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the blue firmament of heaven. next the adoration of the lords of truth behind the northern heaven 'hail unto ye, ye lords of truth, ye chiefs behind osiris! ye followers of her whose peace is sure' then the soul arises at the mystic pool of persea trees, wherein is horus, symbolized by the great cat, who slays the evil serpent, apophis. last of the symbols of the 17th chapter is the adoration of the creator in his bark, and the uniting of the purified soul with its maker. the 125th chapter is called' the hall of the two truths, and of separating a person from his sins when he has been made to see the faces of the gods' it opens with a solemn adoration of the lords of truth and the ceremony of passing by the fortytwo assessors of the dead, represented by seated figures. then comes the weig

and merciful by contrast with his more dynamic opposite, geburah. chesed is associated with the gods zeus and jupiter. geburah: the fifth emanation on the tree of life. geburah is often associated with mars, the roman god of war, and represents severity and justice. the destructive forces of the sphere of geburah are intended to have a purging, cleansing effect on the universe. geburah represents the creator god who applies discipline and precision in governing the cosmos and removes unwanted or unnecessary elements after their usefulness has passed. geburah is reflected in the charioteer in the tarot. tiphareth: the sixth emanation on the tree of life. it is the sphere of beauty, harmonizing the forces of mercy (chesed) and judgement (geburah) higher on the tree. occultists identify tipha

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

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s of oijinn and thorr, are renowned for their enormous size; the one is said to have 540 doors, through any one of which 800 einheriar can go out at once, and bilskirnir has likewise 540' golfe [on. golfr, floor (see suppl. if now we take in one view the relations of gods and men, we find they meet and touch at all points. as the created being is filled with a childlike sense of its dependence on the creator, and prayers and offerings implore his favour, so deity too delights in its creations, and takes in them a fatherly interest. man's longing goes forth towards heaven; the gods fix their gaze on the earth, to watch and direct the doings of mortals. the blessed gods do commune with each other in their heavenly abodes, where feasts and revels go on as in earthly fashion; but they are more

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perfect fountain of the father poured forth these primogenial ideas. these being many ascend flashingly into the shining worlds, and in them are contained the three supernals. because it is the operator, because it is the giver of life-bearing fire; because it filleth the life producing bosom of hecate; and it instilleth into the synoches the enlivening strength of fire, embued with mighty power. the creator of all formed the world, and there was a certain mass of fire and all these self- operating he produced, so that the kosmic body might be completely conformed, so that the kosmos might be manifest and not appear membranous. and he fixed a vast multitude of inwandering stars, not by a strain laborious and hurtful, but to uphold them with a stability void of movement, forcing fire forwar

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ile i with my wife and a servant remained in my own house, and i began to accustom myself to the solitary life, which it was to me extremely difficult to support, because of the melancholic humour which dominated me, and i lived thus till the season of easter which i celebrated with all the family according to custom. then first, on the following day, in the name and to the honour of god almighty the creator of heaven and of earth, i commenced this holy operation, and i continued it for six moons without omitting the slightest detail, as thou wilt understand later. and the period of the six moons being expired, the lord granted unto me his grace by his mercy; according to the promise made unto our forefathers, since while i was making my prayer unto him he deigned to grant unto me the visi

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econd book of the sacred magic. prologue. he wisdom of the lord is an inexhaustible fountain, neither hath there ever been a man born who could penetrate its veritable origin and foundation. the sages and holy fathers have drunk long draughts thereof, and have been fully satisfied therewith. but with all this, not one among them hath been able to comprehend or know the radical principles, because the creator of all things reserveth that unto himself; and, like a jealous god, he hath indeed wished that we should enjoy the fruit thereof, but he hath not wished to permit us to touch either the tree or its root. it is then not only proper, but further also we are compelled to conform ourselves unto the will of the lord, walking in that path, by the which also our predecessors went, without see

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f squares. naqid= remote offspring. no. j. this has a strong likeness to the well-known sator, arepo, tenet, opera, rotas. it is a square of c f squares. salom= peace. arepo= he distils. lemel= unto fulness. opera, upon the dry ground. molas= in quick motion, or perhaps better stirring it up into quickness, i.e, life. the former sentence is capable of a rather free latin translation, thus: sator= the creator. arepo= slow-moving. tenet= maintains. opera= his creations. rotas= as vortices. no. b a is a square of c f squares. debam signifies influential persons. no. b b. a square of i squares from a square of b g. ahhb signifies to love. bear signifies in hebrew to waste or consume. no. b c. a square of d g squares. ialdah signifies a girl. no. b d consists of b j squares arranged like the ca

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cy to worship daemons denotes character weakness. lord egan observes that those who attack him for claiming to be a daemon are themselves daemon worshipers who cannot kick the habit. always remember that daemons are merely a manifestation of the future of our race. we are all inherently divine, the co-creators of a new world order! in this fashion we shall create gods in our own image, for we are the creators, and we are the created. a couple produce an offspring (creators, but they were infants at one time (created. what i'm suggesting is this; something similar occurs on a spiritual level. ducks give birth to ducklings. gods give birth to godlings (humans. evolution occurs, growth occurs and the cycle continues. humans will eventually evolve to a plane of consciousness where this process

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

achachadugga and the seal: the thirtieth name is gil the furnisher of seed. beloved of ishtar, his power is mysterious and quite ancient. makes the barley to grow and the women to give birth. makes potent the impotent. his word is aggabal and his seal is thus: the thirty-first name is gilma founder of cities, possessor of the knowledge of architecture by which the fabled temples of ur were built; the creator of all that is permanent and never moves. his word is akkabal and his seal is this: the thirty-second name is agilma bringer of rain. maketh the gentle rains to come, or casuseth great storms and thunders, the like may destroy armies and cities and crops. his word is mashshayegurra and his seal is: the thirty-third name is zulum knows where to plant and when to plant. giveth excellent

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

f lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 50 [52] commentary( kappa-alpha) the 21st key of the tarot is called "the universe, and refers to the letter tau, the phallus in manifestation; hence the title "the blind webster. the universe is conceived as buddhists, on the one hand, and rationalists, on the other, would have us do; fatal, and without intelligence. even so, it may be delightful to the creator. the moral of this chapter is, therefore, and exposition of the last paragraph of chapter 18. it is the critical spirit which is the devil, and gives rise to the appearance of evil. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 51 [53] 22 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta kappa-beta the despot the waiters of the best eating-houses mock the whole world; they estimate every clien

ma) the title of the chapter refers to the hindu legend. the first paragraph should be read in connection with our previous remarks upon the number 91. the number of the chapter, 26, is that of tetragrammaton, the manifest creator, jehovah. he is called the second in relation to that which is above the abyss, comprehended under the title of the first. but the vulgarians conceive of nothing beyond the creator, and therefore call him the first. he is really the fourth, being in chesed, and of course his nature is fourfold. this four is conceived of as the dyad multiplied by the dyad; falsehood confirming falsehood. paragraph 3 introduces a new conception; that of the square within the hexagram, the universe enclosed in the law of lingam-yoni. the penultimate paragraph shows the redemption of

edies. cease then to be the mockery of god; in savagery of love and death live thou and die! thus shall his laughter be thrilled through with ecstasy. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 75 [78] commentary( lambda-delta) the title is explained in the note. the chapter needs no explanation; it is a definite point of view of life, and recommends a course of action calculated to rob the creator of his cruel sport. note (18) this chapter was written to clarify chi-epsilon-psiiota- delta of which it was the origin. frater perdurabo perceived this truth, or rather the first half of it, comedy, at breakfast at "au chien qui fume. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 76 [79] 35 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta lambda-epsilon venus of milo life is as ugly and nece

e carefully read before studying this chapter. all the allusions will then be obvious, save those which we proceed to not. sanhedrim, a body of 70 men. an eye. eye in hebrew is oin, 70. the "gnarled oak" and the "glacier torrent" refer to the confessions made by many witches. i paragraph 7 is seen the meaning of the chapter; the obscene and distorted character of much of the universe is a whim of the creator. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 148 [151] 71 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta omicron-alpha king's college chapel for mind and body alike there is no purgative like pranayama, no purgative like pranayama. for mind, for body, for mind and body alikealike- there is, there is, there is no purgative, no purgative like pranayama-pranayama!-pranayama! yea, for mind an

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

of increase numbered 33, which reign in the second angle? under whom i have placed 9639: whom none hath yet numbered, but one; in whom the second beginnings of things are and wax strong, which also successively are the numbers of time: and their powers are as the first 456. arise! you sons of pleasure! and visit the earth: for i am the lord your god; which is and liveth (for ever! in the name of the creator, move! and shew yourselves as pleasant deliverers, that you may praise him among the sons of men [invokes: hcoma; the whole tablet of water. the angle of c of c. the queen of the thrones of water] liber lxxxiv 25 the opening of the temple in the grade of 1 =108 give the sign of the god set fighting. purify with fire and water, and announce the temple is cleansed [knock] let us adore th

rein the lord hath opened his mouth; and they are become as 28 living dwellings in whom the strength of man rejoiceth; and they are apparelled with ornaments of brightness, such as work wonders on all creatures. whose kingdoms and continuance are as the third and fourth strong towers and places of comfort, the seats of mercy and continuance. o ye servants of mercy, move! appear! sing praises unto the creator; and be mighty among us. for that to this remembrance is given power, and our strength waxeth strong in our comforter! the angle of c of d in the tablet of d the queen of the thrones of air. the eighth key bazodemelo i ta pi-ripesonu olanu na-zodavabebe ox. casaremeji varanu cahisa vaugeji asa berameji balatoha: goho iad. soba miame tarianu ta lolacis abaivoninu od azodiajiere riore. i

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

akes is replaced by a "charge" in similar terms. the details of the preparation of each weapon should be thought out carefully by the magician. 65 further, the attitude of the magician to his weapons should be that of the god to the suppliant who invokes him. it should be the love of the father for his child, the tenderness and care of the bridegroom for his bride, and that peculiar feeling which the creator of every work of art feels for his masterpiece. where this is clearly understood, the magician will find no difficulty in observing the proper ritual, not only in the actual ceremonial consecration of each weapon, but in the actual preparation, a process which should adumbrate this ceremony; e.g, the magician will cut the wand from the tree, will strip it of leaves and twigs, will remo

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l of beginners. the attempt to interfere with the magical will of another person would be wicked, if it were not absurd. one may attempt to build up a will when sic before nothing existed but a chaos of whims; but once organization has taken place it is sacred. as blake says "everything that lives is holy; and hence the creation of life is the most sacred of tasks. it does not matter very much to the creator what it is that he creates; there is room in the universe for both the spider and the fly. it is from the rubbish-heap of choronzon that one selects the material for a god! this is the ultimate analysis of the mystery of redemption, and is possibly the real reason of the existence (if existence it can be called) of form, or, if you like, of the ego. it is astonishing that this typical

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

cherished by kings and nobles, one on whom no wealth and honour are too great to shower, but one of the people themselves, of no greater con sequence than any other. every man was an artist in so far as he was a man; and every man being equally so in nature, whether so in achievement or not mattered nothing, as appreciation was of no moment. accomplishing art for the sake of art, the interest of the creator in his work died with its creation. it may therefore be possible that these words are those of poetic exaggeration, or that there is a concealed meaning in them, or that they are intended to mask and mislead, or that the poet was not himself fully instructed. indeed it is certain that only the high house had the secrets of atlas, and that the magicians of the house held the undeniable

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

by any qabalist argues a bankruptcy of ingenuity beyond belief. in all conscience, it is easy enough to fake identities by less obviously card-sharping methods! 2. notariqon. the absurdity of this method needs little indication. the most unsophisticated can draw pity and amusement from mr mathers jew, converted by the notariqons of berashith. true, f.i.a.t. is flatus, ignis, aqua, terra; showing the creator as tetragrammaton, the synthesis of the four elements; showing the eternal fiat as the equilibrated powers of nature. but what forbits fecit ignavus animam terrae,35 or any other convenient blasphemy, such as buddha would applaud? why not take our converted jew and restore him to the ghetto with ben, ruach, ab, sheol! ihvh, thora?36 why not take the sacred 'icquj of the christian who t

he attribution of \yhla to the pentagram which gives p [see a note on genesis, equinox, no. ii. p. 184] here we write elohim, the creative deities, round a pentagram, and read it reverse beginning with l, g, the letter of equilibrium, and obtain an approximation to p 3.1415 (good enough for the benighted hebrew, as if thereby the finite square of creation was assimilated to the infinite circle of the creator. 34 concealed yods on the other hand are another matter entirely t.s. 35 [lat, a coward created the soul of the earth] 36 [heb, possibly intended for: the son, the spirit, the father, the grave: ihvh [is] the law] 37 [grk, jesus christ, son of god, saviour] 38 [grk, approx. the favour of isis [is] the treasure of the sons of wisdom] liber lviii 23 yes: but why should not berashith 2, 2

e is a magical operation to be carried out by the aspirant. part ii the universe as we seek to make it in the first part we have seen all numbers as veils of the one, emanations of and therefore corruptions of the one. it is the universe as we know it, the static universe. now the aspirant to magic is displeased with this state of things. he finds himself but a creature, the farthest removed from the creator, a number so complex and involved that he can scarcely imagine, much less dare to hope for, its reduction to the one. the numbers useful to him, therefore, will be those which are subversive of this state of sorrow. so the number 2 represents to him the magus (the great magician mayan who has created the illusion of maya) as seen in the 2nd aethyr. and considering himself as the ego wh

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

so portentous? in scene ii. we have another taste of kent s gentlemanly demeanour; let our conventionalist interpreters defend this unwarrantable bullying if they dare! another might be so gross, so cowardly; but not our greatest poet! a good portion of this play, as will be shown later, is devoted to a bitter assault upon the essentially english notion that the pugilist is the supreme device of the creator for furthering human happiness (see cashel byron s pro-fession for a similar, though more logical and betterworded, attack) coarse and violent language continues to disgrace lear s follower; only gloucester, the unconscionable ass and villian of scene i, has a word to say in his defence. in scene iii. we have a taste of edgar s quality. had this despicable youth the consciosness of inn

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f men shall be spared the torture of unutterable light "devourer of millions of years" is my name "lord of the flame" is my name; for i am as an eye of silver set in the heart of the sun. thou spreadest the locks of thine hair before thee, for i burn thee; thou shakest them about thy brow, so that thine eyes may not be blinded by the fire of my fury. i am he who was, who is, and who will be; i am the creator, and the destroyer, and the redeemer of mankind. i have come as the sun from the house of the roaring of lions, and at my coming shall there be laughter, and weeping, and singing, and gnashing of teeth. ye shall tread upon the serpent and the scorpion, and the hosts of your enemies shall be as chaff before the sickle of your might: yet ye must be born in the cavern of darkness and be l

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y any qabalist argues a bankruptcy of ingenuity beyond belief. in all conscience, it is easy enough to fake identities by less obviously card-sharping methods! 2. notariqon. the absurdity of this method needs little indication. the most unsophisticated can draw pity and amusement from mr mathers' jew, converted by the notariqons of "berashith" true, f.i.a.t. is flatus, ignis, aqua, terra; showing the creator as tetragrammaton, the synthesis of the four elements; 91 showing the eternal fiat as the equilibrated powers of nature. but what forbids fecit ignavus animan terrae, or any other convenient blasphemy, such as buddha would applaud? why not take our converted jew and restore him to the ghetto with ben, ruach, ab, sheol- ihvh, thora? why not take the sacred 'iota chi theta upsilon sigma

by fra. p. and revise by fra. a. e. g. and others, will shortly be published by authority of the a. a. in the first part we have seen all numbers as veils of the one, emanations of and therefore corruptions of the one. it is the universe as we know it, the static universe. now the aspirant to magic is displeased with this state of things. he finds himself but a creature, the farthest removed from the creator, a number so complex and involved that he can scarcely imagine, must less dare to hope for, its reduction to the one. the numbers useful to him, therefore, will be those which are subversive of this state of sorrow. so the number 2 represents to him the magus (the great magician mayan who has created the illusion of maya) as seen in the 2nd aethyr. and considering himself as the ego wh

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of his,'elder conklin' and 'montes, the matador, contained the best short stories that have been written. mr. harris touches a high level of tragic intensity. and the scene of the actual throwing, and then the description of schnaubelt's flight to new york in a state of mental and physical collapse, are marvels of tense narration. altogether, the book is a thoroughly fine piece of work, worthy of the creator of conklin. we hope it is the precursor of many other books from mr. harris."the nation:"mr. harris has a born writer's eloquence, he has knowledge of his subject, and he often expresses himself with a distinction of phrasing and a precision of thought which give real value to his work."daily telegraph:"a good book this story reads like a page of real life written down by a man who ac

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

emblem of the equilibrated and balanced forces of the elements. it is composed of twenty-two squares externally, which refer to the twenty-two letters placed thereon. twenty and two are the letters of the eternal voice in the vault of heaven; in the depths of the earth; in the abyss of the waters, and in the all-presence of fire: heaven cannot speak their fulness, earth cannot utter it. yet hath the creator bound them in all things. he hath mingled them through water: he hath whirled them aloft in fire: he hath sealed them in the air of heaven: he hath distributed them through the planets: he hath assigned unto them the twelve constellations of the zodiac" he then explains that to the thirty-second path of the sepher yetzirah is attributed the seven abodes of assiah; to the four elements

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of his 'elder conklin' and 'montes, the matador' contained the best short stories that have been written. mr. harris touches a high level of tragic intensity. and the scene of the actual throwing, and then the description of schnaubelt's flight to new york in a state of mental and physical collapse, are marvels of tense narration. altogether, the book is a thoroughly fine piece of work, worthy of the creator of conklin. we hope it is the precursor of many other books from mr. harris "the nation "mr. harris has a born writer's eloquence, he has knowledge of his subject, and he often expresses himself with a distinction of phrasing and a precision of thought which give real value to his work "daily telegraph "a good book. this story reads like a page of real life written down by a man who ac

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. they are the men who really know the power of thought; they are sure that, even if they go into a cave and close the door and simply think five true thoughts and then pass away, these five thoughts of theirs will live through eternity (vivek nanda "karma yoga" udbodhan edition, pp. 164, 165) 13 or the unconsciously known. 14 deussen "ibid, p. 76. 15 "rigveda (griffiths, i. 164. 46 "you may call the creator of all things by different names: liber, hercules, mercury, are but different names of the same divine being (seneca, iv, 7. 8. 16 "ch ndogya upanishad" 6. 1. 3. also of "form" 17 that is to say, when he gains knowledge. 18 this is the meaning of "nequaquam vacuum" 19 modern materialism receives many a rude blow at the hands of gustave le bon. this great frenchman writes "these fundame

s sensations pleasant or painful. but in none of these cases is he actually master over his senses. the man who is, is able to accomodate his senses to his mind. to him no longer are external things necessary, for he can stimulate mentally the sensation desired. he can hear beautiful sounds without listening to beautiful music, and see beautiful sights without gazing upon them; he in fact becomes the creator of what he wills, he can exalt his imagination to such a degree over his senses, that by a mere act of imagination he can make those senses instantaneously respond to his appeal, for he is lord over the senses, 103 and therefore over the universe as "it appears" though not as "it is" the first lesson in praty h ra is to sit still and let the mind run on, until it is realized what the m

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are! how noble" she hid her face in her hands and began to cry to herself "i see! i see! that is how god must see the universe, or he could never tolerate such cruelty, such idiotcy, ineptitude "exactly. suppose now that the world is only symbol- i had rather say sacrament- suppose for example that all these stars swimming in boundless aether are but corpuscles in the blood of some toy terrier of the creator "you frighten me. i don't want to suppose "think of the eternal battles of haemoglobin, oxyhaemoglobin, carboxyhaemoglobin in our blood. it is the same idea. do we express sympathy for the fallen? have we a stop-the-war party? on the contrary, we take good care that these 123 murderous conflicts shall go on. so when you call the god to whom you aspire 'the compassionate 'the merciful'

t is through that that you must pass "this veil is god. i am a holy nun in the trance called rampurana. i am canonised. my name is on every banner. my face is worshipped by every nation. i am a pure virgin; all the others are soiled. thought is worse than deed. all my thoughts are holy. i think. i think. i think. by the power of my thought i created the word; and by the word came the worlds. i am the creator. i will write my law upon tablets of jade and onyx" rolles bowed his head in silence "i am thought itself" she went on quietly "and all thought is i. i am knowledge. all knowledge is in three. three hundred and thirty-three. i am half the master. i have cut him in two" the adept shuddered "that was when i was an axe. i will not be an arrow. i will be an axe" she gave a giggle "i am gle

. now, as one who may claim to a slight acquaintance with the literature of both paths, and to have been honoured by personal exposition from the adepts of both paths, i believe that i may be able to bring them fairly into the balance. this is the magical theory, that the first departure from the infinite must be equilibrated and so corrected. so the "great magician" mayan, the maker of illusion, the creator, must be met in combat. then "if satan be divided against satan, how can his kingdom stand" both vanish: the illusion is no more. mathematically, 1(-1= 0. and this path is symbolised in the taro under the figure of the 153 magus, the card numbered 1, the first departure from 0, but referred to beth, 2, mercury, the god of wisdom, magic and truth. and this magus has the twofold aspect o

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

al union, are beginning to come within his range of consciousness, only waiting for the fourth initiation to complete the revelation. this secret of electricity, which is essentially triple in its nature, deals with the brahma or third aspect, and is called sometimes by the following names: 1. the secret of brahma. 2. the revelation of the mother. 3. the secret of fohatic force. 4. the mystery of the creator. 5. the secret of the three who issued from the first (solar system, and also by four mystic phrases conveying much light to the intuition: 6. the boat of mystery which ploughs the ocean. 7. the key to the divine storehouse. 8. the light that guides through the triple caves of darkness. 9. the clue to the energy uniting fire and water. in all these names much information will come to t

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

marks i would point out primarily and emphasize the fact that the motion we are considering is that due- 79- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust to the fire latent in matter itself, a motion that is the prime characteristic and basic quality of the primordial ray of active intelligence. to express it otherwise: it is the outstanding faculty of the third logos, of brahma viewed as the creator, and this faculty is the product or result of an earlier manifestation. each of the three logoi, when in manifestation and thus personified, is exemplifying some one quality which predominates over the others. each, more or less, exemplifies all, but each demonstrates one of the three aspects so profoundly as to be recognised as that aspect itself. in much the same way, for instance, t

then are synthesised into acquired faculty, and the- 116- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust self has no further use for the not-self. it blends with the all-self. this is under the law of synthesis. if this is borne in mind it leads to a realisation that the separation of the spirit from the material vehicle involves two aspects of the one great all; herein is seen the work of the creator, the preserver and the destroyer. in the final perfection of this third sense of sight, the term used is the wholly inadequate one of realisation. let the student study carefully the lowest and highest demonstration of the senses as laid down in the tabulation earlier imparted, and note the occult significance of the expressions used in the summation. hearing..beatitude. this is realis

types of wisdom-love. the seven qualities of wisdom, which are produced by the cosmic entities, the kumaras by the aid of knowledge through the medium of matter. this law of economy has several subsidiary laws which govern its effects on the different grades of matter. as said before, this is the law swept into action by the sounds as uttered by the logos. the sacred word, or the uttered sound of the creator, exists in different forms, and though in reality but one word, has several syllables. the syllables all together form a solar phrase; separated they form certain words of power, producing different effects. 92(80) the great word that peals through one hundred years of brahma or persists in reverberation throughout a solar system, is the sacred sound of a u m. in differentiation and as

mic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust study of the vitality that energises and the life that animates; to the contemplation of the fire that drives, propels, and produces the activity and organisation of all forms. the realisation of this will reveal the fact that what we are dealing with is the "life and the lives,"86(163) as it is called87(164) in the secret doctrine; with agni, the lord of fire, the creator, the preserver, and the destroyer; and with the forty-nine fires through which he manifests. we are dealing with solar fire per se, with the essence of thought, with the coherent life of all forms, with the consciousness in its evolving aspect, or with agni, the sumtotal of the gods. he is vishnu and the sun in his glory; he is the fire of matter and the fire of mind blended and fused;

s been accomplished, destroys or disintegrates the thought form by withdrawing his energy (occultly, the "attention is withdrawn" or "the eye is no longer upon" it, so that the lesser lives (which had been built into the desired form) fall away and return to the general reservoir of deva substance. thus, in all creative work in mental matter, man is likewise to be seen as a trinity at work; he is the creator, preserver, and destroyer. e. in all occult work in mental matter which has to manifest upon the physical plane, and thus achieve objectivity, man has to work as a unit. this infers the ability, therefore, of the threefold lower man to be subordinated to the ego, so that the dynamic will of the ego may be imposed upon the physical brain. the method of the man on the physical plane who

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ion where he can "escape upward" and function in the head. the tortoise has from the earliest ages been the symbol of the slow creative process, and of the- 172- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust long evolutionary road travelled by the spirit. hence the appropriateness of this term, as applied to what is considered the lowest of the three major centres, and the one which represents the creator or brahma aspect of divinity, of god, the holy ghost, with his function as the energizer of matter or body. 32. those who have attained self-mastery can be seen and contacted through focussing the light in the head. this power is developed in one-pointed meditation. this is a paraphrase of a very general nature, but gives the exact sense of the terms employed. in the twenty-fifth sutra

t as a thought" is frequently used when an expression of the intensest rapidity is required. in the yogin his acts on the physical plane are so synchronized with his thought processes, his decisions are so instantaneous and his ends so swiftly achieved that his physical plane life is characterized by a most startling activity and most amazing results. of him it can be said in degree as is said of the creator "god meditated, visualized, spoke, and the worlds were made" 2. perception independent of organs. the adept is not dependent upon the organs of sense for the acquiring of knowledge, nor is he dependent upon the sixth sense, the mind. with him, the intuition has been developed into a usable instrument, and direct apprehension of all knowledge, independently of the reasoning faculty or r

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th me; but how to perform that which is good i find not..for i delight in the law of god after the inward man: but i see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. o wretched man that i am! who shall deliver me (the real self) from the body of this death?"5(40) this real self is god god the triumphant, god the creator, god the saviour of man. it is, in the words of st. paul "christ in us, the hope of glory" this becomes a fact in our consciousness and not simply a much hoped for theory. meditation causes our beliefs to change into ascertained facts, and our theories into proven experience. the statement of st. paul's remains only a concept and a possibility until, through meditation, the christ life

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

ition of the waters, the safety of the one who thus creates, and steady contemplation. thus are the heart, the throat, and eye, allied for triple service- 91- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust the soul and its thought-forms. heart, throat and eye. the awakening of the centres. the soul and its thought-forms we have been dealing with the processes of creation as they concern: 1. the creator of a solar system or a planetary scheme. 2. the ego, as it creates its body of manifestation. it should here be remembered that the entire human family has been brought into manifestation by a paralleling group of egos. 3. man, as he creates those thought-forms by which he expresses himself, through which he works, and by which he is surrounded. it should also here be borne in mind tha

when their purpose appears does the distinction become apparent, and hence the training of the aspirant in right motive as a preparatory step to true occult work. the question might be asked: what is meant by occult work? true occult work involves: 1. the contacting of the plan. 2. right desire to co-operate with the plan. 3. the work of thought-form building and the confining of the attention of the creator of these thought-forms to the mental plane. this is of so potent a nature that the thought-forms created have a life cycle of their own and never fail to manifest and perform their work. 4. the direction of the thought-form from the mental plane and the confining of the attention to that specific enterprise, knowing that right thought and right orientation lead to correct functioning a

beyond endurance the sorely tried fabric of humanity. all new manifestations in all kingdoms in all ages must come slowly, and therefore safely, to the birthing. all new forms, if they are ultimately to carry weight and gather adequate momentum to carry them through their life cycle, must be built in silent subjectivity, in order that the building may be strong and sure and the inner contact with the creator (human or divine) and true conformity to the pattern may be substantial and unbreakable. this is true of a universe, a kingdom in nature, or a thought-form created by a human thinker. in all form-building the technique of construction remains basically the same, and the rules and realizations may be summed up in the following aphoristic phrases. let the creator know himself to be the b

ector" and coming not down into close contact with his thought-form. let him project, in time and space, his form through visualization, meditation and skill in action, and so produce that which his will commands, his love desires, and his need creates. let him withdraw the builders of the outer form, and let the inner builders of dynamic force push it forth into manifestation. through the eye of the creator are these inner builders brought to functioning, directed action. through the word of the creator were the outer builders guided. through the ear of the creator the volume of the greater word vibrates through the waters of space. let him remember the order of creative work. the waters of space respond to the word. the builders build. the cycle of creation ends and the form is adequate

se that it has reached the goal, and from that gateway to eternal life and cosmic peace, let the word sound 'i am the seeker and the sought. i rest" seventh ray "let the builders cease their work. the temple is completed. let the soul enter into its heritage and from the holy place command all work to end. then in the silence subsequent, let him chant forth the word 'the creative work is over. i, the creator, am. naught else remains but me" the vital forces, which are simply the passing through the outer sheath of the 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

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

he right hand of the man of matter grasps the golden lotus of the soul, the left descends seeking the flower of life, though he seeks it not for selfish ends "when the right hand holds the golden lotus firm and the left hand grasps the flower of life, man finds himself to be the seven-leaved plant which flowers on earth and flowers before the throne of god" the purpose of deity, as it is known to the creator, is totally unknown to all save the higher initiates. but the purpose of each ray life may be sensed and defined, subject of course to the limitations of the human mind and to the inadequacy of words. the planned activity of every ray qualifies every form found within its body of manifestation. we come now to a technical statement which must be accepted for the sake of argument, being

s will be brought into expression through the freer flow and the more intelligent manipulation of the energies which create and constitute all forms. the world has been changed beyond belief during the past five hundred years, and during the next two hundred years the changes will be still more rapid and deep-seated, for the growth of the intellectual powers of man is gathering momentum, and man, the creator, is coming into possession of his powers. the seventh purpose of deity ray vii. ceremonial order or magic "let the temple of the lord be built, the seventh great angel cried. then to their places in the north, the south, the west and east, seven great sons of god moved with measured pace and took their seats. the work of building thus began. the doors were closed. the light shone dim

ch will make it possible for the candidate to the mysteries to enter the temple and to take his place as a creative worker and thus aid in the magical work of the lord of the temple. the names whereby this ray lord is known are many, and their meaning is of prime significance today. the work of the future can be seen from a study of these names. the unveiled magician the worker in the magical art the creator of the form the bestower of light from the second lord the manipulator of the wand the watcher in the east the custodian of the seventh plan the invoker of wrath the keeper of the magical word the temple guardian the representative of god the one who lifts to life the lord of death the one who feeds the sacred fire the whirling sphere the sword of the initiator- 61- a treatise on the s

nergy which leads to the battlefield, the energy of the discriminating mind, and when that has been in due time used, controlled and transmuted "only the four remains and force has gone. note the detail of the numbering: f o r c e 6 6 9 3 5. 29. ii. number of adept, using energy. f o u r- 215- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust 6 6 3 9 .24. 6. the creator, unifying the subjective and the objective. it is apparent that force in the first group ends in separativeness, for five is the number of the mind and of man. number nine, the number of initiation, is hidden midway in force, but the climaxing figures indicate activity and separation. in the second group of figures, activity precedes the nine of initiation, and that nine is the culmina

lise that it has reached the goal, and from that gateway to eternal life and cosmic peace let the word sound 'i am the seeker and the sought. i rest" seventh ray "let the builders cease their work. the temple is completed. let the soul enter into its heritage and from the holy place command all work to end. then in the silence subsequent let him chant forth the word `the creative work is over. i, the creator, am. naught else remains but me" references to the secret doctrine ray 1. will or power planet. sun, substituting for the veiled planet vulcan. day. sunday. exoteric colour .o range. s.d.iii. p. 478. esoteric colour. red. human principle. prana or life-vitality. divine principle. the one life. spirit. this is regarded as a principle only when our seven planes are seen as the seven sub

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, and man is divine. if he is not, then the fatherhood of god is but an empty form of words, and christ and his apostles were in error when they recognised, as they constantly did, the fact of our sonship. the divinity of man cannot be explained away. it is either a fact or it is not. god can be known in the flesh through the medium of his children or he cannot. all rests back on god, the father, the creator, the one in whom we live and move and have our being. god is immanent in all his creatures, or he is not. god is transcendent and beyond manifestation, or else there is no basic reality, purpose or origin. probably the growing recognition in men's minds that he is both immanent and transcendent is true, and we can take our stand upon his fatherhood, knowing ourselves to be divine becau

is no consciousness of sin in the animals, though there may be indications of a conscience among the domesticated animals, due to their association with man. mind produces the power to analyse and observe, to differentiate and distinguish; and so with the advent of mental development there has been, for a long time, a growing sense of sinfulness, of contrition, and of an almost abject attitude to the creator, producing in humanity that strongly marked inferiority complex with which today psychologists have to deal. against this sense of sin, with its concomitants of propitiation, atonement and the sacrifice of christ for us, there has been a revolt; and in this really wholesome reaction there is the normal tendency to go too far. fortunately, we are never able to get too far from divinity;

of such a friendship as man had never known, of disastrous failure and a forgiveness beyond all believing, and of a new, a free, a creative life. nothing of all this was of their own achievement. they knew they were men remade, and they knew that the mode of their remaking was love. this was a providence, a deliverance, greater and more significant than anything that the jew had ever claimed for the creator-god. yet they could not think of it as other than his work, since god, as all their national tradition taught, is one. it interpreted for them, as we might put it in our more cautious way, the creative reality to which they, with all men, had looked with uncertainty and even with fear. henceforth the central hypothesis which men call god was known as love, and everywhere he was made ma

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

that these lives are in themselves the sum total of all the potencies and energies whose will is to create and to manifest. in dealing, however, with these energies and forces, it is impossible to express their appearance, quality and purpose except in symbolic form, and the following points should therefore be remembered: 1. the personality consciousness is that of the third aspect of divinity, the creator aspect. this works in matter and substance in order to create forms through which the quality may express itself and so demonstrate the nature of divinity on the plane of appearances. 2. the egoic consciousness is that of the second aspect of divinity, that of the soul, expressing itself as quality and as the determining subjective "colour" of the appearances. this naturally varies, ac

e 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, the microcosm, the objective of the evolutionary purpose for the fourth kingdom in nature is to enable man to manifest as a soul in time and space and to tune in on the soul purpose and the plan of the creator, as it is known and expressed by the seven spirits before the throne, the seven planetary logoi. but at this point we can only hint at a great mystery, which is that all that the highest of the sons of god on our manifested planetary world can grasp is a partial realisation of the purpose and plan of the solar logos, as it is grasped, apprehended and expressed by one of the planetary l

ered far into the deepest depths and became immersed in chaos and disorder. he could not understand- 23- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust yet still held to the hand of the magician. he sought to bring about that order that his soul craved. he talked with all he met, but his bewilderment increased. to the magician thus he spoke 'the ways of the creator must be good. behind all that which seems to be, must be a plan. teach me the purpose of it all. how can i work, immersed in deepest matter? tell me the thing that i must do' the magician said 'listen, o worker in the furthest world, to the rhythm of the times. note the pulsation in the heart of that which is divine. retire into the silence and attune yourself unto the whole. then vent

lise that it has reached the goal, and from that gateway to eternal life and cosmic peace, let the word sound 'i am the seeker and the sought. i rest" ray seven "let the builders cease their work. the temple is completed. let the soul enter into its heritage and from the holy place command all work to end. then in the silence subsequent, let him chant forth the word .the creative work is over. l, the creator, am. naught else remains but me" ii. the seven laws of soul or group life we come now to a section of our study of the soul and its life which is of real moment to all who live (or begin to live) and function as conscious souls, through definite alignment and at-one-ment. this section will, however, be relatively abstruse to all those whose lives are centred in the personality. down th

links the mind and brain together and thus produces the exteriorisation of the veiled splendour. if the creative artist will ponder upon these three requirements endurance, meditation, and imagination he will develop in himself the power to respond to this fourth rule of soul control, and will know the soul eventually as the secret of persistence, the revealer of the rewards of contemplation and the creator of all forms upon the physical plane. this use of the creative imagination and the fruits of its endeavor will work out into the many fields of human art according to the ray of the creative artist. we must not forget that the artist is found on all rays; there is no particular ray which produces more artists than another. the form will apparently take spontaneous expression when the i

