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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

unt of olives, 61= oil. hans sachs freqiiently has' den olgotzen tragen' for doing house drudgery, i. 5, 418'i 528. iii. 3, 24* 49^ iv. 3, 37^ 99^ the o.h.g. coz, simpuvium numae (juvenal 6, 343, which graff 4, 154 would identify with gotze, was a vessel, and belongs to giozan=fundere. 2 such a fear may arise from two causes: a holy name must not be abused, or an unholy dreaded name, e.g, that of the devil, has to be softened down by modifying its form; see chap.'xxxiii, how the people call formidable animals by another name, and for donner preier to say donnerwetter (dan. tordenveir for thursday, donnerwettstein (wetterstein or wetzstein 1, donnerkeil, donnerwasche, dummer. in fornm. sog. 10, 283 we have oddiuer for osinn; perhaps wuotansheer (woden's host) was puqiosely changed into mute

ffended jealous god" a wicked man was in the mid. ages called gotc hide, loathed by god. one form of imprecation was to consign a man to god's hatred: uz in gotes haz! trist. 5449. liz strtchet (sheer off) balde in gotes haz! trist. 14579. nu vart den gotes haz alsam ein boeswiht von mir hin! frauend. 109, 12. mich hat der gotes jmz bestanden; kl. 518. inch hat rehtfe gotes haz (al. foul weather, the devil &c) daher gesendet beide; iw. 6104. so miieze ich haben gotes lioz; altd. w. 3, 212. varet hen an godes haz i wiggert 2, 47. nu mueze er gewinnen gotes haz; eoth 611. in like manner the mlg. godsat liebbe! huyd. op st. 2, 350. eeinaert 3196^ but, what deserves particular notice, this fornmla' in gotes haz' or in ace. without prepos' gotes haz varn, strichen' has a perfect parallel in ano

of gothland, acted by young fellows in disguise, who blacken and rouge their faces (see ch. xvii, sub fine. one, wrajdt in fur, sits in a chair as the victim, holding in his mouth a bunch of straw-stalks cut fine, which reach as far as his ears and have the appearance of sowbristles: by this is meant the boar sacrificed at yule, which in england is decked with laurel and rosemary (ch. x, just as the devil's offering is with rue, rosemary and orange (ch. xxxiii. the great sacrificial feast of the ancient saxons was on oct. 1, and is traced to a victory gained over the thuringians in 534 (see ch. vi; in documents of the mid. ages this high festival stills bears the name of the gemcinwoche or common week (see ch. xiii, zisa, wiirdtwein dipl. magimt. 1 praef. iii-v. scheffers haltaus p. 142'

konar (omnis generis' is here added, it seems to include goats. the sacrifice of he-goats (hircos) is spoken of in the above-quoted epist. bonif. 82. in the swedish superstition, the water-sprite, before it wiu teach any one to play the harp, requires the sacrifice of a llach lamb; svenska folkv. 2, 128. gregory the great speaks once of she-goats being sacrificed; he says the langobards offer to the devil, i.e.,io one of their gods, caput caprae, hoc ei, per circuitum currentes, carmine nefando dedicantes; dial. 3, 28. this head of a she-goat (or he-goat) was reared aloft, and the people bowed before it. the halloiclng of a he-goat among the ancient prussians is well known (luc. david 1, 87, 98. the slavonian god triglav is represented with three goats' heads (hanka's zbjrka 23. if that l

me of itself degenerates into the sense of hwy (wut) and anger; the edda has instances of it. in revenge he pricked brynhild with the sleei)ing-thorn, s:em. 194% and she says: osinn\ veldr, er ek eigi nmttak bregsa bhmnstofom. he breeds enmit5^ and strife: einn vehh- osinn ollu bolvi, jpviatmes sifjungom sakrunar bar, s;cm. 165. ininiicitias othinus serit, sa.\o gram. p. 142, as christians say of the devil, that he sows the seeds of discord, gremi ocins, sa^m. 151 (see suppl. le 146 wodan. myths, i have found but few traces left among us in germany, the norse osinn is one-eyed, he wears a hroad hat and wide mantle: grimnir 1 feldi hldm, blue cloak, stem. 40. 1 hekhi grmnni ok hldm hrokum, green cloak and blue breeks, fornald. sog. 1, 324. heldumaffr, cloaked man, 1, 325. when he desired to

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

of an organised male medical profession, women healers who had acted as herbalists and midwives became a threat. this was not least because their skills ensured less painful childbirth, which was considered contrary to the curse of god that the daughters of eve should bear children in sorrow. so midwives were a prime target for the new persecutions and were often accused of sacrificing babies to the devil. given the high rate of infant mortality, this allegation was hard to refute, and a grieving mother might easily blame the midwife for the death of her infant. at a time of appropriation of common land and the enclosure of smallholdings, especially in europe, such accusations were a popular way of removing peasants, particularly elderly widows or spinsters, reluctant to give up their lan

is persecution. even faeries became associated with witchcraft. the bean-tighe, a faerie housekeeper, popular in the mythology of ireland and scotland, was said to reside with the village wise woman and assist her with chores; in the worst of the wave of hysteria over witchcraft, if an old women had an immaculate house, it was claimed she had faerie help- and so by implication was consorting with the devil. under torture, even the innocent would admit to the vile deeds suggested by their inquisitors. many of the confessions now appear to be remarkably uniform and come straight from the pages of the works on demonology, with which the members of the inquisition would be familiar. simple village circle dances performed at the time of the full moon and the old rituals performed to bring ferti

t was regarded as precious because it was the main preservative of food through the long winter months for early settlers around the globe. in formal magick, it represents the element of earth. in modern protective and banishing rituals, a salt circle is created to keep out harm. many of us still adhere to the old practice of throwing a pinch of spilt salt over our left shoulder 'into the eyes of the devil. salt was also added in the making of holy water to ward off evil and increase physical strength as well as powers of fertility. salt is still added to water in casting a triple circle in more formal magick. on a less formal level, small quantities of salt can be empowered and used for all kinds of domestic protection. to empower salt, pass a clear quartz or crystal pendulum over it deos

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perfect men in the world. i am astonished when i consider the blindness of many persons who let themselves be led by evil masters, who take pleasure in falsehood, and, we of abramelin the mage 13 may rather say, in the demon himself; giving themselves over unto sorceries and idolatries, one in one manner, another in another manner, with the result of losing their souls. but the truth is so great, the devil is so deceitful and malicious, and the world so frail and so infamous that i must admit that things cannot be otherwise. let us then open our eyes, and follow that which i shall lay down in the following chapters; and let us not walk in another path, whether of the devil, or of men, or of books which boast of their magic; for in truth i declare unto thee that i had so great a quantity of

magic, i both forgot them, and banished them from mine heart. that impious bohemian,24 with the aid and assistance of his associate, performed astounding feats. he rendered himself invisible, he used to fly in the air, he used to enter through the keyholes into locked-up rooms, he knew our greatest secrets, and once he told me things which god alone could know. but his art cost him too dear, for the devil had made him swear in the pact that he would use all his secrets to the dishonour of god, and to the prejudice of his neighbour. ultimately his body was found dragged through the streets, and his head without any tongue therein, lying in a drain. and this was all the profit he drew from his diabolical science and magic. in austria i found an infinitude of magicians who only occupied them

e profit he drew from his diabolical science and magic. in austria i found an infinitude of magicians who only occupied themselves in killing and maiming men, in putting discord among married people, in causing divorces, in tying witch-knots in osier or willow branches to stop the flow of milk in the breasts of nursing women, and similar infamies. but these miserable wretches had made a pact with the devil, and had become his slaves, having sworn unto him that they would work without cessation to destroy all living creatures. some of these had two years (for their pact) to run, some three, and after that time they underwent the same fate as the bohemian. at lintz i worked with a young woman, who one evening invited me to go with her, assuring me that without any risk she would conduct me t

h much pleasure began to give me the account of her expedition, saying that she had been in the place where my friend was, and all that he was doing; the which was entirely contrary to his profession. whence i concluded that what she had just told me was a simple dream, and that this unguent was a causer of a phantastic sleep; whereon she confessed to me that this unguent had been given to her by the devil. all the arts of the greeks are enchantments and fascinations, and the demons hold them enchained in these accursed arts so that the foundation of the true magic may be unknown to them which would render them more powerful than they; and i was the more confirmed in this opinion because their operations were of no practical use whatever, and caused injury unto him who put them into practi

his as pure vanity, for without the permission of god he can give nothing; but he will do it unto the damage and prejudice, ruin and eternal damnation of whomsoever putteth faith in him, and believeth in him; as we may see in the holy scripture in the matter of pharaoh and his adherents, the which despised the veritable and certain wisdom of moses and aaron, and were in the beginning backed up by the devil who showed them by the means of enchantments that he could both do and put in practice all the works of the aforesaid holy men, whence he ultimately did reduce them to, the sacred magic 26 such a condition of obstinacy and blindness, that without perceiving their own error and the deceit of the demon, they were cruelly chastised by god with divers plagues, and were at last all drowned in

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it be true that he desireth to be subjected to the day and hour which men would wish to prescribe for him; seeing that he is the master to elect such days as he himself wisheth, and also may they be sanctified! flee also all such books as those whose conjurations include extravagant, inexplicable, and unheard-of words,15 and which be impossible to understand, and which be truly the inventions of the devil and of wicked men. it is well also to recall that which i have said in the first book, viz, that in the greater part of their conjurations there was not the slightest mention made of god almighty, but only of invocations of the devil, together with very obscure chaldean words. surely it would be a rash thing of a man who should deal with god by the intermediary of his holy angels, to thi

ord diabolos, whence are derived the modern french and english diable and devil. oriens: these four names of oriens, paimon, ariton and amaymon,are usually allotted to the evil kings of the four quarters of the world. oriens, from latin, oriens= rising or eastern. this name is also written uriens, from latin, uro= to burn, or devour with flame. it is probably from uriens that a mediaeval title of the devil, viz, sir urien, is derived. the name is also sometimes written urieus, from latin, urios, a title given to jupiter as presiding over the wind. urieus is also derivable from the greek adj. eurus, eureia, euru, meaning vast or extensive. by the rabbins he is also called smal, samael, which is derived from the hebrew root sml, which means a figure, image, or idol. it is a name given in the

ent in the working of evil; it is to be wished that they were as much so for the good. however, take heed that you be upon your guard. and remember, that as there is a god to write these aforesaid symbols, there is no particular preparation necessary of pens, of ink, and of paper; nor yet of elections of particular days, nor other things to be observed, which the false magicians and enchanters of the devil would have you believe. it sufficeth that the symbols should be clearly written with any kind of ink and pen, provided that we may easily discern unto what operation each sign appertaineth, the which also you can easily do by means of a properly arranged and drawn up register of them. but the greatest part of the symbols of the third book i counsel you to make before commencing the opera

magic, is that which hath not been entirely lost, but the greater part hath been hidden and built up within a wall, and this hath happened by order of the good spirits, who have not permitted this art to altogether perish, being willing that he who should (desire the same) should employ honourable means to obtain the same from the true and only god, and not from that perfidious one and deceiver, the devil, and his following. this operation being completed in the proper manner, you will be able to see and to read these books; but it is not permitted unto you to copy them, nor to keep them in your memory more than once. as for myself, i have made every effort to copy them, but as fast as i wrote, the writing used to disappear from the page; whence you may conclude that the lord knowing our

e person whose secrets you desire to know. chapter xiii (to cause a dead body to revive, and perform all the functions which a living person would do, and this during a space of seven years, by means of the spirits) i can in truth both say and affirm that a man who hath just died is divided into three parts, viz: body, soul, and spirit. the body returneth unto the earth, the soul unto god or unto the devil, and the spirit hath its period determined by its creator, that is to say, the sacred number of seven years, during the which it is permitted to wander hither and thither in any direction; at length it taketh its decision,127 and goeth straightway unto the place whence it came forth (at the beginning. to change the condition of the soul is impossible, but the grace of the lord, for many

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d acali, a certain bearli, a peter d abano,6 and many others. ah! how many of them do but deceive themselves! i do not say that these men did not perform extraordinary things; but it is necessary to note their manner of working, for their science is imperfect, and their authority proceedeth not from god by the intermediation of his holy angels, but proceedeth directly from express pacts made with the devil,7 and (acteth) by means of consecrated books full of thousands of diabolical conju- 5. in the original: d a a a mil florins dor. 6. yet peter of abano or apona is always considered to have been a great and powerful magician. of abramelin the mage 212 rations and impious exorcisms; in one word things which be contrary unto the commandments of god and the peace of men. and with all this th

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

g whatever to do, as i said before, with what we are trying to talk about. 9. the various postures recommended by the teachers of yoga depend for the most part upon the hindu anatomy for their value, and upon mystic theories concerning the therapeutic and thaumaturgic properties ascribed to various parts of the body. if, for instance, you can conquer the nerve udana, you can wlk on water. but who the devil wants to talk on water? swimming is much better fun (i bar sharks, sting-rays, cuttle-fish, electric eels and picanhas. also trippers, bathing belles and mr. lansbury) alternatively, freeze the water and dance on it! a great deal of hindu endeavour seems to consist in discovering the most difficult possible way to attain the most undesirable end. 10. when you start tying yourself into a

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

the aspiring magician from every angle, from every quarter around the circumference of the magick circle, and they must be destroyed lest they devour the magician himself. when crowley professed to have passed the obstacles, and crossed the abyss of knowledge, and found his true self, he found it was identical with the beast of the book of revelation, 666, whom christianity considers to represent the devil. indeed, crowley had nothing but admiration for the shaitan (satan) of the so-called "devil-worshipping" cult of the yezidis of mesopotamia, knowledge of which led him to declare the lines that open this introduction. for he saw that the yezidis possess a great secret and a great tradition that extends far back into time, beyond the origin of the sun cults of osiris, mithra and christ; e

and sometimes a tail. the church's use of the horns as a sort of archetype of evil is quite similar to the feeling many people have today with regards to the swastika used by the nazis, a symbol which has become the archetype of an evil sigil in the west. the fact that it is a highly valued mystical and religious symbol in the east is something that is not well-known. what is worse, the image of the devil as perpetrated by the church is simultaneously representative of sexual energy, and can be safely compared to jung's archetype of the shadow, the psychic repository of a man's innate maleness, as the anima represents that part of a man which is feminine. truly, the pictures painted of a satanic ritual by the pious catholic clergymen was one of sexual orgies and "perversions, and the hand

s, the moon remained the prime deity of the sumerians, constituting the essential personum of a religious and mystical drama that was performed roughly 3000 b.c. amid the deserts and marshes of mesopotamia. side by side with the worship of the moon, nanna, there was fear of the demon, pazuzu, a genie so amply recreated in the book and the movie by blatty, the exorcist, and similarly recognised as the devil himself by the church. pazuzu, the beast, was brought to life by aleister crowley, and the demon walked the earth once more. with publicity provided by h.p. lovecraft. the devil pazuzu was a prime example of the type of devil of which the sumerians were particularly aware, and which they depicted constantly in their carvings and statues. the purpose of this iconography was to ward off th

pe of devil of which the sumerians were particularly aware, and which they depicted constantly in their carvings and statues. the purpose of this iconography was to ward off the spiritual- and psychic- circumstances which would precipitate a plague, or some other evil "evil to destroy evil" although the ancient people of the world were conscious of an entity we might call the :author of all evil, the devil or satan, as evident in the sumerian creation epic and the rumoured existences of the cult of set of the egyptians, the more pressing concern was usually the exorcism of tiamat, she exists, somehow, just as the abyss exists and is perhaps indispensable to human life if we think of her as typifying the female quality of energy. although marduk was responsible for halving the monster from

quality of energy. although marduk was responsible for halving the monster from the sea, the sumerian tradition has it that the monster is not dead, but dreaming, asleep below the surface of the earth, strong, potent, dangerous, and very real. her powers can be tapped by the knowledgeable "who are skilful to rouse leviathan" although the christian religion has gone to great lengths to prove that the devil is inferior to god and exists solely for his purpose, as the tempter of man- surely a dubious raison d'etre- the sumerian tradition acknowledges that the person of "evil" is actually the oldest, most ancient of the gods. whereas christianity states that lucifer was a rebel in heaven, and fell from god's grace to ignominy below, the original story was that marduk was the rebel, and severe

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

ternity; and it is lost within the body of our lady of the stars. i am not i; i am but an hollow tube to bring down fire from heaven. mighty and marvellous is this weakness, this heaven which draweth me into her womb, this dome which hideth, which absorbeth, me. this is the night wherein i am lost, the love through which i am no longer i [40] commentary( iota-epsilon) the card 15 in the tarot is "the devil, the mediaeval blind for pan. the title of the chapter refers to the phallus, which is here identified with the will. the greek word pi-upsilon-rho-alpha-mu-iotasigma has the same number as phi-alpha-lambda-lambda-omicron-sigma. this chapter is quite clear, but one my remark in the last paragraph a reference to the nature of samadhi. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 3

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 client at his proper value. this i know certainly, because they always treat me with profound respect. thus they have flattered me into praising t

es. in the fourth section is shown that there is no return for one that has started on this path. the word out is then analysed, and treated as a noun. besides the explanation in the note, o is the yoni; t, the lingam; and u, the hierophant; the 5th card of the tarot, the pentagram. it is thus practically identical with iao. the rest of the chapter is clear, for the note. notes (12) o= character "the devil of the sabbath. u= 8, the hierophant or redeemer. t= strength, the lion (13) t, manhood, the sign of the cross or phallus. ut, the holy guardian angel; ut, the first syllable of udgita, see the upanishads. o, nothing or nuit. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 55 [57] 24 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta kappa-delta the hawk and the blindworm this book would translate

, and the ego to the absolute. this idea "i must give up, i owe, is naturally completed by i pay, and the sound of the word "pay" suggest the hebrew letter pe (see liber xvi, which represents the final dissolution in shivadarshana. i hebrew, the letter which follows o is p; i therefore follows ayin, the devi l of the tarot. ayin is spelt o i n, thus replacing the a in a i n by an o, the letter of the devil, or pan, the phallic god. now ain means nothing, and thus the replacing of ain by oin means the completion of the yoni by the lingam, which is followed by the complete dissolu tion symbolised in the letter p. these letters, o p, are then seen to be the root of opus, the latin word for "work, in this case, the great work. and they also begin the word "opening. i hindu philosophy, it is sa

f the glacier torrent! to him let us offer our babes! around him let us dance in the mad moonlight! but frater perdurabo is nothing but an eye; what eye none knoweth. skip, witches! hop, toads! take your pleasure- for the play of the universe is the pleasure of frater perdurabo. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 147 [150] commentary( omicron) 70 is the number of the letter ain, the devil in the tarot. the chapter refers to the witches' sabbath, the description of which in payne knight should be 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 para

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

uare is additionally referred to one of the 16 figures of geomancy, and to one of the signs or elements (saturn replacing earth as per the dual attribution of the path of tau, and thence to the hebrew letter and tarot card corresponding: thus row column attributions fire a puer h iv the emperor water d populus j vii the chariot air g puella l viii justice fire (cardinal signs) earth j carcer u xv the devil fire e fortuna minor f xi strength water h rubeus n xiii death air k tristesia x xvii the star water (fixed signs) earth b amissio w v the hierophant fire i acquisitio s xiv temperence water l laetitia q xviii the moon air c albus z vi the lovers air (mutable signs) earth f conjunctio y ix the hermit fire b cauda draconis c xx the last judgement water c via m xii the hanged man air d for

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

d never understood its real meaning. the absurdity of any such disturbance of the arrangement of the paths is evident to any sober student from such examples as the following. binah, the supernal understanding, is connected with tiphereth, the human consciousness, by zain, gemini, the oracles of the gods, or the intuition. that is, the attribution represents a psychological fact: to replace it by the devil is either humour or plain idiocy. again, the card "fortitude, leo, balances majesty and mercy with strength and severity: what sense is there in putting "death, the scorpion, in its stead? there are twenty other mistakes in the new wonderful illuminated-from-on-high attribution; the student can therefore be sure of twenty more laughs if he cares to study it> a synopsis of the grades of t

hermit :ix :yod (a hand: 10:virgo (an :the root of the alphabet (hermes: english i: earthy sign: the spermatozoon. the with lamp: or y: ruled by: youth setting out on wings: mercury: his adventures after wand: exalted: receiving the wand. cloak, and: therein: parzival in the desert serpent: sexually: christ taking refuge: ambivalent: in egypt, and on: light, i.e: the mount tempted by: of wisdom: the devil. the uncon: the inmost: scious will, or word. 32: atu :no: hebrew :no.:correspondence: other :of: of (tarot trump :atu: letters :let: in nature: correspondences :ter: the fool: o :aleph (an ox: 1 :air (the con :the free breath. the (the babe: english a: dition of: svastika. the holy in the egg: more or: all life: ghost. the virgin's on the lo: less: the impar: womb. parzial as "der tus

more or: all life: ghost. the virgin's on the lo: less: the impar: womb. parzial as "der tus, bacchus: tial vehicle: reine thor" who knows diphues: sexually: nothing. horus. etc: undevelop: christ-bacchus as the: ed. life: innocent babe, pursued: i.e. the: by herod-here: organ of: hercules strangling: possible: the serpents. the: expression: unconscious self not: yet determined in any: direction: the devil :xv :ayin (an: 70:capricornus :parzival in black armour (baphomet: eye) en (an earthy: ready to return to throned: glish a, or: sign ruled: montsalvat as redeemeradored by: o more or: by saturn: king: horus come to male& fe: less: the: mars exalt: full growth. christmale. see: bleat of a: ed therein: bacchus with calvary- eliphas: goat, a'a: sexually: cross kithairon- levi's de: male: th

restoring the "devil-worship" of such ideas as those which the laws of sound, and the phenomena of speech and hearing, compel us to connect with the group of "gods" whose names are based upon sht, or d, vocalized by the free breath a. for these names imply the qualities of courage, frankness, energy, pride, power and triumph; they are the words which express the creative and paternal will. thus "the devil" is capricornus, the goat who leaps upon the loftiest mountains, the godhead which, if it become manifest in man, makes him aegipan, the all. the sun enters this sign when he turns to renew the year in the north. he is also the vowel o, proper to roar, to boom, and 36 to command, being a forcible breath controlled by the firm circle of the mouth. he is the open eye of the exalted sun, be

e's blood to that cup. it is the original price paid for magick power. and if by magick power we mean the true power, the assimilation of all force with the ultimate light, the true bridal of the rosy cross, then is that blood the offering of virginity, the sole sacrifice well-pleasing to the master, the sacrifice whose only reward is the pain of child-bearing unto him. but "to sell one's soul to the devil, to renounce no matter what for an equivalent in personal gain<"supposed" personal gain. there is really no person to gain; so the whole transaction is a swindle on both sides, is black magic. you are no longer a noble giver of your all, but a mean huckster. 41 this formula is, however, a little different in symbolism, since it is a woman whose cup must be filled. it is rather the sacrif

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

list or two of archangels, angels, intelligences and spirits- magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 63 that ought to be enough for a start) now you are armed! ask yourself: why is the influence of tiphareth transmitted to yesod by the path of samekh, a fence, 60, sagittarius, the archer, art, blue- and so on; but to hod by the path of ayin, an eye, 70, capricornus, the goat, the devil, indigo, k.t. 36 thirteen is the number of achad hebrew option, unity, and ahebah hebrew option, love; then what word should arise when you expand it by the creative dyad, and get 26; what when you multiply it by 4, and get 52? then, suppose the pentagram gets busy, 13 x 5= 65, what then? now don't you dare to come round crawling to me for the answers; work it out yourself what sort of w

tried it out with the assistance of a certain noble marquess, whose consequent misadventures- won't he laugh when he reads this! but there are other senses "l'amour de l'oreille" may refer not only to othello's way of snaring desdemona, but subtleties of timbre in the voice. yes, yes, you say impatiently, but there isn't any miracle about all this in the ordinary sense of the word. true, but why the devil do you want me, so long as you're getting what you need? just being childlike, i suppose! no? merely that you can explain such matters to yourself well enough. all right; on to no. 2. shall we look at levitation for a change? this power- if it be one- is very curious indeed. it connects more directly with magnetism than almost any other. the first thing we think of when someone says "mag

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

ck me as extremely interesting. i said: of course, but suppose you think it over- and out- a bit, what am i to understand? she began glibly "he's a great big" and broke off, looking foolish. then, although omnipotent, he needed our help- we were all just as powerful as he, for we were little bits of each other- but exactly how, or to what end, she did not make clear. an exclamation "then there is the devil" she went on without a word from me for a long while, tying herself up into fresh knots with every phase. she became irreverent, then downright blasphemous; stopped short and began to laugh at herself. and so forth- but, what struck me as curious and significant, in the magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 211 main her argument followed quite closely the lines whic

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it will kill you; and it is a question of which sees the other first. now any one idea which is not the idea must be treated in this fashion. when you have killed the snake you can use its skin, but as long as it is alive and free, you are in danger. and unfortunately the ego-idea, which is the real snake, can throw itself into a multitude of forms, each clothed in the most brilliant dress. thus the devil is said to be able to disguise himself as an angel of light. under the strain of a magical vow this is too terribly the case. no normal human being understands or can understand the temptations of the saints. an ordinary person with ideas like those which obsessed st. patrick and st. antony would be only fit for an asylum. the tighter you hold the snake (which was previously asleep in th

r morally insane is a matter which we can leave to their own consideration. all these phantoms, of whatever nature, must be evoked, examined, and mastered; otherwise we may find that just when we want it there is some idea with which we have never dealt; and perhaps that idea, springing on us by surprise, and as it were from behind, may strangle us. this is the legend of the sorcerer strangled by the devil! 120 glossary only words nowhere explained in the preceding pages are given in this list. several others, mentioned in passing in the early part of the book, are sufficiently dealt with later on. in these cases the references in the index should be turned up "a'.a" the great white brotherhood which is giving this method of attainment to the world "see" equinox i "adeptus minor" a grade o

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district whose population would not have been very extensive, and even in that age of slavery, dirt, disease, debauchery, poverty and ignorance, which seems to mr. g. k. chesterton the one ideal state of society, it must have been a little difficult to carry out abductions and murders on such wholsale principles. whenever questions arise with regard to black magic or black masses, invocations of the devil, etc, etc, it must never be forgotten that these practices are strictly functions of christianity. where ignorant savages perform propitiatory rites, there and there only christianity takes hold. but under the great systems of the civilised parts of the world, there is no trace of any such perversion in religious feeling. it is only the bloodthirsty and futile jehovah who has achieved su

moire" a black magical ritual that is to say, any written document. precious little knowledge filtered through christianity. it was against the interests of the church, and in those times it was much easier to suppress people and ideas than it is now, though even today we find priests at least in oxford who appear not to have heard of a certain recent invention by a notorious magician inspired by the devil the printing press. but they feared. so those who pursued knowledge were at the best under strong suspicion of heresy. i need not quote the obvious names. but there were certain bodies of people who did carry on the old knowledge, mostly by oral tradition, and who were perforce tolerated to a certain extent, because even the little knowledge that they did possess was so exceedingly usefu

l it living, about the time of william blake. he wrote a number of words arranged in some scheme connected with rime and rhythm; apparently, like golf clubs "a set of instruments very ill-adapted to the purpose" but, anyway, he called it a poem, and the title was something to do with the old woman of berkeley and who rode behind her. the person who rode behind her was mr. montague summers friend, the devil. what she actually did to merit this favour is to me rather obscure, because i have forgotten the whole beastly thing. but i do remember two lines, because i am in the same line of business myself. i have candles made of infants fat, i have feasted on rifled graves. southey was an ambitious man. he was not content with the brilliant success of this masterpiece of the poetic art. he immed

ve forgotten the whole beastly thing. but i do remember two lines, because i am in the same line of business myself. i have candles made of infants fat, i have feasted on rifled graves. southey was an ambitious man. he was not content with the brilliant success of this masterpiece of the poetic art. he immediately sat down and wrote another alleged peom all about infants fat and rifled graves and the devil coming for the villain at the proper moment. this poem has nothing to do with witchcraft. it is called "the surgeon s warning" i think this is the best evidence in support of my thesis whatever that is, i am not quite sure that it is possible to adduce. in the minds of the kind of people who believe in their neighbours making candles of infants fat and digging up corpses to economise on

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here 'the fool' is shown with a long wand and carrying a sack; his coat is motley. tigers and crocodiles follow him, thus linking this image with that of harpocrates. almost identical symbols are those of the secret god of the templars, the bi-sexual baphomet, and of zeus arrhenothelus, equally bi-sexual, the father-mother of all in one person (he is shown in this full form in the tarot trump xv "the devil) now zeus being lord of air, we are reminded that aleph is the letter of air. as air we find the "wandering fool" pure wanton breath, yet creative. wind was supposed of old to impregnate the vulture, which therefore was chosen to symbolize the mother-goddess. he is the wandering knight or prince of fairy tales who marries the king's daughter. this legend is derived from certain customs a

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m and ran. had it not been so, the weary prodigal, exhausted by his early debauches (astral visions and magic) and his later mental toil (yoga) would never have had the strength to reach the house of his father. one little point st. luke unaccountable omitted. when a man is as hungry and weary as was the prodigal, he is apt to see phantoms. he is apt to clasp shadows to him, and cry: father! and, the devil being subtle, capable of disguising himself as an angel of light, it behoves the prodigal to have some test of truth. some great mystics have laid down the law, accept no messenger of god, banish all, until at last the father himself comes forth. a counsel of perfection. the father himself does send messengers, as we learn in st. mark xii; and if we stone them, we may perhaps in our blin

th the trying of the spirits, to know whether they be of god. suppose now that a vision purporting to rpceed from god is granted to me. the angel declares his name. i add it up. it comes to 65. an excellent number! a blessed angel! not necessarily. suppose he is of a mercurial appearance? 65 is a number of mars. then i conclude that, however beautiful and eloquent he may be, he is a false spirit. the devil does not understand the qabalah well enough to clothe his symbols in harmony. but suppose an angel, even lonely in aspect, not only knows the qabalah your own researches in the qabalah as well as you do, but is able to show you truths, qabalistic truths which you had sought for long and vainly! then you receive him with honour and his message with obedience. it is as if a beggar sought a

rkness and in sudden death. this is the most clear and definite help we have yet had, showing samadhi and the destruction of the ego as gates of our final victory. 65 particularly the wake world (liber xcv) t.s. 66 but see note to this number in part i. t.s. 67 see the equinox of the gods t.s. liber lviii 40 120. see part i. and references. 124. du, eden. the narrow gate or path between death and the devil.68 156. ulabab. this most holy and precious name is fully dealt with in liber 418. notice 156= 12 13. this was a name given and ratified by qabalah; 156 is not one of the priori helpful numbers. it is rather a case of the qabalah illuminating st. john s intentional obscurity. 165. 11 xv should be a number capricorni pneumatici. not yet fulfilled. 201. ra, light (chaldee. note 201= 3 67

i. it delivers the secret of creation into the hand of the magician. see liber capricorni pneumatici. 400. useful only as a finality or material basis. being 20 20 it shows the fixed universe as a system of rolling wheels (20= k, the wheel of fortune. 401. see part i. but azoth is the elixir prepared and perfect; the neophyte has not got it yet. 406. see part i. 68 because u and n are referred to the devil and death in the tarot. in the golden dawn portal ritual this description refers to the path of samekh, but putting a gate on the end of said path also gives us 124 t.s. 69 the reference is to nox spelt in hebrew un t.s. 70 also \ylpn, nephilim= 210. 71 the reference is to one of the golden dawn admission badges t.s. liber lviii 41 414. twgh, meditation, the 1 dividing the accursed 4. al

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e last insult which may lead my antagonists to that surrender which is the truest victory. peace to all beings* vide infra, berashith. 5 curious position of poet. what is truth? said jesting pilate: but crowley waits for an answer. alternative theories of greek authors. browning s summary. i flung out of chapel1* and church, temple and hall and meeting-room, venus bower and osiris tomb,2 and left the devil in the lurch, while god3 got lost in the crowd of gods,4 5 and soul went down5 in the turbid tide of the metaphysical lotus-eyed,6 and i was anyhow, what s the odds? the life to live? the thought to think? shall i take refuge in a tower like once childe roland found, blind, deaf, huge, 10 or in that forest of two hundred thousand trees,8 fit alike to shelter man and mouse, and shall i sa

hey at last in glory live, satan and judas69 might forgive 580 the middle time of misery, forgive the wrong creation first or evolution s iron key did them provided they are passed beyond all change and pain at last 585 out of this universe accurst. but otherwise! i lift my voice, deliberately take my choice promethean, eager to rejoice, in the grim protest s joy to revel 590 betwixt iscariot and the devil, throned in their midst! no pain to feel, tossed on some burning bed of steel, but theirs: my soul of love should swell and, on those piteous floors they trod, 595 feel, and make god feel, out of hell, across the gulf impassable, that he was damned and i was god! ay! let him rise and answer me that false creative deity, 600 whence came his right to rack the earth with pangs of death,70 d

ery in a wink. 480 i can dismiss with sneers as cheap as your this fabric of mine own, one banner of my mind o erthrown just at my will. how true and deep is carroll47 when his alice cries: 485 it s nothing but a pack of cards! there s the true refuge of the wise; to overthrow the temple guards, deny reality. and now 490 (i ll quote you scripture anyhow) what did the sage mean when he wrote (i am the devil when i quote) the mere terrestrial-minded man knows not the things of god, nor can 495 their subtle meaning understand? a sage, i say, although he mentions perhaps the best of his inventions, god. for at first this practice tends 500 to holy thoughts (the holy deeds precede success) and reverent gaze upon the ancient one of days, beyond which fancy lies the truth. to find which i have le

! let me die like a dog; die, and be done with it* famous adelphi villain. ii. as far as reason goes, there s hope for mortals yet: when nothing is that knows, what is there to regret? our consciousness depends on matter in the brain; when that rots out, and ends, there ends the hour of pain. iii. if we can trust to this, why, dance and drink and revel! great scarlet mouths to kiss, and sorrow to the devil! if pangs ataxic creep, or gout, or stone, annoy us, queen morphia, grant thy sleep! let worms, the dears, enjoy us! iv. but since a chance remains that i surives the body (so talk the men whose brains are made of smut and shoddy, i ll stop it if i can (ah jesus, if thou couldest) i ll go to martaban to make myself a buddhist. v. and yet: the bigger chance lies with annihilation. follow

gions of planetary spirits the hairs of the moustache, to each one; to ninety and one myriads of the elohim, the hairs of the beard; to each thirteen, and the oil to ease the world; to shalach, the archdevil, the chin. so also with the lesser relics; of which are notable only: to the order, the heart of our father: to the book of the law, his venerable lungspace to serve as a shrine thereunto: to the devil aot, the liver, to be divided: to the angel exarpt and his followers, the great intestine: to bitom the devil and his crew, the little intestine: to aub, aud, and aur, the venerable phallus of our father: to ash the little bone of the same: to our children k, c, b, c, g, t, n, h, i, and m, his illustrious finger-nails, and the toe-nails to be in trust for their children after them: and s

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d stake like a black envenomed snake by the hangman's hands is thrust through the wet and writhing dust, never black and never dried heart's blood of a suicide. he had plucked the hazel rod from the rude and goatish god, even as the curved moon's waning ray stolen from the king of day. he had learnt the elvish sign; given the token of the nine: once to rave, and once to revel, once to bow before the devil, once to swing the thurible, once to kiss the goat of hell, once to dance the aspen spring, once to croak, and once to sing, once to oil the savoury thighs of the witch with sea-green eyes with the unguents magical. oh the honey and the gall of that black enchanter's lips as he croons to the eclipse mingling that most puissant spell of the giant gods of hell with the four ingredients of

sod springs the emerald chaste and clean from the duller paler green. surely in the circle millions of immaculate pavilions flash upon the trembling turf like the sea-stars in the surf- millions of bejewelled tents for the warrior sacraments. vaster, vaster, vaster, vaster, grows the stature of the master; all the ringed encampment vies with the infinite galaxies. in the midst a cubic stone with the devil set thereon; hath a lamb's virginal throat; hath the body of a stoat; hath the buttocks of a goat; hath the sanguine face and rod of a goddess and a god! spell by spell and pace by pace! mystic flashes swing and trace velvet soft the sigils stepped by the silver-starred adept. back and front, and to and fro, soul and body sway and flow in vertiginous caresses to imponderable recesses, 40

what's the good of anyfink? expects (as we used to learn about "nonne) the answer "why nuffink" and again is prejudiced. indolence is no virtue in a questioner. eagerness, intentness, concentration, 113 vigilance- all these i include in the connotation of "sceptic" such questioning as has been called "vital scepticism" is but a device to avoid true questioning, and therefore its very antithesis, the devil disguised as an angel of light [or "vice vers, friend, if you are a satanist 'tis a matter of words- words- words. you may write "x" for "y" in your equations, so long as you consistently write "y" for "x. they remain unchanged- and unsolved. is not all our "knowledge" an example of this fallacy of writing one unknown for another, and then crowing like peter's cock] i picture the true sc

ltimate sense. what is the moon made of? science replies "green cheese" for our one moon we have now two ideas "greenness" and "cheese "greenness" depends on the sunlight, and the eye, and a thousand other things "cheese" depends on bacteria and fermentation and the nature of the cow "deeper, even deeper, into the mire of things" shall we cut the gordian knot? shall we say "there is god? what, in the devil's name, is god? if (with moses) we picture him as an old man showing us his back parts, who shall blame us? the great question 119 "any" question is the great question- does indeed treat us thus cavalierly, the disenchanted sceptic is too prone to think! well, shall we define him as a loving father, as a jealous priest, as a gleam of light upon the holy ark? what does it matter? all thes

ight listen to the lewd jests of bloody men! o would i were in the grave, wound in the roots of the trees, eyeless gazing up into the blackness of death! between the evening and the morning was i born, like a mushroom i sprang up in the night. at the breast of desolation was i fed, and my milk was as whey, and my meat as the bitterness of aloes. yet i lived, for god was with me; and i feared, for the devil was at hand. i did not understand what i needed, i was afraid, and fear was as a pestilence unto my soul. yet was i intoxicated and drunken on the cup of life, and joy was mine, and reeling i shrieked blasphemies 208 to the storm. then i grew sober, and diced with mine understanding, and cheated mine heart, and lost my god, and was sold into slavery, and became as a coffin-worm unto the

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eneath the vaulted forehead, within the eyes wherein such wonder lies, the incommensurable gain, the pagan prize. we are thy moons an suns, thy loyal knights and nuns, who tread the dance around thine altar, with the sound of death-sobs echoing through the immemorial ground. o glee! the price to pay! swear but our souls away! and we may gain the goal that all the wise extol- the world, the flesh, the devil, weighed against a soul. 62 the wind blows from the south! crushed to that burning mouth, lured by that lurid law, we melt within that maw; and all he fiends loose hold, and all the gods withdraw! upon the altar-stone we are alone- alone! in vivid blackness curled with livid lightings pearled- sweat-drops upon god's brow when he creates a world! sister, the word is spoken! sister, the sp

him and ran" had it not been so, the weary prodigal, exhausted by his early debauches (astral visions and magic) and his later mental toil (yoga) would never have had the strength to reach the house of his father. one little point st luke unaccountably omitted. when a man is as hungry and weary as was the prodigal, he is apt to see phantoms. he is apt to clasp shadows to him and cry "father" and, the devil being subtle, capable of disguising himself as an angel of light, it behoves the prodigal to have some test of truth. 69 some great mystics have laid down the law "accept no messenger of god" banish all, until at last the father himself comes forth. a counsel of perfection. the father does send messengers, as we learn in st mark xii; and if we stone them, we may perhaps in our blindness

the "trying of the spirits, to know whether they be of god" suppose now that a vision purporting to proceed from god is granted to me. the angel declares his name. i add it up. it comes to 65. an excellent number! a blessed angel! not necessarily. suppose he is of a mercurial appearance? 65 is a number of mars. then i conclude that, however beautiful and eloquent he may be, he is a false spirit. the devil does not understand the qabalah well enough to clothe his symbols in harmony. but suppose an angel, even lowly in aspect, not only knows the qabalah- your own researches in the qabalah- as well as you do, but is able to show you truths, qabalistic truths, which you had sought for long and vainly! then you receive him with honour and his message with obedience. it is as if a beggar sought

. priceless, because of its 37 x 3 sumbolism, its explanation of aleph, which we seek, and its comment that the unity may be found in "thick darkness" and in "sudden death" this is the most clear and definite help we have yet had, showing samadhi and the destruction of the ego as gates of our final victory. 120. see part i. and references. 124. odn, eden. the narrow gate or path between death and the devil. 156. babalon. this most holy and precious name is fully dealt with in liber 418. notice 12 x 13= 156. this was a name given and ratified by qabalah; 156 is not one of the priori helpful numbers. it is rather a case of the qabalah illuminating st john's intentional obscurity. 165. 11 x xv should be a number capricorni pneumatici. not yet fulfilled. 201. ar, light (chaldee. note 201= 3 x

e breaks on the soul like dawn. in that fire the soul burns up. 141 one drop from that celestial cup is an abyss, an infinite sea that sucks up immortality "aha" 1909 "lie open, a chameleon cup, and let him suck thine honey up" ib. dozens and scores of other parallel passages could be adduced; but i have sat up half the night already. it follows that "either" mr waite is a disciple of my own "or "the devil is quoting holy writ" i'll risk a bob that he would rather be the devil! aleister crowley_ x-rays on ex-probationers rats leave sinking ships; but you cannot be sure that a ship will sink because you see a rat running away from it. the captain may have given orders about it_ persecution is like keating's powder. it does not injure the most delicate skin, but it removes all vermin "mine o

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eleventh 4, the seventh 5, the twelfth 6, the seventeenth 7. thus hast thou my name who am above these three, but the angels of the 30th aethyr are indeed four, and they have none above them; wherefore dispersion and disorder. now cometh from every side at once a voice, terribly great, crying: close the veil; the great blasphemy hath been uttered; the face of my mother is scarred by the nails of the devil. shut the book, destroy the breaker of the seal! 14 and i answered: had he not been destroyed he had not come hither, for i am not save in the darkness in the womb of her by whom came evil into the world. and this darkness swallows everything up, and the angel is gone from the stone; and there is no light therein, save only the light of the rose and of the cross. aumale, algeria "novembe

himself. and i will be exceeding wary, armed against force and cunning; and i will preserve with my life the inviolability of this circle, amen. the cry of the 10th aethyr, which is called zax 17 weh note: perhaps the joke here is that the manifest universe is itself, in a sense, choronzon. there is no being in the outermost abyss, but constant forms come forth from the nothingness of it. 93 then the devil of the aethyr, that mighty devil choronzon, crieth aloud, zazas, zazas, nasatanada zasas. i am the master of form, and from me all forms proceed. i am i. i have shut myself up from the spendthrifts, my gold is safe in my treasure-chamber, and i have made every living thing my concubine, and none shall touch them, save only i. and yet i am scorched, even while i shiver in the wind. he hat

that's all there is (the frater was seated in a secret place covered completely by a black robe, in the position called the "thunderbolt. he did not move or speak during the ceremony) next the scribe was hallucinated, believing that before him was a beautiful courtesan whom previously he had loved in paris. now, she wooed him with soft words and glances, but he knew these things for delusions of the devil, and he would not leave the circle. the demon then laughed wildly and loud (upon the scribe threatening him, the demon proceeded, after a short delay) they have called me the god of laughter, and i laugh when i will slay. and they have thought that i could not 94 smile, but i smile upon whom i would seduce. o inviolable one, that canst not be tempted. if thou canst command me by the powe

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ifteen cycles of prana yama put me right mentally 7.16. and physically: otherwise they had little apparent success. 7.30. have breakfasted a pear and two garibaldis.(these by the way are the small size, half the big squares. 7.50. have smoked a pipe to show that i'm not in a hurry. 8.5. hanged man with mantra in visuddhi. thought i had been much longer. at one point the spirit began to move how the devil else can i express it? the consciousness seemed to flow, instead of pattering. is "that" clear? one should here note that there may perhaps be some essential difference in the operation of the moslem and hindu mantrams. the latter boom; the former ripple. i have never tried the former at all seriously until now. 23 8.10-"m me jeu" no good at all. think i'll get up and have 8.32. a turker

o.m. meditate upon this oracle on his way to feed john st. john's body and thus feed his own! 6.52. out, out, to feed! 6.57. trimming his beard in preparation for going out, he reflects that the deplorable tone (as one's dean would say) of the last entry is not the cry of the famished beast, but that of the over-driven slave."adonai, ply thou thy scourge! adonai, load thou the chain! 7.25. what the devil is the matter with the time? the hours flit just like butterflies the moon, dead full, shines down the boulevard. my moon full moon of my desire!(ha, ha, thou beast! are "i and me and mine" not dead yet? yea, lord adonai! but the full moon means much to john st. john; he fears "fears, o lord of the western pylon! lest, of once that full moon pass, he may not win through."the harvest is

nd dance and jodel to the sunrise and nothing comes of it! darwin studies nature with more reverence and enthusiasm, but without antics and out comes the law of evolution. so it is written "by their fruits ye shall know them. but about this question of spiritual overfeeding what did darwin do when he got to the stage (as he did, be sure! many a time) when he wished every pigeon in the world at the devil! now this wish has never really arisen in john st. john; however bad he feels, he always feels that attainment is the only possible way out of it. this is the good karma of his ten years' constant striving. well, in the upshot, he will get back to work at once, and hope that his few hours in the world may prove a true strategic movement to the rear, and not a euphemism for rout! 5.4. the

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15th. 5. taurus. hb:vau. hierophant. 16th. 6. gemini. hb:zain. lovers. 17th. 7. cancer. hb:chet. chariot. 18th. 11. leo. hb:tet. strength. 19th. 9. virgo. hb:yod. hermit. 20th. 10. jupiter. hb:koph. wheel of fortune. 21st. 8. libra. hb:lamed. justice. 22nd. 12. water. hb:mem. hanged man. 23rd. 13. scorpio. hb:nun. death. 24th. 14. sagittarius. hb:samekh. temperance. 25th. 15. capricorn. hb:ayin. the devil. 26th. 16. mars. hb:peh. the tower. 27th. 17. aquarius. hb:tzaddi. the star. 28th. 18. pisces. hb:qof. the moon. 29th. 19. sun. hb:resh. the sun. 30th. 20. dee. hb:shin. the angel. 31st. 21. saturn. hb:taw. the universe. 32nd. the two veils are represented in the drawing by heavy horizontal lines, and here by shaded lines, with the text included in the approximation below. 10 =1 kether

the pentagram; for five will divide without remainder the number of the letter of each of these paths, that is, its numerical value, as it will those of all the paths from hb:yod, the 20th, to hb:taw, the 32nd, inclusive; and also the sum of their numbers. 285 "regarding these five paths, i will now ask you to observe that the tarot keys attached to four of them, viz, the wheel of fortune, death, the devil, and the hanged man, are of more or less sinister and terrible import, and that only the symbol of temperance appears to promise aid. therefore by this straight and narrow path of hb:samekh let the philosophus advance like the arrow from the centre of hb:taw hb:shin hb:qof (qsheth) the bow of promise; for by this hieroglyphic of the arrow hath sagittarius ever been represented. and as th

and that only the symbol of temperance appears to promise aid. therefore by this straight and narrow path of hb:samekh let the philosophus advance like the arrow from the centre of hb:taw hb:shin hb:qof (qsheth) the bow of promise; for by this hieroglyphic of the arrow hath sagittarius ever been represented. and as this sign of sagittarius lieth between the signs scorpio (death) and capricornus (the devil) so hath jesus to pass through the wilderness tempted by satan. but sagittarius the archer is a bi- corporate sign, the centaur, the man and the horse combined. recall what was said unto thee in the passage of the 31st path of fire leading into the 3= 8 of practicus 'also there is the vision of the fire-flashing courser of light, or also a child borne aloft on the shoulders of the celest

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alone with me. without leaving me a moment's peace, he began to take my measure with the utmost care and caution. then, pointing to me a strong and broad cage, he ordered me to step in. it would be very tiresome and quite useless for me to express here my various thoughts and the miserable consternation into which i was thrown. i would not live those hours again for anything in the world, and had the devil been within my reach i should decidedly have given my soul to him in order that he should see me safely home. but no one came to my rescue, and, though most unwilling, i had to submit to my terrible fate. 360 when the cage, made of the strongest steel, was closed upon me, i found myself a prisoner in the most degrading state. i began to look around and to shake the bars of my grating, bu

high noon to a farthing dip. the vision is accurate enough; but the point of view is throughout that of a flunkey, of a tradesman, of a gelded toady, of a stewed prune! so too the very perfection of form which marks tennyson is a shocking fault, a guide to the governess' mind of the creature. he is so determined to keep all the rules that he 395 utterly breaks the first (and last) rule "rules are the devil" he writes like a schoolboy for whom a false quantity means a basting. he counts his syllables on his fingers; he never writes by ear, as one whose ears are open to the heavenly melody of the muses. so we have all the artifice- and perhaps the worst artifice ever invented- but no art, no humanity. as a mountaineer (i have seen very many of the greatest mountains of the earth) i must admi

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hardly to be overcome. i found it impossible to meditate in the cold, and fires will not last equably. gas stinks abominably; heating apparatus does not heat; electricity has hitherto not been available. when i build my temple, i shall try it. the food difficulty could be overcome by messrs. fortnum and mason, the noise difficulty by training, the leisure difficulty 37 by sending all business to the devil, the solitude difficulty by borrowing a vacant flat; but the british climate beat me. i hope one day to be rich enough to build a little house expressly for the purpose; but at present there is on the horizon no cloud even so large as the littlest finger of a man! if only, therefore, i could reduce the necessary period to a few hours! moreover, i could persuade other people that mysticis

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ith the liberty of individuals in regard to the use of these, or trespassing on the rights of traders and purveyors thereof" 315 "alcohol" dr. park declares "is a food" and not only a food, but an excellent one at that. put that in your pipes and smoke it, ye baptist bible-bangers_ but we forget, you do not smoke, in fact you do nothing which is pleasant; you spend your whole lives in looking for the devil in the most unlikely places, and declare that the only remedy against his craft and his cunning is total immersion in tonic-water and pine-apple syrup. f. an interpretation of genesis. by theodore powys. this is a most mystical interpretation of the most beautiful of the books of the old testament. it consists of a dialogue between the lawgiver of israel and zetetes, who is not exactly t

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imension? but it is not a dimension; it is only a word to explain multiplicity of sensation. words! words! words! this is the last straw. there is no conceivable standard whereby we may measure anything whatever; and it is useless to pretend there is. 3.3. in short, we are all mad. yet all this is but the expression of the doubt-stop in the human organ. let me pull out his faith-stop! 4.45. done; the devil's own job. he seems to be a pantheist antinomian with leanings towards ritualism. not impressive. my observation-stop= my doubt-stop nearly) is full out (funny that we should fall into the old faculty jargon) perhaps if one's own faith-stop were out there would be a fight; if one's reception-of-new-ideas-stop, a conversion. 126 5.12. i only wish i had two of them to test the "tuning-up"

make instruments of his science; the myth of genesis is eternally true, and god permits the tree of science to be approached only by those men who are sufficiently strong and self-denying not to covet its fruits. ye, therefore, who seek in science a means to satisfy your passions, pause in this fatal way; you will find nothing but madness or death. this is the meaning of the vulgar tradition that the devil ends sooner or later by strangling sorcerers. the magus must hence be impassible, sober and chaste, disinterested, impenetrable, and inaccessible to any kind of prejudice or terror. he must be without bodily defects, and proof against all contractions and all difficulties. the first and most important of magical operations is the attainment of this rare pre-eminence.1 the "via mystica" l

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of illusion, and then, if we allow ourselves to become obsessed by them, a time comes when these illusions will master us, when the children we have begotten will rise up and dethrone us, and we shall be drowned in the waters that now we can no longer control and be burnt up by the flames that mock obedience, and scorn our word. directly we perform a miracle we produce a change: a change is mara the devil, and not god the changeless one. and though we may have scraped clean the palimpsest of our 186 mind, our labours are in vain, if, when once it is stretched out spotless before us, we start scribbling over it our silly riddles, our little thoughts, our foolish "yeas" and "nays" the finger of god alone may write upon it, cleanly and beautifully, and the words that are written cannot be re

you- and she refuses! cruel! cruel! which way can i turn? is there nobody whose credit- let's think. jenkins? no good. maur? too suspicious- a nasty, sly, sneaking fellow! higginbotham, ramspittle, rosenbaum, hoggenheimer, flipp, montgomery, macan- no, hang it! 229 no hope in a mac- schpliechenspitzel, togahening, adams, blitzenstein, cznechzaditzch- no use. i wonder where i caught that cold! who the devil is there that i could ask["enter" thomas- ossory's "back toward door" thomas. mr. todd["enter" todd- ossory "doesn't turn" ossory. i can't see him, thomas["turns] i beg your pardon, mr. todd. the fact is, i'm damnably worried over pay-day. i really don't know you well enough to ask you, perhaps, but the fact is, i've a good sound business proposition which i must put before some one, and

e deacon, who had been in trouble for some cause or another, 299 and was almost a genius in disgrace "terribly "clever" the old men said- once told the little piotr what it was to be blind. fortunately for the child's mental equilibrium, he also spoke of the compensation "what they mean, boy, when they call you blind, is that you cannot see" he said "that is, your eyes have been given unto you by the devil, and not by god. your father must have been rather a bad fellow, you know. when you hear the women singing at the dance, it is that god has given you your ears; if you didn't enjoy the sounds it would mean that the devil has given you your ears, as the book says, which god wrote in russian for our people "they have ears "and they hear not" however, you hear well, and smell well, and your

agnificent hell-broth. no chapter lacks its jewelled incident, and the web that she has woven of men's passions is a flame-red tapestry stained with dark patches of murder and charred here and there with fire of hell. marjorie bowen has immense skill; has she genius? how can a stranger say? so many nowadays are forced by sheer starvation into writing books that will sell- and when they have taken the devil's money, find that it is in no figure that he has their souls in pawn. i am told that it is the ambition of w. s. maugham to write a great play. a. c. the education of uncle paul. by algernon blackwood. macmillan and co. 6"s" i read this book on the express train from eastbourne to london (change at polegate, lewes, hayward's heath, three bridges, red hill, and east croydon- they ought t

he adept the requisite opportunities of making sillier answers "i was rather reluctant to leave the presence of the ladies. the ladies permitted me to retire" outside bottles full of this sort of occult potassium bromide, this novelette is eminently suited as a moral sedative for young girls when they reach sixteen or thereabouts and are beginning to wonder how they got into this funny world. 334 the devil "let us giggle" theodorus "hush, you have committed a horrible black magical act, you have slept with. leila["a creamy girl "good heavens, sir, i faint; call a policeman" theodorus "become acquainted with the queen of the nymphs. sister helen["nursing expert "a douche, smelling salts, eau de cologne, quinine" theodorus "from the abode of. brotherhood you are expelled["sobs, to the britis

