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, allowing the tips of the thumbs to touch. it alludes to seeking for guidance in the darkness. although this grip is lesser used, the hand shake of this order is as follows (shows it) it alludes to the symbol of infinity in the eternal light of our order and the four lettered name of god. the grand word is har-par-krat and is whispered by alternate syllables from mouth to ear. it is the title of the egyptian god of silence and should ever remind you of the strict silence you have sworn to maintain. the password is_ which will be periodically changed at each equinox so that a member who has resigned, demitted, or been expelled from the order may be in ignorance of the existing password. i now place you between the two pillars of hermes and solomon in the symbolic gateway of hidden wisdom (

triune manifestation of the spirit of life, the 'three mothers' of the sepher yetzirah, the three alchemical principles of nature, the sulphur, the mercury and the salt, and each pillar is surmounted by its own light-bearer, though veiled from the material world. the hieroglyphical figures upon the pillars are taken from the vignettes of the 17th and the 125th chapters of the 'ritual of the dead' the egyptian 'per-m-hru. this celebrated and most ancient work is a collection of mystical hymns and addresses in the form of a species of ceremonial ritual for the use of the soul after death, to enable him to unite himself to the body of osiris the redeemer, thenceforth in the ritual is he no longer called the soul but he is called the 'osiris' of whom he is a member "i am the vine, ye are the b

ding and more ancient text. according to the pre-cited authorities this gloss was mixed up with the text as early as 2250 b.c. at a period long anterior to the era of joseph and to that of the trojan war, and the circumstances of its possessing a written commentary, even at this early date shows that much greater antiquity of the actual text. the especial title of the 17th chapter is 'the book of the egyptian faith' and its subject is a sort of hymn of the osirified soul, which may be partially and succinctly reproduced as follows: the words of the departed spirit, osiris- son of god i am temu, the setting sun- i am the only being in the firmament. 38 i am ra, the rising sun, i have passed from the gate of death unto life. the sun's power beginneth again, after he hath set he riseth again

udes to the secret elixir of self mastery and success which is persistance. no matter how often we fail, we will persist because we are acting in good faith and with a strong and determined will. the grand word with feet toe to heel and fingers locked in a sign of brotherly and sisterly harmony and love, lean forward to whisper the grand word of the neophyte grade in each other's ear. the name of the egyptian god of silence, harparkrat, is then uttered in seperate syllables, harr-paar-krat. all of the above is performed smoothly and without awkwardness. examine the drawings and practice to become proficient so that 48 when the opportunity arises, you will be able to share this greeting with your fellow brother and sister. as the order grows to its world wide status and develops relations w

pillars of hermes, seth and solomon. in the ninth chapter of the ritual of the dead, they are called the pillars of shu, the pillars of the gods of the dawning light, and also the northern and southern columns of the gate of the hall of truth. ruach elohim formulates the ineffable name of god at creation. this is symbolized by the black and white cubical bases of the pillars. prayers and hymns in the egyptian book of the dead, such as pert-em-hru, are designed to unite man with osiris the redeemer. extended afterlife information is given in this lecture. one should read it several times throughout personal growth to fully understand it. the complete text may be found in the golden dawn by israel regardie. the four fold breath the four fold breath will help you prepare for meditation and yo

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en is given in the following manner advance your left foot about six inches touching mine, side to side and toe to heel now extend your right hand as if to grip mine, but miss it intentionally; again extend it and seize mine by the fingers only. it alludes to the seeking for guidance in darkness. the grand word is har-par-krat whispered by alternate syllables mouth to ear thus. it is the title of the egyptian god of silence and should ever remind you of the strict silence you have sworn to maintain. the password is (blank) which will be periodically changed at each equinox so that a member who has resigned, demitted, or been expelled from the order, may be in ignorance of the existing password. i now place you between the two pillars of hermes and solomon in the symbolical gateway of occul

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equally over cold and moist natures, and the passive elements of earth and water. the four hebrew yods refer to the four letters of the holy name reconstituting the destroyed world from the waters. it is to be noted that the symbol of the sign pisces is formed of the two lunar crescents of gedulah and geburah bound together, and thus shows the lunar nature of the sign. the dogs are the jackals of the egyptian anubis, guarding the gates of the east and of the west, shown by the two towers, between which lies the path of all the heavenly bodies ever rising in the east and setting in the west. the crayfish is the sign cancer, and was anciently the scarabus or khephra, the emblem of the sun below the horizon as he ever is when the moon is increasing above. also when the sun is in the sign pisc

d. hiero: heg: pract: move to the west of altar. hiero: before you upon the altar is the 17th key of the tarot, which symbolically resumes these ideas. the large star in the center of the heavens has seven principal and 14 secondary rays, and thus represents the heptad multiplied by the triad which yields 21 the number of the divine name, eheieh which as you already know is attached to kether. in the egyptian sense it is sirius, the dog star of isis sothis; around it are the stars of the seven planets, each with its sevenfold counterchanged operation. the nude female figure with the star of the heptagram on her brow is the synthesis of isis, of nephthys and of athor. she also represents the planet venus, through whose sphere the influences of chesed descend. she is aima, binah and tebunah

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

the festival of akitu, or zag-mug, which marked the rising of the waters of the tigris and the euphrates and the coming of the spring rains, to bring fertility, at the spring equinox. like innana, she is a goddess of fertility, restoration, renewal, birth and the life cycles; she also represents power with responsibility and necessary sacrifice for future gain, but above all transformation. isis the egyptian goddess isis is the most powerful and frequently invoked goddess in formal magick. she is mother, healer and the faithful wife who annually restored her consort osiris to life, thus magically causing the nile to flood and fertility to return to the land. she is the patroness of magick and spell-casting, having tricked ra the sun god into giving her his secrets. some accounts say she w

stress and sorrow, silver candles can remove negativity, promote inner stability and bring to the fore your hidden potential. silver candles are excellent for scrying, especially by the full moon, and for all magick involving the female life and for female fertility. silver candles are best used on a monday. gold gold is the colour of the sun and is associated with the solar deities, for example, the egyptian ra. in ancient greece, helios, the sun god, was worshipped each dawn as he emerged in the east and drove his chariot of winged horses around the sky before plunging into the ocean in the west at sunset. gold is potent for worldly achievement, wealth and recognition, for long life, ambitious schemes and money-making rituals that require an instant or substantial return. the colour of m

your altar or on any flat surface, together with your three chosen oils (or you can work with a single fragrance if you prefer* to the south of it, set your money pot with the lid open and your coins* place your symbols of abundance on the tray to the north of the dish* arrange your gold, blue or beeswax candles in a triangle (this sacred shape represents the triple goddess, the holy trinity and the egyptian isis, osiris and horus. the candle at the apex of the triangle should be in the north, with the other two forming the base to the south, so that the triangle creates a protective enclosure. if you have room, set your candles in holders on the floor or in candlesticks on small tables or chairs at each of the points and have the altar in the centre. this is my preferred method and means

roman goddess of the moon, the hunt and fertility. though, like her greek counterpart, artemis, she was worshipped originally as the maiden aspect of the moon, in time she came to represent the full moon also. sometimes the triple lunar goddess of modern wicca is represented by the classical deities, diana (the greek artemis, selene and hecate, being maiden, mother and wise woman or crone. isis, the egyptian goddess who was both moon goddess and mother of the sun, is also a potent focus. if you are going to use a specific goddess form, study images of her in the days before the ritual or if you have a favourite statue hold it for a few minutes before bedtime. i have a wooden figure of the moon mother goddess sold to me by a moroccan guy who said she was a patroness of his village. whether

ABRAMELIN1

was becoming discouraged and sick at heart with disappointed hope. like his great namesake, the forefather of the hebrew race, he had not in vain left his home, his ur of the chaldees, that he might at length discover that light of initiated wisdom, for which his soul had cried aloud within him for so many years. this culmination of introduction vi his wanderings was his meeting with abra-melin, the egyptian mage. from him he received that system of magical instruction and practice which forms the body of the second and third books of this work. in the manuscript original this name is spelt in several different ways, i have noted this in the text wherever it occurs. the variations are: abra-melin, abramelin, abramelim, and abraha-melin. from these i have selected the orthography abra-meli

uous a part of the sacred rites; and from which even to the present day, so many recipes of magic have descended. for we must make a very careful distinction between the really ancient egyptian magic, and the arabian ideas and traditions prevailing in egypt in recent times. i think it is the learned lenormant who points out in his work on chaldean magic, that the great difference between this and the egyptian was that the magician of the former school indeed invoked the spirits, but that the latter allied himself with and took upon himself the characters and names of the gods to command the spirits by, in his exorcism; which latter mode of working would not only imply on his part a critical knowledge of the nature and power of the gods; but also the affirmation of his reliance upon them, a

his holy angels! the sacred magic 32 end of the first book. of abramelin the mage 33 footnotes to book one 1 des exemples et des circonstances. 2 d acheminement. 3 i consider this a truer orthography of the word than the usual rendering of cabala. 4 r el 5 this is identical with the oriental doctrine that ignorance is itself evil and unhappiness. 6 yet the true qabalah is undoubtedly derived from the egyptian and eastern wisdom. 7 i.e. from the angels. 8 this name is spelt abramelin in some places and abramelim in others. i have consequently carefully in all cases put the orthography as it there occurs in the ms. 9 vormatie; that is to say, the district under the government of the town of worms called in latin vormatia anciently. 10 in the previous chapter he says that he remained in this

ABRAMELIN3

quare of c f squares. negot= perhaps heb. nhg, he leads. eraso= probably greek, sec. pers. sing. from eromai for eiromai, to demand or interrogate. garag= perhaps from heb. gro, to diminish. omare, perhaps greek, an assembly or synthesis. togen= perhaps from greek toge, why or wherefore when used in an adverbial sense. no. g is a square of b g squares. nasi= hebrew nsi= my banner or symbol. apis= the egyptian sacred bull. sipa perhaps from sph= hebrew to consume. isan= perhaps from heb. ishn= to sleep. no. h is a square of c f squares. gohen should perhaps be cohen= a jewish priest. orare, latin= to pray. hasah, heb. hsh= to keep silence. eraro perhaps from heb. arr to curse. nehog= perhaps heb. nhg= to lead. no. i is a gnomonic square of j squares out of c f squares. admon- perhaps from h

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

will do to show how the editor found relationships to be valid and even startling. azatot is frequently mentioned in the grim pages of the cthulhu mythos, and appears in the necronomicon as azag-thoth, a combination of two words, the first sumerian and the second coptic, which gives us a clue as to its identity. azag in sumerian means "enchanter" or "magician; thoth in coptic is the name given to the egyptian god of magick and wisdom, tahuti, who was evoked by both the golden dawn and by crowley himself (and known to the greeks as hermes, from whence we get "hermetic. azag-thoth is, therefore, a lord of magicians, but of the "black" magicians, or the sorcerers of the "other side. there is a seeming reference to shub niggurath in the necronomicon, in the name of a sumerian deity, the "answe

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

counts as nought, owing to the nature of his doctrine. the reference to their "living not" is to be found in liber 418. the word "perdurabo" means "i will endure unto the end. the allusion is explained in the note. siddartha, or gotama, was the name of the last budda. krishna was the principal incarnation of the indian vishnu, the preserver, the principal expounder of vedantism. tahuti, or thoth, the egyptian god of wisdom. mosheh, moses, the founder of the hebrew system. dionysus, probably an ecstatic from the east. mahmud, mohammed. all these were men; their godhead is the result of mythopoeia. notes (5) masters of the temple, whose grade has the mystic number 6= 1+ 2+ 3 (6) these are not eight, as apparent; for lao-tzu counts as 0 (7) the legend of "christ" is only a corruption and perv

d changelessness, what hast thou to do with death? the bird of individuality is ecstasy; so also is its death. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 40 in love the individuality is slain; who loves not love? love death therefore, and long eagerly for it. die daily [42] commentary( iota-sigma) this seems a comment on the previous chapter; the stag-beetle is a reference the kheph-ra, the egyptian god of midnight, who bears the sun through the underworld; but it is called the stag-beetle to emphasise his horns. horns are the universal hieroglyph of energy, particularly of phallic energy. the 16th key of the tarot is "the blasted tower. in this chapter death is regarded as a form of marriage. modern greek peasants, in many cases, cling to pagan belief, and suppose that in death

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

rm of heru- behutet (horus of behutet, a solar-martial form of horus symbolized by the winged disk. heru- ra-ha is not a historical egyptian deity but is mentioned in cap. iii of the book of the law and is said to combine hoor-par-kraat (horus the child) and ra-hoor-khuit (ra-horus of the two horizons. line 6: on was not an egyptian deity but a transliteration into hebrew( a or wa) of the name of the egyptian solar cult-centre called heliopolis by the greeks. the confusion arose through a misreading by freemasons of genesis xli, 45 and 50 where joseph married asenath daughter of poti-phera priest of on. on spelt u as a formula is another matter entirely; see col. clxxxvii. hrumachis is probably a variant spelling of harmachis (hor-maku, said by budge (gods of the egyptians vol. i p. 470) t

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

yet in the fourth part, which begins "therefore do thou come forth unto me, it is not really the magician who is addressing the god; it is the god who hears the far-off utterance of the magician. if this invocation has been correctly performed, the words of the fourth part will sound distant and strange. it is surprising that a dummy (so the magus now appears to himself) should be able to speak! the egyptian gods are so complete in their nature, so perfectly spiritual and yet so perfectly material, that this one invocation is sufficient. the god bethinks him that the spirit of mercury should now appear to the magician; and it is so. this egyptian formula is therefore to be preferred to the hierarchical formula of the hebrews with its tedious prayers, conjurations, and curses. it will be n

lic, or enochian. its source has hitherto baffled research, but it is a language and not a jargon, for it possesses a structure of its own, and there are traces of grammar and syntax. however this may be, it "works. even the beginner finds that "things happen" when he uses it: and this is an advantage- or disadvantage- shared by no other type of language. the rest need skill. this needs prudence! the egyptian invocations are much purer, but their meaning has not been sufficiently studied by persons magically competent. we possess a number of invocations in greek of every degree of excellence; in latin but few, and those of inferior quality. it will be noticed that in every case the conjurations are very sonorous, 68 and there is a certain magical voice in which they should be recited. this

nce, and practised until the connection 79 between them and the mental attitude which they represent appears "necessary" ii the principal movement in the circle is circumambulation<magician went barefoot. this would imply his intention to make intimate contact with his circle. but he may wear sandals, for the ankh is a sandal-strap; it is born by the egyptian gods to signify their power of going, that is their eternal energy. by shape the ankh (or crux ansata) suggests the formula by which this going is effected in actual practice> this has a very definite result, but one which is very difficult to describe. an analogy is the dynamo. circumambulation properly performed in combination with the sign of horus (or "the enterer) on passing the

stematized attempt to decipher the jargon of hermetic treatises. we need not enter upon an historical discussion. let it suffice to say that the word alchemy is an arabic term consisting of the article "al" and the adjective "khemi" which means "that which pertains to egypt<egyptian matter. the assumption is that the mohammedan grammarians held traditionally that the art was derived from that wisdom of the egyptians which was the boast of moses, plato, and pythagoras, and the source of their illumination. modern research (by profane scholars) leaves it still doubtful as to whether alchemical treatises should be classified as mystical, magical, medical, or chemica

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

drogen and chlorine, sodium and oxygen, and so on. any reaction whatever, any phenomenon, is a phenomenon of "love, as you will understand when i come to explain to you the meaning of the word "point-event. but love has to be "under will" if it is to be properly directed. you must find your true will, and make all your actions subservient to the one great purpose. rahoor is the sun god; tahuti is the egyptian mercury; kephra is the sun at midnight. about your problems; what i have to do is to try to teach you to think clearly. you will be immensely stimulated by having all the useless trimmings stripped from your thinking apparatus. for instance, i don't think you know the first principles of logic. you apparently take up a more or less christian attitude, but at the same time you like ver

no difference (al i, 4. but one name, or system of names, may be more convenient either (a) to you personally or (b) to the work you are at. e.g. i have magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 32 very little sympathy with jewish theology or ritual; but the qabalah is so handy and congenial that i use it more than almost any- or all the others together- for daily use and work. the egyptian theogony is the noblest, the most truly magical, the most bound to me (or rather i to it) by some inmost instinct, and by the memory of my incarnation as ankh-f-n-khonsu, that i use it (with its graeco-phoenician child) for all work of supreme import. why stamp my vitals, madam! the abramelin operation itself turned into this form before i could so much as set to work on it! like the

ly radiant shape of spinoza! this latter philosopher, in respect at least of his pantheism, represents fairly enough the fundamental thesis of the white tradition. almost the first observation that we have to make is that this white tradition is hardly discoverable outside europe. it appears first of all in the legend of dionysus (in this connection read carefully browning's apollo and the fates) the egyptian tradition of osiris is not dissimilar. the central idea of the white school is that, admitted that "everything is sorrow" for the profane, the initiate has the means of transforming it to "everything is joy. there is no question of any ostrich-ignoring of fact, as in christian science. there is not even any more or less sophisticated argument about the point of view altering the situa

ises, etc. also special supplements such as the vision and the voice; translation of eliphas l vi's the key of the mysteries; sepher sephiroth; h. p. blavatsky's the voice of the silence, with a commentary by fr. o.m, etc, etc. vol. iii, 3- the equinox of the gods vol. iii, 4- eight lectures on yoga- the deepest book written on the subject of yoga. vol. iii, 5- the book of thoth- a masterpiece on the egyptian tarot, with appendices, and designs with an entirely new pack of tarot cards, executed by frieda harris. goetia, the- the most intelligible of the mediaeval rituals of evocation. contains also the favourite invocation by the master therion. magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 336 heart of the master, the- a sublime masterpiece, describing a vision given upon th

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

elve and thirty. mohammed disappeared into a cave. buddha left his palace, and went for a long while into the desert. each of them, perfectly silent up to the time of the disappearance, came back and immediately began to preach a new law. this is so curious that it leaves us to inquire whether the histories of other great teachers contradict or confirm. moses led a quiet life until his slaying of the egyptian. he then flees into the land of midian, and we hear nothing of what he did there, yet immediately on his return he turns the whole place upside down. later on, too, he absents himself on mount sinai for a few days, and comes back with the tables of the law in his hand. st. paul (again, after his adventure on the road to damascus, goes into the desert of arabia for many years, and on h

another example from this rich storehouse of magick lore. little bo peep she lost her sheep, and couldn't tell where to find them. leave them alone! and they'll come home, dragging their tails behind them "bo" is the root meaning light, from which spring such words as bo-tree, bodhisattva, and buddha. and "peep" is apep, the serpent apophis. this poem therefore contains the same symbol as that in the egyptian and hebrew bibles. the snake is the serpent of initiation, as the lamb is the saviour. this ancient one, the wisdom of eternity, sits in its old anguish awaiting the redeemer. and this holy verse triumphantly assures us that there is no need for anxiety. the saviours will come one after the other, at their own good pleasure, and as they may be needed, and drag their tails, that is to

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

d rhg to make strife; contend hrg locusts hbr) to kill grh abominable )rz multitude bwr hole rx cedar zr) 209 chief seer or prophet (hence abra-melin) h)rb) reward, profit, prize hrg) to delay, tarry; behind (prep) rx) way xr) dispersed rzb sojourned, dwelt; whelp rwg oppressed brz ornament, splendour, honour; the supernal benignity; hadar (the hebrew version of the syriac hadad, gthe sun h, from the egyptian hadit; see 156& i.r.q. 994) rdh 210 adam primus: the first man (see 607) rhd) choice rxb pass on, fly xrb to decide, determine rzg to dwell; circle, cycle; generation rwd to conceive hrh a joining of words; incantations; to conjoin; a brother rbx a sword brx n.o.x (liber vii, 1:40; liber 333 caps. 1& 29) c( n points, pricks, dots mydwqn amulet, magic square (mq giants mylpn rushing wa

n the legend) pyb) mryx 352 the exalted light hl(m rw) long of nose (i.e. merciful: a title of the supreme god (cf. 362) myp) kr) lightnings, flashings myqrb an approach nbrq 353 five h#mx the secret of hwhy is to his fearers (ps. 25:14) wy)ryl hwhy dws delight, joy hxm# 354 grew fat; anointed n#d a temporary remitting h+m# demons myd# 355 thought; idea hb#xm year; sleep hn# pharaoh (derived from the egyptian for ggreat house h) h(rp sphere; number; emanation hryps 356 expiations, atonements myrwpk a young mule rpw( spirits of the living nyyxd nyxwr 357 iniquity)#wn 358 shame hn#g shiloh shall come (gn. 49:10) hly )by gmessiach h: the messiah xy#m the serpent that initiated eve #xn (taking the three hehs in hwhyh) as concealing the mothers# m, we get iota: alpha: omega) mw)y) the breastpla

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

ve miles in the hour: let us refuse to walk; let us ride horseback. so the horse is 'wrong' compared to the train and the motor-car; and these are 'wrong' to the aeroplane. if speed had been the atlantean's object, he would have thought aeroplanes 'wrong' and all else too, so long as the speed of light was not surpassed by him. curious survivals of these laws are found in the jewish transcript of the egyptian code, which they, being a slave race, interpreted in the reverse manner "thou shalt not make any graven image" every male child on attaining manhood, had a graven image given him to worship, a miracle-working image, whose principle exploits he would tattoo upon it "remember the sabbath day and keep it holy" the atlantean kept one day in seven for all purposes unconnected with his prin

combination of these four phases of zro accounted for the universe. this quintessence is zro in some state unknown and incalculable. some expected to find it in its twelth state, some in a seventeenth, others in a thirty-seventh: all this was pure guesswork. some tradition to this effect appears to have reached plato; and the neo-platonists combined with those jews who had preserved fragments of the egyptian tradition to form a new initiated hierarchy, the echo of whose teaching is found in paracelsus. at one period, too, missionaries (not colonists, as has been ignorantly asserted; there was no trouble of over-population in atlantis) were sent to the four quarters and parties landed in mexico, ireland and egypt. the adventures of the party who travelled south form an astounding chapter i

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

attributed to the "element (in the old classification of things) of air. now as "one" or aleph he represents the male principle, the first cause, and the free breath of life, the sound of the vowel a being made with the open throat and mouth. as zero he represents the female principle, the fertile mother (an old name for the card is mat, from the italian 'matto, fool, but earlier also from maut, the egyptian vulture-mother-goddess. fertile, for the 'egg of blue' is the uterus, and in the macrocosm the body of nuith, and it contains the unborn babe, helpless yet protected and nourished against the crocodiles and tigers shown on the card, just as the womb is sealed during gestation. he sits on a lotus, the yoni, which floats on the 'nile, the amniotic fluid. in his absolute innocence and ig

chosen to symbolize the mother-goddess. he is the wandering knight or prince of fairy tales who marries the king's daughter. this legend is derived from certain customs among exogamic tribes, for which see "the golden bough. thus one europa, semele and others claimed that zeus- air<<zeus obtained air for his kingdom in the partition with hades, who took fire, and poseidon, who took water. shu is the egyptian god of the firmament. there is a great difficulty here, etymologically. zeus is connected with iao, abrasax, and the dental sibilant gods of the great mysteries, with the south and hadit, ada, set, saturn, adonai, attis, adonis; he is even the "jesus, slain with the lance, whose blood is collected in a cup. yet he is also to be identified with the opposite party of the north and nuit

o us every act, as implying change, is an act of love. life is a dance of delight, its rhythm an infinite rapture that never can weary or stale. our personal pleasure in it is derived not only from our own part in it, but from our conscious apprehension of its total perfections. we study its structure, we expand ourselves as we lose ourselves in understanding it, and so becoming one with it. with the egyptian initiate we exclaim "there is no part of us that is not of the gods" and add the antistrophe "there is no part of the gods that is not also of us" therefore, the love that is law is no less love in the petty personal sense; for love that makes two one is the engine whereby even the final two, self and not-self, may become one, in the mystic marriage of the bride, the soul, with him ap

ain backwards; coph suggests qoph. all very unsatisfactory. the new comment "the double wand of power" is a curious variant of the common "wand of double power; the general meaning is "i control alike the forces of active and passive "coph nia: the original ms. has; left incomplete as not having been properly heard. the present text was filled in later in her own hand by the first scarlet woman. the egyptian gods are usually represented as bearing an ankh, or sandal-strap, in the left hand, the wand being in the right. this ankh signifies the power to go, characteristic of a god. but apparently ra hoor khuit had an universe in his left hand, and crushed it so that naught remains. i think this "universe" is that of monistic metaphysics; in one hand is the "double wand, in the other "naught

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

in these methods they are hardly pertinent to the pure numerical qabalah, and we therefore deal gently with them. the attributions are given in 777. thus a in the yetziratic world is air, by tarot the fool, and by signification an ox. thus we have the famous i.n.r.i= y. n. r. i= f, h, f; the virgin, the evil serpent, the sun, suggesting the story of genesis ii. and of the gospel. the initials of the egyptian names isis, apophis, osiris, which correspond, give in their turn the ineffable name iao; thus we say that the ineffable is concealed in and revealed by the birth, death and resurrection of christ; and further the signs of the mourning of the mother, triumph of the destroyer, and rising of the son, give by shape the letters l.v.x, lux, which letters are (again) concealed in and reveal

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

try your stomach at that! it s quite in your line, and would bring down your fat. you ve a very fine voice could you only control it! 110 and an emerald ring and i know where you stole it! but for goodness sake give up attemptiing br nnhilde; try a boarding-house cook, or a coster s matilda! the sword of song 28 live out thy life! character of balti. his religious sincerity. relations of poet and the egyptian god of wisdom. crowley dismissed with a jest. still you re young yet, scarce forty we ll hope at three score you ll be more of a singer, and less of a whore. 115 each to his trade! live out your life! fondle your child, and buss your wife! trust not, fear not, street straight and strong! don t worry, but just get along. i used to envy all my balti coolies21 120 in an inverse kind of r

untried, will or will not avail? aum! let us meditate aright50 on that adorable one light, 520 divine savitri! so may she illume our minds! so mote it be! i find some folks think me (for one) so great a fool that i disclaim indeed jehovah s hate for shame 525 that man to-day should not be weaned of worshipping so foul a fiend in presence of the living sun, and yet replace him oiled and cleaned by the egyptian pantheon, 530 the same thing by another name. thus when of late egyptian gods evoked ecstatic periods in verse of mine, you thought i praised or worshipped them i stand amazed. 535 i merely wished to chant in verse some aspects of the universe, summed up these subtle forces finely, and sang of them (i think divinely) in name and form: a fault perhaps 540 reviewers are such funny chaps

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pure numerical qabalah, and we therefore deal gently with them. the attributions are given in "777. thus hb:aleph in the yetziratic world is "air" by tarot "the fool" and by signification "an ox" thus we have the famous i.n.r.i= hb:yod, hb:nun, hb:resh, hb:yod= virgo, scorpio, sun, virgo; the virgin, the evil serpent, the sun, suggesting the story of genesis ii. and of the gospel. the initials of the egyptian names isis, apophis, osiris, which correspond, give in their turn the ineffable name iao; thus we say that the ineffable is concealed in and revealed by the birth, death, and resurrection of christ; and further the sings of mourning of the mother, triumph of the destroyer, and rising of the son, give by shape the letters l.u.x, lux, which letters are (again) concealed in and revealed

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he altar. the accusation and defence as antiphonies. 5. the journey. bar and pass, and the 4 visions even as a mighty music. 6. the hanged man the descent of adonai. 7. the installation signs, etc. sealing as for opening; but insert sacrament. 1.15. during a lunch of 12 oysters, c pes bordelaise, tarte aux c rises, caf noir, dispatched without yoga or ceremonial, i wrote the ritual in verse, in the egyptian language. i don't think very well. time must show: also experience. i'd recite tennyson if i thought it would give samadhi! now more mantra, though by the lord i'm getting sick of it. 1.40. it occurs to me, now that i am seeing my way in the operation a little more clearly, that one might consider the first day as osiris slain the second as that of the mourning of isis the third as

the floor, so like rodin's cruche cass e danaide girl as never was as i ought to have been in the beginning! well, one thing i got (again! that is, that when all is said and done, i am that i am, and all these thoughts of mine, angels and devils both, are only fleeting moods of me. the one true self of me is adonai. simple! yet i cannot remain in that simplicity. i got this "revelation" through the egyptian plane, a partial illumination of the reason. it has cleared up the mind; but alas! the mind is still there. this is the strength and weakness both of the egyptian plane, 87 that it is so lucid and spiritual and yet so practical. when i say weakness, i mean that it appeals to my weakness; i am easily content with the smaller results, so that they seduce me from going on to the really b

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the four elements, the kerubim, and the qliphoth.5 267 it represents the connecting-link between assiah and yetzirah. it is the rending of the veil of the tabernacle; and it is the passing of the gate of eden. after which he enters upon the symbolisms of the twenty-first key of the tarot, the naked female form of which represents the bride of the apocalypse, the qabalistic queen of the canticles, the egyptian isis of nature. her two wands are the directing forces of the positive and negative currents. she is the synthesis of the thirty-second path uniting malkuth and yesod. illustration on page 268 approximated_ diagram 21. the cubical cross of twenty- two squares. 5 "see 777" cols. civ, cviii, pp. 20 and 23; and revelations, chap. i. illustration on page 268 described "diagram 22. the gar

ramid is attributed to the four elements; on its apex is the word hb:taw hb:aleph (ath) composed of the first and last letters of the alphabet, it signifies essence. the square base represents the material universe. and then the seventeenth key of the tarot: this key represents a star with seven principal and fourteen secondary rays, altogether twenty-one, the number of the divine name eheieh. in the egyptian sense it is sirius, the dog-star, the star of isis-sothis. around it are the seven planets. the nude figure 279 is the synthesis of isis, nephthys, and hathoor. she is aima, binah, and tebunah, the great supernal mother aima elohim pouring upon earth the waters of creation. in this key she is completely unveiled, whilst in the twenty-first she was only partially so. the two urns conta

15th key of the tarot represents a goat-headed satyr-like demon standing upon 286 a cubical altar. in his left hand, which points downwards, he holds a lighted torch, and in his right hand, which is elevated, a horn of water. the cubical altar represents the universe. the whole figure shows the gross generating powers of nature on the material plane, and is analogous to the pan of the greeks and the egyptian goat of mendes. as his hands bear the torch and the horn, the symbols of fire and water, so does his form unite the earth in his hairy and bestial aspect, and the air in his bat-like wings. the whole would be an evil symbol were it not for the pentagram of light above his head which regulates and guides his movements. the figure of pan is then explained, after which the hierophant ind

selled draperies, in mummy wrappings, outgrown togas and the discarded underwear of 290 olympus and sinai, the result being that unless his understanding is as clear as these rituals are obscure, all he obtains is a theatrical impression of "make-up" and "make- believe" and a general detachment from the realities of consciousness. the words obsess him; he cannot see that typhon is as necessary in the egyptian scheme as osiris; in the christian, that satan is but the twin of christ. they fetter the freedom which they are supposed to unbind, producing not only a duality but a multiplicity of illusions; so that, in the end, the chances are, instead of conversing face to face with adonai, he becomes a prig addressing a mass meeting in the albert hall, rationalising about irrational qualities

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ess, which are attributed to the planets. it symbolises rebirth and resurrection from death. lastly, the chief adept explains his as follows "my wand is surmounted by the winged globe, around which the twin serpents of egypt twine. it symbolises the equilibrated force of the spirit and the four elements beneath the everlasting wings of the holy one. illustration on page 210 described "diagram 61. the egyptian key of life. the crux ansata" this is a standard shape ankh, but the figure is divided and marked as follows: the loop is divided into six sections, with the bottom extending in a wedge to the enter of the cross intersection. in the sections of the loop are placed hebrew letters in circles, corresponding to the sephiroth thusly: clockwise from top: hb:koph, hb:chet, hb:chet, hb:taw, h

_ libra hb:lamed_ scorpio hb:nun_ sagittarius hb:samekh_ capricorn hb:ayin_ aquarius hb:tzaddi_ pisces hb:qof (black_ illustration on page 211 described "65. the chief adept's wand" the top of the wand is a winged-sun disk or ba-hadit. extending down from this to either side along the upper quarter of the wand shaft are two uraeus serpents, facing to left and right. the serpent to the right wears the egyptian red crown and that to the left the white crown. the shaft is divided into five sections with the lower four marked to the left by the symbols of the elements and the middle three with the hebrew mother letters to the right. the five sections of the shaft are marked from top to bottom thusly: white, dee red hb:shin, air yellow hb:aleph, water blue hb:mem, spirit black. illustration on

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who are the idolators, and not our ancestors; it is we who sacrifice to many gods, and not those little bushmen who felt and saw and lived with the one great spirit. let us therefore mention that the chief points, a few out of a score, that have struck us are- the custom of the mark sacred stone; the universality of horus worship; the startling identity of hieroglyphics, all over the world, with the egyptian; and the symbolism of the great pyramid, and its use as a temple of initiation. a few others, however, do not understand. on p. 80 dr. churchward traces the "bull roarer" back to egypt. but we can find no proofs of these ever having been used there. in australia, as he states, they were used, and so also in new zealand and new guinea and over most of europe; in sussex, country boys to

the great pyramid, and its use as a temple of initiation. a few others, however, do not understand. on p. 80 dr. churchward traces the "bull roarer" back to egypt. but we can find no proofs of these ever having been used there. in australia, as he states, they were used, and so also in new zealand and new guinea and over most of europe; in sussex, country boys to this day use them as toys. again, the egyptian throwing-stick (p. 67) is not a boomerang at all; it was made of thick rounded wood and will not return when thrown. it is as perfectly distinct from the australian weapon as the australian is from the throwing-clubs of fiji. the double triangle symbol) is so common in the pacific islands that it is to be found on nearly every club and utensil; in some cases it represents figures of m

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ever to listen, without protest, to any evil thing spoken falsely, or yet unproven, of a brother theosophist, and to abstain from condemning others" seems to have been consistently acted upon ever since. 79 compare with the kundalini the serpent mentioned in paragraph 26 of "the book of concealed mystery" note too the lotus-leaf that backs the throne of a god is also the hood of the cobra. so too the egyptian gods have the serpent upon the brow. 80 provided the other exits are duly stopped by practice. the danger of yoga is this, that one may awaken the magic power before all is balanced. a discharge takes place in some wrong direction and obsession results. 81 the forcing of the kundalini up the sushumn and through the six chakkras to the sahasr ra, is very similar to rising on the planes

symbolized by a black egg of spirit in the silver crescent of water. see "777, col. lxxv, p. 16. see diagram 84. 146 the golden dawn symbol of the flaming sword. see diagram 12. 147 by this is meant watching the swing of an imaginary pendulum. the difficulty is to keep it in one plane, as it tries to swing round; also to change its rate. 148 in these records "m" means morning and "e" evening. 149 the egyptian key of life. see diagram 61. 150 lamp of the invisible light. 151 in the mind. 152 the visualized form of the goddess isis. 153 that is to say she kept on moving out of the line of mental sight. 154 see diagram 80. a scarlet rose on a gold cross. 155 at this point p. made the following resolve "i resolve to increase my powers very greatly by the aid of the most high, until i can medit

e seems to have been anticipated, for two days later we read the following: 10 p.m. enclosing myself in an egg of white light i travelled to hong- kong. this city is white and on a rocky hill, the lower part is narrow and dirty. i found f. in a room of white and pale green. she was dressed in a white soft stuff with velvet lapels. we conversed awhile. i remember trying 162 in the position many of the egyptian gods assume. 163 qy: is this from habit of expecting living things to move? i can, i think, succeed in keeping them still "note by p" 164 this danger is also experienced by such as carry out black magical operations. the current of will often returns and injures the magician who willed it. 165 soror f. the same as soror s.s.d.f. to lift a cloisonn vase from the shelf to a table, but c

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lve when we fall like snows from the precipice sun-kissed to the black ravines of ice. i am drowned in the universal thunder; the hours disrupt, the aeons involve. ah! not in any mortal mood ends the great verb we conjugate. from the highest hyberbole she doth swerve in an incommensurable curve, and the line of our beatitude is one with the sigil of our fate. 44 pallid, a mummy throned, she sits; the egyptian eyes, the egyptian hair, the band on her brows, the slender hands, all hieroglyphs of a god's commands beyond the rimes that a poet knits with fruitless travail, sterile care! marvellous! marvellous, marvellous! and again a marvel, a lotus-bud dropt from the brows of a goddess unknown on the ivory steps of the golden throne, virginal brows and luminous with the star-stream flowing the

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

he money and gifts he offered. his mother made no secret of her disgust for his way of life and told him repeatedly she would rather he stayed away. when alex scorned her .for accepting his father's shortcomings while denying him his, his mother would reply with quiet dignity that alcoholism was an illness, lechery a vice. when the rejection by his family became too much to bear, alex would visit the egyptian room of the city museum in manchester and sit next to the little mummified priestess that his grandmother had taken him to see as a child. there, beside the shrivelled figure, he could feel the same faint pity that had stirred him so long ago and he was able to forget his aimless selfishness for a few hours .one of the women who lived at riversdale at this. time was fascinated by the

rance it looked like a church, a keener glance recognized the hallmark ofa stonemason trained in witchcraft. peering out from the top ofpillars were little stone mice with devils' faces; cats, demons, imps and dragons crouched in corners and crevices, in the boardroom where the interview took place, alex had difficulty keeping his eyes off the magnificent framed papyrus specimens on the walls and the egyptian. bills of sale for servants. the wages, explained the library official, were very low; only eight pounds a week which, in 1963, was about the lowest rate for any job. alex assured him that the money did not matter; he loved books and wanted to care for them. the official eyed him curiously, surprised and pleased to find a man who, though obviously cheaply clad, could disdain money for

ld handle them and how he should polish the tooled leather bindings. for the first hour of each day he was to dust the manuscript cases and furniture on the main floor, then he must make his way to the sub-basement where, in a maze of tunnels, each brightly lit and subdivided into smaller tunnels, he could begin his secret work of harvesting the knowledge he sought. it took him a few days to find the egyptian section. from then on few books were dusted, as alex filled notebook after notebook with details of rituals, invocations and plans. the day he found the key of solomon he forgot to go for his lunch, so engrossed was he in the chants, many of which had been used by his grandmother in her esbats and sabbaths. the other books were discarded; this was die real key, for it married the know

.again. it was quite meaningless except to the journalists who described it in their article as 'black magic'and illustrated it with photographs of the, prostrate figures in decorated robes. when alex arrived for work the following monday morning, he was shown into the librarian's office. the photographs ofalex at his rituals had been recognized by the li1 a:ry sta.ffover the week-end, and so had the egyptian symbolson his clothes. how, they asked, could a humble book-duster know so much about oriental mysticism unless he had access to priceless books such as those in the john rylands library? an immediate search wasordeted. the egyptian section was found to be the best dusted, but not all the books were in their correct places. a further search revealed the absence of the key of solomon '

ceremony. fortunately alex had been preparing for such an eventuality ever since he had first read about spontaneous initiates and the need for them to be bound by ritual. he described the ornate white robes that paul would want, on which alex had already stitched hundreds of pearls, and the scarlet velvet stole-both part of the three-hour-iong ritual which dated back to the books of the dead of the egyptian pharaohs 'but that isn't like the ceremony you performed tonight. it lasted only an hour or so' paul said.alex ha to tell him that in his case two initiations were in order, the first being egyptian form, which lasts for all time, the.second being the normal first-grade initiation 'isn't the witches' initiation binding, then' paul asked. alex told him that whereas a witch can be curse

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

ld, transmuting and directing, and the present rising tide of democracy has his directing hand upon it. out of the democratic unrest, out of the present turmoil and chaos, will arise the future world condition which will have for its keynote co-operation and not competition, distribution, and not centralisation. one other master may here be briefly mentioned, the master serapis, frequently called the egyptian. he is the master upon the fourth ray, and the great art movements of the world, the evolution of music, and that of painting and drama, receive from him an energising impulse. at present he is giving most of his time and attention to the work of the deva, or angel evolution, until their agency helps to make possible the great revelation in the world of music and painting which lies i

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

out obstruction. a clue to the nature of this path and as to the reason why so many of the human monads seek this particular stream of energy lies in the right understanding of the above suggestion. the initiates who tread this way are primarily those of the fourth and the sixth order. as earlier pointed out, this is the path that the "lords of compassion" most frequently follow, and at this time the egyptian master and the master jesus are preparing themselves to tread it. the mystics of the occident who have come into incarnation during the past one thousand years are a peculiar group of egos whose impulse is towards this type of cosmic energy. in this system they have developed certain basic recognitions and the "ecstasy" of the occidental mystic is the germ, latent within him, which wi

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

on which arises is under the influence of one or other of the rays, but it does not necessarily follow that each successive ray should have a great far-reaching religion as its outcome. we have heard that brahmanism is the last great religion which arose under first ray influence; we do not know what may have been the religion which was the outcome of the last second ray period; but the chaldean, the egyptian and the zoroastrian religions may be taken as representing the third, the fourth, and the fifth rays respectively. christianity and probably buddhism were the result of sixth ray influence. mohammedanism, which numbers so large a following, is also under sixth ray influence, but it is not a great root religion, being a hybrid offshoot of christianity with the tinge of judaism. the ray

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

t of. the god krishna in- 110- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust india, the god indra in nepal and tibet spilt their blood for the salvation of men; buddha said, according to max m ller `let all the sins that were in the world fall on me, that the world may be delivered' the chinese tien the holy one `one with god and existing with him from all eternity' died to save the world; the egyptian osiris was called saviour, so was horus; so was the persian mithra; so was the greek hercules who overcame death though his body was consumed in the burning garment of mortality, out of which he rose into heaven. so also was the phrygian attis called saviour, and the syrian tammuz or adonis likewise both of whom, as we have seen, were nailed or tied to a tree, and afterwards rose agai

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

lliant star, because cancer is a sign of hiding, of retreat behind that which has been constructed. it is not a striking constellation. it is interesting to note that there is no hebrew word for "crab. it was regarded as unclean and not mentioned. so is the material form regarded from the standpoint of spirit, and esotericists tell us that the physical body is not a principle (the substitution of the egyptian sacred scarab for the crab seems a recognition of the quality of cancer in its higher aspects when the native is an aspirant or disciple, for we go round the zodiac many times) there are eighty-three stars in this sign, the brightest of which is of the third- 52- the labours of hercules magnitude, and in the very center of the constellation there is a cluster of stars; praesepe, the m

irgin, carrying a sheaf of wheat. see gen. 49, 20. libra, the scales or balances dan "dan shall judge his people" scorpio, the serpent or adder dan mentioned twice as two sons are assigned to gemini "dan shall be a serpent. that biteth the horses' heels" sagittarius, the archer joseph "his bow abode in strength. his horse is the one that scorpio follows fast after. capricorn, the goat benjamin in the egyptian mysteries capricorn is represented as a god with a wolf's head "benjamin shall raven as a wolf" aquarius, the water carrier reuben means "the pouring out of water. the living water. pisces, the fishes gad a play on "dag, the fish [225] journey through the signs (as a back-drop to the drama enacted in each sign this brief summary seems to integrate the hercules series) the progress of

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

istic theory of man's constitution, origin and destiny is very different from the modern christian view, but differs from the indian schemes more in manner of presentation than in principle, and these two may be fitly studied side by side and each will illuminate the other. there is, indeed, no sharp line of cleavage between the western mystic doctrines, the kabalism of the middle ages related to the egyptian hermeticism, and the indian esoteric theosophy. they differ in language nomenclature, and in the imagery employed in the effort to represent spiritual ideas to mankind; but there is no sufficient reason for any condemnation of either school by any other. the world of intellectual culture is wide enough for both to exist side by side, and the mere fact that they are philosophic systems

ANALYSIS OF THE 5 6 INITIATION

. first point of the 5=6 ceremony the whole intent of the 5=6 initiation is to unite the candidate with osiris. osiris is represented by the chief adept except when he taketh his wand and ankh and proceedeth to give the candidate instruction. then the chief is isis who is the revealer of the mysteries. the chief does not appear in the first point. he is slain and is osiris of the nether world. in the egyptian mysteries, the postulant after death is identified with osiris. inasmuch as the candidate is dead already, unless osirified, he too must be slain. like christ, he must be stripped and flogged, and placed on the cross of suffering. but first, he enters. at this point, the second adept is still horus. the third adept is now anubis. hodos, or the introducing adept, is themis. themis is a

BALANONES TEMPLE OF SET FAQ

individuality and more and more individualism, as opposed to the right hand path goals of growing toward some outwardly determined standard. a slightly more detailed introduction can be found in the ref> 2.0 philosophy 2.1 xeper- perhaps the best discussion of xeper available online is magus don webb's, found at: http//www.xeper.org/pub/tos/xeper2.html- balanone: setian philosophy centers around the egyptian concept of xeper (often spelled khepher, personified by the egyptian neter (god) xepera (khephra, a concept that can be translated to "self improvement" or perhaps "be all yo u can be" though that statement above seems simple enough, the study and pursuit of xeper has proven complex and long, intriguing and challenging enough to keep setians occupied for a life time- apr 28, 1996, pri

