christianity, their agreements and disagreements (1883. many of these books remain in print in the early twenty-first century. death on march 24, 1900, wise preached his last sermon at his temple. that afternoon, he suffered a stroke. soon thereafter he slipped into a coma and died on march 26. as wise was perhaps the most prominent jew in the united states, h

SETH IN THE MAGICKAL TEXTS

ebrew phrase, ym ryba "power of waters, and the greek version of the name of the egyptian god thoth.32 from the xxvith dynasty onwards, thot was seen as the god bringing forth and exercising power over the waters of the nile. in greco-roman times, thoth was also identified with hermes, the messenger and spokesman of the gods. as the "lord of the holy words, thoth-hermes knew the formulas by which the cosmic powers could be controlled. the identification of jesus as aberamentho in the untitled work in the askew codex is thus easily explicable. in the beginning of the tract, jesus is said to have invoked god while "he stood upon the water of the ocean (afahera i. hi n pmoou pwkeanos (ch. 136).33 jesus goes on to cry out the divine name, iao, towards the four corners of the world, obviously m

the four corners of the world, obviously manifesting himself as the master of the universe through wielding the proper name of god.34 "then jesus, who is aberamentho, cried out again" this time commanding "all the mysteries of the archons and the powers and the angels and the archangels, and all powers and all works of the invisible god c (ibid. jesus' disciples are now given a revelation of all the cosmic secrets. it is thus clear that jesus aberamentho in the unnamed tractate in codex askewianus is assimilated to thoth-hermes: he is the lord of the waters and the formulas controlling the cosmic powers.35 the fact that also seth-typhon could be given the name of aberamentho throws no light on the phrase "jesus who is aberamentho" the net conclusion of the present article is that neither

SOLOMON

he was bidden to do [1. cp. acts iv. 7] 34. and i glorified god afresh who gave me this authority, and ordered another demon to come before me. and there came seven spirits [1, females, bound and woven together, fair in appearance and comely. and i solomon, seeing them, questioned them and said "who are ye" but they, with one accord, said with one voice [2 "we are of the thirty-three elements of the cosmic ruler of the darkness [3" and the first said "i am deception" the second said "i am strife" the third "i am klothod, which is battle" the fourth "i am jealousy" the fifth "i am power" the sixth "i am error" the seventh "i am the worst of all, and our stars are in heaven. seven stars humble in sheen, and all together. and we are called as it were goddesses. we change our place all and to

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

nn and the demythologizers of christianity. his esoteric christianity opened the way for deeper knowledge, not by detaching us from our history, and asking us to believe in a generalized and schematic universal truth, but rather, by asking us to find our roots and to understand the need for similar roots in other cultures, other faiths. the study of the setting of original christianity pointed to the cosmic meaning of redemption, and it was through rudolf steiner that the cosmic christ has been introduction xv rediscovered in our century (it was from steiner s pupil edouard schur, for example, that the concept reached teilhard de chardin, with whom it is most often associated) but finding the cosmic vision once more was only one side of steiner s attempt to give the new impetus christianit

beings the mysteries and mysteriosophy 21 the spirit has been released from enchantment; yet it is the offspring of the spellbound god. he is not the great god who was, and is, and shall be, yet he may in a certain sense be taken as a revelation of him. the father remains at rest in the unseen. the son is born to human beings out of their own souls. initiatory knowledge is thus an actual event in the cosmic process. it is the birth of a divine child a process just as real as any natural process. the great secret of the mystai was precisely this, that they creatively release the divine child in themselves. first of all, however, they must be prepared so as to recognize it. the uninitiated know nothing of the father of this divine child. the father slumbers under a spell. the child seems to

imple. the daimon possesses particular characteristics. where do they originate? why do i possess such predispositions? it is because my daimon has been shaped by other personalities. and unless i am to assume that the task i have to accomplish in the daimon is fulfilled with my own personality, i am preparing another, future personality. thus there is something that intervenes between myself and the cosmic one-and-all, something that reaches out beyond myself, but which is not yet the godhead as such; it is my daimon that occupies this intermediary position. today is simply the outcome of yesterday, and likewise this life is the outcome of a previous one and the mysteries and pre-socratic philosophy 31 the foundation for the next. earthly humanity looks back over numerous yesterdays and f

task set for themselves by the greek philosophers, to release those forces and thereby to make humanity akin to the divine. thus we can understand plato s assertion that those who enter the next world uninitiated and unenlightened shall lie in the mire, but those who arrive there purified and enlightened shall dwell among the gods. there is a concept of immortality here whose meaning lies within the cosmic order; everything whereby one strives to rouse the eternal to life within oneself is done to increase the existential value of the world and emphatically not to turn oneself into an inessential onlooker at things, one who merely images in cognitive life an objective order that is wholly independent of the mind. one s power of knowledge is a higher creative force in nature. what flashes

hose depths is god the eternal harmony of the cosmos. 38 christianity as mystical fact thus, the human psyche is not limited to the confines of the body, enclosed within the skin; for what come to birth in the human soul are the laws which govern the stars in their courses. the soul is not confined by our personal consciousness. in fact the personality is no more than the instrument through which the cosmic order manifests itself. the spirit of pythagoras is caught by one of the church fathers, gregory of nyssa, who declared: we are told that human nature is a paltry thing, confined and small, whereas god is infinitely great. how then can what is paltry embrace the infinite? yet who says this? was the infinite god shut up within the flesh as in a vessel? even in our own life, our own spiri