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sword sweeps out; his keen glance peers for some shape glimmering through the gloom: naught, naught in all that void appears; more still, more silent than the tomb! ye now the good knight is aware of some black force, of some dread throne, waiting beneath that awful stair, beneath that pit of slippery stone. yea! though he sees not anything, nor hears, his subtle sense is 'ware that, lackeyed by the devil-king, the beast- the questing beast- is there! so though his heart beats close with fear, though horror grips his throat, he goes, goes on to meet it, spear to spear, as good knight should, to face his foes. nay! but the end is come. black earth belches that peerless paladin up from her gulphs- untimely birth- her horror could not hold him in! 79 white as a corpse, the hero hails the daw

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ercome the moral urtication, as had the repeated physical purgings of his early years. narcissus, in a corner, pale and smiling, urged him to renewed efforts; spirits, both incubi and succubae, thrusting themselves upon him, ate him away. but all these dreams gradually faded out. lionel had become a translucid set of bones, with two big eyes heavily crowned. the time of his knowledge had come. xv the devil i trust i said nothing that could lead the reader into the belief that the cottage was a lonely spot. men and women lived in its almost immediate neighbourhood. among others, sir anthony lawthon and his daughters. i propose that we concern ourselves solely with the eldest of these, mary lawthon. i hardly know how to describe her. she was a woman of six and twenty, most easy to understand

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eholdeth god; who moves mighty-souled without a spot, mingling in the godly rout of the many mystic loves. holy maidens, duly weave dances for the mighty mother bacchanal to bacchus cleave! wave his narthex wand, and leave earthly joys to earth to smother! io! evoe! sisters, mingle in the choir, the dance, the revel! he divine, the spirit single, he in every vein shall tingle. sense and sorrow to the devil! 34 mingle in the laughing measure, hand and lip to breast and thigh! in enthusiastic pleasure grasp the solitary treasure! laughs the untiring ecstasy! sisters! sisters! raise your voices in the inspired divine delight! now the sun sets; now the choice is who rebels or who rejoices, murmuring to the mystic night. io! evoe! circle splendid! dance, ye maids serene and subtle! clotho's tas

. india the cradle of the race. vol. ii- i. the church; where is it- ii. christian crimes and heathen virtues- iii. divisions amongst the early christians- iv. oriental cosmogonies and bible-records- v. mysteries of the kabala- vi. esoteric doctrines of buddhism parodied in christianity- vii. early christian heresies and secret societies- viii. jesuitry and masonry- ix. the vedas an the bible- x. the devil myth- xi. comparative results of buddhism and christianity- xii. conclusions and illustrations. transcendental magic: its doctrine and ritual. by eliphas levi (a complete translation of "dogme et rituel de la haute magie, with a biographical preface by arthur e. waite, author of "devil worship in france" etc, etc "portrait of the author, and all the original engravings" 8vo, 406 pp "clot

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d four hundred thousand and above of your best warriors? laylah. on our side was the god of battles. bishop. my daughter, god is love. 98 laylah. lord bishop, i have heard that phrase thrice in three score years. the first time a man used it to destroy a child: the second time a child used it to murder her brother; this time you use it to torture and burn an honourable adversary. bishop. child of the devil, you blaspheme. be silent! on the first count, guilty["several" judges "but not" rinaldo "echo "guilty" throughout this scene" rinaldo "sits absolutely silent and motionless, except that now and then he makes a gesture of weariness and impatience" the clerk. secondly, that you have in these twenty years past gathered a band of lawless ruffians, and constantly assailed the defenders of th

"echo "guilty" clerk. fifthly, that you do take the form of a bat, and suck the blood of sleeping children, and moreover have bewitched divers cows to the prejudice of the holy orders of knights hospitaller and others, lawful owners of the aforesaid cows. prosecutor. all clear marks of a witch! laylah. your saviour sent devils into swine. bishop. blasphemy on blasphemy["crosses himself. sure only the devil could speak thus. on the fifth count, guilty [judges "echo "guilty" clerk. sixthly- bishop. stay, gentle sir. have we not heard enough? must the ears of the court be further polluted with a recital of these abominations? g. m. of st j. we have heard enough. g. m. of st malta. enough, my lord bishop. 100 rep. of k. of jerusalem. enough. bishop["to" rinaldo. and you, grand master? rinaldo

and get some sense, and triplets, if you can "twiddle so- being! twiddle "so- form! balance them, cheating grocer! nation of shopkeepers! twiddle! twiddle! twiddle! isn't the balance in the babe? teach her to understand children" the brother paused to re-light his pipe, thrusting the bowl into the glowing carbon of the grate "to understand children? it is hard. but we love children, sir "and what the devil is the difference between love and understanding? if you have one, you have the other. oh, twiddle, twiddle- you can send me one of those rotten paper knives from jericho, added the adept more peaceably. with the rotten sephardi pointing- blasphemers! and here! don't "you" blaspheme, young feller my lad. you've got a good woman: make the most of her "a great woman, perhaps "a good woman

us set of spiritual guides. for their unhappy followers and imitators, no words of pity suffice. the whole universe is for them but "the glass of their fool's face; only, unlike sir palamedes, they admire it. moral and spiritual narcissi, they perish in the waters of illusion. a friend of mine, a solicitor in naples, has told me strange tales of where such self-adoration ends. and the subtlety of the devil is shown particularly in the method by which such neophytes are caught by the black brothers. there is an exaggerated awe, a solemnity of diction, a vanity of archaic phrases, a false veil of holiness upon the unclean shrine. stilted affectation masquerades as dignity; a rag-bag of mediaevalism apes profundity; jargon passes for literature; phylacteries increase about the hem of the perf

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

n, the old religion fell into disrepute,and in a.d. 668 the archbishopofcanterbury ruled that people who ate and drank in heathen temples, or wore the heads of beasts, should do three years' penance. the witches continued to use the stag's horns, however. their only concession was to meet secretly, on moors or in lonely forests. these meetings were known as 'sabbats* after homage had been paid to the devil, usually present in the guise of a black goat, or his deputy, the witches held a banquet. this was followed by the main feature of the sabbat, the dance, the tempo of which was often raised to a frenzy in preparation for the final climax of sexual orgy. it is important to note at this point that although we have few historical records of 'white' witches at this time and must include them

witchcraft by persuasion, the clergy, backed by civil law, overcame it by force-the same fate as had befallen the ancient religions of egypt and of the aztecs. ill england tolerance had prevailed until the arrival of the inquisitors. at first the law forbade them to use torture, but nevertheless rumour and terror were rife in every village. the clergy claimed that all witches had made a pact with the devil who, in return, gave them a 'familiar, usually in the form ofa domestic animal, to run errands for them and bewitch their enemies. at a time when most people believed that the earth was flat, it was not difficult to imagine such evil properties in any obedient animal, especially if its owner were unsociable; and lived alone (spiteful women are not confmed to the twentieth century; they a

l parts ofher body and local crones would poke and prod her, looking for warts, tumours or protuberance-s* doctors today know that supernumerary nipples, occurring in both men and women on almost any part of the body, are common and harmless. at the time of the inquisition, however, and for some time after. they meant cert n death to their owner, for any such blemish was automatically regarded as the devil's markused by a witch to suckle her familiar. when a 'witch' was warned .she mi t be arres.ted, she .would often amputate a potential devil s mark with the kitchen knife, preferring* or, at the start ofthe terror, for the mark ofthe three-nailed claw known as th itch's .mark, with which witches used to tattoo their conv;rts. not surpnsmgly this custom was soon discontinued. 4 the threat

sleep. the suspect was put upon a wooden stool in the centre of the room so that she could not rest her back. her captors took it in tum to crossexamine her day and night, without respite. in addition they kept watch for any spiders, mice or flies, since they might be satan's agents come to help her. if something did appear and the gaolers could not catch it, they regarded it as proof that it was the devil's messenger. by the time the woman had sat on the stool for twenty-four hours without food, water or rest, she was usually ready to confess to anything. the fact that she might recant later was not much help to her; her gaolers could always embroider their evidence with accounts of their valiant attempts to catch satan's imps. 5 perhaps becausethey led such wretched lives, children were

he made as if to speak he told her to keep quiet or get out. the air became heavy with incense as he worked the spells and recited the words that would lead him from white witchcraft to black 'by all the powers i command the demons to bring me wealth, riches, power' joan sobbed quietly, not understanding all that was going on but realizing that her beloved brother was bargaining for his soul with the devil and that, in the end, someone would have to pay. 35 5 rsewftcbeb for two days life went on as before. alex was negotiating the sale of some formulae used by his firm to a freelance traveller who was planning to set up on his own. he was past caring about such things as patents and copyright; he wanted money, and perhaps this was the way to get it. then, one evening, with scarcely a penny

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sion of witchcraft it is not forbidden to say as christians do "there be witchcraft in the land" because our oppressors of old make it a heresy not to believe in witchcraft and so a crime to deny it which thereby puts you under suspicion. 129. 130. but ever say "i know not of it here, perchance there may be but afar off, i know not where" 131. but ever speak of them as old crones, consorting with the devil and riding through the air. 132. and ever say "but how may many ride the air if they be not as light as thistledown" 133. but the curse of the goddess be on any who cast suspicion on any of the brotherhood. 134. or who speak of any real meeting-place or where they bide. wortcunning 135. the craft keep books with the names of all herbs which are good, and all cures so all may learn. but k

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kingdom, the power and the glory" provided our aspiration and endurance suffice to carry us along the thorny way of the cross, and enable us to tread that path which "leads up hill all the way" to the summit of the mount of transfiguration. how is this great change brought about? how does man, the victim of his desires and lower nature become man, the victor, triumph over the world, the flesh and the devil? it is brought about when the physical brain of the incarnated man becomes aware of the self, the soul, and this conscious awareness only becomes possible when the true self can "reflect itself in the mindstuff" the soul is inherently freed from objects and stands ever in the state of isolated unity. man, however, in incarnation has to arrive, in his physical brain consciousness, at a re

nce is shed abroad upon all he meets. no longer do his desires swing the flesh into activity, and no longer does his astral body subjugate him and overcome him. through dispassion and the balancing of the pairs of opposites he has freed himself from the moods, feelings, longings, desires, and emotional reactions which characterise the life of the average man and has arrived at the point of peace. the devil of pride, the personification of the misused mental nature and the distorted perceptions of the mind, are overcome and he stands liberated from the three worlds. the nature of the soul, the qualities and activities inherent in the love nature of the son of god, and the wisdom which demonstrates when love and activity (the second and third aspects) are brought together, characterise his l

the life experience of millions is that spirit exists; the deduction to be gathered from the consideration of the world or of the great maya is that a cause, self-persisting and self-existing, must be back of that maya. only the man, however, who can pass behind all forms and can transcend all the limitations in the three worlds (mind, emotion and the things of sense, or the "world, the flesh and the devil) can know, past all controversy and argument, that god is, and that he himself is god. then he knows the truth, and that truth makes him free. the field of knowledge, the instruments of knowledge and knowledge itself are transcended and the yogi comes to the great recognition that there is nothing except god; that his life is one and is to be found pulsating in the microscopic atom and i

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can be either good or bad. evelyn underhill quotes father malaval as follows "the great doctors of the mystic life teach that there are two sorts of rapture which must be carefully distinguished. the first are produced in persons but little advanced in the way, and still full of selfhood; either by the force of a heated imagination which vividly apprehends a sensible object, or by the artifice of the devil..the other sort of rapture is, on the contrary, the effect of- 74- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust pure intellectual vision in those who have a great and generous love for god. to generous souls who have utterly renounced themselves, god never fails in these raptures to communicate high things."23(110) the same writer goes on to tell us what, psychologically, is ec

emselves with sex or are discussing it all the time and letting it play an undue part in their thought life. some most worthy people have also a settled conviction that celibacy must always accompany the life of the spirit. may it not be possible that the true celibacy to which the ancient rules are intended to refer concerns the attitude of the soul, or spiritual man, to the world, the flesh and the devil, as our christian scriptures put it? may not the true celibacy have reference to our abstaining from all appearance of evil? this may in one man involve his abstaining from all sex relations in order to demonstrate to himself his control over the animal nature; in other cases, it may, for instance, involve refraining from all gossip and idle speech. there is nothing sinful in- 114- from

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opportunity is not taken and the will nature powerfully excited. the first ray aspirant who fails to overcome his dweller may become a "destroyer of souls, as it is called, and be condemned (until he learns his lesson) to work in the forces of matter, and with the forms which hold all souls in prison. this is the occult significance of the misunderstood words, death and destruction. of this type, the devil is the great prototype. the second ray aspirant who builds his dweller and permits its steady and increasing control becomes a "deluder of souls. he is the true anti-christ, and through false teaching and the working of so-called miracles, through hypnotism and mass suggestion he draws a veil over the world and forces men to walk in the great illusion. it is interesting to note that the

l is the great prototype. the second ray aspirant who builds his dweller and permits its steady and increasing control becomes a "deluder of souls. he is the true anti-christ, and through false teaching and the working of so-called miracles, through hypnotism and mass suggestion he draws a veil over the world and forces men to walk in the great illusion. it is interesting to note that the work of the devil, the imprisoner of souls, is beginning to lose its power, for the race is on the verge of understanding that true death is immersion in form, and that matter is but a part of the divine whole. the thought form of this "dweller on the threshold" which humanity has built for millions of years is on the verge of destruction. but the work of anti-christ is only rising now to its height, and

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y of these stories scattered through the centuries of human history, and the stories and the missions are ever identical "the jesus-story, it will now be seen, has a greater number of correspondences with the stories of former sungods and with the actual career of the sun through the heavens so many indeed that they cannot well be attributed to mere coincidence or even to the blasphemous wiles of the devil! let us enumerate some of these. there are (1) birth from a virgin mother (2) the birth in a stable (cave or underground chamber; and (3) on the 25th december (just after the winter solstice. there is (4) the star in the east (sirius) and (5) the arrival of the magi (the `three kings; there is (6) the threatened massacre of the innocents, and the consequent flight into a distant country

led us to a similar divine unity. but is it not possible that he established a synthesis broader than that of the individual and god the synthesis of the kingdom of god? what do these words mean? we have talked of the kingdom of heaven in terms of separation. we are either in that kingdom or out of it. we are told that we must step out of the kingdom of men (controlled by the world, the flesh and the devil) into another kingdom which is pictured as utterly different. yet is this so? all aspects of the three sub-human kingdoms animal, vegetable and mineral are found in man; and their synthesis, plus another factor, the divine intellect, we call the human kingdom. man unifies in himself the so-called lesser manifestations of deity. in the sub-human kingdoms of nature we find three major type

ntial teachings, it symbolises the form of the kingdom of god. but this is not the kingdom of the theologians. it is not entered through the acceptance of certain formal beliefs. it is entered by those who have passed through the new birth, and gone down to jordan. the citizenship of this kingdom was on trial in the person of christ, and so he goes down into the wilderness, there to be tempted of the devil. 3 in this intimate episode in the life of jesus christ we are given perhaps the first real insight into the processes of his innermost mind. the following words open the story and are significant- 68- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust "and lo a voice from heaven, saying, this is my beloved son, in whom i am well pleased. then was jesus led up of the spirit into the wi

ate episode in the life of jesus christ we are given perhaps the first real insight into the processes of his innermost mind. the following words open the story and are significant- 68- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust "and lo a voice from heaven, saying, this is my beloved son, in whom i am well pleased. then was jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil."25 this story of the temptation in the wilderness is most controversial. many questions have been propounded and much agony of soul has been experienced by the serious believer who endeavours to reconcile common sense, christ's divinity, and the devil. was it possible that christ could in reality be tempted, and if so, could he have fallen into sin? did he meet these temptations as the

en propounded and much agony of soul has been experienced by the serious believer who endeavours to reconcile common sense, christ's divinity, and the devil. was it possible that christ could in reality be tempted, and if so, could he have fallen into sin? did he meet these temptations as the omnipotent son of god, or did he meet them as a man and therefore subject to temptation? what is meant by the devil? and what was the relation of christ to evil? had this wilderness story never been told to us, what would have been our attitude to christ? what really took place in the consciousness of christ while in the wilderness? for what purpose are we permitted to share with him this experience? many such questions arise in the mind of the intelligent man, and many have been the commentaries writ

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h purpose, etc- 48- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust 13. attachment to the seen, the known, and the familiar, external, objective forms. 14. the stage wherein thought forms are built, at first ignorantly, and then with deliberate selfishness. 15. the period of engrossment in the things of the kingdom of earth. 16. the world, the flesh, and the devil. on the side of soul expression, which is governed by detachment, the following phrases and sentences will give an idea of the progress and intent: 1. the stage of spiritualisation and of de-materialisation. the soul functions with the purpose of liberation before it, and not of further physical plane experience. 2. the relinquishment of form life. 3. the period wherein satiety is experi

. it is the major determining impulse which impelled the soul of god himself to enter into form life; which impels life, upon the involutionary arc, to progress down into matter, producing thus the immanence of god. it is that also which drives humanity forward into its wild struggle for material well-being. it is that too which urges man eventually to turn his back upon the "world, the flesh and the devil" as the new testament puts it, and orient himself to the things of spiritual import. the prodigal son sacrificed the father's home when he chose to wander forth into the far country. he wasted and sacrificed his substance through the use he- 60- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust made of the experience of life on earth, until he had

up aspect of the approach will be brought about, and is today in process of being carried forward. c. the approach of enlightenment carries the disciple through the gate of initiation, and is the effect of the same energy playing upon the personalities of the disciples of the world, and transforming their spirit of aspiration into the light of initiation. the mysteries of the world, the flesh and the devil (to use the symbolic formal terminology of christianity) are to be transmuted with rapidity into those of the mysteries of the kingdom of god, the energy of the soul, and the revelation of divinity. the secret hid by the inverted lotus (the world) is to be revealed by the opened lotus of the kingdom of souls. the secret of the flesh, which is the prison of the soul, is revealed by the pe

stianity) are to be transmuted with rapidity into those of the mysteries of the kingdom of god, the energy of the soul, and the revelation of divinity. the secret hid by the inverted lotus (the world) is to be revealed by the opened lotus of the kingdom of souls. the secret of the flesh, which is the prison of the soul, is revealed by the perfume of the unfolding lotus of the soul. the mystery of the devil will eventually be seen to be that of the light of god's countenance, which reveals that which is undesirable and must be changed and renounced, and which thus transforms life by the light that god's nature pours forth. it would he of use to us all to study these three soul approaches individual or hierarchical and to ponder upon them and put ourselves in training, so that we may make th

"struggle" advisedly. the hierarchy is struggling hard with the so-called "forces of evil" and the new group of world servers is the instrument, at this time, upon the physical plane, with which the hierarchy has to work. they have no other instrument. what do we mean by the phrase "forces of evil" not the armies of unrighteousness and sinfulness, organised under that figment of the imagination, the devil or some supreme antichrist, for such an army does not exist, and there is no great enemy of god, arraigned in battle against the most high. there is only suffering, erring humanity, still half-awakened, dimly sensing the vision, and struggling to free itself from the thralldom of the past, with its tarnished allegiances and its unchecked loyalties. the forces of evil are, in the last ana

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iceable, learns what can be learnt but is not held back by personality reactions. it is the normal attitude of the- 47- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust soul or self to the not-self. it is the negation of prejudice, of all narrow preconceived ideas, of all personality tradition, influence or background. it is the process of detachment from "the world, the flesh and the devil" of which the new testament speaks. 3. love. love is that inclusive, non-critical, magnetic comprehension and attitude which (in group work) preserves the group integrity, fosters the group rhythm and permits no secondary personality happenings or attitudes to mar the group work. contact, impersonality and love these three constitute the individual objectives which i set before each and

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

has now become. i think that it was in this period i acquired my taste for mystery, later to be developed into a great love for detective and mystery stories. pushing our bicycles up a very steep hill one sunny morning, two men on bicycles coasted down the hill and passed us. as one of them did so, he called back to his companion "but i assure you, my dear chap, it stood on one leg and went like the devil" i am still pondering that mystery and have not yet arrived at any solution. it was during this period that i made my first attempt at teaching. i took a class of boys in sunday school. they were in their teens and were reported to be quite unmanageable. i stipulated that i was to teach them in an empty hall near the church but not in the sunday school itself; that i was to be left alone

ne man on the ship who was my pet abhorrence and had been ever since i left london. he was the life of the ship; he handled the daily sweepstakes; he got up the dances and arranged the theatricals; he played cards and i knew that he drank an inordinate amount of whiskies and sodas. the voyage took three weeks in those days and i watched him with disdain all the time. from my point of view, he was the devil. he had spoken to me once or twice, but i had made it very clear that i wanted nothing to do with him. waiting for the train that day in the big bombay railroad station, scared stiff and wishing i had never come, this man came up to me and said "young lady, you don't like me and have made that very clear, but i have a daughter about your age and i am damned if i would like to have her tr

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hing they can influence, and no mode of influencing man will then exist as far as evil is concerned. i cannot expect you at this time to comprehend the meaning of my words. they are, however, related to the words in the great invocation which say "and seal the door where evil dwells" there is a door into an evil realm and into blackness, just as there is a door into a world of goodness and light; the devil is to man who is dedicated and consecrated to evil what the dweller on the threshold is to the spiritual aspirant. the main task of the spiritual hierarchy has ever been to stand between the forces of evil and humanity, to bring imperfection into the light so that evil can "find no place" for action, and to keep the door open into the spiritual realm. this the hierarchy has done, with sm

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za is also perhaps in need of explanation. it speaks of the task of the plan as implemented by humanity to "seal the door where evil dwells" this is (needless to say) a symbolic way of expressing the idea of rendering evil purposes both inactive and ineffectual. there is no particular location where evil dwells; the new testament in the book of revelations speaks of evil and of the destruction of the devil and of the rendering of satan impotent. those passages all refer to the same time cycle with which this invocation deals and which it seeks to bring about. the "door where evil dwells" is kept open by humanity through its selfish desire, its hatreds and its separateness, by its greed and its racial and national barriers, its low personal ambitions and its love of power and cruelty. as go

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ut not as- 89- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust those who usually employ those phrases understand them. no one nation is expressive of the spirit of anti-christ, just as no one nation expresses the spirit of christ. christ and anti-christ are the dualities of spirituality and materialism, both in the individual and in humanity as a whole. or you can speak of god and the devil with the same basic implications. for what is man himself but an expression of divinity (god) in a material form (the devil, and what is matter but the medium through which divinity must eventually manifest in all its glory? but when that takes place, matter will no longer be a controlling factor but simply a medium of expression. the battle is therefore on between the form side of life

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

bodied in the third phrase of this tenth rule: 3. let the army of the voice be no more heard, and let the brothers onward move within the sound. putting the idea into esoteric terms, the above sentence could be paraphrased as follows: the voices and the voice fade out. the a.u.m. is replaced by the o.m. and at the centre of that o.m. the brother stands. the many voices of the world, the flesh and the devil are no longer distinguished; there is nothing within the consciousness of the initiate which can respond to them. the voice of the silence dies out also and the word itself cannot be heard. only the sound remains. this is the sound which reverberates in the formless worlds; it is the sound to which the spiritual triad responds and of which the initiate is a part, because the sound which

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f its inherent difficulties is not warranted unless the application can be modern and practical. it must indicate the inclusiveness of the goal, once those problems have been surmounted, and must avoid the tiresome reiteration of that basic rule of life, which has been expressed in the two words "be good. again and again we have been told that we must overcome the lure of the world, the flesh and the devil. there has been built up in the mind of the western aspirant a feeling that the path is necessarily one of misery, of self-abnegation and of endless distress. his attitude is one of active endurance until such time as he mysteriously and miraculously breaks through into a world of peace and plenty, wherein all troubles come to an end, the [4] flesh ceases to annoy, and the devil comes to

re, by facing the terrific struggle that lies ahead of him in the next three signs and by the slaying of the lion of [108] his own nature (king of beasts) alone and unaided, and so earn. the power to overcome the hydra, in scorpio. the lesson of the labor two thoughts, taken out of the christian bible, summarize the lesson of this labor. in st. peter's epistle we find these words "your adversary, the devil, like a roaring lion walketh about, seeking whom he may devour" and in revelations v, 5, we find the words "behold, the lion of the tribe of judah the root of david, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof" hercules, the aspirant, the soul, symbolized the lion, the prince, the king, the ruler, and because of this he symbolically wore the lion's skin. the nem

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and he saith to her 'call all our children and our children's children and tell them the manner of our transgression' chapter 15. 1 then saith eve to them 'hear all my children and children's children and i will relate to you how the enemy deceived us. 2 it befell that we were guarding paradise, each of us the portion allotted to us from god. 3 now i guarded in my lot, the west and the south. but the devil went to adam's lot, where the male creatures were (for god divided the creatures; all the males he gave to your father and all the females he gave to me) chapter 16. 1 and the devil spake to the serpent saying, rise up, come to me and i will tell thee a word whereby thou mayst have profit" 2 and he arose and came to him. and the devil saith to him "i hear that thou art wiser than all the

word whereby thou mayst have profit" 2 and he arose and came to him. and the devil saith to him "i hear that thou art wiser than all the beasts, and i have come to counsel thee. 3 why dost thou eat of adam's tares and not of paradise? rise up and we will cause him to be cast out of paradise, even as we were cast out through him" 4 the serpent saith to him "i fear lest the lord be wroth with me" 5 the devil saith to him "fear not, only be my vessel and i will speak through thy mouth words to deceive him" chapter 17. 1 and instantly he hung himself from the wall of paradise, and when the angels ascended to worship god, then satan appeared in the form of an angel and sang hymns like the angels. 2 and i bent over the wall and saw him, like an angel. but he saith to me "art thou eve" and i said

hapter 17. 1 and instantly he hung himself from the wall of paradise, and when the angels ascended to worship god, then satan appeared in the form of an angel and sang hymns like the angels. 2 and i bent over the wall and saw him, like an angel. but he saith to me "art thou eve" and i said to him "i am" 3 'what art thou doing in paradise" and i said to him "god set us to guard and to eat of it" 4 the devil answered through the mouth of the serpent 'ye do well but ye do not eat of every plant" 5 and i said "yea, we eat of all. save one only, which is in the midst of paradise, concerning which, god charged us not to eat of it: for, he said to us, on the day on which ye eat of it, ye shall die the death" chapter 18. 1 then the serpent saith to me "may god live! but i am grieved on your accoun

ook leaves from it and made for myself a girdle and it was from the very same plant of which i had eaten. chapter 21. 1 and i cried out in that very hour 'adam, adam, where art thou? rise up, come to me and i will show thee a great secret" 2 but when your father came, i spake to him words of transgression (which have brought us down from our great glory. 3 for, when he came, i opened my mouth and the devil was speaking, and i began to exhort him and said "come hither, my lord adam, hearken to me and eat of the fruit of the tree of which god told us not to eat of it, and thou shalt be as a god" 4 and your father answered and said "i fear lest god be wroth with me" and i said to him "fear not, for as soon as thou hast eaten thou shalt know good and evil" 5 and speedily i persuaded him, and h

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he found by him an oldwoman, who earnestly began to beg him not to persevere in his intention. for thou knowest well,gianni, she said, that the lady will have none of thee; thou art a terror to her. do but go home andlook in the glass, and it will seem to thee that thou art looking on a mortal sin in human form.then gianni in a roaring rage cried, i will have my way and my will, thou old wife of the devil, if imust kill thee and the girl too! saying which, he rushed up the ladder; but before he had opened orcould enter the window, and was at the top, he found himself as it were turned to wood or stone,unable to move. page 72 it befell that one evening melambo, thinking on this while playing with a nest of young serpentswhich his servant had found in a hollow oak, said: i would that i coul

e garden one day,beheld the statue of dianacrowned with roses and other flowers. and being in a rage, and seeing inthe street a decayed cabbage, he rolled it in the mud, and threw it all dripping at the face of the god-dess, saying: ecco mala bestia didoli!questo e lomaggio che io ti do,gia che il diavolo ti aiuta!behold, thou vile beast of idolatry,this is the worship which thou hast from me,and the devil do the rest for thee!then the priest heard a voice in the gloom where the leaves were dense, and it said: bene, bene! tu mi hai fattoloffrando tu avraila tua porzionedella mia caccia. aspetta! page 51 n r r r r r invocation to diana.bella dea dellarco!bella dea delle freccie!della caccia e dei cani!tu vegli colle stelle,quando il sole va dormirtu colla luna in frontecacci la notte meglio

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witches" that depends upon your definition of a "witch" we do explore activities which many people would call "magic" such as telepathy, divination, and methods of strengthening our souls and spirits through mental and spiritual discipline. however, modern witches usually believe that their magical powers come from one or more gods or goddesses, and many christians believe these powers come from the devil. we don't believe in any suc h gods or goddesses or devils. most modern witches claim we are not witches- perhaps the most important point to know and remember about us is that we believe a primary requirement of self-improvement and individual xeper is to be honorable and ethical. we do not tolerate any illegal activity. we do not tolerate any illegal drugs, and we frown upon excessive

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er that said pentagram is projected out during the rite, you may project this onto the center of the forehead of the person you are cursing/blessing. the key to the efficacy of this attack lies in the ability to open ones own "third eye chakra" which provides the force behind the actual symbol. here is a brief sex magical rite to open the "third eye. obtain crowley's book of thoth: tarot take out the devil and tower cards. you can: a. masturbate while gazing upon the tower card equating its symbology with the procreative force you are generating through arousal, then while holding back orgasm karezza switch attention to the devil card. focus on the "third eye" that is depicted on the goat. take on the head of the goat as in the manner of an assumption of a god form. as your sexual arousal

ning stages you may choose to charge a sigil with the semen you will be discharging. for instructions on how to cast sigils see: http//occult100.com/sigil.shtml and a gallary of photographic examples http//www.sigilgarden.com/ method may also apply to two partners as an adjunct to anal intercourse. the active partner fucker will associate with the tower. the passive partner fuckee associates with the devil. the procedure will be done as suggested above, but the passive partner will serve as the active focuser and projector in the rite. as to the intent of this rite/practice/magical procedure- the purpose is to create a psychic link between your self and the one who is being cursed/blessed. the objective is to activate their "third eye chakra" thereby raising their energy and attention to a

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path is one rising to acknowledge that the only god is the self, from which all other god and goddess find their existence in, it is from the well spring of the abyss (the subconscious) that we nourish our great famulus and demonium of the depths. the individual will then soon realize that there is no god and there is no devil, yet we as the image of the adversary, are both god and the master of the devil, the gifts of the fallen angels themselves. iv) the dragon and vampyrism i come before you, night born as the queen of the dead. behold unto my death mask, the temple of azothoz as a current of the living flame. i shall bless each one of you with the devil s sight, the serpents tongue shall speak of the secret alphabet which ye all shall scribe on the walls of the sunless palace, scribe

he solar beam, that foodful earth might parch (yasht xix.11,12) the black dragon is symbolized as ahriman, the averse force of darkness and shadow. ahriman in zoroastrian terms is the great force of evil and darkness, whom was created divine but chose the shadow path. in the ancient persian religion of zoroastrianism, ahriman (called also arimanius or angra mainya) is one of the earliest forms of the devil itself, the father of those of the shadow, the demonium of the earth. in the ancient witchcraft religion (yatuk, persian sorcerers used blood of wolves[10 (who are sacred to ahriman) to call upon darkness. ahriman was probably in this sense, one of the first vampyre forms of ancient history. while similar to other fallen angels such as azazel/iblis or lucifer, there is a strong separatio

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rado music teacher whose attempts to introduce local children to opera using gounod's faust drew a storm of criticism, has decided to take legal action after being forced to take administrative leave from the bennett school after showing the opera led to accusations that the married mother of two was a lesbian promoting homosexuality; the plot of faust, where the title character sells his soul to the devil to recapture his youth, led to her being labeled a devil worshipper. both accusations were false. http//www.playbillarts.com/news/article/3850.html undoubtedly there are even more of these cases unpublicized. religious freedom, it seems, is very specific to who has that freedom. increasingly, in most us workplaces, freedom of religion only applies to judeo-christian religions. this means

monolators, by themselves, do not have very great numbers at all (especially those of us who vote) 14 but more usually, the people i have been conversing with have been self-described christians. some of these christians are of the liberal variety (e.g, quakers, brethren, mennonites, who are relatively easy to come to friendly terms with. such christians do not believe in the literal existence of the devil or demonic spirits, so they are more inclined to just smile and shake their heads when first being introduced to satanism (as opposed to the folks who run away screaming. but i have also made acquaintances in fundamentalist christian sects. this has been a bit harder, but some of my efforts have proven fruitful. in my conversations with these people, i spent a lot of time and energy expl

third graders in one of her classes about opera. she chose a video of gounod's faust (which she found on the classroom shelf) to teach the children about bass and tenor voices, the use of props, and "trouser roles" in opera. the latter, she says, led to accusations that the married mother of two was a lesbian promoting homosexuality; the plot of faust, where the title character sells his soul to the devil to recapture his youth, led to her being labeled a devil worshipper. four members of a so-called satanic sect are starting long prison sentences in italy for their part in three brutal, ritual murders. nicola sapone, 27, one of the leaders of the beasts of satan rock group and one of the suspected masterminds of the killings, was given a life sentence. the three others were jailed for be

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an alchemical process of becoming in which the magician aligns and utilizes the deific associations of samael lilith cain to transform their consciousness into the divine essence which is baphomet, the head of knowledge. to described samael, a small section as follows is from liber hvhi, a ritual work which defines the deeper and darker practice of the left hand path in terms of witchcraft. 5 for the devil is called diabolus, that is, flowing downwards: that he which swelled with pride, determined to reign in high places, fell flowing downwards to the lowest parts, like the torrent of a violent stream. the fourth book of occult philosophy it is written in the bible that samael/satan fell from heaven as lightening, being a flash downwards, who before the fall, was a guarding seraph around t

but may become manifest through the magician or witch who may make a pact with them, being initiation and dedication to the left hand path. samael is the patron spirit of the left hand path, as his word is what formed our thoughts and gave us the inner fire of the black flame, our individual process of thought and free will. the magicians who aligned their will with the left way, that of samael (the devil, were given powers over the earth in one way or another; all the while strengthening, defining and expanding their conscious. in exodus 7 the magicians were able to make frogs and serpents by the power they obtained in the devil, thus such creatures are astral forms of ahriman (samael) and the dreaming body of witches and sorcerers -liber hvhi here we can see that samael or satan/shaitan

hus such creatures are astral forms of ahriman (samael) and the dreaming body of witches and sorcerers -liber hvhi here we can see that samael or satan/shaitan, is not the all devouring aspect, but also the savior of humanity and the original planter of the seed of light in our being. through cain did his lineage survive and continue on spiritually to this present time. lilith, being the bride of the devil, is one part of the adversary as being the dark instinctual side of man and woman, feminine, yet horrific and loving all within the same breath. lilith is known by the semitic layil which a word is meaning night, but also the name of the demon of the storm. lilith is associated with the screech owl and other beasts of the wild, as it is where she went after she left heaven to wander the

er presents the mother of witchcraft, mother, darksome and divine, mine the scourge and mine the kiss, the five-point star of love and bliss. within the circle there is the very graal of the adversary, that through self-love can the essence of the pentagram be sensed and understood. he refers to hecate or lilith (via diana) as being hell's dark mistress, heaven's queen. this is the dual nature of the devil and his bride, the adversary. that by both sabbat rites does the cup of heaven (aethyr, luciferian sabbat) and hell (infernal, chthonic sabbat) are filled. cain was the son born of by some accounts samael (the devil) and lilith (through eve, the first satanist and witch. it is said within the dark traditions that the bible is mistaken with regards to cain s true parentage. cain was in fa

rks given to initiates of the cult. historically, cain is recognized as an initiator throughout various heretical societies, including the ancient 8 toadsman fraternity, the skull and bonesmen, and the horse whisperers- nathaniel j. harris, witcha, a book of cunning (mandrake of oxford) this mark is represented as being a symbolic marking of antinomian commitment, of being awakened to the path of the devil and his bride, to becoming through the daemonic spirit inherent within our blood. this dynamic process has been represented in the luciferian witchcraft grimoires in various manners, in yatuk dinoih, i have presented a system coherent with cainite workings based on the isolated spirit as embodied in the flesh of the initiate, being as represented as paitisha, the rite of zohak and other

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er on, is transformed, in theological dogma, into the infernal regions. ahriman destroys the bull created by ormazd- which is the emblem of terrestrial illusive life, the "germ of sorrow- and, forgetting that the perishing finite seed must die, in order that the plant of immortality, the plant of spiritual, eternal life, should sprout and live, ahriman is proclaimed the enemy, the opposing power, the devil. typhon cuts osiris into fourteen pieces, in order to prevent his peopling the world and thus creating misery; and typhon becomes, in the exoteric, theological teaching, the power of darkness. but all this is the exoteric shell. it is the worshippers of the latter who attribute to disobedience and rebellion the effort and self-sacrifice of those who would help men to their original statu

sness, obtained from his indwelling principle (the manasa, or the incarnated deva, became the glaring flames of the infernal region; and our globe that hell itself. pippala, haoma, the fruit of the tree of knowledge, were denounced as the forbidden fruit, and the "serpent of wisdom" the voice of reason and consciousness, remained identified for ages with the fallen angel, which is the old dragon, the devil (vide part ii "the evil spirit, who, or what) the same for the other high symbols. the svastica, the most sacred and mystic symbol in india, the "jaina-cross" as it is now called by the masons, notwithstanding its direct connection, and even identity with the christian cross, has become dishonoured in the same manner. it is the "devil's sign" we are told by the indian missionaries "does

oses* the fossils reconstructed by science, which we know ought to be sufficient warrant for the possibility of even a leviathan, let alone isaiah's flying serpents, or saraph mehophep, which words are translated in all the hebrew dictionaries as "saraph" enflamed or fiery venom, and "mehophep" flying. but, although christian theology has always connected both (leviathan and saraph mehophep) with the devil, the expressions are metaphorical and have nought to do with the "evil one" but the word dracon has become a synonym for the latter. in bretagne the word drouk now signifies "devil" whence, as we are told by cambry("monuments celtiques" p. 299, the devil's tomb in england, draghedanum sepulcrum. in languedoc the meteoric fires and will-o'-the-wisps are called dragg, and in bretagne dreag

do with the "evil one" but the word dracon has become a synonym for the latter. in bretagne the word drouk now signifies "devil" whence, as we are told by cambry("monuments celtiques" p. 299, the devil's tomb in england, draghedanum sepulcrum. in languedoc the meteoric fires and will-o'-the-wisps are called dragg, and in bretagne dreag, wraie (or wraith, the castle of drogheda in ireland meaning the devil's castle[[vol. 2, page] 207 kircher's dragon. of the third race. when, therefore, we are gravely asked by roman catholic writers to credit christopher scherer's and father kircher's cock-and-bull stories of their having seen with their own eyes living fiery and flying dragons, respectively in 1619 and 1669, we may be allowed to regard their assertions as either dreams or fibs* nor shall

the serpent is to be regarded as the emblem of cunning and evil? the "evil one" itself? how can the line of demarcation ever be settled, when it is traced arbitrarily in a sectarian theological spirit. for, if the followers of the roman church are taught that mercury and aesculapius, or asclepios, who are, in truth, one, are "devils and sons of devils" and the wand and serpent of the latter were "the devil's wand; how about the "brazen serpent" of moses? every scholar knows that both the heathen wand and the jewish "serpent" are one and the same, namely, the caduceus of mercury, son of apollo-python. it is easy to comprehend why the jews adopted the ophidian shape for their "seducer" with them it was purely physiological and phallic; and no amount of casuistical reasoning on the part of th

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comprehend better than they do now, that verse in the gospel of john that says "and the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehendeth it not" they will see then that the word "darkness" does not apply to man's spiritual eyesight, but indeed to "darkness" the absolute, that comprehendeth not (cannot cognize) transient light, however transcendent to human eyes. demon est deus inversus. the devil is now called darkness by the church, whereas, in the bible he is called the "son of god (see job, the bright star of the early morning, lucifer (see isaiah. there is a whole philosophy of dogmatic craft in the reason why the first archangel, who sprang from the depths of chaos, was called lux (lucifer, the "luminous son of the morning" or man[ footnote(s* see "kwan-shai-yin" the real na

pendent judgment and will, his[[vol. 1, page] 194 the secret doctrine. right of free-agency and responsibility, since man and angel are alike under karmic law "and there was war in heaven. michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. and the dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil and satan, which deceiveth the whole world" the kabalistic version of the same story is given in the codex nazareus, the scripture of the nazarenes, the real mystic christians of john the baptist and the initiates of christos. bahak-zivo, the "father of the genii" is ordered to construct creatures (to create. but, as he is "ignorant of orcus" he fails to do so, and calls in fetahil, a st

girdle of isis which twines round two poles and in ancient theogonies by the serpent devouring its own tail, emblem of prudence and of saturn- emblem of infinity, immortality, and kronos "time- not the god saturn or the planet "it is the winged dragon of medea, the double serpent of the caduceus, and the tempter of genesis; but it is also the brazen snake of moses encircling the tau lastly, it is the devil of exoteric dogmatism, and is really the blind force (it is not blind, and levi knew it, which souls must conquer in order to detach themselves from the chains of earth 'for if they should not' they will be absorbed by the same power which first produced them and will return to the central and eternal fire" this great archaeus is now discovered by, and only for one man- mr. j. w. keeley

t of chaos, or the great "deep" the waters, over which spirit= space, personified by ayana- the spirit moving over the face of the future boundless kosmos- is silently hovering, in the first hour of re-awakening. it is also vishnu, sleeping on ananta-sesha, the great serpent of eternity, of which western theology, ignorant of the kabala, the only key that opens the secrets of the bible, has made- the devil. it is the first triangle or the pythagorean triad, the "god of the three aspects" before it is transformed through its perfect quadrature of the infinite circle into the "four-faced brahma "of him who is and yet is not, from the not-being, eternal cause, is born the being-purusha" says manu, the legislator. in isis unveiled, it is said that "in the egyptian mythology, kneph, the eternal

on] thou art the son of the light of the thorah (dharma) etc. then the author explains that the feminine sephiroth, binah, is termed by the kabalist the great sea: therefore binah, whose divine names are jehovah, yah, and elohim, is simply the chaldean tiamat, the female power, the thalatth of berosus, who presides over the chaos, and was made out later by christian theology to be the serpent and the devil. she-he (yah-hovah) is the supernal (heh, and eve. this yah-hovah then or jehovah, is identical with our chaos- father, mother, son- on the material plane and in the purely physical world. demon and deus at one and the same time; the sun and moon, good and evil, god and demon. lunar magnetism generates life, preserves and destroys it, psychically as well as physically. and if, astronomic

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.old shop. much of this is evidently felt by those who talk of re-establishing the old trade guilds. but i fear i digress. i have, however, now placed before you the main points of my thesis. we need to extend to the whole of society the peculiar feeling which obtains in our most successful institutions, such as the services, the universities, the clubs. heaven and hell are states of mind; and if the devil be really proud, his hell can hurt him little. it is this, then, that i desire to emphasize: those who accept the new law, the law of the on of horus, the crowned and conquering child who replaces in our theogony the suffering and despairing victim of destiny, the law of thelema, which is do what thou wilt, those who accept it (i say) feel themselves immediately to be kings and queens. l

eory, there is no value in science. he does not in the least understand the subject on which he is writing. he does not understand the canon of reason. he has only one idea, which is, that the bible (authorized translation) is literally true in every detail. his great explanation of everything that seems a little peculiar is that it is the result of sin. he claims, however, that sin was caused by the devil, who was created by god, and that god foreknew and permitted all this, in order to inflict torture upon nearly everybody except mr. bishop. he would however deny furiously that the god who willingly and knowingly created the devil, was in any way responsible for him. this kaiserlich-chautauquamericanisch-bishopisch god is therefore an illogical impossibility and absurdity. but this doesn

dualism. however, it is a shame to carp mr. klein s philosophical and scientific knowledge is profound. it is unified. better still, it is dynamic and exulting. it is impossible to read a page of his book without feeling the contagion of the joy of his attainment. too many philosophers in the past have drooled on about the absolute with such piety of dullness, that one has wished the absolute at the devil. there is nothing of this in this book. we feel that mr. klein is enjoying the light, life, love and liberty which come from the acceptance of the law of thelema. but i must still ask him for another volume. the greater part of his difficulty in explanation seems to arise from the fact that he has no conception of a technique of attainment. he says quite rightly that it is all a matter o

ook to shed light upon the greybeard slobbering of shaw. violet.s baby is only tolerable because violet is mrs. malone. shaw has not the strength of character to avow (even in a fictitious work) that a woman can assert what is evidently her first right without undergoing phantastic penalties, although there are to-day thousands of women in every country who have told morality to go to its father, the devil, as shaw so bombastically tells it to do. the phantoms which confront the free man are really just hollow turnips in churchyards. take poor ambrose, for example. he occupies one of the most important positions in new york city. he lives his own life for 15 years or so. nobody is offended. nobody is injured. nothing whatever happens. a pleasant time is had by all. then, suddenly some one

asting of energy, which should rather be concentrated on further advance; and secondly, because iddhi are in many cases so seductive that they lead the unwary to forget altogether the real purpose of their endeavours. the student must be prepared for temptations of the most extraordinary subtlety; as the scriptures of the christians mystically put it, in their queer but often illuminating jargon, the devil can disguise himself as an angel of light. a species of parenthesis is necessary thus early in this comment. one must warn the reader that he is going to swim in very deep waters. to begin with, it is assumed throughout that the student is already familiar with at least the elements of mysticism. true, you are supposed to be ignorant of the dangers of the lower iddhi; but there are reall

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virgo 67 the wheel the lord of the of fate forces of life koph jupiter 68 justice the daughter of the lords of truth: the ruler of the balance lamed libra 69 the hanged man the spirit of the mighty waters mem water 70 death the child of the great transformers: the lord of the gates of death nun scorpio 71 temperance the daughter of the reconcilers: the bringer-forth of life samekh sagittarius 72 the devil the lord of the gates of matter: the child of the forces of time ayin capricorn 73 the blasted tower the lord of the hosts of the mighty peh mars 74 the star the daughter of the firmament, the dweller between the waters tzaddi aquarius 75 the moon the ruler of flux and reflux: the child of the sons of the mighty qof pisces 76 the sun the lord of the fire of the world resh sun 77 the judg

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f their skin was spread out flat over the body of a gigantic beetle or cockroach, crawling yet having vast strength. 12. neshimiron- whose colors are of a stagnant gleaming, watery hue, and their forms like hideous women, almost skeletons, united to the bodies of serpents and fishes. in the midst of the circle are placed samael and asmodai. the symbolic form of the former is somewhat like that of the devil of the tarot, but colossal and attenuated; that of asmodai is as a bloated, bestial man, but in a crouching position. at the south-east angle are placed the evil adam, a goat-headed skeleton-like giant; and a thousand- headed hydra serpent; everchanging and distorted countenance. at the north-east angle is aggerath, the daughter of machalath, a fiendish witch with serpent hair enthroned

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

ularly prone to label all primitive tribes upon whom they stumbled as devil-worshippers, just because the tribe worshipped a god or gods other than the christian one. it would not matter that the people were good, happy, often morally and ethically better living than the vast majority of christians. they had to be converted! the charge of devil-worship, so often leveled at witches, is ridiculous. the devil is a purely christian invention; there being no mention of him, as such, before the new testament. in fact it is interesting to note that the whole concept of evil associated with the devil is due to an error in translation. the original old testament hebrew ha-satan and the new testament greek diabolos simply mean "opponent" or "adversary. it should be remembered that the idea of dividi

he full moon and to dance around the field astride pitchforks, poles and broomsticks; riding them like hobby-horses. they would leap high in the air as they danced, to show the crops how high to grow. a harmless enough form of sympathetic magick. but the church claimed not only that they were working against the crops, but that they actually flew through the air on their poles. surely the work of the devil! in 1484 pope innocent viii produced his bull against witches. two years later two infamous german monks, heinrich institoris kramer and jakob sprenger, produced their incredible concoction of anti-witchery, the malleus maleficarum (the witch hammer. in this book definite instructions were given for the prosecution of witches. however, when the book was submitted to the theological facul

ly happy religion and so was, in many ways, totally incomprehensible to the gloomy inquisitors and reformers who sought to suppress it. a rough estimate of the total number of people burned, hung or tortured to death on the charge of witchcraft, is nine million. obviously not the malleus malleficarutn is in three parts, the first of which treats 'the three necessary concomitants of witchcraft are the devil, a witch, and the permission of almighty god. here the reader is first admonished that to not believe in witchcraft is heresy. points are then covered on whether children can he generated by incubi and succubi; witches' copulation with the devil; whether witches can sway the minds of men to love or hatred; whether witches can hebetate the powers of generation or obstruct the venereal act

is found in the case of the so-called witches of salem, massachusetts. it is doubtful if any of the victims hung* there were really followers of the old religion. just possibly bridget bishop and sarah good were, but the others were nearly all pillars of the local church up until the time the hysterical children "cried out" on them. but what about satanism? the witches were called worshippers of the devil. was there any truth to this? no. yet as with so many of the charges, there was reason for the belief. the early church was extremely harsh on its people. it not only governed the peasants' way of worship but also their ways of life and love. even between married couples, sexual intercourse was frowned upon. it was felt that there should be no joy from the act, it being permitted solely

ible to have sexual relations with your spouse. but without deriving pleasure from it, of course! it was no wonder that this, together with other such harshness, led to a rebellion albeit a clandestine one. the people this time the christians finding that their lot was not bettered by praying to the so-called god of love, decided to pray to his opposite instead. if god wouldn't help them, perhaps the devil would. so satanism came into being. a parody of christianity; a mockery of it. it was a revolt against the harshness of the church. as it turned out the "devil" did not help the poor peasant either. but at least he was showing his disdain for the authorities; he was going against the establishment. it did not take mother church long to find out about this rebellion. satanism was anti-chr

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did you awaken in the arms of lilith, the moon. i summon thee, cain of old, whose words open the gates of hell i invoke thee, cain of the serpent skin, who is the first of witch blood i conjure thee, cain who is the earthly devil, who is the master of spirits encircle and awaken within my flesh, my blood, my mind. by thy depths of which i walk herein shall i become reborn in the name and mark of the devil, whom i swear my spirit unto i am myself the redeemer and bringer of the infernal pact which holds no bounds nor mortal strain, yet my desires shall be filled by the eye within the blackened triangle of cain and the children of rebellion, rise up with me of cain and those going forth by night unto the infernal sabbat let the devil bless my name hearken and remain, satan be thy name adver

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this comment on the relation between tzaddi and the 17th key, called the star "the application to the tarot is that to the selfcontemplation of spirit the universe appears as it really is. the divine mother is always unveiled before her lord. to man, except in those rare moments when he participates in the divine meditation, she is at best the veiled isis, and at worst the demon of the 15th key, the devil "a great silence" in hebrew is domam, d v m m, which adds to 90, the value of the letter tzaddi "the pillar of establishment" is jakin, i k i n, which also adds to 90 [165] the meditation on qoph* 1 i am the knot in the endless cord of life, binding past to future in the eternal present. i am aleph and tav, beginning and end. all that was, and all that shall be, now is, for in mine eyes

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

of an organised male medical profession, women healers who had acted as herbalists and midwives became a threat. this was not least because their skills ensured less painful childbirth, which was considered contrary to the curse of god that the daughters of eve should bear children in sorrow. so midwives were a prime target for the new persecutions and were often accused of sacrificing babies to the devil. given the high rate of infant mortality, this allegation was hard to refute, and a grieving mother might easily blame the midwife for the death of her infant. at a time of appropriation of common land and the enclosure of smallholdings, especially in europe, such accusations were a popular way of removing peasants, particularly elderly widows or spinsters, reluctant to give up their lan

is persecution. even faeries became associated with witchcraft. the bean-tighe, a faerie housekeeper, popular in the mythology of ireland and scotland, was said to reside with the village wise woman and assist her with chores; in the worst of the wave of hysteria over witchcraft, if an old women had an immaculate house, it was claimed she had faerie help- and so by implication was consorting with the devil. under torture, even the innocent would admit to the vile deeds suggested by their inquisitors. many of the confessions now appear to be remarkably uniform and come straight from the pages of the works on demonology, with which the members of the inquisition would be familiar. simple village circle dances performed at the time of the full moon and the old rituals performed to bring ferti

t was regarded as precious because it was the main preservative of food through the long winter months for early settlers around the globe. in formal magick, it represents the element of earth. in modern protective and banishing rituals, a salt circle is created to keep out harm. many of us still adhere to the old practice of throwing a pinch of spilt salt over our left shoulder 'into the eyes of the devil. salt was also added in the making of holy water to ward off evil and increase physical strength as well as powers of fertility. salt is still added to water in casting a triple circle in more formal magick. on a less formal level, small quantities of salt can be empowered and used for all kinds of domestic protection. to empower salt, pass a clear quartz or crystal pendulum over it deos

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ur elements of building, focusing and releasing this powerful force of promethean fire-the mind and will united by dissolution of opposites. kia itself seeks the necessary manifestation by the act of love, considering it seems to incarnate or flow backwards. this can be viewed as an initiation resembling what has been described in my book of the witch moon as the osculum infame, or kiss of shame. the devil itself, resembling the o can achieve autoerotic intercourse with the combination of z, meaning inverse intercourse with the devil the very act of creation. the rite of thanatos vel babalon, as developed by michael dewitt is one of the most powerful descriptions of the essence of babalon that could be described. the ritual itself is opened with the quadriga sexualis banishing ritual and l