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he perhaps necessarily thinks much about his relation to the hierarchy, to the master and to his own soul. in the intermediate stage, he is occupied with the achieving of a sense of proportion and a right inner adjustment so that "he faces two ways and each way sees the same vision" in the final stages when he is the disciple who is also the master, his consciousness is absorbed into the will of the creator; his attitude is one of unchanging love and his work is that of radiation a radiation which evokes activity in others, initiates a response from his fellowmen and carries the plan the next step forward in meeting the immediate need of humanity. in this creative work to which i have referred above and to which all disciples can contribute, the work and the task of the masters is to proj

this is not easily apparent until disciples are accepted and integral parts of the ashram. such disciples constitute a definite problem. the question now arises: how does a master form and organise his ashram or inner group of which the personnel is provided from the outer group of aspirants? it must surely be apparent to you that a master, in forming his ashram, proceeds as automatically as does the creator. he- 537- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust meditates; he visualises; he speaks and that which he seeks to create and to materialise (in line with the hierarchical plan) begins to take form. by the power of his focussed and directed thought, he attracts to him those whose type of mind synchronises with his, because of ray, karmic relationships, point in e

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

some aspect of a new world faith and the sounding of a note which produced a new civilization and culture or a fresh recognition of relationship between god and man or man and his brother. back in the dim past of history (hinted at through symbolism and in the bibles of the world) there was a first major approach when god took notice of man and something happened under the action and will of god the creator, god transcendent which affected primeval man, and he "became a living soul. as the yearning urge towards an undefined and unrealized good made itself felt in the inchoate longings of unthinking man (literally unthinking at that stage, it evoked a response from deity; god drew near to man and man became imbued with that life and energy which, as time went by, would enable him to recogn

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

ed and always has been; great sons of god have ever come on humanity's demand and always will, and he for whom all men wait today is on his way. chapter three the reappearance of the christ world expectancy god transcendent, greater, vaster and more inclusive than his created world, is universally recognised and has been generally emphasised; all faiths can say with shri krishna (speaking as god, the creator) that "having pervaded the whole universe with a fragment of myself, i remain" this god transcendent has dominated the religious thinking of millions of simple and spiritually minded people down the centuries which have elapsed since humanity began to press forward towards divinity. slowly, there is dawning upon the awakening consciousness of humanity, the great paralleling truth of go

ame that man may choose according to his mental or emotional bent, racial tradition and heritage, for it cannot be defined or conditioned by names. human beings perforce always use names in order to express that which they sense, feel and know, both of the phenomenal and also of the intangible. consciously or unconsciously, all men recognise god transcendent and god immanent. they sense god to be the creator and the inspiration of all that is. the eastern faiths have ever emphasised god immanent, deep within the human heart "nearer than hands and feet" the self, the one, the atma, smaller than the small, yet all-comprehensive. the western faiths have presented god transcendent, outside his universe, an onlooker. god transcendent, first of all, conditioned men's concept of deity, for the ac

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irements may save the coming revelation from too swift and quick submergence in the fire of the great illusion. it will be apparent to you from the above that the mode of handling world affairs, states of consciousness and conditions in the three worlds is one in which the disciple and initiate work from above downwards. the method is in reality a repetition of the involutionary arc in which like the creator, from a vantage point of exterior direction energy, force and forces are directed into the world of phenomena and produce definite effects upon the substance of the three- 113- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust planes. this is a point which should be most carefully remembered; and it is for this reason that the technique of the presence must always be employed, prior

tempting to describe "pure being" or god, and in the effort to arrive at some understanding of the nature of divinity, the formula of negation has been evolved. god is not this; god is not that; god is no-thing; god is neither time nor space; god is not feeling or thought; god is not form or substance. god simply is. god is apart from all expression and manifestation as the manipulator of energy, the creator of the tangible and the intangible worlds, the pervader of life, or the indweller in all forms. god is the one who can withdraw and, in withdrawing, dispel, dissipate and devitalise all that has been created using those words in their fullest significance. it will be obvious to you, therefore, that in these three activities of that reality which is not identified with appearance, the w

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

lisation. this process culminates aeons later in the reversing of the wheel and the attaining of a definite goal in capricorn. it culminates in the achievement of transference from off the fixed cross on to the cardinal cross, which is, in its turn, the logical sequence of the transference from off the mutable or common cross on to the fixed cross. therefore, in its lowest manifestation, aries is the creator of those activities, conditions and processes which lead to the manifestation of soul through the medium of form, and later of those higher creative undertakings which lead in due time to the manifestation of spirit through the soul. these processes eventually demonstrate the true nature of the triplicity to which i introduced you in the earlier pages of this treatise: life quality app

sts as the relation between the pairs of opposites (of which the scales are the symbol) and upon the physical plane shows itself as sex; the third aspect demonstrates as concretised energy and this we call money. it is literally gold and this is the externalised symbol of that which is created by the bringing together of spirit and matter upon the physical plane. the third aspect is, as you know, the creator aspect and the energy which produces the outer tangible plane of manifestation the form side of life. if students will, therefore, make a careful study of these three law, sex and money as they express themselves today and as they can express themselves in the future, they will have a picture of physical human achievement and of future spiritual expression which will be instructive and

tless and unimportant. when, however, the consciousness of man is opened up in such a manner that it can register that which is proceeding and taking place in the three lower kingdoms in nature, then further light and information will be given. this will take place in a period of human history when libra is dominant and the three divine aspects of the third person of the trinity, the holy spirit, the creator law, sex and money will give the clue to the three lower kingdoms. law, natural law (the externalisation of the subjective spiritual law) will give the clue to the animal kingdom; sex or the consciousness of affinity will reveal the mystery of the vegetable kingdom; money will unveil the secret of the mineral kingdom and all this will come about through the activity of venus and when t

know, wills to be conscious, but is none of these phases essentially, having realised them, prior to manifestation. this third ray will is the producer of external synthesis in successive stages, carried forward from temporary syntheses until there is complete unification between consciousness and form and later complete atonement realised between that which is neither consciousness nor form but the creator of both and the relating principle of spirit-matter. it will be seen how the above definition shows the function of the third ray to be the will-to-initiate on the physical plane that which will express divinity; that it defines not only appearance but the revelation of that quality of which the appearance is the effect or result, and that inherent in these two propositions lies the th

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or flow of consciousness and will produce that continuity of consciousness, or that sense of unimpeded awareness, which will finally end the fear of death, negate all sense of separateness, and make a man responsive in his brain consciousness to impressions coming to him from the higher spiritual realms or from the mind of god. thus he will more easily be initiated into the purposes and plans of the creator. 2. the science of meditation. at present meditation is associated in the minds of men with religious matters. but that relates only to theme. the science can be applied to every possible life process. in reality, this science is a subsidiary branch, preparatory to the science of the antahkarana. it is really the true science of occult bridge building or bridging in consciousness. by i

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era hitherto only dimly- 118- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust sensed and which only the forward-thinking people of the world have desired. thus through the "centre which we call the race of men" the plan of love and light works out and strikes the death blow to evil, selfishness and separateness, sealing it into the tomb of death forever; thus also the purpose of the creator of all things will be fulfilled. no one can use this invocation or prayer for illumination and for love without causing powerful changes in his own attitudes; his life intention, character and goals will be changed and his life will be altered and made spiritually useful "as a man thinketh in his heart so is he" is a basic law in nature; the constant turning of the mind to the need for

hes the higher layers or brackets in the human hierarchy, there emerges in the consciousness of the disciple, the assurance that behind the phenomenal world is a world of "saving lives" of which he may eventually form a part; he begins to sense that behind these lives there stand great beings of power, wisdom and love who, in their turn, are under the supremacy of sanat kumara, the eternal youth, the creator, the lord of the world. the initiate, on his tiny scale, likewise has to learn to work behind the scenes, unknown and unrecognised and unacclaimed; he must sacrifice his identity in the identity of the ashram and its workers, and later in the identity of his working disciples out in the world of daily life. he institutes the needed activities and brings about the required changes, but

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r, reacted to that force through the medium of certain great and outstanding personalities who were peculiarly sensitive to the will-to-power and the will-to-change and who (during the past 150 years) have altered the character of their national life, and emphasised increasingly the wider human values. the men who inspired the initiating french revolution; the great conqueror, napoleon; bismarck, the creator of a nation; mussolini, the regenerator of his people; hitler who lifted a distressed people upon his shoulders; lenin, the idealist, stalin and franco are all- 87- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust expressions of the shamballa force and of certain little understood energies. these have wrought significant changes in their day and generation and altered th

eat and universal spirit of the will-to-change to manifest so powerfully and cruelly- 88- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust blame not the personalities involved or the men who produce these events before which we stand today bewildered and appalled. they are only the product of the past and the victims of the present. at the same time, they are the agents of destiny, the creators of the new order and the initiators of the new civilisation; they are the destroyers of what must be destroyed before humanity can go forward along the lighted way. they are the embodiment of the personality of humanity. blame yourselves, therefore, for what is today transpiring and seek not to evade responsibility by placing it upon the shoulders of spectacular men or any statesmen

e present, and carries forward into a future of spiritual unfoldment, transcending in expression all that has hitherto been known, because it has ever been based on the reality, on the fact of god immanent. god transcendent, greater, vaster and more inclusive than his created world, is universally recognised and has been generally emphasised; all faiths can say with shri krishna (speaking as god, the creator) that "having pervaded the whole universe with a fragment of myself, i remain" this god transcendent has dominated the religious thinking of millions of simple and spiritually-minded people down the centuries which have elapsed since humanity began to press forward towards divinity. slowly, there is dawning upon the awakening consciousness of humanity, the great paralleling truth of go

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

lan successful through its full expression upon the physical plane. this they must do through- 192- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust their grouped and blended activities, which will embody the full expression of all that they have achieved and gained in the earlier stages of their individual unfoldment. thus you will see that from god the creator of all that is, down to the humblest disciple in the hierarchical centre, the theme of creativity dominates and is the expression (again occultly understood) of the divine intention. at present, what is called creative work by men is in reality an expression of themselves and of their appreciation of beauty as they see it, of truth as they grasp it, of psychology as they interpret it

251- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust and at this time the primary quality of the lord of the world, sanat kumara. as the centuries have slipped away and the potency of the rays has increased on earth, humanity has become more and more invocative; this has necessitated the expansion of the hierarchy itself, and each ashram has become the creator of six other ashrams (few of them as yet complete, and some entirely embryonic, so that, in fact, all the forty-nine ashrams are in the making. the second ray, for instance, has five affiliated ashrams and one of which only the nucleus exists, and all these are working under its inspiration and through the effect of the second ray central fire. all have at their centre a second ray dis

sistence and spiritual integrity. it is through his understanding of the word "process" that the disciple discovers the true meaning of the occult statement that "before a man can tread the path he must become that path himself" increasingly the disciple finds what it is to become a creative agent, using the creative faculties of the mind and conforming increasingly (as he creates) to the plan of the creator, the lord of the world. the first three initiations are definitely and in a most mysterious way concerned with the creative work, and with the spiritual expression in a human being of the third aspect of divinity, that of intelligent activity. the fourth, fifth and sixth initiations are as definitely related to the second aspect of love-wisdom as it expresses itself through created for

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

s 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 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 t

en that has been consecrated, purified and spiritualized, then the glory and the light can indeed shine through and the moon aspect can, therefore, be exalted in taurus. this is done through the influence of venus, the symbol of earthly and of heavenly love, of both spiritual aspiration and of carnal desire, and is fittingly, therefore, the ruler of this sign. she is, above everything else, love, the creator of beauty and rhythm and unity. the bull and the cow together represent creation, and so taurus and venus are closely linked. the following is of interest "the bull or cow is the symbol of this sign, and in the celestial chart it will be observed that the little group of stars called pleiades are represented just at the shoulder of the bull. now, in egyptian sculpture, or painting, the

l consciousness irradiating the human being and bringing about the sacrifice of the individual life and its merging in the universal whole. this is the true crucifixion: the sacrifice of the reflection to the reality, of the lower aspect to the higher, and of the individual unit to the great sum total. it was these characteristics that the christ so marvellously demonstrated. he showed himself as the creator. he showed himself as functioning under the influence of the illuminated mind; he personified in himself the love of god, and he announced himself as the light of the world. the problem before hercules, therefore, was the problem of the sign; the crucifixion of the lower self and the conquering of individual self-assertion. originally the zodiac consisted only of ten constellations and

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ed as a gift which he reserves for those favoured few, who love the truth, and hate falsehood, who study our art earnestly by day and by night, and whose hearts are set upon god with an unfeigned affection. hence, if you would prepare our great and ancient stone, i testify unto you in all truth that you must give diligent heed to my teaching, and before all things implore the gracious blessing of the creator of all things. you must also truly repent you of all your sins, confessing the same, and firmly resolve to lead a good and holy life. it is also necessary that you should determine to shew your gratitude to god for his unspeakable gift, by succouring the poor and the distressed, and by opening your hand and your heart to the needy. then god will bless your labour, and reward your searc

ded by faith. to each creature god gave its own seed, wherewith to propagate its kind, that in this way there might always be an increase of men and animals, plants and metals. man was not to be able to produce new seed: he was only permitted to educe new forms of life out of that which already existed. the creating of seed god reserved to himself for if man could create seed he would be equal to the creator. know that our seed is produced in the following way. a celestial influence descends from above, by the decree and ordinance of god, and mingles with the astral proper ties. when this union has taken place, the two bring forth a third namely, an earth vlike twelve keys of basil valentine 12 of 95 substance, which is the principle of our seed, of its first source, so that it can shew an

oul, the impalpable spirit, and visible bodies, beyond which we can find no earlier beginning of our magistery. in the course of time these three unite, and are changed through the action of fire into a palpable substance, viz, quicksilver, sulphur, and salt. if these three substances be mixed, they are hardened and coagulated into a perfect body, which represents the seed chosen and appointed by the creator. this is a most important and certain truth. if the metallic soul, the metallic spirit, and the metallic form of body be present, there will also be metallic quicksilver, metallic sulphur, and metallic salt, which together make up the perfect metallic body. if you cannot perceive what you ought to understand herein, you should not devote yourself to the study of philosophy. moreover, i

d herein, you should not devote yourself to the study of philosophy. moreover, i tell you in few words, that you cannot obtain a metallic body except by perfectly joining twelve keys of basil valentine 13 of 95 these three principles into one. know, also, that all animals are, like man, composed of flesh and blood, and also possess a vitalizing spirit, but are destitute of the rational soul which the creator gave to man alone. therefore, when animals die, they perish for ever. but when man yields up his mortal life into the hands of his creator, his soul does not die. it returns, and is united to the glorified body, in which, after the resurrection, soul and spirit dwell together once more in eternal glory, never to be separated again throughout all eternity. hence the rational soul of man

e as the greatest folly, and count as a rebellion, twelve keys of basil valentine 37 of 95 saying that such a transformation would amount to a new creation, and that god has denied such creative power to sinful man. but the folly is all on their side. for they do not understand that our artist does not claim to create anything, but only to evolve new things from the seed made ready to his hand by the creator. if you do not possess the ashes, you will be unable to obtain our salt; and without our salt you will not be able to impart to our substance a bodily form; for the coagulation of all things is produced by salt alone. as salt is the great preserving principle that protects all things from decay, so the salt of our magistery preserves metal from decomposition and utter annihilation. if

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the pitris, having preceded these two. this is sir h. rawlinson's opinion. these "races" are our second and third root-races (3) that these seven gods, each of whom created a man, or group of men, were "the gods imprisoned or incarnated" these gods were: the god zi; the god ziku (noble life, director of purity; the god mirku (noble crown "saviour from death of the gods (later on) imprisoned, and the creator of "the dark race which his hand has made" the god libzu "wise among the gods; the god nissi. and the god suhhab; and hea or sa, their synthesis, the god of wisdom and of the deep, identified with oannes-dagon, at the time of the fall, and called (collectively) the demiurge, or creator (see chaldean account genesis, p. 82) there are two "creations" so called, in the babylonian fragment

erse (world or planet) has its own logos" says the doctrine. the sun was always called by the egyptians "the eye of osiris" and was himself the logos, the first-begotten, or light made manifest to the world "which is the mind and divine intellect of the concealed" it is only by the sevenfold ray of this light that we can become cognizant of the logos through the demi-urge, regarding the latter as the creator of our planet and everything pertaining to it, and the former as the guiding force of that "creator- good and bad at the same time, the origin of good and the origin of evil. this "creator" is neither good nor bad per se, but its differentiated aspects in nature make it assume one or the other character. with the invisible and the unknown universes disseminated through space, none of t

pace in which everything in the universe is mysteriously and invisibly generated, is the same female side of procreative power in nature in the vedic as in every other cosmogony. aditi is sephira, and the sophia- achamoth of the gnostics, and isis, the virgin mother of horus. in every cosmogony, behind and higher than the creative deity, there is a superior deity, a planner, an architect, of whom the creator is but the executive agent. and still higher, over and around, within and without, there is the unknowable and the unknown, the source and cause of all these emanations. it thus becomes easy to account for the reason why "adam-adami" is found in the chaldean scripture, certainly earlier than the mosaic books. in assyrian ad is the father, and in aramaean ad is "one" and ad-ad the "only

ll these emanations. it thus becomes easy to account for the reason why "adam-adami" is found in the chaldean scripture, certainly earlier than the mosaic books. in assyrian ad is the father, and in aramaean ad is "one" and ad-ad the "only one" while ak is in assyrian "creator" thus ad-am-ak-ad-mon became adam kadmon in the kabala (zohar, meaning as it did, the "one (son) of the divine father, or the creator" for the words "am" and "om" meant at one time in nearly every language the divine, or the deity. thus adam kadmon and adam-adami came to mean "the first emanation of the father-mother or divine nature" and literally "the first divine one" and it is easy to see that ad-argat (or aster't, the syrian goddess, the consort of ad-on, the lord god of syria or the jewish adonai, and venus, is

world-cosmogonies. even with the akkads, the great deep (the watery abyss, or space) was the birthplace and abode of ea, wisdom, the incognizable infinite deity. but with the semites and the later chaldeans, the fathomless deep of wisdom becomes gross matter, sinful substance, and ea is changed into tiamat, the dragon slain by merodach, or satan, in the astral waves. in the hindu puranas, brahma, the creator, is seen recommencing de novo several creations after as many failures; and two great creations are mentioned* the padma and the varaha, the present, when the earth was lifted out of the water by brahma, in the shape of a boar, or "varaha avatar" creation is shown as a sport, an amusement (lila) of the creative god. the zohar speaks of primordial worlds, which perished as soon as they

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out major jacob's "vedanta sara" yet, the whole antiquity echoes this vedantic thought "omnis enim per se divom natura necesse est immortali aevo summa cum pace fruatur[[vol. 1, page] 8 the secret doctrine. the orthodox brahmins, those who rise the most against the pantheists and adwaitees, calling them atheists, are forced, if manu has any authority in this matter, to accept the death of brahma, the creator, at the expiration of every "age" of this (creative) deity (100 divine years- a period which in our years requires fifteen figures to express it. yet, no philosopher among them will view this "death" in any other sense than as a temporary disappearance from the manifested plane of existence, or as a periodical rest. the occultists are, therefore, at one with the adwaita vedantin philos

temporary disappearance from the manifested plane of existence, or as a periodical rest. the occultists are, therefore, at one with the adwaita vedantin philosophers as to the above tenet. they show the impossibility of accepting on philosophical grounds the idea of the absolute all creating or even evolving the "golden egg" into which it is said to enter in order to transform itself into brahma- the creator, who expands himself later into gods and all the visible universe. they say that absolute unity cannot pass to infinity; for infinity presupposes the limitless extension of something, and the duration of that "something; and the one all is like space- which is its only mental and physical representation on this earth, or our plane of existence- neither an object of, nor a subject to, p

t limit in space and without beginning or end in time" it is only daring theology- never science or philosophy- which seeks to gauge the infinite and unveil the fathomless and unknowable[[vol. 1, page] 20 the secret doctrine. secret doctrine. brahma (neuter) is called kalahansa, meaning, as explained by western orientalists, the eternal swan or goose (see stanza iii, comment. 8, and so is brahma, the creator. a great mistake is thus brought under notice; it is brahma (neuter) who ought to be referred to as hansa-vahana (he who uses the swan as his vehicle) and not brahma the creator, who is the real kalahansa, while brahma (neuter) is hamsa, and "a-hamsa" as will be explained in the commentary. let it be understood that the terms brahma and parabrahmam are not used here because they belong

ge in the formation of "worlds" the term monad being one which may apply equally to the vastest solar system or the tiniest atom. stanza iv. shows the differentiation of the "germ" of the universe[[vol. 1, page] 22 the secret doctrine. into the septenary hierarchy of conscious divine powers, who are the active manifestations of the one supreme energy. they are the framers, shapers, and ultimately the creators of all the manifested universe, in the only sense in which the name "creator" is intelligible; they inform and guide it; they are the intelligent beings who adjust and control evolution, embodying in themselves those manifestations of the one law, which we know as "the laws of nature" generically, they are known as the dhyan chohans, though each of the various groups has its own desig

them. thus acts fohat from one twilight to the other, during seven eternities. 5. at the fourth, the sons are told to create their images. one third refuses- two obey. the curse is pronounced; they will be born on the fourth, suffer and cause suffering; this is the first war. 6. the older wheels rotated downwards and upwards. the mother's spawn filled the whole. there were battles fought between the creators and the destroyers, and battles fought for space; the seed appearing and re-appearing continuously. 7. make thy calculations, lanoo, if thou wouldest learn the correct age of thy small wheel. its fourth spoke is our mother. reach the fourth "fruit" of the fourth path of knowledge that leads to nirvana, and thou shalt comprehend, for thou shalt see- stanza vii. 1. behold the beginning

BLUE EQUINOX

golden light in which the victor bathes, all nature.s wordless voice in thousand tones ariseth to proclaim: joy unto ye, o men of myalba. a pilgrim hath returned back .from the other shore. a new arhan is born. peace to all beings. here, however, we get something like real poetry. this, and not the pi-jaw, should be taken as the key to this masterpiece. love is the law, love under will. notes by the creator of this electronic edition. pagination of the main part of this volume has been.more or less.conformed to the original edition, according to the information contained in the electronic edition of equinox iii (1) at www.the-equinox.org (i do not have access to a hard copy of the blue equinox. pagination of the supplement has not been, as this information is not available. the title page

BOOK OF PLEASURE

pointment at the time of desire is the means of locating its deceit, a consciousness that alone gives the chance of inquiry. beyond it is something arbitrary, the pauser, the ordainer of law, imitating it by "reason" is but damning the consequences. reason is belief, belief is fear of one's capability, the faith that you are not even all the wonders of creation, let alone the possibility of being the creator. it is delay. belief well earns the terrible hatred of the vitality. belief is not freedom. belief creates its necessary experience, progress germinates in retrogression. consider the reality is somewhere: and your belief may be too small for its habitation. oh, ye of much faith in god, merge into it by the worship of self! ah! foolish man, worship the glorious in freedom. when death a

ires because of cowardice within, ergo, some unsatisfied wisdom awaiting exploitation to suffer its evolutions. there is no final wisdom- there is no final desire. how can anything end? has to-day ever ended? these things are endlessness! a person desires things of this world- but where is the difference of desiring the "supreme bliss? which is the more selfish? which is nearer you? which pleases the creator more? are you certain of the creator's will and are you sure of your own desire? are you the creator or just yourself, as you fondly imagine your contents? all these desires, however mighty, you will one day incarnate- yea, photograph. these things already exist- very soon you will have spiritual photographs (unfaked) but not by the camera you use at present. the pioneer is ever the ol

BUDGE E

ennu is given; the name of the serpent p. 49 which stands on its tail is set-em-maat-f. the procession of boats is met by four forms of osiris, who stand with the upper portion of their bodies swathed. their names are--1. neb-net, 2. meni, ara-tcheru, 4. maa-tcheru. the text written above the boats reads- p. 50 "this great god journeyeth over net-neb-ua-kheper-aut (i.e, the water of the lord one, the creator of food [he who is in] this picture transporteth the boats which are in the earth, and he paddleth osiris to this city. this great god resteth for a period in this city, and he sendeth forth his voice to osiris, and to those who are in his following, and [then] these hidden boats guide him into this field. this great god paddleth through this field towards the hour tent-baiu, and these

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thou shalt be guided therein by thine own inner hearing. even this aspect of my nature which presenteth itself under the signature of the letter vav is a promise and a fulfilment of the way of life. manifesting myself as the link which uniteth all the separate parts of my creation, i make myself known as the bond of union between creature and creature, and between the creatures and their creator. the creator is myself, and 1 am the nail which joineth thee to me. in thee am i ever present. and thou hast only to turn within to find me. shut thine ears to the confusion of the world which surroundeth thee. open thine inner hearing. aspire earnestly to me. verily thine aspiration is from me. and what sendeth thee in search of me is that same eager longing which hath brought thee forth; and it h

e, illusive, personal "self, we find the true, eternal self, and then we are one with him who is our lord and king "the restoration of the king unto his throne" i s an echo from the book of formation "ten are the numbers out of nothing, and not the number nine, ten and not eleven. comprehend this great wisdom, understand this knowledge, inquire into it and ponder on it, render it evident and lead the creator back to his throne again" kalisch's translation, 1: 3 [125] the book of t o k e n s 6 this refers to the fact that the 23rd path begins in the: radical intelligence of geburah("roots of being, and completes itself in hod, splendor. the last sentence is a key to the practice of meditation. it may be compared with the yoga teaching as to the various means for establishing a state of quie

s path is called the "natural intelligence, and it is associated, through the letter tzaddi, with the function of meditation. at the time the outline of these meditations was first given, we also received the following comment on the fourth paragraph [164] c o m m e n t on t z a d d i "here is one of the profoundest doctrines of sacred science, the doctrine that the universe owes its existence to the creator's perpetual self-recognition. nature is thus the result of spirit's meditation upon the powers of its own being. the universe is thought into existence, and is maintained in existence by thought. upon this foundation rests the whole structure of practical occultism, and from this doctrine you may understand the importance of meditation "whenever aspirants really meditate they are shari

CHYMICAL WEDDING OF CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ

ance, yet we had no want. and the hope of the future joy (with which the virgin continually comforted us) made us so jocund that we took no notice of any pains or inconvenience. and this i can truly say too concerning my companions of high quality, that their minds never ran after their kitchen or table, but their pleasure was only to attend upon this adventurous physick, and hence to contemplate the creator s wisdom and omnipotency. after we had taken our meal, we again settled down to work, for the globe, which with toil and labour we were to lift off the chain and set upon the floor, was sufficiently cooled. now the dispute was how to get the globe in half, for we were commanded to divide it in the middle. the conclusion was that a sharp pointed diamond would best do it. now when we had

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

his blood trickled over the land to create large pools and swift rivers. his voice, even in its weakness, produced rolling thunder and crackling lightning. his dying breath formed blowing winds and puffy clouds. finally, released from his suffering, panku sobbed tears of gratitude which fell and created glittering, vast bodies of water that became the oceans. finally his work was over, and panku, the creator, was dead. in his place, he left a world that sparkled and twinkled with splashes of bright blues, vibrant greens, dusky browns, and clear, cold rushing waters. chinese mythology 20 questions and answers q: why was an egg a good symbol for the beginning of the world? a: many creatures are born from eggs, a symbol of life. each egg is round like the world, and contains all the nutrients

. they struggle with each other for supremacy. from their struggle comes the dynamic which drives the whole of life. for they are found locked together in every being, every situation. as one seems to be gaining the ascendancy, the other arises for they each carry the seed of the other within them as the yin yang symbol so clearly illustrates.3 22 2 nuwa creates people introduction whereas panku, the creator of the universe was male, the creator of people was a female goddess named nuwa. nuwa is briefly mentioned in several ancient chinese texts, a classic of history (eighth century b.c, a classic of mountains and seas (third century b.c, and questions of heaven (fourth century b.c).1 in addition, many images of nuwa have been uncovered on ancient chinese bronze sculptures and paintings. l

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 of water in the universe in the ratio of seventenths water to three-tenths dry land. to achieve his goal, gong sent torrential rains and came close to destroying the world in a fierce power struggle with the fire god.1 nuwa, the creator of people, appears in this myth to counteract the two gods destructive forces. although historically the two warring gods have most often been presented as giants, some paintings show gong as having a snake s body and a human face with red hair. zurong is traditionally shown with a massive human body featuring broad shoulders, red skin, and a red beard. both gods have terrible tempers

COSIMANO CHARLES ELEMENTARY PSIONICS

king the device and the design of the device itself. to properly use the teleflasher can be quite an interesting task for someone who lacks experience in telepathy experiments. in order to get any kind of results, you have to first be able to get into the meditative state. after you have done this, you must be able to concentrate on the image being flashed at you. this is not as easy as it seems. the creators of the miraculous teleflasher forgot that the pupils of the eyes open and close with light, so when each time the light flashes, they close a little and the resulting effect can destroy concentration. while you are battling with the flashing light you have to not only concentrate on the image before you, but also onto your target. you have to be able to hold two images in your mind at

CROSSING THE DESERT

are leaving behind the known and are entering the unknown. the known is the divine land of khem, before you the unknown desert with its mirages, bandits, scorpions, sandstorms, etc. beyond that are the foreign lands ruled by set. what do you say as a charm? not a prayer to set, whose lands you were entering. not a prayer to the familiar gods of egypt. no, a statement of one's coming into being as the creator. now why would this be protective? or more to the point, what was being protected? the answer is that it is not protective of the body. it's not a prayer for rain, nor a cantrip for food, nor a conjuration against desert brigands. it is for the soul. the smart traveler has already taken care of the body's needs in the proper realm. they've stored food and water; they've sharpened their

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

rthplace of the bavarian illumaniti. the league of the just was called the bund 64..and the truth shall set you free der gerechtan or simply the bund. this was the force behind the rise of marxism and he was yet another front man. interestingly, may 1st('may day, was chosen as the annual celebration for marxist-leninist and socialist countries and groups around the world. the bavarian illuminati, the creator of the bund, was founded on may 1st 1776. marx had close connections with the british aristocracy through his marriage to jenny von westphalen, who was related to the scottish dukes of argyll and the campbells. one of her ancestors, anna campbell, the countess of balcarras and argyll, was the governess to the prince of orange, later king william, who granted the charter to the bank of

(comm 300, of whom much more will be revealed as our story progresses. the pressure and propaganda for european union reached new heights in may 1948, when the united european movement held its congress of europe. the leading advocates of the movement were winston churchill and his son-in-law, the british politician duncan sandys, and working behind the scenes to great effect were jean monnet and the creator of the bilderberg group, joseph retinger. the congress adopted seven resolutions on the political union of europe. one of them stated "the creation of a united europe must be regarded as an essential step towards the creation of a united world [world government. monnet also headed the committee for the united states of europe, which had the same goal.20 the post-war american loans to e

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ed. while excavating in central america near a place called texcoco, the archaeologist william niven discovered more than 20,000 tablets that included many symbols identical to those found on the naacal tablets, which james churchward had seen in india.27 and churchward's tablets were connected to lemuria/mu, which was the origin of both these cultures. itzamna was the central american version of the creator god who breathed life into "man" and yet another who was depicted as half human, half reptile. quetzalcoatl, the "feathered serpent, was the major deity of this culture and he travelled, like all the others, in a "flying boat. it is possible that quetzalcoatl is another name for the anunnaki dna wizard, enki. aztec myth says that quetzalcoatl created humans with help from the serpent w

experience. you think you are ordinary? you will be "ordinary. you think you are powerless? you will be powerless. you think the best things in life happen to others? so they will. everything is created by thought- our thoughts. in this dense, treacle-like, frequency range we live in, the time between the thought and its physical manifestation can appear to take a long time, but thought is still the creator. for instance, look around you now wherever you are. the buildings, furniture, and all the trinkets and utensils, are provably created by thought. unless someone had thought to design them and thought to make them they could not exist. without the thought there can be no physical creation. in other realms, where the energy is far less dense, the thought and its manifestation are simult

DAVID ICKE THE BIGGEST SECRET

, whati challenge is the way it has been imposed upon people through the use of fear, guilt,violence and the suppression of alternative thought. unfortunately, allowing people theright to believe something you dont, has become a criminal offence and so the paulinesand the arians insisted on crushing each other. at this point, enter constantine thegreat, who, together with the pisos and pliny, was the creator of what became known aschristianity.constantine was made emperor of the roman empire in 312 ad. he won areputation as a brave and ruthless soldier and served in britain for a time before beingelected as caesar of the west. he then began to kill his rivals, including many of theirchildren, as he sought to be emperor of all. in one of his battles for the romanleadership, at milvian bridg

also comes via germany. the bavarian illuminati, which was involved in manyof the peoples revolutions in europe, including the french, was founded in germanyon may 1st 1776 by the occultist, adam weishaupt, and the christian church was splitinto catholics and protestants by martin luther, the german agent for the rosicrucianorder. germany is another centre for global manipulation. hitler was not the creator ofnazi belief, merely the public expression of it. in the 19th century one of the pre-hitlerprophets was the composer richard wagner, and his composition, the ride of thev alkyries, captures his obsession with the invading powers of evil. wagner declared theimminent arrival of the master race. his work, the ring, was the musical expression ofhis belief in german supermen bestriding the

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ese geometric figures would elevate their consciousness. the yogis believe aspects of the sacred geometries will become known as we get deeper into an understanding of nature and the universe. what is now sacred geometry will, in the future, become known laws of physics. this may seem to be a profane view, howevor, the metaphysician knows that the entire universe including man is an expression of the creator of the universe. in that sense, every aspect of existence is sacred. so attempting to ascribe sacredness to geometric principles is a step back in addressing the real question "what is the physics behind the various phenomena associated with sacred geometry. 5.7 bibliography 1. introduction to geometry, h. 8. m. coxeter, john wiley& sons, inc, publishers, 1961. 2. energy: breakthroughs

DEMONIC BIBLE

god; i am the universe made manifest. and that which i call lucifer, the embodiment of wisdom and enlightenment, is also changing, is also becoming. it is within me, it flows through me, it is what the "i am" of my being is. i am lucifer. i am satan. there is one thing common to all gods man has created. every man-made god is static and unchanging. yahweh resides in heaven, unchanging, unbending, the creator of the universe and all that it contains. christ sits at the right hand of god ready to judge the living and the dead. zeus resides in mount olympus holding aloft the lightning bolt, his symbol of divine power. the values of society and the structure of its institutions are defined as "good" that which threatens society is defined as "evil" the definitions of good or evil change from n

achachadugga and the seal: the thirtieth name is gil the furnisher of seed. beloved of ishtar, his power is mysterious and quite ancient. makes the barley to grow and the women to give birth. makes potent the impotent. his word is aggabal and his seal is thus: the thirty-first name is gilma founder of cities, possessor of the knowledge of architecture by which the fabled temples of ur were built; the creator of all that is permanent and never moves. his word is akkabal and his seal is this: the thirty-second name is agilma bringer of rain. maketh the gentle rains to come, or casuseth great storms and thunders, the like may destroy armies and cities and crops. his word is mashshayegurra and his seal is: the thirty-third name is zulum knows where to plant and when to plant. giveth excellent

the thunders of increase numbered 33, which reign in the second angle, under whom i have placed 9,639 whom none hath yet numbered, but one, in whom the second beginning of things are and wax strong which also successively are the numbers of time; and their powers are as the first 456. arise you sons of pleasure, and visit the earth: for i am the lord your god, which is, and liveth. in the name of the creator, move, and shew yourselves as pleasant deliverers that you may praise him amongst the sons of men (lavey) i have set my feet in the south, and have looked about me, saying: are not the thunders of increase those which reign in the second angle? under whom i have placed those whom none hath yet numbered, but one; in whom the second beginnings of things are and wax strong, successively a

ry, wherein the lord hath opened his mouth and they are become 28 living dwellings in whom the strength of men rejoyceth and they are appareled with ornaments of brightness such as work wonders on all creatures whose kingdoms and continuance are as the third and fourth strong towers and places of comfort, the seats of mercy and continuance. o you servants of mercy, move, appear, sing praises unto the creator, and be mighty amongst us. for to this remembrance is given power and our strength waxeth strong in our comforter (lavey) the east is a house of harlots singing praises among the flames of the first glory wherein the dark lord hath opened his mouth; and they are become as living dwellings in whom the strength of man rejoiceth; and they are appareled with ornaments of brightness, such a