erious temple-complexes,83 under the direction of a priestly dynasty. the wisdom which qualified them for this task was handed down from generation to generation in the priestly families; it was the wisdom which enabled them to perform their ritual service at eleusis, the wisdom of the greek mysteries, mysteriosophy.84 the festivals were celebrated twice in the course of each year, and dramatized the cosmic events governing the fate of the divine in the world and of the human soul. the lesser mysteries took place in february, the greater mysteries in september. initiation into the mysteries took place in connection with these festivals. the climax of the initiatory proceedings was a symbolic enactment of the human and cosmic drama on the site. the temples at eleusis were dedicated to the g

such a cosmic process: the creator had stretched out the world-soul on the world-body in the form of a cross, and the subsequent organization of the cosmos constitutes a redemption of the crucified world- soul.90 if someone is to become an osiris the same process must take place in miniature. the initiand must allow the inner experience of becoming an osiris to unfold and fuse with the events of the cosmic osirian myth. if we were able to look inside the temples where the initiatory transformation into osiris took place, we would 90 christianity as mystical fact see that the events enacted there on the human scale were a representation of the cosmogony. humanity originates from the father and is to bear within it the son; the actual presence within human beings of the divinity, held capti

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orth. this logo of triangles, a lucis trust organization, and the message from alice bailey, occultist founder, was included in world goodwill newsletter (1997, no. 4. world goodwill is yet another global organization, affiliated with the lucis trust, but which also networks with scores of other illuminist groups, orders, and secret societies. lucis trust and world goodwill teach of the coming of the cosmic, new age christ, avatar for the age of aquarius, who represents the central sun, also called the solar logos. 374 codex magica the new age group, energy system parameters (esp, has this as the logo on its letterhead. in this letter announcing its general membership's annual meeting, the co-presidents emphasized esp's focus on "group energies "cosmic reorganization" and the importance of

ay, showing the multiple-triangle design, representing the generative (sex) act. in this design the interior, triangular (male) elements are "buried" within the lotus blossom (female. 376 codex magica the sri yantra pictured as a mystical diagram of solomon's temple, as planned in the building scheme of the knights templar. the cross and sun rays on top do not represent jesus christ, but point to the cosmic christ, who came in many names in the past and shall come again with a new name (from the book, the sword and the grail, by andrew sinclair, new york: crown publishers, 1992) a masonic tracing board with an image of a coffin, decorated with the "tools' of the craft. the v or square at the bottom of the coffin is pointed downward to hell and the lord of the underworld. the skull and bone

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ge or cultural or temporal differences, arasteh says, all these styles of life have adopted the same goal of experiencing man in his totality, and the reality of all is cosmic reality. the common denominator of mystical experience comes with encounter and inner motivation, and the result is inner freedom for a cosmic trip and outer security for the release of unbound energy for future creativity. the cosmic self, he states, is the manifestation of transcending the earthly and cultural self. although there are many schools of mysticism associated with the major world religions, the kind of mystic who focuses upon establishing a meaningful relationship with spirits and the afterlife is also a person who is likely to incorporate the secret teachings of ancient brotherhoods, mysterious mahatma

health, but above all he must have an exalted moral nature, strong sympathies, a warm heart, courage, strong and earnest religious feelings. bucke s extensive study of those whom he considered possessed of cosmic consciousness led him to consider the approximate age of 36 as the most propitious time in one s life to achieve this elevated state of consciousness. in summation, he found the marks of the cosmic sense to be the following: t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d religious phenomena 193 1. subjective light: the person suddenly finds himself or herself immersed in flame, or a rose-colored cloud, or perhaps a sense that the mind is itself filled with such a cloud of haze. 2. moral elevation: the recipient is bathed in an emotion of

other, night duty. as in longfellow s poem, these two vigilant guardians record their human s good and bad deeds for judgment day. in addition to their task as guardians, the benevolent unseen companions have as a considerable portion of their earthly mission, the task of guiding their humans toward spiritual awareness and leading their human wards to a clearer understanding of their true role in the cosmic scheme of things. episcopal bishop philip brooks once observed that there is nothing clearer or more striking in the bible than the calm, familiar way with which from end to end it assumes the present existence of a world of spiritual beings always close to and acting on this world of flesh and blood. from creation to judgment, the spiritual beings are forever present. they act as truly

c harold sherman was firm in stating that one should never pray out of a sense of duty or obligation or habit. one should not make a ritual of getting a prayer over with as quickly as possible. nothing is accomplished by rapidly mumbling a prayer without thought or feeling behind it. it is the feeling behind a prayer, sherman advised, not the words thought or spoken, which gets through to god, to the cosmic consciousness level of the mind. in his book how to solve mysteries of your mind and soul (1965, sherman presented seven secrets for successful prayer: 1. remove all fears and doubts from your mind before you start to pray. 2. make your mind receptive so it is prepared to receive guidance and inspiration. 3. picture clearly in your mind what it is that you desire to bring to pass in you

