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ibuted: taurus b virgo f capricorn j to air are attributed: gemini c libra g aquarius k to water are attributed: cancer d scorpio h pisces l 52 to the ancients, six planets besides the sun were known. they also assigned certain planetary values to the north and south nodes of the moon. that is the point where the moon's orbit touches that of the ecliptic. these were named: caput draconis head of the dragon p cauda draconis tail of the dragon q since the discovery of two more distant planets, neptune and uranus, these two terms have been partially replaced by them. the effect of caput draconis is like neptune: n the effect of cauda draconis is like uranus: the names of the old planets are: sol a saturn l mars f venus c jupiter k mercury b moon 5 the hebrew alphabet the hebrew alphabet is

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

n alamannic lohlio, or only a grcndil and krentil; what is of capital importance is the agreement in tlie myths themselves. to what was cited above, i will here add something more. our nursery-tales have made us familiar with the incident of the haii plucked off the devil as he lay asleep in his grandmother's lap (kinderm. 29. the corresponding norwegian tale makes three feathers be pulled out of the dragon's tail, not while he sleeps, but after he is dead. loki, in punishment of his misdeeds, is put in chains, like prometheus who brought fire to men; but he is to be released again at the end of the world. one of his children, fcnrir i.e, himself in a second birth, pursues the moon in the shape of a ivolf, and threatens to swallow her. according to sn, 12. 13, an old giantess in the forest

n siegfried in the poems, that we need not stick at triiles; his whole nature has evident traces of the superliuman: brought up by an elf eegino, beloved by a valkyr brunhild, instructed in his destiny by the wise man gripir, he wears the helmet of invisibility, is vulnerable oidy on one spot in his body, as achilles was in the heel, and he achieves the rich hoard of the nibelungs. his slavin^ of the dragon eafnir reminds us of tivdcdu^ 1 haupts zeitschr. 1, 21. 2 laulinuinn's examination of the whole nibelung legend, p. 22^ ilaupts zeitschv. 1, 2 6* in the cc" magn. lex. g43 i suppose on the ground of the inscriptt. in grutcr iviii. 5: marti segomoni sacrum. in civitate se([uanorum; and ii. 2: diis deabus omnibus veturius l.l. securius (al. segomunus) pro se quisque (see suppl. 5 ahnost t

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sephirotic system was shattered, and with it fell adam, the microprosopus. then arose the great dragon with 7 heads and 10 horns, and the garden was made desolate, and malkuth was cut off from the upper sephiroth by his intersecting folds, and linked unto the kingdom of the shells, and the 7 lower sephiroth were cut from the three supernal in daath; at the feet of aima elohim. and on the heads of the dragon are the names and crowns of the eight edomite kings, and upon the horns are the names of the 11 dukes of edom. and because in daath was the utmost rise of the great serpent of evil, therefore is there as it were, another sephira, making eight heads according to the number of the 8 kings. and for the infernal and averse sephiroth 11 instead of 10, according to the number of the dukes of

he horns are the names of the 11 dukes of edom. and because in daath was the utmost rise of the great serpent of evil, therefore is there as it were, another sephira, making eight heads according to the number of the 8 kings. and for the infernal and averse sephiroth 11 instead of 10, according to the number of the dukes of edom. and hence were the rivers of eden desecrated, and from the mouth of the dragon rushed the infernal waters in daath. and this is leviathan, the piercing serpent, even leviathan, the crooked serpent. but between the devastated garden and the supernal eden, tetragrammaton elohim placed the letters of the name and the flaming sword, that the uppermost part of the tree of life might not be involved in the fall of adam. and thence was it necessary that the second adam s

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

ed power or you have an important issue that needs energy. they are effective against drought, global warming, all pollution caused by burning fuels or chemicals, forest fires and the 'slash and burn' policy in rainforests. surround your fire candle with golden sunflowers or chrysanthemums, tiny mirrors that reflect the light and clear crystal quartz, which is called in the orient 'the essence of the dragon. blue blue is for water and the west, dusk and autumn. a blue candle is placed in the nine o'clock position. water represents love, relationships, sympathy, intuition, reconciliation, harmony, healing and the cycle of birth, death and rebirth, natural cyclical evolutions from one stage to another as opposed to changes made consciously under the auspices of air. it is also potent for fig

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

irritations develop into extreme agony. any attempt to alleviate this simply destroys the value of the practice. i must particularly warn the aspirant against rationalising (i *have* known people who were so hopelessly bat-witted that they rationalised. they thought 'ah, well, this position is not suitable for me, as i thought it was. i have made a mess of the ibis position; now i'll have a go at the dragon position' but the ibis has kept his job, and attained his divinity, by standing on one leg throughout the centuries. if you go to the dragon he will devour you. 19. it is through the perversity of human nature that the most acute agony seems to occur when you are within a finger's breadth of full success. remember gallipoli! i am inclined to think that it may be a sort of symptom that o

we leave her, far from where her swarthy kindred roam- kindred roam in the scarlet fever, scarlet fever, scarlet fever convalescent home' 31. so now, no less than that chivalrous gentleman, his grace, the most reverend the archbishop of canterbury, who in a recent broadcast confounded for ever all those infidels who had presumed to doubt the possibility of devils entering into swine, we have met the dragon science and conquered. we have seen that, however we attack the problem of mind, whether from the customary spiritual standpoint, or from the opposite corner of materialism, the result is just the same. one last quotation from mr. sullivan 'the universe may ultimately prove to be irrational. the scientific adventure may have to be given up' but that is all *he* knows about science, bles

ALEISTER CROWLEY ABSINTHE THE GREEN GODDESS

of two souls against the world and against fate, with invocation of the great blessing of the most high. death is not the most beautiful of adventures, as frohman said, for death is unavoidable; marriage is a voluntary heroism. that marriage has today become a matter of convenience is the last word of the commercial spirit. it is as if one should take a vow of knighthood to combat dragons--until the dragons appeared. so this poor woman, because she did not understand that respectability is a lie, that it is love that makes marriage sacred and not the sanction of church or state, because she took marriage as an asylum instead of as a crusade, has failed in life, and now seeks alcohol under the same fatal error. wine is the ripe gladness which accompanies valor and rewards toil; it is the p

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

with kutulu or cthulhu within the pages are mentioned independently of each other, indicating that somehow kutulu is the male counterpart of tiamat, similar to absu. this monster is well known to cult worship all over the world. in china, however, there is an interesting twist. far from being considered a completely hostile creature, dedicated to the erasure of mankind from the page of existence, the dragon is given a place of pre-eminence and one does not hear of a chinese angel or saint striving to slay the dragon, but rather to cultivate it. the chinese system of geomancy, feng shui (pronounced fung shway) is the science of understanding the "dragon currents" which exist beneath the earth, these same telluric energies that are distilled in such places as chartres cathedral in france, gl

to slay the dragon, but rather to cultivate it. the chinese system of geomancy, feng shui (pronounced fung shway) is the science of understanding the "dragon currents" which exist beneath the earth, these same telluric energies that are distilled in such places as chartres cathedral in france, glastonbury tor in england, and the ziggurats of mesopotamia. in both the european and chinese cultures, the dragon or serpent is said to reside somewhere "below the earth; it is a powerful force, a magickal force, which is identified with mastery over the created world; it is also a power that can be summoned by the few and not the many. however, in china, there did not seem to be a backlash of fear or resentment against this force as was known in europe and palestine, and the symbol of might and ki

said to reside somewhere "below the earth; it is a powerful force, a magickal force, which is identified with mastery over the created world; it is also a power that can be summoned by the few and not the many. however, in china, there did not seem to be a backlash of fear or resentment against this force as was known in europe and palestine, and the symbol of might and kingship in china is still the dragon. in the west, the conjuration, cultivation, or worship of this power was strenuously opposes with the advent of the solar, monotheistic religions and those who clung to the old ways were effectively extinguished. the wholesale slaughter of those called "witches" during the inquisition is an example of this, as well as the solemn and twisted- that is to say, purposeless and unenlightened

s impaled on a stake as a corpse, the three days in the sumerian hades, and the eventual resurrection are outstanding examples of how sumerian mythology previewed the christian religion by perhaps as many as three thousand years- a fact that beautifully illustrates the cosmic and eternal nature of this myth. therefore, the goddess of the witches has two distinct forms: the ancient one, goddess of the dragon-like telluric power which is raised in magickal rituals, and the elder goddess, defeater of death, who brings the promise of resurrection and rejuvenation to her followers those who must reside for a time after death and between incarnations in what is called the "summerland. sumer-land? another hallmark of the craft of the wise is evident within the necronomicon, as well as in general

r parents, yet their parents held the power, the primal strength, the first magick, that the elder ones tapped to their own advantage, for they were begotten of her. it generally accepted in the halls of magick that all of the wisdom in the world is useless without the necessary adjunct of power. this power has gone by many names, as the goddess and the devil have, but the chinese symbolise it by the dragon. it is the force of will, and relies heavily upon the biochemical matter that makes up the human body, and hence, the human consciousness, to give it existence. science is coming around to accept the fact that the will does exist, just at the point where psychology has determined it does not- in the behaviourists vain attempt to eradicate what has always been known to constitute vital p

be reminded. if they are not watchful, if the gatekeepers do not watch the gates, if the gates are not kept always locked, bolted and barred, then the one who is always ready, the guardian of the other side, iak sakkak, will enter and bring with him the hordes of the armies of the ancient ones, iak kingu, iak azag, iak azabua, iak huwawa, ishniggarab, iak xastur, and iak kutulu, the dog gods and the dragon gods, and the sea monsters, and the gods of the deep. watch also the days. the day when the great bear hangs lowest in the sky, and the quarters of the year measured thereof in the four directions measured thereof, for there the gates may be opened and care must needs be taken to ensure that the gates remain forever closed. they must be sealed with the elder sign accompanied by the rite

master. she added matchless weapons to the arsenals of the ancient ones, she bore monster-serpents sharp of tooth, long of fang, she filled their bodies with venom for blood roaring dragons she has clothed with terror has crowned them with halos, making them as gods, so that he who beholds them shall perish and, that, with their bodies reared up none might turn them back. she summoned the viper, the dragon, and the winged bull, the great lion, the mad-god, and the scorpion-man. mighty rabid demons, feathered-serpents, the horse-man, bearing weapons that spare no fearless in battle, charmed with the spells of ancient sorcery. withal eleven of this kind she brought forth with kingu as leader of the minions. remember! enki our master fearing defeat, summoned his son marduk summoned his son t

remember that the essences of the ancient ones are in all things, but that the essences of the elder gods are in all things that live, and this will prove of value to thee when the time comes. remember the arra, especially when dealing with them of fire, for they respect it, and no other. remember to keep the moon pure. beware of the cults of death, and these are the cult of the dog, the cult of the dragon, and the cult of the goat; for they are worshippers of the ancient ones, and forever try to let them in, for they have a formulae of which it is unlawful to speak. and these cults are not strong, save at their seasons, when the heavens open up to them and unto their race. and there shall forever be war between us and the race of draconis, for the race of draconis was ever powerful in an

ant concerning him, for it is written: he shall not raise his head above the sun. and again: his is the dark times. and again: he knows of the gate, but not the gate and the scorpion man has another of his race, female, that dwells with him there, but of her it is not lawful to speak, and she must be banished with the exorcisms should she appear to thee, for her touch is death. and of the cult of the dragon, what more can i say to thee? they worship when that star is highest in the heavens, and is of the sphere of the igigi, as are the stars of the dog and the goat. and their worshippers have always been with us, though they are not of our same race, but of the race of their stars, of the ancient ones. and they keep not to our laws, but murder quickly, and without thought. and their blood

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

diately contradicted, the author being a master of the temple. he thereupon enters into his samadhi, and he piles contradiction upon contradiction, and thus a higher degree of rapture, with ever sentence, until his armoury is exhausted, and, with the word amen, he enters the supreme state. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 32 [33] 12 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta iota beta the dragon-flies io is the cry of the lower as oi of the higher. in figures they are 1001;(9) in letters they are joy.(10) for when all is equilibrated, when all is beheld from without all, there is joy, joy, joy that is but one facet of a diamond, every other facet whereof is more joyful than joy itself [34] book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 33 commentary( iota beta) the dragon

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

dday, the first is as the third heaven made of 26 hyacinthine pillars, in whom the elders are become strong, which i have prepared for mine own righteousness, saith the lord: whose long continuance shall be as bucklers to the stooping dragon, and like unto the harvest of a widow. how many are there which remain in the glory of the earth, which are, and shall not see death until the house fall and the dragon sink? come away! for the thunders (of increase)8 have spoke. come away! for the crowns of the temple and the robe of him that is, was, and shall be crowned are divided! come forth! appear! to the terror of the earth, and to our comfort, and [to the comfort] of such as are prepared. the angle of e of d in the tablet of d. the princess of the rushing winds, the lotus of the palace of air

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

nciple of growth- the epicene hermetic seed. it becomes the babe in the egg (a- harpocrates) by virtue of the spirit (a= air, impregnating the mother--vulture) and this becomes the sun or son( digamma= the letter of tiphareth, 6, even when spelt as omega, in coptic. see 777 "aeon of osiris" patriarchal age. two sexes. i conceived as the father-wand (yod in tetragrammaton. a the babe is pursued by the dragon, who casts a flood from his mouth to swallow it. see "rev" vii. the dragon is also the mother- the "evil mother" of freud. it is harpocrates, threatened by the crocodile in the nile. we find the symbolism of the ark, the coffin of osiris, etc. the lotus is the yoni; the water the amniotic fluid. in order to live his own life, the child must leave the mother, and overcome the temptation

rtake of this eucharist which createth, sustaineth and redeemeth all things "line 3" he now asserts that he is himself the "angel" or messenger of his angel; that is, that he is a mind and body whose office is to receive and transmit the word of his angel. he hails his angel not only as "un-nefer" the perfection of "asar" himself as a man, but as ptah-apophrasz-ra, the identity (hadit) wrapped in the dragon (nuit) and thereby manifested as a sun (ra-hoor-khuit. the "egg (or heart "girt with a serpent" is a cognate symbol; the idea is thus expressed later in the ritual (see liber lxv. which expands this to the uttermost) section b the adept passes from contemplation to action in the sections now following b to gg. he is to travel astrally around the circle, making the appropriate pentagrams

r passing you will be given more complex and difficult exercises. iii asana- posture. 1. you must learn to sit perfectly still with every muscle tense for long periods. 2. you must wear no garments that interfere with the posture in any of these experiments. 3. the first position (the god. sit in a chair; head up, back straight, knees together, hands on knees, eyes closed. 4. the second position (the dragon. kneel; buttocks resting on the heels, toes turned back, back and head straight, hands on thighs. 5. the third position (the ibis. stand, hold left ankle with right hand<equinox version adds"(and alternately practise right ankle in left hand &c> free forefinger on lips. 6. the fourth position (the thunderbolt. sit; left heel pressing up anus, right foot poised on its toes

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

ght, for reasons connected with the subject of prana, which will be dealt with in its proper place. the positions illustrated in liber e (equinox i and vii) form the best guide<god) 2. kneel; buttocks resting on the heels, toes turned back, back and head straight, hands on thighs("the dragon) 3. stand; hold left ankle with right hand (and alternately practise right ankle in left hand, etc, free forefinger on lips("the ibis) 4. sit; left heel pressing up anus, right foot poised on its toes, the heel covering the phallus; arms stretched out over the knees: head and back straight("the thunderbolt> the extreme of asana is practised by those yogis who remain in one position with

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

rcerer hp#km 446 destruction; death twm the ankles mylwsrq 447 initials of the three above and the three beneath (cf. 203& 248 )br rmd 448 lofty twmb 449 most dazzling light xcxwcm rw) cloak tyl+ 450 tablets (e.g. of moses) twxwl the fruit of the tree c( yrp transgression(#p goodwill (grace, acceptance, favour, will) without end lwbg ny)b nwcr dwelling in eternity d( nkw# craftiness, cunning myl# the dragon; jackal nt witchcrafts, sorceries myp#k 451 the essence of man md)h t) death )tym the deep, the abyss (gn. 49:25) mwht 452 ardent desire, longing, wish tdmx the crop; the maw nbqrq 453 the animal soul in its fulness (i.e. including the creative entity or ego, chiah; living creature hyx #pn behemoth; beasts twmhb 454 a seal mtwx the gholy ones h (consecrated catamites kept by the priesth

*nwmsrp) 1088 the whole [perfect] stone (deut. 27:6 *hmyl# nb) 1090 the creeping thing that creepeth #mrh #mrh 1091 the rose of sharon nwr#h tlcbx 1094 the slaying of the first-born twrwkb tkm 1096 the world of assiah (matter; referred to malkuth *hy#(h mlw( 1097 the opening of the uterus *mxr r+p 1098 two great lights myldgh tr)mh yn# 1100 six days mymy t# piece *cr dwelling in eternity *d( nkw# the dragon; jackal *nt loins; the upper part *myntm 1101 earth (in particular, the earth of malkuth *cr) astrologer, enchanter, magician *p) 1102 the crop; the maw *nbapthe tao teh king (liber clvii) a new translation by ko yuen (aleister crowley) the equinox (volume iii, no. viii) introduction i bound myself to devote my life to magick at easter 1898, and received my first initiation on november

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE I CHING

ao. 19. if thou dost not understand, and are bewildered by doubts and questions concerning the forces of this divination: thou mayest read in "magick" where the master therion hath made discourse upon the subject by his understanding of the tao. abrahadabra a(rgenteum) a(strum) publication in class b 1 khien lingam of lingam- khien originating from the term, piercing advantageous, right and firm. the dragon lurks: it is no time to act. the dragon's in the field: now make thy pact. be active, watchful, using care and tact. the dragon leaps; a bursting cataract. the dragon ploughs the sky with pace exact. exceed not, dragon; lest thy force react (if all this heavenly hosts of dragons lacked their heads, good fortune would become a fact) 2 the khwan hexagram yoni of yoni- khwan: great, origin

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

rsenic puts me at the mercy of a million circumstances, from my cook to my wife. al i,24 "i am nuit, and my word is six and fifty" the old comment 24. nu= 6+ 50= 56. the new comment one must observe the special significance of these numbers, not only conjoined, but separate. for 6, vau, is the bull; and 50, nun, the scorpion. but 6 is also the number of the sun, our star. the n of nu is therefore the dragon "infinite space- and v is "the infinite stars" thereof. the ith is the honorific termination representing her fulfilment of creative force "i" being the inmost force, and "th" its extension. the dragon in current symbolism refers to the north or hollow of heaven; thus to the womb of space, which is the container and breeder of all that exists. liber aleph should be consulted for further

is that atu of thoth whose number is zero, and whose name is maat, truth, or maut, the vulture, the all-mother, being an image of our lady nuith, but also it is called the fool, who is parsifal 'der reine thor, and so referreth to him that walketh in the way of the tao. also, he is harpocrates, the child horus, walking (as saith david, the badawi that became king, in his psalms) upon the lion and the dragon; that is, he is in unity with his own secret nature, as i have shewn thee in my word concerning the sphinx. o my son, yester eve came the spirit upon me that i also should eat the grass of the arabs, and by virtue of the bewitchment thereof behold that which might be appointed for the enlightenment of mine eyes. now then of this may i not speak, seeing that it involveth the mystery of t

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

s if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on; an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! my father compounded with my mother under the dragon s tail, and my nativity was under ursa major; so that it follows i am rough and lecherous. sfoot! i should have been that i am had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing. if there is one sound philosophical dictum in the play, it is this (i am not going to argue with astrologers in the twentieth century) it is one we can test. on questions of morality and reli

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 1

and the hunchback! and? by aleister crowley 113 the hermit 137 the temple of solomon the king (book i) 141 the herb dangerous (part i) a pharmaceutical study. by e. whineray, m.p.s. 233 "special supplement" john st. john- the record of the magical retirement of g. h. 17 frater o. m. i l l u s t r a t i o n s the silent watcher facing page 6 the four positions: the ibis, the god, the thunderbolt, the dragon" 29 the regimen of the seven" 89 blind force (supplement" 2 illustrations are not available in this electronic edition. editorial with the publication of this review begins a completely new adventure in the history of mankind. whatever knowledge may previously have been imputed to men, it has always been fenced in with conditions and restrictions. the time has come to speak plainly, and

sing, you will be given more complex and difficult exercises. iii "asana- posture" 1. you must learn to sit perfectly still with every muscle tense for long periods. 27 2. you must wear no garment that interferes with the posture in any of these experiments. 3. the first position (the god. sit in a chair; head up, back straight, knees together, hands on knees, eyes closed. 4. the second position (the dragon. kneel; buttocks resting on the heels, toes turned back, back and head straight, hands on thighs. 5. the third position (the ibis. stand; hold left ankle with right hand (and alternately practise right ankle in left hand &c) free forefinger on lips. 6. the fourth position (the thunderbolt. sit: left heel pressing up anus, right foot poised on its toes, the heel covering the phallus; arm

ination; and, should you pass, you will be instructed in more complex and difficult practices. 28 illustration facing next page: halftone: four photographs of a man (crowley) with face blanked out, dressed only in a gemmed cross on a chain about his neck and (upper panels only) a masonic apron. nipples and navel are air-brushed out. the postures shown are "the ibis "the god "the thunderbolt" and "the dragon. titled below to critique the examples "in the ibis the head is tilted very slightly too far back; in the thunderbolt the right foot might be a little higher and the right knee lower with advantage. iv "pranayama- regularisation of the breathing" 1. at rest in one of your positions, close the right nostril with the thumb of the right hand and breathe out slowly and completely through th

fiery coils, proper to the seven silver stars. also was his head right venomous and greedy, and eight flames were about it; for that sphinx had two wings and four feet and two horns; but the serpent is one, even as the king is one "he slayeth the great dragon called stooping or twisted" now then is this work utterly burnt up and abolished in that tremendous heat that is in the mouth and belly of the dragon; and that which cometh forth therefrom is in no wise that which went in. yet are these twelve the children of those two-and twenty. so when he had broken the cucurbite, he found therein no trace of the seven, but a button of fused gold- as we say, for it is not gold. now this button hath twelve faces, and angles twenty-four salient and reentrant; and our egyptian brethren have called it

firmament of nu. 91 "he slayeth king astur of the arms argent" now this metal is not in any wise like unto earthly metals; let the brethren well beware, for many false knaves be abroad. three things be golden: the mineral gold of the merchant, that is dross; the vegetable gold that groweth from the seed of the scroll by virtue of the lion; and the animal gold that cometh forth from the regimen of the dragon, and this last is the sole marketable gold of the philosopher. for, behold, an arcanum! i charge you, keep secret this matter; for the vile brothers, could they divine it, would pervert it. this mineral gold cannot be changed into any other substance by any means. this vegetable gold is fluidic; it must increase wonderfully and be fixed in the perfection of the sphinx. but this our anim

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essed be thou for ever! thy shadow is as great light. thy name is as the breath of love across all worlds. illustration on page 5 approximated (a vast svastika is shewn unto me behind the angel with the book) rend your garments, o ye clouds! uncover yourselves! for the love of my son! who are they that trouble thee? who are they that slew thee? o light! come thou, who art joined with me to bruise the dragon's head. we, who are wedded, and the earth perceiveth it not! o that our bed were seen of men, that they might rejoice in my fertility: that my sister might partake of my great light. o light of god, when wilt thou find the heart of man- write not! i would not that men know the sorrow of my heart, amen! i turned me to the west, and the archangel bore a flaming book, on which was written

weeping. and the tears grow and fill the whole stone with moons. i can see nothing and hear nothing for the tears, though she keeps on praying "take of these pearls, treasure them in thine heart. is not the kingdom of the abyss accurst" she points downward to the cauldron; and now in it there is the head of a most cruel dragon, black and corrupted. i watch, and watch; and nothing happens. and now the dragon rises out of the cauldron, very long and slim (like japanese dragons, but infinitely more terrible, and he blots out the whole sphere of the stone. then suddenly all is gone, and there is nothing in the stone save brilliant white light and flecks like sparks of golden fire; and there is a ringing, as if bells were being used for anvils. and there is a perfume which i cannot describe; it

other meanings, but they all imply this one thing; that nothing is of any importance but man; there is no hope or help but in man. and she says: sweet are my kisses, o wayfarer that wanderest from star to star. sweet are my kisses, o householder that weariest within four walls. thou art pent within thy brain, and my shaft pierceth it, and thou art free. thine imagination eateth up the universe as the dragon that eateth up the moon. and in my shaft is it concentrated and bound up. see how all around thee gather my warriors, strong knights in goodly armour ready for war. look upon my crown; it is above the stars. behold the glow and the blush thereof! upon thy cheek is the breeze that stirs those plumes of truth. for though i am the angel of the fourteenth key, i am also the angel of the eig

ethyr would be perfect, even as the first. yet unless he pass by me, can no man come unto the perfections. and the rule is ended that hath bound thee, and this shall be thy rule: that thou shalt purify thyself, and anoint thyself with perfume; and thou shalt be in the sunlight, the day being free from clouds. and thou shalt make the call of the aethyr in silence. now, then, behold how the head of the dragon is but the tail of the aethyr! many are they that have fought their way from mansion to mansion of the everlasting house, and beholding me at last have returned, declaring "fearful is the aspect of the mighty and terrible one" happy are they that have known me for whom i am. and glory unto him that hath made a gallery of my throat for his arrow of truth, and the moon for his purity. the

e course of the flaming sword from the side of severity. and the other two paths are zayin, which is a sword; and shin, which is a tooth. these are then the five severities which are 280. all this is communicated to the seer interiorly "and the eye of his benignancy is closed. let it not be opened upon the aethyr, lest the severities be mitigated, and the house fall" shall not the house fall, and the dragon sink? verily all things have been swallowed up in destruction; and chaos hath opened his jaws and crushed the universe as a bacchanal crusheth a grape between her teeth. shall not destruction swallow up destruction, and annihilation confound annihilation? twenty and two are the mansions of the house of my father, but there cometh an ox that shall set his forehead against the house, and

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he qliphoth. the columns were unsupported, and the sephirotic scheme was shattered; and with it fell adam the microprosopus. then arose the great dragon with seven heads and ten horns, cutting by his folds malkuth from the sephiroth, and linking it to the kingdom of the shells. the seven lower sephiroth were cut off from the three supernals in da th, at the feet of aima elohim. and on the head of the dragon are the names of the eight edomite kings, and on the horns the names of the eleven dukes of edom. and because in da th was the utmost rise of the great serpent of evil; therefore there is as it were another sephira, making eight heads according to the number of the eight kings; and for the infernal and averse sephiroth eleven instead of ten, according to the number of the eleven dukes o

e horns the names of the eleven dukes of edom. and because in da th was the utmost rise of the great serpent of evil; therefore there is as it were another sephira, making eight heads according to the number of the eight kings; and for the infernal and averse sephiroth eleven instead of ten, according to the number of the eleven dukes of edom. the infernal waters of d ath rushed from the mouth of the dragon- and this is the leviathan. tetragrammaton elohim placed four letters of the holy name, and also the flaming sword, that the uppermost part of the tree of life might not be involved in the fall of adam" illustration on page 283 partly described "diagram 51. the fall" this is a development from diagram #33 on page 235. it is composed of a circle above, containing three smaller, slightly

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brave hippodrome whose gladiators shock and shun as the blue night devours them, crested comb of sleep's dead sea that eats the shores of life, rings round eternity! ii so, he is gone whose giant sword shed flame into my bowels; my blood's bewitched; my brain's afloat with ecstasy of shame. that tearing pain is gone, enriched by his life-spasm; but he being gone, the same myself is gone sucked by the dragon down below death's horizon. iii i woke from this. i lay upon the lawn; they had thrown roses on the moss 93 with all their thorns; we came there at the dawn, my lord and i; god sailed across the sky in's galleon of amber, drawn by singing winds while we wove garlands of the flowers of our minds. iv all day my lover deigned to murder me, linking his kisses in a chain about my neck; demon

2. in the next word, vau-aleph-taw, we find that the conjunctive hb:vau makes of the key number of the essence of the earth 11 instead of 5: symbolising how the world should fall unto the kingdom of the shells, and how it should be redeemed by the son of man<qliphoth; but when the fall had occurred and the sephira malkuth had been cut off from the tree by the folds of the dragon there was added unto the tree dalet-ayin-taw, the knowledge, as the 11th sephira, to preserve intact the "ten"-ness of the sephiroth. showing how by that very eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and of evil should come the saving of mankind; for daath is the priceless gift of knowledge and intellect whereby cometh salvation. wherefore also is 11 the key number of the gr

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resurrection, who are the hope of men's mortality! back, crocodile mako, son of set! depart from me, ye workers of iniquity! behold he is in me and i in him! mine is the lotus, as i rose from the firmament of waters; my throne is set on high; my light is in the firmament of nu! i am the centre and the shrine: i am the silence and the eternal light: beneath my feet they rage, the angry crocodiles; the dragons of death; the eaters of the wicked. but i repress their wrath: for i am hoor-po-krat-ist, the lotus-throned lord of silence. if i said: come up upon the mountains, the celestial waters would flow at my word and the celestial fires flame forth. for i am r enshrouded: khephra unmanifest to men; i am my father hoor, the might of the avenger: and my mother asi, the veiled one: eternal wisd

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wooning breast. 5. o thou wanton cup-bearer of madness, whose mouth is as the joy of a thousand thousand masterful kisses; intoxicate me on thy loveliness, so that the silver of thy 28 merriment may revel as a moon-white pearl upon my tongue. 6. o thou midnight vision of whiteness, whose lips are as pouting rosebuds deflowered by the deciduous moon; tend me as a drop of dew in thy breast, so that the dragon of thy gluttonous hate may devour me with its mouth of adamant. 7. o thou effulgence of burning love, who pursueth the dawn as a youth pursueth a rose-lipped maiden; rend me with the fierce kisses of thy mouth, so that in the battle of our lips i may be drenched by the snow pure fountains of thy bliss. 8. o thou black bull in a field of white girls, whose foaming flanks are as starry ni

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obscures the light of the sun. and then, finally, was he destined to slay with the sword of flaming light that ever watchful serpent which writhes in silent wisdom about the trunk of that tree upon which the christ hangs crucified. all these great deeds did he do, as we shall see. he tamed the bulls with ease- the white and the black. he ploughed the double field- the east and the west. he sowed the dragons' teeth- the armies of doubt; and among them did he cast he stone of zoroaster given to him by medea, queen of enchantments, so that immediately they turned their weapons one against the other, and perished. and then lastly, on the mystic cup of iacchus he lulled to sleep the dragon of the illusions of life, and taking down the golden fleece accomplished the great work. then once again

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e light on["he seats" sor. gemini "upon his throne. she plays her babe- music<gemini. the will of the gods be accomplished["all depart" 108 the rite of luna officers luna "silver robe and veil. violin. artemis. the lady of the moon" cancer "amber robe. cup. warden of the holy graal" taurus "orange robe. bow and quiver. the lord of the bow" a nymph "white robe. the head of the dragon" a satyr "black robe. the tail of the dragon" pan "black robe, tom-tom "in the east luna is throned, cancer on her right, taurus on her left. beyond these the satyr and the nymph. at the apex of a descending triangle, upon the earth, pan" 111 the rite of luna "one reciteth "the twelvefold certitude of god" from" 963 "the veil is withdrawn" cancer. 333-333-333. taurus. 333-333-333. cance

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tention of the symbols and formulas which embody the knowledge whereby- 97- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust they can eventually work. these formulas are based upon nine symbols which are now recognised: 1. the cross in its varying forms. 2. the lotus. 3. the triangle. 4. the cube. 5. the sphere and the point. 6. eight animal forms, the goat, the bull, the elephant, the man, the dragon, the bear, the lion, and the dog. 7. the line. 8. certain signs of the zodiac, hence the need for the study of astrology. 9. the cup, or the holy grail. all these symbols allied, interwoven, or taken in part, are combined to express one or other of the seven secrets. the initiate has to recognise them by sight as well as to hear them, and by an effort of the will to imprint them irrevoc

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ack of both these cosmic entities stands another entity who is the embodiment of will, and who is the utiliser of forms though not the forms of any other than the greater building devas and the human hierarchies in time and space. he is the animating principle; the will-to-live aspect of the seven hierarchies. nevertheless these seven hierarchies are (as says h. p. b) the sevenfold ray of wisdom, the dragon in its seven forms.66,(58)67,68(59) this is a deep mystery, and only a clue to it all can be found at this time by man in the contemplation of his own nature in the three worlds of his manifestation. just as our logos is seeking objectivity through his solar system in its threefold form of which the present is the second, so man seeks objectivity through his three bodies physical, astra

here: the egoic ray can always be one of the seven, but we need to remember that, in this astral-buddhic solar system, wherein love and wisdom are being brought into objectivity, the bulk of the monads are on the love-wisdom ray. the fact, therefore, of its being the synthetic ray has a vast significance. this is the system of the son, whose name is love. this is the divine incarnation of vishnu. the dragon of wisdom is in manifestation, and he brings into incarnation those cosmic entities who are in essence identical with himself. after the third initiation all human beings find themselves on their monadic ray, on one of the three major rays, and the fact that masters and initiates are found on all the rays is due to the following two factors: first. each major ray has its subrays, which

eventually merged into the three, and finally the three are blended into the one. this can be traced along the line of analogy as we consider the seven rays. these seven rays, which in manifestation are diverse, are eventually synthesised. the minor four are blended, we are told, into the third major ray, and the three major rays are finally merged into the one synthetic ray, the love-wisdom ray (the dragon of wisdom, the occult serpent swallowing its tail).95(84) this has been pointed out by- 135- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust h. p. b. we have, therefore, the three crowning rays, but seven seen during the evolutionary process. in connection with the heavenly men, functioning through the planets, there are, therefore, three planets which might be considered as synthe

in the astral consciousness viewing this kingdom as a unity in expression. from the astral, and through the desire nature, the majority of men inevitably direct and control the physical vehicle. the astral body is in the direct line of force via the buddhic from monadic levels, 2-4-6. second. the goal set before humanity is that of becoming masters of the wisdom, or conscious units in the body of the dragon of wisdom or of love. this a man achieves when he can function consciously in the buddhic vehicle, or when the astral permanent atom is superseded by the buddhic permanent atom. third. the next reason is that the second aspect of the logos (that of love or the manifestation of the love nature of the logos through the medium of the son) is the one demonstrated in this system. this system

logos, and of a heavenly man; it will likewise produce its microcosmic analogy, and reflective reactions; hence the relative importance of the astral permanent atom within the causal periphery. it is in the direct line of active force emanating from the cosmic existence, and passing to it in ever lessening degree, via the solar logos in his system of love, and the planetary logos within a scheme, the dragon of wisdom-love. this force when rightly directed and properly controlled is the great transmuting agency, which eventually will make of the human unit a master of the wisdom, a lord of love, a dragon of wisdom in lesser degree. finally: this solar system, the objective physical manifestation of the logos, is interpenetrated by his astral body, as is the case with the human manifestation

which is the animating force of the astral body is following the lines of least resistance and really might be considered as bearing upon his physical manifestation in a manner twice as strong as that reaching him through the other two. the logos expresses himself now through the divine ray, his second aspect, and this ray is the sumtotal of the radiation of the lords of wisdom, the heavenly men, the dragons who are unity and who are love. through them this force flows, and they in turn clothe themselves with form, or as h. p. b. expresses it 'the primordial ray becomes the vahan for the divine ray.'68(146) their life animates every atom of substance when built into form, and their life is the sumtotal of logoic magnetism, or the great desire nature of the logos going out after the not-sel

anslation of the life within (the buddhi. there will, therefore, be seen on a racial scale and involving millions simultaneously, a repetition of the self-same struggle which embroils the man who seeks to transcend mind and to live the life of spirit. this will be the final armageddon, the planetary kurukshetra, and will be succeeded by the judgment day when the sons of manas will be cast out and the dragons of wisdom rule. this only means that those in whom the manasic principle is over-potent or under-developed will be considered as failures and will have to wait for a more suitable period for development, while those who are living the buddhic life, and in whom it is waxing stronger spiritual men, aspirants, disciples of various degrees, initiates and adepts will be left to pursue the n

that this evolution on the etheric planes has a closer effect upon man than on the physical. if students will apply themselves to the consideration of these facts, to the investigation of the serpent lore in all lands, mythologies and scriptures, and if they will link up all this knowledge with that concerning those heavenly constellations which have a serpent appellation (such as, for instance, the dragon, much illumination may come. if the intuition suffices, knowledge may then be imparted which will make clearer the connection between the physical bodies with their centres, and the psychic nature. the bird kingdom is specifically allied to the deva evolution. it is the bridging kingdom between the purely deva evolution and two other manifestations of life. first. certain groups of deva

their essential unity is not as yet great enough. we are told that even to the liberated dhyan chohan the mystery of that which lies beyond his own solar ring-pass-not is hid. certain influences indicate to him and certain lines of force demonstrate to him the fact that some constellations are knit with his system in a close and corporate union. we know that the great bear, the pleiades, draco or the dragon are in some way associated with the solar system but as yet he knows not their function nor the nature of the other constellations. it must also be remembered that the turning of our tiny systemic wheel, and the revolution of a cosmic wheel can be hastened, or retarded, by influences emanating from unknown or unrealised constellations- 644- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis

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ret doctrine. the relation of the fifth hierarchy to a certain constellation has also a bearing upon this mystery. this is hidden in the karma of the solar logos, and concerns his relationship to another solar logos, and the interplay of force between them in a great mahakalpa. this is the true "secret of- 27- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust the dragon" and it was the dragon-influence or the "serpent energy" which caused the influx of manasic or mind energy into the solar system. entangled closely with the karma of these two cosmic entities, was that of the lesser cosmic entity who is the life of our planet, the planetary logos. it was this triple karma which brought in the "serpent religion" and the "serpents or dragons of wisdom" in

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

are potent in influence and until etheric vision is developed, all calculations will be full of error (c.f. 1057) 37 "a planetary logos is the meeting place for two types of force, spiritual or logoic, which reaches him. from the seven rishis of the great bear on their own plane, and, secondly, of buddhic force which is transmitted via the seven sisters or the pleiades from a constellation called the dragon and from which has come the appellation `the dragon of wisdom (c.f. 1162) tabulations related to astrology the rays and the planets (according to besant) ray method planet colour i. will or power raja yoga u ranus f lame (representing sun) ii. love-wisdom intuition raja yoga m ercury y ellow. rose iii. higher mind h igher venus indigo. blue. mathematics philosophy b ronze iv. conflict b

ishis who mark the time and the duration of events in our septenary life cycle. they are as mysterious as their supposed wives, the pleiades (s.d. ii. 579) 3 "the first `seven stars' are not planetary. they are the leading stars of seven constellations which turn around with the great bear (s.d. iii. 195) 4 "in egypt, the great bear was the constellation. called the mother of the revolutions, and the dragon with seven heads was assigned to saturn, who was called the dragon of life (s.d. iii. 195) 5 "in the book of enoch, the great bear is called leviathan (s.d. iii. 195) 6 "our solar system with the pleiades and one of the stars of the great bear form a cosmic triangle or an aggregation of three centres in the body of the one about whom naught may be said. the seven stars of the great bear