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

they express as much, as let us perform our religious worship" the avatar of the national deity of whydah, a serpent, was called a fetish by white missionaries on the slave coast in the late seventeenth century. bosman spoke of fetishes as "all things made in honour of [their] false gods" as did wilhelm muller, a german lutheran prelate who wrote from the gold coast that akan fetishes incarnated "the devil himself, from whom c they seek advice, comfort and help" a being who was incarnated in the figure of a "tall, abominable, black moor" at a future point fetishism would be associated with magic, but most accounts suggest its link to various forms of traditional african religion.[9] although contemporary writers have done away with the term "fetish" viewing it as a derogatory, anachronisti

can visions of spirits, ghosts, and other supernatural beings.[56] european and african-derived witchcraft traditions evolved as a dual presence, confirming their significance to angloand african american folk beliefs. but conceptions of the witch differed dramatically for both peoples. in the western christian tradition of which anglo- americans were inheritors, witches were seen as disciples of the devil, and theologians viewed witchcraft practice as a form of heresy. in contrast, black american ideas of witchcraft sprang from traditional african beliefs in the mixed potential of good and evil "negroes c seemed not to ascribe any undue wickedness or malevolence to the [witches" noted one nineteenthcentury reporter "as they tend to think him or her gifted with unusual capacity for either

slithered out of her foot. as the snake retreated the conjurer remarked "deah goes duh devil" and dorsey later recovered. sarah handy noted that one doctor's treatment included the burning of "various black magic page 66 of 144 http//content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006 vile-smelling powders" in a patient's room, followed by his opening a window "to let the devil out" the devil was incarnated in the form of a snake, an archetypal symbol for evil in the biblical tradition.[33] these accounts offer numerous possibilities for understanding physical affliction among african americans. some patients and practitioners balanced multiple ideas in order to interpret the causes of sickness and misfortune in their lives. a late-nineteenth-century exslave na

and bringing about cathartic release [59] even with the similarities in their styles, blues performers were never acknowledged as musical ministers by black churches and churchgoers. because they incorporated conjure sensibilities into their performances, they were relegated to the margins of institutionalized religious life. many of the more conservative black churches would reject the blues as "the devil's music" for like conjure itself, the blues tended to foster a deep ambivalence among christian believers. bluespeople sang freely of the pleasures and perils of erotic love, alcohol, gambling, and fast living. they flaunted the unseemly behaviors that black elites had repudiated in their quest for social respectability. in bold defiance of middle-class standards, bluesmen and women enga

american slave and tenant community" historical archeology 24 (1990: 7.19; eric klingelhofer "aspects of early afro-american material culture: artifacts black magic page 102 of 144 http//content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006 from the slave quarters at garrison plantation, maryland" historical archeology 21 (1987: 115.17. for references, see thomas alvord, the devil in britain and america (ann arbor: gryphon books, 1971; tom peete cross "witchcraft in north carolina" studies in philology 16, no. 3 (1919: 219; m. drake patten "african-american spiritual beliefs: an archeological testimony from the slave quarter (proceedings of the dublin seminar for new england folklife, wonders of the invisible world: 1600.1900, ed. peter benes, june, 1992, pp. 44.5

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es (whereof the father of lights his majesty had shown me not a few) and being now ready to prepare in my heart, together with my dear paschal lamb, a small, unleavened, undefiled cake; all of a sudden arose so horrible a tempest, that i imagined no other but that through its mighty force, the hill on which my little house was founded would fly into pieces. but inasmuch as this, and the like from the devil (who had done me many a spite) was no new thing to me, i took courage, and persisted in my meditation, till somebody in an unusual manner touched me on the back; whereupon i was so hugely terrified, that i dared hardly look about me; yet i showed myself as cheerful as (in such occurrences) human frailty would permit. now the same thing still twitching me several times by the coat, i look

the letter, which was now so heavy, that had it been mere gold it could hardly have been so weighty. now as i was diligently viewing it, i found a little seal, on which a curious cross with this inscription, in hoc signo vinces, was engraved. o page 2 now as soon as i espied this sign i was the more comforted, as not being ignorant that such a seal was little acceptable, and much less useful, to the devil. whereupon i tenderly opened the letter, and within it, in an azure field, in golden letters, found the following verses written. this day, today is the royal wedding day. for this thou wast born and chosen of god for joy thou mayest go to the mountain whereon three temples stand, and see there this affair. keep watch inspect thyself and shouldst thou not bathe thoroughly the wedding may

, and all sorts of people, at which i greatly marvelled, and thought to myself, ah, how gross a fool you have been to engage upon this journey with so much bitterness and toil, when (behold) here are even those fellows whom you know well, and yet never had any page 15 reason to esteem. they are now all here, and you with all your prayers and supplications have hardly got in at last. this and more the devil at that time injected, while i notwithstanding (as well as i could) directed myself to the issue. meanwhile one or other of my acquaintance here and there spoke to me: oh brother rosencreutz! are you here too? yes (my brethren, i replied, the grace of god has helped me in too. at which they raised mighty laughter, looking upon it as ridiculous that there should be need of god in so sligh

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oes not fit their scheme of things. in fact, at this point, i should mention something that is unpleasant but must be faced. there are those who profit from ignorance of this material. that is why they worked so hard and so long to keep knowledge of it suppressed. some do it from misguided and foolish religious motives. they would like you to believe, as they do, that all psychic power comes from the devil and his horned minions. that is probably the most stupid argument ever advanced and anyone dumb enough to believe it can probably be offered a real good deal on a used bridge. religion is the province of the weak-minded. then there are those who feel directly threatened by this knowledge, and in some cases rightly so. a politician is not going to be happy knowing that one person with a r

essed from there. the version i am going to explain now is one of the first tunable units and, for my money, still one of the best. it is simple, uncomplicated and works. now, this sort of thing was not original with me. the idea of a psychic amplifier built into a helmet was a staple of science fiction writers and comic books and there was even a real fun, albeit really bad, boris karloff movie, the devil commands, based on the idea. and, as everyone in the world knows by now, i have this thing about helmets, it was only natural that i would go to work on the idea. besides, it looked a hell of a lot better than the silly pyramid hats the new age nutjars were peddling with i started to work with psionics. and it did not mummify the brain! as you can see from the two drawings, the component

DANCE OF THE WITCHES

ftsmanship, or image. where the spark of vision leaps, where inspiration is communicated. the path strays anew. so mote it be! alogos, magister: cultus sabbati. where the old serpent and man meet in murder and marriage, the spiritualisation of matter, the materialisation of spirit; the pole of heaven becomes the crown of the world. both in one: xoanon vox baetyltithe dance of the witches: opening the devil's eye copyright 2003 by robin artisson saturnian musings on mercurial subjects pursuant to my work on the art of the 'twilight sleep" or the trance, the topic has come up many times about the best way to achieve a good, workable trance state when performing acts of witchcraft. the answer is simple enough: there is no "best" way. each person, being an individual, is predisposed to a varie

through it at the altar, and frame the light in this triangle, and slowly pronounce the following phonetic formula: oz. ah. el. drag the syllables out. then, step into the circle and go to the four implements (the cord, the arthame, the cup, and the bowl) which should be right in the center of the triangle. kneeling, hold your hands over them and say "i bless these holy implements in the name of the devil the great reverser, secret lord of the wise powers above the land and below it, take heed" then stand straight up, holding the cord out before you, and walk directly towards the altar, and when you reach the east, walk counterclockwise around the circle one full time, arriving back at the east, and then keep walking till you are at the north, stop, kneel, and put the cord down. as you li

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ect without the heart, you could say, and without the balanced feminine. the symbols of the brotherhood in ancient times remain those of the brotherhood today- the pyramid and all-seeing eye, the swastika, the lamb, the apron, the obelisk and many others. the obelisk is symbolic of the penis of osiris, the egyptian god. the legend is that he was torn into pieces by the 'evil' set (lucifer, satan, the devil, et al) and when isis, the wife of osiris, tried to put him back together again, she found all his missing parts, except you know what. such legends are, i feel, symbolic of much more straightforward truths. the obelisk and osiris's penis in that story symbolise male energy, which has dominated the world throughout recorded history. all of us, and creation as a whole, are in search of ba

rchy: the story of the committee of 300 (tavistock is mentioned extensively; eustace mullins, the world order, our secret rulers, p262-265 chapter 10 the super elite- the black magicians t the highest level of the elite's human pyramid, i believe they do know that they are working with a fourth dimensional consciousness which has been known symbolically by many names (such as satan, set, lucifer, the devil, and- in this book- the prison warders. at this top level, they are knowingly interacting with this force, which probably takes many forms. there is evidence that many people involved over the years have believed they were working for extraterrestrial 'super men. some may have had face-to-face contact with a negative et group from the fourth dimension. to understand the true nature of th

group in salford, manchester, asked 416 .and the truth shall set you free me to speak about my book at the green party national conference in the autumn of 1994,1 was banned by the party hierarchy for, in effect, inciting racial hatred. the campaign was whipped up by two robot radicals called derek wall and david black, the author of a charming little article about me headed "son of god or son of the devil" they were supported by others in the green party's robot radical clique, like penny kemp. i have a letter from the conference organiser which says that of the members of the committee who issued the ban only two had read the book and both went into the meeting determined to say it was not racist. they ended up being persuaded to vote for a ban by those who had not read it! and the membe

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mbassadors from foreign powers and merchants. vlad the impaler was the son of vlad dracul, who was initiated into the ancient order of the dragon by the holy roman emperor in 1431. its emblem was a dragon, wings extended, hanging on a cross. vlad ii wore this emblem and his coinage bore the dragon symbol. all the members of the order had a dragon on their coat of arms and he was nicknamed dracul (the devil or the dragon. son vlad signed his name draculea or draculya or the "devil's son" and this later became dracula, a name that translates as something like "son of him who had the order of the dragon. most appropriate. this is the same dragon order that is today promoted by the british "holy grail" author, sir laurence gardner. by the way, queen mary or mary of teck, the mother of king geo

es, to the world (lower fourth dimension, accessed through the stargates "unseen they walk among thee in places where the rites have been said (illuminati rituals to open the stargates "again as time passes onward, shall they take the semblance of men (which they have. the depiction of the "devil" is very like the descriptions of the reptilian "royalty" known as the draco and in the biblical text the devil/satan is clearly said to have been reptilian. one example is this description in the book of revelation of st michael, a phoenician deity, defeating the dragon. the second paragraph here could easily be describing the sealing of the interdimensional portals through which the reptilians enter this dimension, the same theme you find in the emerald tablets. or, just as easily, it could refe

phoenician deity, defeating the dragon. the second paragraph here could easily be describing the sealing of the interdimensional portals through which the reptilians enter this dimension, the same theme you find in the emerald tablets. or, just as easily, it could refer to the imprisonment of the serpent race within the earth "and the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the devil and satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to earth and his angels were cast down with him..and he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more."11 there were, and are, physical reptilians and other e

especially the most powerful ones, to die in rituals designed to transfer their power and demons to another person. when they die, their consciousness becomes the property of the demons, as ritually agreed when they become satanists. the deal involves demonic power for the satanists on earth in return for their "soul" when they leave their body. this is where we get the term "selling your soul to the devil. on other occasions the "soul" of the sacrifice will be transferred to a participant of the ritual. at the point of death, as many former satanists have told me, the victim is fixed in an hypnotic stare- just like a snake- by the person who is going to absorb their life force and energy. this makes a vibrational, magnetic link, which draws the consciousness of the victim into the satanis

has always been so" he adds "from the babylonians, to the egyptians, to the mayans, the incas, the polynesians- the commonest thread of human idolatry is the snake and the dragon" the satanic and secret society rituals are designed for reptilian/demonic possession to take place and suddenly, hey presto, the body of the target is now occupied by one of these fourth-dimensional entities. the movie, the devil's advocate, starring al pacino, portrays this very well as the "devil's" consciousness field moved from body to body and took them over. people like clinton, the bushs, kissinger, and the british royal family are just empty vessels occupied by these characters and that's why they act in such unspeakable ways. calling the demons 285 possession through sex during sex the two energy fields

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george are ancient phoenician heroes from the very region of the worldwhere the anunnaki instigated their crossbreeding programme and, for a long time,operated openly as reptilians. in the last book of the bible, the book of revelation, we seethe clear connection made between the being known as satan and the serpent or reptile:and the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the devil andsatan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to earth and his angels werecast down with him.56..and he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and satan, andbound him for a thousand years, and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed itover him, that he should deceive the nations no more.57in a dead sea scroll fragment translated by the hebrew

th three horns symbolising royal power with divine authority7this is represented by the symbol of the fleur-de4is which you find throughout the regaliaof modern royalty (see figure 6 overleaf. as i have mentioned already, the draco royalhierarchy, the winged albino whites, are said to have horns and im sure this is the trueorigin of the horned headgear of ancient royalty. the classic depiction of the devil also52has draco-like horns. nimrod was given the title baal (thelord) and semiramis was baalti (my lady. the latinterm for my lady is mea domina which in its corrupteditalian form became madonna.8 nimrod was represented ina dual role of god the father and ninus, the son ofsemiramis, and her olive branch was symbolic of thisoffspring produced through a virgin birth. ninus was alsoknown as

ave usedtheir secret societies to create institutions in the public arena such as religions andpolitical parties to suck this advanced knowledge out of circulation. the inquisitionwas a wonderful example of this technique. merely to speak about esoteric matterswas to sign your own death warrant. this scam has been so effective that still todayyou have christians condemning esoteric information as the devil when this sameknowledge is the very foundation of their religion. if you want to know wherechristianity really came from, stick around. it is recycled paganism and provably so.yet christianity has been used quite brilliantly as the major vehicle for removing vitalknowledge from the public domain. whenever christianity and other religions tookcontrol of a country or region, the ancient te

changes,we change. if you live in water and the water changes, you are fundamentally affectedand it is the same with the energy ocean that we occupy. thus you have the movementof the planets affecting the earths magnetic field and through that affecting us. thebrotherhood dont want us to know any of this and so they have used their religions,like christianity, to condemn astrology as the work of the devil and their science todismiss it as mumbo-jumbo.the mystery stone circles and structures are much less mysterious when you seekanswers with open minded research. the evidence strongly suggests that they were builtby the phoenician-aryans who came here from the middle and near east. it is the samewith the mystery white horses scored into the chalk hillsides of britain. just before iwrote th

were given names likeprophets, oracles, vessels of god and such like. one of the leaders of this witch-hunt wasjerome, born in 341, who is credited with gathering the texts for the main latin version ofthe holy bible. it was jerome who persuaded the pope to outlaw channelling (psychiccommunications with other dimensions. by this single papal decree, the vessels of godbecame vessels and witches of the devil, terms still used by many christians. king jamesi, the first king of both england and scotland, included a bitter condemnation of witchesin his king james bible in 1611 and he was true to his word as he had thousands ofwomen tortured and executed for being witches. jerome wanted the priests to be themiddle men between humanity and god. he did not want people going direct,contradicting th

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map i found isn't all that accurate as far as the streets are concerned, but it will have to do. the white house makes up the southern most tip of the goathead. lansat satellite image of the white house (below center) and surrounding northern area. in the map above, beginning from top left to top middle: 1. dupont circle, logan circle, and scott circle in the middle, form the top three points of the devil's goathead of mendes, one of the most important types of the five-pointed devil's pentagram. 2. washington circle forms the extreme left-hand point of the goathead. 3. mt. vernon square forms the extreme right-hand point of the goathead. 4. the white house forms the fifth and bottom point of the goathead. there is a 666 evident in the most important top three circles of the goathead, dup

connecticut avenue flowing from dupont circle, and by vermont avenue flowing from logan circle, intersect. the meaning is all too clear. occultists planned for the white house to be controlled by lucifer in accordance with his occultic power and doctrine. the goathead.(for your reference) but, there is still more meaning expressed by this goathead pentagram. quickly look again at the photocopy of the devil's pentagram, as copied from goodman's magic symbol book. protruding from the middle top of the pentagram is a lighted candle, which is producing light. this physical light represents spiritual illumination. if this representation were made on a map, this illuminating candle would be thought of as being north. north is a very important direction, because it is the place of governmental co

this egyptian model) that control the finances, governments, and religious systems that currently plague the planet with perversions of truth and fascist agendas not becoming of the truly enlightened. below are quotes written by high level masons praising lucifer with references "the mysteries of magic' by eliphas levi "what is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. the intellectual lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the holy spirit, while the physical lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism" page 428 'the book of black magic' by arthur edward waite 33 "first conjuration addressed to emperor lucifer. emperor lucifer, master and prince of rebellious spirits, i adjure the

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ing of deitus. let us begin, then, by considering the basic precepts of satanic belief. the start of satanic enlightenment is the realization that all gods are created by man, all religions are established by man, all holy books are written by man, and all temples are built by man. there is nothing spiritual, there is nothing holy. it has been said that man creates god in the image of himself and the devil in the image of his enemy. god is, it is remarked, a projection of man s ego. the satanist says, why worship a god someone else has created, and which represents someone else s ego, when you can recognize a god of your own creation a god which has your best interests at heart. the satanic view considers satan as an archetype, a symbol of carnality as opposed to spirituality. the satanist

on friday night and then in church sunday morning asking god to forgive them for their sins when they know they will be back out the following weekend doing what they have always done. the satanist rejects them because they are hypocrites, and judges them by the standards they have set. why, you may ask, does the satanist call himself a satanist if he does not believe in the literal existence of the devil? the satanist, of course, recognizes the importance of ritual and ceremony to satisfy certain human emotional needs. he sees nothing wrong with religion, and in fact considers it essential to human behavior, but recognizes that churches have used religion to manipulate the masses into obedience to their will. the satanist chooses his own god, one which will not make him feel guilty for b

ynamic consciousness. just as a river flows into the ocean, the dynamic consciousness violently penetrates the universal subconscious. what is traditionally called magic is simply the application of active upon passive to cause change. in the dynamic universe i state that this dynamic consciousness which guides and/or directs the universe is dynamic not static and is, therefore, best described as the devil, satan, rather than as god. all gods (and devils) are created by man, but god represents the laws and dictates of society while the devil represents that which threatens the statusquo. whatever name man may give to these forces, the devil is a more accurate depiction of the dynamic consciousness. allegorically, the universal subconscious is god, and the dynamic consciousness is satan. an

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personified enlightenment, wisdom, and beauty. the cult of lucifer was associated with the worship of venus or aphrodite, the goddess of love and passion, and involved sexual acts of which the early christians did not approve. the acceptance of christianity as the official religion of rome, and subsequent conversion of pagans to the new faith, resulted in the name lucifer becoming associated with the devil satan. if jesus is the light and truth, reasoned the christian, then lucifer must be a false light, a deceiver, even a fallen angel. christianity condemned paganism, goddess-worship, and sexuality as evil; and the cult of lucifer could be associated with all of these. lucifer became the latin name for the devil of hebrew origin, satan. in hebrew mythology, satan was an angel who accused

ng the part of the serpent ahriman. satan, a minor angel in hebrew mythology, became equal in power with god. the belief of a war in heaven between god and satan was carried into europe by the early christians. in christian mythology, lucifer became the highest of the angels, created in the perfect image of god, who fell from grace because of his pride. during the spread of christianity in europe the devil began to take on the form most often associated with him today. christians gave him the attributes of many of the old pagan gods: horns, tail, and cloven hooves. he became the god of fertility, the god of lust, the god of the dead, and the god of magic. devil worshippers and luciferans to facilitate conversion, pagan holy days became christian holy days. pagan temples were destroyed and

e new religion. the mass conversion of pagans to christianity was not entirely successful, however. in many countries, the people worshipped christ alongside the old gods. by the twelfth century there were a number of gnostic heresies which threatened the power of the church in rome. one gnostic sect was known as the luciferans. the luciferans believed that lucifer was the true god and yahweh was the devil. another gnostic sect, better known, was the knights templar. the knights templar fought in the crusades against the muslims but upon seeing how much more advanced the muslims were to themselves, converted to the religion of those they had fought. during the 12th and 13th centuries, the various gnostic heresies were suppressed and many of their followers executed. the trial of the knight

ing unable to indulge. the church of satan entertained a parade of celebrities and journalists. reporters from throughout the world came to write about the black pope and his satanic church. for the first time in history, there was a church dedicated to satan not an underground cult or secret society, not a temple of satanic worship veiled in christian trappings, but an actual church dedicated to the devil. the church of satan took a position of professed atheism. satan, claimed his priests, was not a literal being with tail, horns, and pitchfork, but a metaphoric representation, a jungian archetype, a product of the subconscious mind. like the 18th century hellfire club of sir francis dashwood, the church of satan made satanism fun while maintaining that there was nothing occult or sinist

, outside of the causal threedimensional reality in which we exist. initiates of the ona were encouraged to presence the dark forces by being sinister and therein become nexus s or gateways to the forces of darkness. by presencing the forces of darknes, and engaging in acts which would change the world towards the sinister, initiates of the ona sought to further the sinister dialectic of history. the devil s ambassadors the first embassy to the dark lord was the creation of yaj nomolos, prophet of the second coming. nomolos, an ordained priest of the church of satan, established the embassy located in whitehall, pa, known as the embassy of s.a.t.a.n (s.a.t.a.n. stands for survival and the androgyne nation) the social realist philosophy espoused by nomolos was one of predator and prey empha

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of the adversary within magick michael w. ford 2004 michael w. ford for the order of phosphorus members only. succubus publishing website http//algol.chaosmagic.com psychonaut 75 website http//www.psychonaut75.com e-mail: keteb75@psychonaut75.com 2 contents introduction i. set the egyptian god of darkness ii. ahriman the persian devil and the whore of darkness iii. the adversary and the bride of the devil, cain the son iv. the gnostic yaltabaoth, child of chaos v. the path of the crooked serpent leviathan and beelzebub end introduction the very intent and purpose of this essay is to bring to light the roots of the adversary in magick from a historical and mythological standpoint. as a practitioner of magick from a satanic and luciferian viewpoint, many often inquire on my sources and insp

poser in praxis of the path. it is however, desired to offer a collective comment and study on the exhaustive sources of lucifer and lilith in their various forms throughout time, with inclusion to modern magicians such as charles pace, aleister crowley, nathaniel harris, anton szandor lavey, myself and others within the fire of the adversary. it must be understood that what is firstly considered the devil is only a cipher towards which lies within; that looks are deceiving and thus a test to the nature of both the opposer and the sorcerer within the context of relation. by passing through the darkness is a light revealed brighter than all others. beginning with the foundations of the adversary in the form of the egyptian set are we able to firstly understand that his force, while averse i

other question may be asked, what is the purpose of the adversary? in my years of practice and development of the art on a personal level, i feel and understand the nature of the adversary to be dual in its nature. satan is a tester, who by illuminating the self of the initiate asks and poses many questions and challenges; it is up to the individual to answer these by action and balanced thought. the devil has always given the greatest gifts, however the cost is the test itself. you may be led into the darkness and feel as if you cannot go on therein is a test, to rise up through that trouble in your life to emerge as a bringer of light this is only a mere glimpse of the fall under the shadows of the adversary. the nature of lucifer is movement and motion; storms, chaos and order which ari

e handed to him he said: by means of these weapons, az (concupiscence) will devour that which is thine, and she herself shall starve, if at the end of nine thousand years thou hast not accomplished that which thou didst threaten to demolish the pact, to demolish time -from the zatsparam, from the dawn and twilight of zoroastrianism r.c. zaehner ahriman is within the ancient persian lands and lore the devil incarnate. known also as arimanius and angra mainyu, this sorcerous daemon was suggested by texts associated with zurvan to be the first born of the god zurvan, who is infinite time and space. his brother, ahura mazda is the christ like figure or opposite god who fought against ahriman for control of the world; it is this very balance which is kept in continual motion by the daeva lord o

hak even when the serpents were cut the later came forth again. ahriman came unto zohak disguised as a learned elder and suggested that they feed the brains of men to the serpents. azhi dahaka, as he became, was a feared demonic sorcerer, one 13 digital edition edited by joseph peterson. 14 firdawsi, the epic of kings, hero tales of ancient persia translated by helen zimmerman. 13 whose pact with the devil was said to have lengthened his life and transformed him into a immortal daeva or demon, even later mythological reference that dragons and other serpents rise from his body. this can be connected by the libation vase which was of gudea, dated from 2350 b.c. which was found at telloh. this vase contains an image of two snakes entwined around a staff, representing magical power. and the b

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be no more valuable contribution to the occult movement than a collected edition of the works of this very great writer, edited and annotated by some such sympathetic hand as that of mr. regardie, and with the personalities cut out, to speak any word in mitigation of the general condemnation of crowley is a thankless task, for panic stricken people immediately conclude that one is in league with the devil. nevertheless mr. regardie has had the courage to do this, and i should like to add my voice to his. to make use of a man's work without acknowledgment is no better than picking pockets. as the "golden dawn" the a.a" and my own "inner light" must appear to the uninformed observer to be more or less mixed up together, i feel it is advisable to disentangle them. the deeper issues of occult

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

ctivity, has the greatest difficulty in obtaining any adequate concept of an entirely formless state of passivity which is nevertheless most distinctly not non-being. yet this effort must be made if we are to understand cosmic philosophy in its fundamentals. we must not draw the veils of negative existence in front of kether or we shall condemn ourselves to a perpetual unresolved duality; god and the devil will for ever war in our cosmos, and there can be no finality to their conflict. we must train the mind to conceive the state of pure being without attributes or activities; we may think of it as the blinding white light, undifferentiated into rays by the prism of form; or we may think of it as the darkness of interstellar space, which is nothing, yet contains the potentialities of all t

for there is nothing to equal the geburah-influence for debunking" both persons and viewpoints. 27. geburah and gedulah must work together; never the one without the other. we must adore the god of battles as well as the god of love in order that the combative element in the universe may not break from its allegiance to the one god, i am that i am. the sword must not be cursed as an instrument of the devil, but blessed and dedicated in mystical qabala page 124 order that it may never be unsheathed in an unrighteous cause. it must not be cast aside in an impracticable pacifism, but placed at god's service; so that when the command goes forth that the evil thing shall not be suffered any longer, the mighty khamael, archangel of geburah, may lead the seraphim into battle, not in destructive r

two trees, but one tree, a qliphah being the reverse of a coin of which the obverse is a sephirah. whoever uses the tree as a magical system must perforce know the spheres of the qliphoth, because he has no option but to deal with them. 7. it is only upon the plane of atziluth that there is but one name of power associated with a sephirab, and that is the deity name. to the archangel corresponds the devil, and to the choir of angels the cohort of demons, and the sephirothic spheres have their correspondence in the infernal habitations. 8. the student must carefully distinguish between what the occultist calls positive and negative evil. this is a very important point in esoteric philosophy, and a failure to realise its significance leads into far-reaching practical errors and cripples the

gel is raphael, the healer, for do we not recognise the influence of the redeemer through its healing influence upon body and soul? but the reverse of the redeemer who harmonises are the zourmiel, the disputers "the great black giants ever working against each other" do we not see their influence in the harsher doctrines of christianity, in the idea of everlasting punishment under the dominion of the devil as contrasted with everlasting reward under the dominion of the vengeful and venal jehovah? if these are not dual contending forces, what are they? modern religious thought makes a great error in not re ising that one can have too much of a good thing. 17. the only time when there is perfect equilibrium of force is during a pralaya, a night of the gods. force in equilibrium is static, po

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ff for a considerable length of time as the victim of an occult attack. a recent writer in the british medical journal declared that whenever he came across a case of bell-ringing, knocks, the dripping of water and oil from ceilings, and other untoward happenings, he always looked for the hysterical maidservant. occultists would be very well advised to do likewise before they begin to worry about the devil. but on the other hand, the wise man, whether occultist or scientist, will not insist upon the hysterical maidservant unless he can catch her red-handed, as he surely will do sooner or later if she is the guilty party. forged bank-notes would never gain currency unless there were such a thing as genuine bank-notes. it would never occur to anyone to produce fraudulent psychic phenomena un

and may, in which the one who is sent "to fetch her away" is gripped round the waist by the leader of a chain of supporters. the real pressure comes on his own abdominal muscles, as anyone who has played the game will remember. and when the magical operation is over, what then? will the operator be left to enjoy his victim in peace? is it likely? this is the mystical basis of the story of faust. the devil might be not only willing but anxious to enable dr. faustus to win margarita, but he came for his soul at the appointed time. we may also remember that if margarita had not responded to the lure of the jewel song she would not have fallen a victim. the weak spot in the defence was after all in her own nature. we have considered the modus operandi of telepathic suggestion in detail becaus

tunity most effectually to "settle" with my antagonist. fortunately for all concerned, i had enough sense left to see that i was at the dividing of the ways, and if i were not careful would take the first step on to the left-hand path. if i availed myself of the opportunity to give practical expression to my resentment, the wolf-form would be born into an independent existence, and there would be the devil to pay, literally as well as metaphorically. i received the distinct impression, and impressions are important things in 24 of 103 psychic matters, for they often represent subconscious knowledge and experience, that once the wolf-impulse had found expression in action, the wolf-form would sever the psychic navel-cord that connected it with my solar plexus, and it would be no longer poss

aspect, the principle of destruction. we can best explain the cosmic function of the principle of destruction by calling it by its esoteric name of the scavenger of the gods. its function is to clear up behind the advancing tide of evolution, removing that which has become effete so that it may not choke and clog evolving life. we now find the answer to the eternal riddle as to why god tolerates the devil. the devil is the cosmic thrust-block and scavenger of the gods. it is this aspect of evil which is given a more detailed symbolism in the pantheons of other faiths, having its shiva and kali, or its pluto and hecate aspects. we can now see why these resistive and destructive forces are classed as gods and not as demons, for they are reactions according to cosmic law, not anarchical and

the engine can be reversed, and a big flywheel takes a great deal of stopping. moreover, in order to reverse the flywheel, we have to stop the engine. the normal movement of the soul is deosil, forward with the current of evolution. we need to think many times before we undertake to reverse that spin even momentarily, in order to undertake a work of malediction and death. the old saying "there is the devil to pay" is a true one. indeed, it is questionable whether there is such a thing as a momen tary reversal of spin. momentum has to be checked and worked up again before reversal of spin can take place. very great forces can be developed by this subjective concentration of the mind itself, but even greater forces can be rendered available if we apply the mechanical equivalent of gearing; i

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and magicians. return to magic alphabets return homhome resources demons bios fiction tyson the truth about the black mass (black mass as celebrated in the french court of louis xiv) the notorious black mass was supposedly a blasphemous parody of the catholic mass celebrated by witches or sorcerers for the purpose of defiling the most holy beliefs and practices of the church, and thereby pleasing the devil, who would as a reward grant to them the power to do evil. some of its infamous features include a defrocked priest who celebrated the mass on the belly of a naked woman, and the substitution of semen for the holy chrism oil, urine for the wine, and blackened turnip or excrement for the host. during the course of the mass, the defrocked priest was said to copulate with the woman serving

the russian royal court. it is unlikely that black masses were ever used in the rituals of the knights templar, even though the knights were accused of trampling and spitting on the cross. black masses formed a part of the religious practices of the late anton szandor lavey and his los angeles based church of satan, founded in the 1960s, in the sense that these rituals were performed in honor of the devil and involved a parody of the church mass. however, lavey always asserted that his black mass was not intended to defile the christian god, because he denied the existence of such a god. since the deliberate degradation and defilement of christianity is one of the key features of the true black mass, the mass performed in the church of satan falls short of perfection. the concept of the b

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reformation and salvation of mankind that will ultimately result in the ascent of humanity to the status of gods (the elohim, a status that the jealous god of the old testament concealed from mankind at our time of origin. once we understand that the enochian angels viewed coronzon as equivalent to lucifer or satan, we can learn something about the nature of coronzon by studying the references to the devil or the old serpent that occur in the bible. a very interesting reference is found in the book of revelation "and there was war in heaven: michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and satan, which deceive

chael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him (revelation 12:7-9. the serpent of genesis is identified as the devil or satan. moreover, the serpent is said to be a dragon. this is not as strange as might first appear. in past times, dragons and serpents were often confused together- a great snake such as a python was called a dragon by the romans, for example. dragons were sometimes called "worms" in ancient anglo-saxon literature. another important point to gather from the quote above is that the old

true and faithful relation, and that the vision of the tenth aethyr begins just before page 93 of the supplement to vol. 1, number 5 of the equinox, but of course the scientifically minded reader will see in this nothing more than a coincidence. the cry of the 10th aethyr, which is called zax there is no being in the outermost abyss, but constant forms come forth from the nothingness of it. then the devil of the aethyr, that mighty devil choronzon, crieth aloud, zazas, zazas, nasatanada zasas. i am the master of form, and from me all forms proceed. i am i. i have shut myself up from the spendthrifts, my gold is safe in my treasure-chamber, and i have made every living thing my concubine, and none shall touch them, save only i. and yet i am scorched, even while i shiver in the wind. he hat

that's all there is (the frater was seated in a secret place covered completely by a black robe, in the position called the "thunderbolt. he did not move or speak during the ceremony) next the scribe was hallucinated, believing that before him was a beautiful courtesan whom previously he had loved in paris. now, she wooed him with soft words and glances, but he knew these things for delusions of the devil, and he would not leave the circle. the demon then laughed wildly and loud (upon the scribe threatening him, the demon proceeded, after a short delay) they have called me the god of laughter, and i laugh when i will slay. and they have thought that i could not smile, but i smile upon whom i would seduce. o inviolable one, that canst not be tempted. if thou canst command me by the power o

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old testament, such as ashtaroth and baal, are the gods of middle eastern peoples other than the hebrews. the modern concept of demons owes many of its key features to the influence of christian folklore and theological doctrine, which were heavily influenced by jewish beliefs through the old testament. in christianity, a demon is not just a malicious spirit, but a spirit of hell sent to earth by the devil to enforce his authority or to carry out his purposes. just as angels are the agents of god who act with divine authority to do good works among men, so demons are the agents of lucifer who act with infernal authority to do works of evil. indeed, in jewish, islamic and christian mythology, lucifer was himself once an angel of heaven who defied god. seeking to overthrow god and rule heave

cifer answers "from going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it" god begins to boast to lucifer about his servant job, saying that there is no man like him, that he is a perfect and upright man. lucifer cuts god off and asserts that job is only a holy man because he enjoys god's blessings. he says he can make job curse god to his face if god removes his protection. god takes the devil up on this gentleman's wager, saying to lucifer "behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thy hand" the events in the book of job are the result. we may gather from this fable that lucifer is not bound to hell exclusively, but is only bound not to injure those humans who are afforded the protection of god. a human being is protected by god for so long as

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ous unhealed sores, boils, or bites from fleas or other vermin. add to these blemishes her natural birth marks, moles and skin cancers, and you can see that it would not be difficult for a diligent nun to locate a so-called witch mark on an accused woman's body, if she searched long enough. the witch did not voluntarily keep a familiar, it was thought, but was compelled to do so by her dark lord, the devil. the familiar was the devil's way of insuring the continuing obedience of witches to his evil purposes. the familiar kept tabs on the witch, and constantly urged her on to ever greater acts of mischief. even so, it was thought that the witch and her familiar were a team, both working for the devil, bound together by the witch's unholy pact. the spirit who remained in close association wi

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k "the nethermost caverns are not for the fathoming of eyes that see; for their marvels are strange and terrific. cursed the ground where dead thoughts live new and oddly bodied, and evil the mind that is held by no head. wisely did ibn schacabao say, that happy is the tomb where no wizard hath lain, and happy the town at night whose wizards are all ashes. for it is of old rumour that the soul of the devil-bought hastes not from his charnel clay, but fats and instructs the very worm that gnaws: till out of corruption horrific life springs, and the dull scavengers of earth wax crafty to vex it and swell monstrous to plague it. great holes secretly are digged where earth's pores ought to suffice, and things have learnt to walk that ought to crawl" the reputation of the necronomicon rests bot

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fs of tobacco smoke rolled over his shoulder into my face. suddenly he stopped and faced about"'yank' said he `do you see that piece of woods "he pointed ahead and a little to the right. in the slowly settling gloom i could just distinguish the outlines of a forest, the farther limits of which were lost in the obscurity. i nodded my head and replied `yes; i can readily make it out `well, run like the devil l "at the same moment he started at a rapid pace for his own camp. not another word was said by him, nor did 'he look around to see whether i was acting upon his hint. in fact, it was unnecessary, for i should have been an idiot had i not `caught on' and improved the opportunity that i may say was not wholly unexpected. safely within the stretch of timber and some distance beyond, i had

to the city of new orleans, when brother fellows, then grand master of masons in louisiana, provided him and eight of his fellowprisoners, who were craftsmen, with clothing, with medical attendance and with every needful comfort possible. in the excited state of public feeling at that time, the action of the yank, do you see that piece of woods" yes, i can readily make it out" well, then run like the devil" tried by fire 147 grand master was severely criticised, but the grand lodge of the state formally approved it, and in june, 1862, the grand lodge of new york, by duly engrossed and certified resolutions, made its formal acki,owledgments to the grand master of louisiana for this most gracious proof of his masonic charity. xi a lively time if you should happen to be in the city of provide

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death lends credibility to barton as the original author, albeit strongly inspired by lavey. figure 1. a sample church of satan membership card with the follower s name and signature removed. apparently the number 100261 is printed on all membership cards issued today. the emperor s new religion copyright 2002 ole wolf page 2 of 30 orful and haunting picture of a person qualified as no less than the devil s right hand man. the strong publicity that the church of satan and its founder have received is itself no indication that the church of satan represents satanism beyond its own claim to the title as the devil s henchmen, however. it can be argued that because in certain aspects of its literature the church of satan references christianity in its departure from the creeds usually associa

michael aquino, who resigned from the church of satan and formed a new organization, the temple of set in 1975, explains that the belief in a literal devil: was axiomatic to all of our [aquino s and lavey s] conversations and collaborations [11] and blanche barton explained to the san francisco chronicle at a press conference following anton lavey s death in 1997 that anton lavey had believed in the devil [12. in an article in the occult explosion anton lavey had acknowledged that: many members of the church of satan who are mystically inclined prefer to think of satan in a very real, anthropomorphic way. of course we do not discourage this, because we realize that it is very important to many individuals to ritualistically conceptualize a well-wrought picture of their mentor or tutelary

satanic age. at that time there was increasing focus on personal freedom, relaxed sexual morals, rebellion against authorities, and iconoclastic behavior, all cardinal to the hippie movement that was gaining foothold in the years before the church of satan was created. the first three clauses in the church of satan s official, semi-political program, pentagonal revisionism, which was published in the devil s notebook [14, p. 93] demand stratification (which is a form of meritocracy that rejects undeserved power, taxation of churches, and separation of church and state. these issues were also important in the freedom movement of the 1960es. interest in anton lavey s pet projects, the construction of artificial human companions and total environments (i.e, fantasy worlds) had already peaked

r it is comprised of nine individuals, and who these individuals are, but recently the core group seems to have included blanche barton, peter gilmore, peggy nadramia (high priestess, and jeff nagy (magister [23. only the core group has decisive power. satanic scriptures will reportedly be a compilation of essays written by peter gilmore in various magazines. if so, it will resemble anton lavey s the devil s notebook and satan speaks, which are both compilations of essays that anton lavey wrote in various magazines. the emperor s new religion copyright 2002 ole wolf page 8 of 30 the soldiers, at the second-highest level, follow the guidelines issued by the core and take strong interest in studying what they consider satanic ideology. the core and the soldiers actively present satanism to t

so drift, but with a peculiar twist: satan usually remains a common denominator in their religious affiliations when they move from what is essentially one religious group to another, unless they become born again christians or otherwise leave the new age milieu entirely. the ambiguity of the church of satan s views allows its followers to even radically adjust their views and still pay homage to the devil. instead of moving to another religion, they redefine their own religion to designate their new stance. it is a religious analogy to the warring states in chinese history: each state might win against the chinese empire, yet somehow it remained china. followers may shift stance many times and still refer to themselves as satanists, and a conflict does not ensue until they are confronted

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about two years later, where he dedicated his major work, stratagemata satanae (the stratagems of satan, to queen elizabeth. the book attributes all doctrines other than the apostles creed to satan as stratagems to tempt mankind from truth. however, the book was also a strong plea for religious toleration. an english translation was first published in 1648 under the title satan s stratagems; or, the devil s cabinet-council discovered. abyssum encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 6 active-agent telepathy term used by parapsychologists for situations in which the agent in telepathic experiments seems to be an active factor in causing mental or behavioral effects in the percipient, or subject, rather than being simply a passive participant whose mental states are recognized by

ddle ages and may be found in the twelfth century quete del st. graal, ascribed to walter map but probably only adapted by him. all the traditions of the kabala are embodied in the allegory contained in the book of the penitence of adam, which supplements and throws considerable light on the entire kabalistic literature. adam, l abbe about the time that the templars were being driven from france, the devil was said to have appeared under various guises to the abbe adam, who was journeying with one of the servants from his convent to another part of his abbacy of the vaux de cernay. the evil spirit first opposed the progress of the abbe taking the form of a tree white with frost, which rushed toward him with inconceivable swiftness. the abbe s horse trembled with fear, as did the servant, b

servants from his convent to another part of his abbacy of the vaux de cernay. the evil spirit first opposed the progress of the abbe taking the form of a tree white with frost, which rushed toward him with inconceivable swiftness. the abbe s horse trembled with fear, as did the servant, but the abbe himself made the sign of the cross, and the tree disappeared. the abbe concluded that he had seen the devil and called upon the virgin to protect him. nevertheless, the fiend shortly reappeared in the shape of a furious black knight. begone, said the abbe. why do you attack me far from my brothers? the devil once more left him, but returned in the shape of a tall man with a long, thin neck. to get rid of him, adam struck him a blow with his fist. the evil spirit shrank and took the stature and

he held, but adam repulsed the strokes with the sign of the cross. the demon became in turn a pig and a long-eared ass. the abbe, impatient to be on his way, made a circle on the ground with a cross in the center. the fiend was then obliged to withdraw a little distance. he changed his long ears into horns, which did not hinder the abbe from boldly addressing him. offended by his plain-speaking, the devil changed himself into a barrel and rolled into an adjoining field. in a short time he returned in the form of a cart wheel, and, without giving the brother time to put himself on the defensive, rolled heavily over his body, without, however, doing him any injury. after that he left him to pursue his journey in peace. this story is related in regne de philippe le bel by robert gaguin and i

etamorphose, acquiring extraordinary vitality. albertus therefore decided that he must show his gratitude to the madonna by entering the priesthood, and eventually he won eminence in the clerical profession. in 1260 he became bishop of ratisbon. his books include summa de creaturis and summa theologiae. albertus was repeatedly charged by some of his contemporaries with holding communications with the devil and practicing the craft of magic. he was said to have invited some friends to his house at cologne, among them william, count of holland, and when the guests arrived they were amazed to find that, although the season was midwinter and the ground was covered with snow, they were expected to have a meal outside in the garden. their host urged them to be seated, assuring them that all woul

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o his theory, numbers contained the elements of all things, of the natural and spiritual worlds and of the sciences. the real numerals of the universe were the primaries one to ten, and in their combination the reason of all else might be found. magical blend magazine encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 960 to the pythagoreans, one represented unity, therefore god; two was duality, the devil; four was sacred and holy, the number on which they swore their most solemn oaths; five was their symbol of marriage. they also attributed certain numbers to the gods, planets and elements; one represented the sun, two the moon; while five was fire, six the earth, eight the air, and twelve water (see also magic square) cornelius agrippa, in his work occult philosophy first published in l

ctive led to the fierce and relentless persecution that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of individuals accused of practicing the religion of witchcraft, as opposed to merely practicing malevolent magic (i.e, sorcery, which had long been illegal. this work is in three parts. part i fulminates against the evil of witchcraft, which is characterized as renunciation of the catholic faith, homage to the devil, and carnal intercourse with demons. even disbelief in the existence of witches and witchcraft was declared a grave heresy. part ii details the specific practices of witches. part iii sets forth rules for legal action and conviction of witches. the antiquary thomas wright, in his book narratives of sorcery and magic (2 vols, 1851, stated: in this celebrated work, the doctrine of witchcra

el rio stated that one day a mandragora, entering a court at the re- encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. mandragoras 973 quest of a sorcerer who was being tried for wizardry, was caught by a judge (who did not believe in the existence of the spirit, and thrown into the fire, from which it escaped unharmed. mandragoras were thought to be little dolls or figures given to sorcerers by the devil for the purpose of consultation and it would seem as if this conception sprung directly from that of the fetish, which is really a dwelling-place made by a shaman, or medicine man, to receive any wandering spirit who chooses it. the anonymous author of the popular magic manual secrets merveilleux de la magie et cabalistique de petit albert (1772) stated that once, while traveling in flan

, new york: samuel weiser, 1970. a book of the beginnings. 2 vols. london, 1881. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1974. the natural genesis. 2 vols. london: n.p, 1883. mass of st. secaire a form of black mass originating in the basque countryside, possibly in medieval times. it was a travesty of a christian mass and was celebrated in a ruined church. the intention was not to worship the devil but to direct currents of malevolent spite against a victim. it may have had its origin in ancient folklore practices. sources: rhodes, h. t. f. the satanic mass. london, 1954. reprint, london: arrow, 1964. masters occult adepts who are supposed to have reached a superhuman stage but have elected to remain on earth and guide seekers after wisdom. the founding and guidance of the theosoph

into a more balanced perspective. sources: calef, robert. more wonders of the invisible world; or, the wonders of the invisible world display d in five parts. london, 1700. mather, cotton. memorable provinces, relating to witchcraft and possessions. boston, 1689. the wonders of the invisible world. observations as well historical as theological, upon the nature, the number, and the operations of the devil. boston: benjamin harris, 1693. mather, increase. essay for the recording of illustrious provinces. boston, 1684. mathers, moina (1865.1928) moina mathers, a leading member of the hermetic order of the golden dawn (hogd, was largely responsible for the rituals of this ground-breaking magical organization. born on feburary 28, 1865, as mina bergson, she was the daughter of jewish parents

EVERBURNING LAMPS

e bottom was a lamp, which went out; the fragments were still oily; this became dry after exposure.-see "lowthorp, abridgment of philos. trans" vol. iii, sec. xxxv, also no. 185, p. 227. in a certain temple of venus in egypt there hanged a lamp which neither rain nor wind could put out, says, st. augustine, in his work "de civitate dei" lib. xxi, cap. 6, and he associates its make with magic, and the devil, as indeed do all roman catholic authorities whenever they mention any of these lamps. fortunius licetus describes this lamp in his work "de reconditis lucernis antiquorum" cap. vi, and see`"isidorus, de gemmis" ludovicus vives, 1610, in his notes to st. augustine, says that in his father's time, a.d. 1580, a lamp was found in a tomb, which from the inscription was 1500 years old; it fel

EVIL AND UNCLEAN SPIRITS

spread out flat over the body of a gigantic beetle or cockroach; yet it has vast strength, for k. wrymycn (nashimiron: whose colors are of a stagnant, gleaming, watery line whose forms are like hideous women, almost similar to skeletons united to the bodies of serpents and fishes, for l. in the midst of the circle are placed lams and admca. the symbolic form of the former is somewhat like that of the devil of the tarot, but colossal and attenuated; the form is of a bloated bestial man, in a crouching position. at the southwest corner are placed the evil adam, a goat-headed skeleton-like giant, and the thousand-headed 7 hydra serpent, and the elder tylyl, the wife of lams, a woman with an ever changing and distorted countenance. at the northeast angle is trga (aggerath) the daughter of twlw

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

, invisible horizons, on true mysteries of the seas. in invisible residents (1970) ivan t. sanderson pointed to the bermuda triangle and comparable places on earth as evidence that oints other intelligences live under the oceans, sometimes snatching planes, ships, and their unlucky crews. by the 1970s, the groundwork had been laid for a popular craze. the 1970 release of a low-budget documentary, the devil s triangle, stirred interest outside the core audience of paranormal enthusiasts. four years later, charles berlitz s the bermuda triangle, a compilation of lore that had already quietly circulated for years, became a major bestseller. that same year two paperbacks, the devil s triangle by richard winer and limbo of the lost by john wallace spencer, fueled public fascination and speculat

individuals, both believers and secular journalists covering the revival, witnessed unusual aerial phenomena that today might be thought of as ufos. a contemporary account mentions that a man dressed in black visited a young rural woman over three consecutive nights to deliver a message. which she is frightened to relate (evans, 1905. in his book on traditions of satan, william woods writes that the devil mostly. is dressed in black, and always in the fashion of the day (woods, 1974. men in black established a place in ufo lore after a september 1953 incident. a bridgeport, connecticut, man, albert k. bender, headed one of the most successful early ufo groups, the international flying saucer bureau, but closed it down suddenly. after much prodding he confided to close associates, most pro

ire mysteries. occult review 1, 3 (march: 113 120. keel, john a, 1975. the mothman prophecies. new york: saturday review press/e. p. dutton and company. moore, william l, 1993. those mysterious men in black. far out (winter: 27 29. randles, jenny, 1997. the truth behind men in black: government agents or visitors from be- yond. new york: st. martin s paperbacks. woods, william, 1974. a history of the devil. new york: g. p. putnam s sons. menger, howard (1922) howard menger (pronounced men-jer, a new jersey sign painter who was sometimes called the east coast equivalent of george adamski, rose to prominence in flying-saucer contactee circles in the 1950s. in his first public appearance, on long john nebel s radio show on new york s wor, on october 29, 1956, menger claimed lifelong contacts

ies, monsters, men in black, and other supernatural entities. they are behind all of the world s re l igions, and they have manipulated history. all u l t r a t e r restrials have one thing in common: a detestation of human beings and all they stand f o r. human beings who encounter them often end up psychically enslaved or destroye d. in keel s view, heavily influenced by traditional demonology, the devil s emissaries of yesteryear have been replaced by the mysterious men in black. the quasi-angels of biblical times have become magnificent spacemen. the demons, devils, and false angels were recognized as liars and plunderers by early man. these same impostors now appear as longhaired venusians (keel, 1970. see also: channeling; fairies encountered; keel, john alva; men in black further re

FAUST

t which grows, that lives and works forever, engird you with love s gracious bonds, and aught that ever may appear, to float and waver, make steadfast in enduring thought! heaven closes, the archangels disperse. mephistopheles [alone] i like to see the old man not infrequently, and i forbear to break with him or be uncivil; it s very pretty in so great a lord as he to talk so like a man even with the devil. the first part of the tragedy night in a high-vaulted, narrow gothic chamber faust, restless in his chair by his desk. faust i ve studied now philosophy and jurisprudence, medicine, and even, alas! theology all through and through with ardour keen! here now i stand, poor fool, and see i m just as wise as formerly. am called a master, even doctor too, and now i ve nearly ten years throug

k! sounds of village joy arise; here is the people s paradise, contented, great and small shout joyfully: here i am man, here dare it to be! wagner doctor, to walk with you is ever an honour and a profit, though i d here not care to stray aloneno, neverbecause to all that s vulgar i m a foe. this fiddling, shrieking, bowling- all this revel to me s a sound detested long; they riot as if driven by the devil, and call it a pleasure, call it a song. peasants under the linden tree [dance and song. the shepherd decked him for the dance, in ribbons, vest, and wreath to prance, adorned with fine arraying. now round the linden lass and lad were thronging, dancing there like mad. hurrah! hurrah! hurrah-a-rah-a-rah! thus fiddle-bow was playing. he crowded and he pushed in haste, then bumped into a m

u in today? and how was such a spirit so betrayed? mephistopheles observe it closely! it is not well made; one angle, on the outer side of it, is just a little open, as you see. faust that was by accident a lucky hit! and are you then my captive? can that be? by happy chance the thing s succeeded! mephistopheles as he came leaping in, the poodle did not heed it. the matter now seems turned about; the devil s in the house and can t get out. faust well, through the window- why not there withdraw? mephistopheles for devils and for ghosts it is a law: where they slipped in, there too must they go out. the first is free, the second s slaves are we. faust does hell itself have its laws then? that s fine! a compact in that case might be concluded safely with you gentlemen? mephistopheles what s p

a brief consideration and we ll discuss it soon in further conversation. but now, most earnestly i pray, for this time let me go away. faust one moment longer do remain; tell me at last some pleasant news. mephistopheles let me go now, i ll soon be back again; then you may question as you choose. faust i ve never set a snare for you; you walked, yourself, into this net tonight. let him who holds the devil hold him tight! he ll not so soon catch him anew. mephistopheles if it so please you, i m prepared, indeed, to lend you company, but take good heed: it s on condition that my arts beguile the time for you in worthy style. faust i ll gladly see your arts, in that you re free, though only if you please with artistry! mephistopheles more for your senses, friend, you ll gain in this one hour

ke shadows, flitting before us, playing, regaling, hills some are scaling; others are swimming, lakes swiftly skimming; playfully trailing, other ones flitter, all for existent, all for the distant stars as they glitter rapturous love. mephistopheles he sleeps! well done, ye tender, airy throng! ye truly lulled him with your song, and for this concert i am in your debt. you re not the man to keep the devil captive yet! enchant him with a dream s sweet imagery, plunge him into an ocean of untruth! but now, to break this threshold s sorcery, i have to get a rat s sharp tooth. to conjure long i do not need; already one is rustling and it soon will heed. the lord of all the rats and mice, of flies and frogs and bugs and lice, bids you now venture to appear and gnaw upon this threshold here whe

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ed ones (the fallen angels. alone and divided is connected with malkuth, earth and the demoness naamah (meaning pleasant, a bride of samael and considered a sister of cain according to some lore. the line of i am no longer abel to conceal what i have become, cain is revered in hereditary and independent luciferian witchcraft covens as the first witch and satanist who had joined in a covenant with the devil in nod. in addition some initiatory grimoires present cain as being the son of samael (satan) and lilith (through possession of eve via the fruit given by the serpent. cain is thus a symbol of the self which transforms itself through dissatisfaction. fly the light is in part a symbol of the transformation through the seven heads of the dragon of the apocalypse via the angel of prostituti

e son of satan is also represented as a serpent. the dragon itself holds significance in that it is a relation to diabolism, in zoroastrian lore, the avestan word devak means worm which is a dragon or snake. an early form of the antichrist, called zohak and later azhi dahaka is a dragon-king who had two black and venomous serpents on his shoulders, who emerged with the initiatory kiss of ahriman, the devil. fly the light represents a beginning of transformation and the luciferian concepts of antinomian thought. no longer should children be force fed christian lies, bending knees to spiritual weakness. bring your young to us, a new luciferian youth! the world we live in is a christian world, look at what they have brought to humanity with their hypocritical self-deceit- war, murder, rape, i

FOCUS OF LIFE

was dead [for did i not hear the rushing winds] when doubt crept into my soul. then realization of life dawned when i felt that cold corpse crushed against my body by the tightness of the coffin,-never have i realized such horror! with a mighty yell, my after suspiration burst that overcrowded coffin into fragments! i arose, thinking i was alone. but no, sitting by the corpse, amid the debris was-the devil grinning! to be alone and half alive with the devil is not a welcome anti-climax. then he spoke unto me "coward! where was thy courage, even against drunken enemies? ah ah! thou hast indeed willed pleasure! who has the power, thou or i? what medicine for the dead gods! thou wretched scum of littlenesses-heal thy gaping wounds, thou art more fitted to pray than to prey" much more did he u

ch more did he utter, till my very ears closed. with a body torn to pieces, crushed in every part-what was i to answer? my silence compelled him again to speak "hast thou no complaint" in a mighty rage-for this was a worse goad than all my earlier suffering-i answered "curses, no! keep your possessions.-i will pleasure. do your utmost! this poor thing my body you will again replace" then i fought the devil and behold,-i became alone! what happened? i, in my miserable plight, not even my teeth left-how could i have conquered the devil? did i become a succubus? perhaps-i became the devil? but this i know-i did will pleasure. and from this day shall smile into all men's faces "tzula" then aaos awoke and murmured "belief and desire are the great duality which engender all illusions that entang