ted in the reign of the roman emperor tiberius (42 b.c.e. 37 c.e, who ruled at the time of the crucifixion. clearly, while a number of scientists debate the accuracy of the radiocarbon dating results some insisting that the most reliable results date the shroud to 1260 1390 and others defend the authenticity of the burial cloth and argue that it was the one that wrapped jesus crucified body until the cosmic event of the resurrection, one can only echo the words of archbishop severino poletto, the shroud s custodian: the last word has not yet been said. m delving deeper riggi, giovanni. the holy shroud. roman center for shroud studies, 1981. shroud of turin research at mccrone research institute. http//www.mcri.org/shroud.html. 14 august 2001. shroud of turin. http//www.shroud.com. 14 augus

t as the prophets of old had retreated into the desert wilderness to receive their inspiration from a higher source, so had adamski, by some prearranged cosmic signal, gone to meet his space brother in the desert. adamski was the first of a long line of ufo contactees who would claim to have communicated with extraterrestrial intelligences. many, like adamski, became new age ufo prophets, sharing the cosmic sermonettes that they said were given to them by wise beings from the stars. these men and women said they were not at all frightened by the extraterrestrial entities with whom they had come into contact. on the contrary, such a contact with the space brothers and sisters had enabled them to undergo a kind of cosmic consciousness experience. throughout his career as a ufo prophet, adams

n voice of the interplanetary parliament. while such a command might have startled one unqualified to receive such communication, the 35-year-old englishman had been immersed in spiritual studies since he was young. beginning with an intense study of orthodox christianity, king became interested in exploring psychic phenomena and spiritual healing. when he was to be the primary mental channel for the cosmic masters, king intensified his practice of yoga, which included the yogic sciences of raja, gnani, and kundalini. this permitted him to attain the state of samadhi the union of spirit with the superconscious, which allowed communication with the masters in other energy spheres. soon, king was to discover that the voice that had contacted him belonged to the master aetherius, a 3,500-year

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y, the relative conditions of good and evil that constitute a concept of conventional morality, and the substances expressed by the ancients as the four elements comprising a human fs physical organism. the tarot is established on the premise that each human being is his or her own macrocosm. although comprising a distinctive universe in miniature, the individual still functions as a component of the cosmic macrocosm. in the world, humans must have a society, with institutions to perform collectively for them the functions they cannot accomplish as individuals. again, the situation is the same in the realm of the tarot. seeking to foretell the future through the tarot cards is an extremely ancient means of divination. each card in the deck has acquired a traditional interpretation over the

dge of the occult. subsequently these priests became adept in the practice of divination, finding signs in the organs and intestines of sacrificed animals and translating dancing shapes of flames and swirls of smoke into images of future events. when the gods spoke directly to individuals in the symbolic language of dreams, the priests were there to interpret. in these and other ways, the will of the cosmic rulers was revealed to their earthbound subjects. the children of israel, even though they spurned the hordes of good and evil spirits recognized throughout the ancient world, practiced divination in several forms. the book of genesis records that laban, the father of rachel, who became the wife of isaac, possessed teraphim.instruments of divination whose oracles were held to be of the

rant special powers of healing or prophecy to the supplicants. the recipient of tribal empowerment is able to obtain personal contact with the invisible world of spirits and to pierce the sensory world of illusion which veils the great mystery. often this gift is heightened by the intoning of the personal mantra, the personal song, the holy syllables that attune him or her with the eternal sound, the cosmic vibration of all creation. a crucial element in tribal empowerment is the ability to rise above linear time. most t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 190 objects of mystery and power witchcraft puppet (fortean picture library) people have accepted the conventional concept of time as existing in some sort of sequential stream flowing

lanet are supposedly the last remains of lemuria, from pacific islands (fiji, hawaii, and easter island) to the west coast of the united states. according to some lemurian enthusiasts, in 1972 the ruins of a submerged lemurian city was found between maui and oahu in the hawaiian island chain and was covered up in a top-secret project by u.s. naval intelligence. m delving deeper churchward, james. the cosmic forces of mu. new york: paperback library, 1968. the lost continent of mu. new york: paperback library, 1969. the sacred symbols of mu. new york: paperback library, 1968. lourdes the healing grotto of bernadette at lourdes, france, was constructed on the site where 14-year-old bernadette soubrious (1844.1879) claimed to have conversed with mother mary in 1858. since the time that the mi