) 9 "one of the most powerful among the seven creating angels of the third order being saturn, the presiding genius of the planet and the god of the hebrews. namely jehovah. to whom is dedicated the seventh day or sabbath, saturday or saturn's day (s.d. iii. 115) 10 "the sign of the messiah's coming was the conjunction of jupiter and saturn in the sign pisces (s.d. iii. 152) 11 "saturn was called the dragon of life (s.d. iii. 195) 12 "saturn, shiva and jehovah are one (s.d. iii. 195) 13 "saturn is the synthesising scheme for the four planets which embody manas pure and simple and is the major resolution for the minor four and eventually for all the seven (c.f. 370) 14 "sirius influences our entire solar system, via the three synthesising schemes, uranus, neptune and saturn (c.f. 378) 15 "s

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anating source of manas. there the mystic must go and become what is called "a spark of mahatic electricity" these seven paths are not concerned with nature or the balancing of the pairs of opposites. they are concerned only with unity, with that which utilises the pairs of opposites as factors in the production of light. path i. earth service attributes..wise compassion. source..constellation of the dragon, via libra. method..twelve cosmic identifications. hierarchy..the sixth. symbol..a green dragon issuing from the centre of a blazing sun. behind the sun and overtopping it can be seen two pillars on either side of a closed door. quality gained. luminosity. path ii. path of magnetic work attributes..responsiveness to heat and knowledge of rhythm. source..an unknown constellation, via gem

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balsam. when these three are united, we may call them the mercurial liquid: a water which was examined by mercury, found by him to be pure and spotless, and therefore espoused by him as his wife. of the two was born an incombustible oil; for mercury became so proud that he hardly knew himself. he put twelve keys of basil valentine 17 of 95 forth eagle feathers, and devoured the slippery tail, of the dragon, and challenged mars to battle. then mars summoned his horsemen, and bade them enclose mercury in prison under the ward of vulcan, until he should be liberated by one of the female sex. when this became known, the other planets assembled and held a deliberation on the question, what would be the best and wisest course to adopt. when they were met together, saturn first came forward, and

a, and again rejected by it. then it must be so exalted as to shine more brightly than all the stars of heaven, and in its essence it must have an abundance of blood, like the pelican, which wounds its own breast, and, without any diminution of its strength, nourishes and rears up many young ones with its blood. this tincture is the rose of our masters, of purple hue, called also the red blood of the dragon, or the purple cloak many times folded with which the queen of salvation is covered, and by which all metals are regenerated in colour. carefully preserve this splendid mantle, together with the astral salt which is joined to this sulphur, and screens it from harm. add to it a sufficient quantity of the volatility of the bird; then the cock will swallow the fox, and, having been drowned

flesh and fat, while the bee prepares honey out of the precious juices of flowers and herbs. the great change which takes place in these and other substances is due to putrefaction, which separates and transmutes the constituent elements. the common spirit of salt, which is extracted according to the direction given in my last declaration, if there be added to it a small quantity of the spirit of the dragon, dissolves, volatilizes, and raises together with itself in the alembic, gold and silver; just as the eagle, together with the spirit of the dragon (which is found in stony places, before the spirit is separated twelve keys of basil valentine 79 of 95 from its body, is much more powerful in producing fixation than volatility. this i also say, that if the spirit of common salt be joined

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e 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 your name in the black book of the dead, with the witchblo

ving 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. lilith in nox umbra by michael ford the dragon itself holds a significant role within the darker and self-liberating aspects of the sabbatic path, being specifically a evocation of latent forms from which we become. considering the dragon itself is a model or form of the adversary, the symbolism of the red and black dragon are present. the red dragon itself is shaitan or samael, the dual aspects of self-liberation and transformation

, being specifically a evocation of latent forms from which we become. considering the dragon itself is a model or form of the adversary, the symbolism of the red and black dragon are present. the red dragon itself is shaitan or samael, the dual aspects of self-liberation and transformation. as the red dragon is a mirror or exteriorized (viewed as a form outside the self) form of the primal self, the dragon is also a form of ourselves developed and initiated into the luciferian mysteries. the dragon itself as the adversary is viewed in the initiatory context as both shaitan and lilith, the beholders of night. the dragon itself is considered the center point of the sabbatic arcanum, the initiatory path of the serpent, which coils and encircles the spirit or psyche of the individual. arimani

ian must overcome mentally to invoke a higher point of self-initiation, to understand opposites and their dual meaning. the second is that death is a gateway of self-transformation and thus the relation of the vampyre and the grave is this; that the developed and isolated psyche strives for survival beyond the grave, that the mind may prove immortal to exist thus as the fallen angels or watchers. the dragon of darkness is our freedom within the nightside world of atavisms and the lesser and greater famulus of the self, that the sabbatic path awakens our potential as gods and goddesses. reach forth into the shadow, for it is there that lucifer and iblis emerge, and through the nightside may the gates of immortality open. i wish to thank those who have offered friendship, assistance and thei

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ouded and often misunderstood definition. essentially, the left hand path is by universal perception as being the mutation or transformation of consciousness into a divinity or divine conscious, this is done by the process of the practice of magick and sorcery to achieve the motion of the body and mind towards a higher perception. the black adepts of the order of phosphorus and the black order of the dragon are magicians who are committed to process of self-determined magical exercises to refine and expand their consciousness; through physical and mental activity. this includes but is not limited to, sexual magick, ceremonial practice and solitary workings of all kinds to seek the initiatory results of magick itself. this is not a path of prayer and supplication, but recognition of the sor

mind. this deific energy or power may be recalled into the flesh and conscious mind of the practitioner, thus one finds the knowledge undertaken by earlier sects such as the golden dawn, the maskhara of the arabic and asian tribes, austin osman spare s zos kia cultus, etc. there are numerous rituals explored by luciferian sabbat practitioners within the order of phosphorus and the black order of the dragon which utilize old methods of lycanthropy and the shedding of flesh, of shape shifting by dream in therion form to go forth to the erotic convulsions of the infernal sabbat. the god of luciferian witchcraft is seth-an, or set (the same as samael, satan. this is the egyptian prince of darkness, a lord of chaos and sorcerous power. set should not be considered merely a god in an anthropomo

lilith-az, does the initiatic stream of the watchers survive. those of the yatu or sorcerous path of ahriman within the circle of ritual evocation, known as azothoz, does the therion atavistic shadows emerge from the darkness of flesh. azothoz in the lore of the circle represents the alpha and omega, being the beginnning and end which is also the primal current of the serpent, or az azhi dahaka, the dragon king of persian sorcerous lore. the great work as within the model of the witches sabbat proves a challenging and darksome journey wherein the initiate drinks deep from 10 the skull cup filled with the venom d blood of seth-an, who then eats of the flesh of abel and whose blood is offered to his own angel-demon, the very essence and representation of the great work itself. the sabbat as

ca by nathaniel j. harris (privately circulated) witcha: a book of cunning by nathaniel j. harris (mandrake of oxford 2004) ecstasies: deciphering the witches sabbath by carlo ginzburg the sufis by idries shah secret societies by idries shah the book of shadows by gerald gardner michael w. ford is the magister of the order of phosphorus, a closed order of solitary initiates and the black order of the dragon, the inner guild based around yatukivah persian and chaos sorcery. he is the author of luciferian witchcraft: which contains 12 different grimoires including the left hand path tantric grimoire, adamu, a forbidden book of sexual magick, goetic sorcery, a luciferian approach to the 72 spirits of the shemhamforasche, yatuk dinoih and other works focused on the darksome rites of the path o

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of good and the origin of evil. this "creator" is neither good nor bad per se, but its differentiated aspects in nature make it assume one or the other character. with the invisible and the unknown universes disseminated through space, none of the sun-gods had anything to do. the idea is expressed very clearly in the "books of hermes" and in every ancient folk lore. it is symbolised generally by the dragon and the serpent- the dragon of good and the serpent of evil, represented on earth by[[footnote(s* for a clearer explanation of the origins, as contained in the esotericism of the bhagavad gita, see the notes thereon published in the "theosophist" for february, march and june, 1887, madras[[vol. 2, page] 26 the secret doctrine. the right and the left-hand magic. in the epic poem of finla

february, march and june, 1887, madras[[vol. 2, page] 26 the secret doctrine. the right and the left-hand magic. in the epic poem of finland, the kalewala* the origin of the serpent of evil is given: it is born from the "spittle of suoyatar. and endowed with a living soul by the principle of evil" hisi. a strife is described between the two, the "thing of evil (the serpent or sorcerer, and ahti, the dragon "magic lemminkainen" the latter is one of the seven sons of ilmatar, the virgin "daughter of the air" she "who fell from heaven into the sea" before creation, i.e, spirit transformed into the matter of sensuous life. there is a world of meaning and occult thought in these few lines, admirably rendered by dr. j. m. crawford, of cincinnati. the hero lemminkainen, the good magician "hews t

hen the monster little heeding. pounces with his mouth of venom at the head of lemminkainen. but the hero, quick recalling, speaks the master words of knowledge, words that came from distant ages, words his ancestors had taught him (d) in china the men of fohi (or the "heavenly man) are called the twelve tien-hoang, the twelve hierarchies of dhyanis or angels, with human faces, and dragon bodies; the dragon standing for divine wisdom or spirit; and they create men by incarnating themselves in[[footnote(s* j. w. alden, new york* it has been repeatedly stated that the serpent is the symbol of wisdom and of occult knowledge "the serpent has been connected with the god of wisdom from the earliest times of which we have any historical notice" writes staniland wake "this animal was the especial

nd the idea of darkness had an astronomical foundation. the position which the constellation of draco at one time occupied showed that the great serpent was the ruler of the night. this constellation was formerly at the very centre of the heavens, and is so extensive that it was called the great dragon. its body spreads over seven signs of the zodiac; and dupuis "who" says staniland wake "sees in the dragon of the apocalypse a reference to the celestial serpent" remarks that "it is not astonishing that a constellation so extended should be represented by the author of that book as a great dragon with seven heads, who drew the third part of the stars from heaven and cast them to earth (dupuis, tome iii, p. 255. only dupuis never knew why draco, once the pole-star- the symbol of "guide" guru

ords. there is no "dark creation" no "evil dragon" conquered by a sun-god, in the earliest world-cosmogonies. even with the akkads, the great deep (the watery abyss, or space) was the birthplace and abode of ea, wisdom, the incognizable infinite deity. but with the semites and the later chaldeans, the fathomless deep of wisdom becomes gross matter, sinful substance, and ea is changed into tiamat, the dragon slain by merodach, or satan, in the astral waves. in the hindu puranas, brahma, the creator, is seen recommencing de novo several creations after as many failures; and two great creations are mentioned* the padma and the varaha, the present, when the earth was lifted out of the water by brahma, in the shape of a boar, or "varaha avatar" creation is shown as a sport, an amusement (lila)

a page out of pre-cosmic theogony- under various allegories. its esoteric, true interpretation is a veritable theodice of the "fallen angels" so called; the willing and the unwilling, the creators and those who refused to create, being now mixed up most perplexingly by christian catholics, who forget that their highest archangel, st. michael, who is shown to conquer (to master and to assimilate) the dragon of wisdom and of divine self-sacrifice (now miscalled and calumniated as satan, was the first to refuse to create! this led to endless confusion. so little does christian theology understand the paradoxical language of the east and its symbolism, that it even explains, in its dead letter sense, the chinese buddhist and hindu exoteric rite of raising a noise during certain eclipses to sc

e serpent, man and woman. the tree has seven branches: three on the man's side, four on that of the female. these branches are typical of the seven root-races, in the third of which, at its very close, occurred the separation of the sexes and the so-called fall into generation. the three earliest races were sexless, then hermaphrodite; the other four, male and female, as distinct from each other "the dragon" says mr. g. smith "which in the chaldean account of the creation leads man to sin, is the creation of tiamat, the living principle of the sea, or chaos. which was opposed to the deities at the creation of the world" this is an error. the dragon is the male principle, or phallus, personified, or rather animalized; and tiamat "the embodiment of the spirit of chaos" of the deep, or abyss

rturbation which it led to. it is the sensual, attractive, magnetic principle which fascinates and seduces, the ever living active element which throws the whole world into disorder, chaos, and sin. the serpent seduces the woman, but it is the latter who seduces man, and both are included in the karmic curse, though only as a natural result of a cause produced. says george smith "it is clear that the dragon is included in the curse for the fall, and that the gods (the elohim, jealous at seeing the man of clay becoming a creator in his turn, like all the animals "invoke on the head of the human race all the evils which afflict humanity. wisdom and knowledge shall injure him, he shall have family quarrels, he will anger the gods, he shall submit to tyranny. he shall be disappointed in his de

ersion in the order of the elements, in order to make them dovetail with the order of the gospels, and to identify the angel-man with christ. with the chaldees, the egyptians, from whom moses adopted the chroub (cherubs in their animal form, and the ophites; with all these, the angels, the planets, and the elements, were symbolized mystically and alchemically by the lion (mikael; the bull (uriel; the dragon (raphael; the eagle (gabriel; the bear (thot-sabaoth; the dog (erataoth; the mule (uriel or thartharaoth. all these have a qualificative meaning[[vol. 2, page] 116 the secret doctrine. puranic text. yoga here is the same as dhyana, which word is again synonymous with yoga in the tibetan text, where the "sons of yoga" are called "sons of dhyana" or of that abstract meditation through whi

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ng and non-being. 45 the eye of dangma. 47 alaya, the universal soul. 49[[vol. 1, page] x contents. page. stanza ii- the idea of differentiation. 53 the absolute knows itself not. 55 the germ of life was not yet. 57 the universe was still concealed in the divine thought. 61- stanza iii- the awakening of kosmos. 62 the great vibration. 63 nature's symbols. 65 the power of numbers. 67 the logoi and the dragon. 73 the astral light. 75 primeval radiations from unity. 79 the web of being. 83 conscious electricity: fohat. 85- stanza iv- the septenary hierarchies. 86 the sons of the fire. 86 the vehicle of the universe- the dhyan chohans. 89 the army of the voice. 93 speech and mind. 95 the ogdoad and the heptad. 99 the stellar "sons of light. 103- stanza v- fohat: the child of the septenary hier

l. 1, page] xxvii introductory. so that, with the exception of these more than doubtful fragments, the entire chaldean sacred literature has disappeared from the eyes of the profane as completely as the lost atlantis. a few facts that were contained in the berosian history are given in part ii. of vol. ii, and may throw a great light on the true origin of the fallen angels, personified by bel and the dragon. turning now to the oldest aryan literature, the rig-veda, the student will find, following strictly in this the data furnished by the said orientalists themselves, that, although the rig-veda contains only "about 10,580 verses, or 1,028 hymns" in spite of the brahmanas and the mass of glosses and commentaries, it is not understood correctly to this day. why is this so? evidently becaus

and these three enclosed within the[[diagram] are the sacred four; and the ten are the arupa universe. then come the "sons" the seven fighters, the one, the eighth left out, and his breath which is the lightmaker. 6. then the second seven, who are the lipika, produced by the three. the rejected son is one. the "sonsuns" are countless- stanza v. 1. the primordial seven, the first seven breaths of the dragon of wisdom, produce in their turn from their holy circumgyrating breaths the fiery whirlwind. 2. they make of him the messenger of their will. the dzyu becomes fohat, the swift son of the divine sons whose sons are the lipika, runs circular errands. fohat is the steed and the thought is the rider. he passes like lightning through the fiery clouds; takes three, and five, and seven strides

, in a certain sense, with her eight sons, is the holy ghost and the creator of all, as in the ancient systems. the "father" is a far later invention. the earliest manifested logos was female everywhere- the mother of the seven planetary powers* see "chinese buddhism" by the rev. j. c. edkins, who always gives correct facts, although his conclusions are very frequently erroneous[[vol. 1, page] 73 the dragon and the logoi (b "the "dragon of wisdom" is the one, the "eka (sanskrit) or saka. it is curious that jehovah's name in hebrew should also be one, echod "his name is echod: say the rabbins. the philologists ought to decide which of the two is derived from the other- linguistically and symbolically: surely, not the sanskrit? the "one" and the dragon are expressions used by the ancients in

recognizing neither good nor evil as a fundamental or independent power, but starting from the absolute all (universal perfection eternally, traced both through the course of natural evolution to pure light condensing gradually into form, hence becoming matter or evil. it was left with the early and ignorant christian fathers to degrade the philosophical and highly scientific idea of this emblem (the dragon) into the absurd superstition called the "devil" they took it from the later zoroastrians, who saw devils or the evil in the hindu devas, and the word evil thus became by a double transmutation d'evil in every tongue (diabolos, diable, diavolo, teufel. but the pagans have always shown a philosophical discrimination in their symbols. the primitive symbol of the serpent symbolised divine

scover them, it becomes easier to understand how our solar system can, at the birth of a child, influence his brain- virgin of any impression- in a definite manner and according to the presence on the zenith of such or another zodiacal constellation[[footnote(s* les mysteres de l'horoscope, p. xi[[vol. 1, page] 106 the secret doctrine. stanza v. 1. the primordial seven, the first seven breaths of the dragon of wisdom, produce in their turn from their holy circumgyrating breaths the fiery whirlwind (a. commentary (a) this is, perhaps, the most difficult of all the stanzas to explain. its language is comprehensible only to him who is thoroughly versed in eastern allegory and its purposely obscure phraseology. the question will surely be asked "do the occultists believe in all these 'builders

by serpents" they are called the avengers, and the "winged wheels" their mission and character being explained, let us see what the[[footnote(s* the hindus happen to divide the world into seven continents, exoterically as esoterically; and their four cosmic devas are eight, presiding over the eight points of the compass and not the continents (compare "chinese buddhism" p. 216[[vol. 1, page] 127 the dragons of secret wisdom. christian bible-interpreters say of the cherubim "the word signifies in hebrew, fullness of knowledge; these angels are so called from their exquisite knowledge, and were therefore used for the punishment of men who affected divine knowledge (interpreted by cruden in his concordance, from genesis iii, 24) very well; and vague as the information is, it shows that the c

cted with forbidden science or divine knowledge- one that generally leads to another "fall" that of the gods, or "god" in man's estimation. but as the good old cruden knew nought of karma, he may be forgiven. yet the allegory is suggestive. from meru, the abode of gods, to eden, the distance is very small, and from the hindu serpents to the ophite cherubim, the third out of the seven of which was the dragon, the separation is still smaller, for both watched the entrance to the realm of secret knowledge. but ezekiel plainly describes the four cosmic angels "i looked, and behold, a whirlwind, a cloud and fire infolding it. also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. they had the likeness of a man. and every one had four faces and four wings. the face of a man, a

en later on. for, instead of remaining a mere blind, functioning medium, impelled and guided by fathomless law, the "rebellious" angel claimed and enforced his right of independent 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

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ass b 93 10 =18 666 9 =28 pro coll. summ. 777 8 =38 d. d. s. 7 =48 o. m. 7 =48 o. s. v. 6 =58 parzival 5 =68 pro coll. int. v. n. pr monstrator p. imperator pro coll. ext. achad cancellarius frater vnvs in omnibvs from the photograph by henry b. camp the master is represented in the robe of, and described by his name as, a probationer, as if to assert his simplicity. he is in his favourite asana, the dragon, in profound holy meditation. 129 a master of the temple section i april 2, 1886, to december 24, 1909 charles stansfeld jones, whom i shall usually mention by the motto v.i.o, which he took on becoming a probationer of the a.a, made his entry into this world by the usual and approved method, on april 2nd 1886 e. v, having only escaped becoming an april fool by delaying a day to summon

ith nature than formerly; also the addition of a .little stranger. to his family had a marked effect on his home affairs, being as it were the key to the solution of certain problems that had been puzzling him in that direction. during the period from march 2nd to september 4th, when we might say he was working on alone, his record shows some 340 meditation practices, mostly in the asana known as the dragon, the periods ranging from a few minutes to something over an hour, but most of them comparatively short, the average perhaps being twenty minutes. after this there is a gap, during which he worked morning and evening most days, but made no further record till november 9, from which date to december 31 over eighty practices are recorded. of the details of all this early work it is not ne

l in the legend of the golden fleece. jason, who in this story represents the beast, first fits out a ship guided by wisdom or athena, and this is his aspiration to the great work. accompanied by many heroes, he comes to the place of the fleece, but they can do nothing until medea, the scarlet woman, puts into his hands a posset .drugged with somnolence, sleepy with poppy and white hellebore. for the dragon. then jason is able to subdue the bulls, sacred to osiris, and symbolical of his on and the magical formula of self-sacrifice. with these he plows the field of the world, and sows therein .the dreadful teeth of woe, cadmean stock of thebes. old misery. which refers to a certain magical formula announced by the beast that is familiar unto thee, but unsuited to the profane, and therefore

announced by the beast that is familiar unto thee, but unsuited to the profane, and therefore the equinox 174 not further in this place indicated. from this seed armed men sprung to life; but instead of attacking him .mutual madness strikes the warriors witless, and fierce wrath invades their hearts of fury, and with arms engaged, they fell upon each other silently, and slew, and slew. now then, the dragon being asleep, we may step quietly past him, and .rending the branches of that wizard oak, with a strong grasp tear down the fleece of gold. let us only remember not to repeat the error of jason, and defy ares, who is horus in his warrior mood, that guardeth it, lest he strike us also with madness. nay! but to the glory of ra-hoor-khuit and the establishment of his perfect kingdom let al

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

. when you encounter books (or magazine or newspaper articles, for that matter) that are antagonistic to witchcraft, and promote the misconceptions, don't hesitate to write to the publishers and set the matter straight. let me here include an article that appeared in the seax-wica voys (official journal of saxon witchcraft) in the imbolc 1983 issue, together with the editorial comment. stan slays the dragon or "positive public relations" by richard clarke recently, several students of chicago decided that rather than allow the kids to go trick-or-treating, there would be a big hallowe'en party sponsored by the village. five such parties were to feature "burning a witch" in a big bonfire. a reporter for the chicago tribune called stan modrzyk, priest of the first temple of the craft of wica

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ed power or you have an important issue that needs energy. they are effective against drought, global warming, all pollution caused by burning fuels or chemicals, forest fires and the 'slash and burn' policy in rainforests. surround your fire candle with golden sunflowers or chrysanthemums, tiny mirrors that reflect the light and clear crystal quartz, which is called in the orient 'the essence of the dragon. blue blue is for water and the west, dusk and autumn. a blue candle is placed in the nine o'clock position. water represents love, relationships, sympathy, intuition, reconciliation, harmony, healing and the cycle of birth, death and rebirth, natural cyclical evolutions from one stage to another as opposed to changes made consciously under the auspices of air. it is also potent for fig

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g is clear: her task is to restore order. the commentators say that the ash of reeds is efficacious [effective] in the repair of breached dykes because reeds grow in water. it may be that the concept of reed (water) and ash (fire) is also seen as an expression of harmonious union yin-yang, of order and equilibrium.4 the phoenix is an important creature in chinese mythology, second in rank only to the dragon. poet brian katz describes her: the phoenix, feng huang, was the sacred fire bird. it was truly a magnificent creature to behold, and it had the features of several different animals. it had the head of a swan; the throat of a swallow; the beak of a chicken; the neck of a snake; the legs of a unicorn; the arched back of a turtle; and the stripes of a dragon. its feathers were made up of

hen did he begin his construction work. unlike his father, yu was not content merely to build dams to control the rivers. instead, he studied the shape of the land in each area. he observed the course of the rivers and planned their most natural route to the sea. to guide the rivers, yu dug canals, carved tunnels, leveled hilltops, created dams, and formed lakes. in each area, yu used the tail of the dragon to gouge out new channels for the rivers. as he plodded across the country, yu found 233,559 large holes in the earth. year after year, water had bubbled up in these cavities and flooded the world. now yu plugged up the gaping holes with dirt and reeds, and dropped in magic dirt balls from the tortoise s back to dry up the soggy earth caused by the floods. chinese mythology 56 when he w

d samples of their soil as he traveled across the fifty rivers and mountains of china. wherever he went, yu found happy families. their happiness only made him aware of his own loneliness. although yu was married briefly, his wife and son both abandoned him because they had no fondness for digging dirt. with neither wife nor son by his side, yu continued his work alone, with only the tortoise and the dragon for company. his hands were covered with sores and calluses. his skin was blackened and blistered from the sun. one leg shriveled and twisted as yu limped around the rough terrain. wherever he traveled, farmers hailed him as the great yu. their widespread affection caused the ruling emperor to choose yu as the next emperor. it was thus that yu became the founder and ruler of the xia [sh

ft. after this show of courage, the peasants were emboldened enough to beg the grand archer to leave one sun to light up the heavens. yi was filled with pity for the farmers, and he agreed to spare the last sun remaining in the sky. this last sun mourned the loss of his brothers and was doomed to assume his daily journey alone. furthermore, his mother rejected his pleas to borrow her chariot, and the dragons refused to pull him. from one end of heaven to the other, the last sun trudged across the sky in solitude, bringing light and warmth to the world for all eternity. prosperity returned to the people. crops grew again, the rivers slaked their thirst, and the animals bathed in the fresh water and clear sunshine. last of all, the people gave thanks for one plant, the water spinach, that gr

turned into several hundred little monkeys, all of whom startled the demon with their piercing screams. the little monkeys pummeled the demon until they knocked him out. then monkey changed the little monkeys back into hair. he freed the imprisoned children and returned them to their parents. to celebrate their king s return, the cave monkeys feasted on dates, fruit, and grape wine. the visit to the dragon king monkey decided that the demon was right to have laughed at him. he was king of his monkeys, but he did not have any clothes or weapons worthy of a king. so monkey recited a spell and dove into the sea to meet with the dragon king of the eastern sea. when he demanded a suitable weapon, the dragon king showed monkey a heavy iron pillar weighing several tons. no one in the sea could l

ing light. monkey grabbed the stick, recited a spell, and changed it into a weapon-sized iron rod. making thrusts and parries, monkey jabbed and swung the stick in the air so ferociously that the tortoises drew in their heads, and the crab, shrimp, and lobster soldiers all scuttled out of his way. but monkey was not satisfied with the wonderful iron stick. next, he demanded suitable clothing from the dragon king. the dragon king summoned his dragon brothers by beating on gongs and drums. from their treasuries, the dragons gave monkey a pair of cloudstepping shoes made of lotus fiber, a cap made of phoenix monkey 99 feathers, and a chain mail vest made of yellow gold. without so much as a nod of thanks, monkey left. the dragon king and his brothers were angry at monkey s poor manners and co

ortal? a: he learned to study the teachings of taoism, to write and speak properly, how to fly, and how to transform himself into other natural forms, such as trees or rocks. q: how did monkey defeat the demon who had been robbing his cave? a: he pulled out a clump of his hair and transformed the pieces into hundreds of little monkeys, who helped him defeat the demon. q: what did monkey seek from the dragon king? a: he wanted new suitable clothing, shoes, and a weapon worthy of a king. 104 q: why did the demons drag monkey to the underworld? a: he was so troublesome that the gods wanted to imprison monkey in the underworld. also, according to the ledger of the dead, monkey s time on earth was over. q: what were monkey s jobs in heaven? a: at first he was given the job of stable master and

d chinese mythology 112 between india and china was a dangerous one, kuan yin offered to travel it first, on foot, to map the route between the buddha s home in india to the emperor s palace in china. at the same time she could also assess and confront the types of dangers that human pilgrims might encounter along the way. the buddha agreed with kuan yin s plan. the sandy-haired monster, the pig, the dragon, and the monkey with an assistant, kuan yin recorded distances and the location of mountain paths along the road from india to the emperor s home in china. at a river crossing, a hideous sandy-haired monster jumped out and attacked kuan yin s assistant. when the monster realized that it was the goddess kuan yin standing on the shore, he bowed before her and confessed that he ate pilgrim

ng travelers instead of attacking them. next, kuan yin and her assistant were accosted by a dragon. dragons are usually harmless spirits, but this dragon was deeply disturbed. he had accidentally set his father s kingdom on fire and destroyed some pearls of the pilgrimage 113 wisdom. while he waited anxiously for his execution date the doomed dragon assaulted travelers. kuan yin pledged to cancel the dragon s death sentence if he would reform. the dragon readily agreed and transformed himself into a white horse to assist any travelers on the deserted road. when kuan yin came across the very last mountain range, she found monkey encased in a stone box. five hundred years had passed since the buddha s challenge. monkey was sorry that he had been greedy and arrogant. like the others, he agree

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f the fifty-six men who signed the declaration of independence, nearly fifty were known to be freemasons and only one was known not to be.9 another researcher, enrique de vincente, says that fifty-three of the signatories were freemasons and that seventeen presidents, beginning with washington, have been members of the order. the second president, john adams, belonged to a secret society known as the dragons, named after the magnetic energy lines in the earth's energy grid. he studied the sacred geometry contained in the energy grid and knew how to harness the power it contained.10 one of the leading revolutionaries and founding fathers of the united states was benjamin franklin, the first grand master of the freemasons of pennsylvania. he 34..and the truth shall set you free became a frie

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the reptilian-nordic hybrids, that were placed in the positions of ruling royal power in the thousands of years before "known" history. they were the kings and queens who claimed the "divine right" to rule because of their bloodline- the bloodline of the gods. these ancient royal lines in places like egypt, sumer, and the indus valley, had a white skin and often blue eyes, yet they were known as the dragon kings or serpent kings by those who knew the secret of their hybrid nature. lemuria was destroyed by a staggering cataclysm that struck the earth, maybe 11,500 to 12,000 years ago. atlantis went the same way, in stages, over the thousands of years that followed. the universal stories of the great flood are related to this. when atlantis came to an end amid more enormous geological uphea

nds of years and are still in the positions of power to this day, as we shall see. bloodlines that were once egyptian pharaohs and european royalty are now presidents of the united states, and leading bankers and media owners. a fundamental theme running from the "golden age" of atlantis and lemuria-mu to the present day is that of the snake or serpent. both civilisations were known in legends as the dragon lands and the motherlands.2 the greeks called atlantis "hespera (a name for venus) and they said it was guarded by a dragon.3 native american records call atlantis "itzamana, which means "dragon land" or the "old red land".4 the algonquins use the name pan for the atlantean continent, a name also given to the goat god of the greeks. pan was originally a dragon or goat god of the atlante

"it is also reckoned that the subsequent culture of the region, phonetically called sumerian (pronounced "shumerian) was actually sidhemurian("shee-murian. in fact, the case for this is now considerable, since the early ring lords of scythia (the tuatha de danaan king-tribe) were actually called the sumaire."61 another researcher, frans kamp in the netherlands, tells me that sumer means "land of the dragon" in the language of the scandinavian vikings. the founders of sumer were the same reptilian anunnaki who had controlled atlantis in its latter stages and led it to destruction. their obsession with technology and control by machine, so characteristic of the final era of atlantis, can be seen in the world today. there is a reason for that: the anunnaki are still in control. one theme of

of course, is that these bloodlines were of extraterrestrial origin and that their ruling bloodlines had interbred with a reptilian 46 t atlantis revisited 47 figure 9: the land of sumer or mesopotamia in what we now call iraq. mesopotamia means "between two rivers- the tigris and the euphrates race to produce hybrid dna. this is why these outwardly white bloodlines were symbolised by terms like the dragon kings. i know this all sounds fantastic, but stay with me and you will see the evidence to support this apparently bizarre suggestion. south to sumer at least many strands of this "nordic" race travelled to sumer from the far north where we now have scandinavia and northern europe. these were the norse people who came down into france to establish normandy and became the normans, or "no

code. interbreeding is their way to access it. the blond-haired, blue-eyed, race and its connection to the reptilians is crucial to understanding both past and present, or, at least, what we call past and present. sumer was founded by the reptilian anunnaki bloodlines in league with factions of the nordic vikings and was thus known in the viking language, according to frans kamp, as the "land of the dragon. summaire, a celtic word for dragon, was a later version of this. i think the name "aryan" is nod so much a term for the white race as widely believed, but for the nordic-reptilian hybrids, the so-called "master race" or "noble race. whatever, i will use it in that context throughout this book. the very name aryan comes from the word "arri, meaning noble one. the il luminat i refer to t

nown to them in their writings as "the tin land country".33 a phoenician deity, later encompassed into christianity, was st michael and so you have st michael's mount just off the cornish coast near penzance.34 the tin ships operated from here, and there are many other references to "st michael" in that region. other phoenician-sumerian deities were st george of cappadocia in turkey, who defeated the dragon and became the patron saint of england; barat, a male deity, who became "briton; and barati, the female, who became the british heroine, britannia, when these deities were brought to these islands by the sumerian empire (figure 14).35 according to sir laurence gardner, the spokesman of the ancient imperial court of the royal dragon and order, barat-anna (great mother of the fire stone)

draco and orion and within the sirius network. it is possible that at least some of the reptilians originated on the earth and were driven out or, literally, forced underground at some point by the "nordics. this is not to say that all of these peoples are involved, only that significant groups of them are. this battle on earth is symbolised by stories such as the phoenician "st george" defeating the dragon and "st patrick" removing the snakes from ireland. but there was also crossbreeding between the serpent race and the nordics, which created the hybrid bloodlines that overwhelmingly became the ruling bloodlines of the aryan dynasties. brinsley le pour trench says in his book, the sky people (award books, new york, 1970) that the crossbreeding between the serpent race and the white race

t, to produce a reptilian-mammal hybrid that became .the aryan kings!7 these are the "divine" royal bloodlines or "demigods" and they are the same bloodlines that ruled the sumer empire and to whom those in power today are related. in media, now turkey, the iranians knew the kings as mar, which means snake in persian (mars= snakes. they were called the "dragon dynasty of media" or "descendants of the dragon. in the late 19th century, colonel james churchward, an ardent researcher into the existence of mu or lemuria, was shown some ancient tablets in the secret vault of a monastery in northern india. they told the story of how the naacals or naga mayas("serpents) from the continent of lemuria-mu had travelled to india via burma to establish a colony there. churchward put the texts together

ting within human society created many of the ancient mystery schools to hoard the knowledge of true history, and the esoteric and technological expertise of atlantis, lemuria, and the post-cataclysmic world, especially the sumer empire. they also seized control of the other mystery schools, which were formed with a more enlightened agenda. this was one of the roles assigned to the royal court of the dragon (also known as the brotherhood of the snake) from around 2000bc when it infiltrated the more positive egyptian mystery schools and made them vehicles of the reptilian "gods. manly p. hall, the freemasonic historian, summarises what happened, although for "black magicians of atlantis" also read "reptilians "while the elaborate ceremonial magic of antiquity was not necessarily evil, there

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ace of demons inindian legend and their name means those who do not walk, but creep; theegyptians had their serpent god, kneph, and pharaohs were often pictured withserpents; the phoenicians had agathodemon, another serpent figure; the voodoo peoplehave a god they call damballah wedo, who is depicted as a serpent; and the hebrewshad nakhustan, the brazen serpent. the ancient british god, known as the dragon-ruler of the world, was called hu and from this, very appropriately i would suggest,we get the term, hu-man. the winged-disc symbol of the sumerians, which is found allover the ancient world, was normally featured with two serpents. the symbolism of theserpent and its association with ancient gods abounds throughout the world. thereverend john bathhurst deane in his book the worship of

destroyed, their consciousness would have survivedbecause consciousness is energy and energy is indestructible. it can only be transmutedinto a different form. what happened to that dinosaur consciousness that dominated theearth for 150 million years? as weve seen, the earliest accounts of assyria, babylon,old testament history, china, rome, america, africa, india and elsewhere, featurestories of the dragons. the serpent symbol has also been found in ancient britain,greece, malta, egypt, new mexico, peru and all over the pacific islands. there is anunmistakable resemblance between some dinosaurs and ancient depictions of dragons.several species of small indo-malayan lizards with webbed wings look so much likedragons that they have been given the name draco after the star constellation from

and indeed he spentmuch of his career guiding people away from the truth. but his knowledge of the truesituation occasionally came through, as when he said that..it does no goodwhatsoever to ignore the reptilian component of human nature, particularly ourritualistic and hierarchical behaviour. on the contrary, the model may help usunderstand what human beings are all about.24 he adds in his book, the dragons ofeden, that even the negative side of human behaviour is expressed in reptilian terms, asin cold-blooded killer. sagan (the name in reverse spells the east indian reptilian gods,the nagas) clearly knew the score, but chose not to reveal openly what he knew. as thehuman foetus is forming into a baby it goes through many stages which connect withthe major evolutionary points in the deve

orted by long ribs.43 the wings can be folded back against the body and theyare the origin of the term winged serpent. they are also the origin of the term fallenangels and the winged gargoyles are symbolic of these draco. the cape worn by countdracula is symbolic of these wings and the character of dracula in the bram stokerstories is said to be a fallen angel. the winged draco are also known as the dragon raceand some of the ancient gods were described and depicted as birdmen. this could be oneof the origins of the phoenix and eagle in brotherhood symbolism, as well as the moreesoteric meanings. the biblical satan is depicted as a reptilian, too.some of the draco reptilian hierarchy are apparently white or albino white and notthe usual green or brown, and this connects with the descripti

nd the connection with the reptilians. andrew collins in his book, from theashes of angels, presents compelling evidence that the biblical garden of eden washigh up in this region of iran-kurdistan and, of course, the theme of the serpent is at theheart of the eden story. in neighbour-mg media, the kings were known by the iraniansas mr which means snake in persian.53 mars= snake? they were called the dragondynasty of media or the descendants of the dragon54. i have no doubt that the43reptilian draco interbred with humans to produce crossbreeds within the white race and,indeed, there are many people around the world today who claim to have bred withreptilians. by 2,200 bc the royal court of the dragon had been founded in egypt bythe priests of mendes and this still continues today 4,000 yea

s of the dragon54. i have no doubt that the43reptilian draco interbred with humans to produce crossbreeds within the white race and,indeed, there are many people around the world today who claim to have bred withreptilians. by 2,200 bc the royal court of the dragon had been founded in egypt bythe priests of mendes and this still continues today 4,000 years later, as the imperial androyal court of the dragon sovereignty, now headquartered in britain. some peoplecall this the brother-hood of the snake. the early kings of sumer, egypt, and later,israel, were anointed at their coronation with the fat of the dragon which was the fatof the sacred crocodile. the croc was known in egypt as a messeh and from this comesthe hebrew term messiah which means anointed one. the kings of the successionwere

gods is translated in the septuagint, the greekversion of the old testament, as angelos- angels. it appears from my research that thereare different reptilian factions: those who are more positive in their attitude to humanityand those who wish to dominate and control. they both became known as watchers orangels, the latter as fallen angels. it could well be that the legends of st michael castingthe dragon onto the earth for the final battle and st george defeating the dragon, relate tothe long-standing conflict between the genuine white martians and the reptilian anunnaki.st michael and st 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

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 scholar, robert eisenman,there is a description of a watcher called belial (bel, who is described as the prince ofdarkness and the king of ev

ument.the babylonian brotherhood and its reptilian bloodlines expanded across the middleand near east, especially to egypt, and eventually into europe and the americas. i thinkthe early egyptian civilisation after the v enus upheavels was the work of the aryans frommars, the phoenicians, with or without the reptilian anunnaki. but before 2,000 bc thereptilians were taking over. the royal court of the dragon was founded by the priests ofmendes in around 2,200 bc and this still exists today as the imperial and royal court ofthe dragon sovereignty. the author, laurence gardner, is the present chancellor of theimperial court of dragon sovereignty and his postal address in devon, england is atcolomba house. columba= dove= queen semiramis. according to gardner, the namedracula means son of dracu