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come to an end, and the lament for its passing, which he interprets as a prophecy of the ending of idolatry by the coming of christianity. here too, therefore, hermes trismegistus is a prophet of the coming of christianity, but all credit for this is taken away by augustine's statement that he had this foreknowledge of the future from the demons whom he worshipped. hermes presages these things as the devil's confederate, suppressing the evidence of the christian name, and yet foretelling with a sorrowful intimation, that from it should proceed the wreck of all their idolatrous superstitions: for hermes was one of those who (as the apostle says "knowing god, glorified him not as god, nor were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was full of darkness' yet

superstitions: for hermes was one of those who (as the apostle says "knowing god, glorified him not as god, nor were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was full of darkness' yet, continues augustine "this hermes says much of god according to the truth, though in his admiration for the egyptian idolatry he was blind, and his prophecy of its passing he had from the devil. in contrast, he quotes a true prophet, like isaiah, who said "the idols of egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of egypt shall melt in the midst of her."2 augustine says nothing whatever about hermes' mention of the 1 de civ. dei, viii, xxiii, quoted in the english translation by john healey. the quotation is from romans, i, xxi. 2 isaiah, xix, i. 10 hermes trismegistus "

conclusions is as follows: tota magia, quae in usu est apud modernos& quam merito exterminat ecclesia, nullam habet firmitatem, nullum fundamentum, nullam ueritatem, quia pendet ex manu hostium primae ueritatis, potestatum harum tenebrarum, quae tenebras falsitatis, male dispositis intellectibus obfundunt.1 all "modern magic, announces pico in this first conclusion is bad, groundless, the work of the devil, and rightly condemned by the church. this sounds uncompromisingly against magic as used in pico's time "modern magic. but magicians always introduce their subject by stating that, though there are bad and diabolical magics, their kind of magic is not of that nature. and i think that by "modern magic" pico does not mean the new-style natural magic, but mediaeval and unreformed magics. fo

regarded 1 see below, pp. 208-9. 6* 155 renaissance magic and science operations as base and mechanical, a degeneration from the only occupation worthy of the dignity of man, pure rational and philosophical speculation. the middle ages carried on this attitude in the form that theology is the crown of philosophy and the true end of man is contemplation; any wish to operate can only be inspired by the devil. quite apart from the question of whether renaissance magic could, or could not, lead on to genuinely scientific procedures, the real function of the renaissance magus in relation to the modern period (or so i see it) is that he changed the will. it was now dignified and important for man to operate; it was also religious and not contrary to the will of god that man, the great miracle, s

to galileo in 1614. 383 giordano bruno and tommaso campanella written to cover a modified hermetism, which accepted the christian interpretation of the hertnetica after the manner of the more orthodox traditions of religious hermetism and used less frightening forms of magic, leading on to "magia divina. in magia e grazia, campanella warns against agrippa's error in keeping the magic which is of the devil; whereas of ficino's three ways of obtaining divine life he says that, though very difficult to put into practice, they are not heretical as some people say.2 thus campanella's summa was formed to cover less extreme forms of "egyptianism" than that of bruno who scrupled not to use the most demonic of agrippa's magic, and even that of cecco d'ascoli of dangerous memory. it would have been

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

vulcania in which human sacrifices were offered [percival george woodcock, short dictionary of mythology, new york, philosophical library, p. 152 "according to diel, he bears a family relationship to the christian devil [j.e. cirlot, translated by jack sage, a dictionary of symbols, new york, dorset press, 1991, p. 362 "it is fascinating to know that he married venus, another name for lucifer or the devil [woodcock, op. cit, p. 150-151; emphasis added] manly p. hall tells the mason that he can have the seething energies of lucifer in his hands, and then tells him to follow in the footsteps of the "christian devil" to whom "human sacrifices" are offered. the infernal names there may be some people who have read up to this point and still might be skeptical. masonry cleverly masks its refer

ed around it. the baphomet has the head of a "horned goat" another title for satan. masonic and occult symbols illustrated is a book in which dr. burns says "in a book on witchcraft, the complete book of witchcraft and demonology. the caption states that he is 'the horned god of the witches, symbol of sex incarnate [p. 51] and if you look at his right hand you will see baphomet making the sign of the devil's triad "baphomet is also known as the sabbatic goat, in whose form satan is to be worshipped at the witches' sabbath [frank gaynor, dictionary of mysticism, new york, philosophical library, 1953, p. 24] then, we discovered that baphomet is officially approved as a symbol of the church of satan [the occult emporium, winter, 1993-1994, p. 54] and that it is worn by the priest of satan [ib

m pan came the he-goat of the sabbat, brother of the serpent, and the light-bearer [lucifer, because albert pike, the #1 freemason of all history, has just told us. one thing more to keep in mind. they have planned their debut of their anti-christ. he will be on the scene soon, you can bet on it. it's all part of their new world order. freemasonry is truly evil, it is deceptive, it is the work of the devil. listen to new age author, bill cooper, describe freemasonry. cooper was a member of demolay during his youth, and later, spent over 20 years in naval intelligence. he is most familiar with the organizations which are driving the world into the new world order and the appearance of its messiah, the biblical antichrist "i tell you now that freemasonry is one of the most wicked and terribl

nt is universally esteemed a legitimate symbol of freemasonry [george oliver, signs and symbols, new york, macoy publishing and masonic supply company, 1906, p. 36] now at least we know the truth about freemasonry! its "legitimate symbol" is the serpent, and note the capitalization of serpent, above, denoting deity. this is another admission by this masonic author that freemasonry worships satan, the devil [revelation 12:9] but, now listen to the ultimate admission from masonic authors that freemasonry worships satan "the serpent is the symbol and prototype of the universal savior, who redeems the worlds by giving creation the knowledge of itself and the realization of good and evil [manly p. hall, 33 degree mason, the secret teachings of all ages, the philosophical research society press

and dogma, that thor is another name for sirius, the blazing star or the pentagram. now you can see why this masonic web site depicted three different types of gavels in the familiar pentagram, above right. however, on page 381, pike also tells us that thor was the sun, the egyptian osiris, and kneph, the phoenician bel or baal. the bible tells us that worshipping baal is identical to worshipping the devil [1 kings 16:30-33, 22:53; 2 kings 17:16] god condemned baal worship, slaughtered the priests of baal, and finally abolished it altogether 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

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the swastika, fylfot, or gammadion (see plate vi on page 42) the redemption from satanic rule can only be attained by seeing god as he really is and not as he is in his reflection; for as eliphas levi writes: according to the kabalists, the true name of satan is that of jehovah reversed, for satan is not a black god but the negation of the deity. he is the personification of atheism and idolatry. the devil is not a personality for initiates, but a force created with a good object, though it can be applied to evil: it is really the instrument of liberty. 20 to god the reflection of himself is evil, but to man this reflection is good, so long as he does not attempt to emulate god by reflecting his own personal shekinah (shin, w, or soul, on the chaos of human ignorance, that is on the unbala

arance that of the open mouth of a snake (jaws and tongue, and its numerical value clearly shows its triadic nature; further still, 300, its value, esoterically symbolizes the 300 sephiroth of the three worlds which preceded the creation of the world of matter. though as spiritual fire, or glory, it is the symbol of the shekinah, the sepher yetzirah hints that it also represents transmutation and the devil.23 usually the thirty-first path of the tree of life is referred to it, and according to the 32 paths of wisdom, this path gis called the perpetual intelligence. because it rules the movement of the sun and the moon according to their constitution, and causes each to gravitate in its respective orb h. 24 in other words, it is the equilibrating force in the world of action, kether 'hokmah

sition to the consciousness of man. thus the search for knowledge is an unending campaign against duality in which conquest deprives the conquered of its activity, its opposition, which in man is shadowed forth as ignorance. a void is created, and over it the spirit (shekinah) in man moves and respiritualizes the gross incarnation of tetragrammaton and so formulates the messiah. the laboratory of the devil (satan of the qliphoth) is the heart of man; herein are all things human conceived and ordered. mystically this heart is the ark which rode out the terrors of the flood, just as the shin rode out the terrors of the darkness which gwas upon the face of the deep h. the timber it is built of is cut from the branches of the tree of life. in it is carried the cubic stone of the wise, the corn

ls upon y (for in spite of his ignorance his experience has endowed him with all the fervour of authority, he will so obsess y that in place of exalting him to the super-conscious state he will destroy his conscious state and plunge him into a sub- or infra-conscious state. he will. plunge him into the qliphoth (hell, in which he sees satan robed in the glory of god. y will experience a vision of the devil, the essence of the unbalanced animal nephesh, and he will be turned upside down. such is the diagnosis of a would-be white magician creating (unconsciously) a black-magical world. it is important to enter still deeper into this spiritual devolution. we will suppose that x's predominant characteristic is sentimentality (b, and that it has never been balanced; then the chances are that hi

search after the unknowable, god, super-consciousness- call it what we will- the j state of diagram 6, the supreme difficulty is not to attain but to explain, and that all explanations, except between beings of equal spiritual and mundane knowledge, must lead to the propagation of a lie. the qabalists are right: the name of god is unpronounceable, and to attempt to pronounce it can only formulate the devil at the expense of the divinity. diabolus est deus inversus- this is the goal of all false symbols. secret wisdom of the qabalah page 79 the great omission. having now examined the source of mystic power, which in itself is neither good nor evil, because it is beyond good and evil, but which possessing stupendous energy can accentuate good and evil by potentizing them, we will enquire int

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regeneration. in other words, creation was but continuous change in the form of matter. of the doctrines of the sethians extant at the beginning of christianity, hippolytus says that their system "is made up of tenets from natural philosophers. these tenets embrace a belief in the eternal logos--darkness, mist, and tempest" these elements subsequently became identified with the evil principle, or the devil. the cold of winter, the darkness of night, and water, were finally set forth as the trinity. regarding cold, darkness, and water, or darkness, mist, and tempest, hippolytus observes "these the sethian says are the three principles of our system; or when he states that three were born in paradise- adam, eve, the serpent; or when he speaks of three persons, namely, cain, abel, seth, and a

lly lost, is evident from the old testament writings. the worship of the father, the male power, in opposition to that of the mother, or the female power, constituted the religion of moses. in the religion of the jews, jehovah came to be regarded as wholly male and as spirit, while edam (translated "downward tending, the female principle, was matter, or woman, which finally became identified with the devil. the philosophical doctrine that spirit is evolved through matter, or that matter must be raised to a certain dynamical power before spirit can manifest itself through it, was no longer understood; only the husks of this doctrine--the myths and symbols of nature-worship--remained; these were taken literally, and thus man's religion was made to conform to his lowered estate. when man had

o the enforced humiliation and degradation of women. seth or typhon was for ages worshipped throughout egypt, and as she comprehended the powers of nature, or the creative energy residing in the sun and earth, little is heard of any other god. strange it is, however, that seth is worshipped more in her capacity as destroyer than as regenerator. so soon as we understand the origin and character of the devil, and so soon as we divest ourselves of the false ideas which under a state of ignorance and gross sensuality came to prevail relative to the "powers of darkness" we shall perceive that his (or her) satanic majesty was once a very respectable personage and a powerful divinity--a divinity which was worshipped by a people whose superior intelligence can scarcely be questioned. regarding thi

e hebrews worshipped ashtaroth and baal, they together representing the great aleim, the indivisible god, but after the israelites had chosen the worship of the male principle as an independent deity, or as the only important agency in the creative processes, as baal might not be represented aside from his counterpart ashtaroth, he was no longer adored but came to stand for something "approaching the devil" forlong has observed the fact that, although in hebrew baal is masculine, in the greek translations he is feminine both in the old and new testaments.[88 [88] forlong, rivers of life, p. 223. jehovah was originally female, so, also, was netpe the holy spirit of the egyptian tree of life. we are given to understand that netpe was the same as rhea, the partner of sev or saturn, and that h

the universe. we have observed that when the profound principles underlying the most ancient doctrines had been lost or forgotten, and when through the decay of philosophy, and through the stimulation of the sensual in human nature, mankind had lost the power to reason abstractly, destruction, which was symbolized by darkness or the absence of the sun's rays, finally became the evil principle, or the devil. darkness and cold, which had formerly been worshipped as the powers which brought forth the sun, or as mother of the sun, in process of time became the agency which is ever warring with good and which is constantly destroying that which the latter brings forth. we are informed by forlong that "some derive our term devil from niphl or nevil, the wind that blasts or obstructs the growth o

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mained have the fact of their mem255 bership as their only claim upon posterity. but some of the members were more interesting; some were lesser literary and artistic figures, numbers of them achieved fame or notoriety in the occult world, a few were scientists. and there was w. b. yeats. yeats was initiated at mina mathers' studio on 7 march 1890, when he took the motto 'demon est deus inversus (the devil is the converse of god, and was entered as number 78 on the outer order roll.hewas already deeply immersed in the occult, having helped to found the hermetic society in dublin in1885and joining the esoteric section of the theosophical society in 1888. eastern theosophy, however, held little for him at this time and he was ever suspicious of madame blavatsky'smahatmas; his real interests

bouthimin the clamour of terrifiedalarm-'a man of power is among us! a man of god!'thevast sound was repeated-e-the rushing through space as of hugeprojectiles-andhe sank to the floor of the room, unconscious.'theideaofthe.powerful white magician was to be frequently used by later writers, as was the essential explanation, in occult terms,ofwhat had happened. in this casejohnsilence explains that the devil-worshippers were 'a concourseofthe shells of violent men, spiritually-developed but evil men, seeking afterdeath-thedeathofthebody-toprolong their vile and unnatural existence. and had they accomplished their object,you, in turn, at the deathofyour body, would have passed into their power and helped to swell their dreadfulpurposes't--enidea taken, of course, fromdracula,for this is the m

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thoughts on the ever-burning lamps of the ancients 54 6. man, miracle, magic, from the ancient rosicrucian dogmata 66 7. courage versus obsession 71 8. chess shatranji and chaturanga 75 part two: kabalistic 9. the kabalah 3110.a further glance at the kabalah 95 11. the ten sephiroth 110 12. the religion of freemasonry illuminated by the kabbalah 114 13. angels: jewish, christian and pagan 124 14. the devil, and evil spirits according to the bible and ancient hebrew rabbis 131 15. some anomalies in the biblical views of the constitution of man 139 16. the vestiges of tetragrammaton 154 17. the number four in relation with the world and man 1576themagicalmasonpartthree:divination18.thehistory of astrology169 19.dreams18120.divination and its history19221.the star lore of the bible216partfour

issued; in the bottom was a lamp, which went out; the fragments were still oily; this became dry after exposure. see lowthorp, abridgment ofphilos.trans.,vol.iii.,sec. xxxv, also no. 185, p.227. in a certain temple of venus in egypt there hanged a lamp which neither rain nor wind couldputout, says, st augustine, in hisworkdecivitatedei,lib. xxi, cap. 6, and he associates its make with magic, and the devil, as indeed do all roman catholic authorities whenever they mention any of these lamps. f ortunius licetus describes this lamp in his workdereconditislucemisantiquorum,chap. vi, and see isidorus,degemmis.ludovicus vives, 1610, in his notes to st augustine, says that in his father's time,a.d.1580, a lamp was found in a tomb, which from the inscription was 1500 years old; it fell to pieces

and foul disease. beware thenhowyou enter the immeasurable region. obsession is the nightmare of attack; a whole series of miseries and terrors may pass over the occultist who is feeble, who is vicious, who is weak of purpose- whose aims arecourage versus obsession73selfish, whose desires are sensual, whose thoughts are polluted by material possessions, or by the lusts of the world, the flesh and the devil.theneophyte who has entered the portal, and makes no advance, the purely superficial member, whogainsnothing, may know naught of these; he may demit, or remain an ornamenttothese halls, and may be exempt.thestudent who advances in the grades, and who gains solid knowledge, which he may, or his higher self may; attune unto wisdom- he is indeed exposed to attack. and with the attack, comes

1902, pp.12-1s.]14.thedevil,andevil spiritsaccordingtothebible and ancient hebrew rabbisin a previous essay upon 'angels, i have narrated the general opinions of the ancient world and modern christians, upon the good spirits whom they affirmed to exist, and to take a part in the affairs of men. as a warning to the curious, there will be an attempt, in this essay, to elucidate the ideas respecting the devil and beings who are of an evil nature, who may have an evil and malicious effect on human life and progress.thechristian religion has inherited from the jewish faith its belief in satan as the arch devil of our environment, and it is also assumed that satan works by means of his inferior malefic assistants, to lead many astray from the path of virtue.ourmodern christianity does not, howev

was rather that of a great morally evil being leading men to physical evil in acts. at the time of jesus satan was assumed to have gained immense physical powers of evil working among men: the books of the apocrypha clearly show this. in the book of wisdom is found first the worddiabolos-thedevil, and he is there taken to be the being who appeared as the serpent of genesis. in this book satan or the devil is first shown as residing in a hell with legions, subordinate evil spirits.theuncanonical book of enoch, which appears to have been composed aboutthesame period, gives us the earliest narrative of the fall of satan and his evil associates. he is there shown not only as an enemy to man,butas a rebel to god. in the new testament we find the concrete ideal of the devil as the author of all

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flat over the body of a gigantic beetle or cockroach, crawling yet having vast strength (12 'neshimiron- whose colours are of a stagnant gleaming, watery hue, and their forms like hideous women, almost skeletons, united to the bodies of serpents and fishes.the qllphqth of theqabalah27in the midst of the circle are placed samael and asmodai. the symbolic form of the former is somewhat like that of the devil of the tarot,butcolossal and attenuated;thatof asmodaias 225 bloated, bestial man, but in a crouching position. atthesouth-east angle are placedtheevil adam, a goat-headed skeleton-like giant; and a' thousand-headedhydraserpent; and the elder lilith,thewife ofsamael,awoman with an ever-changing and distorted countenance. at the north-east angle is aggerath,thedaughter of machalath, a fie

is applied to a pack of 78 cards, consistingoffoursuits of 14 cards each (there being one more court card than in the ordinary packs- the cavalier, knight, or horseman, and22symbolical picture-cards answering for trumps; these latter are numbered fromito21inclusive, the 22nd card being marked zero,o.thedesigns of these trumps are extremely singular, among them being such representations as death, the devil, the last judgment, etc.theidea that cards were first 'invented' to amuse charles vi of france is now exploded; and it is worthy of note in this connection that their supposititious 'inventor' was jacques gringonneur, an astrologer and qabalist, furthermore, cards were known prior to this period among the indians and the chinese. etteilla, indeed, gives in one of his tracts on the tarot

with the point downwards, and his legs a cross above it (two sacks or weights are attached to his armpits) he symbolisessacrifice. 13. death.a skeleton armed with a scythe (wherewith he mows down heads in a meadow like grass. he signifiestransformation,orchange. 14. temperance.an angel with the sign of the sun on her brow pouring liquid from one vessel into another. she representscombination. 15. the devil.a horned and winged demon with eagle's claws (standing on an altar to which two smaller devils are bound by a collar and cord. inhis.left hand he bears a flame255 headed sceptre. he is the image offateorfatality,good or evil.16. the lightning-struck tower.a tower whose upper part is like a crown, struck by a lightning-flash (two men fall headlong fromit,one of whom is in such an attitude

of powerv.overbearingness, want01,;1fortitude.12. the banged man.self-sacrifice, sacrifice,devotion,:bound;r.selfishness, unbound, partial sacrifice '13. death.death, change, transformation, alteration fori the worse; r. death just escaped, partial change, alteration for the better.14.temperance.combination, conformation, uniting; r. ill-advised combinations, disunion, clashing interests, etc. is.the devil.fatality for good; r. fatality for evil.16."the lightning-struck tower.ruin, disruption, over: throw, loss, bankruptcy; r. these in a more or less partial degree.17. the star.hope, expectation, bright promises;r.hopes not fulfilled, expectations disappointed orfulfilled-ina minor degree.18. the moon.twilight, deception, error; r. fluctuation:'light deceptions, trifling mistakes.19. the s

en spokes, the cosmogonical wheel of ezekiel, with a dog-headed figure ascending on one side (anubis, the egyptian mercury; and a demon descending on the other (the egyptian evil deity, typhon; the former of these bears a caduceus, the latter a trident; both figures are bound to the wheel. above them is a sphinx at the balance-point of the wheel, holding a drawn sword between its lion's claws.12. the devil.throned on a cube above the universe is a goat-headed, satyr-like figure, bearing on its brow the pentagram, apex upward, so as to make it a symbol of light. with one hand it points upwards to the symbol of the moon in increase, with the other downwards to that of the moon in decrease, thus symbolising the eternal equilibrium of mercy and justice; the first two fingers and thumb of each

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ng, disease, death etc are not evil except from our own perceptions, how do we explain murder, rape, war and the more destructive of man s behaviour? the last phase is probably the most important, man s behavior. so much that we would like to blame on the demiurge, god, spirits or anything else is actually the fault of mankind itself. as robert degrimston discusses in his superb essay humanity is the devil, the cosmological devil or saturn is not evil but simply a tester, it is mankind who has become evil, through its ignorance. ignorance is the problem, for in ignoring our true natures we become enmeshed in matter (which is of itself spiritual neutral) and following our desires become more and more ignorant. while matter is neutral, our lust and desires lead to behaviors that can be best

t of control. if we return to the image of satan for a moment, we may remember that the image of satan in the old testament is primarily that of the tester, the devils advocate rather than one of an evil being. in the new testament, however, things are different. the term satan is used to describe people (jesus calls peter satan and says get behind me, groups (jesus says the father of the jews is the devil) and is described as plural (legion. if we consider this model carefully we start to realize that the new testament satan is not the tester of the old testament, but is bad mind. that is satan is negative thoughtforms. these forms exist in an individual (peter s weakness) or collectively (the idea of ownership and control which tempted jesus as he looked over the cities all this can be y

he tester of the old testament, but is bad mind. that is satan is negative thoughtforms. these forms exist in an individual (peter s weakness) or collectively (the idea of ownership and control which tempted jesus as he looked over the cities all this can be yours. it is legion as there are multitudes of archons both dwelling within our minds and within the collective unconscious. the question of the devil being the father of the jews takes us into the darker reaches of archon theory, because not only can they exist in the unconscious collective mind but they can create a breach into the astral worlds through which fallen spiritual entities can then move into the earthly spheres and control the thoughtforms created. these forms as known in the gnostic tradition as archons, they are the pro

s growth and transfiguration for those who seek the light. one of the images associated with aquarius is the peacock. the peacock was the sacred image of the yeizidi, a islamic people who followed an ancient gnostic religious tradition. the peacock was melek taus who can be related to the demiurge (our projections regarding matter, but at the same time the eyes of the peacock (eye=ayin in hebrew, the devil tarot card) show us that ultimately dualism has no power, no reality and hence the real source is beyond in the pleroma and the invisible spirit. the gnostic identity message what we know as the gnostic identity message is central to our understanding of the gnostic tradition. it is difficult to summarise such a complex subject as it demands an extensive study of the evolution of religio

ignificance. the major problem which arises with the iconography of the serpent or snake is the prejudice found in most christian literature, this all too clearly, however, comes from a misunderstanding of the image and distortion found in the old testament text. the bible as a whole has an ambivalent view of the serpent or snake, on one hand it seems to be represented as evil, even as an icon of the devil himself, while on the other it is used to represent wisdom and even perhaps salvation. the most obscure image is that found in numbers 21:8-9 and isaiah 15:29 where the serpent is used as an image of redemption. moses holds up the serpent (on a cross) to heal israel- most christian scholars agree that this is a type of the coming messiah, in christian terms, jesus himself. accordingly, w

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physics. buddhism nucleus white light cellular. dna. rna. biology. hinduism reincarnation. somatic autonomic organs of the body.physiology. tantra. nerve plexes. kundalini. sensory. brain. sense organs. neurology. zen, sufism enlightenment mental-social. mind imprint. social behaviour. psychology. protestantism christ, messiah emotional. endocrines. emotional behaviour.psychiatry. fundamentalism the devil. void. body as flesh. body as flesh. anaesthesiology death cults void. fig 5 gnostic theurgy page 32 the hologram of matter now that you have some understanding of the multi-dimensional nature of the universe we need to re-consider our refraction model in the light of the alpha event. when we think back to what we have discussed about the cosmic error, we can summarise it in terms of the

sm as a demiurgic creation. further to this, we know that the essenes were a small group of the lost ten tribes who returned to israel after the captivity and that they saw the pharisees and saduccees as being of a dissimilar culture, race and spiritual heritage. the essenes and gnostics agreed with jesus in his evaluation of those who professed to be the jews of that period ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not gnostic theurgy page 90 in the truth, because there is no truth in him. when he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of john 8:44,45. as time has progressed the talmudic form of judaism has become accepted. we have come to call the people who were khazars- jew

ed, the gnosis is not condemned, it is a matter of the way in which the teachings of jesus have been manipulated. this is of great significance when we consider the gnostic revival which has occurred in the heraldic period and the need for a re-evaluation of christianity in light of the gnostic tradition. there is also a deeper, more esoteric meaning. the eye in gematria is ayin, it is related to the devil in the tarot and represents illusion, emptiness. another level of interpretation is that the hawk (horus) is attacking jesus on the cross because he is a false jesus, this is hinted at by the focus on the eye or ayin. the jesus being attacked is the false jesus created by the apostate churches and used to control the masses. what emphasizes this inner interpretation is the meaning of the

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aking. such daemonic forces are but in some ways mirrors of our self, we must gain by association and invocation. this, by this work alone, will strengthen and develop the very self of the sorcerer, the ever changing luciferian and promethean essence from which the body and mind it itself a grand grimoire of shadowed knowledge. our soul must be enflamed as the serpent and must work accordingly as the devil in flesh, the tester of the limits and the initiator upon earth. work always with a goal in mind and do not dabble with the spirits of the goetia. you have been warned. working with angelic spirits angelic(k) spirits are celestial or empyrean forces, based primarily in the element air. they are commonly associated with lucifer and are the higher articulated solar and lunar shadow forms o

is highly recommended to work with the spirits of the goetia after you have achieved a union with the body of light, to confirm self-control and focused direction. the body of shadow the demonic or infernal aspect or body of shadow is equally as significant in the development of the self. the shadow is developed by meditation initially and eventually by dreaming. one should approach the shadow as the devil-initiatic guide, be it as mephistopheles, belial, lucifuge or shaitan. some luciferians invoke the shadow as the demonic feminine, as lilith hecate or babalon, the crimson mother of succubi and the beasts of the earth. some view ahriman as correctly the initiatic and sorcerous daimon of the shadow. the shadow is the vampyric guide, the shape shifting and phantom body of self. the lucifer

l which may be conducted when the sun is at its full light, or when the moon is full or dark, as the essence of iblis be finally revealed. the purpose of the ritual is invoking the spirit of the adversary, known as shaitan/iblis, satan, lucifer, set, azazel. the sorcerer shall seek the fire-spirit of change, rebellion and progression. the symbol of set the adversary shall take the earthen form of the devil, the solar creative (and destructive) force of change and self-deification. there are two primary faces of the adversary. the celebrant may construct as mask of two sides, which shall be placed upon the center of the altar. a phallic symbol or stone god may be near the mask as well, symbolizing the solar creative force of the beast 666- one- the fallen seraph lucifer, the angelick essenc

placed upon the center of the altar. a phallic symbol or stone god may be near the mask as well, symbolizing the solar creative force of the beast 666- one- the fallen seraph lucifer, the angelick essence of the black flame, the very source of our wisdom, being and becoming. two the seraph of flame, the djinn iblis of fire, daemon of the blackened flame, serpent beast dragon wolf goat. satanas is the devil-cloaked initiator of the path of the wise, those who laugh at the warnings of a cringing society. robe thyself in crimson, the color of flame and movement. the symbol of the averse pentagram, being downward pointing to indicate the union of the fallen angels with humanity to create divinity. in the sethian witchcraft current the sorcerer becomes as set him/herself, thus in the circle the

ing the blade with the serpent tongue of shaitan of midnight, the purifier of the black handled knife. as the blade is immersed in the water, recite- by the mysteries of the depths, the coiling dragon of old beheld to the gates of leviathan by hecate and the skull wreathed in roses, which is silence and beauty i summon thee blade of steel, envenomed in the darkness of the earth do become knife of the devil s claw, my sacred tool of summoning water-daemon of the blade be born by banal and those of the shadowed realms- blade be blessed! so mote it be! the wand the wand is the fiery essence of the magician, the will of the work itself. create or decorate your own wand which shall reflect your sacred symbols and desire of your becoming. austin spare called these sacred letters as the alphabet

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like the arrow from the bow of tcq. h now, tcq, the bow, is the rainbow of promise stretched above the earth, whose name is formed from the letters of the paths leading from twklm. if then it be by the path of s, that the philosophus should advance to the knowledge of the adept, turning aside neither unto the right hand nor unto the left, whereon are the evil and threatening symbols of death and the devil. he must have a perfect and absolute knowledge of the bow, ere he can follow the path of the arrow. but the bow is of brilliant and perfect color, whose analysis and synthesis yield others of the same scale, and hence is this book entitled, gthe book of the path of the chameleon, h that path, namely which ascendeth alone through the force of tcq, the bow. and if thy knowledge and applica

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h that fair concord, that as in every several kernel is contained a whole good tree and fruit, so likewise is included in the little body of man, the whole great world, whose religion, policy, health, members, nature, language, words, and works, are agreeing, sympathizing, and in equal tune and melody with god, heaven, and earth; and that which is disagreeing with them is error, falsehood, and of the devil, who alone is the first, middle, and last cause of strife, blindness, and darkness in the world. also, might one examine all and several persons upon the earth, he should find that which is good and right is always agreeing within itself, but all the rest is spotted with a thousand erroneous conceits. after two years brother r.c. departed the city fez, and sailed with many costly things

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of the turnskin. this is an initiatory procedure intending the entrance of the aspirant into the circle of therionic atavisms: the zodiak of living forms. by passing through its ordeals the skin-leaper's arte is impressed upon the flesh; the bestial ancestry of an individual is 'raised, made self-conscious in his sentient physicality; the animal-headed god is realised! another notable example is 'the devil's masquerade: the initiation rite of draku-ezhu, the 'grand famulus' of the crooked path teachings. this particular mystery-rite obtains the meeting, soul to soul, between the aspirant and the deity. in the stream of sabbatic wisdom descended from yelda paterson through zos vel thanatos (austin osman spare, there is a line of transmission facilitated by the 'passing -on' of a spirit-fami

attention from the one bone that will move against the current; this is the charming bone, said to have power over animals. thereafter the man should take this bone and keep it upon his person. the next three nights he should sojourn alone in a graveyard, seeking for the power of magic. on the third night it is said that the 'devil' will come and try to tempt the bone away from its possessor. if the devil succeeds, the rite has failed. if you can keep the bone no matter what reward is offered, you are then an initiate of the toadsman rite. as can be seen, this is not a simple procedure and will inevitably place its operant in a position requiring independence and courage. using the same principle is a solitary mystery-rite of the crooked path called 'the wreath of seven laughing skulls. t

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ed since ancient times were painstakingly gathered, heaped up and burned by zealous friars. in july 1562, for example, in the main square of mani (just south of modern merida in yucatan province) fr. diego de landa burned thousands of maya codices, story paintings and hieroglyphs inscribed on rolled-up deer skins. he also destroyed countless idols and altars, all of which he described as works of the devil, designed by the evil one to delude the indians and to prevent them from accepting christianity. 10 elsewhere he elaborated on the same theme: we found great numbers of books [written in the characters of the indians] but as they contained nothing but superstitions and falsehoods of the devil we burned them all, which the natives took most grievously, and which gave them great pain.11 no

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

ess. it was widely assumed that the men in black were either government agents or extraterrestrials, but as researchers wilgus and keel have shown, the eye in the triangle was sometimes their only insignia, while my own research showed startling parallels to certain black magick rituals in medieval times which provoked visitations by what was often called the man in black- widely understood to be the devil himself. even barker noted that albert k. bender s experiments were more like a magical conjuration than an attempt at extraterrestrial communication. any initiated magician reading bender s accounts would recognize the elements of magical conjuration immediately. maybe, i mused, we were dealing more with magick than with martians. the black lodge mathers, of course, carried on; but he h

eil s house in the haight, from the 1960s. also, a poster antiquities of the illuminati tour 2003, featuring the picture which fronts the present article. it, too, is a collage. examine the group of musicians: meade layne, jacob frank, aleister crowley, mark probert and max theon, with fireman in the foreground dancing to the music. perhaps suggesting the following? i see o nights among the whins the devil walking widdershins. aleister crowley the devil s conversion, from konx om pax. it is this sort of thing we are referring to when we speak of art as cipher. the image here, for us, evokes this poem from konx om pax. we recommend the entire poem, but only quote the first line, above. in the gathering of the musicians, and the devil walking widdershins we can see a couple of pentagrams. th

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

magical dragon is a magician of very high rank he is aware of his inner divinity, his holy guardian angel. he is one who has crossed the abyss. his formula is to move ceaselessly through the watchtowers and aethyrs dispensing justice and pproclaiming his word.the formula 187 itself reveals his methodology in its letters: a sense of justice (justice in libra) is the core of a healthy love of life (the devil in capricorn) which is checked by experience (temperance/art in sagittarius) but allowed constant change in expression (death in scorpio. the sigil of vovin from the rose (figure 6) is: 188 the formula of vrelp my god! 0 my god! i am but a speck in the stardust of ages; i am the master of the secret of things. aleister crowley, liber vii the enochian word vrelp, pronounced var-ee-elpeh

d up to 197 as well as t -il-om "the aethyrs have knowledge" the exact nature of the formula is obtained from the letters and their arrangement. in the center of the word is the hermit of virgo. he is flanked on the ieft by the lunar reflective forces of the moon in pisces, and on the right by the solar creative forces of strength/lust in leo. in addition, 189 he has the love of life expressed by the devil in capric on his left and mobility expressed by the chariot in can on his right. vrelp is thus the individuality that he learned to balance the forces of duality in his life. with an understanding of this formula, you can enter the city of the pyramids without becoming trapped there (the letter vau will assure that you not carry detachment to extremes. the sigh of vrelp from the rose (fi

. step 4. return to your physical body. conduct the appropriate banishing rituals. an advanced vrelp meditation. step 1. meditate on the meaning and correspondences of the magick square of vrelp. consider its similarities with the magick squares of arsoe and laha. step 2. meditate on the magick square of vrelp itself. consider the balance of its letters. consider the four corners which include v (the devil in capricorn) and p (the creative lust of leo. step 3. meditate on yourself as a solar expression. consider the similarities between the light of the sun and the light of consciousness. step 4. transfer the magical forces embodied in the 262 talisman of the magick square of vrelp to yourself. consider your own body of light as a possible vehicle in which to visit the sun. step 5. imagine

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

with paltar (balder, he must pass for a god of light, but also of fire, and again of tempest; under another view he haunted wells and springs. he approximates the higher elemental powers, and could the more easily be perverted into a diabolic being. equally lost to germany is the name of the norse loki, who represents fire in another xx peeface. aspect, and was still better qualified to stand for the devil. the stories of his artfulness, his cunning tricks, have reproduced themselves repeatedly in all branches of our race. i now turn to the goddesses. a mother of gods, nerthus, is named to us by tacitus; her name is the exact counterpart to that of a norse god, who confirms her existence, as freyr would confirm that of freyja, had she come down to us only as the high german frouwa, and fro

oic lay into arminius, civilis and siegbert by turns, tanhauser into ulysses. preface. xxvll in all that i had gathered by a careful comparison of original authorities on sorcery and witches, he of course can see neither circumspectness nor moderation, who gravely imagines that witchcraft was once a reality, who from the minutes of a single trial in 1628 jumps at once to the greek dionysia, makes the devil dionysus, and warms up again the stale explanation of hexe (witch) from hecate. this is allowing the devil a great antiquity in comparison with those heroes; to me eeinhart and isengrim seem to reach up far higher than the -ninth century, and siegfried even beyond arminius, therefore a long way before the time when the term devil first came into our language. several designations of the

end (p. 667. poetic euphemisms designate the sacred beast, and as soon as he is slain, solemn hymns are struck up as by way of atonement. kunes 28 and 29 in kalewala describe such a hunt with all its ceremonial. ostiaks in taking an oath kneel on a bearskin, in heathen sacrifices they covered the victim with a bearskin (p. 1010, and long afterwards they hung bearskins about them in the service of the devil (p. 1018. as the bear was king of all beasts, the terms applied to him of' old one' and' grandfather' suggest those of the thunder-god. the constellation of the great bear (p. 725) would of itself seem an evident trace of his worship even among the greeks. coming down from northern asia to the tribes of the caucasus, we again meet with the most remarkable coincidences. the tcherkesses (c

aetus, mitis, as. jieoru, beow. 2744, on. hyr, mhg. gejmire, our gelieuer when we say 'es ist geheuer' all is quiet, happy, peaceful. the contrary is expressed by ohg. and os. unlduri dirus, saevus, as. unheoru, beow. 1967 (unhiore 4822. unh^re 4286. csedm. 138, 5, on. ojiyr, mhg. ungehiure, our ungelieuer' es ist ungeheuer^ there's something wrong. but both words go further, god is called hiuri, the devil unhiuri; ungelieuer is monstrum, portentum in general. the gothic form would be iduris, which seems nearly allied to haiiri (pruna, ember, on. hyr ignis, and is therefore the shining, the bright; if an ohg. gloss in graff 4, 1014 be correct, even the non-negative hiuri may signify dirus, viz. fiery in a bad sense, such as we shall find presently in connexion with ignes fatui. much the sa

. 918: as the christian god has not made them his, they fall due to the old heathen one. this appears to me to have been at least the original course of ideas (see suppl. while in this connexion the meaner sort long cherished the thought of wuotan, or conveniently stowed him away in a cognate verb; it was quite in the regular course of things that the more cultivated should from an early time put the devil in his place' si bliesen unde gullen, vreisliche si hullen, so daz diu helle wagete, alse der tuvel da jagete' says veldeck in en. 3239. caesarius heisterb. 12, 20 tells of a vain woman, who had herself buried in fine new shoes, and whose soul was therefore hunted by the ivfernalis venator' ex remoto vox quasi venatoris terribiliter buccinantis, necnon et latratus canum venaticorum praec

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

n moneys anzeiger 1835, 312 we read of a little black man that was bought with a chest, and when this was opened, he hopped out and slipped behind the oven, whence all efforts to rout him out were fruitless; but he lived on excellent terms with the house hold, and occasionally shewed himself to them, though never to strangers. this black figure reminds one both of the scandi navian dwarfs, and of the devil. some thoroughly good goblin- stories are in adalb. kuhn s collection, pp. 42. 55. 84. 107. 159. 191-3. 372.2 there are also goblins who, like nix and watersprite, are engaged in no man s service, but live independently; when such a one is caught, he will offer you gifts or tell your fortune, to be set at liberty again. of this sort is the butt in the nursery-tale 1 very similar stories

time every year, 10 ehen, p. 235. extr. from suppl] 2 to escape the futtermannchen, a farmer built a new house, but the day before he moved, he spied the f. dipping his grey coat in the brook: my little coat here i swill and souse, to-morrow we move to a fine new house. borner s orlagau, p. 246. whoever has the kobold must not wash or comb himself (sommer p. 171. miillenh. 209; so in the case of the devil, ch. xxxiii. extr. from suppl. 514 wights and elves (p. 507, likewise the folet in marie de fr. 2, 140, who grants three wishes (oremens. and the captive marmennill (p. 434, or the sea-wife, does the same. the unfriendly, racketing and tormenting spirits who take pos session of a house, are distinguished from the friendly and goodnatured by their commonly forming a whole gang, who distur

ns racketing in a house, singing and playing at night, and aiming tiles at passers by in the daytime; they are fond of fire, but make a violent uproar every time the master spits. 2 in gervase of tilbury, cap. 18, the folleti also pelt with stones, and this of stone-throwing is what we shall meet with in quite early stories of devils; al together the racketing sprites have in this respect more of the devil or spectre in them than of the elf: it is a darkening and distortion of their original nature in accordance with christian sentiment. so it becomes clear, at last, how the once familiar and faith ful friend of the family under heathenism has gradually sunk into a bugbear or a taunt to children: a lot which he shares with goddesses and gods of old. as with holle and berhte, so people are

(denis, lesefr. 1, 131; see suppl. further, on this point i attach weight to the swedish jullekar, dan. juleleger, yule-lays, undoubtedly of heathen origin, which at christmas time present christ and certain saints, but replace our man ruprecht by a julbock, julebuk, i.e. a manservant disguised as a goat. 1 this interweaving of jackpudding, fool, klobes and eiipel, of the yule-buck and at last of the devil himself, into the rude popular drama of our mid. ages, shows what an essential part of it the wihtels and tatermans formerly were, how ineradi cable the elvish figures and characters of heathenism. the greeks enlivened the seriousness of their tragedy by satyric plays, in which e.g. proteus, similar to our sea-sprite (p. 434, played a leading part. 2 there is yet another way in which a f

reyde eyttyn with the hire lieydis was known (complaynt, p. 98, and lindsay s dreme (ed. 1592, p. 225) mentions the history of reid etin. the fairy-tale of red etin wi three heads may now be read complete in chambers,1 pp. 56-58; but it does not explain whether the red colour in his name refers to skin, hair or dress. a black complexion is not attributed to giants, as it is to dwarfs (p. 444) and the devil, though the half-black hel (p. 312) was of giant kin. hrungnir, a giant in the edda, has a head of stone (seem. 76b, sn. 109, another in the fornald. sog. 3, 573 is called larnliaus, iron skull. but giants as a rule appear well-shaped and symmetrical; their daughters are capable of the highest beauty, e.g. geroy, whose gleaming arms, as she shuts the house-door, make air and water shine

GRIMOIRE OF TURIEL

of the light i bless thee in the name of the father. o holy, holy lord, god, heaven and earth are fuil of thy glory before whose face there is a bright shining light forever; bless now, o lord, i beseech thee, these creatures of light which thou hast given for the kindly use of man that they, by thee being sanctif ed, may not be put out or extinguished by the power, malice, or filthy darkness of the devil, but may shine forth brightly and lend their assistance to this my work, through jesus crist our lord. amen. then say, asperges me, etc. consecration of the sword: o great god who art the god of strength and fortitude and greatly to be feared, bless o lord, this instrument that it may be a terror unto the enemy, and therewith i may fight with and overcome all phantasms and oppositions of

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

ame of christ, were to be given three times to summon whichever spirit guide was required. once the spirit's message had been received, a special discharge was to be given three times, again invoking christ and his angels, followed by prayersofthanks. despite all the care taken to avoid calling up evil spirits, they occasionally came through andhadto be speedily discharged(videhis report 'raising the devil, p.129).again, despite all the care taken, even the crowned angel wasnotabove giving hockley the required ceremonial for calling up very dubious spirits. as hockley took down verbatim what his speculatrix reported seeing, what is remarkable is the quality and depthofinformation received. it seems unlikely that a teenage girl with, presumably, an average victorian female's education, coul

ion1 12secret writing:themagical manuscripts of frederick hockleyr. a.gilbert263 hockley's letters to the irwins 34 4 extracts concerning hockley from the mackenzie- irwin correspondence905 hockley's evidence to the london dialectical society 96 6theburton episode1007 crystaliomancy, or the art of invocating spirits by the crystal1028 excerpts from the crystal mss1099published material129iraising the devil129iievenings with the indwellers of the world of spirits132iiicorrespondence with robert owen 145 iv contributions to the zoist 184contributionsto the zoist221excite him on, his patient having only once gone to sleep during the process. as he has sown, so may he reap. i am, sir, your obedient servant,fred. hockley.croydon,12november1855.[printed inthezoist,no. lii (january 1856.]220thero

he enemy of mankind. proposition3-'manwas, at, and sometime after his creation, perfect in his intellectual, moral, and physical nature.'c.a.-hewas perfect in his physicalnature, but his mind was undeveloped, even as a child's; he was to attain knowledge by intercourse with his creator and the rest of creation. proposition4-'manbeing thus perfect, he yielded to the counsels and the persuasions of the devil, and violated a divine command, and in consequence fell down from his high estate, cursed of god with total depravity and eternal death' c.a.-itwas in his imperfection that he sinned; and they are wrong to suppose that one act committed by the first man should so entirely change his situation. proposition5-'thatgod so loved man in his present fallen condition, that he sent his only son t

p to its'justice"'i should have been more careful, for i might have saved myself even then, but i relied on the aid that had been given to me before: i did wonders that could not be reconciled with the actionofnature. it was evident to all that i did them by the aid of spirits, but i did not know any more than they the nature or the qualityofthose who helped me 'i was tried for being possessed by the devil, and for practising black magic. i attempted to deny it, and i solemnly swear that i did not on that ocasion, when i knew the sentence would be death, use one word that i knew to be untrue. i would not compromise my dignity sufficiently to evade them or their questions, and when i denied their accusations it was with a sincere conviction of their falsehood. every spirit that i had seen w

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

thern india resemble the bible stories. louis jacolliot speaksin several of his twenty-one volumes on brahmanical india of this matter, and for once he is right* the particle a in the sanskrit word shews this clearly. placed before a substantive thisparticle always means the negation or the opposite of the meaning of the expression thatfollows. thus sura (god) written a -sura, becomes non-god, or the devil, vidya isknowledge, and a-vidya, ignorance or the opposite of knowledge, etc, etc. we will speak of it another time. meanwhile here is the legend of the blue lotuscentury after century has passed away since ambarisha, king of ayodhya, reigned in the city founded by theholy manu, vaivasvata, the offspring of the sun. the king was a suryavansi (a descendant of the solarrace, and he avowed

n his face, and encircling with his armthe slender childish figure "the little fellow has seen the double of my shaman, which roams sometimes faraway from his body, and has mistaken the phantom for the man himself. let him remain with us for a while" at these strange words the guests stared at each other in mute surprise, while some piously made the sign ofthe cross, spitting aside, presumably at the devil and all his works "by-the-bye" continued the hungarian with a peculiar firmness of accent, and addressing the companyrather than any one in particular "why should we not try, with the help of my shaman, to unravel the mysteryhanging over the tragedy? is the suspected party still lying in prison? what? he has not confessed up to now?this is surely very strange. but now we will learn the t

nking into the bottomless lake. on the morning after these occurrences, when, after a sleepless night, some of the party visited the residenceof the hungarian gentleman, they found it closed and deserted. he and the shaman had disappeared. manyare among the old inhabitants of p- who remember him; the police inspector, col. s, dying a fewyears ago in the full assurance that the noble traveller was the devil. to add to the general consternation theizvertzoff mansion took fire on that same night and was completely destroyed. the archbishop performedthe ceremony of exorcism, but the locality is considered accursed to this day. the government investigatedthe facts, and ordered silence. from the polar landsa christmas storyjust a year ago, during the christmas holidays, a numerous society had ga

unparallelartist arrived, and- all paris fell at once at his feet. iinow it is a well-known fact that a superstition born in the dark days of mediaeval superstition, and survivingalmost to the middle of the present century, attributed all such abnormal, out-of-the-way talent as that ofpaganini to "supernatural" agency. every great and marvellous artist had been accused in his day of dealingswith the devil. a few instances will suffice to refresh the reader's memory. tartini, the great composer and violinist of the xviith century, was denounced as one who got his bestinspirations from the evil one, with whom he was, it was said, in regular league. this accusation was ofcourse due to the almost magical impression he produced upon his audiences. his inspired performance onthe violin secured

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

ood on the physical plane? a. first, because that which is true on the metaphysical plane must be also true on the physical. secondly, because there is no more fertile source of hatred and strife than religious differences. when one party or another thinks himself the sole possessor of absolute truth, it becomes only natural that he should think his neighbor absolutely in the clutches of error or the devil. but once get a man to see that none of them has the whole truth, but that they are mutually complementary, that the complete truth can be found only in the combined views of all, after that which is false in each of them has been sifted out-then true brotherhood in religion will be established. the same applies in the physical world. q. please explain further. a. take an instance. a pla

be even slightly impressed by them. q. but how is it that manas, although you call it nous, a "god" is so weak during its incarnations, as to be actually conquered and fettered by its page 84 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt body? a. i might retort with the same question and ask: how is it that he, whom you regard as "the god of gods" and the one living god, is so weak as to allow evil (or the devil) to have the best of him as much as of all his creatures, whether while he remains in heaven, or during the time he was incarnated on this earth? you are sure to reply again "this is a mystery; and we are forbidden to pry into the mysteries of god" not being forbidden to do so by our religious philosophy, i answer your question that, unless a god descends as an avatara, no divine princip

ation table? besides, they isolate themselves only from the west. in their own country they go about as publicly as other people do. q. don't you ascribe to them supernatural powers? a. we believe in nothing supernatural, as i have told you already. had edison lived and invented his phonograph two hundred years ago, he would most probably have been burnt along with it, and the whole attributed to the devil. the powers which they exercise are simply the development of potencies lying latent in every man and woman, and the existence of which even official science begins to recognize. q. is it true that these men inspire some of your writers, and that many, if not all, of your theosophical works were written under their dictation? page 133 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt a. some have

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

ed in springfield, is still extant. noises in the hills continued to be reported from year to year, and still form a puzzle to geologists and physiographers. other traditions tell of foul odours near the hill-crowning circles of stone pillars, and of rushing airy presences to be heard faintly at certain hours from stated points at the bottom of the great ravines; while still others try to explain the devil's hop yard- a bleak, blasted hillside where no tree, shrub, or grass-blade will grow. then, too, the natives are mortally afraid of the numerous whippoorwills which grow vocal on warm nights. it is vowed that the birds are psychopomps lying in wait for the souls of the dying, and that they time their eerie cries in unison with the sufferer's struggling breath. if they can catch the fleei

d marks bigger raound than a hogshead, an' all sticky with stuff like is on the browed-up haouse. cha'ncey he says they leads off into the medders, whar a great swath wider'n a barn is matted daown, an' all the stun walls tumbled every whichway wherever it goes 'an' he says, says he, mis' corey, as haow he sot to look fer seth's caows, frightened ez he was an' faound 'em in the upper pasture nigh the devil's hop yard in an awful shape. haff on 'em's clean gone, an' nigh haff o' them that's left is sucked most dry o' blood, with sores on 'em like they's ben on whateleys cattle ever senct lavinny's black brat was born. seth hes gone aout naow to look at 'em, though i'll vaow he won't keer ter git very nigh wizard whateley's! cha'ncey didn't look keerful ter see whar the big matted-daown swat

ell, young fellow, you mustn't take too much stock in what people here say. they're hard to get started, but once they do get started they never let up. they've been telling things about innsmouth- whispering 'em, mostly- for the last hundred years, i guess, and i gather they're more scared than anything else. some of the stories would make you laugh- about old captain marsh driving bargains with the devil and bringing imps out of hell to live in innsmouth, or about some kind of devil-worship and awful sacrifices in some place near the wharves that people stumbled on around 1845 or thereabouts- but i come from panton, vermont, and that kind of story don't go down with me "you ought to hear, though, what some of the old-timers tell about the black reef off the coast- devil reef, they call i

nties it seemed to be a fashion about 1800 to accuse eccentric and unpopular recluses of being allies or representatives of the abhorred things. as to what the things were- explanations naturally varied. the common name applied to them was "those ones" or "the old ones" though other terms had a local and transient use. perhaps the bulk of the puritan settlers set them down bluntly as familiars of the devil, and made them a basis of awed theological speculation. those with celtic legendry in their heritage- mainly the scotch-irish element of new hampshire, and their kindred who had settled in vermont on governor wentworth's colonial grants- linked them vaguely with the malign fairies and "little people" of the bogs and raths, and protected themselves with scraps of incantation handed down t

HP LOVECRAFT HISTORY OF THE NECRONOMICON

mn, but have been classifying notes& synopses in preparation for some monstrous tales later on. in particular i have drawn up some data on the celebrated& unmentionable necronomicon of the mad arab abdul alhazred! it seems that this shocking blasphemy was produced by a native of sana, in yemen, who flourished about 700 a.d& made many mysterious pilgrimages to babylon's ruins, memphis's catacombs& the devil-haunted& untrodden wastes of the great southern deserts of arabia- the roba el khaliyeh, where he claimed to have found records of things older than mankind& to have learnt the worship of yog-sothoth& cthulhu. the book was a product of abdul's old age, which was spent in damascus& the original title was al azif- azif (cf. henley's notes to vathek) being the name applied to those strange

HP LOVECRAFT THE ALCHEMIST

ixir of eternal life, and was reputed wise in the terrible secrets of black magic and alchemy. michel mauvais had one son, named charles, a youth as proficient as himself in the hidden arts, who had therefore been called le sorcier, or the wizard. this pair, shunned by all honest folk, were suspected of the most hideous practices. old michel was said to have burnt his wife alive as a sacrifice to the devil, and the unaccountable disappearance of many small peasant children was laid at the dreaded door of these two. yet through the dark natures of the father and son ran one redeeming ray of humanity; the evil old man loved his offspring with fierce intensity, whilst the youth had for his parent a more than filial affection. one night the castle on the hill was thrown into the wildest confus

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

ell, young fellow, you mustn't take too much stock in what people here say. they're hard to get started, but once they do get started they never let up. they've been telling things about innsmouth- whispering 'em, mostly- for the last hundred years, i guess, and i gather they're more scared than anything else. some of the stories would make you laugh- about old captain marsh driving bargains with the devil and bringing imps out of hell to live in innsmouth, or about some kind of devilworship and awful sacrifices in some place near the wharves that people stumbled on around 1845 or there-abouts- but i come from panton, vermont, and that kind of story don't go down with me "you ought to hear, though, what some of the old-timers tell about the black reef off the coast- devil reef, they call i