(balfaq.maquino@xeper.org- balanone- this long -time member (and author of this document) can be contacted through the temple's postal address or through email (balfaq@xeper.org. one frequently asked question is why balanone signs his email and posts with "pp" below his name. as stated in april, 1993 on the base of set echo and many other times "that's as close as i can get with this keyboard to the egyptian hieroglyph for shuti (the double maat feather, symbolizing my personal dedication to balance- a few others are mentioned in the ref document. 6.2.2 questions about setians are setians pagans? that's a question which depends heavily upon your definition of "pagan" see the ref document for this discussion. 6.2.3 imposters if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then how should y

BLACK WITCHCRAFT

c. 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 anthropomorphic sense, rather a deific force which is the very essence of our being. when azazel or lucifer brought to cain the black flame of consciousness, this was as too set s gift to mankind. by working in the circles of luciferian craft, you are merely fulfilling your ancient

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

rnaturalism of these teachings, although allegorical, is so diametrically opposed to the dead-letter statements of the bible* as well as to the latest hypotheses of science, that it will evoke passionate denial. the occultists, however, know that the traditions of esoteric philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty. besides, we have the egyptian "books of thoth" and "book of the dead" and the hindu puranas with the seven manus, as well as the chaldeo-assyrian accounts, whose tiles mention seven primitive men, or adams, the real meaning of which name may be ascertained through the kabala. those who know anything of the samothracian mysteries will also remember that the generic name of the kabiri was the "holy fires" which crea

ol. 2, page] 31 the horses of sukra's car. of life" in eden anouki, a form of isis, is the goddess of life; and ank was taken by the hebrews from the egyptians and introduced by moses, one learned in the wisdom of the priests of egypt, with many other mystical words. the word ank in hebrew, with the personal suffix, means "my life" my being, which "is the personal pronoun anochi" from the name of the egyptian goddess anouki* in one of the most ancient catechisms of southern india, madras presidency, the hermaphrodite goddess adanari (see also "indian pantheon) has the ansated cross, the svastica, the "male and female sign" right in the central part, to denote the pre-sexual state of the third race. vishnu, who is now represented with a lotus growing out of his navel- or the universe of bra

s, upon which the seven primitive groups of the first root-race were born[[vol. 2, page] 36 the secret doctrine. symbols: all these are based upon and start from the figures given from the archaic manuscript in the proem of book i[[diagram, the symbol of evolution and fall into generation or matter, is reflected in the old mexican sculptures or paintings, as it is in the kabalistic sephiroth, and the egyptian tau. examine the mexican mss (add. mss. brit. mus. 9789; you will find in it a tree whose trunk is covered with ten fruits ready to be plucked by a male and female, one on each side of it, while from the top of the trunk two branches shoot horizontally to the right and left, thus forming a perfect[[diagram (tau, the ends of the two branches, moreover, each bearing a triple bunch, with

t attempt to create man the "crown" and the aim and goal of all animal life on earth- are shown to be failures in our stanzas. do we not find the same in the berosian cosmogony, denounced with such vehemence as the culmination of heathen absurdity? and yet who of the evolutionists can say that things in the beginning have not come to pass as they are described? that, as maintained in the puranas, the egyptian and chaldean fragments, and even in genesis, there have not been two, and even more "creations" before the last formation of the globe; which, changing its geological and atmospheric conditions, changed also its flora, its fauna, and its men? this claim agrees not only with every ancient cosmogony, but also with modern science, and even, to a certain degree, with the theory of evoluti

he "breath of god" and they mean the same as the supreme spirit or the zoroastrian ahura. it is later on, for purposes of theology and dogma, that they are shown issuing from brahma's thigh, and that their name began to be derived from a privative, and sura, god (solar deities, or not-a-god, and that they became the enemies of the gods. every ancient theogony without exception- from the aryan and the egyptian down to that of hesiod- places, in the order of cosmogonical evolution, night before the day; even genesis, where "darkness is upon the face of the deep" before "the first day" the reason for this is that every cosmogony- except in the secret doctrine- begins by the "secondary creation" so-called: to wit, the manifested universe, the genesis of which has to open by a marked differenti

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ut a select number of fragments of its fundamental tenets, special attention being paid to some facts which have been seized upon by various writers, and distorted out of all resemblance to the truth. but it is perhaps desirable to state unequivocally that the teachings, however fragmentary and incomplete, contained in these volumes, belong neither to the hindu, the zoroastrian, the chaldean, nor the egyptian religion, neither to buddhism, islam, judaism nor christianity exclusively. the secret doctrine is the essence of all these. sprung from it in their origins, the various religious schemes are now made to merge back into their original element, out of which every mystery and dogma has grown, developed, and become materialised. it is more than probable that the book will be regarded by

. 349 the gnostic idea. 351 international correlation of gods. 355[[vol. 1, page] xiii contents. page. vi. the mundane egg. 359 egg-born logoi. 363 the winged globe. 365- vii. the days and nights of brahma. 368 human gods and divine men. 369 the rebirth of gods. 371 the puranic prophecy. 377- viii. the lotus as a universal symbol. 379 exoteric and esoteric. 381 the purity of early phallicism. 383 the egyptian lotus. 385- ix. deus lunus. 386 a glance at the lunar myth. 387 a key-note to the moon. 389 copies and originals. 393 the moon bi-sexual. 397- x. tree and serpent and crocodile worship. 403 degeneration of the symbol. 405 the seven-headed dragons. 407 dragon and crocodile. 409- xi. demon est deus inversus. 411 death is life. 413 the fall of the angels. 418 transformation of the legend

- also lost. eusebius used these extracts in writing his chronicon (270-340 a.d. the points of resemblance- almost of identity- between the jewish and the chaldean scriptures* made the latter most dangerous to eusebius, in his role of defender and champion of the new faith which had adopted the jewish scriptures, and with them an absurd chronology. it is pretty certain that eusebius did not spare the egyptian synchronistic tables of manetho- so much so that bunsen* charges him with mutilating history most unscrupulously. and socrates, a historian of the fifth century, and syncellus, vice-patriarch of constantinople (eighth century, both denounce him as the most daring and desperate forger. is it likely, then, that he dealt more tenderly with the chaldean records, which were already menacin

e of the orientalists (see max muller's lectures for example) the public may feel sufficiently sure (a) that the students of ancient religions have indeed very few data upon which to build such final conclusions as they generally do about the old religions, and (b) that such lack of data does not prevent them in the least from dogmatising. one would imagine that, thanks to the numerous records of the egyptian theogony and mysteries preserved in the classics, and in a number of ancient writers, the rites and dogmas of pharaonic egypt ought to be well understood at least; better, at any rate, than the too abstruse philosophies and pantheism of india, of whose religion and language europe had hardly any idea before the beginning of the present century. along the nile and on the face of the wh

eared in india in the reign of akbar; the universal tradition in china and japan that the true old texts with the commentaries, which alone make them comprehensible- amounting to many thousands of volumes- have long passed out of the reach of profane hands; the disappearance of the vast sacred and occult literature of babylon; the loss of those keys which alone could solve the thousand riddles of the egyptian hieroglyphic records; the tradition in india that the real secret commentaries which alone make the veda intelligible, though no longer visible to profane eyes, still remain for the initiate, hidden in secret caves and crypts; and an identical belief among the buddhists, with regard to their secret books. the occultists assert that all these exist, safe from western spoliating hands

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30. beware of this, o candidate! beware of fear that spreadeth, like the black and soundless wings of midnight bat, between the moonlight of thy soul and thy great goal that loometh in the distance far away. this passage also appears to have reference to the early life of the student.hence he is specially warned against fear. fear is, of course, the first of the pylons through which one passes in the egyptian system. it is important then to arrange one.s life in such a way that one never allows one thing to interfere with another, and one never makes trouble for oneself. the method given in thien tao is the best to employ. 31. fear, o disciple, kills the will and stays all action. if lacking in the shila virtue.the pilgrim trips, and karmic pebbles bruise his feet along the rocky path. the

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was known as ogam bethluisnion. it was an extremely simple form and was used more for carving into wood and stone than for general writing. with a center line, it lent itself especially to carving along the edge of a stone or a piece of wood. ogam bethluisnion egyptian heiroglyphics many magickal orders, past and present, have leaned heavily on an ancient egyptian background. for them, of course, the egyptian hieroglyphs are ideal as a magickal alphabet. sir wallis budge's book, egyptian language, is a useful reference work here. below is a basic egyptian alphabet: going back to where i started, with the magicians of the middle ages, we find a variety of magickal alphabets. these have been culled from various ancient grimoires (from the old french for "grammar) the magician's book of ritua

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the festival of akitu, or zag-mug, which marked the rising of the waters of the tigris and the euphrates and the coming of the spring rains, to bring fertility, at the spring equinox. like innana, she is a goddess of fertility, restoration, renewal, birth and the life cycles; she also represents power with responsibility and necessary sacrifice for future gain, but above all transformation. isis the egyptian goddess isis is the most powerful and frequently invoked goddess in formal magick. she is mother, healer and the faithful wife who annually restored seite 36 wicca01.txt her consort osiris to life, thus magically causing the nile to flood and fertility to return to the land. she is the patroness of magick and spell-casting, having tricked ra the sun god into giving her his secrets. so

stress and sorrow, silver candles can remove negativity, promote inner stability and bring to the fore your hidden potential. silver candles are excellent for scrying, especially by the full moon, and for all magick involving the female life and for female fertility. silver candles are best used on a monday. gold gold is the colour of the sun and is associated with the solar deities, for example, the egyptian ra. in ancient greece, helios, the sun god, was worshipped each dawn as he emerged in the east and drove his chariot of winged horses around the sky before plunging into the ocean in the west at sunset. gold is potent for worldly achievement, wealth and recognition, for long life, ambitious schemes and money-making rituals that require an instant or substantial return. the colour of m

your altar or on any flat surface, together with your three chosen oils (or you can work with a single fragrance if you prefer* to the south of it, set your money pot with the lid open and your coins* place your symbols of abundance on the tray to the north of the dish* arrange your gold, blue or beeswax candles in a triangle (this sacred shape represents the triple goddess, the holy trinity and the egyptian isis, osiris and horus. the candle at the apex of the triangle should be in the north, with the other two forming the base to the south, so that the triangle creates a protective enclosure. if you have room, set your candles in holders on the floor or in candlesticks on small tables or chairs at each of the points and have the altar in the centre. this is my preferred method and means

roman goddess of the moon, the hunt and fertility. though, like her greek counterpart, artemis, she was worshipped originally as the maiden aspect of the moon, in time she came to represent the full moon also. sometimes the triple lunar goddess of modern wicca is represented by the classical deities, diana (the greek artemis, selene and hecate, being maiden, mother and wise woman or crone. isis, the egyptian goddess who was both moon goddess and mother of the sun, is also a potent focus. if you are going to use a specific goddess form, study images of her in the days before the ritual or if you have a favourite statue hold it for a few minutes before bedtime. i have a wooden figure of the moon mother goddess sold to me by a moroccan guy who said she was a patroness of his village. whether

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survived the transition from theism to pantheism in 900 bc (james: 1963..pg 77) 800- the iliad and the odyssey were recited by a blind poet named homer; hesiod: works and days, theogony; upanishads 751 rome was founded 740 o.t. book of isaiah. 628-551 zarathustra/zoroaster 600- taoism (or daoism) is established in china as a religion by the legendary lao-tzu 580- 530 pythagoras was initiated into the egyptian mysteries (disciple of anaximander) 560 buddha was born c. 550? bon was introduced to tibet when there occurred a mass migration of iranians from sogdhiana in north-east iran to the northern parts of tibet. they brought with them an ancient form of polytheistic mithraism and the araimic alphabet. 550- the celts invade the island of britain. 535 bc pythagoras sets up esoteric colony ne

le of khumunu (hermes) near hermopolis becomes known for mastering egyptian esoteric astrology. 350 (hist) tao-te ching [tao. 340 writings of chuang-tzu [tao] c. 330 manetho of sebennytos egyptian historian, priest at heliopolis under ptolemy i and ptolemy ii wrote aegyptiaca a collection of three books about the history of ancient egypt, commissioned by ptolemy ii in his effort to bring together the egyptian and hellenistic cultures. mentioned 36,525 manuscripts of hermes. these books state that the world was made out of fluid; that the soul is the union of light and life; that nothing is destructible; that the soul transmigrates; and that suffering is the result of motion. 330 bc alexander the great (356-323 bc) helps to spread astrology from babylon and egypt throughout the middle east

stament of solomon composed 17 egyptian zodiac at denderah is erected. 30-96 new testament. 50-63 (n.t) colossians, philemon, ephesians, philippians. c.50 chaeremon egyptian stoic philosopher and grammarian, superintendent of the alexandrian library kept in the temple of serapis, and as custodian and expounder of the sacred books belonged to the higher ranks of the priesthood. wrote an account of the egyptian priesthood preserved by porphyry on the sanctity and symbolical secrets of ancient egypt. 60-80 (n.t) acts of the apostles. 68 destruction of qumran community (dead sea scrolls. 70 (n.t) gospel of mark. 70 destruction of the second temple in jerusalem by the forces of emperor vespasian. 2 enoch, or the slavonic apocalypse of enoch, was written late first century c.e. in egypt by a jew

f cusa "de venatione sapientiae "de ludo globi" 1463 marsilio ficino of the florence academy translates into latin the newly discovered corpus hermeticum at the insistence of cosimo de medici fourteen tracts which he entitled pimander (from the greek, possibly meaning "shepherd of men. this was responsible for the revival of neoplatonism in renaissance europe. hermes trismegistus was identical to the egyptian deity thoth, the god of learning, medicine and the revealer of divine will to men. 1465-1518 trithemius of sponheim 1465-1532 da viterbo, cardinal egidio: on the hebrew letters 1468-1540 francesco giorgi 1470-1536 agostino giustiniani dominican applied qblh to biblical studies in his psalterium of 1516 1471-1528 albrecht d rer 1471 george ripley compound of alchemy. ficino s pimander

illa publishes book devoted to divination by tarot. c.1788: etteilla publishes deck specifically for esoteric purposes, including divination. 1785 cagliostro founds the memphis rite, which later becomes the ancient and primitive rite of memphis-misraim. 10 february, cagliostro summoned to appear at the philalethes convention but he requests all members of the convention adopt the constitutions of the egyptian rite and be initiated at the mother lodge at lyons and requires that the archives of the philalethes be burnt. february 15 congress took place in paris, convened this time by the philalethes; alledgedly in attendance was the illuminati bode (alias amelius, baron de busche (alias bayard, cagliostro, aliette(sic, mesmer, the cabalist duchanteau, and of course the leaders of the philalet

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civilisation called sumer in mesopotamia (now iraq, which developed alongside the birth of the brotherhood 23 the tigris and euphrates rivers. sumer is believed to have originated from around 6000bc, although such figures must be treated as only estimates. this would later become part of the babylonian empire, which greatly influenced the beliefs of judaism and, through that, christianity, as did the egyptian civilisation. you can read the detailed history of all this in the robots' rebellion. a contact who has worked on the 'inside' of government and security agencies in the uk told me a story which relates both to sumer and the themes of an extraterrestrial takeover. he says that in the 1960s the british intelligence agencies produced a secret report detailing claims of extraterrestrial

such that none of our humanity could of themselves produce."1 this initiation structure was either negative from the start in its ambitions for humanity, or it was later taken over by that consciousness. i feel the highly influential egyptian brotherhood has been dominated by negative manipulation at least since the end of the reign of the pharaoh akhenaten, who died around 1,362bc. he had moved the egyptian court to a new city in middle egypt called el-amarna, and there he built a brotherhood temple for the esoteric initiations. when he died, his successors moved the royal court back north to thebes, but the brotherhood stayed at el-amarna and broke away from the state. through the centuries, other vehicles for communicating the knowledge emerged. some, like the cathars in the twelfth an

ll controls the higher levels of the brotherhood network, via its global elite. it is the intellect without the heart, you could say, and without the balanced feminine. the symbols of the brotherhood in ancient times remain those of the brotherhood today- the pyramid and all-seeing eye, the swastika, the lamb, the apron, the obelisk and many others. the obelisk is symbolic of the penis of osiris, the egyptian god. the legend is that he was torn into pieces by the 'evil' set (lucifer, satan, the devil, et al) and when isis, the wife of osiris, tried to put him back together again, she found all his missing parts, except you know what. such legends are, i feel, symbolic of much more straightforward truths. the obelisk and osiris's penis in that story symbolise male energy, which has dominate

unded by freemasons who advised him on his policies and expansionism. they persuaded him at one time to invade egypt and ransack ancient sites for knowledge and artifacts held to be sacred to freemasonic ritual and legend. napoleon brought a massive egyptian obelisk back to paris as part of this burglary. british freemasons persuaded their government to do the same and the result was the theft of the egyptian obelisk known as cleopatra's needle, which still stands in london. napoleon's escapades were well exploited by the brotherhood and their bankers. in his book, the rothschilds, historian john reeves tells how nathan rothschild witnessed the result of the battle of waterloo in 1815 and saw that wellington had beaten the napoleonic armies. nathan then raced as fast as possible for the en

ch the world government and world army are being manipulated into place and through which public opinion is being softened up, by conflicts and propaganda, to accept this policy as the only way to bring peace and stability to human affairs. all seven of the un secretary generals since 1945 have promoted such thinking. the last holder of the office, dr boutros boutros-ghali, began his career under the egyptian dictator, gamal abdel nasser. boutros-ghali called for a permanent un army (world army) and for the un to have the right to levy taxation (world government. his successor, kofi annan, wants the same. the original united nations has given birth to a stream of connected organisations which coordinate the new world order plan in areas like health (world health organisation, population co

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our sun contains 99% of the mass of this solar system, sirius is some baby. sirius b contains 1.053 times the mass of our sun.2" it is incredibly compressed, however, and thus is very small. a focus on sirius can be found at the heart of most ancient societies- and secret societies. the heat in the summer months was believed to be, in part, caused by sirius and so they became known as "dog days. the egyptian calendar was regulated by the movement of sirius (sothis to the greeks) and the sothic calendar was founded on the rising of sirius one minute before the sun, the so-called heliacal rising in the summer" the number 23 was important to the dogons, as it was to the egyptians and the babylonians. some researchers say this was connected to the 34 children of the matrix heliacal rising on

o researchers figure 2: the inverted pentagram, the classic symbol of satanism, and, apparently, a symbol for sirius. ruled by the gods 35 connect the reptilians with both sirius and orion. isis (sirius) was the companion of osiris (orion) in egyptian myth. among the major illuminati symbols to the present day are the eye, the triangle or pyramid, the five-pointed star, the obelisk, and the dome. the egyptian hieroglyph for sirius was the obelisk, dome and fivepointed star; the bozo tribe of mali, cousins to the dogon, call sirius the "eye star; an egyptian hieroglyph for sirius was a triangle- three points representing the three sirius stars; and the triangle symbolised water in pythagorean code;26 the eye was a symbol of osiris in egyptian myth. the bow and arrow is another symbol used b

fivepointed star; the bozo tribe of mali, cousins to the dogon, call sirius the "eye star; an egyptian hieroglyph for sirius was a triangle- three points representing the three sirius stars; and the triangle symbolised water in pythagorean code;26 the eye was a symbol of osiris in egyptian myth. the bow and arrow is another symbol used by the ancients for sirius and they knew it as the "bow star. the egyptian word meaning bowman also referred to a "heavy star metal- sirius b- and their word for heavy star metal was close to the words meaning dwarf and weight.27 the sumerian account called the epic of gilamesh tells of a star that is so heavy it cannot be lifted (sirius b. this star was associated with an or anu, the leader of the anunnaki. the chief egyptian god, osiris, was also called an

oodlines apparently, was written in the form of a serpent in egyptian hieroglyphics. khem was the name of the deity symbolised as a black goat and late called pan. the goat is still a symbol of worship for the illuminati and saranists today under the name baphomet. there are many surviving records that claim a lineage of egyptian kings going back tens of thousands of years before the formation of the egyptian civilisation described by official historians. this supports the stories of an atlantean/lemurian colony in egypt long before the cataclysm. the colonisation of greece is also far older than officially claimed and this colony (called the athenians) went to war with atlanteans before the deluge. plato wrote of this war and official historians have dismissed it because they say that gre

y same flawed information. the span of the great egyptian culture is broken up into distinct periods of kingdoms and ruling dynasties. king sargon ruled egypt from his sumer base within the pre-dynastic period- around 2700bc. the right to rule in the sumer empire (again like lemuria and atlantis) was by bloodline, a fact fundamental to understanding how the world is controlled- and who by- today. the egyptian inscriptions detailed here were discovered by waddell to have been written in sumerian hieroglyphics, not the much later egyptian version with which egyptologists are familiar. sargon's grandfather (khetm to conventional history) was known as: takhu or tekhi in the early sumerian-style "egyptian hieroglyphs; as tuke in the old sumerian king lists; and as vri-taka or dhri-taka in the i

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ysical ones wholived among them. thetablets call these gods thean.unnak.ki (those whofrom heaven to earth came),and din.gir (the righteousones of the blazingrockets. the name ofsumer itself was ki.en.gir (the land of the lord of the blazing rockets and alsoland of the watchers, according to sitchin. the ancient text known as the book ofenoch also calls the gods the watchers, as did the egyptians. the egyptian name fortheir gods, the neteru, literally translates as watchers and they said that their gods camein heavenly boats.according to zecharia sitchin, the tablets describe how the anunnaki came from aplanet called nibiru (the planet of the crossing) which he believes has a 3,600 yearelliptical orbit that takes it between jupiter and mars and then out into far space beyondpluto. modern sc

f therockets. so the sumerians spoke of edin and genesis speaks of the garden of eden.this was a centre for the gods, the anunnaki. the sumerian tablets speak of king8sargon the elder being found as a baby floating in a basket on the river and brought upby a royal family. exodus speaks of moses being found as a baby floating in a basketon the river by a royal princess and how he was brought up by the egyptian royalfamily. the list of such coincidences goes on and on.the old testament is a classic example of the religious recycling which has spawnedall the religions. so when you are looking for the original meaning of genesis and thestory of adam you have to go back to the sumerian accounts to see how the story hasbeen doctored. genesis says that god (the gods) created the first man, adam

icians or aryans and they began the longprocess of returning to their former technological power after the upheavals whichdestroyed the surface of their own planet and devastated this one. my own researchsupports this basic theme, although, like everyone seeking the truth of what happened, ihave many questions. a white race, known as the phoenicians and other names, wascertainly the brains behind the egyptian civilisation, at least from the period around3,000 bc, and the giza plateau, where the great pyramid was built, was formerlyknown as el-kahira, a name which derived from the arabic noun, el-kahir, their namefor. mars.33 ancient texts reveal that the measurement of time was much related tomars, and march 15th, the ides of march (mars, was a key date in their mars-relatedcalendar, as wa

ainly astonishing how the ancient structures andtemples, of apparently unconnected societies all over the world, align with each otherwith fantastic astronomical, mathematical and geometrical precision. but then, thesesocieties were not unconnected. as we shall see, they had the same origins. the templesat angkor wat are covered in reptilian images, a feature of all the ancient cultures,including the egyptian, the central american and the indian. professor phillip calahanin his study of the surviving and mysterious round towers of ireland has said that theyare positioned with remarkable synchronicity to the star constellations of the northernsky at the winter solstice. and the towers most perfectly align with the constellationof. draco. the head and eyes of the draco formation, as designed

tle, they appointed a king of kings and he was known asthe great dragon or. draco. the famous celtic title, pendragon, is a version of this.kingship actually originates from the word kin or blood relative and kin-ship becamekingship. just to emphasise the point about the reptile bloodlines here, the name theegyptians gave to their sacred messeh or crocodile was. draco. this also became asymbol of the egyptian therapeutate and their branch in israel called the essenes, andit was represented as a sea serpent or bistea neptunis by the royal merovingians andtheir decendents in france. the same tribe, all of them. if you look in the picture sectionyou will see an ancient egyptian depiction of a god on the temple wall at saqquara- itis a non-human reptilian figure with what appear to be wings.bl

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lem of the resurrection by the tomb of buried deity [morals and dogma, p. 393] now, you know why you see so many obelisks atop the graves of freemasons, for it is "an emblem of the resurrection of buried deity; the invisible mason believes he is becoming a god throughout his life, so the obelisk at his grave is simply the visible manifestation of that belief. the obelisk was originally created by the egyptian mysteries of the pharaohs, and is spoken of in the bible. listen" king jehu said to the guards and to the officers 'go in and slay them; let none escape. and they smote them with the sword; and the guards before the king threw their bodies out, and went into the inner dwelling of the house of baal. they brought out the obelisks of the house of baal and burned them [2 kings 10:26, ampl

the statue of liberty is another brotherhood symbol highlighting the lighted torch, statue of liberty is actually the statue of liberties- the liberties perpetrated on the american people by the brotherhood. it was given by french freemasons, a mirror image stands on an island in the river seine in paris. initiates into the rites of mithra were called lions and were marked on their foreheads with the egyptian cross. the first degree initiates had a golden crown placed on their heads, representing their spiritual self, and this crown, symbolizing the rays of the sun, can be found on the statue of liberty in ny harbor. all these rituals went back thousands of years to babylon and the stories of nimrod, queen semiramis, and tammuz, their version of jesus mathra was said to be the son (sun) of

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arious emotional and physical states. these patterns, recorded on a chart recorder in two dimensions, can be projected into a subject to produce a desired effect. the projected pattern is again three dimensional and thus a structured shape. dr. michael persinger has found that thoughts occur in the brain as three dimensional forms, which are reduced by instrumentation to two dimensional patterns. the egyptian god thoth was keeper of the words of power, used to produce controlled phenomena when spoken with the correct intonation and pronunciation. in the case of isis healing her child of a fatal scorpion bite, the use of a specific word of power caused the poison to be expelled from the body and the lifeforce to return. other legends and myths also refer to the use of such words of power. t

ir passages, no tomb or other pyramid was built with air passages for the dead to breath. the granite plug, a block 15 feet long, which was at the beginning of the ascending passage, was placed there when the construction reached that level. speculation abounds as to the great pyramid's true function. orthodox egyptologists cling to the belief that the great pyramid was used as a tomb for cheops, the egyptian king during whose reign the pyramid was supposedly built. the rosicrucian society believes that the pyramid was used as an initiation chamber to test advanced adepts. some believe that it is an interstellar beacon to guide alien spacecraft to planet earth. whatever the great pyramid is, it is not a tomb nor has it ever been. as a minimum, it is a testimony that advanced technology exi

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g bush and to the israelites as a pillar of flame by night and cloud of vapor by day. it is likely that the hebrew mystical beliefs (which later formed the cabala) developed during the time the israelites lived among the egyptians. prior to the development of the cabala, the jewish religion was a fertility cult of the god adonai, or el. the israelites were syrian foreigners to egypt, osiris being the egyptian name for the syrian fertility god of the jews. a similar mystical system (to the cabala) developed in egypt centered on the god amen. followers of the egyptian god amen began to teach that there was one god, amen, and that all other gods were manifestations of this one true god. the development of monotheism and mysticism occurred simultaneously among the egyptians and israelites. tak

rld, accepting self-denial and sacrifice of the flesh and body as the ideal. christianity rose as the dominant religion in the west during the aeon of osiris. crowley, who came to believe that he was the beast described in the book of the revelation of jesus to st. john the apostle, wrote the book of the law, which he claimed was revealed to him by the spirit aiwass and was a true revelation from the egyptian deities nuit, hadit, and ra hoor khut. in the book of the law we read dowhat thou will shall be the whole of the law and love is the law, love under will. the word of the aeon of horus was thelema, the greek word for will. the will in this context was a magical will, the true will of the magician s higher self or his holy guardian angel. crowley s magick, as embraced by the order of o

n question deserved the titles regardless of their knowledge or previous commitment. michael aquino, claiming to be in contact with satan (in the ancient egyptian form of set, wrote the book of the coming forth by night in which he declared the start of the aeon of set, a succession to the aeon of horus. the word of the aeon was xeper, an egyptian word which means to become or to come into being. the egyptian god xepera was associated with the scarab beetle and was the god of expansion of consciousness. michael aquino claimed to be the second beast from the book of the revelation of jesus to st. john the apostle and the spiritual son of aleister crowley described in the book of the law. in contrast to the church of satan s professed atheism, the temple of set embraced the literal existence

a minor uproar in the small northern community of stewart, british columbia) when magus susej attempted to have the col added to the churches of stewart sign at the edge of town and placed in the churches of stewart listing in the local paper. despite concern from the local populace, the col had less than a dozen members at the time. after the public uproar, the eol went underground. in honor of the egyptian lord of the underworld, the eol also became known as the order of anubis. magus susej began publication of an underground newsletter the black jackal and in the dread pages of this tome published, for the first time, his own system of magic the demonic bible. the jackal enjoyed a small distribution for about a year and eol membership grew steadily over the next few years until it reac

ks that he desires) may not be the thing which his "higher self" has truly willed to occur. expanding upon the law of thelema, michael aquino conceptualized and proclaimed the word xeper, by which the sorcerer may "become" and ultimately attain his true will and the realization of his "higher self. without thelema, xeper could never have been, for it is by thelema that xeper is possible. xeper is the egyptian word which means "to become. in this context, it means the achievement of one's higher self (what in abramelin magic is called the "knowledge and conversation of your holy guardian angel) many "aeon strengthening" words were also spoken during the aeon of set. magus lewis conceptualized the cycle by which one "became" and declared it in the word remanifest. magus flowers conceptualize

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mes 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 the whore of darkness iii. the adversary and the bride of the devil, cain the son iv. the gnostic yaltabaoth, child of chaos v. the path of the crooked serpent leviathan and beelzebub end introduction the very intent and purpose of this essay is to bring to light the roots of the adversary in magick from a historical and mythological s

the fire of the adversary. it must be understood that what is firstly considered the devil is only a cipher towards which lies within; that looks are deceiving and thus a test to the nature of both the opposer and the sorcerer within the context of relation. by passing through the darkness is a light revealed brighter than all others. beginning with the foundations of the adversary in the form of the egyptian set are we able to firstly understand that his force, while averse is indeed a necessary and 3 significantly important to the balance of nature in both a natural and supernatural sense. the shadow holds substance which bears the fruit of knowledge from the practitioner who is daring enough to taste it. set is the original opposer or adversary, whose form captivated and later frightene

erge as a bringer of light this is only a mere glimpse of the fall under the shadows of the adversary. the nature of lucifer is movement and motion; storms, chaos and order which arises from it. to drink the venom of this cup is cursing and blessing be prepared to change and mutate into something greater; or seal your fate to a mindless death. 1 see the suggested reading list at the end. 4 i. set the egyptian god of darkness i am set, the father of the gods. i shall never come to an end -the book of the dead the egyptian mythology of gods and powerful deities is perhaps history s most elaborate and evasive within the conception of their opposing powers. the egyptian god of chaos and storms, set, called also sutekh, set-heh or seth-an was revered in the 3rd millennia b.c. and forward, origi

, set-heh or seth-an was revered in the 3rd millennia b.c. and forward, originally as a positive force of movement and foreign lands. it was later on that set became a form of the opposer, with red being a sacred color and his minions being actual demons who tested or destroyed others. set was commonly perceived as a god of war, who taught some pharaohs the art of shooting the bow and arrow, etc. the egyptian book of the dead presents set as the lord of the northern sky, who is over storms, cold weather and darkness. set was perhaps the most significant egyptian god in that he alone was the god of mystery and the unknown, both the shadow and fire. as being a patron of the deserts, seth was also revered as a deity over the scorching heat of the desert sands. this concept continued on in the

rer of osiris, a god of stasis. set also protected ra on his journeys through the underworld, and was able to master the chaotic force of apep, a serpent of darkness. set is known in the book of the dead as having legions of devils, known as seba as well as smaiu, who obey his commands. it seems also that there were a group of rebels who were of set and were defeated early on. set is mentioned in the egyptian book of the dead as having the skin of a bull. in the eleventh section of the tuat called reenqerrtaptkhatu, set is in the form of a serpent and called set-heh meaning the eternal set. when osiris came again, typhon plotted with seventy-two comrades, and with aso, the queen of ethiopia, to slay him -the egyptian book of the dead, e.a. wallis budge set is primarily regarded the same as

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and concise form, and messrs. rider have issued at a moderate price, a most admirable handbook on the technical system of the tree. it is lucid, comprehensive and concise, and performs a very useful service in correlating the cabbalistic, eastern, and egyptian systems. it is thus possible for the student to trace out the interrelation between the two systems which are worked together in the west, the egyptian and cabbalistic; and for the theosophist to recognise the classification with which he is familiar, when it is applied to the glyph of the tree in the technical methods of western occultism. mr. regardie has the inestimable advantage of knowing the hebrew language; in this, as an occultist, he is unique; for although most occultists working the western tradition have enough hebrew to

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ll cases, however, the operation he designs is strictly related to the paths of the tree of which he is master. if he possesses the grade which corresponds to the sephirah netzach, he can work with the manifestation of the force of that aspect of the [page 12] mystical qabala page 11 godhead (distinguished by the qabalists by the name of tetragrammaton elohim) in whatever system he may select. in the egyptian system it will be the isis of nature; in the greek, aphrodite; in the nordic, freya; in the druidic, keridwen. in other words, he possesses the powers of the sphere of venus in whatever traditional system he may be using. having attained a grade in one system, he has access to the equivalent grades of all the other systems of his tradition. 11. but although he may use these other syst

t with y; to find out its relation to z, and in what proportions, it soon ceases to be entirely unknown; we have learnt something at any rate about it; and if we are sufficiently skilful we may in the end be able to express y in terms of z, and then we shall begin to understand x. 8. there are a great many symbols which are used as objects of meditation; the cross in christendom; the god-forms in the egyptian system; phallic symbols in other faiths. these symbols are used by the uninitiated as a means of concentratmg the mind and introducing into it certain thoughts, calling up certain associated ideas, and stimulating certain feelings. the initiate, however, uses a symbol-system differently; he uses it as an algebra by means of which he will read the secrets of unknown potencies; in other

e might describe it as the symbol-using power of the subconscious mind. it is an instructive experiment to toss a mass of irrelevant symbolism into the mind and watch it sort itself out in meditation upon the tree, rising into consciousness in long association-chains like dream analysis. 28. netzach is the sphere of the goddess of nature, venus. hod is the sphere of mercury, the greek analogue of the egyptian thoth, lord of books and learning. observing their opposition, we shall expect to find two different aspects represented in them, these finding their equilibrium in a third, yesod, the sphere of luna. we see then a triangle composed of the lady of nature, the lord of books, and the mistress of witchcraft; in other words, subconsciousness and super- consciousness correlate in psychism

, thus enabling us to see their relationships among themselves. these are the four worlds of the qabalists; the four elements of the alchemists; the fourfold classification of the signs of the zodiac and the planets into triplicities, employed by the astrologers; and the four suits of the tarot pack used in divination. this fourfold classification resembles the rosetta stone which gave the key to the egyptian hieroglyphs, for on it were inscriptions in egyptian and greek; greek being known, it was possible to work out the meaning of the corresponding egyptian hieroglyphs. it is the method of arranging all these sets of factors on the tree which gives the real esoteric clue to each of these systems of practical occultism. without this key they have no philosophical basis and become matters

with hod are given as the names and versicles and the apron. the names are the words of power wherein the magus sums up and evokes into conscious ness the multiform potencies of the beni elohim. these names are by no manner of means arbitrary and barbaric vocables, without etymology or meaning. they are philosophical formulae. in some cases their interpretation is etymological, as in the case of the egyptian deities, whose names are built up out of the names of potencies and symbols when used to indicate composite forces. in all systems of magic, however, which have their root in the qabalah, the magical names are built up out of the numerical value of the consonants of whatever sacred alphabet is used; there is a greek, an arabic, and a coptic qabalah, as well as the better-known hebrew

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small altar. reading the label, i found that this was not a cast but the original. it is a very interesting test of psychism to sample the atmosphere of the different rooms of the british museum. the benign and brooding peace of the buddhist room is a thing to be remembered. the flavour of the long ethnological room is a thing to be got out of the mouth as quickly as possible. to me, at any rate, the egyptian room is disappointing; the mummies all seem neither malignant or benignant, but merely cynical. perhaps i should feel differently, however, if i spent a night with them. magnetism, which is dispersed during the day, charges up again during the silence and darkness of the night. i remember visiting stonehenge amid a crowd of trippers and chars-a-blancs, and thinking that the glory had

would have dared stretch the long arm of coincidence anything like as far. the egyptians attached great importance to the preservation of the physical body. the tombs of great men, as is well known, were protected by means of what are popularly called spells, and the power and scope of egyptian magic are things that very few people realise. the modern student of occultism who reads iamblichos on the egyptian mysteries, will have a surprise. in most cases, however, the purchaser of egyptian curios has nothing to fear; the worst that they will yield to psychic investigation is a vision of labour disputes in a mass- production factory. i have, however, heard of a very wonderful psychometric reading which was obtained from a mummy which, when subsequently unrolled, was found to consist entire

if the problem of psychic self-defence is to be adequately dealt with, we must have an understanding of a subject upon which very little has been written- the nature of the forces of intelligent and organised evil. the great faiths of the ancient world all had their evil gods as well as their beneficent deities, and they did not call these evil gods devils. in hinduism we have shiva and kali; in the egyptian system we have set and besz and typhon; in the grecian pantheon there are pluto and hecate. all the other faiths, also, have their angelic choirs, their archons, or builders, and all the hierarchy of heaven. protestant christianity alone has forgotten its angiology, the creator has to be both architect of the universe and bricklayer, forming man from the dust of the ground without ass

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231 (or ccxxxi as it is more usually designated) treats of the 22 atus of thoth as applied to the 22 paths of the tree of life, and the 22 cells of the qliphoth. crowley has treated openly of the atus (see the book of thoth, but of the 22 cells of the qliphoth and the tunnels of set beneath the paths, he did not write. the present book therefore completes the work he left unfinished (ibid. set is the egyptian god of evil and darkness, one of whose forms is that of a great serpent. he is therefore another name of the death dragon, coronzon. below is a table of qliphothic sigils corresponding to the 22 hebrew letters, the 22 tarot trumps, and the 22 channels on the tree of the sephiroth. it was presented by crowley as part of his liber ccxxxi, and published in the equinox, volume 1, issue 7

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se- those fallen angels who remained loyal to lucifer in hell- were continually being confused with pagan deities and with nature spirits. thus we find mention of the demon satyr who incites men and women to lust, and the demon theutus, who induces the urge to gamble for money with cards or dice. the satyr is a nature spirit of greek mythology, and theutus is a degenerate variation on the name of the egyptian god thoth, who was associated by the greeks with numbers, and by extension with money. in the dark ages and middle ages, demons were thought able to travel on the earth invisibly, but to assume physical bodies at will. the same was understood concerning angels. this has a certain logic. in order to tempt human beings, demons need to remain invisible while they whisper seductive words

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plate 6] p. xvi the book of the dead in the iind dynasty. passing from the region of native egyptian tradition, we touch firm ground with the evidence derived from the monuments of the iind dynasty. a bas-relief preserved at aix in provence mentions asen and ankef,[1] two of the priests of sent or senta, the fifth king of the iind dynasty, about b.c. 4000; and a stele at oxford[2] and another in the egyptian museum at gizeh[3] record the name of a third priest, shera or sheri, a "royal relative" on the stele at oxford we have represented the deceased and his wife seated, one on each side of an altar,[4] which is covered with funeral offerings of pious relatives; above, in perpendicular lines of hieroglyphics in relief, are the names of the objects offered,[5] and below is an inscription w

onument of shera support one another, and together they prove beyond a doubt that a form of the book of the dead was in use at least in the period of the earliest dynasties, and that sepulchral ceremonies connected therewith were duly performed.[2] the book of the dead in the ivth dynasty. with the ivth dynasty we have an increased number of monuments, chiefly sepulchral, which give details as to the egyptian sacerdotal system and the funeral ceremonies which the priests performed.[3] the inscriptions upon the earlier [1. teta, ii. 388, 389 (recueil, ed. maspero, t. v, p. 58) 2 the arguments brought forward here in proof of the great antiquity of a religious system in egypt are supplemented in a remarkable manner by the inscriptions found in the mastaba of seker-kha-baiu at sakkara. here w

a, ii. 388, 389 (recueil, ed. maspero, t. v, p. 58) 2 the arguments brought forward here in proof of the great antiquity of a religious system in egypt are supplemented in a remarkable manner by the inscriptions found in the mastaba of seker-kha-baiu at sakkara. here we have a man who, like shera, was a "royal relative" and a priest, but who, unlike him, exercised some of the highest functions of the egyptian priesthood in virtue of his title xerp hem (on the] see max m ller, recueil de travaux, t. ix, p. 166; brugsch, aegyptologie, p. 218; and maspero, un manuel de hi rarchie gyptienne, p. 9) among the offerings named in the tomb are the substances# and# which are also mentioned on the stele of shera of the iind dynasty, and in the texts of the vith dynasty. but the tomb of seker-kha-baiu

pi ii. are found many texts which are identical with those employed by their predecessors, and an examination of the inscription of pepi ii. will show that about three-fourths of the whole may be found in the monuments of his ancestors. what principle guided each king in the selection of his texts, or whether the additions in each represent religious developments, it is impossible to say; but, as the egyptian religion cannot have remained stationary in every particular, it is probable that some texts reflect the changes in the opinions of the priests upon matters of doctrine.[1] the "pyramid texts" prove that each section of the religious books of the egyptians was originally a separate and independent composition, that it was written with a definite object, and that it might be arranged i

ls it "the chapter of making strong (or perfect) the khu [1. see naville, todtenbuch (einleitung, p. 20. on the titles "book of the dead" and "ritual fun raire" which have been given to these texts, see lepsius, todtenbuch, p. 3; de roug, revue arch ologique, n.s, t. i, 1860, pp. 69-100. 2. see naville, einleitung, p. 24] p. xxxi continuity of doctrine in the theban version the main principles of the egyptian religion which were held in the times when the pyramid texts were written are maintained, and the views concerning the eternal existence of the soul remain unaltered. many passages in the work, however, show that modifications and developments in details have taken place, and much that is not met with in the early dynasties appears, so far as we know, for the first time. the vignettes

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leading and not strictly accurate, for abra-melin had absolutely no hand in the opening part of the work, which consists of an account of abraham s own youth and early travels in search of wisdom, along with advice to the young man aspiring to become skilled in occult arts. the second part, on the other hand, is either based on the documents that abra-melin handed to abraham or on the confidences the egyptian sage disclosed to abraham. this part of the manuscript deals with the first principles of magic in general, and includes such chapters as how many, and what are the classes of veritable magic? what we ought to take into consideration before the undertaking of the operation, concerning the convocation of the spirits, and in what manner we ought to carry out the operations. the third an

as to the etymology of the word. one highly possible origin is the arabic al (the) and kimya (chemistry, which in turn derived from late greek chemeia (chemistry, from chumeia (a mingling, or cheein (to pour out or mix. the aryan root is ghu (to pour, whence comes the modern word gush. e. a. wallis budge, in his egyptian magic, however, states that it is possible that alchemy may be derived from the egyptian word khemeia, the preparation of the black ore, or powder, which was regarded as the active principle in the transmutation of metals. to this name the arabs affixed the article al, resulting in al-khemeia, or alchemy. history of alchemy from an early period the egyptians possessed the reputation of being skillful workers in metals, and, according to greek writers, they were conversant

ion. the year after gods of the new millennium appeared, hodder and stoughton republished it and gave alford a three-book contract to write sequels, which they hoped would tap the same support given to sitchin. alford shifted his attention from ancient sumer and the holyland, upon which sitchin had concentrated, to egypt, hoping to find further evidence of the anunnaki. however, he concluded that the egyptian myths did not support sitchin s thesis; rather, they suggested what he came to call the exploded planet hypothesis. the gods were not extraterrestrial beings, they were meteors that rained down as meteorites. the egyptian deities were the personifications of celestial powers, such as ra, the sun god. the ancient mythological references to the gods descending referred to the coming of

whole, of inanimate nature, as well as of animate beings, is endowed with reason and volition similar to that of man. the idea, originally proposed by e. b. taylor in his influential text, primitive cultures, was soon accepted by his colleagues and remained popular into the mid-nineteenth century. sources: durkheim, emile. the elementary forms of the religious life. new york: collier, 1961. ankh the egyptian symbol of life, perhaps the life which remains after death. it takes the form of a cross with a loop instead of an upper vertical arm. it is conjectured that it symbolizes the union of the male and female principles, the origins of life, and that like the american cross, it typifies the four winds, the rainbringers and fertilizers. it is usually carried in the right hand by egyptian d

och) name given by ancient alchemists to mercury, also known as astral quintessence, flying salve, animated spirit, ethelia, and auraric. the term also implied the essential element of the transmutation process. sources: waite, a. e. azoth; or, the star in the east. london, 1893. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1973. azael encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 136 b ba the egyptian conception of the soul, which, in the form of a man-headed bird, left the body after death and winged its flight to the gods. it returned at intervals to the mummy for the purpose of comforting it and reassuring it concerning immortality. sometimes carved on the lid of mummy cases, it might be depicted grasping the ankh and the nif; occasionally it was represented as flying down the t