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ce and sphere. in order to accomplish this, we always start at the top and try to get into spiritual touch with the aspect of deity which emanated that sphere and manifests in it. if this is not done, the forces belonging to the sphere on the elemental levels may get out of hand and cause difficulties. starting under the presidency of the divine name, however, no evil can enter. 23. having adored the creator and sustainer of all under [page 70] mystical qabala page 47 his holy name in the sphere we are investigating, we next invoke the archangel of the sphere, the mighty spi ritual being in whom we personify the forces that built up that level of evolution and continue to function in the corresponding aspect of nature. we ask the blessing of the archangel, and beg that he will bid the orde

. the real secrets of their use. chapter xvii binah, the third sephirah title: binah, understanding (hebrew spelling:beth, yod, nun, he) magical image: a mature woman. a matron. situation on the tree: at the bead of the pillar of severity in the supernal triangle. yetziratic text: the third intelligence is called the sanctifying intelligence, the foundation of primordial wisdom; it is also called the creator of faith, and its roots are in amen. it is the parent of faith, whence faith emanates. titles given to binah: ama, the dark sterile mother. aima, the bright fertile mother. khorsia, the throne. marab, the great sea. god-name: jehovah elohim. mystical qabala page 94 archangel: tzaphkiel. order of angels: aralim, thrones. mundane chakra: shabbathai, saturn. spiritual experience: vision o

te human nature, so proud in its own conceit. with the grade of adeptus major, however, he must acquire the virtues of the superman, and learn to wield power instead of to submit to it. but even so, he is not a law unto himself, for he is the servant of the power he wields and must carry out its purposes, not serve his own. though no longer responsible to his fellow-men he is still responsible to the creator of heaven and earth, and will be required to give an account of his stewardship. 39. great freedom is his; but also great strain. he can speak the word of power that unlooses the wind, but he must be prepared to ride the ensuing whirlwind. this is a thing that the amateur magician does not always realise. mystical qabala page 126 40. the energy and courage which are the virtues of mars

s are built up the framework of [page 220] etheric stresses that function in the sphere of yesod, and within which are held the molecules of matter which form the body of manifestation on the physical plane. 18. normally these forms are built by the cosmic consciousness expressed as natural forces, functioning each according to its nature; but as consciousness began to develop in the creatures of the creator, it exercised its function in varying degrees upon the astral mind-stuff which, by its nature, was amenable to the influences of consciousness; consequently "the thought of man made gods to love and honour" these forms, once built, became channels of the specialised forces they were designed to represent, concentrating them upon their worshippers. in this enlightened sense initiates no

observe the manner in which the symbols weave in and out of each other, and reinforce and interpret each other's significance and yield their fruits to qabalistic contemplation. 34. the order of angels functioning in hod are the beni elohim, the sons of the gods. again we have the concept of the "god of hosts" or armies. one of the most important concepts of arcane science concerns the working of the creator through intermediaries. the uninitiated and profane conceive of god as working as the labourer works, who adds brick to brick with his hands, fashioning the edifice; but the initiated conceive of god as working as the great architect of the universe, designing his plans on the plane of archetypes; to whom come the overseers, the archangels, for their instructions, hese last directing t

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well as their beneficent deities, and they did not call these evil gods devils. in hinduism we have shiva and kali; in the egyptian system we have set and besz and typhon; in the grecian pantheon there are pluto and hecate. all the other faiths, also, have their angelic choirs, their archons, or builders, and all the hierarchy of heaven. protestant christianity alone has forgotten its angiology, the creator has to be both architect of the universe and bricklayer, forming man from the dust of the ground without assistance. if we refer to paradise lost, however, we shall find that milton was familiar with both divine and infernal hierarchies, and that these were graded and charted according to a definite system. anyone who is acquainted with the qabalah will recognise that in milton he meet

d 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 bringing the universe into manifestation through a series of divine emanations, ten in number. these are called the ten holy sephiroth, and are represented in a diagram as arranged in a particular pattern. this is the famous tree of life, the key to all symbolism. the sephiroth were not emanated independently, each from the divine source; but overflowed, the one from

the ego or external identity and ordinary consciousness of a person, and the individuality is the higher-self, h.g.a, or spiritual component of a person] the mind is essentially the organ of adaptation to the environment, and it is when that adaptation fails that neurotic and hysterical troubles begin. each living creature is the channel for a current of life-force which proceeds from the logos, the creator of this universe. this current is divided into three main channels represented to us as the three great natural instincts, self-preservation, reproduction, and the social instinct. these are the mainsprings of our lives. the pressure of life itself is behind them, and if they are thwarted beyond their power of compensation (considerable as that is, they are like streams whose channels

her it is a vehicle for malice or lust, or vampiric action: these are the three most common, and it can almost certainly be assigned to one or other of these classes. having discerned the type of the force with which he has to deal, he then proceeds to meditate upon its opposite, concentrating upon purity and selflessness if the force be lust; compassion and love, if it be malice; and upon god as the creator and sustainer of all life if it be vampiric. he continues this meditation until he feels himself suffused with the quality upon which he is meditating; until he feels himself so imbued with purity and selflessness that lust causes him to feel nothing but pity, malice causes him to feel nothing but compassion, and in regard to vampirism, he is so assured that his life is hid with christ

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ay ra live" these are the words of isis, the great goddess, the queen of the gods, who knew ra by his own name.[1] thus we see that even to the great god ra were attributed all the weakness and frailty of mortal man; and that "gods" and "goddesses" were classed with beasts and reptiles, which could die and perish. as a result, it seems that the word "god" should be reserved to express the name of the creator of the universe, and that neteru, usually rendered "gods" should be translated by some other word, but what that word should be it is almost impossible to say.[2] the belief in one god. from the attributes of god set forth in egyptian texts of all periods, dr. brugsch, de roug, and other eminent egyptologists have come to the opinion that the dwellers in the nile valley, from the earli

a and isis. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod07.htm (3 of 10 [8/10/2001 11:23:38 am] created; he is the maker of his own form, and the fashioner of his own body--god himself is existence, he endureth without increase or diminution, he multiplieth himself millions of times, and he is manifold in forms and in members--god hath made the universe, and he hath created all that therein is; he is the creator of what is in this world, and of what was, of what is, and of what shall be. he is the creator of the heavens, and of the earth, and of the deep, and of the water, and of the mountains. god hath stretched out the heavens and founded the earth-what his heart conceived straightway came to pass, and when he hath spoken, it cometh to pass and endureth for ever--god is the father of the god

geschiedenis van den godsdienst in de oudheid, amsterdam, 1893, p. 25; and see lieblein, egyptian religion, leipzig, 1884, p. 10. 4 see the chapter "dieu se manifestant par le soleil" in pierret, essai sur la mythologie gyptienne, pp. 18, 19] p. xciv confusion of gods. the walls of tombs,[1] stel, and papyri[2] of the xviiith dynasty; and these prove that the egyptians ascribed the attributes of the creator to the creature. the religious ideas which we find in these writings in the xviiith dynasty are, no doubt, the outcome of the religion of earlier times, for all the evidence now available shows that the egyptians of the later periods invented comparatively little in the way of religious literature. where, how, and in what way they succeeded in preserving their most ancient texts, are m

of the exalted language in which his votaries addressed him "this is the sacred god, the lord of all the gods, amen-ra, the lord of the throne of the world, the prince of apt,[3] the sacred soul who came into being in the beginning, the great god who liveth by right and truth, the first ennead which gave birth unto the other two enneads,[4] the being in whom every god existeth, the one of one,[5] the creator of the things which came into being when the earth took form in the beginning, whose births are hidden, whose forms are manifold, and whose growth cannot be known. the sacred form, beloved, terrible and mighty in his two risings, the lord of space, the mighty one of the form of khepera, who came into existence through khepera, the lord of the form of khepera; when he came into being no

ceremony of drawing the image of the god seker in the hennu boat round the sanctuary was performed in the morning at dawn, and thus, united with ptah, he became the closer of the night and the opener of the day. he is depicted as a mummied body with the head of a hawk, and he sometimes holds in his hands emblems of power, sovereignty, and rule.[3] another form of ptah was ptah-seker-ausar wherein the creator of the world, the sun, and osiris as the god of the dead, were represented. a large number of fa ence figures of this triune god are found in graves, and specimens exist in all museums. he is represented as a dwarf standing upon a crocodile, and having a scarab us upon his head; the scarab is the emblem of the new life into which the deceased is about to break, the crocodile is the emb

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finders. as protestantism secularized (denied sacred value to) the world, and the acceptance of scientific observation and organization of natural phenomena spread, a general spirit of skepticism was created. in the eighteenth century, this skeptical spirit created the first significant movement to challenge the role of the supernatural in human society. deism. deism affirmed the existence of god the creator, but suggested that god had merely established a system of natural law, leaving the world to govern itself by that law. by implication, god was divorced from the world, and supernatural events did not occur; rather the supernatural was merely the misobserved natural. furthermore, neither angels nor spirits communicated with humans; and, in turn, prayer did not reach god. religious spok

ntrast strangely. some philosophers, astonished at the great wisdom of anthony, asked him in what book he had discovered his doctrine. the saint pointed with one hand to the earth, and the other to the sky. there are my books, said he, i have no others. if men will design to study as i do the marvels of creation, they will find wisdom enough there. their spirit will soon soar from the creation to the creator. anthropological research foundation the anthropological research foundation was a short-lived channeling group that formed in the early 1970s during the period of discord within cosmic awareness communications following the death of william ralph duby, the primary channel for the group. the group was organized in san diego, california, by jack t. fletcher and pat fletcher and built ar

s, india: ganesh, 1922. the serpent power. madras, india: ganesh, 1924. shakti and shakta. 3d ed. madras, india: ganesh, 1929. avatar a term used in hindu religion to indicate the incarnation of a deity. avatara is a sanskrit word meaning descent, and the hindu gods take on animal or human form in different ages for the welfare of the world. in hindu mythology, the god brahma (originally known as the creator prajapati) became successively incarnated as a boar, a tortoise, and a fish, to assist the development of the world in prehistory. certain hindu scriptures ascribe these incarnations to the god vishnu (the preserver, but since the manifestation of divine power takes many different forms in hindu mythology, the distinction is academic. various scriptures ascribe to vishnu ten major inca

ivinity degree. however, after functioning as a center for spiritual development encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 262 minister, he claimed god told him to drop all of the trappings of institutionalized religion, including his ministerial titles. he subsequently spent three years on a south pacific island, during which time he received a revelation he believed to be directly from the creator. the revelation consisted of some 70 discourses from the creator and an additional revelation from the master jesus. after his return to the united states, he was told to found the center to assist as many humans as possible into the coming new age. it is the teaching of the center that in the beginning the creator expressed himself and brought forth some mighty spirits. these spirits

ator and an additional revelation from the master jesus. after his return to the united states, he was told to found the center to assist as many humans as possible into the coming new age. it is the teaching of the center that in the beginning the creator expressed himself and brought forth some mighty spirits. these spirits in turn created the solar systems, galaxies, and universes that compose the creator omniverse. the creator then expressed himself again and brought forth other spirits to inhabit the universe previously created. these spirits include those who now exist as earth s human race. unfortunately, over the millennia, we have forgotten our origin as spirit light beings. contributing to that forgetfulness are the structures of institutional religion. the destiny of humans is s

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ti international mission, 1984. mazdaznan temple association a zoroastrian group founded in 1890 by ottoman zar- adhusht hanish (1854.1936. the name mazdaznan is derived from the persian mazda and znan which hanish translated as master thought, although this interpretation might be questioned by persian scholars. as a zoroastrian group, members affirm the monotheistic faith in the lord god mazda, the creator of humanity. god finds expression in the holy family of father (the male creative principle, mother (the procreative female principle, and child (destiny/salvation. hanish was born in leipzig, germany. when only a boy, he was supposed to have been taken to a persian monastery at math-el-kharman and taught every major art and science, including occultism. early in this century, hanish s

oward midday to those with whom they had a pact. they appeared in the form of men or of beasts, and would allow themselves be enclosed in a symbolic character, a figure, a vial, or in the interior of a hollow ring (see also demonology) the midiwiwin a secret society or exclusive association of the ojibway indians of north america. the myth of the foundation of this society is as follows: michabo, the creator, looking down to earth saw that the forefathers of the ojibway were very helpless. espying a black object floating on the surface of a lake he drew near to it and saw that it was an otter [now one of the sacred animals of the midiwiwin. he instructed it in the mysteries of that caste, and provided it with a sacred rattle, a sacred drum, and tobacco. he built a midiwigan, or sacred hous

on is brought forth in you. the saviour and the saved are dissolved together in the blank absolute substance. with the advent of the black death, a great spirit of remorse swept over europe in the fourteenth century, and a vast revival of piety took place. this resulted in the foundation in germany of a society of friends of god, whose chief object was to strengthen each other in intercourse with the creator. perhaps the most distinguished of these were john tauler and nicolas of basle, and the society numbered many inmates of the cloister, as well as wealthy men of commerce and others. ruysbroek, the great flemish mystic, was connected with them, but his mysticism is perhaps more intensely practical than that of any other visionary. the machinery by which the union with god is to be effec

eir own religious tradition. it is obvious that they are dealing with an element in human experience common to all of humankind. when meister eckhart stated, if i am to know god directly, i must become completely he, and he i: so that this he and this i become and are one i, he comes to the same point as the advaita vedanta doctrine of hinduism, where the jiva (individual soul) merges with brahma the creator before absorption in brahman, the non-personal divine ground. sufism, islamic mysticism, first arose in the ninth century among the persian moslems, probably as a protest against the severe monotheism of their religion, but in all likelihood more ancient springs contributed to its revival. in the persia of hafiz and saadi, pantheism abounded, and their magnificent poetry is read by mos

s. my looking did not disturb the scene, my hands kept right on printing. printing. for 50 weeks this continued, every morning, half an hour or so before sunrise, and then it ceased, and i was told to read and publish the book oahspe. the peculiar drawings in oahspe were made with pencil in the same way. he claimed that oahspe came from the higher heavens, and was directed and looked over by god, the creator s chief representative in the heavens of this earth. a group formed around newbrough s revelations, and in 1883 they gave themselves the name faithists of the seed of abraham (a term used in oahspe. they moved to las cruces, new mexico, and established sholam, a community to implement the oahspe injunction to care for foundlings and orphans. newbrough married again, choosing a companio

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erwhelming evidence that mu (more often called lemuria) was a real place. of course, embellishments grow on top of embellishments, and every legend of a place, a world, or a realm that is home to otherworldly beings evolves and has its own rich history. atlantis, for example, began as an advanced civilization for its time, but by our time its people had come to be seen as advanced even beyond us, the creators of fantastic technologies and even the recipient of knowledge from extraterrestrial sources. the hollow earth of john cleves symmes (1779 1829) is not the hollow earth of walter siegmeister (a.k.a. raymond w. bernard, 1901 1965, any more than the imagination of one century is the imagination of the century that follows it. flying saucers were not part of symmes s world; consequently

. then a spaceship flew tow a rd her and landed, and she and a stepped into it. with a and another spaceman, b, grevler flew into space. they appro a c h e d what grevler describes as a positively huge mother sh i p, which tinier ships, similar to the one they we re aboard, we re entering. once inside the mother ship, grevler and her friends went to the temple, visited by returning crews to thank the creator for a safe voyage. subsequently, either in the mother ship or in the smaller scout craft (her account is vague on this detail, she visited venus and saw beautiful buildings and a kind of university. at the latter, students were taught universal knowledge and trained in extrasensory perception. they also learned cosmic language which is expressed simply by symbols of various forms and c

for the ufo (1955) was the first to use ufo in its title; heretofore, publishers preferred the then more familiar flying saucers. jessup also was an earlier theorist in what would be called the ancient astronaut genre, though his particular interpretation remains unique. he believed that the little people sometimes reported in connection with ufos are literally that: pygmies of earthly origin and the creators of an extraordinary technology that gave them space flight long ago. jessup first hinted at his theory in ufo and the bible (1956, asserting that all ufo evidence pointed to the presence of space-intelligence, relatively near the earth, but yet away from it and in open space. using navigatable contrivances. in his earlier life, he had done graduate-level work in astronomy at the unive

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condition. the expansion of the everlasting arms that connect the six directional sefiroth to one another around the periphery of the double pyramid tree of life delineated in the sefer yetzirah, and the movement of the chayot in the chariot of the book of ezekiel allude to the same idea. in the hindu holy books known as the vedas, we find another analogy to modern cosmology in the comparison of the creator to a spider that weaves a web and then retrieves it back into its body. the mentor in the work of the chariot trust speculated further on the correlation between torah b reshith 1:1-4 and modern scientific cosmology. his exegesis is presented in appendix b. it is based upon a different breakdown of the letter sequence of the first line of torah b reshith. this breakdown includes an alt

column of the tree. the unmanifest pure being of vast face in sefirah crown/above is reflected in the abysmal mirror of sefirah foundation/below as veils of illusion appearing as planes of existence (see figure 3.5 on page 89. these planes are unmanifest in the most sublime world of atziluth (emanation. the attributes of the ayn are reflected in this mirror as the immense i-ness of small face as the creator, sustainer, and destroyer of the universe. the energy of consciousness of small face manifests the planes of existence in the lower three worlds of b riyah (creation, yetzirah (formation, and asiyah (making, activity. like sefiroth crown/above and foundation/below, the two central sefiroth knowledge/first and beauty/last emanate as a pair, and represent two opposite stations in the con

perceiving the material universe as differentiated from the spiritual. the fall is an illusion sustained in individual consciousness by the lord of the universe via his/her power of obscuration, sustained through five limitations: temporal limits, spatial limits, attachment to particular things, limited knowledge, and limited agency. the predominant hebrew name for the active aspect of the ayn as the creator, sustainer, and destroyer of the creation is the four letter formula h v h y (vocalized by some as yahweh, and more commonly as jehovah).27 the fall of sefirah knowledge/first into kingdom is also reflected in the duplication of the letter heh h in hvhy. the upper heh h is the latent or unmanifest condition of all mayic (illusory) possibilities in the form of an infinite number of wave

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the egyptian theological system here presented the great importance of the sun and the zodiac with its decans) finally, in the list of gods come the seven spheres who have as their ruler fortune or destiny. air is the instrument or organ of all these gods. having spoken of the society which unites gods and men, you must know, o asclepius, the power and force of man. just as the lord and father is the creator of the gods of heaven, so man is the author of the gods who reside in the temples. not only does he receive life, but he gives it in his turn. not only does he progress towards god, but he makes gods. do you mean the statues, o trismegistus? yes, the statues, asclepius. they are animated statues full of sensus and spiritus who can accomplish many things, foretelling the future, giving

n of astrological images, garcia has also to deal with those who have been saying that astrological magic can be as free from demonic influences as "ecclesiastical magic, such as the use of wax lambs blessed by the pope, or the blessing of bells. garcia denies this, strongly affirming that christian observances are not efficacious by virtue of the stars, but solely through the omnipotent power of the creator. finally, garcia denies the antiquity of cabala. garcia's work is thus not only a condemnation of magic in itself but a refutation of the suggestion that "ecclesiastical magic" could have any connection with it. in the next century, archangelo de burgo nuovo wrote a defence of pico against garcia (printed at venice in 1569),1 and these two works garcia's and archangelo's may be said to

mes for he is the bonitas, essentia, vita, veritas, and so on in all things.1 ficino's commentary on diis passage is as follows: these mysterious sayings of dionysius are confirmed by hermes termaximus, who says that god is nothing, and yet that god is all. that god has no name, yet god has every name.2 he is thinking of the passage in the asclepius, where trismegistus says: it is impossible that the creator of the majesty of the all, the father and lord of all beings, should be designated by one or even by a multiplicity of names. god has no name, or rather he has all names, since he is at once one and all, so that one must either designate all things by his name, or give him the name of all things. his will is entirely good, and the bonitas which exists in all things is issued from the d

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

h shows how far, far behind him agrippa has left the timid and pious ficino, who aimed only at doing natural magic in the elemental world, with just a spot of celestial magic from a few planetary talismans, used naturally. the agrippan magus aims at mounting up through all three worlds, the elemental world, the celestial world, the intellectual or angelic or demonic world, and beyond even that to the creator himself whose divine creative power he will obtain. the door into the forbidden which ficino had left only slightly ajar is now fully opened. agrippa's incantations also aim higher than ficino's orphic singing. agrippa discusses the orphic magic and how the divinities which he names in his hymns are not evil demons but divine and natural virtues established by god for the use of men an

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masonry from the royal arch mason magazine, missouri lodge of research, 1965, p. 132, wes cook, editor] if this has not become evident to you, the occultist, the paganist, worship sex. they also worship most everything in nature, which fulfills the biblical definition of a paganist in romans 1:25 "because they exchanged the truth of god for a lie and worshipped and served the creature rather than the creator" speaking of the sexual connotation of the hexagram, another witch revealed "when the male triangle penetrates the female triangle, it produces the six pointed crest of solomon or hexagram, the most wicked symbol in witchcraft [david j. meyer, dancing with demons: the music's real master] the hexagram is the sign used in the royal arch in freemasonry. masonic author wes cook, writing i

beehive throughout freemasonry. christianity does not use this symbol "purity" and "salvation" are depicted by the honey. purity is depicted within the bible as either jesus himself or as white wool or as a white garment. salvation is depicted as the cross or jesus arising from the grave. but, the pagans are surely true to the biblical description of them as "worshipping the creature rather than the creator [romans 1:25] the july, 1998, issue of the scottish rite journal states that the eagle was also a symbol of regeneration and rebirth [jim tresner, 33 degree "wings of the eagle, wings on our feet" scottish rite journal, july, 1998, p. 7. but, another masonic writer returned back to the symbolism of the snake as regeneration, or reincarnation [herbert f. inman, masonic problems and quer

iquities" this warning is from jesus christ himself, so you must take it very seriously, if you value your eternal soul. freemasonry proven to worship satan, its symbols venerate the sex act- study of symbols part 5 of 5 the book of romans gives us a perfect definition of the word "pagan" a pagan is someone "who changed the truth of god into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the creator, who is blessed for ever. amen [romans 1:25] pagans have worshipped animals, insects, birds, rivers, forests, trees, and many other things, but they all have one type of worship in common: they worship the sex act between man and woman. the worship both the man's penis and the woman's vulva. in reading their explanations for these symbols, you should be amazed at the creativity they de

ether in israel. yet, here, freemasonry boldly states that they revere him. but, let us get back to the subject at hand, i.e, sexual connotations of masonic symbols. masonic author, j.s.m. ward states "thus we see that the hammer or gavel, and the tau, were originally the same, and this is a natural evolution of symbols, for the tau cross is evolved from the phallus, and that is the symbol of god the creator [ward, freemasonry and the ancient gods, 1921, p. 238] i find it highly interesting to see the masonic authors admit they worship the creature rather than the creator [romans 1:25] because it shreds their flimsy claim to be christian into a billion bits. in this sentence, we see utter blasphemy against god. here, masonic author, ward, states that the phallus is a symbol of god the crea

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f wisdom. amongst the buddhists and brahmins the day of wisdom is wednesday. amongst the scandinavians we have wo, wod, and woden; in egypt, thoth; in classical greece, hermes; and among the romans, mercury- all gods of wisdom, whose day is the fourth day of the week, wednesday, upon which god created glights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night h. 13 wisdom is not only the creator of the universe but also the mediator between the uncreated and the created- god and man. in the form of 'hokmah, the son of kether, wisdom renders comprehensive the abstract thought in an association of ideas. philo names it messiah, and st. john christ. st. paul says: but we speak the wisdom of god in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which god ordained before the world unto our glo

d was out of chaos, so must its destruction, which carries with it its spiritual resurrection, be through chaos; such is the simple logic of the qabalah. as god is the consciousness of the macrocosm, so is man the consciousness of the microcosm; such is the simple mystery of the qabalah. in the human world man is a god knowing good and evil, yet he is also the son of the god of the natural world- the creator of good and evil. as consciousness has been precipitated from the source of all things, so is it man's lot to expand his atom of consciousness until it fills eternity and merges once again into the source from whence it emanated. little by little in this upward evolution are all things intellectualized and in consequence destroyed. thus the unknown becomes the known and ceases to exist

rises from their subsisting gin the mind of some eternal spirit h. 6 secret wisdom of the qabalah page 65 this eternal spirit, being the gorgan h of creative thought, must be something superior to, or certainly other than, the continuum or four-dimensional universe in which we live; for this continuum exists only in his thought, just as we are in ourselves superior to our own thoughts, for we are the creators of them and live in the shadow-world created by them. this spirit must be something which may be called reality, or truth (the macrocosm or macroprosopos) concerning which the human reason can only form symbolical pictures, reflections in a mirror. we will attempt to explain this in a simpler way: supposing we could not raise our heads and look at the sun, we could nevertheless examin

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

ay reasonably expect to find, in the history of the development of the two sex-principles and in the notions entertained concerning them throughout past ages, a tolerably correct account of the growth of the god-idea. we shall perceive that during an earlier age of human existence, not only were the reproductive powers throughout nature, and especially in human beings and in animals, venerated as the creator, but we shall find also that the prevailing ideas relative to the importance of either sex in the office of reproduction decided the sex of this universal creative force. we shall observe also that the ideas of a god have always corresponded with the current opinions regarding the importance of either sex in human society. in other words, so long as female power and influence were in t

ithin whom was contained the exclusive creative power, and as throughout the earlier ages of life on the earth she comprehended the male, it is not perhaps singular that, even after the appearance of mankind on the earth, the greater importance of the mother element in human society should have been recognized; nor, as the power to bring forth coupled with perceptive wisdom originally constituted the creator, that the god-idea should have been female instead of male. from the facts to be observed in relation to this subject, it is altogether probable that for ages the generating principle throughout nature was venerated as female; but with that increase of knowledge which was the result of observation and experience, juster or more correct ideas came to prevail, and subsequently the great

universe, mankind, in course of time, degenerated into mere devotees of sensual pleasure. with the corruption of human nature and the decline of mental power which followed the supremacy of the animal instincts, the earlier abstract idea of god was gradually lost sight of, and man himself in the form of a potentate or ruler, together with the various emblems of virility, came to be worshipped as the creator. from adorers of an abstract creative principle, mankind had lapsed into worshippers of the symbols under which this principle had been veiled. although at certain stages in the history of the human race the evils, which as a result of the supremacy of the ruder elements developed in mankind had befallen the race were lamented and bewailed, they could not be suppressed. man had become

its true significance as understood by the initiated. in vedic times, the home tree was worshipped as a god, and to the exhilarating properties in its juice was ascribed that subtle quality which was regarded as the life-giving, or creative, energy supposed to reside in heat, and which was closely connected with passion or procreative energy. this quality was their bacchus, dionysos, or god-idea--the creator not alone of physical existence, but of good and evil as well. it was the destroyer, yet the regenerator, of life. of the zoroastrian home, or sacred tree, which by the persians was worshipped for thousands of years, layard remarks "the plant or its product was called the mystical body of god, the living water or food of eternal life, when duly consecrated and administered according to

such a degree of magnitude as to burst it open and release themselves, after which, like other aquatic weeds, they take root wherever the current deposits them. this plant, therefore, being thus productive of itself, and vegetating from its own matrix, without being fostered in the earth, was naturally adopted as the symbol of the productive power of the waters, upon which the creative spirit of the creator operated in giving life and vegetation to matter. we accordingly find it employed in every part of the northern hemisphere, where the symbolical religion improperly called idolatry does or did prevail. the sacred images of the tartars, japanese, and indians are almost all placed upon it, of which numerous instances occur in the publication of kaempfer, sonnerat, etc: the brama of india

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

y,whohad acquiredthesheets, publishedthebookin may1901,buthis first independent publicationofwaitetookplace twelvemonthslater,whenhe issued thenewcollectionofpoems,abookofmysteryandvision.by this time webby had become a personal friendofwaite andofwaite's circle; he was captivated bydoraandabookofmysteryandvisionwas designedwithgreat care (the cover design is bymarytourtel,who destined to-fame as the creatorofrupertbear) in order to please her.100 a. e.waite- magicianofmanyparts--whenwaite died,theoccultreviewcarried an obituary intheformof'apersonal tribute' by wellby (issueofjuly1942).amonghis reminiscences wellby describes hisownparticipation in thejunketingswithmachen-herecalledwaite's'renderingof"therewere three sailorsofbristol city"in.recitativo[which] was moreforcefulthanmelodious

eft undecided by the early rosicrucianpublishedliterature,butthere are extant documents to showthatwomen were admitted in the 17th and 18th centuries'(therosicruciansocietyofengland,1915, p. 3. but westcott was unwilling that the onus of creation should be placed on his shoulders alone; an additional, more esoteric creator was also needed. being a competent occultist, westcott accordingly created the creator. at some time during 1887 westcott had obtained, fromwhatsource he never made clear,a seriesof manuscripts in cipher, which proved, upon decoding, to be outlines of the rituals of an occult order. also among the manuscripts was the_'goldendemonsthatnonecanstay'107name of a germanadept-frauleinanna sprengel, or soror sapiens dominabiturastris-togetherwithher address at stuttgart. westco

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

association fromhearttomindand brain action. in genesis xlv. 26 'laib' means 'heart,'andhis [joseph's] heart fainted' with emotion presumably. in genesis vi. 5, 6, the reference is rather to the mind 'every imagination of the thoughts of hisheartwas evil continually' 255 'and it repented thelordthat he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at hisheart'.themindof man in one case, themindof the creator of man in the second. and again in psalm vii. 10,'myshield is with god, which saveth the upright inheart',here 'laib' is clearly used in reference to the reasoning mind. i give here examples of the varying meanings of the bible word 'mind: in genesis xxvi. 35, ruch or 'ruach, and deuteronomy xviii. 6, npsh 'nephesh, the english word'mind',applies to the heart, the physical organ. in ps

h would alone be concerned at every hour in staving off so great a curse, so terrible a doom.[a lecture to the adelphi lodge of the theosophical society. reprinted fromtheosophical siftings,vol. 5, no. 16 (1893, pp.3-15.]16.the vestiges of tetragrammatonthe 'tetragrammaton' is a symbol of the soul of the world, that is, the astral light, the great magical agent, the action of god in the universe. the creator and governor, the motive power, the guiding influence, the mainspring of the whole machine is typified by the cross and the square, the tetrad or quaternary. thisonegod, or power, is the resume of the members of the triad.thetriadis the synthesis of the two contending forces, the one that unites them into equilibrium; and each force is aunit,a monad. two opposing forces form the duad i

ncerned with the relations of the jewish faith and christian religion to the star lore to be found in the bible. these eminent astronomers agree in the opinion that the jews of bible times possessed very little knowledge in regard to the heavenly bodies, and that the biblical mention of them is mainly of a poetical character, or they are referred to as symbols or signs of the supremacy of jehovah the creator and ruler of the universe. we must remember that the jews from their origin as a distinct race to the destruction of jerusalem were almost always at war with their neighbours and had only brief periods during which there was any opportunity for mental culture. one time of peace and prosperity is alonenotable-thesolomonic era, beginning after david had ceased from his wars, to the endin

find out for himself, and which man's intellect has since then found out by scientific apparatus of his own discovery. maunder also is very bitter against astrology, the forerunner of astronomy, calling it a bastardscience-likea parasite.thegeneral opinion, however, has always been that the great interest taken in astrology as a science of divination was the inspirer of the study of the stars and the creator of modern astronomy, just as it is generally conceded that alchemy paved the way of chemstry. modern astronomy had as its predessor what may be called classical astronomy which originated with the greeks and prevailed nearly two thousand years.theearliest notable astronomers were eudoxus of cnidos aboutb.c.400, and hipperachus, and their discoveries were amplified in the great school o

phon,the dark place, north. calleddarom,the bright place, south. callednegeb,dryness, the desert, south. calledmiyamoryamah,the water or sea, west.thewinds from the four quarters were named from their effects: the east wind which brought heat and locusts; thesouth-stormsand heat; thewest-cloudsand rain; thenorth-coldand calm weather.thesun must be first referred to as the most magnificent work of the creator. in genesis i, v. 16, we read that god (alhim, calledelohim),made the sun 'the greater light to rule the day'.thehebrew name for the sun was spelled shmsh, calledshemesh,for the earliest hebrew writing had no vowels, and alsokhammah.in eccles. i. v. 5, we read 'the sunthe star lore of the bible221riseth, the sun goethdown, and anew he hasteneth to the place where he must arise, so the

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

t water, the blue firmament of heaven. next the adorationofthe lords oftruthbehind the northern heaven 'hail unto ye, ye lords oftruth,ye chiefs behind osiris! ye followers of her whose peaceissure' then the soul arises at the mystic pool of persea trees, wherein is horus, symbolised by the great cat, who slays the evil serpent, apophis. last of the symbols of the 17th chapter is the adoration of the creator in his bark, and the uniting of the purified soul with its maker.the12sth chapter is called 'the hall of the two truths,50 the sorcererand his apprenticeand of separating a personfromhis sins when he has been madetosee.thefacesofthe gods'itopens with a .solemn adoration of the lords oftruthand theceremonyof passing by the forty-two assessors of the dead, represented by seated figures

GILBERT R A CHAOS OUT OF ORDER THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SWEDENBORGIAN RITE

e tree of life. the corner- stone of the building is faith in god. the 2nd grade [of sublime phremason, or blue brother] is singularly involved. for (a) the candidate is said to be in masonic darkness, and at the 43[43] beswick to stuart, 3 may 1871 same time (b) in search of greater light, which is pure paradox. he is supposed to receive the light and to enter the temple, which is called that of the creator. at a later stage the plan-of the building are presented to the candidate and it is then described as (a) god s temple in nature, and (b) a symbol of the moral temple that is within. the east is goodness rising into life; the west is goodness setting into death; the south is truth ir. light; the north is truth in oblivion. it is. the story of earthly life and the story of the soul. the

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

ith christianity. for precluded were all such ideas as sin, hell for punishment and heaven for reward, and eternally perpetual sacrifice of the mass, saints and angels, priest and pope.41 in short, in europe, in the fourteenth century, a humanist and masonic organization was born that had its roots in the kabbalah. and, this organization did not regard god as the jews, christians and muslims did: the creator and ruler of the whole universe and the only lord and god of humanity. instead, they used a different concept, such as the "great architect of the universe" which they perceived as being "part of the material universe" in other words, this secret organization, that appeared in europe in the fourteenth century, rejected god, but, under the concept of "the great global freemasonry ig arc

still propose and defend them. masonic humanism: the worship of humanity the internal publications of the masons describe in detail the humanist philosophy of the organization and their hostility to monotheism. there are countless explanations, interpretations, quotations and allegories offered on this subject in masonic publications. as we said at the beginning, humanism has turned its face from the creator of humanity and accepted humans as "the highest form of being in the universe" in fact, this implies the worship of humanity. this irrational belief, that began with the kabbalist humanists in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, continues today in modern masonry. one of the fourteenth century's most famous humanists was pico della mirandola. his work entitled conclusiones philosoph

composes nature (nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, etc) has a conscious power, and that it has by itself created human beings and all living things. this myth is not based on observation or logical reasoning, but is intended to win people over by means of mass indoctrination. the purpose is for people to forget god, the real creator, turning instead to paganism, in which "nature" is regarded as the creator. masonry strives to give shape to this creed, strengthen and disseminate it, and supports all social forces that it regards as being its allies. an article in mimar sinan, entitled "thoughts about the concept and the global freemasonry ddi pagans of bygone ages worshipped idols made of stone. today's pagans idolize matter. evolution of solidarity from the scientific point of view" spea

ative power. masons and the naturalist philosophy as for the theory of natural selection that we supposed to be darwin's one particular contribution, it too was merely a theory put forward earlier by a number of scientists. but, the scientists before darwin's time did not apply the theory of natural selection as an argument against creation; on the contrary, they saw it as a mechanism designed by the creator to protect the species from a hereditary distortion. just like karl marx took the idealist hegel's concept of "dialectics" and bent it to fit his own philosophy, so did darwin take the theory of natural selection from creationist scientists and used it in a way so as to fit the idea of naturalism. therefore, darwin's personal contribution in the formulation of darwinism must not be ove