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

s to whether witches are good or evil, that depends upon your point of view about what's good and what's evil. from the average man's interpretation of evil and good, witches seem to be evil. organized religions have branded witchcraft as evil, but they did this because they considered witchcraft a form of competition and naturally reasoned that anyone against them would have to be on the side of the devil. there is no such thing as good and evil witches on the basis of one of them deriving their powers from the devil. the power witches tap is an energy inside themselves. it should be considered wasteful, stupid, and therefore bad, not to use the energy within one's self to gain one's desires, to fulfil one's self. witches are selfish, but is that evil? being self-interested, a witch has t

would naturally enrage churchmen who demand strict obedience to their rigid laws and condemn the nonconformers as satanic or evil. actually, there were witches before christianity came along, and although there have always been evil gods in religions in all parts of the world, satan exists only in limited areas. so who would witches be in cahoots with in, say, china? selfish, yes; in league with the devil, no. many similarities can be seen between the attitudes of witches and those people who are successful doing anything. there's a big difference between having things turn out well and having things turn out badly. if you want them to turn out well, you're bound to have something in common with someone else who has things turn out well, even if you're doing it one way and he is doing it

lay them. on the other hand, things haven't changed too much on that score! an exotic, sexy-looking lady is frequently looked upon with suspicion and hostility in certain of our communities, even today. when accused witches were brought to trial, the questions they were asked were of the "when did you stop beating your wife" genre. women were asked to admit they were having sexual^ relations with the devil, and under torture they admitted it. i find it very difficult to accept the idea of the devil romping around and mating with all these warty women. if he did exist, it seems to me he could have done a lot better choosing ladies more like sophia loren or brigitte bardot, perhaps. at one time chemists were considered magicians. albertus magnus (1193-1290, considered a wizard in his day, wa

in practising witchcraft if you're a novice? a novice is one who's not a real witch, but one who's using the powers. the only danger is that you'll probably improve your character and increase your emotional strength. i don't think there's any "danger" attached to that idea. there is a real danger, however, if you believe that witchcraft means consulting evil forces and having conversations with the devil. but if you understand witchcraft as a way of disciplining your mental and emotional attitudes, then it can only lead to successful conclusions. there are some clubs practising storybook witchcraft; their real bag seems to be perversion. the members are just a group of frustrated people looking for kicks. has anyone ever come across any of these orgy fans who ever expressed any intellige

ll tell you a bit more about how great she is, but she never will tell you what to do. i think there's nothing much that she knows except how to take advantage of people's misinformation. there is a big gap between popular conceptions of witchcraft and what it really is. take the very successful book and film rosemary's baby, which was a lot of fun, but was based on a false premise. in the story, the devil was behind it all. rosemary, the main character, was fed a mixture that created a strange effect on her mind (which can happen in witchcraft, of course. the story conveys other truths about witchcraft, but the mixture of truth and error, fact and fantasy, confuses people. objects play an important part in the practice of witchcraft in rosemary's baby. for instance, i make lucky rocks for

INFERNAL SABBAT LIVE

ack earth, nephillmic tomb in the sunless palace of azrail, open forth the dreaming fields of night, from thy vessel, born of lilith s womb shall the vampyre shade awaken before us lilith, queen of those who walk the shadows- i come before you, night born as the queen of the dead. behold unto my death mask, the temple of azothoz as a current of the living flame. i shall bless each one of you with the devil s sight, the serpents tongue shall speak of the secret alphabet which ye all shall scribe on the walls of the sunless palace, scribe your name in the black book of the dead, you are all my children, of lilith-hecate, your father is ahriman, lord of phantoms and darkness -from nox umbra, a vampyric grimoire by michael w. ford the ath1 infernal union by azmareth i toph magick, like alchemy

INVOCATION OF THE ADVERSARY

l which may be conducted when the sun is at its full light, or when the moon is full or dark, as the essence of iblis be finally revealed. the purpose of the ritual is invoking the spirit of the adversary, known as shaitan/iblis, satan, lucifer, set, azazel. the sorcerer shall seek the fire-spirit of change, rebellion and progression. the symbol of set the adversary shall take the earthen form of the devil, the solar creative (and destructive) force of change and self-deification. there are two primary faces of the adversary. the celebrant may construct as mask of two sides, which shall be placed upon the center of the altar. one- the fallen seraph lucifer, the angelick essence of the black flame, the very source of our wisdom, being and becoming. two the seraph of flame, the djinn iblis o

on. there are two primary faces of the adversary. the celebrant may construct as mask of two sides, which shall be placed upon the center of the altar. one- the fallen seraph lucifer, the angelick essence of the black flame, the very source of our wisdom, being and becoming. two the seraph of flame, the djinn iblis of fire, daemon of the blackened flame, serpent beast dragon wolf goat. satanas is the devil-cloaked initiator of the path of the wise, those who laugh at the warnings of a cringing society. robe thyself in crimson, the color of flame and movement. the symbol of the averse pentagram, being downward pointing to indicate the union of the fallen angels with humanity to create divinity. in the sethian witchcraft current the sorcerer becomes as set him/herself, thus in the circle the

ll perception of anything outside of the circle, that being enflamed and submerged in gnosis, the circle is the circumference of the sorcerers' world. that the ritual is a success is the subjected 'turning the knife towards oneself' in the area of self-directed and willed energy. the ritual of the adversary, in conjunction with the lord's prayer averse (used in certain luciferian covens to summon the devil-cain) provides a powerful foundation for self-deification in the witches sabbat gnossiirish witchcraft and demonology by st. john d. seymour, b.d [1913] this is a survey of the witch persecution in ireland, as well as a wide array of other paranormal events such as poltergeists, ghosts, apparations and even an early ufo account. very readable, yet well documented, this book has the exten

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

r iii a.d. 1223-1583 the kyteler case and its surroundings of sorcery and heresy--michael scot--the fourth earl of desmond--james i and the irish prophetess--a sorcery accusation of 1447--witchcraft trials in the sixteenth century -statutes dealing with the subject--eye-biters--the enchanted earl of desmond 46 p. vi chapter iv a.d. 1606-1656 a clerical wizard--witchcraft cured by a relic--raising the devil in ireland--how he was cheated by a doctor of divinity--stewart and the fairies--rev. robert blair and the man possessed with a devil--strange occurrences near limerick--apparitions of murdered people at portadown--charmed lives--visions and portents--petition of a bewitched antrim man in england--archbishop ussher's prophecies--mr. browne and the locked chest 77 chapter v a.d. 1661 flor

ewart and the fairies--rev. robert blair and the man possessed with a devil--strange occurrences near limerick--apparitions of murdered people at portadown--charmed lives--visions and portents--petition of a bewitched antrim man in england--archbishop ussher's prophecies--mr. browne and the locked chest 77 chapter v a.d. 1661 florence newton, the witch of youghal 105 chapter vi a.d. 1662-1686 132 the devil at damerville--and at ballinagarde--taverner and haddock's ghost--hunter and the ghostly old woman--a witch rescued by the devil--dr. williams and the haunted house in dublin--apparitions seen in the air in co. tipperary--a clergy-man p. vii and his wife bewitched to death-bewitching of mr. moor--the fairy-possessed butler--a ghost instigates a prosecution--supposed witchcraft in co. cor

devil at damerville--and at ballinagarde--taverner and haddock's ghost--hunter and the ghostly old woman--a witch rescued by the devil--dr. williams and the haunted house in dublin--apparitions seen in the air in co. tipperary--a clergy-man p. vii and his wife bewitched to death-bewitching of mr. moor--the fairy-possessed butler--a ghost instigates a prosecution--supposed witchcraft in co. cork--the devil among the quakers chapter vii a.d. 1688 an irish-american witch 176 chapter viii a.d. 1689-1720 portent on entry of james ii--witchcraft in co. antrim--traditional version of same--events preceding the island--magee witch-trial--the trial itself--dr. francis hutchinson 194 chapter ix a.d. 1807 to present day mary butters, the carnmoney witch--ballad on her--the hand of glory--a journey t

cted public life in different ways. another point with reverence to the plan of this work as indicated by the title needs a few words of explanation. it will be seen by the reader that the volume does not deal solely with the question of witchcraft, though that we have endeavoured to bring into prominence as much as possible, but that tales of the supernatural, of the appearance of ghosts, and of the devil, are also included, especially in chapters iv and vi. if we have erred in inserting these, we have at least erred in the respectable company of sir walter scott, c. k. sharpe, and other writers of note. we have included them, partly because they afford interesting reading, and are culled from sources with which p. 6 the average reader is unacquainted, but principally because they reflect

y was spared; the noble equally with the peasant was liable to torture and death. this was especially true of the earlier stages of the movement when sorcery rather than witchcraft was the crime committed. for there is a general distinction between the two, p. 22 though in many instances they are confounded. sorcery was, so to speak, more of an aristocratic pursuit; the sorcerer was the master of the devil (until his allotted time expired, and compelled him to do his bidding: the witch generally belonged to the lower classes, embodied in her art many practices which lay on the borderland between good and evil, and was rather the slave of satan, who almost invariably proved to be a most faithless and unreliable employer. for an illustration from this country of the broad distinction between

ISIS UNVEILED

octrine of the potentialities of number* 417 'd*ys of (bnetu and 'days' of brahmi 422 fall ot man and the deluge in the hiadh books 425 antiquity of the mancient egyptians of the aryan race? 434 skmnel. david, and solomon mythicsl powmages 439 ^mbcjiam of noah's ark 447 "nie patriaichs identical with sodiacal signs 459 ad biue legends bdong to univenal history 4c9 chapter x the devil-myth itw devil officially recognised by the church 477 sktan tbe mainstay of sacmdolalism 480 idmtity of staaa irith the e^tiui typhod 483 ifis relatiini to mn>ent-wotship 489 the book of j^ and the book of the dead w3 the hindu devu a met*phystaj abstraction 501 satan ukd tbe prince of hell in the goipel la ntcodemus 519 digitizecoy google chapter xi- the age of philoaophy moducol no si

andard by which to comi)are christian dogmas and miracles with the doctrines and pheno- mena of ancient magic, and the modem 'new dispensation' as spirit- ualism is called by its votaries. since the materialists deny the phenom- digitizecoy google "the church! where is ft' 8 ena without investigatioq, and aince the theologians in admitting them offer us the poor choice of two palpable absurdities the devil and miracles we can lose little by applying to the theurgists, and they may actually help us to throw a great ugbt upon a very dark subject. professor a. butlerof of the imperial university of st. petersburg remarks in a recent pamphlet, entitled mediumutic manifegtations, as follows "let the facts [of modem spiritualism] belong if you will to the number of those which were more or less

spirituijism, spiritism, hypnotism. we only other names for satanism "to bring out such a truth mid show it in its proper light, is to unmbtv the enemyi it is to unveil the ifflmense danger d certain practices, reputed ianoemi- it is to deserve well in the eyes of humanity and of religiou "fatheb vbmtub4 ds racuca" 27. let haidi punonjnss de la magte, p. iv. digilizocb, google the biographebs op the devil 15 a mcmt this is an unexpected honor indeed, for our american 'controls' in generalt and the innocent 'indian guides' in particular. to be thus introduced in borne as princes of the empire of eblis, is more than they could ever hope for in other lands* without in the least suspecting that she was working for the future welfare of her enemies the spiritualists and spiritists the church

ralt and the innocent 'indian guides' in particular. to be thus introduced in borne as princes of the empire of eblis, is more than they could ever hope for in other lands* without in the least suspecting that she was working for the future welfare of her enemies the spiritualists and spiritists the church, some twenty years since, in tolerating des mousseaux and de mirville as the biographers of the devil, and giving her approbation thereto, tacitly confessed the literaty copartnership. m. the chevalier gougenot des mousseaux. and bis friend and coua- borateur, the marquis eudes de mirville, to judge by their long titles, must be aristocrats pur sang, and they are, moreover, writers of no small erudition and talent. were they to rfiow themselves a httle more parsi- monious of double point

atigable authors. in trying to prove the authenticity of the miracles wrought by satan in the days preceding the christian era, as well as throu^out the middle ages, thqr have simply laid a firm foundation for a study of the phenomena in our modem times. though an ardent, uncompromising enthusiast, des mousseaux un- wittingly transforms himself into the tempting demon, or as he is fond of calling the devil the "serpent of genetu" in his desire to demon- strate in every manifestation the presence of the evu one, he only suc- ceeds in demonstrating that spiritualism and magic are no new things in the world, but very ancient twin-brothers, whose origin must be sought for in the earliest infancy of ancient india, chaldaea, babylonia, egypt. persia, and greece. he proves the existence of 'spiri

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

was presented another picture, and that unfailingly uncomfortable, even to this good man exchanging joy for horror. my friend, replied he to an inquirer, never congratulate a man upon his happiness until you become aware how he sleeps. dreams are as that baleful country into which i pass every night of my life; and what can be said to a man who dreams constantly (and believes it) that he is with the devil? there was no answering this, for every person leads two lives, altogether independent of each other, the days and the nights both full of life, though the night, with the dreams, may be of an opposite order. the world s circumstances may afford you solace and gratification even happiness in the day; but you may be very miserable, notwithstanding, if it happen that you have persecution i

or beetle, and perhaps scarcely any one which it is so difficult to explain. he is often represented with a ball between his fore-legs, which some take for a symbol of the world, or the sun. he may be an emblem of fertility. the crab on the denderah zodiac is by some supposed to be a beetle (egyptian antiquities. it is for some of the preceding reasons that one of the mystic names of lucifer, or the devil, is the lord of flies, for which strange appellation all antiquaries, and other learned decipherers, have found it impossible to account of the figure of the fleur-de-luce, fleur-de-lis, or flowerde- luce (lus, luz, loose, the following may be remarked. on its sublime, abstract side, it is the symbol of the mighty self-producing, self-begetting generative power deified in many myths. we

matter or reason, which is only built up of matter. it is most difficult to frame language in regard to these things. reason can only unmake god; he is only possible in his own development, or in his seizing of us, and in possession. thus paracelsus and his disciples declare that human reason become our master, that is, in its perfection, but not used as our servant, transforms, as it were, into the devil, and exercises his office in leading us away from the throne of spiritual light other, and, in the world, seeming better; in his mithra and ahrimanes. 81 false and deluding world-light, or matter-light, really showing himself god. this view of the human reason, intellectually trusted, transforming into the angel of darkness, and effacing god out of the world, is borne out by a thousand t

pture. it is equally in the beliefs and in the traditions of all nations and of all time, as we shall by and by show. real light is god s shadow, or the soul of matter; the one is the very brighter, as the other is the very blacker. thus, the worshippers of the sun, or light, or fire, whether in the old or the new worlds, worshipped not sun, or light, or fire, otherwise they would have worshipped the devil, he being all conceivable light; but rather they adored the unknown great god, in the last image that was possible to man of anything the fire. and they chose that as his shadow, as the very opposite of that which he really was; honouring the master through his servant; bowing before the manifestation, eldest of time, for the timeless; paying homage to the spirit of the devil-world, or r

t to dissuade, sought to rival, sought to put out saints sight sought even to surpass in seeming a further and truer, because a more solid and a more sensible, glory. the apostate, real-born lucifer is so named as the intensest spirit of light, because he is of the things that perish, and of the things that to mind because they are all of matter have the most of glory! thus is one of the names of the devil, the very eldest-born and brightest star of light, that of the very morning and beginning of all things the clearest, brightest, purest, as being soul-like, of nature; but only of nature. real law. or nature, is the devil; real reason is the devil. now we shall find, with a little patience, that this transcendental, beyond-limit-or-knowledge ancient belief of the fire-god is to be laid h

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

ded malayan goddess, or a compound microscope, it's organic. a second major category stands out in the bibliography of oddities. it is the great area of events which encompasses disappearing people, and ships; airplanes and airships crashing and disappearing without trace and without warning; instantaneous and mysterious transportations of people and things; inexplicable tracks and marks, such as the devil's footprints of devonshire, and the "cup-marks" found in stone over much of the world; the organically shaped meteorites found in tertiary rock and coal formations; evidences of levitation and flight from prehistoric antiquity; and many other phenomena which appear to us to be, or resemble, acts rather than things. 26 all of these are terrestrial events--manifestations more or less on th

was found. a look of bewilderment covered the faces of the searchers when they crowded into the small galley and found coffee boiling on the stove and an elaborate breakfast laid out on the table. they also found that the crew's quarters smelled strongly of tobacco smoke, but there was no clue to the crew's whereabouts. should have spilled. captain durham was a rugged new englander, not afraid of the devil himself, and an excellent seaman. the ship's course was carefully plotted and the navigation instruments all in order. the ship's log lay open, with the last entry neatly noted "branton reef, sighted" branton reef, a chain of rock offshore, is only a couple miles from newport, where the 300-ton trading boat was scheduled to dock. the seabird had been on a four-month voyage and was just r

r tougher ones (help divert rays& etc) it could cause earth to become rock with in a few minutes, it could change a whole world or civilization just by its potential. and it does, too 1 italics and question marks by jemi. 2 italics and the insertion of parentheses by mr. a 110 marks and "footprints" the following series of oddities is perhaps the most conclusive of all. because i wish to develop "the devil's footprints" fully, i shall not go into detail about the innumerable marks and depressions in stone. however, after the footprints study, and a mention of the stone depressions and what they are, i believe the case for the ufo's will be clearly in your mind. what other source but something from space could account for these erratics? the story of "the devil's footprints" is classic. it

ere seen was very much more. as one devonian who was greatly interested in the occurrence wrote "when we consider the distance that must have been gone over to have left these marks i may say in almost every garden, on doorsteps, through extensive woods of luscombe, upon commons, in enclosures and farms the actual progress must have exceeded one hundred miles" this the best illustration i know of the devil s hoofmarks. it did not take long for these markings in the snow to become the talk of all devon. it was not so difficult to step in those days for a village rustic, pondering the inexplicable nature of the markings and their apparent ability to go wherever they would, and remembering their shape, to wonder fearfully if perhaps the devil himself had been abroad in the land. this fear was

ntioned in a letter from the reverend g.m. musgrave, a local clergyman who was keenly interested in the whole matter, and who wrote of "the state of the public mind of the villagers, the laborers, their wives and children, and old crones, and the trembling old men, dreading to stir out after sunset, or to go half a mile into lanes or byways on a call or message, under the conviction that this was the devil's walk, and no other, and that it was wicked to trifle with such a manifest proof of the great enemy's presence" what of the explanation of these prints in the snow? first, review what has to be explained; an exceptionally clearly defined single line of equally spaced marks, which was found on the tops of houses, walls and in enclosed gardens, on both sides of an estuary two miles wide a

LAITMAN M THE KABBALAH EXPERIENCE

powers and bad powers v are not fixed, but change both synchronically and a synchronically, according to certain rules such as: weekday, holiday, shabbat (saturday) and many others. in addition, the creator cannot be imagined as frozen or as a dry law that doesn t change. generally speaking, everything is in motion, and the attainment of that literally grips the soul. thus, sometimes you see that the devil wins, and sometimes the good is triumphant. t h e r i g h t e o u s a r e t h e f i r s t t o fa l l q: when a whole people degrade, sinking deeper into egoism, the first ones to fall are the best. why is that so? a: because they live among us only to convey the light of the upper world to us, and if we don t deserve it, then there is no reason for their existence in this world. so they

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

lent him large sums, and since the pope, clement v, owed his position to the intrigues of philip, the matter presented little difficulty. his task was rendered easier, too, by the accusations brought against the order by the ex-knight esquiu de floyran, who had a personal interest in the matter, and pretended to reveal all manner of evil things- blasphemy, immorality, idolatry and the worship of the devil under the form of a black cat. this traitor is still execrated in some of the masonic rituals, together with one noffo dei of florence, who, however had nothing to do with the matter. 682. these charges were accepted by philip with delight, and on friday, october 13th, 1307, all the templars throughout france were arrested without warning on behalf of the most infamous tribunal that has

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

will. the popular chaos magic obsession with deconditioning- which i understand as an attempt to surpass all personal boundaries tends to ignore the point that some boundaries if deliberately and carefully maintained, can be extremely useful for magical work. it is such fine distinctions which separate the magician from the mere dissolusethe final volume in his magisterial study of the history of the devil, jeffrey burton russell contemptuously dismisses contemporary, religious satanism as represented by anton szandor lavey, the church of satan, and the temple of set. russell, obviously irritated by what he characterizes as satan chic, asserts that satan is by definition evil. hence modern satanism s effort to recover the positive satan of the romantic poets is inherently meaningless becau

ven. so, why not have a religion based on indulgence? certainly, it is consistent with the nature of the beast.we are no longer supplicating weaklings trembling before an unmerciful god who cares not whether we live or die.we are self-respecting, prideful people we are satanists! anton szandor lavey, the satanic bible xii introduction as representatives of pure evil, our culture has also invested the devil with many positive and attractive traits. a prime example of this is sex: because of the church s traditional aversion to sexuality, the diabolical has come to be associated with sex and sensuality. satan has also been portrayed as a proud, clever, creative nonconformist willing to question the status quo. in the modern world, all of these characteristics are regarded as positive traits

example of this is sex: because of the church s traditional aversion to sexuality, the diabolical has come to be associated with sex and sensuality. satan has also been portrayed as a proud, clever, creative nonconformist willing to question the status quo. in the modern world, all of these characteristics are regarded as positive traits, at least theoretically. almost all contemporary images of the devil derive directly or indirectly from the christian tradition. christian diabolism in turn has dual roots in judaism and zoroastrianism. the jewish satan was never as sinister as his christian counterpart. initially, in fact, satan was not a being at all, but, rather, an accusatory or adversarial role assigned by god. specifically, the earliest satans were angels, sent by god for the purpos

tchhunting was, in fact, a displaced reaction to the breakup of medievalism and the emergence of the modern world. whatever the factors at work in this phenomenon, the witch-hunts came to represent the worst aspects of christianity an important component of a new image of the church as a corrupt, evil institution that repressed and executed innocent people. if, then, christianity was bad, perhaps the devil was not so bad or even good. in the postmedieval world, particularly in romantic literary circles, poets like william blake often used infernal imagery to represent aspects of the human being such as sensuality components of the human condition the christian tradition labeled evil. this tendency to invert traditional introduction xiii imagery was also utilized by other romantic writers.m

ion labeled evil. this tendency to invert traditional introduction xiii imagery was also utilized by other romantic writers.more recent literary figures like the french poet charles baudelaire made use of the same inversion. for example, in his poem the possessed, baudelaire exclaimed, there is no fiber in my trembling body that does not cry, dear beelzebub, i adore you! the conflicting images of the devil we have inherited from the past have become yet more ambiguous in the present because the segment of the population that accepts the real existence of an evil prince of darkness is in the minority and steadily diminishing. this does not mean that the traditional image of satan has been completely eclipsed. although christianity no longer exercises hegemony over the thought world of the i

LIBER 777

of the house of influence the chariot amber 19 i. of all the activities of the spiritual being strength yellow, greenish 20 i. of will hermit green, yellowish 21 i. of conciliation wheel of fortune violet 22 faithful i. justice emerald green 23 stable i. the hanged man [cups] queens. deep blue 24 imaginative i. death green blue 25 i. of probation or tentative one temperence blue 26 renovating i. the devil indigo 27 exciting i. the house of god scarlet 28 natural i. the star violet 29 corporeal i. the moon crimson (ultra violet) 30 collecting i. the sun orange 31 perpetual i. the angel or last judgement [wands] kings or knights. glowing orange scarlet 32 administrative i. the universe indigo 32 bis. empresses [coins] citrine, russet, olive, and black (quartered) 31 bis. all 22 trumps white

LIBER ALEPH

red in her moods, as by lust, or by drunkenness, or by idleness, she hath no standard whereunto she may rally her forces. in this see thou her need of a well-guarded life, and of a true man for her god. i liber aleph vel cxi 172 #o de hac re altera intelligenda (more things to be understood concening this) ark then, o my son, how in the ancient books of magick it is man that selleth his soul unto the devil, but woman that maketh pact with him. for she hath constantly the wit and power to arrange things at his bidding, and she payeth this price of his alliance. but a man hath one jewel, and, bartering this, he becometh the mockery of satanas. let then his tutor thee in thine own art of magick, that thou employ women in all practical matters, to order them with cunning, but men in thy need o

even as i have written in the book of lies (falsely so-called, thou canst create nothing that is not god. but beware of false creations wrought by women in whom is no function thereof; for they are phantoms, poisonous vapours, bred of the moon in her witchcraft of blood. m the book of wisdom or folly 173 #p de viis mortis et diaboli, arcanis tou tarot fraternitatis r. c (of the paths of death and the devil, arcana of the tarot of the r.c. fraternity) t shall profit thee much, o my son, or i err, that i instruct thee in the mysteries of the paths of nun and of ayin, that in our rota are figured in the atu called death, and that called the devil. of these nun joineth the sun with venus, and is referred to scorpio in the zodiac. this path is perilous, for it seeketh the level, and may abase t

LIBER ASTARTE

state must be endured with fortitude; and no means of alleviating it may be employed. it may be broken up by the breaking up of the whole method, and a return to the world without. this cowardice not only destroys the value of all that has gone before, but destroys the value of the oath of fealty that thou hast sworn, and makes thy will a mockery to men and gods. 28. concerning the deceptions of the devil. note well that in this state of dryness a thousand seductions will lure thee away; also a thousand means of breaking thine oath in spirit without breaking it in letter. against this thou mayst repeat the words of thine oath aloud again and again until the temptation be overcome. also the devil will represent to thee that it were much better for this operation that thou do thus and thus

their enumeration. the answer to one and all is the persistence in the literal fulfilment of the routine. beware, then, last, of that devil who shall whisper in thine ear that the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life, and answer: except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone; but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.1 yet shalt thou also beware of disputation with the devil, and pride in the cleverness of thine answers to him. therefore, if thou hast not lost the power of silence, let it be first and last employed against him.2 30. concerning the enflaming of the heart. now learn that these methods are dry one and all. intellectual exercises, moral exercises, they are not love. yet as a man, rubbing two dry sticks together for long, suddenly found a spark

LIBER CHANOKH

is additionally referred to one of the 16 figures of geomancy, and to one of the signs or elements (saturn replacing earth as per the dual attribution of the path of tau, and thence to the hebrew letter and tarot card corresponding: thus row column attributions fire a puer h iv. the emperor water d populus j vii. the chariot air g puella l viii. justice fire (cardinal signs) earth j carcer o xv. the devil fire e fortuna minor f xi. strength water h rubeus n xiii. death air k tristesia x xvii. the star water (fixed signs) earth b amissio w v. the hierophant fire i acquisitio s xiv. temperence water l laetitia q xviii. the moon air c albus z vi. the lovers air (mutable signs) earth f conjunctio y ix. the hermit fire b cauda draconis c xx. the last judgement water c via m xii. the hanged man

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

sword sweeps out; his keen glance peers for some shape glimmering through the gloom: naught, naught in all that void appears; more still, more silent than the tomb! ye now the good knight is aware of some black force, of some dread throne, waiting beneath that awful stair, beneath that pit of slippery stone. yea! though he sees not anything, nor hears, his subtle sense is .ware that, lackeyed by the devil-king, the beast.the questing beast.is there! so though his heart beats close with fear, though horror grips his throat, he goes, goes on to meet it, spear to spear, as good knight should, to face his foes. nay! but the end is come. black earth belches that peerless paladin up from her gulphs.untimely birth .her horror could not hold him in! white as a corpse, the hero hails the dawn, tha

LIBER CXLVIII SOLDIER AND THE HUNCHBACK

fs the good of anyfink? expects (as we used to learn about gnonne? h) the answer, gwhy, nuffink! h and again is prejudice. indolence is no virtue in a questioner. eagerness, intentness, concentration, vigilance.all these i include in the connotation of gsceptic. h such questioning as has been called gvital scepticism h is but a device to avoid true questioning, and therefore its very antithesis, the devil disguised as an angel of light [or vice versa, friend, if you are a satanist; fis a matter of words.words.words. you may write x for y in your equations, so long as you consistently write y for x. they remain unchanged.and unsolved. is not all our gknowledge h an example of this fallacy of writing one unknown for another, and then crowing like peter fs cock] 2 liber cxlviii i picture the

te sense. what is the moon made of? science replies ggreen cheese. h for our one moon we now have two ideas. greenness, and cheese. greenness depends on the sunlight, and the eye, and a thousand other things. cheese depends on bacteria and fermentation and the nature of the cow. gdeeper, ever deeper, into the mire of things! h1 shall we cut the gordian knot? shall we say gthere is god h? what, in the devil fs name, is god? if (with moses) we picture him as an old man showing us his back parts, who shall blame us? the great question.any question is the great question.does indeed treat us thus cavalierly, the disenchanted sceptic is too prone to think! well, shall we define him as a loving father, as a jealous priest, as a gleam of light upon the holy ark? what does is matter? all these imag

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

worm! fifteen cycles of pr.n.y.ma put me right mentally and physically: otherwise they had little apparent success. 7.30. have breakfasted.a pear and two garibaldis (these by the way are the small size, half the big squares) 7.50. have smoked a pipe to show that i.m not in a hurry. 8.04 hanged man with mantra in vi.uddhi. thought i had been much longer. at one point the spirit began to move. how the devil else can i express it? the consciousness seemed to flow, instead of pattering. is that clear? one should here note that there may perhaps be some essential difference in the operation of the moslem and hindu mantras. the latter boom; the former ripple. i have never tried the former at all seriously until now. meme jeu.no good at all. think i fll get up and have a turker. 9.00. am up, hav

y survive as fragmentary quotations in the writings of proclus and other later platonists, they are believed to be parts of a single greek hexameter poem, probably first written down during the reign of marcus antoninus aurelius (2d. century c.e. the passage quoted is fragment 130 in the westcott edition. t.s] john st. john 89 .adonai, ply thou thy scourge! adonai, load thou the chain. 7.25. what the devil is the matter with the time? the hours flit just like butterflies.the moon, dead full, shines down the boulevard. my moon.full moon of my desire (ha, ha, thou beast! are .i and me and mine. not dead yet) yea, lord adonai! but the full moon means much to john st. john; he fears (fears, o lord of the western pylon) lest, of once that full moon pass, he may not win through .the harvest is o

del to the sunrise.and nothing comes of it! darwin studies nature with more reverence and enthusiasm, but without antics. and out comes the law of evolution. so it is written .by their fruits ye shall know them. but about this question of spiritual overfeeding.what did darwin do when he got to the stage (as he did, be sure! liber dccclx 100 many a time) when he wished every pigeon in the world at the devil? now this wish has never really arisen in john st. john; however bad he feels, he always feels that attainment is the only possible way out of it. this is the good karma of his ten years. constant striving. well, in the upshot, he will get back to work at once, and hope that his few hours in the world may prove a true strategic movement to the rear, and not a euphemism for rout! 5.04. th

LIBER LVII

m and ran. had it not been so, the weary prodigal, exhausted by his early debauches (astral visions and magic) and his later mental toil (yoga) would never have had the strength to reach the house of his father. one little point st. luke unaccountable omitted. when a man is as hungry and weary as was the prodigal, he is apt to see phantoms. he is apt to clasp shadows to him, and cry .father. and, the devil being subtle, capable of disguising himself as an angel of light, it behoves the prodigal to have some test of truth. some great mystics have laid down the law .accept no messenger of god. banish all, until at last the father himself comes forth. a counsel of perfection. the father himself does send messengers, as we learn in st. mark xii; and if we stone them, we may perhaps in our blin

h the .trying of the spirits, to know whether they be of god. suppose now that a vision purporting to proeed from god is granted to me. the angel declares his name. i add it up. it comes to 65. an excellent number! a blessed angel! not necessarily. suppose he is of a mercurial appearance? 65 is a number of mars. then i conclude that, however beautiful and eloquent he may be, he is a false spirit. the devil does not understand the qabalah well enough to clothe his symbols in harmony. but suppose an angel, even lonely in aspect, not only knows the qabalah. your own researches in the qabalah.as well as you do, but is able to show you truths, qabalistic truths which you had sought for long and vainly! then you receive him with honour and his message with obedience. it is as if a beggar sought

111. priceless, because of its 37 3 symbolism, its explanation of aleph, which we seek, and its comment that the unity may be found in .thick darkness. and in .sudden death. this is the most clear and definite help we have yet had, showing samadhi and the destruction of the ego as gates of our final victory. 120. see part i. and references. 124. do, eden. the narrow gate or path between death and the devil.71 156. olabab. this most holy and precious name is fully dealt with in liber 418. notice 156= 12 13. this was a name given and ratified by qabalah; 156 is not one of the a priori helpful numbers. it is rather a case of the qabalah illuminating st. john.s intentional obscurity. 165. 11 xv should be a number capricorni pneumatici. not yet fulfilled* 201. ra, light (chaldee. note 201= 3 67

st i had only aharba, the lord of the adepts. cf. abraha-melin.73 214. jwr is one of the most seductive numbers to the beginner. yet its crown is daath, and later one learns to regard it as the great obstacle. look at its promise 21, ending in the fearful curse of 4! calamity! 69 [but see note to this number in part i. t.s] 70 [see the equinox of the gods. t.s] 71 [because o and n are referred to the devil and death in the tarot. in the golden dawn portal ritual this description refers to the path of samekh, but putting a gate on the end of said path also gives us 124. t.s* 165= nemo [note added by ac in a copy of equinox i (5, transcribed by yorke. nemo (165 by greek numeration) is the symbolic name of a master of the temple, see liber 418. t.s] 72 [the reference is to nox spelt in hebrew

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

to my critics the open door to the above city of refuge my be taken as merely another gesture of contemptuous pity, the last insult which may lead my antagonists to that surrender which is the truest victory. peace to all beings* vide infra .berashith. 5 the sword of song 2 ascension day i flung out of chapel1* and church, temple and hall and meeting-room, venus. bower and osiris. tomb,2 and left the devil in the lurch, while god3 got lost in the crowd of gods,4 and soul went down5 in the turbid tide of the metaphysical lotus-eyed,6 and i was.anyhow, what.s the odds? the life to live? the thought to think? shall i take refuge in a tower like once childe roland. found, blind, deaf, huge, or in that forest of two hundred thousand trees,8 fit alike to shelter man and mouse, and. shall i say g

again. did they at last in glory live, satan and judas69 might forgive the middle time of misery, forgive the wrong creation first or evolution.s iron key did them.provided they are passed beyond all change and pain at last out of this universe accurst. but otherwise! i lift my voice, deliberately take my choice promethean, eager to rejoice, in the grim protest.s joy to revel betwixt iscariot and the devil, throned in their midst! no pain to feel, tossed on some burning bed of steel, but theirs: my soul of love should swell and, on those piteous floors they trod, feel, and make god feel, out of hell, across the gulf impassable, that he was damned and i was god! ay! let him rise and answer me that false creative deity, whence came his right to rack the earth with pangs of death,70 disease

est and mockery in a wink. i can dismiss with sneers as cheap as your this fabric of mine own, one banner of my mind o.erthrown just at my will. how true and deep is carroll47 when his alice cries .it.s nothing but a pack of cards. there.s the true refuge of the wise; to overthrow the temple guards, deny reality. and now (i.ll quote you scripture anyhow) what did the sage mean when he wrote (i am the devil when i quote .the mere terrestrial-minded man knows not the things of god, nor can their subtle meaning understand. a sage, i say, although he mentions perhaps the best of his inventions, god. for at first this practice tends to holy thoughts (the holy deeds precede success) and reverent gaze upon the ancient one of days, beyond which fancy lies the truth. to find which i have left my yo

! let me die like a dog; die, and be done with it* famous adelphi villain. ii. as far as reason goes, there.s hope for mortals yet: when nothing is that knows, what is there to regret? our consciousness depends on matter in the brain; when that rots out, and ends, there ends the hour of pain. iii. if we can trust to this, why, dance and drink and revel! great scarlet mouths to kiss, and sorrow to the devil! if pangs ataxic creep, or gout, or stone, annoy us, queen morphia, grant thy sleep! let worms, the dears, enjoy us! iv. but since a chance remains that .i. surives the body (so talk the men whose brains are made of smut and shoddy, i.ll stop it if i can (ah jesus, if thou couldest) i.ll go to martaban to make myself a buddhist. v. and yet: the bigger chance lies with annihilation. follo

gions of planetary spirits the hairs of the moustache, to each one; to ninety and one myriads of the elohim, the hairs of the beard; to each thirteen, and the oil to ease the world; to shalach, the archdevil, the chin. so also with the lesser relics; of which are notable only: to the order, the heart of our father: to the book of the law, his venerable lungspace to serve as a shrine thereunto: to the devil aot, the liver, to be divided: to the angel exarpt and his followers, the great intestine: to bitom the devil and his crew, the little intestine: to aub, aud, and aur, the venerable phallus of our father: to ash the little bone of the same: to our children k, c, b, c, g, t, n, h, i, and m, his illustrious finger-nails, and the toe-nails to be in trust for their children after them: and s

LIBER XCV THE WAKE WORLD

here are three passages that lead to the treasure house of gold, and all of them are very dreadful. one is called the terror by night, and another the arrow by day, and the third has a name that people are afraid to hear, so i won.t say. but in the first we came to a mighty throne of grey granite, shaped like the sweetest pussy cat you ever saw, and set up on a desolate heath. it was midnight and the devil came down and sat in the midst; but my fairy prince whispered .hush! it is a great secret, but his name is yeheswah, and he is the saviour of the world. and that was very funny, because the girl next to me thought it was jesus christ, till another fairy prince (my prince.s brother) whispered as he kissed her .hush, tell nobody ever, that is satan, and he is the saviour of the world. we w

ery funny, because the girl next to me thought it was jesus christ, till another fairy prince (my prince.s brother) whispered as he kissed her .hush, tell nobody ever, that is satan, and he is the saviour of the world. we were a very great company, and i can.t tell you all of the strange things we did and said, or of the song we sang as we danced face outwards in a great circle ever closing in on the devil on the throne. but whenever i saw a toad or a bat, or some horrid insect, my fairy prince always whispered .it is the saviour of the world. and i saw that it was so. we did all the most beautiful wicked things you can imagine, and yet all the time we knew that they were good and right, and must be done if ever we were to get to the house of gold. so we en-joyed ourselves very much and at

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annot exist. the greater the contrasts we encounter the greater our reality: truth is all contrasting (our) fictions constantly interacting create a co-essential supposition, seek blood, joi e 1' 5. 1"d( u%y% s (i 5! to, or better than, a stale reality. our imaginary excesses are the hylic of possibility. if you act with ulterior motive or for evil, a thousand unseen hands will assist you, indeed the devil himself will attend if guised as altruistic. but if you act anonymously and virtuously, only god will help you (which is doubtful. g( r "d i h w=h..q 5! 5! 9= y> e 6. e e. 5..1 of borrowed precepts or simulations, as living an inexperience. belief must be vital, livable, and as unquestioned as our blood-circulation or heart-throb. some things are far distant in time and space; we journey

e all the time and develop from the simple into vast complexities so we are uncertain of their origins. is the originator greater than his works? let us have. hope, faith and charity. a touch of lusty levity cures the illusions of our hemianopic moralities, sensibilities and righteousness; for the life-force is not blind. we are. if god is manifest in all phenomena, our reactions have outstripped the devil himself. if our ethics were as logical as our techniques and methods of design they would at least have appropriateness. whether the psyche develops with the body, or whether a transmutation occurs or is created by us, matters little as long as we endow it with godlike form. chaos wedlocked to chaos gave birth to order. t- p( 9..t"d..1 y..q' 2 .5: e may take. because of our infinite rela

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ing of darkness one shall embrace the light. while working through the currents of chaos magic, discordian aspects are not pursued within toph. we utilize many aspects of magick and sorcery, thus through the exploration of many 12 avenues can an effective path be built and expanded upon by each individual, allow interpretation to mold through each witch or sorcerer seeking the path. the symbol of the devil within the dark witches sabbat path is symbolic of transformation within each individual, which appears at first glance, dark and foreboding yet essentially allows a great light of wisdom and power to be revealed. this is the black flame, the knowledge of self-consciousness and the process of becoming something greater. the devil or shaitan as it is called is a part of the gnosis of luci

bat path is symbolic of transformation within each individual, which appears at first glance, dark and foreboding yet essentially allows a great light of wisdom and power to be revealed. this is the black flame, the knowledge of self-consciousness and the process of becoming something greater. the devil or shaitan as it is called is a part of the gnosis of luciferian selfliberation and awakening. the devil is essentially, humanity s darkside, the very essence of infernal teachings that reveal man and woman as holding their own infinite potential. the light of knowledge which depicts good and evil is a great wisdom few may handle responsibly, it allows one to create and destroy. the devil is defined as the personification of evil, or the inverse ideology of whatever moralistic system is pop

popular at the time. the word devil derives from the greek diabolos, which originally meant accuser. the word demon is derived from daimon, meaning a guardian spirit. a demon in modern context (according to toph) is a spirit or intelligence which can be related to ones evil genius, or hidden self, or the holy guardian angel, which is a perfected manifestation of the self in anthropomorphic form. the devil would not lead us to death and fire, but to life, creation, pleasure, ecstasy and wisdom. lucifer has been described within a witches sabbat context before, specifically as the husband of diana from the legend originating from italian folklore. lucifer (the sun) was the husband of diana (the moon; the two were joined in a great union of opposites. it is the development of the individual

s one of which the individual proclaims his and her mastery over their own being, that by moving widdershins around the circle will enflame the self during invocation; that is to envision each manifestation via minds eye with each call. for instance, when one calls south, they would envision the fire djinn, in the north, seth. this is the key to the success of magical work; the imagination. south the devil-djinn mentioned is shaitan or azazel, the fallen seraph whom is made entirely of flame. it is this original legend which brought forth the separation of the goddivinity or natural order to an adversarial or antinomianian process of anti-order. the mentioning of blackened light is the light of azazel, or shaitan embodied on earth through cain, the initiator of the sethanic path of witchcr

in the workings of sorcery. called also the famulus (latin) fetish an object from which the focus of a spirit or coven item is charged. this is the home of the famulus and is an extension of the sorcerer. holy guardian angel the true will, the divine aspect of the self as the psyche, the immortal aspect of the mind which separates us from pure instinctual beings. iblis- the fallen angel known as the devil. the attribution of iblis is that of the imagination, thus lucifer is our imagination. while not widely accepted in the west, william blake was one of the few to and attributes satan to the mind. iblis is derived from the greek diabolus. iblis before the fall is known as azazyl, whom is identical to the leader of the watchers. invocation the act of calling the spirits in, assuming consci

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY AND SET TYPHON

its is sought. this is a part of the great work of communion with the holy guardian angel, and greater servitor or familiar. vampirism a secret art of predatory spiritualism, which involves astral projection and aspects of lycanthropy, communion with the dead and necromantic workin tluciferian sorcery and set- typhon by michael w. ford first written in 2003 and updated january 2006 suti (set) and the devil-forms of ancient egypt i am the crocodile-god (sebak) who dwelleth amid his terrors. i am the crocodile-god and i seize (my prey) like a ravening beast transformation into the crocodile-god from the egyptian book of the dead set is considered in the developing luciferian gnosis as the adversary, an early form of the adversary. the crocodile god sebak in the egyptian book of the dead draw

LUCIFERIAN WITCHCRAFT AN INTRODUCTION

hought dictates advancement by positive practice of magick and sorcery. ones own darkside must be explored in areas not normally embraced by occult orders. the qlippoth as described in michael ford s the book of the witch moon is a demonic astral region, beneficial to those who dive the mirror of lilith and become stronger. through the diving of darkness one shall embrace the light. the symbol of the devil within luciferian witchcraft is symbolic of transformation within each individual, which appears at first glance, dark and foreboding yet essentially allows a great light of wisdom and power to be revealed. this is the black flame, the knowledge of self-consciousness and the process of becoming something greater. the devil is essentially, humanity s darkside, the very essence of infernal

led. this is the black flame, the knowledge of self-consciousness and the process of becoming something greater. the devil is essentially, humanity s darkside, the very essence of infernal teachings that reveal man and woman as holding their own infinite potential. the light of knowledge which depicts good and evil is a great wisdom few may handle responsibly, it allows one to create and destroy. the devil is defined as the personification of evil, or the inverse ideology of whatever moralistic system is popular at the time. the word devil derives from the greek diabolos, which originally meant accuser. the word demon is derived from daimon, meaning a guardian spirit. a demon in modern context (according to toph) is a spirit or intelligence which can be related to ones evil genius, or hidd

popular at the time. the word devil derives from the greek diabolos, which originally meant accuser. the word demon is derived from daimon, meaning a guardian spirit. a demon in modern context (according to toph) is a spirit or intelligence which can be related to ones evil genius, or hidden self, or the holy guardian angel, which is a perfected manifestation of the self in anthropomorphic form. the devil would not lead us to death and fire, but to life, creation, pleasure, ecstasy and wisdom. lucifer has been described within a sabbatic context before, specifically as the husband of diana from the legend originating from italian folklore. lucifer (the sun) was the husband of diana (the moon; the two were joined in a great union of opposites. it is the development of the individual toward

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

ble by physical or chemical parameters (disturbances. eventually, such disturbances can lead to an enormous spectrum, a wide pallet of chemical systems that may have been present at the origin of life and from which chemical evolution selected the most fit. life today is still such an irreversible, far-from-equilibrium, dissipative system, albeit not figure 5.1 be nard cells. from n. shanks, god, the devil, and darwin (oxford: oxford university press, 2004, by permission of oxford university press. 114 evolution and religious creation myths quite as chaotic as suggested by figure 5.2 (see appendix 2 for where to find details on dissipative structures. life is irreversible because, left alone (that is, barring events such as catastrophic asteroid impacts or a nuclear holocaust, it propagate

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

sons. simon magus, the magician of new testament fame, is often supposed to have been the founder of gnosticism. if this be true, the sect was formed during the century after christ and is probably the first of the many branches which have sprung from the main trunk of christianity. everything with which the enthusiasts of the early christian church might not agree they declared to be inspired by the devil. that simon magus had mysterious and supernatural powers is conceded even by his enemies, but they maintained that these powers were lent to him by the infernal spirits and furies which they asserted were his ever present companions. undoubtedly the most interesting legend concerning simon is that which tells of his theosophic contests with the apostle peter while the two were promulgati

stence of these phenomenal lamps. only a few maintained that the lamps would burn forever, but many were willing to concede that they might remain alight for several centuries without replenishment of the fuel. some considered the so-called perpetual lights as mere artifices of the crafty pagan priests, while a great many, admitting that the lamps actually burned, made the sweeping assertion that the devil was using this apparent miracle to ensnare the credulous and thereby lead their souls to perdition. on this subject the learned jesuit, athanasius kircher, usually dependable, exhibits a striking inconsistency. in his oedipus gyptiacus he writes "not a few of these ever-burning lamps have been found to be the devices of devils* and i take it that all the lamps found in the tombs of the g

lly dependable, exhibits a striking inconsistency. in his oedipus gyptiacus he writes "not a few of these ever-burning lamps have been found to be the devices of devils* and i take it that all the lamps found in the tombs of the gentiles dedicated to the worship of certain gods, were of this kind, not because they burned, or have been reported to burn, with a perpetual flame, but because probably the devil set them there, maliciously intending thereby to obtain fresh credence for a false worship" having admitted that dependable authorities defend the existence of the ever-burning lamps, and that even the devil lends himself to their manufacture, kircher next declared the entire theory to be desperate and impossible, and to be classed with perpetual motion and the philosopher's stone. havin

random from the imposing list of perpetual lamps found in different ages. plutarch wrote of a lamp that burned over the door of a temple to jupiter ammon; the priests declared that it had remained alight for centuries without fuel. st. augustine described a perpetual lamp, guarded in a temple in egypt sacred to venus, which neither wind nor water could extinguish. he believed it to be the work of the devil. an ever-burning lamp was found at edessa, or antioch, during the reign of the emperor justinian. it was in a niche over the city gate, elaborately enclosed to protect it from the elements. the date upon it proved that the lamp had been burning for more than 500 years. it was destroyed by soldiers. during the early middle ages a lamp was found in england which had burned since the third

prophecy by means of which the gods could communicate with mankind and reveal futurity to such as deserved the boon. the early history of greece abounds with accounts of talking trees, rivers, statues, and caves in which nymphs, dryads, or d mons had taken up their abodes and from which they delivered oracles. while christian authors have tried to prove that oracular revelations were delivered by the devil for the purpose of misleading humanity, they have not dared to attack the theory of oracles, because of the repeated reference to it in their own sacred writings. if the onyx stones on the shoulders of israel's high priest made known by their flashings the will of jehovah, then a black dove, temporarily endowed with the faculty of speech, could indeed pronounce oracles in the temple of j

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yet unfascinating practitioner. the rituals themselves in this area of magic are ruled by a very different power to habondia. in fact, we are dealing with her consort, the horned one, in medieval times claimed by the church to be none other than satan himself. the attribution is merely scholarly, however, as the horned one existed long before christianity came into existence, with its concept of the devil. whereas habondia's symbol is the dove, old horny's is the goat. to students of symbolism, this attribute should speak for itself. the goat is the age-old representative of lust and debauchery, and cernunnos himself, for such is his witch name, is frequently represented as possessing the cloven hooves, horns, and erect phallus of his attribute. his symbolism has much in common with that

gs to the class of solanaceae, and the english mandrake, white bryony, or bryonia dioica, belonging to the class cucurbitaceae. solanaceae is the family which includes such plants as the tomato and potato, while the cucurbitaceae include the cucumber and the gourd. also among the solanaceae are included such old-time favourite witch poisons as dwale (deadly nightshade, enchanters' nightshade, and the devil's-apple, or datura stramonium. the latter is better known in the united states as jimson weed. mandragores may be made from the roots of all these, but great care should be taken as they all can be extremely poisonous. the english mandrake (white bryony) is preferable for this reason, and just as traditional. here is the method of preparation: on a day when the moon is waxing, preferably

witchment, is, as you can see, a rather unpleasant one. most of the operations detailed in this chapter are similarly so, involving as they do the sustained forces of hate and fear. but if the powers of darkness fail to worry you and you remain determined to make your weight felt as a witch and equally determined to risk the consequences, then these are the processes to use. but when you sup with the devil, you must needs use a long spoon; and as i mentioned before, the only "spoon" really long enough is that rather unethical method of getting someone else to do the dirty work for you. and even then you will still have to consider the possibility of magical reprisals, should you be found out. as i mentioned at the beginning of chapter 5, your occult activities never go by completely unnoti

my belief that "something" if not someone is always alerted whenever occult balances are tipped one way or another by the considered use of witch power by an individual or group. the barabbas spell here is a ritual of wrath and chastisement passed down to us originally by the witches of medieval spain. it is a conjuration of the horned one, using his christianized titles "barabbas "satanas" and "the devil" in his destructive aspect, cernunnos could well be allied with those images, although nothing like the usual christian theological background for his existence is accepted by present-day members of the craft. however, the spell is impressive, and traditional, even with the implied theological red herrings. cast a triangle on a night when the moon is waning, using an incense of wrath and

ar, and grind the substances together. they don't have to be pulverized to a powder, just sufficiently to mix well with one another. divide the resultant mixture into three heaps. as midnight strikes, scoop one of the heaps into your left hand, and chant the first part of the spell, passing it from hand to hand, to and fro, as you do: salt and coriander, i conjure thee by barabbas, by satanas, by the devil cursed be! not as salt and coriand i call thee but the heart of [victim's name! with that, cast the mixture into the thurible fire with your left hand. as it blazes up, continue: as thou burnst, so let the heart of [n] burn; and bring it here to me! conjured by the queen of sard, by the underworld itself, by the sailors on the sea [n] i summon thee by barabbas, by satanas, by the devil c

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 2

n the false opinion of their adorers. baal, belphegor, moloch, adramelech, have been the idols of the syrians; idols without soul, idols now destroyed, and of whom the name alone remaineth. the true god hath vanquished all the demons as truth triumphs over error. that is past in the opinions of men, and the wars of michael against satan are the symbols of movement, and of the progress of spirits. the devil is ever a god of refusal. accredited idolatries are religions in their time. superannuated idolatries are superstitions and sacrileges. the pantheon of phantoms, which are then in vogue, is the heaven of the ignorant. the receptacle of phantoms, whom folly even wisheth for no longer, is the hell. but all this existeth only in the imagination of the vulgar. for the wise, heaven is the sup

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peaceably and quietly and the peace of god be ever continued between thee and me! amen! after thou hast given the spirit license to depart, thou art not to go out of the circle until he or they be gone, and until thou shalt have made prayers and rendered thanks unto god for the great blessings he hath bestowed upon thee in granting thy desires, and delivering thee from all the malice of the enemy the devil. also note! thou mayest command these spirits into the vessel of brass in the same manner as thou dost into the triangle, by saying: that thou dost forthwith appear before this circle, in this vessel of brass, in a fair and comely shape, etc, as hath been shown in the foregoing conjurations. 35 in the latin, bathal vel vathat super abrae ruens! abeor veniens super aberer! 36 or whatever

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ed out of the sand of the wilderness, and by that great power that led the children of israel into the land of canaan& by that great power that destroyed sonachoribs great host& by that great& almighty power of him that walked on the sea as on dry land& by that almighty power that raised the dead lazarus out of his grave& by that almighty power of the blessed& holy& glorious trinity that did cast the devil& all disobedient angels out of heaven into hell that thou thief return immediately& restore the goods again which thou hast stolen away, therefore in& by the names of the almighty god before rehearsed i charge thee, thou thief to restore the goods again immediately or else the wrath of god may fall upon thee& force thee to come immediately. amaythe meaning of masonry by w.l. wilmshurst f

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a form from which its native spirit has departmsl i s h i n g 2 a rite of the werewolf the going forth to the infernal sabbat by michael w. ford, akhtya seker arimanius once the sorcerer has undertaken the self-initiation ritual entitled, a ritual of lycanthropy 1 in both parts, and he has visualized perfectly his werewolf shadow, or that similar beast of sorcerer, he has entered into the pact of the devil, the black man of the sabbat. it is the passing of that rite of initiation that will prepare the witch to travel forth to the infernal sabbat, symbolized as the persian arezura, the place in the north, the gates of hell. let the practitioner be perfectly still in focus and will, that nothing shall break his or her concentration of that task which draws the ka (the astral or body of light

pproached him, the third saying whither away, you seem to be in trouble, the rider then told the boy not to worry that his master may take care of him and his flock, saving them from the attack of wolves. his name was revealed as moyset, he initiated pierre by the young man renouncing christianity, kissing moyset s left hand (which was black and as cold as a corpse) and giving an oath to his lord the devil. after a time pierre went back into the service of his community and was reinitiated by a man named michel verdung. verdung took pierre to a sabbat ritual, where they met in the woods near chastel charnon. each danced about with a green candle with a blue flame, and then smeared a salve on pierre which transformed him into a wolf. it was later that moyset returned and gave pierre a salve

transformation, will often give salves to new initiates. a demonologist, pierre de lancre (1612) mentioned a goat-like figure, wearing a chasuble who read from a book bound in wolf s skin, which contained pages red, white and black. in commentarius de praecipibus divinationum generibus (1560) by casper peucer wrote of a story from latvia, of when werewolves take their forms to walk at night with the devil. the sorcerers are summoned to a conclave where all transform and go forth by night. the writer jean de nyauld in de la lycanthropie and metamorphosis and ecstasy and witches makes reference to an ointment with the following ingredients: the fat of a child (take away christian paranoia= animal fat, juice of water parsnip, soot and deadly nightshade. the unguent which was smeared on the i

cihw rehtaf ruo. the chant of becoming a werewolf (inspired by the sloane ms. british museum manuscript, as given to me by the skratte) under the gleam of the moon, be it full or dark i stand in the crossroads of cain under the horns of the adversary and beast lord as the gray shadow which ensorcels my being as with who drinks water from the prints of the wolf to he who has taken the wolf belt of the devil by satanadar i summon thee, by the devil i become thee i shall become the werewolf, man and beast to go forth this night to feast none shall capture my gray form by the binding words, nasatanda so it is done! i am indebted to: skratte (nathaniel harris, elda isela ford, scorpius nokmet, frater a.s.l, soror teth. 7 night and the witches sabbat -the adversarial foundations of sorceryby mic

is the in-between point which later unveils the light, therefore being a barrier and initiation aspect of the self and such conceptual matter. the numerical 666, described by aleister crowley is the number of the beast11, which is inherent in the sun in the zodiac. the sun is also associated with the adversarial triad, being shaitan (set) typhon, apophras (apep) and besz, a god of transformation. the devil as an initiatory force is considered masculine, thus is represented by the phallus or source of creative life. in the tarot, the devil is attributed to capricornus, and the hebrew letter ayin, being an eye. the symbolism of the devil as the initiator may be best understood by the tarot as presented in the book of thoth. satan/set is the ass headed god of the desert, the lord of storms an