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in magical evocations, and levi was clearly a model for the character of the magus in the haunted and the haunters (1857. sources: howe, ellic. the magicians of the golden dawn. london: routledge& kegan paul, 1972. lytton, bulwar. the coming race. london: george routledge& sons, 1877. complete works. new york: thomas y. crowell, n h maa-kheru according to egyptologist gaston maspero, maa-kheru is the egyptian name of the true intonation with which the dead must recite those magic incantations that would give them power in amenti, the egyptian hades (see also egypt) mabinogion a collection of ancient welsh legends translated into english by lady charlotte guest (1812.1895) and published 1838.49. the title is the plural form of the welsh maginogi, originally indicating stories of a hero s ch

ed the little fingers of daughters in order to influence their future lives. apparently the finger-chopping customs of paleolithic times had a magical significance. on some of the paintings in the aurignacian caves appear symbols that suggest the slaying and butchering of animals. other symbols are enigmatic. of special interest are the figures of animal-headed demons, some with hands upraised in the egyptian posture of adoration; others posed like the animal-headed dancing gods of the bushmen. in the marsonlas paleolithic cave, there are humanlike faces of angry demons with staring eyes and monstrous noses. in the spanish cave at cogul, several figures of women wearing halflength skirts and shoulder shawls are represented dancing around a nude male. these females so closely resemble those

the secured cooperation of demons and sometimes with the aid of magic spells. a highly developed magic system existed in ancient egypt, as in babylonian (see semites) and other early cultures. from these cultures the medieval european system of magic is believed to have evolved. greece and rome also possessed distinct magic systems that were integrated into their religious practice and thus, like the egyptian and babylonian rituals, were preserves of the priesthood. magic in early europe was integral to the various religious systems that prevailed throughout that continent and survived into the middle ages as witchcraft. christians regarded the practice of magic, at least the popular forms practiced in the pagan culture competing with their religion, as foreign to the spirit of their faith

ret panel. by 1865 he was giving demonstrations of amateur conjuring. after seeing the performance of the famous davenport brothers, he believed that he had observed trickery, and to prove his case he went into partnership with george alfred cooke to build a cabinet similar to that of the davenports and rival their phenomena. maskelyne and cooke were launched on a career of stage magic and leased the egyptian hall in london for their entertainments. by 1905 maskelyne was in partnership with fellow illusionist david devant (born david wighton) at st. george s hall, langham place, in west london, where they based many of their presentations of the claimed phenomena of spiritualism. in 1906 he was involved in a controversy with spiritualist sympathizer archdeacon thomas colley, who had challe

tine poisoning if her sitters smoked during the ectoplasmic process. w. reichel, author of occult experiences (1906, observed that the phantoms of the medium c. v. miller smelled of tobacco and even of food and wine if the medium had liberally partaken of them before the seance. when the materilized child of florence marryat filled her mouth with sugar-plums, she nearly choked the medium. mahedi, the egyptian phantom of medium f. w. monck, discovered a dish of baked apples in the room. i got him to eat some, wrote archdeacon thomas colley. our medium was at this time six or seven feet away from the materialised form and had not chosen to take any of the fruit, averring that he could taste the apple the egyptian was eating. wondering how this could be, i, with my right hand, gave our abnorm

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naissance magus firmly believed drunk from its sacred fountain. he is returning to the pagan background of early christianity, to that religion of the world, strongly tinged with magic and oriental influences, which was the gnostic version of greek philosophy, and the refuge of weary pagans seeking an answer to life's problems other than that offered by their contemporaries, the early christians. the egyptian god, thoth, the scribe of the gods and the divinity of wisdom, was identified by the greeks with their hermes and sometimes given the epithet of "thrice great".1 the latins took over this identification of hermes or mercurius with thoth, and cicero in his de natura deorum explains that there were really five mercuries, the fifth being he who killed argus and consequently fled in exile

om, was identified by the greeks with their hermes and sometimes given the epithet of "thrice great".1 the latins took over this identification of hermes or mercurius with thoth, and cicero in his de natura deorum explains that there were really five mercuries, the fifth being he who killed argus and consequently fled in exile to egypt where he "gave the egyptians their laws and letters" and took the egyptian name of theuth or thoth.2 a large literature in greek developed under the name of hermes trismegistus, concerned with astrology and the occult sciences, with the secret virtues of plants and stones and the sympathetic magic based on knowledge of such virtues, with the making of talismans for drawing down the powers of the stars, and so on. besides these treatises or recipes for the pr

, these works have been thought by many scholars to contain very few genuine egyptian elements. others would allow for some influence of native egyptian beliefs upon them.4 in any case, 1 festugiere, i, pp. 67 ff. 2 cicero, de nat. deor, i l l, 22. 3 c.h, i, p. v (preface by nock; festugiere, iii, p. 1. 4 as bloomfield says "scholarship has veered from one extreme to the other on this question of the egyptian elements in hermeticism (see 2 hermes trismegistus however, they were certainly not written in remotest antiquity by an all-wise egyptian priest, as the renaissance believed, but by various unknown authors, all probably greeks,1 and they contain popular greek philosophy of the period, a mixture of platonism and stoicism, combined with some jewish and probably some persian influences

ancient and mysterious religion of egypt, the supposed profound knowledge of its priests, their ascetic way of fife, the religious magic which they were thought to perform in the subterranean chambers of their temples, offered immense attractions. it is this pro-egyptian mood of the graeco-roman world which is reflected in the hermetic asclepius with its strange description of the magic by which the egyptian priests animated the statues of their gods, and its moving prophecy that the most ancient egyptian religion is destined to come to an end "in that hour, so the supposed egyptian priest, hermes trismegistus, tells his disciple, asclepius "in that hour, weary of fife, men will no longer regard the world as the worthy object of their admiration and reverence. this all, which is a good th

asclepius, 8 (c.h, ii, p. 304. 7 hermes trismegistus the perfect word, or sermo perfectus, is a correct translation of the original greek title of the asclepius,1 and the passage which lactantius quotes in greek corresponds roughly to a passage in our latin translation. thus the asclepius, the work which contains the weird description of how the egyptians fabricated their idols and the lament for the egyptian religion, becomes sanctified because it contains a prophecy concerning the son of god. it was not only in the asclepius that the hermetic writers used the expression "son of god. at the beginning of pimander, which is the hermetic account of creation, the act of creation is said to be through a luminous word, who is the son of god.2 when discussing the son of god as the creative word

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e uniting of worlds, touching of heaven and hell. i went out later that night. today is 11/5/98 some observations of [1] whose number is 76 and is related to the phoenix. according to grant. k. nightside of eden p.62(abbreviated kg:noe:p "the final head is named the 'messenger of the fatal wind' and it is identified with the breath of fire, with serk, scorpio, sirocco, and typhon, the typhoon. in the egyptian list this head is described as 'hissing to come forth and turn back; seeing by night and bringing by day, a perfect description of bennu or phoenix type of returner" kg:noe:p70-71"she is the whore babalon, the scarlet woman of the cult of the beast. in egyptian her name means the number seven (sefekh, she was the primordial goddess of the seven stars. 393 is the number of a highly sec

on marks, and 7 letters of laughter. 418 is the number of abrahadabra and of our work. iii/7b: a reference to our existence. a dream within a dream, in hopes of finding truth? the mystery of our lady queen of the quliphoth, to be real. it is us, also written itisus (pronounced e-teece-us. the name of the speaker closing page a: our lady of space. closing page b: end of prayer, also a reference to the egyptian deity. appendix iii- the nature of babalon your a real whore. aren tcha- some random porno our life force is beyond our personality. our personality (ego) is a result of experience, programming, our soul, genetics and other factors in combination. the personality in this reference is called a shell. it is our task to integrate/ destroy/ align our ego towards kia. the shell is either d

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ted history of the damned book. according to this essay, the original text was transcribed by the poet alhazred at damascus in 730 a.d. the title, al azif, refers to the nocturnal sounds made by insects, and supposed by arabs to be the howling of demons (by the numerology of the qabbalah, its number is 129, which represents amongst other things, a place of ravenous creatures, and corresponds with the egyptian word, atem, to annihilate) alhazred had spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of arabia, the roba-el-ehaliyeh or empty space of the ancients, which was rumoured to be inhabited by evil spirits. he had explored the ruins of babylon and the subterranean tombs of memphis, and visited the forbidden city of hem. beneath the remains of a nameless desert town, he discovered the

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rche is the greek name of primordial matter. it is also said that jesus was a carpenter (tekton) himself. it is true, he was a tekton, builder or mason, a son of god, the grand archetekton. at the age of thirty-three, when he had taken the three-times-three (9) degrees of mystic masonry, he descended to the center of the earth. so does every other tekton, mason or phree messen (child of light) as the egyptian called such, descend through the nine arch-like strata of the earth. we shall find at the time of the first advent of christ both hiram abiff, the son of cain, and solomon, the son of seth, reborn to take from him the next great initiation into the christian mysteries. in the last chapter we saw while considering "the philosopher's stone" that the spinal cord is the principal laborato

enerated by turning the creative force upward through the spinal canal, passing it between the pituitary body and the pineal gland in the brain, gives to man a third eye as it were wherewith to see in the spiritual worlds. when this serpentine spirit fire has been sufficiently evolved, he may read by its light the wisdom of the ages. therefore christ exhorted his disciples to be wise as serpents. the egyptian word naja, which means serpent, is used at least once in the hebrew bible in the 58th psalm. in ancient egypt the pharaohs were kings and priests, holding a double office, and they therefore wore a double crown with a uraeus or serpent head so placed that when wearing this crown the uraeus seemed to protrude from the emperor's forehead between the eyebrows. the serpentine uraeus was t

lighter fogs, and at the same time their growing lungs were fitting them to live under the present atmospheric conditions. two more races were born in the basins of the earth after the pioneers had left it. then a succession of floods drove them all to the highlands. the last flood took place when the sun by precession entered the watery sign cancer about ten thousand years ago, as told plato by the egyptian priests. thus we see that there is no sudden change of constitution or environment for the whole human race when a new epoch is ushered in, but an overlapping of conditions which makes it possible for the majority by gradual adjustment to enter the new conditions, though the change may seem sudden to the individual when the preparatory work has been accomplished unconsciously. the met

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it is plain that the serpents taught eve how to perform the creative act and that eve instructed adam. therefore, christ designated the serpents as harmful while admitting their wisdom. to get at the identity of the serpent it is necessary to invoke the esoteric teaching, which points them out as the martial lucifer spirits, rulers of the serpentine sign scorpio. their initiates, even so late as the egyptian dynasty, wore the uraeus or serpent symbol in the forehead as a sign of the source of their wisdom. as a consequence of this unauthorized use of the creative force, humanity ceased to be ethereal and crystallized into the coats of skin or physical body which now hides from them the gods who dwell in the invisible realms; and great was their sorrow at this loss. generation had been ori

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f the east and west; emphasis was in the original. helena petrovna blavatsky was founder of the house of theosophy. her books were all written by her demonic guiding spirits in a form that is called automatic writing. these writings tie thoth together nicely. hermes, the god of wisdom, called also thoth, tat, set, and sat-an; and that he was, furthermore, when viewed under his bad aspect, typhon, the egyptian satan, who was also set [helena petrovna blavatsky, isis unveiled, vol. i: science, new york, trow's printing and bookbinding company, 1877, p. 554, xxxiii. colored emphasis added] blavatsky like anton lavey in the satanic bible, had no trouble tying the infernal name, thoth, with satan, and especially the egyptian satan. this subject does go back a long way. remember pike's words, qu

t. from the table of coincidence page in the masonic rituals section you were made aware that individuals within the u.s government and nasa have been staging major worldly events which coincide with 19.5/33 degrees from the perspective of that particular event. this again is taceable back to ancient egypt. since blavatsky mentioned another of the infernal names, typhon, and has identified him as the egyptian satan, let us review albert pike once again, as we discover that freemasonry reveres typhon as well. typhon "osiris was the son of helios (phra) the 'divine offspring congenerate with the dawn' and at the same time an incarnation of kneph or agathodaemon, the good spirit, including all his possible manifestations, either physical or moral. he represented in a familiar form the benefic

erpent with the winged globe was placed over the doors and windows of the temples as a tutelary god [the word "tutelary" means "guardian] 3) in ancient tyre, and india "a serpent was. coiled around the trunk of a tree. python, the serpent deity, was esteemed oracular; and the tripod at delphi was a triple-headed serpent of gold [note: also, pike capitalized as we printed, above] 4 "the portals of the egyptian temples are decorated with the hierogram of the circle and the serpent" 5) the serpent "is found upon the temple of naki-rustan in persia, on the triumphal arch at pechin, in china, over the gates of the great temple of chaundi teeva, in java; upon the walls of athens. the mexican hierogram was formed by the intersecting of two great serpents, which described the circle with their bod

y believe a person needs to go through eight separate steps to become fully enlightened spiritually. the final step which is the eighth step, is the sex act. notice that the very center of this symbol is a very small circle. this symbol is the ultimate female sexual representation. probably the most famous of all obelisks in the world, is the washington monument. it is believed that the spirit of the egyptian sun god, ra, resides within the obelisk, and they pray to it three t imes daily, if possible, and facing east. the obelisk is the most recognized of all phallic symbols. the sex act between male and female is represented by an obelisk within a circle. the washington monument sits within a circle. freemasonry planned, designed, and created the w ashington monument. the obelisk is great

stics throughout the orient because it, too, embodies so many possible meanings [gary jennings, black magic, white magic, the dial press, 1964, p. 50; emphasis in original] does freemasonry adopt and use the symbolism of yin/yang? indeed, they do, but in a way as to hide the meaning form the "profane" listen to albert pike. the black and white pavement symbolizes "the good and evil, principles of the egyptian and persian creed. it is the warfare of michael and satan. light and shadow, which is darkness; day and night, freedom and despotism [morals and dogma, p. 14 "masons also use the two triangles to represent this idea of opposites. in short talk bulletin, a pamphlet which is to be read in the lodges, we are told that the triangles are symbolic of good and evil, day and night, the chines

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okmah, eve plucked of its fruit and handed it to adam- the active forces. at once the eyes of both gwere opened h, and they knew that they were naked, that is that an abyss separated the supernal triad from the infernal heptad. thus they became conscious of the difference between yh and vh, and in this consciousness was reflected the unity of these two (satan) as symbolized by their nakedness. as the egyptian hierophants, when they discovered that the earth gravitated round the sun, hid away this knowledge because it revealed the law of attraction and repulsion (the law of creation, so now did man and woman veil the knowledge of the conjunction of the vau and the heh (which is but a reflection of the union of the od and the heh) by means of aprons, tha:t is by turning this knowledge into a

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heavenly existence, and is administering to the deceased the water and the bread of life, the latter of which is represented by a substance in the form of cakes or rolls. the time at which this tablet was found is not known, but it is supposed to belong to the period of the xixth dynasty, or about the time of rameses ii, 1400 years b.c. there is also in the berlin museum another representation of the egyptian tree of life, in which the trunk has given place to the entire body of a woman. this, also, is netpe, who is still spiritual wisdom or the maternal principle. we are informed by forlong that diana was worshipped by the amazons under a sacred tree.[12] from this symbol the tree, which grew first into the figure of a divine woman, and later assumed the form of a divine man, arose the em

ed as a symbol of the renewal of time or of the birth of the new year. on the zodiac of dendera, preserved in the national library at paris, are two trees, the one representing the east, or india and china, the other, the west, or egypt. the former of these trees is putting forth a pair of leaves and is topped by the emblems of siva, emblems which indicate the fructifying powers of nature, whilst the egyptian sacred tree, which is surmounted by the ostrich plume, the emblem of truth, is indicative of light, intelligence, or the life of the soul. in a discourse delivered by dr. stukeley in 1760, attention was directed to the grove of abraham as "that famous oak grove of beersheba, planted by the illustrious prophet and first druid--abraham; and from whom our celebrated british druids came

n as the face of aditi; thus indicating that aditi is here not the dawn itself, but something beyond the dawn" this goddess, who is designated as the "oldest" is implored "not only to drive away darkness and enemies that lurk in the dark, but likewise to deliver man from any sin which he may have committed "may aditi by day protect our cattle, may she, who never deceives, protect us from evil" in the egyptian as in the indian and hebrew religions, the two generating principles throughout nature represent the infinite, the holy of holies, the elohim or aleim--the ieue. within the records of the earliest religions of ethiopia or arabia, chaldea, assyria, and babylonia, is revealed the same monad principle in the deity. this monad conception, or dual unity, this god of light and life, or of w

oking straight forward, yet a certain grand simplicity occasions them to be universally admired" the goddess disa or isa of the north, as delineated on the sacred drums of the laplanders, was accompanied by a child similar to the horus of the egyptians.[29] it is observed also that the ancient muscovites worshipped a sacred group composed of a mother and her children, probably a representation of the egyptian isis and her offspring, or at least of the once universal idea of the deity [29] jennings, phallicism. the following is from payne knight "a female pantheitic figure in silver, with the borders of the drapery plated with gold, and the whole finished in a manner surpassing almost anything extant, was among the things found at macon on the saone, in the year 1764, and published by caylu

is encircled with a halo of light similar to the rays of the sun. one is frequently disposed to query: do the initiated in the romish church regard these images as legitimate representations of mary, the wife of joseph and mother of christ, or are they aware of their true significance? certainly the various accessories attached to this figure betray its ancient origin and reveal its identity with the egyptian, chaldean, and phoenician virgin of the sphere. the fact has already been observed that in the original representation of the "temptation" in the cave temple of india, it is not the woman but the man who is the tempter, and a singular peculiarity observed in connection with this ancient female deity is that it is she and not her seed who is trampling on the serpent, thus proving that

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, although blackden's active involvement in the new order was brief, for waite records that in1904frater mawahanu thesi (a supposed and quite untranslatable egyptian motto 'married a first cousin and retired to a country house in the neighbourhood of the new forest. from there he returned in1914to argue against waite that the cipher rituals could be genuine, having come to the strange belief that the egyptian fellahin had preserved the hiero255 glyphic language to the present day and could thus have trans255 mitted ancient and authentic ritual texts. his re-emergence led to the closing down of the isis-urania temple and waite's withdrawal of his own rituals from use. blackden retaliated by producingtheritual of themysteryof thejudgmentof the soul,a translation from the papyrus of ani 'rest

nt to the discoveryof the rosetta stonebutwere later than the publicationofisisunveiled.'this, of course, rendered the cipher manuscriptsworthless-aconclusion that upset manyofwaite's more credulous followers.theconsequ255 ences were disastrous. in1914,'a second internecine feud fol255 lowed, in which frater mawahanu thesi emerged from retire255 ment to maintain, in the absenceofallevidence, that the egyptian fellaheen, long prior to the discoveryinquestion could have been and probably were acquainted with the fact that certain hiero255 glyphic texts were funerary rituals. after an unprofitable debate frater sacramentum regis, aschiefadept in charge, withdrew his copyright rituals and dissolved the rite as at that time constituted' created by the cipher manuscripts, isis-urania had finally

th embroidery and heavy with bullion, the great cope looked like the mines of ophir in the shaded light of that sombre room, taverner put;.ton over an emerald green soutane and i fastened the jewelled clasp upon his breast.thenhe handed to me, for he couldnotraise his arms, the head-dress of egypt, and i placed it on his head. i have never seen such a sight.thegaunt lineamentsoftaverner framed in the egyptian drapery, his tall figure made gigantic by the cope, and the jewelledankh in his hand..made a picture which i shall remember to my dying day."thisis virtually apictureofmathersandhismanneris as autocratic asthatofmatherswhenheaddressesthelodge,"thenameofthecouncilofsevenhasbeeninvoked,andi who amtheseniorofseven, have comeuntoyou.knowme by thissign,"andheextendedhishand.onthe fore-fing

ligation upon you concerning all proceedings of this order.thetoken is [advance your left foot touching mine, toe and heel, extend your right hand to graspappendixc117mine, fail,tryagain and then succeed in touching the fingers only (the hiereus continues to maintain the grip during the rest of his speech)'theword is [har-par-krat] and it is whispered in this position by separate syllables. it is the egyptian nameof[the godofsilence]thepresent password is..it is changed at each festival of the equinox. i now place you between the pillarsofseth, hermes and solomon, in the gatewayofthe hidden knowledge' he draws the neophyte forward by the grip until he stands between the pillars, and then receives his sword from the hege255 mon. he returns to his former position e. of and close to the black

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curious to note that waves of interest in occult and mystical subjects, seem to sweep over a nation at intervals; periods of rosicrucian enlightenment alternate with other periods of materialistic dogmatism. we must remember that rosicrucianism itself was 'no new thing'butonly a revival of still earlier forms of initiation, and was a lineal descendant of the philosophies of the chaldean magi, of the egyptian priests, of the neo-platonists, of the hermetists of alexandria, of the jewish kabalists and of christian kabalists such as raymond lully and pic de mirandola.therosicrucians, past and present 41the honoured founder of our society- christian255 rosenkreuz- did not invent, at least in our modern sense of the word, the doctrines he promulgated, and which we should now study.itis narrate

hy has pre-eminent claims to be consideredprimusinterpares,among all the theistic speculations of mankind, which have a bearing on, and have taken part in the formation of, the masonic aphanism. i shall briefly point out a few masonic points which are illuminated by a comparison with the kabbalah. some references to the mysteries are conveniently interspersed, of these there is much evidence that the egyptian forms are the oldest; now it must be specially remembered that the lecture on the tracing board of the first degree actually refers to these customs of the ancient egyptians as the fount of origin for many masonic points; it refers also to the doctrines of pythagoras whose five pointed star i mention later on. among the masonic points which have been derived from the ancient mysteries

hite, carried in their hands as emblems of their innocence, is the same word as the greekq.kq.kld.which means innocence; it was also an emblem of immortality.theinsistance on a candidate for masonry proving himself free from deformity is a requirement which was common to the selection from among the levites of a priest of the jews (see leviticus xxi, 18, and to the reception of a neophyte in both the egyptian and the eleusinian mysteries, and a further point of resemblance is seen in the refusal to admit a slave, or anybut120themagical masona free man.ifthe whole aim of freemasonry were to propagate brotherly love and charity, why refuse to extend its blessings to the cripple, or the maimed, or to him in subjection.thelegend of the three grand masters, of whom one islost-becomesremoved to

ty, serapis, was developed in egypt. he appears to have been a form of osiris and apis in combination. the worship of serapis also took root in greece.theslight and scanty details of the ancient religious mysteries of egypt centre round the names of osiris, isis, and horus, who have been compared with the hindoo triad, brahma, vishnu and siva, and with the roman catholic, jehovah, mary and jesus. the egyptian mysteries were divided into the lesser and the greater. every candidate for the greater must have passed into the lesser, and have perfected himself therein, and 'so many persons never passed beyond the lesser mysteries. to obtain admission to the lesser mysteries the candidate was required to have a history of good health and of virtuous conduct, and of education in the national fait

f therein, and 'so many persons never passed beyond the lesser mysteries. to obtain admission to the lesser mysteries the candidate was required to have a history of good health and of virtuous conduct, and of education in the national faith, theology and polity, and novices were required to spend a period of preparation in the study and practice of mental and bodily purification.thechief seat of the egyptian mysteries was at memphis, the ancient capital of lower egypt. the lesser mysteries were those of isis, and were held at the vernal equinox; those of serapis at the summer solstice; and the great mysteries of osiris at the autumnal equinox. in this latter ceremonial the drama of the murder of osiris was performed, the reconstruc255 tion of his body by isis his queen, and the punishment

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lypseofst john, describing the twenty-four thrones before the throne of the majesty divine. the word 'antient',as usedinthe time of shakespeare, meant20 the sorcererand his apprenticea banner-bearer, or ensign, or he who is worthy to bear the symbol under which men go forth to war; and we shall see presently, of what and how important occult symbols our 'ancients' or 'antients' are the guardians. the egyptian royal cartouche is, probably, the origin of the armorial bearings of heraldry, the hieroglyphics being the charges; and this cartouche borne upon a pole, formed a banner or symbol, whichever you like to call it. now the seats of the ancients in each point of our zelator grade, are pregnant with meaning. in the one they are arranged in a column,as inleadingthe candidate from the west t

receding and more ancient text. according to the pre-cited authorities this gloss was mixed up with the text as early as 2250bcat a period long anterior to the era of joseph and to that of the trojan war, and the circumstances of its possessing a written commentary, even at this early date shows that much greater antiquity of the actual text. the especial title of the 17th chapter is 'the book of the egyptian faith' and its subject is a sort of hymn of the osirified soul, which may be partially and succintly repro255 duced as follows: the words of the departed spirit, osiris- son of god i am temu, the setting sun- i am the only being in the firmament. i am ra, the rising sun, i have passed from the gate of death unto life.address onthepillars49the sun's power beginneth again, after he hath

ventor' was jacques gringonneur, an astrologer and qabalist, furthermore, cards were known prior to this period among the indians and the chinese. etteilla, indeed, gives in one of his tracts on the tarot a representation of the mystical arrangement of these52 the sorcererand his apprentice cards inthetemple ofptahat memphis, and he further says:'upona table or altar, at the heightofthe breast of the egyptian magus (or hierophant, were on one side a book or assemblageofcards or plates of gold (the tarot),andontheother a vase,etc.'this idea is further dilated upon by p. christian (the disciple of eliphas levi, in his'histoiredela magie,'to which i shall have occasion to refer later.thegreat exponents ofthetarot,court de gebelin, levi, and etteilla, have always assigned to thetarota qabalist

ianil bagatto(pagad. lapapessa .frenchenglishgimel dalethhe vauzainchethtethyodkaphlamed memnunsamechayinpe tzaddi qoph resh shintaua bgd hvzcht i kl mnsoptzqrshthv\0>-l::cttl/)ttlt:igj:>gthetarot57leaves, for eight is the first cubical number.theace of cups is of egyptian origin, which can be more easily seen in the spanish tarot.thefigure, like an inverted m on its front, is all that remains of the egyptian twin serpents which originally decorated it.itrepresents the waters of creation in the first chapter of genesis.itis the symbol of the power which receives and modifies.theace of swords isasword surmounted by a crown, from which depend on either side an olive and a palm branch, symbolic of mercy and severity; around it are six hebrew yods, recalling the six days of the mosaic creation

ferring to air, water, and fire; seven double letters, b, g, d, k, p, r, th, referring to the seven planets, etc; and twelve simple letters, h, v, z, ch, t, i, l, n, s,0,tz,q, referring to the twelve signs of the zodiac, etc. christian, the disciple of levi, in his recent work on magic, has made the explanation of the twenty-two hieroglyphics of the tarot form part of the initiatory ceremonies of the egyptian mysteries of crata repoa. the symbols of three of the twenty-two trumps of the tarot were thus restored by eliphas levi.7. the chariot.a cubical chariot with four columns, surmounted by an azure and star-decked canopy. within the chariot and between the four columns stands a conqueror crowned with a circlet, from which rise and shine three pentagrams of gold. on his cuirass are three

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

, was presumably better than not being regarded at all. according to beswick, this was how the revival came about: in the year 1859, a number of swedenborgians who had taken the higher degrees were initiated into the swedenborgian degrees. a lodge, called menei temple no. 1, was organized and began work, feb, 1859, in the old kane lodge room, broadway, new york city. from thence it was removed to the egyptian room, odd fellows hall. and worked from may, 1861 1862. a few meetings were subsequently held in the montauk lodge room, brooklyn, long island. some of the leading masons of new york have had the degrees conferred on them by communication: indeed, but few of the members have seen the degrees worked in full. applications for admission have come from every quarter of the american contin

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ere constructed by hundreds of thousands of slaves, worked to the point of death, under the whip and threat of starvation. the pharaohs, the absolute rulers of egypt, wanted themselves to be represented as gods and to be worshipped by the people. one of our sources of knowledge about ancient egypt is their own inscriptions. these were discovered in the nineteenth century and, after intense labor, the egyptian alphabet was deciphered, bringing to light much information about the country. but, because these inscriptions were written by official state historians, they are filled with biased accounts designed to praise the state. for us, of course, the best source of knowledge about this matter is the qur'an. in the qur'an, in the story of moses, we are given important information about the eg

e pharaohs. but, we should look more closely at the role of the priests. the priests of ancient egypt were a class referred to in the qur'an as magicians. they represented the cult which supported the regime. it was believed that they had special powers and possessed secret knowledge. by this authority they influ- el from the templars to ancient egypt an ancient egyptian hieroglyphic script enced the egyptian people, and ensured their position within the administration of the pharaohs. this class, known from egyptian records as the "priests of amon" focused their attention on practicing magic and administering their pagan cult; in addition, they also studied various sciences such as astronomy, mathematics and geometry. this class of priests was a closed order possessed (so they thought) of

e them, replacing the religion chosen for them by god with the idolatry of foreign nations. when we investigate this matter in light of historical records, we see that the pagan cult that influenced the israelites was that of ancient egypt. an important evidence in support of this conclusion is that the golden calf the israelites worshipped, while moses was on mt. sinai, was actually a replica of the egyptian idols hathor and aphis. in his book, too long in the sun, the christian author richard rives writes: hathor and aphis, the cow and bull gods of egypt, were representatives of sun worship. their worship was just one stage in the long egyptian history of solar veneration. the golden calf at mount sinai is more than sufficient ev- fj the inside story on the kabbalah another ancient egypt

aphis, the cow and bull gods of egypt, were representatives of sun worship. their worship was just one stage in the long egyptian history of solar veneration. the golden calf at mount sinai is more than sufficient ev- fj the inside story on the kabbalah another ancient egyptian idol: hathor, the golden calf. idence to prove that the feast proclaimed was related to sun worship 23 the influence of the egyptian pagan religion on the israelites occurred in many different stages. as soon as they had encountered a pagan people, this leaning towards heretical belief appeared and, as the verse maintains, they said "moses, give us a god just as these people have gods (qur'an, 7: 138) what they said to their prophet "moses, we will not believe in you until we see god with our own eyes (qur'an, 2: 5

sophy. from ancient egypt to the kabbalah while moses was still alive, the israelites began to create likenesses of the idols they had seen in egypt and to worship them. after moses died, there was less to deter them from backsliding farther into perversity. of course, the same thing cannot be said of all jews, but some of them did adopt egyptian paganism. indeed, they carried on the doctrines of the egyptian priesthood (pharaoh's magicians, that lay at the foundation of global freemasonry fk an ancient egyptian statue of hathor. that society's beliefs, and corrupted their own faith by introducing these doctrines into it. the doctrine that was introduced into judaism from ancient egypt was the kabbalah. like the system of the egyptian priests, the kabbalah was an esoteric system, and its b

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hrough much critical study can we restore just some of its inner meaning. the institute upholds the original inner teachings of jesus as part of a continuum of wisdom which spans from pagan to so-called christian sources. but it is perhaps desirable to state unequivocally that the teachings here, however, fragmentary and incomplete belong neither to the hindu's, the zoroastrian, the chaldean, nor the egyptian religion, nor to buddhism, islam, judaism or christianity exclusively. the secret doctrine is the essence of all these. the secret doctrine, madame blavaskty. behind the veil of all the hieratic and mystical allegories of ancient doctrines, behind the darkness and strange ordeals of all initiations, under the deal of all sacred writings, in the ruins of nineveh or thebes, on the crumb

and von dechend argue in hamlets mill that the great year may indeed be the basis for most cosmological systems. the gnostic tradition suggests that this great cycle was known to the atlanteans and was encoded into the rituals and architecture of ancient egypt. accordingly, the role of the pharaoh and later the priesthood had a special significance in relation to the unfolding of the great year. the egyptian star gnosis and the rite of rebirth the central focus of egyptian ritualism was the great pyramid, it was connected to the sphinx and operated as a initiatory structure. the pyramid was identified with the sanctuary of the sun and embodied ra, the solar logos. the rites undertaken in the chamber of the king and queen were rites of rebirth whereby the pharaoh became identified with the

manated forces from the pleroma and from the worlds of the archons. during the rite of rebirth the pharaoh left his body and traveled through the heavens. he journeyed through the realms of the planets and zodiac using passwords, gestures and codes, only after successfully passing the spheres could he then navigate through the great barrier and enter the pleroma. this ritual form was connected to the egyptian astro-gnosis and involved the pharaoh becoming the mediator for his people. in chapter six: the gnostic concept of time ii the gnostic handbook page 64 this role he also prepared egypt for the change which took place at the equinox of the gods, when one astrological sign gave way to another. for 180 years before this event the pharaoh and priesthood would work creating new symbols, my

cept of time ii the gnostic handbook page 64 this role he also prepared egypt for the change which took place at the equinox of the gods, when one astrological sign gave way to another. for 180 years before this event the pharaoh and priesthood would work creating new symbols, mythologies and astral vessels so that the incoming energy could be utilized for the benefit of egypt. as time progressed the egyptian star-gnosis, the divine rite of rebirth and the secret of planetary and zodiacal mediation was passed from the pharaoh to a separate priesthood. with time and changes in both state and religion, the teachings were held under oath by secret orders and brotherhoods. even within the hermetic order of the golden dawn we can find elements of the mediation rite within its equinox rituals, h

minor cycle is of the same characteristic as that of the greater, hence in pisces, the first minor cycle of 180 years was that of pisces of pisces. the last age of the minor cycle is important as it is preparation for the changeover to the next age. this the gnostic handbook page 65 cycle is known as the equinox of the gods, in the present cycle (pisces, is began in 1844 and is ruled by aries. in the egyptian initiatory traditions this period was also known as the heraldic cycle, it was the period in which the priesthood prepared the symbolism, legends and vessels for the influx of energy which would occur at the changeover to the new cycle. the cycle itself encompasses four different co-ordinates, these can be related to the four letters of the divine name (yhvh, the four elements, the fo

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y are religious in the sense that religion means to bind back, to return to the source or origin. these teachings are those which lead back to the spiritual world, the treasury of light from which we have become alienated. but it is perhaps desirable to state unequivocally that the teachings here, however fragmentary and incomplete, belong neither to the hindus, the zoroastrian, the chaldean, nor the egyptian religion, nor to buddhism, islam, judaism or christianity exclusively. the secret doctrine is the essence of all these. madame blavaskty. behind the veil of the hieratic and mystical allegories of ancient doctrines, behind the darkness and strange ordeals of all initiations, under the deal of all sacred writings, in the ruins of nineveh or thebes, on the crumbling stones of old temple

llar worship of the star goddess had a highly evolved structure and form. by the first dynasty a wide range of esoteric and religious cults could be found, and a complex system of burial was evolved to guide the deceased into the treasury of light, bypassing the fallen gnostic theurgy page 191 worlds. these ceremonies later evolved to include complex mummification processes and were chronicled in the egyptian book of the dead. it is also believed that this text (and others) used secret codes to outline the mysteries as taught within the egyptian occult schools. these teachings were complex and sophisticated. for example, it was taught that man was seen as having ten bodies, ranging from the khu or self to the ka or astral body. it is intriguing that these fit so well with the sephiroth of

to immortality for israel. jesus saith unto him, i am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the father but by me. john 14:6 at the moment that jesus died the world was transformed, the veil in the temple was torn in two. but what does this actually mean? gnostic theurgy page 199 the holy of holies, which the veil covered was where the high priest entered to commune with god in both the egyptian and israelite traditions. now this tabernacle was destroyed, jesus was both the sacrifice and the high priest and through his voluntary death he had opened a way for individuals to achieve their own redemption. but more than this! since jesus was able to overcome death and the world of the archons, individuals could now do the same. the missing years of jesus the missing years of jesu

ee crowley and indeed the whole golden dawn tradition as part of the gnostic continuum rather than allowing them to be re-interpreted by those who want to emphasize the ritual magic over the intense spiritual vision they possessed. on 14th march 1904 crowley and his then wife rose were in a flat in cairo. they had prepared a room for ritual invocation, it faced north. crowley called, as usual, on the egyptian god thoth. however this time something strange occurred, his wife rose fell into a trance state and began to chant they are waiting for you. this continued until the 18th of the month. during this day s invocation the startled rose exclaimed he who is waiting is horus. as the story unfolds crowley invokes horus and feels that he has communication with a being called aiwass, who is an

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tiator, and is associated with both the infernal and celestial) the sub-princes are (and should be considered shadow forms of the infernal princes) samael east (being the angel of fire who is azazel. samael is the demon prince who is married to lilith and father of tubal-cain. the root word of samael is sml, which translates idol or image) azael west (associated with azrael, the angel of death or the egyptian anubis, the god of the dead. azael represents the west and the realm of twilight) azazel south (associated with the element fire, as azazel is the fire djinn of islamic sufism. in hebrew azazel is the scape goat, associated with the root oz, meaning goat and devil, sexual force) mahazael north (associated with earth, being cain or the egyptian set as the lord of the earth in typhonian

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le. the kerub of m formulates behind the throne of hierophant. she has a young girl's countenance and form, with large and shadowing wings; and she is a power of the great goddess hathor who unites the powers of isis and nephthys. to the sign k is she referred as a correlative, which represents springs of water breaking upon l; though as a zodiacal sign it is referred to m, the container of rain. the egyptian name of the sign k is phritithi. note "thou shalt not confound the kerubim with their signs of the zodiac, notwithstanding that the latter be under the presidency of the former, seeing that the kerub representeth a far more sublime potency, yet acting by a harmonious sympathy through the particular sign allotted unto their correspondence" the kerub of o has the face and form of a lion

yet acting by a harmonious sympathy through the particular sign allotted unto their correspondence" the kerub of o has the face and form of a lion with large and clashing wings. he formulates behind the throne of the dadouchos and he is a power of the great goddess tharpesh or tarpheshest, the latter syllable being nearly pasht. the action of the lion kerub is through the flaming o of e of which the egyptian name is labo-ae. the kerub of n has the face and form of a great eagle with large and glistening wings and he formulates behind the throne of hiereus. he is a power of the great god tho-om mo-oo, and his operation is by the sign of h, which is called in egyptian szlae-ee. the kerub of l has the face and form of a bull with heavy and darkening wings. he formulates behind the throne of

pronunciation of this, put here to link it with its rightful origin. the grade of neophyte has o or the circle for its number, as if hiding all things under the negative symbol. this is placed within a circle and a square connected by equal lines, as if affirming the hidden quality of their origin in rtk where all things are one, and the consequent universal application of the secret formulae. 20 the egyptian god-forms of the neophyte grade the stations of the god-forms used in our symbolism come under two headings: 1. visible stations 2. invisible stations the visible stations are the places of the officers, each of whom has a special astral shape suitable to the forces he represents. on the dais are places for the three chiefs, the past hierophant and the hierophant. the order in which t

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o 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 referred to are those corruscations of the divine light which are above rtk of twlyxa. in such supernal realms, the [ws ya, though negative to us, is there intensely positive. thence came forth the gods, the voice, the aeons, and the name. the egyptian gods are generally most differentiated by their crowns: amen-ra, by the high feathers, mo-ooth (maut) has the same headdress as horus. she corresponds to \yhla amya. the high hermes-tho-oth has the same headdress as amoun kneph, the sacred spirit. remember that tho-oth, truth, has two aspects- the higher and the lower. the higher is absolute,.and the lower is suitable to human compreh

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gn of life and light. it is the great life and light giver to the earth. it is, most importantly, the sign of resurrection; for the sun sets in the winter and rises to begin anew in a (vernal equinox. this sign relates to osiris, the glorified one, hwchy! f, it is after resurrection that all is refreshed and returned back unto f, the virginal state. 3 this brings forth the three primary forces in the egyptian pantheon of: isis birth life apophis death destruction osiris rebirth resurrection it is the mystical cycle of: life- death- rebirth the letters: isis i apophis a osiris o a notarikon formulated from the first three letters of isis, apophis, and osiris, formulate the divine name of the gnostic iao. this is pronounced in ritual work as: eeeee- aaaahh- oooohhh (reference of a deeper und

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

regions. but none of these similarities is strong enough to infer that the connection could have been in any way causal, with one society directly influencing the other. on the contrary, as professor emery writes: the impression we get is of an indirect connection, and perhaps the existence of a third party, whose influence spread to both the euphrates and the nile. modern 7 ibid, p. 38. see also the egyptian book of the dead (trans. e.a. wallis budge, british museum, 1895, introduction, pp. xii, xiii. 8 john anthony west, serpent in the sky, harper and row, new york, 1979, p. 13. 9 archaic egypt, p. 38. 10 ibid, pp. 175-91. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 140 scholars have tended to ignore the possibility of immigration to both regions from some hypothetical and as yet undiscovere

eller s key to ancient egypt, harrap columbus, london, 1989, pp. 282-97. 17 in the case of ancient egypt the dog represents upuaut, the opener of the ways, the bird (a hawk) represents horus, and the ape, thoth. see the traveller s key to ancient egypt, p. 284, and the ancient egyptian book of the dead, pp. 116-30. for ancient central america see note 15. 18 pre-hispanic gods of mexico, p. 40. 19 the egyptian book of the dead (trans. e. a. wallis budge, arkana, london and new york, 1986, p. 21. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 146 and believed by archaeologists to date back to pre-dynastic times.20 the high priest and four assistants participated, wielding the peshenkhef, a ceremonial cutting instrument. this was used to open the mouth of the deceased god-king, an action thought nec

earn that the general term for sacrifice throughout ancient central america was p achi, meaning to open the mouth .24 could it be, therefore, that what confronts us here, in widely separated geographical areas, and at different periods of history, is not just a series of startling coincidences but some faint and garbled common memory originating in the most distant antiquity? it doesn t seem that the egyptian ceremony of the opening of the mouth influenced directly the mexican ceremony of the same name (or vice versa, for that matter. the fundamental differences between the two cases rule that out. what does seem possible, however, is that their similarities may be the remnants of a shared legacy received from a common ancestor. the peoples of central america did one thing with that legacy

that out. what does seem possible, however, is that their similarities may be the remnants of a shared legacy received from a common ancestor. the peoples of central america did one thing with that legacy and the egyptians another, but some common symbolism and nomenclature was retained by both. this is not the place to expand on the sense of an ancient and elusive connectedness that emerges from the egyptian and central american evidence. before moving on, however, it is worth noting that a similar connectedness links the belief systems of pre-colombian mexico with those of sumer in mesopotamia. again the evidence is more suggestive of an ancient common ancestor than of any direct influence. 20 see, for example, r. t. rundle-clark, myth and symbol in ancient egypt, thames& hudson, london

identical miracles were preserved in ancient egypt? there, in one typical tradition, a magician was said to have raised into the air a huge vault of stone 200 cubits long and 50 cubits broad ?12 9 mexico: rough guide, harrap-columbus, london, 1989, p. 354. 10 the mythology of mexico and central america, p. 8. maya history and religion, p. 340. 11 see chapter ten. 12 e. a. wallis budge, osiris and the egyptian resurrection, the medici society ltd, 1911, volume ii, p. 180. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 156 uxmal. the sides of the stairway i was climbing were richly decorated with what the nineteenth-century american explorer john lloyd stephens described as a species of sculptured mosaic .13 oddly, although the pyramid of the magician had been built long centuries before the conque

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

en for the wisdom and precaution of our ancient brethren, this, the only remaining copy of the law, would have been destroyed at the destruction of jerusalem. other objects are removed: a pot of manna a relic of the mysterious food that appeared out of nowhere to feed the israelites fleeing egypt; the rod of aaron, that which had turned to a serpent, which devoured those created from the wands of the egyptian magicians. the high priest then finds four pieces of paper that on inspection, prove to be the key to the cipher of the royal arch mason. with it, those present are able to decode the mysterious writing on the ark, which includes the long-lost word of the master mason, the ancient names of three sky gods drawn together to form a single word. by such ciphers and codes have the initiate