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

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

anded into manifestation and hierarchies on hierarchies took form. each hierarchy manifested a further hierarchy until, finally, the last emanation, sophia was created. sophia, being the last creation, did not understand the nature of what had occurred, in her anguish she cried out for the divine will, in this state of suffering she emanated ialdaboath. ialdaboath in his ignorance believed he was the creator and formed matter, by his error, sophia herself became trapped in his creation 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

wn 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 are many variations in interpretations of the fall. some traditions see the creator as the divine will or sophia, others see the creator as the demiurge and hence evil. some have two yahwehs, a true light lord and a false substitute. some sects refute the whole old testament saying it is the work of the false yahweh, while others even see the serpent in genesis as a premonition of the savior. for a more modern twist, one science fiction writer (with a penchant for occ

vil? must he be held responsible for wars, epidemics, the oppression of the poor by the rich..the bogomils (a medieval gnostic sect) had an answer which was at least logical and consistent; evil and pain are inherent in this world because the world is the creation of the evil one. the byzantine commonwealth, obolensky what are we to make of such speculations. is the world really evil? or worse is the creator of the world evil? the first thing we need to do is to consider how this model arose and then examine the esotericism that exists behind it. the first thing we need to consider is how the different models of the creation of matter developed. some traditions, such as the hindu and greek, tend not to demonise matter. while such schools admit there are degrees of darkness and light and fo

ing this back to a cosmological structure. the gnostic handbook page 44 perceptional dualism this begins to hint that the problem is not with the universe but us, it is our perception of the universe which is the issue. evil, so to speak, is in the eye of the beholder and hence extremely dualistic gnosticism is a product of those who suffer and this seems quite clearly so. to suggest the world or the creator is evil is really a personal perception and since gnosis means personal wisdom then we can see that the gnostics were recording their personal insights alone, not offering eternal truth. each insight may vary not only according to the environment and experience of the author, but to the stage of his or her life and the suffering he or she has or has not experienced. dualism therefore i

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

e phase it is known as ain soph aur or limitless light. together these three phases of the invisible spirit are known as the unmanifest or negative existence. from the unmanifest the tree of life manifests. the tree of life is composed of ten centres known as sephira (sephiroth in plural, they are connected by twenty-two gnostic theurgy page 92 paths. the first manifestation is kether, the point, the creator. kether is the font of creation, the focus of light and power. from kether manifests the two differentiations of binah and chokmah. these form the line, a natural progression from the point. chokmah is wisdom, illuminating intelligence, it is related to the active principle and is therefore sometimes known as abba, the great father. binah is understanding or reflective intelligence. as

mphasis on the emanations which exist between the lord of wisdom and the lower worlds. basilides system was extremely complex involving 365 heavens with related hierarchies and forms. jehovah was seen as a lowly creation who in turn created the physical world. when the physical world fell into disorder, the lord of wisdom sent his son (christ or nous) to liberate the fallen kingdoms from jehovah (the creator) and the archons. the gnostic practise of basilides emphasised asceticism and suffering as a path to gnosis and centred on secret rites and initiations. valentinus was one of his pupils. valentinus valentinus (110-175 ce) is in some sense the father of gnosticism. he was an accomplished and well respected author, poet and teacher. later in his life he travelled from his egyptian home t

and that his erudition and education was superior to many of the supposed church academics. his secret gospel of truth is considered one of the major surviving gnostic texts. the paulicians there is only one thing that separates us from the romans (catholics. we say that there is a go who is a heavenly father and has no power in this world, but in the world to come and that there is another god, the creator, who has power over the present world; whereas the romans recognise the existence of one sole god, who is both heavenly father and creator of the world. historia, peter of sicily. the major emphasis in the teachings of the paulicians was extreme dualism. they believed that the creator of this world is evil and that matter is a prison. the heavenly father is way beyond the present schem

of mans experience as worm and ape, yet man is a transition between ape and the overman and his value is as a transition and not an end. the cycles of planet earth create a wave, this wave is circular and perpetual. it is the wave of re-occurrence, this wave carries on physical life as we understand it and is collective not individual. when a creature dies, it does not go to heaven, the lands of the creator or to some elysium gardens, it returns to the wave. there is no separate or discrete individuality in the wave, only a constant repetition of life and death, returning to the earth is the nature of the cycle. however, for man to spiritually mature, he must break free from the earth. as a child breaks free from the bosom of its mother, as a bird throws its children out of the nest so th

GOETIA LUCIFERIAN

zabbathi) adonai (the lord of the earth, associated with lucifer) azal ucel (the sigillic word formula of azazel and lucifer, used as the initiator or genius of the holy guardian angel rite presented in this edition) babalon (the power form of the goddess from lilith hecate az, the daemonic feminine) lilith (the queen of the sabbat the vampyre, the lady of the crimson caul, the mother of cain and the creator of succubi) these names as scribed around the circle are in the witch-language commonly known as theban. this provides a yet known but unseen sigillic formula not indifferent from the alphabet of desire, as suggested by austin osman spare (see the book of pleasure, 93 publishing, quebec canada. 22 23 the evocation circle/triangle in regard to the goetic triangle of evocation, a distinc

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ENOCHALL

of fire angle of fire tablet. pzoo: subservient angel of earth angle of fire tablet. q: or/ thy/ content(s. q a a: your garments. q a dah/ qaada: unto the creation. q cocasb: content of time. q mos pleh: or the horns. q or quu: or. q ta/ quu ta: or as. qa a on/q a an: in your creation. qa as or qaas: your creation. qaa or qa an: of your creation. qadah/ qaada: creator/ unto the creation. qaal: of the creator. qaan: creation/ of your creation. qaaon: creation/ in your creation. qaas: creation/ your creation. qadah: creator/ unto the creator. qanis: quanis, olive. qcocasb: time (the contents of. qouodi: minister, also see noquod. qting: rotten. quanis: olives. quar: 1636. quasahi: pleasure. 52 quasahe: destroy. quasb: destroy. qui in enay butmon: wherein the lord hath opened his mouth. quiin

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS T

econd beginning of things are and wax strong, ds t capimali chis capimaon od lonshin which also successively are the numbers of time and their powers chis ta l-o cla torzu nor-quasahi od f caosga are as the first 4 5 6. arise ye sons of pleasure and visit the earth: bagle zire mad ds i od apila. for i am the lord your god which is and liveth for ever. do-o-a-ip qaal zacar od zamran in the name of the creator, move and show yourselves obelisong rest-el aaf nor-molap. as pleasant deliverers that you may praise him amongst the sons of men. hcoma, n the fifth key sapah zimii d u-i-v od 10 the mighty sounds have entered into the third angle and noas ta qanis adroch dorphal are become as olives in the olive mount looking with gladness caosg od faonts piripsol upon the earth and dwelling in the b

d with ornaments of brightness cors ta vaul zirn tol hami sobol ondoh od such as work wonders on all creatures. whose kingdoms and miam chis ta d od es v-ma-dea od continuance are as the third and fourth, strong towers and pi-bliar othil rit od miam places of comfort, the seat of mercy and continuance. c-noqol rit zacar zamran oe-crimi qaada. 0 ye servants of mercy move, appear, sing praises unto the creator! od o-micaolz aaiom bagle papnor and be mighty amongst us! for to this remembrance i dlugam lonshi od vmplif v-ge-gi bigliad! is given power, and our strength waxeth strong in our comforter! nof m the eighth key bazm elo i ta piripson oln nazavabh the mid-day, the first, is as the third heaven made of hyacinthine ox casarmg vran chis vgeg ds pillars in whom the elders are become strong

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econd beginning of things are and wax strong, ds t capimali chis capimaon od lonshin which also successively are the numbers of time and their powers chis ta l-o cla torzu nor-quasahi od f caosga are as the first 4 5 6. arise ye sons of pleasure and visit the earth: bagle zire mad ds i od apila. for i am the lord your god which is and liveth for ever. do-o-a-ip qaal zacar od zamran in the name of the creator, move and show yourselves obelisong rest-el aaf nor-molap. as pleasant deliverers that you may praise him amongst the sons of men. hcoma, n the fifth key sapah zimii d u-i-v od the mighty sounds have entered into the third angle and noas ta qanis adroch dorphal are become as olives in the olive mount looking with gladness caosg od faonts piripsol 10 upon the earth and dwelling in the b

d with ornaments of brightness cors ta vaul zirn tol hami sobol ondoh od such as work wonders on all creatures. whose kingdoms and miam chis ta d od es v-ma-dea od continuance are as the third and fourth, strong towers and pi-bliar othil rit od miam places of comfort, the seat of mercy and continuance. c-noqol rit zacar zamran oe-crimi qaada. 0 ye servants of mercy move, appear, sing praises unto the creator! od o-micaolz aaiom bagle papnor and be mighty amongst us! for to this remembrance i dlugam lonshi od vmplif v-ge-gi bigliad! is given power, and our strength waxeth strong in our comforter! nof m the eighth key bazm elo i ta piripson oln nazavabh the mid-day, the first, is as the third heaven made of hyacinthine ox casarmg vran chis vgeg ds pillars in whom the elders are become strong

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM22

e, and then invoke ra as follows, utilizing the ra god form as well: o thou, the giver of life and of warmth to all; thou who upon thy boat did sail over the heavens illuminating all of creation, thee, thee do i invoke. o thou whose eyes burn as hot as solar o, and whose head is crowned with the disk of scarlet and the serpent of gold, thee, thee do i invoke! o thou, lord of the radiant light and the creator of rays, thee, thee do i invoke. o thou majesty! thou whose glory is so brilliant that none can resist thy dazzling beauty, thee, thee do i invoke and call forth from thy throne in the sky! step 11 assume the god form of ra. say: 12 thou art the flame that causeth thine enemies to fall paralyzed with terror, yet thou art also the kind heart unto him that calleth upon thee. hail unto th

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

at this day there are to be seen the ruins of ancient and very strange buildings, and from thence came to cuzco, and so began mankind to multiply..1 making a mental note to find out more about lake titicaca, and the mysterious tiahuanaco, i read the following passage summarizing a legend from the cuzco area: for some crime unstated the people who lived in the most ancient times were destroyed by the creator. in a deluge. after the deluge the creator appeared in human form from lake titicaca. he then created the sun and moon and stars. after that he renewed the human population of the earth..2 in another myth the great creator god, viracocha, decided to make a world for men to live in. first he made the earth and sky. then he began to make people to live in it, carving great stone figures

sun and from whom they derived their idolatrous worship of the sun, they had an ample account of the deluge. they say that in it perished all races of men and created things insomuch that the waters rose above the highest mountain peaks in the world. no living thing survived except a man and a woman who remained in a box and, when the waters subsided, the wind carried them. to tiahuanaco [where] the creator began to raise up the people and the nations that are in that region..5 garcilaso de la vega, the son of a spanish nobleman and an inca royal woman, was already familiar to me from his royal commentaries of the incas. he was regarded as one of the most reliable chroniclers of the traditions of his mother s people and had done his work in the sixteenth century, soon after the conquest

e legends seemed to me to be suggesting, legends that most of all, and most clearly, had immortalized the memory of the man/god viracocha striding the high windswept byways of the andes working miracles wherever he went: viracocha himself, with his two assistants, journeyed north. he travelled up the cordillera, one assistant went along the coast, and the other up the edge of the eastern forests. the creator proceeded to urcos, near cuzco, where he commanded the future population to emerge from a mountain. he visited cuzco, and then continued north to ecuador. there, in the coastal province of manta, he took leave of his people and, walking on the waves, disappeared across the ocean.7 there was always this poignant moment of goodbye at the end of every folk memory featuring the remarkable

s like a dried fish, using one half to roof the heavens and the other to surface the earth. from her breasts he made mountains, from her spittle, clouds, and he directed the rivers tigris and euphrates to flow from her eyes.30 a strange and violent legend, and a very old one. the ancient civilizations of central america had their own version of this story. here quetzalcoatl, in his incarnation as the creator deity, took the role of marduk while the part of tiamat was played by cipactli, the great earth monster. quetzalcoatl seized cipactli s limbs as she swam in the primeval waters and wrenched her body in half, one part forming the sky and the other the earth. from her hair and skin he created grass, flowers and herbs; from her eyes, wells and springs; from her shoulders, 25 stephanie dal

f ecuador, relate an ancient story of a flood from which two brothers escaped by going to the top of a high mountain. as the water rose the mountain grew higher, so that the two brothers survived the disaster.14 when they were discovered, the tupinamba indians of brazil venerated a series of civilizing or creator heroes. the first of these heroes was monan (ancient, old) who was said to have been the creator of mankind but who then destroyed the world with flood and fire..15 peru, as we saw in part ii, is particularly rich in flood legends. a typical story tells of an indian who was warned by a llama of a deluge. together man and llama fled to a high mountain called vilca-coto: when they reached the top of the mountain they saw that all kinds of birds and animals had already taken refuge t

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

your universe. enochian magcck does not recognize only one universe but a myriad of universes, one for each man. as our thinking tends to be similar to that of others, so our universes tend to overlap. as thinking (le, our inner subjective universe) tends to be dissimilar, so our universes tend toward isolation. this fact is dearly seen in the third aethyr, zom, where you can become a true magus, the creator and master of your own universe. man's nature aboye the first aethyr, lil, is monadic. below lil man's nature is dualistc. the two primary polarities of man's dualistic nature are objectivity (the universe) and subjectivity (consciousness. the circle. a cirde is the magical symbol of man's monadic nature aboye lil. it should be used by you to define the limits of your magical operation

first glory. there the lord opened his mouth, and they became 28 living dwellings wherein the strength of man rejoices.they are clothed with ornaments of brightness, and they work wonders on all creatures. their kingdoms and continuance are like the third and fourth; strong towers and places of confort, the seats of merey and continuance. o you servants of mercy, move and appear! sing praises to the creator, and be mighty among us, so that this remembrance will give power, and our strength will grow strong in our comforter. step 4. vibrate the following names of power: bataivah (bah-tah-ee-vah-heh) habioro (hah-bee-oh-roh) aaozaif (ahah- oh-zodah ee-feh) htnorda (heh-tehnoh- rah-dah) ahaozapi (aha-oh-zodahpee) avtotar (ah-veh-toh-tah rah) hipotga (hee-poh-teh-gah) step 5. enter your body

red 33, and do these not rule in the second angle? i have placed 9639 servants under them. none have yet numbered them, but one. in them, the second beginnings of things exists and grows strong. they are the successive numbers oftime.their powers are like those of the first 456. arise, you sons of pleasure, and visit the earth. i am the lord your god, who is, and who lives forever. in the name of the creator, move and show yourselves as pleasant deliverers, and praise him among the sons of men" step 3. recite the twelfth cali as follows "o you who range in the south, and who are the 28 lanterns of sorrow, bind up your girdles, and visit us. bring down your 3663 servants so that the lord may be m gnified.his name among you is wrath. move i say, and show yourselves! unveil the mysteries of y

GRIMOIRE OF TURIEL

quietness and hast answered me and unto my petitions, i give humble and hearty thanks unto almighty god, in whose name i called thee and thou camest. and now thou mayest depart in peace unto thy orders, and retum unto me again at what time soever i shall call thee by the secret grimoire licence to depart: thine own oath, or by thy name, or by thine order, or by thine office which is granted from the creator. and the grace of god be with thee and me and upon the whoie israel of god. amen. glory be to the father, and to the son, and to the holy ghost, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. fiat. fiat. fiat. amen. form of a bond of spirits given by turiel, messenger of the spirits of jupiter: gloria deo in excelsis. i, turiel, messenger of the spirits of ju

god be with thee and me and upon the whoie israel of god. amen. glory be to the father, and to the son, and to the holy ghost, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. fiat. fiat. fiat. amen. form of a bond of spirits given by turiel, messenger of the spirits of jupiter: gloria deo in excelsis. i, turiel, messenger of the spirits of jupiter, appointed thereunto by the creator of all things visible and invisible, do swear and promise, and plighting faith and troth unto thee in the presence, by, and before the great lord of heaven and the whole company of heaven, by all the holy names of god, do swear and bind myself unto thee, by all the contents of god s sacred writ, by the incarnation, death and passion, resurrection, and glorious ascension of jesus christ

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

nse as governors essentially. in the psychic sense, they are transformers, stepping down for objective sensing those exceedingly rapid vibrations which come from the spiritual or psychic planes or stepping up the slower vibrations of a material nature that they may be sensed on the immaterial plane. by a series of exercises these glands may be brought up to that standard of functioning decreed by the creator and which has not been generally in evidence for many ages. it is one phase of the work of mysticism to afford the sincere, earnest seeker after light, knowledge, and power the privilege and means of bringing up to normal these most essentially important glands in the human body. such a one will have, among other faculties, the power of seer and prophet. any standard work on physiology

tself all the qualities and essentials needed in the kinetic or active state of manifestation. the potential state lacks nothing which it would have in the active state. its inactivity is all that characterizes this condition. this is in contradistinction to that condition which lacks that which is essential to its active state. prayer.a petition, a supplication, or entreaty, addressed usually to the creator, for the granting of some special request. in many cases, the divine laws and principles involved in the granting of prayer are completely ignored or overlooked by the petitioner. yet neither negligence, nor ignorance, nor wilfulness will abrogate them nor diminish by an iota their efficacy or reduce their operation. god, in his wisdom, decreed and established certain laws of universal

under these circumstances. from the foregoing it may not be apparent why prayer is so often unanswered. god, in his mercy, refuses to answer our entreaties knowing how great the penalties for us would be could he and would he abrogate his own laws to grant our prayers, however agonizing the need from our human point of view. but that prayer is answered which meets the requirements and standard of the creator, because it is a prayer which, when granted, will add to the general betterment, not only of the individual, but of the greatest number. one other wonderful feature to be noted, as a result of basing prayer according to the divine principles, is that the manner, ways, and means of fulfilling the prayer are indicated to us and we proceed to demonstate that god helps those who help thems

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

e the passages from your minutes, and quote the answers you have received in support of the doctrine of truth.correspondencewithrobertowen161death of christ, they will be saved everlastingly.12.-doesnot true and undefiled religion consist in a neverceasing desire and action to promote the happiness of man and of all created life, to the extent of the knowledge and power given to the individual by the creator?c.a.-thatis a part of true religion; but not the vital part. question bymrowen.-mayi ask what is the vital part? c.a.-abelief in the almighty powers of god, and in the death of his son. question by mr owen'sfriend.-arethe powers of god unlimited?c.a.-heis almighty.13.-doesnot the happiness of man and of all created life depend upon the goodness, wisdom, and power of god? c.a-'andmercy

he day of judgement is at hand.theblessing of one religion will then reign in theworld-allwill be unity, peace and concord and ready to receive the blessed saviour. his coming will truly as said in isaiah 'shake the nations of the earth. now instead of the belief used by the church of england i would substitute this one forit.there is one god the embodiment of all goodness, all charity, all love, the creator of the humanrace-emanatingfrom him are the divinequalities-hisinfluence, his holy spirit and his son. god has angels in his presence perfect as himselfin purity, in goodness and in truth but unlike himself either almighty, all-knowing or all powerful, their capacities are limited, his are boundless.thereis an antagonist to all this good in the shape of an angel fallen from his highdegr

icense to departinasmuch as thou comest in peace and. quietness and hast answered unto my petition i give humble and hearty thanks unto almighty god in whose name i called thee and thou comest, and now thou mayest depart in peace unto thine orders and return unto me again at what time soever i shall call thee by thine oath, or by thy name, or by thine order, or by thine office whichisgranted from the creator, and the power of god be with me and thee and upon the whole issue of god, amen. glory be to the father, and to the son, and to the holy ghost. asallaerial spirits are very powerful and slow in their appearance, so also is their departure and it would be well for the invocant not to leave the limits of the circle for a few minutes after the licence is recited.crystalirmzancy,or the art

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

nundation were personified as deities (see hapy in deities, themes, and concepts, but there was no god or goddess of the nile. introduction 3 figure 1. the nile valley (black land) seen from the desert hills (red land (courtesy of geraldine pinch) the annual rising of the nile was thought of as part of the divine order of things decreed by a creator deity. this divine order was known as maat, and the creator was often identified with the god of the sun. the sun was the great provider of the light and warmth necessary for life. its rays were also powerful enough to blind or kill. from early times on, the egyptians believed that they needed a spiritual leader who could treat with the dangerous world of the gods on behalf of humanity. this leader was usually a king with semidivine status. in

humanity. this leader was usually a king with semidivine status. in egypt, concepts that might in other cultures belong to the realm of abstract philosophy were expressed by symbols, images, and, to a lesser extent, myths. the divine order envisaged by the egyptians placed their country at the center of the created world. this world was still surrounded by the primeval waters (the nun) from which the creator had originally emerged. the ultimate source of the nile and the inundation was believed to be in the nun. foreign lands and the deserts that bordered the nile valley were said to belong to the realm of chaos (isfet, the force that constantly threatened the divine order. there was a tradition that the creator and the numerous gods and goddesses whom he/she had created originally lived i

king s funeral or as part of the mortuary cult that continued after his death. others may have been intended to be spoken by the deceased king as he entered the afterlife. in this type of incantation, the king took on the role of many different deities. around 200 deities are mentioned in the pyramid texts. some are the major deities already known from cult temples, such the fertility god min and the creator goddess neith. others are entities such as snake deities and celestial ferrymen who inhabit a complex and intensely imagined realm of the gods. the most frequently mentioned deities are anubis, atum, geb, horus, isis, nephthys, nut, osiris, ra, seth, shu, and thoth (see deities, themes, and concepts. these include most of the deities who make up the ennead of heliopolis, and it is ofte

ail in which the afterlife is presented has a hallucinatory quality similar to that of the spirit voyages induced by shamans in many cultures. 28 although they are not narratives, some spells in the coffin texts describe major events in the egyptian creation story and even provide evidence for egyptian views about the end of the world (see return to chaos under linear time in mythical time lines. the creator god atum-ra and his offspring shu and tefnut are particularly prominent. many texts deal with transformations of the sun god into various forms. a new element is a stress on the dangers faced by the sun god during his celestial voyages, such as attacks by the chaos monster apophis. the prominence of the solar cult leads some egyptologists to believe that the coffin texts were, like the

in the framing story, five deities disguise themselves as people to help a mortal woman who is about to give birth to triplets destined to be kings. an incomplete story tells of an alarming encounter between a herdsman and a seductive goddess.35 another relates how an official sent on a mission was shipwrecked on a mysterious island.36 there he encounters a giant serpent who seems to be a form of the creator sun god. one middle kingdom narrative that only features divine characters is a fragmentary story about the attempted seduction of horus by seth, an event alluded to in the pyramid texts. some egyptologists refuse to class this as a genuine myth because it may have formed part of a spell used in healing magic.37 magic and popular religion heka, the egyptian term usually translated as m

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

ut the god had denied male heirs to his worshipper, and this made the king veryunhappy* it is only much later in the orthodox pantheon and the symbolical polytheism of thebrahmans that varuna became poseidon or neptune- which he is now. in the vedas he isthe most ancient of the gods, identical with ouranos of the greek, that is to say apersonification of the celestial space and the infinite gods, the creator and ruler of heaven andearth, the king, the father and the master of the world, of gods and of men. hesiod's uranusand the greek zeus are one. nightmare talesthe blue lotus21 "alas" he wailed, every morning while performing his puja to the lesser gods "alas! what avails it to be thegreatest king on earth when god denies me an heir of my blood. when i am dead and placed on the funeralpy

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

nd still more elaborated in the secret doctrine. it is based on the oldest philosophy of the world, called the wisdom-religion or the archaic doctrine. if you like, you may ask questions and have them explained. the fundamental teachings of theosophy on god and prayer q. do you believe in god? a. that depends what you mean by the term. q. i mean the god of the christians, the father of jesus, and the creator: the biblical god of moses, in short. a. in such a god we do not believe. we reject the idea of a personal, or an extra-cosmic and anthropomorphic god, who is but the gigantic shadow of man, and not of man at his best, either. the god of theology, we say-and prove it-is a bundle of contradictions and a logical impossibility. therefore, we will have nothing to do with him. q. state your

to that which is limited, finite, and conditioned? this is a philosophical, and a logical absurdity. even the hebrew cabala rejects such an idea, and therefore, makes of the one and the absolute deific principle an infinite unity called ain-soph*)ain-soph (greek: toh pan, epeiros, the boundless or limitless, in and of nature, the non-existing that is, but that is not a being. in order to create, the creator has to become active; and as this is impossible for absoluteness, the infinite principle had to be shown becoming the cause of evolution (not creation) in an indirect way-i.e, through the emanation from itself (another absurdity, due this time to the translators of the cabala) of the sephiroth. how can the non-active eternal principle emanate or emit? the parabrahman of the vedantins d

HINE PHIL ASPECTS OF EVOCATION

t is, of laying down a set of instructions which define the nature, abilities, and functions of the entity. into this information matrix is projected energy, which forms the entity as a whole, which is then able to act, independently of its creator. a purely psychological or subjective account of this process cannot account for the ability of such an entity to manifest results (in accordance with the creator.s intent) in the physical world. following choronzon.s ideas on chaos dynamics, it seems likely to me that in evoking, and thereby creating, an elemental servitor, one could be bringing into existence a structure such as is outlined above. if we can accept (at least in theory) that these structures are capable of retaining information over time, then we could be looking at a partial mo

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

cided upon. the use of such an elementary is of manifold that i am unable to quote all the possibilities here. for example, there are yidams created for the treatment of sick people, others for transferring objects, bringing messages to scholars and friends, protecting the magician, and pointing out any dangers to him, influencing other people, and doing many other things of the sort according to the creator s desire. it will always be advisable not to give too many orders to a yidam, and what is most profitable is to develop a single ability and one field of activity in such an elementary. one has to observe exactly the appointed duration of life as we described it in the previous methods. it is entirely up to you to create several yidams if you like to. it is also remarkable that a yidam

ISIS UNVEILED

that" to frequent spiritual circles with the intention of accepting the doctrine, is to apostatize from the holy church, and assume the risk of excommunication; finally, says he "publish the fact that the teaching of no spirit should prevail against that of the pulpit of peter, which is the teaching of the spirit of god himself! aware of the many false teachings attributed by the roman church to the creator, we prefer disbelieving the latter assertion. the famous catholic theolo^an 'huemont, assures us in his work that "all the illus- trious pagans are condenmed to the eternal torments of hell, beeatue they lived before the time of jesus, and, therefore, could not be benefited by the redemption! he also assures us that the virgin mary person- ally testified to this truth over her own ugna

t adoption of dogmas, the origin of which can very easily he traced to that remarkable school [of neo-platonism. though mutilated and disfigured, they still preserve a strong family hkeness, which nothing can obliterate. but if the knowledge of the occult powers of nature opens the spiritual sight of man, enlarges his intellectual faculties, and leads him unerringly to a profounder veneration for the creator, on the other hand ignorance, dogmatic narrow-mindedness, and a childish fear of looking to the bottom of things, invariably leads to fetish-worship and superstition. when cyril, the bishop of alexandria, had openly embraced the cause of isis, the egyptian goddess, and had anthropomorphized her into mary, the mother of god; and the trinitarian controversy had been begun; from that mome

ident; he got a thorn in his eye, and, becoming bhnd, crept to the saint's pillar, and pressed his eye against it for three days, without touching any one. then the blessed saint, from his aerial seat "three feet in diamder" ordered earth and water to be placed on the dragon's eye, out of which suddenly emerged a thorn (or stake, a cubit in length; when the people saw the 'miracle' they glorified the creator, as to the grateful dragon, he arose and "having adored god for two hours, returned to his cave* a half-converted saurian, we must suppose. and what are we to think of that other narrative, to disbelieve in which is "to riak one's aaitaiion" as we were informed by a ptqw's miasionary, of the order of the franciscans? when st. francis preached a sermon in the wilderness, the birds assem

ism of the old tuta- ment, aad drew a distinct hne of demarcation between the old judaism and christianity, viewed jesus neither as a king, mes ab of the jews, nor the son of david who was in any way connected with the law or prophets "but a divine being sent to reveal to man a wholly new spiritual religion, and a hitherto unlmown god of goodness and grace" the 'lord god' of the jews in hia eyes, the creator (demiurge, was totally different and distinct from the deity who sent jesus to reveal the divine truth and preach the glad tidings, to bring reconciliation and bather bj mmtt, but by jenu christ aad god the father, who niaed him from the dead. but there be aome that trouue 70u, and lemjd pentrt the rospej of chrirt. fait bnuireti. when peter waa come to antioch i withstood him to the f

iciently clear could be adduced that tbe 'lord god' was no other than the pagan bacchus, dionysos? well, this identity of the jehovah at mount sinai with the god bacchus is hardly disputable. the name mrt is yava, or lao according to diodo- rus and i^dus, and lao is the secret name of the phoenician mystery- god* it was actually adopted from the chaldaeans with whom it also was the secret name of the creator. wherever bacchus was worshiped there was a tradition of a place called nysa, and a cave where he was reared. beth-san or scythopolis in palestine once bad that designation; so had a spot on mount parnassus. but diodorus declares that nysa was between phoenicia and egypt; euripides states that dionysoa came to greece from india; and diodorus" adds his testimony "osiris was brought up i

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

and releases the highest potentialities into manifestation. divine grace is an inexplicable energy that is incredible to experience, grace is the oil that smoothes the way in life. divine communication. communion with the god within and the inner plane holy ones divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 17. divine manifestation. the ability to recognize the will of the creator and to manifest according to the divine plan s current agenda which is our conscious cocreation of paradise on earth. divine bliss. true emotional, mental and spiritual nourishment. divine nutrition as in pranic feeding and the freedom it brings and. divine revelation. the zone of true knowing beyond limited perceptions and realities. the above are some of the benefits that come from a

ncient greek mother goddess of persephone. giver of fruitfulness and abundance. blesses us with coming joy, abundant life and hope. other goddesses who have made an impact through time are. kwan yin. chinese goddess of infinite mercy and compassion. said t0 be born from buddha s tears for the suffering of the world. protects women and children and works with the healers of the world. mother mary. the creator goddess known as stella maris and associated with heaven and sea. mary reminds us to be gentle and compassionate to our selves and to all others. divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 81. pachamama. earth goddess of peru known for inspiring healing and wholeness and holiness when we open to mother earth and commune with her. nut. egyptian goddess of t

ble and incorruptible. in a tantra view all is perfect and all is borne from god and is one. there is no wrong, no right. in this reality people are gods in forms, and as bio-systems of energy we are encoded with the same software programs that drive the cosmic computer called god. as we are creative gods with free will neither the intelligent quantum and virtual fields nor the cosmic computer as the creator of all, cares what we create. god, as ever tolerant and benevolent loving creating parent, just says, you have all the tools, all the wisdom, so when you are sick of creating war, poverty and violence then create something else. in this cosmic computer s eyes all is valid as all we create teaches us and expands us, and imprints us with valid experiences. as the master computer controll

f their being which the food of gods will provide as creative nourishment for our bio-systems. because of the frequencies we are applying with the basic field foundations. which are divine love, divine wisdom and divine power rays of the violet light grid. this outcome is assured because of the resonance of the underlying field. it is also assured because of the purity of hearts and intentions of the creators and manipulators and supporters of the field. in field reweaving, it is helpful to have attained at least level 2 status in the divine nutrition program and yet the reweaving of a field can help us also to achieve and then maintain this status. so once we are all plugged in to the divine love field via our 3 cosmic cables and lifestyle habits, what comes next in the field weaving game

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

element of god. in the form of a flaming bush he appeared to moses on mount sinai. his presence was denoted by torrents of flame, and in the form of fire he preceded the band of israelites by night through the dreary wilderness; which is perhaps the origin of the present custom of the arabians, who always carry fire in front of their caravans (reade s veil of isis. all the early fathers held god the creator to consist of a subtile fire. when the holy spirit descended upon the apostles on the day of pentecost, it was in the form of a tongue of fire, accompanied by a rushing wind. see anacalypsis, vol. i. p. 627 (parkhurst, in voce, grb. the personality of jehovah is, in scripture, represented by the material trinity of nature; which also, like the divine antitype, is of one substance. the

ek. it also reminds us that the old. bhuddas are always under the care of the cobra-capella. this is evidenced in all the memnonian or egyptian heads; and in the asp (or fleur-de-lis, more or less veiled or altered, displayed as the chief symbol upon the universal sphynxes. the serpent, in one view, was the emblem of the evil principle, or destroyer. but, as we have seen before, the destroyer was the creator. hence he had the name, among his numerous appellations, of ofis; in hebrew, bwa, ob; and as he was the logos, or linga, he was also oy, and in hebrew armm. query, hence sufar, a seraph or serpent? see jones's lexicon (in voce, and sofoj, wise. the suf and sof are both the same root. the famous brazen serpent, called nehustan, set up by moses in the wilderness, is termed in the targum

KETAB E SIYAH

ce should win them what they sought, the favour of the father that favoured me "you are right indeed my brother and your report is wholly just and true but were the charge any less than the heinous sin that soon shall i expound to you i should not have gathered you as i have. this is our brother's most awful sin: he intends, in his ambition most perverse, the overthrow of god himself and to usurp the creator's crown making himself king of all. we cannot allow this august kingdom and its king, benign and right, to suffer such shame as this. this is why i have gathered you to me that we might oppose this unchaste plan 9 before it bears its bastard fruit full term and gives it ruinous and pernicious birth as in the time of our kingdom's founding when magog bore gog his base issue who, like sa

ght into a gulf of darkness without floor. his heart that once nurtured only virtue has been consumed with black evil that itself gives suck to terrible crime. where once was one that deserved love alone now is their one worthy only of hate. o sorrow that i must speak such tragedy! this is my brother's most awful sin: he intends, in his ambition most perverse, your overthrow and ruin and to usurp the creator's crown making himself king of all. he has gone amongst his brothers beguiling them with subtle words, inciting them to blasphemous rebellion against you whom we love so well. he has sought to bring your sons who should have loyalty to you alone against your eternal throne, persuading them with prizes beyond their worth thus inciting them to evil by greed and envy. his tongue is more c

should win them what they sought, the favour of the father that favoured me "you are right indeed my brother and your report is wholly just and true but were the charge any less than the heinous sin that soon shall i expound to you i should not have gathered you as i have. this is our brother's most awful sin: he intends, in his ambition most perverse, 70 the overthrow of god himself and to usurp the creator's crown making himself king of all. we cannot allow this august kingdom and its king, benign and right, to suffer such shame as this. this is why i have gathered you to me that we might oppose this unchaste plan before it bears its bastard fruit full term and gives it ruinous and pernicious birth as in the time of our kingdom's founding when magog bore gog his base issue who, like sava

ght into a gulf of darkness without floor. his heart that once nurtured only virtue has been consumed with black evil that itself gives suck to terrible crime. where once was one that deserved love alone now is their one worthy only of hate. o sorrow that i must speak such tragedy! this is my brother's most awful sin: he intends, in his ambition most perverse, your overthrow and ruin and to usurp the creator's crown making himself king of all. he has gone amongst his brothers beguiling them with subtle words, inciting them to blasphemous rebellion against you whom we love so well. he has sought to bring your sons who should have loyalty to you alone against your eternal throne, persuading them with prizes beyond their worth thus inciting them to evil by greed and envy. his tongue is more c