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truction of the universe, when the forces of chaos would gain strength again and overwhelm the world-order, and when all would be plunged back into the unformed and original state of chaos, and from thence, the regeneration would take place, with all things cosmically regenerated and re-emerging back into the perfection of a pristine and new condition. humans, and all things, were not exempt from the cosmic drama, from the fate of cyclical existence, for humans and all things else were not separate from the cosmos or the world, but part of it, sharing in its fate. all indo-europeans, and many non-indo europeans, believed in the great life, death, and renewal of the cosmos; the hindus certainly come to mind, with the kalpa and regeneration system; the norse ragnarok mythology shows the worl

wareness and to suffuse the consciousness of the one who was aware, and by so doing, bring about a transformation that was, in all ways, the same transformation that was waiting in potent ial at the heart of all things for the cosmos itself. humans were not different from the cosmos, on one level; a human transformation/rebirth through understanding of the divine mysteries was a lower harmonic to the cosmic rebirth or regeneration; the same event in essence, if not in magnitude. in fact, as we shall see, regeneration and recognition have a deep and important relationship in this context. what happens to a dream deferred the primal (and later) christian mysteries had ignored the elder wisdom of regeneration and renewal, in exchange for a very specific form of renewal or regeneration, which

e and infinite source of the fire is nothing that anyone can even conceive of or debate about. but, it comes forth through fate, like everything else, eventually emerging in many intelligible forms, always moving down and outward through the cycles of fate, through its many ordeals and transformations, finally emerging in its perfect form- and at this point, its return to the source is the end of the cosmic cycle and its regeneration. the offerings of bread and wine speak a strange language of transcendence, for they are perfect images of the equally-as-perfect child. the reasons why are many. part of the mystery has to do with fermentation. fermentation and transcendence have a relationship, as follows: we begin with the source, or the dame/earth herself, and all that those sources entail

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assigned to chockmah) which is utterly opposite to the uninitiated state in that it is connected directly to the divine (wise one of chockmah) rather than the normal state of being connected to malkuth (ego state of yesod. emperor the emperor has aries assigned to it in the zodiacal attributions, and this fits neatly with the burst of "red" energy of the spring equinox as a lower manifestation of the cosmic burst of creation in chockmah. the emperor is the law and the logos as is the magus, who gives the "word of the aeon. the tarot cards in the lesser arcana are related to each of the sephiroth based on the simple principle of equal numerations. thus, the aces are attributed to kether, the twos to chockmah, and so forth, down to the tens which are attributed to malkuth. the court cards ar

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unbelievable than the original events. please bear in mind that the summaries published here are backed by years of study and experience. i am no longer particularly interested in the manifestations of the phenomenon. i am pursuing the source of the phenomenon itself. to do this, i have objectively divorced myself from all the popular frames of reference. i am not concerned with beliefs but with the cosmic mechanism "which has generated and perpetuated those beliefs. iii. there is an old house on a tree-lined street in new york's greenwich village which harbors a strange ghost. hans holzer and other ghost-chasers have included the house in their catalogs of haunted places. the phantom has been seen by several people in recent years. it is dressed hi, a long black cape and wears a wide-bri

heir well-meant intentions. then they leave us sitting on a hilltop waiting for the world to blow up. when the world was sparsely populated and the signals from the superspectrum were not smothered in so much static from the lower spectrum, men learned to place great faith in these entities and their prophecies. priests, scholars, and magicians achieved a marvelous understanding of the cosmos and the cosmic forces through astrology, alchemy, and the magical manipulation of matter. but as man followed the angelic dictate "multiply and replenish the earth" our planet began to suffer from psychic pollution. the record on that great phonograph in the sky cracked and stuck in a single groove. single groove. single groove. single. iii. the contactee syndrome is a fundamental reprograming process

are part of an inter-galactic confederation, to which adhere the inhabitants of many planets. they are the tutors of human kind, including our planet. we should consider them as thus like big brothers who are concerned about the bad turning we have taken, making us risk to bring the use of the atomic bomb. they come all this way to us to warn us in time of the danger we are heading into, because the cosmic counsel condemns the people of earth for their inhuman behavior: the people to which the truth is hidden, are governed by lies; shameful crimes are considered acts of heroism; violence becomes a necessity; racial hatred appears as a normal thing to our civilization; religion has been deformed and brought to fanaticism. then one day, on a stern tone and with deep sadness in their voices

on the old garry moore show, and even had his own program on nbc for a number of years. in 1967, ivan was under a great strain. alma, his wife of thirty years, was terminally ill. like all authors, he had constant financial problems. that summer he was feeling ill. once he took to his bed and sweated profusely for forty-eight hours. and he confided to me that he had suffered a two-day siege with the cosmic clap) the symptoms disappearing as suddenly and mysteriously as they began "everybody hates the telephone company. even the bedouins hate their telephone company" line from the 1967 movie the president's analyst] male ufo witnesses sometimes develop a temporary set of symptoms resembling gonorrhea- one day jane called me with a message for "the man with skinny arms who wears dresses" ve

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ugh, the myth has many parallels with the christian concept of christ's death and resurrection, among which the crucifixion (inanna was impaled on a stake as a corpse, the three days in the sumerian hades, and the eventual resurrection are outstanding examples of how sumerian mythology previewed the christian religion by perhaps as many as three thousand years- a fact that beautifully illustrates the cosmic and eternal nature of this myth. therefore, the goddess of the witches has two distinct forms: the ancient one, goddess of the dragon-like telluric power which is raised in magickal rituals, and the elder goddess, defeater of death, who brings the promise of resurrection and rejuvenation to her followers those who must reside for a time after death and between incarnations in what is ca

cares not if he deals with angelic or demonic forces, save that he gets the job done! then, following the urillia text and forming the very end of the received ms, is the second part of the testimony of the mad arab. it is a haunting and sorrowful occult personality. was he really mad? this is perhaps a question that will go on for as long as man tries to understand himself; himself as a part of the cosmic dance and spiral, which includes the satanic as well as the deific, the sad as well as the happy. perhaps the arab was privy to some other-worldly secret that he could not reveal. perhaps he had opened the door by mistake, his own personal gate to the abyss, and was forced to cross its threshold into the unknown. we may never know. or, we may wish we never had. the editor new york, new