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

d merely rediscovered an ancient system known to the ill-fated atlanteans thousands of years ago. the enochian alphabet was said to have been a direct derivative of that which was used in atlantis. according to h.p. blavatsky "enoch was a generic title, applied to, and borne by, scores of individuals, at all times and ages, and in every race and nation (the secret doctrine) she equated enoch with the egyptian god thoth, who gave language, law, medicine, and science to man. the term 'enoch' meant seer or adept of the secret wisdom. thus enochian magick was not created by a single individual but evolved gradually over time which is now lost in history. the enochian alphabet and language may in fact be nearly as old as man, at least in this hemisphere. certainly they bear striking similaritie

consciousness. because a monad is defined as a single indivisible unit, consciousness can never actually be separated from the universe. imagine consciousness as a geometric point whose extension is zero. imagine the universe as a circle whose circumference is infinite.together the point within the circle symbolizes man within the magical universe. crowley called the infinitely large circle nuit. the egyptian goddess of the night sky nuit (or nut) personified infinite space as well as the concept of objectivity. he called the infinitely small point hadil. the chaldean god 22 hadit (or had) personified pure consciousness as well as the concept of subjectivity. the egyptians used the symbol of the winged globe to represent a center of consciousness. whatever the symbol used, as a magician yo

of the law a major theorem of enochian magick is that every man and every woman is inherently a star. although this theorem is stated in crowley's book of the law, the idea is a very old one. in ancient egypt, for example, the highest and most spiritual component of man was the khabs, which together with the khu, constituted the spiritual body of man similar in dehnition to the atinan of vedanta. the egyptian word khabs also translates as star. as stars travel through the sky in their own orbits, so every man and woman have their own path to tread. everyone has an inherent right to tread his own path without interference from another. as a practitioner of enochian magick you must determine your true will, decide upon your course of action, and carry it through without fear. you also must r

certain grace and natural ease associated with it. speaking the name of a deity aloud is not sufficient to effect the desired results. by vibrating the name of a deity (or demon) in accordance with this procedure you will establish an occult link with that deity which is essential for success. if properly done, a single vibration will leave you exhausted and drained of energy. 65 egyptian deities the egyptian theogony is the noblest, the most truly magical, the most bound tome (or ratherl to it) by some inmost nstinct, and by the memory of my incarnation as ankh f n-khonsu, that i use it (with its graecophoenician child) for all work of supreme effort. aleister crowley, magick without tears l am iike a god. viere is no body component of mine that is lacking fits relationship] with a god. t

ratherl to it) by some inmost nstinct, and by the memory of my incarnation as ankh f n-khonsu, that i use it (with its graecophoenician child) for all work of supreme effort. aleister crowley, magick without tears l am iike a god. viere is no body component of mine that is lacking fits relationship] with a god. the book of the dead, chapter xlii enochian magic describes the method of determining the egyptian deities that preside over the iesser watchtower squares. figures 1 to 16, appendix c, show the sixteen watchtower subquadrants with the appropriate egyptian deity. as an aid to properly understanding these deities, study the table below. table of egyptian deities os iri s re n ewa l, r e g e n e r a t i o n, r e i n c a r n a t i on, reimbodiment. osiris is the son of ra, the father o

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iii; but similar chairs (km. 25, and a seat-going (sedelgang) are attributed to all the stars. n. bth. 210. 223 says, bootes( trago ze sedele gange/ and tiu zeichen ne giant nicht in sedel. as chair and table are things closely connected, the stars may have had tables of their own, or, what comes to the same thing, may have been regarded as tables of the sky; in saying which, i am not thinking of the egyptian sun-table, but more immediately of the bio&um yppa/ sidera extollere, of the voluspa (saem. lb, the three creative bors synir having set up as it were the tables of the firmament: biosr is the goth, biuds, ohg. piot (pp. 38. 68. as the stationary stars had chairs and tables, the planetary ones, like other gods, had steeds and cars ascribed to them (see suppl. 1 the two principal stars

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indeed to the ancients.would form a cross. the first definite form of the cross, however, as a mystical or secret symbol was that often called the tau cross and used by the ancient phoenicians. this cross is shown in the first illustration on the chart of crosses (page 71. the next important development was the addition of a loop to the [72] top of the tau cross. this formed what is often called the egyptian cross, because it became a very important symbol of their rituals. by them it was called the crux ansata, or cross of life, and was their symbol of immortality or the continuity of life. it is often found in the hands of statues and in pictures of their gods and goddesses as the "key of life" by some, who are entirely ignorant of the facts, it is claimed that the crux ansata was a sex

uropean and american educational societies, and had been received into the highest degrees of fourteen or more of the leading esoteric, mystical, and philosophical societies of the world, including the rose-croix kabalistique de france, the martinist order of france, belgium and switzerland, the rose-croix alchemical society of france, the unknown samaritans of europe, the brahmanist brotherhood, the egyptian rites of memphis and mizraim, and others; he was also one of the few initiates to be received in a mystery temple of luxor, egypt, in 1929. he was distinguished with high honors at the international congress of the federation universelle des ordres et societes initiatiques (fudosi) held in brussels, belgium, in 1934. he was the only rosicrucian officer in north america having been so

lodge with real physical labor.in accordance with their trade, their profession, their art. artists seek to decorate, and paint, and beautify their lodge temple with symbolical pictures and ornaments; carpenters, electricians, and mechanics offer to build, repair, and improve the material structure; physicians and scientists ask for means of assisting, and so on. it is a notable fact that all of the egyptian and other oriental temples of our order in the americas, as in europe, have been built and decorated by the voluntary services, as far as possible, of the members. all a work of love! and what wonderful rewards have come to "the builders" in most cases! also, those who cannot serve contribute in some way, perhaps financially, or by gifts that will help in research, in mechanical proce

allegory.a symbolic story or drama in which the characters and the story represent ideas, emotions, situations, etc. other than their [162] literal nature and meaning. in rosicrucian allegories, this symbolic meaning is philosophic and mystical. a ritual drama is an allegory based on ritual or initiatic rites and may constitute in itself a ritual or initiation. amen.a hebrew word introduced into the egyptian mystic rites at an early date as a term used to express the hidden and invisible god, or a truly inspired representative of god. in this latter sense the term is used in the christian bible just once; in rev. iii: 14, jesus is called "the amen. but at a much earlier date the same word, with the same mystic vowel sounds, was used to designate the name of the god of thebes, and the term

verberate throughout the universe and which he can no longer, at least in its entirety, apprehend. the word is conceived as a vibratory, undulating energy in which the basic essence of all things exists. all manifestations owe their existence to the continuous reverberations of the word throughout the universe. the vibratory nature of each thing thus fits into a gigantic scale or keyboard. m maat.the egyptian word for truth. the symbol of maat was a feather. cromaat means "the truth shall be, or "so mote it be. the confession to maat is taken from the confession.contained in the book of the dead.spoken in the chamber of maat in egyptian temples of initiation. magic.presumes there are occult powers in nature which must be invoked by the application of certain agencies. both natural and supe

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arious images, the boy finally described from the mirror the guilty person, stature, dress, and countenance; said that he knew him, and ran down into the garden, where he apprehended one of the labourers, who, when brought before his master, immediately confessed that he was the thief.mrlane, the eminent orientalist, who lived for several years in egypt, and witnessed personally the operations of the egyptian magicians, of which he has published many curious relations: states, that on one occasion the magicians' perform255 ances were ridiculed by an englishman present, who said that nothing would satisfy him but a correct description of his own father, of whom he was sure no one of the company had any knowledge.thesceptic was a little staggered when the boy described the man in a frank dre

, 1575. her majestie (elizabeth) willed me to fetch my glass so famous, and to show unto her some of the properties of it, which i did; her majestie, being taken down from her horse by the earle of leicester, did see some of the properties of that glass, to her majestie's great contentment and delight.'tseealso an article in no. 356 ofchamber'sedinburghjournal,which contains an account of some of the egyptian magicians' failures.190therosicrucianseerhowever with difficulty induced to look into these soap-bubbles. she seemed to shudder, and she was afraid that she might see something that would alarm nero in one of these she once saw a small coffin standing before a neighbouring house. atthat.timethere was no child sick;butshortly after the lady who lived there was confined; the child lived

time of moses. not only the form, but the symbols, and even titles, connected with it, are all related to those of egypt. the urim and thummim, connected with, if not part of the breast-plate of judgment of the high priest (exodusxxviii,30),and interpreted as light and truth, or revelation andtruth,correspond most remarkably with the figure of re (the sun) and thmei (truth) in the breast-plate of the egyptian priest: and jelian and diodorus sicidus are quoted as authorities for the custom of the egyptian priest when acting as arch. judge, hanging around his neck a sapphire stone which was called truth.(mannersandcustomsof theancientegyptians,ii.,22,v,28.)good accounts of the urim and thummim, or rather of what is understood concerning them, may be found in winer'sbib/ischesrealverterbuch.i

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

e fixed at one 4 handbook of egyptian mythology moment in time but went on changing and developing for thousands of years. egyptian mythology was never gathered by priests into one authorized version or harmonized in any long literary work comparable to hesiod s theogony, an important source for the study of greek mythology. comparatively few literary treatments of myths survive from any stage of the egyptian language. the mythology of ancient egypt has to be laboriously pieced together from a variety of written and visual sources. the extent and nature of these sources varied greatly during the 3,500 years that the native pharaonic culture dominated egypt. the remainder of this chapter will give a historical overview of the sources for egyptian myth. protodynastic (dynasty 0) and early dy

uted to the legend of menes the uniter. their ritual objects belong to a formative stage in egyptian art. strict rules were being developed to govern the content and style of the art used in palaces, temples, or tombs. this formal court-based art rapidly replaced previous styles and became the standard canon for over 3,000 years.11 myths often focus on episodes of intense conflict or tragedy, but the egyptian rules of decorum usually made it impermissible to illustrate such episodes in formal art. the images used in art were felt to have power to affect the real world, so order had to be shown triumphing over chaos and good over evil. violent mythical episodes such as that in which seth tears out the eye of horus were not represented directly. the king and the gods from the first dynasty o

ve in a copy on the palermo stone and related fragments.13 the annals list the kings of egypt, starting with a series of prehistoric kings. seal impressions and small bone or wood labels of the early dynastic period portray kings engaging with a variety of deities.14 mesopotamian seals and sealings of a comparable date appear to show episodes or characters from myths set in the realm of the gods. the egyptian pieces mainly show deities as resident in statues or cult objects in man-made shrines. the labels record (or anticipate) visits by kings to shrines in different parts of the country. the royal annals record many years for which the most important events were deemed to be the dedication of cult images or the king s participation in rituals, such as visiting the sacred lake of the god h

the curious composite animal that represented the god seth. peribsen may have been trying to assert the primacy of his local god, but he seems to have lost his throne to a king called khasekhemwy from hierakonpolis. khasekhemwy placed both the horus falcon and the seth animal above his name and included the phrase the two lords are at rest in him in his title. this seems to be an early example of the egyptian tendency to present actual conflicts in mythological terms. two sculptures of khasekhemwy wearing the white crown may be the oldest known statues of a specific historical ruler from anywhere in the world. the king s enemies are shown as a chaotic mass of contorted figures under his feet, so the statues embody the triumph of order over chaos. the reign of khasekhemwy seems to have mark

ng the fourth and fifth dynasties. the huge pyramid complexes of this era seem to concentrate wholly on the divinity of the king, but this is partly an accident of preservation. reliefs and statues in the badly damaged pyramid temples did once show the king interacting with many of the deities of egypt. pyramid complexes have been interpreted as resurrection machines for the king and as models of the egyptian cosmos, making them a kind of mythology in solid form.18 the kings of the fifth dynasty had smaller pyramids, but several of them built magnificent temples for the sun god. the favored elite who served old kingdom rulers were rewarded with beautifully decorated tombs in the royal cemeteries. many of these tomb owners had personal names that linked them with deities, such as ptah-hotep

HEAVEN HELL

ven in this appendix. numbers refer to spell, chapter, or section numbers; for example, bd 15 is the book of the dead, chapter 15. for descriptions of most of the primary sources, see history and the sources of egyptian myth in introduction. a literal translation is cited for each source. these translations either include the text in the original language ptsacred texts egypt ehh index index next the egyptian heaven and hell by e. a. wallis budge london; kegan, paul, trench, tr bner& co [1905] scanned at sacred-texts.com, may 2003. j.b. hare, redactor. this text is in the public domain. these files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this notice of attribution is left intact. click to view scene from the papyrus of nekht, allowing the deceased and the wife worshipping osir

e papyrus of nekht, allowing the deceased and the wife worshipping osiris in the other world, and the manner of the house in which they expect to live, and their vineyard and garden with its lake of water (british museum, no. 10,471, sheet 21) next: preface sacred texts egypt ehh index index previous next p. vi preface the present work is the outcome of two lectures on the books of the tuat, i.e, the egyptian underworld, or "other world" which i had the honour to deliver at the royal institution in the spring of 1904, and it has been prepared at the suggestion of many who wished to continue their inquiries into the beliefs of the egyptians concerning the abode of the departed, and the state of the blessed and the damned. the object of all the books of the other world was to provide the dea

the eater of the ass. p. 113 the boat of the earth p. 126 the serpent asht-hrau p. 149 nebseni being weighed against his heart p. 159 the scales of osiris, with weights p. 159 the judgment hall of osiris p. 161 nekht spearing the pig of evil p. 163 the apes working the net p. 184 next: chapter i. origin of illustrated guides to the other world sacred texts egypt ehh index index previous next p. 1 the egyptian heaven and hell chapter i. origin of illustrated guides to the other world. the inhabitants of egypt during the dynastic period of their history possessed, in common with other peoples of similar antiquity, very definite ideas about the abode of departed spirits, but few, if any, ancient nations caused their beliefs about the situation and form, and divisions, and inhabitants of their

itten on a bandlet which was to be attached to the right arm. moreover, the soul which had knowledge of certain sections of the work would "live among the living ones" and would "see osiris every day" and would have "air in his nostrils, and death would never draw nigh unto him" 2 the illustrations which accompany the texts on the coffins from al-barsha make it evident that under the xith dynasty the egyptian theologian had not only divided the under-world in his mind into sections, with doors &c, but that he was prepared to describe that portion of it which belonged to the blessed dead, and to supply a plan of it! besides the sections from the "pyramid texts" to which reference has already been made, and the "book of the two ways" the coffins of al-barsha p. 14 contain a number of texts o

that the meeting of the deceased with his mother, father, and wife was believed to take place on the island in the first division of sekhet-hetep called qenqentet, for he says, p. 65 [paragraph continues "o qenqentet, i have entered into thee, and i have seen the osiris (i.e, his father) and i have gazed upon my mother, and had union [with my wife" 1 other passages in the per-em-hru indicate that the egyptian hoped to meet again other people besides his father, mother, and wife, in sekhet-hetep. thus in the liind chapter the deceased is made to say "let me have the power to manage my own fields in tattu (mendes, and my own growing crops in aunu (heliopolis. let me live upon bread made from white grain, and let my beer be made from red grain, and may my ancestors, and my father and my mothe

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

oid a like misunderstanding, we shall attempt to initiate our readers into the general symbolism of thelotus and the particular symbolism of the blue lotus. this mysterious and sacred plant has been consideredthrough the ages, both in egypt and in india, as a symbol of the universe. not a monument in the valley ofthe nile, not a papyrus, without this plant in an honoured place. on the capitals of the egyptian pillars, on thethrones and even the head-dresses of the divine kings, the lotus is everywhere found as a symbol of theuniverse. it inevitably became an indispensable attribute of every creative god, as of every creative goddess,the latter being, philosophically considered, only the feminine aspect of the god, at first androgynous,afterwards male. it is from padma-yoni "the bosom of th

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

atonic philosophy, and comprehended its essential unity with the oriental systems. in those days, the jew aristobulus affirmed that the ethics of aristotle represented the esoteric teachings of the law of moses; philo judaeus endeavored to reconcile the pentateuch with the pythagorean and platonic philosophy; and josephus proved that the essenes of carmel were simply the copyists and followers of the egyptian therapeutae (the healers. so it is in our day. we can show the line of descent of every christian religion, as of every, even the smallest, sect. the latter are the minor twigs or shoots grown on the larger branches; but shoots and branches spring from the same trunk-the wisdom-religion. to prove this was the aim of ammonius, who endeavored to induce gentiles and christians, jews and

ceases to exist, either at, or soon after corporeal death. it becomes in time entirely disintegrated and disappears from view, being annihilated as a whole. q. then you also reject resurrection in the flesh? a. most decidedly we do! why should we, who believe in the archaic esoteric philosophy of the ancients, accept the unphilosophical speculations of the later christian theology, borrowed from the egyptian and greek exoteric systems of the gnostics? q. the egyptians revered nature-spirits, and deified even onions: your hindus are idolaters, to this day; the zoroastrians worshiped, and do still worship, the sun; and the best greek philosophers were either dreamers or materialists-witness plato and democritus. how can you compare! a. it may be so in your modern christian and even scientif

was the chaldeans who taught that science to the other nations. now thebes antedated considerably, not only "ur of the chaldeans" but also nipur, where bel was first worshipped-sin, his son (the moon, being the presiding deity of ur, the land of the nativity of terah, the sabean and astrolater, and of abram, his son, the great astrologer of biblical tradition. all tends, therefore, to corroborate the egyptian claim. if later on the name of astrologer fell into disrepute in rome and elsewhere, it was owing to the frauds of those who wanted to make money of that which was part and parcel of the sacred science of the mysteries, and who, ignorant of the latter, evolved a system based entirely on mathematics, instead of transcendental metaphysics with the physical celestial bodies as its upadhi

es, goblins, pinkies, banshees, moss people, white ladies, spooks, fairies, etc, etc. eleusinia (gr) the eleusinian mysteries were the most famous and the most ancient of all the greek mysteries (save the samothracian, and were performed near the hamlet of eleusis, not far from athens. epiphanius traces them to the days of iacchos (1800 bc) they were held in honor of demeter, the great ceres, and the egyptian isis; and the last act of the performance referred to a sacrificial victim of atonement and a resurrection, when the initiate was admitted to the highest degree of epopt. the festival of the mysteries began in the month of bo dromion (september, the time of grape-gathering, and lasted from the 15th to the 22nd-seven days. the hebrew feast of tabernacles-the feast of ingatherings-in th

de, the real process being emanation, guided by intelligent forces under an immutable law. therefore, while the occultists and theosophists believe thoroughly in the doctrine of evolution as given out by kapila and manu, they are emanationists rather than evolutionists. the doctrine of emanation was at one time universal. it was taught by the alexandrian, as well as by the indian philosophers, by the egyptian, the chaldean, and hellenic hierophants, and also by the hebrews (in their cabala, and even in genesis. for it is only owing to deliberate mistranslation that the hebrew word asdt was translated "angels" from the septuagint, while it means emanations, aeons, just as with the gnostics. indeed, in deuteronomy the word asdt or ashdt is translated as "fiery law" whilst the correct renderi

INFERNAL UNION

animal- hair or flame, and with birds feet. her animal is the screech owl and the connections to various other names (masks) by which she has been called throughout history may be traced by the owl representation of the nature of these goddesses. finally, she is the queen mother of vampires, which is entirely in keeping with all the above references to 3 her. she was in this aspect in the tale of the egyptian sekmet, the blood-drinking goddess of the south (and may be related to seker in this aspect. lilith is the female serpent who latched onto eves brain centre in her union with samael who possessed adam. their union produced the first born (or in some mythologies, the dark twin) male, cain who through adversity was taught knowledge and wisdom by his true spiritual parents who he came in

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

the second possibility is called universal loading, which is operated in the same way, including, however, the concentrated wish that as long a time as the object (ring, stone, jewelry) exists, the bearer of it should be benefited by fortune, success, etc. such universal loadings performed by an adept will keep their virtues and their effects for centuries. as we have learned from the history of the egyptian mummies, such fixed forces continue acting for thousands of years. if a talisman or an object destined and individually loaded for a definite person falls into the hands of someone else, he will not experience the least influence. but if this object returns to the true owner, this influence will go on acting. now let me describe another field where vital force is active, namely that o

self did say it. henceforth he partakes of all the four basic qualities of the godhead he is united with. magic physical training (x) 1. brahma& shakti he who knows other systems of initiation will find a certain parallel with my system since all paths leading to truth must be the same. let me mention here the indian yoga system concerning the snake power that is in accordance with the systems of the egyptian mysteries i have quoted. in kundalini yoga the scholar is exhorted to meditate on the muladhara center, the seat of which is the coccyx, and to perform pranayama exercises there. if we look closely at the symbolism of the muladharaa chakra we shall find tht this center has the shape of a yellow square with a red triangle in it. the center of it is a phallus wrapped three and a half ti

quired by experience and recognition, the latter depending on the spiritual maturity of the individual. and this maturity again is determined by the spiritual development that is formed on the path to initiation. anybody who has been reading about the tarot will know as a fact that there are 21 more cards called the great arcana besides the first tarot card, which is symbolized by the magician in the egyptian mysteries, being the cradle of all wisdom. and each of these tarot cards again includes an initiation system. apart from the 22 great arcana, there are 56 minor arcane corresponding to the tarot cards, likewise symbolizing small mysteries, and each of these cards requires a description. divine providence will decide what and how much i shall be permitted to write and publish about the

INTRODUCTION TO THE SEVEN FACES OF DARKNESS

actical synthesis of the two camps could be achieved, as well as providing a practical methodology for such a synthesis. with the best scholarly sources i could find, i began a study of the god set-typhon, one of the most frequently appearing figures in the magical papyri of thebes and whose name is found in curse tablets around the mediterranean. set-typhon drew my attention for several reasons. the egyptian god set, who represented a fierce separateness- an individual drive for power and knowledge, was largely a suppressed "forbidden" deity of the egyptians. he had been a patron of the pharaohs of the xix and xxth dynasties. i was curious why this god had (then as now) a remanifestation, and why he was coupled with a greek monster. why did literate, well-educated men of late antiquity ca

be tied in with similar spells on curse tablets found around the mediterranean. the practices of the theban library are the key to a widespread magical/philosophical view of the universe which shaped the thought of late antiquity, and which in a hidden manner have shaped and are reshaping magical practices of the twentieth century. what i wish to do in this book is examine the papyri and tablets, the egyptian contribution to the papyri, the greek contribution. then on a more operative level, i wish to show the postmodern magician how he or she may use this technology, its presence in the world, and sources to deepen his or her understanding. the most perceptive of my readers will see this entire work as a demonstration of method, which they may use to rewin whatever mysteries the world hol

a living system that enables you to communicate with the hidden secret side of the universe. when you achieve results, you have opened the mouths of the gods. a distillation of the above threefold system could be contained int eh egyptian sentence ir shti shta-tu! which could be translated variously as "inquire of the books of magic" or "seek the mysteries" or "travel through difficult territory" the egyptian word shta -ti may have been etymologically connected with certain forms of the name of set. by the time of the magical papyri the words meaning "belonging to set" or "of the secret place" had coalesced in the common tongue. the egyptians associated certain night sky features with set, particularly the constellation ursa major and the planet mercury. they called mercury sbq which simpl

ISIS UNVEILED

white vest; varnished boots, and white kid ^ves, oeer one of v>kich sparkles a rich diamond ring, worth many thousands we must suppose a precious brazilian jewel. above this body of a modem portuguese dandy is a head with the hair parted in the middle; a sad and solemn face, and eyes whose patient look seems to reflect all the bitterness of this last insult flung at the majesty of the crucified" the egyptian isis was also represented as a virgin-mother by her devotees, and as holding her infant son, horus, in her arms. in some statues and biuso-rilievot, when she appears alone she b either complete- ly nude or veiled from head to foot. but in the mysteries, in common with nearly every other goddess, she is entirely veiled from head to foot, as a symbol of a mother's chastity. it would not

bly seated on a rock, and reading a book" the norse kingdom ta the dead is moreover situated in the higher latitudes of the polar regions; it is a cold and cheerless abode, and neither the gelid halls of hela nor the occupation of balder present the least similitude to the blazing hell of eternal fire and the miserable' damned' sinners with which the church so generously peoples it. neither is it the egyptian ameriti, the region of judgment and purification; nor the honderak the abyss of darkness of the hindfis; for even the fallen angels hurled into it by siva are allowed by para- brahman to consider it as an intermediate state, in which an opportunity is afforded them to prepare for higher degrees of purification and redemp- tion from their wretched condition. the gehenna of the new test

or thousands of years before the christian era. their trinity is but the trio of sephiroth, the first three kabalistic lighie of which moses nschmanides says, that "they have never been teen by any one; there is not any defect in uiem, nor any disunion" the first eternal number is the father, or the chaldaean primeval, invisible and incomprehenuble dtaot, out of i^ch proceeded the inieiligihe one the egyptian pta, or" the principle of laghi not the light itself, and the prindple of ijfe, thou^ himself no life" the wisdom by which the father created the heavens is the son, or the kabalistic androgynous adam kadmon. the son is at once the male rd, or light of wisdom, prudence or intd- ligence, sephira, the female part of himself; while from this dual being proceeds the third emanation, the b

powers of nature opens the spiritual sight of man, enlarges his intellectual faculties, and leads him unerringly to a profounder veneration for the creator, on the other hand ignorance, dogmatic narrow-mindedness, and a childish fear of looking to the bottom of things, invariably leads to fetish-worship and superstition. when cyril, the bishop of alexandria, had openly embraced the cause of isis, the egyptian goddess, and had anthropomorphized her into mary, the mother of god; and the trinitarian controversy had been begun; from that moment the egyptian doctrine of the emanation of the creative god out of emepht? began to be tortured in a thousand ways, until the councils had agreed upon the adoption of it as it now stands the disfigured ternary of the kabalistic solomon and philo! but as

h as we find it now, till 300 years after the period of apostles^ and the zohar and other kabalistic books are found to belong to the first centtuy before our era, if not to be far older still. the gnostics entertained many of the essenean ideas; and the esaenes had their 'greater' and 'minor' mysteries at least two cen- turies before our era. they were the itarim or initiates, the descendants of the egyptian hierophants, in whose country they had been settled for several centuries before they were converted to buddhistic monas- ticism by the missionaries of king asoka, and amalgamated later with the earliest christians; and they existed, probably, before the old egyptian temples were desecrated and ruined in the incessant in- va^ons of persians, greeks, and other conquering hordes. the hi

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

ep healing magic within us, ruler of avalon, noted for her healing powers and prophetic vision, controller of destinies. etain. celtic moon goddess, wife of midir king of the underground, symbol of fertility. teaches us to be shining wherever we are. arianrhod. welsh triple moon goddess, keeper of the heavens and cycles and changes of time. nurtures us thru dark night of soul changes. and some of the egyptian goddesses. ishtar. babylonian creator goddess, the source of all life. queen of heaven, giver of light, represents being active and strong. isis. moon goddess, mother and giver of all life. goddess of agriculture, medicine and wisdom, isis represents total femininity. hathor. the mother of all gods and goddesses. goddess of love, mirth, beauty and sensual pleasure. sustainer, destroye

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

merely from hearsay, as it were. it is, besides, poor and ineffective, gathered from no authority, and produced with no dramatic force; for the life and the beliefs of the rosicrucians were very dramatic, at the same time that the latter were very true, although generally disbelieved. delphic e (with the significant point in the centre. the crux-ansata (the most important and persistent figure in the egyptian hieroglpyhs) chapter the second. singular adventure in staffordshire. r. plot, who was a very well-known and reliable man, and a painstaking antiquary and writer of natural history, in his history of staffordshire, published by him in the time of charles the second, relates the following strange story: that a countryman was employed, at the close of a certain dull summer s day, in dig

s: hermippus redivivus; or, 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 rosicru

all history reads doubtfully, being written for popular purposes. in the temple-herren of nicolai there is an account of a gnostic gem, or talisman, which represents a cynocephalus, with a lunar disc on his head, standing in the act of adoration, with sceptrum displayed, before a column engraved with letters, and supporting a triangle. this latter architectural figure is, in fact, an obelisk. all the egyptian, obelisks were phalli. the triangle symbolises one of the pillars of hermes (hercules. the cynocephalus was sacred to him. the pillars of hermes have been judaiscd into solomon's jachin and boaz. so says herz, in regard to masonic insignia. we will explain fully, later in our book, of these interesting sexual images, set up for adoration so strangely; and from the meaning of which we

head-dress of the figure in the assyrian standard has a fleur-de-lis; at p. 340, fig. 245, the bronze resembles a fleur-de-lis; at p. 350, fig. 254, an egyptian example of the god nilus, as on the thrones of pharaoh- necho, exhibits the fleur-de-lis. vert, or green, and azure, or blue (feminine tinctures, are the colours on which respectively the golden bees, or the silver lisses, are emblazoned. the egyptian scarab i are frequently cut in stone, generally in green-coloured basalt, the scarab us. 45 or verdantique. some have hieroglyphics on them, which are more rare; others are quite plain. in the tombs of thebes, belzoni found scarab ei with human heads. there is hardly any symbolical figure which recurs so often in egyptian sculpture or painting as the scarab us, or beetle, and perhaps

e- porch, or litch-porch. lug, or litk, is a word in the danish signifying the same as lyk in the dutch, and leiche in the german. thus comes the word lich-gate. lich in the anglo-saxon means a dead body. see notes and queries, vol. ii. p. 4. the lych-gates were as a sort of triumphal arches (propyl a) placed before the church, as the outwork called the propylon, or propyl um, was advanced before the egyptian and the grecian temples. they are found, in the form of separate arches, before the gates even of chinese cities, and they are there generally called triumphal arches. propyl a is a name of hecate, dis, chronos, or the p, to which sinister deity the propylon or propyl um (as also, properly, the lych-gate) is dedicated. hence its ominous import, pro, or before, the pylon or passage. ev

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

g that the space structures or ufo's spend most of their time in line between earth and the sun, it has been suggested that some of the ancient sun worship may have originated in the condition that some god-like beings may have come from ufo's which were said to be "in the sun" because of this alignment of the neutral, and that perhaps the "death boats" for celestial flight which were buried with the egyptian kings may have been symbolic of the ufo flight xxxxxx. perhaps some of these traditions were fragmentary memories from the first wave of civilization. in fact there are several very ancient traditions which can be at least partially accounted for by our common denominator of life in and from space. for emphasis, and for the establishment of present principles, we repeat that it is rel

K AMBER THE BASICS OF MAGICK

e study and application of psychic forces. it uses mental training, concentration, and a system of symbols to program the mind. the purpose of magick is to alter the self and the environment according to the will. most of the magick we see today comes to us from ancient egypt and chaldea. the chinese, hindus, and tibetans developed their own unique types of magick. western magick was locked up by the egyptian priests for thousands of years and then supressed by the rise of christianity. it was not until medieval europe that magical knowledge was rediscovered by the alchemists and cabalists. only during the past hundred years or so has western culture been open minded enough to permit widespread investigation of the subject. only since the start of the twentieth century has science shown mu

KETAB E SIYAH

place your trust in adonai yahweh for he shall show to you another land 291 which shall be for you and your nation that you shall be a father to. the land of mamre is for you, abraham, and it shall be your children's also. go then to this land with your household and forsake these evil people that you would dwell amongst" so gathered to him abraham his household and his consorts, sarai and hagar, the egyptian, and went from the land of haran unto the land mamre. well amused was michael at this work for mamre was a land but of sand and the kingdom of scorpions and jackal and no fit place was it for men. yet abraham went there with his people because michael had willed him do so. there did abraham make his home and there was he beset with great hardship. yet despite the rigours of the land a

place was it for men. yet abraham went there with his people because michael had willed him do so. there did abraham make his home and there was he beset with great hardship. yet despite the rigours of the land abraham persevered with his lot and made fertile the soil with deep wells and reaped from it a fecund harvest. in the land of mamre, the women of abraham brought forth sons for him. hagar the egyptian was mother to ishmael first of the sons of abraham and then was isaac, son of sarai. yet of his two sons did abraham love ishmael the best of them for he was the first born. yet of this love was sarai jealous for her son and despised hagar for her son. with subtle whispers and with lies did she deceive abraham and turn his heart against his first-born and the mother hagar the egyptian

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE ONE

hers of the sepher yetsirah, the three alchemical principles of nature, the sulphur, the mercury and the salt. each pillar is surmounted by its own light-bearer veiled from the material world. at the base of both pillars rise the lotus flowers, symbols of regeneration and metempsychosis. the archaic illustrations are taken from the vignettes of teh 17th and 125th chapter of the ritual of the dead the egyptian book of the per-em-hru or the book of coming forth into the day, the oldest book in the world as yet discovered. the recension of the priests of on is to be found in the walls of the pyramids of the kings of the 5th and 6th dynasties at sakarah, the recensions of the 11th and 12th dynasties on the sarcophagi of thatperiod, and the theban recension of the 18th dynasty and onward is fou

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

oncentration of evil. amalek represents the tribe that waged war against yisrael (derived from yisra, straight, and el-creator, that is, those who want to steer themselves directly to the creator. amalek personifies our egoism, which under no circumstances wants to permit a person to become free of its power. egoism is displayed (attacks) only in the desires of a personwho attempts to depart from the egyptian captivity (egoism. even if one is situated at the very beginning of one s path, amalek will immediately bar that individual s passage. a sudden increase in perceiving one s egoism is sent only to those who are distinguished and chosen by the creator- 136- attaining the worlds beyond only those who are selected in order to attain a higher understanding of the creator are sent the amale

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

e work, without which the production of the book would not have been possible. c. w. l. second edition in this second edition a few trifling corrections have been made, and some additional information has been given with regard to certain higher degrees. c. w. l. contents foreword author's preface chapter i introductory personal experience. egyptian evidences. preservation of rituals and symbols. the egyptian outlook. the hidden work. the egyptian race. the grand lodges. the ordinary lodges. the history of masonry. chapter ii the lodge form and extension. orientation. the celestial canopy. the altar. pedestals and columns. orders of architecture. meaning of the three columns. the pillars of the porchway. chapter iii the fittings of the lodge the ornaments. the mosaic pavement. the indented

odge. the e.a. s. n. the officers. the duties. the opening. the e.a. k c s. chapter vi initiation the candidate. divisions of the ceremony. preparation of the candidate. the inner preparation. the three symbolical journeys. the o c. the e c. i l c s. the s c and p c examination and investiture. the working tools. egyptian interpretation of the working tools (second edition: the working tools, and the egyptian interpretation of them. chapter vii the second degree the questions. the preparation. the inner preparation. the opening. the e.a.'s last work. the five stages. the five steps. the o. the working tools. closing the lodge. chapter viii the third degree the opening of the lodge. the c c the preparation. the internal preparation. entering the lodge. the seven steps. the o c the etheric f

it to his followers. 16. the masonic square was well-known, and was called neka. it is to be found in many temples, and also appears in the great pyramid. it is said that it was used for squaring stones, and also symbolically for squaring conduct, which once more resembles the modern interpretation. to build on the square was to build for ever, according to the teachings of ancient egypt; and in the egyptian hall of judgment osiris is seen seated on the square while judging the dead (see plate ii b) 17. 18. thus the square came to symbolize the foundation of eternal law(*churchward, the arcana of freemasonry, p. 59) 19. the egyptians used the rough and the smooth ashlars with much the same meaning that masons attach to them today(*ibid, p. 60) a wand surmounted by a dove is represented, n

s part of a manual which in its entirety was intended as a kind of guide to the astral plane, containing a number of instructions for the conduct both of the departed and the initiate in the lower regions of that other world. the chapters which have been collected from the various tombs do not give us the whole of that work, but only one section of it, and even that is much corrupted. the mind of the egyptian seems to have worked along exceedingly formal and orderly lines; he tabulated every conceivable description of entity which a dead man could by any possibility meet, and arranged carefully the special charm or word of power which he considered most certain to vanquish the creature if he should prove hostile, never apparently realizing that it was his own will which did the work, but a

ct of these ancient and elaborately perfected systems, these rites are full of meaning, or rather of meanings; for in egypt we attributed to them a fourfold signification. since every detail is thus full of import, it is obvious that nothing should ever be changed without the greatest care, and only then by those who know its full intent, so that the symbology of the whole may not be spoiled. 38. the egyptian outlook 39. it is exceedingly difficult to explain to twentieth century readers all that this work meant to us in the sunny land of khem; but i will try to describe the four layers of interpretation as they were taught when i myself lived there. 40. the first idea of its meaning was that it conveyed to us and symbolized in action the way in which the great architect had constructed th

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

s part ii of the hidden life of freemasonry and is mentioned by the author in the preface* contents author s preface chapter i schools of masonic thought the origins of masonry. the authentic school. the anthro-pological school. the mystical school. the occult school. the knowledge of the occultist. the occult records. the sacramental power. the form and the life. orthodoxy and heresy. chapter ii the egyptian mysteries the message of the world teacher. the gods of egypt. isis and osiris. animal deities. the practice of embalming. other deities. the brothers of horus. consecration. the purpose of the mysteries. the degrees of the mysteries. the mysteries of isis. the preliminary trials. the mystery language. the duality of each degree. the inner mysteries of isis. the mysteries of serapis

ia, in greece and rome, upon the temples of burma and the cathedrals of mediaeval europe; and there are said to be shrines in southern india where the same secrets are taught under binding pledges as are communicated to us in the craft and high grades in modern europe and america. 14. among pioneers in this field we should mention bro. albert churchward, the author of several interesting books on the egyptian origin of masonry, although it may be that he is not always quite sufficiently critical; bro. j. s. m. ward, the author of freemasonry and the ancient gods, who was hiram abiff? and a number of other works, who looks to syria as the source of masonry, though he has compiled a mass of valuable information from many other lands; and mr. bernard h. springett, author of secret sects of sy

nry. in the light of this view of the masonic succession, it will be seen that genuine rites are those which possess and transmit spiritual power, whereas spurious masonry is the working of a form from which for one reason or another the life has been withdrawn, or to which it has never been linked. 49. in the following chapters i shall endeavour to trace the descent of the masonic tradition from the egyptian mysteries to the present day, not in any way attempting to delineate each separate link in the chain of succession, for that would be the work of a life-time and would not be of any fuller value to the student, but touching rather upon im-portant periods of masonic history, as revealed by the inner sight, and confirmed in the writings of masonic scholars. 2 the egyptian mysteries 50

nt periods of masonic history, as revealed by the inner sight, and confirmed in the writings of masonic scholars. 2 the egyptian mysteries 50. the message of the world-teacher 51. in the hidden life in freemasonry i have described to some extent the form and meaning of freemasonry as i knew it in egypt about six thousand years ago. that form was largely due to the birth of the world teacher among the egyptian people about 40,000 b.c. when he taught them the doctrine of the hidden light. it may be well to sketch briefly the history of the nation from that period up to 13,500 b.c, where i took it up in the previous book. 52. the authentic history of egypt, as determined by modern scholars, begins with the first dynasty, which was founded by mena or manu about 5,000 b.c- the dates are various

by the kings of the fourth dynasty, khufu (cheops, khafra (chephren) and menkaura (mycerinus, during the fourth millennium b.c. but the inner history of egypt and its pyramids extends back further than this, into ages upon which even tradition is almost silent, although some echoes of the reigns of the divine kings of the atlantean dynasties, who ruled egypt for many thousands of years, appear in the egyptian and greek myths of the gods and demigods who are said to have reigned before the coming of manu. 53. according to manetho, the egyptian historian of the ptolemaic period, whose works are now lost (except for certain fragments preserved in quotations, the gods and demigods reigned for 12,843 years. after these came the nekyes or manes, who are said to have reigned for 5,813 years; and

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

. shortly thereafter they founded the temple of set as an intended continuation and evolution of the church into a context intentionally divorced from judeo-christian mythology. aquino served as the temple of set s high priest until 1996, at which time he retired from the office, while remaining an active member. the temple of set teaches that what christianity has called satan is a corruption of the egyptian figure of set. set is not understood as a god of evil, but rather the personification of the individual consciousness or psyche. members( setians) can explore the temple s philosophy individually, or through local groups called archon 15 pylons. unlike the church of satan, which advocated a law of the jungle approach to society, the temple of set inclines more toward platonic idealism

bout 1580 b.c.e. to c. 1080 b.c.e. then began a series of incursions by the assyrian and persian empires, though ancient egypt was not really brought to an end until after alexander the great conquered it in 332 b.c.e. from about 3000 b.c.e, egyptian official religion recognized the pharaoh as the offspring of the sun god, re, and thus as a god himself. there were many other gods and goddesses in the egyptian pantheon, whose domains covered everything from natural phenomena like air (the god shu) to cultural phenomena like writing (the goddess safekht. many gods were represented as e 77 78 egypt an animal or part-human/part-animal, perhaps the residue of earlier animal worship. generally, egyptians gave most prominence to those gods associated with the nile (hapy, sothis, sebek, the sun (r

be wise to allow some of the demons to continue their work, as sinful mortals still needed to be kept in line and have their faith tested at times. god agreed to allow one-tenth of the demons carry on their work under mastema s supervision. there are other references to mastema, such as in exodus (4:24ff. here mastema tries to kill moses. also, it is said that mastema is supposed to have assisted the egyptian wizards against moses and aaron when these israelites had to present themselves before the pharaoh to display their talent at feats of magic. see also book of jubilees for further reading: davidson,gustav. a dictionary of angels including the fallen angels. 1967.new york: free press, 1971. godwin,malcolm. angels: an endangered species. new york: simon and schuster, 1990. matamoros mur

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rm of heru- behutet (horus of behutet, a solar-martial form of horus symbolized by the winged disk. heru- ra-ha is not a historical egyptian deity but is mentioned in cap. iii of the book of the law and is said to combine hoor-par-kraat (horus the child) and ra-hoor-khuit (ra-horus of the two horizons. line 6: on was not an egyptian deity but a transliteration into hebrew( a or wa) of the name of the egyptian solar cult-centre called heliopolis by the greeks. the confusion arose through a misreading by freemasons of genesis xli, 45 and 50 where joseph married asenath daughter of poti-phera priest of on. on spelt u as a formula is another matter entirely; see col. clxxxvii. hrumachis is probably a variant spelling of harmachis (hor-maku, said by budge (gods of the egyptians vol. i p. 470) t

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rning the general method of love, and thy development by that way. n the book of wisdom or folly 89 gk de magno opere (of the great work) ut now give ear most eagerly, thou son of my loins, for i will now discourse unto thee of thine own attainment, without which all is but idleness. know first that conscious thought is but phenomenal, the noise of thy machine. now chemistry, or al-chem-y meaneth the egyptian science, and the true magick of egypt hath this for its foundation. we have in our house many substances which act directly upon the blood, and many practices of virtue similar, to simulate, compose, purify, analyse, direct, or concentrate the thought. confer ccxx. ii, 22. but this action is subtle and of man modes, and dependeth heavily on the conditions of the experiment, whereof th

t i tended when i was nemo, and that although i saw the cankerworm, and knew it, and gave urgent warning. how then consider deeply in thyself if i were rightly governed in this action, according to the tao. for we that are magicians work without fear or haste, being omnipotent in eternity, and each star must go his way; and who am i that should save this people .wilt thou smite me as thou smotest the egyptian yesterday. yes, although mine were the might to save these ten, i reached not forth mine arm against iniquity, i spake and i was silent; and that which was appointed came to pass. as it is written, the pregnant goddess hath let down her burden upon the earth. c the book of wisdom or folly 101 gf de femina quadam (of a certain woman) nowest thou for what cause i am moved to write this

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ular deity. and this is more likely, since in this divine love no element may be omitted. it is by virtue of this completeness that no human love may in any way attain to more than to forthshadow a little part thereof. 1 [fallacy of failing to distinguish between different senses of .to be. coupled with non distributio medii. t.s] 2 [this is the concluding line of the famous passage in cap. 42 of the egyptian book of coming forth by day (book of the dead) where various parts of the body of the deceased are identified with the corresponding members of various gods. the version quoted by crowley here matches word-for-word budge.s translation from the papyrus of nu as printed in the 1899 kegan paul, trench, trubner& co. edition of the book of the dead. t.s] 3 [this quote has been conformed to

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the altar. the accusation and defence as antiphonies. 5. the journey. bar and pass, and the 4 visions even as a mighty music. 6. the hanged man.the descent of adonai. 7. the installation.signs, etc. sealing as for opening; but insert sacrament. 1.15. during a lunch of 12 oysters, cepes bordelaise, tarte aux cerises, cafe noir, dispatched without yoga or ceremonial, i wrote the ritual in verse, in the egyptian language. i don.t think very well. time must show: also experience. i.d recite tennyson if i thought it would give samadhi! now more mantra, though by the lord i.m getting sick of it. 1.40. it occurs to me, now that i am seeing my way in the operation a little more clearly, that one might consider the first day as osiris slain, the second as that of the mourning of isis l, the third a

the floor, so like rodin fs cruche cassee danaide girl as never was. as i ought to have been in the beginning! well, one thing i got (again, that is, that when all is said and done, i am that i am, and all these thoughts of mine, angels and devils both, are only fleeting moods of me. the one true self of me is adonai. simple! yet i cannot remain in that simplicity. i got this .revelation. through the egyptian plane, a partial illumination of the reason. it has cleared up the mind; but alas! the mind is still there. this is the strength and weakness both of the egyptian plane, that it is so lucid and spiritual and yet so practical. when i say weakness, i mean that it appeals to my weakness; i am easily content with the smaller results, so that they seduce me from going on to the really big

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xx. referred to in liber xiii. unfortunately the published (after a fashion) version of liber 120, the ritual of passing through the tuat, appears to be an early draft differing in a number of respects from the one on which this practice is based. in any case, it is based on egyptian texts describing the nightly journey of the sun through twelve divisions of the underworld. see for example budge, the egyptian heaven and hell. 12 i am not entirely sure what alice is talking about here, but can take a guess. 13 apocalypse xiii. 14. 14 h.b. in an editorial note to the .blue brick. demonstrates that this is one of the .methods of sabhapaty swami. referred to in .liber o. being derived from a r.jayoga practice described in a book by said author; a summary by crowley survives in his diariicliber