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the feng-shui masters, adept at the art, are able to utilize its rules as well as use divination to effect maximum control of situations, maximize health, effect longevity, protect homes and businesses from negative force and events, etc. feng-shui is based on 1 "li" roughly translated as the laws of nature, 2 "su" or the numerical proportions of nature, 3) the breath of nature, the yin and yang, the dragon and the tiger, or the positive and negative energies, and 4) nature's appearance and forms. it is in this latter aspect of feng-shui that we see how form and shape are viewed and utilized in feng-shui to control the chi. if the reader's interest is piqued by this short explanation, i would recommend reading some of the books listed in the bibliography for a more complete understanding o

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

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hat which is "dynamic, a potential threat to the status-quo such as war, revolution, political unrest, or social upheaval, is represented by the devil. but, if the universe is dynamic not static and consciousness is not but is becoming then the devil, satan, more accurately reflects the true nature of god than christ, yahweh, or any other image of god which man has defined. the sumerians believed the dragon of chaos, tiamat, to be the mother of the gods. the gods brought order to chaos, but they were themselves the children of chaos and subject to its laws and conditions. the devil was not originally a "rebel" against the order of creation but, the beginning and the end, the source of all creation "the dragon sleeps" we are told in the texts of old "but shall awaken" in the alchemical trea

it is actually the universe which is creating god. satan is a metaphor for man. the rise of lucifer is the rise of man to his eventual destiny. the aeon of lucifer did not utterly destroy the aeon of set, but augmented it. set is the "dynamic" of the universe, the source consciousness which- through man- is creating god "the word of the aeon is- deitus- for man has become god, lucifer has risen, the dragon has awakened, the gates have been flung wide and the heavens have been conquered. the ancient ones rule once more. by your will alone, the genetic code of man has been altered. by thelema and by xeper, you are now deitus! a new race, a superior race, has been born. no longer shall you be called "homo sapien; you are now "homo deitus! no longer shall you be called man for you have become

coming a god and accepts "his place as a god upon the earth" his consciousness expands to the limits of the current aeon and he then continues to xeper and remanifest in direct relationship to the universe. the sorcerer realizes that his consciousness and his will are a manifestation of the universal dynamic, which man calls satan. having attained deitus, man becomes the very embodiment of satan. the dragon (a second consciousness which contains the knowledge of his ultimate purpose) awakens. as man becomes the embodiment of satan and rises to become a god, lucifer arises, for the rise of lucifer is a metaphor of man's ultimate purpose and direction. in deitus, you see not only the limits of the current aeon, but become aware of future aeons which shall come into being as the universe evol

, this temple which i have prepared. come forth, whore of babylon, and manifest thyself. ride upon me as you do upon the beast. come forth, whore of babylon, and manifest thyself. for i have crossed the gates of hell and i have become the devil incarnate. i am satan; i am lucifer; i am belial; and i am leviatan. come forth, whore of babylon, and manifest thyself (drink from chalice) invocation of the dragon choronzon into the abyss i call; to the depths of hell i call; to the dragon choronzon i call: choronzon, i invoke thee. choronzon, i summon thee. choronzon, i conjure thee. come forth, choronzon, and manifest thyself within this body, this temple which i have prepared. come forth, choronzon, and manifest thyself. come forth, choronzon, and manifest thyself. for i have crossed the gates

me forth, absu, and manifest thyself. open wide thy gate that i may cross. open wide thy gate that i may descend to the realm of chaos. come forth, absu, and manifest thyself. come forth, absu, and manifest thyself (drink from chalice) invocation of the ancient one, tiamat i have performed the ritual of descent. i have descended to the realm of chaos. i have entered the realm of chaos. i approach the dragon of chaos, the ancient one. tiamat, ancient one, dragon of chaos, mother of all the gods and demons of hell. mother of all the abominations of chaos. most ancient goddess. most ancient serpent. goddess of darkness. serpent of old. tiamat, i invoke thee. tiamat, i summon thee. tiamat, i conjure thee. awake! arise! come forth and manifest thyself! come forth to receive this sacrifice that

e me as a sacrifice unto thee. o ancient one, receive me as a sacrifice unto thee. come forth, o ancient one, to receive this sacrifice [notes: absu is the male dragon. tiamat is the female dragon. in the realm of chaos they are as one. the sorcerer will give himself in marriage to tiamat. the sorceress will give herself in marriage to absu. in either case, the practitioner will attain union with the dragon of chaos, the ancient one] spirits of abomination once the magician has performed the ritual of descent and attained union with the dragon of chaos, he may wish to call some of the abominations of chaos. there are countless hordes of demons which dwell in chaos but a few are here listed. humwawa, the lord of abominations of the south winds, whose face is a mass of the entrails of the an

) the midday of the first is as the third heaven made of 26 hyacinth pillars in whom the elders are become strong which i have prepared for my own righteousness sayth the lord whose long continuance shall be as bucklers to the stooping dragons and like unto the harvest of a widow. how many are there which remain in the glory of the earth which are and shall not see death until this house fall and the dragon sink? come away, for the thunders have spoken. come away, for the crowns of the temple and the coat of him that is, was, and shall be crowned are divided. come appear to the terror of the earth and to our comfort and of such as are prepared (lavey) the midday of the first is as the third indulgence made of hyacinthine pillars, in whom the elders are become strong, which i have prepared

ur comfort and of such as are prepared (lavey) the midday of the first is as the third indulgence made of hyacinthine pillars, in whom the elders are become strong, which i have prepared for mine own justice, saith satan, whose long continuance shall be as bucklers to leviathan. how many are there which remain in the glory of the earth, which are, and shall not see death until the house falls and the dragon doth sink? rejoice, for the crowns of the temple and the robe of him that is, was, and shall be crowned are no longer divided! come forth, appear, to the terror of the earth, and to the comfort of such as are prepared! the ninth key anton lavey writes: the ninth enochian key warns of the use of substances, devices or pharmaceuticals which might lead to the delusion and subsequent enslav

this ritual. i include it now simply for the sake of completeness. these are the words which established the aeon of lucifer. and i speak the word of a new aeon i speak the word deitus. by the power of the word deitus, the universe and everything within it is destroyed and a new universe is created. the word of the aeon is deitus for a man has become a god, man has become god. lucifer has risen, the dragon has awakened, the gates have been opened, the heavens have been conquered. the ancient ones rule once more. the age of lucifer has begun the aeon of lucifer has begun. i speak the word of the aeon and i become magus of the aeon. i have become magus of the aeon of lucifer. by thelema and by xeper i have attained deitus. by my will, i have come into being as a god. having symbolically con

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rits which i have invoked using this formula. their names are derived from various sources should you wish to consult further works on mythology and demonology. each name possesses a power in itself. it is not necessary for you to research a spirit before invoking it. there are countless other spirits which may be invoked and their names may be found in other books and grimoire l1 d i a b o l u s the dragon within the triangle of darkness an exploration 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 t

ythological standpoint. as a practitioner of magick from a satanic and luciferian viewpoint, many often inquire on my sources and inspirations from which i form my sorcerous work. it was because of this need for a crystallization of the form and function of the praxis of sorcery that i began, to present a concise view of the practice of left hand path magical practice from a luciferian viewpoint. the dragon within the triangle of darkness is a reference made to the evocation circle as the meeting place of the daemon and man, but also the luciferian rite of azi dahaka, the sorcerer-dragon king from persian mythology called zohak, an original son of satan. the black triangle by more common knowledge is related to the concentration of will to evoke the daemon of man and woman, to uplift and e

w strong and reside. 7 the opposing god of horus set are early manifestations of the adversary; that is to say horus represents day or the purity of fire, while set represents night and strengthening the self, and also the opposite which set purifies and horus strengthens. set is also considered in the egyptian book of the dead, to be the greatest of all the gods, as it is sethan who has mastered the dragon of chaos apep and it now serves him and became part of his essence. sethan as he is often called is considered the most ancient yet distinctly clear form of the opposer and adversary. charles pace (born 1920 date of death currently unknown, the obscure luciferian called himself a satanist or a setanist, and was a priest of set and anubis in a well known witchcraft coven in london under

demons said to be created by ahriman were mitokht 'falsehood) and akoman( evil mind. shortly after ahriman then created (according to the bundahishn) andar, savar, nakahed, tairev and zairik. many of the demons are featured in the yatuk dinoih, and formulas for creation and evocation are given. ahriman created or had fell with seven archdemons who served his will. they were in a prototypical way, the dragon of seven heads. these daevas were listed as the following, aeshma, akoman, nanghaithya, tawrich, savar, andar and zarich. the daevas were authored or created by ahriman as in suggestion of the zurvan myth. these are so-called evil spirits who chose the intellect and individual will as opposed to servitude and conformity. aeshma is the original form of asmodeus, a daeva of ahriman. this

rm of practice of summoning darkness is practiced by certain luciferian covens in the united states, instead of wolf blood various herbs and apple 11 against heresies by eznik 12 isis and osiris 12 cider is used in replacement, following along the same form of sacrifice by an offering into an area where the suns rays never touch. and i saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. for they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of god almighty. revelation 16:13-14 ahriman appeared in the zoroastrian legends in numerous forms. his astral body was considered that of a f

ference 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 beast which i saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority (revelation 13:2) slowly zohak became a demon, a dragon king whose companions were the druj and other demons of ahriman. in later lore zohak became the storm fiend, azi dahaka, who is ahriman s most powerful daeva. the initiatory focus and lore of zohak is presented in the paitisha15 as a force to be invoked and controlled within the

their original maker or source of being. the bible further describes satan as how he had fallen, which presents a connection of the vajra rune which anton szandor lavey made a part of his personal sigil within an inverted pentagram. the vajra rune is almost an s type shape, falling downwards. it represents health, vitality and strength. 22 i saw satan like lightning falling from heaven luke 10:18 the dragon itself is a symbol of the collective independence and intelligence of satan the adversary, while his angelic nature granted him the higher faculties of all the angels of heaven, lucifer sought more and wished to be more godlike. this was considered a great sin and thus a war in heaven occurred. and there was a great battle in heaven, michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and th

that evil samael and wicked lilith are like a sexual pair who, by means of an intermediary, receive an evil and wicked emanation from one and emanate to the other. i shall explain this relying on the esoteric meaning in the verse "in that day the lord will punish with his great, cruel, mighty sword leviathan the twisted serpent and leviathan the tortuous serpent--this is lilith-"and he will slay the dragon of the sea (isaiah 27:1. as there is a pure leviathan in the sea and it is called a serpent, so there is a great defiled serpent in the sea in the literal sense. the same holds true above in a hidden way. the heavenly serpent is a blind prince, the image of an intermediary between samael and lilith. treatise on the left emanation by r. isaac b. jacob ha- kohen 28 aleister crowley in his

d deadly. letters from robert cochrane here we see that cain, the son of samael and lilith, is the devil manifest on the earth the son of shaitan. he is above the flesh, yet his essence is found within it. the lord of magick is dual he is nightside and dayside, sun and the moon, life and death. cain is here the body of the magician, the soul of baphomet if you will. as found in the book of cain31 the dragon samael and lilith join as one to beget the son of filth, yet he grows strong by his will and emerges as baphomet. the illustration of cain as the adversary32 presents him holding the trident or stave above, symbolizing the sun and celestial region, and a hammer below representing the forge and the infernal region. you shall thirst for water and for blood; both in dreaming shall be held

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timental, or a lack of love makes us cruel and destructive. it is in such things as these that evil lies, not in a personal devil who acts as adversary. 5. geburah the destroyer, the lord of fear and severity, is therefore as necessary to the equilibrium of the tree as chesed, the lord of love, and netzach, the lady of beauty. gebura his the celestial surgeon; he is the knight in shining arinour, the dragon-slayer; beautiful as a bridegroom in his strength to the maiden in distress, though, no doubt, the dragon might have preferred a little more love. 6. the initiations of the infortunes, saturn, mars, and the deceptive lunar yesod, are just as necessary to the evolution and balanced development of the soul as are the mysteries of the crucifixion assigned to tiphareth. it is the one-sidedn

t is almost too hackneyed for quotation. 19. it is the light of the moon which is the stimulative factor in these etheric activities, and as earth and moon share one etheric double, all etheric activities are at their most active when the moon is at its full. likewise, during the dark of the moon, etheric energy is at its lowest, and unorganised forces have a tendency to rise up and give trouble. the dragon of the qliphoth raises his multiple heads. in consequence, practical occult work is best let alone during the dark by all but experienced workers. the life-giving forces are relatively weak and the unbalanced forces relatively strong; the result, in inexperienced hands, is chaos. 20. all psychics and sensitives are conscious of the set of these cosmic tides, and even those who are not a

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the task of drawing a presentable eagle, the symbolic form of the kerub of air, he will use the zodiacal sign for scorpio. the evolutionary connection between the snake and the bird is well known to biologists; but long ages before darwin, initiates used the serpent and the eagle to represent the unsublimated and sublimated aspects of the life-force. the scorpion connects with the serpent through the dragon. i had a very curious experience myself in connection with the element of air. i am betraying no secrets if i say that certain grades of initiation refer to the elements, for the fact is too generally known, and too obvious, for it to be any more mysterious than the queen of spain's legs. to begin with, i have an exceptionally bad head for heights, and as the abyss of height belongs to

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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 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 se

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her reason, it should be outlawed because it desecrates the remains of the departed and causes grief to the families of the disinterred or otherwise disturbed bodies. it is one of the darker and more sinister branches of western magic, best left sleeping in the past beside the shades of the dead. return h hhome resources demons bios fiction tyson the truth about the necronomicon (head and tail of the dragon, used with incantations to yog-sothoth) thenecronomicon is a supposedly ancient book, invented by the fantasy and horror writer h. p. lovecraft (1890-1937) as a plot device for some of his stories. lovecraft first used the title in his story the festival, written in 1923, but two years earlier he had included the name of the imaginary author of the necronomicon, the "mad arab" abdul alh

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sonified the opposing powers they gave to them the shapes of noxious animals and reptiles, such as snakes and scorpions. as time went on, the moral ideas of good and right were attributed to the former, and evil and wickedness to the latter. the first personifications of light and darkness were horus and set, and in the combat--the prototype of the subsequent legends of marduk and tiamat, bel and the dragon, st. george and the dragon, and many others--which took place between them, the former was always the victor. but, though the deceased was identified with horus or ra, the victory which the god gained over set only benefited the spiritual body which dwelt in heaven, and did not preserve the natural body which lay in the tomb. the principal enemy of the natural body was the worm, and fro

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trump of god. gabriel and michael are the only angels mentioned by name. the archangel michael appeared to daniel and will lead his angelic army against the people of god (revelation 12:7. the mention of michael by name occurs five times in scripture, and always in the character of a chief militant. in daniel, he is the champion of the jewish church against persia; in the revelation, he overcame the dragon; and in jude he is mentioned in a personal conflict with the devil about the body of moses. he is called by gabriel, michael, your prince, meaning the prince of the jewish church. gabriel first appeared as an angel to give daniel an interpretation of a dream (daniel 8:16.27) but earned his lasting fame as the one to announce both the birth of john the baptist to zachariah and the coming

in the legend of etana and the eagle, his heaven is stated to be in the sky. anu and enlil as deities of thunder, rain, and fertility are closely linked to ea, as dagan, of the flooding and fertilizing euphrates. each of these deities was accompanied by demonic groups. the spirits of disease were the beloved sons of bel; the fates were the seven daughters of anu; the seven storm demons, including the dragon and serpent, were of ea s brood. the following description of ea s older monstrous form occurs in one of the magical incantations translated by r. c. thompson: the head is the head of a serpent, from his nostrils mucus trickles, the mouth is beslavered with water; the ears are those of a basilisk, his horns are twisted into three curls, he wears a veil in his head-band, the body is a su

and ancient astronauts, which stemmed from his prior interest in archaeology and scuba diving. his first book in this vein, the mystery of atlantis (1969, reached a popular audience and was followed by a host of others, including mysteries from forgotten worlds (1972, the bermu- encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. berlitz, charles 173 da triangle (1974, doomsday 1999 a.d (1981, and the dragon s triangle (1989. in 1979 berlitz and ufo researcher william l. moore became unwitting accomplices in spreading the hoax usually referred to as the philadelphia experiment. the story recounts a reported incident in which the u.s. navy developed a device that transported a destroyer from philadelphia to norfolk, virginia. in the early 1960s carlos alende (real name carl allen) claimed to

nt. the story recounts a reported incident in which the u.s. navy developed a device that transported a destroyer from philadelphia to norfolk, virginia. in the early 1960s carlos alende (real name carl allen) claimed to have witnessed the experiment and states that the navy classified it and denied that it ever happened. sources: berlitz, charles. the bermuda triangle. new york: doubleday, 1974. the dragon s triangle. new york: wynwood press, 1989. mysteries from forgotten worlds. garden city, n.y: doubleday, 1972. without a trace: new information from the triangle. garden city, n.y: doubleday, 1977. world of strange phenomena. new york: wynwood press, 1988. berlitz, charles, and j. manson valentine. doomsday 1999 a.d. garden city, n.y. doubleday, 1981. berlitz, charles, and william l. mo

mospheric acoustic program at noaa wave propagation laboratory, boulder, colorado, confirmed that severe storms can generate such a phenomenon, and that it can also be dangerous to human beings. the theory has not been tested, however, because the mystery was largely accounted for by other means (see also devil s jaw, another area of claimed mysterious disappearances) sources: berlitz, charles f. the dragon s triangle. new york: wynwood press, 1989. berlitz, charles, and j. manson valentine. the bermuda triangle. garden city, n.y: doubleday, 1974. the bermuda triangle: an annotated bibliography. buffalo, n.y: buffalo and erie county public library librarians association and buffalo and erie county library, 1975. kusche, lawrence d. the bermuda triangle.solved. new york: harper& row, 1975

a debased descendent of the egyptian set, the persian ahriman, the python of the greeks, the jewish serpent, baphomet of the templars, the goat-deity of the witches sabbat. he was said to have the head and legs of a goat and the breasts of a woman. his followers called him by the names of forgotten deities as well as the black one, the black he-goat, the black raven, the dog, the wolf and snake, the dragon, the hell-hound, hell-hand, and hell-bolt. his transformations were unlimited, as is indicated by many of his names; other favorite and familiar forms were a cat, a mouse, a toad, or worm, or again, the human form, especially a young and handsome man as he would appear on his amorous adventures. the signs by which he might be identified, though not invariably, were the cloven hoof, the

genealogy, and local circumstances, and by the mixture of other mythical traditions, according to the various countries in which their worship prevailed. the fable that one cabirus had been killed by his brother or brothers was probably a moral mythus representing the result of the invention of armor and analogous to the story of the mutual destruction of the men in brazen armor, who sprang from the dragon s teeth sown by cadmus and jason. it is remarkable that the name of the first fratricide signifies a lance, and in arabic a smith. 4. the worship of the cabiri prevailed also in imbros, near the entrance of the hellespont, which makes it probable that the great gods in the neighboring island of samothrace were of the same origin. the cabiri, curetes, and corybantes appear to have repres

urors, such as the taoists, who sit on mats and are carried by invisible power from place to place. the ascend to a height of twenty or fifty feet, and are carried to a distance of four or five li (about a half mile. of this class are those who, in manchuria call down fire from the sky in those funerals where the corpse is burned. these exorcists may belong to any of the three religions in china. the dragon procession, on the fifteenth of the first month, is said by some to commemorate a buddhist priest s victory over evil spirits. they paste up charms on windows and doors, and on the body of the demoniac, and conjure the demon never to return. the evil spirit answers: i ll never return. you need not take the trouble of pasting all these charms upon the doors and windows. exorcists are spe

f seemingly miscellaneous art objects, depicted perhaps upon a brush tray, are probably the po-ku, or hundred antiques emblematic of culture and implying a delicate compliment to the recipient of the tray. birds and animals occur with frequency on chinese porcelains, and, if one observes closely, it is a somewhat select menagerie, in which certain types are emphasized by repetition. for instance, the dragon is so familiar as to be no longer remarked, and yet his significance is perhaps not fully understood by all. there are, in fact, three kinds of dragons, the lung of the sky, the li of the sea, and the kiau of the marshes. the lung is the favorite kind, however, and may be known when met by his having the head of a camel, the horns of a deer, the eyes of a rabbit, ears of a cow, neck of

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me more widely known and taught in the west since world war ii, when many servicemen encountered them in asian campaigns, and there are now many schools for specific training of the different martial art forms. symbolic of the growing interest in martial arts has been the popularity of the late chinese film star bruce lee, who popularized the art of kung-fu in such films as fist of fury and enter the dragon. that particular martial art was further popularized in the television movie series kung fu starring david carradine, first shown in the 1970s and revived in the 1990s. the main martial arts are: aikido (a kind of judo of graceful movement in which an opponent s force is used against him, bando (burmese boxing and wrestling, judo (wrestling with special emphasis on balance and leverage

ven archangels, including michael and gabriel, emerged into prominence. in one of the uncanonical jewish writings, the assumption of moses, michael disputes with satan for the body of moses, a belief picked up and mentioned in the christian new testament (jude 9. the most important quote concerning michael is found in revelation 12:7: there was war in heaven. michael and his angels fought against the dragon. from this it is deduced that michael is the leader of the celestial hierarchy against lucifer, the head of the disobedient angels. his design, according to genealogist randle holme, is a banner hanging on a cross, and he is represented as victory with a dart in one hand and a cross on his forehead. bishop horsley and others considered michael as only another name for the son of god. in

is wife, lady ygraine, operated the first occult church, which included in its membership a range of occult perspectives from wicca to voudou that were in fellowship with the satanism of the leaders. in the mid-1970s, the first occult church was closed and both gidney and lady ygraine affiliated with the church of satan. lady ygraine, who had previously operated two occult shops, the cauldron and the dragon s lair, also founded a new store dedicated to the left-hand path, pandora s box, in port st. lucie, florida. in 1999, in the wake of the church of satan s reestablishment of grottos as local church centers, gidney led in the founding of the nepotism grotto and now serves as the grotto master. mourning star is designed as the expression of a maturing satanic philosophy in the tradition o

and much confusion resulted. the buddhist calendar was in popular use, while the hpewan was purely astrological. therefore the burmese ignorant of the latter was obliged to consult an astrologer who was able to collate the two regarding his lucky and unlucky days. the chief horoscopic influences were day of birth, day of the week, represented by the symbol of a certain animal, and the position of the dragon s mouth to the terminal syllables of the day-names. magic burmese magic consisted in the making of charms and the manufacture of occult medicine to cause hallucination, second sight, the prophetic state, invisibility, or invulnerability. it was frequently sympathetic and overlapped with necromancy and encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. myanmar 1077 astrology. it did not

chronicle worldwide reports of anomalous creatures. all such reports, in their view, have features in common which suggest they are all aspects of a single phenomenon, together with ufos and other weird apparitions. these otherworldly entities may feed on electrical power and earth energies. another theorist in what may be termed the paracryptozoological school, the late f. w. holiday (author of the dragon and the disc, 1973, held that all through history good and evil entities have fought for the soul of the human race. to the ancients the disc represented the benevolent forces, the dragon the destructive ones, and the two have a sort of symbiotic relationship. creatures such as the loch ness monster are dragons in the literal sense.supernatural and evil. discs, of course, are flying sau

lopedia, second edition: the phenomenon from the beginning. 2 vols. detroit: omnigraphics, 1998. wagging the dog. international ufo reporter 19, 1 (january/february 1994: 3, 22.24. gillmor, daniel s, ed. scientific study of unidentified flying objects. new york: bantam books, 1969. grosso, michael. frontiers of the soul: exploring psychic evolution. wheaton, ill: quest books, 1992. holiday, f. w. the dragon and the disc: an investigation into the totally fantastic. new york: w. w. norton, 1973. jacobs, david m. the ufo controversy in america. bloomington: indiana university press, 1975. jung, c. g. flying saucers: a modern myth of things seen in the skies. new york: harcourt, brace, 1959. keel, john a. the eighth tower. new york: saturday review press, 1975. our haunted planet. greenwich

ESOTERISM AND THE LEFT HAND PATH

orresponds to the luciferian light or the promethean flame which can turn men into gods if it is found inside. man and his soul corresponds to principles in the universe outside us. in draconian philosophy the thought about the living nature is important since this philosophy turns against an atomistic and materialistic view of man and nature. especially in old norse and celtic magic can we found the dragon as a symbol of the spirit of nature. but also in the chinese tradition of feng shui. all esoteric knowledge exits in nature, but is hidden from the civilized modern man. the tree of knowledge is more than a metaphor. the middle levels that faivre mentions are represents the astral worlds and the different levels that the magician passes during the alchemical initiation. the magical syst

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

gfoot is a large apelike cre a t u re unre c o g n i zed by zoology but often re p o rted seen in the forests of the pa c i fic no rt h west of the united states and canada s far west. to those few scientists who are willing to concede its possible existence, sasquatch is thought to be related to homo sapiens primate ancestors. in other words, though intelligent as s 217 218 saint michael casting the dragon satan and his angels down to earth (fortean picture library) animals go, it does not have human, much less superhuman, intelligence. t h e re are, howe ve r, individuals who claim contacteelike dealings with sasquatch, which they describe as highly e vo l ved beings with extraord i n a ry mental p owe r s. southern california psychic joyce pa rt i s e, holding a sealed envelope containi

FAUST

ke each tardy payer, collars far more desires than she has dollars, the husband now has much to bore him; wherever he looks, debts loom before him. her spinning-money is turned over to grace her body or her lover; better she feasts and drinks still more with all her wretched lover-corps. gold charms me all the more for this: male s now my gender, i am avarice! leader of the women. with dragons be the dragon avaricious, it s naught but lies, deceiving stuff! to stir up men he comes, malicious, whereas men now are troublesome enough. women [en masse. the scarecrow! box his ears, the japer! why does the wooden cross threat here? as if his ugly face we d fear! dragons are made of wood and paper. have at him, crowd him, scoff and jeer! herald. peace! by my staff! peace or begone! and yet my aid

enough. women [en masse. the scarecrow! box his ears, the japer! why does the wooden cross threat here? as if his ugly face we d fear! dragons are made of wood and paper. have at him, crowd him, scoff and jeer! herald. peace! by my staff! peace or begone! and yet my aid s scarce needed here. in yonder space so quickly won see the grim monsters moving on, swift to unfold their pinions double pair. the dragons shake themselves in ire; their scaly jaws spew smoke and fire. the crowd has fled, the place is clear. plutus descends from his chariot. herald. he s stepping down, what royal grace! he becks, the dragons move apace; down from the chariot they ve borne the chest with all its gold, and avarice thereon. there at his feet it stands at rest; a marvel how it was ever done. plutus [to the ch

ad ere a glorious billowing dome forms overhead. you ll see there light-green rolling billows swelling, their edges purple, forming the fairest dwelling round you, the centre. wander at your will, the palaces attend you even still. the very walls rejoice in life, in teeming, arrowy swarming, hither, thither streaming. sea-wonders push and dart along to win the new soft glow but none may enter in. the dragons, mottled, golden-scaled, are playing; there gapes the shark but you laugh at his baying. though now the court surrounds you in delight, still such a throng has never met your sight. yet long you re not deprived of forms endearing; the nereids come curiously nearing your splendid palace in the cool of ocean, the young with fish-like, shy, and wanton motion, the old ones prudent. thetis

FIRE OF QAYIN RITE

crifice purifies us of sin, ignorance and illusion, hanging inverted in the night firmament, thy one eye of the goat, open and glittering, who lightens our darkness with the fires of the stars, the myriad lanterns and blazing torches of all-knowledge. by the methods of the art rouse the inner fire and fervently invoke the daimon within by the ancient pact. let the forces of the goat be raised and the dragon-serpent of naamah- lilith be stirred through all five senses perfectly focussed upon the fire within the mortal flesh. o flame-breathing daemon and wizardly smith, who forgest the iron weapons of victorious liberation, the precious jewels of wisdom and beauty, hearken to me why am sprung from thy cunning seed, the hidden house of azazel. i am of the children of tubal-qayin. thy mark bur

FLY THE LIGHT

st 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 prostitution who rides the beast. the son of satan is also represented as a serpent. the dragon itself holds significance in that it is a relation to diabolism, in zoroastrian lore, the avestan word devak means worm which is a dragon or snake. an early form of the antichrist, called zohak and later azhi dahaka is a dragon-king who had two black and ven

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

within us, and then in this sensible and corporeal heaven which presents itself to our eyes. let us remove from the heaven of our minds the bear of deformity, the arrow of detraction, the horse of levity, the dog of murmuring, the little dog of flattery. let us banish the hercules of violence, the lyre of conspiracy, the triangle of impiety, the bootes of inconstancy, the cepheus of cruelty. may the dragon of envy be far from us, and the swan of imprudence, the cassiopeia of vanity, the andromeda of laziness, the perseus of vain anxiety. let us chase away the ophiuchus of evil-speaking, the eagle of arrogance, the dolphin of lust, the horse of impatience, the hydra of concupiscence. let us put far from us the cetus of gluttony, the orion of ferocity, the river of superfluities, the gorgon

hat we can know by looking round the heavens and reading off the victorious good qualities in the constellations. it is a predominantly solar personality, for apollo is the patron of magic and divination, and this personality is the prophet and leader of a revival of magical religion. the triumph of good solar characteristics is witnessed in, for example, draco, where apollo with his magic charms the dragon,1 and in corvus in which magia divina triumphs over bad forms of magic.2 another most important influence in this character is that of jupiter. the jovial characteristics of benevolent law-giving and tolerance are seen to prevail in the constellations bootes,3 aquila,4 aries,5 libra,6 and others. there is also a strong venus influence, making for friendship and love, harmonising of disc

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

henomena are opened up. my chief aim has been to place giordano bruno within such a perspective, and it is my hope that this may of itself clear a road along which others will travel towards new solutions of old problemd angels of chaos by frater elijah copyright 1999 you want the word, that s what you ve come for. my advice is, don t ask! do as i do! seek out gold- but not my gold- and guard it- the dragon (grendel) contents introduction- 0 theory- 1 the formulation of the rite of godhood- 2 rite of godhood/ grendels had an accident- 3 results of the rite of godhood- 4 the summation of the techniques- 5 the bindings- the rite of suffering- 6 6a) the bindings 6b) what are demons? 6c) some journal entries the scarlet brotherhood- 7 phuture- 8 even the gods deserve their pain- the lady s law

rse, an empty void in my chest. despair god's of existence, your drama shall reap it's wretched sickle on you all. all shall be undone; the pentagram broken; the pact no more. an elicitation, an event something more, a mirror image amongst the swine. my magick is death, my death is life, and my life is ecstasy. this is my path, this shall be the cycle, this call to you oh grendel. adoptive son of the dragon, the word is upon our shoulders. tell of nothing, let us be destroyed by our desire so god may die. act ii my soul screams in orgasmic contradictions- silxofax mantadragonia ziflantamaxia natasz azaximanda callraptuption sunta faxim at rax zenfixamaphillaheme- grendel, who weeps upon existence, i pray unto myself. baphomet, fusion of being and of nothing, let us tear choronzon asunder

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

the druids "the druids had a high veneration for the serpent. their great god, hu, was typified by that reptile; and he is represented by the bards as 'the wonderful chief dragon, the sovereign of heaven [george oliver, signs and symbols, new york, macoy publishing and masonic supply company, 1906, p. 36; emphasis and capitalization in the original] at least, this satanic view of the serpent and the dragon being identical beings is consistent with the bible, as the scripture says they both are symbols of satan [revelation 12:9] when masonic authors pike, hutchinson, churchward, and oliver identify masonry as coming from the druid religion, this admission is extremely damning "masons. admire the druids and some of them even claim that masonry came from druidism. of course, the druids were

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

e, offering to the tumultuous years in which we live a key to the door which at present bars us from a completer understanding. today we wait on the threshold of this door, fearfully gazing out upon a world monstrous and twoheaded. darkness has taken upon itself a political form which has bereft the nations of their sight; has shrouded their minds and blotted out their wisdom; has sown among them the dragon's teeth of war. we stand today at the foot of the tower of babel- the tower of class strife and international conflict. meanwhile light has scintillated forth in science, the boundless shekinah of this present age. it is girt by no frontier and circumscribed by no class. it shines forth over the north and the south, over the east and the west. into the heights and into the depths it glo

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

n court, fleet street, and in march 1893 the firm of james elliott&co. published its first book, thehermeticmuseum restored andenlarged,6followedin rapidsuccessionbyfiveotheralchemicaltranslations, all commercially impossible and all. underwritten by lord stafford. themagnumopusof the alchemicalseries,thehermeticandalchemicalworldofparacelsus,appeared early in the followingyear,precededbybelleand the dragonand closely followed byavalon.in effect,james elliott&co. existed for the solepurposeof disseminating the wit and wisdomofarthuredward waite,as, apart from those already mentioned and three titles definitely not by waite, its only publications werereissuesof his earlier works and his ambitious 'high-class monthly magazine',theunknownworld.the production of a non-sectarian occultjournal(i

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inity in unity, and teaching us the higher pantheism, and that they are all one- three aspects of the same truth. so in the egyptian zodiac we find the bird-formed deity, symbol of the supreme creator, occupying the centre; in the hindu zodiac we find the man in the attitude of prayer generally, and half-hidden by clouds; but in many of them, and also in the chinese, we find the man, or sometimes the dragon, occupying the centre. in all of these we find the one, the three, and the multiple; and radiating out from that centre we find these various signs, no matter exactly how they are represented. now, what does all that mean according to the hermetic philosophy?itmeans that the zodiac is the circumference of an enormous vortex ring.thevortex ring is the first word of creation, so to speak

twirl. we allknowhowa ringofsmoke can be blown in order to make a vortex ring, and howis always. the resisting medium. we cannot blow a.vortexring .in an absolute vacuum. and now. comes inthehermetic philosophy, and says, the first emergence of theword;the breath. the thought of god that blew the vortex ring, met with a resisting medium of limitationiof darkness, of sin, and of death-symbolisedby the dragon,thegreat dragon through the sky. trailing one-third of the stars with its tail. that was the glyph of the darkness, the resistance which the thoughtofgodmetwith, the abyss of evil. and from the contest between these two 255 the word of godsentforthvandthedarkness and the evil which it hadtowithand to overcome- was born these whirling motions",hicl).are the basis, the root, of all motion

GOETIA LUCIFERIAN

ald crown of which we adopt we become as gods and goddesses individual and beautiful in many ways. black magick as revealed in current standards is the art of self-deification through antinomianian processes, that by the self separating from the natural order do we move in-between the world of waking and dreaming. in the art of primal sorcery this is defined as encircling/ensorcelling the self in the dragon s being. the circle in the modern context of magick and ceremonial workings is not designed to keep forces out, such as being a philosophy which if employed in this manner, will lay a foundation which causes the magician to fail from the start. the circle is a span of self control; it is our influence of who we are and what we will become. do not fear forces outside the self, your great

princes. in the coiling of this black light and cunning fire, may the sorcerer become isolated and strong against the natural order. the individual is separate, yet a fire made vessel of azazel-lucifer, known as azal ucel, the daemonic angel of adversarial awakening. begin the rite in the southern quarter, relative to azazel, the initiator of the path. the sorcerer should construct the circle of the dragon as one uses in this goetia, encircling the self in the announced conjurations of the four quarters. azazel i summon thee fire-djinn of the southern quarter, be the torch which would ignite me, immolate me in your presence, as your child on the path of shadow unto light. samael great dragon transformed, i summon thee as fulmino-lucifer, the morning star of the east, the serpent-angel of

body in thy circle of being! mahazael, incarnate within! azael as the candle burns out and as the sun fall into the darkness, i call unto thee azael spirit of the western gates of twilight and the grave, i summon thee forth. show unto me your mask of the dead and encircle me in the spirits of thy self, i seek to walk between the darkness and the light. i come unto you as the beast from the ocean, the dragon arisen! open forth the path of serpents! open forth the path of the dragon! hekas! hekau! hekas! working with demonic spirits demonic spirits are essential chthonic/infernal forces which are bound to and from the shadow and dark places of the earth. one should approach daemonic spirits as something other than the self. they are a testing ground; the ones who would have you face the skul

invoke them and gain their knowledge and attributes, that under willed association, you will grow in the perception of self. that which you seek from such contact you will ultimately grow in self by doing such. the body of shadow is developed by the following techniques: decorate your temple or chamber in a visually appealing manner, dragons, demons, the popular image of set, lilith, babalon upon the dragon, ect. the dark consciousness should be emanated within your black temple and that the demonic force of which you shall become by this work. you may anoint yourself in hecate oil, lucifer oil or even abramelin oil. sit quietly on a comfortable spot, facing a black or fogged mirror if possible. begin first by staring into the mirror and focusing on the very features of your face. seek to

ve your goal. theurgy (high sorcery) is the luciferian principle of self-development, the magician seeks to become like lucifer. the ritual let the sorcerer cast a circle about him/her, the leviathanic ourobouris circle counter clockwise, then in the same fashion, move widdershins in your alignment with the four daemon princes and subprinces, in your own design. summon then with an enflamed mind, the dragon-serpent which is the angelic essence of the soul, the eye of azal ucel shall burn forth from the darkness to reveal the light. the circle itself is not a tool of keeping spirits out, rather the circle is the concentration point of which the sorcerer summons forth the energies within the earth through him/her self, that it is the ensorcelling of the shades and elementals of the self the

e burning desert sands and the sun, sortha n-din thy stave and fork unto the flame that is my soul shall be illuminated in this blackened light. shaitan the adversary, my soul enflamed! arogogoruabrao thiaf! east- lucifer revealed as azazel, bringer of illumination and love, who resides in shadow and light, cover and cloak my spirit with thy twelve wings, serpent skin covered from the shedding of the dragon, bring now forth the serpent essence of my soul! melek tau us, beautiful spirit of fire, i summon thee forth! photeth north- set-an, isolator and strengthening force of storms, that chaos which i have tempered in thy elegance of darkness. i go forth and become as the eye of algol, separate and alone in my being. typhon, present unto me the tcham knive from which i shall stand forth in m

in the communion of my self! optional english/enochian conjuration- i do conjure thee, o spirit n. by the flames of azazel the lord of the earth i conjure thee forth. by beralanensis, baldachiensis, paumachia and aplogiae sedes; by the most powerful guardians and spirits of the beast, brought forth by the mighty throne, i summon thee descending spirits, dragon of the dark heavens by the crown of the dragon, enthroned eye of holy fire be friendly unto me, enter this circle and bring forth your wisdom and truth, descend and come forth from the dragon s temple, bring forth the wisdom of the wicked (translated- ol gnay zodaneta gah ialprg azazel, enay thahaaotahe ol zodameta micma micma micalz bransg gah a orh levithmong yolcam oxiayal ialpor gah ol vinu arphe gah, vovim de a mahorela ialprt