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into a lethargy of reflection accompanied by appalling nightmares in the shape of impossible theories *the sword of song, p. 207. and that: history affirms that such a deadlock is invariably the prelude to a new enlightenment; by such steps we have advanced, by such we shall advance. the hhorror of great darkness h which is scepticism must ever be broken by some heroic master soul, intolerant of the cosmic agony *the sword of song, p. 207. the sun of true agnosticism breaks through buddhism (vol. ii, p. 247, and now the vega of illuminism, the flashing star of crowleyanity drowns the sun of agnosticism, and reduces the whole infinite ether to a flaming crown of glory. this, all yearning hearts must hope, will be the great golden coronation of the centuries hereafter. surrounded by fools o

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ouch the back of his head. on his head stands the goddess nut, with her arms and hands raised and stretched out to receive the disk of the sun, which the beetle is rolling towards her; the text says "nut receiveth ra" the island formed by the body of the god is said to be osiris, whose circuit is the tuat" end of vol. n the dark forces ona yf87 for too long our enemies have lied about us. but, as the cosmic tides begin another aeonic change as the age of the dark gods begins, we proclaim openly our defiance and our creed. no longer shall the lies go unchallenged. accordingly, we- as representatives of those dark forces which have always shaped our evolution proclaim the following about our sinister way and its living- 1) the dark gods are means to self- fulfillment, self- understanding and

its pleasures but most importantly in its possibilities. we extend the frontiers of evolution while others sleep and cry. 5) all that enervates we despise: we have nothing to do with the cowardly and weak who are trapped by their own failings and who scurry about in the filth that covers those who do dis-honourable deeds. we revere honour because honour means self-excellence and a recognition of the cosmic balance that is an adept. 6) when we hate we hate openly and with pride and when we love we love with a passion to match our arroga nce: always mindful never to love anyone or anything so much that we cannot see it die, since death is a natural changing of forces. 7) we would rather die than submit to anyone or anything and this pride is the pride of satan, that symbol of our defiance a

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real sense, our universe is the way it is because we observe it to be this way. the very purpose of the universe may be the evolution of intelligent beings capable of observing the universe. the physicist john wheeler put forth the controversial idea that the universe is a participatory, self-excited circuit. john gribbin writes in explanation of wheeler's speculation "by observing the photons of the cosmic background radiation, the echo of the big bang, we may be creating the big bang and the universe (in search of schroding- er's cat, bantam books, new york, 1984, p. 212. these two principles, that everything is inherently uncertain, and that reality as we know it is conditioned by our perception of it, are magical. by speculating about these matters mathematicians and physicists run a v

magic uses physical coincidence, or luck, to accomplish its purposes. just as water chooses the easiest course to the sea, so does magic disturb the balance of proba- bility as little as it may. if natural means fail to serve, it calls upon what is com- monly termed the supernatural, but only after all natural solutions are frustrated. all scientific laws are founded on the naive assumption that the cosmic scale of probability never tips. magic is built on the opposite conviction that the pivot of the scale is not fixed and can be acted upon by human will effectively directed. the balance of chance is delicately hung; when it is upset the results can be startling. a stone released falls to the earth. there is nothing to prevent it. the molecules of air around the stone strike it on all si

uman reality. the crest of this wave is the present moment. the rising fore slope of the wave is what humans recognize as the future, and the descending back slope is their past. humans are so constituted that they can only perceive the back slope of the wave of time-space, not the fore slope. the model demonstrates that the farthest reaches of the universe and the dimensionless center from which the cosmic egg was born are the same. the out- side and the inside are one; the universe is the in-between. this model of the universe, which was formulated by the author around 1983, is very similar to a cosmological model presented by the mathematician stephen hawking in his book a brief history of time (bantam books, 1988, page 138. hawking has committed the error of representing the universe a

ry with the father. this dynamic relationship found its physical expression among the rulers of egypt. the son of the pharaoh, when he matured sexually as a man and left the gender-neutral state of preadolescent childhood behind him, replaced his father on the throne as king. he married his own sister, who then took the place of the queen, his mother. as queen, she gave birth to a child, renewing the cosmic cycle. the chinese game can be inverted by substituting the more meaningful sym- bols of egg, bird, and serpent for rock, paper, and scissors. the hand signs used are the same: the fist is the egg; the flat of the hand forms the wing of the bird; and the two extended fingers become the forked tongue of the serpent. in this reversal of the game, the egg imprisons the bird, the serpent ea

ng of the bird; and the two extended fingers become the forked tongue of the serpent. in this reversal of the game, the egg imprisons the bird, the serpent eats the egg, and the bird devours the serpent. the force now flows in the opposite direction. this form of the game has an ancient air about it that suggests its rightful place is in an age long past and forgotten. the great cackler, who lays the cosmic egg, is locked in an eternal battle with the dragon of the abyss, who ever threatens to consume the egg of cosmos. periodically, the cackler is renewed from the cos- mic egg, just as the phoenix was renewed from age to age from its own egg, or by another myth, from its own corpse. the dragon can consume the embryonic cackler while it lies in the cosmic egg, but once hatched, the cackler