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these methods they are hardly pertinent to the pure numerical qabalah, and we therefore deal gently with them. the attributions are given in 777. thus a in the yetziratic world is .air. by tarot .the fool. and by signification .an ox. thus we have the famous i.n.r.i= y. n. r. i= f, h, f; the virgin, the evil serpent, the sun, suggesting the story of genesis ii. and of the gospel. the initials of the egyptian names isis, apophis, osiris, which correspond, give in their turn the ineffable name iao; thus we say that the ineffable is concealed in and thus combining all the symbols into the form of a lion [note added by ac to a copy of equinox i (5, as transribed by yorke. in the copy i am working from the hebrew is near-unreadable, the second set of letters does not look like dyt which is the

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years of worship you hail ra26 his bark or nuit27 her ship* a flat cake of unleavened bread. as a matter of fact they do not enjoy and indeed will not eat them, preferring .dok. a paste of coarse flour and water, wrapped round a hot stone. it cooks gradually, and remains warm all day. 115 120 125 130 135 140 145 live out thy life! character of balti. his religious sincerity. relations of poet and the egyptian god of wisdom. crowley dismissed with a jest. 26 the sword of song and sail..the waters wild a-wenting over your child! the left lamenting (campbell).28 the ibis head,29 unsuited to grin, perhaps, yet does its best to show its strong appreciation of the humour of the situation. in short, dismiss me, jeered and hooted, who thought i sported roland.s crest,30 with wisdom saddled, spurre

nought untried, will or will not avail? aum! let us meditate aright50 on that adorable one light, divine savitri! so may she illume our minds! so mote it be! i find some folks think me (for one) so great a fool that i disclaim indeed jehovah.s hate for shame that man to-day should not be weaned of worshipping so foul a fiend in presence of the living sun, and yet replace him oiled and cleaned by the egyptian pantheon, the same thing by another name. thus when of late egyptian gods evoked ecstatic periods in verse of mine, you thought i praised or worshipped them.i stand amazed. i merely wished to chant in verse some aspects of the universe, summed up these subtle forces finely, and sang of them (i think divinely) in name and form: a fault perhaps. reviewers are such funny chaps! i think t

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an body. still more of these were omitted in the first edition of mtp. 4 the equinox publication had .taphtatharath. which is not a reasonable transliteration of trtrtpt. 5 de occulta philosophia lib. ii cap. xxii. the edition of the english translation edited by donald tyson (st. paul, minnesota: llewellyn, 1993) has an appendix explaining how these characters are derived. 6 the reason for using the egyptian forms is simply that they have the bestdefined magical images. there are also techniques for deriving magical images from names in hebrew or greek, which can be applied to this practice as well as in the construction of telesmatic images. you should also find out about forms from any other pantheons which particularly appeal to you. 7 see for example budge.s gods of the egyptians. 8 t

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is the light bringer of humanity; he is the spirit force of fire and light. lucifer would be considered the same as the thelemic aiwass, the spirit of the 93 current that brings love and positive self-growth through magick. the word magick itself is defined as ascending. lucifer is prometheus, the one who brought the fire of imagination to mankind. lucifer is known in the witches sabbat covens as the egyptian god set, the lord of storms and chaos and the bearer of the black flame. thus, lucifer revealed, is the initiator by fire and the creator of the left hand path. lucifer, as being the shadow form of our imagination, thus shaitan the adversary, gives us the ability to open the gates of self-initiation through the witches sabbat mysteries. 4 we are required to have the individual love of

the individual is initiated by the mothering/fathering coven to receive the power of the current into their body, that born again in the luciferian path, will they be the first of the witch blood yet again. one aspect of witches sabbat teaching is the ability for the student to make a certain contact with ancestral shades and spirits. the aspects of hermetic occultism are present here, from which the egyptian systems of typhonian magick are awakened. the ancestral shades are the spirits of ones past, those familiars that shall manifest the current of initiation further to the dreaming body of witch. one may wish to obtain an old statue or object which may hold a key to the gnosis, something which the individual shall attribute this force unto. some may use the anubis inspired skull of one

of witchcraft. east lucifer as azazel in the earthbound form, the mentioning of twelve wings in reference to the serpent angel. lucifer is the freedom of will from which the individual may seek to strengthen and illuminate the self in ones own discovered light, or black flame. north the cold north is the direction of not only cain as the lord of horsemen, but also of set-heh the adversary. set is the egyptian god of chaos, storms and darkness. the isolator, set is the adversarial god of change, strength and sufficiency through the 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-empowe

d lower octave of saturn. shades shadows of the dead, spirits which commune with the living. the witches sabbat path works with shades from ancestral manes and evoked spirits. thanatos death and the spirit therein. thanatos is considered the death posture guide through which we meet the deep desire, thanatos is the gateway therefore. theurgy holy or high magick, practiced originally or defined by the egyptian platonists which commune with beneficial spirits is sought. this is a part of the great work of communion with the holy guardian angel, and greater servitor or familiar. vampirism a secret art of predatory spiritualism, which involves astral projection and aspects of lycanthropy, communion with the dead and necromantic workin tluciferian sorcery and set- typhon by michael w. ford firs

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on and aspects of lycanthropy, communion with the dead and necromantic workin tluciferian sorcery and set- typhon by michael w. ford first written in 2003 and updated january 2006 suti (set) and the devil-forms of ancient egypt i am the crocodile-god (sebak) who dwelleth amid his terrors. i am the crocodile-god and i seize (my prey) like a ravening beast transformation into the crocodile-god from the egyptian book of the dead set is considered in the developing luciferian gnosis as the adversary, an early form of the adversary. the crocodile god sebak in the egyptian book of the dead draws some aspects similar in nature to set, such as the forms he would take. seemingly, it is considered by the initiatory focus into the symbol and traits of set, verily the greatest of the gods embodied man

d traits of the god forms therein. atavisms are also used in such a way; while often one may use atavistic resurgence as a form of summon many of the god forms listed above. some of the luciferian witchcraft or high sorcery gnosis is developed from charles pace, known in early wiccan circles as hamar'at. pace, who was born in 1920 was an early associate of gerald gardner, knowing him from some of the egyptian hermetic occult circles they associated in. pace was known in the 1960's as a priest of set and anubis, and later became a high priest of gerald gardner's coven in south london. charles created two known manuscripts of his lectures and teachings, which were based on his own sethanic cult of masks. pace was presenting a luciferian aspect of wicca which would provide an actual initiator

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he astronomical chiram--cleopatra's needle and masons' marks. 77 the pythagorean theory of music and color pythagoras and the diatonic scale--therapeutic music--the music of the spheres--the use of color in symbolism--the colors of the spectrum and the musical scale--zodiacal and planetary colors. 81 fishes, insects, animals, reptiles, and birds jonah and the whale--the fish the symbol of christ--the egyptian scarab--jupiter's fly- the serpent of wisdom--the sacred crocodile. 85 fishes, insects, animals, reptiles, and birds, part ii the dove, the yonic emblem--the self-renewing phoenix--the great seal of the united states of america--bast, the cat goddess of the ptolemies--apis, the sacred bull--the monoceros, or unicorn. 89 flowers, plants, fruits, and trees the flower, a phallic symbol

the four adams--arabian traditions concerning adam--adam as the archetype of mankind--the early christian church on the subject of marriage. 125 an analysis of the tarot cards the origin of playing cards--the rota mundi of the rosicrucians--the problem of tarot symbolism--the unnumbered card--the symbolism of the twenty-one major trumps- the suit cards. 129 the tabernacle in the wilderness moses, the egyptian initiate--the building of the tabernacle--the furnishings of the tabernacle--the ark of the covenant--the robes of glory--the urim and thummim. 133 the fraternity of the rose cross the life of father c.r.c--johann valentin andre--the alchemical teachings of the rosicrucians--significance of the rose cross--the rosicrucian temple--the adepts of the rose cross. 137 rosicrucian doctrines

sickle consecrated for that service. the parasitic growth was caught in white cloths provided for the purpose, lest it touch the earth and be polluted by terrestrial vibrations. usually a sacrifice of a white bull was made under the tree. the druids were initiates of a secret school that existed in their midst. this school, which closely resembled the bacchic and eleusinian mysteries of greece or the egyptian rites of isis and osiris, is justly designated the druidic mysteries. there has been much speculation concerning the secret wisdom that the druids claimed to possess. their secret teachings were never written, but were communicated orally to specially prepared candidates. robert brown, 32, is of the opinion that the british priests secured their information from tyrian and phoenician

upon which were drawn or woven the signs of the zodiac and other astronomical symbols. after his initiations were over, he was hailed as one who had risen from the dead, was instructed in the secret teachings of the persian mystics, and became a full-fledged member of the order. candidates who successfully passed the mithraic initiations were called lions and were marked upon their foreheads with the egyptian cross. mithras himself is often pictured with the head of a lion and two pairs of wings. throughout the entire ritual were repeated references to the birth of mithras as the sun god, his sacrifice for man, his death that men might have eternal life, and lastly, his resurrection and the saving of all humanity by his intercession before the throne of ormuzd (see heckethorn) while the cu

its derivation from the compound osiris-apis. at one time the egyptians believed that the dead were absorbed into the nature of osiris, the god of the dead. while marked similarity exists between osiris- apis and serapis, the theory advanced by egyptologists that serapis is merely a name given to the dead apis, or sacred bull of egypt, is untenable in view of the transcendent wisdom possessed by the egyptian priestcraft, who, in all probability, used the god to symbolize the soul of the world (anima mundi. the material body of nature was called apis; the soul which escaped from the body at death but was enmeshed with the form during physical life was designated serapis. c. w. king believes serapis to be a deity of brahmanic extraction, his name being the grecianized form of ser-adah or sr

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seal is this, which he will own and submit unto, etc (47) uvall, vual, or voval- the forty-seventh spirit uvall, or vual, or voval. he is a duke, great, mighty, and strong; and appeareth in the form of a mighty dromedary at the first, but after a while at the command of the 20 or with the head of a lion, or having a lion his head, in some codices. exorcist he putteth on human shape, and speaketh the egyptian tongue, but not perfectly.21 his office is to procure the love of woman, and to tell things past, present, and to come. he also procureth friendship between friends and foes. he was of the order of potestates or powers. he governeth 37 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, to be made and worn before thee, etc (48) haagenti- the forty-eighth spirit is haagenti. he is a president, a

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chaldea, persia, greece and asia minor" out of egypt have i called my son" is, in one of its many senses, a biblical allusion to this passing on of the catholic m ysteries from egypt to new and virgin regions, for their enlightenment. of these various translations those that concern us chiefly are two; the one to greece, the other to palestine. we know from the bible that moses was an initiate of the egyptian mysteries and became learned in all its wisdom, while philo tells us that moses there became" skilled in music, geometry, arithmetic, hieroglyphics and the whole circle of arts and sciences" in other words he became in a real sense a master mason and, as such, qualified himself for his subsequent great task of leadership of the hebrew people and the formulating of their religious syst

ven. some of them are dothed with light as with a garment; others are ministers of flaming fire. in a short paper such as this our reference to the ancient mysteries is necessarily brief and has been restricted to the greek eleusinian system. many others of course existed and an extensive, though scattered, literature is available for those who would pursue the subject further in the direction of the egyptian, samothracian, chaldean, mithraic, gnostic and other systems. in their respective days and localities they formed the authoritative centres of religion and philosophy, using those terms as but phases of an indivisible subject which nowadays has become split up into many brands of theology and speculative philosophy having little and often no possible connection with each other. what t

MICHAEL FORD A RITE OF THE WEREWOLF

olf 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 egyptian god set or set-an, a early form of satan or shaitan the adversary. 5 as a point of focus, the initiate who takes the flesh of the werewolf does so via the imagination. this would require a certain amount of privacy in which the witch would not be bothered by anyone else, to ensure a self-fascination and the visualized transformation to occur. the initiate would prepare his or her cham

ource of creative life. in the tarot, the devil is attributed to capricornus, and the hebrew letter ayin, being an eye. the symbolism of the devil as the initiator may be best understood by the tarot as presented in the book of thoth. satan/set is the ass headed god of the desert, the lord of storms and desolate places. set is the tester of self, the adversary and 9 luciferian is also relevant to the egyptian god set, sethanic= of set. 10 see iblis, the black light by peter lamborn wilson. the flame of isolate consciousness and being is the black light/black flame. this is defined as the fire and perception of being, antinomianism. 11 the book of thoth weiser publications 8 opposer. set is also related to saturn. this planet, called also shabbathai, is the sphere of saturn and is considere

jilwa, lucifer is presented as malak tauus existed before all other creatures and was then and now .there is no place devoid of me thus presenting the unnatural concept of self-illumination and intellect, lucifer is the adversary, who is full of life. as lucifer/shaitan is light, he does indeed hold a shadowside. this is present in the god forms or masks of shaitan, being seker, set and ahriman. the egyptian god set19 is a model and neter20 for self-deification, isolation and the adversary. the adversary or opposer is the shadow which reveals light, called the black light of iblis or shaitan. this light is inspired intellect and creative imagination. set represents self-imposed challenge and individual development, a tester of self. an adept uses this model for self-control and a becoming

f the yezidi. 19 called also seth or set-an. 20 force of nature or that of a god, indicating by definition a separate or antinomian force. 11 was traditionally the color of set, lucy lamie21 held the connection that set- typhon was a god form which burns and consumes, he is a lord of the desert. the fire concept would not be new to this deity, as set was essentially shaitan the opposer/adversary. the egyptian god seker is also a god form which the sorcerer may visualize and use as a mask of dreaming22. seker is an ancient death-god, who was considered older than osiris and who resided around the city of memphis. seker resided in the tomb and the complete darkness. around his lands were winged serpents, demonic spirits and dragon like beings with three heads. seker was often featured as a m

2 a mask of dreaming is focusing and projecting the psyche or self into the mask of the god form in question, going forth to the sabbat masked in the cloak of the god form you are assuming. this is a development from older golden dawn practices and enables the mind to grow strong through understanding and experiencing on dreaming levels other significant god forms, demons and angelick spirits. 23 the egyptian book of the dead, the abode of the blessed, edited by e.a. wallis budge. 24 tubal-cain or cain, the son of samael and lilith, was the master of the forge i.e. initiation. 12 when one approaches the ancient masks of set, seker or the persian druj of the yatuk-dinoih understand that by diving in the black sun, becoming as a god in the darkness is but the first part of crossing the abyss

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subconscious. are all vampire spirits merely elementals which exist at deep levels of the mind? well, my experience is no, they are not. some are pre- created spirits, long dead ghosts who seek some sort of revenge or those who have lost their battles with choronzon or as lovecraft called "azathoth (1) and drank too deeply from the mother of abominations. choronzon could be considered the same as the egyptian apep, whom is a demon of chaos. the lord of the luciferian witchcraft cultus is set, the prince of darkness, is known for his battle with apep and by destroying the demon, he becomes the master of chaos. in the sorcerer s life, he or she would seek to become set-like and master chaos (apep. this is a point of high sorcery and mastery of the earth. this is mirrored in the lord of air a

g union of zos and kia. zos (the hand) is the strength and maker of that which kia (the eye) sees and wishes to be. the unity of the hand and the eye represents the all seeing eye, vision and the hand which makes flesh "i believe what i will and will what i believe"-aos the system of the zos kia cultus as first described by austin spare is at all points associated or enfleshed with the essence of the egyptian god besz, the ever changing, ever transforming one. the zos kia cultus differs from other systems which manifest themselves through dogmatic doctrine. for example thelemic magick, which is based on the maxim "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" and "love is the law, love under will. such systems are most significant in their will training techniques through ceremonial mag

ancestral quality, or an obtained one with the karma of another animal. such atavisms appear demonic or bestial. see images and oracles of austin osman spare by kenneth grant. 3. the petro tradition of voodoo is based in the element fire, thus aligned with sex and death workings. in parallel mythology the gods thanatos and eros in union, opposites non-existent in the combination. 4. black isis is the egyptian equivalent of the goddess kali, being a figure of both death and birth. black isis is also a formula which combines the goddesses kali, hecate, lilith and babalon into one specific goddess form. 5. the waking flesh of day side activities. 6. the book of pleasure 7. widdershins is the counter-clock wise movement within or in the motion of a circle. this represents the under flowing of

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

antagonist, firewas bursting over the dark sea. the ocean boiled; towering waves beat upon all promonto-atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation41 the world falls dead ries of the coast; the ground quaked; hades, lord of the dead, trembled; and even zeus him-self, for a time, was unstrung.and let us not neglect the accounts from egypt, later bastion of the sons of the ser-pents. from the egyptian ipuwer papyrus of 1780 bc, we read: the land- to its whole extent confusion and terrible noise. for nine days there was no exitfrom the palace and no one could see the face of his fellow. towns were destroyed by mightytides..upper egypt suffered devastation..blood everywhere..pestilence throughout thecountry. the egyptian scribe manetho records information seemingly about the era of t

formation seemingly about the era of the pha-raoh amenophis, but which is really about a previous time: his..was an intensely dramatic era which culminated in a prolonged war, the invasion of hiscountry by vast and well-armed hordes, accompanied by meteorological events of a phenomenal character, and finally ended in the great catastrophe which destroyed him andmost of his nation. in spell 316 of the egyptian coffin texts, we find the following passages, referring topowerful destructive weaponry: so the gods were brought together, re addressed nun: behold, mankind who came from myeye, have been scheming against me nun replied: o re, if your eye was turned against thosehow greatly would they fear you? hathor said: i have prevailed over mankind and it is pleasant to my heart then re said: no

to their core if they were to find out the facts about this particularstudy and about what has been infiltrated into their minds and the minds of their young. here are some of the key passages from the david ovasons masterpiece, which bringout facts that have long been concealed from the public: the extraordinary truth is that the very existence of the washington monument is intimatelylinked with the egyptian star, sirius the sihor, which the ancients represented in their sacredhieroglyphics as an obelisk as well as a star. how is it possible that this most important starof the ancient world should find itself, as it were, resurrected in the architecture of theunited states. in the course of that day, when the cornerstone of the washington monument was laid, thesun would have passed over s

he cameras filmed the atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation99 serpents in the streets official placing of the american flag, a masonic ceremony took place, which was never tele-vised or revealed to the american free public. buzz aldrin produced a masonic bannerwhich was specially embroidered for the strange trip by the librarian of the masonic houseof the temple in washington d. c. the egyptian hierogram for the star sirius consists of three shapes: a five-pointed star, anoval, and an obelisk. amazingly, this is just what we find in stone in washington d.c. theentire city is dedicated astromantically to the star sirius and its occult deities. astrology isgood enough for the ruling plutocrats it seems. pity that when the ordinary person seeks touse the divination arts for the

high druid of england)the modern world is not at all cognizant of the splendid achievement of the ancient civiliza-tions of two lands at least, namely egypt and greece, in so relating their minds to the orderof nature that their life in general flowered out in a state of health and wholesomeness thathas hardly been matched in the history of the world since. history discloses that the daily lifeof the egyptian citizen was one lived in close and intimate relation with the life of nature. noone can study the life of the greek people of two to three millennia ago without recognizingthe tremendous part that what they called physis, or nature, played in their modus of livingboth at the physical and the intellectual level. their philosophy, which is still regarded as theheyday of the human achiev

MICHAEL W FORD THE VAMPIRE GATE

be able to utilize all of your senses and develop skills to master what you will in this world. as we see that tiamat is the goddess of chaos, the oceans of the subconscious kingu represents her empowered will to form in life. the dragon is intense possibility, waiting for its means to become real by your desire and belief. with the tiamat foundation of vampirism, you may more easily move through the egyptian or ahrimanic aspects of luciferian sorcery to utilize the predatory spiritual aspects of each. energy and blood life essence as we have made reference to qi or chi, astral energy. life energy is taken from human beings without harming them. life energy is the aura and the very essence which is slightly larger than the human body. the mind directly influences the amount and strength of

h. the chinese called algol tseih she, which is piled up corpses and was considered a violent, dangerous star due to its changing vivid colors. on some 17th century maps algol was labeled, the specter s head. algol upon some research has 77 indicated that possibility three stars which are an eclipsing binary, which may explain some of the rapid color change. some writers have connected algol with the egyptian khu, or spirit. the khu is considered a shadow spirit which feeds on other shades of the dead. in reference to the writings and initiatory symbolism of michael w. ford, algol is the sigillized in one form as a chaos star with an averse pentagram in the center. the pentagram refers to the eye of set, timeless and divine, godlike and independent. the chaos star is destruction, change an

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

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

to return. his physical description was that of a white man, past middle-age, blue eyes, a long cloak reaching to his knees, and a full, grey beard. in some variations, viracocha was called thunupa, who was killed by a group of jealous conspirators, and whose body was placed on a boat and cast into lake titicaca. instead of drifting away slowly, the boat sailed rapidly out of sight. then you have the egyptian god osiris. like jesus, osiris is associated with goodness and resurrection. he, like virococha, was a civilizer. despite the fact that osiris is not the most ancient of the egyptian gods, he was still proclaimed to be the lord of creation at the moment of his birth. osiris came upon the egyptian people baring gifts of knowledge and love. this civilizer established egypt s first legal

es. the coming and goings of the gods seem more akin to the machinations of a drunk poet, rather than a true record of history; it s easy to see how men like freud came to their conclusions about mythology (being nothing more than stories that symbolically represent the inner and outer struggles of the individual. there is yet another source of confusion that pervades some mythologies (especially the egyptian stories, and that confusion is borne from multiple names and titles associated with a single god. for example, the egyptian goddess hathor is associated with 2 other goddess, isis and bast. sometimes hathor is spoke of as the mother of horus, which would mean hathor and isis were the same entity; in other cases, the title hathor is associated with bast, who is known to not be isis. al

7 rays of light reaching out from her head--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 13 then there s satan, who himself has countless names. most christians believe they have a monopoly on the stories regarding this being, but satanists know better. satanists, and occultists in general, have equated the fallen angel satan with the villain of almost every mythology. in egyptian mythology, satan is set, the egyptian god of chaos, storms, and evil. and similar to satan from the bible, who once stood beside the throne of god, set was once the guarding of the sun god ra. apparently, it was after set s battle with apep, the serpent of chaos, that he became the new villain in the egyptian tales; the first to play this villain role was apep himself. the evil god set kills his benevolent brother osiris

ades would rule the underworld, which was the land of the dead. although the greek traditions do not mention a conflict between the two brothers zeus and hades, satanists do. i suspect that this is just another god and his evil brother story. satanists also refer to satan as azazel. azazel, according to jewish lore and the bible, is a fallen angel or demon who is described as an outcast. he, like the egyptian god set, is associated with the desert. although azazel was mentioned in the bible, his most famous appearance was in the book of enoch. the book of enoch is considered an apocryphal text, which means that it did not receive entry into the bible. the book of enoch s exclusion from the canon (bible) is truly a tragedy, and the fact that christians opinion regarding this text is largely

, who is frequently depicted with three heads; one of a dog, one of a snake, and one of a horse. this goddess is often associated with witchcraft and childbirth, and was accompanied by an owl during her travels. she is known as the virgin goddess, and is also reported to have a following of ghosts and lives in the underworld with hades, lord of the underworld. another goddess related to lilith is the egyptian goddess isis. isis was the wife of osiris, and was responsible for osiris first resurrection. isis is skilled at magic, and especially intelligent. isis, like hecate, is a goddess of childbirth. it appears isis, the widow of noble osiris, is now the harlot, bride of set (satan. sekhmet, an egyptian goddess who was among the most ancient of the gods, is also associated with both lilith

MICHAEL W FORD NOX UMBRA

and the infernal sabbat. anubis, as defined by e.a. wallis budge in "the gods of the egyptians" presents am ut, the "dweller in the chamber of embalmment" as the opener of the north (ap-uat) to the realm of set. anubis is also called hermanubis and death. heru-em-anpu is a dual god form, which holds power in both the celestial/luciferian and infernal regions. this draws a close connection between the egyptian anubis and grecian triple moon goddess hecate. as anubis is the jackal headed lord of the dead, he presides in the west. charles pace (hamara't) mentions in the "book of tahuti" that west is the direction of water, as well as darkness. according to his hermetic teachings, anubis is also death and a god form of necromantic power. anpu is also a gateway to amethes- amenta- amentet. this

MIDNIGHTS CIRCLE A COMMENTARY OF AZOTHOZ

ontext of the sabbatic/luciferian path as well as others. in the brotherhood of saturn the god of the saturnian sphere is baphomet temohpab, being a angel-demon of both a positive and negative side. in azothoz, lucifer is the baphometic spirit which presents in lyrical prose the sides of the adversary, in terms of sethanic (of set) witchcraft and the left hand path. set is presented in azothoz as the egyptian godform of chaos, darkness and storms. he is in this sigillic mask the initiator and tester, the opposer and flame giver. it is indeed the mask of set which was given unto his bride, lilith, to spawn cain, the first sorcerer and initiator of witchblood. as written in azothoz- lilith came unto the prince of darkness whom found the shores of the red sea in passion and nocturnal lust kne

MORALS AND DOGMA

he indented or denticulated border" is called "tesselated" because it has four "tassels" said to represent temperance, fortitude, prudence, and justice. it was termed the indented trassel; but this is a misuse of words. it is a _tesserated_ pavement, with an indented border round it. the pavement, alternately black and white, symbolizes, whether so intended or not, the good and evil principles of the egyptian and persian creed. it is the warfare of michael and satan, of the gods and titans, of balder and lok; between light and shadow, which is darkness; day and night; freedom and despotism; religious liberty and the arbitrary dogmas of a church that thinks for its votaries, and whose pontiff claims to be infallible, and the decretals of its councils to constitute a gospel. the edges of thi

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

from _kur_ or _khur, the sun, comes khora, a name of lower egypt. the sun, bryant says in his mythology, was called _kur; and plutarch says that the persians called the sun _kuros. kurios, lord, in greek, like _adona, lord, in ph nician and hebrew, was applied to the sun. many places were sacred to the sun, and called _kura, kuria, kuropolis, kurene, kureschata, kuresta, and _corusia_ in scythia. the egyptian deity called by the greeks"_horus" was _her-ra. or _har-oeris, hor_ or _har, the sun _hari_ is a hindu name of the sun _ari-al, ar-es, ar, aryaman, areimonios, the ar meaning _fire_ or _flame, are of the same kindred _hermes_ or _har-mes(_aram, remus, haram, harameias, was kadmos, the divine light or wisdom _mar-kuri, says movers, is _mar, the sun. in the hebrew, aoor, is light, fire

sed up to life, or living" so, in arabic _hrm, an unused root, meant_"was high "made great "exalted" and _h rm_ means an _ox, the symbol of the sun in taurus, at the vernal equinox. khurum, therefore, improperly called _hiram, is khur-om, the same as _her-ra _her-mes, and _her-acles, the"_heracles tyrius invictus" the personification of light and the son, the mediator, redeemer, and saviour. from the egyptian word _ra_ came the coptic _ouro, and the hebrew _aur, light _har-oeri, is _hor_ or _har, the chief or _master _hor_ is also heat; and _hora, season or hour; and hence in several african dialects, as names of the sun _airo, ayero, eer, uiro, ghurrah, and the like. the royal name rendered _pharaoh, was phra, that is _pai-ra, the sun. the legend of the contest between _hor-ra_ and _set

the nineteenth dynasty. it is called in the book of the dead "the day of the battle between horus and set" the later myth connects itself with phoenicia and syria. the body of osiris went ashore at _gebal_ or _byblos, sixty miles above tsur. you will not fail to notice that in the name of each murderer of khurum, that of the evil god bal is found* har-oeri was the god of time, as well as of life. the egyptian legend was that the king of byblos cut down the tamarisk-tree containing the body of osiris, and made of it a column for his palace. isis, employed in the palace, obtained possession of the column, took the body out of it, and carried it away. apuleius describes her as "a beautiful female, over whose divine neck her long thick hair hung in graceful ringlets" and in the procession fema

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

ttributed to the "element (in the old classification of things) of air. now, as one, or aleph, he represents the male principle, the first cause, and the free breath of life, the sound of the vowel a being made with the open throat and mouth. as zero, he represents the female principle, the fertile mother (an old name for the card is mat, from the italian 'matto, fool, but earlier also from maut, the egyptian vulture-mother-goddess) fertile because the 'egg of blue' is the uterus, and in the macrocosm the body of nuit, and it contains the unborn babe, helpless, yet protected and nourished against the crocodiles and tigers shown on the card, just as the womb is sealed during gestation. he sits on a lotus, the yoni, which floats on the 'nile, the amniotic fluid. in his absolute innocence and

o symbolize the mother-goddess. he is the wandering knight of fairy tales who marries the kings daughter. this legend is derived from certain customs among exogamic tribes, for which see the golden bough. thus, once europa, semele and others claimed that zeus--air [inserted footnote* zeus obtained air for his kingdom in the partition with hades, who took fire, and poseidon, who took water. shu is the egyptian god of the firmament. there is a great difficulty here, etymologically. zeus is connected with iao, abrasax, and the dental sibilant gods of the great mysteries, with the south and hadit, adad, set, saturn, adonai, attis, adonis; he is even the "jesus, slain with the lance, whose blood is collected in a cup. yet he is also to be identified with the opposite party of the north and nuit

ng which includes both magick and mysticism. as a result, the initiate acquires sufficient spiritual experience not to make the same blunders as do "asses in lion skin. 47. but they have the half: unite by thine art so that all disappear. they have half of the key. half=5+1+30+ 6=42. 4+2=6, the sun. the jews have, in common with thelemites, awareness of the sun current. this they acquired through the egyptian initiate they called moses and "adopted" as a jew. it is with motive that they have been called "children of satan. truly, the "eye that watches over israel never sleeps. but that eye watches over everybody! unite by thine art so that all disappear. this phrase sent certain debased elements within jewish occultism hunting for aleister crowley as long as he lived. thelemites have been

o us every act, as implying change, is an act of love. life is a dance of delight, its rhythm an infinite rapture that never can weary or stale. our personal pleasure in it is derived not only from our own part in it, but from our conscious apprehension of its total perfections. we study its structure, we expand ourselves as we lose ourselves in understanding it, and so becoming one with it. with the egyptian initiate we exclaim "there is no part of us that is not of the gods; and add the antistrophe "there is no part of the gods that is not also of us" therefore, the love that is law is no less love in the petty personal sense; for love that makes two one is the engine whereby even the final two, self and not-self, may become one, in the mystic marriage of the bride, the soul, with him ap

nia but my left hand is empty, for i have crushed an universe& nought remains "the double wand of power" is a curious variant of the common "wand of double power; the general meaning is "i control alike the forces of active and passive "coph nia: the original ms has left incomplete as not having been properly heard. the present text was filled in later in her own hand by the first scarlet woman. the egyptian gods are usually represented as bearing an ankh, or sandal-strap, in the left hand, the wand being in the right. this ankh signifies the power to go, characteristic of a god] but apparently ra hoor khuit had an universe in his left hand, and crushed it so that naught remains. i think this "universe" is that of monistic metaphysics; in one hand is the "double wand, in the other "naught

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

is prime walks erect on two legs, and when old age has enfeebled his powers, calls a staff to his assistance, and thus has, as it were, three legs. the sphinx no sooner heard this reply, which was the correct solution of her riddle, than she flung herself over the precipice, and perished in the abyss below. the greek sphinx may be recognized by having wings and by being of smaller dimensions than the egyptian sphinx. tyche (fortuna) and ananke (necessitas. tyche (fortuna. tyche personified that peculiar combination of circumstances which we call luck or fortune, and was considered to be the source of all unexpected events in human life, whether good or evil. if a person succeeded in all he undertook without possessing any special merit of his own, tyche was supposed to have smiled on his b

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

s mark on templar ceremonies as well as on many of their customs "ismailism clearly seems to have been the practical model that the templars adopted almost immediately after the formation of the order, with respect to its hierarchy and the obedience to a grand master and commanders on whom the order firmly established its discipline."33 this hierarchy in fact was derived from the pythagorians and the egyptian mysteries. the same could also be said about other customs and symbols that the assassins and templars had in common. for example, couldn't the white garb of both the assassins and the templars be modeled on that of the disciples of pythagoras* it is also acceptable to believe that outside the respective dogmas of assassins and templars there were flexible interpretations of ideas and

s seat at the church of saint mary magdalene. royal certificates from 1162 mention the privileges enjoyed by butchers of the la grande boucherie parisienne. these privileges were confirmed by patent letters issued from 1182 to 1183 by philip augustus. the drapers had established themselves in the community in 1183 and in 1188 they founded the brotherhood of saint peter in the chapel of saint mary the egyptian. in all the relevant documents of this era the members of this parisian brotherhood are called fraters, which is exactly the case in a 1219 charter, conserved in the city archives of paris, concerning the acquisition of a house sitting behind the butcher shop of the petit pont next to the brotherhood of drapers. everywhere, just as single individuals were, these groups of merchants an

ONYX TABLET OF SET

gyptian priesthoods in general. such details may be studied in categories #1 and #2 of the reading list, and it is assumed that you, by virtue of your recognition to the priesthood, have surveyed this field. here we wish rather to call attention to the four most significant facts known about the priesthood of set. they are (1) together with the priesthood of horus [the elder, it was the oldest of the egyptian priesthoods. if we date it to the earliest predynastic images of set found by archaeologists, we can establish an origin of at least 3200 bce. working with the egyptians' own astronomically-based records [cf #2f, we may approximate 5000 bce. if we are to assume the final eclipse of the priesthood at the end of the xix-xx [setian] dynasties ca. 1085 bce, we are looking at an institutio

PATRON OF SORCERY

slation including the demotic spells (chicago: university of chicago press, 1986. in the twilight of egyptian civilization, set, the lord of darkness denounced by followers of osiris, became a patron of sorcery. this apparently occurred by way of egyptian priests moving into freelance magical practice after foreign domination led to loss of royal funding for the temples. it is strange to envision the egyptian priests consigning their lore to the written word, given their notorious reputation for xenophobia and secrecy. significantly, while these spells span the full range of magical operations, little of a theoretical character is disclosed. in pgm iv 154-285, there's an invocation of the feared one that specifically mentions the defeat of osiris, the dying god, and the setian power over t

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

is in trying to turn one of shakespeare s sonnets into plain prose. like poetry, mythology offers a way of understanding the world through metaphor. stories adapt and change according to the teller and the context; myths are not fixed and dogmatic but fluid and interpretive. myth and time many mythologies start before the dawn of time, with the coming into consciousness of a creator god, such as the egyptian re (see p. 12. re himself is described as the awareness of an all-encompassing divine being, nebertcher, the lord without limit. mythological time, unlike clock time, is cyclical rather than linear. it presupposes what the writer mircea eliade called the myth of the eternal return. it is set in motion by a particular event in egypt, the call of the benu bird as it alighted upon the fi

ixir of immortal life are yours. the combination of delight and pain is not confined to india. the great goddess of ancient mesopotamia, variously called ishtar and inanna, also combined the roles of goddess of love and goddess of war. these dual aspects are explored in the epic of gilgamesh, in which she first desires gilgamesh and then, when he rejects her, exacts a terrible revenge (see p. 18. the egyptian isis became absorbed into roman myth, and it is she who speaks, with the unmistakable voice of the great goddess, to lucius, the hero of apuleius novel the golden ass, when he is initiated into her cult: i am nature, the universal mother, mistress of all the elements, primordial child of time, sovereign of all things spiritual, queen of the dead, queen also of the immortals, the singl

red in beauty. when jasper blowsnake revealed the sacred winnebago medicine rite to anthropologist paul radin (published under the title neolithic mother goddess the venus of willendorf, a stone figurine of a fertility goddess found at willendorf in austria, dates from the neolithic period. the breasts and belly are deliberately exaggerated in this representation of the great mother goddess. nut, the egyptian all-mother the egyptian sky goddess nut arches over the earth in this ancient tomb painting. she is about to swallow the evening sun, which is shown again on her upper arm as it starts its night journey. nut became regarded as the mother of all, for even the sun god re entered her mouth each night to travel through her body and be reborn next morning. a figure of nut inside egyptian c

position in a royal household while searching for her daughter, the goddess places the royal prince, her charge, into a divine fire to burn away his mortal parts and give him eternal life, but is interrupted before she can complete the ritual. the same incident occurs in egyptian mythology, when the goddess isis becomes nursemaid to a prince while searching for her husband, osiris (see p. 16. in the egyptian story the prince dies, but in the greek, the boy, triptolemus, becomes a benefactor of humankind a cultural hero when demeter gave him grain, a plow, and the knowledge of agriculture to teach to humankind. triptolemus had his own cult and temple at eleusis. the role of the gods in giving the gift of knowledge to humankind is found in every mythology. greek prometheus, aboriginal ances

identified by his ostrich plume. he is usually shown holding nut and geb, the sky and the earth, apart. ankh the ankh was the symbol of life and whoever possessed it had the power to give or take life from lesser persons. only gods, kings, and queens had the authority to hold an ankh. god of the western desert ha, the god of the western desert, wears a bull s tail from his waist. this was part of the egyptian royal regalia, signifying power and fertility. symbol of rebirth shu s staff is in the form of a snake. because snakes have the ability to slough off their skins, they became a symbol of rebirth with lifegiving powers. geb s goose geb is sometimes represented as a goose, and one of his names is the great cackler a reference to the cackle he gave when he produced the great egg from whi

PHOSPHORUS

of the qlippoth. devotion to the essence of each sphere and its daemonic attributes to be used in a positive way. 5. a working of the black eagle as the initiator unto the path of shadow, records in a detail of 2 pages on successful contact with the black eagle. examples, records, etc. iii the adversary ascending into the noon-tide sun 13 -color red symbol shaitan of midnight -adversary in flesh the egyptian godform of set-an -mastery over spiritual and material planes -isolated and perfected strength of will and independence -the self as a gateway to vampyric and necromantical transformation -the work of the holy guardian angel advanced self-transformation and deification through working with the initiatic guide or genius -color red symbol shaitan of midnight -adversary in flesh the egyp

PHOSPHORUS THE SHADOWING FORTH OF LUCIFER

sun" as blavatsky so elegantly defined it, is the foundation of the basis of magick. magick itself means to "ascend" towards the light of god. god itself defined as the individual self and the light of knowledge "the significant symbol of wisdom given to us by research is lucifer, the bringer of light. everybody is searching for perception, wisdom is a child of lucifer. the chaldean astrologers, the egyptian priests, the indian brahmans; they are all children of lucifer. already the first man became a child of lucifer when the serpent taught him good and evil. what they got to know by perception was the sacred cosmic mystery. in front of it they kneeled in devotion. it was the light that showed their souls to their destiny. in devotion they received wisdom which became faith, religion. wh

PIKE CUMMINGS THE SPURIOUS RITES OF MEMPHIS AND MISRAIM

ice "the book of the law "thoth-tarot" and such an edited work as "the goetia. the map towards godhead soon comes into clear and unadulterated focus. perception is existent through the use of all senses available. experience and knowledge is the faustian key to the next step of evolutie the spurious rites of memphis and misraim albert pike, d d x& william l. cummings, d d x whatever the merits of the egyptian rite, or rite of memphis may be, it is quite sure that it is not generally recognized as a legitimate rite of free- masonry; that the bodies of it in the united states of america are entitled to and receive no consideration, it having been constantly used here for purposes of private profit; and that elsewhere in the world it has only here and there two or three isolated supreme power

his, arid the work being finished, he constituted himself its head and front. to furnish an origin and a history to this work was no very difficult task; and in accomplishing it we must acknowledge that he showed much more respect for the common sense of the masons than did michel bedarride who, in his history of the order of mizraim, was not satisfied, like lechangeur, to attribute its origin to the egyptian king of that name,but went so far as to ascribe it to the deity himself.marconis only dates his rite from the commencement of our era, hoping, probably, that this modesty on his part might induce masons to accept it without distrust, and to put faith in those precious documents written in the chaldee language,which, he informed them,were to be found in the sacred ark of the rite of me

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

on on their own spirituality) mystically, this refers to the fact that a righteous individual can have to suffer because he ghosts h( gtolerates h) a pernicious presence within him. 1 zohar 3:111b. 2 deuteronomy 12:3. 3 kallah 6. the arizal on parashat toldot (2) 126 thus, when ishmael issued from abraham fs body, he revealed his true nature, as it is written, gand sarah saw that the son of hagar the egyptian was making sport. h4 our sages said that this means that he was serving idols.5 when abraham saw that ishmael was wicked and had incurred the death penalty [for serving idols, he prayed, gif only ishmael would live before you, h6 i.e, would repent. and so it was, that ishmael indeed repented, as is known.7 subsequently, the spark of goodness present in ishmael issued from him as yitra

own [clearly, not that it should be understood, for it is so obscure that the reader will run [through it, not pondering its meaning, since its] meaning [is so obscure .translated from sefer halikutim 5 habakkuk 2:1-3. 6 daniel 10:14. 197 parashat vayeisheiv [third installment] in this parashah, joseph is brought to egypt after his brothers sell him to a passing caravan. this was the beginning of the egyptian exile, for because of this, jacob fs entire family eventually settled in egypt, where they were later enslaved. the egyptian exile is the prototype for all subsequent exiles and for all states of spiritual exile, so understanding its details is prerequisite to understanding the dynamic and flow of spiritual life. we have to explain now a number of expositions that are included in this

hrase, gand adam knew his wife eve. h10 coupling is referred to as gknowledge h because the seminal drop originates in da fat [this is] also [true of] moses f generation, as is known, for moses personified da fat and thus his generation was a generation of da fat, as we have explained elsewhere.11 however, they were drawn to evil. this is evident from the fact that they suffered the oppression of the egyptian exile and slavery. some deficiency of theirs caused a blockage in the flow of divine beneficence to them. thus, the whole purpose of the egyptian exile was to purify these souls. this is why they were subjected to such oppression, and [the egyptians] gmade their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks, h corresponding to the mortar and bricks the generation of the dispersion

h is a function of da fat, the sefirah of coupling. to explain: whenever the jewish people sin here below and thereby cause some flaw in some divine attribute or supernal sefirah (g-d forbid, evil is able to derive sustenance from this blemish and therefore attaches itself to that point. we may envision evil as a disease that attacks a weakened immune system. this is the secret to [understanding] the egyptian exile, for egypt and the impurity it embodied derived sustenance from da fat. this is particularly so in light for what i have taught you, namely, that pharaoh and egypt are positioned in opposition to the supernal neck, which is the back of the supernal da fat. this should suffice. da fat is manifest in the body in the cerebellum, which is located underneath and at the back of the br

hem. when the divine beneficence is diverted from its natural flow, this gtrips a switch h in the spiritual mechanism of creation that shuts of the valve of divine beneficence. i have explained this to you with regard to why z feir anpin is at first only six extremities and does not ten become full [sefirot, i.e, a partzuf] until after the rectification process.13 similarly, at that time [i.e, of the egyptian exile, z feir anpin reverted to its original state, that of gthree folded within three. h we always refer to this state as gthe first impregnation. h it returned to the womb of ima, and was not revealed outside. rabbi meir poppers insists that the statement that z feir anpin returned to the womb of ima must not be taken literally. rather, z feir anpin remained a full, mature partzuf

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erished and the earth became cold and barren. every spring, when the sun returned, green life was restored to the earth. in various of the grade rituals as well as the elementary knowledge lectures of the order, we find the following which we can add to the data already obtained: virgo=isis-who was nature, the mother of all things. scorpio=apophis-death, the destroyer. sol=osiris-slain and risen, the egyptian resurrection and vegetative god. here we now begin to get a definite sequence of ideas that proves somewhat meaningful. the simplicity of a natural state of affairs in, shall we say, the garden of eden representing the springtime of mankind, is shattered by the intrusion of the knowledge of good and evil, sexual perception. this is due to the intervention of the destroyer apophis, the

enochi. j. notes on the obligation of the adeptus minor. k. consecration ceremony of the vault. l history lecture. m. hermes vision, and lineal figures of the sephiroth. n. 0. p. q. r complete treatise on the tarot, with star maps. s. the attributions of the enochian tablets. t. the book of the angelical keys or calls. u. lecture on man, the microcosm. w. hodos chamelionis, the minutum mundum. x. the egyptian god-forms as applied to the enochian squares. y. enochian chess. z. symbolism of the temple, candidate, and ritual of the neophyte grade <85> all the documents from a to z listed above will be found reproduced in these volumes, though i have not retained that particular order. the sole omissions are the documents lettered h. j. l. and part of m "j" consists simply of an elaborated com

of the sepher yetsirah, the three alchemical principles of nature, the sulphur, the mercury and the salt. each pillar is surmounted by its own light-bearer veiled from the material world. at the base of both pillars rise the lotus flowers, symbols of regeneration and metempsychosis. the archaic illustrations are taken from< 11 1> vignettes of the 17th and 125th chapter of the ritual of the dead, the egyptian book of the per-em-hnt or the book of coming forth into the day, the oldest book in the world as yet discovered. the recension of the priests of on is to be found in the walls of the pyramids of the kings of the 5th and 6th dynasties at sakarah, the recension of the 1 lth and 12th dynasties on the sarcophagi of that period, and the theban recension of the 56 the golden dawn: volume i

n dawn: volume iz book two introduction to the neophyte ceremony god forms and stations in the= h the openin of the hall of the neophytes and the ceremony of initiation into the b= h grade describe the essential formula of the outer order work and set in motion the energies necessary for the aspirant's spiritual growth. the setting is ancient egyptian, particularly based upon the 125th chapter of the egyptian book of the dead, and the= elhall is also called "the hall of maat" the "hall of two truths, and the "hall of dual manifestation" the hall of maat is the scene for the weighing of the soul where the crucial judgment of the deceased is made. just as the deceased anils soul hangs in the balance, the soul and aspiration of the candidate for= grade of neophyte hang between light and dark

is also called "the hall of maat" the "hall of two truths, and the "hall of dual manifestation" the hall of maat is the scene for the weighing of the soul where the crucial judgment of the deceased is made. just as the deceased anils soul hangs in the balance, the soul and aspiration of the candidate for= grade of neophyte hang between light and dark, evolution or devolution. the numerous gods of the egyptian judgment are represented in the= mby the stations of the officers, their functions and movements in the temple. these stations and the god-forms attributed are fully described in the "z" documents (later chapters in this book).l all are well worth the time to read carefully. therefore learn not as an unreasoning child, but meditate, search out and compare .ir2 besides the seven office