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS C C1

ould be traced thus: y. it symbolizes luna in her increase and is thus favorable. when traced thus: 2, it symbolizes luna in her decrease. this means limitation and restriction, which is not favorable. luna at the full moon is traced thus. at the new moon, it is a dark circle: 3. these last two forms are seldom employed and are not good in most cases. should the adept desire to invoke the head of the dragon, the north node of the moon, caput draconis, let him/her trace it thus: p. the tail, cauda draconis, is traced thus: q. these forces are most easily invoked when the sun or moon is within them in the zodiac or in conjunction. remember, from your study of geomancy, p is benevolent, and q is malefic, except in very few cases. when invoking either of these two forces, thou shall vibrate th

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ENOCHALL

vohim ol giz y ax: with a hundred mighty earthquakes. voir: subservient angel of water angle of water tablet. vomsarg/ vonsarg: every one of you (cf. g. vonph/ vonpho/ uonpo: anger/ wrath/ of wrath (cf. unph. vonph: wrath/ the wrath. vonpovnph: wrath in anger. vonsarg: vomsarg, every one of you/ everyone. vooan/ vaon: truth/ with them that fall. vors: over. vovim/ vovovin vouina/ vovina: dragon/ the dragon. vp: not. vpaah/ vpaahi: wings/ the wings. vran: the elders, also gran. vrbs: beautify/ beautified, also see urbs. vrelp: a strong seer/ a strong seer of things /seething. vrlm: subservient angel of water angle of earth tablet. vsnarda: governor of the second division of the aethyr ich (32. vssn: subservient angel of water angle of water tablet, also known as vspsn. vta: name of the fou

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s saith the lord, whose long mian trian ta lolcis abai-vovin od continuance shall be as buckles to the stooping dragon and like aziagiar rior irgil chis da ds pa-aox unto the harvest of a widow. how many are there which remain in busd caosgo ds chis od ip uran teloch cacrg the glory of the earth, which are, and shall not see death until oi salman loncho od vovina carbaf niiso this house fall, and the dragon sink? come away! bagle avavago gohon niiso bagle momao for the thunders have spoken! come away! for the crown of the siaion od mabza iad o i as momar temple and the robe of him that is was and shall be crowned poilp niis zamran ciaofi caosgo are divided. come! appear unto the terror of the earth od bliors od corsi ta abramig. and unto our comfort and of such as are prepared. lof m the n

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aith the lord, whose long mian trian ta lolcis abai-vovin od continuance shall be as buckles to the stooping dragon and like 13 aziagiar rior irgil chis da ds pa-aox unto the harvest of a widow. how many are there which remain in busd caosgo ds chis od ip uran teloch cacrg the glory of the earth, which are, and shall not see death until oi salman loncho od vovina carbaf niiso this house fall, and the dragon sink? come away! bagle avavago gohon niiso bagle momao for the thunders have spoken! come away! for the crown of the siaion od mabza iad o i as momar temple and the robe of him that is was and shall be crowned poilp niis zamran ciaofi caosgo are divided. come! appear unto the terror of the earth od bliors od corsi ta abramig. and unto our comfort and of such as are prepared. lof m the n

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n terms cognizable to us in the lower world. hyha, implicit and explicit sound. every being pronounces all its existence, the name of the lord of life, by inspiration and expiration. macroprosopus is amya and aba, mother and father. the two nostrils pass up and down the two breaths, as through the two great pillars. these throw all things into vibration; compare the \ylglgh tycar. the piercing of the dragon s coils suggests the freeing of twklm, which is also referred to as the washing of the garments of the queen, the inferior mother. then comes the breaking forth of the light. over twklm as guardians are wrffm and wpldns as the two pillars, and nephesch ha-messiah, the animal soul of messiah, the shekinah or presence between the kerubim. the particular exordium the bornless ones of time

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oncentrated positive and negative forces of nature and of the elements, under the name of yahdnhy we must always remember that ynda is the key of hwhy. 11 the enneangle is referred to the ninth sephira of dwsy. it is representative of the power of the ennead and the enneagon. it also shows the operating power of nature by the dispersal of the rays of the seven planets, and of the head and tail of the dragon of the moon, otherwise known as cauda and caput draconis. when we reflect on the enneagram from every third point, we find that we arrive at the triple ternary operating both in the seven planets with the cauda and caput draconis of 5 and also with the alchemical principles counterchanged and interwoven. it is not akin much to the nature of 5 as it is to the sphere of dwsy. it is only w

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itself there can be no growth, no quickening of the soul-fire. the unique transmission is old fate's blessing: the secret rapport between the gods and the soul; no other may tell of it. its outward signs are inspiration and knowing, married in an indefinable state whereby a man becomes mage. within the cultus sabbati 'the way of the flaming torch' and 'the way of the lightning-bolt' are known as 'the dragon's horns. it is considered a worthy aspiration for a wayfarer to realise the union of the twain: the non-dual path of the double-way. because of this dual emphasis, it is considered that only those with the capacity for receiving teachings and who bear the marks of 'unique transmission- whatever the degree of manifestation- should be invited into the formal sodality. a witch born to the

formal sodality. a witch born to the path may still spend many years struggling to make manifest that which lies within and yet by vertu of the traditional rites an uncommon fate may be swiftly seized; unto such individuals the process of tuition is in truth a path of remembrance: a reclamation of ancient birthright. mystery rites: the lineages of magistry a customary demonstration of 'attaining the dragon's horns (the union of unique transmission and lineal empowerment) is for an initiate to compose a grand mysterium or mystery-rite. such rites are comprised of diverse 'oracular' utterances, magical ordeals, and highly specialised modes of initiation into specific 'states' of magical rapport with powers and entities. the composer of a mystery-rite is known as its master or mistress, and

each opportunity into a tryst between the soul of man and the spirit of initiation. in the name of the nameless, so must it be! andrew d. chumbley is the presiding magister of the cultus sabbati and is an initiated kaula-tantrika of the uttara kaula sampradaya. he is the author of the azoetia: a grimoire of the sabbatic tradition (xoanon, 1992 and fulgur, 2000, qutub: the point (fulgur, 1995. and the dragon-book.(private, 1997. a new edition of the azoetia is soon to be available from bcm fulgur, london, wc1n 3xx. the author may be contacted at: p.o.box 1821, chelmsford, cm1 3th graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 15 6 there is no civilization known to history that had the capacity or need to survey that coastline in the relevant period: between 13,000 bc and 4000 bc.7 in other words

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outh: there, crossing the meridian, was the resplendent constellation of scorpius dominated by the first-magnitude star antares a red supergiant 300 times the diameter of the sun. north-east, above cairo, sailed cygnus the swan, his tail feathers marked by deneb, a blue-white supergiant visible to us across more than 1800 light years of interstellar space. last but not least, in the northern sky, the dragon draco coiled sinuously among the circumpolar stars. indeed, 4500 years ago, when the great pyramid was supposedly being built for the fourth dynasty pharaoh khufu (cheops, one of the stars of draco had stood close to the celestial north pole and had served as the pole star. this had been alpha draconis, also known as thuban. with the passing of the millennia, however, it had gradually b

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

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o be elaborate or expensive. the ritual of tex is designed for use by beginners. the ritual of iao invokes the feminine current and simulates a journey to the 5th 8 aethyr maz. the ritual of the priestess of the silver star invokes the feminine current and simulates a journey to the 19th aethyr.the ritual of the pyramid invokes the masculine current and simulates a journey to the 18th aethyr zen. the dragon ritual is designed for the advanced magician who desires to assume the responsibilities of the magical dragon. the ritual of vrelp stimulates a journey to the 14th aethyr vta and the city of the pyramids. the ritual of the abyss simulates a journey to the great outer abyss. the imagery used in these seven rituals is designed to simulate as closely as possible actual journeys to these ae

arities 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 your consciousness to be one with the light of the sun. maintain that image for as long as you can. 263 magical operations of the dragon in every ancient language the word 'dragon' signified what it now does in chinese-clang) i.e "the being who excels in intel l igence "the dragons of wisdom"-were the first disciples of the dhyanis, who were their instructors; in short, the primitive adepts of the third race, and later, of the fourth and fifth races" h.p. blavatsky, the secret doctrine as you advance in enochian magick y

roach to the vovin, the following magick square can be used as a talisman: the magick square of vovin adds gematrically to 1876, whe re 1876=67x28 and 28 i s a s s o c i a t e d wi t h t h e vovi n because the word vovin is 280 and 280=28x10. the word vovin and i ts magick square are thus related through the number 28. the square is a play on the words vovin-ol-oxivo- iov which can be translated "the dragon is one who has fortified his soul (literally "the dragon has made his indwelling soul to be mighty. the dragon, or vovin, is thus said to be one who is very advanced in magick he has been able to strengthen his subtle bodies (the "soul" is a general term that refers to 267 those subtle bodies between the physical and the spiritual. aiq bkr reduces 1876 to 4 and reduces 1068 (this is the

is largely concerned with lifting human consciousness upward into the higher spheres of spiritual consciousness. the vovin is largely concerned with bringing spiritual consciousness down into the lower spheres of human consciousness. the formula of vrelp includes the techniques of raja yoga. the formula of vovin includes the techniques of kundalini yoga. there are at least four specific orders of the dragon as follows: 1. vovin-telokh,the dragon of death whose number is 638. this dragon is closely related to torz oxi, a governor of the 19th aethyr, pop. 2. vovin-toant, the dragon of love whose number is 384. this dragon is closely related to pakasna, a governor of the 2nd aethyr, arn. 3. vovin-matorb, the dragon of cycles whose number is 514. this dragon is closely related to tokarzi, a go

on of death whose number is 638. this dragon is closely related to torz oxi, a governor of the 19th aethyr, pop. 2. vovin-toant, the dragon of love whose number is 384. this dragon is closely related to pakasna, a governor of the 2nd aethyr, arn. 3. vovin-matorb, the dragon of cycles whose number is 514. this dragon is closely related to tokarzi, a governor of the 17th aethyr, tan. 4. vovin-balt, the dragon of justice whose numbers are 308 and 302. this dragon is closely relatd to onizimp, a governor of the 23rd aethyr, tor the following ritual should be conducted to charge your magick square of vovin into a powerful talisman. step 1. make your own magick square of vovin. step 2. wear a black robe. consecrate a circle. place your 268 magick square, wand, sword, cup and pantacle before you

ce of its letters. consider the four corners which include v( the devi l in capricorn) and n (death in scorpio. consider the two diagonals of the letter 0 (justice in libra. consider the center and two diagonals of the letter i (art in sagittarius. consider the placement of l (chariot in cancer) and x (universe in the element of earth. consider the 270 square to be an expression of the formula of the dragon step 3. meditate on yourself as a lunar expression. con sider the similarities between the reflected and cyclic ligh of the moon with the human condition. step 4. transfer the magical forces embodied in the tabs man of the magick square of vovin to yourself. consider your bodies to be a series of cyclic vehicles each a reflection in time, space and form of the the other, from spirit dow

e the other, from spirit down ward to your physical body. consider your physical body as a temple of the body of light. step 5. meditate on the lunar nature of your series of bodies. consider the relationship between the sun and the moon and the relationship which exists between your consciousness and your bodies. hold that idea for as long as you can. 271 the sun-savior cosmologically, then, all the dragons and serpents conquered by their "slayers" are, in their origin, the turbulent confused principles in chaos, brought to order by the sun-gods or 'creative' powers. h.p. blavatsky, the secret doctrine a sun-savior in enochian magick is called an arsoe (ahrah-soheh. the sun-savior is equivalent to the hindu avatar, the buddhist bodhisattva and the hanged man of the tarot. it is a manifest

ay, bataivah (bah-tah-ee-vah-heh) great king of air, come, accept my offering. gigipa-ga exarp (gee-gee-pah-gah etz-ar-peh) air to air. here in the ten inner chambers of zen, come, accept my body. mikalzo-zrldar (mee-kah-ieh-zodohzodee-lehdar) mine is the power to fly. hold up the talisman of vovin before the air shaft and say, 311 vovin torzu-angelard (voh-vee-neh toh-ra-zodue-ah-neh-gel-ar-deh) the dragon rises up above his thoughts. i give you this body and pass through salman-lukiftias (sah-leh-mah-neh-luekee- feh-tee-ah-seh) i now pass through the house of brightness. part 6. let your mental body be given unto the king of air. assume your spiritual body and pass upward through a narrow shaft in the ceiling. rise up until you arrive at a fiery red chamber at the geometric center of the

hter of infinite space, adan-odo-baha-noq (ah-dah-neh oh-doh-bah-hah-noh-qeh) i give obeisance to your receptive nature and call upon you as your faithful servant. ananael-lonsa-mi (ahnah- nah el-lohen-sah-mee) you are the secret wisdom, the power inherent in all beings. odo-emna-noq-if lad (oh-doh-em-nah-noh-qeh-el-ee-ahdeh) i am opened up unto you, 0 goddess. i am your favored servant. part 12. the dragon. hold the talisman of vovin before you. focus your mind on the watchtowers and aethyrs as a totality and say, vpaah-oxi-vabzir nisan-in (veh-pah-ah-heh-oh-tzee- vah-beh-zodee-ar-nee-ee-sah-neh-ee-neh) behold, the nughty wings of the eagle carry me through the void. i roam the watchtowers and aethyrs. insi-alama- vovin-ax-l -ial-prt (ee-neh-see-ah-lah-mah-voh-vee-neh-ahtz-el- ee-ah-leh-p

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came to signify the implements they used. we have seen wuotan reappear in longbearded charles, in red-bearded frederick. on comparing the norse hero-legend with the german, we see remarkable instances of this shifting and displacement of names and persons. gudrun in the edda occupies the place of our krimhilt, while grimhildr is her mother's name; in the yilkinasaga mimir is the smith and keginn the dragon, in the volsungasaga reginn is the smith and fafnir the dragon. if these changes took place at haphazard, there would be nothing in them; but they seem to proceed by regular gradation, without leaps. among all branches of the teutonic race there shew themselves innumerable varieties of dialect, each possessing an equal right; so likewise in the people's religion we must presuppose a goo

ticular troubles under which they can be of service are parcelled out among them like so many offices and lines of business, so that almost every disease and its remedy are called by the name of their saint; this division of tasks has the strongest analogy to the directions given in norse and lithuanian mythology for the invocation of the several deities (p. 335. the victorious hero who had slain the dragon made room for michael or george; and the too pagan siegberg (p. 198, which may have meant the same as eresberg (p. 201, was handed over to michael, as the mons martis in france was turned into a mons martyrum, montmartre. it is remarkable that the ossets have converted the dies martis into georgeday, and dies veneris into mary's day (pott 1, 105. 2, 802. the places of osinn and of freyj

of a tree, just as the world-fight was made to depend on the sprouting of the ash (p. 960, or on the dry tree breaking into leaf (pp. 955-7. another difficulty put in the way of deliverance is, that the maiden in some disgusting shape, as a snake, dragon, toad oy frog, has to be kissed three times (d. sag. no. 13. moneys anz. 3, 89. 7, 476. already in the poem of lanzelot we have this kissing of the dragon's mouth, who after that turns into a fair lady (7881. 7907-90. now and then the apparition of the white dame basking in the sun, beaming and bathing, melts into the notion of a ivater-holde and nixe (p. 491, a scand. hafs-fru (afzelius2, 150, spirits that likewise need redemption (p. 493. twelve luhite sea-maids come and join in the dancing of men (mone's anz. 5, 93; add the romance leg

as over and the sun shone sweetly; only a few coins remained, which when thrown away had fallen outside the serpent ring (reusch's samland no. 3. the great hoard on which fdfnir lay was made up of gold that the gods had been obliged to hand over for the covering and cramming of otter, but which loki had pi-eviously taken from the dwarf andvari. sigur'sr, having got it into his power after slaying the dragon, conveyed it all safely away on grani's back, hence gold was named byrd'r grana (granonis sarcina, ohg. nibelungs' hoard. 979 would be kraniii purdi, so, 139. it is remarkable that in a swed. folksong (arvidsson 2, 193) the maiden awaiting her betrothed says: vore det den ungersven (were he the swain) som jag skulle ha, sa forde han det guldet pa gangarens bak! according to our lay of t

ed byrd'r grana (granonis sarcina, ohg. nibelungs' hoard. 979 would be kraniii purdi, so, 139. it is remarkable that in a swed. folksong (arvidsson 2, 193) the maiden awaiting her betrothed says: vore det den ungersven (were he the swain) som jag skulle ha, sa forde han det guldet pa gangarens bak! according to our lay of the hiirnen (horny) sifrit^ though the hero still wins the hoard by slaying the dragon of drachenstein, and loads it on his steed 166, 4, the origin of the gold is related differently. it is the nibelinges liort, and nibling king of dwarfs leaves it to his three sons (13, 4. 14, 3. 134, 3. 168, 2, two of whom, when their mountain began to move (in an earthquake) and threatened to fall in, carried it away without telling their brother eugel" and hid it in a cave under the'

he elf kindred. thus in both lays the hoard originates with dwarfs, and in the bdda with dwarf andvari; as elvish beings they are by nature collectors and keepers of subterranean treasure, haunting the mountains as they do (pp. 448. 452, and they delude (pp. 464. 915) like spectres. then the wishiug-hat is brought to mind by the cover-capes and mist-mantles of dwarfs (p. 915; the dwarf race, like the dragons^ cherishes and guards treasures, 1 the seifriedsburg in the rhon mts (weisth. 3, 535) is another place about which the hero-legend is told among the common people (moue's anz. 4, 410, and thence bechst. franken 144- eugel's prophecy and his conversation with siegfried (159 164) leave no doubt of his identity with gripir in the edda, but in point of name with gripi's fatlier eyiimi. thi

, hellewurm, lohengr. 141, heuetracke, mart. 141; but there also went with it an inkling of the native superstition about venomous fire-spitting worms, treasure-guarding dragons (p. 978) and wondei'ful serpents (p. 684. as a dragon the devil appears in numberless folktales, e.g. deutsche sag. nos. 520. 858. here i draw particular attention to that fairytale, in which it is variously the devil, or the dragon, or the bird griffin, that has feathers plucked out of his tail in his sleep, kinderm. nos. 29.57. 165. norske folkev. 1, 31 33. mailath's magyar, m. 1, 179. the dragon of misfortune dogs mankind, and one whom everything goes against will say' on all my luck the devil puts his tail' to the dragon also may be traced the devil's wings, o. fr. diables enpanez, meon's nouv. rec. 1, 250, lik

iss of peace during adoration. the devil in some stories, who hrings money or corn to his friends and favourites, approximates to good-natured homesprites or elves; and in such cases nothing is said about a bond or about abjuring god. he is usually seen as a fiery dragon rushing through the air and into chimneys (superst. i, nos. 6. 253. 520-2-3. 858. the esthonians say, red streaks of cloud shew the dragon is flying out, the dark that he is returning with booty (superst. m, no. 102; so the lithuanians about the red all and the blue (n, no. 1. in lausitz they tell of a corn-dragon (zitny smij) who fills his friend's thrashing floor, a milk-dragon (mlokowy smij) who purveys for the goodwife's dairy, and a penny-dragon (penezny smij) who brings avealth. the way to get hold of such a one is t

goodwife's dairy, and a penny-dragon (penezny smij) who brings avealth. the way to get hold of such a one is the following: you find a threepenny piece lying somewhere to-day; if you pick it up, there'll be a sixpenny piece in the same place to-morrow, and so the value of what you find will keep rising till you come to a dollar. if you are so greedy as to 1020 devil. take tlie dollar too^ yon get the dragon into your house. he demands respectful treatment and good fare (like a homesprite; if goodman or goodwife neglect it, he sets the house on fire over their heads. the only way to get rid of him is to sell the dollar, but below its price, and so that the buyer is aware and silently consents^ it is the same with the alraun and the gallowsmannikin (p. 513 n. if given away, these hreeding-do

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untain (afzelius 3, 88; therefore they sling rocks at the belfries. gargantua also carries off bells from churches. in many of the tales that have come before us, giant and devil are convertible terms, especially where the former has laid aside his clumsiness. the same with a number of other resemblances between the two. the devil is described as many-headed like the giant, also, it is true, like the dragon and the hellhound. wherever the devil s hand clutches or his foot treads, indelible traces imprint themselves even on the hardest stone. the titans chased from olympus resemble the angels thrust out of heaven and changed into devils. the abode of the giants, like that of heathens and devils in general (p. 34, is supposed to be in the north: when freyr looks from heaven toward lotunheim

uss the impending ruin of the castle, deut. sag. 1, 202. in the helgaqvrsa, ssem. 140-1, a wise bird (fugl fr63huga$r) is introduced talking and prophesying to men, but insists on a temple and sacrifices before he will tell them more. in one german story, men get to understand the language of birds by eating of a white snake, km. no. 17. sigursr understands it too, the moment the heart s blood of the dragon fafnir has got from his finger-tips to his tongue: and then swallows (igftor) give him sound advice, srem. 190-1. to kill swallows brings misfortune: ace. to sup. i, 378 it occasions four weeks rain; and their nests on the houses no one dares knock down. from saxo s account (p. 327) of the oaken statue of kugivit, we may conclude that the slavs had let swallows build on it in peace (see

ly once, in the latish solarl. 127b; elsewhere it is ormr, as. wyrm, ohg. warm, goth, vaurms, which in a wider sense includes the snake also. the one encountered by beowulf comes before us emphatically as a winged snake (serpens alatus; nihtes fleogeft 4541, by night he flies, and hence is called uhtscea&a 4536 (nocturnus hostis, aggressor, and lyftsceaffa (aereus hostis, cod. exon -329, 24. also the dragon that keeps krimhild prisoner on the drachenstein comes riding through the air, or flying. but the one that young siegfried had previously killed, when sent out by the smith, lay beside a linde (lime-tree, and did not fly: this is the fdfnir of the edda, a man who had assumed the form of a snake; of him the edda uses skrifta (repere, to stride, ssem. 186. sn. 138; and he is the wyrm or d

two notions of eit (fire) and eiter (poison) run into one. connect with this the descriptions of mhg. poets: the trache* has his haunt in a valley, out -of his throat he darts flame, smoke and wind, trist. 8944-74; he has plumage, wings, he spits fire and venom, troj. 9764. 9817 (see suppl. now it was the heroes province to extirpate not only the giants, but (what was in a measure the same thing) the dragons l in the world: tborr himself tackles the enormous mr&lt;5gar&lt;$s-orm, sigemund, siegfried, beowulf stand forth as the bravest of 1 the analogy is kept up in the circumstance of the conquered dragon (like the giant s skeleton p. 555n) being fastened over the town-gate, e.g. pulci 4, 76. 690 teees and animals. dragon-quellers, backed by a crowd of others, who spring out of the

rew, the gold grew also, till the box became too narrow, and the worm laid himself in a ring all round it; soon the chamber was too small, and he lay round that, with his tail in his mouth, admit ting none into the room unless they brought him food, and he required an ox at every meal. then it was proclaimed, that whoever slew him should get the maiden for his bride, and as much gold as lay under the dragon, for her dowry. it was ragnar lodbrok that subdued this dragon, fornald. sog. 1, 237-8. the rapid growth of the worm has a startling similarity to that of the fish, p. 578. but, beside the hoarded gold which the heroes carry off as prize, the adventure brings them other advantages: eating the dragon s heart gives one a knowledge of beasts language, and painting oneself with his blood ha

sh out &lt/&gt;ao? besop/ce expresses illuminating light, and this confirms me in my proposed explanation of our lint and linni. a fox after long burrowing struck upon the cave of a dragon watching hidden treasure, ad draconis speluncam ultimam, custodiebat qui thesauros abditos/ phaedr. 4, 19. then the story of the gold-guarding griffins must be included, as they are winged monsters like the dragons. in 0. slavic zmiy m, and zmiya f, signify snake, the one more a dragon, the other an adder. the boh. zmek is the fiery dragon guarding money, zmiye the adder; serv. zmay dragon, zmiya adder. mica, which the zmay shakes off him, is named otresine zmayeve (dragon s offshake, vuk p. 534. once more, everything 1 which reminds albrecht in titurel 3313 17 of a similar tale of eodolz, conf

to a female snake; in teutonic and also slavic tales on the contrary it is characteristic of the fierce fiendish dragon (m) to guard treasure, and the adder or unke (f) plays more the part of a friendly homesprite: as the one is a man transformed, so the other appears as a crowned maiden with a serpent s tail (deut. sag. no. 13, or as a fay. but she can no more dispense with her golden crown than the dragon with his guardianship of gold; and the boh. zmek is at once dragon and adder. a story of the adder-ifing is in bechstenr s franken p. 290 (see suppl. amidst all these points of connexion, the being worshipped by the lombards must remain a matter of doubt; we have only a right to assume that they ascribed to it a benign and gracious character. insects. some traces of beetle-worship i am

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aters, but was forced to cough them up again. the eyes of apophis seem to have been particularly feared, and he was said to make a terrible roaring sound. the movement of his body could cause earthquakes, and he was associated with the hidden sandbanks that were a danger to boats on the nile. it has been suggested that a combination of the snake and crocodile forms of apophis may be the origin of the dragons of medieval legend. in egyptian accounts of the nightly journey of the sun through the underworld, apophis usually attacks in the seventh and the twelfth hours of the night. powerful deities stand in the prow of the solar barque to protect the sun god against apophis. seth, the strongest of the gods, can be shown clubbing or spearing the apophis snake. the fight between seth and apophi

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966-1968. another area, perhaps of more interest to uk eod initiates is ilkley moor, which has a long, and well-documented history of strange phenomena encountered, from ghosts and black dogs to ufos and what modern researchers in the field of earth mysteries call earth lights. the earth lights phenomena has arisen largely from the work of paul deveraux, editor of the ley hunter and co-founder of the dragon project. his theories are drawn from the fact that the earth produces a range of light-forms by natural processes. these .unexplained. light-forms have been interpreted by those who encounter them as ufos or spectral manifestations. the occurrence of these phenomena is commonly found to be specific to a particular region. the lights often .follow. cars, or are reported by observers to b

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bay, the doctor commenced the solemn and measured intonation of that which he had meant all along to recite. an eye for an eye- magic for magic- let the outcome shew how well the lesson of the abyss had been learned! so in a clear voice marinus bicknell willett began the second of that pair of formulae whose first had raised the writer of those minuscules- the cryptic invocation whose heading was the dragon's tail, sign of the descending node- ogthrod ai'f geb'l-ee'h yog-sothoth 'ngah'ng ai'y zhro! at the very first word from willett's mouth the previously commenced formula of the patient stopped short. unable to speak, the monster made wild motions with his arms until they too were arrested. when the awful name of yog-sothoth was uttered, the hideous change began. it was not merely a diss

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f iblis, the flame of selfperception and rebellion from which one seeks the balance of self. the destiny and map of ones life is chosen by thought, will and action, thus iblis is the imagination. lucifer is thus the imagination of self, realization and the strength to become something better. this black mass, as performed in two parts through the musick of psychonaut 75, is that of two aspects of the dragon the light and the grave, unto earth the fallen angels descend, the earth opens and the vampyric shades and the dead walk the earth. this ritual was designed as a means of opposition to bigotry and oppression, that lucifer rises to awaken each with the black flame of perception and self-love, while the vampyric archetype announces the communion of the cthonic forces of the earth, the dem

INVOCATION OF OUR LORD OF MIDNIGHT MAHAZHAEL DEVAL

stoms of our nameless faith and the mystery of the iconostasis, that our deities are often syncretised with the saints and deities of the so-called mortal faiths of man, that is, with the revered and divine personae of our localities presiding churches and holy sites. it is thus our custom to call many souls to walk in the procession of the hidden faith. what follows below is a call, adapted from the dragon-book of essex, for evoking the sovereign witch-father mahazhael. it is intended for the use of a covine or working lodge of arte. the lord mahazhael is revered as the guardian of the northern station and is considered to be the blessed consort of our lady liliya. his time is that of the midwinter sun, the season of misrule and rebirth. his moment is the interstitial cusp of darness and

ho dwelleth in the invisable ossuary at the centre of every charnel-ground. exalted art thou as the emperor in the northern gateway of power! all-hail to thee as the leader of the eight gods in the retinue of bha! we revere thee as our protector, our consort and our brother eternal guide to all who stray, self-abandoned to seek paradise in exile! hail to thee as the eight-armed giant, magister of the dragon s brood! we summon thee to the blood-acre by the lych-light of the dying sun. we call to thee with word and deed, above the sign of the open grave. be thou before us as the bone-white man, the skeletal lord of light! let space be thy flesh and bone be thy form: thy stature eclipsing the sky. for lighting-bolts do adorn thee and storm-clouds are a halo around thee. thy face is the skull

with you! as it is spoken, so mote it be! bilo bilo hu! bha-azha-ka! the officiant should complete the conjuration by offering the bow of mahazhael as a sign bestowing empowerment upon the assembled body of the covine. all brethren should silently pace the circle widdershins to bind the rite. finally all may conjoin in a binding salutation: all hail to the thrice-great clan of azha-qayin! hail to the dragon-masked lord of albion s field! hail to jabal, jubal and tubal-cain, by the horns of the bull, the harp of the minstrel, and the hammer-knell s hymn to fire. hail to the king held high on the elder tree, to the lords and ladies of the meadow, to the good folk of the blood-acre. hail to the thrice-great wanderer, whose faith doth lie beneath his heel. thrice blessed, thrice cursed, thrice

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un is high i do speak thy words of power zazas, zazas, nasatanada zazas zrozo zoas nanomiala hekau zrazza sabai infernum i shall transcend and ascend above all things, myself may only strengthen in this light in this hour i illuminate, i burn with the glory of luciferian light within! above the throne of azothoz is the entering fire ring of set-heh, adversary of the nine gates and seven points of the dragon! i go now between and beyond, within and without! upon the hour of midnightya! zat-i-shaitan! by the gate of the black light, when i name the words against the sun o fire djinn azazel, set-heh, i summon thee forth with serpent s tongue, that my oath before this blackened flame, ignited within. in the dreaming aethyr shall i be known in the wisdom of the moon al zabbat, hekas hekau, serp

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the dwelling of a dragon, so very venom- ous that the stench was spread feu* miles round his cave" this reptile- hermit met with an accident; he got a thorn in his eye, and, becoming bhnd, crept to the saint's pillar, and pressed his eye against it for three days, without touching any one. then the blessed saint, from his aerial seat "three feet in diamder" ordered earth and water to be placed on the dragon's eye, out of which suddenly emerged a thorn (or stake, a cubit in length; when the people saw the 'miracle' they glorified the creator, as to the grateful dragon, he arose and "having adored god for two hours, returned to his cave* a half-converted saurian, we must suppose. and what are we to think of that other narrative, to disbelieve in which is "to riak one's aaitaiion" as we were

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the sage s triumph over old age and the grave. london, second edition, much enlarged. printed for j. nourse, at the lamb, against catherine street in the strand, in the year 1749" signor gualdi. 31 and thus much for the history of signor gualdi, who was suspected to be a rosicrucian. we shall have further interesting notices of these unaccountable people as we proceed. the egyptian eve trampling the dragon. the labarum. chapter the sixth. the hermetic brethren. he following passages occur in a letter published by some anonymous members of the r.c, and are adduced in a translation from the latin by one of the most famous men of the order, who addressed from the university of oxford about the period of oliver cromwell; to which university the great english rosicrucian, robertus de fluctibus

igure assigned in the formal zodiacs of all countries, whether origidal zodiacs, or whether produced in figure-imitations by recognising tradition. the marks or fig. 7. the letter shin 50 the rosicrucians. symbols of the zodiacal signs, virgo-scorpio, are closely similar to each other, with certain differences, which we behold! i show you a sign. virgo. libra. scorpio. the woman conqueror leading the dragon. the restored world, or captivity captive" recommend to the judicious consideration of close and experienced observers. fig. 8. the templar banner: the famous beauseant. fig. 9. fig. 8 is the symbol, or hook, of saturn, the colour of whom, in the heraldic configuration, is sab, sable, or black, divided, party per pale, with the opening light of the first crescent moon of the post-diluvi

n matter-chains. think that he is outside of all things, and deep in the inside of all things; and that thou and thy world are only the thing between: and that outside and inside are both identical, couldst thou fire-worship. 69 understand the supernatural truths! reverence fire (for its meaning, and tremble at it; though in the earth it be chained, and the foot of the archangel michael like upon the dragon be upon it! avert the face from it, as the magi turned, dreading, and (as the symbol) before it bowed askance. so much for this great thing fire! observe the multiform shapes of fire; the name-wreaths, the spires, the stars, the spots, the cascades, and the mighty falls of it; where the roar, when it grows high in imperial masterdom, is as that of niagara. think what it can do, what it

ith the prince frederick william of prussia. this is the teutonic perpetuation of the bacchic gloryings, of the saturnian rout and flame-brandishing, of the earliest and last rite. 112 the rosicrucians. the ring of light, glory, nimbus, aureole, or circle of rays, about the heads of sacred persons; the hand (magnetic and mesmeric) upon sceptres; the open hand borne in the standards of the romans; the dragon crest of maximin, of honorius, and of the barbarian leaders; the dragon of china and of japan; the dragon of wales; the mythic dragon trampled by st. george; the crowned serpent of the royal house of milan; the cairns, as we have already affirmed, and the runic monuments: the round towers of ireland (regarding which there hath been so much, and so diverse and vain speculation; the memor

l god s revelation, eldest of all creeds, survivor, almost, of time of the sacred spirit, or ghostly flame, the baptism of fire of the apostles! magic symbols. 113 in this apparently strange nay, to some minds, alarming classification, and throwing under one head, of symbols diametrically opposed, as holy and unholy, benign and sinister, care must be taken to notice that the types of the snake or the dragon stand for the occult world- fire, by which we mean the light of the human reason, or manifestation in the general sense, as opposed to the spiritual light, or unbodied light; into which, as the reverse, although the same, the former transcends. thus, shadow is the only possible means of demonstrating light. it is not reflected upon that we must have means whereby to be lifted. after all

elebrated circle of druidical stones on the narrow peninsula which divides the two lochs of stennis. pliny says that the word boa, for a snake, comes from bovine, because young snakes are fed with cow s milk. here we have the unexpected and unexplained connection of the ideas of snake and cow. the whole subject is replete with mystery, as well as the interchange of the references to the cross and the dragon found in the insignia of all faiths, and lurking amongst all religious buildings. on a phoenician coin, found at citium or cyprus, and engraved in higgins s celtic druids, p. 117, may be seen a cross and an animal resembling a hippocampus, both of which, or objects closely similar, appear on ancient sculptured stones in scotland. the same two things, a cross and a strange-looking animal

word sin came to mean lion when the lion was the emblem of the sun at his summer solstice, 136 the rosicrucians. when he was in his glory, and the bull and the man were the signs of the sun at the equinoxes, and the eagle at the winter solstice. anacalypsis, vol. ii. p. 292. figure 23 is an egyptian bas-relief, of which the ex- fig. 23. planation is the following: a is the egyptian eve trampling the dragon (the goddess neith, or minerva; b, a crocodile; c, gorgon's head; d, hawk (wisdom; e, feathers (soul. the first and strongest conviction which will flash on the mind of every ripe antiquary, whilst surveying the long series of mexican and toltecan monuments preserved in these various works, is the similarity which the ancient monuments of new spain bear to the monumental records of anci

alchemy, which bore the name, a suggestive enquiry into the hermetic mystery; with a dissertation on the more celebrated of the alchemical philosophers. this book was published in london; but it is now extinct, having been bought up for suppression, as we believe by the author s friends after his decease, who probably did not wish him to be supposed to be mixed up in such out-of-theway inquiries. the dragon of china. 203 the vedas describe the persian religion (fire-worship) as having come from upper egypt. the mysteries celebrated within the recesses of the hypogea (caverns or labyrinths) were precisely of that character which is called freemasonic, or cabiric. the signification of this latter epithet is, as to written letters, a desideratum. selden has missed it; so have origen and sopho

hat of the jews, and occurs in october at the high tides. they salute the festival with drums and music, and with explosions of crackers. during the feast, nothing is permitted to be thrown into water (for fear of profaning it. here we have the rites of aphrodite or venus, or the watery deity, 204 the rosicrucians. observed even in china, which worship, in protean forms, being also the worship of the dragon or snake, prevails, in its innumerable contradictory and effective disguises, over the whole world. how like are the noises and explosions of crackers &c, to the tumult of the festivals of dionusus or dionysius, to the riot or rout of the corybantes amongst the greeks, to the outcry and wild music of the priests of the salii, and, in modern times, to the noises said to be made at initia

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st most fearful sentence of which his evil is most deserving. call the elohim! summon satan to trial" having heard these words of spite, the lord of infinitude gravely nodded, giving his instruction to swift heralds who went on silver wings across the sky, burning like comets against the celestial dome, flying faster than a mongol's bolt, resounding long clarions of silver with voices louder than the dragon's roar, the dragon, leviathan, ancient and vast, bound deep beneath the briny swells of the great ocean, opened up as a wound in the flank of the primeval earth when, in an aeon unremembered in the minds of men and angel, the silver moon was torn out and set to ever turn across the sky, illumining the night with silver light. there, held with bands of adamantine, does leviathan forever

st most fearful sentence of which his evil is most deserving. call the elohim! summon satan to trial" having heard these words of spite, the lord of infinitude gravely nodded, giving his instruction to swift heralds who went on silver wings across the sky, burning like comets against the celestial dome, flying faster than a mongol's bolt, resounding long clarions of silver with voices louder than the dragon's roar, the dragon, leviathan, ancient and vast, bound deep beneath the briny swells of the great ocean, opened up as a wound in the flank of the primeval earth when, in an aeon unremembered in the minds of men and angel, the silver moon was torn out and set to ever turn across the sky, 80 illumining the night with silver light. there, held with bands of adamantine, does leviathan forev

lamech upon the head and thus bereft him of his life. thus fell lamech at the euphrates. now utanapishtim, king of the nephilim, instructed his horns and flags signal a retreat that the thegns of lamech might sue for peace. retiring then to the eastern bank the unconquered armies of shurupuk left the broken ranks of dead lamech to rally from their rout and decide their future course to drive into the dragon's very jaws or else make suit for the mercy of shurupuk and thus escape the lands that they had violated. as the sun descended behind the vanquished and the moaning of those who returned to me, grew faint and yet fainter until all breath within their demolished frames was spent, three thegns of fallen lamech came forth 222 to plead their case and ask mercy of great utanapishtim. as the