. the balance can even be momentarily tipped so long as it is righted afterwards. the magus may use his or her power to pierce the veil to aid in the achievement of personal destiny and to assist others to walk the narrow path that leads to their personal great work, the fulfillment of their lives. he or she may not load the balance wantonly like a child, disregarding the effect this will have on the cosmic order. when the magus bends probability to accomplish a certain end-for example, to bring about a meeting with another person-this is not to suggest that the end will be realized outside the boundaries of physical law. the individual will not sim- ply pop out of the air or be levitated into the presence of the magus. such wonders are not impossible (just ask a nuclear physicist, but the

leasure through the pain of others lest their own agony become a source of amusement for the gods at some future time. the prime symbol of the balance of fate occurs in the mythology of ancient egypt. it is the great scale of judgment that is presided over by osiris. on it he commands the weighing of the heart of the newly dead person, symbolizing the sum of that person's actions in life, against the cosmic law, which is represented by the single ostrich feather of mayet (maat, goddess of justice and truth. she stands guard against the forces of chaos. if the heart of the dead is filled only with light, it will weigh the same as the feather. but if the heart is defiled with only a trace of materialism, the love of form, it will tip down the delicately hinged scale. the jackal-headed anubis

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g them with the wings of the winds; for resurrecting the lost ancient hebrew divination by urim and thummim; and for assuming the god-form of the warrior christ of revelation to command the enochian and banner angels. the complex structure of tetragrammaton and its various permutations is expressed by two very important symbolic forms: the throne of god, described by st. john in revelation 4; and the cosmic clock, which appears throughout the enochian diaries of john dee, but particularly in the third and fourteenth enochian keys. as i will demonstrate in this work, it is possible to prove that the throne and the cosmic clock are at root the same syrnbol, both designed to express the structure and parts of ihvh. the throne of god and the cosmic clock illustrate the strong link that exists

d of john dee, where the zodiac is divided between aries and taurus, the line between the upper and lower crescents of aries and taurus forms a perfect cross of right angles with the line between the left and right crescents of cancer and leo. this cross on the zodiac may have been dee's hidden message, concealed in the structure of the monad symbol. it is the structure of the heavenly throne and the cosmic clock, described below. the use of the word "kingdoms" cannot fail to call to mind the twelve tribes of israel, each of which was granted a portion of the world to rule. the ritual of crossing the river jordan that moses received from god, and conveyed to joshua, involved six of the tribes, symbolically under the sun and the urim of the breastplate of aaron, offering blessings to those

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using a consecrated prostitute to excite the organs, and at the same time vigorously withhold by will. after some little exercise they claim that they can deflower as many as eighty virgins in a night without losing a single drop of the bindu. nor is this ever to be lost, but reabsorbed through the tissues of the body. the organs thus act as a siphon to draw constantly fresh supplies of life from the cosmic reservoir, and flood the body with their fructifying virtue. initiates will notice also that these heathen philosophers have made one further march towards the truth when they say that the sun and moon must be united before the reabsorption (see almost any tantra, in particular shiva sanhita).lxxvi -154- for these reasons, many authors have speculated that crowley did in fact have some

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he entire sexual genesis of the zodiac is hidden in the seal of solomon. the inner relation that exists between the zodiac and the invincible central sun is found in the seal of solomon. the twelve rays of the brilliant star crystallize by means of alchemy in the twelve zodiacal constellations. when the student enters into the temple of the sphinx he studies the great book of nature, where all of the cosmic laws are written. indeed, very few are the ones who can open the book and study it. the ordeal of the sanctuary is very terrible. very few are the human beings who have succeeded in passing such an ordeal. a precious jewel (with the seal of solomon) a ring filled with ineffable light is granted to the one who victoriously passes the ordeal of the sanctuary. the neophyte who touches the

c disciples learn how to get out their physical body in order to travel with their internal vehicles with complete consciousness in order to penetrate within the different sephirothic regions. it is necessary to directly know the twelve spheres of universal vibration, where all of the beings of the universe develop and live. the disciple must concentrate on the chakra of the heart, which is where the cosmic divine mother abides. the disciple must beseech the sephirah, the mother of the sephiroth; begging her to take him out from his physical body and take him to the different departments of the kingdom in order to study the sephiroth of kabbalah directly. the disciple must pray and meditate abundantly on the divine mother while mentally vocalizing the following kabbalistic mantras "lifaros

r, thus, the holy trinity plus its inner star is the holy four, the mysterious tetragrammaton, which is iod-he-vav-he. now we comprehend why the twenty-second arcanum is the crown of life. be thou faithful unto death, and i will give thee a crown of life -revelation 2: 10 blessed by the one who incarnates the spirit of wisdom (chokmah; those buddhas who do not renounce nirvana can never incarnate the cosmic christ, who is beyond the inner buddha. our inner buddha has to seek the cosmic christ within its own unknowable profundities. the cosmic christ is the glorian, the incessant eternal breath profoundly unknowable to itself, the ray that joins us to the abstract absolute space. hieroglyph hieroglyphic of this arcanum: the crown of life is amidst the four mysterious animals of sexual alche