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

reflect 'its explorations are askeys to masked doors in the ramparts of nature, which no mortal can pass through without rousingdread sentries never seen upon this side' much of the learning of those who have gone before hasbeen lost to us; we seek to regain past knowledge. the famed diocletian glorified in the flames thatdestroyed the works of the egyptians, as was also done when caesar captured the egyptian seat oflearning in rendering cinders of 700,000 rolls of the alexandrian library, and when leo isaurusdestroyed 300,000 more. why then should you seek to delve in that which fanatic in power mayagain destroy in a few short hours?conductor of n.:still would we seek advancement in so glorious a science. instruct us in the purity of its truths.rituals of the societas rosicrucianis in ang

).the conductor repairs with the theoricus direct to the centre of the hall, then to the south, to the3rd ancient, who has a vestal lamp burning in front of him.3rd ancient:in the performance of a wise duty, i require your thought as to the celestial fire, when it ceases to beterrestrial element and partakes of the ethereal qualities, the pure ethereal fire which burns forever isrepresented under the egyptian doctrines as ptah, who is the emblem of the eternal spirit out ofwhich everything is created. thus, the souls of men are, according to the oldest egyptian school ofethics, formed of ether, at death return to it again.the celestial fire is here represented by the vestal lamp having a tapering flame, indicative of god sinfluence and continued activity. it is the everlasting light, that

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

of a winged woman, holding in one hand the apocalyptic eagle, and in the other the world suspended from the end of her sceptre. the other emblems are equally clear, and can be explained as easily as the first. turnthe kabalah 49 ing now to the four suits, namely, clubs, cups, swords, and circles or pantacles, commonly called deniers all these are hieroglyphics of the tetragram. thus, the club is the egyptian phallus or hebrew jod; the cup is the cteis or primitive he; the sword is the conjunction of both, or the lingam, represented in hebrew preceding the captivity by vau while the circle or pantacle, image of the world, is the he final of the divine name. now let us take a tarot and combine all its emblems one by one into the wheel or rota of william postel; let us group the four aces, t

hilosophical salt, that is to say, wisdom; of mercury, that is, personal skill and application; finally, of sulphur, representing vital energy and fire of will. by these are we enabled to change into spiritual gold things which are of all least precious, even the refuse of the earth. in this sense we must interpret the parables of the choir of philosophers, bernard trevisan, basil valentine, mary the egyptian and other prophets of alchemy; but in their works, as in the great work, we must separate skillfully the subtle from the gross, the mystical from the positive, allegory from theory. if we would read them with profit and understanding, we must take them first of all as allegorical in their entirety, and then descend from allegories to realities by the way of the correspondences or anal

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

till hails with enthusiasm and love the perpetuity of true doctrine and the universality of initiation, identical in all sanctuaries of the world. the five books of moses, the prophecy of ezekiel and the apocalypse of st. john are the three kabalistic keys of the whole biblical edifice. the sphinxes of ezekiel are identical with those of the sanctuary and the ark, being a fourfold reproduction of the egyptian tetrad; the wheels revolving in one another are the harmonious spheres of pythagoras; the new temple, the plan of which is given according to exact kabalistic measures, is the type of the labours of primitive masonry. st. john in his apocalypse reproduces the same images and the same numbers, and reconstructs the edenic world ideally in the new jerusalem; but at the source of the four

next, adding this number to that of the name; cast up again and write the sum of the two numbers in hebrew characters. renew the operation; inscribe separately the stars which you have noticed; find the names of all the stars in the planisphere; classify them according to their size and brightness, choosing the most brilliant of all as the pole-star of your astrological operation; find lastly, in the egyptian planisphere, the names and figures of the genii to which these stars belong. a good example of the planisphere will be found in the atlas to the great work of dupuis. you will learn in this manner the fortunate and unfortunate signs enter into the name of the person, and what is their influence; whether in childhood, which is the name traced at the east; in youth, which is the name tr

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"real" and thus significant as a daytime experience] egyptian art, literature, and science looked for beauty and symmetry (felt to be indications of divine perfection, rather than for cause and effect relationships. hence egyptian thought is sometimes called "geometric" as opposed to the "algebraic" thought of hellenic and later logicians. since impressions and appearances substantiated reality, the egyptian emphasis on portraits and statues of the neteru was not merely decorative, metaphorical, or symbolic. rather an image was a medium whereby the neter in question could make an actual appearance in the material world [note: contrast egyptian statuary with greek, roman, or later european. the "living presence" in the former will be dramatically evident] similarly part of something could

o dominate the government and control most of the property [on behalf of the god(s. those gods were anthropomorphic, with essentially human motives and desires which were manifest through the forces of nature. the generally harsher and more unpredictable elements in mesopotamia may partially explain the generally harsher and more unpredictable personalities of the mesopotamian gods in contrast to the egyptian neteru. like egypt, the ancient near east shows a blending of the scientific and the emotional. supernatural beings were thought to be intimately involved with human fortunes on a daily basis. hence the "life experience" of a mesopotamian was as much magical as it was rational. whereas the egyptian political system was strongly centralized and monarchic, the earliest mesopotamian cult

d to be localized and democratic, with kings or military leaders being selected by elders when emergencies arose. the transcultural "binding force" was religious tradition. permanent monarchies are assumed to have arisen because of increasing external threats to local tribes, coupled with ambition by would-be dynastic founders. in mesopotamia the role of the city-state king was similar to that of the egyptian pharaoh, except that the king was responsible to the gods for the running of the kingdom, and himself was not considered one of them [fewer than 20 mesopotamian kings between 2300 and 1500 bce laid claim to personal divinity "substitute kings" were occasionally employed in classification: v2- 102- 2 author: michael a. aquino vi date: october 1, xix revision: january 1, xxiv html revis

years later than the exodus. in the hebraic system, yahweh is not intelligible through reason or logic, but rather through prophesy and the history of events, whether or not the events' outcomes seem appropriate("theodicy. hence the hebrews adopted a linear concept of time, as well as the notion of a "covenant" between mankind and yahweh; mankind is thus given a "mission" and/or a "destiny" while the egyptian concept of an afterlife was pleasant, mesopotamians considered the underworld (kur-nu-gi-a or sheol) as a dim, dismal place. hence their approach to life was fatalistic and pessimistic, with ethics considered in terms of earthly consequences only. pre-socratic greek philosophy "pre-socratic greece" includes the civilizations of crete (b. 2700 bce, greece (mycena b. 1600 bce, athens b

as to continue into pythagoreanism and then into the doctrines of plato and aristotle [panpsychism was a crucial component of orphism, the cult of dionysus, which emphasized the division of the human being into psychic and material components] pythagoras (569-470 bce) was born and lived his early years on samos, which was exposed to the "barbaric" east as well as to the greek west. initiated into the egyptian priesthood of hathor, he remained in egypt over ten years, learned hieroglyphics, and was exposed to astronomy, geometry, and the egyptian concepts of panpsychism. sent to babylon, he was there exposed to persian dualism. he saw the psyche as "good" and the matter into which it entered as "evil, but accepted their merger as something at least temporarily fulfilling to both. goal for t

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knew. with his daughters as his fiendish backing group, yes, the three of them, lat manat uzza, motherless girls laughing with their abba, giggling behind their hands at gibreel, what a trick we got in store for you, they giggle, for you and for that businessman on the hill. but before the businessman there are other stories, here he is, archangel gibreel, revealing the spring of zamzam to hagar the egyptian so that, abandoned by the prophet ibrahim with their child in the desert, she might drink the cool spring waters and so live. and later, after the jurhum filled up zamzam with mud and golden gazelles, so that it was lost for a time, here he is again, pointing it out to that one, muttalib of the scarlet tents, father of the child with the silver hair who fathered, in turn, the business

still to achieve, the poor guy. the grandee's lips brush his ear "shit of a frightened camel" abu simbel breathes "i know you fuck my wife" he observes, with interest, that baal has acquired a prominent erection, an ironic monument to his fear. abu simbel, the cuckolded grandce, stands up, commands "on your feet, and baal, bewildered, follows him outside. the graves of ismail and his mother hagar the egyptian lie by the north--west face of the house of the black stone, in an enclosure surrounded by a low wall. abu simbel approaches this area, halts a little way off. in the enclosure is a small group of men. the water-carrier khalid is there, and some sort of bum from persia by the outlandish name of salman, and to complete this trinity of scum there is the slave bilal, the one mahound free

SATANGEL

ct, whilst the light becomes everything good. in the book of jubilee, compiled approximately a hundred years after the old testament, this shadow has acquired the title of mastema, a hebrew word meaning adversity. from this moment it is this accusing angel that becomes responsible for all the darker things previously imputed to god. it was the mastema who hardened the pharoah s heart and assisted the egyptian sorcerers against israel. this is reflected in the book of job. satan has been speaking ill of job, and god gives him permission to afflict job as a way of testing him. satan destroys not only job s property, but takes away his health and slays his numerous sons and daughters. origen of alexandria, an influential early greek christian theologian, stipulates a spiritual evolutionary th

e and flaming eyes, with a huge and course voice, riding a horse. teaches astronomy and liberal arts, gives good familiars. the name possibly has its roots in the greek allecto, meaning she who is unremitting, a cthonian goddess who arose from the spilt blood of kronos father. amaimon (goetia. demon king of the element of earth, and of the north. possibly traceable to ammonium, the oracle site of the egyptian god amun. alternatively, the celts had an agricultural god named amaethon. amdukias, amdusias (goetia. duke commanding 29 legions. appears as a unicorn. bends trees and gives good familiars. amon (goetia, 7th spirit. marquis commanding 40 legions. appears as a wolf with a serpent tail, vomiting flames. upon command, assumes human form, but with a raven s head and dog s teeth. tells fo

mdukias, amdusias (goetia. duke commanding 29 legions. appears as a unicorn. bends trees and gives good familiars. amon (goetia, 7th spirit. marquis commanding 40 legions. appears as a wolf with a serpent tail, vomiting flames. upon command, assumes human form, but with a raven s head and dog s teeth. tells fortunes, causes feuds, reconciles controversies between friends. the name is traceable to the egyptian god amun, who was usually represented as a ram andras (goetia, 63rd spirit. marquis commanding 30 legions. angel with a black raven, riding a strong black wolf, with a shining sword. sower of discord. andrealphus (goetia, 65th spirit. marquis commanding 30 legions, who appears as a peacock accompanied by loud noises. teaches geometry, mensuration and astronomy. turns men into birds. a

t. earl commanding 26 legions. appears as a stock dove, speaks hoarsely. builds towers and supplies them with armaments, sends warriors. haurus, haures (goetia, 64rh spirit. who manifests as a leopard, man, or theriomorph, a master of divination. destroys and burns the enemies of the summoner. tells of the creation of the world, and how he and the fallen came to be. his name probably derives from the egyptian horus. hecate (greek. triple headed queen of sorcery, who dwells where the roads meet. known also as enodia, trioditus, and antaia, she who encounters you. identified in some witch traditions as the mother of lucifer. hel (old norse. the queen of the underworld, and the name of the realm itself. the daughter of loki and the giantess angrboda, sister of fenrir and the midgard serpent

dragon guardian of the oracle of gaia, finally slain by apollon. prince of the lying spirits. serpent with oracular powers. rahab (hebrew, the violent one. serpent monster of chaos (job 9:13, 26:12. originally the prince of the primordial oceans. early in creation, god commanded him to separate the earths and the oceans, yet he refused. god destroyed him, but somehow he appears again when aiding the egyptian pharoah in his attempt to prevent the hebrews crossing the red sea. once again god destroyed him. nevertheless, christian theologians say he is alive and well as the demon of insolence and pride. raum (goetia, 40th spirit. formerly of the order of thrones, now an earl commanding 30 legions. appears as a crow. steals treasure from king s palaces, destroys cities and men, tells fortunes

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

s time, however, nature gods and animals had been worshipped for at least two millennia among the people who inhabited the nile valley. these animal deities later took human form, but their heads were still often depicted as that of an animal. some gods even became associated with more than one animal. for example, thoth, the god of the moon and of wisdom and protector of scribes, was depicted by the egyptian ibis, a wading bird, by a baboon, and by a figure of the moon. about the ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia belief. mesopotamian religion saw humans as the servants of the gods, who had to be appeased for protection. egyptians believed that the gods created all humans but were also controlled by the principle of maat, or order. unlike followers of mesopotamian religion, the eg

life in ancient egypt. worship. priests in both religions made daily offerings in the temples and held annual festivals open to the public. personal gods were worshipped by people in their homes. dress. priests in both mesopotamian and egyptian religions wore no special costumes. texts. the enuma elish tells the mesopotamian story of creation and explains how marduk became the chief of the gods. the egyptian book of the dead was a guide for the dead, setting out magic spells and charms to be used to pass judgment in the afterlife. sites. ancient nippur was the site of the chief temple to enlil, while babylon was the location of marduk s sanctuary. thebes and the temple complex of karnak were home to the worship of amen-ra. in the modern world the remains of these early religions can be se

derworld, such as being devoured by world religions: almanac 49 ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia an angry god, to reach the afterlife. one of the most important of these trials occurred at the start of the judgment of the dead. in the declaration of innocence prior to the weighing of the heart on the scales of truth the deceased declares that he or she has lived a good life without sin( the egyptian book of the dead, chapter 125, touregypt.net. hail to you, great god, lord of justice! i have come to you, my lord, that you may bring me so that i may see your beauty, for i know you and i know your name, and i know the names of the forty-two gods of those who are with you in this hall of justice, who live on those who cherish evil and who gulp down their blood on that day of the rec

potamian priesthood s job included praising the gods in hymns and prayers. the two excerpts here, the exaltation of inana and hymn to ra, show how differently mesopotamians and ancient egyptians viewed their gods. the mesopotamian goddess innana (spelled inana in this translation) is described by her priestess enheduanna as fierce and capable of much destruction. the royal scribe nekht associates the egyptian sun god ra (also spelled re) with love and joy. the exaltation of inana lady of all the divine powers, resplendent [dazzling] light, righteous woman clothed in radiance, beloved of an and urac! mistress of heaven, with the great pectoral jewels, who loves the good headdress befitting the office of en priestess, who has seized all seven of its divine powers! my lady, you are the guardi

the bride and a payment to the groom (the bride-price; 3. the wedding ceremony itself, which could last several days with feasting; 4. the arrival of the bride in her father-in-law s house, where the couple would at first live; and 5. the consummation of the marriage (sexual intercourse. 60 world religions: almanac ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia the gods there were hundreds of gods in the egyptian and mesopotamian pantheons. the gods controlled all aspects of life, especially nature, which could often be cruel. particular gods protected various citystates in mesopotamia, and large temples were built in their honor at the city center. sin s main temple, for instance, was in the city of ur. smaller temples were available throughout city-states for people to make personal offering

SET IN EGYPTIAN THEOLOGY

may be compared to the oriental yin/yang symbol as a representation of the union of polarities. in time, the conflict between these two abstract principles came to be emphasized rather than their primal union. set's battle with horus the elder grew from being a statement of the duality of day and night into an expression of the political conflict among the polytheistic priesthoods for control of the egyptian theocracy. this was rewritten as a battle between good and evil after egypt expelled the hyskos in the 18th dynasty. some say the hyskos were asiatic invaders, and others say they were an indigenous minority that seized control of the nation. this tribe ruled egypt for a time and happened to favor the set cult, seeing a resemblence to a storm-god of their own pantheon. the set cult ne

SET IT STRAIGHT

bunch of very frequently discussed issues in the temple. the lack of empirically testifiable evidence gives these questions an aura of perennial problems. sometimes the possibility of set's existence has been tried to be refuted on the basis that we cannot know about it, that all attempts at apprehending him are mere mystical nonsense. what more, profane society- if it is at all familiar with set the egyptian god- knows him as an envious and savage murderer, sexual pervert, and what not that seems to justify condemning his 'followers' as sneaky 'devil worshippers. this sketchy article will focus on whether there is any evidence to support our image of set as the universal god of consciousness and non-nature (the particularizations of which we in a way are- not the butcher of osirian myth

confusion, h. te velde states that the meaning of the name of set is uncertain by modern etymological standards. this in mind we may examine some of the pseudo-etymologies. plutarch offers 'the overmastering' or 'overpowering, and then indicates that in many cases the name may mean 'turning back' or 'overpassing. no egyptian speculation supports the latter meaning directly. te velde suggests that the egyptian theologian would have agreed with the first meaning as it goes hand in hand with set's mythological function. in the coffin texts (of the middle kingdom) the first meaning might have been avoided by substituting the set-animal by a sign that means 'to separate. this sign later fell into disuse, but te velde says the meaning of set as 'the god set apart' or 'the god who separates' was

coffin texts (of the middle kingdom) the first meaning might have been avoided by substituting the set-animal by a sign that means 'to separate. this sign later fell into disuse, but te velde says the meaning of set as 'the god set apart' or 'the god who separates' was carried on "the seth-animal functions as a determinative for words indicating concepts divergent from the normal order, which to the egyptian mind was given by gods and is guarded by them, and it has a negative meaning (p. 24) in gods of the egyptians (part ii: p. 244) budge puts it that set was generally thought to be the cause of every thing which tended to reverse the ordinary course of nature and of law and order. from a moral point of view he was thus the personification of sin and evil. recalling what serge sauneron's

ded by them, and it has a negative meaning (p. 24) in gods of the egyptians (part ii: p. 244) budge puts it that set was generally thought to be the cause of every thing which tended to reverse the ordinary course of nature and of law and order. from a moral point of view he was thus the personification of sin and evil. recalling what serge sauneron's the priests of ancient egypt has to say about the egyptian world- view, the negative connotations become understandable. sauneron explains that the egyptians thought that "the universe, predetermined since its creation, has been organized for all eternity according to patterns unvaryingly alike (p. 29, and that holding up this balance is indispensable, moreover not by 'inventing' new solutions when difficulties arise, but rather by seeking th

that set came into being accidentally (p. 29 [as if by "an unknown celestial fusion, and that despite attempts to marry (or tame) him, he remains an outsider (p. 30) the latter has been true of consciousness, too, throughout the ages of suppression, sublimation and what ever tricks to 'play it out. but was the whole thing an accident? set 'the one apart 'the cause of separation- did not fit into the egyptian all-embracing model, and neither does a distinct and autonomous psyche fit into most non-setian philosophies [de lubicz should perhaps have taken set, the giver of the gift of independent consciousness (which is not seeking to harmonize with the way of providence, the way of the one, as a kind of 'extracosmic providence' that she denies on page 132 of #2s] the concept of set in the pr

SETH IN THE MAGICKAL TEXTS

o be rather modest, the scope is an entirely appreciable one, for the name of seth is prevalent in magical literature. i at the yale conference on gnosticism (1978, b.a. pearson read a paper entitled "seth in gnostic literature. pearson showed that the gnostic figure of seth derives from jewish tradition. in an excursus at the end of the paper named "egyptian influences, the author laid down that the egyptian god seth is never identified with seth, the son of adam.1 in the discussion following pearson's paper, however, c. colpe asserted (p. 510 "in a single magical papyrus from egypt a mistaken identification has been made between egyptian seth and jewish seth (cf. w. fauth, orchr 57 [1973] 91-94" now fauth asserts that on account of the similarity of the names of the egyptian god and "the

ic."2 here fauth refers to c.j. bleeker's paper at the messina conference on gnosticism (1966. fauth goes on to cite "the sethian gospel of the egyptians" as evidence for such a confusion and welding, referring to an article by a. bohlig. we may dispose of the latter's theory right away. pearson has shown conclusively that the gospel of the egyptians from nag hammadi does not try to "rehabilitate the egyptian god by interpreting him in terms of seth, the son of adam."3 in the gospel of the egyptians as well as other gnostic documents, the figure of seth is the jewish seth only. we move on to bleeker's article. here we find only the brief statement "in him [i.e, seth, the egyptian god and the noble son of adam and eve are fused."4 bleeker does not offer a shred of evidence for his assertion

the son of adam."3 in the gospel of the egyptians as well as other gnostic documents, the figure of seth is the jewish seth only. we move on to bleeker's article. here we find only the brief statement "in him [i.e, seth, the egyptian god and the noble son of adam and eve are fused."4 bleeker does not offer a shred of evidence for his assertion, but simply refers to j. doresse, the secret books of the egyptian gnostics (new york 1960, 1970 [paris 1958. what does the latter say? doresse's argument is complex, even confused. he argues that in gnosticism "the egyptian myths had undergone the same inversion as had the traditional values of genesis; the originally "good" god osiris, of whom seth was the enemy, became identified with sacla- ialdabaoth the wicked demiurge (p. 104, n. 93. by implic

60, 1970 [paris 1958. what does the latter say? doresse's argument is complex, even confused. he argues that in gnosticism "the egyptian myths had undergone the same inversion as had the traditional values of genesis; the originally "good" god osiris, of whom seth was the enemy, became identified with sacla- ialdabaoth the wicked demiurge (p. 104, n. 93. by implication doresse appears to say that the egyptian seth now was seen as a positive figure. the author indeed wonders "whether, 1 the rediscovery of gnosticism, 2 vols, ed. b. layton, studies in the history of religion 41 (leiden 1980/81) 2.500. 2 w. fauth "seth-typhon, onoel und der eselkopfige gott, oriens christianus 57 (1973) 92. 3 b.a. pearson "egyptian seth and gnostic seth, society of biblical literature seminar papers 22 (misso

ive figure. the author indeed wonders "whether, 1 the rediscovery of gnosticism, 2 vols, ed. b. layton, studies in the history of religion 41 (leiden 1980/81) 2.500. 2 w. fauth "seth-typhon, onoel und der eselkopfige gott, oriens christianus 57 (1973) 92. 3 b.a. pearson "egyptian seth and gnostic seth, society of biblical literature seminar papers 22 (missoula 1977) 33. cf. pearson "seth, 501. 4 "the egyptian background of gnosticism" in le origini dello gnosticismo, ed. u. bianchi, studies in the history of religion 12 (leiden 1967) 236. seth in the magical texts 87 perchance, some of these [gnostic] myths did not bring him into such contact with his homonym, seth the son of adam, as to create some confusion between them."5 thinking that such a "confusion" was "not impossible, doresse goe

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g portal, indicated by the finger of god, the broad avenue through which man does not issue solitary and stealthy into the region of free existence, but enters triumphant, hailed by a hierarchy of immortal natures. the result is (in other words, that the universal human lot is, after all, that of the highest privilege. edward george bulwer-lytph egyptian magic by e. a. wallis budge late keeper of the egyptian and assyrian antiquities in the british museum kegan, paul, trench and trubner& co, london [1901] p. iii to sir j. norman lockyer, k.c.b, f.r.s, etc, etc, etc, a token of esteem for a great astronomer, and a mark of true regard for a friend. p. vii preface. a study of the remains of the native religious literature of ancient egypt which have come down to us has revealed the fact that

e religious literature of ancient egypt which have come down to us has revealed the fact that the belief in magic, that is to say, in the power of magical names, and spells, and enchantments, and formula, and pictures, and figures, and amulets, and in the performance of ceremonies accompanied by the utterance of words of power, to produce supernatural results, formed a large and important part of the egyptian religion. and it is certain that, notwithstanding the continuous progress which the egyptians made in civilization, and the high intellectual development to which they eventually attained, this belief influenced their minds and, from the earliest to the latest period of their history, shaped their views concerning things temporal as well as spiritual in a manner which, at this stage i

hty as the original possessor of the power; but the object of egyptian magic was to endow man with the means of compelling both friendly and hostile powers, nay, at a later time, even god himself, to do what he wished, whether the were willing or not. the belief in magic, the word being used in its best sense, is older in egypt than the belief in god, and it is certain that a very large number of the egyptian religious ceremonies, which were performed in later times as an integral part of a highly spiritual worship, had their origin in superstitious customs which date from a period when god, under any name or in any form, was unconceived in the minds of the egyptians. indeed it is probable that even the use of the sign which represents an axe, and which stands the hieroglyphic character bo

systems of other nations were influenced by them, but there is no, doubt that certain views and religious ideas of many heathen and p. xiii christian sects may be traced directly to them. many interesting proofs might be adduced in support of this statement, but the limits of this book will not admit of their being given here. when we consider the lofty spiritual character of the greater part of the egyptian religion, and remember its great antiquity, it is hard to understand why the egyptians carefully preserved in their writings and ceremonies so much which savoured of gross and childish superstition, and which must have been the product of their predynastic or prehistoric ancestors, even during the period of their greatest intellectual enlightenment. but the fact remains that they did

fter amulets and talismans, and magical names, and words of power, and seem to have trusted in these to save their souls and bodies, both living and dead, with something of the same confidence which they placed in the death and resurrection of osiris. a matter for surprise is that they seem to see nothing incongruous in such a mixture of magic and religion, and the general attitude of the mind of the egyptian on the point is well illustrated by the following facts. attached to the service of ra, the sun-god, at thebes were numerous companies of priests whose duties consisted as much in making copies of religious books and in keeping alive the "divine traditions" as in ministering to the god in their appointed seasons. the members of these companies who wrote the copies of the book of the d

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y of the soul (ibid, march-april 1960, pp. 6-7) m. oldfield howey tells us in the encircled serpent (david mackay co, philadelphia, pa, 192, p. 84, that in the symbolism of egypt the "serpent is constantly represented as surmounting a cross. the brazen serpent. was a palladium or talisman in [he form of a serpent coiled around the mystic tau, or t [also] the serpent set up by moses was originally the egyptian. sun-god, who was now known to his people as jehovah (lbid, p. 83) joseph von hammer, in the history of the assassins (eng. trans, 1835) explains the tau as the figure of the phallus (see also source 9, p. 791 "among the egyptians, the lotus was the symbol of osiris and isis. it was esteemed a sacred ornament by the priests (ibid, p. 477) the six-pointed star is the great oriental tal

revelries or saturnalias (from saturn, his father) were held in his honor "he visited the greater part of the kingdoms of asia and europe, where he enlightened the minds of man by introducing among them the worship of the gods, and a reverence for the wisdom of a supreme being."44 totten, tracing the symbolism of the eye, affirmed that "the word jehovah, of the solar circle of arabia, superseded the egyptian motto in the radiant triangle, and as the word soon became too sacred to be spoken or ever- 32- written, it was generally symbolized by the all-seeing eye of him whose name it was."45 he described the "cap of purest crystal" once atop the pyramid of gizeh (the floating triangle on the reverse seal) as the "priceless gem of egypt."the terrible crystal (job xxxviii, 4-7) he believed tha

ylonians to the chaldeans of the 23rd century b.c. the gods were the same, san and gula; the symbols were the same.50 the two monarchies placed their gods in triads, headed by one god, ra "a sort of fount and origin of deity" san was the second member of the second triad, accompanied by his wife.51 the first triad consisted of ana (pluto, the "lord of darkness or death" belus (jupiter, the son of the egyptian osiris and the god whose temple was the original of the tower of babel;52 and hoa (neptune, strongly connected "with the serpent of scripture and. the tree of life" hoa's wife was the mother of belus.53 the cabalists lifted their entire sephirotic tree of life representing jehovah from the triads of the chaldean-babylonian pantheon (see sephirolh, part 1. the egyptian pantheon was eve

the supreme being, the good genius of the world, the demiurgus, the efficient reason of all things, and the architect of the universe. kneph is identified with the sun, hence the rays of glory around his head. both serpent and sun were emblems of the celestial father. as the solar deity, kneph became the cristos of the gnostics. was regarded as the spiritual sun of enlightenment, or wisdom."61 in the egyptian pantheon "osiris himself was said to have been the son of kneph. and he was essentially identical with kneph" the worship of isis, the moon-goddess, was equally entwined wilh ophiolatry. her emblem was the horned viper'"in the british museum there is a head of isis wearing a coronet of them" the egyptians often represented isis and osiris together, as two serpents "about the commencem

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lies concealed. hera, the mother of the gods, stirs up the enmity of the titans against dionysus, and they tear the child limb from limb. but pallas athene rescues the still-beating heart and brings it to zeus. out of it he engenders his son for a second time.69 the myth can be seen as representing a psychological process of an extremely inward character. let us interpret it after the fashion of the egyptian priest who instructed solon in the nature of myths. it is related that dionysus was born as the son of god and a mortal mother, was dismembered and then reborn. this has a fantastic ring to it, but the truth contained in the story is the birth of the divine and its subsequent destiny in individual human souls. the divine is united with the soul, which is still subject to time and eart

for the soul, which aspires to divinization as in the mysteries. plato appeals to the power of myth when he wants to describe the course of the eternal soul through its manifold transformations. and elsewhere in the platonic canon myth is used to render intelligible through symbolic stories the non-sensory, inner reality of human existence.76 in the light of this principle it is worth considering the egyptian mystery of osiris. in osiris we have a figure who gradually became one of the most important gods of the country. a significant 70 christianity as mystical fact cycle of myths grew up concerning osiris and his consort isis. according to the story, osiris was the son of the sungod; he had a brother, typhon (set, and a sister, isis. osiris married his sister and with her reigned over eg

r and persephone at eleusis, the god dionysus was honored. if demeter stood for the divine origin of the eternal within humanity, dionysus was worshipped as the divine presence in the world, which assumes an endless variety of forms. he is the god poured out into cosmic existence, torn apart in order to be reborn spiritually. he rightly takes his place beside demeter in the festivals.85 chapter 5 the egyptian and other eastern mysteries the egyptian mysteries: becoming osiris the so-called egyptian book of the dead, 86 now restored to us by the diligence of nineteenth-century scholarship, demonstrates the existence among the ancient egyptians of ideas concerning humanity s eternal existence and communion with the divine, which might be summed up in the words attributed to empedocles: when

when they were released from the mortal state. by means of this literary work we can explore the most intimate ideas of the egyptians concerning the eternal world and cosmogony. the ideas of the gods that we find there remind us constantly of those familiar from the greek mysteries. osiris is a god who gradually came to be popular and was universally worshipped in egypt, eclipsing the other local the egyptian and other eastern mysteries 87 divinities and subsuming the attributes of the other gods into himself. but whatever the ordinary people of egypt thought about the nature of osiris, in the book of the dead we have evidence of a priestly doctrine, according to which osiris was to be found within the human soul. that emerges from everything said there about death and about the dead. when

lf into an osiris. to be truly human, one must already live the most perfect life of an osiris that is possible under transitory conditions. human perfection means living like an osiris it means undergoing all that osiris underwent.89 it is in this way that the osiris myth takes on its deeper dimensions of meaning, becoming the paradigm of life for someone who wants to awaken eternal being within the egyptian and other eastern mysteries 89 him- or herself. osiris is torn to pieces by typhon; he is killed. the members of his body are cherished and cared for by his consort isis. after his death, he caused a ray of light to fall upon her and she bore his son horus, who then takes over the earthly tasks of osiris; he is the second, still immature osiris, but he is in process of becoming an osi

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, the t cross, or the crux commissa. the t cross was found in history in the catacombs of rome and was given many names like "anticipatory cross" or "type cross" and the "cross of the old testament" it represents in its shape a cross-headed yoke or gibbet, and by others, the hammer of thor. in looking at its origin, it could be said that it is phoenician or egyptian. for the 3 bottom of the ankh, the egyptian symbol of life, is a t cross. it could be said to be the male part of the ankh symbol. in contemplating the christian origin of the t cross, we need to look in ezekiel (ix. 4, for we read that the prophet was commanded by god to go through jerusalem and to "set a mark upon the foreheads" of certain men, presumably as a sign of their exemption from judgment. the hebrew word which is tr

cross of equal arms is the point, a symbol of and light, extended in four directions; light in extension. it is also the cross of the elements, the elements being the reflection in twklm of the four holy living creatures in rtk which appears at the corners of the tarot card the universe card. the t cross is a three-armed cross, that is, a cross without the upper bar, and it is the virile part of the egyptian ankh, the symbol of life. it also signifies two forces impacting on a higher level and producing a form on a denser level. all form is built up of opposing higher forces locked together. the shape of the letter t suggests the letter r, meaning head, but with a downward extension ending with the virile y. thus, it can signify the, or head( a rtk symbol, sending its forces downward into

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way as to symbolically give a specific message in the writing. these messages remain hidden except for those who can perceive and understand them. on the other side of the scale, if our writings are read by someone totally unfamiliar with occult symbolism, then the message can be totally lost, and the reader may never see it. symbolism can be visual (examples are the pentagram of set, pictures of the egyptian neters, etc, and verbal (the closing we use on our letters "xeper and remanifest, is a statement and reminder of our dedication to this formula, a way of developing and keeping the habit of xeper and remanifestation going strong. each word itself is a symbol (xeper, indulgence, thelema, etc, as is each neter (shu, tefnut, sekhmet, bast. a lot of principles can be used as symbols which

ceding words of indulgence and thelema. by using these words in writing or other forms of communication, we communicate the meanings associated with those words. if i say the word "xeper" to an initiate, it means something totally different than it would mean to someone off the street, and it means something totally different to a setian than it would mean to an egyptologist who /thinks/ he knows the egyptian god xepera. our use of the word is quite different and the symbol carries so much more meaning than just the word "xeper" would carry in a modern egyptian dictionary. this use of symbolism doesn't apply just to magical words or formulae, but applies to symbols of many different kinds, in many different uses. you'll sometimes find certain words capitalized in text, as are "words" and "

n area that needs deeper investigation. the workshop session discussion however left the topic of abstract forms, and instead investigated the historic use of symbols in various cultures. looking first at the more complex god forms, it seems each major culture has a "trickster" god: coyote fills this niche in several amerindian cultures, loki in the norse mythos, and thoth (hermes and mercury) in the egyptian (greek and roman) mythologies. the trickster is that spirit who makes you think. he is the spirit who is unpredictable in his actions or reactions, who gets himself and everyone else into trouble. in the process of doing so- most often after everyone is already in trouble- he makes people think, and in the end he generally gets everyone out of trouble by thinking. to represent the tri

his symbols was recommended by one participant as containing documentation on his cross-cultural studies in this area. not having access to any resource materials that would answer our questions at the time, the workshop session then proceeded into the topic of egyptian neters and the use of neters in symbolism. neters the workshop discussion of egyptian neters started with a brief discussion of the egyptian languages. the ancient egyptians used three different written languages, the hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic. the demotic language was a mostly alphabetic language used for common communications among those who could read and write. its primary uses were for social and business reasons. the hieratic language was a pictographic language related to the hieroglyphic, but in which the

e higher initiates of the ancient egyptian temples, the priests of the temples, and the smarter pharaohs used and viewed their neters. the neters were concepts that could be communicated to and shared among the initiated, rather than being actual gods and goddesses. 1571 the common man may very well have believed in the literal existence of his many gods and goddesses, but we believe the elite of the egyptian society understood that these neters were purely symbols. when the egyptian elite paid homage to the neters, they paid homage to the aspects of the universe or of the self represented by those neters. one neter of obvious importance is set. in dealing with this symbol, we try to identify the original meaning of the symbol, and try to eliminate the corruptions of the symbol imposed by

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lity. the designation is of little significance, either way it is a tool for placing the experiences of the subjective and objective universes of man into a model activity that can be emulated. taken to its extreme limits, it is an advanced initiatory approach towards obtaining expanded levels of consciousness. the dynamic potential of self individuation through the left hand path is reflected by the egyptian word xeper (pronounced keh-fer. this can be understood in many integrated ways, but for the focus of personal initiation, xeper will be dealt with as a process. it is this process- if willfully enacted- that results in the initiation of the individual. immediately, we are faced with the question what is initiation? from the standpoint of the xeper process it can be most easily be desc

rsonal individuation that have developed from these principles/ideas are historically annotated.they are documented within the various magical papyri, amulets, legends, and myths that have survived over through time. the following extract from don webb s book the seven faces of darkness gives an indication of the time line involved and the nature of these influences each brought. from pages 23-26 the egyptian god set (god of initiation, magic, the future and the principle of isolate intelligence..rlw) went through periods of immense popularity alternating with total denunciation. set in the predynastic and archaic periods was an essentially positive deity introduced from the east as a god of the extension of existence. he is therefore god of expanding borders and radical changes of being

er. it was during this time that set was first blamed for the murder of osiris, a semitic corn god who had arrived in the iiird dynasty. previously, osiris had died of drowning. no matter how evil set was, the essential function of set, of going out and expanding the borders of existence and then returning that chaotic energy to the center, always continued. it is the darkness that binds together the egyptian light. the foreigners who ruled egypt known as the hyksos- quite probably hurrians- actively identified themselves with set and established their capital at an ancient setian site, avaris. very little is known about their religious or magical practices, although excavations going on at the time of writing this book should reveal great wealth. but they were great horsemen, and the hors

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

0s, wrote the famous column "walter scott's personality parade" in parade magazine "war is hell,"said the crusty and brutish union general william tecumseh sherman, shown here displaying the sign of the jahbuhlun cult in this official u.s. army photo. hundreds of civilians were massacred during sherman's fiery march through the south. three regal figures belonging to a nubian temple. each carries the egyptian ankh, signifying rebirth and reincarnation in one hand. other symbols are also seen (drawing: book, the round towers of atlantis, by henry o'brien, adventures unlimited press, kempton, il, 2002) hidden hand of the men of jahbuhlun 79 a republican party convention souvenir depicting president ronald reagan. the web site offering it for sale describes it thusly "from the 1984 convention

work" pharaoh ramses paying homage to the god horus, son of osiris, the sun god deity symbolized as the allseeing eye in the capstone on the u.s.a.'s dollar bill. quite possibly, the masons' sign of admiration and astonishment came from practices of adherents to the old mystery religions of babylon and egypt (from book, other worlds, hilary evans, readers digest books, 1998) on all occasions when the egyptian high priest was called to officiate, he wore his robe of office, the spotted leopard's skin. the priest then led the rituals in worship of the "hidden one" the concealed mystery divinity, known esoterically as saturn, the sixth planet from the sun. here we see the priest, attired in leopard's skin, hands upraised, palms outward, exactly as is done in various masonic, rosicrucian, witc

185 in this celebrated painting, the battle of the pyramids, by baron antoine jean gros, napoleon is shown presenting the masonic and rosicrucian sign of astonishment or admiration at the sight of the marvelous sight of the pyramids of giza. from written historical accounts, we know that the french emperor did, indeed, experience feelings of amazement and admiration upon viewing the spectacle of the egyptian pyramids. this particular sign can be accomplished either with the left or the right arm extended and the palm facing toward the object of admiration, or astonishment. 186 codex magica this illustration in richardson's monitor of freemasonry (1860) shows the master mason giving the "first sign, or due guard" with his hands upright "in the manner of giving the grand hailing sign of dis

tephen king seeming to emulate exactly this funeral procedure of crossing the arms (x, the fingers touching the opposite shoulder. is king, the master of death literature, in fact taking on the image of death, the grim reaper? does king believe that this publicly displayed ritual act by him confers on the famous novelist the "raw spiritual energy" mentioned by masonic authority jim tresner, 33? x the egyptian connection from what source do the masons draw for this funeral symbolism of the x? in my book, dark majesty, i explain the egyptian connection: in ancient egypt, the mark of "x" and the symbol of cross-bones in the symbol of an x was very prominent in religious contexts. you can find the x on the walls of a number of ancient egyptians temples and pyramids..it is the sign of osiris, t

secretly supported by jesuits, masons, and jews (rothschild interests) all of whom were aware of its true, occultic origins. moreover, the degree of the scottish rite of freemasonry emphasizes the x- shaped cross of saint andrew. cross my heart and hope to die" 235 236 codex magica illuminism in space: nasa patches are loaded with pagan, occultic, and masonic meanings, including the x of osiris, the egyptian sun god. an x is formed as america's top four politicians met at the white house to decide the fate of the federal budget. obviously, this was a staged "photo op" event, but for vice president al gore and house speaker newt gingrich to reach over the clasped hands of president bill clinton and senate majority leader bob dole was a serious breach of etiquette (usa today, december 21, 1

THE BOOK OF PLEASURE

evolved his own system of sentient symbols which took on a secret meaning and which constituted a 'sacred' alphabet of desire of which "each letter in its pictorial aspect relates to a sex principle. from this alphabet it is possible to construct the words of a mysterious language of sensation that reifies the imagery of appetence. spare believed that the hieroglyphics of ancient peoples such as the egyptian and amerindian are the remains of an occult language. that the egyptians practised a form of sorcery involving a process similar to that of spare's formula of atavistic resurgence is suggested by the fact that the hieroglyphics are usually in zoomorphic form. it is known that the priests of antiquity assumed animal-headed masks when performing rituals designed to produce magical effec

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the elements, and answering to the rivers of eden as drawn in the warrant of the temple, are said to rule in the four corners of the hall between the stations of the kerubim. in egyptian mythology, these gods are also said to be the children of horus, and partake of his symbolism. if now, we regard the neophyte ceremony as representing the entrance into a new life, regeneration- mors janua vitae- the egyptian symbolism wherein that idea was so clearly and exactly worked out becomes important. bear in mind that a new life means a new plane or a higher world, a passing, say, from the rtk of hycu to the twklm of hryxy. now, as behind rtk depend the veils of negative existence: ya [ws ya and rwa [ws ya, so through negative existence must pass the soul that goes from hycu to hryxy, or vice-vers

monies are complete, the soul weighed and passed, the body mummied and preserved from corruption, then become one with osiris and are called osirian. hence, the hierophant, who represents osiris when the candidate is placed in the north, speaks to him in the character of his higher soul- the voice of my undying and secret soul said unto me, etc. osiris, however, is a mummied form, and the body of the egyptian dead was mummied at this part of the ceremony. let us now consider the nature of the body which is mummied. the body itself may be considered as a vehicle whereby the life forces act, and the medium whereby these life-forces act is what are termed the vital organs. withdraw or destroy any of these, and the life ceases to function in that body. not less important, then, than the body i

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an longing. to the god osiris, the king and judge of the dead, he prays, grant thou that i may enter into the land of everlastingness, according to what was done for thee, whose body never saw corruption let not my body become worms, but deliver me as thou didst thyself. let life come from the body s death and let not decay make an end of me i shall have my being; i shall live; i shall live (from the egyptian book of the dead, translated by e. a.w. budge, 1901) the belief in an afterlife coincides with the innate conviction that present life has significance and purpose. and because humans believe their earthly existence has meaning and they therefore have a reason for being, it seems imperative that at least some part of them must somehow continue in a future life. while an afterlife may

iest known attempts to mummify bodies in egypt. 3000 b.c.e. ancient chileans mummify bodies. 1000 b.c.e. ancient greeks cremate their dead. 625 b.c.e. mourners in ancient greece place metal coins under the tongues of the dead. 600 b.c.e. romans cremate their dead. sources: weathersby, trudy. about death and dying. http//dying.about.com/blchron1.htm. 9 july 2001. one of the most curious aspects of the egyptian book of the dead is that while the work is filled with realistic and graphic scenes of the preparation of the deceased for mummification, there are no illustrations depicting death and dying. for a people obsessed with the mortuary and funerary aspects of death, the egyptians seldom dealt with the actual ways in which people lost their lives. some scholars have observed that it was no

re the actual children of these divine beings. therefore, when a pharaoh died, he could be prepared for death and become an osiris, the god of resurrection. the egyptians of this period conceived of two nonphysical entities, the ka and the ba, that made up the whole self and were of equal value to the physical body. although it is difficult to ascertain a precise understanding of the cosmology of the egyptian people of such a faraway time, it would appear that the ka, often represented in hieroglyphs as two arms upstretched in a gesture of protection, was believed to have been a kind of spiritual double of a living person that also served as his or her guardian spirit. a 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 20 afterlife mysteries mummy f

n books, 1959. larousse dictionary of beliefs and religions. new york: larousse, 1994. hermetic mysteries the hermes trismegistus (the thrice greatest hermes, who set forth the esoteric doctrines of the ancient egyptian priesthood, recognized the reincarnation of impious souls and the achievement of pious souls when they know god and become all intelligence. hermes was the name the greeks gave to the egyptian god thoth, the god of wisdom, learning, and literature. to hermes was given the title scribe of the gods, and he is said to have authored 42 sacred books, the hermetic mysteries, which contained a wide assortment of secret wisdom. these divine documents were divided into six categories. the first dealt with the education of the priesthood; the second, temple ritual; the third, geograp

so they swept the grass around the grave in a circle from six to 20 feet in diameter, a ritual that they believed prevented the evil spirits from approaching the departed s final earthly resting place. the cosmology of certain eastern native american tribes placed two powerful manitous, representatives of the great spirit, on duty in the land of the departed. one of the manitous, chibiabos, like the egyptian god osiris and the hindu judge of the dead, yama, was master over the realm of the dead and escorted the newly arriving souls into their new environment. sometimes there was a process of judgment involved, in which the worthy souls would be allowed to dwell in the land of the departed and the unworthy would be set adrift in space. the other manitou, pauguk, protected the realm of the