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human flesh, and i was able to become both. i was brought in union and great ecstasy the harmony of the celestial heights of my father s realm, being the air and fire. i was also shown and taught the arts of the lower realm, called a secret place known as arezura, that shadow and flame was the mastery over the earth. i was blessed again with the mark of cain which is the distinct mark of our lord the devil, which is the self in perpetual opposition which breeds strength and development. the mark of the devil was the initiation mark of azazel and lilith, which may come as caul or birth mark, this may be passed through the circle from my being touching the initiate, or lilith who is strong in both shadow and flame. i then took forth to the great deserts, with the blessing of lilith and the d

earded and horned human-beast, covered in gray and green earth, who is decorated with human and animal bones, his familiars. cain is sought in the hidden places of the earth, for he is the ancient and knows the unknown secrets of the earth. cain also appears as the wizened old man, robed and hooded who walks the path of old oak ways within the fog. he carries a book of art, given with the belt of the devil by those rites cain became the witch father, born of azazel and lilith. cain is the adversary of flesh, who causes storms and chaos just as set himself. cain tests those upon the path and blesses those who may answer his riddles. it is indeed cain who would feed ones soul to the wolves of the shadows, when the will is weak. invoke cain in isolation and within the circle of those who are

ate my spirit! my brow marked in blood, horned walker of worlds! strike now with thy hammer, shall the eye of the serpent open forth! unveiled in the nightside do i come forth! that i walk the path of dragon born, caster of the first circle of emerald and crimson flame. gatekeeper and horned shape shifter open forth the fiery path! illuminate the blackened flame! shall i awake the serpent born in the devil s skin cain i summon thee! tubal-qayin as it is sometimes spelled is the blacksmith whose forge is the heart of the sabbatic craft. the child of asmodeus (called often samael) and lilith, is considered the bringer of gnosis to humanity. other legends give tubal cain as the child of samael and eve, and that in congress the dragon spit filth into her and bore cain. tubal cain was demonized

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haunt villages and drain astral life force and blood from the sleeping. the varcolaci vampire is quite powerful on the astral plane, being able to haunt the night in many forms, depending on the primal urge and desire. further explanations and developments of this form are discussed in later chapters of this book. dracul or dracula is romanian meaning "son of the dragon" and can also mean "son of the devil. dracula is known as vlad tepes, a romanian noble man who lived from 1431 to 1476 and protected the transylvanian country side with terror and honor. vlad was known as the "impaler prince" for his use of impalement and torture. his modern tactics of war and subterfuge proved him to be a successful war lord and prince. his war with the turks lasted his life and gave birth to many tales of

the town of bedburg unto cologne in upper germany, there was brought up one stubbe peeter, who from his youth was greatly inclined to evil. he gave himself to the practice of the wicked arts from age twelve years until his dying day. he gorged himself in the damnable desire of magic, necromancy and sorcery, acquainting himself with many infernal spirits and fiends. in the end he sold his soul to the devil in return for a life full of carnal pleasure. unlike other accursed men, this vile man sorcerer desired of the devil neither riches nor promotion nor any other outward pleasure. being of a most cruel and bloody mind, he requested that he might work malice on men, women and children in the shape of some beast. thus he might live without dread or danger of life and be unknown as the perpet

romotion nor any other outward pleasure. being of a most cruel and bloody mind, he requested that he might work malice on men, women and children in the shape of some beast. thus he might live without dread or danger of life and be unknown as the perpetrator of those bloody enterprises which he meant to commit. recognizing this wicked fiend as a fit instrument to perform mischief and destruction, the devil gave unto stubbe peeter a girdle, which being put around him transformed him forthwith into the likeness of a devouring wolf. this demonic wolf was strong and mighty, with great eyes which in the night sparkled like brands of fire. it's body was huge, a great mouth wide with most sharp and cruel teeth. as soon as he would take off the girdle the talons with long and razor sharp nails wou

ng them. while the rest escaped by flight, he would for sure lay hold to one, and once he satisfied his lust he would murder them. it so happened that he had a daughter, who was a fair young damsel by which name was stubbe beel. she was said to be very beautiful. stubbe beell was also victim of her 16 16 fathers' lustful desires, not even she was free from his perversion and desire. at one length the devil sent unto stubbe peeter a succubus, elemental who was in flesh a beautiful and surreal woman. this woman was with him for seven years, and once her purpose unto stubbe was served, she disappeared. this did not falter stubbe peeter, he continued his lycanthropic changes and began shedding blood each day. the following matter doth stand as a special note of the wickedness of this abominabl

itch blood is not an actual hereditary stream or genetic code, but a mental gateway and gift bestowed by one who conceals the nature of the self and self-love, the discipline needed to conquer the state of being. some christian based beliefs describe those of the path of the adversary, or shaitan (lucifer) as demon-possessed. they state that we are conversing with demons and harbor relations with the devil. this is completely true! we are of the adversary, the devil, or shaitan. its voice speaks to us through our dreams, through our very lives according to our will. this is witch blood. anyone who has dedicated the self to evolution and the path of sorcery may become one of the witch blood, one who desires it so and is willing to walk through the caverns of darkness to seek the light of se

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amaraka, nagas, the rakshasas, dragon kings, naddred,the brotherhood of the snake, and the serpent people. they were also referred to asthe djedhi (see jedi. the bible takes the position that the nephilim were a malign presence and insists thattheir leaders committed a great sin by interfering with the evolution of humankind: and the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the devil and satan,the deceiver of the whole world, he was cast down to earth and his angels were cast downwith him (revelation) and it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughterswere born unto them, that the sons of god saw the daughters of men that they were fair; andthey took them wives of all that they chose (genesis, chapter 6-8) there are several key hyp

d the lord said, i will destroy manwhom i have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing,and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that i have made them (genesis 6-8. and there was war in heaven: michael and his angels fought against the dragon: and thedragon fought and his angels, and prevailed notand the great dragon was cast out that oldserpent, called the devil, and satan which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out intothe earth, and his angels were cast out with him (revelation 12:7-12) woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the land of these almighty gods? these are thegods that smote the egyptians with all manner of plagues in the wilderness (samuel 4:8) and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the lord and by hi

see thegreat tale cryptically and repeatedly insinuated (see highlander, the hunger, scanners,superman, the hidden, conan the barbarian, sword and the sorcerer, battle star galac-tica, v, beastmaster, the dark crystal, cocoon, red sonja, lifeforce, invasion of the bodysnatchers, the invisible man, frankenstein, dracula, flash gordon, trancers, bladerunner ,terminator, the omen, the time bandits, the devil rides out, quatermass, dr. who,blake s seven, space 1999, star trek, the last wave, they live, it came from outer space,the brain from the planet arrous, the creature w alks among us, w ar of the worlds, thetripods, six million dollar man, freejack, tron, planet of the apes, the eiger sanction,the time machine, things to come, cabinet of dr. caligari, the golem, android, five mil-lion y

via the record companies, marketing agents, and publicityhouses. there is a reason why the pop icon madonna, for instance, has this moniker and whyshe constantly displays the cross or crucifix. it is why the imagery in her videos is of the type itis and why she is so personally wealthy. it has to do with whom she and her promoters serve.the same goes for the rolling stones (listen to sympathy for the devil, 200 light y ears fromhome, midnight rambler, paint it black, goat's head soup, their satanic majesty's request,etc) the beatles, and the grateful dead. and these are but three examples of thousands. thepublic would be shocked to their core if they were to find out the facts about this particularstudy and about what has been infiltrated into their minds and the minds of their young. here

ak the circuit. so, the satellites with their on-board laserweapons, elf, and microwaves (see haarp) are the tools these criminals use in theirattempt to open a gate in the moons orbit. from the sword to the syringe110atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation we see the motif in several movies (see stargate, moonraker, city of evil, war of theworlds, quatermass, nosferatu-the v ampyre, the devil rides out, life-force, things tocome, koyannisqatsi, etc, certain artwork (see hypnosis, rodney matthews, roger dean,and h. r. giger) and other works of science-fiction. some of the movies with themes per-taining to our thesis are commissioned by the hidden masters to provide mankind updateson the progress they are making. of course, the information registers on a subliminal levelonly, b

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ge or specific areas of learning in short, challenge yourself. building the mind builds the immortal spirit. 3. qi or life energy is around all of us. drain it and grow strong from it. you absorb energy from focus itself using aighash, the persian demon of the evil eye the eye represents the soul, use this to mentally connect with everything around you. one of our 18 symbols, aapep or apophis, is the devil serpent of ancient egypt. we seek to feast and drain on life force, on the astral plane and in the flesh. to join us is to be hidden mostly in society, to be the wolf among sheep. humanity seeks eternally a safety net; a god to believe will save their souls, all the while sending tsunamis, hurricanes, blizzards, and all conceivable disasters upon its own creation. would this be a spirit

sorcerous being who could create fierce monsters and empower them accordingly. in her battle against the gods including marduk, tiamat first created vampiric beings. it was written that she beget serpents who were unsparing of fang and sharp of tooth. she filled their bodies with venom instead of blood, initiating transformation. the great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and satan, the deceiver of the whole world. he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him revelations. tiamat cloaked ferocious dragons in fearsome rays, that she encircled them in the luciferian light, they 21 bore mantles of radiance (black flame) and made them godlike. tiamat thus lifted up kingu or qingu as the leader of these vampiric beings, she cast a s

as well. the vampyre magickian may drain and utilize them to drain others from the dream. their instincts and emotions are powerful persuasion tools against another. they make excellent servitors as well. they demand a 60 sexual (masturbation or copulation) sacrifice upon their talisman. luciferian witch kings and queens in the center of the circle is found samael and asmodeus. samael appears as the devil of the tarot, devouring and consuming life energy souls are the food of this force. asmodai or asmodeus appears as a bloated or bestial man, crouching but arises to crush others with a blood dripping mace or spear. he drains life force in this manner. the southeast angle is the evil adam or cain the son, a goat-headed, skeleton-like giant, the thousand- headed hydra serpent; and the elde

tauus (peacock) is the symbol of solar enlightenment, wisdom and beautiful developed being. 90 luciferian witchcraft by michael w. ford succubus publishing 2005 isbn 1411626389 the home publisher of luciferian witchcraft is here: http//www.lulu.com/succubusbooks "this is the revealed grimoire of the left-hand path. there is power for those willing to drink from the cup of the beast and his bride, the devil's harlot. herein is the path as walked by one who seeks to reveal the true path of ahriman and lilith-az, to manifest in flesh the spirit of azi dahaka and cain. herein is magick from the foundation to higher pathworkings of sorcery and black magick. here the works which burn away the modern white-washing of so-called magick and or witchcraft. herein are the rituals of lucifer, ancient p

initiation rites of black magick that have established ford as the most cutting-edge exponent of the left hand path tradition in america today. the book begins with a lengthy and highly scholarly exposition of the place of the draconic adversary within historical magick. set typhon, the egyptian god of darkness, ahriman, the persian devil and his whore of darkness, the adversary and the bride of the devil, cain the son, the gnostic yaldabaoth "child of chaos, the path of the crooked serpent- leviathan and beelzebub and tiamat, pazuzu, and moloch are only some of the topics and figures covered. the second part of the book,the grimoires of luciferian witchcraft, includes several of his most infamous graveyard workings, together with the complete version of the luciferian goetia- a completel

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e animals speak it. so perhaps the magical program accepts commands by listening to the thoughts and intentions of the magician. still, there must be something else that the magical program requires to constitute a magical command. everyone has called out "god, sometimes while doing the most horrendous things, and (perhaps luckily) he failed to show up. countless times have the words "satan" and "the devil" been said aloud or contemplated on, and still he doesn't show (unquestionably lucky. we all have will and desires, but what stops those everyday thoughts from becoming magical commands? the answer is ritual, visualization, and invocation. we all have ritual. some smoke a cigarette the moment they wake up, some stumble to the coffee machine, and others head straight to the bathroom. ever

is the predatory and pragmatic nature of the vampire turned into a religion whose highest achievement is self-deification. the left hand, and the left side of the body has always been associated with darkness. in fact the word sinister comes from latin, where the word meant left-handed or unlucky. in the middle ages, people who wrote with their left hand were thought to be evil, and possessed by the devil. in islam, the tutelary demon assigned at birth always--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 67 resides invisibly on the individual s left side. what s more, muslims prefer to do clean jobs such as eating and greeting others with the right hand, while relegating the left hand to dirty jobs like cleaning one s house and body. teachings of the right hand path always include a firm belief in

sabbat bring new meaning to the term ass kisser, as they are largely forced to kiss the stinking, demonic face on baphomet s rear-end; only the high-ranking witches and warlocks may kiss the goat head itself. the act of kissing the anus of baphomet is symbolic of corruption. because of his two faces, this baphomet character is often equated with janus, the roman god of gates and time. the face on the devil s posterior is said to be without the power of speech, and maintains a demonic expression. sometimes baphomet would arrive as a extremely pale man, whose flesh is ice-cold, wasted, and hanging off the bones. this personage s eyes were large and jet-black. another god form baphomet may arrive as was that of the size and shape of a tree trunk with a human face. this being has no arms or le

the sabbat are often made to renounce god and jesus, and accept baphomet and lilith (babylon) as their new father and mother. magical powders and poisons are commonly distributed to those present so that they can continue causing mischief among mankind. sometimes baphomet would assign those who attend spirits called familiars. a familiar is a spirit who has been consigned to serve an individual. the devil insisted that all the food served at the festival be insipid and disgusting in taste. the dancing done at the sabbat, especially by the women, is reminiscent of the sexually-suggestive dancing done at most clubs these days. the music at the sabbat sounds a bit chaotic, and without melody; it is frequently described as random tones and bells. satanists often compare and equate baphomet wi

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ledge, open thyself to the daemonum within (lilith-magistra drinks of the elixir from the skull cap, even if red in color, allowing some of it to cover her face (lilith now looks unto the hooded ones, those who may be present) i come before you, night born as the queen of the dead. behold unto my death mask, the temple ofazothoz as a current of the living flame. i shall bless each one of you with the devil's sight, the serpents tongue shall speak of the secret alphabet which ye all shall scribe on the walls of the sunless palace, scribe your name in the black book of the dead, with the witchblood of your veins, you are all my children, of lilith-hecate, your father is ahriman, lord of phantoms and darkness (drink of the elixir- the skull bowl is passed to each. if only the magistra and mag

familiar as a dog which had passed, this is perhaps a wonderful way to honor it) the altar should be decorated in the sigils of the beast, the sign of hecate. the evocation dagger should also be upon the altar, with the coyote or dog skull in the center. the individual seeking the darkness of the werewolf must create his or her own wolf belt. this is symbolic of the belt given to the initiate by the devil, and is made of wolf skin. in modern times, wolves are a precious and beautiful animal, which should be respected. a replacement wolf belt may be made from leather, with sigils scribed into it which hold the sigillic wisdom of the beast. if one if fortunate enough, a belt buckle with the image of the devil may prove stimulating to the imagination. stain your belt black as night, perfume

lic wisdom of the beast. if one if fortunate enough, a belt buckle with the image of the devil may prove stimulating to the imagination. stain your belt black as night, perfume it with the oils of saturn, hecate and the moon. a mask may be made and consecrated for this process of transformation, inscribed with the sigils of the beast. noctulia- hecate stands before those who work in the shadow of the devil, opposition which creates change. my own work began with a belt made of leather, i had inscribed pertinent parts of the sigillic alphabet, along with rubbing the oils of saturn, luna and hecate within it. the belt buckle was the head of the devil, as iblis the opposer. part one the first night, bath yourself and then anoint your body with the perfumes of hecate and saturn, cover yourself

roads. unto those who come to the crossroads (known also as the ghostroads) are inbetween the sun and the moon, from the living and the dead. face the altar "sekah, sekah, zrazza umpesha "by the hidden light known under the black sun, by the prayers whispered in silence unto the blood dripping moon i summon forth the adversary, noctulia- hecate, goddess before me this night. i call forth my lord, the devil, whom is a shadow of my self, just as i, isolate and individual between the dual essence of azoth, from which the toad awaits, shall the secret gates be opened "i call upon thee, satandar and asentacer, i summon thee forth phantom of darkness, i call forth the spirit of the werewolf, beast of darkness and shadow. send now the gray shape which makes men tremble. sah zrizzu usha bapesta zr

s, shall the secret gates be opened "i call upon thee, satandar and asentacer, i summon thee forth phantom of darkness, i call forth the spirit of the werewolf, beast of darkness and shadow. send now the gray shape which makes men tremble. sah zrizzu usha bapesta zrazza" take the wolf/dog skull and use the teeth to mark the left breast with the mark of the werewolf "i mark myself with the kiss of the devil, that i may transform in spirit unto the phantom shade of the night, i shall become the wolf" take now the belt, and face the altar "from the devil shall this belt be given, and i shall wear with pride. whilethe skin of the wolf and the beast is upon me, i acknowledge then that iam of seraph blood, and i am of lucifer ian birth. i am both light and darkness, the essence of the opposer wi

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rtaken by the initiate, by he and she whom invokes and envisions the luciferian light. that lucifer is iblis, the imagination and the very foundation of free thought that defines the propagation of the will. from sethanic witchcraft& the left hand path, the introduction to azothoz by the present author [4] see nox umbra, the ritual of entering black eden, the vampyric-luciferian dreaming sigil of the devil-made flesh [5] a ritual performed via book of the witch moon, by the present author and a private version practiced in coven maleficia, the triad of the order of phosphorus. see the book of cain by the present author [6] widdershins is a movement counter-clockwise, a way of going reverse about a circle. see arkon daraul, a history of secret societies, citadel press [7] a term used by sci

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ional affairs. when civil war tears the vitals of a republic, let it look back and see if it has not been guilty of injustices; and if it has, let it humble itself in the dust! when a nation becomes possessed with a spirit of commercial greed, beyond those just and fair limits set by a due regard to a moderate and reasonable degree of general and individual prosperity, it is a nation possessed by the devil of commercial avarice, a passion as ignoble and demoralizing as avarice in the individual; and as this sordid passion is baser and more unscrupulous than ambition, so it is more hateful, and at last makes the infected nation to be regarded as the enemy of the human race. to grasp at the lion's share of commerce, has always at last proven the ruin of states, because it invariably leads to

e cry of suffering; to eulogize the intelligence of the people, and plot to deceive and betray them by means of their ignorance and simplicity; to prate of purity, and peculate; of honor, and basely abandon a sinking cause; of disinterestedness, and sell one's vote for place and power, are hypocrisies as common as they are infamous and disgraceful. to steal the livery of the court of god to serve the devil withal; to pretend to believe in a god of mercy and a redeemer of love, and persecute those of a different faith; to devour widows houses, and for a pretence make long prayers; to preach continence, and wallow in lust; to inculcate humility, and in pride surpass lucifer; to pay tithe, and omit the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy and faith; to strain at a gnat, and swallow a

ed, like the rest? who, then, constantly deceived them, without betraying themselves, during a series of centuries--for the cheats are not immortal! arago said, that outside of the pure mathematics, he who utters the word "impossible" is wanting in prudence and good sense. the true name of satan, the kabalists say, is that of yahveh reversed; for satan is not a black god, but the negation of god. the devil is the personification of atheism or idolatry. for the initiates, this is not a _person, but a _force, created for good, but which _may_ serve for evil _it is the instrument of liberty or free will. they represent this force, which presides over the physical generation, under the mythologic and horned form of the god pan; thence came the he-goat of the sabbat, brother of the ancient serp

cate the infernal enginery of destruction, by which human bodies may be the more expeditiously and effectually crushed, shattered, torn, and mangled; and yet hypocritical[1] humanity, drunk with blood and drenched with gore, shrieks to heaven at a single murder, perpetrated to gratify a revenge not more unchristian, or to satisfy a cupidity not more ignoble, than those which are the promptings of the devil in the souls of nations. when we have fondly dreamed of utopia and the millennium, when we have begun almost to believe that man is _not, after all, a tiger half tamed, and that the smell of blood will not wake the savage within him, we are of a sudden startled from the delusive dream, to find the thin mask of civilization rent in twain and thrown contemptuously away. we lie down to slee

lect and exclusive class, in egypt, india, ph nicia, judea and greece as well as in britain and rome, and wherever else the mysteries were known, made use of them to build wider and higher the fabric of their own power. the purity of no religion continues long. rank and dignities succeed to the primitive simplicity. unprincipled, vain, insolent, corrupt, and venal men put on god's livery to serve the devil withal; and luxury, vice, intolerance, and pride depose frugality, virtue, gentleness, and humility, and change the altar where they should be servants, to a throne on which they reign. but the kings, philosophers, and statesmen, the wise and great and good who were admitted to the mysteries, long postponed their ultimate self-destruction, and restrained the natural tendencies of the pri

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here 'the fool' is shown with a long wand and carrying a sack; his coat is motley. tigers and crocodiles follow him, thus linking this image with that of harpocrates. almost identical symbols are those of the secret god of the templars, the bi-sexual baphomet, and of zeus arrhenothelus, equally bi-sexual, the father-mother of all in one person (he is shown in this full form in the tarot trump xv "the devil) now, zeus being lord of air, we are reminded that aleph is the letter of air. as air, we find the "wandering fool" pure wanton breath, yet creative. wind was supposed of old to impregnate the vulture, which therefore was chosen to symbolize the mother-goddess. he is the wandering knight of fairy tales who marries the kings daughter. this legend is derived from certain customs among exog

' or herself as "the scarlet woman. there has been, in the last 65 years, a painful abundance of self- deluded disciples who fancied themselves as such. it must be stated here that either office is neither easy nor pleasing to anyone's ego, and that those who seriously aspire to become "beast" or "scarlet woman" are more to be laughed at than envied. robert heinlein has an amusing story about how the devil finally managed to dethrone god, and then, upon perceiving the responsibilities of ruler of the universe, cried in panic "but i don't want your job "so sorry, old boy, now you're stuck with it" god replied gleefully, and presumably went vacationing on the riviera. 17. but ye are not so chosen. those who are chosen for those offices 'are not; that is, they passed through the annihilation;

ed for years, in vain, to elucidate the problems of the tarot 'all these old letters of my book are aright: in the tree of life diagrams there is no need to change the position of the letters. it is only the attributions to the tarot trumps that must be corrected. dove--symbol of heterosexual love. serpent--symbol of homosexual love. thelemites must choose well. well. 6+6+5+30+30= 77, oz, a goat, the devil. also, ye= yod+he= 15, which is 3 x 5, which suggests the path of cheth, the chariot, the link between binah and geburah, but also iii x v, the empress coupled with the hierophant, and xv, the devil again. yod+ he is the hermit plus the star. also, 1 +5= 6, the sun "choose" implies that a choice must be made and a mistake avoided "the stars also have tribes and nations--see liber 418, an

pled with the hierophant, and xv, the devil again. yod+ he is the hermit plus the star. also, 1 +5= 6, the sun "choose" implies that a choice must be made and a mistake avoided "the stars also have tribes and nations--see liber 418, and chapter 77 of liber 333. the general key is that you should practice homosexuality only with a fellow thelemite. the house of god, in a sense, is the phallus, xv, the devil, but also is pe, 80, the blasted tower. still in another sense, the phallus being god, the house of god is the kteis, in this case the empress, atu iii. beth, the letter of the magician, also means house, and this is that mystery concerning sin the babylonian moon-god and its influence, that we have already spoken about. serious students are referred to book four, part iii, chapter iv, t

rowls, the engineer knows that it is not fulfilling its function, doing its will, with ease and joy. its will, in this case, being a bud- will of the engineer we hope. readers will note that "god" and "dog" are the same value by the qabalah, but the letters are inverted in order. in either case, the value is either 77 if we treat the 0 as an ayin or 13, if we treat the 0 as a vau. 77 is the goat, the devil; 13 is the atu death, in which the central figure once again is saturn, the great one of the night of time. this is the "god no" the god who can live in a dog. again, there is an identification between the qabalistic values of no and on, for which see liber xv and others "no" can, of course, be written nv, 56, nuit; but is also 50+70=120, the mystical age of the adept minor. the adept mi

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o invoke the secret forces of nature a thank you email using witchcraft to smooth your path through life creating your personal grimoire 3: wiccan money spells how to cast spells that really work thank you letter #1 practical witchcraft the magic word that will bring money to you the green candle spell thank you letter #2 the magic power of chants the golden square spell spell brings needed money the devil s treasurer thank you letter #3 what will happen after casting your spells and working your rituals? 4: sex magic today the mark of the beast< thank you letter #4 the demon of lust thank you letter #5 the occult seduction spell thank you letter #6 a magical threesome thank you letter #7 magical aphrodisiacs the black candle of love thank you letter #8 sex magic for couples 5: ancient sec

she could get the needed money. she was at her wit s end. so when i suggested that she use the golden square to draw money to her, she was only too happy to give it a try. she followed my instructions. one week later, laura s mother-in-law came to visit and handed her an envelope. a gift, she told laura. it contained $300 in cash. the elemental forces worked for laura, and they will work for you. the devil s treasurer this is a very potent black magic spell to bring money. if black magic didn t work, there would be no reason for me to include this spell in this chapter or for you to try it. but black magic really works. not the old fashioned kind with bats and black cats, but an entirely new magical system based on principles thousands of years old that, under the correct conditions, works

ONYX TABLET OF SET

yet consider the prince of darkness no more than an interesting and illustrative figure of myth. with the satanic priesthood the allegory ends. as the ordained representative of our lord satan, you will become a living embodiment of the powers of darkness. you will retain mastery of your own will; indeed you will be strengthened in this regard. nevertheless you will become an agency through which the devil will achieve his ends. by now you should be sufficiently acquainted with the true motives and ambitions of the church of satan, and this realization will inspire you with exultation, not fear or doubt. if the latter is the case, you should proceed no further. bram stoker, a member of the satanic core of the old golden dawn, emblazoned this principle in the first words of his celebrated l

ou react to skeptical inquiries concerning satanism and the church of satan? what is your rationale for this? what do you consider to be the psychological basis behind satanic ritual? does your interpretation justify impulsive behavior- such as the casting of an emotionallymotivated curse- under ritual circumstances? what is your interpretation of the tradition of the making of a formal pact with the devil? as a member of the priesthood, what use would you make of this interpretation? the church of satan has occasionally been accused of being either fascist or communist [among other things] in its doctrines. what is your personal opinion? how would you respond if questioned concerning this on public media? do you think that you can recognize a psychic vampire when you see one? what do you

context the church of satan is said to reject the spiritual and elevate the carnal. what exactly do you think this means? what is the difference between satanism and atheism? between satanism and agnosticism? between satanism and existentialism? could there be such thing as a "satanic utopia? what would it be like? is satanism consistent with so-called "rational" scientific disciplines? what does the devil have to do with art? what *is* art? is it important to the operations of a satanic priest or priestess? why? what are some specific changes which you feel the church of satan will bring about in the next twenty-five years? and finally: inasmuch as you are interested in becoming an ordained priest of our lord satan, who or what is he? upon receipt of your answers to the above, the council

PATH OF INITIATION

r be the same again after this initial contact with trans-personal forces. this is the underworld initiation in which old patterns of thinking and living are destroyed and newer, better patterns are regenerated and the personality of the initiate is altered forever, and made better, wiser, capable of experiencing life in a new way. this is the descent into the dark waters below. 4. the meeting of the devil or the otherworldly guardian and the trial, followed by the bestowal of a first stage transformation. this stage is the fetch-awakening, at the threshold of the soul, wherein the puckril, the familiar or 'fetch beast, is identified or bestowed. this is the merging of the human nature and the animal nature; this is also a further "arrival" of outside forces that were called by the soul of

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

ndless fear known as panic. for example, in 490 bce, he is said to have caused the persians to flee in terror from the athenians, in return for the athenians worshiping him and performing ceremonial rites. these later became the roman lupercalia, a festival dedicated to the fertility god faunus. half-goat pan s goat-form inspired the conventional depiction of the christian devil; some writers see the devil-worship of the european witchcult as a continuation of the rites of pan. pan and syrinx by fran ois boucher (1703 70) this painting shows pan, who has fallen in love with the beautiful nymph syrinx, pursuing her to the banks of the river ladon. as he reaches to embrace her, she calls on the river goddess to help her to escape. hermes, messenger of the gods hermes was pan s father. a son

peror tiberius (14 37 ce, a man called thamus, sailing past the greek island of paxi, was hailed by a godlike voice calling, thamus, the great god pan is dead! this cry was repeated whenever the sailors saw land, and a terrible weeping arose from the countryside around. some accounts place this event at the moment of christ s birth, a fitting time as many of pan s attributes have been assigned to the devil of christian tradition. some writers suggest the cry was a mishearing of the all-great tammuz is dead, a ceremonial lament for the death and rebirth of the oriental god tammuz (see p. 33. zeus and dana 44 eagle of power the eagle, zeus attendant bird, is symbolic of power and victory. in matters of love and war, zeus never accepted defeat. clouds gathering god of the sky and ruler of wea

PHOSPHORUS

ith this spirit guide -the god form of anubis the mask of the shades of the dead and the gateway of twilight. 1. mephistopheles, how this daemon represents both earth and spirit and the unity within. the evocation and invocation of mephistopheles to absorb a hidden atavistic knowledge of the daemonum of the earth. see mephistopheles conjuration by michael w. ford 2. the assumption of the flesh of the devil, the power of initiation and the mark of the devil as a rite of passage. the god form of satan the adversary is to understand the fallen aspect of darkness to the 12 rise into the dark light, thus a balanced initiation of flesh and spirit. see book of the witch moon. 3. the astral sabbath, dedication to, preparation and emergence into the astral plane. complete records and insight throug

ate shall enter the light of phosphorus to be born in the darkness of the initiator of the path, azal ucel. let the altar be decorated in the manner of which the sorcerer chooses, but with the algol sigil of standing above it on the wall. the black mirror should be below a larger mirror, symbolizing the opposing 14 gnosis of the adversary. this is the waking initiation into the path of the witch, the devil s kiss of awakening. you may in turn use the caul to cover your head (see nox umbra) and dance widdershins in a circle. as you do this, your pulse rate will increase, you will sweat and grow very hot. as you move and envision the luciferian path opening before you, a religious ecstasy will take you and guide your visions refer to the sufis by idries shah and the maskara (revelers) who bl

bless my path with your eyes which are always seeing bless me with the fallen star of azazel, as lightening i awake! i do affirm ahriman, prince of darkness and the beast in flesh spectral shadow who is lucifugus, bless my rites with the astral shape of the toad and the serpent dragon open thy eye as algol! i do affirm lucifer azazel, fire born angel of the abyss, who comes forth in the earth as the devil and djinn of flame before me is algol my essence, my desire, my will within me sparks the black flame of set, the forge of cain! within me now is algol this demon star is my image of becoming! i summon this flame to encircle me, immolate me and open the ways of below and above! by phosphorus shall i become! by phosphorus shall the devil s mark bless me! by phosphorus shall i go forth to

e rebellion of spirit, the separation of ain soph (limitless light) to the dual ecstasies of shadow and flame. mark thy soul/spirit/consciousness with the sigil of adonai, the lord of the earth called also shaitan. 7. baphomet is the god form of the luciferian path, enfleshed as the witch begetter and the lord of the blackened fires of the forge. the black man of the sabbat is the one passed into the devil s flesh and walked the dreams of lilith-hecate s bloodied caul of initiation. succubus publishing 18 p.o. box 926344 houston, tx 77292 united states of america e-mail: keteb75@yahoo.s phosphorus- the shadowing forth of lucifer by michael ford lucifer, the pale morning star, phosphorus-"the precursor of the full blaze of the noon-day sun" as blavatsky so elegantly defined it, is the found

PHOSPHORUS THE SHADOWING FORTH OF LUCIFER

god, the holy bible mentions little of him besides the basis of origin "you were the anointed cherub who covers; i established you; you were on the holy mountain of god; you walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones. you were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, til iniquity was found in you -holy bible, ezekiel. later on the morning star as is called became the dragon and the devil. shaitan was the base for this materization, which means to oppose, to accuse. lucifer was invariably the first rebel. lucifer is of the spirit of light, from which the foundation of luciferic magick is to ascend towards godhead. the light of the spirit is based within perception and the clarity of an awakened self. perception is the vehicle of knowledge and what the individual can under

PRELUDE TO THE BLACK ARTS

then all is lost. you can see the possibilities. so, if you are harboring any guilt about anything, anything at all, crush it under your heel for good or else hustle your bacon back to sunday school where you belong. no cheating! jesus loves you. decided to stay, huh? well, eventually, this "journal" will become your "black book, and in it, you'll keep all sorts of magical information, deals with the devil and the results of your magickal endeavors. even satan keeps one, you should too. it will be especially helpful when your years grow long and your memory grows short. we know of at least one dyslexic satanist who unwittingly sold his soul to santa. scrying another good skill to acquire is that of scrying (like crying) or looking into the future (or worse, the present) by some method or t

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

ot trump letter symbol 11 0 the foolish man n a 12 1 the juggler 3 i2 13 2 the high priestess f d 14 3 the empress f q 15 4 the emperor il t 16 5 the hierophant 1 'tl 17 6 the lovers t x 18 7 the chariot t7% 19 8 strength (justice) d 5 q 20 9 the hermit (prudence "7 21 10 the wheel of fortune 2 3 22 11 justice (strength) 9 rr 23 12 the hanged man t3 v 24 13 death f n-l 25 14 temperance b fl 26 15 the devil y w 27 16 tower struck by lightning 3 d 28 17 the star 3 2x 29 18 the moon? x 30 19 the sun 1 0 31 20 last judgment v a 32 21 the universe. n k 72 the golden dawn: volume i book one <140> meditation let the practicus meditate upon the symbols of the rhomboid and the vesica. let him seek out their meanings and correspondences let him contemplate the symbol mercury and the number 8. let hi

lecture 73 12. the hanged man=the severity of splendour. execution of judgment. mars acting through water upon mercury. 13. death=the sovereigntyand result of victory. solacting through scorpio u on venus, or osiris under the destroying power of typhon afkcting isis <143> 14. temperance=the beauty of a firm basis. the sovereignty of fundamental power. sol acting through sagittarius upon luna. 15. the devil=the sovereignty and beauty of material (and therefore false) splendour. sol acting through capricorn upon mercury. 16. the tower=the victory over splendour. venus acting through mars upon mercury. avenging force. 17. star=the victory of fundamental strength. venus acting through aquarius upon luna. hope. 18. moon=the victory of the material. venus acting through pisces upon the cosmic el

arrow from the bow of qesheth.'now qesheth the bow is the rainbow of promise stretched above the earth, whose name is formed from the letters of the paths leading from malkuth. if then it be by the path of samekh that the philosophus should advance to the knowledge of the adept, turning aside neither unto the right hand nor unto the left, whereon are the evil and threatening symbols of death and the devil, he must have a perfect and absolute knowledge of the bow, ere he can follow the path of the arrow. but the bow is of brilliant and perfect colour, whose analysis and synthesis yield others of the same scale, and hence is this book entitled "the book of the path of the chameleonnthat path, namely which ascendeth alone throug- h the force of qesheth, the bow. and if thy knowledge and appl

nalyze fying roll x, by mathers, delivered good friday, march 31st, 1893 (as reprinted in asfral projection, magic and alchemy, edited by francis king. h.s. 200 the golden dawn: volume 11 book three second adept in the south makes= sign and knocks. ch. ad. the cross upon the altar is also a cross of corrosion, corruption, disintegration and death. therefore, doth it fall in the paths of death and the devil, unless in hod, the glory triumpheth over matter and the corruptible putteth on incorruption, thus attaining unto the beauty of tiphareth; unless in netzach, death is swallowed up in victory and the transformer becometh the transmuter into pure alchemic gold 'except ye be born of water and the spirit, ye cannot enter the kingdom of god' what then,very honourable third adept, is the addit

roth with the exception of kether, exactly those which are included in the symbol on the tree of life. the ruddy face is the heat of the earth- the horns are the rays- the body contains the elements and the cube is the firm basis. observe that the higher part of the figure is human, growing more bestial as it nears the earth. 3rd ad. the 26th path of the sepher yetzirah, to which the tarot key of the devil is referred, is called the renovating intelligence, because, by it, god the holy one reneweth all the changing forms which are renewed by the creation of the world. return again to yesod, for here no more may be spoken. 3rd ad. returns to place. hs. to altar. heg. rises as phil, comes to altar. hs. and heg. stand on either side of phil. w. of altar, facing east. hiereus in guardianship a

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

idate 3 words, one which is delusive and tenebrous. it is our task to reveal the one and to unveil the other, to distinguish the magician from the sorcerer and the adept from the charlatan. the magician avails himself of a force which he knows, the sorcerer seeks to misuse that which he does not understand. if it be possible in a scientific work to employ a term so vulgar and so discredited, then the devil gives himself to the magician and the sorcerer gives himself to the devil. the magician is the sovereign pontiff of nature, the sorcerer is her profaner only. the sorcerer is in the same relation to the magician that a superstitious and fanatical person bears to a truly religious man. before proceeding further, let us define magic in a sentence. magic is the traditional science of the se

charged with the impure reflections of roman debauchery, sought to separate his disciples from the circumambient sphere of reflections and to concentrate them only on the interior light, so that, through the medium of a common faith and enthusiasm, they might communicate together by new magnetic chains, which he termed grace, and thus overcome the dissolute currents, to which he gave the names of the devil and satan, signifying their putrefaction. to oppose current to current is to renew the power of fluidic life. the revealers have therefore done scarcely more than divine, by the accuracy of their calculations, the appropriate moment for moral reactions. the law of realization produces what we call magnetic breathing; places and objects become impregnated therewith, and this imparts to th

inciple, multiplied and, as it were, reflected in secondary causes, creates images of itself that is to say, so many ancients as there are diverse conceptions of its unique essence. these images, less perfect in proportion as they are removed farther from their source, project upon the darkness an ultimate reflection or glimmer, representing a horrible and deformed ancient, who is termed vulgarly the devil. hence an initiate has been bold enough to say: the devil is god, as understood by the wicked; while another has added, in words more bizarre but no less energetic: the devil is composed of god's ruins. we may sum up and explain these strikingly novel definitions by remarkthe kabalah 47 ing that in symbolism itself the demon is an angel cast out of heaven for having sought to usurp divin

ile another has added, in words more bizarre but no less energetic: the devil is composed of god's ruins. we may sum up and explain these strikingly novel definitions by remarkthe kabalah 47 ing that in symbolism itself the demon is an angel cast out of heaven for having sought to usurp divinity. this belongs to the allegorical language of prophets and makers of legends. philosophically speaking, the devil is a human idea of divinity, which has been surpassed and dispossessed of heaven by the progress of science and reason. among primitive oriental peoples, moloch, adramelek, baal, were personifications of the one god, dishonoured by barbarous attributes. the god of the jansenists, creating hell for the majority of human beings and delighting in the eternal tortures of those he was unwilli

own sanctuary, the black god of the sabbath, the formidable goat of mendes. at this point those who are liable to fear should close the book; even persons who are a prey to nervous impressions will do well to divert their attention or to abstain. we have undertaken a task, and we must complete it. let us first of all address ourselves frankly and boldly to the questions: is there a devil? what is the devil? as to the first point, science is silent, philosophy denies it at hazard, religion only answers in the affirmative. as to the second point, religion states that the devil is the fallen angel; occult philosophy accepts and explains this definition. it will be unnecessary to repeat what we have said previously on the subject, but we may add a further revelation: in black magic, the devil

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

make instruments of his science. the myth of genesis is eternally true, and god permits the tree of knowledge to be approached only by those men who are sufficiently strong and self-denying not to covet its fruits: ye therefore who seek in science a means to satisfy your passions, pause in this fatal way: you will find nothing but madness or death. this is the meaning of the vulgar tradition that the devil ends sooner or later by strangling sorcerers. the magus must be impassible, sober and chaste, disinterested, impenetrable and inaccessible to any kind of prejudice or terror. he must be without bodily defects and proof against all contradictions and all difficulties. the first and most important of magical operations is the attainment of this rare pre-eminence. we have said that impassio

in ancient theogonies. it is the dual serpent of the caduceus, the old serpent of genesis, but it is also the brazen serpent of moses, twined about the tau, that is, the generating lingam. it is, moreover, the goat of the sabbath and the baphomet of the templars; it is the hyle of the gnostics; it is the double tail of the serpent which forms the legs of the solar cock of abraxas. in fine, it is the devil of m. eudes de mirville and is really that blind force which souls must overcome if they would be freed from the chains of earth; for, unless their will can detach them from this fatal attraction, they will be absorbed in the current by the force which produced them, and will return to the central and eternal fire. the whole magical work consists therefore in our liberation from the fold

ligion, and religion asserts positively the fact of resurrections; therefore resurrections are possible. from this escape is difficult. to say that such things are possible outside the necromancy 69 laws of nature, and by an influence contrary to universal harmony, is to affirm that the spirit of disorder, darkness and death can be sovereign arbiter of life. let us not dispute with worshippers of the devil, but pass on. it is not religion alone which attests the facts of resurrection: we have collected a number of cases. an occurrence which impressed the imagination of greuze the painter has been reproduced by him in one of his most remarkable pictures. an unworthy son, present at his father's deathbed, seizes and destroys a will unfavourable to himself; the father rallies, leaps up, curse

as the monarchs of nature in the three worlds. 81 chapter xv the sabbath of the sorcerers we recur once more to that terrible number fifteen, symbolized in the tarot by a monster throned upon an altar, mitred and horned, having a woman's breasts and the generative organs of a man. a chimera, a malformed sphinx, a synthesis of deformities. below this figure we read a frank and simple inscription. the devil. yes, we confront here that phantom of all terrors, the dragon of all theogonies, the ahriman of the persians, the typhon of the egyptians, the python of the greeks, the old serpent of the hebrews, the fantastic monster, the nightmare, the croquemitaine, the gargoyle, the great beast of the middle ages, and. worse than all these. the baphomet of the templars, the bearded idol of the alch

n, the grand masters of the order of the templars worshipped the baphomet, and caused it to be worshipped by their initiates; yes, there existed in the past, and there may be still in the present, assemblies which are presided over by this figure, seated on a throne and having a flaming torch between the horns. but the adorers of this sign do not consider, as do we, that it is a representation of the devil: on the contrary, for them it is that of the god pan, the god of our modern schools of philosophy, the god of the alexandrian theurgic school and of our own mystical neo-platonists, the god of lamartine and victor cousin, the god of spinoza and plato, the god of the primitive gnostic schools; the christ also of the dissident priesthood. this last qualification, ascribed to the goat of bl

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

n 2 corinthians 12:4, who got such a vision and sight as should not, nor could, be told. elisha, also, in his chamber, saw gehazi his servant at a great distance taking a reward from naaman (2 kings 5:26. hence were the [biblical] prophets the secret commonwealth 34 often called seers, or men of second and more exalted sight than others. he [the seer] cites for his purpose also matthew 4:8, where the devil undertakes to give even jesus a sight of all nations and the finest things in the world at one glance, though in their natural situation and station [these are] at a vast distance from one another. and it is said expressly [that is, specifically that] he [the devil] did let him [jesus] see them, not in a map; it seems, nor by a fantastic, magical juggling of the sight which he [the devil

in the highlands.28 yet no person was ever heard to repeat it before, nor was the maid capable to compose it of her self. we may consider several possibilities to this tradition of learning from otherworldly beings- a tradition that is still active today in many parts of the world. a typical modern example is well known in the southern united states, concerning the learning of guitar skills from the devil, who may be encountered at a crossroads, according to certain blues musicians. ancient poets certainly expected that spirits would contact them in sacred places and inspire poetry; in scotland the macrimmond pipers are widely said to http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_112.htm (3 of 9 [10/9/2001 12:36:43 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 112-121) have learned skills from the

at the end of seven years/ they pay a fine to hell' tam lin is aware that his time in fairyland is limited- and the implications of this are far beyond the nursery level or guiltridden perversion of truth offered by a superficially christian interpretation of the sequence. it has been customary to rationalize the ballad by suggesting that the fairy folk stole tam lin to keep him as a sacrifice to the devil in order that their paradisical state could be perpetuated. tam lin is actually seeking a way free from the wheel on an inner or magical level he acts as guardian of a power or sacred site (in this case linked to fertility, and despite the timeless and dreamlike quality of the state in which he finds himself it is only a more subtle variant of the outer world. at the end of a given perio

RUBY TABLET OF SET

ael a. aquino vi date: october 1, xix revision: january 1, xxiv html revision: oct 13, 1997 ce subject: philosophy reading list: 16a, 23e, 23f it was such a climate in florence that spawned niccolo machiavelli (1469-1527, whose pragmatic philosophy was to so infuriate the pseudo-pious and hypocritical officials of his time [and future times] that "old nick" would eventually become a pseudonym for the devil himself. in actuality machiavelli never advocated evil or depravity; in fact he was a champion of the good and the virtuous. his "evil" reputation came about simply because he pricked the balloons of so many phony and pretentious people. machiavelli's philosophy, which was essentially political, may be summed up thus: any means, however lawless or unscrupulous, may be justifiably employe

lfman, elizabeth s, signs and symbols around the world. ny: lothrop, lee& shepard co, 1967. jung, carl g, man and his symbols. garden city: doubleday& co, 1964, 1968. also ny: dell publishing co, 1968, and london: aldus books, 1964. menschel, robert, remanifestation: a symbolic syntheses, rt a17.36-3. menschel, robert, tarot primer, rt c1d.1l-1. norton, lynn, golden section tarot working, atu xv: the devil, and the dialogue. rt c1d.1(-2 -3 -4. regardie, israel, 777 and other qabalistic writings of aleister crowley. 9m (ts-4. schaefer, heinrich, principles of egyptian art. 2r (ts-4. footnotes 1. the section on "neters" was published in issue i.4 2. the grand master wishes to disgress temporarily from the workshop's discussion and to comment at this time on one of the first statements offere

rds, to be found in the mysteries of mithras "the worship of mithras, or of the sungod, was the most popular of heathen cults, and the principle antagonist of the truth during the first four centuries of our period" such is the statement of one who looks at it from the point of view of a christian ecclesiastic, and indeed the church fathers from the time of justin martyr onward have declared that the devil, in the mysteries of mithras, had plagiarized their most sacred rites by anticipation. the mithriac mysteries represented the esoteric side of a great international religious movement, which the uniting together of many peoples into the graeco-roman world had made possible, and which resulted from the contact of greece and rome with the thought of the east. 6. the mystic diagrams it is v

humans have devised in their attempts to extinguish this self-consciousness which so afflicts them. drug abuse, alcoholism, and fanaticism of every kind have been employed in this capacity. however, whereas religions and philosophies of the right-hand path seek to destroy this selfconsciousness and exalt peace,21 those of the left-hand path exalt self-awareness as the highest value. accordingly, the devil, the source of "discord (translate: multiplicity, is understood by the setian to be a friend and not an enemy. 22 yet those whose highest value is not self but rather peace will obviously not esteem his infernal majesty so highly; and those in whose weakness the pain of consciousness is almost unbearable may be nothing short of virulent in their hatred for this being. it will be said tha

y disappeared. the temple of set is the only substantive offshoot to survive into the 1980s. modern satanists have found it relevant to distinguish themselves from what is termed contemporary devil-worship. by devil-worship is meant the various informal activities which have appeared in the 1980s around teenage use of satanic symbols, killings of serial killers professing to have been worshipping the devil, and various reports of "satanic" crime. modern satanists (i.e. the church of satan and temple of set) profess a pro-life philosophy and do not condone illegal action by people affiliated with those organizations. individually distinctive groups within the variety of american religion are a number of groups which are highly individual in nature. that is, while their origins can often be

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the azoth of transformation and the fluids of congress with the famulus. to accomplish this one must have understood and mastered the powers of the house of sah, which is related to the magical process of transformation. this transformation is based in the motion and manipulation of the firesnake in connection with ayin (o) which hints towards the eye and the capricornian influence illustrated by the devil in the tarot. in ayin that which is seen and the ability of transformation is signified by the eye. the eye is also the tool of the artist of the noble arte and is the capturer of the sigillic wisdom and the key that locks it into the vault of unconditioned belief in the execution of the wills desire. the text refers to this as sigilic aphorisms, but used in the temple of solitude these

ss of deconstruction is set forth and is in this manner a natural succession of the previous cell and is setting forth the advaitin principles of the craft even more clearly. there is no distinction between, there is only the between. this is symbolically illustrated by discussions and poetic alignments with the symbolism inherited in shaitan, luchifer and the power the christian communities call the devil. this mystery must be understood in this cell or the act of vaporisation and occult dehydration will occur. the aspiration in this house is total stellar and has through its high aspiration tight connections with the lunar mansions and the abysmal waters resting in the lunar realms. it is in these domains the congress with the devil is sought and where the destruction of the virgin will

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born again" just before dawn one winter's morning, new year's day or thereabouts, two real, full-grown, living men fell from a great height, twenty-nine thousand and two feet, towards the english channel, without benefit of parachutes or wings, out of a clear sky "i tell you, you must die, i tell you, i tell you" and thusly and so beneath a moon of alabaster until a loud cry crossed the night "to the devil with your tunes" the words hanging crystalline in the iced white night "in the movies you only mimed to playback singers, so spare me these infernal noises now" gibreel, the tuneless soloist, had been cavorting in moonlight as he sang his impromptu gazal, swimming in air, butterfly-stroke, breast-stroke, bunching himself into a ball, spreadeagling himself against the almost-infinity of t

can feel nothing but scorn for him. what is he? a fauntleroy, a grand panjandrum? is this my fate: to lose a son and find a freak "whatever i am, father dear" saladin told the older man "i owe it all to you" it was their last family chat. all that summer feelings continued to run high, for all nasreen's attempts at mediation _you must apologize to your father, darling, poor man is suffering like the devil but his pride won't let him hug you. even the ayah kasturba and the old bearer vallabh, her husband, attempted to mediate but neither father nor son would bend "same material is the problem" kasturba told nasreen "daddy and sonny, same material, same to same" when the war with pakistan began that september nasreen decided, with a kind of defiance, that she would not cancel her friday par

nni, do not think you will inherit the magic lamp" o o o after that, changez chamchawala wrote to his son at irregular intervals, and in every letter he returned to the theme of demons and possession "a man untrue to himself becomes a two-legged lie, and such beasts are shaitan's best work" he wrote, and also, in more sentimental vein "i have your soul kept safe, my son, here in this walnut-tree. the devil has only your body. when you are free of him, return and claim your immortal spirit. it flourishes in the garden" the handwriting in these letters altered over the years, changing from the florid confidence that had made it instantly identifiable and becoming narrower, undecorated, purified. eventually the letters stopped, but saladin heard from other sources that his father's preoccupat

port, hey, you're some lucky guy "you poor potato" zeeny gasped between peals of laughter "those angrez bastards. they really screwed you up" so now his work was funny "i have a gift for accents" he said haughtily "why i shouldn't employ"'why i should not employ" she mimicked him, kicking her legs in the air "mister actor, your moustache just slipped again" oh my god. what's happening to me? what the devil? help. because he did have that gift, truly he did, he was the man of a thousand voices and a voice. if you wanted to know how your ketchup bottle should talk in its television commercial, if you were unsure as to the ideal voice for your packet of garlicflavoured crisps, he was your very man. he made carpets speak in warehouse advertisements, he did celebrity impersonations, baked beans

nickname in jahilia down below _he-who-goes-up-and-down-old-coney. here he is neither mahomet nor mochammered; has adopted, instead, the demon-tag the farangis hung around his neck. to turn insults into strengths, whigs, tories, blacks all chose to wear with pride the names they were given in scorn; likewise, our mountain-climbing, prophetmotivated solitary is to be the medieval baby--frightener, the devil's synonym: mahound. that's him. mahound the businessman, climbing his hot mountain in the hijaz. the mirage of a city shines below him in the sun. o o o the city of jahilia is built entirely of sand, its structures formed of the desert whence it rises. it is a sight to wonder at: walled, four-gated, the whole of it a miracle worked by its citizens, who have learned the trick of transform

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goetia. crowley, who later went on to publish his own version of this text, denied the charge. bennet s reply was to state simply, then, little brother, the goetia has been meddling with you! note that crowley later identified himself as the beast 666. although he may have insisted that his transcendental philosophy was essential white magick, his holy guardian angel nevertheless turned out to be the devil himself. others who have been known to practice this goetic witchcraft have included w.b. yeats and macgregor mathers, cecil williams, charles pace. the influence of the classical grimoire may even be seen in the ritual tools and circles as described in the wiccan book of shadows. chiefly it is the practice of evocation, of summoning and binding spirits by means of their names, signature

e as spirits of nature grew to become the gods of the pagan age. these in turn were reinterpreted and demonised as one culture dominated another. the most ancient gods become the giants and titans, whilst younger conquering religions build new temples. these in turn became subjugated to monothiesm, and their nature is reinterpreted yet again. in our modern day we no longer like to speak of god or the devil, and perhaps even feel a slight embarrassment at the superstitions of our forebears. instead we are more comfortable to reduce such ideas to psychological concepts. modern magicians and witches, even those who consider belief to be a 1 alchemy being translated to mean the black science, and having its origins in egypt. no moral implications are intended by the word; indeed it was several

are intended by the word; indeed it was several thousand years before anyone saw the need to invent a white magick to balance the black. working tool rather than an end in itself, find no less difficulty than our cowan (uninitiated) contemporaries. i have already stated my belief that the modern language of psychology is no less advanced than the ancient systems of sorcery. in his work pacts with the devil, dr. christopher s. hyatt quotes from the personal correspondence of carl jung, the psychologist whose concept of archetypes forms the basis of most commonly acceptable modern interpretations of spirit. it seems that whilst in his published works he stated his belief that such experiences are all in the mind, he privately believed in their objective existence. it is simply that to public

were already being punished by god even before the fall through lust, although for what crime enoch is not informed, although it is inferred that he had lead a small rebellion. talmai-el: a descendant of the grigori who escaped the flood and the avenging angels. tamiel: perfection of god. turel: rock of god. usiel: strength of god. chapter two; the fall of lucifer the sin of pride the concept of the devil was a fairly late development in the monothiestic legacy. the early hebrews attributed all events, whether good or bad, to the one god. he encapsulated both darkness and light, destruction and creation, corruption and purity. such is clearly stated in isaiah 45:7; i form the light, and create darkness: i make peace, and create evil: i the lord do all these things. in the old testament it

een absorbed, along with elements of the persian zoroastrian religion, judea being under persian rule from the 6th to 4th centuries b.c. in their cosmology there are two principles of ahura mazda, being creative, and ahriman, being destructive. so evenly matched are they that the slightest flux can topple the balance, and mortal-kind are constantly being drawn to one side or the other. originally the devil was the shadow side of god, his dark aspect. mal ak was the term employed for that aspect of god that was able to communicate with mortal kind. it was this concept that was translated into the concept of the angel. only the shadow was able to communicate because the light is too great for a human to bear, as with zeus. as the hebrew religion evolved, so did this shadow, until it broke aw