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een perfected through experience. then it is paradise regained, and we can see a numerical equivalent here because paradise in the greek also has a value of 671. another interesting association in this regard is that 121, the number of cells in this kamea, also is the value "of whirling motions (crowley, which refers to kether. this is the qabalistic term for the sum-total of the manifestation of the cosmic forces, which have their beginning in kether and their fulfillment in malkuth. figure 12-e figure 12-f case notes that the wheel (rota) of the tarot (taro (which are the words printed on the disk pictured in the wheel of fortune key [see figure 12-e] when read clockwise, when translated into hebrew, also have a value of 671. if one places the three sigil lines of the words taro, rota an

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

cross-breeding the most agile, intelligent, and most "humanoid" reptilian sub-species with each other [some of which actually possessed "semi opposable" thumbs, until finally they were able to "mold" a reptilian form that could develop crude tools which became ever more sophisticated and refined. a mutation through which the luciferians could exercise their vast, although corrupted, knowledge of the cosmic forces. or rather, a sub-race through which the luciferian "hive" could construct the occult-technology necessary to once again break out of the confines of planet earth and take their battle back to the stars, to the "heavens" themselves, thanks also in part to all of the humans who were willing to offer their assistance and energies to these reptiloids in exchange for "promises" of te

WICCA EIGHT SABBATS OF WITCHCRAFT

es the victory of a god of light (jesus) over darkness (death, so it makes sense to place it at this season. ironically, the name 'easter' was taken from the name of a teutonic lunar goddess, eostre (from whence we also get the name of the female hormone, estrogen. her chief symbols were the bunny (both for fertility and because her worshipers saw a hare in the full moon) and the egg (symbolic of the cosmic egg of creation, images which christians have been hard pressed to explain. her holiday, the eostara, was held on the vernal equinox full moon. of course, the church doesn't celebrate full moons, even if they do calculate by them, so they planted their easter on the following sunday. thus, easter is always the first sunday, after the first full moon, after the vernal equinox. if you've

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

ntext in which the dictum appears is crucial in determining its precise meaning. linear circularity (a)temporal poetics 61 su ce it here to note that the insight about the orthographic composition of emet appears in a discussion concerning the correct judicial behavior, a discussion that provokes, as is typical for the rabbinic imagination, theological reflection on the nature of divine judgment. the cosmic judge is upheld as the model of behavior for human judges and thus a discussion about the latter will of necessity lead to the former. in the context of these pronouncements, we learn of the seal (hotam) of god, a seal that seals the judgment, the stamp of truth that makes the edict stand. hence, the adage that the signet of god is truth from which springs the observation that emet is c

of god is truth from which springs the observation that emet is composed of the first, middle, and last letters of the alphabet. to think the essence of this matter, to submit to the call of what must be thought,45 is to discern the correlation of truth and language, or, more precisely, hebrew, which is depicted in rabbinic lore (and all the more so in the esoteric accretions to the tradition) as the cosmic language, a pure or originary speech, the proto/verb inscripted as spoken, spoken as inscripted.46 at this juncture, we do not yet know what this correlation is supposed to communicate, but in time the matter will be unraveled. what can be posited here is that medieval kabbalists introduced (or, at least, made explicit) the link between the consonants of emet and the three points that d

t of divine life, scholem writes: the act which results beyond and above time in the transformation of the hidden into the manifest god, is paralleled in the time-bound reality of every other world. 107 i do not take issue with the main point scholem is making in the second citation, but his distinction between the world of emanation above time and the time-bound nature of all the other worlds in the cosmic chain is problematic. moreover, i am not certain of the defensibility of scholem s attempt in the first citation to contrast cordovero and other kabbalists; it seems to me, by contrast, that the notion of non-temporal time, a time that is before the differentiation of past, present, and future but is time nonetheless, is a rmed by many kabbalists and thus should not be trumpeted as a fe

ir reward and they will rise from level to level until arikh anpin who is above time, for his growth is not by way of time as in the case of ze eir anpin. the division of time into five gradations minutes, hours, days, months, and years is a deep matter, for time is in the male and female, the secret of the forty-five and fifty-two.204 kabbalistically interpreting the eschatological conception of the cosmic sabbatical cycle transmitted in the name of r. qatina six thousand years of history followed by a thousand years of desolation205 haver characterizes the seventh millennium as the elevation of everything to the mother, a standard designation of the third emanation, binah, the womb whence the lower seven sefirot emerge and whither they shall return. a similar account of the eschatologica