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

sicians.washington, dc: grove s dictionaries of music, 1980. dragons 73 dogma two modern-day fallen angels, bartelby and loki, are condemned to a fate almost as bad as hell when they are sent to wisconsin. although the cast of this 1999 movie is great, the plot is lame and too much time is wasted on boring nonsense and excessive profanity. dragons often depicted as a mixture of several creatures, the dragon is a fantastic beast that appears in mythology and folklore worldwide. although in oriental mythologies the dragon is seen as a beneficent animal and is often a symbol or a portent of prosperity, in most european mythologies it is viewed as a demonic beast hostile to humanity. in christian symbolism, for instance, the dragon represents the chief of the fallen angels, the devil. one of t

symbol or a portent of prosperity, in most european mythologies it is viewed as a demonic beast hostile to humanity. in christian symbolism, for instance, the dragon represents the chief of the fallen angels, the devil. one of the inspirations for the christian devil via hebrew scriptures (the old testament) is derived from the babylonian female dragon monster, tiamat. in early christian thought, the dragon represents the devil or the devil s servant, and has the allegorical role of representing the antichrist, or more generally, evil passions, paganism, or the oppressive powers of this world. in chapter 12 of book of revelation, it is described as large and red, with seven heads and ten horns. with reference to the story of the revolt of the angels, the archangel michael is usually repres

he devil or the devil s servant, and has the allegorical role of representing the antichrist, or more generally, evil passions, paganism, or the oppressive powers of this world. in chapter 12 of book of revelation, it is described as large and red, with seven heads and ten horns. with reference to the story of the revolt of the angels, the archangel michael is usually represented as the slayer of the dragon, and his angels fight against the dragon and his rebellious angels. the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent who is called devil and satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. in hebrew scriptures, in which the dragon is mentioned several times in the same breath as the owl another creature with large

o the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. in hebrew scriptures, in which the dragon is mentioned several times in the same breath as the owl another creature with large, black eyes yahweh is depicted as a storm god. at his coming the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, yea, the clouds dropped water, the mountains quaked before the lord (judg. 5:4 5. thou didst break the heads of the dragons on the waters says the psalmist (ps. 74:13, and the lord. shall slay the dragon that is in the sea (isa. 27:1. moreover, in psalms 91:13, the saints shall trample the dragon under their feet. the battle between yahweh and the dragon is very popular in the visions of the later hebrew prophets, although the dragon usually embodies a purely symbolic meaning as the enemy of israel, that is

ely symbolic meaning as the enemy of israel, that is to say the assyrians, the babylonians, or the egyptians. an account of god s hostility toward pharaoh is reported by the prophet ezekiel, who speaks of pharaoh as the great dragon that lies in the midst of his streams (ezek. 29:3, into whose jaws he will put hooks and whom he will have thrown into the wilderness. elsewhere in the old testament, the dragon is represented also as a symbol of mourning and desolation. one of the most discussed chapters of the old testament is daniel 7, which reports a dream, alleged to have occurred in the first year of belshazzar, king of babylon, in which daniel sees the four winds of heaven stirring up the great sea. out of the sea emerge, one after the other, a series of beasts, four in number, all of fa

f belshazzar, king of babylon, in which daniel sees the four winds of heaven stirring up the great sea. out of the sea emerge, one after the other, a series of beasts, four in number, all of fabulous form. the fourth beast, in particular, is especially terrible and has ten horns. the four beasts represent in succession the babylonian, median, persian, and hellenistic empires. in classical legend, the dragon guarded the golden apples in the garden of hesperides.among the most famous encounters between a christian warrior and a dragon is that of st. george, who slays the dragon or tames the animal and frees the maiden. it has been argued that the story of st. george and the dragon owe much to the greek myth of perseus and andromeda. see also leviathan; satan for further reading: cavendish, r

gon or tames the animal and frees the maiden. it has been argued that the story of st. george and the dragon owe much to the greek myth of perseus and andromeda. see also leviathan; satan for further reading: cavendish, richard, ed.man,myth& magic. the illustrated encyclopedia of mythology, religion and the unknown. 1983. reprint, new york: marshall cavendish, 1995. day, john. god s conflict with the dragon and the sea. echoes of a canaanite myth in the old testament. cambridge: cambridge university press, 1985. mercatante, anthony s. the facts on file encyclopedia ofworld mythology and legend. new york: facts on file, 1988. 74 dungeons and dragons dungeons and dragons dungeons and dragons (d&d) is the most successful and most well known of a wide variety of a fantasy role-playing games. d

use of the association between the devil and serpents, leviathan is often identified with satan. alternately, it is also sometimes used to designate one of satan s demons. leviathan was sometimes portrayed as a kind of aquatic dragon; sometimes as a whale. most biblical references are, however, tantalizingly brief; for example, thou didst divide the sea by thy might; thou didst break the heads of the dragons on the waters. thou didst crush the heads of leviathan, thou didst give him as food for the creatures of the wilderness (ps. 74:13 14) the lengthiest account of the confrontation between god and leviathan can be found in the forty-first chapter of job, though it is unclear how much of the content of yahweh s challenge to job refers to an earlier tale and how much is being composed on t

derive from a ugarit story in which baal defeats a seven-headed sea monster with the aid of mot. furthermore, this story seems to be a variation of the well-known (to students of mythology) babylonian myth of marduk s defeat of the sea monster tiamat. tiamat, the babylonian female dragon monster, is one of the inspirations for the christian devil via hebrew scriptures. in early christian thought, the dragon represents the devil or the devil s servant, and has the allegorical role of representing the antichrist, or more generally, evil passions, paganism, or the oppressive powers of this world. in the book of revelation (12, it is described as big and red, with seven heads and ten horns. in the war in heaven, the archangel michael is usually represented as the slayer of the dragon, and his

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on of the slain god. but now it has been given unto me to understand the heart of her mystery, wherefore, o my son, by right of the great love that i bear unto thee, i will inform thee thereof. i liber aleph vel cxi 152 eu de natura s#inu (of the nature of the sphinx) irstly, this sphinx is a symbol of the coition of our lady babalon with me the beast in its wholeness. for as i am of the lion and the dragon, so is she of the man and the bull, in our natures, but the converse thereof in our offices, as thou mayst understand by the study of the book of the vision and the voice. it is thus a glyph of the satisfaction and perfection of the will and of the work, the completion of the true man as the reconcilor of the highest with the lowest, so for our convenience conventionally to distinguish

for this is most sure, that to the beauty of a maiden answereth the lust of her lord, spontaneous and without effort or appeal of her contriving. n the book of wisdom or folly 161 #e prolegomena de silentio (prolegomena concerning silence) ut now concerning silence, o my son, i will have a further word with thee. for thereby we mean not the muteness of him that hath a dumb devil. this silence is the dragon of thine unconscious nature, not only the ekstacy or death of thine ego in the operation of its organ, but also, in its unity with thy lion, the truth of thy self. thus is thy silence the way of he tao, and all speech a deviation thereform. this lion and dragon are therefore of thy self, and the man and the bull the feminine counterparts thereof, being the grace of our lady babalon that

his that i will write for thine advertisement and behoof, that this silence, though it be perfection of delight, is but the gestation of thy lion, and in thy season thou must dare, and come forth to the battle. else, were not this practice of silence akin to the formula of separateness of the black brothers? t the book of wisdom or folly 163 #z de formula recta draconis (of the correct formula of the dragon) erily, o my son, herein lieth the danger and the treason of thy scorpion. for his nature is against himself, being the deepest ego, that is, a being separate from the universe; and his is the root of the while mystery of evil. for he hath in him the magick power, which if he use not, he is self-poisoned, even as any organ of the body that refuseth its function. so then his cure is in h

to me only through women, ouarda the seer, and virakam, and in mine initiation into the degree of magus, the cat `ilariwn thy mother, helen the play actress the serpent, with myriamme the drunkard, and rita the harlot to bear dagger and poison; then these others alice the singing woman for an owl; then catherine the dog of anubis, and ahitha the camel that renewed the work of virakam, with ollun the dragon and. but here i do restrict myself in speech, for the end is wrapped about with a veil, as the face of a virgin. but do thou meditate strictly upon these things, distinguishing the right property, order, and use of the one and the other in the relative, even as thou makest them all-one, that is none, in the absolute. m the book of wisdom or folly 177 #t de herbo sanctissimo arabico (of

d is that atu of thoth whose number is zero, and whose name is maat, truth, or maut, the vulture, he all- mother, being an image of our lady nuith, but also it is called the fool, who is parsifal .der reine thor. and so referreth to him thatwalketh in the way of the tao. also, he is harpocrates, the child horus, walking (as saith david, the badavi that became king in his psalms) upon the lion and the dragon; that is, he is in unity with his own secret nature, as i have shewn thee in my word concerning the sphinx. o my son, yester eve came the spirit upon me that i also should eat the grass of the arabs, and by virtue of the bewitchment thereof behold that which might be appointed for the enlightenment of mine eyes. now then of this may i not speak, seeing that it involveth the mystery of t

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l in the legend of the golden fleece. jason, who in this story represents the beast, first fits out a ship guided by wisdom or athena, and this is his aspiration to the great work. accompanied by many heroes, he comes to the place of the fleece, but they can do nothing until medea, the scarlet woman, puts into his hands a posset .drugged with somnolence, sleepy with poppy and white hellebore. for the dragon. then jason is able to subdue the bulls, sacred to osiris, and symbolical of his aon and the magical formula of self-sacrifice. with these he plows the field of the world, and sows therein .the dreadful teeth of woe, cadmean stock of thebes. old misery. which refers to a certain magical formula announced by the beast that is familiar unto thee, but unsuited to the profane, and therefore

magical formula announced by the beast that is familiar unto thee, but unsuited to the profane, and therefore not further in this place indicated. from this seed armed men sprung to life; but instead of attacking him .mutual madness strikes the warriors witless, and fierce wrath invades their hearts of fury, and with arms engaged, they fell upon each other silently, and slew, and slew. now then, the dragon being asleep, we may step 1 [this epistle was addressed to charles stansfeld jones (frater achad, who at the time crowley believed to be his magical son. t.s] liber ccc 2 quietly past him, and .rending the branches of that wizard oak, with a strong grasp tear down the fleece of gold..1 let us only remember not to repeat the error of jason, and defy ares, who is horus in his warrior mood

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eaven made of 26 hyacinthine pillars, in whom the elders are become strong, which i have prepared for mine own righteousness, saith the lord: whose long continuance shall be as bucklers to the stooping dragon, and like unto the harvest of a widow. how many are there which remain in the glory of the earth, the forty-eight keys or calls 30 which are, and shall not see death until the house fall and the dragon sink? come away! for the thunders (of increase)9 have spoke. come away! for the crowns of the temple and the robe of him that is, was, and shall be crowned are divided! come forth! appear! to the terror of the earth, and to our comfort, and [to the comfort] of such as are prepared. the angle of e of d in the tablet of d. the princess of the rushing winds, the lotus of the palace of air

LIBER CLXV A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE

ass b 93 10 =18 666 9 =28 pro coll. summ. 777 8 =38 d. d. s. 7 =48 o. m. 7 =48 o. s. v. 6 =58 parzival 5 =68 pro coll. int. v. n. pr monstrator p. imperator pro coll. ext. achad cancellarius frater vnvs in omnibvs from the photograph by henry b. camp the master is represented in the robe of, and described by his name as, a probationer, as if to assert his simplicity. he is in his favourite asana, the dragon, in profound holy meditation. 129 a master of the temple section i april 2, 1886, to december 24, 1909 charles stansfeld jones, whom i shall usually mention by the motto v.i.o, which he took on becoming a probationer of the a\a, made his entry into this world by the usual and approved method, on april 2nd 1886 e. v, having only escaped becoming an april fool by delaying a day to summon

with nature than formerly; also the addition of a little stranger to his family had a marked effect on his home affairs, being as it were the key to the solution of certain problems that had been puzzling him in that direction. during the period from march 2nd to september 4th, when we might say he was working on alone, his record shows some 340 meditation practices, mostly in the asana known as the dragon, the periods ranging from a few minutes to something over an hour, but most of them comparatively short, the average perhaps being twenty minutes. after this there is a gap, during which he worked morning and evening most days, but made no further record till november 9, from which date to december 31 over eighty practices are recorded. of the details of all this early work it is not ne

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ur passing, you will be given more complex and difficult exercises. iii asana.posture 1. you must learn to sit perfectly still with every muscle tense for long periods. 2. you must wear no garment that interferes with the posture in any of these experiments. 3. the first position (the god. sit in a chair; head up, back straight, knees together, hands on knees, eyes closed. 4. the second position (the dragon. kneel; buttocks resting on the heels, toes turned back, back and head straight, hands on thighs. 5. the third position (the ibis. stand; hold left ankle with right hand (and alternately practise right ankle in left hand &c) free forefinger on lips. 6. the fourth position (the thunderbolt. sit: left heel pressing up anus, right foot poised on its toes, the heel covering the phallus; arm

ibis. stand; hold left ankle with right hand (and alternately practise right ankle in left hand &c) free forefinger on lips. 6. the fourth position (the thunderbolt. sit: left heel pressing up anus, right foot poised on its toes, the heel covering the phallus; arms stretched out over the knees: head and back straight. liber e vel exercitiorvm 4 the four positions the ibis the god the thunderbolt the dragon in the ibis the head is tilted very slightly too far back; in the thunderbolt the right foot might be a little higher and the right knee lower with advantage. svb figvra ix 5 7. various things will happen to you while you are practising these positions; they must be carefully analysed and described. 8. note down the duration of the pracitce, the severity of the pain (if any) which accom

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

s if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on; an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! my father compounded with my mother under the dragon.s tail, and my nativity was under ursa major; so that it follows i am rough and lecherous .sfoot! i should have been that i am had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing. if there is one sound philosophical dictum in the play, it is this (i am not going to argue with astrologers in the twentieth century) it is one we can test. on questions of morality and reli

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

in the earth as there is hope in heaven. and the last letter of the verse is (the letter of hope, by qabalah of* whose key number is 17: by taro.hope; whose title is daughter of the firmament, dweller between the waters. the initial h is but the article .the. for 11 is the number of the qliphoth; but when the fall had occurred and the sephira malkuth had been cut off from the tree by the folds of the dragon there was added unto the tree tod, the knowledge, as the 11th sephira, to preserve intact the ten-ness of the sephiroth. showing how by that very eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and of evil should come the saving of mankind; for daath is the priceless gift of knowledge and intellect whereby cometh salvation. wherefore also is 11 the key number of the great saviour f

LIBER SAMEKH

partake of this eucharist which createth, sustaineth and redeemeth all things. line 3 he now asserts that he is himself the gangel h or messenger of his angel; that is, he is a mind and body whose office is to receive and transmit the word of his angel. he hails his angel not only as gun-nefer, h the perfection of gasar h himself as a man, but as ptah-apophrasz-ra, the identity (hadit) wrapped in the dragon (nuit) and thereby manifested as a sun (ra-hoor-khuit. the gegg h (or heart) ggirt with a serpent h is a cognate symbol; the idea is thus expressed later in the ritual (see liber lxv, which expands this to the utmost) section b the adept passes from contemplation to action in the sections now following, b to gg. he is to travel astrally around the circle, making the appropriate pentagra

LIBER XV CHYMICAL JOUSTING OF PERARDUA

rs. also was his head right venemous and greedy, and eight flames were about it; for that sphinx had two wings and four feet and two horns; but the serpent is one, even as the king is one. the chymical jousting of brother perardua 3 he slayeth the great dragon called stooping or twisted. now then is this work utterly burnt up and abolished in that tremendous heat that is in the mouth and belly of the dragon; and that which cometh forth therefrom is in no wise that which went in. yet are these twelve the children of those two-and-twenty. so when he had broken the cucurbirte, he find therein no trace of the seven, but a button of fused gold.as we say, for it is not gold. now this button hath twelve faces, and angles twenty-four salient and reentrant; and our egyptian brethren have called it

the firmament of nu. he slayeth king astur of the arms argent. now this metal is not in any wise like unto earthly metal; let the brethren well beware, for many false knaves be abroad. three things be golden: the mineral gold of the merchant that is dross; the vegetable gold that groweth from the seed of the scroll by virture of the lion; and the animal gold that cometh forth from the regimen of the dragon, and this last is the sole marketable gold of the philosopher. for, behold, an arcanum! i charge you, keep secret this matter; for the vile brothers, could they divine it, would pervert it. this mineral gold cannot be changed into any other substance by any means. this vegetable gold is fluidic; it must increase wonderfully and be fixed in the perfection of the sphinx. but this our anim

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

either of the gods nor of the giants. alvissmal has another such creature in alviss, the gall-wise h dwarf who sues for the hand of thor fs daughter and is kept dispensing synonyms by the god until the sun comes up and turns the dwarf to stone. at this point the heroic poems begin, but the gods are by no means wholly absent, especially from the poems telling the early parts of the story of sigurd the dragon-slayer. odin, hoenir, and loki appear in the prose header to reginsmal (reginn fs poem, and loki appears in the poem itself. there are several allusions to odin, and these poems contain much fascinating information about such mythological beings as norns, dwarfs, and the like. there is a second main manuscript containing many of these poems, but, unlike codex regius of the poetic edda

nir flow down into hvergelmir, and from it flow these rivers: sid, vid, soekin, eikin, svol, gunnthra, fjorm, fimbulthul, gipul, gopul, gomul, geivimul.these flow into the settlements of the asir. these are named too: thyn, vin, tholl, holl, gra, gunnthrain, nyt, not, nonn, hronn, vina, vegsvinn, thjodnuma. elsewhere in gylfaginning snorri says that there are countless serpents in hvergelmir with the dragon nidhogg. see also eikthyrnir; nidhogg hymir hardheaded giant; host and fishing buddy of thor when thor hooks the midgard serpent; owner of the kettle thor gets to brew the beer of the gods; father of ty lr. thor fs interactions with hymir are found in the (probably late) eddic poem hymiskvida and in snorri fs gylfaginning. according to hymiskvida, hymir has the kettle that the gods need

ult among the nordic peoples, which he thinks originated in southern jutland. edgar polome, ga propos de la deesse nerthus, h latomus 13 (1954: 167.200, sees the nerthus cult as associated with the fertility of the soil, and he thinks agriculture was primarily a female activity at the time that tacitus was writing. nidafjoll mountains in the underworld. stanza 66, the last stanza of voluspa, says the dragon nidhogg, carrying corpses, will come flying down from the nidafjoll. this conception of the place is clearly a negative one, but in gylfaginning snorri says that at ragnarok the hall sindri. a good hall, made of gold, in which good and righteous people shall dwell. will stand upon the nidafjoll. snorri fs source here was voluspa, stanza 37, which locates the hall of the family of sindri

a 66, the very last one in the poem: there the dark dragon comes flying, the gleaming snake, down from the nidafjoll; in his feathers he carries.he flies over the field. does nidhogg, corpses.now she must sink down. this stanza follows the seeress fs discussion of the reemergence of the earth and the asir, and it is not difficult to imagine a performance of voluspa in which this last stanza, with the dragon zooming overhead, would suggest the advent of ragnarok and thus would be a particularly effective way to end the performance, a real surprise ending. but whether or not one takes an interest in this surmise about oral performance, it is clear that nidhogg was an important symbol of chaos and the looming end of the world. see also ratatosk, yggdrasil deities, themes, and concepts 239 nif

(bore-tooth) squirrel who lives on yggdrasil, the world tree. grimnismal, stanza 32, says this: ratatosk is the name of a squirrel who shall run on the ash of yggdrasil; words of an eagle he shall carry down and say to nidhogg below. according to snorri in gylfaginning, the words the squirrel transports are hostile ones, and he carries them in both directions, between the eagle atop the tree and the dragon nidhogg below. thus, the world tree is not only threatened by the harts and the dragon that chew on it and by its rotting side; it also bears, in the fauna it supports, verbal hostility. in the sagas, a person who helps stir up or keep feuds alive by ferrying words of malice between the participants is seldom one of high status, which may explain the assignment of this role in the mytho

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY

ksmith, within the european craft itself is the symbol of tubal cain, the first of the witch blood. tubal-qayin2 as it is sometimes spelled is the blacksmith whose forge is the heart of the witches sabbat 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 as the brother who killed abel, his so-called brother. it was cain, within the region of the middle east, sparked the forge which brought the initiation given to man by shaitan the opposer, or in a modern context, lucifer. 2 see the book of cain by michael w. ford. 7 the history of the witches sabbat path is one of shadowed pre

r their manifestation according to your will. it is therefore, very dangerous to open gateways of evocation (to summon outside the body) and invocation (to call inside the body or mind) of any force, as the black magickian seeks to absorb and bring initiations into the psyche to build the individual as a being separate from the universe. the teachings of astral vampirism within the black order of the dragon delve the depths of these concepts further. one would use the dark gods as models of strength and a symbol of immortal manifestation. the shadow form of lucifer is set, who is the ancient prince of darkness. set is the aspect of the infernal yet not self-destructive. if one seeks to become as set, to master chaos and the depths of the subconscious, then one opens a direct communication

e, which does not bleed when looked into which a laughing child devours on sight, eager to 25 awaken from the earth i walk, hidden in perception and form. as the last storm approaches, my name is thus revealed. lucifer shall the fires of heaven be brought down, by your gift of perception? shall all know from which clay becomes fire, and the profane are no longer. the wings of djinn beside that of the dragon, black and billowing answer to your shadowy presence. from this a torch is revealed. lilith from your loins great pleasure is shown, felt and ravished upon ecstasy from the children who feed nightly the bed chamber welcomes your passion shall you reveal the hidden moon, which acts as a door for such sight and beauty? beast and angel, i seek the addiction of your sweet veins. leviathan 2

ht and darkness, from which the peacock feathers grow. from my essence is the flow of time, the current of life and light. such shall be hidden and not revealed to the profane, their eyes shut in the forgotten shadows of unbecoming. i speak the words of darkness as being zazas, zazas, natsatanada zazas, the secret oath of opening the abyss, these are my words of manifestation! i create therefore! the dragon which coils in the darkness shall walk with my spirit, while i shall cultivate the light of dawn from which wisdom springs. the green of the earth is fed from the blood of wolves and the living, from which great secrets find their way to my ears. so it shall be! shaitan i am, shadow and light. let the voices fill with my joyous awakening! so it is done. the headless one ritual is the ri

e burning desert sands and the sun, sortha n-din thy stave and fork unto the flame that is my soul shall be illuminated in this blackened light. shaitan the adversary, my soul enflamed! arogogoruabrao thiaf! east- lucifer revealed as azazel, bringer of illumination and love, who resides in shadow and light, cover and cloak my spirit with thy twelve wings, serpent skin covered from the shedding of the dragon, bring now forth the serpent essence of my soul! melek tau us, beautiful spirit of fire, i summon thee forth! photeth north- set-heh, isolator and strengthening force of storms, that chaos which i have tempered in thy elegance of darkness. i go forth and become as the eye of algol, separate and alone in my being. typhon, present unto me the tcham knive from which i shall stand forth in

ll. set is the mask of azazel, the lord of flame. within witchcraft cain is considered the offspring of samael and lilith, thus being the same as baphomet. the angelic/demon higher spirit of cain is azal ucel, which is reflected in this very rite of self-empowerment. it is through set that all upon the luciferian path pass through, in the skin of cain or otherwise. 32 west a calling to leviathan, the dragon essence which is immortal, or eternal. the encircling of leviathan is a will directed focus of the individuals being or i announcing the forced antinomianian separation from the natural order, and through leviathan grows strong in this circle of timeless being. the mysteries of the depths is revealed as knowledge and wisdom of the subconscious. by tapping into the subconscious, one is a

sed in communion with the conscious self (ego,i) and the subconscious self (kia. ancestral shades spirits, atavisms or familiars of the dead which return to us from our initiation into magick and witchcraft. ancestral shades may not always be past family, rather those who have been on the path before us who have gained immortality who for whatever reason decide to assist us. in the black order of the dragon, such spirits are closely connected with the concepts of varcolaci and the undead gods. anubis lord of jackals and the opener of the way. anubis is the funerary god that is represented as having the head of a jackal or dog. according to charles pace, the bastard son of set-an& aset (isis. atavistic resurgence the return to consciousness the powers of the dead or subconscious energies or

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY AND SET TYPHON

often female, leviathan encompasses the ancient flesh of mummu tiamat, the primal goddess. leviathan is the unity of sexualities, from which all emerges from this dragon of the depths. leviathan or the ouraborus is considered the encircler of ones path, or will. it surrounds and brings in all exteriors as designed by the sorcerer's desire, will and belief. leviathan as featured in yatuk dinoih is the dragon which brings the union of lilith and samael within the magician, that the path is brought forth. shaitan/lucifer lucifer is the bringer of light, the fallen angel who prides knowledge and wisdom above blind faith and servitude. lucifer was the seraph who with a flaming sword and beautiful visage guarded the throne of god in the heavens. it was because of stasis that lucifer sought to re

MAGIC AND SPELLS

the spellfire ability-the wielding of true spellfire-is right or wrong, legends hold that only one person in all faer n is gifted with true spellfire at a time. gossip identifies that one person today as the lass shandril shessair, an orphaned kitchenmaid from a tavern in highmoon of deepingdale. shandril has spellfire, yes, and a hundred mages hound her for- it, zhentarim and thayans and cult of the dragon and independents, slaughtering each other in their ruthless pursuit of her power. learn this, if you heed nothing else in this book: legends lie. mystra's chosen wield lesser spellfire, if they care to call on it, and some among them command true spellfire. a mage hiding'in the border kingdoms possesses true spellfire, and a cruel and arrogant noble of chessenta, and the wizard r but fm

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

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

hail thee, prince of men; all hail thee who standeth upon the head of typhon" at the same instant a lurid writhing dragon appeared--a hideous monster, part serpent, part crocodile, and part hog. from its mouth and nostrils poured sheets of flame and horrible sounds echoed through the vaulted chambers. suddenly hermes struck the advancing reptile with the serpent-wound staff and with snarling cry the dragon fell over upon its side, while the flames about it slowly died away. hermes placed his foot upon the skull of the vanquished typhon. the next instant, with a blaze of unbearable glory that sent the neophyte staggering backward against a pillar, the immortal hermes, followed by streamers of greenish mist, passed through the chamber and faded into nothingness. suppositions concerning the

. he beheld a figure, terrible and awe-inspiring. it was the great dragon, with wings stretching across the sky and light streaming in all directions from its body (the mysteries taught that the universal life was personified as a dragon) the great dragon called hermes by name, and asked him why he thus meditated upon the world mystery. terrified by the spectacle, hermes prostrated himself before the dragon, beseeching it to reveal its identity. the great creature answered that it was poimandres, the mind of the universe, the creative intelligence, and the absolute emperor of all (schure identifies poimandres as the god osiris) hermes then besought poimandres to disclose the nature of the universe and the constitution of the gods. the dragon acquiesced, bidding trismegistus hold its image

hat mystery which is called life. as the darkness without you is divided against itself, so the darkness within you is likewise divided. the light and the fire which rise are the divine man, ascending in the path of the word, and that which fails to ascend is the mortal man, which may not partake of immortality. learn deeply of the mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality" the dragon again revealed its form to hermes, and for a long time the two looked steadfastly one upon the other, eye to eye, so that hermes trembled before the gaze of poimandres. at the word of the dragon the heavens opened and the innumerable light powers were revealed, soaring through cosmos on pinions of streaming fire. hermes beheld the spirits of the stars, the celestials controlling the uni

fire. hermes beheld the spirits of the stars, the celestials controlling the universe, and all those powers which shine with the radiance of the one fire--the glory of the sovereign mind. hermes realized that the sight which he beheld was revealed to him only because poimandres had spoken a word. the word was reason, and by the reason of the word invisible things were made manifest. divine mind--the dragon--continued its discourse "before the visible universe was formed its mold was cast. this mold was called the archetype, and this archetype was in the supreme mind long before the process of creation began. beholding the archetypes, the supreme mind became enamored with its own thought; so, taking the word as a mighty hammer, it gouged out caverns in primordial space and cast the form of

elements of earth, fire, air, and water were permeated by a substance called ether--the basis of vitality and life. therefore, they chose the five-pointed star, or pentagram, as the symbol of vitality, health, and interpenetration. it was customary for the philosophers to conceal the element of earth under the symbol of a dragon, and many of the heroes of antiquity were told to go forth and slay the dragon. hence, they drove their sword (the monad) into the body of the dragon (the tetrad. this resulted in the formation of the pentad, a symbol of the victory of the spiritual nature over the material nature. the four elements are symbolized in the early biblical writings as the four rivers that poured out of garden of eden. the elements themselves are under the control of the composite cher

ectual sun. the secret doctrine is also typified by the golden fleece--the wool of the divine life, the rays of the sun of truth. suidas declares the golden fleece to have been in reality a book, written upon skin, which contained the formul for the production of gold by means of chemistry. the mysteries were institutions erected for the transmutation of base ignorance into precious illumination. the dragon of ignorance was the terrible creature set to guard the golden fleece, and represents the darkness of the old year which battles with the sun at the time of its equinoctial passage. deer were sacred in the bacchic mysteries of the greeks; the bacchantes were often clothed in fawnskins. deer were associated with the worship of the moon goddess and the bacchic orgies were usually conducte

entering into their composition and the ceremonials attendant upon their construction, were ensouled by the divinities whom they were created to resemble. to such images were ascribed various human faculties and powers, such as speech, thought, and even motion. while renegade priests doubtless resorted to trickery- an instance of which is related in a curious apocryphal fragment entitled bel and the dragon and supposedly deleted from the end of the book of daniel--many of the phenomena recorded in connection with sanctified statues and relics can hardly be explained unless the work of supernatural agencies be admitted. history records the existence of stones which, when struck, threw all who heard the sound into a state of ecstasy. there were also echoing images which whispered for hours

x 1. there are three mothers or first elements (a, m, sh, from which emanated three fathers (progenitors--primordial (spiritual) air, water, and fire--from which issued the seven planets (heavens) with their angels, and the twelve oblique points (zodiac. 2. to prove this there are three faithful witnesses: the universe, the year, and man. there are the twelve, the balance, and the seven. above is the dragon, below is the world, and lastly the heart of man; and in the midst is god who regulates them all. 3. the first elements are air, water, and fire; the fire is above, the water is below, and a breath of air establishes balance between them. the token is: the fire carries the water. the letter (m) is mute (sh) is hissing like fire; there is (a) among them, a breath of air which reconciles

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON PENTACLES

s in the day of his wrath" figure 29. the fifth pentacle of mars. write thou this pentacle upon virgin parchment, because it is terrible unto the demons, and at its sight and aspect they will obey thee, for they cannot resist its presence. editor s note. around the figure of the scorpion is the word hvl. the versicle is from psalm xci. 13 "thou shalt go upon the lion and added, the young lion and the dragon shalt thou tread under thy feet" figure 30. the sixth pentacle of mars. it hath so great virtue that being armed therewith, if thou art attacked by any one, thou shalt neither be injured nor wounded when thou fightest with him, and his own weapons shall turn against him. editor s note. around the eight points of the radii of the pentacle are the words "elohim qeber, elohim hath covered

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 1

d, and there was great hail such as had not been since the beginning of the world; and by the name adonai, which moses named, and there came up locusts, which appeared upon the whole land, and devoured all which the hail had left; and by the name schema amathia which ioshua called upon, and the sun stayed his course; and by the name alpha and omega, which daniel named, and destroyed bel, and slew the dragon; and in the name emmanuel, which the three children, shadrach, meshach and abed-nego, sang in the midst of the fiery furnace, and were delivered; and by the name hagios; and by the seal31 of adoni; and by ischyros, athanatos, paracletos; and by o theos, ictros, athanatos; and by these three secret names, agla, on, tetragrammaton, do i adjure and constrain thee. and by these names, and b

MICHAEL FORD A RITE OF THE WEREWOLF

human form for that of a wolf. such a chant may be used in dreaming chants before sleep if the witch so desires lending to the dreaming flesh gathered by shadows. in the ancient lore of persian sorcery, with specifics to zoroastrianism, wolves were hated creatures which were said to be created by ahriman. the term khrafstra is a general word for noxious beasts, attributed to the druj or demons of the dragon ahriman. such imagery is used in the work of the black order of the dragon, a secret guild of witches and sorcerers who develop a left hand path initiatory guild based on (among others) persian sorcery and so-called black magick centered around the dragons ahriman and tiamat, who is of sumerian origin. the botd which is headed by a triad of witches called coven maleficia of the order of

g others) persian sorcery and so-called black magick centered around the dragons ahriman and tiamat, who is of sumerian origin. the botd which is headed by a triad of witches called coven maleficia of the order of phosphorus have worked in vampyric areas of dreaming sorcery for some years. in the botd the initiate works through the symbolism of the transformation of the vampyre to the werewolf to the dragon in a dreaming centered development of what could be called luciferian witchcraft. the ritual contained here is but one example of some of the initiatory focus of this so-called sethianic 8 school. 6 the warlock s book by peter haining, 1970 7 16 lines which signify transformation in the wilderness to the shape of the wolf 8 a term used to define the left hand path alignment with the egy

MICHAEL FORD BOOK OF CAIN

d women fear to walk, those ghost roads which prove dangerous to those unwilling to face their own darkest aspects of self. this book is a working for myself, as a student of the luciferian path, and as i wrote it, studied it and then prepared this text i have further come into being. i hope those who read this work understand that it is a ritual in progress, that each sentence fans the flames of the dragon and his consort, lilith, the mother of the witch path. cain has presented me with different elements to think about and to further encourage others to develop what is the sabbatic and luciferian path. when staring into the mirror, cain appears his very mask of set-an is shown to me. become! akhtya seker arimanius veneficus, vox barathrum toph prepared march 22nd, known as the day of reb

d understood the art of sorcery as a totality of being timeless and alive in its sacred flame. leviathan found the nightmares comforting, and dreams would be his fluid waking within worlds. many others rose up and joined with my father, who is the brightest of them all. he was fire and his realm was air, he was both death and life. i remember my father as possessing adam who rode my mother eve as the dragon, driving deep within her core, enflamed with the spirit of lilith. these were my earth parents, but it was the blood of azazel called often samael and lilith which flows in my veins. it was this passion and possession which brought me into being, the first born of witch blood in the circle of the dragon s emerald crown. azazel gathered all in this secret place, which was of fire and bla

ed with them. my father taught them the sacred arts, hidden and the places of serpents, how to work with the earth to direct and manifest their will. azazel taught man how to hunt, fish and make weapons. he brought them the experience and knowledge to fight and defend, as well as shelter from the elements. i too had been instinctively taught, which is the gift of my father, who walked the path of the dragon who was the dragon. it was the perfected essence of flame which earthen heat could only catch a glimpse of that the fires of spirit burn ever so bright, that in this torch shall my father be revealed. lilith who wrapped her serpents tail around eve s brain, unlocked the depths of her lust and rode this dragon until i was conceived that was then perfection beheld. i walked the paths with

unto you that which the profane cannot see, yet in it s veil will the path of the red dragon be shown, you must come forth by dreaming to see within this bowl, and i shall wait for you there cauled in the crimson drape, veiled from the eyes of the blind. hold this skull and behold the spirits which walk with you, by self-transformation on the meeting path shall this mark be evermore your father, the dragon djinn of old forever walk with you, and in rapt meditation shall we pass from the clay of mortal hands you shall thirst for water and for blood; both in dreaming shall be held from the dual gnosis. i hold the golden cup to your lips, that the dragon s elixir hold strong i then hand to you the skull bowl of my flowing blood, that you may taste the bitter sweetness of it s coppered kiss t

nd raven haired. it was mother, lilith who was the queen of demons, yet she was so beautiful and full of life. my mother welcomed me, and her touch was cold. her waist was made of flames, yet she transformed into the bottom half of a beast. she spoke to me of what i was to become, and that i had passed through a rite of passage. i was to become immortal and forever a spirit who walked the path of the dragon, who was my father. in the darkness of the caves, i grew strong again and learned arts which were taught to me by lilith. she was terror, yet kindness in one kiss. i understood that she was the first wife of adam, who then drank of the serpent s wisdom and became immortal in the shadows, she walked between time. i learned how to extend and make flesh my shadow, and desires that i slowly

between the light to the shadows. upon waking in the sand, i could face again the sun, yet see equally as well in the moonlight. lilith soon brought my sister-wife naamah before me, and she was veiled and beautiful as lilith. she was to join with me, and that we may grow strong our family. i learned also from naamah, who departed soon after. she returned back to shadows, where she would remain in the dragon s coils and be immortal, and life never ending. it was within the circle, that lilith showed to me that which i may make my life never ending; much was presented to me, which i found illuminating. that body is the vessel of manifestation, the marriage of light and darkness. the circle of summoning is the extent of self, and the fire which surrounds is the circle of fiery will and spirit

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 dragon itself. i was the lord of the forge, the blacksmith of infernal and celestial fire, the rider of the dragon and bringer of sorcerous knowledge. i, cain, who learned the wisdom of the devouring goddess, the harlot made virgin and the virgin made goddess, and have faced the hungering shades of ahriman, who blessed me in the dreams and nightmares of the wise. i, cain, who sipped of the eme

d of the forge, the blacksmith of infernal and celestial fire, the rider of the dragon and bringer of sorcerous knowledge. i, cain, who learned the wisdom of the devouring goddess, the harlot made virgin and the virgin made goddess, and have faced the hungering shades of ahriman, who blessed me in the dreams and nightmares of the wise. i, cain, who sipped of the emerald grail and the skull cup of the dragon-goddess, did i taste the pleasures of the harlot, walk the earth forever. i am the wandered, and many forms i will take. that even that i have left flesh shall my spirit dwell on, that i who have embraced the black flame just as set-an of egypt, that i shall dwell in the places of the earth lest seen, but in this path one may find me. by forest or desert some may call me, and i may answ

on into the circle of the witch born. in the fire of the adversary do i walk for eternity, my father s soul illuminating those who seek me. i am vampyre and i am the sorcerer of light from the serpent s tongue. the invocation of cain -the blackened fires of the forge- cain is the earthen initiator of magick, the sorcerous enfleshed spirit of lucifer and lilith, cain is also the one who walks with the dragon the path of the nightside. in one hand is the fetish of cain the skull of abel whom holds the gnosis of the shade king, azrael, the western gate of twilight and realm of ghosts. the other hand is the hammer, a tool of the forge which sparks the cunning fire in the clay of mortal flesh. cain is the temple maker and witch begetter, that which opens the gates of hell and heaven, the initia

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moon. the varcolaci are also able to 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 hi