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lives goes back to ancient egypt. the cat-headed goddess, bast (or ubasti, was associated with the benevolent aspect of hathor, the lioness, and was said to have nine lives. the egyptians did not fear the cat, but rather reverenced it, and they elevated cats far above the role of domestic pet. to the egyptians, the cat was transformed from mouse catcher to supreme deity, the sayer of great words. the egyptian word for cat was mau, which is at once an imitation of the animal s call and the nearly universal human cry for mother. cats came to be worshipped with such intensity that the wanton killing of a cat was punishable by death. because the old egyptians had a great fear of the dark, they observed with awe that the cat, a creature of the night, walked the shadowed streets with confidence

of the animal s call and the nearly universal human cry for mother. cats came to be worshipped with such intensity that the wanton killing of a cat was punishable by death. because the old egyptians had a great fear of the dark, they observed with awe that the cat, a creature of the night, walked the shadowed streets with confidence. carefully considering the import of the cat s midnight vigils, the egyptian sages decided that the cat was solely responsible for preventing the world from falling into eternal darkness. at the same time, the cat s nocturnal excursions made it a symbol of sexuality and fertility. it seems quite likely that long before cleopatra worked her magic on caesar and antony, the sirens of the nile used makeup that mimicked the hypnotic eyes and facial markings of the

he sirens of the nile used makeup that mimicked the hypnotic eyes and facial markings of the cat. bubastis, a city in lower egypt, dedicated itself to the worship of the cat. each may some 700,000 pilgrims journeyed to the city to participate in the festival of the cat. during the persian invasion of 529 b.c.e, the egyptians deification of the cat proved their undoing. knowing of the obsession of the egyptian people with the divinity of felines, cambyses ii, king of the persians, made a cat part of the standard issue to each of his soldiers. the nile-dwellers led by king psamtik iii laid down their spears and bows for fear of harming the cat that each enemy soldier carried, and the persians conquered the city of pelusium without shedding a drop of blood. some people believe that the unwave

r names and symbols engraved on the guest wall, just as modern guests inscribe their names in their hosts guest book. among the wealthy of egypt, lunch was served at midday and dinner at night. when invited to dine in ancient egypt, people brought along their servants, and it wasn t considered impolite for guests to bring with them whatever items of comfort that they might need during their stay. the egyptian hosts anointed their guests with oil upon their arrival. the host and hostess, together with their guests, dined while seated in long halls and were served by household slaves. the egyptian hosts supplied one whole chair for each single guest, but a married couple had to share one between them. the highest in rank among the guests sat with the host at the head of the table. everyone d

to ancient notions concerning a hollowed- out tree as a dwelling place for the spirits of the dead. in babylonia, great boxes of clay were baked to form a kind of coffin in which the dead were buried. the first actual coffins, as they are known today, probably originated in ancient egypt where the people believed that the body of the deceased must be kept safe until a future time of resurrection. the egyptian word for coffin is from kas, which means to bury. another form of the word became kast, indicating the receptacle into which the body is placed, the coffin. in the hindu faith, the deceased are given a ceremonial washing; then the body is wrapped in a burial cloth and placed in a coffin. if at all possible, within one day of death, the coffin is to be carried to a place of cremation b

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he ancient builders of solomon fs temple created the rites still practiced in modern lodges, with the various degrees of initiation and their secret symbols and handshakes. while the free and accepted order of freemasons is the oldest fraternity in the world, it doesn ft really extend back to the stone masons working on solomon fs temple. nor does it date even farther back to those who labored on the egyptian pyramids, as some masons have claimed. freemasonry did evolve from the guilds of the stonemasons who traveled from city to city in europe of the fourteenth century looking for work on the great cathedrals being constructed at that time. the secret passwords and handshakes were unique ways by which a newcomer to a city might prove that he really was a true member of the guild. while th

conquer the duality of their earthly nature. they would truly become magi who learned to triumph over sensual temptations and to increase their mental faculties. god would give such adepts a measure of light in proportion to their merits, and they would be allowed to penetrate the most profound mysteries of nature. assisting these magi in their work on earth would be the seven superior spirits of the egyptian system, acting as intermediaries between god and humans. these seven spirits were the same beings that the brahmans of ancient india called the seven devas, that in persia were called the seven amaschapands, that in chaldea were called the seven great angels, that in jewish kabbalism are called the seven archangels. later, various magi sought to reconcile the christian hierarchy of ce

tocrats out of their inheritances and of running disreputable gambling houses. his marriage to lorenza is also clouded with charges of chicanery and deceit. although most accounts depict her as an honest and good woman, she traveled throughout europe and great britain with cagliostro and appears to have been involved in his various schemes. by far the most important of cagliostro fs creations was the egyptian masonic rite, whose lodges admitted both sexes and whose main temple was presided over by the grand mistress lorenza and the grand copt cagliostro. in the lodges ruled by the grand mistress and the grand copt, women were so emancipated that they were encouraged to remove all of their clothing to be initiated into the mysteries of nature. those women who received the magnetic powers be

rand mistress lorenza and the grand copt cagliostro. in the lodges ruled by the grand mistress and the grand copt, women were so emancipated that they were encouraged to remove all of their clothing to be initiated into the mysteries of nature. those women who received the magnetic powers bestowed upon them by the grand copt were promised the ability to make full use of their own occult force. in the egyptian masonic lodge, physical happiness was equivalent to spiritual peace. wealthy members of european royalty sought his magical elixir of regeneration, and count cagliostro is said to have cured thousands of people with his lotions and potions during his reign in europe as a master conjurer. today, researchers can only guess if these 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

his wife that alphonse louis constant assumed the identity of eliphas levi and began to devote his time to an intensive study of alchemy and the occult. often his focus was on the kabbalah and the tarot, believing firmly that the ancient cards depicted a concise summary of all the revelations that had come down to humankind through the ages. levi saw in the symbolism of the tarot cards the key to the egyptian hieroglyphs, the mysteries of solomon, and the truths hidden in the apocryphal text of the book of enoch and the scrolls of hermes trismesgistus. to do a spread of the tarot cards, in levi fs opinion, was to establish communication with the spirit world. to seek within the tarot might bring the serious magician a clue to the manipulation of the natural and divine energy that permeated

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

nd horizontal horns. but the greatest of allthe horned gods of egypt was osiris, who appears to have been the pharaoh in his aspect as the incarnategod. the crown of osiris, of which the horizontal horns were an important part, was also the crown of themonarch, indicating to all who understood the symbolism that the king as god was the giver of all fertility'in the accounts of the divine birth of the egyptian kings, the future father of the divine child, the pharaoh,visits the queen as the god amon wearing all the insignia of divinity, including the horns. in this connection the god of the witcheschapter i. the horned god7it should also be noted that down to the latest period of pharaonic history the divine father was always thehorned amon.there are two other links between egypt and the da

had learned all these wordsfrom the devil, we all fell down upon our knees, with our hair down over our shoulders and eyes, and ourhands lifted up, and our eyes steadfastly fixed upon the devil, and said the foresaid words thrice over to thedevil.[35] the flowing hair and the uplifted hands and eyes, as well as the horned god, are alike in bothegypt and scotland. no-one would hesitate to say that the egyptian lady was engaged in the worship of hergod, who was symbolised to her in the figure of a goat, yet most people of the present day are horrified tothink that less than three centuries ago a similar worship of a "heathen" god was still practised in the british the god of the witcheschapter i. the horned god12isles.the ritual masking of the incarnate god or his priest is found in many pla

ottery and is intended tobe worn over the head (plate vii. 1. the method of wearing it is shown in the procession of priests atdenderah, where the masked priest has to be led by one of his fellows (plate iii. 2. this jackal-mask shouldbe compared with the "dorset ooser (plate vii. 2, which was stolen from its dorsetshire owners within thelast thirty years. the ooser was of painted wood, and, like the egyptian example, was worn over the head,the wearer being at the same time wrapped in an oxskin. the combination of the horned mask and theanimal's skin show too close a resemblance to the palaeolithic prototype to be accidental. in the ooser wehave the last remains of that most ancient of all recorded religions, the worship of the horned god.the name of the great pagan deity varied according

which were the tracks of horses' feet. and she alsotold me how long they were going and returning. the god of the witcheschapter iv. the rites46the general belief among the christian recorders was that at a witchfeast salt was not permitted, and variousreasons were adduced to account for the omission. the sanctity of salt was a pre-christian idea, and thetaboo on its use was strictly observed by the egyptian priests. salt has a special significance among moslemsand other non-christian peoples, and the belief in its holiness has continued into christian times and even tothe present day, for it is used in the making of the baptismal chrism. the spilling of salt is still consideredunlucky, and the sowing of salt on the site of a sacked town probably meant that the place was taboo andmight no

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

ficance of these characters. the investigators accordingly kept them, and took them to that professor of high 134 magic whose approach had been so much dreaded by the medium. we have seen them, and here is a minute description of them. they were traced forcibly, and the pencil had almost cut the paper. they had been dashed on to the paper without order or alignment. the first was the symbol which the egyptian initiates usually placed in the hand of typhon. a tau with upright double lines opened in the form of a compass; an ankh (or crux ansata) having at the top a circular ring; below the ring, a double horizontal line; beneath the double horizontal line, two oblique lines, like a v upside down. the second character represented a grand hierophant's cross, with the three hierarchical cross

THE LUCIFERIAN PATH THE WITCHES SABBAT MICHAEL W FORD

made flesh. the luciferian path is indeed based in the shadow. the luciferian is one who begins in darkness, masters the infernal 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 luc

that the symbol of the averse pentagram will begin to resonate within the sorcerers being, it is more than a symbol, it is a sigil which represents the shadow way and divinity which fell from heaven to taste darkness. the averse pentagram is thus the luciferic star which represents beauty in isolation, power through facing the unknown- symbolically, the averse pentagram represents the essence of the egyptian god of darkness and storms, set. set or set-an (shaitan) is the opposing force of darkness but intelligence and isolate consciousness. to be set-like is to be individual, willdriven and balanced. the center of the averse pentagram is called the eye of set or the eye of satan, the adversary. this symbol also represents the union of the empyrean (in this context that which fell from hea

strated with horns and cloven hooves, the awakened sorcerer. the algol sigil is an 8-pointed chaos star with an averse pentagram in the center. this is explained in the glossary section and beholds a powerful but dangerous magical formula. algol is a mirror which causes madness or wisdom, depending on the force of will of the magickian who stares into it. the sigil of the adversary is an image of the egyptian god set with two heads, as he faces darkness and light. this is a two fold state of the sorcerer who is balanced between darkness and light. he has tasted both ecstasies and has grown in wisdom from that experience. the alphabet of desire 5 sigils around the circle are focused forms of power which may arise in the conscious (by results of the will-desire-belief) by the arcana of the s

ster of self, the adversary and opposer. set is also related to saturn. this planet, called also shabbathai, is the sphere of saturn and is considered a meeting place of the witches sabbat. the image of those leaving the flesh, to go forth in the name of the devil by flying with familiars and other demons is not too far from realistic workings in the present time. 1 luciferian is also relevant to the egyptian god set, sethanic= of set. 2 see iblis, the black light by peter lamborn wilson. the flame of isolate consciousness and being is the black light/black flame. this is defined as the fire and perception of being, antinomianism. 3 the book of thoth weiser publications 15 lucifer is found in the higher octave of the sphere of saturn. this mighty angel4 is a revealed source of black light

jilwa, lucifer is presented as malak tauus existed before all other creatures and was then and now .there is no place devoid of me thus presenting the unnatural concept of self-illumination and intellect, lucifer is the adversary, who is full of life. as lucifer/shaitan is light, he does indeed hold a shadowside. this is present in the god forms or masks of shaitan, being seker, set and ahriman. the egyptian god set11 is a model and neter12 for self-deification, isolation and the adversary. the adversary or opposer is the shadow which reveals light, called the black light of iblis or shaitan. this light is inspired intellect and creative imagination. set represents self-imposed challenge and individual development, a tester of self. an adept uses this model for self-control and a becoming

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

, for example "the world changed into purity around me, and my heart felt as if i had entered a new world. the teachings of the merkabah mystics became part of the "heikhalot" school, whose name means "palace, referring to the spiritual planes through which the mystics ascended. the description of these journeys seems to bear similarities to the journey of the soul into the underworld depicted in the egyptian book of coming forth by day, with magical words or appropriate names of the gods to be spoken before each door is passed and each palace entered. three classical texts formulate the basic structure of traditional kabbalah, being; the sefer-ha-zohar; book of splendour- first printed 1558-60 and 1559-60 the sefer yetzirah; book of formation- first printed in mantua 1562 the sefer-ha-bah

the roman crown of roses. netzach: the laurel wreath of victory. hod: the caduceus crown or the mortar board. yesod: crowns of disguise; wigs and masques. the lunar crown. malkuth: the skull cap. the crown of wild olives of the olympian games, sacred to zeus. the wreath. crown of flowers, or ears of corn or wheat. shamanic headdress composed of earth attributes. figure 4 shows the attributions of the egyptian crowns to the sephiroth and would be suitable for appropriate ritual utilisation. chapter five; chockmah, the quarry of devotion chockmah, meaning "wisdom, is the second sephirah in the "lightning flash" descent of the tree of life, and takes its place at the top of the positive pillar. it is "negative" only in respect of kether, from whom it receives its influence (mezla, and positiv

an adepts, it is to be approached with due consideration. if meditation and contemplation (the stilling or focusing of the thought processes, and ritual or ceremony can be assigned to hod, then through the awareness freed thereby (tiphareth) we can regain chesed, the grand waystation of the universe as it pours into manifestation, and align ourselves to that flow. a simple rite of magic involving the egyptian goddess ma'at, who can be attributed to chesed, designed by maggie ingalls demonstrates this procedure, by the meditation (hod) on a flame (tiphareth) and a feather (chesed, which combined with a suitable mantra links the practitioner to the "ma'at current, which is none other than the evolutionary and stochastic current of the universe. the hermit card also resumes this symbolism, an

aspects of nature, as well as the tides and feminine menstrual energies. it is therefore appropriate that the letter attributed to this path is that of qoph, meaning "back of the head, where the more primitive parts of the brain reside, regulating these energies. netzach is spelt in hebrew, ntzch, nun-tzaddi-cheth. the tarot attributions of these cards is that of death, the star, and the chariot. the egyptian deities of this sequence are revealing of netzach, being typhon, nuit and hormakhu; typhon (or seth) is the serpent deity connected with storms, a natural phenomena appropriate to netzach, and was the pilot of the solar boat (tiphareth) who speared apophis, symbolic of the death atu connecting netzach to tiphareth. nuit resided in the "lower mansion of heliopolis, which is the house o

shamah (upper soul. the neschamah then ascends from one essence to the next, until it reaches its source" the kabbalah is only one of many cosmologies which attempt to describe the functions of human experience. the ancient egyptians developed a complex system of souls inhabiting the individual, and as these may be contrasted against the kabbalistic divisions, i will mention them here briefly. as the egyptian model is usually based on the works of wallis budge, whose writings were original at the time, but are now dated by more modern research, there are many differences of spelling and opinion as to the significance of the various elements making up the egyptian model. for example, the "khu" is referred to by perkins in his "egyptian life and the tree of life, and rendered as "intelligenc

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

he void, as it were, whence it commences to surge backwards in the mind's eye upon the student. some seconds after the projection and audible vibration of the name the student should bring his left foot sharply back, and after dropping both hands to the side, raise the forefinger of the left hand to h s lips. this is called the protecting sign, or sign of silence. it is the traditional gesture of the egyptian god harpocrates-one of the symbols employed to represent the holy child that grew from the union of the two opposites. it thus represents the growth, silent and unseen, of the golden flower. whilst employing the sign of silence, the student should contrive to imagine that the name which has been projected by the first sign to the outer limits of space, surges back upon him, penetratin

, the intellect, and the imagination. to carry out these duties, the ego relies on discrimination, reason, and certain defense mechanisms that often conflict with other aspects of the psyche, sometimes posing obstacles to growth and healing. archetypes of the ego include all deities who have "walked between the worlds" of life and death (conscious and subconscious, such as the sumerian inanna and the egyptian osiris. 4. the field of consciousness, whch contains the ego, is the incessant flow of observable images, feelings, thoughts, sensations, and impulses. archetypes of this region include several groups of deities with a variety of attributions: wisdom (enki, thoth, hermes; love (hathor, aphrodite; war (horns, ares; pleasure (bes, pan; etc. 5. the higher unconscious or superconscious is

ades and persephone. if we were to add anything to assagioli's model it would be the body, or manifest psyche, which must be considered in a holistic psychology. mind and body are interrelated extensions of one another. just as physical discomfort can affect the mind, the mind, through focused visualization, can affect the body. archetypes of the manifest psyche include all earth deities, such as the egyptian geb, the babylonian ninhursag, and the greek demeter. assagiolifs division of the psyche is remarkably similar to the qabalistic model of the soul. like jung, he saw the pressing need for all human beings to achieve a balanced inner integration and true self-realization, and he outlined a system for achieving this goal in four stages: 1. thorough knowledge of one's personality. this i

ttract all kinds of elementals at ths early stage of the work. it's far more important for the beginner to know how to banish rather than to invoke. anyone can attract an elemental or energy form. getting rid of it can be more difficult. the following section describes a number of different versions of the lbrp, including egyptian, greek, gaelic, and shamanic renditions. egyptian pentagram ritual the egyptian qabalistic cross stand and face east. imagine a brilliant white light touching the top of your head. reach up with the index finger or blade of a dagger to connect with the light and bring it to the forehead. touch the forehead and say "entek pau (pronounced "en-tek pow" meaning "thou art he who is. touch the breast and say "ta sutenit (pronounced "tah suten- it" meaning "the kingdom

th. charge the figure with "tau("earth. invocation return to the east and form the tau cross. say "before me, hathoor, the mother of light. behind me, toum of the setting sun. on my right hand, sakhmet, mighty lady of flame. on my left hand, hapi-wer, the bull of the earth. for about me the pentagram 197 flames sehedj("a heaven of stars. and above me shines tau nudjer("the star of godu).28 repeat the egyptian qabalistic cross as in the beginning. egyptian banishing rituals alternative versions the student may choose to replace the pentagram in the above ritual with symbols that retain a more egyptian character. rather than tracing the pentagram in the four quarters, the magician could draw the sign of the ankh or the wedjat (the eye of horus. both were considered powerful amulets for prote

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

will do to show how the editor found relationships to be valid and even startling. azatot is frequently mentioned in the grim pages of the cthulhu mythos, and appears in the necronomicon as azag-thoth, a combination of two words, the first sumerian and the second coptic, which gives us a clue as to its identity. azag in sumerian means "enchanter" or "magician; thoth in coptic is the name given to the egyptian god of magick and wisdom, tahuti, who was evoked by both the golden dawn and by crowley himself (and known to the greeks as hermes, from whence we get "hermetic. azag-thoth is, therefore, a lord of magicians, but of the "black" magicians, or the sorcerers of the "other side. there is a seeming reference to shub niggurath in the necronomicon, in the name of a sumerian deity, the "answe

THE TAROT OF C C ZAIN

ially removed the cloak of material limitations, and by the lamp, emblem of intelligence, shedding its rays over the past, present and future. the lamp being concealed by the mantle symbolizes discretion, and also expresses the truth that if we are ever to know the real nature of anything we must delve deep beneath the cloak of external appearances. the staff, which in form is the sixth letter of the egyptian and hebrew alphabets, indicates that man progresses through struggle, alternately overcoming obstacles and being vanquished by them, and that when finally he realizes he only develops his abilities through recurrent efforts to triumph over difficulties, this knowledge becomes his staff of prudence supporting him in all his endeavors. the wheel- arcanum x. in divination, arcanum x may

ity of labor in all progress. the eagle signifies that sex, as signified by the sign scorpio, has been turned into channels which lead to spirituality. and the head of the man indicates that both intuition and intelligence are necessary guides in unfolding the highest spiritual possibilities. these four emblems ranged around the zodiac typify the processes of evolution. they are the four forms of the egyptian sphinx, and also symbolize the passage of the sun through the four zodiacal quadrants. as applied to adeptship they point out that the neophyte must have energy and courage to sustain his efforts, must have knowledge to direct his energies properly, must labor ceaselessly for the realization of his aspirations, and must gradually tune his emotions to a higher, more spiritual vibratory

THE ABYSS AND TABAET

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

THE BOOK OF GATES

s budge [1905 (original title) the short form of the book of am-tuat and the book of gates the book of gates is an ancient egyptian cosmological treatise describing the architecture and inhabitants of the tuat, the underworld which the boat of the sun god, ra, traverses during the night hours. this is the second volume of the three volume budge series which deals with the books of the underworld, the egyptian heaven and hell. it also includes a short summary of the book of am-tuat, the longer version of which comprises the first volume. title page note contents the short form of the book of am-tuat the first hour the second hour the third hour the fourth hour the fifth hour the sixth hour the seventh hour the eighth hour the ninth hour the tenth hour the eleventh hour the twelfth hour the

at. chapter xi. the gate of ab-ta. the ninth division of the tuat. chapter xii. the gate of sethu. the tenth division of the tuat. chapter xiii. the gate of am-netu-f. the eleventh division of the tuat. chapter xiv. the gate of sebi and reri. the twelfth division of the tuat sacred texts egypt ehh index index previous next note this volume is the second of a series of three volumes which treat of the egyptian heaven and hell. it contains the complete hieroglyphic text of the summary, or short form of the book am-tuat, and the complete hieroglyphic text of the book of gates, with translations and reproductions of all the illustrations. a series of chapters dealing with the origin and contents of books of the other world, with prefatory remarks, and a full index to the whole work, will be fo

THE GOD SET

ltural/political currents running through egypt. allow me to present here a brief history of set. predynastically: set was an important deity appearing in the art of the hamitic peoples living in the ombos and naquada regions. interestingly, his was the only god- figure not composed of parts from recognizable earth animals (the hamitic speakers donated most of the terms to religious philosophy to the egyptian langauge that seperate it from other semitic languages including ba, ka, neter, etc. if somebody really wants to find the roots of the egyptian religion, they should go up the nile and do some serious anthropology among hamitic speaking native cultures- the roots of the nile may hold keys to egyptian thought that mute stones do not. archaic egypt: set generally occupies a secondary ro

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

, the date of its supposed establishment, and 1904, when it began to be mentioned by name in a periodical called the oriflamme. the oriflamme was a supposedly masonic production, the official organ of the magnificently entitled berlin grand lodge of the united grand council of rites of the ancient and accepted scottish rite of 33 degrees, of the ancient primitive rite of memphis of 95 degrees and the egyptian rite of misraim of 90 degrees. to understand the real nature of the berlin grand lodge of memphis and misraim for such is the conventional (and merciful) abbreviation of the organization s title it is necessary to make a brief excursion into nineteenth-century masonic history. both the rite of memphis and the rite of misraim, originally quite separate organizations, had come into file

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

girgashites, and the jebusites. 16:1 now sarai abram s wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an egyptian, whose name [was] hagar. 16:2 and sarai said unto abram, behold now, the lord hath restrained me from bearing: i pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that i may obtain children by her. and abram hearkened to the voice of sarai. 16:3 and sarai abram s wife took hagar her maid the egyptian, after abram had dwelt ten years in the land of canaan, and gave her to her husband abram to be his wife. 16:4 and he went in unto hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. 16:5 and sarai said unto abram, my wrong [be] upon thee: i have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, i was despised

ac was born unto him. 21:6 and sarah said, god hath made me to laugh [so that] all that hear will laugh with me. 21:7 and she said, who would have said unto abraham, that sarah should have given children suck? for i have born [him] a son in his old age. 21:8 and the child grew, and was weaned: and abraham made a great feast the [same] day that isaac was weaned. 21:9 and sarah saw the son of hagar the egyptian, which she had born unto abraham, mocking. 21:10 wherefore she said unto abraham, cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son [even] with isaac. 21:11 and the thing was very grievous in abraham s sight because of his son. 21:12 and god said unto abraham, let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bond

of machpelah, in the field of ephron the son of zohar the hittite, which [is] before mamre; 25:10 the field which abraham purchased of the sons of heth: there was abraham buried, and sarah his wife. 25:11 and it came to pass after the death of abraham, that god blessed his son isaac; and isaac dwelt by the well lahai-roi. 25:12 now these [are] the generations of ishmael, abraham s son, whom hagar the egyptian, sarah s handmaid, bare unto abraham: 25:13 and these [are] the names of the sons of ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of ishmael, nebajoth; and kedar, and adbeel, and mibsam, 25:14 and mishma, and dumah, and massa, 25:15 hadar, and tema, jetur, naphish, and kedemah: 25:16 these [are] the sons of ishmael, and these [are] their names, by their towns

erward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called zarah. 39:1 and joseph was brought down to egypt; and potiphar, an officer of pharaoh, captain of the guard, an egyptian, bought him of the hands of the ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither. 39:2 and the lord was with joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the egyptian. 39:3 and his master saw that the lord [was] with him, and that the lord made all [that] he did to prosper in his hand. 39:4 and joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand. 39:5 and it came to pass from the time [that] he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the lor

an. 39:3 and his master saw that the lord [was] with him, and that the lord made all [that] he did to prosper in his hand. 39:4 and joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand. 39:5 and it came to pass from the time [that] he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the lord blessed the egyptian s house for joseph s sake; and the blessing of the lord was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field. 39:6 and he left all that he had in joseph s hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. and joseph was [a] goodly [person] and well favoured. 39:7 and it came to pass after these things, that his master s wife cast her eyes upon joseph; and she sai

THOUGHTS ON SETH

ineering, competitive spirit, pride in accomplishment. from don webb of the tos "xeper is an egyptian verb meaning 'i have come into being' xeper is the experience of an individual psyche becoming aware of its own existence and deciding to expand and evolve that existence through its own actions. xeper has been experienced by anyone who has decided to seek after his or her own enlightenment "set, the egyptian god of darkness, is the divine origin of the word. set's name ultimately means the 'separator' or 'isolator' his chief enemies are the gods of stasis and mindlessness. the first of these is osiris, death himself. set's slaying of osiris has a twofold significance for the seeker of xeper. firstly this represents the slaying of old thought patterns, the dethroning of those internal gods

TURNER ROBERT ARBETEL OF MAGICK

ephus reporteth of abraham, that he instructed the egyptians in arithmetic and astronomy; who before abraham s coming unto them, knew none of these sciences. abraham sanctitate& sapientia omnium pr stantissimus, primum cald os, deinde phoenices, demum egyptios sacerdotes, astrologia& divina docuerit. abraham the holiest and wisest of men, did first teach the caldeans, then the phoenicians, lastly the egyptian priests, astrologie and divine knowledge. without doubt, hermes trismegistus, that divine magician and philosopher, who (as some say) lived long before noah, attained to much divine knowledge of the creator through the study of magick and astrologie; as his writings testifie. the third kind of magick containeth the whole philosophy of nature; which bringeth to light the innermost virt

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

ature of the beings to which they belonged. hence the characteristic properties of animals and plants were not only regarded as representations, but as actual emanations of the divine power, consubstantial with his own essence.1 for this reason, the symbols were treated with greater respect and veneration than if they had been merely signs and characters of convention. plutarch says, that most of the egyptian priests held the bull apis, who was worshipped with so much ceremony, to be only an image of the spirit of osiris.2 this i take to have been the real meaning of all the animal worship of the egyptians, about which so much has been written, and so little discovered. those animals or plants, in which any particular attribute of the deity seemed to predominate, became the symbols of that

possible for a chisel to cut red granite with so much neatness and precision. the age of rameses is uncertain; but the generality of modern chronologers suppose that he was the same person as sesostris, and reigned at thebes about 1500 years before the christian ra, and about 300 before the siege of troy. their dates are however merely conjectural, when applied to events of this remote antiquity. the egyptian priests of the augustan age had a tradition, which they pretended to confirm by records, written in hieroglyphics, that their country had once possest the dominion of all asia and ethiopia, which their king ramses, or rameses, had conquered.1 though this account may be exaggerated, there can be no doubt, from the buildings still remaining, but that they were once at the head of a grea

ore steadily; but, besides that it is very ill adapted to this purpose, we find many coins which appear, evidently, to have received the stroke of the hammer (for striking with a balance is of late date) on the side marked with this square. but what puts the question out of all doubt, is, that impressions of exactly the same kind are found upon the little talismans, or mystic pastes, taken out of the egyptian mummies, which have no impression whatever on the reverse.3 on a little brass medal of syracuse, we also find the asterisc of the sun placed in the centre of the square, in the same manner as the lingam is on the indian monument.4 why this quadrangular form was adopted, in preference to any other, we have no means of discovering, from any known greek or egyptian sculptures; but from t

which the people sacrificed and feasted, and then rose up (as the translator says) to play; but in the original the term is more specific, and means, in its plain direct sense, that particular sort of play which requires the concurrence of both sexes,2 and which was therefore a very proper conclusion of a sacrifice to cupid, though highly displeasing to the god who had brought them out of egypt. the egyptian mythologists, who appeared to have in- 1 see plate xviii, fig. 3. 2 exod. xxxii. of priapus 63 vented this secondary deity of love, were probably the inventors likewise of a secondary priapus, who was the personification of that particular generative faculty, which springs from animal desire, as the primary priapus was of the great generative principle of the universe. hence, in the a

e, which resembles the jewish cherubim, are the same as those upon several greek sculptures now extant; such as the little images of priapus attached to the ancient bracelets, the compound figures of the goat and lion 1 see plate xviii. fig. 1 from the isiac table, and plate xix. fig 5 from niebuhr's prints of chilminar. see also plate xviii. fig. 2 and plate xix. fig. 1 from the isiac tables and the egyptian portals published by norden and pococke, on every one of which this singular emblem occurs. 88 on the worship upon the frieze of the temple of apollo didym us &c &c.1 they are likewise joined to the human figure on the medals of melita and camarina,2 as well as upon many ancient sculptures in relief found in persia.3 the feathers in these wings are turned upwards like those of an ostr

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

ren thought it not fit to style themselves magicians (maier, laws of the fraternity of the rosie crosse [themis aureu, 16181 [1656, philosophical research society, los angeles, 1976, pages 91 -2. the church derived much of its authority from supernatural events. these were always termed "miracles" when moses cast down his rod before pharaoh and turned it into a serpent, it was a miracle; but when the egyptian priest also changed a staff to a snake it was nothing but foul sorcery. a monk to whom these miracles fre- quently happened was sure to be called a saint. a layman who produced the exact same events would be burned at the stake. hence a tongue-in-cheek definition of magic might be "miracles not sanctioned by the established religion' the objection of the church was not against the res

h been found true by trial in the great balance. no evil hath been found in him, he hath not wasted the offerings in the temples, he hath not done harm by his deeds, and he hath uttered no evil report whilst he was upon earth.25 it should be obvious at once that st. peter, who waylays souls at the gates of heaven and opens his book to affirm their worthiness before admitting them, is analogous to the egyptian god thoth. the book of thoth, with sins listed on the left and good deeds on the right, has itself become the great scale. heaven is the inner chamber of osiris. hell has been granted a reality it does not merit, since it is born of shadows and its true nature is oblivion. that the egyptian and christian myths are essentially the same is demonstrated conclusively by the medieval image

joy success would bring- i hardly tried now to rebuke the spring my heart made, finding failure in its scope.27 by its nature initiation implies there is a circle of individuals that is of special value within the larger all-encompassing circle of humanity. in its spiritual form this special circle is one of wisdom. the wisdom is either hidden from the mass of the population, as was the case with the egyptian and greek mysteries, or it is sim- ply unobtainable by those who have not been transformed and prepared to receive it, as with the shamanic initiations of the american indians. generally speaking, the long and involved rites of initiation in primitive soci- eties begin with the preparation of the sacred circle, or ground, where the ceremo- ny is to take place. the candidates (usually

etermine that they are serious enough to treat the symbolism of the rite with respect, and strong-willed enough to keep from betraying the secrets of the lodge. usually these tests are symbolic in nature, although made to appear terrify- ingly real, and physical injury is not permitted to happen in a responsible group. the nineteenth-century french occultist paul christian, purporting to describe the egyptian mysteries, tells how the candidate is led to a dark passage and told to crawl in. the candidate has no assurance that he is not crawling to his death. as soon as he has passed the threshold, the heavy bronze door of the passage is dropped with a clang, and the candidate hears the terrible words "here perish all fools who covet knowledge and power!"28 the candidate faces an agonizing q

eir defeated foes to gain their cleverness and courage, the modern adept takes into him or her- self the essence of a spirit so that he or she can harness the virtues of that entity for purposes of ritual work, or to promote personal evolution of the soul. for example, if the magus faced a difficult mathematical problem, he or she might invoke thoth and contemplate the problem through the eyes of the egyptian 1. stand in the outer temple before the altar faci g south (the golden dawn say west-this is a matter of the magical system eing followed) with your hands at your sides and your feet together. d' god of learning. if it were necessary for a female adept to dominate a social function, she might invoke aphrodite, greek goddess of love and beauty; a male might invoke apollo for the same p

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

fe projected on a sphere."134m aps of the celestial northern and southern hemispheres showing the spherical projection of the ten sephiroth of the tree of life are reproduced in israel regardie's the golden dawn,'35 and it was these or maps very like them that were used by farr and her group. the twelve members stationed themselves at intervals around a circle. at the center was a being known as "the egyptian astral" who was the master from whom farr received 130. colquhoun, 34. 131. howe, 170, 132. ibid, 250. 133. ibid, 251. 134. ibid, 247. 135. regardie, golden dawn, 605. chapter seven: the golden dawn 105 her group's teachings, and who controlled the work of the group. this rather mysterious figure was first contacted through a fragment of his egyptian mummy case,136o r so ellic howe wa

ther mysterious figure was first contacted through a fragment of his egyptian mummy case,136o r so ellic howe was informed by f. l. gardner, a theosophist who joined the golden dawn and became a member of the sphere group. this initial contact was probably made by psychometry, a psychic ability supposed to enable sensitive individuals to divine, by touch, events connected with an object. in 1901, the egyptian astral announced that he must retire from the group because he was about to ascend to a higher plane, which would make it impossible for him to carry on his former work. this was in keeping with the teachings of blavatsky's theosophy, which held that souls after death continued to evolve and perfect themselves, rising through the seven astral planes until they escaped them entirely to

on his former work. this was in keeping with the teachings of blavatsky's theosophy, which held that souls after death continued to evolve and perfect themselves, rising through the seven astral planes until they escaped them entirely to the higher planes of spirit. for some time thereafter, farr and her followers met regularly on the astral level, but they substituted the holy grail in place of the egyptian adept. in 1902, a prominent member of the london temple, annie horniman (1860-1937, who believed herself in astral contact with one of the secret chiefs she called the purple adept, lobbied for the performance of a special banishing ritual to cleanse the order of what she perceived to be the corrupting taint of the egyptian adept. by this time, the sphere group had ceased to gather, b

ck gloves."179 it is possible that these astral spirits are part of the mind's own coping and survival mechanism, and are activated when an individual is in danger of experiencing sights and concepts during astral projection that might, in one way or another, prove dangerous to either his health or his sanity. this survival mechanism probably takes many forms. for oliver fox, it was the symbol of the egyptian ankh-the symbol of life-that appeared in front of his inner vision and blocked his path whenever he tried to use his pineal-doonuay mode of astral projection. it also took the form for fox of his wife's voice warning him that he was in danger. i suspect that hearing this kind of warning voice is not uncommon for those who engage in serious experiments in astral projection. there seems

s of compulsion on the astral levels. these words were meaningless in the ordinary sense, and came to be known as barbarous words of evocation, since it was believed that they derived from ancient and forgotten languages. however, the words used by the golden dawn were not meaningless, but were hebrew names of god that were sounded by members of the golden dawn in a manner similar to the way that the egyptian magicians and gnostic priests vocalized their barbarous words. israel regardie wrote that the supreme defense when traveling in astral realms was to assume the god-form of harpocrates, the greek god of healing "the astral image should be formulated either as rising from a lotus, or else standing erect over two crocodile^ a manner of testing the truthfulness of spiritual beings was to

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

n western occultism and made extensive use of it in his own magical experiments. the rationale for the assumption of the god-form is very simple. to change ourselves in a fundamental way, it is necessary that we become 148 tetragrammaton someone else. to change for the better, we must become one who is better. to become wiser, we must take on the identity and persona of a spirit of wisdom such as the egyptian god thoth. to become more beautiful, we must assume the form and persona of a god of beauty such as apollo or aphrodite. to become more courageous and warlike, we must take on the nature of a war god such as mars or the northern god tew. when properly done, the assumed god or spirit actually displaces the thoughts, feelings, and even the physical appearance of the ritualist. while wea

ooks of occult philosophy [1531-31, bk. 2, ch. 7, english translation of 1651, p. 183) but the true name of god is known neither to men nor to angels, but to god alone, neither shall it be manifested (as the holy scriptures testifie) before the will of god be fulfilled; notwithstanding god hath other names amongst the angels, others amongst us men; for there is no name of god amongst us (as moses the egyptian saith) which is not taken from his works, and signifieth with participation, besides the name tetragrammaton, which is holy, signifying the substance of the creator in a pure signification, in which no other thing is partaker with god the creator; therefore it is called the separated name, which is written and not read, neither is it expressed by us, but named, and signifieth the seco

e only one of the many substitutes for the real name, and composed of the twofold name of the first androgyne- adam and eve, jod (or yodh, vau and he-va-the female serpent as a symbol of divine intelligence proceeding from the one-generative or creative spirit. thus, jehovah is not the sacred name at all. had moses given to pharaoh the true "name" the latter would not have answered as he did, for the egyptian king-initiates knew i t as well as moses, who had learned it with them. the "name" was at that time the common property of the adepts of all the nations in the world, and pharaoh certainly knew the "name" of the highest god mentioned in the book of the dead. but instead of that, moses (if we accept the allegory of exodus literally) gives pharaoh the name of yeva, the expression or for

WAITE ASPECTS OF MASONIC SYMBOLISM

the book of the dead if i am putting this rather strongly as regards one important authority, it is at least true to say that he appears to discern the mystical side of the old egyptian texts, while there are others, less illustrious than he, who have gone much further in this direction. it is very difficult for one like myself, although unversed in egyptology, to study such a work as "osiris and the egyptian resurrection" by e. wallis budge, without feeling very strongly that there is much to be said for this view, or without hoping that it will be carried further by those who are properly warranted. so far as it is possible to speak of the kabiric mysteries, there was in those an episode of symbolical death, because kasmillos, a technical name ascribed to the candidate, was represented a

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

e from what may seem to us very far away, but yet not so distant that it is impossible to trace them to their source. scanned from the periodical "the builder, vol. ii, 1916, in three parts, from the issues of april, may and juroto supply the beginner in egyptian with new material and a series of reading books, and to provide the general reader with translations of egyptian works in a handy form. the egyptian texts, whether the originals be written in hieroglyphic or hieratic characters, are here printed in hieroglyphic type, and are arranged with english translations, page for page. they are printed as they are written in the original documents, i.e, the words are not divided. the beginner will find the practice of dividing the words for himself most useful in acquiring facility of readin

ered that the exact meanings of many egyptian words have still to be ascertained, and that the ancient egyptian scribes were as much puzzled as we are by some of the texts which they copied, and that owing to carelessness, ignorance, or weariness, or all three, they made blunders which the modern student is unable to correct. in the introduction will be found brief descriptions of the contents of the egyptian texts, in which their general bearing and importance are indicated, and references given to authoritative editions of texts and translations. e. a. wallis budge. british museum, november 17,1911. contents chapter i. the legend of the creation ii. the legend of the destruction of mankind iii. the legend of ra and the snake-bite iv. the legend of horus of edfu and the winged disk v. the

t bank of the nile at thebes. he did not himself find it in a tomb, but he received it from the british consul at luxor, mustafa agha, during an interchange of gifts when mr. rhind was leaving the country. mustafa agha obtained the papyrus from the famous hiding-place of the royal mummies at der-al-bahari, with the situation of which he was well acquainted for many years before it became known to the egyptian service of antiquities. when mr. rhind came to england, the results of his excavations were examined by dr. birch, who, recognising the great value of the papyrus, arranged to publish it in a companion volume to facsimiles of two papyri, but the death of mr. rhind in 1865 caused the project to fall through. mr. rhind's collection passed into the hands of mr. david bremner, and the pap

o publish it in a companion volume to facsimiles of two papyri, but the death of mr. rhind in 1865 caused the project to fall through. mr. rhind's collection passed into the hands of mr. david bremner, and the papyrus, together with many other antiquities, was purchased by the trustees of the british museum. in 1880 dr. birch suggested the publication of the papyrus to dr. pleyte, the director of the egyptian museum at leyden. this savant transcribed and translated some passages from the festival songs of isis and nephthys, which is the first text in it, and these he published in recueil de travaux, paris, tom. iii, pp. 57-64. in 1886 by dr. birch's kindness i was allowed to work at the papyrus, and i published transcripts of some important passages and the account of the creation in the p

ublished in recueil de travaux, paris, tom. iii, pp. 57-64. in 1886 by dr. birch's kindness i was allowed to work at the papyrus, and i published transcripts of some important passages and the account of the creation in the proceedings of the society of biblical archaeology, 1886-7, pp. 11-26. the legend of the creation was considered by dr. h. brugsch to be of considerable value for the study of the egyptian religion, and encouraged by him[fn#1] i made a full transcript of the papyrus, which was published in archaeologia (vol. lii, london, 1891, with transliterations and translations. in 1910 i edited for the trustees of the british museum the complete hieratic text with a revised translation.[fn#2 [fn#1] ein in moglichst wortgetreuer uebersetzung vorglegter papyrustext soll den schlussst

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

t the mystery of baphomet is sexual alchemy. we transform the lead of our personality into the gold of the spirit based on rigorous comprehension and sexual transmutation. this is how the i is annihilated. the rose elaborates its perfume with the mud of the earth; the perfume of the rose is transmuted mud. the door of eden sex is the door of eden. the guardian of this door is the assyrian sphinx, the egyptian sphinx, the bull (golden calf) of moses with the sword between its paws. this is the psychological i reflected in the baphomet that with his sword drives out from the threshold all of those who are not prepared. the enemy is within us; we need to work with the demon in order to dissolve it. we need to steal the fire from the devil. quinta: el quinto grado de integraci n representa a t

umano tiene dentro, no es el cristo, porque el cristo no ha encarnado todav a en los seres humanos. s lo quien alcanza la iniciaci n venusta encarna al cristo. nadie podr a alcanzar dicha iniciaci n sin haber encarnado antes a su buddha de perfecci n. 122 arcanum 19 let us now study the hieroglyphic of the nineteenth arcanum of the tarot: a radiant sun and two wholesome children holding hands. in the egyptian tarot, the hieroglyphic is of a man and a woman, who hold in their hands the symbolic egyptian tao cross. this type of cross is phallic. the nineteenth arcanum is the arcanum of the alliance. in the third lesson of this course, we broadly spoke about the salt, the sulfur and the mercury. indeed, these are the passive instruments of the great work. the positive principle is the interio

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

ders. this capstone is sometimes called the triangle of fire "which is a stone emblem of the eternal flame (case, 1985, p. 83. john michell tells us that the pyramid has often been the scene of mysterious apparitions in the form of a light "which local bedouins see at certain seasons hovering over its peak (michell, 1983, p. 160. this was also witnessed by a mr. william groff and other members of the egyptian institute, who saw a flame rising from the top, but could discover no rational explanation. the pyramid has often been associated in hermetic folklore with revelation of the inner mysteries, and figure 10-c revelation of secrets is the domain of mercury or hermes. it is believed that initiation rites were once held within the dark pyramid chambers: inspiration is mercury, the messenge

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

of abrasax, based in the village of forchies-la-marche near charleroi in southern belgium not far from the castle of darkness. abrasax is abraxas, a fat-bellied demon from whom, it is likely, the magicians term, abracadabra, originated. dutroux buried alive an accomplice, bernard weinstein, and a mong weinstein's effects was a letter from the abrasax group signed by someone describing himself as the egyptian god, anubis. it ordered him to provide 'presents' for the high priestess of the order and apparently gave specific details of, the age and sex the victims must be. the british sunday times reported the accounts of witnesses describing, black masses in which children were killed in front of audiences which included, prominent members of belgian society" a belgian newspaper reported, th