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ip of fleshly things produces pleasure" he said "there would then be a temple of glorious indulgence" introduction by burton h. wolfe preface prologue the nine satanic statements (fire--book of satan- the infernal diatribe [i [ii [iii [iv [v (air--book of lucifer- the enlightenment i. wanted: god- dead or alive ii. the god you save may be yourself iii. some evidence of a new satanic age iv. hell, the devil, and how to sell your soul v. love and hate vi. satanic sex vii. not all vampires suck blood viii. indulgence. not compulsion ix. on the choice of a human sacrifice x. life after death through fulfillment of the ego xi. religious holidays xii. the black mass (earth--book of belial- the mastery of the earth i. theory and practice of satanic magic (definition and purpose of lesser and grea

the seventeenth key the eighteenth key the nineteenth key introduction burton h. wolfe on a winter's evening in 1967, i drove crosstown in san fransisco to hear anton szandor lavey lecture at an open meeting of the sexual freedom league. i was attracted by newspaper articles describing him as "the black pope" of a satanic church in which baptism, wedding, and funeral ceremonies were dedicated to the devil. i was a free-lance magazine writer, and i felt there might be a story in lavey and his contemporary pagans; for the devil has always made "good copy, as they say on the city desk. it was not the practice of the black arts itself that i considered to be the story, because that is nothing new in the world. there were devil-worshipping sects and voodoo cults before there were christians. i

d, they practiced their black magic openly instead of underground. rather than arrange a preliminary interview with lavey for discussion of his heretical innovations, my usual first step in research, i decided to watch and listen to him as an unidentified member of an audience. he was described in some newspapers as a former circus and carnival lion tamer and trickster now representing himself as the devil's representative on earth, and i wanted to determine first whether he was a true satanist, a prankster, or a quack. i had already met people in the limelight of the occult business; in fact, jeane dixon was my landlady and i had a chance to write about her before ruth montgomery did. but i had considered all the occultists phonies, hypocrites, or quacks, and i would never spend five minu

urch of satan, and lavey's synthesis of the old devil legends and black magic lore into the modern philosophy and practice of satanism that all followers and imitators now use as their model, their guide, and even their bible. my magazine article was the beginning, not the end (as it has been with my other writing subjects, of a long and intimate association. out of it came my biography of lavey, the devil's avenger, published by pryamid in 1974. after the book was published, i became a card-carrying member and, subsequently, a priest of the church of satan, a title i now proudly share with many celebrated persons. the postmidnight philosophical discussions i began with lavey in 1967 continue today, a decade later, supplemented sometimes these days by a nifty witch or some of our own music

discovered or devised. he had accumulated a library of works that descibed the black mass and other infamous ceremonies conducted by groups such as the knights templar in fourteenth-century france, the hell-fire club and the golden dawn in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century england. the intent of some of these secret orders was to blaspheme, lampoon the christian church, and address themselves to the devil as an anthropomorphic deity that represented the reverse of god. in lavey's view, the devil was not that, but rather a dark, hidden force in nature responsible for the workings of earthly affairs, a force for which neither science nor religion had any explanation. lavey's satan is "the spirit of progress, the inspirer of all great movements that contribute to the development of civilizat

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cast down such as fall. bring forth those that increase, and destroy the rotten. no place, let it remain in one number. add and diminish until the stars be numbered. arise! move! and appear before the covenant of his mouth, which he hath sworn unto us in his justice. open the mysteries of your creation, and make us partakers of the undefiled wisdom. yankee rlethe rites of lucifer on the altar of the devil up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, and madness is sanity. the satanic ritual chamber is die ideal setting for the entertainment of unspoken thoughts or a veritable palace of perversity. now one of the devil's most devoted disciples gives a detailed account of all the traditional satanic rituals. here are the actual texts of such forbidden rites as the bl

he metaphysics of lovecraftthe ceremony of the nine angles and the call to cthulhu 173 the satanic baptisms-adult rite and children's ceremony 203 the unknown known 219 the satanic rituals introduction the rituals contained herein represent a degree of candor not usually found in a magical curriculum. they all have one thing in common-homage to the elements truly representative of the other side. the devil and his works have long assumed many forms. until recently, to catholics, protestants were devils. to protestants, catholics were devils. to both, jews were devils. to the oriental, the westerner was a devil. to the american setder of the old west, the red man was a devil. man's ugly habit of elevating himself by defaming others is an unfortunate phenomenon, yet apparently necessary to h

d have waged a tireless campaign to give dignity to the word witch, though that has always been synonymous with nefarious activity, whether as witch, or hexe, or venifica, or other. they wholeheartedly accept the christian evaluation of the word satan at face value, and ignore the fact that the term became synonymous with evil simply because it was (a) of hebrew origin, and anything jewish was of the devil, and (b) because it meant adversary or opposite. with all the debate over the origin of the word witch, and the clear origins of the word satan one would think that logic would rule, and satan would be accepted as a more sensibly explained label* even if one recognizes the character inversion employed in changing pan (the good guy) into satan (the bad guy, why reject an old friend just b

th in the satanic bible, should examine the basis of that disagreement. it surely stems from one of two sources "common knowledge" or scripturally founded propaganda "satan has been the best friend the church has ever had, as he has kept it in business all these years"-the ninth satanic statement-is not limited just to the religious organization referred to as "the church" how convenient an enemy the devil has been for the weak and insecure! crusaders against the devil maintained that satan, even if accepted on an anthropomorphic basis, was neither so evil nor so dangerous that he could not be personally vanquished. and so satan has existed as a convenient enemy to be employed when needed-one who could be beaten by any lily-livered popinjay who could find the time to arm himself with a bar

e admits they are fairy tales. the christian cannot-no, dares not-admit that his heritage is fairy tales, yet he depends on them for his pious sustenance. the satanist maintains a storehouse of avowed fantasy gathered from all cultures and from all ages. with his unfettered access to logic as well, he now becomes a powerful adversary of satan's past tormentors. those who have depended on fighting the devil to display their "goodness" must discover a new adversary-one who is helpless, disorganized, and easily vanquished. but the world is changing fast and such a recruitment will prove difficult. so difficult, in fact, that witch-hunters and devil finders may be forced to seek their quarry in the most impenetrable of jungles-themselves. note in rituals where a foreign language is presented

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den. hell is the satanic paradise of the noble man above god; the elevated world of fantasy, imagination and creation. no restrictions, no accuser, no worthy opponents all stand defenseless. hell the sanctuary against the real horrors of the world! my brethren go there often -iv- dedicated to satan who has shown me the value of evil and who has been my guide; my personal source of inspiration. to the devil s own: anton szandor lavey, friedrich nietzsche, marquis de sade, wilhelm reich, lord byron, boris karloff, mikail bakunin, edgar allen poe, mary and percy shelley, grigori rasputin, cornell woolrich, herbert spencer, charles darwin, basil zaharoff, johann most, jack london, vincent price, h.p. lovecraft, count cagliostro, h.l. mencken, sigmund freud and all others who have, and will, li

his creator, who is called god by its followers (the other god is the satanic theist believes in. another supposed element of biblical truth. of course xian belief maintains that these two beings are not the same and are opposed to each other in morality, objective and purpose. these differences are acceptable and serve to outline satan s evil and god s moral good. as the acknowledged creator of the devil, god, in the biblical context, is certainly superior to satan in his nature and power, and it is even written that satan exists only because god allows him to exist. a satanic believer of this doctrine may prefer to think that somehow satan is, or will, become strong enough to overcome and defeat god whenever that battle is to be waged, but it s written in the pages if the revealed word

t battle is to be waged, but it s written in the pages if the revealed word of god (the believer s bible) that this will not happen and that satan and all his followers will suffer horrors and a second death by being hurled into the lake of fire. again, another supposition of truth as it apparently comes from satan s superior, god. given this hopeless situation, it would be foolhardy to side with the devil (the xian bible also states satan is an adversary to man) if he actually exists because, consequently, his creator would also exist and satan s doom would be sealed. as a non-believer in god or satan, i hold to a view that is more atheistic than theistically satanic. i ve yet to find acceptable arguments or evidence for the existence of god or his works. nor would i find the characteriza

they will become as satan himself: experiencing life as it should be brutal but honest, and enjoyable with a true hero to admire and worship a myth fashioned after oneself! a final thought on theism: fellow satanists by believing in the actual existenc4e of satan, and consequently his creator god you are no more righteous than a lowly xian, whom i don t consider righteous at all. by believing in the devil and god, you give xians further reason to believe; more of a reason to maintain and grow ever stronger in their beliefs, and justification for such beliefs. remember our enemy s creed rests upon a foundation of belief. before you can successfully work and advance against xianity, you must first destroy your belief! the doctrine of antichrist our world has become corrupt by the nazarene t

n, garden of eden or place of perfection; nor did mythical adam and eve. they gained the knowledge and shed the shackles thus they became: satanic -13- beings and children of the night. they became the first human images of defiant individuality, in spite of becoming outcasts. finally, we need no steeple and spire to experience our truth, for as always, it permeates the deepest strata of our kind the devil over god; evil over good. the real-life relationship endures through man and it may extend well beyond the underground hellscape: becoming common knowledge within our towns and cities; and into the homes, minds, dreams and apocalyptic beliefs of xians as we continue to propagate and empower evil, and work toward the re-creation of hell on earth! the most recognized symbol of the satanic

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lace in heaven. during the investigation that ensued, the roman church also discovered an initiation ritual which some of the luciferians confessed to under the threat of death. according to their confessions the new initiate was required to kiss the behind of a toad, after which he was approached by 'a man with black eyes who was pale, emaciated and icy cold'(2) the man, most likely representing the devil himself, was kissed by the initiate who then instantaneously lost his catholic faith. after this a feast was held and 'a large black cat appeared, emerging from a statue which was always present'(3) again the members present would kiss the cats behind and then the ritual was concluded with an orgy. some of the more sensationalist accounts of satanic initiations have added to the early sa

oteric library central aspects of the black mass. the orgy was also then included, something that was most likely derived from the rites of the bacchanalia or dionysiac cults of ancient rome and greece, of which shall be spoken presently. in his book the black arts (pan books ltd. 1967, richard cavendish outlines the proceedings of the witches sabbath. commencing with the witches paying homage to the devil. the witches would light a fire whilst the devil was seated upon a throne in the form of either a goat, representing satan himself, or a dog, which may have been connected with the dark goddess- the dog being one of the sacred animals of hekate- rather than with satan himself. the witches would then approach and adore the devil, though their approach would be in a manner foreign to norma

presenting satan himself, or a dog, which may have been connected with the dark goddess- the dog being one of the sacred animals of hekate- rather than with satan himself. the witches would then approach and adore the devil, though their approach would be in a manner foreign to normal men, such as walking crab-like or with their backs turned to him. after this 'came the offering of the candles to the devil and the obscene kiss'(7) where the witch kisses the devils behind. following the obscene kiss, initiation, baptism or marriage would occur followed by the feast and the orgy which concluded the witches sabbath. the inclusion of a feast and an orgy at the end of the witches sabbath is very much reminiscent of the bacchanalia that existed during the times of the roman empire. the bacchanal

ur immediate reaction is to leave. the analogy is simple, the light is the acquisition of knowledge. but once you have learnt something- seen the policeman's severed head on the table- you cannot unlearn it. therefore you have to live with that knowledge. the acquisition of occult knowledge concerning oneself and the world is not simply learning how to do spells, invoke demons or make a pact with the devil, rather it implies the acquisition of something that will drastically change the way the satanist sees the world. it is akin to the eastern concept that life as man knows it is an illusion and that magical traditions can take man from the falsehood of normal uninitiated life, to the truth and meaning of existence. renunciation, once one has begun to explore both oneself and the world at

2. beest, christos. the black book of satan iii rigel press: shrewsbury, year of fire 103. satanism- an examination of satanic black magic side 14 af 21 file//c:\windows\skrivebord\nyt%20til%20bibilotek\ona\various\satanism_an_examin. 20-04-03 beest, christos. caelethi. the black book of satan ii thormynd press: shrewsbury, year of fire 103. black, s. jason& hyatt, christopher s. ph.d. pacts with the devil new falcon publications: phoenix, arizona, 1993. brown, stephen. the satanic letters of stephen brown thormynd press: shrewsbury, no publishing date given. cavendish, richard. the black arts pan books ltd: london, 1967. collins, andrew. the black alchemist. abc books: leigh-on-sea, 1988. collins, andrew. the second coming. century: london, 1993. dark lily. the voice of the left hand path

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eme pleasure and extreme pain, he believed he might find true enlightenment. one day siddhartha seated himself under a banyan, or fig, tree. it is now called a bo tree, short for bodhi (wisdom and enlightenment, for it was there that siddhartha, after six years of searching, finally found enlightenment. according to legend, siddhartha sat under the tree for seven weeks. although he was tempted by the devil mara he overcame the temptations and arrived at complete enlightenment. after this, he was called the buddha, the enlightened one. sometimes he is also referred to as sakyamuni buddha, referring to his clan name, to differentiate him from earlier and later buddhas, or great spiritual teachers. the buddha s teachings the buddha came to understand that all of life is suffering and that suf

ocess 304 world religions: almanac islam of submitting is not easy because of the efforts of evil spirits that lead people to forget their creator and give in to evil temptations. among these spirits, called jinn, a word that means hidden (and that is the source of the stereotypical genie in a bottle, is one in particular called shaytan. this name is remarkably close to the western word satan, or the devil. shaytan and other evil jinn corrupt people by playing on their desires, emotions, and fears. in doing so, they persuade people to forget their fitrah, an inborn tendency to seek their creator. a person who sins is required to go through a process of repentance (atonement or shame) called tawba, which consists of feeling remorse or guilt, repenting by saying, my lord forgive me, making r

ng and death. this escape is called nirvana. the knowledge that life s suffering could be ended, and how to end it, is called enlightenment. the buddha was enlightened, and he sought to share his knowledge with others. his former followers realized that the buddha had gained new insight. they returned to learn from him the dharma, or the path to enlightenment and nirvana. the buddha is tempted by the devil mara while meditating. it was after resisting all of mara s temptations that the buddha achieved enlightenment. bettmann/ corbis. world religions: biographies 61 the buddha teaches the dharma the buddha gave his first sermon on the dharma at deer park, near benares, india. in this sermon the buddha revealed the central teachings of what would become the religion of buddhism. the first te

repent for their sins and be baptized, or cleansed spiritually by immersion or dunking in water. jesus was among the crowd who came to john at the jordan river, and he was baptized. at this point, jesus is said to have heard a voice from heaven telling him that he was the son of god. he went into the desert, fasting (not eating) and meditating (thinking deeply) for forty days. during this period the devil is said to have tried to convince jesus to worship him, but jesus resisted. upon his return, he discovered that john the baptist had been arrested, so he took up john s work, preaching repentance and the coming of the kingdom of god. initially he preached near nazareth, but he attracted few followers as people there had known him since he was a boy. he moved to different locations in pal

d to preach and write. he suffered from a number of health problems and became more stubborn, rude, insulting, and bad tempered. the death of one of his daughters in 1542 was a blow from which he never recovered. some historians believe that his unsettled state of mind is suggested by the titles of some of his late works: on the jews and their lies (1543) and against the papacy at rome founded by the devil (1545. in january 1546 luther traveled to his birthplace, eisleben, to help his family negotiate an agreement with a group of german counts who were attempting to take over the family s copper business. he began complaining of chest pains and died early in the morning on february 18, 1546. on february 22 he was buried at the castle church in wittenberg. world religions: biographies 231 m

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til a couple of thousand years ago when events got all out of hand. however, most of the kids still use a familiar name for him under normal circumstances. most just call him dad or mom, though many call him grandfather or grandmother. there are reasons for this, and you will learn them when the time is right. for now, if you would rather continue thinking of the force as lucifer or satan or even the devil, well, that's all right too. you can even call him mr. scratch or mr. hobs or whatever suits your fancy. there is no right human name for the force, it just is- it's neither male nor female, dark nor light, good nor evil- it just is. that is why it is such a mell of a hess to write coherent text concerning this entity. me thinks that i'll stick to the force from here out to save on ink

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is common? the least little critic, in reviewing some work of art, will say "pity this, and pity that "this should have been altered, that omitted" yea, with his wiry fiddlestring will he creak out his accursed variations. but let him sit down and compose himself. he sees no improvement in variations then! every man can control his fiddle when it is his own work with which its vagaries would play the devil. and viola is the idol, the theme of naples. she is the spoiled sultana of the boards. to spoil her acting may be easy enough, shall they spoil her nature? no, i think not. there, at home, she is still good and simple; and there, under the awning by the doorway, there she still sits, divinely musing. how often, crook-trunked tree, she looks to thy green boughs; how often, like thee, in h

l, of pious memory, to the true seat of st. peter "it is, indeed, a happiness to hear one command of yours i can obey" zanoni then turned the conversation, talked lightly and gayly, and soon afterwards departed "villain" then exclaimed the prince, grasping mascari by the collar "you betrayed me "i assure your excellency that the dice were properly arranged; he should have thrown twelve; but he is the devil, and that's the end of it "there is no time to be lost" said the prince, quitting his hold of his parasite, who quietly resettled his cravat "my blood is up, i will win this girl, if i die for it! what noise is that "it is but the sword of your illustrious ancestor that has fallen from the table" chapter 3.vii. il ne faut appeler aucun ordre si ce n'est en tems clair et serein "les clavi

ni, a mere stranger, told him with a grave face that he must decide before the clock struck a certain hour "do this at least" said mervale, reasonably enough "wait till the time expires; it is but another day. baffle zanoni. he tells thee that he will meet thee before midnight to-morrow, and defies thee to avoid him. pooh! let us quit naples for some neighbouring place, where, unless he be indeed the devil, he cannot possibly find us. show him that you will not be led blindfold even into an act that you meditate yourself. defer to write to her, or to see her, till after to-morrow. this is all i ask. then visit her, and decide for yourself" glyndon was staggered. he could not combat the reasonings of his friend; he was not convinced, but he hesitated; and at that moment nicot passed them. h

d myself with bianca sacchini, a handsome woman, enlightened, no prejudices. a valuable creature i shall find her, no doubt. but as for this zanoni "what of him "if ever i paint an allegorical subject, i will take his likeness as satan. ha, ha! a true painter's revenge, eh? and the way of the world, too! when we can do nothing else against a man whom we hate, we can at least paint his effigies as the devil's. seriously, though: i abhor that man "wherefore "wherefore! has he not carried off the wife and the dowry i had marked for myself! yet, after all" added nicot, musingly "had he served instead of injured me, i should have hated him all the same. his very form, and his very face, made me at once envy and detest him. i felt that there is something antipathetic in our natures. i feel, too

tone, eh, a bit of a magician; afraid of the priests "precisely; you have hit it "i thought so; and you are his pupil "i am "i wish you well through it" said the robber, seriously, and crossing himself with much devotion "i am not much better than other people, but one's soul is one's soul. i do not mind a little honest robbery, or knocking a man on the head if need be, but to make a bargain with the devil! ah, take care, young gentleman, take care "you need not fear" said glyndon, smiling "my preceptor is too wise and too good for such a compact. but here we are, i suppose. a noble ruin, a glorious prospect" glyndon paused delightedly, and surveyed the scene before and below with the eye of a painter. insensibly, while listening to the bandit, he had wound up a considerable ascent, and no

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and laid claim to the possession of power over gods, and spirits, and demons. such false knowledge and power they sold for money, and for purposes of gain the so-called magician was ready to further any sordid transaction or wicked scheme which his dupe wished to carry out. this magic degenerated into sorcery, and demonology, and wit craft, and those who dealt in it were regarded as associates of the devil, and servants of the powers of darkness, and workers of the "black art" in the "white" and "black" magic of the egyptians most of the magic known in the other countries of the world may be found; it is impossible yet to say exactly how much the beliefs and religious systems of other nations were influenced by them, but there is no, doubt that certain views and religious ideas of many hea

tu (i.e, doubly evil one, hau-hra (i.e "backward face, hemhemti (i.e, roarer, qetu (i.e, evil-doer, amam (i.e, devourer, saatet-ta (i.e, darkener of earth, iubani, khermuti, unti, karauememti, p. 172 khesef-hra, sekhem-hra, khak-ab, nai, uai, beteshu, kharebutu the fourfold fiend" etc. all these names represent, as may be seen from the few of which translations are given, various aspects of apep, the devil of thunder, lightning, cloud, rain, mist, storm, and the like, and the anxiety to personify these so that the personifications might be attacked by means of magical ceremonies and words of power seems positively childish. passing now to certain chapters of the book of the dead which are rich in names of magical power, 1 we notice that the god amen, whose name meant the "hidden one" posse

e ground with his head three times, and said "i have come unto thee, o my sovereign lord, on behalf of the lady bent-ent-resht, the younger sister of the royal spouse ra-neferu, for, behold, an evil disease hath laid hold upon her body; i beseech thy majesty to send a physician 1 to see her" then the king straightway ordered the books of the "double house p. 209 stele recording the casting out of the devil from the princess of bekhten. on the right the king is offering incense to khonsu nefer-hetep, and on the left a priest is offering incense to khonsu "the great god who driveth away devils (from prisse, monuments, plate 24) p. 211 of life" to be brought and the learned men to appear, and when they had come into his presence he ordered them to choose from among their number a man "wise of

SIX ANGLED RITE OF THE ROYAL SUN OF THE GOAT LORD

he uneducated muhammadan believes that man's fate is written upon his skull, and that the sutures are the writing. no man, however, can read them. see the words of za bsix angled rite of the royal sun of the goat lord being an invocation of the landwarder, consecrator, reverser, and the firebringer. copyright 2002 by robin artisson* this ritual working is a variation on the "witches dance/opening the devil's eye" rite of which i have written elsewhere. the operant should refer to it for the basic instructions on how to perform this rite, paying attention chiefly to the "two bits of advice- the two main understandings that have to be brought to bear on the every word, thought, and action of the operant(s) who undertake this rite. i will proceed in good faith that my reader is familiar, thro

zael (oz ah el) poetic stream: even the fire has horns red tines with burning life the smith hammers the heated iron love in the earth, on the anvil, strife. sigil 3: the sign of the autumn equinox invocatory name: wandil (wahn dill) poetic stream: autumn, the doorway of the blessed water in the pale bloom unseen life comes to sleep, risen above to sink below the fading green sigil 4: the sign of the devil's trident invocatory name: routa (roo tah) poetic stream: the old puck-angel raises a fork a threefold sharpened wand one tine for heaven, earth and hell three for the king of the hidden land sigil 5: the sign of mars invocatory name: samael (sam eye el) poetic stream: heavenly steel, earthly steel, the mark of cain is red lifted above, a touch to the forehead above bodies of men struck

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lzeboul cried aloud with a mighty voice, and shot out a great burning flame of fire; and he arose, and followed ornias, and came to solomon. 14. and when i saw the prince of demons, i glorified the lord god, maker of heaven and earth, and i said "blessed art thou, lord god almighty, who hast given to solomon thy servant wisdom, the assessor of the wise, and hast subjected unto me all the power of the devil" 15. and i questioned him, and said "who art thou" the demon replied "i am beelzebub, the exarch of the demons. and all the demons have their chief seats close to me. and i it is who make manifest the apparition of each demon" and he promised to bring to me in bonds all the unclean spirits. and i again glorified the god of heaven and earth, as i do always give thanks to him. 16. i then a

will, i alight and set fire and do to death" 122. and i said to him "by what angel art thou frustrated" and he answered "by the only-ruling god, that hath authority over me even to be heard. he that is to be born of a virgin and crucified by the jews on a cross. whom the angels and archangels worship. he doth frustrate me, and enfeeble me of my great strength, which has been given me by my father the devil" and i said to him "what canst thou do' and he answered''i am able to remove [1] mountains, to overthrow the oaths of kings. i wither trees and make their leaves to fall off" and i said to him "canst thou raise this stone, and lay it for the beginning of this corner which exists in the fair plan of the temple [2' and he said "not only raise this, o king; but also, with the help of the de

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ects it all with the words: i know well that i am destined to have a kingdom, but i do not desire an earthly one; i will achieve enlightenment and make all the world rejoice. mara has to admit, my the egyptian and other eastern mysteries 95 power is at an end. jesus responds to the same temptation, saying: away from me, satan! for it is written: worship the lord your god, and serve him only. then the devil left him. the parallels could be documented at considerably greater length, all pointing in the same direction. the buddha s life comes to a sublime ending. whilst on a journey, he fell ill. he came to the river hiranya, near kusinagara, and there he lay down on a rug spread for him by his beloved disciple ananda. his body began to shine from within. he died transfigured, as a body of li

he evil typhon, so now there is the great dragon, the ancient snake to be defeated. from far back the wisdom of the mystai had used the snake as its symbol of knowledge. the snake knowledge may be a seductive force, however, unless human beings bring to life within themselves the son of god. he it is who crushes the serpent s head: the great dragon was hurled down that ancient snake who is called the devil and satan and seduces all the world he was hurled down upon the earth, together with his angels. 149 the mystery-temple the christian mystery was to replace the many mysteries of the ancient world with its unique, archetypal mystery- event. in jesus the logos had become flesh, and he was to become the teacher of initiation to all humanity. his community of mystai was to be the human race

TECHNICIANS GUIDE TO THE LEFT HAND PATH

idual rightness. this type of transformation leads to the path of thetwo ways- the path of unity, or the path of separation. this book is for those whose way is the path of separation, and the transforming element is the cold icy vision of a desert night where the stars becomes as gates. this is the book of salt. xxx magister roger whitaker 09/08/1997 the year 32 chapter 0. the nature of evil or..the devil made me do it" no law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it..emerson to understand the nature of evil is paramount towards glimpsing into the character of the antinomian spirit. the antinomian is a reflection of this evil in the sense that the principles which govern their actions are based upon the t

odity, and becoming even more rare in the post-modern age of group-think where the i of the self has been replaced with us, we, our and them. it is only through individual becoming attained through spiritual anarchy to existing ideas not your own that independence is truly obtained. it is this playing field that the prince of darkness inscribes true evil. we can now speak about the anti-nature of the devil, for through our understanding of the nature of the principle of least resistance- the essential activity nature of god- we can begin to draw inferences regarding the anithesis of this principle; spiritual transformation through paths of resistance. the concept of adversary lies within the dichotomy of approach and its technique in manifesting spiritual transformation. here we can establ

this principle; spiritual transformation through paths of resistance. the concept of adversary lies within the dichotomy of approach and its technique in manifesting spiritual transformation. here we can establish one of the most misunderstood concepts regarding the true nature of evil and of the left hand path in general. just as god is reflected within nature and the universe, god s adversary- the devil- is reflected within that which is not nature and not of the universal order. you cannot include the idea of the devil into the mechanical consistency of the universe as a naturally occurring component. if nature and the universe are reflections of god, then the devil- as the ultimate antithesis, adversary, opposite and opponent of god- cannot logically be part of this same environment

expressed through spiritual transformation that occurs via the path of least resistance, it is this way that leads to eventual compliance, unity and oneness with god. true evil then, is expressed through spiritual transformation that occurs by following the paths of resistance, it is this way which leads towards the dissent, separation and individuality of the psyche from god. the environment of the devil, and of true evil cannot, and does not, exist within the realm of nature/matter as we perceive it. this is the realm of god, to place the devil within this environment makes the devil nothing more than a puppet of god- dancing an eternal dance not of his own making. the single most indentifying factor of the prince of darkness is that he has no master other than himself. so, what is the

xist within the realm of nature/matter as we perceive it. this is the realm of god, to place the devil within this environment makes the devil nothing more than a puppet of god- dancing an eternal dance not of his own making. the single most indentifying factor of the prince of darkness is that he has no master other than himself. so, what is the precise non-natural environment that true evil and the devil- in what ever form- works within? the environment from which true evil is manifest, and in which the prince of darkness makes his presence known is within the realm of human consciousness, human thought and ideas- the mind. these are then transferred from the abstract plane of existence- our individual thoughts and ideas- into matter through various creative and artisitic manifestations

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

e'd go away! old nursery rhyme table of contents introduction: the occult script-a colossal and monstrous conspiracy 9 1 caution! you are now entering the forbidden zone 1 5 2 the megalomania of the psychopaths why the llluminati do what they do 25 3 concealed messages the importance of hand signs to the llluminati 45 4 hidden hand of the men of jahbuhlun 53 5 for he's a jolly good fellow sign of the devil's claw 81 by the men of the craft 6 baphles me! horned beasts, leaping goats, satanic beards, 97 and other messages of evil 7 "el diablo" shows his horns-the devil rides out! 119 8 secret handshakes of the llluminati 145 9 a show of hands llluminists employ the grand hailing sign and the sign 177 of admiration and astonishment 10 "i gruesomely swear that i'm on the square" more revealing

e six-pointed star, babylonian 419 witchcraft, and the hollywood perdition of jerry seinfeld and associates 22 scorched by the sun solar signs, circles, and serpents 459 23 "i fell in to a burning ring of fire" arnold schwarzenegger's 483 masonic ring, newt gingrich's t-rex dinosaur, and other mysterious messages on rings and neckties of the elite 24 ok-sign of the divine king 501 2 5 victory for the devil fabulous exploits of sir winston churchill 517 and other druid priests and llluminati servants 26 "every man and woman is a star" 537 27 lightning fall from heaven 557 28 blood red red stars, clenched fists, hammers and sickles, 563 and other signs and symbols of communist intrigue footnotes and references 589 index 599 more resources for you 621 about the author, texe marrs 623 introduc

7 28 blood red red stars, clenched fists, hammers and sickles, 563 and other signs and symbols of communist intrigue footnotes and references 589 index 599 more resources for you 621 about the author, texe marrs 623 introduction the occult script a colossal and monstrous conspiracy but let the spirit of all lies with works of dazzling magic blind you. then absolutely mine, i'll have and bind you. the devil, faust play by goethe (1749-1832) they're everywhere. cleverly disguised. on tv, imbedded in magazines, and lurking in powerful advertising. sometimes they're subtle or subliminal, other times direct, provocative, and mind-bending in effect. strange symbols, signs, charms, talismans, and handshakes that program and control our minds. henry makow, astute inventor and essayist, says that t

and encyclopedias of the masonic order or illustrations and examples by experts and authorities. in some instances, it is unclear what exactly is transpiring in a photo because the intent, or motive, of the individual subject cannot be discerned. we cannot read peoples' minds, and so we must judge based on the photographic evidence. for example, there is much confusion today over the hand sign of the devil called "el diablo" or "il carnuto" many confuse this sign of evil with the sign of the deaf for "i love you" and with the sign given by many to indicate youthful rebellion, sex, and rock and roll. in the section of codex magica that pictures a number of people giving this problematic sign, i therefore explain the difference in types of hand signs and discuss the ongoing controversy in an

y freemasonry as the lodge's greatest scholar of the 20th century, taught that the energies of lucifer were necessary for the successful masonic warrior. meanwhile, john j. robinson, whose book, born in blood, was celebrated by top masonic lodge officials as an accurate history of the knights templar and of freemasonry, insisted in his later book, a pilgrims progress, that lucifer is not satan or the devil. instead, robinson insisted that lucifer is an angel whose guidance and help can be employed either for good or for evil. of course, robinson's writings make clear that pleasing lucifer is high-up on the lodge's list of priorities. lucifer the divine eliphas levi, the cabalist magician whose artist depiction of baphomet, the androgynous goat god, is illustrated elsewhere in this book, wa

THE BOOK OF PLEASURE

ly guardian angel/luciferian angel which may further empower the rites of azal ucel and ritual of the adversary by michael w. ford. i have included the introduction by kenneth grant from the 93 publishing edition of the book of pleasure. this grimoire is a powerful tool to illuminate the torch of the witches sabbat. for many years have i entered the gates of the opposer to drink from the graal of the devil, the very cup of ensorcelled venom few may taste. spare s art holds a gateway into this primal gnosis, seek to drink from this cup as well. become through self-love! frater akhtya seker arimanius magister, the order of phosphorus/black order of the dragon 2 3 introduction to the book of pleasure by kenneth grant first published in the book of pleasure, 1975 austin osman spare was born at

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ge of interest in the paranormal and the supernatural. people speak freely of guardian angels, a belief in life after death, an acceptance of extrasensory perception (esp, and the existence of ghosts. in a gallup poll released on june 10, 2001, the survey administrators found that 54 percent of americans believe in spiritual or faith healing; 41 percent acknowledge that people can be possessed by the devil; 50 percent accept the reality of esp; 32 percent believe in the power of prophecy; and 38 percent agree that ghosts and spirits exist. what are the origins of these age-old beliefs? are they natural phenomenon that can be understood by the physical sciences? some scientists are suggesting that such mystical experiences can be explained in terms of neural transmitters, neural networks, a

he first heard three loud blows on the head of the bed as if it had been struck by a hammer. his first impression was that someone had hidden in his bedroom to frighten him, but the next morning at breakfast, the table at which he had seated himself was shaken nearly to pieces by a wild flurry of rappings. his aunt, near hysteria, left the home to summon three clergymen from the village to drive the devil out of her house. unable to make the rappings cease with their prayers, the ministers advised cook to ignore the disturbances. while it may have been possible to heed the ministers advice regarding the mysterious rapping sounds, cook found it impossible to ignore the activity of the furniture when tables and chairs began to move about the rooms. as the townspeople gathered to watch the s

egan paul, 1968. hall, trevor. the spiritualists. london: duckworth, 1962. medhurst, r. g, and k. m. goldney. crookes and the spirit world. new york: taplinger, 1972. harry houdini (1874 1926) although harry houdini died in 1926, his name remains synonymous with incredible demonstrations of stage magic and daredevil escapes. for spiritualists and mediums, however, his name is also synonymous with the devil at worst, the grand inquisitor at the least. houdini developed a strange kind of ambivalence, a love-hate attitude, toward the spirit world that, according to many of his biographers, developed after he failed to contact the spirit of his deceased mother through a medium. others have commented that houdini, known as a notorious self-promoter, initiated the highly publicized attempts to e

ncerned about being under psychic attack by demons when they learn from the mainstream media that the number of exorcisms of those who are suffering demonic possession has been rising steadily. in a gallup poll released on june 10, 2001, the administrators of the survey found that 54 percent of americans believe in spiritual or faith healing; 41 percent acknowledge that people can be possessed by the devil; 50 percent accept the reality of esp, or extrasensory perception; 32 percent believe in the power of prophecy; and 38 percent agree that ghosts and spirits exist. in the fall of 1988 the editors at better homes and gardens conducted a survey of their readers spiritual lives. the editors were astonished when the subject drew more than 80,000 responses, and more than 10,000 people attache

eternal life; 30 percent in a spirit world; and 13 percent accepted the possibility that beings in the spirit world can make contact with the living. in december 1997, the editors of self magazine published the results of a similar survey conducted with their readership: 91 percent believed in miracles; 87 percent, angels; 85 percent, spirits; 82 percent, heaven; 65 percent, hell; and 65 percent, the devil. some observers of the contemporary scene attribute this great spiritual questing to the advent of the millennium and the concerns of certain christians about an approaching apocalypse, when people will be called to account for their misdeeds. others say that large masses of people have become disillusioned with the tenets of science and the tools of technology that promised an earthly p

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ge of interest in the paranormal and the supernatural. people speak freely of guardian angels, a belief in life after death, an acceptance of extrasensory perception (esp, and the existence of ghosts. in a gallup poll released on june 10, 2001, the survey administrators found that 54 percent of americans believe in spiritual or faith healing; 41 percent acknowledge that people can be possessed by the devil; 50 percent accept the reality of esp; 32 percent believe in the power of prophecy; and 38 percent agree that ghosts and spirits exist. what are the origins of these age-old beliefs? are they natural phenomenon that can be understood by the physical sciences? some scientists are suggesting that such mystical experiences can be explained in terms of neural transmitters, neural networks, a

vicious attack on the clergyman occurred once when he knelt at his fireplace stirring the coals, preparatory to placing new kindling on the andirons. without warning, a huge deluge of water rushed down the chimney, extinguishing the fire, blinding the abbe with flying sparks, and covering him with ashes. the tutor woefully concluded that such actions could only be the work of his satanic majesty, the devil. the only other person who actually suffered physical pain dealt out by the haunting phenomena was mme. de x, who was in the act of unlocking a door when the key suddenly disengaged itself from her grip and struck her across the back of her left hand with such force that she bore a large bruise for several days. one night the invisible creature roamed the corridors as if it were a lonely

ook of creation in theory and practice. new york: samuel weiser, 1990. unterman, alan. dictionary of jewish lore and legend. london and new york: thames and hudson, 1991. winkler, gershon. the golem of prague. new york: judaica press, 1994. imp in old english impe means a young plant shoot or a tree sapling. over the years, the word came to refer to smallish entities that were direct offspring of the devil and sent from hell to do evil deeds to humans on earth. imps might well be called junior demons, and one of their principal assignments, according to christian authorities, was to disguise themselves as black cats, owls, ravens, or some other animal and serve as a witch s familiar. in many of the transcripts of the european witchcraft trials, the demonic spirit given by the devil to a wi

cripts of the european witchcraft trials, the demonic spirit given by the devil to a witch to do his or her bidding was referred to as an imp. in most of the descriptions of imps given by witches or those theologians who claimed to have exorcised the entities, their appearance apart from the animals they possessed was always a solid black in color. since they were creatures without souls sired by the devil, imps were condemned to be dark shadow beings, forever denied the light of god. over the centuries, the meaning of the word has lost its satanic implications. when one speaks of someone having an impish smile, one is likely to mean that that individual has wry sense of humor. to refer to children as little imps suggests that they are mischievous, rather than malignant. m delving deeper l

ry on the leeds name to future generations. while that might have been well and good for mr. leeds, when she learned that she was about to bear her thirteenth child, mrs. leeds decided that she had enough. she had grown tired of being continually pregnant to satisfy her husband s ego. in a fit of rage, it is said that she cursed the unborn child within her and cried out that she would rather bear the devil s child than give birth to another leeds for posterity. visualizing the image of satan, mrs. leeds decreed that she wished the child to be born with claws and fangs, fierce and wild as some vicious beast. the old legend said that mrs. 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 78 mysterious creatures incubi fashion temporary bodies out of wa

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ge of interest in the paranormal and the supernatural. people speak freely of guardian angels, a belief in life after death, an acceptance of extrasensory perception (esp, and the existence of ghosts. in a gallup poll released on june 10, 2001, the survey administrators found that 54 percent of americans believe in spiritual or faith healing; 41 percent acknowledge that people can be possessed by the devil; 50 percent accept the reality of esp; 32 percent believe in the power of prophecy; and 38 percent agree that ghosts and spirits exist. what are the origins of these age-old beliefs? are they natural phenomenon that can be understood by the physical sciences? some scientists are suggesting that such mystical experiences can be explained in terms of neural transmitters, neural networks, a

who wished to succeed, it was almost a requirement to join the freemasons. at the same time, however, those individuals who were not privy to its secrets had begun to spread rumors about the bizarre rites and grim pledges that the members of the fraternity were sworn to uphold. curiosity and concern that satanic rites might be held by supposedly upstanding businessmen who had sold their souls to the devil began to spread doubts about what was really going on behind the closed doors of its lodges. while the various oaths and rituals of the masons would quite likely be judged as a bit overly dramatic and flamboyant by some, they were largely symbolic and representative of an earlier age.and far less danger- 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

hen elizabeth heard of it, she sent two of her best physicians to attend to him. the queen also conveyed additional proofs of her high regard for him and made further promises. when he recovered, dee returned to england and settled at mortlake in surrey. here he accumulated an extensive library of works on occultism and allied subjects, prompting his neighbors to decree that he was in league with the devil. while dee insisted that he did not practice black magic, it seemed apparent that he knew a great deal about the subject. after elizabeth fs death, james i (1566. 1625) refused to extend patronage to dee because of his troubled reputation as a practitioner of the dark arts. dee returned to mortlake, where he died in 1608 in a state of neglect and poverty. dr. john dee fs globes, magic st

mistakenly credited with many of the learned professor fs scholastic achievements. when georg faust died around 1540, he had become such a legendary magician in germany that in 1558 johann speiss published a book entitled the history of dr. johann faust, which listed his many feats and adventures. speiss included his interpretation of how faust had become a master magician by selling his soul to the devil in exchange for 24 years of limitless knowledge and power. over the course of time, the faust story has been the subject of numerous plays, operas, and films. the first cinematic production of the ageless tale of dr. faust selling his soul to the devil for unlimited knowledge was a french film in 1905. the noted german actor emil jannings played the role in a classic t h e g a l e e n c

wicca can truly be traced back to ancient times or whether it developed as a new natural religion in the early nineteenth century and gained momentum in the mid-twentieth century. as one practitioner of wicca said, no wiccan can decide for another what wicca really is. one definite assertion that may be made about wicca is that practitioners of the religion are not satanists. they do not worship the devil or glory in the exaltation of evil. worship of and agreements with the devil presuppose his existence, and the wiccans do not believe in the satan of christianity. oberon zell (formerly tim zell, primate of the neo-paganistic church of all worlds, st. louis, missouri, and publisher of the green egg) does not believe satanism can be classed as a religion, but is merely a christian heresy

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arked, for the old religion was graduallyrelegated to the lowest classes of the community and to those who lived in remote parts at a distance fromany centre of civilisation.the records of the middle ages show the ancient god was known in many parts of the country, but to thechristian recorder he was the enemy of the new religion and was therefore equated with the principle ofevil, in other words the devil. this conception, that a god other than that of the recorded must be evil, is not the god of the witchesintroduction4confined to christianity, or to the middle ages. st. paul, in the first epistle to the corinthians, expressed thesame opinion when he wrote "the things which the gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils and not togod. ye cannot drink the cup of the lord and the cup of

worshippers of devils, and many even believed that those to whom they preached were doomedto hell-fire unless they turned to the christian god. the gods of the pagans were often accredited with evilmagical powers, which could be mysteriously communicated to the priests. against such powers of hell thechristian missionaries felt themselves strengthened by the powers of heaven; and the belief that the devil hadbeen defeated by the archangel michael backed by the whole power of the almighty gave them courage inthe contest.the study of anthropology has changed much of this childish method of regarding the forms of religiousbelief which belong to another race or another country. to consider islam, buddhism or hinduism as theinvention of the evil one would be thought ridiculous at the present d

theadministrators of the law to condemn the "devil-worshippers. what can have been the feelings with whichthose unhappy victims regarded the vaunted god of love, the prince of peace, whose votaries condemnedthem to torture and death? what wonder that they clung to their old faith, and died in agony unspeakablerather than deny their god.chapter i. the horned godthe god of the old religion becomes the devil of the new."the earliest known representation of a deity is in the caverne des trois fr350res in ari350ge, and dates to thelate palaeolithic period (plate i. the figure is that of a man clothed in the skin of a stag and wearing on hishead the antlers of a stag. the hide of the animal covers the whole of the man's body, the hands and feet aredrawn as though seen through a transparent mate

tch "refused to call himthe devil, and in many instances the accused explicitly called him god. the following instances are notexhaustive, they cover a century and are taken from the actual trials as well as from the generalisations ofthose writers who heard the evidence at first-hand and had themselves tried many cases. danaeus[6] wassuch an author, he wrote in 1575 that the "witches acknowledge the devil for their god, call upon him, prayto him, and trust in him, and that when they go to the sabbath "they repeat the oath which they have givenunto him in acknowledging him to be their god. of the aberdeen witches, tried in 1596[7] agnes wobsterwas accused of having dealings with "satan whom thou callest thy god; marion grant confessed thatchristsonday was the name of the divine personage "

n france in 1608, states that "the witches, before taking their repast, bless thetable, but with words full of blasphemy, making beelzebub the author and protector of all things. delancre,[9] the inquisitor in the pays de labourd (basses pyr351n351es, wrote in 1613 that there was "a greatdevil, who is the master of all, whom they all adore; he also recorded the evidence of one of his victims,[10]"the devil made them believe that he was the true god, and he gives as a general statement[11 "our witchesfor the most part hold these demons as gods. in orleans in 1614[25 "they say to the devil, we recogniseyou as our master, our god, our creator. at edmonton in 1621 elizabeth sawyer[12] confessed that "hecharged me to pray no more to jesus christ, but to him the devil" in lancashire in 1633 marg

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

umbers with proportions so exact, that the known demonstrates and reveals the unknown. to understand this science, is to see god. the author of this book, as he finishes his work, will think that he has demonstrated it. then, when you have seen god, the hierophant will say to you "turn round" and, in the shadow which you throw in the presence of this sun of intelligences, there will appear to you the devil, that black phantom which you see when your gaze is not fixed upon god, and when you think that your shadow fills the sky- for the vapours of the earth, the higher they go, seem to magnify it more and more. to harmonize in the category of religion science with revelation and reason with faith, to demonstrate in philosophy the absolute principles which reconcile all the antinomies, and fi

th apply to 16 ourselves; it will be done to us as we have believed; that is to say, we create ourselves in the image of our ideal "those who make their gods become like unto them" says the psalmist "and all they that put their trust in them" the divine ideal of the ancient world made the civilization which came to an end, and one must not despair of seeing the god of our barbarous fathers become the devil of our more enlightened children. one makes devils with cast-off gods<<christianity has fallen, and so christ has already become the 'devil' to such thinkers as nietzsche and crowley- o.m> and satan is only so incoherent and so formless because he is made up of all the rags of ancient theogonies. he is the sphinx without a secret, the riddle without an answer, the mystery without truth

ded epics. he twisted together the sword of right and the sceptre of duty; and upon this column of gold and steel he placed the creative sign of love. one day, in a great popular assembly, he went down into the road with a piece of bread in his hand which he broke and distributed, saying "bread of god, do thou make bread for all" i know another of them who cried "i will no longer adore the god of the devil! i will not have a hangman for my god" and they thought that he blasphemed. no; but the energy of his faith overflowed in inexact and imprudent words. he said again in the madness of his wounded charity "the liabilities of all men are common, and they expiate each other's faults, as they make merit for each other by their virtues "the penalty of sin is death "sin itself, moreover, is a p

er, been attacked with violence in pamphlets whose authors had at one time been admirers of his doctrine, for the medium vintras took it upon himself to dogmatize. one thing, however, is remarkable in the invectives of which he is the object: his adversaries, though straining every effort in order to scourge him, recognize the truth of his miracles, and content themselves with attributing them to the devil. what, then, are these so authentic miracles of vintras? on this subject we are better informed than anybody, as will soon appear. affidavits signed by honourable witnesses, persons who are artists, doctors, priests, all men above reproach, have been communicated to us; we have questioned eye-witnesses, and, better than that, we have seen with our own eyes. the facts deserve to be descri

interpreted in their gross, or in their mystical, sense. perhaps madrolle was himself intentionally ambiguous- trans> it was the marquis de sade turned preacher<three-fourths of "justine" are verbose arguments in favour of so-called vice. again levi trips in referring to an author whom he has not read- trans> further, he denied the existence of the devil with an enthusiasm often full of eloquence "can you conceive" said he "a devil tolerated and authorized by god? can you conceive, further, a god who made the devil, and who allowed him to ravage creatures already so weak, and so prompt to deceive themselves! a god of the devil, in short, abetted, protected, and scarcely surpassed in his revenges, by a devil of a god" the rest of the pamp

THE LUCIFERIAN PATH THE WITCHES SABBAT MICHAEL W FORD

gend of lucifer falling from light. it was essential for azazel (lucifer) to grow he had to understand and perceive darkness, to taste the shadows and become as god (the knowledge of good and evil. the initiate of the luciferian path explores the darkness as a point of development, a testing of spirit and the possibility of self isolation. as the initiate confronts in various forms what is called the devil, the averse and life-giving spirit, he or she then becomes as this spirit. the witch or sorcerer becomes stronger in their results of magical practice, and they begin to note concrete results within and outside the self. at this point many will fail, to face the devil or shadow side will often lead the individual to face his or her worst fears and weaknesses, that which can destroy 4 the

is the in-between point which later unveils the light, therefore being a barrier and initiation aspect of the self and such conceptual matter. the numerical 666, described by aleister crowley is the number of the beast3, which is inherent in the sun in the zodiac. the sun is also associated with the adversarial triad, being shaitan (set) typhon, apophras (apep) and besz, a god of transformation. the devil as an initiatory force is considered masculine, thus is represented by the phallus or source of creative life. in the tarot, the devil is attributed to capricornus, and the hebrew letter ayin, being an eye. the symbolism of the devil as the initiator may be best understood by the tarot as presented in the book of thoth. satan/set is the ass headed god of the desert, the lord of storms an

the tarot as presented in the book of thoth. satan/set is the ass headed god of the desert, the lord of storms and desolate places. set is the tester of self, the adversary and opposer. set is also related to saturn. this planet, called also shabbathai, is the sphere of saturn and is considered a meeting place of the witches sabbat. the image of those leaving the flesh, to go forth in the name of the devil by flying with familiars and other demons is not too far from realistic workings in the present time. 1 luciferian is also relevant to the egyptian god set, sethanic= of set. 2 see iblis, the black light by peter lamborn wilson. the flame of isolate consciousness and being is the black light/black flame. this is defined as the fire and perception of being, antinomianism. 3 the book of th

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

above the veil, shows the effects on tiphareth of the proper functioning of the upper sephiroth. the golden dawn rituals of advancement to the state of tiphareth and the grade of adeptus minor always move the candidate along one side path, then bar them, then move along the opposite path to be barred and forced to return, until at last the "middle way" is walked and the goal attained. xv. devil: the devil atu, partnering death on the other side of the tree, shows how hod, the intellect, can enslave the awareness by being glorified for its own sake. there are many paradoxes which can break the chains of the devil, and zen koans are specifically designed to work on this level, amongst others. it also shows the danger of attempting to make netzach subservient to hod (working on "controlling

are as follows: hanged man (geburah) the hanged man represents consciousness drowned in matter as one meaning of the image of the sacrificed god, and as the initiate progresses up the tree, hod is where he first accesses any of the sephiroth above tiphareth, self-awareness. devil (tiphareth) in order to rescue that consciousness, the adept must come to terms with the primal forces represented by the devil, but also unchain his model from his prior perceptions, which is also indicated by this card. the devil is beaten by looking him straight in the eye (ayin, the letter attributed to the devil card. tower (netzach) the tower connecting hod to netzach shows the dramatic tension that resides between these two sephiroth. the relationship of ones thoughts to ones feelings is often a disharmoni

in order to work on his psyche and perceptions and to build a tower of singular language, not merely another tower of babel. sun (yesod) the mind can reflect from tiphareth experiences of a "higher order, and such is often termed "gnosis" by contemplatives. this illuminates the psyche, centred in yesod, through the path of the sun atu. it is interesting to note that this functional triad utilises the devil atu as lucifer, the light-bringer. last judgement (malkuth) the "last judgement" atu shows the resultant flow of energies down the pillar of which hod is the base. from understanding and discrimination, and the processes of the intellect, reflecting the arc of will, comes the decision to act, the judgement from which flows the will into the world of action, malkuth. if the lower sephirot

tions, acting as a kether below the veil of paroketh. whereas the three paths of the upper triad deal with the "light" of creation, these three paths deal with the "life" of creation; path 24: the imaginative intelligence path 26: the renewing intelligence path 27: the active intelligence the tarot cards which relate to these paths are those often seen as the "bad guys" of the pack, being "death "the devil, and "the blasted tower. however, in the light of the path descriptions above, we can see that they symbolise essential qualities of the creative and generative processes of the universe. path 24, that of "death, gives "similarity to the likeness of beings. that is, beneath and beyond the transformations taking place about us, the "song remains the same, as the led zeppelin song puts it

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

starkly critical and objective look into the nature of one's own being. unconscious content is usually experienced in projection upon something that is outside of us. in the case of unwanted psyhc content, some people will readily project their shadow onto someone else. thus, we have a tendency to shft the blame onto an appropriate scapegoat "the other guy did it" or as a comedian once insisted "the devil made me do it" it is extremely difficult for some analysands to accept the fact that they do indeed have a deep, dark side. the therapist, who tries to bring the shadow out into the open, often meets with enormous resistance because the client fears that the artificial structure he has carefully constructed to protect hs ego will come crashing down. ths is in fact the point at whch many

ponds to the tarot card of "the high priestess" and is attributed to the moon. ths path is the primary conduit by which the higher, divine consciousness flows down to lower levels. it is also a path of change. interestingly, thirteen multiplied by two is twenty-six, the value of yhvh (7137) and kabedh (712 "to honor" the twenty-sixth path of the sepher yetzirah is attributed to the tarot card of "the devil" to which is assigned the powers of material force and generation. thirteen multiplied by three is thrty-nine, the value of yhvh achad('tilt4 71;t7) or "yhvh is one" thuteen multiplied by four is fifty-two, the number of yhvh spelled 0ut.19 it is also the value of aima (kt37k, the supernal mother and ben (11, the reconciling son. finally, thirteen multiplied by five (the number of gnes t

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

rds were a very rare sight in west virginia in 1967. men in formal suits and ties were even rarer in those back hills of the ohio valley. and bearded, black-garbed strangers on foot in the rain had never been seen there before. in the days that followed the young couple told their friends about the apparition. obviously, they concluded, he had been a fearful omen of some sort. perhaps he had been the devil himself! three weeks later these two people were dead, among the victims of the worst tragedy ever to strike that section of west virginia. they were driving across the silver bridge. which spanned the ohio river, when it suddenly collapsed. their friends remembered. they remembered the story of the bearded stranger in the night. it had, indeed, been a sinister omen. one that confirmed t

ople even seemed to expect it of us. perhaps if crew cuts ever come back and beards disappear i will regrow my own. but today it would be sprinkled with gray. too much gray, probably. likewise, long hair was once the symbol of the super-intellectual, the property of concert violinists and einstein-type mathematicians the ultimate squares, really. i would prefer to believe that i did not look like the devil in my late beard. i certainly had no intention of launching new legends when my car ran off the road in west virginia that november and i plodded from house to house searching for a telephone so i could call a tow truck. i had just come up from atlanta, georgia, where i had delivered a speech to a local ufo club. west virginia was almost a second home to me in those days. i had visited t