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 his vampiric actions and violence. an order he belonged to, the order of the dragon, was a defense against the turkish offensive that was rumored to involve magical activities. strigoi is represented as an undead vampire spirit, sometimes female and also a kin to the word strigoica, meaning "witch. it is the moroii, who are often varcolaci themselves, who meet the strigoi in the night and give communion of blood and other lustful unions of demonic passion. the individu

and control its elementals and energies is to transpose the abyss and awaken towards a glorious morning! vampirism is a belief system of altered thinking and new focus. it is not at all different from the beliefs of any serious magus or sorcerer who seeks to build the black walls of individual strength. the subconscious holds ever key needed to awaken these primal atavisms: the serpent, the wolf, the dragon, the bat, the owl and raven are all at our command. the new age of shamanic tribal transformation and atavistic resurgence is at hand. 20 20 the vampiric path is not necessarily a life long dedicated focus, it is night side. in other words any other personal path of magickal power and study such as thelema (2, chaos (3, voudon (4, etc. can be a primary focus of the individual. the devel

ance of the rites of da'ath is that having entered the reverse side of the tree of life, and passed through the da'athian gates, a plethora of psychic and hidden knowledge becomes available. da ath is a conjunction and child of the qabalistic zones of chokmah (wisdom) and binah (understanding. as israel regardie pointed out in the golden dawn (llewellyn 1971: but fundamentally it is the ascent of the dragon or, if you wish, an upwelling of the unconscious archetypes- a highly dangerous and unbalancing ascent, until they are assimilated to consciousness- which first renders da ath a possibility. it is the fall which is responsible for the acquisition of self-knowledge. thus it stands proven claims blavatsky that satan or the red fiery dragon, the lord of phosphorus and lucifer, or light bea

re demons, vampires, ghouls and other sinister spirits dwell. most of these beings, according to kenneth grant are "habitations of the phantom forms generated by sexual desires and morbid cravings constantly produced by dwellers of earth (8) within the realm of the qlipoth, subsisting through the plane of da'ath, is the greatest depth of night where the great red dragon sleeps. among the coils of the dragon are the shells of the dead, the spirits or lower demonic energies which flow between the dreams of the serpent. these demonic forces must not be trusted, however but controlled and sent forth to work your will. the vampiric sorcerer will over time, gain enough psychic strength to open the qliphoth and begin to transverse the current of this shadow astral plane. this means also the lion

death, hypnos (god of sleep) and morpheus (god of dreams. hecate is known as the goddess of witches, being that of sorcery and the cunning craft. the aspects of hecate within roman and greek culture show hecate mostly in a dark or hidden aspect, having three heads (two being animal) and three torches. the vehicle wherein she traveled was a chariot guided by several dragons. a key significance of the dragon is that such beings are connected to solar and lunar eclipses. by an eclipse the water in the lunar sign of cancer is altered in force and substance. dragons (which is a form the varcolaci spirits often take) can transverse the night sky, gathering the blood of the moon. the other aspect of 63 63 hecate, diana, is based on the more balanced side of the lunar goddess. she was the watcher

ow the circle in flour i evoke the hounds of the barrier, wolves created in the darkness do i call forth! by the first moon envelope me virgin goddess, i come unto you in the evening light. embrace me in thy kingdom of the cunning craft, speak 66 66 unto me as the freshly dead, the virgin from the tomb. guide me and walk with me unto the luciferian sabbat. by the second moon maiden who rides upon the dragon s spine, i summon thee bring thy fiery essence into my circle, enflame me in the cunning fire and blood of your fornications. uplift me into the spirit of the red dragon- akhuraku, hecau, zrazza by the third moon moon of death, aged witch queen of the sabbat, hex casting hag of the nganga and grave-bound fetish, mother of vampyres and wolves, come thou forth and encircle me guide me unt

e this may at first be contrary to your own personality, keep a focus of this path as you will eventually balance out aspects considered cold in forms of thinking before action, ect. the point of this path is to initiate self-study and thinking before impulsive action. the serpent is wisdom and stealth. 89 89 six: path of the infernal dragon: the primal essence of flame and water shall be united; the dragon shall then take flesh. the initiate shall utilize his or her magickal and sorcerous techniques to expand their own knowledge and span of control. the seeker shall also visualize nightly a great dragon, as a form of their own self and then seek entry through the coils of leviathan= timeless essence. it is at this point timeless consciousness, the goal being immortality of the psyche shal

father of cain and dweller upon the earth: i seek knowledge that my desire shall bring to birth elementals of fire and water. lord of sabbath and lord of the circle, i urge thy coming with great anticipation. 99 99 we are watchers of the lineage of the craft. i am born of water and of the pure blood, my life is within the current. lord of witches, baphomet, black horned one, lend us thy grail of the dragon s venom ,illuminated with the fire of hecate s torch. give us the wisdom and power. so mote it be! watcher, who art not of our sight, but hidden and reversed. whose revolving forms are disembodied desires of my life: thus is each shape enfleshed with life from the sigils which grant your traffic upon this earth, we evoke thee! thou horsemen, guides of the earth, lilith and samael, grant

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that enrich humankind then and now origi-nate from them. lemuria comes from mu or mu-devi which means the land ancestral or land of the ancestors. mu-devi was the hindu mother goddess. shiva was her counterpart and is the great father of mankind. an indian tamil text, silappadikaran, describes a lost continent in the pacific and indian ocean that it calls kumai nadu or kumari kandam, which means the dragon land of the immortal serpents.their rebellion and departure affronted their creators who, from that time onward,would consider their first born avowed adversaries. atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation27 chapter 5the race of adam in a late sumerian mythit is declared that men were created to relieve the gods of the oner-ous task of tilling their fields. men were to do tha

ilim were scientists. the opposing sides both used and continue to use the serpentsymbol, but with certain differences. the sons of the serpent, with the human dna andhuman sensibilities, use the serpent usually in a winged form, or with a crown, or even asmulticolored. often referred to as the uraeus, the agatho daimon, the feathered serpent, oreven the phoenix, it is a positive symbol, and like the dragon with five toes is connected towisdom, white magic, and mystical practice. the plain non-winged, non-crowned, generallythe race of adam32atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation plain appearing snake, like the dragon with three claws, is a negative symbol used by theoriginal aliens and by underworld criminal syndicates. after the creation of the adamic race, the atlanteans fe

heart was only evil continually. and it repented the lord that he hadmade man on earth, and it grieved him at his heart. and 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

ices. anyway, theegyptians produce their own rod, which likewise becomes a serpent, and so on. thistale of the conflict between the two serpents is a barely disguised reference to thatbetween the races. the same motif appears in the arthurian sagas, with the contestbetween the red and white dragons, which is the dream of uther pendragon, father ofking arthur. the very name pendragon means head of the dragons, that is, the raceof good serpents, from which the celts and gaels descended. other cultures havesimilar leitmotifs expressing the same story. the saxon tale of st. george and thedragon is a perfect fictional rendition of it. in the old testament, passages relating tothe twins, jacob and esau, may well refer obliquely to the pre-diluvian bipartisanismand their ongoing antagonism.in you

-tion to the various provinces of the earth. as the histo-rians and mythologists have known, these sundrycultures and their beliefs bear curious yet undeniablesimilarities, mainly because contingents of the samepeople were spreading the knowledge to these differentlocalessame people, similar paradigms and symbol-ism. commensurate with this comes the ambiguoussymbols of the snake, the serpent, and the dragon. prehistoric artatlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation57 i shall reverse the world lished what are known as the sumerian and babylonian civilizations, as well as all thehigh profile empires to come. and it is upon the foundations of these dynasties andcultures that the post-diluvian or historical periods rest. the horrendous events that areassociated with these belligerent

o them and would go in search of the enemies of their masters. some of these geneticcreations had wings, others were polymorphic. so, we have it contained and recited inmost of the myths that the archetypal hero comes into conflict with a beast, a greatserpent, or hybrid demon. their combat is the staple method of proving prowess. itbecame a custom that when a prospective hero did overcome one of the dragons, thatthey would wear the symbol of the serpent on their heraldic shield or banner, in thesame manner as the native indians collected and wore human scalps. the hero wasthen also considered blooded. many of the demeaning hazing rituals of so-calledupper-classmen are throwbacks to this concept. when the moral sons of the serpents in their diasporas came upon a welcomingtribe or a suitabl

s born is his child in truth; and he shall call his name noah, for he shall be toyou a survivor .in his work called metamorphoses or the golden ass, we read about the god apollosaying strange words regarding the birth of the goddess psyche: on some high crag, o king, set forth the maid, in all the pomp of funeral robes arrayed. hope for no bridegroom born of mortal seed but fierce and wild and of the dragon s breed there is even some evidence of cloning experiments in the bible: and the lord god caused a deep sleep to fall upon adam, and he slept: and he took one ofhis ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the lord god had takenreptilians, priestesses, and strange genes62atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation from man, made he a woman, and brought

s under the sea by jules v erne..the greek word amphibios means simply 'life on two planes..the word was often appliedin antiquity to those men who, though still wearing a human form, had made themselvesalmost divine through knowledge, and lived as much in the spiritual supersensuous regionsas on earth (the theosophical glossary).the most common symbol used by the merovingians was the serpent, or the dragon. indeed,the most well known amphibian god was dagon, whose name connotes dragon. one of themerovingian kings bore the name dagobert.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation91 chapter 14silicon nightmaresthe second important enochian key concerned the nature and properties of thestrange element,silicon. the relationship between carbon and silicon, it was revealed,was one of t

ion, and they will notrest until they find the means to break through this energy field. the moons orbit haslong been associated with power, protection, and ethereal energies. the chinese referto its encirclement as the coils of the great dragon, and this is what their dragondances are partly about. even in modern astrology and astronomy, we have the moonsnodes, also known as the circling dragon. the dragon symbol is one of the supreme archetypes; one should endeavor to make a com-plete study of all its permutations. if done, an incredible tale will unfold. atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation109 from the sword to the syringe beyond the moons circlet of apotropaic power, the true governing angelic agenciesreign. they are the ones that create the glitches in the modules, sat

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child's problemsthe so-called indigo childrenhow to avoid the worst effects of the generation gaphow to save your children from themselvesdiscipline- whether it is right or wronglog on to www.taroscopes.com and visit the merchandise page for more informatioimpart one vampyrism, theory& practice vampirism and the astral plane the luciferian creed luciferian will and immortality tiamat the words of the dragon- tiamat energy and blood life essence astral projection preparing the luciferian spirit moving the astral body servitor creation astral vampyrism from the material body types of vampirism vampyrism and nocturnal feeding leaving the physical body absorbing astral energy the chakras and vampyrism angra mainyu the practice of vampyrism part two qlippothic black magick and vampyric sorcery

ikas, daughters of az. we are the people of the lie (druj, we are the those of demon-flesh awakened and ancient, forever seeking to further illuminate the black flame. our religion is sorcery, that which is ensorcelled by our practice of yatuk-dinoih (witchcraft. life is the great gift of ahriman, as isolate consciousness (the soul or psyche) is separate from the natural order. the black order of the dragon is entirely spiritual in nature, aimed at the theory of gaining immortality via the psyche. it is the physical path of exhaustion, of when the spirit and flesh are one and become stronger with insight and determination. the core essence of the serpent is the eye which hides within the flesh. therein is the power ch an, of nothingness and silence. such is the glaze which captivates and a

ll into nothingness to reach a cup to sate the deepest thirst to then discover the five flames of angra mainyu and servitors of the void join in my being to awaken and rise from the sea. the take my divine leadership upon the earth 16 luciferian will and immortality the will of the luciferian is essential in the development of the mind and body of the practitioner of vampirism. the black order of the dragon recognizes both the masculine and feminine demonic archetypes of the path of luciferian witchcraft, namely samael and lilith. in the auspices of the vampyric path, it is ahriman (the black dragon) and tiamat (the red dragon. while tiamat in this aspect is the primordial form of lilith, she appears black from the wisdom of endless time. it is that samael, lilith and leviathan are joined

g and absorbing spirits via the practice of magick, defines the characteristics of the luciferian who seeks to be as a god. vampirism or vampyrism, depending on your preference, is neither a fantasy 17 path nor one of role playing. the luciferian continually seeks to develop and refine the self, via magick and real world experience, eventually practicing a path close to that of the black order of the dragon. 1. all living beings continue existence by feeding on another. we are predators, as luciferian, we acknowledge the power of the archetype of strength. samael or ahriman is indeed a symbol of strength and cunning. the food chain should never be ignored. you can adhere to predatory spirituality and still be a very productive member of society. the luciferian weaves their webs within the

ential for self-deification (godhood. tiamat is the first power of draconian darkness, the vampire which is the primal union of lilith and samael, guided by leviathan. she is before all others. tiamat was in the form of a giant dragon, a sea dragon who had the head of a griffin or tiger, wings, claws and a scaly tale. she appears also as a giant serpent. tiamat resembles the legends of ahriman as the dragon. here is the adversary, she is the night and the abyss. tiamat can give life and create what she wishes, much like ahriman created the archdaevas to counter creation. tiamat was a sorceress, a powerful first witch who was both vampire and goddess to all. the demonic feminine is equally important to the adversarial formula in luciferian witchcraft as it is the balance which acknowledges

er creation. tiamat was a sorceress, a powerful first witch who was both vampire and goddess to all. the demonic feminine is equally important to the adversarial formula in luciferian witchcraft as it is the balance which acknowledges the female generative principle as the foundation of all actions and purpose. the associative name of tiamat was tamtu, both names referring to the primeval sea and the dragon 20 which personified it. tiamat is thus very close to the idea of the hebraic leviathan, the dragon of the abyss. the sea is also connected to the abyss and thus the subconscious. in corey s ancient fragments and george barton s tiamat, the creation and origin of tiamat was that there was a time when there was nothing but darkness and the abyss of waters, where two hideous beings who we

ace. as tiamat was of the first, this force arises again in the judeo- christian texts of revelations, as the behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns here we see the manifestation of samael or lucifer as the great dragon, no doubt a calling from the abyss. the abyss is of course symbolic of the subconscious. let us look inward at the relation of the dragon, as opposed to some outward possibility. the abyss is considered evil as like the ocean, mankind cannot control it or force restrictions on it. to be within the abyss is to dwell in the dreams of the mind. in our dreams, we can form our desires on a pathway to becoming flesh or reality. sorcery is a term which denotes encircling, casting lots and visualizing 1 'the deep things of satan'

ral is controlled by this subconscious activated force. one should think in terms of being a manifestation of this dragon, for instance: i saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. on his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names. the beast which i saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. the dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority. revelations the beast or dragon, much like the assyrian tiamat of old, can represent the luciferian who has mastered the aspects of ahrimanic yoga, that is the power of the demons of the flesh and mind. the control of demons in the body relate to the chakra points which can be focused to heighten individual mind and body power. this c

the chakra points which can be focused to heighten individual mind and body power. this can be affected by astral energy life energy or chi as it is called. the sea is a source of evil as all is up to the taking reality can be shaped by dreams. think about that sentence carefully. what you think can be done today can be made reality tomorrow. let s consider the focus phrase of the black order of the dragon: 23 the words of the dragon tiamat i am that which you hide away from others i am the eye which seduces all within its gaze. i am the voice of which power is formed. i am the thought of which is exist beyond flesh. we are legion yet we come from one source. there is only one from within you. you are the point and the beginning, azothoz as the devourer. in nature can you understand my sp

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world which we seek to control from within. the forms in the nightside of which we assume (bat. wolf, moth, or a hybrid of each and others) are the extensions of our will and desire. the vampyre is a being which has deified itself through the antinomianian process of death and rebirth, one who has passed through the ancient aspects of set and anubis, the guardians of the threshold. the symbol of the dragon known as tiamat or leviathan is also ahriman, the coiled beast that is of serpent wisdom. the dragon has fueled the myths of dracula, the dragon race from wallachia. dracos, draconum is the very shadow of the immortal fountain of life, which the vampyre seeks to bask in eternally. remember, in bram stoker's immortal "dracula" novel, the prince of vampyres is transformed not by another v

lachia. dracos, draconum is the very shadow of the immortal fountain of life, which the vampyre seeks to bask in eternally. remember, in bram stoker's immortal "dracula" novel, the prince of vampyres is transformed not by another vampyre. but rather his own self-iniliatory work and black magic. dracula itself was based from two historical figures, vlad dracul, whom was of a family of the order of the dragon, and elizabeth bathory, whose family crest depicted three wolf teeth surrounded by a dragon(leviathan, ahriman. the history of bram stoker's novel dracula has its own curious beginnings in association with folklore and historical figures. specifically, in dracula was a woman by raymond t. mcnally, stoker had an original manuscript of the novel which was later deleted, which was publishe

tomb "gate of black earth, nephilimic 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 hekak vozath ka-sath-ompos shu-seth-evoi-zrazza (by the magic of secret names shall set strengthen the shadow tongue of the serpent) by the blackened fire of my spirit, born in the shadows of the adversary, shall the dragon coil in my being! let the moon be born again in the darkness, from which my desires arise from the grave.the arcane of my self is great, such is the being of which i am! emerge again, awaken from yours sleep of thanatos" the binding of chains the vampyre rite of transformation the sorcerer who has developed the lesser and greater familiar, the very spirit and shadow of the moon and the

mansion within the moon and the grave i open now the left gate of becoming- zazas zazas nasatanada zazas by the sign of the shadow, arimanius i summon thee! by the eight tomb of the sah, whom is called the quarter song of the grave by the first which is the name zaresha, devouress who waits beyond lilith's caul came now before my cup of lunar blood, congress with my shadow in the sexual union of the dragon and whore by the second which is the name azosha, whom burns the flame of the dead in the emerald light of azrail, guard this temple and grave-bed from which i rest by the third which is the name andar, being the bearer of cunning fire and blackened flame of ahrimanic sight, bring the shadow wisdom to i who seeks to immolate and become. by the fourth which is the name azi dahaka, a grea

andar- taromat- zairich- vizaresh- zarman- friftar- akatash i do conjure thee, manifest in this circle. let no harm come unto me, those who summon against me shall only strengthen me to ahriman i speak thy hymns of shadow "my name is darkness; for which i create from the abyss in the material world i create according to my will that i rise up in opposition in the dawn and twilight i become druj, the dragon which does emerge through the serpent of my tongue in this circle, against the sun i speak the names of power kundak attend! carry me unto the infernal sabbat! astwihad- vampyre haunter of night, encircle me kindred spirit- i summon thee ashemaogha, the evil eye which shall burn always within, the gift of akhtya -i may curse and bless with sight i become the serpent of the dark places o

rough the sorcerous path do i walk! to know- to will- to keep silent akhtya i summon- akhtya i become akhtya in dreams i commune! facing the south and the white candle "i initiate myself on the serpent's hidden path i awaken to the shadows ofahriman i am embraced by the cold and fiery embrace ofaz in the darkness i am born, of the vampyres kiss in the light of dawn i emerge- awake in the flame of the dragon -djinn so it is done! the gates of arezura this is a ritual from which the initiate opens the gates of hell, that is the meeting place of sorcerers and witches- those who travel into the darkness and flame of the sabbat. the gates of arezura is the initiatory point of which "i" is revealed and may become. you will realize your goals, your potentials and weaknesses to emerge to one who i

ircle is b design not yheld to keep forces out, rather a power circulation of the arcana of energy within. nox umbra was written by michael w. ford. cover image- the sigil of seker elda isela ford 2003 back cover- the greater necrotic servitor, the shades which walks the ghostroads unto the chamber of the necroerotic nathan harris illustrations in the order of their appearance by elda isela ford -the dragon and the sigillic formula ofsah -vampyric binding sigil -lilith- sexual servitor creation by the sun and the moon -sigil of seker -necrotic servitor i by nathan harris -vampyric sigil ofshaitan of midnight, the lilitu brought forth, the genii of this book -akhtya, initiator of the shadow path -the sigil ofbabalon lilith, the sigillic creative formula ofsuccubi and dreaming servitors -the

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rebellion, adversity, fire and the destructive power of the sun. the lower is the demonic, being the fall from the light to taste the wisdom of darkness. the higher octave is lucifer, the angel-serpent which brings wisdom to mankind. lucifer is known in the sabbat and luciferian witchcraft lore as among other names, azal ucel, being a sigillic word-manipulation of azazel and lucifer. the face of the dragon-serpent is indeed an angel (angels are described as higher articulations in man) who brings the gift of the black flame to us, spirit and intelligence. it is the ecstasy of the in-between that led to the path unseen -azothoz by michael w. ford in working with the adversary, one must be focused on the great work of becoming like lucifer, thus keeping by will developing in the higher octa

e very gift of iblis[3. it is the idea of this word, spoken in silence by the sorcerer or witch, to encircle the self in the holy fire of samael and lilith, those who rebelled from the natural order (right hand path= death of being) to bring man and woman intelligence, being known as the black flame. the magician speaks the word of making to become as a god himself; cain is born from the union of the dragon and harlot. the illustrations of azothoz provide a powerful interplay between the invocations and the placement of the actual drawings in the tome. there are 13 illustrations of the grimoire, each holding a focus of the luciferian gnosis is some way or another. the spirit of azothoz beholds the eye of set or saturnus, the adversary. this eye is surrounded by flame, and is at first glanc

d the declaration of separation from the natural order. this allows the magician to grow without outside and society crippling dogma. the sigillic drawings of lilith and samael-asmoday (a mask of shaitan-iblis) are the separate initiators of the path, lilith who comes as the vampyric succubi and the moon dwelling force of water and earth, via the north winds (symbolic of darkness. shaitan-samael, the dragon-angel comes enfleshed as a beautiful figure which holds two skulls, one wolf-like and one of a goat this is the sexual formula of the sun entering the moon, thus shaitan s direction is south and east, depending on his representation, being of wisdom or fire (two octaves of saturn, the higher and lower. the other illustrations are equally important and play a direct correlation between t

hich plants a seed in the reader, as one widdershins[6] forward via magickal development the adversary awakens via the black flame. a section in the throne of twilight mentions an atavistic resurgence concept which was propagated to some extent by austin osman spare. humanity carried the knowledge of the beast which angels sought to possess this refers to the fall and how lucifer sought to invoke the dragon and beast within his being, thus joining in union the sun with the moon. the practitioner of the art magical[7] is one who seeks the knowledge and conversation of his holy guardian angel or luciferian angel, but also to enflesh the bestial aspects of his being, thus developing the shadow and the light aspects of his being. this is the great work, through isolation in the antinomian path

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ed by his brother, he opposed an innumerable army of evil ones. to the seven _amshaspands_ he opposed seven _archdevs, attached to the seven planets; to the _izeds_ and _ferouers_ an equal number of _devs, which brought upon the world all moral and physical evils. hence _poverty, maladies, impurity, envy, chagrin, drunkenness, falsehood, calumny, and their horrible array. the image of ahriman was the dragon, confounded by the jews with satan and the serpent-tempter. after a reign of 3000 years, ormuzd had created the material world, in six periods, calling successively into existence the light, water, earth, plants, animals, and man. but ahriman concurred in creating the earth and water; for darkness was already an element, and ormuzd could not exclude its master. so also the two concurred

he supreme being, that he is at once alpha and omega, the beginning and the end--he that was, and is, and is to come _i.e, time illimitable, is zoroaster's definition of zerouane-akherene. the depths of satan which no man can measure; his triumph for a time by fraud and violence; his being chained by an angel; his reprobation and his precipitation into a sea of metal; his names of the serpent and the dragon; the whole conflict of the good spirits or celestial armies against the bad; are so many ideas and designations found alike in the zend-avesta, the kabalah, and the gnosis. we even find in the apocalypse that singular persian idea, which regards some of the lower animals as so many devs or vehicles of devs. the guardianship of the earth by a good angel, the renewing of the earth and hea

ence and knowledge, himself time without limit, and wielding all the powers of the supreme being. in this persian faith, as taught many centuries before our era, and embodied in the zend-avesta, there was in man a pure principle, proceeding from the supreme being, produced by the will and word of ormuzd. to that was united an impure principle, proceeding from a foreign influence, that of ahriman, the dragon, or principle of evil. tempted by ahriman, the first man and woman had fallen; and for twelve thousand years there was to be war between _ormuzd_ and the good spirits created by him, and _ahriman_ and the evil ones whom he had called into existence. but pure souls are assisted by the good spirits, the triumph of the good principle is determined upon in the decrees of the supreme being

he greeks placed at the feet of bacchus tauri-cornus; the magian egg of ormuzd, from which came the amshaspands and devs; was divided into two halves, and equally apportioned between the good and evil constellations and angels. those of spring, as for example aries and taurus, auriga and capella, were the beneficent stars; and those of autumn, as the balance, scorpio, the serpent of ophiucus, and the dragon of the hesperides, were types and subjects of the evil principle, and regarded as malevolent causes of the ill effects experienced in autumn and winter. thus are explained the mysteries of the journeyings of the human soul through the spheres, when it descends to the earth by the sign of the serpent, and returns to the empire of light by that or the lamb or bull. the creative action of

a portion of the light that at the commencement filled her whole disk. the sixth full moon occurred in libra, over the divisions separating which from virgo are the celestial ship, perseus, son of the king of ethiopia and bo tes, said to have nursed horus. the river of orion that sets in the morning is also a paranatellon of libra, as are ursa major, the great bear or wild boar of erymanthus, and the dragon of the north pole, or the celebrated python from which the attributes of typhon were borrowed. all these surround the full moon of libra, last of the superior signs, and the one that precedes the new moon of spring, about to be reproduced in taurus, and there be once more in conjunction with the sun. isis collects the scattered fragments of the body of osiris, buries them, and consecrat

ries a basilisc twined round the handle of the mystic vase. the ophites fed a serpent in a mysterious ark, from which they took him when they celebrated the mysteries, and allowed him to glide among the sacred bread. the romans kept serpents in the temples of bona dea and sculapius. in the mysteries of apollo, the pursuit of latona by the serpent python was represented. in the egyptian mysteries, the dragon typhon pursued isis. according to sanchoniathon, taaut, the interpreter of heaven to men, attributed something divine to the nature of the dragon and serpents, in which the ph nicians and egyptians followed him. they have more vitality, more spiritual force, than any other creature; of a fiery nature, shown by the rapidity of their motions, without the limbs of other animals. they assum

d. it became a maxim of the zend-avesta, that ahriman, the principle of evil, made the great serpent of winter, who assaulted the creation of ormuzd. a serpent-ring was a well-known symbol of time: and to express dramatically how time preys upon itself, the egyptian priests fed vipers in a subterranean chamber, as it were in the sun's winter abode on the fat of bulls, or the year's plenteousness. the dragon of winter pursues ammon, the golden ram, to mount casius. the virgin of the zodiac is bitten in the heel by serpens, who, with scorpio, rises immediately behind her; and as honey, the emblem of purity and salvation, was thought to be an antidote to the serpent's bite, so the bees of arist us, the emblems of nature's abundance, are destroyed through the agency of the serpent, and regener

ith darkness, and at another to sink into its embraces. the northern constellation draco, whose sinuosities wind like a river through the wintry bear, was made the astronomical cincture of the universe, as the serpent encircles the mundane egg in egyptian hieroglyphics. the persian ahriman was called "the old serpent, the liar from the beginning, the prince of darkness, and the rover up and down" the dragon was a well-known symbol of the waters and of great rivers; and it was natural that by the pastoral asiatic tribes, the powerful nations of the alluvial plains in their neighborhood who adored the dragon or fish, should themselves be symbolized under the form of dragons; and overcome by the superior might of the hebrew god, as monstrous leviathans maimed and destroyed by him. ophioneus

n or fish, should themselves be symbolized under the form of dragons; and overcome by the superior might of the hebrew god, as monstrous leviathans maimed and destroyed by him. ophioneus, in the old greek theology, warred against kronos, and was overcome and cast into his proper element, the sea. there he is installed as the sea-god oannes or dragon, the leviathan of the watery, half of creation, the dragon who vomited a flood of water after the persecuted woman of the apocalypse, the monster who threatened to devour hesione and andromeda, and who for a time became the grave of hercules and jonah; and he corresponds with the obscure name of _rahab, whom jehovah is said in job to have transfixed and overcome. in the spring, the year or sun-god appears as mithras or europa mounted on the bul

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

ht produced by electricity, daughter of oceanus. her amber-coloured hair was of such rare beauty that none of her fair-haired sisters could compare with her, and when she wept, her tears, being too precious to be lost, formed drops of shining amber. page 121 phorcys and ceto personified more especially the hidden perils and terrors of the ocean. they were the parents of the gorgons, the graa, and the dragon which guarded the golden apples of the hesperides. leucothea. leucothea was originally a mortal named ino, daughter of cadmus, king of thebes. she married athamas, king of orchomenus, who, incensed at her unnatural conduct to her step-children,[43] pursued her and her son to the sea-shore, when, seeing page 122 no hope of escape, she flung herself with her child into the deep. they were

them. after waiting some time for the return of his servants [204]cadmus grew impatient, and hastily arming himself with his lance and spear, set out to seek them. on reaching the spot, the mangled remains of his unfortunate followers met his view, and near them he beheld the frightful monster, dripping with the blood of his victims. seizing a huge rock, the hero hurled it with all his might upon the dragon; but protected by his tough black skin and steely scales as by a coat of mail, he remained unhurt. cadmus now tried his lance, and with more success, for it pierced the side of the beast, who, furious with pain, sprang at his adversary, when cadmus, leaping aside, succeeded in fixing the point of his spear within his jaws, which final stroke put an end to the encounter. while cadmus sto

f the medusa oozed through the wallet, and falling on the hot sands below produced a brood of many-coloured snakes, which spread all over the country. perseus continued his flight until he reached the kingdom of atlas, of whom he begged rest and shelter. but as this king possessed a valuable orchard, in which every tree bore golden fruit, he was fearful lest the slayer of the medusa might destroy the dragon which guarded it, and then rob him of his treasures. he therefore refused to grant the hospitality which the hero demanded, whereupon perseus, exasperated at the churlish repulse, produced from his wallet the head of the medusa, and holding it towards the king, transformed him into a stony mountain. beard and hair erected themselves into forests; shoulders, hands, and limbs became huge

e at length by the prayers and solicitations of his unhappy subjects, the heart-broken father gave up his child for the welfare of his country. andromeda was accordingly chained to a rock on the sea-shore to serve as a prey to the monster, whilst her unhappy parents bewailed her sad fate on the beach below. on being informed of the meaning of this tragic scene, perseus proposed to cepheus to slay the dragon, on condition that the lovely victim should become his bride. overjoyed at the prospect of andromeda's release, the king gladly acceded to the stipulation, and perseus hastened to the rock, to breathe words of hope and comfort to the trembling maiden. then assuming once more the helmet of aides, he mounted into the air, and awaited the approach of the monster. presently the sea opened

o the air, and awaited the approach of the monster. presently the sea opened, and the shark's head of the gigantic beast of the deep raised itself above the waves. lashing his tail furiously from side to side, he leaped forward to seize his victim; but the gallant hero, watching his opportunity, suddenly darted down, and producing the head of the medusa from his wallet, held it before the eyes of the dragon, whose hideous body became gradually transformed into a huge black rock, which remained for ever a silent witness of the miraculous deliverance of andromeda. perseus then led the maiden to her now happy parents, who, anxious to evince their gratitude to her deliverer ordered immediate preparations to be made for the nuptial feast. but the young hero was not to bear away his lovely bride

powers with which he was imbued by medea, seized the oxen, one after the other, by the horns, and forced them to the yoke. near the plough was a helmet full of dragon's teeth, which he sowed as he ploughed the field, whilst with sharp pricks from his lance he compelled the monstrous creatures to draw the plough over the stony ground, which was thus speedily tilled. while jason was engaged sowing the dragon's teeth in the deep furrows of the field, he kept a cautious look-out lest the germinating giant brood might grow too quickly for him, and as soon as the four acres of land had been tilled he unyoked the oxen, and succeeded in frightening them so effectually with his weapons, that they rushed back in terror to their subterranean stables. meanwhile armed men had sprung up out of the furr

e atlas supported the heavens on his shoulders, near which lay the garden of the hesperides. he also warned heracles not to attempt to secure the precious fruit himself, but to assume for a time the duties of atlas, and to despatch him for the apples [249] on arriving at his destination heracles followed the advice of prometheus. atlas, who willingly entered into the arrangement, contrived to put the dragon to sleep, and then, having cunningly outwitted the hesperides, carried off three of the golden apples, which he now brought to heracles. but when the latter was prepared to relinquish his burden, atlas, having once tasted the delights of freedom, declined to resume his post, and announced his intention of being himself the bearer of the apples to eurystheus, leaving heracles to fill his

rberus to the upper-world, and to this aides consented on condition that he should secure him unarmed. protected by his breastplate and lion's skin heracles went in search of the monster, whom he found at the mouth of the river acheron. undismayed by the hideous barking page 283 which proceeded from his three heads, he seized the [251]throat with one hand and the legs with the other, and although the dragon which served him as a tail bit him severely, he did not relinquish his grasp. in this manner he conducted him to the upper-world, through an opening near troezen in argolia. when eurystheus beheld cerberus he stood aghast, and despairing of ever getting rid of his hated rival, he returned the hell-hound to the hero, who restored him to aides, and with this last task the subjection of he

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

the secret of everlasting life, the sumerian hero gilgamesh crosses the ocean of death in search of utnapishtim, the sole survivor of the great flood. but utnapishtim tells him: there is no permanence. do we build a house to stand for ever, do we seal a contract to hold for all time? do brothers divide an inheritance to keep for ever, does the flood-time of rivers endure? it is only the nymph of the dragonfly who sheds her larva and sees the sun in his glory. from the days of old there is no permanence. utnapishtim s lesson is repeated in a haunting little aztec poem, addressed perhaps to the lord of life quetzalcoatl, who descended to the underworld to restore humanity to life (see pp. 98 99: can it be true that one lives on earth? not forever on earth; only a little while here. be it ja

rom walking. the city of thebes the city of thebes was the capital of boeotia (not be confused with the egyptian city on the site of present-day luxor, called thebes by the greeks. it was founded by cadmus, the brother of europa (see p. 45, on the instruction of the oracle at delphi. first cadmus had to kill a dragon that guarded the spot and had killed all his men. to populate the city, he sowed the dragons teeth and warriors sprang up. oedipus mother, jocasta, was the daughter of one of the sown men, menoeceus. dead men s bones when people could not answer her riddle, the sphinx killed them, littering the countryside with their bones. early sources describe the sphinx as flying to the city wall, chanting her riddle, and snatching young men in her ravening jaws when the citizens failed to

il literally means terrible horse or odin s horse, as odin, when he was sacrificed on the tree to gain knowledge of the magic runes, is described as riding it, in the same sense that norse poets refer to a gallows tree as a horse. the world tree this manuscript shows yggdrasil, the world or cosmic tree, which supports the nine norse worlds. stags and goats nibble at its twigs, its trunk rots, and the dragon nidhogg gnaws its roots, causing it great suffering. but the tree is saved from decay by the three norns fate, being, and necessity who sprinkle the tree each day with water from the well of fate. gag fenrir howled so terribly when he knew he was bound, that one of the gods stuck a sword between his upper and lower jaw as a gag. river of spittle the drool from fenrir s mouth runs down t

modi and magni, will survive, and the gods balder and hod will return to life. they will sit on the new earth and talk of the world that was; in the grass they shall find the golden chess pieces of the gods. two people, lif and lifthrasir, will survive in the branches of the world tree and repopulate the earth. 71 the world tree myth dragon at the roots at the bottom of yggdrasil in niflheim lies the dragon nidhogg, which gluts itself on corpses. he also gnaws at the roots of the world tree, hoping to destroy it. he is at war with the eagle at the top. three roots yggdrasil had three roots. beneath the first was the well of fate guarded by the three norns who control people s lives. beneath the second was the well of wisdom, guarded by the head of the aesir mimir, who was killed by the van

the vanir gods, but whose head odin preserved with herbs and spells. beneath the third was a well of poison, from which flowed the rivers of hel. it was at the well of wisdom that the god heimdall left his great horn until he should need it to summon all creation to the final battle of ragnarok (see above. squirrel messenger the squirrel, ratatosk, runs up and down the tree, carrying insults from the dragon at the roots to the eagle at the top. special fruit the cooked fruit of yggdrasil ensured safe childbirth. the tree drips dew so sweet that bees make honey from it. strange new fetters fenrir was suspicious of the strange new fetter, and agreed to be bound only if one of the gods put their hand in his mouth. tyr thrust his right hand into the beast s mouth and when fenrir realized he ha

death of balder, odin s son, the handsomest of the gods. for this, the gods catch him and bind him to a rock with the entrails of one of his sons, and a snake drops poison in his face, which his wife catches in a cup. when splashed, his writhings made the entire earth shake. he does not escape until ragnarok (see above. this 12th-century stone shows loki bound to a rock for killing balder. sigurd the dragon-slayer 72 sigurd the dragon-slayer sigurd, son of the hero sigmund and a favorite of the norse god odin, grew up an orphan. a valiant youth, he slew the dragon fafnir at the behest of regin the smith and took his treasure (see below. but the treasure hoard was tainted by a ring that had been cursed (see box) and disaster followed. sigurd soon married gudrun, daughter of gjuki, king of t

for her, in revenge for killing sigurd. but gudrun then killed her children by atli, made their skulls into cups, and served atli their blood as wine and their hearts as meat. then she set fire to his hall, and everyone in it. underwater, beowulf fights grendel s mother who had attacked him for the death of her son. sigurd kills fafnir crouching in the pit, sigurd stabbed upward, slicing through the dragon s body. when sigurd killed fafnir, he was doused in the dragon s blood, which made him invulnerable, except for a tiny area on his back, where a leaf had stuck to his skin. the dying dragon asked sigurd who he was. sigurd, fearing to give such a creature power over him by telling it his name, told fafnir his name was noble-beast, and that he had no father or mother: i walk this world al

s bride. sigurd sigurd is the greatest of the germanic heroes, hero of the volsunga saga, the nibelungenlied, and of many eddaic poems such as reginsmal and fafnismal. the story of sigurd was developed in norse sagas and poems and also in germanic literature, culminating in the highly sophisticated saga of love and revenge, the nibelungenlied, in which sigurd is called siegfried, and the story of the dragon-slaying is unimportant. today most people know it as the basis of wagner s opera cycle the ring (see p. 79. church doorw ay this doorway was carved in about 1200 and comes from a church at hylestad, norway. it shows the story of sigurd. on the right, regin forges him a sword and sigurd kills the dragon. on the left, sigurd tastes the dragon s blood and, as a result, understands the bird

ro to wield, which he found lying on the lake bed. the waters boiled with blood and beowulf s followers thought he must be dead but he surfaced, holding the heads of grendel and grendel s mother. beowulf became a great king of the geats, and died in old age battling another monster a fire-breathing dragon, which for centuries had guarded its hoard of treasure in an ancient burial mound. 73 sigurd the dragon-slayer regin, smith to a king regin became smith at the court of king hjalprek of jutland, foster-father of the young hero of the volsungs, sigurd. the cruel-hearted regin took sigurd under his wing. he told the boy about fafnir s hoard, and offered to make him a sword with which to slay the dragon, and win the gold. testing the sword to test the reforged blade, sigurd swung it down on

PHOSPHORUS

he adversary. some will find the plethora and multi-cultural symbolism something they resonate with, from ancient egyptian, hebrew, persian, european and english focuses of symbolism from set as the luciferian initiator, hecate, ahriman or lilith. the path is long; the road thorn covered yet the emerald grail filled with the elixir of gold and silver. initiates are able to join the black order of the dragon after they have become unto the grade i the blackened forge of cain. the initiate may indicate their interest in the persian and vampyric sorcery of the botd to a magister or ii of the botd for entry. the botd is closed to those outside of the order of phosphorus. 4 much of the initiatory work of phosphorus is developed from numerous magickal paths, specifically the ideals of saturnus a

ry who resides in darkness and light azal ucel the ritual of algol 16 (veneficium rite) phosphorus opening of the eye rite the veneficus and initiate shall have the algol sigil above their altar; they shall be robed in black representing wisdom. the algol sigil is a mirror of the self and the possibilities of becoming. the complete symbolism of algol is revealed to initiates of the black order of the dragon. face the algol sigil- i behold the circle of timeless existence, guarded by leviathan i call to the four quarters to witness my rite of darkness and flame, and the light which illuminates within. before me, the algol star of the adversary, the corpses piled and devoured by flame that which arises from death reborn, al ghul, rosh ha shaitan, phantom star, daemon of my night born illumin

PHOSPHORUS THE SHADOWING FORTH OF LUCIFER

rch. a gnostic 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 indiv

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

are gback-to-back. h what this means is that the emotions are somewhat divorced or disconnected from their means of expression. during the week, as we have explained previously, we are intended to focus on the task of rectifying and elevating the physical world. this entails a temporary disconnection from our higher selves as we sally forth into the jungle or desert of unredeemed reality to slay the dragons and spread the light. in order to engage reality on its own level, we have to turn our backs, so to speak, on the pure experience of inspiration so we can get on with the work at hand. on shabbat, however, we are bidden to rest from this challenge in order to reconnect with our higher selves. in kabbalistic terminology, this means that our nukva and z feir anpin face each other anew in