LAITMAN M BASIC CONCEPTS IN KABBALAH

ith what traits and inclinations we will be born. we do not choose whom to meet and in what environment to grow. these things determine all of our actions and reactions, as well as all of their consequences. so where is our freedom of will? according to kabbalah, there are four mandatory kinds of knowledge to attain: creation: the study of creation and the evolution of the worlds, namely: the way the creator created the worlds with the creatures that populate them through consecutive restrictions; the interaction laws between the spiritual and material worlds, and their consequences; b a s i c c o n c e p t s i n k a b b a l a h 16 the goal of man s creation is to form a system with an illusion of the existence of free will by combining the soul with the body, and by controlling them throu

an only wish that people will choose life instead of embarking on the path of suffering, the same path upon which we so often treaded in the past. 18 c h a p t e r 1 t h e m e t h o d o f p e r c e p t i o n i n k a b b a l a h kabbalah teaches about the cause-and-effect connection between spiritual sources that unite according to absolute laws into one kspiritual kexalted goal: the attainment of the creator by the created beings existing in this world. according to kabbalah, all of humanity and every individual must reach this ultimate point to fully attain the goal and program of creation. throughout the generations, individuals have attained a certain spiritual level through individual work. these people, called kabbalists, climbed to the top of the spiritual ladder. every material obje

them remain undetected by the human eye. if we multiply them by the number of organisms living today, and by those that once lived in our universe and in the spiritual worlds, we will then have a vague idea of the vast number of forces and connections that control them. one can depict the spiritual forces as two interconnected and equal systems. the difference between them is that one comes from the creator and develops from up downward through all the worlds to our world. the other begins in our world and rises according to the laws that were developed in the first system and now function in the second. kabbalah defines the first system as the order of creation of worlds and sefirot, and the second as the attainments or levels of prophecy and spirit. the second system teaches that people

of their actions. for example, although our knowledge of electricity is limited, we have learned to utilize this phenomenon for our purposes and define it as naturally as we give names to such things as bread and sugar. similarly, it is as if all names in kabbalah give us a real and objective idea about a spiritual object. on second thought, just as we have no idea about spiritual objects or even the creator himself, so are we equally ignorant of any objects, even those we can grip with our hands. this is because we perceive not the object itself, but our reaction to its impact on our senses. these reactions give us the semblance of knowledge, though the essence of the object itself remains totally concealed from us. moreover, we are utterly unable to understand even ourselves. all that we

s kind of science, and humanity has often suffered from the unsubstantiated conclusions of philosophers. most modern scientists have rejected this kind of research because its conclusions are completely unreliable. while researching the spiritual worlds, we discover that our perceptions are merely a will from above that wants us to feel as if we are a separately existing entity, and not a part of the creator. the entire surrounding world is actually the result of the influence of spiritual forces on us. this is why the surrounding world is considered a world of illusions. let me explain what i mean with an allegory: once upon a time there lived a coachman. he had a pair of horses, a house, and a family. suddenly, he had a wave of bad luck: his horses died and so did his wife and children

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ng in this manner. kabbalists explain that if we wait until the end of the 6,000 years without progress in correcting our egos by ourselves, we will suffer tremendously, the majority of the world population will be extinct through horrendous wars, and the few survivors will still have to carry out nature s plan. israel s role 167 in the writings of the last generation, baal hasulam explains that, the creator eventuated and gave humanity technology, until they have invented the atom and the hydrogen bombs. if the total ruin that they are destined to bring is still not evident to the world, they can wait for a third world war, or a fourth one and so on. the bombs will do their thing and the relics after the ruin will have no other choice but to take upon themselves this work. in other words

ndamental teachings of kabbalah, and how you can use this wisdom to clarify your relationship with others and the world around you. using language both scientific and poetic, he probes the most profound questions of spirituality and existence. this provocative, unique guide will inspire and invigorate you to see beyond the world as it is and the limitations of your everyday life, become closer to the creator, and reach new depths of the soul. further reading 203 kabbalah, science, and the meaning of life: science explains life s mechanisms; kabbalah explains life s purpose. in kabbalah, science, and the meaning of life, the author eloquently introduces earthshaking concepts so even readers unfamiliar with kabbalah or science can easily understand. kabbalah explains that we are all one soul

life, the author eloquently introduces earthshaking concepts so even readers unfamiliar with kabbalah or science can easily understand. kabbalah explains that we are all one soul, materialized in many bodies. similarly, modern science states that at the most fundamental level, we are all literally one. science proves that reality is affected by its observer. kabbalah states that reality, and even the creator exist only within the observer. if you re just a little curious about reality and life s meaning, this is your book. the kabbalah experience: never has the language of kabbalah been as clear and accessible as it is here, in this compelling, informative collection. the depth of wisdom revealed in the questions and answers of this book will inspire reflection and contemplation. readers w

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y understand nature s plan for them. and once he realized this, he spared no effort teaching whoever wished to learn. for this reason, abraham became the first kabbalist to start a dynasty of kabbalah teachers: the most worthy students became the next generation of teachers, who then passed on the knowledge to the next generation of students. kabbalists refer to the designer of the master plan as the creator, and to the plan itself as the thought of creation. in other words, and this is important, when kabbalah: then and now 21 kabbalists talk about nature or nature s laws, they are talking about the creator. and vise versa, when they are talking about the creator, they are talking about nature or nature s laws. these terms are synonymous. to a kabbalist, the term, creator, does not signif

each other and created confusion and malfunction. the hebrew word for confusion is bilbul, and to mark the confusion, the capitol of mesopotamia received the name, babel (babylon. 28 kabbalah revealed ever since that split xwhen our desires grew from level zero to level one xwe have been confronting nature. instead of correcting the ever-growing egoism to remain as one with nature, that is, with the creator, we have built a mechanical, technological shield to protect us from it. the initial reason we developed science and technology was to secure our shielded existence away from nature s elements. it turns out, however, that whether we are aware of it or not, we are actually trying to control the creator and take over the driver s seat. h i d i n g, s e e k i n g, b u t n o t f i n d i n

e developed science and technology was to secure our shielded existence away from nature s elements. it turns out, however, that whether we are aware of it or not, we are actually trying to control the creator and take over the driver s seat. h i d i n g, s e e k i n g, b u t n o t f i n d i n g the level of egoism in humanity has kept growing, with each level driving us farther away from nature (the creator. in kabbalah, distance is not measured in inches or yards; it s measured in qualities. the creator s quality is whole- at the time when all this bilbul was taking place, abraham was living in babylon, helping his father build little idols and sell them in the family shop. it s not hard to see that abraham was right in the middle of all this vibrant mishmash of ideas that thrived in bab

r nature s law: who is the owner of the capitol? when he realized that there was a purpose to the confusion and the alienation, he quickly taught it to whomever was willing to listen. kabbalah: then and now 29 ness, connectedness, and giving, but it is only possible to feel him when we share his qualities. if i am self-centered, there is no way i can connect to anything as whole and altruistic as the creator. it would be like trying to see another person when we are standing back to back. because we are standing back to back with the creator and because we still want to control him, clearly, the more we try, the more frustrated we become. certainly, we cannot control something we can t see or even feel. this desire can never be filled unless we make a u-turn, look in the opposite direction

nowledge the crisis and the impasse we are facing, we can openly admit that the path we ve chosen is a dead-end street. instead of compensating for our self-centered oppositeness from nature by choosing technology, we should have changed our egoism to altruism, and consequently to unity with nature. in kabbalah, the term used for this change is tikkun (correction. to realize our oppositeness from the creator means that we must acknowledge the split that occurred among us (human beings) five thousand years ago. this is called the recognition of evil. it is not easy, but it is the first step to true health and happiness. 30 kabbalah revealed the global crisis has a happy end over the past 5,000 years, each of the two factions that tore from mesopotamia evolved into a civilization of many dif

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texts of the kabbalist, ari, and of many other works on kabbalah. not feeling well on the jewish new year in september 1991, my rabbi called me to his bedside and handed me his notebook, saying "take it and learn from it" the following morning, my teacher perished in my arms, leaving me and many of his other disciples without guidance in this world. he used to say "i want to teach you to turn to the creator, rather than to me, because he is the only strength, the only source of all that exists, the only one who can really help you, and he awaits your prayers for help. when you seek help in your search for freedom from the bondage of this world, help- 9- in elevating yourself above this world, help in finding the self, and help in determining your purpose in life, you must turn to the crea

at we read within the limits of our immediate grasp, since each of us is limited by the qualities of our individual souls. therefore, in the course of interacting with the supreme light, each of us will interpret these ideas as our souls perceive them. may the thoughts of rabbi yehuda ashlag penetrate this world through the words of his eldest son, my rabbi, and may they help all of us unite with the creator in the course of our lives here in this world! rabbi michael laitman- 10- attaining the worlds beyond how to read the text the need for this text became apparent to me from the questions that i received from my students, and from the questions that were asked during various lectures and radio programs, as well as from the letters that continue to flood in from all over the world. the d

nd if need be, return to the beginning of each sentence. this method can either help us delve into the material with our own feelings, or recognize that our feelings are lacking regarding a particular issue. if the latter is the case, it is a crucial prerequisite for us to move forward spiritually. this text is not written for quick reading. though it deals with one subject only "how to relate to the creator" it deals with it in different ways. this allows each of us to find the particular phrase or word that will transport us into the depths of the text. although the desires and actions of egoism are described in the third person, until we can separate our personal consciousness from our desires, we should consider the aspirations and desires of egoism our own. the word "body" in the text

oncentrate on the sections that appeal to us the most. only then will the text be able to help and guide us in our search for personal spiritual ascent. the goal of this text is to help us become interested in the mysteries of life, such as: why were we born into this world? can we enter the spiritual worlds from here? can we ever understand the purpose of the creation? is it possible to perceive the creator, eternity and immortality? how can we begin to grow spiritually? if you listen with your heart to one famous question, i am sure that all your doubts as to whether you should study kabbalah will vanish without a trace. this question is a bitter and a fair one, asked by all born on earth "what is the meaning of my life" rabbi yehuda ashlag- 14- attaining the worlds beyond 1 perceiving t

struggle of the instincts. yet, subconsciously, we cannot accept a comparison of ourselves with primitive beasts. if, however, the divine force that created us does exist, then why do we not perceive it, why does it conceal itself from us? for if we knew what it required of us, we would not commit those mistakes in our lives for which we are punished by suffering! how much easier would life be if the creator were not concealed from human beings, but were clearly perceived and seen by each and every one of us! then, we would have no doubt of his existence. we would be able to observe the effects of his providence on the surrounding world; realize the cause and purpose of our creation; clearly see the consequences of our actions and his response to them; be able to discuss all of our problem

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the upper world; they speak from tangible attainment, not from theory. the word, attainment, refers to the ultimate degree of understanding. let me make things easier to understand by using some drawings. we said that the will to receive is the basis of creation. it is created by the expansion of the upper light (in kabbalah, the term light designates giving, bestowing, love; it is referred to as the creator. thus, the light created the will to receive pa r t i: k a b b a l a h m e e t s q ua n t u m p h y s i c s 28 that wants to be filled with the light. hence, the will to receive is also called kli (vessel/receptacle, see figure 1. figure 1 in other words, the desire to give creates the desire to receive, meaning the light wants the kli (vessel) to receive what it wants to give it. the

atter known to us, long before the material formation of our universe. since this will to receive stems from the light s action, it senses the light (the pleasure) at a very minimal level. at this point the will to receive has no independent desire for the light. to make it independent and further develop the will to receive, we must add another element: the will s awareness of its own existence. the creator (light) gives the will to receive the sensation that it exists, that there is a giver, meaning something that gives it the pleasure it is experiencing. thus, once the will to receive senses pleasure, it begins to sense the giver of the pleasure within the pleasure. t h e n a t u r e o f m a t t e r 29 similarly, when we receive a gift, we feel the giver s attitude toward us beyond the

sensation that it exists, that there is a giver, meaning something that gives it the pleasure it is experiencing. thus, once the will to receive senses pleasure, it begins to sense the giver of the pleasure within the pleasure. t h e n a t u r e o f m a t t e r 29 similarly, when we receive a gift, we feel the giver s attitude toward us beyond the gift itself. we should note that when we refer to the creator, we actually refer to the giver. in this state of things, the created being (creature) begins to feel that there is a collision between the pleasure and the sensation of the giver of the pleasure (figure 2. this collision stirs a reaction in the creature, making it want to be like the creator because the creator is higher than the pleasure itself. at this point, the will to receive evo

(creature) begins to feel that there is a collision between the pleasure and the sensation of the giver of the pleasure (figure 2. this collision stirs a reaction in the creature, making it want to be like the creator because the creator is higher than the pleasure itself. at this point, the will to receive evolves to the next degree. figure 2 the will to receive then chooses to be a giver, like the creator (the giver. this is the first reaction of the creature, though it is still not an entirely independent choice. it is rather a reaction that stems from its sensation of the giver, which makes it a compelled reaction, derived entirely from the presence of the giver. thus, the will to receive has no free choice in the matter. now the creature begins to contemplate what it can give to the

or (the giver. this is the first reaction of the creature, though it is still not an entirely independent choice. it is rather a reaction that stems from its sensation of the giver, which makes it a compelled reaction, derived entirely from the presence of the giver. thus, the will to receive has no free choice in the matter. now the creature begins to contemplate what it can give to the creator. the creator gives because he is the source of the pleasure. but when the creature wants to give as well, it finds that it has nothing to give in return. thus, through its need to give to the creator, the creature discovers the nature of the creator. the creature finds the pa r t i: k a b b a l a h m e e t s q ua n t u m p h y s i c s 30 creator s love for it. yet, if the creator loves the creature

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you all the way. rav michael laitman 13 c h a p t e r 1. t h e t h o u g h t o f c r e at i o n m a n v t h e p u r p o s e o f c r e at i o n q: many have tried to solve the riddle of the purpose of creation v why we come into this world, why we live and die. what is the purpose of creation according to the kabbalah and how can one attain it? a: man is the center of creation and is its purpose. the creator created mankind and wishes to raise human beings to the highest possible degree: that of the creator. the process of the attainment of the creator, meaning getting to know the creator s attributes, is a means for correction. it is also the very purpose of creation because attaining the creator, unlike a scientific process, is the gratification and satisfaction given by the creator. acc

r s attributes, is a means for correction. it is also the very purpose of creation because attaining the creator, unlike a scientific process, is the gratification and satisfaction given by the creator. according to the kabbalah, mankind is the whole of creation (or the first man. after he was born, he shattered into 600,000 parts. each part corrects itself independently by equalizing itself with the creator. each and every creature must consciously go through that process. the correction of each part makes it possible to fill it with the light of the creator, meaning to feel the creator. the sensation that the creator fills you up is a new sensation. it is in that sensation that you will find the spiritual worlds. our goal is to be entirely filled up with the creator. however, as of now

sly go through that process. the correction of each part makes it possible to fill it with the light of the creator, meaning to feel the creator. the sensation that the creator fills you up is a new sensation. it is in that sensation that you will find the spiritual worlds. our goal is to be entirely filled up with the creator. however, as of now, our souls are in a state called this world, where the creator is not felt, but is concealed and hidden from them. when the soul perceives contact with the creator for the first time, it rises to its first spiritual degree. it then begins to make itself resemble the creator more and more, and thus feel him more and more t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 14 intensively. when all the parts are completely corrected, they will rise to a state

ses to its first spiritual degree. it then begins to make itself resemble the creator more and more, and thus feel him more and more t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 14 intensively. when all the parts are completely corrected, they will rise to a state defined as the end of correction. q: what will happen if humanity refuses to accept the purpose of creation and objects to its goal? will the creator have to destroy and recreate humanity? a: we have nothing to be afraid of, because even your question comes from the creator! man has but the ability to say, if i am not for me, who is for me? this means we must act as though the creator does not exist, and afterwards, when all is said and done, to ascribe everything to the creator, from the very first thought to the final act. everyth

ery first thought to the final act. everything is planned ahead. your entire path is set in advance. you are already in your final state; you just cannot feel it yet. all that depends on you is how fast you advance toward the goal. if you read more, the rest will follow. you will see that there is no other way. questions of the type you describe arise because we are weak and uncorrected. however, the creator sees the end and the beginning tied together as one; thus, there is no need for any further action. everything that happens, happens only inside us, as we eventually sense each occurrence. outside us, everything is permanent, perfect and eternal. t h e c o r r e c t i o n q: what is the correction, and who must be corrected? a: the desire to enjoy that was created by the creator is cal

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f reality is by studying kabbalah, since it is the only study that deals with the part of reality that humanity has yet to attain. but it is not enough to merely study the text because we are reading about the unknown. we must also direct ourselves to the right vision and be prepared for a truer, and as yet concealed, feeling. everything exists inside us. outside us there is only the upper force, the creator. we cannot feel him in any other way than by how he works on our sensory organs. only through these sensations can we guess anything about the creator. hence, the study of kabbalah must be correctly directed; thoughts must be focused on studying the inner attributes that we are still unable to see in ourselves. all the worlds, partzufim, sefirot, names, everything the kabbalah speaks o

worlds, partzufim, sefirot, names, everything the kabbalah speaks of, exists in us and will be revealed in us, depending on the degree of our correction. we will find our inner moses and aaron, king david and the angels, the evil, the righteous, and the degrees of attainment called jerusalem, the temple and more. every word in the torah speaks of our own forces and our levels of ability to sense the creator. that is the only topic of discussion of the torah. that is also the only thing we speak of in our daily lives, because we talk about our feelings. in fact, all we feel is the influence of the creator. everything around us is no more than the influence of the creator on each and every one of us. hence, to discern the actual picture of the world, we must find what we read inside us, as

n of our feelings and attributes, and our spiritual ascent. the best way to make progress is to study while remembering that these books actually speak of what is within me, that all this already exists somewhere inside me. all these worlds and partzufim are things that i must discover within. they are my own properties. the more we acquire control over these attributes, the more we will feel how the creator operates inside us. although we will never be able to feel him outside us, we will understand how he operates inside us because, by your actions we know you. and since we sit together as a group, studying our still-concealed real properties, we are collaborating in the study of how the creator operates inside us. we have a common goal, a common thought, and one area of experimentation

a common goal, a common thought, and one area of experimentation our own feelings. this results in a collective goal, thought, and desire that in time creates in the group the feeling of one body and common properties a feeling that there are no separate entities, but only one, man, and before him, the one creator. this thought must be directed inwardly toward changing our qualities in search of the creator within us. instead of the ordinary reading of the torah, we discover the torah as a spice, as a means for correction. it is also called a potion of life, for it pours into us the sensation of the creator, the light of eternity and wholeness. people who study from the wrong books are denied this remedy and remain with their properties. they do not discover the creator, and their torah b

ooks are denied this remedy and remain with their properties. they do not discover the creator, and their torah becomes dry, concealing the purpose of creation even more than before. t h e pa t h o f k a b b a l a h 12 c h a p t e r 1. 2 b e t w e e n c r e at o r a n d c r e at u r e the question, who am i? exists in everyone. but when that question can no longer be put aside, then it relates to the creator: who is he? this is because the creator is inside us, the source of the human self. hence, no matter how many times we ask ourselves, who am i? the question still relates to the creator. the self is a consequence. our desires, our every movement, everything we do is, in fact, created by the creator. the notion that everything we say and think, even when we speak of the creator and ours

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ve) hermetic order of the golden dawn 111 tongue-in-cheek well to hell story also appeared in the biblical archeology review. to the chagrin of the editors, many of their readers took the article seriously. upon investigation, it was found that the original finnish article was actually a letter to the editor, in which a reader had repeated an item he had picked up from a christian newsletter. and the creator of the report about luminous gasses congealing into a bat and words appearing in the sky eventually confessed to fabricating the incident as a way of demonstrating the gullibility of conservative christians. see also beast computer legend for further reading: robinson, b. a. christian urban legends. http//www.religioustolerance.org/chr_cul.htm. ship of fools. drilling to hell. http//sh

ya begs him for mercy: i am not capable of honoring nor of praising you, overlord of the gods, but please take pity on me, o god whose sole thought is compassion! the race of snakes into which i was born is a cruel one; this is its proper nature. but i am not at fault in this matter. for it is you who pour forth and absorb the whole world; classes, forms and natures have all been assigned by you, the creator (dimmitt and van buitenen 1978, 115) krishna responds by exiling kaliya from the yamuna river to the ocean, thereby implicitly acknowledging that even evil beings have a place in the world. according to the bhagavad gita, krishna, as the supreme lord himself, embraces all of life s contraries within himself including universal destructiveness. this destructiveness is vividly expressed

is 4,320,000 human years in duration. one thousand mahayugas, in turn, constitute a kalpa of 4,320,000,000 human years. the end of each kalpa also referred to as a day of brahma culminates in the dissolution of the cosmos and its return to a state of chaos. this state, referred to as pralaya, is symbolically represented by the image of a primordial ocean. pralaya the night of brahma during which the creator is said to sleep lasts as long as a day of brahma, or another 4,320,000,000 years. at the end of this night, the cosmos is recreated. lesser dissolutions recur at the end of every mahayuga. the dissolution of the cosmos into pralaya is not to be confused with the deluge and the accompanying universal flood that occurs fourteen times each kalpa at the end of temporal periods called manv

lady of endor coven, ophite cultus satanas, was founded by herbert arthur sloane of toledo, ohio, in 1948. it thus existed many years before the church of satan. the philosophy of our lady of endor coven is based on gnosticism. the demioxford golden dawn occult society 201 urge is the lower, creator god. satanas is the messenger of the god beyond, who told eve of the existence of a god beyond god the creator of the cosmos. the god beyond takes part in this world only in that he is entrapped in matter in the form of the divine within humanity, and his only concern is the return of the divine within humanity, which can be accomplished through gnosis, occult knowledge. satanism, believed to be the oldest religion, dates back to the worship of the horned god. it differs from witchcraft in that

e world by imposing order on a primordial chaos. because the original chaos is watery (the shawnee term for the primordial condition seems to be related to other words that refer to watery expanses, these two types of creation share certain points in common. in both kinds of stories water is an ambivalent symbol representing creative potency as well as threat of chaos. after creation is complete, the creator warns the first people that even i myself do not know how long this place where you live will survive. and the reason i do not know is this: the world will survive as long as you interpret correctly the way i created you (cited in voegelin and yegerlehner 1957, 57. interpreting the way means, for the shawnee people, adhering to the laws a specific body of oral literature that articulat

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limbs of yoga. and so shalt thou come to the end. n the book of wisdom or folly 17 p de clavicula somniorum (of the key of dreams) nd now concerning meditation let me disclose unto thee more fully the mystery of the key of dreams and phantasies. learn first that as the thought of the mind standeth before the soul and hindereth its manifestation in consciousness, so also the gross physical will is the creator of the dreams of common men, and as in meditation thou doest destroy every thought by mating it with its opposite, so must thou cleanse thyself by a full and perfect satisfaction of that bodily will in the way of chastity and holiness which has been revealed unto thee in thy initiation. this inner silence of the body being attained, it may be that the true will may speak in true dreams

us epistolae (of the nature of this epistle) my son, in this letter have i written the name of my own nature, its law, its quality, its will and its appurtenance or ornament. for it is the child of my love toward thee, and the expression through mine art of my will so far as that regardeth thee. now every child is made of the essence of his father, so that every creation is a likeness or image of the creator, but modified by the mother, that is to say, the material whereon he begetteth it. so then this letter is a projection of mine own star in a mirror, to wit, mine idea in hy regard; and it shall be unto thee as a clear vision of thy father, and of the word of the on that he hath uttered unto man. but also, because this word is the formula of the on, that is the law of its changes or phe

ng of thee, beyond by-coming, and i cry aloud my word, as it was given unto man by thine uncle alcofribas nasier, the oracle of the bottle of bacbuc, and this word is trinc. but in the antient right spelling this is trinu whereof the number is the number of the name of me thy father! to wit, six hundred and three score and six. love is the law, love under will. 666. an. xiv! in a= in a a notes by the creator of this electronic edition do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. liber aleph was written over the winter 1917-18 and first advertised for publication in the .pr monstrance of a.a. in equinox iii (1. it is addressed to charles stansfeld jones, frater achad (o.i.v, parzival, o.i.v.v.i.o, arct on &c, who had not long previously taken the oath of the abyss and declared himself 8

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of increase numbered 33, which reign in the second angle? under whom i have placed 9639: whom none hath yet numbered, but one; in whom the second beginnings of things are and wax strong, which also successively are the numbers of time: and their powers are as the first 456. arise! you sons of pleasure! and visit the earth: for i am the lord your god; which is and liveth (for ever! in the name of the creator, move! and shew yourselves as pleasant deliverers, that you may praise him among the sons of men [invokes: hcoma; the whole tablet of water. the angle of c of c. the queen of the thrones of water] the forty-eight keys or calls 26 the opening of the temple in the grade of 1 =108 give the sign of the god set fighting. purify with fire and water, and announce .the temple is cleansed [knoc

rein the lord hath opened his mouth; and they are become as 28 living dwellings in whom the strength of man rejoiceth; and they are apparelled with ornaments of brightness, such as work wonders on all creatures. whose kingdoms and continuance are as the third and fourth strong towers and places of comfort, the seats of mercy and continuance. o ye servants of mercy, move! appear! sing praises unto the creator; and be mighty among us. for that to this remembrance is given power, and our strength waxeth strong in our comforter! the angle of c of d in the tablet of d the queen of the thrones of air. the eighth key bazodemelo i ta pi-ripesonu olanu na-zodavabebe ox. casaremeji varanu cahisa vaugeji asa berameji balatoha: goho iad. soba miame tarianu ta lolacis abaivoninu od azodiajiere riore. i

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y any qabalist argues a bankruptcy of ingenuity beyond belief. in all conscience, it is easy enough to fake identities by less obviously card-sharping methods! 2. notariqon. the absurdity of this method needs little indication. the most unsophisticated can draw pity and amusement from mr mathers. jew, converted by the notariqons of .berashith. true, f.i.a.t. is flatus, ignis, aqua, terra; showing the creator as tetragrammaton, the synthesis of the four elements; showing the eternal fiat as the equilibrated powers of nature. but what forbits fecit ignavus animam terrae,36 or any other convenient blasphemy, such as buddha would applaud? why not take our converted jew and restore him to the ghetto with ben, ruach, ab, sheol!.ihvh, thora?37 why not take the sacred 'icquj of the christian who t

e attribution of \yhla to the pentagram which gives p [see .a note on genesis, equinox, no. ii. p. 184] here we write elohim, the creative deities, round a pentagram, and read it reverse beginning with l, g, the letter of equilibrium, and obtain an approximation to p 3.1415 (good enough for the benighted hebrew, as if thereby the finite square of creation was assimilated to the infinite circle of the creator. yes: but why should not berashith 2, 2, 1, 3, 1, 4, give, say, e?40 the only answer is, that if you screw it round long enough, it perhaps will! the rational table of tziruph should, we agree with fra. p, be left to the rationalist press association, and we may present the irregular table of commutations to irregular masons. 4. to the less important methods we may apply the same criti

e is a magical operation to be carried out by the aspirant. part ii the universe as we seek to make it in the first part we have seen all numbers as veils of the one, emanations of and therefore corruptions of the one. it is the universe as we know it, the static universe. now the aspirant to magic is displeased with this state of things. he finds himself but a creature, the farthest removed from the creator, a number so complex and involved that he can scarcely imagine, much less dare to hope for, its reduction to the one. the numbers useful to him, therefore, will be those which are subversive of this state of sorrow. so the number 2 represents to him the magus (the great magician mayan who has created the illusion of maya) as seen in the 2nd aethyr. and considering himself as the ego wh

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

so portentous? in scene ii. we have another taste of kent.s gentlemanly demeanour; let our conventionalist interpreters defend this unwarrantable bullying if they dare! another might be so gross, so cowardly; but not our greatest poet! a good portion of this play, as will be shown later, is devoted to a bitter assault upon the essentially english notion that the pugilist is the supreme device of the creator for furthering human happiness (see .cashel byron.s pro-fession. for a similar, though more logical and better-worded, attack) coarse and violent language continues to disgrace lear.s follower; only gloucester, the unconscionable ass and villian of scene i, has a word to say in his defence. in scene iii. we have a taste of edgar.s quality. had this despicable youth the consciosness of

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

according to voluspa, ask (the first human man) and embla (the first human woman) were found on shore, capable of little and fateless. odin, hoenir, and lodur endowed them with the various qualities they needed to live. odin gave breath or spirit, hoenir gave mental faculties or voice, and lodur gave blood, ruddiness, or vital warmth and good coloring. snorri adds some details and changes others. the creator gods, according to snorri, are the sons of bor (elsewhere bur).odin, vili, and ve.who find two pieces of wood on the seashore and fashion them into humans. one of bor fs sons gives spirit and life; the second, mind and movement; the third, appearance, speech, hearing, and vision. the sons of bor also gave these vivified pieces of wood clothing and their names, ask and embla, and from t

is o, which ordinarily means gpoetry h and is in fact identical with the first syllable of odin fs name and with that of the shadowy god od. in his version of the creation of humans in gylfaginning, however, snorri refers to wit and movement or possibly emotion at this point, and therefore some observers think o. has that meaning when hoenir gives it to the proto-humans. however, snorri says that the creators were the sons of bor, and there is no reason to think that that group deities, themes, and concepts 179 included hoenir. what he gave to the first man and woman must remain a mystery, but if it is poetry, we must imagine a very close connection between odin and hoenir. there is also a close connection with loki. thjodolf of hvin fs haustlong, one of the oldest skaldic poems, refers to

lodur is found only in the version of cosmogony preserved in voluspa. three asir have found ask and embla on the land, fateless and capable of little. in stanza 19, odin, hoenir, and lodur endow them with three characteristics. lodur fs gift is blood, ruddiness, or vital warmth, and also good coloring. in the gylfaginning section of his edda, snorri sturluson adds some details and changes others. the creator gods in his version are the sons of bor (i.e, odin, vili, and ve. the third, who is structurally equivalent to lodur, gives appearance, speech, hearing, and vision. except in the odin kenning glodur fs friend, h lodur is unknown, and the etymology is unclear. many attempts have been made to understand lodur as an alternate name for some other god, most often loki. the main argument in

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY

e spirit of the 93 current that brings love and positive self-growth through magick. the word magick itself is defined as ascending. lucifer is prometheus, the one who brought the fire of imagination to mankind. lucifer is known in the witches sabbat covens as the egyptian god set, the lord of storms and chaos and the bearer of the black flame. thus, lucifer revealed, is the initiator by fire and the creator of the left hand path. lucifer, as being the shadow form of our imagination, thus shaitan the adversary, gives us the ability to open the gates of self-initiation through the witches sabbat mysteries. 4 we are required to have the individual love of self, strength and determination to pass through the long winding path of the sorcerer. our goal is to become and achieve through the proc

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

roposition that living organisms were designed by a supreme intelligence and not by natural, undirected phenomena. by definition, such a notion calls upon a creator. since most if not all supporters of id in the united states are, to our knowledge, adherents to the christian faith, this creator should then be named god (although a facetious, irreverent, and widely popular web site postulates that the creator, the designer, is in fact a giant flying spaghetti monster. in the view of id supporters, god created all life-forms pretty much as they exist today, and these life-forms did not evolve did not change over time in any appreciable way because they are irreducibly complex. the fixed nature of living species is already claimed and inferred in the first book of the bible, genesis. the prin

lace. this distinguishes id from old-style creationism. also, proponents of id no longer invoke the concept of a young earth intentionally created to look old and thus fool naive scientists, or claims that human footprints were found in texas running side by side with dinosaur tracks. in this sense, id has veered away from a literal interpretation of genesis but has kept intact the concept of god the creator of unchangeable species. needless to say, mixing biblical concepts with seemingly scientific ones squarely clashes with scientific evolution, where god plays no obvious or immediate role and where species do change over time. but there is more. in its attacks against mainstream science, id tries to make the case that non-id scientists cannot (or are unwilling to) distinguish between fa

s indistinguishable from its american counterparts. christianity has never made significant inroads in india, and it is likely that christian creationists will not be any more successful than were traditional missionaries. one can see that in hinduism there is little, if any, conflict between creation and evolution. for one thing, hinduism can easily reconcile the idea of creation (through brahma the creator) with that of change (evolution) as represented by the 10 incarnations (dash avatars) of vishnu, the protector. in addition, as a colleague from hindu india pointed out, the idea of humans descending from a long line of animal ancestors would not be a problem in hinduism, where there is such a high value on animal life and some animals (cows, for example) are considered sacred. one gre

he existence of young fossils (see chapter 4, and that cyanobacteria are a very old species, as confirmed by the very old fossils of stromatolites where these bacteria proliferated. detractors of these methods one based on paleontology and the other one based on genetics have been remarkably silent, other than saying that evolution of the dna world 151 all of this is impossible or wrong, and that the creator (or the intelligent designer) just made everything look that way. the structure and origin of eukaryotes let us now turn our attention to newcomers: the complex cells and organisms called eukaryotes. in addition to prokaryotes, the living world is also composed of eukaryotes, a category of organisms that includes amoebas, sponges, ferns, oak trees, zebras, and humans. these organisms r

reationist movement is highly factionalized. among several other factions, one distinguishes what we call classical creationists, who believe in a young earth and the full fixity of species. these people reject all scientific evidence supporting a very old age for earth and the evolution of species. other creationists accept the findings of physical science pointing to an old earth but argue that the creator made a young earth look old. and finally, some id supporters those we call neocreationists accept the scientific fact that earth is old but reject evolution, save some minor evolutionary changes that they wrongly qualify as mere adaptation. modern creationism might, then, eventually self-destruct thanks to its internal tensions. but this is not something we should count on. rather, the

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

estament is a god of vengeance and destruction, while the god of the new testament is a god of love and forgiveness. many of the people who make this point seem to be seeking to advance some ideas of their own about which is better, but i think it would be a mistake to dismiss the god of vengeance. after all, such a deity is found in many places. the hindu deity, for example, has the qualities of the creator, the sustainer, and the destroyer. perhaps the old and new testaments should be read together. if we accept this idea, then we are faced with the question "what does god destroy" from the neo-platonic point of view, the answer is "when one is conscious of the divine presence, that presence (god) destroys everything unlike itself" that is because, from the neo-platonic point of view, go

MAGIC AND SPELLS

cabals had a hand in creating the multitude of hidden doorways riddling faerun. magic of this sort is unusually durable, and often survives for centuries-or millennia-after its creators have vanished. into history or lost any use for their handiwork. accordingly, the workings of portals are mysterious and unpredictable. each one is built for a reason, but all too often these reasons are lost when the creator passes into history or obscurity. portals share some common features and qualities. all portals are two-dimensional areas, usually a circle with a radius of up to 15 f eet, but sometimes square, rectangular, or another shape. the portal itself is intangible and invisible. portals often come in pairs or networks. a single portal is a oneway trip. there must be a matching portal at the d