[we-khol ha-mishttammesh be-taga halaf],209 for there is no intercourse [shimmush] when malkhut is on the head of her husband, and there are no new souls, therefore there is in it no eating etc. and this is the secret of the earth was destroyed, and binah remains alone, for all of them are concealed in her midst.210 the eschatological state of redemption characteristic of the seventh millennium, the cosmic sabbath or desolation that follows the cycle of six millennia, is depicted both as the return of all things to the womb of binah, the maternal fountainhead in the sefirotic pleroma, and as the elevation of malkhut to the head of her husband. the latter image conveys the asceticism appropriate to redemption, a point underscored by the symbolic connection between binah, the worldto- come

male rather than a separate vessel to receive the seminal fluid, and consequently there is no intercourse. the transposition of the female to the status of the crown signifies, therefore, the ascetic eroticism suitable to the final phase of salvation.211 the temporal dimension of this transmutation is underscored by the fact that the seventh millennium is associated with the secret of eternality, the cosmic sabbath, attained with the restitution of the six millennia, which correspond typologically to the six days of creation, to their ontic source, an ascent that culminates not with binah but with arikh anpin, literally the longfaced and metaphorically the long-suffering, the supreme manifestation of the godhead, keter, which is above time. the root of time is positioned in ze eir anpin, l

ext serves as an acrostic for yeshu nosri.51 even if we do not assume this was the bahiric author s intent, can we propose the christological myth as its conceptual underpinning? did the anonymous kabbalist intend to turn an axiom of christian eschatology on its head? did he wish to assert that the real saddiq is not the messianic redeemer born of a barren womb never polluted by seminal fluid but the cosmic foundation, the mundane manifestation of the 146 chapter four androgynous phallus in the sefirotic pleroma, the divine potency ritually embodied in the circumcised flesh of the jewish male semiotically sealed with the inscription of the divine name?52 as i have suggested, this is precisely the metaphoric implication of the double nun in yinnon. we are now in a better position to compreh

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

pt is filled with the energy needed to be able to perform the task about to be initiated. the following paper, by dr. r. felkin, was issued to whare ra members once they achieved the 5=6 rank. it explains this from a slightly subjective, though nevertheless interesting, viewpoint. dr. felkin's notes on the d.w.s. all effective ritual is a condensed drama of life. and life again is a compendium of the cosmic drama. a ceremony, if it be true, must correspond to the great cosmic pageant of creative evolution and involution. true occult ritual is one of the great harmonizing agents, because by representing the cosmic acts it brings them into closer relation with human life. even a very brief and simple ritual for helping those in trouble or sickness must conform to this law if it is to be effe

had studied tantra and yantric meditational methods under the late vivandatta, who taught me the value of the personal and the impersonal nature of the godforms. from this, i believe that mrs. felkin and some others were mistaken in this concept as they no doubt accepted christ as their personal saviour. any christian will tell you that christ has to be first and accepts no other gods before him. the cosmic attribution of christ however, is an entirely different matter and can be taken into order teachings with just as much fervor as a personal one. christ epitomizes suffering and redemption through trial and tribulation and as such is a very potent force to invoke; this is the energy we call on in the r.r. et a.c. when we use his name. one of the best archetypal concepts i have ever seen

gy of the sun, while osiris is the renewed form of life. the dwb, as it is called down, in fact works through the various subtle body layers and hence a resurgence of vitality is experienced. the energy of the sun, and a resurrected osiris, is considered limitless. what limits there are, are self imposed and have to be peeled away like the layers of an onion. the final saying in fact personalizes the cosmic christ concept down to a level that we can understand and direct, in accordance with order teaching methods. the final phrasing now calls on our auric bodies to open wider these channels of operation, while the formula ia0 (pronounced and fully vibrated as eeee aaaa 0000, is likened to a switch to bring down this energy in its fullest capacity. the ia0 formula is almost as complex as th

hose present, and in the sphere of this order. for by names and images are all powers awakened and reawakened. great and normally hidden powers are evoked and manipulated by those who consciously act as their representatives for the benefit of the candidate or, as in the equinox ceremony, for that of all the members present. it is therefore against this background of heightened consciousness that the cosmic drama of the equinox is enacted. the equinoxes are the two points where the ecliptic, i.e, that apparent path of the sun through the heavens, intersects the celestial equator at an angle of w 23 degrees 27 minutes (the celestial equator is the projection on the heavens of the earth's equator) since from an occult point of view, this celestial equator is a projection into cosmic space of

bolize the two great opposites, always find the symbol of their respective element in balanced disposition on the altar, as each one of us finds them eventually in our own heart. the four in one are in perfect unison. this whole action of turning inwards is symbolic of a change of consciousness; they cease to function as officers on the earth plane, and become representatives of a higher power on the cosmic plane. one point must be noted here: all the officers come to the altar from the west, this side of the darkness of malkuth and matter. they are going up towards the east, and therefore reach a higher state of consciousness when they arrive at the centre. hegemon is the only officer who remains east of the altar on the side of the light, the motionless spirit at the centre of the univer

s particular aspect of the one spirit, kerux, as the carrier of the light, precipitates it into a circle. already the four opposing powers have been brought to a point of union at the centre of the universe in tiphareth. the way now lies open for the unimpeded downpouring of the spirit from kether to malkuth, thus establishing the middle pillar of beneficence (it would take us too long to discuss the cosmic implication of this great mystery) first the hierophant draws in the light to kether with the words "holy art thou, lord of the air, who hast created the firmament" the firmament being symbolically situated above kether. dadouchos, as the guardian of fire, invokes the lord of the fire "wherein thou hast shown forth the throne of thy glory: a clear reference is made here to the sun on it

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