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

ouble was an imperfect apprehension of creative power- towards the "darkly splendid world wherein continually lieth a faithless depth" eve, the lower self, ceases to give support to adam. she has yielded to the awful fascination of the awakening psyche. far easier is it to fall than to climb to the distant heights. yet only from one viewpoint is the fall catastrophic. the awareness of the rise of the dragon endows man also with consciousness of power- and power is life and progress. the dragon stands as the symbol of the great enemy to be overcome, and, as the task of equilibration proceeds, the great prize awaiting success <60> the fall as a state of consciousness is analagous to that condition described by various mystics as the dark night of the soul. it is accompanied by a sense of int

ied with the earth" the qabalistic sephirah of daath is the conjunction of chokmah and binah on 34 the golden dawn the tree of life, the child of wisdom and understanding -knowledge. it <61> refers to the symbolic sphere formed within or above the rmch by means of experience obtained, and this assimilated becomes transmuted into intuition and faculty of mind. but fundamentally it is the ascent of the dragon or, if you wish, an upwelling of the unconscious archetypes- a highly dangerous and unbalancing ascent, until they are assimilated to consciousness- which first renders daath a possibility. it is the fall which is responsible for the acquisition of self-knowledge 'thus it stands proven" claims blavatsky "that satan, or the red fiery dragon, the 'lord of phosphorus' and lucifer, or 'ligh

vault, the asvirant is shown the lid of the tomb of osiris, the pastos, wherein is buried our father, ehristian rosenkreutz, and on that lid is a whkh brings fulfillment as it were to the narrative of the preceding diagrams. it is divided into two sections. the lower half of the painting depicts a figufe of idam, similar to his presentation in the practicus grade diagram, though here the heads of the dragon are faback from the tree, showing the justified one, the illuminated adept, by his immolation and self-sacrifice rescuing the fallen kingdom of his natural self from the clutches of an outraged eros. but above this, as though to show the true nature behind the deceptive appearance of things is illustrated a noble figure of majesty and divinity described in the ritual in these words "and

dle. his head and his hair were white as snow, and his eyes as flaming fire; his feet like unto fine brass as if they burned in a furnace. and his voice as the sound of many waters. and he had in his right hand seven stars and out of his mouth went the sword of flame, and his countenance was as the sun in his strength" it is to effect this redemption of the personality, to regenerate the power of the dragon, and attempt to bring the individual to some realisation of his potential godhead, that is the object of the adeptus minor ceremony. it is for this reason that i hold that the golden dawn magic, the technique of initiation, is of supreme and inestimable importance to mankind at large. in it the work of academic sychologmy ay find a logic'al conclusion and fruition, s; that it may develo

belong gemini, libra, aquarius: thus to water belong cancer, scorpio, pisces. 3. to the ancients, six planets were known, besides the sun, which they classed with the planets. they also assigned certain planetary values to the north and 50 first knowledge ledure 51 south nodes of the moon- that is, the points where her orbit touches that of the ecliptic. these they named caput draconis a head of the dragon and cauda draconis ep tail of the dragon since the discovery of two more distant planets neptune and uranus or herschel, these two terms have been partially replaced by them. the effect of caput draconis is similar to that of w. the effect of cauda draconis is similar to that of yl the old planets are: saturn 9 sol 0 jupiter 3 venus q mars d mercury g luna d the moon 4. the hebrew

pted by the fruits of the tree of knowledge whose branches tend upwards to the seven lower sephiroth, but also downward to the kingdom of shells, reached down to them and the two pillars were left unsupported. then the sephirotic tree was shattered. she fell and with her fell the great adam. and the great red dragon arose with his seven heads and ten horns, and eden was desolated-and the folds of the dragon enclosed malkuth and linked it to the kingdom of the shells. and the heads of the dragon rose into the seven lower sephiroth, even up to daath at the feet of aima elohirn. thus were the four rivers of eden desecrated and the dragon mouth gave forth the infernal waters in daath-and this is leviathan, the piercing and crooked serpent. but tetragrammaton elohim placed the four letters yhvh

it became necessary that a second adam should arise to <151> restore the system, and thus, as adam had been spread on the cross of the four rivers, so the second adam should be crucified on the infernal rivers of the four armed cross of death-yet to do this he must descend into the lowest, even malkuth the earth, and be born of her (psalm 74 'thou breakest the heads of leviathan in pieces) and on the dragon heads were the names of the eight kings of edom and on his horns the names of the eleven dukes of edom, for daath having developed in the dragon a new head, the seven headed dragon with ten horns became eight headed and eleven homed (genesis, 36:31 to 43. chronicles 1: 43 to 54) note: the edomites were the descendants of esau who sold his birthright. their kings came to syrnbolise unlaw

irotic system was shattered, and with it fell adam, the microprosopus. then arose the great dragon with seven heads and ten horns, and the garden was made desolate, and malkuth was cut off from the sephiroth by his intersecting folds, and linked unto the kingdom of shells. and the seven lower sephiroth were cut off from the three supernals in daath, at the feet of aima elohim. and on the heads of the dragon are the names and crowns of the edomite kings. and because in daati-i was the greatest rise of the great serpent of evil, therefore is there, as it were, another sephirah, making for the infernal or averse sephiroth, eleven instead of ten. and hence were the rivers of eden desecrated, and from the mouth 194 the golden dawn: volume i1 book 7kuo of the dragon rushed the infernal waters in

r the door. 3rd adept, having prepared phil. opens door showing darkness but for faint light in the east, and brings phil, just within the door. heg. the realm of chaos and of ancient night, ere ever the aeons were <164> when there was neither heaven or earth, nor was there any sea, when naught was, save the shape unluminous, formless and void. hiereus to and fro in the deeps, swayed the coils of the dragon with 8 heads and 11 horns. eleven were the curses of mount ebal, eleven the rulers of the qlippoth, and at their head were the dual contending forces.1 hiereus and heg. lower weapons and sfep back. 2nd ad (faces east) then breathed forth tho-0th out of the unutterable abyss the word! then stood forth tho-0th in the sign of the enterer, on the threshold of the hall of time as time was bo

RITE OF THE OPPOSER

my shadow. chance is my circle without circumference; fate is my centre without position. magick is my force: energy beyond limitation. my body is transition: from now unto now. my words encipher me and create possibilities; as i speak so these words ensorcel reality. as i cease- so doth all- but the design of which i speak. as i cease- so doth all- but that which i am. formula of the opposer: as the dragon doth coil about the infinite, and the wheel of heaven doth turn upon its heart, so let all revolve upon this point. as the circle doth turn through the seasons of change, so now do i turn, as the axis of fate, to manifest the word of mine own self-overcoming: in the day of mine offering there is no-one and no-thing whom i will not sacrifice. in the day of my becoming there is noone and

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

ble manner. he says, gthere are three which give record in heaven. the father, the word and the holy spirit h; and gthere are three which give testimony on earth. the spirit, the water and the blood. h thus, st. john agrees with the masters of hermetic philosophy, who attribute to their sulphur the name of ether, to their mercury that of philosophical water, and to their salt the qualification of the dragon's blood or menstruum of the earth. blood or salt corresponds by opposition with the father, azotic or mercurial water with the word or logos, and the ether with the holy spirit. but the things of transcendent symbolism can only be understood rightly by the true children of science. the threefold repetition of names with varied intonations were united to triangular combinations in magica

ing point of our pentagram ever presents open. 38 chapter vi the medium and mediator two things, as we have shown, are necessary for the acquisition of magical power. the emancipation of will from servitude and its instruction in the art of domination. the sovereign will is represented in our symbols by the woman who crushes the serpent's head and by the radiant angel who restrains and constrains the dragon with lance and heel. in this place let us affirm without evasion that the great magical agent. the double current of light, the living and astral fire of the earth. was represented by the serpent with the head of an ox, goat or dog, 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

c figures of abraham the jew, which imparted to flamel the first desire for knowledge, are no other than the twenty-two keys of the tarot, imitated and resumed elsewhere in the twelve keys of basil valentine, there the sun and moon reappear under the figures of emperor and empress; mercury is the juggler; the great hierophant is the adept or abstractor of the quintessence; death, judgement, love, the dragon or devil, the hermit or lame elder and finally all the remaining symbols are to be found with their chief attributes, almost in the same order. it could have been scarcely otherwise, since the tarot is the primeval book and the keystone of the occult sciences: it must be hermetic, because it is kabalistic, magical and theosophical. so also we find by combining its twelfth and twenty-sec

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 alchemist, the obscene deity of mendes, the goat of the sabbath. t

e daleth, a symbol typifying the strife between good and evil, with the final triumph of good. as a fact, the ghimel superposed on the jod is the triad produced by unity, the manifestation of the divine word, whilst the reversed daleth is the triad composed of the evil duad multiplied by itself. thus regarded, the figure of orion would be identical with that of the angel michael doing battle with the dragon, and the appearance of this sign, so understood, would be, for the kabalist, a portent of victory and happiness. a long contemplation of the sky exalts imagination, and then the stars respond to our thoughts. the lines drawn mentally from one to another by primitive observers have given man his first notions of geometry. accordingly as our soul is troubled or at rest, the stars seem bur

images of young boys and three young calves, three also of a lion, an eagle, a dragon and a dove, all of fine gold and silver; so that if anyone sought him to discover a secret concerning his wife, he interrogated the dove; concerning children, the young boy; concerning wealth, the eagle; concerning strength and power, the lion; concerning fecundity, the cherub or bull; concerning length of days, the dragon. h this revelation of philo, though deprecated by gaffarel, is for us of the highest importance. here, in fact, is our key of the tetrad, and here also are the images of the four symbolical animals found in the twenty-first key of the tarot; that is, in the third septenary, thus repeating and summarizing all the symbolism expressed by the three septenaries superposed; next, the antagoni

though deprecated by gaffarel, is for us of the highest importance. here, in fact, is our key of the tetrad, and here also are the images of the four symbolical animals found in the twenty-first key of the tarot; that is, in the third septenary, thus repeating and summarizing all the symbolism expressed by the three septenaries superposed; next, the antagonism of colours expressed by the dove and the dragon; the circle or rota, formed by the dragon or serpent to typify length of days; finally, the kabalistic divination of the entire tarot, as practised in later days by egyptian bohemians, whose secrets were divined and recovered imperfectly by etteilla. we see in the bible that the high priests consulted the lord on the golden table of the holy ark between the cherubim, or bull-headed and

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cept [for] the sagacious active scots, a [great] many of whom have retained it [that is, the second sight] for a long time, and by surprises and raptures do often foretell what, in kindness, is really [that is, truly] represented to them at several occasions. to which purpose the learned lynx-eyed mr. baxter [commenting] on revelation 12:7, writing of the fight between [the archangel] michael and the dragon, gives a very pertinent note as follows: that he knows not but ere [that is, knows no example of] any great action [that is, battle, especially the secret commonwealth 49 tragical [that] is done on earth [but] that first the battle and [its] victory is acted [out] and achieved in the air, between the good and evil spirits. thus he [states. it seems [therefore] that these [visions] were

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ecomes the deceiver. lucifer: isaiah 14:12 how are thou fallen from heaven, o lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations. lucifer is one of the most used names of satan in today's culture. however, it is interesting to note that this is the only passage in the bible that mentions lucifer by name. lucifer is mentioned nowhere else in the bible. the dragon: revelation 12:7 and there was war in heaven: michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought, and his angels. since christian doctrines proclaim that all the evil angels left heaven with lucifer, how is it that their own scripture indicates angels will join with the dragon to fight against michael? for everyone knows departed angels become daemons. so if angels

: revelation 12:7 and there was war in heaven: michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought, and his angels. since christian doctrines proclaim that all the evil angels left heaven with lucifer, how is it that their own scripture indicates angels will join with the dragon to fight against michael? for everyone knows departed angels become daemons. so if angels join with the dragon, then this says there are still malcontent angels in the heavens. and if the angels feel like this, woe be unto the soul that ends up there. the deceiver: revelation 20:10 and the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. they will be tormended day and night for ever and ever. here we have another example

he diabolical trinity: the biblical satan has a trinity, as jehovah has a trinity. as jehovah assumes the role of father, satan assumes the role of the father figure. jesus christ is likened to the antichrist. at one point they are both flesh and blood. and the satanic spirit becomes the counter to the holy spirit. revelation 16:13 and i saw three unholy spirits like fire come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. the biblical authority of satanic churches and temples: revelation 2:9 i know thy works, and tribulations, and poverty (but thou art rich, and i know the blasphemy of them which say they are jews and are not, but are the synagogue of satan. christians should rally to our cause. their own ultimate prayers can

larize and empower this place with their dynamic balance. we call them forth in the images of the great magi of europe. from the south we call the magus of force and fire, aleister crowley. from the east we call dr. john dee, the greatest of scholars and mathematicians. from the north we call faust, the self-created man on the eternal quest. from the west we call merlin, the ancient one who rides the dragon's breath [declaration (read by priest walter gallo in english; then by priest petri laakso and adepts nino waechter and vesa litti in finnish; then by setians sotiris vandis& eleni tzanou in greek; and then by adept tina ostertag in german] the temple of set is a diamond, composed of the myriad facets of its initiates. as we celebrate this european conclave, let us cast our minds back u

ent wisdoms. born in death to die in birth, i whose past is your future and my future, your past. i am at one merlin of the wild wood, sage, prophet, councillor and friend of mighty kings, custodian of the sword excalibur. in madness brought on by grief for the futility of humanity's capacity for destruction, became merlin celidonius and fled to the sanctuary of the wild wood to take sanctuary in the dragon's breath. i who by purity of will came to a new intellect and became merlin ambrosius. by that same will i summoned the dragon's breath to create a legend and standards for future generations of humanity. learn from merlin the power and destruction of progression and at the same time its beauty and creation. you o mortal are propelled by progress to your ultimate physical destruction, y

dress for working [enter chamber and sound bell nine times while rotating counterclockwise [light flame, remove cowl [invocation] in the name of set, the majestic prince of darkness, i invoke the powers of the infernal light. hear this call, for i invoke these powers under the authority given the elect by his infinite majesty. rise eternal flame, and send forth thy whispering power to me, as does the dragon's hot breath envelop the virgin- but know that, albeit the heart is pure for maat- this is no virgin! for i shall suck the dragon's breath and it will be my oxygen! hear the voice of wonder, dark powers, and in his name come unto me [lift the graal in a saluting manner towards the pentagram above the altar, then turn to each cardinal point and call forth the powers of darkness, ending a

er who sings lullabies to me all day: classification: v2- b54.ri- 1 author: linda thomas iii date: august xiii html revision: dec 19, 1998 ce subject: initiation reading list: sleep, blessed sleep. we say that "they" are dangerous to us, but think how much more dangerous we are to ourselves, inherently "they" would get us if they had the chance; we will get us if we give ourselves a chance. enter the dragon "know, o man, that when thou hast beheld the face of leviathan, thy end hath been attained" after that working, strange things started happening. i started remembering things that i had blocked out of my mind forever, horrifying things that seem like parts of a movie, which actually have occurred in my life. according to all normal standards, i should be a raving mad person. i don't hav

cussing some of the things i had experienced and am just now remembering. suddenly, i was outside of that room, standing at the base of a mountain range. someone was beside me. he pointed to a large stone before me, into which was ground decaying flesh, dripping blood, contorted faces, and human bones. he said to me, here are the remnants of those who have tried to pass this way before you. enter the dragon ii "heaven must perish, hell must perish, and man alone must stand" the mystery of the allegorical escape clause classification: v2- b54.s- 1 author: john dewey i date: october 13, xxiv published: brimstone revised: july 6, xxvi (for tablet publication) it happened well over a year ago. my 21-year-old protege(1) came to me, and complained of feeling uncomfortable and fearful with regard

of gold and more gold. it is for you far more direct to scorch a city, grab the loot, and breathe down the necks of the local human citizenry; not for you the stuffy three piece suit and tax shelters. you will never fake remorse at the taking of your booty. mighty lizard, you breathe fehu! there is much to be learned in your manner! skill to be gained at observing your ways. take on the armor of the dragon; plan and take the roads to wealth that suit you. do not feign "christian" remorse at how well you do. do well with a will. no need to burn down cities, but no need to twist the forelock and doff the cap either. hiss fire at those that trouble you, and do as thou wilt! dragons and vampires, snakes and wolves, know the fire of that phrase! hail all creatures i have summoned forth. from n

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y sight sitting next to him, an improbable american in baseball cap, metal--rim spectacles and a neon--green bush--shirt across which there writhed the intertwined and luminous golden forms of a pair of chinese dragons. chamcha had edited this entity out of his field of vision in an attempt to wrap himself in a cocoon of privacy, but privacy was no longer possible "eugene dumsday at your service" the dragon man stuck out a huge red hand "at yours, and at that of the christian guard" sleep-fuddled chamcha shook his head "you are a military man "ha! ha! yes, sir, you could say. a humble foot soldier, sir, in the army of guard almighty" oh _almighty_ guard, why didn't you say "i am a man of science, sir, and it has been my mission, my mission and let me add my privilege, to visit your great n

l farishta. and turns; and runs inside "mishal! sufyan! hind" cries evil mr. chamcha. the ground floor is not as yet ablaze. he flings open the door to the stairs, and a scalding, pestilential wind drives him back _dragon's breath, he thinks. the landing is on fire; the flames reach in sheets from floor to ceiling. no possibility of advance "anybody" screams saladin chamcha "is anybody there" but the dragon roars louder than he can shout. something invisible kicks him in the chest, sends him toppling backwards, on to the caf floor, amid the empty tables _doom, sings his heart _take this. and this. there is a noise above his head like the scurrying of a billion rats, spectral rodents following a ghostly piper. he looks up: the ceiling is on fire. he finds he cannot stand. as he watches, a s

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an catholicism. the church, anxious to attract and convert the pagans of roman gaul, endowed micha-el with many of the attributes of the god mercury, and thus also of the greek hermes. chapels dedicated to micha-el thus sprang up throughout europe and britain over earlier temples which had been built on hills and mounds, michael s mounts. these were previously the focal points in earlier times of the dragon power running through the earth. gabri-el jibril, an alternative version of the name, dictated the koran to mohammed and is considered the angel of truth. gabri-el is described as possessing 140 pairs of wings and in judeo-christian lore is the angel of annunciation, resurrection, mercy, revelation and death. the root of the name gabri-el lies in the sumerian word gbr, meaning gubernato

tainted with that of the grigori. thus these arts are not mere low sorcery, but the profound veneration of our ancestry. it is our embracing of the infernal nature that is within all humankind, and its deliberate awakening within the current of witchcraft. this myth itself is reflected in the earlier babylonian tale where humankind are created from the blood of kingu, first of her brood leader of the dragon tiamat s army of chaos. through us, they walk upon the earth. according to the book of enoch, their identities are as follows; agni-el: who taught of enchantments of roots and the secrets of conjure. anma-el: made a sexual pact with a mortal woman to reveal the secret names of god. araqui-el/saraqa-el: taught the signs and secrets of the earth (geography and/or geomancy. araziel/arazyae

e long 1abramg 2baltoha 3goho iad 4soba 1continuance 2shall be as buckles 3to the stooping dragon 4and like 1mian 2trian ta lolcis 3abai-vovin 4od 1unto the harvest of a widow. 2how many 3are there 4which remain in 1aziagiar rior 2irgil 3chis da 4ds pa-aox 1the glory 2of the earth, 3which are, 4and shall not see 5death until 1busd 2caosgo 3ds chis 4od ip uran 5feloch cacrg 1this house 2fall, 3and the dragon sink? 4come away! 1oi salman 2loncho 3od vovina carbaf 4niiso 1for the thunders 2have spoken! 3come away! 4for the crown of the 1bagle avavago 2gohon 3niiso 4bagle momao 1temple 2and the robe 3of him 4that is 5was 6and shall be crowned 1siaion 2od mabza 3iad 4o i 5as 6momar 1are divided. 2come! 3appear unto 4the terror of the earth 1poilp 2niis 3zamran 4ciaofi 5caosgo 1and unto our comf

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o od belioresa od coresi ta beramiji (english) the midday of the first is as the third indulgence made of hyacinthine pillars, in whom the elders are become strong, which i have prepared for mine own justice, saith satan, whose long continuance shall be as bucklers to leviathan. how many are there which remain in the glory of the earth, which are, and shall not see death until the house falls and the dragon doth sink? rejoice, for the crowns of the temple and the robe of him that is, was, and shall be crowned are no longer divided! come forth, appear the ninth key the ninth enochian key warns of the use of substances, devices or pharmaceuticals which might lead to the delusion and subsequent enslavement of the master. a protection against false values (enochian) micaoli beranusaji perejela

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e schem ha-mephoresch, the 72, are found in the number of the family of jacob s sons is 70; and jacob and joseph equals 72. but the then ruling pharoah, corresponds more to hadar amongst the edomite kings, as representing one of not so evil 4 a tendency. yet as the apocalyptic symbol of the lamb and the airy sign which leads off the schem ha-mephoresch is chesed; one opposed to the evil symbol of the dragon, so is every shepherd an abomination to the egyptians, who yet are friendly with the ox symbol, the kerubic ruler of earth, and therefore is it symbolically said by the children of israel that their business has been about cattle and not about sheep. names and meanings of the 72 verses 1st angel name: vahuaih sign: leo planet: saturn degree: 0 5 meaning: god the exalter psalm 3:4: and t

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s also a time to remember ancestors. special offerings of rice cakes and wine are made at family shrines and altars, and the family visits the graves of their ancestors. this festival takes place in september or october. confucians also celebrate the chinese new year, usually in february. this several-day-long festival involves dance, costumes, and feasts. it is a highlight of the confucian year. the dragon dance is held on the first day of the year, and represents the return of light, or of positive yang energy. dragon dances can be performed on a stage or as part of a procession world religions: almanac 167 confucianism is confucianism a religion? confucius had little to say about gods or spirituality. in the analects, confucius, responding to a question about how one should serve the de

. for the people who believe in and practice confucianism, this path is generally considered a philosophical and scholarly tradition, very much like religions such as buddhism and daoism. 168 world religions: almanac confucianism through town. a string of participants is covered in a long dragon robe and they follow a young girl carrying a red ball or a light, which symbolizes yang power. finally the dragon swallows the red ball, demonstrating a symbolic unity with the gods and an acceptance of the light. family banquets are another high point of the new year s celebration, with several kinds of meat and fish served, along with special rice cakes. red envelopes filled with money are passed out to younger members of the family as gifts. the main pilgrimage site for confucians is to the birt

o make the kitchen god report good things to the jade emperor, people will smear his lips with honey. on the first day of the new year festival, a procession winds through the streets of towns and cities, led by a long column of people covered in a dragon costume. this dragon follows a small child carrying a red ball, symbol of the return of yang, or positive energy. at the end of the procession, the dragon swallows the ball to bring long life to people and to symbolize unity with the gods. in temples and private homes rituals are held welcoming the three pure ones. sweets are offered because the chinese word for sweets and for heaven is the same, tian. wooden blocks are tossed like dice to tell when the gods have finished their meal and have granted the wishes of the faithful. special off

of the parallels between modern physics and eastern mysticism, by fritjof capra. all these influences of daoism indicate how strong the concept of the religion is in the world. for more information books bodenkamp, stephen r. daoism: an overview. in encyclopedia of religion, 2nd ed. edited by lindsay jones. detroit, mi: macmillan reference usa, 2005, pp. 2176 2192. clayre, alasdair. the heart of the dragon. boston, ma: houghton mifflin, 1984. hartz, paula r. taoism: world religions. new york: facts on file, inc, 1993. lao tzu. tao te ching. translated by gia-fu feng and jane english. introduction by jacob needleman. new york: vintage books, 1989. miller, james. daoism: a short introduction. oxford, england: oneworld publications, 2003. oldstone-moore, jennifer. taoism: origins, beliefs, p

l includes a mirror (kagami, which is believed to reflect the light of amaterasu. the second symbol is amaterasu s jeweled necklace (magatama. the third is a ceremonial sword that represents the sword of susano-o, amaterasu s brother. according to shinto mythology, susano-o tricked the eight-headed, eight-tailed dragon of the hino river into drinking sake, an alcoholic beverage made from rice. as the dragon lay drunk, susano-o killed it, and inside one of its tails he found a sword. protective symbols shintoists display many stone representations of the kami. shrines are often guarded by the koma-inu, a pair of lion-dogs that are thought to ward off evil spirits, though some shrines use images of foxes instead. similarly, the dosojin are stone markers, usually in human form, that are place

irthday. more than ten thousand tibetan refugees, monks, and followers from around the world gathered outside his home in dharamsala. there, he has continued to live the simple life of a buddhist monk, rising at four o clock every morning to say prayers. for more information books friese, kai. tenzin gyatso, the dalai lama. new york, ny: chelsea house, 1989. goldstein, melvyn c. the snow lion and the dragon: china, tibet, and the dalai lama. berkeley, ca: university of california press, 1997. gyatso, tenzin. freedom in exile: the autobiography of the dalai lama. new york, ny: harpercollins, 1990. gyatso, tenzin. my land and my people: the original autobiography of his holiness the dalai lama of tibet. new york, ny: warner books, 1997. hicks, roger, and ngakpa chogyma. great ocean: an autho

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not ihvh the tetragrammaton. chapter 6 this chapter is a resum of the preceding five; it calls the universe and mankind to witness to the truth of the scheme of distribution of the powers of the numbers among created forms, and concludes with the narration that this philosophy was revealed by the divine to abraham, who received and faithfully accepted it, as a form of wisdom under a covenant. 49. the dragon, tli, theli. the hebrew letters amount in numeration to 440, that is 400, 30 and 10. the best opinion is that tali or theli refers to the 12 zodiacal constellations along the great circle of the ecliptic; where it ends there it begins again, and so the ancient occultists drew the dragon with its tail in its mouth. some have thought that tali referred to the constellation draco, which me

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litude is the natural state of existence- the primordial condition of i as void: the autonomian vessel of the elder faith. in nomine satilo- 000- wisely we must make our way through the maze of mirror d altars. slowly, slowly, toward and beyond the crack called midnight (an earlier version of this article first appeared in the cauldron, no. 98, nov. 2002. it is adapted from materials contained in the dragon-book of essex by andrew d. chumbley. the initiatic edition of this book was privately published in 1997. an edition for outer distribution is in preparation for publication in forthcoming years. the author is the presiding magister of cultus sabbati and preceptor of the uttara kaula sampradaya) andrew d. chumbley 2ofthe seven scrolls children of the black rose, scroll #1 the sons and da

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ated via the union of balancing forces. the sowing of the seed of change that which may transform and carry evolution beyond the abyss, and thus beyond self-image- or that which may destroy. the invoking of energies that coerce to create something beyond self. vii the ruby is the password she of the white robe rides the transparent horse the maiden closes. on broken legs he steps forth he becomes the dragon azoth- satanas the menstruum- the sinister aspect implicit within the homogenous metallic water: the explosive factor in the delicate balancing of life-enhancing elements. change by adversity the accuser. the brutal realities that threaten to devour the abstract, the romantic. insight and control via the understanding of the primal- or destruction by it. viii their name inside the room

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d "and who art thou' and i said to him "thus punished as thou art, answerest thou me" but he, with rage, said to me "but how shall i answer thee, for thou art a son of man; whereas i was born an angel's seed by a daughter of man, so that no word of our heavenly kind addressed to the earth-born can be overweening. wherefore also my star is bright in heaven, and men call it, some the wain, and some the dragon's child. i keep near unto this star. so ask me not many things; for thy kingdom also after a little time is to be disrupted, and thy glory is but for a season. and short will be thy tyranny over us; and then we shall again have free range over mankind, so as that they shall revere us as if we were gods, not knowing, men that they are, the names of the angels set over us" 22. and i solom

d by them for the building in the temple [1. pterodr kun, a word not in the lexicons. 2. t d di pyr s] 62. and as the demon said this, i saw the spirit going forth from his mouth, and it consumed the wood of the frankincense-tree, and burned up all the logs which we had placed in the temple of god. and i solomon saw what the spirit had done, and i marvelled. 63. and, having glorified god, i asked the dragon-shaped demon, and said "tell me, by what angel art thou frustrated" and he answered "by the great angel which has its seat in the second heaven, which is called in hebrew bazazeth. and i solomon, having heard this, and having invoked his angel, condemned him to saw up marbles for the building of the temple of god; and i praised god, and commanded another demon to come before me. 64. and

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upon jason severe conditions for the attainment of the fleece; but medea, the king s daughter, was skilled in magic and came to his aid. he harnessed two fire-breathing bulls and ploughed a field, sowing it with dragon s teeth. when these sprang up into armed men, on medea s advice he threw a stone amongst them, whereupon they turned and killed one another. it is by medea s magic that jason lulls the dragon to sleep and so wins the fleece. he then returns with it to greece, taking medea as his wife. the king pursues the fugitives, and in order to delay him, medea kills her little brother apsyrtus and scatters his limbs in the sea. aeetes pauses to collect them and so the pair reach jason s homeland with the fleece. every detail of the story requires elucidation in depth. the fleece is some

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iii, son of setnakt, inscribed on certain border monuments, shows two setian particularities. firstly, it has an unnamed god coming into being in the psychic (subjective) realm as the god xephra- previously it had been held that neith, a goddess of nature, had transformed herself into the xephra beetle. secondly, the spell which gives the magician one of the powers of set, which is to slay apep, the dragon of delusion. with the coming of the xxiind dynasty, egypt entered its long decline. set became a tremendously unpopular deity. his worship ceased everywhere except the oases and the city of thebes, where his cult was absorbed into the cult of montu, the warlord of thebes. the negative and destructive aspects of isolation and destruction were emphasized and as egypt turned more to an ide

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lity responsibly" sounds like some kind of hellish joke. crown royal is manufactured by seagram& sons, the world's largest distillery. seagram is owned by the bronfman bloodline dynasty of canada, the family of ardent adl jewish zionists. its senior is currently edgar bronfman, who also just happens to be chairman of the world jewish congress. the riddle of the great seal of the united states 279 the dragon is, of course, a mythical form of serpent. indeed, the holy bible in the book of revelation describes satan as "that old serpent, the dragon" well, for those who wish to pay homage to the dragon, the pyramid collection catalog offers such jewelry items as this pendant, ring, and arm band. the llluminati serpent: in the two babylons, hislop writes "in the mythology of the primitive world

ent coiled up in a circle biting its own tail (also uroboros, is pictured as a gnostic rooster combination creature in this illustration from horapollo's selecta hieroglyphica, 1597. the sun and moon symbolize the conjunction of opposites, which is the alchemical doctrine of illuminism. 282 codex magica these two ancient celtic coins from bohemia (second and first centuries b.c) bear the marks of the dragon, or serpent. the first coin has the image of an oroboros serpent/dragon torqued and prepared to bite its own tail. the second coin bears the image of a coiled, horned serpent with ears. the coins signify the adoration and homage paid the serpent as a religious icon of worship-status by the mystery religions. the revival today of the ancient mystery religions is accompanied also by moder

official scottish rite publication of the supreme mother council, 33, rex hutchins, 33 explains that the triangle of the masonic lodge represents pagan religions as well and he especially cites the hindu trinity of gods, brahma, vishnu, and shiva.3 i have mentioned elsewhere that a triangle symbol containing a letter "y" inside which divides it internally into three triangles is called the eye of the dragon, or dragon's eye. since freemasonry has its all-seeing eye which represents satan, the dragon, again we have a connection. the triangle and astrology in astrology we find the concept of the grand trine, which is considered very, very lucky. joan quigley, astrologer to movie stars and to president ronald reagan and first lady nancy reagan, says that "the grand trine is formed by three pl

ital area, the spear point becomes a phallic symbol. in all cases, the sign of the spear point is given so that the y, the spear or arrow, is pointing downward, toward the nether regions where, presumably, satan and his legions reside. that is, toward the pit of hell. title page of barbara walker's the woman's dictionary of symbols and sacred objects. inside, walker identified the symbol shown as the dragon's eye. she reports that the dragon's eye forms a triple triangle, sacred to the goddess, and that this symbol appears often in medieval books of magic, to invoke the protection of female spirits and entities. in fact, the dragon's eye bears a remarkable resemblence to the sign of the spear point, and the name dragon's eye is approprate, indeed. symbol from the back cover of the fascinat

hose real name was bronstein (jewish) was a satanist, which is why he was so thrilled to see countless thousands of russian and other christians arrested, tortured, killed, or sent to gulag concentration camps. trotsky was himself murdered in mexico city by an assassin wielding an axe. star god of communism? this 1920 propaganda poster by a communist artist depicts trotsky as saint george slaying the dragon of capitalism. in reality, jewish capitalists, the warburgs and rothschilds, were the ones who put trotsky, lenin, and stalin and their red terror in power in moscow in 1917. trotsky and his cohorts were servants of the dragon! 578 codex magica vanishing comrades: the illuminati throughout the centuries have falsified history. want proof? check out these two sets of soviet-era photograp

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in the middle of the our galaxy there is a black sun that shines with a light that we are not capable of seeing and for us it looks like empty darkness. this sun is also a black hole that absorbs all normal light.this black sun can be connected with the highest qliphotic principal thaumiel, rather than with thagirion. the black sun is generating the power called vril, od or the world kundalini or the dragon power. it can be described as the principal that is manifestating the powers of chaos. in the bible and in other mythological descriptions this principal acts as the beast. in old norse mythology it is the fenriz wolf, in the goetic qabalah it is the phallic belfegor. in the book of revelation 13:2 is is written: the dragon gave the beast its throne and authority. we can later read that

tating the powers of chaos. in the bible and in other mythological descriptions this principal acts as the beast. in old norse mythology it is the fenriz wolf, in the goetic qabalah it is the phallic belfegor. in the book of revelation 13:2 is is written: the dragon gave the beast its throne and authority. we can later read that the number of the beast is a human number. this can be understood as the dragon (chaos) is manifested through thagirion by a man, or by mankind. the fact that the number of the beast is a human number shows our relation to the wild animals that civilization and religion have tried to repress. on a more esoteric plane it means that man is not just an animal but also a god since 666 is the number of the sun and therefore the number that makes man divine. dragon rouge

THE BOOK OF PLEASURE

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 snowhill, london, in 1886. apart from william blake, john martin, aubrey beardsley, sidney sime, and a mere handful of others, england has produced no artist to equal spare for sheer ability and imaginative fecundity. spare was not only a graphic artist;

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r journal. chant in the craft, when the witches were sitting in the park repeating earth, air, fire, and water, they were using what is known as a circle chant meditation to raise their power levels. chants can vary from a one word personal mantra, to a formal group invocation. try this, on an overcast day, sit and chant for five minutes ra, ra, hail ra! record the results in your journal. riding the dragon part one relaxation start by taking three slow deep breaths, clear your mind, and begin your rhythmic breathing pattern 4-2-4-2. hyou are standing upon a beach the white sand beneath your feat is as fine, and soft as baby powder. hlooking out to sea, you become aware that the waves are of prismatic light. as you watch, they change from red to orange, then to yellow, then green, on to bl

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ist and the father and the son as the antichrist, and in 2 john verse 7 he declares that there are many deceivers already at work among the faithful. according to revelation, christ and his angelic armies of light destroy the forces of darkness at armageddon in the final battle of good versus evil. babylon, the false prophet, and the beast (the antichrist) are dispatched to their doom, and satan, the dragon, is bound in a pit for a thousand years. with satan imprisoned and chained, the millennium, the thousand years of peace and harmony, begins. although christ s second coming is said to be mentioned over 300 times in the new testament, the only references to the millennium are found in revelation 20:2 7. christian scholars disagree whether or not there will be an initial resurrection of t

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steve. absolute kinda irrefutable proof of skunk ape. tampa tribune, february 13, 2001 [online] http//news.tbo.com/news/mgacin7j 3jc.html. sanderson, ivan t. abominable snowmen: legend come to life. philadelphia: chilton, 1961. yeti tales of hairy monsters existing in the asian wilderness can be found in the writings of several venerable chinese scholars who linked these creatures to the time of the dragon, the presumed genesis of asian civilization. despite an occasional report by a european visitor to the region, the apelike creatures did not receive any sort of widespread notoriety until the beginning of the twentieth century. during an expedition into the himalayas in 1906, botanist h. j. elwes was astonished to glimpse a hairy figure racing across a field of snow below him. the scien

ious efforts to track down the yeti for more than a quarter of a century. although each russian province may have its own name for the mys- 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 mysterious creatures 67 an alleged yeti, or abominable snowman, on the 1952 issue of radar magazine (mary evans picture library) theyetis have been linked to the time of the dragon, the presumed genesis of asian civilization. terious giants of the mountain in dagestan, kaptar; in azerbaijan, mesheadam; in georgia, tkys-katsi; while the chechens, ingushes, kabardins, and balkars call it the almasti each startled eyewitness seems to describe the same strange beast. the chinese call the snowman yeren, and in 1977, 1980, and 1982, expeditions searching for the manbeas

tists did not accept the existence of the bear until 1898. the largest land animal next to the african elephant is the white rhinoceros, which remained officially unacknowledged 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 mysterious creatures 85 until 1900. the largest of the apes, the mountain gorilla, was considered a native superstition until 1901. the dragons of komodo island, indonesia, were considered the creations of a strange myth conjured up by the islanders until 1912. and the british zoologist who described the bizarre royal hepard a half-leopard and half-hyena beast long claimed by the natives of rhodesia to be an actual beast of prey wondered how such a large animal, and one so distinct from other species, could have remained unkno