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

cle by beginning anywhere. paranormal phenomena are so widespread, so diversified, and so sporadic yet so persistent that separating and studying any single element is not only a waste of time but also will automatically lead to the development of belief. once you have established a belief, the phenomenon adjusts its manifestations to support that belief and thereby escalate it. if you believe in the devil he will surely come striding down your road one rainy night and ask to use your phone. if you believe that flying saucers are astronauts from another planet they will begin landing and collecting rocks from your garden. many most of the manifestations accompanying the ufo phenomenon simply did not fit into the enthusiasts3 concept of how a superior intelligence from another galaxy would

of religious apparitions, demonology, occult phenomena, and contacts with fairies. all of these manifestations clearly share a common source or cause. while chimeras can come in all sizes and shapes, ranging from twenty-foot giants to animated tin cans only a few inches in height, the most fascinating type is one who has appeared in almost every country on earth. in other ages he was regarded as the devil incarnate. he dressed in black and rode a black horse. later he arrived in black horsedrawn carriages, even in hearses. today he steps out of flying saucers in remote farm fields. he is built exactly like us, stands from five feet six inches to six feet tall, looks very human but has high cheekbones, unusually long fingers, and an oriental cast to his features. his complexion is olive or

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

the aspiring magician from every angle, from every quarter around the circumference of the magick circle, and they must be destroyed lest they devour the magician himself. when crowley professed to have passed the obstacles, and crossed the abyss of knowledge, and found his true self, he found it was identical with the beast of the book of revelation, 666, whom christianity considers to represent the devil. indeed, crowley had nothing but admiration for the shaitan (satan) of the so-called "devil-worshipping" cult of the yezidis of mesopotamia, knowledge of which led him to declare the lines that open this introduction. for he saw that the yezidis possess a great secret and a great tradition that extends far back into time, beyond the origin of the sun cults of osiris, mithra and christ; e

and sometimes a tail. the church's use of the horns as a sort of archetype of evil is quite similar to the feeling many people have today with regards to the swastika used by the nazis, a symbol which has become the archetype of an evil sigil in the west. the fact that it is a highly valued mystical and religious symbol in the east is something that is not well-known. what is worse, the image of the devil as perpetrated by the church is simultaneously representative of sexual energy, and can be safely compared to jung's archetype of the shadow, the psychic repository of a man's innate maleness, as the anima represents that part of a man which is feminine. truly, the pictures painted of a satanic ritual by the pious catholic clergymen was one of sexual orgies and "perversions, and the hand

s, the moon remained the prime deity of the sumerians, constituting the essential personum of a religious and mystical drama that was performed roughly 3000 b.c. amid the deserts and marshes of mesopotamia. side by side with the worship of the moon, nanna, there was fear of the demon, pazuzu, a genie so amply recreated in the book and the movie by blatty, the exorcist, and similarly recognised as the devil himself by the church. pazuzu, the beast, was brought to life by aleister crowley, and the demon walked the earth once more. with publicity provided by h.p. lovecraft. the devil pazuzu was a prime example of the type of devil of which the sumerians were particularly aware, and which they depicted constantly in their carvings and statues. the purpose of this iconography was to ward off th

pe of devil of which the sumerians were particularly aware, and which they depicted constantly in their carvings and statues. the purpose of this iconography was to ward off the spiritual- and psychic- circumstances which would precipitate a plague, or some other evil "evil to destroy evil" although the ancient people of the world were conscious of an entity we might call the :author of all evil, the devil or satan, as evident in the sumerian creation epic and the rumoured existences of the cult of set of the egyptians, the more pressing concern was usually the exorcism of tiamat, she exists, somehow, just as the abyss exists and is perhaps indispensable to human life if we think of her as typifying the female quality of energy. although marduk was responsible for halving the monster from

quality of energy. although marduk was responsible for halving the monster from the sea, the sumerian tradition has it that the monster is not dead, but dreaming, asleep below the surface of the earth, strong, potent, dangerous, and very real. her powers can be tapped by the knowledgeable "who are skilful to rouse leviathan" although the christian religion has gone to great lengths to prove that the devil is inferior to god and exists solely for his purpose, as the tempter of man- surely a dubious raison d'etre- the sumerian tradition acknowledges that the person of "evil" is actually the oldest, most ancient of the gods. whereas christianity states that lucifer was a rebel in heaven, and fell from god's grace to ignominy below, the original story was that marduk was the rebel, and severe

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edeth that fair concord, that as in every several kernel is contained a whole good tree or fruit, so likewise is included in the little body of man the whole great world, whose religion, policy, health, members, nature, language, words and works, are agreeing, sympathizing, and in equal tune and melody with god, heaven and earth; and that which is disagreeing with them, is error, falsehood and of the devil, who alone is the first, middle, and last cause of strife, blindness, and darkness in the world: also, might one examine all and several persons upon the earth, he should find that which is good and right, is always agreeing with it self; but all the rest is spotted with a thousand erroneous conceits. after two years brother r.c. departed the city fez, and sailed with many costly things

THE SHADOWED ONES

y waking do we hear the voice of araqiel. sariel knows the motions and phases of the moon, and by seeking him one may know the path of the goddess in her beautiful and horrifying aspects. always know, we are both demon and angel in the skull of man, we are of beast and of higher spirit. it is our duty to balance and seek a perfection of both according to the path of lucifer, who holds the mask of the devil. know all forms and choices accordingly. kokabel knows too the stars and the great seven heads of the dragon. by your initiation seek him in that which is brought by trance and dreaming dominion. seek azazel at times within the dragon by chant and devotion. leviathan is the dragon guardian of the abyss, who dwells in the deep and unknown realms of the ocean and the darkest depths of the

, who is your shadow possibility and strength bearing passion of the earth. let the ahriman dragon whose color is black stir your eyes from the sun to the moon and the darkness of night. it is the cold winds which open the path of arezura and hades, when wolves and serpents gather unto you. let the ahrimanic dragon coil as the serpents of shaitan, just as zohak shall you be blessed by the kiss of the devil-prince who is your initiator of dreams and death. by the north west point of the circle can you call now forth azrael who is a gatherer of ghosts and shades of the dead. listen to the twilight call of the boneways of the gateway. in your skull temple of cain and lilith does witchblood flow and gather what you may become. let jasmine bloom now under the light of the moon and the phantoms

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

ove at all. an affection it may be, but love it cannot be if it dare not see its form mirrored in the eyes of a loving woman. its failure in the end is a certainty; certain ascetics may compel their wills to conquer their natures, but men as a whole cannot. certain maniacs such as origen may emasculate themselves for the kingdom of god, but the great human masses will let the kingdom of god go to the devil, if a pretty pair of lips is in question. not for long in any case can we change our natures, as the anchorites of the libyan deserts only too fearfully proved; boiling with carnalities they feared to see their own mothers, and were even forbidden to keep in their possession animals of the female sex. o stylites! they are now in heaven! how we clave together! how we strained caresses! ho

rhaps you might yourself have one wee fling, if you were pretty. what might not hard starvation drive you to, with death so near and sure? perhaps it might drive even virtuous you, if you were poor.*5 *1. conventional lies. max nordau *2. fundamental problems, p. vii *3. beverland, 238 *4. ibid. 414 *5. oracles, vol. ii, p. 5. and in gorpheus h he well describes the social trinity: nay! virtue is the devil fs name for vice, and all your righteousness is filthy rags wherein ye strut, and hide the one base thought. to mask the truth, to worship, to forget; these three are one *orpheus, vol. iii, p. 208. the moral character of a nation is its true capital, and the two great laws of existence are. gthe struggle for life, h and gthe struggle for the ideal, h if then the ideal is low, the capita

and scorpio, the eagle is the emblem of good, the scorpion of evil, the eaglewinged serpent of good and evil; and it is with this doctrine of good and evil that we shall now deal. as there was darkness before syhla formed the light, and as knowledge is the outcome of ignorance, so is also virtue the outcome of vice. eritis sicut deus, scientes bonum et malum. it was satan, the lucifer of milton, the devil of blake, and the serpent of genesis, who was the author of wisdom *cwdn same as hycm and the serpent said unto the woman, ye shall not surely die: for god doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil .gen. iii, 4, 5. it was only by casting off god, and breaking away from the essentially bestial quality of unreas

nd demonology, we have now named madness, and diseases of the nerves. seldom reflecting that still the new question comes upon us: what is madness, what are nerves? ever, as before, does madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the nether chaotic deep, through this fair-painted vision of creation, which swims thereon, which we name the real. was luther fs picture of the devil less a reality, whether it were formed within the bodily eye, or without it? in every the wisest soul lies a whole world of internal madness, an authentic demon-empire; out of which, indeed, his world of wisdom has been creatively built together, and now rests there, as on its dark foundations does a habitable flowery earth-rind. h .sartor resartus *2. the sword of song, vol. ii, pp. 203

THE WITCH CULT OF ZOS VEL THANATOS

ur elements of building, focusing and releasing this powerful force of promethean fire-the mind and will united by dissolution of opposites. kia itself seeks the necessary manifestation by the act of love, considering it seems to incarnate or flow backwards. this can be viewed as an initiation resembling what has been described in my book of the witch moon as the osculum infame, or kiss of shame. the devil itself, resembling the o can achieve autoerotic intercourse with the combination of z, meaning inverse intercourse with the devil the very act of creation. the rite of thanatos vel babalon, as developed by michael dewitt is one of the most powerful descriptions of the essence of babalon that could be described. the ritual itself is opened with the quadriga sexualis banishing ritual and l

but the botd as well. the face is the independent genius, the spirit which rises from flesh, the angelick daemon which is both beast and spirit, the independent consciousness which goes forth to the luciferian/celestial sabbat. the sleeping offer their veins to the mouths of the black adept, who then drinks in turn from the wound of lilith az, the fountain of trshna, or thirst, the very graal of the devil. the ophidian oracle the black (lilith az) and the red (samael) snake are the dual knowledge of kundalini, both represent the polarity of sexual magick and independent consciousness. here one may see the witch with her familiars and servitors, sexual playthings and the serpent of knowledge moving towards the yoni or eye of darkness. this is the essence of the path found in the grimoire a

THE ABYSS AND TABAET

and toad, his words defined the very essence of all sorcery and magick, i will seduce all material life into disaffection to thee and affection to myself. initiation into the path of magick is that of the illumination of clay by the gods of the leviathanic path, when dreaming and desired spirit enter flesh and manifest their own journey upon the path of the dragon. in the circle of evocation does the devil embodied awaken, it is the mirror of the creation of the initiate. no matter of which name is the adversary invoked, the shadow encircles the body and soul to reveal the blackened fire of life itself, the very essence illuminated. to walk upon the left hand path is to sip from the venom d cup of the serpent, to move against the sun by the way of lilith and hecate, to listen to the ancien

ages offered online by joseph peterson@ www. avesta. org the history of zoroastrianism by m.n. dhalla further reading: luciferian witchcraft by michael w. ford isbn 1411626389 the home publisher of luciferian witchcraft is here: http//www.lulu.com/content/112297 "this is the revealed grimoire of the left-hand path. there is power for those willing to drink from the cup of the beast and his bride, the devil's harlot. herein is the path as walked by one who seeks to reveal the true path of ahriman and lilith-az, to manifest in flesh the spirit of azi dahaka and cain. herein is magick from the foundation to higher pathworkings of sorcery and black magick. here the works which burn away the modern white-washing of so-called magick and or witchcraft. herein are the rituals of lucifer, ancient p

initiation rites of black magick that have established ford as the most cutting-edge exponent of the left hand path tradition in america today. the book begins with a lengthy and highly scholarly exposition of the place of the draconic adversary within historical magick. set typhon, the egyptian god of darkness, ahriman, the persian devil and his whore of darkness, the adversary and the bride of the devil, cain the son, the gnostic yaldabaoth "child of chaos, the path of the crooked serpent- leviathan and beelzebub and tiamat, pazuzu, and moloch are only some of the topics and figures covered. the second part of the book, the grimoires of luciferian witchcraft, includes several of his most infamous graveyard workings, together with the complete version of the luciferian goetia- a complete

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ighteousness. then he suffered him. 3:16 and jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the spirit of god descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: 3:17 and lo a voice from heaven, saying, this is my beloved son, in whom i am well pleased. 4:1 then was jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 4:2 and when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. 4:3 and when the tempter came to him, he said, if thou be the son of god, command that these stones be made bread. 4:4 but he answered and said, it is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of god. 4:5 then the devil taketh him up into the holy cit

p into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, 4:6 and saith unto him, if thou be the son of god, cast thyself down: for it is written, he shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in [their] hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. 4:7 jesus said unto him, it is written again, thou shalt not tempt the lord thy god. 4:8 again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; 4:9 and saith unto him, all these things will i give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. 4:10 then saith jesus unto him, get thee hence, satan: for it is written, thou shalt worship the lord thy god, and him only shalt thou serve. 4:11 then the devil leaveth him

? they said unto him, yea, lord. 9:29 then touched he their eyes, saying, according to your faith be it unto you. 9:30 and their eyes were opened; and jesus straitly charged them, saying, see [that] no man know [it] 9:31 but they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country. 9:32 as they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil. 9:33 and when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake: and the multitudes marvelled, saying, it was never so seen in israel. 9:34 but the pharisees said, he casteth out devils through the prince of the devils. 9:35 and jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. 9:36 but when he

esus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. 13:37 he answered and said unto them, he that soweth the good seed is the son of man; 13:38 the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked [one] 13:39 the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. 13:40 as therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. 13:41 the son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; 13:42 and shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be waili

im, and saying, 17:15 lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water. 17:16 and i brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him. 17:17 then jesus answered and said, o faithless and perverse generation, how long shall i be with you? how long shall i suffer you? bring him hither to me. 17:18 and jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour. 17:19 then came the disciples to jesus apart, and said, why could not we cast him out? 17:20 and jesus said unto them, because of your unbelief: for verily i page 569 matthew say unto you, if ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove

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opiers..parts of it i sense to be genuinely old; other parts suggest modern interpolation (farrar, what witches do, pp 34-35) as we shall discover presently, there appear to be no genuinely old copies of the book of shadows. still, as to the mythos, farrar informs us that the "two personifications of witchcraft are the horned god and the mother goddess (ibid, p 29) and that the "horned god is not the devil, and never has been. if today `satanist' covens do exist, they are not witches but a sick fringe, delayed-reaction victims of a centuries-old church propaganda in which even intelligent christians no longer believe (ibid, p 32. one could protest "very well, some case might be made for the horned god being mistaken for the christian devil (or should that be the other way around, but what

the horned god being mistaken for the christian devil (or should that be the other way around, but what record, prior to the advent 50 years ago of modern wicca via gerald gardner, do we have of the survival of a mother goddess image from ancient times" wiccan apologists frequently refer to the (apparently isolated) tenth century church document which states that "some wicked women, perverted by the devil, seduced by the illusions and phantasms of demons, believe and profess themselves in the a true history of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 5 hours of the night to ride upon certain beasts with diana, the goddess of pagans, or with herodias, and an innumerable multitude of women, and in the silence of the dead of night to traverse great spaces of earth, and to obey her

. a priest, probably at risk to his own life, recorded testimony in the 1600s that reflected the reality underlying the forced "confessions" of "witches. rev. michael stapirius records, for example, this comment from one "confessed witch "i never dreamed that by means of the torture a person could be brought to the point of telling such lies as i have told. i am not a witch, and i have never seen the devil, and still i had to plead guilty myself and denounce others" all but one copy of father stapirius' book were destroyed, and little wonder. a letter smuggled from a german burgomaster, johannes junius, to his daughter in 1628, is as telling as it is painful even to read. his hands had been virtually destroyed in the torture, and he wrote only with great agony and no hope "when at last the

ractitioners of the near to middle-near future. carried to its end gardnerian practices, like crowley's magick, are not merely exotic; they are, in the truest sense, subversive. practices that work are of value, whether they are two years old or two thousand. practices, myths, institutions and obligations which, on the other hand, may be infinitely ancient are of no value at all unless they work. the devil, you say before we move on, though, in light of the furor over real and imagined "satanism" that has overtaken parts of the popular press in recent years, i would feel a bit remiss in this account if i did not take momentary note of that other strain of left-handed occult mythology, satanism. wiccans are correct when they say that modern wicca is not satanic, that satanism is "reverse ch

ween conscious and unconscious forces. in gardnarian wicca, the goddess and horned god- and the priestess and priest, represent that balance. there is nothing, nothing of pacts with the "devil" or the worship of evil in any of this; that belongs to misguided exchristians who have been given the absurd fundamentalist sunday school notion that one must choose the christian version of god, or choose the devil. islam, judaism and even catholicism have at one time or another been thought "satanic" and occultists have merely played on this bigoted symbolism, not subscribed to it. as we have seen, wicca since gardner's time has been watered down in many of its expressions into a kind of mushy white-light `new age' religion, with far less of the strong sexuality characteristic of gardnerianism, th

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evil spirits, usurped that title. but magicke and witchcraft are far differing sciences; whereof pliny1 being ignorant, scoffeth thereat: for nero (saith pliny) who had the most excellent magicians of the east sent to him by tyridates king of armenia, who held that kingdom by him, found the art after long study and labour altogether ridiculous. now witchcraft and sorcery, are works done merely by the devil, which with respect unto some covenant made with man, he acteth by men his instruments, to accomplish his evil ends: of these, the histories of all ages, people and countries, as also the holy scriptures, afford us sundry examples. but magus is a persian word primitively, whereby is expressed such a one as is altogether conversant in things divine; as plato affirmeth, the art of magick i

r: 3. 2 ministers and messengers which attend the worship of the true god; he also hath delivered, that there are devils earthly and wandering, and enemies to mankind. so that the word magus of itself imports a contemplator of divine& heavenly sciences; but under the name magick, are all unlawful arts comprehended; as necromancy and witchcraft, and such arts which are effected by combination with the devil, and whereof he is a party. these witches and necromancers are also called malefici or venefici; sorcerers or poisoners; of which names witches are rightly called, who without the art of magick do indeed use the help of the devil himself to do mischief; practising to mix the powder of dead bodies with other things by the help of the devil prepared; and at other times to make pictures of

ed malefici or venefici; sorcerers or poisoners; of which names witches are rightly called, who without the art of magick do indeed use the help of the devil himself to do mischief; practising to mix the powder of dead bodies with other things by the help of the devil prepared; and at other times to make pictures of wax, clay, or otherwise (as it were sacramentaliter) to effect those things which the devil by other means bringeth to pass. such were, and to this day partly, if not altogether, are the corruptions which have made odious the very name of magick, having chiefly sought, as the manner of all impostures is, to counterfeit the highest and most noble part of it. a second kind of magick is astrologie, which judgeth of the events of things to come, natural and humane, by the motions a

natural philosophy. nevertheless there is a mixture in all things, good with evil, of falsehood with truth, of corruption with purity. the good, the truth, the purity, in every kinde, may well be embraced: as in the ancient worshipping of god by sacrifice, there was no man knowing god among the elders, that did not forbear to worship the god of all power, or condemn that kinde of worship, because the devil was so adored in the image of baal, dagon, astaroth, chemosh, jupiter, apollo, and the like. neither did the abuse of astrology terrify abraham (if we believe the most ancient and religious writers) from observing the motions and natures of the heavenly bodies. neither can it dehort wise and learned men in these days from attributing those vertues, influences, and inclinations, to the st

bring to pass all things in due season. aphorism 19. olympus and the inhabitants thereof, do of their own accord offer themselves to men in the forms of spirits, and are ready to perform their offices for them, whether they will or not: by how much the rather will they attend you, if they are desired? but there do appear also evil spirits, and destroyers, which is caused by the envy and malice of the devil; and because men do allure and draw them unto themselves with their sin, as a punishment due to sinners. whosoever therefore desireth familiarly to have a conversation with spirits, let him keep himself from enormious sins, and diligently pray to the most high to be his keeper; and he shall break through all the snares and impediments of the devil: and let him apply himself to the servic

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o in this, as well as many other instances, has followed the ammonian platonics, who were both the restorers and corrupters of the ancient theology. they restored it from the mass of poetical mythology, under which it was buried, but refined and sublimated it with abstract metaphysics, which soared as far above human reason as the poetical 1 sat. lib. i. c. 18. 2 arch ologia, vol. v. 3 now called the devil s arrows. see stukely s itin. vol. i. table xc. 4 hist. nat. lib. xxxvi. sec. 14. 5 plate x, fig. 1, and nummi pop& urb. table x. fig. 7. 68 on the worship mythology sunk below it. from the ancient solar obeliscs came the spires and pinnacles with which our churches are still decorated, so many ages after their mystic meaning has been forgotten. happily for the beauty of these edifices

e the other heretical sects, these cathari were accused of indulging in unnatural vices, and the german words ketzerie and ketzer were eventually used to signify sodomy and a sodomite, as well as heresy and a heretic. the waldenses generally, taking all the sects which people class under this name, including also the older bulgari and publicani, were charged with holding secret meetings, at which the devil appeared to them in the shape, according to some, of a goat, whom they worshipped by offering the kiss in ano, after which they indulged in promiscuous sexual intercourse. some believed that they were conveyed to these meetings by unearthly means. the english chronicler, ralph de coggeshall, tells a strange story of the means of locomotion possessed by these heretics. in the city of rhei

e who were fully initiated into their most secret mysteries became endowed with powers and faculties above those possessed by ordinary individuals. a list of the errors of the waldenses, printed in the reliqui antiqu, from an english manuscript, enumerates among them that they met to indulge in promiscuous sexual intercourse, and held perverse doctrines in accordance with it; that, in some parts, the devil appeared to them in the form of a cat, and that each kissed him under the tail; and that in other parts they rode to the place of meeting upon a staff anointed with a certain unguent, and were conveyed thither in a moment of time. the writer adds that, in the parts where he lived, these practices had not been known to exist for a long time.2 our old chroniclers exult over the small succe

rm vauderie, or, as it was then written, vaulderie, was applied to the practice or profession of witchcraft. they said that the place of meeting was commonly a fountain in the wood of mofflaines, about a league distant from arras, and that they sometimes went thither on foot. the more usual way of proceeding, however, according to their own account, was this they took an ointment given to them by the devil, with which they annointed a wooden rod, at the same time rubbing the palms of their hands with it, and then, placing the rod between their legs, they were suddenly carried through the air to the place of assembly. they found there a multitude of people, of both sexes, and of all estates and ranks, even wealthy burghers and nobles and one of the persons examined declared that he had seen

the holy trinity, and performed other profane acts. they then seated themselves at the tables, and after they had eaten and drunk sufficiently, they rose and joined in a scene of promiscuous intercourse between the sexes, in which the demon took part, assuming alternately the form of either sex, according to that of his temporary partner. other generative powers 209 wicked acts followed, and then the devil preached to them, and enjoined them especially not to go to church, or hear mass, or touch holy water, or perform any other of the duties of good christians. after this sermon was ended, the meeting was dissolved, and they separated and returned to their several homes.1 the violence of these witch persecutions at arras led to a reaction, which, however, was not lasting, and from this tim

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urch was not against the result of magic but its method. miracles were gifts that god gave to the deserving. good christians did not ask for miracles, they received them with humble gratitude. the magician had the audacity to steal miracles from behind god's back. he or she produced mira- cles on demand, and made-to-order. the implication was that the magician could not do this without the aid of the devil. it was diabolical to actively seek to upset the laws of nature. god might do xxii new millennium magic so at his pleasure, but man had no right to ape him. such effrontery must be pun- ished. magicians must be cast down for their sin. satan was thrown from heaven for seeking to become like god. adam and eve were turned out of the garden for essentially the same reason. prometheus was bo

s higher purpose. darkness, on the other hand, is only a semblance of a thing, not real in the true sense of the word but a shadow and deceit. the coming into being of the light gave rise to the perception that there is such a thing as darkness. the light does not per- vade the whole of manifestation to an equal degree, and where it is less concen- trated is called darkness. satanists assume that the devil has as much reality, or lack of reality, as god and is therefore an equally suitable object of worship. in truth, satan is not any positive thing, but is merely the place where god is less evident. satanists worship a shadow, a dilution of the same power they claim to despise. consider the line dcba: d c b a dark 111 light the right end of the line represents the extreme, or totality, of

s might better be written in its babylonian plural form as lilitu, which is an order of succubi or night hags. there is sometimes confusion in ancient magic over whether a demon represents an entire class or a single individual. this confusion arose because individual demons, such as satan, were supposed capable of being in sever- al places at once. thus, during the witch-craze of the middle ages the devil was thought by some able to copulate with more than one witch in different places at the same instant. it is not really made clear in ancient texts whether there is one lilith or a whole brood of lilitu that visit sleeping men at night to steal their semen. the list of the qlippoth and their archdemons given above is taken from s. l. macgregor mathers' 1887 translation of a portion of kn

f lightning persists on the retina. eventually the magus will learn to trust these inspired insights, and will accept with thankfulness anything the light sees fit to bestow, whether he or she compre- hends its purpose at the time or not. the magus can and will make mistakes-the light, never. magicians of the left-hand path often delude themselves into believing they can take shortcuts and "cheat the devil" it is true they gain much magical expertise in dealing with material matters. they even attain personal magical symbols of a kind. whenever anyone wills with sincere intensity to attain a goal, progress will be made, even if the goal is self-destructive. what must be made plain is that the source of this understanding is not affiliated with cosmic law. such understanding is tainted. it

often, just as aleister crowley advised-but be careful what you invoke. t he most notorious act of magic is the evocation of spirits. it has been mocked often enough in literature and on film so that everyone is familiar with it. the magician dressed all in black reads, in a tremulous voice, from an ancient book bound in human skin and waves an anemic wand. there is a puff of sulfurous smoke and the devil appears, ready to do his or her bidding. skeptics single out evocation as the ultimate absurdity of the occult. they point out that the devil is made to materialize from thin air, which defies the laws of physics. something cannot be produced from nothing. and if demons and spir- its can be tangibly conjured up to be seen and touched, why are there no accredit- ed photographs or witnesse

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medieval accounts of witchcraft. many records of the witch trials declare witches to have the power to physically fly through the air, as well as 14. robbins, 192. chapter two: witches' flying ointment 21 tfle ability to vanish from sight or transform themselves into cats or other creatures. the theologians, unwilling to grant any power to the witches themselves, ascribed the power ol' flight to the devil. francesco maria guazzo wrote "further i hold it to be very true that sometimes witches are really transported from place to place by the devil who, in the shape of a goat or some other fantastic animal, both carries them bodily to the sabbat and himself is present at its obscenities. this is the general opinion of the theologians arid jurisconsults of italy, spain, and catholic germany;

669. the accused witches called the place the blocula, according to their inquisitors, who described it as "a delicate large meadow, whereof you can see no end. the place or house they met at had before it a gate painted with divers colors; through this gate they went into a little meadow distinct from the other, where the beasts went that they used to ride on."22 a schoolteacher who claimed that the devil had carried him there described it as an island. in 1730, long after the accused witches of mora had been executed, a thirteen-yearold norwegian girl named siri j rgensdattecrl aimed that when she was seven, her grandmother had taken her to visit the blocula "siri told them that when she was seven years old, her grandmother took her to a pigsty, where she smeared a sow with some ointment

pigsty, where she smeared a sow with some ointment she took from a horn, whereupon they both mounted and after a short ride through the 21. james i, bk. 11, chap. 4, pp. 39-40. 22. robbins, 349-50. chapter two: witches' flying ointment 25 air arrived at a place that her grandmother called blaak llen."t h e sow was left outside the building. they entered and sat down at one of seven tables next to the devil, who was referred to as "grandfather" by siri's grandmother. this child's accusation of witchcraft came to nothing, and it was dismissed by the bishop who reviewed it. it contains a number of interesting details. the flying ointment was kept in a horn, which because of its crescent shape is symbolic of the moon. the sow is a lunar beast. it was the sow that was smeared with the ointment

nt.26 in earliest times, it was by transformation into birds, as the quotation from the novel of apuleius demonstrates. by the tenth century, the prevailing belief was that witches flew on the backs of beasts sacred to the lunar goddess diana. in the fanatical eyes of the medieval church, pagan diana was only one step away from satan, so it was maintained that witches flew on beasts controlled by the devil, or sometimes were carried through the air by the devil or by his demons. a later evolution gives the witch a stick to ride upon. this stick takes several forms. it can be a simple forked twig-forked to indicate duality and thus duplicity, after the manner of the forked tongue of the serpent. or it can be a homely farm implement such as a pitchfork, which had two prongs in early times, o

iens sometimes vanish into thin air. 12. fairies have been observed to pass directly into solid rock. aliens have been seen walking through doors. there are also obvious similarities between the experiences of those who believe themselves abducted by aliens and the experiences described by women accused of witchcraft during the renaissance. alien abductees are often marked; witches were marked by the devil as a sign of their pact with him. aliens try to get women abducted to care for hybrid infants; chapter nine: ufo abductions 147 witches nurse the familiars that are bound to them at a mark on their bodies known as the witch's teat. aliens carry abducted humans through the air; the devil, or the witch's imps, carry the witch through the air. aliens rape abducted women; the devil or his de

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twenty-two trumps to define the circle and triangle of evocation. consider the circle as the face of a great clock, with 12:oo at the east. the cards should be positioned with their bases directed inward to the center of the circle. at 12:oo place the star, at 1:00 the lovers, at 2:00 the emperor, at 3:00 strength, at 4:00 temperance, at 5:00 the chariot, at 6:00 death, at 7:00 the moon, at 8:00 the devil, at 9:00 the hierophant, at 10:oo the hermit, and at 11:oo justice. the cards of the triangle should all be upright with their bases perpendicular to the base of the triangle. at the apex place the fool; on the left side of the second row put the universe; on the right of the second row, the wheel; on the left of the third row, the empress; in the center of the third row, the magician; o

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on here, both because it is so central to enochian magic and because it contains several points that bear directly on tetragrammaton, the banners, and the wings of the winds: the 4 houses, are the 4 angels of the earth, which are the 4 overseers, and watch-towers, that the eternal god in his providence hath placed, against the usurping blasphemy, misuse, and stealth of the wicked and great enemy, the devil. in each of these houses, the chief watchman, is a mighty prince, a mighty angel of the lord: which hath under him 5 princes (these names i must use for your instruction. the seals and authorities of these houses, are confirmed in the beginning of the world. unto every one of them, be 4 characters (tokens of 180 tetragrammaton the presence of the son of god: by whom all things were made

ons" here, but the singular seems more applicable, since only a single dragon is mentioned later in the key. the dragon is the symbol of chaos, or satan: and there was war in heaven: michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. 206 tetragrammaton and they overcame him by the blood of the lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil i

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know the facts and to dismantle (logically and gently) the propaganda of your friends, neighbors, and associates. as the remnants of the old aeon- this is to say, spiritual toxic waste- are cleared away, your magic will have progressively less resistance to overcome, and your personal safety will be enhanced. my nephew, the daimon egan, recommends the particularly useful satanism in america: how the devil got much more than his due for dismantling such hindrances. 6. recognize the possibility of immortality in seeming setbacks. many people along the path confuse magic with magical thinking. these people are always expecting a trouble-free life: no flat tires, winning the big one, and decidedly fewer red lights. whereas xeper often reveals its presence through beneficial synchronicity, we

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s the antinomianian (non-union or isolation from the natural order) path of self- deification (self-godhood. by this definition, the individual views his or her self alone and able to rely only on his or her developing psyche for the creations of comfort, challenges and the responsibility of invoking positive change. moderation is also a certain factor of success. it is easy to abuse the gifts of the devil when he presents them; it is even easier to create situations for you eventual self-destruction by actions you take now. be thoughtful before your actions. it is essential that the practitioner of the left hand path is able to master the path of inner black magick or what can be called high sorcery or magick before one undertakes lower forms. the true self must be sought, the desire and

time with accordance to demons and such, but do not loose the point of which we expand from their writings. if you are christian or not, by utilizing the imagination6 in adverse areas you are displaying to left hand path principles 1) the self described antinomian events which indicate isolate consciousness and intelligence, a sense of the forbidden 2) by inventing such aspects of the sabbat and the devil, they fleshed out a powerful and adverse initiatory model of luciferian self-deification. we have in fact become their demons by expanding from this practice. the same may be said in current times, those who walk secrecy in the religious path of self-destruction (i.e. christianity or the right hand path) laugh at those who point their fingers and invent our evils, have also a duty of fig

e, to invoke imagination and inspiration. the witches sabbat is thus a model of self-deification. the sabbat is an image from which the mind and psyche is free from the restraints of mundane reality and the flesh. the spirit takes the form that is so desires at the moment, joins with familiars and other demonic forms and goes forth to a place which centralizes the imagination in an infernal sense the devil is by this standard a mirror of the liberated mind awaiting confirmation of self-belief and the desire to becoming something else. remember, throughout history the devil has always been a shape shifter, no common form may stay for too long. when you begin walking the path of the sabbat, be careful and be cautious you will tear and destroy your common perceptions and build hopefully a cle

n manifest through various forms while attached to the earth. the sabbat as it was described in spain indicates that the middle eastern and moroccan practices of the az-zabbat survived throughout europe. the black man appeared as a large he-goat, who had a face on his buttocks and was thus a form of the adversary-opposer. witches would kiss both sides, thus receiving initiation by a mark given by the devil. in scotland the black man of the sabbat would appear as a black robed figure, with a hat or often in a grotesque form, a 10 the sufis, anchor books and the history of secret societies by arkon daraul. vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 7 nose of a beak, burning eyes, long nails on the hands and feet, hair covering the body and strong like iron. in persia was a tribe of witches and sorcerer

s of yourself you wish to change and common traits or selfassociations or perceptions you will slowly understand through the process of change. be accepting and use this as a permission to become! the witches sabbat is used for many purposes it is for self-deification, exploration, shape shifting and a heightened gnosis state it breaks through mystery and reveals a new perception, you become like the devil or adversary, you grow close to hecate and lilith, and you gain a more direct focus of magickal will. the sabbat is also used for spells and sexual workings as well a sabbat experience with a partner is perhaps one of the most ecstasy inducing acts that can be shared by two people or more if that is your bag. the sabbat may also be used to curse and bless, all which spirals and acts as a

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and when they had entered his presence, he commanded them to select a man of "wise heart and deft fingers" to go to bekhten. the choice fell upon one tehuti-em-heb, and his majesty sent him to bekhten with the envoy. when they arrived in bekhten, tehuti-em-heb found that the princess bent-enth-resh was possessed by an evil spirit which refused to be exorcised by him, and he was unable to cast out the devil. the prince of bekhten, seeing that the healing of his daughter was beyond the power of the egyptian, sent a second envoy to rameses ii, and besought him to send a god to drive out the devil. this envoy arrived in egypt in the summer of the twenty-sixth year of the reign of rameses ii, and found the king celebrating a festival in thebes. when he heard the petition of the envoy, he went t

of this god to the place where was the statue of khensu surnamed "pa-ari-sekher" i.e, the "worker of destinies" who was able to repel the attacks of evil spirits and to drive them out. when the statues of the two gods were facing each other, rameses ii. entreated khensu nefer-hetep to "turn his face towards" i.e, to look favourably upon khensu. pa-arisekher, and to let him go to bekhten to drive the devil out of the princess of bekhten. the text affords no explanation of the fact that khensu nefer-hetep was regarded as a greater god than khensu pa-arisekher, or why his permission had to be obtained before the latter could leave the country. it is probable that the demands made upon khensu nefer-hetep by the egyptians who lived in thebes and its neighbourhood were so numerous that it was i

[fn#41] pyramid texts, pepi i, l. 466 [fn#42] ed. moret, p. 21 [fn#43] ibid, p. 99 [fn#44] pepi i, line 666. when after a journey of seventeen months khensu pa-ari-sekher arrived in bekhten, he was cordially welcomed by the prince, and, having gone to the place where the princess who was possessed of a devil lived, he exercised his power to such purpose that she was healed immediately. moreover, the devil which had been cast out admitted that khensu paari- sekher was his master, and promised that he would depart to the place whence he came, provided that the prince of bekhten would celebrate a festival in his honour before his departure. meanwhile the prince and his soldiers stood by listening to the conversation between the god and the devil, and they were very much afraid. following the

t to the place whence he came, provided that the prince of bekhten would celebrate a festival in his honour before his departure. meanwhile the prince and his soldiers stood by listening to the conversation between the god and the devil, and they were very much afraid. following the instructions of khensu pa-ari-sekher the prince made a great feast in honour of the supernatural visitors, and then the devil departed to the "place which he loved" and there was general rejoicing in the land. the prince of bekhten was so pleased with the egyptian god that he determined not to allow him to return to egypt. when the statue of khensu pa-ari-sekher had been in bekhten for three years and nine months, the prince in a vision saw the god, in the form of a golden hawk, come forth from his shrine, and

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

edly gaining experience within the school of life. however, life s experiences complicate and strengthen the sinful adam. the once innocent humanity from eden is now the terrible and perverse humanity of the atomic and hydrogen bombs. the innocent child (with the experiences of life) is converted into a sly, distrustful, malicious, avaricious [and] fearful person, that is the lunar consciousness. the devil is a devil and can never acquire perfection. the great master h.p. blavatsky stated: strengthen your soul against the stalking of the i, make her worthy to bear the name of diamond soul. solar conscience there exist changes in the consciousness and there exist changes of consciousness. every development of the consciousness originates changes within it. these changes in the consciousness

enida en el c liz, jes s tambi n bebi. la santa uni n gn stica est unida a la ultima cena por el pacto de sangre. cuando los tomos cr sticos descienden al pan y al vino, ste se convierte de hecho en la carne y la sangre del cristo. esta es la transubstanciaci n. 98 arcanum 15 let us go now to study the fifteenth arcanum of the tarot. we are going to study the male goat of mendes, typhon baphomet, the devil. the alchemist must steal the fire from the devil. when we work with the arcanum a.z.f. we steal the fire from the devil; this is how we transform ourselves into gods. the esoteric pentagram shines upon the forehead of the male goat [see image on next page. the caduceus of mercury replaces the sexual organs. in synthesis, we can state that the caduceus of mercury represents the sexual or

the esoteric pentagram shines upon the forehead of the male goat [see image on next page. the caduceus of mercury replaces the sexual organs. in synthesis, we can state that the caduceus of mercury represents the sexual organs. every alchemist needs to work with the caduceus of mercury. this work is performed by means of the transmutation. the five pointed star shines when we steal the fire from the devil. we need to develop the kundalini and to dissolve the i, only in this way can we attain liberation. the work with the demon the initiates of the fourth path, which is the path of the astute man, choose to work with the devil on the process of the dissolution of their i. the tenebrous ones violently attack anyone who works in the dissolution of their i; this is why even though they are no

door of eden. the guardian of this door is the assyrian sphinx, the egyptian sphinx, the bull (golden calf) of moses with the sword between its paws. this is the psychological i reflected in the baphomet that with his sword drives out from the threshold all of those who are not prepared. the enemy is within us; we need to work with the demon in order to dissolve it. we need to steal the fire from the devil. quinta: el quinto grado de integraci n representa a todo aqu l ser humano perfecto. sexta: compasi n universal infinita. s ptima: la s ptima etapa definitiva s lo es posible en los hombres dioses. esos son los s per-hombres. el misterio del bafometo es realmente verdadero y de toda verdad, que el misterio del bafometo es la alkimia sexual. a base de rigurosa comprensi n y de transmutaci

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

tracing it across agrippa's kamea, one notices that it begins to get chaotic at about cell 15 (this is where it turns back on itself, as can be seen in figure 8-c. when a seal is traced through theosophic extension on any correct planetary kamea and begins this kind of pattern, you can be pretty sure it is not going to produce a pleasing or symmetrical design) interestingly, this is the number of the devil key (see figure 8-d) in the tarot (or the antithesis or shadow of the sun. case's design is somewhat more pleasing (see figure 8-e, but it is still not symmetrical. both magical squares are given if the student wants to trace these seals. for a long time i looked at alternate kameas of the sun that were mathematically correct but could not find a symmetrical design. then i discovered tha

flections. now our soul can evoke these and subject them to diaphane (transcendental magic, p. 66. diaphanous literally means translucid and by it levi refers to the plastic mediator, which is the magnet that attracts particular visions from the astral light that correspond to the impetus of the will. the great magical agent in qabalah is attributed to saturn/capricorn and corresponds in tarot to the devil key (see figure 11-b. here we see a hint of the relationship between saturn and yesod. binah/saturn is the great sea, the universal unconscious, and yesod controls the waters of the subconscious. the moon.the little mother.mimics binah/saturn, and we can see this represented in one of the alternative kameas of yesod (see figure 11-c. this magical square contains nine small saturn seals

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

that the forces of darkness can never overcome, and the one weapon that will defeat them in the end. reptilian humanoids [homo-subterreptus] case files "and there was war in heaven: michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him- revelation chapter 12, vs. 7-9 case file #1: from "the reptilians: humanity's historical link to the serpent race" by joe lewels, ph.d "john carpenter has kept close track of the abduction phenomenon. he is the director of abduction research for the mutual ufo network (mufo

the voice was saying, but it sounded angry and was addressing the grandmother lying beside him. the next morning, he asked his grandmother, who are the draconians file//d /my documents/avidya/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (25 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:19:58 "what was that voice in the bedroom last night" his grandmother, with tears in her eyes, pulled him tightly to her and said "that was the devil" she said nothing more about the episode, but she did insist that her son take her back to her own home immediately. it was an unreasonable request, and her son tried to talk her out of it. but the grandmother was adamant, and finally her son agreed to take her home the following day. the entire family made the trip of over a hundred miles back to the grandmother's farm, and within an ho

are the draconians file//d /my documents/avidya/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (26 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:19:59] that must have been the wrong thing to say, because the reptilian became very angry and threatened her "you will die for that" he told her, and the two people were returned to the bedroom from which they'd been taken. the next morning, the grandmother told the little boy that the devil had been there the night before, and that was when she insisted upon being taken home. and, as it turned out, she did die immediately thereafter. this, then, was the cause of the man's lifelong sense of guilt about her death. he had been forced to have sex with her, and her death had followed shortly after. but none of this story would have emerged if ms. bartholic had done as most inves

satanism has nothing to do with the christian version of satan. i use it only to describe a system of ritual sacrifice and torture which, staggering as it may seem; to most people, is commonplace all over the world today. satanism is just another name for the worship of a highly destructive, negative force which has been given endless names over the centuries. nimrod, baal, moloch or molech, set, the devil, lucifer, there is no end to them. satanism perverts everything positive in the same way that the nazis took a positive symbol, the swastika, and turned it around to symbolise the negative. this is why the satanists invert the pentagram and why they use black to symbolise the darkness, hence their black mass. but they also reverse the symbolism of white and that is a powerfully negative

tsy ramsey. who are the draconians file//d /my documents/avidya/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (57 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:20:01] jonbenet was murdered on christmas eve and josef mengele created a sacrificial ritual for this date called "the last bulb of the christmas tree. mengele's pseudonym, greenbaum, means green tree and relates to the cabalistic tree of life. a brotherhood term for the devil is jonbet and the coincidence is so amazing that, given the other circumstances, i cannot believe this was not the true inspiration for her name. a research project into ritual abuse at the university of colorado at boulder found that all of those questioned had been subjected to intercourse or molestation; 97% saw or took part in animal sacrifice; 97, forced to take part in sex with adu

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

sm merely conducted the black mass of inverted catholicism. at the time of the trials there was clearly some sort of formal service quite apart from the crescendo of the fertility dance. it would, in a catholic age, be very like the known pageantry of the church's own celebrations, with candles, vestments and a parody of the sacrament. it might be conducted by an unfrocked priest using hosts with the devil's name stamped on them instead of jesus, and the defiling of the crucifix-to insult christians and please the devil. the devil himself received praise and homage. a liturgy of evil would be repeated, there would be a mock sermon and absolution made with the left hand and an inverted cross' those who attended these meetings he dismisses in the following way (page 131 'some were perhaps di

round the circle. this does not in any way resemble the practice of any other religious sect i know. i do not think that can be called 'imitation of the church's pageantry. there are no crucifixes, inverted or otherwise, no sermons, mock or otherwise, and no absolution or hosts save for the cake and wine mentioned. incense is used, but this has a practical purpose. there is no praise or homage to the devil, no liturgy, evil or otherwise, nothing is said backwards, and there are no gestures with the left hand; in fact with the exception that it is a religious service and all religious services resemble one another, the rites are not in any way an imitation of anything i have ever seen. i do not say there have never been diabolists. i only say that, as far as i know, witches do not do the th

n for good, or have at least been harmless, certain aspects gave the church in england and the puritans the chance to accuse them of all kinds of immoralities, devil-worship and cannibalism, as i have shown. torture sometimes made poor wretches confess to these impossibilities, in order to lead the questioning away from the truth. the fact that their god had horns caused him to be identified with the devil. the fact that witches were often people of some property worth looting supplied the incentive; rack and branding-iron did the rest. christian fear and christian fire prevailed. the few remaining members of the cult dived underground and have remained secretive ever since. they are happy practising their lovely old rites. they do not want converts: converts mean talk: talk means bother a

the druids; they were shape-changers and seem to have had all the characteristics of witches. they made rain by sprinkling water over or beside nude virgins. christians accused them of 'baptising' children into heathenism. their association could only be entered by initiation, and learning and practising their secret lore. their magic power was much feared by early christians, who ascribed it to the devil. if we only knew really what the druids believed and taught, whether there was only one form of belief and whether they had various sects among them, it would be easier to say whether there was any connection or not with witchcraft. the latter may have been purely orthodox, thought of as extremely high or ultra low in type, the fanciful religion of a lot of women, a vile heresy, or simpl

e. this may derive from the time of the associations of druidesses of whom the romans spoke as witches. whether these were true druidesses i do not know. it seems to have been a separate religious organisation, possibly under the rule of the chief druid, much in the same way that there was a priest or someone who might turn up at a witches' meeting and be acknowledged chief who came to be called 'the devil' in mediaeval times. i think the use of the witches' circle, in magic, may have come from the druid, or rather the pre-druid, people, who built stonehenge and avebury and who made use of it to concentrate the powers generated. it is a direct descendant of the circles used in the prehistoric cave magic, though of course it may have come from the east. the romans suppressed the druids in t

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

other s concubines as often as he did himself. nine also obtaineth the love of women. at the 9th hour our savior breathed his last; on the ninth day the annumbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott cients buried their dead; after 9 years numa, received his laws from jove; note the 9 cubits length of the iron bedstead of the giant og, king of basan, who is a type of the devil, and there are 9 orders of devil s in sheol (what we call hell. it prevails against plagues and fevers; it causes long life and health, and by it plato so ordered events that he died at the age of nine times 9. there are nine orders of angels, says gregory, a.d. 381, in homily 34. seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominions, virtues, powers, principalities, archangels and angels. from a chris

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

artake of good and evil (bona malaque participans, the beginning of division (principium divisionis, multiplicity and distinction (multitudinis et distinctionis, that which signifies matter (significat materiam. a consequence of the characterization of two as the principle of division is that negative images are associated with it, to wit, discord, misfortune, confusion, strife, boldness and even the devil. agrippa concludes the chapter by delineating a series of items drawn from hebrew and greek scripture as well as from cosmolgical structures that typologically symbolize the dual nature of two, a verbal delineation that is accompanied with a scala binarii, a diagram of the different applications of the number, which has in the center of the top row the words yah [yod-he] and el [alef-lam

ek in jewish palestine, pp. 185 191. 29. lieberman, op. cit, p. 187, also noted that tertullian, adversus marcionem 3:22, remarked that the tau of ezekiel was the sign of the cross. so also, in his homilies on genesis, jerome similarly applied the tau of ezekiel to the sign of the cross, emphasizing the apotropaic effect of this mark by noting that no one inscribed with the tau could be struck by the devil. jerome s text is cited in barry, greek qabbalah, p. 140. on the possibility that the letter tau, which in the ancient hebrew script had the shape of two crossed lines, functioned as a shorthand symbol for the divine name insofar as it is the last letter of the alphabet, see finegan, archaeology, pp. 220 260; gieschen, divine name, pp. 133 134. lastly, it is worth recalling here that the

WORKBOOK FOR GRADE 0 VOID AND THE ABYSS

one of which the individual proclaims his and her mastery over their own being, that by moving widdershins around the circle will enflame the self during invocation; that is to envision each manifestation via minds' eye with each call. for instance, when one calls south, they would envision the fire djinn, in the north, seth. this is the key to the success of magical work; the imagination. south- the devil-djinn mentioned is shaitan or azazel, the fallen seraph whom is made entirely of flame. it is this original legend which brought forth the separation of the god-divinity or natural order to an adversarial or antinomianian process of anti-order. the mentioning of "blackened light" is the light of azazel, or shaitan embodied on earth through cain, the initiator of the sethanic path of witc

l which may be conducted when the sun is at its full light, or when the moon is full or dark, as the essence of iblis be finally revealed. the purpose of the ritual is invoking the spirit of the adversary, known as shaitan/iblis, satan, lucifer, set, azazel. the sorcerer shall seek the fire-spirit of change, rebellion and progression. the symbol of set the adversary shall take the earthen form of the devil, the solar creative (and destructive) force of change and self-deification. there are two primary faces of the adversary. the celebrant may construct as mask of two sides, which shall be placed upon the center of the altar. a phallic symbol or stone god may be near the mask as well, symbolizing the solar creative force of the beast 666- 9 one- the fallen seraph lucifer, the angelick esse

aced upon the center of the altar. a phallic symbol or stone god may be near the mask as well, symbolizing the solar creative force of the beast 666- 9 one- the fallen seraph lucifer, the angelick essence of the black flame, the very source of our wisdom, being and becoming. two the seraph of flame, the djinn iblis of fire, daemon of the blackened flame, serpent beast dragon wolf goat. satanas is the devil-cloaked initiator of the path of the wise, those who laugh at the warnings of a cringing society. robe thyself in crimson, the color of flame and movement. the symbol of the averse pentagram, being downward pointing to indicate the union of the fallen angels with humanity to create divinity. in the sethian witchcraft current the sorcerer becomes as set him/herself, thus in the circle the

d of fire and manifestation that fell as a seraph. it is considered that samael, as being asmodeus has developed through hebraic times through daemonic appearance, confronting even solomon the mage. samael represents the earthly devil of the tarot, the demon of lust whom resides within each individual, the dark side from which all desire, positive or negative, manifest. the mysteries of samael as the devil of the tarot are within the tract 77, as commented on originally by aleister crowley. this focus point, known as oz is the creation source of each individual, from birth to the manifestation of ones will. samael is further the concept of samael the black within qlippothic symbolism, the daemon from which the sinister is revealed. nature itself is sinister, allowing destruction and creati

l now. samael is in thelemic or luciferian terms the beast 666, the solar force of creation and life. the beast 666 is considered evil in christian definitions as it inherently is without a master, has no use for, nor desire for the laws of restriction and subservient behavior developed from a brainwashed system of inner guilt and repression. the beast 666 is the solar phallic symbol, pan, satan, the devil of the tarot, the source of manifestation and inner drive. samael, being also known as ashmodai or asmodeus, is the beast which brings us the inner drive to become, to advance and manifest our path or will. remember, cain is the off spring or child of asmodeus (samael) and eve, thus the father of witchcraft! what should be considered is not that samael (or ashmodai) are considered evil i

WORKING CEPHALOEDIUM VERSION 1

n i in the abbey of thelema at cephaloedium that am hidde n, did convene therein to counsel alostrael, 31-666-31, the scarlet woman lea m y concubine, in whom is all power given, sworn unto aiwaz, prostituted in every part of her body to pan and to the beast, mother of bastards, aborter, whore t o herself, to man, woman, child and brute, partaker of the eucharist of the exc rements in the mass of the devil, sorceress of the rite of esau and jacob, and also genesthai, 143, weh note: c.f.russell a neophyte of a'.a, a master ma gician of o.t.o. and a passed postulant to the secret chamber of the knights of the temple, high priest unto the beast before the altar of purple and gold. first then this brother genesthai made of invocation of tahuti lord of wisdom in the great magical circle of the

ain and abel, horus and set or harpocrates, osiris and typhon, etc. and gemini is the airy pulse th at gives a basis for the voice of the messenger, the menstruum of the holy ghos t, the swing of the motion of love, the house of the sun in may, when he impreg nates maia with mercurius whose mouth uttereth his father. and zain spelt fully is 67, the number of binah the all-mother. ayin is moreover the devil of lust, the goat of mendes, pan, baphomet; and spelt fully ayin is the erection and le aping and extension of the phallus; yod is the spermatoon, the solitary boy her mes, the virgin; while nun is the eagle of sexual ecstasy, the serpent of life through death, the scorpion or scarab of kephra, the womb which transmutes thro ugh corruption, the semen or fluid vehicle of the spirit, the e

WORKING CEPHALOEDIUM VERSION 2

even i in the abbey of thelema at cephaloedium that am hidden, did convene therein to counsel alostrael, 31-666-31, the scarlet woman lea my concubine, in whom is all power given, sworn unto aiwaz, prostituted in every part of her body to pan and to the beast, mother of bastards, aborter, whore to herself, to man, woman, child and brute, partaker of the eucharist of the excrements in the mass of the devil, sorceress of the rite of esau and jacob, and also genesthai, 143, weh note: c.f.russell a neophyte of a'.a, a master magician of o.t.o. and a passed postulant to the secret chamber of the knights of the temple, high priest unto the beast before the altar of purple and gold. first then this brother genesthai made of invocation of tahuti lord of wisdom in the great magical circle of the a

s cain and abel, horus and set or harpocrates, osiris and typhon, etc. and gemini is the airy pulse that gives a basis for the voice of the messenger, the menstruum of the holy ghost, the swing of the motion of love, the house of the sun in may, when he impregnates maia with mercurius whose mouth uttereth his father. and zain spelt fully is 67, the number of binah the all-mother. ayin is moreover the devil of lust, the goat of mendes, pan, baphomet; and spelt fully ayin is the erection and leaping and extension of the phallus; yod is the spermatoon, the solitary boy hermes, the virgin; while nun is the eagle of sexual ecstasy, the serpent of life through death, the scorpion or scarab of kephra, the womb which transmutes through corruption, the semen or fluid vehicle of the spirit, the elix

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