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

t body heaps every form of sorrow and misery upon the imprisoned consciousness. the waters of life--the secret doctrine--cure the diseases of ignorance; and the spirit, ascending again to its divine source, regains its god-given adornments as it passes upward through the rings of the planets. another mystery ritual among the babylonians and assyrians was that of merodach and the dragon. merodach, the creator of the inferior universe, slays a horrible monster and out of her body forms the universe. here is the probable source of the so-called christian allegory of st. george and the dragon. the mysteries of adonis, or adoni, were celebrated annually in many parts of egypt, phoenicia, and biblos. the name adonis, or adoni, means "lord" and was a designation applied to the sun and later borro

named after the deities assigned to them. the fixed stars were divided into constellations, and through these constellations wandered the sun and its planets, the latter with their accompanying satellites. the solar trinity the sun, as supreme among the celestial bodies visible to the astronomers of antiquity, was assigned to the highest of the gods and became symbolic of the supreme authority of the creator himself. from a deep philosophic consideration of the powers and principles of the sun has come the concept of the trinity as it is understood in the world today. the tenet of a triune divinity is not peculiar to christian or mosaic theology, but forms a conspicuous part of the dogma of the greatest religions of both ancient and modern times. the persians, hindus, babylonians, and egyp

y is obvious to anyone who will observe the daily manifestations of the sun. this orb, being the symbol of all light, has three distinct phases: rising, midday, and setting. the philosophers therefore divided the life of all things into three distinct parts: growth, maturity, and decay. between the twilight of dawn and the twilight of evening is the high noon of resplendent glory. god the father, the creator of the world, is symbolized by the dawn. his color is blue, because the sun rising in the morning is veiled in blue mist. god the son he illuminating one sent to bear witness of his father before all the worlds, is the celestial globe at noonday, radiant and magnificent, the maned lion of judah, the golden-haired savior of the world. yellow is his color and his power is without end. go

r gazers" assigned aries as a diurnal throne and scorpio as a nocturnal throne. those not raised to spiritual life by initiation are described as "dead from the sting of a scorpion" for they wander in the night side of divine power. through the mystery of the paschal lamb, or the attainment of the golden fleece, these soul are raised into the constructive day power of mars in aries--the symbol of the creator. when worn over the area related to the animal passions, the pure lambskin signifies the regeneration of the procreative forces and their consecration to the service of the deity. the size of the apron, exclusive of the flap, makes it the symbol of salvation, for the mysteries declare that it must consist of 144 square inches. the apron shown above contains a wealth of symbolism: the b

he seven sacred vowels. the first heaven uttered the sound of the sacred vowel a (alpha; the second heaven, the sacred vowel e (epsilon; the third, h (eta; the fourth, i (iota; the fifth, o (omicron; the sixth, u (upsilon; and the seventh heaven, the sacred vowel w (omega. when these seven heavens sing together they produce a perfect harmony which ascends as an everlasting praise to the throne of the creator (see iren us' against heresies) although not so stated, it is probable that the planetary heavens are to be considered as ascending in the pythagorean order, beginning with the sphere of the moon, which would be the first heaven. many early instruments had seven strings, and it is generally conceded that pythagoras was the one who added the eighth string to the lyre of terpander. the s

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 1

the earth, began to weep, and striking his breast, said: what have i deserved (above others, seeing that so many men can neither understand nor interpret this knowledge, even though there were no secret thing in nature which the lord hath hidden from me! wherefore are these words so obscure? wherefore am i so ignorant? and then on his bended knees, stretching his hands to heaven, he said: o god, the creator of all, thou who knowest all things, who gavest so great wisdom unto solomon the son of david the king; grant unto me, i beseech thee, o holy omnipotent and ineffable father, to receive the virtue of that wisdom, so that i may become worthy by thine aid to attain unto the understanding of this key of secrets. and immediately there appeared unto me, the angel the lord, saying: do thou r

ven in a flame of fire. then ioh was glad, and labouring with a clear mind, understood that which the angel of the lord had said, and he saw that the key of solomon was changed, so that it appeared quite clear unto him plainly in all parts. and ioh understood that this work might fall into the hands of the ignorant, and he said: i conjure him into whose hands this secret may come, by the power of the creator, and his wisdom, that in all things he may, desire, intend and perform, that this treasure may come unto no unworthy (person, nor may he manifest it unto any who is unwise, nor unto one the key of solomon page 6 who feareth not god. because if he act otherwise i pray god that he may never be worthy to attain unto the desired effect. and so he deposited the key, which solomon preserved

and let one of the companions hold the book open before the master, who, raising his eyes to heaven, and turning unto the four quarters of the universe, shall say: o lord, be thou unto me a tower of strength against the appearance and assault of the evil spirits. after this, turning towards the four quarters of the universe, he shall say the following words: these be the symbols and the names of the creator, which can bring terror and fear unto you. obey me then, by the power of these holy names, and by these mysterious symbols of the secret of secrets. the which being said and done, thou shalt see them draw near and approach from all parts. but if they be hindered, detained, or occupied in some way, and so that they cannot come, or if they are unwilling to come, then, the suffumigations

ction, murmurs, blasphemies, vain words, insults, dissimulations; my sins against god by the transgression of the ten commandments, by neglect of my duties and obligations, and by want of love towards god and towards my neighbour. furthermore i hate the sins which i have committed in all my senses, by sight, by hearing, by taste, by smell, and by touch, in every way that human weakness can offend the creator; by my carnal thoughts, deeds, and meditations. book one page 23 in which i humbly confess that i have sinned, and recognise myself as being in the sight of god the most criminal of all men. i accuse myself before thee, o god, and i adore thee with all humility. o ye, holy angels, and ye, children of god, in your presence i publish my sins, so that mine enemy may have no advantage over

ring, subduing, and reproving the spirits. then the master, turning towards each quarter of the earth, and raising his eyes to heaven, shall say: o lord, be thou unto me a strong tower of refuge, from the sight and assaults of the evil spirits. after which let him turn again towards the four quarters of the earth, and towards each let him utter the following words: behold the symbols and names of the creator, which give unto ye forever terror and fear. obey then, by the virtue of these holy names, and by these mysteries of mysteries. after this he shall see the spirits come from every side. but in case they are occupied in some other place, or that they cannot come, or that they are unwilling to come: then let him commence afresh to invoke them after the following manner, and let the exorc

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 2

racters (see figure 60. having entered into the circle to perform the experiment, he should sound his trumpet towards the four quarters of the universe, first towards the east, then towards the south, then towards the west, and lastly towards the north. then let him say: hear ye, and be ye ready, in whatever part of the universe ye may be, to obey the voice of god the mighty one, and the names of the creator. we let you know by this signal and sound that ye will be convoked hither, wherefore hold ye yourselves in readiness to obey our commands. this being done let the master complete his work, renew the circle, and make the incensements and fumigations. figure 59. figure 60. the key of solomon page 98 chapter viii. of the knife, sword, sickle, poniard, dagger, lance, wand, staff, and other

ther circle at a foot distance with the aforesaid instrument, yet ever leaving therein an open space for entrance and egress corresponding to the open space already left in the other. beyond this again make another circle at another foot distance, and beyond these two circles, which are beyond the circle of art yet upon the same centre, thou shalt describe pentagrams with the symbols and names of the creator therein so that they may surround the circle already described. without these circles shalt thou circumscribe a square, and beyond that another square, so that the angles of the former may touch the centres of the sides of the latter, and that the angles of the latter may stretch towards the four quarters of the universe, east, west, north, and south; and at the four angles of each squ

us of its mother. take whichsoever of these two classes of animals thou pleasest, provided only that it be male, and in the day and hour of mercury; and take it to a secret place where no man may see thee at work. thou shalt have a marsh-reed cut at a single stroke with a new knife, and thou shalt strip from it the leaves, repeating this conjuration: the conjuration of the reed. i conjure thee by the creator of all things, and by the king of angels, whose name is el shaddai, that thou receivest strength and virtue to flay this animal and to construct the parchment whereon i may write the holy names of god, and that it may acquire so great virtue that all which i shall write or do may obtain its effect, through him who liveth unto the eternal ages. amen. before cutting the reed recite psalm

hed thou shalt say: i conjure thee. o instrument of steel, by god the father almighty, by the virtue of the heavens, of the stars, and of the angels who preside over them; by the virtue of stones, herbs, and animals; by the virtue of hail, snow, and wind; that thou receivest such virtue that thou mayest obtain without deceit the end which i desire in all things where i shall use thee; through god the creator of the ages, and emperor of the angels. amen. afterwards repeat psalms iii; ix; xxxi; xlii; lx; li; cxxx. perfume it with the perfumes of the art, and sprinkle it with exorcised water, wrap it in silk and say: dani, zumech, agalmaturod, gadiel, pani, caneloas, merod, gamidoi, baldoi, metator, angels most holy, be present for a guard unto this instrument. the key of solomon page 118 cha

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 3

ld wheresoever you be& show thyself visibly& plainly in this crystal stone to the light of mine eyes, speaking with a voice intelligible& to my understanding& that you would be favorably pleased that i may have thy familiar friendship& constant society both now and at all times when i shall call thee forth to visible appearance, to inform& direct me in all things that shall seem good& lawful unto the creator& thee, o thou great& powerful angel samael i invocate adjure command& most powerfully call you forth from your orders& places of residence to visible appearance in& through these great& mighty incomprehensible signall& divine name of the great god who wast, is& ever shall be, adonay zebaoth, adonay amioram, hagios aglaon tetragrammaton& by& in the name primeumaton which commandeth the

MEANING OF MASONRY

fe being but a parenthesis in the midst of eternity. but upon entering this world, the soul must needs assume material form; in other words it takes upon itself a physical body to enable it to enter into relations with the physical world, and to perform the functions appropriate to it in this particular phase of its career. need i say that the physical form with which we have all been invested by the creator upon our entrance into this world, and of which we shall all divest ourselves when we leave the lodge of this life, is represented among us by our masonic apron? this, our body of mortality, this veil of flesh and blood clothing the inner soul of us, this is the real" badge of innocence" the common" bond of friendship" with which the great architect has been pleased to invest us all: t

nature is a combination of soul and body; the three-sided emblem at the top added to the four-sided emblem beneath making seven, the perfect number; for, as it is written in an ancient hebrew doctrine with which masonry is closely allied" god blessed and loved the number seven more than all things under his throne" by which is mea nt that man, the seven-fold being, is of the most cherished of all the creator's works. and hence also it is that the lodge has seven principal officers, and that a lodge, to be perfect, requires the presence of seven brethren; though the deeper meaning of this phrase is that the individual man, in virtue of his seven-fold constitution, in himself constitutes the" perfect lodge" if he will but know himself and analyse his own nature aright. to each of us also fro

h, breadth, height and depth of his own being. by their help, too, he will perceive that he himself, his body and his soul, are" holy ground" upon which he should build the altar of his own spiritual life, an altar deeper which he should suffer no" iron tool" no debasing habit of thought or conduct, to defile. by them, of too, he will perceive how wisdom, strength and beauty have been employed by the creator, like three grand supporting pillars, in the structure of his own organism. and by these finally he will discern how that there is a mystical" ladder of many rounds or staves" i.e, that there are innumerable paths or methods by means of which men are led upwards to the spiritual light encircling us all, and in which we live and move and have our being, but that of the three principal m

d. now the hebrew word hiram means guru, teacher of" supreme knowledge" divine light and wisdom, and the liberty that comes therewith. but this knowledge is only for the perfected man. it is that knowledge that hiram said was" kno wn to but three in the world" i.e, known only in the counsels of the divine trinity, but it is knowledge that with patience and perseverance every mason, every child of the creator" may in due time become entitled to a participation in" but just as adam and eve's attempt to obtain illicit knowledge caused their expulsion from eden and defeated the divine purpose until they and their posterity should regain the paradise they had lost, so also the completion of the great mystical temple was prevented for the time being by the conspirators' attempt to extort from hi

ience coming to consciousness in him; otherwise all ceremonial initiation will be with out a vail and he will fail even to understand the external symbols and allegories of it (2) the square, resting upon the sacred volume, is the symbol of the human soul as it was generated out of the divine word which underlies it. that soul was created" square" perfect, and like everything which proceeded from the creator's hand was originally pronounced" very good" though invested with freedom of choice and capacity for error. the builder's square, however, used as a craft symbol, is really an approximation of a triangle with its apex downwards and base upwards, which is a very ancient symbol of the soul and psychic constitution of man and is known as the water triangle (3) the compasses interlaced wit

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

wild places and prey off the people.the romances have the same refrain wherever they are found. all speak of the banishedhybrids, living on islands or under the earth. is this a mere story that is put before us? was itall just creative license? grendel this monster grim was called,march-river mighty, in moorland living,in fen and fastness; fief of the giantsthe hapless wight a while had keptsince the creator his exile doomed.on kin of cain was the killing avengedby sovran god for slaughtered abel.ill fared his feud, and far was he driven,for the slaughter's sake, from sight of men.of cain awoke all that woful breed,etins and elves and evil-spirits,as well as the giants that warred with godweary while: but their wage was paid them!(beowulf- prelude, episode 1) old world disorder22atlantis

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

ah? is there not inconsistency there also? if he, jehovah, is in reality the only god or the only real god, then why the constantremonstrations about worshipping other gods. what would jehovah have to fear? is itthe free will of people that is remonstrated against? according to conventional interpretations, does he not banish satan and human sin-ners to perpetual agony in hell? satan could not be the creator of hell, for nowheredoes it say that he was, and if he was, why would he stay in it? is jehovah not the cre-ator of both evil and hell? nowhere in the text does it state the contrary. and if god isgood, why send any of his creations to everlasting perdition for any reason? why notjust destroy that entity, since, according to genesis, this is what was done to the firstcreation. surely

oluminous instructions that were transmitted. entire societies were established inrespect of this purpose. the controversialadepts and alumni, such as william black-house, elias ashmole, robert boyle, tom-masso de campanella, cagliostro, comte st.germain, sir kenelm digby, corneliusdrebbel, robert fludd, casinova, nostroda-mus, machiavelli, cornelius agrippa, etc.,were more often than not, either the creators,or the members, of so-called invisible col-leges, and often in the employ of the plutoc-r a c y, t h e s e l f- n a m e d b l a c k v e n e t i a n s. stargazer the living macroscope88atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation eventually, it was realized that no single scholar or group could hope to unravel thecomplex data in one lifetime and that for many centuries scholars

ic event. the day was the second in the so-calleddog dayswhich begin on july 3. the dog days are so-called because they refer to the risingof the star sirius.this emphasis on the star sirius is singular since a name of the monarch of atlantis, posei-don, comes from the syllable po, meaning sirius and don meaning lord. even more sugges-tively, poseidon was the god of earthquakes and was said to be the creator of men. sirius also played a part in the moon landing of apollo 11. it appears that the eagle landedwhen the light from this star was the brightest. the landing also took place in july, when sir-ius is rising and visible from earth. ovason reveals that before the cameras filmed the atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation99 serpents in the streets official placing of the am

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

a decadent humanity. man s greed unleashed a torrent of water from a egg that can be paralleled to a pandora s box. only one man, kranyatz, survived this flood by hanging on to a grape vine. the people of southeast asia say that a flood consumed all of humanity, save a small number of men and women aboard a raft. the mandan s, a native american tribe, tell the story of lone man who, together with the creator, fashioned the earth and humanity. lone man, who was very much a savior figure, entered the world of man because he saw that humanity was plagued by evil spirits. in order to enter our world, however, lone man needed to be borne from the womb of a virgin mother. one day a virgin girl was eating corn, so lone man transformed himself into a kernel of corn which the virgin girl ate and be

d some other birds tezpi released. finally, he released a hummingbird, which did return with a branch in its mouth, confirming for tezpi the presence of dry land. tezpi, his family, and a multitude of animals depart from the ship and repopulate the earth. in the popol vuh, the sacred stories of the mayans, the great god created humans by carving them from wood. but soon humanity lost the grace of the creator because they had forgotten him, so he sent a huge flood to consume disobedient humanity. only a single couple, dubbed the great father and mother, survived this cataclysm to repopulate the earth. the chibca people of columbia tell the story of a man name bochica, who came upon them long ago. he was an old man of a different race than the chibcas, and sported a long, thick beard. he tau

characters from the bible have corresponding names in greek mythology. but even though the characters correspond, the perspective of villains and heroes appears to have been inverted; as though retold through the eyes of a modern day satanist. in greek mythology, zeus is the tyrant lord of mount olympus, who is promiscuous, jealous, and a rapist. whereas prometheus, who is azazel and lucifer, is the creator and champion of mankind, highly intelligent, and can easily deceive zeus. i can t believe it s not fiction: zeus and hades heracles (2001) clash of the titans (2010) hidden history [1.6] mythology isn t the only vector by which we can reconstruct history. evidence of a more temporal form exists for those whose tastes are more technical. this evidence involves the manner in which ancien

MORALS AND DOGMA

, which enlightens the earth, and by its genial influence dispenses blessings to mankind" they called it also in the same lectures, an emblem of prudence. the word _prudentia_ means, in its original and fullest signification _foresight; and, accordingly, the blazing star has been regarded as an emblem of omniscience, or the all-seeing eye, which to the egyptian initiates was the emblem of osiris, the creator. with the yod in the centre, it has the kabalistic meaning of the divine energy, manifested as light, creating the universe. the jewels of the lodge are said to be six in number. three are called"_movable" and three"_immovable" the square, the level, and the plumb were anciently and properly called the movable jewels, because they pass from one brother to another. it is a modern innova

ple comprehend force in the physical sense, how much more do they reverence the intellectual! ask hildebrand, or luther, or loyola. they fall prostrate before it, as before an idol. the mastery of mind over mind is the only conquest worth having. the other injures both, and dissolves at a breath; rude as it is, the great cable falls down and snaps at last. but this dimly resembles the dominion of the creator. it does not need a subject like that of peter the hermit. if the stream be but bright and strong, it will sweep like a spring-tide to the popular heart. not in word only, but in intellectual act lies the fascination. it is the homage to the invisible. this power, knotted with love, is the golden chain let down into the well of truth, or the invisible chain that binds the ranks of mank

they are involved in its commission, and cannot be separated from it. a wrong done to another is an injury done to our own nature, an offence against our own souls, a disfiguring of the image of the beautiful and good. punishment is not the execution of a sentence, but the occurrence of an effect. it is ordained to follow guilt, not by the decree of god as a judge, but by a law enacted by him as the creator and legislator of the universe. it is not an arbitrary and artificial annexation, but an ordinary and logical consequence; and therefore must be borne by the wrong-doer, and through him may flow on to others. it is the decision of the infinite justice of god, in the form of law. there can be no interference with, or remittance of, or protection from, the natural effects of our wrongful

not hold a higher place in our affections than the seen and the familiar. the law of our being is love of life, and its interests and adornments; love of the world in which our lot is cast, engrossment with the interests and affections of earth. not a low or sensual love; not love of wealth, of fame, of ease, of power, of splendor. not low worldliness; but the love of earth as the garden on which the creator has lavished such miracles of beauty; as the habitation of humanity, the arena of its conflicts, the scene of its illimitable progress, the dwelling-place of the wise, the good, the active, the loving, and the dear; the place of opportunity for the development by means of sin and suffering and sorrow, of the noblest passions, the loftiest virtues, and the tenderest sympathies. they tak

mity. he believes that his individual good entered into god's consideration, as well as the great cardinal results to which the course of all things is tending. thus believing, he has attained an eminence in virtue, the highest, amid _passive_ excellence, which humanity can reach. he finds his reward and his support in the reflection that he is an unreluctant and self-sacrificing co-operator with the creator of the universe; and in the noble consciousness of being worthy and capable of so sublime a conception, yet so sad a destiny. he is then truly entitled to be called a grand elect, perfect, and sublime mason. he is content to fall early in the battle, if his body may but form a stepping-stone for the future conquests of humanity. it cannot be that god, who, we are certain, is perfectly

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

ities that homosexuals attribute to masculinity are nothing but psychological transference. women, who are much more qualified to judge, like men to be gentle and considerate. they want men to be strong, and hard, and even harsh, of course-but they want to feel an underlying basis of qualities which homosexuals are inclined to attribute to the female. in jewish theology there is no woman concept. the creator is 'all boy; and one must surmise that he produced the universe through some astounding feat of male parthenogenesis. these homosexual tendencies reflect themselves in the harsh intolerance of mosaic law towards women. wives are chattels. women are not admitted to worship. adulteresses are stoned to death. these 'super-male (sin is nothing of the sort, of course; he is an 'under-male)

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

ith 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 fresh, new creation will arise. the flood just as many mythologies look forw

atar, matsya (see p. 110. flood myths can be found in peru and in china, among the australian aboriginals and in many native american cultures, including the mandan myth of lone man (see p. 94. even in the 19th century, folklorists could still collect in serbia a cycle of slavonic myths about the great flood from which the sole survivor kranyatz was preserved by the trickster god of wine, kurent. the creator one thing that all mythologies agree on is that the world was created by the deliberate act of a divine being, and that men and women were created especially to live in it. in the mandan creation myth, first creator and lone man send a mudhen down to fetch sand from the bottom of the primeval flood, in order to make the land. the ainu of japan tell how the creator kamui sent a water wa

mortar from the bottom, and put it on the top. when they did so, the whole pile collapsed, killing them all. so the lesser gods, the abosom, act as intermediaries between the sky god and humanity. often, as with the yoruba god of fate, eshu (see pp. 86 87, such intermediaries may be tricksters who introduce an element of chance, play, and humor into humanity s relationship with the gods. obatala, the creator, is hymned by the yoruba as the father of laughter, who rests in the sky like a swarm of bees. the mandans believe that first creator actually turned into the trickster god coyote. such tricksters, whose mischief may lead them into wickedness, are found throughout mythology, from the greek dionysus to the norse loki to the japanese susano (see pp. 58, 69, and 123. but another theme is

s vishnu, the hindu preserver of the world, to take on his many avatar forms in order to help humanity in times of crisis. his final avatar, kalkin, the white horse, will appear at the end of this era, to usher in a new age. the great mother creator gods tend to be male, but much of the work of creation may be delegated to a goddess. for example, among the keres of the american southwest, utsiti, the creator god, who made the world from a clot of his own blood, sent his daughter iatiku with her sister to make the earth fruitful. iatiku sends her son to lead the people up into this world, and then iatiku and her sister sing a creation song, all the while casting seeds and images of their song out of a basket given them by spider woman (see p. 93. we still talk of mother earth. native americ

tead. when zeus was grown, he asked to be made cronos cup-bearer. he mixed his father a powerful emetic, causing him to vomit up both the stone and the five older children. zeus then led his brothers and sisters to war against the titans whom they defeated and confined to tartarus in the underworld. thereafter, zeus reigned supreme among the gods. prometheus 24 prometheus prometheus, a titan, was the creator of humankind, whom he made out of clay and water. although he and his brother epimetheus sided with the olympian god zeus (roman jupiter) during the war of the titans (see box, prometheus relationship with zeus was uneasy because zeus thought him wily and, being mortal, more loyal to humankind than to the gods. in an argument over which parts of an animal should be sacrificed to the go

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

hen certainly, the result of doing hitbonenut is righteousness, truth and the knowledge of g-d. the purpose of hitbonenut thus far we have discussed what hitbonenut is and have given the material which one is to contemplate. one question remains, perhaps the most important question of all. what is the purpose of hitbonenut? the answer is quite simple. the ultimate purpose of hitbonenut is to know the creator, who is the truth of what is, and to come close to him. a person may live his entire life in darkness, sunken in the transient pleasures of this lowly physical world and following paths that lead to nowhere, without having questioned why he is here and how he is here. because he does not seek truth, his life flies by without his having fulfilled the purpose of his existence. he might n

ne does not know. certainly, the only reaction can be one of indifference. those who fall into this category are no better than trained animals which have been taught to act in a certain way. certainly, they cannot be regarded as human beings, since what distinguishes man from beast is his intellect, and though they have been endowed with it, they make no use of it. they do not ponder the ways of the creator, and of all existence. they do not ask themselves "where did all this come from" and "what is the purpose of our existence. even if, occasionally, they have fleeting thoughts pertaining to lofty matters, it is completely external and does not penetrate and affect their way of life whatsoever. this type of "service" is not divine service at all. people of this type have no love and fear

hose who serve g-d with their bodies. 3) the third level of excitement is the essential arousal and excitement of the divine soul itself, as it becomes revealed (this means the whole of the divine soul, not just a ray from it) this comes about when he grasps and sees the aspect of the true nothingness itself. in other words, the created "nothingness" becomes completely nullified and sublimated to the creator, who is the "true something. this brings about a limitless arousal and excitement of the soul that ceaselessly rises from level to level (as explained above, that he experiences new insights ceaselessly. furthermore, since this arousal is essential, his entire being, not just a portion of his soul, becomes aroused towards g-d, who is the "true something. this causes his animal soul to

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 2

hen certainly, the result of doing hitbonenut is righteousness, truth and the knowledge of g-d. the purpose of hitbonenut thus far we have discussed what hitbonenut is and have given the material which one is to contemplate. one question remains, perhaps the most important question of all. what is the purpose of hitbonenut? the answer is quite simple. the ultimate purpose of hitbonenut is to know the creator, who is the truth of what is, and to come close to him. a person may live his entire life in darkness, sunken in the transient pleasures of this lowly physical world and following paths that lead to nowhere, without having questioned why he is here and how he is here. because he does not seek truth, his life flies by without his having fulfilled the purpose of his existence. he might n

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

, but] are [rather bona fide] creations of real substance, similar to angels but more sublime and inclusive, as it is written, gdays will be formed, h15 and gthe days of israel drew near, h16 and gthe days of david drew near. h17 the six supernal days conduct the affairs of this world, each one on its [temporal] day [of the week, giving all who ask [for their needs] whatever they require, for g-d the creator already endowed them with all the energy they require, each one for its time, when he created them. the six sefirot are the channels through which divine beneficence flows into the world. 12 psalms 90:4. 13 sanhedrin 97a. 14 2:89b. 15 psalms 139:16. 16 genesis 47:29. 17 1 kings 2:1. the arizal on parashat vayeitzei 152 now, the name of the angel metatron,18 who is called gthe minister

gthe minister of the world, h is composed of six letters. these are the six extremities [as they are projected] within him, which are the six powers [manifest] as the six [supernal] days we have mentioned. the affairs of the world overall are conducted by him, for he is the minister of the world, even though the aforementioned [supernal] days are superior [to him. this is because [g-d acting as] the creator is [his presence in] ima.this being the reason why the name elokim is used in [the account of] the creation of the world [as we know] stern judgment originates in ima. the name elokim is associated with ima, the gmother h of the world, i.e, of the six sefirot of emotion that govern the world. binah is the power to differentiate between details and implications of concepts in order to a

the world. thus, the sefirot of metatron (who personifies z feir anpin) are of a lower order than the source of the emotions within binah. this is why [the matron] asked gwhat does he do, h meaning, gi already know there is much to occupy him, such as feeding the world efrom the horns of the re feim, f etc. but all this is taken care of by the supernal days h.as we mentioned. gwhereas he himself, the creator, h.i.e, the supernal [partzuf of] ima. gwhat does he do? h [rabbi yosi ben chalafta] therefore brought her proof from the verse g[ cin] six days c, h for she did not ask him about the creation week, in which case it would have been appropriate for him to answer her [by quoting verses] from the account of creation. rather [she questioned him] about the whole world, i.e, for how many gda

eferring to the yesod of abba or ima, but gmy name [havayah] h.as it was revealed to moses. gi did not make known to them. h the name havayah is g-d fs gproper h name, or as it is called further on, his gexplicit h name. it thus indicates his real presence, his interest, focus, and purpose in creating the world, his ginner h desire. in contrast, the name kel shakai( gg-d almighty h) refers to g-d the creator of the world. the sages note that the word shaddai can be interpreted to mean ghe who [sha] said eenough f[-dai] to the expansion of the world [at the end of the creation week. h you will note that the initials [of the forefathers f names] also indicate that they only reached [the consciousness of] kel shakai, in two ways: the arizal on parashat vaeira (2) 19 first: the sum of the nume

value of elokim (86) is the same as that of the word for gnature h (ha-teva. pharaoh was the ruler of egypt, the hebrew word for which (mitzrayim) literally means glimitations. h pharaoh and egypt knew only of g-d as present in the limited functioning of nature, the laws of cause and effect, survival of the fittest, and so on. he was therefore the archtypal antithesis to the jewish notion of g-d the creator and therefore master of nature. this is because pharaoh received his sustenance [and consciousness] from the neck of z feir anpin, in which are present the three immature mentalities, known as [pharaoh fs] chief butcher, chief butler, and chief baker. the consciousness of intellect is altogether different from that of emotion, so in order for an idea to give birth to an emotion, the in

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

nto this printing of the golden dawn and is presented in depth in an appendix to his annotated version of the three books of occult philosophy of heinrich cornelius agrippa, forthcoming from llewellyn. tyson is the author of many books and articles on such subjects as the philosophy of magic (the new magus, the history and use of runes (rune magic, and the occult revival in the renaissance. he is the creator and designer of the runemagic cards and rune dice as well as a new system of runic astrology. a regular contributor to the pallas society news and the llewellyn magickal almanac, his articles occasionally appear in fate and other periodicals dedicated to neo-paganism and the modern occult tradition. how to use this book normally speaking "a book is a book. is a book and no advice has t

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

cross is a fitting emblem of the equilibrated and balanced forces of the elements. it is composed of 22 squares externally, thus referring to the 22 letters that are placed thereon. twenty-two are the letters of the eternal voice, in the vault of heaven; in the depth of earth; in the abyss of water; in the all- presence of fire. heaven cannot speak their fullness- earth cannot utter it. yet hath the creator bound them in all things. he hath mingled them in water. he hath whirled them aloft in fire. he hath sealed them in the air of heaven. he hath distributed them through the planets. he hath assigned unto them the twelve constellations of the universe (places cross aside) the 32nd path of the sepher yetzirah, which answereth unto malkuth and the letter tau, is called the administrative i

t fountain of the father pours forth these primogenial ideas. these being many, ascend flashingly into the shining world and in them are contained 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 t

two opposing forces, is indeed difficult, and many are the temptations to turn aside either to the right or to the left- wherein, remember, are but to be found the menacing symbols of death and the devil. the 25th path of the sepher yetzirah to which the tarot key of temperance is referred, is called the intelligence of probation, and it is so called because it is the primary temptation by which the creator tries all righteous persons. that is, that in it, there is ever present the temptation to turn aside to the one hand or the other. 2nd and 3rd ads. give cup and red lamp to phil. who holds them in form of tau cross. ch. ad. let this remind you once more, that only in and by the reconciliation of opposing forces is the path-way made to true occult knowledge and practical power. good alo

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

is brought nearer to god and his perfections; but perfection is obtainable onlyin the spirit when beyond these realms.as rosicrucians we are laborious, frugal, temperate, discreet and true, and. while acknowledgingourselves lovers of truth and virtue we neither dream of, hope for, nor endeavour to make anyreformation in the world through abstract religious dogmas.yet we exclaim, how glorious are the creator222s works; we watch the germinal powers of the planttransmute the fixed air and the elementary base water, into grass or leaves; and then feeding onrituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliasecond section colour blue22 these, the organic principle in the animal exercises a chemistry most wonderful and stupendous, forthe unseen agency weaves its magic texture, when the foliage beco

eat, yet we lay the foundation only for that glorioustemple of astronomic knowledge which shall be god222s revelation of the heavens to man.of all the glories off the soul, of all the harmonies attuned to reason, to the utmost capacity of mindto appreciate the ideal infinite, the wondrous works of god, in their immensity as revealed byastronomy, call forth man222s greatest praise and adoration of the creator of all.rituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliasecond section49 three distinct notes on a silvery-toned bell, followed by four more as defined, and sounded without,are heard.4th philos:'tis the warning of the herald, our converse must soon close for this day marks an era with thephilosophers of hermes, it is their triumph of gualdi over death.how intimately our science of astron

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

hile the other is placed upon his breast; before him are the chief symbols or instruments of science, and he has others hidden in a juggler's wallet. his body and arms form the letter aleph, the first of that alphabet which the jews borrowed from the egyptians: to this symbol we shall have occasion to recur later on. the magus is truly that which the hebrew kabalists term microprosopus otherwise, the creator of the little world. the first of all magical sciences being the knowledge of one's self, so is one's own creation first of all works of science; it comprehends the others and is the beginning of the great work. the expression, however, requires explanation. supreme reason being the sole invariable and 4 the doctrine of transcendental magic consequently imperishable principle and death

s he triumphs on the timeless plane. 9 jesod. the four nines. foundations four his great white throne maintain. 10 malkuth. the four tens. one fourfold kingdom owns his endless sway, as from his crown there streams a fourfold ray. by this simple arrangement the kabalistic meaning of each card is exhibited. for example, the five of clubs signifies rigorously geburah of jod, that is, the justice of the creator or the wrath of man; the seven of cups signifies the victory of mercy or the triumph of woman; the eight of swords signifies conflict or eternal equilibrium; and so of the others. we can thus understand how the ancient pontiffs proceeded to make the oracle speak. the chance dealing of the laminae produced invariably a fresh kabalistic meaning, exactly true in its combinations, which al

lenum and void. allegory, the mother of all dogmas, is the substitution of impressions for dies, of shadows for realities. it is the fable of truth and the truth of fable. one does not invent a dogma, one veils a truth, and a shade for weak eyes is produced. the initiator is not an impostor, he is a revealer, that is, following the meaning of the latin word revelare, a man who veils afresh. he is the creator of a new shadow. analogy is the key of all secrets of nature and the sole fundamental reason of all revelations. that is why religions seem to be written in the heavens and in all nature, which is just as it should be, for the work of god is the book of god, the 104 the doctrine of transcendental magic expression of whose thought should be seen in that which he writes, and so also of h

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

ety of images, strikingly analogous, which are found in almost all sacred books. his observations at this point are worthy of remark. gin every primitive logos, the parallel between physical correspondences and moral relations is established on the same basis. each word carries its material and sensible definition, and this living language is as perfect and true as it is simple and natural in man the creator. let the seer express by the same word, slightly modified, the sun, day, light, truth, and applying the same epithet to a white sun and to a lamb, let him say, lamb or christ, instead of sun, and sun instead of truth, light, civilization, and there is no allegory, but there are true correspondences seized and expressed by inspiration. but when the children of night say in their incoher

d by things impossible! no, invisible beings are not permitted to deceive, torment, seduce and even kill the living creatures of god, poor human beings, so ignorant, as it is, so weak, scarce able to combat their own delusions! those who told you all this in your childhood, m. le comte, have deceived you, and if you were child enough once to listen, be man enough now to disbelieve. man is himself the creator of his heaven and hell, and there are no demons except our own follies. minds chastised by truth are corrected by that chastisement, and dream no more of disturbing the world. if satan exist, he can be only the most unfortunate, most ignorant, most humiliated and most impotent of beings. the existence of a universal agent of life, a living fire, an astral light, is demonstrated by fact

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

n texts and perennial oral tradition are rooted in celtic pagan religion. creation of the world elements and circles meanwhile taliesin had come to see merlin the prophet who had sent for him to find out what caused wind or rainstorms, for both together were drawing near and the clouds were thickening. he drew the following illustrations under the guidance of minerva his associate. out of nothing the creator of the world produced four elements that they might be the prior cause as well as the material for creating all things when they were joined together in harmony: the heaven which he adorned with stars and which stands on high and embraces everything like the shells surrounding a nut; then he made the air, fit for forming sounds, through the medium of which day and night present the sta

RUBY TABLET OF SET

hoods the first statement made about these priesthoods was that each temple in egypt taught a different area of philosophy or knowledge. those temples dedicated to a major neter or god taught that their primal form was the first cause. these were the major temples of the land, and an initiate who studied at temple after temple would be presented with the opposing claims that each god was the god, the creator. we noted in our discussion that the priesthoods of several of the "minor" neters did not make any such claims. thoth as a single neter never seemed to be treated as the creator god; nor was geb. however, many of the major neters were treated as creator gods, and many gods were intentionally combined into units (such as amon-thoth-ra) in order to form a god which would be powerful enou

oted in our discussion that the priesthoods of several of the "minor" neters did not make any such claims. thoth as a single neter never seemed to be treated as the creator god; nor was geb. however, many of the major neters were treated as creator gods, and many gods were intentionally combined into units (such as amon-thoth-ra) in order to form a god which would be powerful enough to qualify as the creator god. neters as symbols we returned to discussing the neters as ways of viewing possibility and potentiality, and ways of viewing different aspects of the universe and of the individual. for example, ra, the sun god, was a most pervasive and powerful being, since every single day, there he is in the sky. ra was consistent, reliable, and therefore powerful. similarly each force in nature

ligions. these personalities are generally reliable. a rain cloud is going to rain; it isn't going to add to the day's heat. the nile was not going to dry up. it was going to overflow once a year, and deposit good, rich, fertile earth upon the ground. each force of nature, each personality, was given a name, a face, and a story. the most powerful stories, faces, and names are those that belong to the creator gods. there are so many creator gods, that it's really difficult to pin down an actual order of precedence. this brings up the fact that there are many apparently conflicting stories within the egyptian mythology. the grand master pointed out that in several egyptian myths, shu and tefnut are selfcreated. in others they were created by tears of the master creator god (whoever he happen

s using these symbols, but we have found value in this mythology. each story is a different way of looking at the world, a different way of looking at the first cause, and of looking at the symbols. by using these symbols, we can then indicate not only a symbol, but also which way we are looking at the world. hence, if in ritual or other communication we call upon ptah-geb-nu, we are calling upon the creator of the earth and sky, the god who created the physical universe. if instead we call upon the neter ra-ptah-ankh, we are calling upon the god who brought light and life to this planet. having discussed these differing views of the world as expressed by the many symbolic neters, we felt that this was a good point from which to launch into a discussion of one of the ways in which we look

g to "falling" and sartre to "bad faith. this can be closely related to the views of satanism re: the following of the right-hand path, which is essentially a deceiving of oneself by renouncing ultimate individual responsibility, and attributing one's life and experiences to all sorts of imaginary causes and effects, such as "god "karma "spirits "entities, etc, instead of acknowledging oneself as the creator and sole initiator of one's existence. while setians can speak of "spirits "demons "elementals, and various other sorts of beings and entities, they understand that these entities are derived from and exist within the subjective, not objective, universe. this is the fundamental mistake of the righthand path, which ultimately leads to the dissolution of the self by virtue of a distorted