1 [online] http//www.anomalist.com/features/topcz2001. html. heuvelmans, bernard. on the track of unknown animals. new york: hill and wang, 1958. mackal, roy p. a living dinosaur? in search of mokele- mbembe. new york: e. j. brill, 1987. searching for hidden animals: an inquiry into zoological mysteries. garden city, n.y: doubleday, 1980. dragons one of the most universal monster myths is that of the dragon. the awesome, reptilelike beasts appear in the folklore of nearly every country. and the fact that the creature was truly regarded as an actual monster rather than a myth can be demonstrated in several 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 mysterious creatures 87 writings of the day. edward topsell, writing in his historie of serpents

country. and the fact that the creature was truly regarded as an actual monster rather than a myth can be demonstrated in several 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 mysterious creatures 87 writings of the day. edward topsell, writing in his historie of serpents (1608, commented that among all the kinds of serpents, there is none comparable to the dragon, or that afforded and yielded so much plentiful matter in history for the ample discovery of the nature thereof. while examining the true accounts of dragons in the folklore and records of several cultures, one cannot help wondering if there really were dragonlike monsters prowling the earth, devouring hapless villagers, receiving periodic sacrifices of young maidens, spreading terror i

ve gone unnoticed, even in the sparsely populated europe of the dark ages. the discovery of even just a few of these great reptiles would have given rise to a far-reaching legend. a more palatable theory is that the ancient historians were actually describing huge snakes such as the python, which often reaches a length of more than 30 feet. a number of dragon stories from the middle ages tell how the dragon wound itself about its prey and slowly crushed it. the giant snake theory does not account for descriptions of the dragon s feet or its ability to walk on all fours, but some species of giant lizard, such as the komodo dragon, attains a length of 10 12 feet. the komodo presently resides in the east indies, but in ancient times, it is possible that st. george and his fellow dragon-killer

g them for the skeletal remains of a dragon. workmen excavating earth for a cathedral might even have unearthed the fossil remains of a dinosaur. it was not until the nineteenth century that scientists realized that the age of fossil bones often ran into millions of years. previously, the skeletons were considered to have been the remains of some giant creature only recently dead. if, at the time the dragon legend was flourishing in europe, a discovery of fossil remains was unearthed or sighted in a cave, the find would seem to offer conclusive proof for the existence of dragons. it is 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 88 mysterious creatures lynne cherry s illustration from the dragon and the unicorn (harcourt, inc) afew scientists h

ts hold the theory that a number of dinosaurs might have survived into the age of man. likely that the bones of the mammoth, the woolly rhinoceros, and the giant cave bear were not that uncommon in early europe. the tusk of the mammoth was often called for in the recipes of medieval love potions. in the marketplace of the austrian city of klagenfurt, there is a statue of a giant killing a dragon. the dragon s head has quite obviously been modeled on the skull of a woolly rhinoceros. the connection can be proven by the fact that old records note the discovery of a dragon s skull in klagenfurt in the sixteenth century, 30 years before the statue was constructed. the skull has been preserved all these years by the city fathers and can be identified today as that of the ice age rhinoceros. m d

was conducted, the ceremonies were elaborate and solemn and the ashes of the deceased were placed in urns of burned clay and buried. later, when burial became the custom in greece, the bodies were enclosed in elaborate stone caskets, similar to the roman sarcophagi. the vikings of old scandinavia sometimes buried their kings and queens in their ships, but the traditional viking funeral was to set the dragon-headed longboat afire and send it out to sea to burn. on the danish colony of greenland, the vikings who settled on its shores believed that there was danger of pollution from the evil spirits that lurked around the corpse until the smell of death had passed away. they burned the dead body almost before it became cold and tried to avoid inhaling any of the fumes from the fire. they also

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spiracy: secret societies. their influence and power in world history. rochester, vt: inner traditions, 1989. the tongs according to the internet movie base, the chinese tongs have been an integral element of violence and mystery in 140 motion pictures in china and the united states. interestingly, the first american film on the subject,the war of the tongs, was released in 1917. in 1985, year of the dragon provoked a great deal of controversy in its portrayal of a racist white cop (mickey rourke) battling hordes of evil chinese gang members. the greatest flaw in the motion picture was blending chinese gangs, the tongs, and the triad into one massive gchinese mafia h kind of amalgamated crime organization. in actuality, although the gangs exist, they are separate from the tongs, a survivor

luence and working independently of the others. although its influence on the course of chinese politics has been considerable, the triad has never been unduly concerned about which government happens to be in power. m delving deeper gboo how doy: the early history of chinese tongs in new york. h organized crime [online] http/ organizedcrime.about.com/library/weekly/aa0624 01a.htm. booth, martin. the dragon syndicates: the global phenomenon of the triads. new york: carroll and graf, 2001. chin, ko-lin. extortion, enterprise, and ethnicity. studies in crime and public policy. new york: oxford university press, 1996. huston, peter. tongs, gangs, and triads: chinese crime groups in north america. boulder, colo: paladin press, 1995. making the connection blasphemy an irreverent utterance or ac

that many of the accidents in the area are intriguing, and that the area does have some natural conditions that sailors and pilots need to be aware of, has not been challenged. however, neither statistics nor documented evidence indicates that the num- 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 places of mystery and power 227 the gdevil fs sea h and the dragon fs triangle located in the philippine sea off china fs eastern coast is known for vanishing ships and seamen similar to the legendary bermuda triangle. while sensational theories for the mysterious disappearances speak of extraterrestrials and lost kingdoms under the sea wreaking havoc, others believe that the region displays the same magnetic anomalies as the bermuda triangle. the area

ng ships and seamen similar to the legendary bermuda triangle. while sensational theories for the mysterious disappearances speak of extraterrestrials and lost kingdoms under the sea wreaking havoc, others believe that the region displays the same magnetic anomalies as the bermuda triangle. the area, which can be marked off on a map by connecting japan, taiwan, and yap island, has become known as the dragon fs triangle after a centuries-old chinese myth. according to the myth, dragons live deep beneath the surface and their movement can suddenly churn up waves, whirlpools, thick fog, and sudden storms. in 1950, japanese officials declared the triangle a danger zone for shipping. in 1952, a research vessel, the kaio maru no. 5, sent by the japanese government to investigate the troubled wat

troubled waters, vanished without a trace, and 22 crewmen and nine scientists were lost. like the bermuda triangle, the devil fs triangle area may be volatile, subject to sudden weather changes and ocean swells not yet understood. undersea volcanoes are believed to influence the area fs sudden environmental changes. others cite mikakunin hiko-buttai, japanese for ufos. sources: berlitz, charles. the dragon fs triangle. new york: wynwood press, 1989. gthe dragon fs triangle. h [online] http//dragonsunlimited. tripod.com/index-8.html. japan fs dragon fs triangle thebermuda triangle is also known as the devil fs triangle. ber of accidents is unusually high or without explanation. in march 1918, during world war i, the uss cyclops vanished in the bermuda triangle. that ship may have been a ca

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l aspects of his/her being and then seeks to illuminate further the light of imagination; the 3 flame of consciousness and isolate being this is known as the black flame. god forms associated with the black flame and self-illumination are lucifer (called azal ucel, set (the egyptian god, lilith (the goddess of the luciferian path, cain (the isolate one, lord of magicians and witches) and ahriman (the dragon of darkness who takes many forms. such god forms span various cultures and ages, but their essence lives in the idea of the sabbat and luciferian witchcraft and sorcery. the initiate begins the path of shadow, from which he or she models from the legend of lucifer falling from light. it was essential for azazel (lucifer) to grow he had to understand and perceive darkness, to taste the s

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with kutulu or cthulhu within the pages are mentioned independently of each other, indicating that somehow kutulu is the male counterpart of tiamat, similar to absu. this monster is well known to cult worship all over the world. in china, however, there is an interesting twist. far from being considered a completely hostile creature, dedicated to the erasure of mankind from the page of existence, the dragon is given a place of preeminence and one does not hear of a chinese angel or saint striving to slay the dragon, but rather to cultivate it. the chinese system of geomancy, feng shui (pronounced fung shway) is the science of understanding the "dragon currents" which exist beneath the earth, these same telluric energies that are distilled in such places as chartres cathedral in france, gla

to slay the dragon, but rather to cultivate it. the chinese system of geomancy, feng shui (pronounced fung shway) is the science of understanding the "dragon currents" which exist beneath the earth, these same telluric energies that are distilled in such places as chartres cathedral in france, glastonbury tor in england, and the ziggurats of mesopotamia. in both the european and chinese cultures, the dragon or serpent is said to reside somewhere "below the earth; it is a powerful force, a magickal force, which is identified with mastery over the created world; it is also a power that can be summoned by the few and not the many. however, in china, there did not seem to be a backlash of fear or resentment against this force as was known in europe and palestine, and the symbol of might and ki

said to reside somewhere "below the earth; it is a powerful force, a magickal force, which is identified with mastery over the created world; it is also a power that can be summoned by the few and not the many. however, in china, there did not seem to be a backlash of fear or resentment against this force as was known in europe and palestine, and the symbol of might and kingship in china is still the dragon. in the west, the conjuration, cultivation, or worship of this power was strenuously opposes with the advent of the solar, monotheistic religions and those who clung to the old ways were effectively extinguished. the wholesale slaughter of those called "witches" during the inquisition is an example of this, as well as the solemn and twisted- that is to say, purposeless and unenlightened

s impaled on a stake as a corpse, the three days in the sumerian hades, and the eventual resurrection are outstanding examples of how sumerian mythology previewed the christian religion by perhaps as many as three thousand years- a fact that beautifully illustrates the cosmic and eternal nature of this myth. therefore, the goddess of the witches has two distinct forms: the ancient one, goddess of the dragon-like telluric power which is raised in magickal rituals, and the elder goddess, defeater of death, who brings the promise of resurrection and rejuvenation to her followers those who must reside for a time after death and between incarnations in what is called the "summerland. sumer-land? another hallmark of the craft of the wise is evident within the necronomicon, as well as in general

r parents, yet their parents held the power, the primal strength, the first magick, that the elder ones tapped to their own advantage, for they were begotten of her. it generally accepted in the halls of magick that all of the wisdom in the world is useless without the necessary adjunct of power. this power has gone by many names, as the goddess and the devil have, but the chinese symbolise it by the dragon. it is the force of will, and relies heavily upon the biochemical matter that makes up the human body, and hence, the human consciousness, to give it existence. science is coming around to accept the fact that the will does exist, just at the point where psychology has determined it does not- in the behaviourists vain attempt to eradicate what has always been known to constitute vital p

be reminded. if they are not watchful, if the gatekeepers do not watch the gates, if the gates are not kept always locked, bolted and barred, then the one who is always ready, the guardian of the other side, iak sakkak, will enter and bring with him the hordes of the armies of the ancient ones, iak kingu, iak azag, iak azabua, iak huwawa, ishniggarab, iak xastur, and iak kutulu, the dog gods and the dragon gods, and the sea monsters, and the gods of the deep. watch also the days. the day when the great bear hangs lowest in the sky, and the quarters of the year measured thereof in the four directions measured thereof, for there the gates may be opened and care must needs be taken to ensure that the gates remain forever closed. they must be sealed with the elder sign accompanied by the rite

master. she added matchless weapons to the arsenals of the ancient ones, she bore monster-serpents sharp of tooth, long of fang, she filled their bodies with venom for blood roaring dragons she has clothed with terror has crowned them with halos, making them as gods, so that he who beholds them shall perish and, that, with their bodies reared up none might turn them back. she summoned the viper, the dragon, and the winged bull, the great lion, the mad-god, and the scorpion-man. mighty rabid demons, feathered-serpents, the horse-man, bearing weapons that spare no fearless in battle, charmed with the spells of ancient sorcery. withal eleven of this kind she brought forth with kingu as leader of the minions. remember! enki our master fearing defeat, summoned his son marduk summoned his son t

remember that the essences of the ancient ones are in all things, but that the essences of the elder gods are in all things that live, and this will prove of value to thee when the time comes. remember the arra, especially when dealing with them of fire, for they respect it, and no other. remember to keep the moon pure. beware of the cults of death, and these are the cult of the dog, the cult of the dragon, and the cult of the goat; for they are worshippers of the ancient ones, and forever try to let them in, for they have a formulae of which it is unlawful to speak. and these cults are not strong, save at their seasons, when the heavens open up to them and unto their race. and there shall forever be war between us and the race of draconis, for the race of draconis was ever powerful in an

ant concerning him, for it is written: he shall not raise his head above the sun. and again: his is the dark times. and again: he knows of the gate, but not the gate and the scorpion man has another of his race, female, that dwells with him there, but of her it is not lawful to speak, and she must be banished with the exorcisms should she appear to thee, for her touch is death. and of the cult of the dragon, what more can i say to thee? they worship when that star is highest in the heavens, and is of the sphere of the igigi, as are the stars of the dog and the goat. and their worshippers have always been with us, though they are not of our same race, but of the race of their stars, of the ancient ones. and they keep not to our laws, but murder quickly, and without thought. and their blood

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d to know the keys to both heaven and hell. this grimoire shall be written in blood and dried in the noon tide sun. i am both fire and darkness, yet within is a light once adored by that unperceived chaos called god. my sister and lover is that fiery goddess called lilith by some and demoness by others, yet she too drinks of both ecstasies. we are undying and eternal, we may sleep in the flesh of the dragon yet emerge in the heights of both the sun and the moon. the shadows merely remind us of our reflections and self divinities. you too are like us, no bending knee as the mindless, yet an ascended mind beyond that fallen and crumbling crowd-control method called god. you are the only the christ you need, separate and divine. dragon and angel in the flesh, devour and thirst eternally for k

m 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 mind. leviathan is different from the watchers in that this fallen seraphim does not hold relation to man or

the possibility of power. my gift is to bring you to a life not comprehended previously, one which demands the attention and challenge of self-excellence. the children of this adam know not those things which are determined, wherefore they oft-times fall into error. the beasts of the field, and of heaven, and the fish of the sea, all of them are in my hand and under my control kitab el-jelwa i am the dragon clothed in the feathers of the peacock, that which is sacred unto me. i formed this bird to represent the beauty of the hidden soul, what may become from the balance of the mind. by becoming like me you shall to gain control in your world, thus the balance of the earth and the body temple of man and woman must be recognized. seek my bride of earth and stars with my own union so that you

istance and light invoked winds of the waking dream. the north east does lilith come forth, the bride of lucifer who is of both darkness and the bringing and going of the sun. she walks in the darkness of two worlds, of lilim and those beasts and succubi who drink the blood of life, of gray shades which answer her call, of the blood of the moon which hearkens to the waters of which she has slept. the dragon of fire and darkness in separation and opposition become whole through her bleeding temple. she who beget cain and gave humanity the gift of the watchers in flesh hearken unto the very circle of being. by the north does ahriman hear thy calls, 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

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we refuse to see why this pudibonderie of the old gunco gude h should make the discussion of gnymphomaniacs h a tabooed subject, whilst she trumpets from the top of her holy bordel (st. paul fs) deafening blasts of chaste) gbibliomania. h often these unfortunates are of noble and generous character; who, striving against their fearful adversity, have not the strength of will to cast off and slay the dragon of their despair. the horror of this mental struggle is well depicted in gjephthah h when jared says: those eyes upon me, torturing my soul and threatening revenge? those fingers gross, purple, and horrible, to blister me with infamous tearing at my throat. o hell! vomit thy monsters forth in myriads to putrefy this fair green earth with blood, but make not me the devilish minister of s

he gates of wisdom and understanding and attain the kingdom of the holy crown. gself h we must slay, it is the great sin of life:*1. gthe scorpion kisses, and the stings of sin, cling hard within. h*2. the small still voice calls to us, yet we must overcome it, in its conquest alone lies our salvation. gtruth h is our st. george, whose sword is as keen as his of gthe nameless quest, h and hself h the dragon which we must slay *1. songs of the spirit, vol. i, p. 50 *2. ibid. vol. i, p. 54. central, supreme, most formidable, night gathered its garments, drew itself apart; gaunt limbs appear athwart the coprolite, veil the deep agony, display the heart; even as a gloomy sea, wherein dead fishes be, poisonous things, nameless; the eightfold fear, misshapen crab and worm, the intolerable sperm

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rought to man the gnosis of the black flame, also sought the elixir of life, their devouring desires sought to dance widdershins around the circle of flame, those who by dreaming path shared the very blood offered from the cup of az to then empower and envenom our sorcerous spirits. here the witch takes copulation and is given the knowledge of the fell angel, who is to share with her the blood of the dragon offered from the depths of darkness. i am all sexuality. transudation of hecate here the hag or dark moon of hecate (lilith, by the way of crossroads sheds the flesh to go forth to the sabbat. this ecstasy brings spirit un-form, and the desire of her is shown in her familiars and servitors given spirit flesh. the hands of anubis and hekate are caressing those seeking the realm of the ne

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nd made them bear mantles of radiance, made them godlike, whoever looks upon them shall collapse in utter terror! their bodies shall rear up continually and never turn away' she stationed a horned serpent, a mushussudragon, and a lahmu-hero, an ugallu-demon, a rabid dog, and a scorpion-man,aggressive umu-demons, a fish-man, and a bull-man bearing merciless weapons, fearless in battle -enuma elish the dragon of the primal oceans of the abyss opened her veins and filled her children with venom as blood, with a spell cracking the sky with the blackened flame of her will. to raise them as gods which shall master all forms of wolves, serpents and those beasts which prey upon others is the desire of tiamat. what she gave to humanity was never cleansed from the ancient darkness in the subconsciou

rpent. rahab, who makes the orbs of light dark with its presence, a shadow cast upon the self-righteous and weak. as ahriman did he first create the predators of the earth, wolves, serpents, flies, scorpions, did his fire of darkness create the six archdaevas who bring wisdom and power to mankind, against the mindnumbing arch-angels of ahura mazda. was it not jahi whose voice of inspiration rouse the dragon from his slumber, bringing chaos and motion into this world? yet ahriman brings order as well, knowing that stasis is death and the spirit must continually move forward. the adversary s origins are found in both the feminine and masculine, that balance must bring the lively intelligence of existence. here is the sacred cup made from the human skull, to drink of it s elixir is to taste t

ered the creation of the world as a serpent 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 o

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of israel. 2:11 so i came to jerusalem, and was there three days. 2:12 and i arose in the night, i and some few men with me; neither told i [any] man what my god had put in my heart to do at jerusalem: neither [was there any] beast with me, save the beast that i rode upon. 2:13 and i went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire. 2:14 then i went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king s pool: but [there was] no place for the beast [that was] under me to pass. 2:15 then went i up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of th

phet: neither [is there] among us any that knoweth how long. 74:10 o god, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? 74:11 why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck [it] out of thy bosom. 74:12 for god [is] my king of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. 74:13 thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. 74:14 thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces [and] gavest him [to be] meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness. 74:15 thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers. 74:16 the day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. 74:17 thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer

made the lord [which is] my refuge [even] the most high, thy habitation; 91:10 there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. 91:11 for he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. 91:12 they shall bear thee up in [their] hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. 91:13 thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. 91:14 because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will i deliver him: i will set him on high, because he hath known my name. 91:15 he shall call upon me, and i will answer him: i [will be] with him in trouble; i will deliver him, and honour him. 91:16 with long life will i satisfy him, and shew him my salvation. psalm 92 page 361 psalms a psalm [or] so

le moment, until the indignation be overpast. 26:21 for, behold, the lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain. 27:1 in that day the lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that [is] in the sea. 27:2 in that day sing ye unto her, a vineyard of red wine. 27:3 i the lord do keep it; i will water it every moment: lest [any] hurt it, i will keep it night and day. 27:4 fury [is] not in me: who would set the briers [and] thorns against me in battle? i would go through them, i would burn them together. 27:5 or let him take hold of my strength [that] he may make p

e, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow. 43:18 remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. 43:19 behold, i will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? i will even make a way in the wilderness [and] rivers in the desert. 43:20 the beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because i give waters in the wilderness [and] rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen. 43:21 this people have i formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise. 43:22 but thou hast not called upon me, o jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, o israel. 43:23 thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured

eproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings. 51:8 for the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation. 51:9 awake, awake, put on strength, o arm of the lord; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old [art] thou not it that hath cut rahab [and] wounded the dragon? 51:10 [art] thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over? 51:11 therefore the redeemed of the lord shall return, and come with singing unto zion; and everlasting joy [shall be] upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy [and] sorrow and mourning shall flee away. 51:12 i [even] i [am

i will discover the foundations thereof. 1:7 and all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will i lay desolate: for she gathered [it] of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot. 1:8 therefore i will wail and howl, i will go stripped and naked: i will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls. 1:9 for her wound [is] incurable; for it is come unto judah; he is come unto the gate of my people [even] to jerusalem. 1:10 declare ye [it] not at gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of aphrah roll thyself in the dust. 1:11 pass ye away, thou inhabitant of saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of zaanan came not forth in the mourning of beth-ezel

therein: and in that day there shall be no more the canaanite in the house of the lord of hosts. page 555 malachi malachi 1:1 the burden of the word of the lord to israel by malachi. 1:2 i have loved you, saith the lord. yet ye say, wherein hast thou loved us [was] not esau jacob s brother? saith the lord: yet i loved jacob, 1:3 and i hated esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. 1:4 whereas edom saith, we are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the lord of hosts, they shall build, but i will throw down; and they shall call them, the border of wickedness, and, the people against whom the lord hath indignation for ever. 1:5 and your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, the lord will be magnified from the bor

the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: 12:2 and she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. 12:3 and there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. 12:4 and his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. 12:5 and she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto god, and [to] his throne. 12:6 and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of god, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundre

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a positive and active striving to realize the center of self. referring this to the metaphor of the serpent, at the start the undulating ser- pent draws itself inward for protection from the cold. then it seeks to devour itself to appease its hunger. whereas at the circular stage of motion it held its tail in its mouth, in the spiral stage it begins to swallow its tail. this very common symbol of the dragon devouring its tail is always the desire of chaos to manifest itself through the point, and the corresponding urge in manifest being to reunite with the boundless all. to perceive this truth, project ahead mentally the natural consequence of a ser- pent eating its tail, were it possible to carry this process through to its conclusion. eventually it must vanish from the world. where can i

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

e following diagram: the central triangle is occupied by the symbol of universal spirit, or light. around it is a larger triangle whose three points hold the sun, moon and earth. congruent with the triangles of sun and earth are triangles that hold venus and mars. congruent with the moon and earth are jupiter and saturn. congruent with sun and moon are the lunar nodes, called the head and tail of the dragon. the lunar nodes are formed by the intersection of the path of the sun with the path of the moon, and thus are composed of the symbols for these two bodies. the traditional symbols for the nodes (q and u) have been cut in half to better dis- play their composition. mercury is located between the nodes of the moon. above mercury is the vari- ant that shares the same base, the cross of th

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as the third heaven made of hyacinth pillars 26, in whom the elders are become strong; which i have prepared for my own righteousness, saith the lord; whose long continuance shall be appendix a: the keys as bucklers to the stooping dragon, and like unto the harvest of a widow. how many are there which remain in the glory of the earth, which are, and shall not see death, until this house fall and the dragon sink! come away, for the thunders have spoken; come away, for the crowns of the temple and the coat of him that is, and was, and shall be crowned, are divided. come, appear to the terror of the earth, and to our comfort, and of such as are prepared. analysis of the eighth key the "midday" signifies both the brightness of noon and the quarter of the south. the "third heaven" may refer to

pillars each. within this house, the elders "are become strong" the "long continuance" of the pillars that support the vault of heaven in the south (for this is the image they evoke) makes them bucklers, or shields, against the "stooping dragon" some versions of the key give "stooping dragons" 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 ca

lord god who judgeth her (rev. 18:7-8) coronzon is prevented for a time from seizing his prey by the barrier of the firmament supported upon the hyacinth pillars. it is evident that this frustration will not last long. the rhetorical question, really more of a statement, asks "how many are there which remain in the glory of the earth, which are, and shall not see death until this house fall, and the dragon sink" this notion of imminent destruction is a common feature of apocalyptic literature. appendix a: the keys 207 it is not clear if the sinking of the dragon refers to his descent upon the earth or his ultimate fall into the bottomless pit (rev. 20:z-3. however, the final part of the key seems to summon the dragon "come, appear to the terror of the earth, and to our comfort, and of suc

VOX SABBATUM

light. now lucifer would develop the aspect of his being called noctifer, thus ahriman sprang forth through his shadow. noctifer was awakened from a slumber by the first bride of adam, called az lilith. she was fiery, bestial, vampyric and a demoness of insatiable lust. she awoke ahriman (or noctifer) and by this stimulation he kissed her, causing menstruation. she joined soon with shaitan/samael the dragon and spawned cain. ahriman or noctifer wandered the earth and learned its many secrets; he could do so with speed and cunning. he taught further in the form of azazel men and women about warfare, weapons, armor to the opposites such as make up and sorcery. azazel was now shaitan, his shadow doctrine of witchcraft was of ahriman the dragon, shaitan had now transformed into a sense of cont

ecame set the prince of darkness. set or shaitan had impacted the earth in its wave of creation, of knowledge and prowess did humanity excel. shaitan then moved its consciousness both of darkness and light into the empyrean and infernal (chthonic) realms of above and below. on the earth lucifer or azal ucel has manifested as a symbolic initiator through cain the witch father, born of the union of the dragon and the whore, tubal-qayin as he is often called is the nomad, the sorcerous initiator of those who seek the black light of iblis. for the witches sabbat initiate, lucifer is the black flame of intelligence and will; he represents the foundation of the great work of becoming; he is the anthropomorphic power of self-deification and self-reliance. lucifer exists in the aethyric abode, in

yaltabaoth is the deific force with a mask of a beast and an angel. let this invocation be most holy and the solar logos shall manifest through the baphometic wisdom of darkness. this calling should be conducted in the high rite of the celestial or luciferian sabbat, called often empyrean or of the highest aethyr or heavens. this is the self-focused rite of the magician becoming as the adversary, the dragon-angel awakening of the isolate intellect. you are essentially becoming as the prince of darkness through the highest rites of theurgy and magick. invoke with your entire essence, with every fiber of your being. the chthonic conjuration that which raises the self towards the aethyric realms as i rise above the earth, i conjure the circle of ageless being, leviathan to be as my chariot. e

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

and all knowledgeable, the age of one thousand aged crones, infinite, youth maiden and hag. approach the bride of chaos in honesty, seeking her cold kiss and warmth in the sabbat fire, where you shall drink of both her skull cup of menstrual blood and from the golden chalice of the beast, the life of the sun22. cain cain or tubal-cain is the anthropomorphic child of the spiritual union of samael (the dragon) and lilith (the mother of demons) through adam and eve. 22 in some christian gnostic texts, such as the apocryphon of john cain is called the sun. vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 34 cain is the wanderer, the first murderer who tasted blood and became as the off spring of his spiritual mother and father. cain is also the black smith of the forge, a myth which originates in the middle ea

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position of light to darkness, but later the sun-god became the symbol of right and truth as well as of light, and set the symbol of sin and wickedness as well as of darkness, and ultimately the nature myth was forgotten, and the fight between the two gods became the type of the everlasting war which good men wage against sin. in coptic literature we have the well-known legend of the slaughter of the dragon by st. george, and this is nothing but a christian adaptation of the legend of horus and set. after these things horus, son of ra, and horus, son of isis, each took the form of a mighty man, with the face and body of a hawk, and each wore the red and white crowns, and each carried a spear and chain. in these forms the two gods slew the remnant of the enemies. now by some means or other

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

he entire universe, mary or virgo, nature. these ten sephiroth live within our being and are our inner solar system. the tarot is intimately related with esoteric astrology and with initiation. arcanum 10 this is the first hour of apollonius. the study of transcendental occultism arcanum 11 this is the second hour of apollonius. power. the abysses of fire. the astral virtues form a circle through the dragons and the fire (study of the occult forces. arcanum 12 third hour of apollonius. the serpents, the channels, and the fire. sexual alchemy (the work with kundalini) sexual magic. luego los siete sephirotes infer-iores van en el orden siguiente: chesed j piter. el yo divino, atman. jero-gl fico primitivo; un seno. la cuarta carta del tarot: la misericordia. la l mina, el emperador. geburah

o, aparece su mujer en los mundos superiores como estando pre ada y sufre los dolores de parto. cuando vio jes s a su madre, y al disc pulo a quien l amaba, que estaba presente, dijo a su madre: mujer, he ah tu hijo. despu s dijo al disc pulo: he ah tu madre. y desde aquella hora el disc pulo la recibi en su casa. juan 19:26-27 25 the word john can be rearranged as follows: i.e.o.u.a.n, the verb (the dragon of wisdom. indeed, the woman is the mother of the verb and the woman officiates upon the altar of the blessed goddess mother of the world. now brethren, know that the venerable priestess of your divine mother kundalini is your spouse. brothers and sisters, pray and meditate a great deal to your divine mother kundalini as follows: invocation oh isis! mother of the cosmos, root of love, t

t traitor lives within the astral body. the second traitor is the demon of the mind; that traitor lives within the mental body. the third traitor is the demon of evil will; that traitor lives within the body of willpower (causal body. the bible cites these three traitors in the apocalypse of saint john [in revelations: 16: 13-14: and i saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet; for they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of god almighty. arcano vi bienamados hermanos de mi alma: hoy vamos a estudiar el arcano seis del tarot. amad simos: recordad el sello de sal

the pair of opposites of holy alchemy positive= negative active= passive osiris= isis baal bel= astarte ishtar shiva= parvati husband= wife father= mother sun= moon fire= water heat= cold volatile= fix sulfur= mercury chinese alchemy heaven is masculine, yang and its element is fire. the earth is feminine, yin and its element is water. in the taoist doctrine, we find white tantrism. the yin-yang, the dragon and the tiger are the axis of taoism. according to taoist interpretation, the yin- yang is the outcome of t ai chi, the prima matter of the universe and creation emerges from the sexual union of this pair of opposites. maithuna (sexual magic) exists within the white tantrism of india and tibet. the white tantrism of buddhism, chinese taoism and the legitimate tibetan yogas, practice the

ne made of gold and the other made of silver. if we carefully study the esoteric content of this arcanum, we will discover the perfect alchemy. we need to work with the gold and with the silver, with the sun and with the moon in order to incarnate the star, this star has eight points. indeed, the star of eight points is venus. whosoever attains the venusian initiation has the bliss of incarnating the dragon of wisdom (the inner christ, the arcanum 17 represents the hope. the gnostic student should be very careful with the work in the laboratorium oratorium. since the betrayal of the sanctuary of vulcan, the doctrine of ahriman was spread everywhere; this is the doctrine of the nicholaitans that transforms human beings into disgusting sub-lunar demons. the adepts of the left hand color thei

am cristo, el hijo del hombre. 120 the christ i it is necessary that our gnostic disciples understand that the resplendent dragon of wisdom (the inner christ) of every man who comes to this world, has no individuality. the latter is the product of the i, and the christ is not any kind of i. thus, it is absurd to talk about the christ i, when indeed the internal christ does not have any kind of i. the dragon of wisdom transcends any kind of i and is beyond any individuality. the adorable is absolutely infinite and impersonal. solar internal bodies indeed, present humans still do not possess their internal vehicles. the present astral, mental and causal vehicles used by humans are nothing more than mental forms that we need to disintegrate. those mental forms constitute the human specter wit

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his relationship is demonstrated in the equation 9x9=81. by gematria, this points to the fullness of this process at the level of individuation, because eighty-one is the numeration of the word anoki, which means 7. it is only after the separation from the mother, however, that this "i" can be born, and many myths reflect this archetypal individuation process in the hero stories of the slaying of the dragon or serpent, often said by jungians to represent the mother. the word gev, which means middle or interior, also has a value of nine. it really means "the center of things which preserves. and organizes (d'olivet, p. 312. this is perhaps one of the most important functions of moon consciousness, according to case. the moon key in the tarot (see figure 11-e) is called the corporeal intelli

ch the word becomes known. daath, we know, represents knowledge, or the combined concrete expression of wisdom and understanding, its parents on the tree, chokmah and binah. allan bennett, an early golden dawn member, made a penetrating analysis of daath's nature in an equinox article many years ago: when the fall had occurred and the sephira malkuth had been cut off from the tree by the folds of the dragon, there was added unto the tree daath, the knowledge, as the eleventh sephira, to preserve intact the ten-ness of the sephiroth. showing how by that very eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil should come the saving of mankind, for daath is the priceless gift of knowledge and intellect whereby comes salvation. wherefore also is eleven the key number of the great sa

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began to experiment even more with "their" saurian/reptilian bodies, totally infiltrating the minds and very cells of these "thunder lizards, to such a great extent or degree that the two essentially became so integrated as to become indistinguishable [as suggested in revelation chapter 12, regarding the war in heaven between michael- the designated leader of the ultimate warriors of spirit, and "the dragon" or "the serpent- the self-proclaimed dictator of the ultimate warriors of flesh, conducting experiments by re-arranging the reptilian molecular structure and dna over time and cross-breeding the most agile, intelligent, and most "humanoid" reptilian sub-species with each other [some of which actually possessed "semi opposable" thumbs, until finally they were able to "mold" a reptilian

auk projects have been very useful to them in the area of tearing holes in the fabric of space-time that separates our dimension from theirs. and since these types of entities feed off of the collective darkness of humanity, the only real way to defeat them is to first defeat the "enemy within. try whatever method of resistance you will, but i will tell you what has worked for me. like st. george the dragonslayer of old, i have taken up the sword, the shield, and the altar of the "cross. this symbol of the marriage/union of the creator's perfect justice with the creator's perfect mercy is, i have learned, a weapon 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 heav

he sword, the shield, and the altar of the "cross. this symbol of the marriage/union of the creator's perfect justice with the creator's perfect mercy is, i have learned, a weapon 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 t

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

e head of the woman, xii. i. 24 elders around the throne, on 24 seats, iv. 4-10. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 42 months, the gentiles tread over the outer court of temple, xi. 2. 42 months, the 7 headed beast to have power to blaspheme xiii. 5. 144 cubits, the height of the walls of the new jerusalem, xxi. 17. 666, the number of the beast. 1000 years, the dragon bound for, xx. 2-3. 1000 years, souls of the faithful to live and reign, xx. 4. 1260 days, the two witnesses prophesy, xi. 3. 1260 days, the woman to be in the wilderness, xii. 6. 12,000 of each tribe chosen. 12,000 furlongs, length of the sides of the new jerusalem, xxi. 16. 144,000 chosen from the whole of the tribes. 100,000,000, or ten thousand times ten thousand angels, round the t

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spirit reveal thy essence as azal'ucel, the fiery djinn of change and rebellion! cain, bringer of the cauldron of change and self transformation do protect my very being of self, that i may grow and ascend in our family born of witch blood pure. i seek the coils of leviathan, the darkend grave earth of ahriman and the dream plane of lucifer. allow the gates to open before me" i encircle myself in the dragon's coils, the beast of my father arises within! i hold the skull of abel, being the vessel of my famulus! i hold the hammer of the forge, which i spark the cunning fire of becoming! my eyes hold the desert tales of ages forgotten, while my flesh fades my spirit is immortal! i wear the crimson caul of my mother, lilith, who speaks with me through dreams! i carry the serpent's skin of azal

rning desert sands and the sun, sortha'n-din- thy stave and fork unto the flame that is my soul shall be illuminated in this blackened light. shaitan the adversary, my soul enflamed! arogogoruabrao- thiaf! 5 east- lucifer revealed as azazel, bringer of illumination and love, who resides in shadow and light, cover and cloak my spirit with thy twelve wings, serpent skin covered from the shedding of the dragon, bring now forth the serpent essence of my soul! melek tau'us, beautiful spirit of fire, i summon thee forth! photeth north- set-heh, isolator and strengthening force of storms, that chaos which i have tempered in thy elegance of darkness. i go forth and become as the eye of algol, separate and alone in my being. typhon, present unto me the tcham knive from which i shall stand forth in

will. set is the mask of azazel, the lord of flame. within witchcraft cain is considered the offspring of samael and lilith, thus being the same as baphomet. the angelic/demon higher spirit of cain is azal'ucel, which is reflected in this very rite of self-empowerment. it is through set that all upon the luciferian path pass through, in the skin of cain or otherwise. west- a calling to leviathan, the dragon essence which is immortal, or eternal. the encircling of leviathan is a will directed focus of the individuals being or "i" announcing the forced antinomianian separation from the natural order, and through leviathan grows strong in this circle of timeless being. the mysteries of the depths is revealed as knowledge and wisdom of the subconscious. by tapping into the subconscious, one is

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 in any moralistic way, however that samael is the solar and aggressive force of becoming. when one invokes samael, they become the dragon of darkness. the dragon is in reference to the primal force of the reptilian mind, cold and calculating while the darkness is itself the hidden source of knowledge. lilith is known as the queen of demons in hebrew lore, but also she has manifested throughout different cultures and times. kali is one of the 17 names of lilith, represented as the devouring black mother of india, who absor

rpart of tiamat, the ourabouris, tanin iver, the blind dragon. it is by all secrets now known the mystical marriage of daemonic opposites was through the unconscious link of leviathan, whom brought both spirits together in union. leviathan is the timeless aspect of being, as by the fall along with lucifer leviathan perceived the self and by entering the great oceans centered itself in the mind of the dragon. leviathan is thus timeless and is within the subconscious of man and woman. the symbol of entering and becoming is thus summarized in the following way: leviathan (the gateway -timelessness, subconscious power, immortal aspects of the essential self samael (the sun known as asmodeus -force, sorcery, fire. samael is the one of darkness (knowledge hidden) whom rode eve and injected filth

hom appears in the form of a beautiful woman with the lower half animal like, hairy and feet of a large bird. lilith is the gateway to the sabbat and to the arts of lesser and greater black magick. lilith is also the lunar blood covered goddess, revealed in thelemic lore as babalon. samael (the sun daemonic and solar phallic force, an extension of set -magick and solar creative sorcery. samael is the dragon daemon of warlocks and wizards, the manifestation aspect of daemonic becoming. samael is the mastery of the earth and positive creation by knowledge into wisdom. samael opens the gateway of the knowledge of the watchers, and all fallen angels. revealed in thelemic lore as the beast 666. the three aspects unified creates baphomet, or abu-fi-hamat, the black head of wisdom translated also

he earth and positive creation by knowledge into wisdom. samael opens the gateway of the knowledge of the watchers, and all fallen angels. revealed in thelemic lore as the beast 666. the three aspects unified creates baphomet, or abu-fi-hamat, the black head of wisdom translated also as father of wisdom. it is because of this that the union of samael and lilith, the marriage of opposites, through the dragon leviathan that wisdom grows from knowledge. 24 the ritual of infernal union solitary ritual based on the union of opposites. black robe, candles: black and red. sigil of infernal union may be used upon the altar wall as well as the altar itself. the sigil of the union of the beast 666 and babalon may be used as well. this symbol is based on the classic sigil originally designed by eliph

ow through me, manifest in my being, we shall join as one. by the names of power: ar-o-go-go-ru-abrao, pur, iafth, oo, ar, thiaf, a-thele-ber-set, phitheta-soe! i summon thee, revealed as set, whom is the sun and darkness in union! envison now the fire of spirit, which is swirling within your very self, encircling lilith and moving throughout your consciousness. take now the athame and focus upon the dragon-angel, leviathan. force of the subconscious, whom i call the outside, i do summon thee to bring the sun and the moon, samael and lilith, in glorious union! i do will this union within my self, that i may speak the words unheard from the profane, and my will manifest through the gates of apep! 28 hear the word of power: mriodom! allow now the self to experience grand ecstasy, that throug

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that move. unlike 164 our earth waves, they seem to be waves from a center. it is a symbol of generative force and is veh. the waves come from a common center, but now there comes an opposing force like a black border, which seems to prevent the outcoming of the waves. the waves are much lighter and brighter; they are more like tongues than waves and are curved and short. they seem to flow where the dragon encircles the astral plane and become merged in it" the only common denominator in both visions here is the central force or focal point where the jewel or waves emanate. the black border is not present in my vision, though i have often heard of the mongols called the "black horde" i may be stretching a point slightly by this inference. vision of enochian letter d' or 'gal "encounter a

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entered into the knowledge of evil. therefore, in the allegorical account of the creation in genesis, it is said that man is checked from putting forth his hand to take of the tree of life, so as not to involve the higher sephiroth in the "fall" which (he being unbalanced in himself) would only have precipitated disaster. in the 4=7 diagram we find represented the fall and the consequent rise of the dragon, which in the 3=8 grade is represented coiled beneath malkuth in the kingdom of the shells; but it only raises its head to the sephiroth by right of the crowns of the kings of edom. these latter represent the worlds of unbalanced force, before the creation is established. furthermore, they symbolize the places of the sephiroth which are hollowed, and before the light fills the cavities

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