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illionairess_ by george bernard shaw. on stage, he tailored his voice to the requirements of the part, but those long-suppressed locutions, those discarded vowels and consonants, began to leak out of his mouth out of the theatre as well. his voice was betraying him; and he discovered his component parts to be capable of other treasons, too. o o o a man who sets out to make himself up is taking on the creator's role, according to one way of seeing things; he's unnatural, a blasphemer, an abomination of abominations. from another angle, you could see pathos in him, heroism in his struggle, in his willingness to risk: not all mutants survive. or, consider him sociopolitically: most migrants learn, and can become disguises. our own false descriptions to counter the falsehoods invented about us

entrance than changez skipped past his son and planted himself beside the erstwhile ayah. zeeny vakil, her eyes sparkling with scandalpoints of light, hissed at chamcha "close your mouth, dear. it looks bad" and in the doorway, the bearer vallabh, pushing a drinks trolley, watched unemotionally while his employer of many long years placed an arm around his uncomplaining wife. when the progenitor, the creator is revealed as satanic, the child will frequently grow prim. chamcha heard himself inquire "and my stepmother, father dear? she is keeping well" the old man addressed zeeny "he is not such a goody with you, i hope so. or what a sad time you must have" then to his son in harsher tones "you have an interest in my wife these days? but she has none in you. she won't meet you now. why shoul

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aid of devils, by which men could be killed, through their working or by the aid of demons k and taken from a basilisk, toad, serpent, spider or scorpion k k and that on the feast of saint john the baptist he gathered certain herbs for medicine, as specified in the proceedings, and on bended knee he first adored them, then extracting them in the name of his devils, and in despite of almighty god, the creator of all k in these terms the classical grimoire may be seen as presenting a comprehensive and generally consistent pantheon of magical belief; masks beneath which the service of the old ones has been hidden. since the christian church has demonised the deity of the witches and magicians, so it is only natural that the witches response should be the deification of the church s demons. th

gabri-el. according to one version of his myth he was once none other than enoch himself, transformed in reward for his recording of the angelic lore for humankind into a fiery angel with six times six wings and countless eyes. in this form he is the angelic scribe who records all in the aetheric archives. in gnostic scripture, metatron is identified as the demiurge, the prince of darkness who is the creator of the material universe. thus he is identified as satan, or ha-satan, and as abraxas. the holiness or unholiness of the metatron is undecided, thrown backwards and forwards by the argumenets of theologians, priests, magicians and rabbi. as such it is a most paradoxical name to conjure with. shekinah according to the zohar the creation of the world was the work of the shekinah, who is

and wax strong, 1casarmg 2cro-od-zi 3chis od vgeg 1which also successively 2are the 3numbers of time 4and their powers 1ds t capimali 2chis 3capimaon 4od lonshin 1are as the first 24 5 6. 3arise 4ye sons of pleasure 5and visit the earth: 1chis ta l-o 2cla 3torzu 4nor-quasahi 5od f caosga 1for i am the lord 2your god 3which is 4and liveth for ever. 1bagle zire 2mad 3ds i 4od apila. 1in the name of the creator, 2move and 3show yourselves 1do-o-a-lp qaal 2zacar od 3zamran 1as pleasant deliverers 2that you may praise him 3amongst 1obelisong 2rest-el 3aaf 1the sons of men. 1nor-molap. the fifth key 1the mighty sounds 2have entered 3into the third angle 4and 1sapah 2zimii 3d u-i-v 4od 1are become 2as olives 3in the olive mount 4looking with gladness 1noas 2ta qanis 3adroch 4dorphal 1upon the ear

rightness 1chirlan 2od 3zonac 4luciftian 1such as work 2wonders on all creatures. 3whose kingdoms 4and 1cors ta vaul 2zirn tol hami 3sobol ondoh 4od 1continuance 2are as 3the third 4and fourth, 5strong towers 6and 1miam 2chis ta 3d 4od es 5v-ma-dea 5od 1places of comfort, 2the seat of mercy 3and continuance. 1pi-bliar 2othil rit 3od miam 1o ye servants of mercy 2move, 3appear, 4sing praises 5unto the creator! 1c-noqol rit 2zacar 3zamran 4oe-crimi 5qaada. 1and be mighty 2amongst us! 3for to 4this remembrance 1od o-micaolz 2aaiom 3bagle 4papnor 1is given power, 2and our strength 3waxeth strong 4in our comforter! 1i dlugam lonshi 2od vmplif 3v-ge-gi 4bigliad the eighth key 1the mid-day, 2the first, 3is as the third heaven 4made of hyacinthine 1bazm 2elo 3i ta piripson 4oln nazavabh 1pillars 2

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not be swayed by herd constraints know that you are working on another level entirely from the rest of the world. 7. forgetfulness of past orthodoxies be aware that this is one of the keys to brainwashing people into accepting something new and different, when in reality it's something that was once widely accepted but is now presented in a new package. we are expected to rave about the genius of the creator and forget the original. this makes for a disposable society. 8. counterproductive pride that first word is important. pride is great up to the point you begin to throw out the baby with the bathwater. the rule of satanism is: if it works for you, great. when it stops working for you, when you've painted yourself into a corner and the only way out is to say, i'm sorry, i made a mistake

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r the moralities of altruism and mysticism. xians and their houses of shame will finally be realized and relegated to the gutters! hence, diabolism will be recognized as the religion, par excellence! the satanicon: a treatise of man s dark nature is a system of evilution; a collection of philosophical and psychological devices of darkness. through its doctrines of lucifarian wisdom and black art, the creator and the barbarian will experience strength and the development of a will of power! satanicon: the book of evil, touches all facets of life and death. in satan s honor! adrian clavex the blackstar church 1993 ce the year one of the age of evil -1- book i: the writ of an antichrist -2- the denouncement of theism: diabolical and xian so many are as infants to religious thought and underst

mal, etc. perhaps satanists who believe should re-evaluate and begin a thoughtful review: objectively looking at the evidence of our primitive heritage; our inherited and gradually-developed mental and physical characteristics; instinctual proclivities; thought and action; social customs and the like, which were not inherited from god. i regard satan and god as mythical beings created by man; man the creator, man the god, has created a fiction which is not only antithetical to himself, but vastly superior in its powers. this is a supernatural something which he chooses to believe can finally save him from a consequence of his natural life: eternal death. god is considered an authority which man, in times of need or indecision, can appeal to for guidance when there are no acceptable answers

owards the sigil of antichrist while reciting the conjuration of darkness 666: satan in your most unholy name, hear me! our times the age of evil and its creative spirit of antichrist has come! i am the reverent one a beast born of the earth and the infernal kingdom! i am the conveyor of wisdom and folly! i am the bestower of strength and weakness! i am the publisher of alienation and unity! i am the creator of life and death! i am the savior of man and the destroyer of the nazarene! i am the soul of darkness a black -36- beacon of infernal light to the worthy, and a sign of doom to the lambs! i am the will, the purpose and the fight! i am antichrist! 5 the holy sacrifice. 6 the celebrant faces the sigil of antichrist and recites the biblical passage, revelation 13: 1-18. 7 the evocation a

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

means great epic of the bharata dynasty; examines the nature of god and how mortals can know him. bhakti: devotion. blasphemy: disrespectful comments or actions concerning a religion or its god. bodhisattva: a person who has attained enlightenment but, rather than entering a state of nirvana, chooses to stay behind to help others reach enlightenment. bon: an indigenous religion of tibet. brahma: the creator-god. the buddha: the title of siddhartha gautama after he attained enlightenment. caliph: one of muhammad s successors as leader of the faith. candomble: a south american religion with many similarities to santer a, often used synonymously with santer a. canon: the official, sacred texts of a religion. caste: social classes in hinduism, the dominant religion in india. celtic: a term re

de or officially ban a person from a church or other religious community. faith: belief and trust in god, accompanied by a sense of loyalty to the traditional doctrines, or principles, of religion. faravahar: a figure of a bird with its wings spread that is a chief symbol of zoroastrianism. filial piety: the respect and devotion a child shows his or her parents. fitrah: an inborn tendency to seek the creator. five classics: the original texts used by confucius in his practices and teachings: liji, shijing, shujing, chunqui, and yijing. world religions: almanac xix words to know five pillars: the core of islamic belief referring to declaring faith, daily prayer, charitable giving, fasting, and pilgrimage. folk beliefs: the beliefs of the common people. folk (minzoku) shinto: shinto that emp

trian, conquered the babylonian empire in 539 bce. history of ancient egyptian religion the official ancient egyptian religion lasted from about 3110 bce to 550 ce. the official beginning of the religion is the date that menes (c. 2925 bce, a king of upper egypt, is believed to have defeated a king of lower egypt and unified the nation. menes set up a national religion in the process, worshipping the creator god ptah at his new government center of memphis. historians believe that the story of the war between the god horus and his uncle set (the result of set s murder of horus s father osiris) reflects the war between upper and lower egypt, with horus s eventual victory reflecting the unification of the two countries by menes during his sixty-two year reign. world religions: almanac 41 anc

words to know artha: prosperity and success in material affairs. aum: often spelled om, the sacred syllable and symbol of hinduism; a symbol of the unknowable nature of brahma. bhagavad gita: a sanskrit poem regarded as a hindu scripture; part of the epic mahabharata, which means great epic of the bharata dynasty; examines the nature of god and how mortals can know him. bhakti: devotion. brahma: the creator-god. brahman: the pantheistic (including all gods) principle that sees all of reality as a unity. dharma: righteousness in one s religious and personal life. kama: gratification of the senses. karma: literally, action; the principle that the consequences of a person s action determines how that person will live his or her next life. moksha: salvation; liberation from samsara. murti: im

ef is only partially true, for while hinduism recognizes a variety of gods and goddesses, all are seen as aspects, forms, or manifestations of a single supreme god, brahma (in sanskrit, brahman. this type of religion is termed henotheistic. another way of thinking of hinduism is to see it as trinitarian, meaning that there is one supreme god with three persons or forms. the supreme god is brahma, the creator-god who continues to create new realities. in hindu belief brahma refers to a pantheistic principle that sees all of reality as a unity( pantheism is defined as any belief system that equates god with the forces of nature or with natural principles) the universe, then, is not a collection of parts but a single thing that is divine throughout. brahma simultaneously is the universe and t

SECRET TEACHINGS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS IN THE 16 17C

god, pray and work in patience, if you find me your want would cease and you have a merciful god who befriendeth thee and giveth thee whatever thy heart may desire. this moisture must be caught lest it should change into vapour or fume. the two vapours are the roots of the art. the prima materia derives its existence from the fiat, the word of creation. and this word comes from the father who is the creator of all things, and the spirit radiates from both: this is god's life giving air. then, too, air brings to iife everything within the elements. the fire warms all things, the water refreshes, delights and saturates all things: and the nitrous earth, mother-like, nourishes and sustains all things; the air was born out of fire, and in turn makes the fire burn, that it may live, but air in

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ning; and it is the primal glory, for no created being can attain to its essence. the second path is that of the illuminating intelligence: it is the crown of creation, the splendour of the unity, equalling it, and it is exalted above every head, and named by the kabalists the second glory. the third path is the sanctifying intelligence, and is the foundation of primordial wisdom, which is called the creator of faith, and its roots are amn; and it is the parent of faith, from which doth faith emanate. the fourth path is named the cohesive or receptacular intelligence; and is so called because it contains all the holy powers, and from it emanate all the spiritual virtues with the most exalted essences: they emanate one from the other by the power of the primordial emanation. the highest cro

ed because it has the virtue of consistency among all numerations. the twenty-fourth path is the imaginative intelligence, and it is so called because it gives a likeness to all the similitudes which are created in like manner similar to its harmonious elegancies. the twenty-fifth path is the intelligence of probation, or temptation, and is so called because it is the primary temptation, by which the creator trieth all righteous persons. the twenty-sixth path is called the renewing intelligence, because the holy god renews by it all the changing things which are renewed by the creation of the world. the twenty-seventh path is the active or exciting intelligence, and it is so called because through it every existent being receives its spirit and motion. the twenty-eighth path is called the

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

on through the smiling gardens, and the beautiful bay lay sparkling in the noontide. a gentle breeze just cooled the sunbeam, and stirred the ocean; and in the inexpressible clearness of the atmosphere there was something that rejoiced the senses. the very soul seemed to grow lighter and purer in that lucid air "and these men, to commence their era of improvement and equality, are jealous even of the creator. they would deny an intelligence, a god" said zanoni, as if involuntarily "are you an artist, and, looking on the world, can you listen to such a dogma? between god and genius there is a necessary link, there is almost a correspondent language. well said the pythagorean (sextus, the pythagorean 'a good intellect is the chorus of divinity" struck and touched with these sentiments, which

ecome a part of thee, that i cannot believe that my life can be separated from thine; and in this conviction i repose, and smile even at thy words and my own fears. thou art fond of one maxim, which thou repeatest in a thousand forms, that the beauty of the soul is faith; that as ideal loveliness to the sculptor, faith is to the heart; that faith, rightly understood, extends over all the works of the creator, whom we can know but through belief; that it embraces a tranquil confidence in ourselves, and a serene repose as to our future; that it is the moonlight that sways the tides of the human sea. that faith i comprehend now. i reject all doubt, all fear. i know that i have inextricably linked the whole that makes the inner life to thee; and thou canst not tear me from thee, if thou woulds

fesses that the stars are worlds larger and more glorious than his own, that the earth on which he crawls is a scarce visible speck on the vast chart of creation. but in the small as in the vast, god is equally profuse of life. the traveller looks upon the tree, and fancies its boughs were formed for his shelter in the summer sun, or his fuel in the winter frosts. but in each leaf of these boughs the creator has made a world; it swarms with innumerable races. each drop of the water in yon moat is an orb more populous than a kingdom is of men. everywhere, then, in this immense design, science brings new life to light. life is the one pervading principle, and even the thing that seems to die and putrify but engenders new life, and changes to fresh forms of matter. reasoning, then, by evident

dilate upon the wings of a bird. the room vanished from her eyes. away, away, over lands and seas and space on the rushing desire flies the disprisoned mind! upon a stratum, not of this world, stood the world-born shapes of the sons of science, upon an embryo world, upon a crude, wan, attenuated mass of matter, one of the nebulae, which the suns of the myriad systems throw off as they roll round the creator's throne, to become themselves new worlds of symmetry and glory, planets and suns that forever and forever shall in their turn multiply their shining race, and be the fathers of suns and planets yet to come*"astronomy instructs us that, in the original condition of the solar system, the sun was the nucleus of a nebulosity or luminous mass which revolved on its axis, and extended far be

in its bloom, youth still colours all around me with its own luxuriant beauty; to me, yet, to breathe is to enjoy. the freshness has not faded from the face of nature, and not an herb in which i cannot discover a new charm, an undetected wonder "as with my youth, so with mejnour's age: he will tell you that life to him is but a power to examine; and not till he has exhausted all the marvels which the creator has sown on earth, would he desire new habitations for the renewed spirit to explore. we are the types of the two essences of what is imperishable 'art, that enjoys; and science, that contemplates' and now, that thou mayest be contented that the secrets are not vouchsafed to thee, learn that so utterly must the idea detach itself from what makes up the occupation and excitement of men;

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

succeeded in taking from him his name. thus we have ample evidence that isis possessed marvellous magical powers, and this being so, the issues of life and death, as far as the deceased was concerned, we know from the texts to have been in her hands. her words of power, too, were a priceless possession, for she obtained them from thoth, who was the personification of the mind and intelligence of the creator, and thus their origin was divine, and from this point of view were inspired. from a papyrus of the ptolemaic period we obtain some interesting facts about the great skill in working magic and about the knowledge of magical formula p. 143 which were possessed by a prince called setnau kha-em-uast. he knew how to use the powers of amulets and talismans, and how to compose magical formul

that ra, the type and symbol of god, is described as the god of "many names" and in that wonderful composition the xviith chapter of the book of the dead, 1 we have the following statement-"i am the great god nu, who gave birth unto himself, and who made his name to become the company of the gods" then the question "what does this mean" or "who is this" is asked. and this is the answer "it is ra, the creator of the name[s] of his limbs, which came into being in the form of the gods who are in the following of ra" from this we see that all the "gods" of egypt were merely personifications of the names of ra, and that each god was one of his members, and that a name of a god was the god himself. without the knowledge of the names of the gods and devils of the underworld the dead egyptian woul

which were current in egypt from the time of the ptolemies to the end of the roman period, but from about b.c. 150 to a.d. 200 the papyri exhibit traces of the influence of greek, hebrew, and syrian philosophers and magicians, and from a passage like the following 1 we may get a proof of this-"i call thee, the headless one, that didst create earth and heaven, that didst create night and day, thee the creator of light and darkness. thou art osoronnophris, whom no man hath seen at any time; thou art iabas, thou art iapos, thou hast distinguished the just and the unjust, thou didst make female and male, thou didst produce seeds and fruits, thou didst make men to love one another and to bate one another. i am moses thy prophet, to whom thou didst commit thy mysteries, the ceremonies of israel;

en rays, one on the point of each, are the seven vowels of the greek alphabet, which some suppose to p. 180 refer to the seven heavens; and on the back of the amulet, on which the figure of khnoumis occurs, is usually found the sign of the triple s and bar. khnoumis is, of course, a form of the ancient egyptian god khnemu, or "fashioner" of man and beast, the god to whom many of the attributes of the creator of the universe were ascribed. khnemu is, however, often depicted with the head of a ram, and in the later times, as the "beautiful ram of ra" he has four heads; in the egyptian monuments he has at times the head of a hawk, but never that of a lion. the god abrasax is represented in a form which has a human body, the bead of a hawk or cock, and legs terminating in serpents; in one hand

of a hawk or cock, and legs terminating in serpents; in one hand he holds a knife or dagger, and in the other a shield upon which is inscribed the great name greek iaw, or jah. considerable difference of opinion exists as to the meaning and derivation of the name abrasax, but there is no doubt that the god who bore it was a form of the sun-god, and that he was intended to represent some aspect of the creator of the world. the name was believed to possess magical powers of the highest class, and basileides, 1 who gave it currency in the second century, seems to have regarded it as an invincible name. it is probable, however, that its exact meaning was lost at an early date, and that it p. 181 soon degenerated into a mere magical symbol, for it is often found inscribed on amulets side by sid

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e members of his corpse, and then the higher nature or eternal soul horus can be born, and in due course rise to the state of being an osiris. this then is the initiation practiced in egypt. it taught that whoever aspires to the highest stage of being must recapitulate, inwardly microcosmically, the universal and macrocosmic events connected with osiris. plato has described 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

er in the legends of their heroes (such as herakles or theseus, or in the symbolic enactments, for example, in the creation festival at new year in ancient babylon. there the initiate-king died and entered the dark interior of the worldmountain, but later returned and ascended the ziggurat, or pyramid with its seven levels, and received cosmic symbols of power. he was identified in the rites with the creator-god marduk, who had also died before defeating the powers of chaos and ascending to his father, the wisdom-god ea, in heaven. on the festival, see henri frankfort, kingship and the gods: a study of ancient near eastern religion as the integration of society and nature (university of chicago, chicago, 1978, ch. 22. the wonderful epic recited on the occasion by the priests is translated

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hoods the first statement made about these priesthoods was that each temple in egypt taught a different area of philosophy or knowledge. those temples dedicated to a major neter or god taught that their primal form was the first cause. these were the major temples of the land, and an initiate who studied at temple after temple would be presented with the opposing claims that each god was the god, the creator. we noted in our discussion that the priesthoods of several of the "minor" neters did not make any such claims. thoth as a single neter never seemed to be treated as the creator god; nor was geb. however, many of the major neters were treated as creator gods, and many gods were intentionally combined into units (such as amon-thoth-ra) in order to form a god which would be powerful enou

oted in our discussion that the priesthoods of several of the "minor" neters did not make any such claims. thoth as a single neter never seemed to be treated as the creator god; nor was geb. however, many of the major neters were treated as creator gods, and many gods were intentionally combined into units (such as amon-thoth-ra) in order to form a god which would be powerful enough to qualify as the creator god. 1572 neters as symbols we returned to discussing the neters as ways of viewing possibility and potentiality, and ways of viewing different aspects of the universe and of the individual. for example, ra, the sun god, was a most pervasive and powerful being, since every single day, there he is in the sky. ra was consistent, reliable, and therefore powerful. similarly each force in n

igions. these personalities are generally reliable. a rain cloud is going to rain; it isn't going to add to the day's heat. the nile was not going to dry up- it was going to overflow once a year, and deposit good, rich, fertile earth upon the ground. each force of nature, each personality, was given a name, a face, and a story. the most powerful stories, faces, and names are those tha t belong to the creator gods. there are so many creator gods, that it's really difficult to pin down an actual order of precedence. this brings up the fact that there are many apparently conflicting stories within the egyptian mythology. the grand master pointed out that in several egyptian myths, shu and tefnut are self-created. in others they were created by tears of the master creator god (whoever he happe

s using these symbols, but we have found value in this mythology. each story is a different way of looking at the world, a different way of looking at the first cause, and of looking at the symbols. by using these symbols, we can then indicate not only a symbol, but also which way we are looking at the world. hence, if in ritual or other communication we call upon ptah-geb-nu, we are calling upon the creator of the earth and sky, the god who created the physical universe. if instead we call upon the neter ra-ptah-ankh, we are calling upon the god who brought light and life to this planet. 1573 having discussed these differing views of the world as expressed by the many symbolic neters, we felt that this was a good point from which to launch into a discussion of one of the ways in which we

TECHNICIANS GUIDE TO THE LEFT HAND PATH

ributes that make this "self" apparent to oneself and to others who have experienced the same process. the result of a higher state of being lies within its creations; these creations are threefold. the first is what is extended from the initiate, and the second is the mental processes that occur during this translation of the abstract to the more concrete. finally the third is what comes back to the creator after his/her creation has been set forth. i use the term creation in a fuller sense than is generally understood. these creations are extensions of the psyche built largely out of the application of various principles found hidden within the myth, philosophy and epics of the human condition.the result of the personal application of these vital principles is self transformation. now, t

o become one or in unison with those forces. note the concept of unity, and oneness with natural forces which is prevalent in the literature and ritual devices of post modern paganism and mainstream religion whether you call these forces "god" or "nature" or universe mother nature is of no consequence, the terms are interchangeable. you cannot separate the artist from his work, they are the same, the creator and his creation are mirrors into each others intrinsic natures. as such, the rhp path, by seeking its "unity" attempts to turn the dichotomy of self awareness vs. the non-aware state of the universe back to a singleness and oneness. in the article setianism: natural vs non- natural religion dr. stephen flowers relates the following "the left-hand path solution is simpler. it teaches t

to avoid- to the extent possible- their influence, and also to recognize what not to do. elements that can create alteration within either of these proxemic environments are the same, they differ only in scale. however, the larger the macroproxemic area the more reliance there is upon audio, print and visual media and less upon the tactile and other sense imprints. obviously, the distance between the creator of an artificial proxemic space and those he or she wishes to influence through it, are of vital importance in considering the construction of these areas. as for the actual utility of proxemics, we can understand it as a two-fold interrelated approach, one that can entail both lbm, and gbm principles. first, the lbm application from proxemic magic by dr. michael a. aquino: the conclus

THE BOOK OF PLEASURE

pointment at the time of desire is the means of locating its deceit, a consciousness that alone gives the chance of inquiry. beyond it is something arbitrary, the pauser, the ordainer of law, imitating it by "reason" is but damning the consequences. reason is belief, belief is fear of one's capability, the faith that you are not even all the wonders of creation, let alone the possibility of being the creator. it is delay. belief well earns the terrible hatred of the vitality. belief is not freedom. belief creates its necessary experience, progress germinates in retrogression. consider the reality is somewhere: and your belief may be too small for its habitation. oh, ye of much faith in god, merge into it by the worship of self! ah! foolish man, worship the glorious in freedom. when death a

ires because of cowardice within, ergo, some unsatisfied wisdom awaiting exploitation to suffer its evolutions. there is no final wisdom- there is no final desire. how can anything end? has to-day ever ended? these things are endlessness! a person desires things of this world- but where is the difference of desiring the "supreme bliss? which is the more selfish? which is nearer you? which pleases the creator more? are you certain of the creator's will and are you sure of your own desire? are you the creator or just yourself, as you fondly imagine your contents? all these desires, however mighty, you will one day incarnate- yea, photograph. these things already exist- very soon you will have spiritual photographs (unfaked) but not by the camera you use at present. the pioneer is ever the ol

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 1

d can be influenced in determining a soul s admission by offerings made for the benefit of the deceased by relatives and friends. in the buddhist tradition, yama is the lord of hell who administers punishment according to each individual s karma, the cause and effect of his or her actions on earth. in neither religious expression is yama at all comparable to satan, who in christian belief is both the creator of evil and the accuser of human weaknesses. in christianity, islam, and judaism, the soul s arrival at either heaven or hell is made somewhat confusing by the teachings of a great, final judgment day and the resurrection of the dead. and when roman catholic christianity added the doctrine of purgatory in the sixteenth century, the matter became all the more complex because now certain

f the mounds that religious ceremonies were conducted and funeral rites were observed. in pike county, ohio, on the banks of the scioto river, there is a mound consisting of a circle and square, constructed with great geometric accuracy. in native american pictography, the ring or circle is generally an emblem of the sun, the stars, and the great spirit, the divine being. the oval also represents the creator or the act of creation. the square designates the four cardinal directions. if it is assumed that the ancient mound builders had similar religious philosophies, then some insight may be gained into their beliefs about destiny and life after death. one of the largest of the effigy mounds is a huge bird earthwork that is located on the mendota hospital grounds near madison, wisconsin. th

death, and his supposed vicious attacks against spirit mediums were but an expression of his great disappointment that he never really found any whom he felt had truly provided him with actual proof of his mother s afterlife existence. others maintain that he only set out to expose mediums as a means of keeping himself in the headlines. houdini s friendship with sir arthur conan doyle (1859 1930, the creator of sherlock holmes and an avid supporter of spiritualism, suggests his sincerity in seeking to pierce the veil of death. during the doyles lecture tour of the united states in june 1922, houdini and beatrice joined sir arthur and lady doyle for a brief vacation in atlantic city. on june 17, houdini s mother s birthday, lady doyle said that she felt she could establish contact with her

ill. in the biblical and qur anic traditions are found references to the jealousy that afflicted certain angels regarding the attention that god displayed toward his human creation. in the qur an (17:61 64, iblis (satan, the leader of the rebellious angels, refuses to bow to a creature that god has created of clay, and he threatens to make existence miserable for the descendants of the being that the creator has honored above them. because of the declared animosity of the fallen angels against those heavenly beings who remain faithful to the creator and against those mortals who seek to follow the higher teachings of revealed truth, the epistle writer paul (d. 62 68 c.e) gave counsel when he warned that humans not only engage in spiritual warfare with those of flesh and blood who serve evi

that van tassel s space brother had given for earth. commandant ashtar also decreed the universe to be ruled by the council of seven lights, which had divided the cosmos into sector systems and sectors. van tassel found the ministry of universal wisdom based on his revelations from the space brothers. this ministry teaches the universal law that operates in seven states: gender, male and female; the creator as cause; polarity of negative and positive; vibration; rhythm; relativity; and mentality. daniel fry (1908 1992) established understanding incorporated in 1955 as a means of better spreading the teachings of space brother a-lan, whom fry claimed to have met on his first trip in a ufo. in that same year, george king (1919 1997) claimed to have been named the primary terrestrial mental

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woodland sprites were possessed by the souls of deceased socialites who even after death refused to give up earthly amusements. sir walter scott (1771 1832) emphasized the beauty of the fairy realm and the struggle of the fairies to achieve humanlike souls. the famed poet william butler yeats (1865 1939) had a nearly obsessive interest in the supernatural and strongly believed in fairies. it was the creator of sherlock holmes, sir arthur conan doyle (1859 1930, who came 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 102 mysterious creatures fairy tale: a true story (the kobal collection) to the defense of elsie wright and frances griffiths, the two little girls who allegedly photographed fairies in the famous case of the cottingley fairies in 191

ither type can include any of a variety of disciplines of mind and body, and although the techniques and desired goals of meditation are varied, the results are quite similar and include: achieving a higher state of consciousness, psychic powers, self-discovery, self-improvement, stress reduction, reduced anxiety, spiritual growth, better health, creativity, increased intelligence, and union with the creator or god. meditation itself doesn t directly provide or guarantee these benefits but somehow is believed to facilitate their cultivation. many have said there are only two ways to obtain a mystical state or altered state of consciousness and that is either through drugs or meditation. hoping to achieve that altered state, there are those who take up meditation as the safe means to the mo

looked like. adamski had the answers. orthon, the venusian, was smooth-skinned, beardless, with shoulder-length blond hair, stood about five feet six inches tall, and wore what appeared to be some kind of jumpsuitlike apparel. orthon had come in peace, eager to warn earthlings about radiation from the nuclear tests that were being conducted. there were universal laws and principles established by the creator of all, and the people of earth would do well to begin to practice those laws at once. all these messages were transmitted telepathically to adamski to relay to his fellow earthlings, but later, after he had been taken for a trip into outer space, adamski was able to communicate verbally with such entities as firkon, the martian, and ramu, from saturn. the death of george adamski on ap

atural energy found in the dry desert atmosphere of giant rock. thousands of believers came to pass through the integratron and to receive antiaging electrostatic charges. van tassel founded the ministry of universal wisdom in 1953, basing its precepts on revelations from the space brothers. the ministry taught the universal law that operates on humankind in seven states: gender (male and female; the creator as cause; polarity of negative and positive; vibration; rhythm; relativity; and mentality. van tassel maintained his headquarters at giant rock, california, for many years, making it a gathering place for both the curious and the true believers. he was the author of i rode a flying saucer (1952) and the council of seven lights (1958. m delving deeper gibbons, gavin. they rode in space

uments as clearly false and fraudulent, pointing out that a thorough search of the records of the truman administration reveals no executive order for such a ufo investigative group as mj-12. researchers who have served in the military have stated that the clearest indication of a hoax lies in the many incorrect military terms and language used in these alleged official documents, suggesting that the creators of the hoax have never served in the military. m delving deeper beckley, timothy green. mj-12 and the riddle of hangar 18. new brunswick, n.j: inner light publications, 1989. friedman, stanton t. top secret/majic. new york: marlowe, 1996. friedman, stanton t, and don berliner. crash at corona: the u.s. military retrieval and cover-up of a ufo. new york: marlowe, 1994. randle, kevin d

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w at the back of a church, you are right there in the middle of things, participating. h it was in their enjoyment of the excitement and vigor of the old religion that the peasants could allow themselves the luxury of experiencing pleasure without the interference of the church, which sought to control and repress even human emotions. but it was that same expression of seeing the divine in all of the creator fs works that brought the wrath of the church down upon the witches in the terrible form of the inquisition. m delving deeper buckland, raymond. witchcraft from the inside. st. paul: llewellyn publications, 1995. frazer, sir james george. the new golden bough. edited by theodor h. gaster. new york: criterion books, 1959. grimassi, raven. encyclopedia of wicca& witchcraft. st. paul: lle

matter. according to the cathars, because christ was pure spirit, he did not die on the cross and the teachings of the church were false. the cathars rejected all the catholic sacraments, and they taught that the god of the old testament was the lord of matter, the prince of this world.all terms which the catholic church reserved for satan. not only did the cathars believe that the god revered as the creator by the church was really the devil, the cathars instructed their followers that most of the patriarchs and prophets mentioned in the old testament were really demons. the cathars somehow managed to hold out against the armies massed against them until montsegur, their final stronghold, fell in 1246. hundreds of the remaining cathars were burned at the stake.men, women, and children.but

emerge as a text of power and influence in spain and southern france in the thirteenth century. many of its teachers proclaimed that the kabbalah (hebrew for greceived tradition h) had been given by god to moses (14th.13th century b.c.e) on mt. sinai along with the torah, and generations of magi, alchemists, and magicians believed this claim to be true and revered the ancient texts as a legacy of the creator to humankind, the apex of his creation. contemporary scholarship suggests that rather than a divinely authored text, the kabbalah was a product of the earlier mystical tradition of the maaseh bereshit and maaseh merkavah, both of which would only be taught to one stu- t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d prophecy and divination 141 t

egypt, china, and europe. pythagoras (c. 580.c. 500 b.c.e, the great greek mathematician and mystic, proclaimed that the very world is built upon the magical power of numbers. according to his doctrines, numbers contained within them the essence of all that is in the natural and the spiritual worlds. for those who followed the teachings of pythagoras, the number one symbolized unity and therefore the creator-god. two represented the duality of good and evil and stood for the devil. four, symbolizing balance, was considered by pythagoreans as their most holy and sacred number, and their most solemn oaths were sworn on four. pythagoreans also used numbers to represent various planets and elements. for example, five stood for fire; six, earth; eight, air; twelve, water. in addition to the tea

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lilies in unknown meadows, and we shall scatter their dew upon the earth. we shall touch the eyelid of the sleeping child, and rejoice the heart of its mother with the spectacle of the beauty of her wellbeloved son! ii the binary the binary is more particularly the number of woman, mate of man and mother of society. man is love in intelligence; woman is intelligence in love. woman is the smile of the creator content with himself, and it is after making her that he rested, says the divine parable. woman stands before man because she is mother, and all is forgiven her in advance, because she brings forth in sorrow. woman initiated herself first into immortality through death; then man saw her to be so beautiful, and understood her to be so generous, that he refused to survive her, and loved

ogma could only cease to be absurd in the eyes of reason to become, in the eyes of faith, science, reason and good sense in one, the most monstrous and the most impossible of all absurdities. remain the objections of dissent. the jews, our fathers in religion, reproach us with having attacked the unity of god, with having changed the immutable and eternal law, with adoring the creature instead of the creator. these heavy reproaches are founded on their perfectly false notion of christianity. our god is the god of moses, unique, immaterial, infinite god, sole object of worship, and ever the same. like the jews, we believe him to be present everywhere, but, as they ought to do, we believe him living, thinking and loving in humanity, and we adore him in his works. we have not changed his law

the government of the world. he leaves himself to be guessed by the grandeurs and harmonies of nature, so that man may progressively make himself perfect by ever exalting the idea that he makes for himself of its author. man knows god only by the names which he gives to that being of beings, and does not distinguish him but by the images of him which he endeavours to trace. he is then in a manner the creator of him who has created him. he believes himself the mirror of god, and by indefinitely enlarging his own mirage, he thinks that he may be able to sketch in infinite space the shadow of him who is without body, without shadow, and without space. 267 to create god, to create one's self, to make one's self independent, immortal and without suffering: there certainly is a programme more da

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ve been entrusted by him unto me. be thus commanded and consecrated by my words and by my intentions for the service to which i designate thee- which is to enable me to keep hold of the impressions of things that shall be communicated to me by the spirits whom i invoke according to the innate power in myself. become thus just and real to my eyes as were the lights which the elect 18 privileged by the creator were employing in their own operations, lights united in support of the spiritual regeneration of men, my fellow brothers, for the greatest glory of the eternal thought, for the greatest glory of the eternal will and for the greatest glory of the eternal action, by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator lights the charcoal in the censer, or in the cassolette, from the flame of the central

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d in the golden dawn journal, book ii, qabalah: theory and magic, 189-190) 29. a hexagram. 30 "gh is difficult for those who do not speak gaelic. it should sound something like "gy" 31 "aa" as in "awl" the pentagram 207 32. the "great spirit" of the lakota tribes, who was also known as wakan tanka "the power above" who was the source of all. 33. the "great hare" of the algonquin tribe, said to be the creator of the earth. 34. creator god of the iroquois and huron tribes, who was known for defeating demons, and giving magic. 35. the "peace goddess" of the dakota (sioux) tribes. 36. algonquin god of the east wind. 37. the "great spirit" known to many tribes. 38. algonquin god of the west wind. the son of the twilight. 39. the great spirit of the innuit (eskimo) peoples of the north. 40. eski

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achachadugga and the seal: the thirtieth name is gil the furnisher of seed. beloved of ishtar, his power is mysterious and quite ancient. makes the barley to grow and the women to give birth. makes potent the impotent. his word is aggabal and his seal is thus: the thirty-first name is gilma founder of cities, possessor of the knowledge of architecture by which the fabled temples of ur were built; the creator of all that is permanent and never moves. his word is akkabal and his seal is this: the thirty-second name is agilma bringer of rain. maketh the gentle rains to come, or casuseth great storms and thunders, the like may destroy armies and cities and crops. his word is mashshayegurra and his seal is: the thirty-third name is zulum knows where to plant and when to plant. giveth excellent

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reality is by studying kabbalah, since it is the only study that deals with that part of reality that humanity has yet to attain. but it is not enough to merely study the text, because we are reading about the unknown. we must also direct ourselves to the right vision, and be prepared for a truer and as yet concealed feeling. everything exists inside us. outside us there is only the upper force, the creator. we cannot feel him in anyway. what we do feel is only how the creator works on our sensory organs. only by the consequence of these sensations can we guess anything about the creator. in fact, it is not about the creator, but about how he appears to us, how he wants to be felt. hence, the study of kabbalah must be correctly aimed; the thought must be focused on studying the inner attr

, partzufim, sefirot, names, everything the kabbalah speaks of exists in us and will be revealed in us, depending on the degree of our correction. we will find our inner moses and aaron, king david and the angels, the evil, the righteous and the 7 of 273 degrees of attainment called jerusalem, the temple and more. every word in the torah speaks of our own forces and the levels of our sensation of the creator. that is the only thing that the torah discusses. that is also the only thing we speak of in our daily lives, because we talk about our feelings. all we feel is the influence of the creator. every thing around us is no more than the influence of the creator on each and every one of us. hence, in order to feel the actual picture of the world we must find what we read inside us, as we re

st way to attain the correction of our feelings and attributes and spiritual ascent. the one means for progress is the study with the thought that these books actually speak of me, that all this exists somewhere inside me. all these worlds and partzufim are things that i must discover inside me, they are my own properties. the more i acquire control over these attributes, the more i will feel how the creator operates inside me. i will never be able to feel him outside me but only how he operates inside me, because by your acts we know you. and since we sit together as a group, studying our (as yet concealed) real properties, we are collaborating in the study of the operation of the creator inside us. we have a common goal and a common thought, and one experimentation field our own feelings

we have a common goal and a common thought, and one experimentation field our own feelings. this results in a collective goal, thought and desire that in time creates the feeling of one body, common properties, a feeling that there are no separate entities, but only one, called man, and before him, the one creator. the thought must be directed inwardly, toward changing our attributes in search of the creator inside us. instead of the ordinary reading in the torah we discover the torah as a spice, as a means for correction also named a potion of life, for it pours in us the sensation of the creator, the light of eternity and wholeness. people who study from the wrong books, are denied of this remedy and remain with their properties, they do not discover the creator and their torah becomes d

y and wholeness. people who study from the wrong books, are denied of this remedy and remain with their properties, they do not discover the creator and their torah becomes dry and conceals the purpose of creation even more than before. 8 of 273 chapter 1.2 between creator and creature the question who am i? exists in everyone. but when that question can no longer be put aside, then it relates to the creator: who is he? because the creator is inside us, he is the source of the human self. hence, no matter how many times we ask ourselves who am i? that question still relates to the creator. the self is a consequence. our desires, our every movement, everything we do is in fact, created by the creator. we cannot perceive that notion. everything we say, think, even what we say about the creat

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irst fantasy story to you that left your imagination with endless possibilities "the more mediocre, the weaker, the more submissive and cowardly a man is, the more he will posit as evil: it is with him that the realm of evil is most comprehensive. the basest (most dishonourable) man will see the realm of evil that is, of that which is forbidden and hostile to him everywhere the most powerful man, the creator, would have to be the most evil, in as much as he carries his ideal against the ideals of other men and remakes them in his own image" friedrich nietzsche the left hand path adept (whether they know they are lhp or not) are those who do things with those endless possibilities, rather than talk in vague sentences about them. mysticism is not-knowing that which cannot be known. a vicious

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) that stifle the potentiality of our being. it has been said (by nietzsche "the more mediocre, the weaker, the more submissive and cowardly a man is, the more he will posit as evil: it is with him that the realm of evil is most comprehensive. the basest (most dis- honourable) man will see the realm of evil that is, of that which is forbidden and hostile to him- everywhere "the most powerful man, the creator, would have to be the most evil, in as much as he carries his ideal against the ideals of other men and remakes them in his own image- order of nine angleerthe god set by setnakt the best english study of set is te velde's seth: god ofconfusion brill 1977. if this particular text is unavailable through your library, i recommend a a short cheap and very reliable book by george hart: a d

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s attentively, and understand what they say not. our brethren in china, to confirm a bargain, break the stick on which it is written, each party keeping half, so that only on the fitting together of the two halves can the covenant be complete. so also is the kingdom of heaven. so also is this instruction. unless the other half be in thy mind, thou wilt not understand. this then is the covenant of the creator, dividing that he may unite. in our lord jesus christ is the great work accomplished. here followeth liber 333, cap. xxxvi. the star sapphire let the adept be armed with his magick rood (and provided with his mystic rose. in the centre, let him give the l.v.x. signs; or if he know them, if he will and dare do them, and can keep silent about them, the signs of n.o.x. being the signs of

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ld who hath created these [things] that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that [he is] strong in power; not one faileth. 40:27 why sayest thou, o jacob, and speakest, o israel, my way is hid from the lord, and my judgment is passed over from my god? 40:28 hast thou not known? hast thou not heard [that] the everlasting god, the lord, the creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary [there is] no searching of his understanding. 40:29 he giveth power to the faint; and to [them that have] no might he increaseth strength. 40:30 even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: 40:31 but they that wait upon the lord shall renew [their] strength; they shall mount up with wings as eag

sses, saith the lord, that i [am] god. 43:13 yea, before the day [was] i [am] he; and [there is] none that can deliver out of my hand: i will work, and who shall let it? 43:14 thus saith the lord, your redeemer, the holy one of israel; for your sake i have sent to babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the chaldeans, whose cry [is] in the ships. 43:15 i [am] the lord, your holy one, the creator of israel, your king. 43:16 thus saith the lord, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters; 43:17 which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow. 43:18 remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. 43:19 behold, i will do a new

me fools, 1:23 and changed the glory of the uncorruptible god into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 1:24 wherefore god also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 1:25 who changed the truth of god into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the creator, who is blessed for ever. amen. 1:26 for this cause god gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 1:27 and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error

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l and humane, by the motions and influences of the stars upon the lower elements, by them observed and understood. philo judaeus affirmeth, that by this part of magick or astrologie, together with the motions of the stars and other heavenly bodies, abraham found out the knowledge of the true god while he lived in caldea, qui contemplatione creaturarum, cognovit creatorem (saith damascen) who knew the creator by the contemplation of the creature. josephus reporteth of abraham, that he instructed the egyptians in arithmetic and astronomy; who before abraham s coming unto them, knew none of these sciences. abraham sanctitate& sapientia omnium pr stantissimus, primum cald os, deinde phoenices, demum egyptios sacerdotes, astrologia& divina docuerit. abraham the holiest and wisest of men, did fi

us, primum cald os, deinde phoenices, demum egyptios sacerdotes, astrologia& divina docuerit. abraham the holiest and wisest of men, did first teach the caldeans, then the phoenicians, lastly the egyptian priests, astrologie and divine knowledge. without doubt, hermes trismegistus, that divine magician and philosopher, who (as some say) lived long before noah, attained to much divine knowledge of the creator through the study of magick and astrologie; as his writings testifie. the third kind of magick containeth the whole philosophy of nature; which bringeth to light the innermost virtues, and extracteth them out of nature s hidden bosome to humane use: virtutes in centro centri latentes; virtues hidden in the centre of the centre, according to the chymists: of this sort were albertus, arn

power over the hostile spirits of mankinde. the eighth is hermetical, that is, gyptiacal magick; and differeth not much from divine magick. the ninth is that wisdom which dependeth solely upon the word of god; and this is called prophetical magick.2 1. 2. none of these latter eight books exist in the present day- ed. 6 the first tome of the book of arbatel of magick called isagoge in the name of the creator of all things both visible and invisible, who revealeth his mysteries out of his treasures to them that call upon him; and fatherly and mercifully bestoweth those his secrets upon us without measure. may he grant unto us, through his onely-begotten son jesus christ our lord, his ministring spirits, the revealers of his secrets, that we may write this book of arbatel, concerning the gre

ture, and natural things. the spirits that are apostate, and reserved to the last judgement, do follow these, after a long interval. sixthly, the ministers of punishments in hell, and the obedient unto god. seventhly, the pigmies do not possess the lowest place, and they who inhabit in elements, and elementary things. it is convenient therefore to know and discern all differences of the wisdom of the creator and the creatures, that it may be certainly manifest unto us, what we ought to assume to our use of every thing, and that we may know in truth how and in what maner that may be done. for truely every creature is ordained for some profitable end to humane nature, and for the service thereof; as the holy scriptures, reason, and experience, do testifie. 9 aphorism 10. god the father almig

hou shalt not detain the spirit above a full hour, unless he be familiarly addicted unto thee. forasmuch as thou camest in peace, and quietly, and hast answered unto my petitions; i give thanks unto god, in whole name thou camest: and now thou mayest depart in peace unto thy orders; and return to me again when i shall call thee by thy name, or by thy order, or by thy office, which is granted from the creator. amen. ecclesiast. chap. 5. be not rash with thy mouth, neither let thy heart be hasty to utter any thing before god; for god is in heaven, and thou in earth: therefore let thy words be few; for a dream cometh through the multitude of business. the fourth septenary. aphorism 22. we call that a secret, which no man can attain unto by humane industry without revelation; which science lie

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part of their religion was guarded. plutarch tells us, that the egyptians represented osiris with the organ of generation erect, to show his generative and prolific power: he also tells us, that osiris was the same deity as the bacchus of the greek mythology; who was also the same as the first begotten love (erwj prwtogonoj) of orpheus and hesiod.2 this deity is celebrated by the ancient poets as the creator of all things, the father of gods and men;3 and it appears, by the passage above referred to, that the organ of generation was the symbol of his great characteristic attribute. this is perfectly consistent with the general practice of the greek artists, who (as will be made appear hereafter) uniformly represented the attributes of the deity by the corresponding properties observed in t

. the egg was carried in procession at the celebration of the mysteries, because, as plutarch says, it was the material of generation( lh thj genesewj3) containing the seeds and germs of life and motion, without being actually possessed of either. for this reason, it was a very proper symbol of chaos, containing the seeds and materials of all things, which, however, were barren and useless, until the creator fructified them by the incubation of his vital spirit, and released them from the restraints of inert brucker in loc. citat) nor could he have gained this knowledge from any people which history has preserved any memorials; for we know of none among whom science had made such a progress, that a truth so remote from common observation, and so contradictory to the evidence of unimproved

the serpent kind retain life more pertinaciously than any others except the polypus, which is sometimes represented upon the greek medals,3 probably in its stead. i have myself seen the heart of an adder continue its vital motions for many minutes after it has been taken from the body, and even renew them, after it has been cold, upon being moistened with warm water, and touched with a stimulus. the creator, delivering the fructified seeds of things from the restraints of inert matter by his divine strength, is represented on innumerable greek medals by the urus, or wild bull, in the act of butting against the egg of chaos, and breaking it with his horns.4 it is true, that the egg is not represented with the bull on any of those which i have seen; but mr. d hancarville5 has brought exampl

r it is a common mode of expression in the old testament, to say that the horns of any one shall be exalted, in order to signify that he shall be raised into power or pre-eminence; and when moses descended from the mount with the spirit of god still upon him, his head appeared horned.2 to the head of the bull was sometimes joined the organ of generation, which represented not only the strength of the creator, 1 lib. i. c. 12. 2 exod. c. xxxiv. v. 35, ed. vulgat. other translators understand the expression metaphorically, and suppose it to mean radiated, or luminous. of priapus 23 but the peculiar direction of it to the most beneficial purpose, the propagation of sensitive beings. of this there is a small bronze in the museum of mr. townley, of which an engraving is given in plate iii. fig

and retain their entire difference of meaning. hence ambiguities arise, such as those above mentioned, which could not possibly exist in an original tongue. the greek poets and artists frequently give the personification of a particular attribute for the deity himself; hence he is called taurozoaj, taurwpoj, tauromorfoj,1 &c, and hence the initials and monograms of the orphic epithets applied to the creator, are found with the bull, and other symbols, on the greek medals.2 it must not be imagined from hence, that the ancients supposed the deity to exist under the form of a bull, a goat, or a serpent: on the contrary, he is always described in the orphic theology as a general pervading spirit, without form, or distinct locality of any kind; and appears, by a curious fragment preserved by p

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he uncongenial forces are driven out, the magus must invite the favor- able forces directly involved in the working to come in. this is done by making a magical aperture at the center point of the circle, through which the benign ener- gies can enter. this technique will also be given later. magic circles may be permanently marked by physical boundaries. this was done by neolithic peoples such as the creators of stonehenge. witches traditional- ly are pictured drawing their circles in the ground around their feet with an athame, or on the floor of a chamber with charcoal or chalk. the sorcerer of liter- ary romance is usually pictured inside an inscribed geometric figure. it should be understood that the physical circle is only a model upon which the magus may fix the real circle of the ar

he unmanifest. humanity was not placed on earth to forget heaven and waste eternity rooting in the dirt. neither was the race put here to despise its nurturing mother, the earth, and flee back into heaven. mankind is an instrument whose sole purpose is the furthering, in its infinite complexity, of the desire of the all as expressed in the evo- lution of the universe. since humans were created in the creator's image, the desire of god is also the highest and best desire of human beings. mercury (hermes, the messenger of the gods, is an anthropomorphic symbol of the magus. the titan prometheus, who gave the secret of fire to humanity, is also symbolic of the magus. woden, who snatched the runes of power from the roots of the cosmic tree yggdrasill and bequeathed them as a gift to his people

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

minating intelligence: it is the crown of creation, the splendour of the unity, equaling it, and it is exalted above every head, and named by the kabalists the 'second glory" 3. binah (understanding) divine name: ihvh elohim (the lord god) archangelic name: tzaphqiel correspondence: saturn "the third path is the sanctifying intelligence, and is the foundation of primordial wisdom, which is called the creator of faith, and its roots are amn; and it is the parent of faith, from which doth faith emanate" 4. chesed (mercy) divine name: el (the mighty one) archangelic name: tzadqiel correspondence: jupiter "the fourth path is named the cohesive or receptacular intelligence; and is so called because it contains all the holy powers, and from it emanate all the spiritual virtues with the most exal

native intelligence, and it is so called because it gives a likeness to all the similitudes which are created in like manner similar to its harmonious elegancies" 25. tiphareth to yesod hebrew letter: samekh tarot trump: xiv temperance correspondence: sagittarius "the twenty-fifth path is the intelligence of probation, or temptation, and is so called because it is the primary temptation, by which the creator trieth all righteous persons" chapter thirteen: pathworking 237 26. tiphareth to hod hebrew letter: ayin tarot trump: xv the devil correspondence: capricorn "the twenty-sixth path is called the renewing intelligence, because the holy god renews by it all the changing things which are renewed by the creation of the world" 27. netzach to hod hebrew letter: pe tarot trump: xvi the blasted

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

er more simple pattern that shows the letters of tetragrammaton arranged one above the other in the crude shape of the human body. yod is the head of this figure, the first he its arms and shoulders, vau its breathing torso, and the second he its pelvis and legs. the esoteric message inherent in this seemingly childish stick man is extremely significant. not only is the ihvh the living pattern of the creator whereby the power of god may be released and harnessed, and the structure of the universe through which the world may be subdued, but it is also the shape and foundation of humanity. its proper use permits a human being to rule, not only other human beings, but more importantly his or her own nature. by tetragrammaton it is possible to separate out and refine the gold of our higher bei

two united and intertwined snakes coiling around it has from ancient times represented life, the bringing forth of being from nothingness. it used to be believed that snakes entwined in this intimate manner were mating (actually, they were fighting. the staff of hermes is a two-dimensional physical representation of a transcendent intellectual action that flows forth unceasingly from the mind of the creator. it would be closer to the fundamental reality if the model were made in three dimensions. then it would consist of two helical paths twining up an invisible central axis, and in fact would look very much like the molecular models of dna. it is no coincidence that the building blocks, or "bases" of dna-adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine-are four in number. this correspondence is i

he ring happens to be on the north side of the altar, stay where you are. face the altar. with your arms spread and elevated, the palms upward, and your face raised to heaven, speak the following opening prayer and declaration of purpose in these, or similar, words: hear me, 0 lord my god! who art the first and last, the beginning and the end, the alpha and the omega. 0 nameless and formless one, the creator of all, lord of light, lord of life, lord of love, heed this prayer of thy true son (or daughter, shed down thy light upon me! shower down thy light unto the dark corners of the earth. for i believe in thee and bear thy witness. i shall walk with thee into fire. holy art thou, lord of the universe. the one in all, the all in one. i (your name, conduct this holy ritual of baptism to inv

sentially the same physical appearance as the merciful aspect. he is seated upon a horse to signify his manifest power over the world. the many crowns he wears are the banners of the name. it is said that "he has a name written that no man knew but himself' to indicate that the ineffable name, ihvh, because it encompasses everything in the whole of creation, cannot truly be comprehended except by the creator of everything. here, his white garment is dyed in blood to indicate that the christ upon the horse is the christ of judgment and punishment, in contrast to the seated christ, the christ of inspiration and mercy. notice that at the end of the description of the mounted christ, his name is given in a twofold manner "king of kings, and lord of lords" it would be reasonable to associate th

increase numbered 33, which reign in the second angle? under whom i have placed 9639 whom none hath yet numbered, but one; in whom the second beginning of tetragrammaton things are and wax strong; which also successively are the number of time: and their powers are as the first 456. arise, you sons of pleasure, and visit the earth: for i am the lord your god, which is, and liveth. in the name of the creator, move, and show yourselves as pleasant deliverers, that you may praise him amongst the sons of men. analysis of the fourth key this key refers to the spirits of the "second angle" which, moving around the circle of the earth sunwise from the starting point in the east, is the angle of the south. in the third key reference was made to the "corners of your governments" the first corner i

UNCLE SETNAKT SEZ PERFORM A RITUAL TOASTING

rticipant must take part in each round of toasts- no passing! 1. prepare your chamber. the preparation of a sacred space sets up all the moods and expectations you want for self-exploration and magic. if you reuse a chamber often, the mere entering of it can put you in a state of communication with yourself and- perhaps- the unknown that lies beyond. for communication with the prince of darkness, the creator of isolate intelligence, the chamber should be dark, display his pentagram (the kaliyuga productions pentagram will do excellently if like uncle setnakt you can't paint your own, and those ritual tools you deem necessary. you'll also need a quantity of sweet liquid (uncle setnakt recommends water with a little honey- this mixture may touch off some dim ancestral memories indeed conside

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

the attributes which are associated by modern nations with god almighty. where and how neb-er-tcher existed is not said, but it seems as if he was believed to have been an almighty and invisible power which filled all space. it seems also that a desire arose in him to create the world, and in order to do this he took upon himself the form of the god khepera, who from first to last was regarded as the creator, par excellence, among all the gods known to the egyptians. when this transformation of neb-er-tcher into khepera took place the heavens and the earth had not been created, but there seems to have existed a vast mass of water, or world-ocean, called nu, and it must have been in this that the transformation took place. in this celestial ocean were the germs of all the living things whic

gend of creation as it is found in the papyrus of nes- menu. the text of both versions is full of difficult passages, and some readings are corrupt; unfortunately variant versions by which they might be corrected are lacking. the general meaning of the legend in both versions is quite clear, and it throws considerable light on the egyptian religion. the egyptians believed in the existence of god, the creator and maintainer of all things, but they thought that the concerns of this world were committed by him to the superintendence of a series of subordinate spirits or beings called "gods" over whom they believed magical spells and ceremonies to have the greatest influence. the deity was a being so remote, and of such an exalted nature, that it was idle to expect him to interfere in the affa

him to interfere in the affairs of mortals, or to change any decree or command which he had once uttered. the spirits or "gods" on the other hand, possessing natures not far removed from those of men, were thought to be amenable to supplications and flattery, and to wheedling and cajolery, especially when accompanied by gifts. it is of great interest to find a legend in which the power of god as the creator of the world and the sun and moon is so clearly set forth, embedded in a book of magical spells devoted to the destruction of the mythological monster who existed solely to prevent the sun from rising and shining. ii. the legend of the destruction of mankind. the text containing the legend of the destruction of mankind is written in hieroglyphs, and is found on the four walls of a smal

st the bites of serpents and other noxious reptiles. the legend of the destruction of mankind affords no explanation of this remarkable fact, but when we read the following legend of ra and isis we understand why ra, though king of the gods, was afraid of the reptiles which lived in the kingdom of keb. the legend, or "chapter of the divine god" begins by enumerating the mighty attributes of ra as the creator of the universe, and describes the god of "many names" as unknowable, even by the gods. at this time isis lived in the form of a woman who possessed the knowledge of spells and incantations, that is to say, she was regarded much in the same way as modern african peoples regard their "medicine-women" or "witch-women" she had used her spells on men, and was tired of exercising her powers

time in the future. like ra he had fought seba, or set, the monster of evil, and had defeated him, and his victory assured to him lasting authority over the gods and the dead. he exercised his creative power in making land and water, trees and herbs, cattle and other four-footed beasts, birds of all kinds, and fish and creeping things; even the waste spaces of the desert owed allegiance to him as the creator. and he rolled out the sky, and set the light above the darkness. the last paragraph of the text contains an allusion to isis, the sister and wife of osiris, and mentions the legend of the birth of horus, which even under the xviiith dynasty was very ancient, isis, we are told, was the constant protectress of her brother, she drove away the fiends that wanted to attack him, and kept th

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

er a seal or talisman made by someone in the distant past. this is also the reason, in my opinion, it is useless to copy or reproduce talismans from other magical books. only by completely understanding the meaning of the symbols on the talisman will the magician get any results. most books with pictures of seal, and sigils are of little value to us because we have no idea what was in the mind of the creator when the talisman was being made. moreover, ancient seals could have been recopied many times before publication, resulting in many errors. or some could have encoded information (such as the arrangement of certain letters) that were an abbreviation or formula known only to the magician who made them. to attempt to reconstruct such a formula, even if one has a good working knowledge of

as-sami.the hearer 77. al-muzil.the destroyer 78. al-mu'izz.the honourer 79. ar-rafi.the exalter 80. al-khafiz.the abaser 81. al-basit.the spreader 82. al-kabiz.the restrainer 83. al-alim.the knower 84. al-fattah.the opener 85. al-razzah.the provider 86. al-wahhab.the bestower 87. al-kahhar.-the dominant 88. al-ghaffa.the forgiver 89. al-musawwir.the fashioner 90. al-bari.the maker 91. al-khalik.the creator 92. al-mutakabbir.the great 93. al-jabbar.the repairer 94. al-aziz.the mighty 95. al-muhaimim.the protector 96. al-mu'min.the faithful 97. al-awwal.the first 98. al-mu'akhkhir.the deferrer 99. al-muta'ali.the exalted 28 be linked to the symbols on the talisman more with each use, imprinting an automatic psychic reaction. these kinds of suggestions to the subconscious are always more po

ol of both rosicrucianism and the golden dawn. in the islamic tradition, seven represented the planetary sphere of venus as well as universal nature. seven is a quarter division of the cycle of twenty-eight days and becomes the rhythm of a week. it is a particularly feminine planet in all cultures. magical squares were important to islamic magicians, and mulhammad himself once said "praise be god the creator who has bestowed upon man the power to discover the significance of numbers" in the book islamic patterns: an analytical and cosmological approach (1983) keith critchlow notes that: figure 9-d figure 9-e it is in the sense of finding the perfection of a "thing" that we might best understand both the pattern and effectiveness of a magic square. far more significance than is normally rea

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

his tree, as all tree do, utterly depended on the sun for its life, however a tree could never hope to become equal to or exist independent from the life-giving rays of the sun, nor from the hydrodynamic cycle which the sun makes possible. true, a tree is illuminated by, and reflects the light of, the sun. in lucifer's case however his mistake was in giving himself all the credit for the light of the creator which reflected through his being, whereby he received his name "lucifer [i use the term "he" for convenience only when in reality almighty god and the angels are not limited to material dna "gene-der, but are rather androgynous beings of spirit. so imagine this creature, refusing in his insatiable and egotistical self-conceit to humble himself before an almighty creator and seek forgi

ut are rather androgynous beings of spirit. so imagine this creature, refusing in his insatiable and egotistical self-conceit to humble himself before an almighty creator and seek forgiveness, but rather he/it instead tries to save face by enticing the rest of creation into joining in the rebellion. of course, being a creature of darkness- once dis-connecting himself/itself from the light/life of the creator- satan["the adversary, formerly "lucifer] would use deception to try and down-play the importance of the creator and thus deceive others into believing that he himself had almighty power and thus deserved to rule the universe. and in fact lucifer did acquire great power when other angels joined him, but only the type of power that a black hole might acquire by devouring everything arou

g any effort to protect your own child then you are hating your child and all those children that will be destroyed by such a creature in the future. should we balance health with terminal cancer? or balance out peace with thermonuclear annihilation? the universe was created, using one analogy, as a machine which was intended to work in perfect harmony. however in giving his creatures free agency the creator knew that he was also giving us personality and soul, yet with the risk that we might choose to cause destruction to the "machine. a blood cell for instance was designed to draw life from the heart and to share that life with the rest of the body, intuitively knowing that in keeping the body alive it is keeping itself alive. the cancer cell on the other hand thinks only of feeding itse

a blood cell for instance was designed to draw life from the heart and to share that life with the rest of the body, intuitively knowing that in keeping the body alive it is keeping itself alive. the cancer cell on the other hand thinks only of feeding itself by stealing the life-essence from neighboring cells and thus dying more and more with each act of destruction, for life can only come from the creator, but when one starts serving themselves rather than the whole, they cut themselves off from the source of all life, which can only give the essence of life to those who are willing to become channels or vessels of that life. if a spring becomes a sink hole, taking water instead of giving it, it merely becomes a dry, dead who are the draconians file//d /my documents/avidya/reptilian age

hould we say, the insatiable "luciferian hive. this is the nature of satan [formerly lucifer, who is the ultimate emotional/psychic/bioplasmic "vampire. having "consumed" his angelic followers, turning them into energy vampires as well. stealing the essence of life or the life force secondhand from everyone they can rather than go right to the source, even in light of the "alter" of calvary where the creator's perfect justice with perfect mercy joined and thus opening the way back to the creator's heart, for calvary is the very "heart" of the universe for those who are willing to received the "divine blood transfusion, but only once they have acknowledged their need. as for satan however, his vampirial nature and that of the dark spirits which he had assimilated went to work in the realm o

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

, and his wide personal experiences in the far east enable him to show that there are many peoples, whether in the far east or in great britain, who still perform acts of worship to the almighty giver of life according to ancient ritual. though the ritual of europe is now consonant with modern civilisation, the feeling which underlies both the primitive and the civilised is the same: gratitude to the creator and hope for the constance of his goodness. personal worship may take any form, but a group of persons worshipping together always devise some form of ritual, especially when the worship takes the form of a dance. the ritual dance, whether pet formed as an act of worship or as the expression of a prayer, is characterised by its rhythmic action. the prayer-dance is usually for the incre

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

way? who, apart from thee, established the law by which the moon waxes and wanes? these and other things would i like to know! o ahura mazda, this i ask of thee: speak to me truly! who was from beneath sustaining the earth and the clouds so that they would not fall down? who made the waters and the plants? who yoked the two swift ones, thunder and lightning, to the wind and to the clouds? who is the creator of good disposition? o ahura mazda, this i ask of thee: speak to me truly! who produced well-made lights and darkness? who produced sleep, well-induced through laborious waking? who produced the dawns and the noon through the contrast with the night whose daily changes act for the enlightened believers as monitors of their interests? o ahura mazda, this i ask of thee: speak to me truly

y instrumental value. as the ecological crisis makes crystal clear, the polarization of each pair s terms is nothing short of disastrous in its interconnected effects. our eyes have been blinded to the sacredness of the earth, which is linked to the exclusion of women from the 285 sphere of the sacred, which is tied to focus on a monarchical, patriarchal idea of god and a consequent forgetting of the creator spirit, the livegiver who is intimately related to the earth. in the quest for an ecological ethic grounded in religious truth, these three relationships need to be rethought together. but we must be wary of roads that lead to dead-ends. i think it is a strategic mistake to retain the dualistic way of thinking and hope to make an advance simply by assigning greater value to the repress

they quarreled immediately. she said: i will not lie below you. he said, i will not lie below you, but above you. for you are fit to be below me and i above you. she responded: we are both equal because we both come from the earth. neither listened to the other. when lilith realized what was happening, she pronounced the ineffable name of god and flew off into the air. adam rose in prayer before the creator, saying, the woman you gave me has fled from me. immediately the holy one sent three angels after her. the holy one said to adam: if she wants to return, all the better. if not, she will have to accept that one hundred of her children will die every day. the angels went after her, finally locating her in the sea, in the powerful waters in which the egyptians were destined to perish. th

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

by the quadruple numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott ratio, the symphony dis-diapason. they called it justice, as the first evenly even number. as a type of deity, we all know of the famous hebrew title tetragrammaton or unpronounceable name we call jehovah ihvh. this name was used by the qabalistic rabbis to hide their secret tenets of the divine essence of the creator god. almost all the peoples of antiquity possessed a name for deity consisting of four letters, and many of them considered 4 to be a divine number, thus- in hebrew we find also ihih called eheie; and ahih called aheie. assyrian adad, egyptian amun, persians syre of sire, greek theos, latin deus, german gott, french dieu, turkish esar, tartar itga, arabian allh, allah, samaritan jabe

god left the north pole unfinished, saying, if there be any my equal let him finish it like the others. this corner is the home of demons, ghosts, devils and storms. pirke of rabbi eleazar, cap. 3. the number 4 is related to jacob, the lesser light, which is the moon. jacob was spelled ioqb, and its initials are those of epithets, iutzr, the former; oushh the maker, quna the possessor, and bvra, the creator. see amos vii. 2, where jacob is called the small. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott in christian dogma, christ the triple deity on the cross of 4 limbs, is the descent of spirit into matter; or, as the theosophists say, the triad of atma-buddhi-manas descends into the quaternary of personal man, the kama, prana, linga and sthula sarira. the 4 c

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

me is defined as a quantity in the soul (distentio ipsius animi).45 for augustine, therefore, human experience of time is not linked to external space, a mode of temporality that he ascribes, in a passage in de genesi ad litteram, to the angels, incorporeal beings not situated in space who nevertheless perform acts in a temporal sequence. in that context, the angelic beings are positioned between the creator, who is beyond all time and space, and corporeal beings, who act in time and space.46 even though human beings are corporeal bodies located in space, their temporal comportment nonetheless is non-spatial (and hence angelic) inasmuch as the locus of the measure of time is in the immaterial soul and not in external matter. if we divest augustine s view of its theological language, we rec

ocess i have explored elsewhere under the rubric suffering and the jouissance of becoming-other. 276 in rhetoric remarkably similar to kabbalistic sources, schelling comprehends the initial stirring in the godhead in terms of the desire to become oneself, which is concomitantly suffering for the sake of the other. suffering is universal, not only with respect to humanity, but also with respect to the creator. because all living things must first involve themselves in being and break out of the darkness to transfiguration, so, too, in its revelation, the divine being must first assume nature and, as such, suffer it, before it can celebrate the triumph of its liberation. 277 for kabbalists, the primal suffering is connected to the archaic sapiential image of god taking delight in his wisdom

sage, ergas cites in support of his view nahmanides interpretation of r. isaac s remark that the name ehyeh occurs three times in god s response to moses (exod 3:14) to assure israel that he is the same god who was, is, and will be with them in their historical travails.134 the explanation of the opinion of r. isaac, writes nahmanides, is that the past and future 76 chapter two time are wholly in the creator in the present, for there is no change or set term in relation to him,135 and no days at all have passed from him. therefore, all the tenses [zemannim] in him are designated by one name, which instructs about the necessary of existence [hiyyuv ha-mesi ut. 136 nahmanides casts the explication attributed to r. isaac on the name ehyeh in medieval philosophical language: the expression nec

versus symbolic, pp. 213 231. this is not the place to enter into a lengthy discussion on the role of the symbol in heschel s thought, let alone the connection of the symbolic to the modalities of time and space, but su ce it to say that in some passages he does seem to equate time with godliness in a manner that is unthinkable with respect to space. see sabbath, p. 100: things of space. conceal the creator. it is the dimension of time wherein man meets god, wherein man becomes aware that every instant is an act of creation, a beginning, opening up new roads for ultimate realizations. time is the presence of god in the world of space, and it is within time that we are able to sense the unity of all beings. closer to the mark is the observation concerning the analogy between the dimension

at shmu el, sefer 5627, p. 38. 302. see n. 205, this chapter. 303. shneur zalman of lyady, liqqutei torah, bemidbar, 4b-c. 304. babylonian talmud, berakhot 58a. 305. babylonian talmud, rosh ha-shanah 25a. 306. babylonian talmud, rosh ha-shanah 31a. 307. dov baer schneersohn, torat hayyim: shemot, 234a. 308. dov baer schneersohn, perush ha-millot, 59c. 309. on the eternality of time in the will of the creator, see also shmuel schneersohn, liqqutei torah: torat shmu el, sefer 5627, pp. 38 and 85. 310. dov baer schneersohn, torat hayyim: shemot, 457a-b; idem, perush ha-millot, 67c. chapter three 1. for the most comprehensive bibliography to date on scholarship relevant to the study of sefer ha-bahir, see bahir, pp. 293 336. 2. sallis, doublings, p. 120. 3. the hebrew pronoun is in the feminin

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

mple of the rosy cross" the pass word is then announced, which is formed from the mystic number of the grade: 21. this pass word, however, is the divine name of kether: it is used as the pass word of this grade of tiphareth in order to affirm the connection between the two. then the chief adept says that the key word is i.n.r.i. the three adepts themselves represent chesed, geburah and tiphareth. the creator, the destroyer and the sacrificed one: isis, apophis and osiris equals the name iao. the symbol of osiris slain is the cross; vis, the sign of the mourning of isis: the sign of typhon and apophis: x the sign of osiris risen:=lvx the light of the cross, or that which symbolizes the way into the divine through sacrifice. so that the symbolism in its entirety represents the exaltation of

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