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

but is the sincere expression of that feeling towards god which is expressed, perhaps more decorously though not more sincerely, by modern christianity in church services. but the processional dances of the drunken bacchantes, the wild prancings round the holy sepulchre as recorded by maundrell at the end of the seventeenth century, the jumping dance of the mediaeval 'witches, the solemn zikr of the egyptian peasant, the whirling of the dancing dervishes, all have their origin in the desire to be 'nearer, my god, to thee, and to show by their actions that intense gratitude which the worshippers find them selves incapable of expressing in words. 1- living witchcraft there have been many books written on witchcraft. the early ones were mostly propaganda written by the various churches to di

womankind can elevate and ennoble man- a suggestive inquiry, etc, by a.j. attwood. not only in the sacrifices to the generative gods, but in the worship of every god the religious ceremonies of the greeks and of all the ancient peoples were happy and involved feasting, dancing in the gods' honour and rejoicing generally, with the exception of the later jews and possibly of the egyptians: many of the egyptian festivals were happy but some were not, because they had many and diverse gods. it is highly probable that the early jewish rites were festive also, though reformers constantly strove to abolish all mention of this, and there is no doubt that the bible has been tampered with to this end. 8- out of the land of egypt in mr. pennethorne hughes's book we have the following interesting pas

disturbance of consciousness used by african negroes are derived from ancient egypt is extremely interesting, as is the natural suggestion that they took these powers with them to america. in ancient times there was widespread trading up the nile, across and down to the congo. i had always thought of the africans going in for human sacrifices and orgies of rum, methods i believe entirely alien to the egyptian spirit i was told in new orleans that it was not only negroes who attended the voodoo festivals but that many whites went as well. it was well known there that voodoo festivals were often held by the lakeside and bodies of police were regularly sent out to prevent them. but the police, who were mainly irish, would search regularly several places where the festivals were not and then r

for all the resemblances. for all over the world when faced with certain problems people are apt to solve them in the same way. if the knowledge now practised in west africa is derived from ancient egypt, there is no reason to doubt that some witch practices may have come from the same source to europe via the roman and greek mysteries, which all seem to be derived from ancient egypt. i feel that the egyptian cults were too severe and respectable to go in for the blood practices used by africans. i think pythagoras, who is generally credited with bringing the mysteries to greece, was not the sort of man who would have had anything to do with blood sacrifices or other objectionable practices. but it is conceivable that there were two sects, the worshippers of set, as well as those of osiris

ve itself in actual bone. the isolated heads were found with human thigh-bones crossed under the chins, and one at least of the skeletons had such bones under its chin; this is still to be seen at rushen abbey. on discussing this peculiarity it was said to have been observed in ireland but passed over as being accidental, or having no known significance. with one was also found a bronze figure of the egyptian god osiris; reginald smith of the british museum and sir arthur keith pronounce it to be of early or pre-roman date' mr. cubbon, who excavated them, told me that this figure was found in the grave of the man with thigh-bones under his chin. i have seen this skeleton; the legs are complete and laid out straight, so it was someone else's thighbones which were used. i have examined the f

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

days, and is certainly related to luna in an occult manner. the lyre has 7 strings, corresponding to the seven planets. there are 7 vowels in english and some other tongues. theon of smyrna also notices that an average length of an adult s intestine is 28 feet, four times seven, and 28 also is a perfect number. the number 7 is also associated with voice and sound, with clio the muse; with osiris the egyptian deity; with nemesis, fate--adrastia, not to be escaped from; and with mars. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott as to the sacredness of the number 7, note among the hebrews, oaths were confirmed by seven witnesses; or by seven victims offered in sacrifice; as see the covenant between abraham and abimelech with seven lambs, genesis, chapter xxi. v

z the son of jehuda the prince, bathia daughter of pharaoh, and sarah the daughter of asher. some rabbis add rabbi yoshua son of levi, but he entered not at the door, but climbed over the wall. see kethuboth, 7. 2. in the 145th psalm, we find 9 reasons for praising god. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the great eleusinian mysteries were the successors of the egyptian mysteries of isis and osiris, and were celebrated at eleusis and possibly also at athens, in honor of demeter or ceres; they occupied 9 days, and were commenced on the 15th day of the third attic month, boedromion, september. they took place once in every five years. 92. the lesser mysteries were performed in the month elaphebolion, march, at agrae on the river ilyssus in honor of per

gnosis and stauros, the cross of jesus. 1322. first year of egyptian cycle of sothis, b.c; rameses ii came to the throne in this year, b. c. 1378. the reputed year of the birth of christian rosenkreutz, founder of the rosicrucian philosophy. 1408. christian rosenkreutz founded this arcane society in germania. 1459. the date of writing of the hermetic romance of the chemical wedding, by c.r. 1461. the egyptian sothic period, calculated by the heliacal rising of sirius, the dog star, at the solstice. 1480. christos, in greek numeration meaning anointed. according to the canon this number exhibits an imnumbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott portant measure of the cosmos, and was the foundation of the scientific pantheism upon which christian theology was bu

WILLIAM WESCOTT THE CHALDEAN ORACLES OF ZOROASTER TRANSLATION

in the voluminous writings of eusebius, who attributes the authorship to the persian zoroaster_ 2. theurgists assert that he is a god and celebrate him as both older and younger, as a circulating and eternal god, as understanding the whole number of all things moving in the world, and moreover infinite through his power and energizing a spiral force. proclus on the tim us of plato, 244. z. or t. the egyptian pantheon had an elder and a younger horus a god son of osiris and isis. taylor suggests that he refers to kronos, time, or chronos as the later platonists wrote the name. kronos, or saturnus, of the romans, was son of uranos and gaia, husband of rhea, father of zeus_ 3. the god of the universe, eternal, limitless, both young and old, having a spiral force. cory includes this oracle in

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

the temporalization of eternity to the hebrew word nesah, which, as he says, denotes both victory and eternity. that he had in mind kabbalistic symbolism is evident from his parenthetical remark that this word is among the first attributes of god, a reference to the eighth of the traditional ten sefirot. schelling also relates the notion of eternity that contains time subjugated within itself to the egyptian theogonic circularity captured in the inscription over the temple of sais: i am the one who was, who is, who will be. moreover, following kant, schelling associates this inscription with the divine epiphany to moses (exod 3:14, which he paraphrases as i am the one who was, i was who i will be, i will be who i am (ich bin, der ich war, ich war, der ich sehn werde, ich werde sehn, der i

WORKBOOK FOR GRADE 0 VOID AND THE ABYSS

witchcraft. east- lucifer as azazel in the earthbound form, the mentioning of twelve wings in reference to the serpent angel. lucifer is the freedom of will from which the individual may seek to strengthen and illuminate the self in ones own discovered light, or black flame. north- the cold north is the direction of not only cain as the lord of horsemen, but also of set-heh the adversary. set is the egyptian god of chaos, storms and darkness. the isolator, set is the adversarial god of change, strength and sufficiency through the 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-empowe

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

rade by g.h. frater d.d.f.c. this lecture was delivered on good friday, march 31st, 1893, to the adepti in college assembled. dealing first of all with the diagrams in the first order and proceeding upwards, it will be noticed that in the lowest grade in the outer (0=0) there are no diagrams, properly so called, but that on the two pillars is depicted the symbolism of the passage of the soul from the egyptian ritual of the dead; this being as it were a sympathetic aspect to be developed and explained with the advance of the candidate through the various stages. after the first grade comes the 1=10, where we find the first form of the sephiroth in the tree of life; this is the representation of the flaming sword descending, but it is not until the 2=9 comes that we begin to find the actual

d the image of the justified one, crucified on the cross of the infernal rivers of death" and the third adept shows deific antithesis: the exaltation into the divine. then the chief adept says again "i am the first and the last (the adept and the tau and the yod and the heh(f) of the sacred name "i am he that liveth but was dead, and behold i am alive for evermore, amen; that is using the name of the egyptian deity amon (or amen, who represents the ideal god force "and i hold the keys of death and of hell (because if you stand on malkuth and keep your touch with the gods, you hold the keys of that which is below) but the lower self all this time has an existence, for it certainly is not quite eliminated: it is cast forth from the nephesch, yet preserving a link with it, it goes down into t

hers within both the whare ra and thoth hermes temples, this is exactly what happens. for in the next two ceremonies, a great deal occurs on the astral level. the outline of the 6=5 ceremony is like that of the 6th masonic degree; a natural progression from the 5=6 which is also likened to a masonic ritual in basic essence. at the 6=5 grade, the costumes of the officers undergo a dramatic change. the egyptian headdress is now discarded for a small colored square cloth with colored rope wound around the top to keep it in place. included after the 6=5 ritual are some notes i made a few years ago as a part of my 6=5 thesis, and have included here as a matter of interest. the 7=4 ceremony uses the two outer rooms of the vault, and the notes included with the ritual were, i presume, written by

stral body of the postulant through the link of the second order. 36 bells each bell represents a decan in the zodiac, and most important of all, a godform. the astral and soul in fact leave the body of the postulant, and with each sounding bell, traverse the zodiac which is a representative of the soul's progress through the different forms of energy governing it, until a complete cycle is done. the egyptian zodiac has 37 decans: the first is the actual leaving of the body to meet this godform, while the next 36 are aspects of its journey. the 36 bells were rung to bring things in line with modern astrological studies. with the appearance of the shekinah, the postulant meets the anima of the sphere of geburah; the hidden knowledge of that sphere. the fivefold anointing of the astral body

. 5. careful and elaborate study and analysis and the four squares above the calvary crosses in each lesser angle of the four enochian tablets, and their influence when combined with the serviant squares of each lesser angle. 6. development of the employment and uses of telesmata and symbols. 7. of the combination of diverse forces so as to reconcile their action in the same symbol of telesma. 8. the egyptian art of the formation of a combined series of images of gods or forces, so as to have the effect of a continuous prayer or invocation for the power desired. 9. the knowledge of shdialchi or the art of taking, in any working, the godform which would govern the same, by means of identification with a telesmatic figure. 10. the true system of astrological divination. 11. of the correspond

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

opaz was said to be proof against nightmares, night terrors and phantoms and malice of the night as well as violent emotions. water in which a topaz has been soaked is a cure for insomnia if drunk an hour before bedtime. a natural energiser, golden topaz is especially good for alleviating work anxieties, especially in the caring professions, and should be kept in the workplace. turquoise mined by the egyptians in sinai more than 6,000 years ago, turquoise and imitations of it have been discovered in graves from around 4000 bc. it is the stone of horsemen, warning them of danger, and will prevent horses from stumbling if placed in a saddle or on a bridle. so it is the stone of all travellers, especially those who travel far by air or sea. in modern times, a small turquoise can be attached t

ABRAMELIN1

man also bad not received from the lord the gift, and a perfect grace; because, although he forced himself to manifest unto me certain deep mysteries of the holy qabalah, he by no means arrived at the goal; and in his magic he did not in any way make use of the wisdom of the lord, but instead availed himself of certain arts and superstitions of infidel and idolatrous nations, in part derived from the egyptians,6 together with images of the medes and of the persians, with herbs of the arabians, together with the power of the stars and constellations; and, finally, he had drawn from every people and nation, and even from the christians, some diabolical art. and in everything the spirits blinded him to such an extent, even while obeying him in some ridiculous and inconsequent matter, that he

means of metaphysical instruction. the schemahamphorasch or divided name is a qabalistical method of investigating the natures of the name of four letters i h v h (jehovah, which is considered to contain all the forces of nature. there are in the book of exodus three verses in the fourteenth chapter, describing the pillars of fire and of cloud forming a defence unto the children of israel against the egyptians. each of these three verses consists in the hebrew of seventy-two letters, and by writing them in a certain manner one above another, seventy-two columns of three letters each are obtained; each column is then treated as a name of three letters, and the explanation of these is sought for in certain verses of the psalms which contain these names; and these latter would be the verses o

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

s and statues. the purpose of this iconography was to ward off the spiritual- and psychic- circumstances which would precipitate a plague, or some other evil "evil to destroy evil" although the ancient people of the world were conscious of an entity we might call the :author of all evil, the devil or satan, as evident in the sumerian creation epic and the rumoured existences of the cult of set of the egyptians, the more pressing concern was usually the exorcism of tiamat, she exists, somehow, just as the abyss exists and is perhaps indispensable to human life if we think of her as typifying the female quality of energy. although marduk was responsible for halving the monster from the sea, the sumerian tradition has it that the monster is not dead, but dreaming, asleep below the surface of

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gods for polemical purposes. thus, where shall we put isis, favouring nymph of corn as she was? as the type of motherhood? as the moon? as the great goddess earth? as nature? as the cosmic egg from which all nature sprang? for as time and place have changed, so she is all of these! what of jehovah, that testy senior of genesis, that lawgiver of leviticus, that phallus of the depopulated slaves of the egyptians, that jealous king-god of the times of the kings, that more spiritual conception of the captivity, only invented when all temporal hope was lost, that medi val battleground of cross-chopped logic, that being stripped of all his attributes and assimilated to parabrahman and the absolute of the philosopher? satan, again, who in job is merely attorney-general and prosecutes for the crow

dering the names of the demons into hebrew, some suffixes like ion, ius, etc. have been dropped. an alternative set of attributions and hebrew spellings can be found in the sword and the serpent by denning and phillips, and godwin s cabalistic encyclopedia. notes 56 cols. clxvii clxxi. a completely different set of names for the dekans and the gods referred to them may be found in budge s gods of the egyptians, vol. ii pp 304-310. i am unaware of crowley s source for these attributions: generally the names seem at the very least somewhat hellenized. notes to crowley s notes 1 because jk= koch, power, and hm is the secret name of yetzirah (vide col. lxiv. 2 i.e, the hebrew word for ten. 3 unclear. possibly an error for wmiama, amaimon. the g.d. qliphoth lecture has wdba, abaddon. 4 possibly

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

shall awake the lust& worship of the snake; another soul of god and beast shall mingle in the globed priest; another sacrifice shall stain the tomb; another king shall reign; and blessing no longer be poured to the hawk-headed mystical lord" the old comment 34. this prophecy, relating to centuries to come, does not concern the present writer at the moment. yet he must expound it. the hierarchy of the egyptians gives us this genealogy: isis, osiris, horus. now the 'pagan' period is that of isis; a pastoral, natural period of simple magic. next with buddha, christ, and others there came in the equinox of osiris; when sorrow and death ware the principal objects of man's thought, and his magical formula is that of sacrifice. now, with mohammed perhaps as its forerunner, comes in the equinox of

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

ans war. 86 \yhla. see a note on genesis, equinox, no. ii. 90. number of tzaddi, a fishhook= tanha, the clinging of man to life (9, the trap in which man is caught as a fish is caught by a hook. the most material aspect of animal life; its final doom decreed by its own lust. also \ym, water. 91. 91= 7 x 13, the most spiritual form of the septenary. ma, amen, the holiest title of god; the amoun of the egyptians. it equals ynda hwhy (yhnwdhay, interlaced, the eight-lettered name, thus linking the 7 to the 8. not that ma (recknoning as final, 700= 741= ctma, the letters of the elements; and is thus a form of tetragrammaton, a form unveiled. 100. the number of q, the perfect illusion, 10 10. also [k, kaph, the wheel of fortune. the identity is that of matter, fatality, change, illusion. it see

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

t deussen is honest enough to admit that vedanta teaching is identical, but clearer! and he quite clearly and sensibly defines faith surely the most essential quality for the adherent to christian dogma as being convinced on insufficient evidence. similarly the dying-to-live idea of hegel (and schopenhauer) claimed by caird as the central spirit of christianity is far older, in the osiris myth of the egyptians. these ideas are all right, but they have no more to do with christianity than the metric system with the great pyramid. but see piazzi smyth! henry morley has even the audacity to claim shelley shelley! as a christian in spirit. talking of shelley: with regard to my open denial of the personal christian god, may it not be laid to my charge that i have dared to voice in bald language

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. 86. alhim. see "a note on genesis" equinox, no. ii. 90. number of tzaddi, a fishhook= tanha, the clinging of man to life (9, the trap in which man is caught as a fish is caught by a hook. the most material aspect of animal life; its final doom decreed by its own lust. also mim, water. 101 91. 91= 7 x 13, the most spiritual form of the septenary. amn, amen, the holiest title of god; the amoun of the egyptians. it equals ihvh adni (iahdvnhi, interlaced, the eight-lettered name, thus linking the 7 to the 8. note that amn (reckoning n as final, 700= 741= amthsh, the letters of the elements; and is thus a form of tetragrammaton, a form unveiled. 100. the number of hb:qof, the perfect illusion, 10 x 10. also hb:peh-final hb:koph, kaph, the wheel of fortune. the identity is that of matter, fata

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2 3

a solar temple" or, for the minor premiss "eggs are round" argal "stonehenge was dedicated to eugenics" listen to johnny bobson on cleopatra's needle "the needle is square in section "the old egyptians thought the earth had four corners" argal "the needle was built to commemorate the theory" or, even worse "the needle is square in section "it must have been built so for a religious reason" argal "the egyptians thought that the earth had four corners" it is impossible to commit all possible logical fallacies in a single syllogism. this must be very disappointing to the young bloods of the r.p.a. the rationalists have created man in their own image, as dull simpletons. they assume that the marvellous powers of applied mathematics shown in the great pyramid had no worthier aim than the perpet

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3 3

odern fiction, and mr. smith and mr. sutton have done their work conscientiously and well. the secret of the sphinx is revealed by a narrative of a curious combination of circumstances, in which the magic ring of moses is given a conspicuous place_ the scotsman "a vividly drawn and fascinating picture of life in egypt and the desert, and interprets on broad and universal principles the 'wisdom of the egyptians' in which moses was learned_ light. the living wheel. by t. i. uniacke. a drama in five acts. crown 8vo. 3s. 6d "this is one of the most remarkable books that i have read for many a long day. a daring book, a puzzling book, one that suggests more than it says, and raises questions innumerable to which it supplies no answers" w.t.stead in the review of reviews "a thoughtfully written

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

net (s.d. i. 541) 8 "the solar substance is immaterial (s.d. i. 542) 9 "the sun (i.e. the solar system) has alcyone in the pleiades for the centre of its orbit (s.d. i. 545) 10 "the logos with the seven hierarchies form one power, so, in the world of form, the sun and the seven chief planets constitute one active potency (s.d. ii. 27) 11 "the sun, the moon and mercury were the earliest trinity of the egyptians (osiris, isis and hermes (s.d. ii. 640) 12 "the seven rays of the sun are made parallel to the seven worlds of every planetary chain, and to the seven rivers of heaven and earth (s.d. ii. 640) 13 "the seven rays of the sun will expand at the final pralaya into seven suns and absorb the material of the whole universe (s.d. ii. 647) 14 "the moon is the mind and the sun is the understan

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

crucial and appalling problem. there are faults on both sides. i do not here refer to the faults or rather the evil criminality of the germans or the poles towards their jewish citizens. i refer to all those people who are for the jews and not against them. we gentiles have not yet found out what to do in order to liberate the jews from persecution a persecution that is many, many centuries old. the egyptians in the early phases of biblical history persecuted the jews, and persecution has been their record down the years. i hesitate to state my conclusions but am going to do so in the hope that it may help. it is only possible however very briefly to bear on one or two points, and from the start it must be necessarily inadequate. there must be some basic cause for this constant and ceasel

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

ays had a symbolic significance; they sum up in themselves as a nation, down the ages the depths of human evil and the heights of human divinity. their aggressive history as narrated in the old testament is on a par with present-day german accomplishment; yet christ was a jew and it was the hebrew race which produced him. let this never be forgotten. the jews were great aggressors; they despoiled the egyptians and they took the promised land at the point of the sword, sparing neither man, woman nor child. their religious history has been built around a materialistic jehovah, possessive, greedy and endorsing and encouraging aggression. their history is symbolic of the history of all aggressors, rationalising themselves into the belief that they are carrying out divine purpose, wresting away

ge from the retributive karma of the present to the recompensing good karma of the future. regarding this question from the long range vision (looking backward historically as well as forward hopefully, the problem is one to which the jews themselves must make the larger contribution. they have never yet faced candidly and honestly (as a race) the problem of why the many nations, from the time of the egyptians, have neither liked nor wanted them. it has always been the same down the centuries. yet there must be some reason, inherent in the people themselves, when the reaction is so general and universal. their approach to their direful problem has been one of supplication, or of distressed complaint, or of unhappy despair. their demand has been for the gentile nations to put the matter rig

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

mental deficiency. many endocrinologists and psychologists have expressed themselves along similar lines [the soul and its mechanism by alice a. bailey. lucis publishing company, new york, n.y, and the lucis press limited, london] it is in this cave that the lion of the developed personality or individuality has its lair, and it is here that the sun god, hercules, must conquer [111] for centuries the egyptians, and especially the hindus, have known of the chakras or force-centers in the etheric body. the discovery of the endocrine system shows corresponding physical glands in the same locations. one of these, the pituitary body, with its two lobes, symbolizes the cave with two openings, one of which hercules had to close before he could control the personality by the higher mind. for it wa

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

er creditor in asso in the lurch!at the same time lavernawent to a great lord and bought of him a castle, well-furnished within andbroad rich lands without. page 56 which hunting hound, as well is known,was changed by jupiter to stone.it is remarkable that in this story the moon is compared to an onion. the onion, says friedrich(symbolik der natur, p. 348, was, on account of its many skins, among the egyptians the emblemand hieroglyph of the many-formed moon, whose different phases are so clearly seen in the rootwhen it is cut through, also because its growth or decrease corresponds with that of the planet.therefore it was dedicated to isis, the moon-goddess. and for this reason the onion was so holy asto be regarded as having in itself something of deity; for which reason juvenal remarks

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

note(s* as it is now asserted that the chaldean tablets, which give the allegorical description of creation, the fall, and the flood, even to the legend of the tower of babel, were written "before the time of moses (see g. smith's "chaldean account of genesis" p. 86, how can the pentateuch be called a revelation? it is simply another version of the same story[[vol. 2, page] 4 the secret doctrine. the egyptians, compiled their genesis and first cosmogonic traditions- when these were rewritten by ezra and others- from the chaldeo-akkadian account. it is, therefore, sufficient to examine the babylonian and assyrian cuneiform and other inscriptions to find also therein, scattered here and there, not only the original meaning of the name adam, admi, or adami* but also the creation of seven adam

th, leaving aside the rest, was created or fashioned by terrestrial spirits, the "regents" being simply the supervisors. this is the first germ, the seed of that which grew later into the tree of astrology and astrolatry. the higher ones were the kosmocratores, the fabricators of our solar system. this is borne out by all the ancient cosmogonies: that of hermes, of the chaldees, of the aryans, of the egyptians, and even of the jews. heaven's belt, the signs of the zodiac (the sacred animals, are as much the bne' alhim (sons of the gods or the elohim) as the spirits of the earth; but they are prior to them. soma and sin, isis and diana, are all lunar gods or goddesses, called the fathers and mothers of our earth, which is subordinate to them. but these, in their turn, are subordinate to the

gos, though the latter is the esse of that universe. as the logos reflects all in the universe of pleroma, so man reflects in himself all that he sees and finds in his universe, the earth. it is the three heads of the kabala "unum intra alterum, et alterum super alterum (zohar, idra suta, sec. vii "every universe (world or planet) has its own logos" says the doctrine. the sun was always called by the egyptians "the eye of osiris" and was himself the logos, the first-begotten, or light made manifest to the world "which is the mind and divine intellect of the concealed" it is only by the sevenfold ray of this light that we can become cognizant of the logos through the demi-urge, regarding the latter as the creator of our planet and everything pertaining to it, and the former as the guiding f

cle with a diameter from which runs a vertical line: expressive of male and female, not separated as yet- the first and earliest egyptian tau[[diagram; after which it becomes[[diagram] or male-female separated (see first pp. of book i) and fallen into generation. venus (the planet) is symbolised by the sign of a globe over the cross, which shows it as presiding over the natural generation of man. the egyptians symbolised ank "life" by the ansated cross, or[[diagram, which is only another form of venus (isis[[diagram, and meant, esoterically, that mankind and all animal life bad stepped out of the divine spiritual circle and fallen into physical male and female generation. this sign, from the end of the third race, has the same phallic significance as the "tree[[footnote(s* in the esoteric

minent part in every cosmogony and evolution of living beings. in china, 1, 3, 5, 7, are called "celestial numbers" in the canonical "book of changes (yi king, or transformation, as in "evolution. the explanation of it becomes evident when one examines the ancient[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] seems to believe and to seek to prove that the esoteric learning of the aryans and the egyptians was derived from the mayas. but, although certainly coeval with plato's atlantis, the mayas belonged to the fifth continent, which was preceded by atlantis and lemuria* these seven caves, seven cities, etc, etc, stand in every case for the seven centres, or zones, upon which the seven primitive groups of the first root-race were born[[vol. 2, page] 36 the secret doctrine. symbols: al

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

shows a buddhist monastery erected in the kailas range in 137 b.c; and general cunningham, earlier than that* reverend t. edkins "chinese buddhism[[vol. 1, page] xxix introductory. covered with hieroglyphic inscriptions, and with the strange pictures of gods and goddesses. on rolls of papyrus, which seem to defy the ravages of time, we have even fragments of what may be called the sacred books of the egyptians; yet, though much has been deciphered in the ancient records of that mysterious race, the mainspring of the religion of egypt and the original intention of its ceremonial worship are far from being fully disclosed to us* here again the mysterious hieroglyphic documents remain, but the keys by which alone they become intelligible have disappeared. nevertheless, having found that "ther

lly. when, however, he takes the opportunity of saying in the same breath that odin "was worshipped as the supreme deity during a period long anterior to the age of the veda and of homer (compar. theol, p. 318, he has not the slightest "historical basis" for it. he makes history and fact subservient to his[[footnote(s* so little acquainted are our greatest egyptologists with the funerary rites of the egyptians and the outward marks of the difference of sexes made on the mummies, that it has led to the most ludicrous mistakes. only a year or two since, one of that kind was discovered at boulaq, cairo. the mummy of what had been considered the wife of an unimportant pharaoh, has turned out, thanks to an inscription found on an amulet hung on his neck, to be that of sesostris- the greatest ki

rse from that fiery mist. the universe, as well as the earth and man, cast off periodically, serpent-like, their old skins, to assume new ones after a time of rest. the serpent is, surely, a not less graceful or a more unpoetical image than the caterpillar and chrysalis from which springs the butterfly, the greek emblem of psyche, the human soul. the "dragon" was also the symbol of the logos with the egyptians, as with the gnostics. in the "book of hermes" pymander, the oldest and the most spiritual of the logoi of the western continent, appears to hermes in the shape of a fiery dragon of "light, fire, and flame" pymander, the "thought divine" personified, says: the light is me, i am the nous (the mind or manu, i am thy god, and i am far older than the human principle which escapes from th

aced brahma of the hindu religion. in its totality, viewed from the standpoint of manifested divine thought in the esoteric doctrine, it represents the hosts of the higher creative dhyan chohans. simultaneously with the evolution of the universal mind, the concealed wisdom of adi-buddha- the one supreme and eternal- manifests itself as avalokiteshwara (or manifested iswara, which is the osiris of the egyptians, the ahura-mazda of the zoroastrians, the heavenly man of the hermetic philosopher, the logos of the platonists, and the atman of the vedantins* by the action of the manifested wisdom, or mahat, represented by these innumerable centres of spiritual energy in the kosmos, the reflection of the universal mind, which is cosmic ideation and the intellectual force accompanying such ideatio

f the flesh, or "man" and from man, or jah-hova "male female" the inner divine entity becomes, on the metaphysical plane, once more the elohim. the kabalistic idea is identical with the esotericism of the archaic period. this esotericism is the common property of all, and belongs neither to the aryan 5th race, nor to any of its numerous sub-races. it cannot be claimed by the turanians, so-called, the egyptians, chinese, chaldeans, nor any of the seven divisions of the fifth root race, but really belongs to the third and fourth root races, whose descendants we find in the seed of the fifth, the earliest aryans. the circle was with every nation the symbol of the unknown "boundless space" the abstract garb of an ever present abstraction- the incognisable deity. it represents limitless time in

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

an extra ten seconds per hour (known as the acceleration on interval) must also be subtracted or added. with a person born, for example, in new york, further adjustment would be necessary since the ephemerides use g.m.t. as standard (e.g. 5:45 pm in new york would be 10:45 pm at g.m.t) example a person born at 11:45 am on august 31,1934, in new the zodiac as we know it is a combined invention of the egyptians and babylonians. above: an ancient egyptian map of the sky, the 'zodiac ofdenderah. astrology originally developed in mesopotamia and was more concerned with kings and peoples than with the destinies of individuals; above: a tablet giving astrological forecasts in cuneiform writing, derived from observations of the moon. from "man, myth& magic" york, would have the s.t. 10 hours 35 m

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ss freedom of my divine perfection [86] comment on cheth* c c h e t h, pronounced khayth. transcribed as" ch. the number 8. meaning: field, or fence. the intelligence of the house of influence. 1 the limitless light is en soph aur, which is to us as darkness because it transcends our earthly vision. it is the divine darkness concerning which so much is said in all mystical literature. it was, for the egyptians, indicated by their declaration "osiris is a black god" it is also the terrible darkness of the hindu goddess, kali. 2 khattawath, ch t a th, a hebrew noun meaning both "sin" and "punishment, corresponds to the letter-name cheth, ch i th, because both add up to 418. the derivation of ch t a th is from a verb meaning" to miss the target [87] meditation on teth* i my secret wisdom is h

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opaz was said to be proof against nightmares, night terrors and phantoms and malice of the night as well as violent emotions. water in which a topaz has been soaked is a cure for insomnia if drunk an hour before bedtime. a natural energiser, golden topaz is especially good for alleviating work anxieties, especially in the caring professions, and should be kept in the workplace. turquoise mined by the egyptians in sinai more than 6,000 years ago, turquoise and imitations of it have been discovered in graves from around 4000 bc. it is the stone of horsemen, warning them of danger, and will prevent horses from stumbling if placed in a saddle or on a bridle. so it is the stone of all travellers, especially those who travel far by air or sea. in modern times, a small turquoise can be attached t

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f his ambition, he was independent of all aid and could act with the greatest freedom, whilst the states remained in a suppliant attitude at his feet."6 the extent of rothschild influence by now can hardly be overstated. when nathan died, his eldest son, lionel, took his place as the head of n. m. rothschild. lionel advanced massive loans to the british and american governments and others such as the egyptians. this included a loan of around $80 million to britain to finance the (elite-engineered) crimean war in which tens of thousands died. 42..and the truth shall set you free lionel also acted as agent to the russian government for twenty years.7 he was succeeded by his eldest son, nathan mayer, who became the first lord rothschild when he was raised to the peerage and took his seat in t

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ribe the sirians as amphibious and "serpent-featured- a recurring theme as you will see. temple suggests that the anunnaki of the sumerian tablets could be these beings from sirius. he further proposes that the body of the sphinx is that of a dog and not a lion, thus symbolising the dog star, sirius,9 and some researchers also suggest that the face of the sphinx is that of a woman, not a pharaoh. the egyptians certainly depicted their lion bodies very differently to that of the sphinx and the dog is a common symbol in ancient mythology.10 in fact, ancient egyptians revered the dog and their dog symbol was a code for sirius" the sirius system was symbolised as feminine and so a dog's body with a woman's face would make* it is the reptilian bloodline that most concerns us in this book, but t

e example of these sirius-aligned structures is the temple of isis at denderah in egypt.24 the goddess, isis, is a symbol of sirius in egyptian myth. robert temple suggests in the sirius mystery that isis is sirius and the "sister-goddess" of isis, nephthys, represents sirius b. isis was said to be visible and nephthys invisible, just like sirius a and b. another sirius symbol was anubis (anpu to the egyptians, the one portrayed as the dog or jackal-headed god and associated with osiris, the "sun god" of egypt.25 there was also a goddess called anukis who sails in a celestial boat with sothis and satis, again the three stars of sirius perhaps because they are associated with goddesses, and sottis was the greek term for sirius. the symbol of the dog or wolf is often found in cults that wors

in 3322bc. one description says he had a serpent's body and a man's head and he is said to have begun the repopulation of the world after the deluge with an incestuous interbreeding with a character called nu gua, who is also described as half human, half serpent. another ancient chinese figure was gong-gong, who was "a horned monster with the body of a serpent. this sounds very much like set of the egyptians and ogo in the myths of the dogon. other amphibious entities in chinese tradition are emperor yu (yu relates to reptiles) and his father gun (a name relating to fish, and chinese drawings of their historical, mythological characters are similar to those drawn by the dogon. today there are streams of reports across the world of people seeing ufos flying in and out of seas and lakes, n

hittites and the goths. once again l.a. waddell has established that the phoenicians were not a semitic race as claimed by official historians, but another name for the aryan race based on sumer in the post- atlantis period. examinations of phoenician tombs have revealed that they were of the long-headed aryan-type, as are depictions of the pharaohs and royal families in egypt.24 this is also why the egyptians and other cultures portrayed many of their gods, like osiris, with white skin and blue eyes- that's what the ruling race looked like. the twist was that their "royal" and "noble" bloodlines had interbred with the reptilian anunnaki. the very name, iran, another part of the sumer empire, comes from the word airy-ana or air-an, which means land of the aryas or aryans.25 there is still

e vedas, because these accounts were inspired by the same sumerian (aryan) and atlantean/lemurian sources. the later romans, another empire based on the sumerian/atlantean knowledge and bloodlines, knew barati as "fortune, a reference to barati's legend as the goddess of fortune.36 they symbolised and described her in the same way the phoenicians did with barati and the british do with britannia. the egyptians had a goddess called brith, goddess of the waters, another version of barati, and the minoans (sumerian-egyptians) on crete knew her as brito- martis, who, in turn, is associated with the goddess diana or artemis, other versions of the same theme.37 all this information is one solution to the "mystery" of why all the major symbols of the british isles came from the middle and near ea

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as symbolic of thisoffspring produced through a virgin birth. ninus was alsoknown as tammuz who was said to have been crucifiedwith a lamb at his feet and placed in a cave. when a rockwas rolled away from the caves entrance three days later,his body had disappeared. heard that somewhere before?this husband-wife-son theme of nimrod-semiramis-andninus/tammuz became the osiris-isis-horus mythologyof the egyptians with its equivalent in india, asia, china and elsewhere. much later itwould be joseph, mary and jesus. when the babylonians held their spring rites to markthe death and resurrection after three days of tammuz-ninus, they offered bunsinscribed with a solar cross. yes, even the hot cross buns of british easter traditioncome from babylon. easter comes from another face of queen semirami

ss of fortune. they depicted fortune in the same way as the phoenicians symbolisedfigure 12: the phoenician depiction of barati (right) and the britishsymbol of britannia. they are the same deity and alternative namesfor queen semiramis in babylon and isis in egypt. 69barati and the british do with britannia. all were associated with water as you expectwith a sea-faring race like the phoenicians. the egyptians, too, had a goddess calledbirth, the goddess of the waters, and she was another mirror of barati because thearyan-phoenicians were the force behind egypt. birth was described by a babylonianemperor about 680 bc as a phoenician god across the sea38 in crete, anotherphoenician centre under the title minoan, their goddess was brito-martis. she was aphoenician goddess according to greek

ick dance performedby the wexford mummers in ireland is of north african origin. the word mummercomes from mohammedan. the irish symbol, the harp, came from north africa and sodid the name of that other classic symbol of ireland, the shamrock. any three leaf plantis known in egypt as a shamrukh. the rosary beads, the symbol of devout romancatholics, come from the middle east and are still used by the egyptians. the wordnun is egyptian and their garments are from the middle east. according to arbois dejuvainville, the author of a work called cours de literature celtigue, the irish wereknown as egyptians in the middle ages. there are obvious connections between irishbooks and those of the egyptians. they employ the same styles of illustration and thecolours used in the irish book of kells an

skin drum found in kerry is a twin of the moroccan drum, the bindir. the violinand the guitar also originate in north africa. the viking wing of the aryans invadedireland and founded many towns, including the present capital city of dublin. but, notsurprisingly in the light of the evidence you have been reading, the famous vikinggalley with the high front and stern was a phoenician design used by the egyptians.rock carvings at newgrange appear to depict this design thousands of years earlier. thename idris is well known in wales and the saints and kings of the muslims have beencalled idris for centuries. in the british museum is a muslim coin, a gold dinar, whichhas the name offa stamped upon it. offa was the king of mercia in england in the 8thcentury and he is said to have built the 120

f the disciples as a woman to symbolise the isis, barati, semiramis,deity. this became symbolised as an m for mary or madonna (semiramis. jesus issaid to have been born on december 25th, a date the christians took from the sunreligions of sol invictus (the sun unconquered) for reasons ive explained. he is alsosaid to have died at easter on a cross. this is a repeat of the same ancient story again.the egyptians represented osiris stretched out on a cross in astrological symbolism.according to the ancients, it took three days for the sun to recover from death ondecember 2lst/22nd. in the gospels how many days are there between jesus dyingand rising from the dead? three! the same time it took the babylon son of god,tammuz, to rise again. this is how lukes gospel describes what happened as jes

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he poison to be expelled from the body and the lifeforce to return. other legends and myths also refer to the use of such words of power. the words of power produced a three dimensional pattern which would resonate with the aether to produce a desired effect or reality in matter or energy. edward leedskalnin, builder of the famous coral castle in homestead, florida claimed he had rediscovered how the egyptians built the pyramids. we must take him seriously because he left the entire castle as a physical proof of his ability to move large stones without the use of equipment. neighbors said he 'sang' to the stones, but there was never an eyewitness to testify to this technique. perhaps he discovered the words of power that could be used to produce an aether and gravity deflection pattern lea

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n the west banks of the nile. set is also closely connected with a former death-god called seker, who was later merged with osiris and became something rather different in nature. in the tuat, seker resided within a kingdom called ra-stau, from which he sat upon a throne in majesty, having numerous legions of winged serpents, devils called seba and other monsters 2 budge, e.a. wallis, the gods of the egyptians volume 1 3 compare with the persian arezura, the mountain in the north from which hell is commonly located. 6 which devoured various shades of the dead who were sent there. it is written in the book of the dead that seker s throne is pyramidal in form, filled with darkness. he appears commonly in the tuat as a mummified man but has a hawk s head and a pair of wings, which come forth

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lly "hierostolos, an egyptian priest who had charge of the sacred vestments. in the society of the astral star, a junior officer of a stellar temple [s.t. a member of clergy (deacon/ deaconess) of a working lodge of the society who serves as the warden of the west in non-iniatory rituals. statues, living: according to ancient legend, greek magicians possessed the power, most probably learned from the egyptians, to cause gods or spirits to indwell in statues, which could then be made to speak oracular utterances or answer questions through signs. some living statues were used as temple guardians. sturgeon's law: attributed to the famous science fiction author, theodore sturgeon. when asked by someone if ninety percent (90) of science fiction was garbage, his response was that ninety-percent

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ake the same discoveries from another angle, must be a matter of perpetual amazement to anyone who comes to the traditional philosophy unbiased. 24. as above, so below. the microcosm corresponds to the macrocosm, and we must therefore seek in man the kether above the head which shines with a pure white brilliance in adam kadmon, the heavenly man. the rabbis call it the yechidah, the divine spark; the egyptians call it the sab; the hindus call it the thousand-petalled lotus. but under all these names we have the same idea-the nucleus of.pure spirit which emanates but does not indwell its many manifestations upon the planes of form. 25. it is said that never while in incarnation can we rise to the consciousness of kether in atziluth and retain the physical vehicle intact against our return

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

ed another and larger work, which was divided into an indefinite number of sections or chapters comprising chiefly prayers, and which dealt on a larger scale with the welfare of the departed in the next world, and described the state of existence therein and the dangers which must be passed successfully before it could be reached, and was founded generally on the religious dogmas and mythology of the egyptians. the title of "book of the dead" is usually given by egyptologists to the editions of the larger work which were made in the xviiith and following dynasties, but in this introduction the term is intended to include the general body of texts which have reference to the burial of the dead and to the new life in the world beyond the grave, and which are known to have existed in revised

e dead" is usually given by egyptologists to the editions of the larger work which were made in the xviiith and following dynasties, but in this introduction the term is intended to include the general body of texts which have reference to the burial of the dead and to the new life in the world beyond the grave, and which are known to have existed in revised editions and to have been in use among the egyptians from about b.c. 4500, to the early centuries of the christian era. uncertainty of the history of its source the home, origin, and early history of the collection of ancient religious texts which have descended to us are, at present, unknown, and all working theories regarding them, however strongly supported by the versions of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod

nd its inscriptions are untranslated. whether they were composed by the inhabitants of egypt, who recorded them in hieroglyphic characters, and who have left the monuments which are the only trustworthy sources of information on the subject, or whether they were brought into egypt by the early immigrants from the asiatic continent whence they came, or whether they represent the religious books of the egyptians incorporated with the funeral texts of some prehistoric dwellers on the banks of the nile, are all questions which the possible discovery of inscriptions belonging to the first dynasties of the early empire can alone decide. the evidence derived from the p. xii its antiquity. enormous mass of new material which we owe to the all-important discoveries of mastaba tombs and pyramids by

] but in the rubric to the second the king's name is given as hesep-ti. thus it appears that in the period of the xith dynasty it was believed that the chapter might alternatively be as old as the time of the ist dynasty. further, it is given to hesep-ti in papyri of the xxist dynasty,[10] a period when particular attention was paid to the history of the book of the dead; and it thus appears that the egyptians of the middle empire believed the chapter to date from the more [1. the date of mena, the first king of egypt, is variously given b.c. 5867 (champollion, b.c. 5004 (mariette, b.c. 5892 (lepsius, b.c. 4455 (brugsch. 2 see chabas, aeg. zeitschrift, 1865, p. 95. on the subject of the antiquity of egyptian civilization generally, see chabas, tudes sur l'antiquit historique d'apr s les so

the ivth dynasty, about b.c. 3733, who was at the time making a tour of inspection of the temples. birch[5] and naville[6] consider the chapter one of [1. chabas, voyage d'un gyptien, p. 46. according to m. naville (einleitung, p. 138, who follows chabas's opinion, this chapter is an abridgement of the whole book of the dead; and it had, even though it contained not all the religious doctrine of the egyptians, a value which was equivalent to the whole. 2. see goodwin, aeg. zeitschrift, 1866, p. 55, and compare the reading from the cairo papyrus of mes-em-neter given by naville (todtenbuch, ii, p. 139) 3 naville, todtenbuch, bd. i, b1. 76, l 52. 4 lepsius, todtenbuch, bl. 25, 1. 31. 6 "the most remarkable chapter is the 64th. it is one of the oldest of all, and is attributed, as already st

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well, possessed divinatory abilities of a high order, was in possession of several arabic manuscripts, and had great skill in chemistry. the french writer on occultism eliphas levi stated that the name althotas is composed of the word thot with the syllables al and as, which if read cabalistically are sala, meaning messenger or envoy; the name as a whole therefore signifies thot, the messenger of the egyptians. althotas has also been identified with kolmer, the instructor of adam weishaupt (a german leader of the illuminati) in magic, and at other times with the comte de saint germain. the accounts concerning him are certainly conflicting, for whereas cagliostro stated at his trial in paris that althotas had been his lifelong preceptor, another account says that he met him first on the qua

d to the woman, it is still certain that saul and his attendants, with the generality of the hebrews, believed the thing to be possible. similar beliefs were held by other mediterranean nations. among the greeks and romans of the classic period apparitions of gods and men seem to have been fairly common. as calmet further noted, the ancient greeks, who had derived their religion and theology from the egyptians and eastern nations, and the latins, who had borrowed theirs from the greeks, were all firmly persuaded that the souls of the dead appeared sometimes to the living.that they could be called up by necromancers, that they answered questions, and gave notice of future events; that apollo gave oracles, and that the priestess, filled with his spirit, and transported with a holy enthusiasm

tter the news bulletin of the american society for psychical research, which began publication in 1968. it features information on activities of the society and features nontechnical rewrites of articles from the society s journal. the society is at 5 w. 73rd st. new york, ny 10023. the newsletter is also available online at http//www.aspr.com. ass many superstitions concern this familiar animal. the egyptians traced his image on the cakes they offered to typhon, god of evil. the romans regarded the meeting of an ass as an evil omen, but the animal was honored in arabia and judea, and it was in arabia that the ass of silenus spoke to his master. other talking asses were balaam s ass (numbers 22, which mahomet placed in his paradise with alborack; the ass of aasis, queen of sheba; and the a

d that the cacodaemons were the rebellious angels who were expelled from heaven for their crimes. they tried in vain to obtain settlement in various parts of the universe, with their final abode believed to be all the space between earth and the stars. there they abide, hated by all the elements and finding their pleasure in revenge and injury. their king was called hades by the greeks, typhon by the egyptians, and ahrimanes by the persians and chaldeans. sources: kendrick, tertius t. c. the kako-daemon or the cavern of anti-paros. london, 1825. cactomite a marvelous stone believed by ancient peoples to possess occult properties. anyone wearing it was supposed to be assured of victory in battle. caddy, eileen (1917) and peter caddy (1917.1994) peter and eileen caddy, cofounders of the find

steeped in strong vinegar and the blood of a vulture, and the whole placed under a dunghill, the composition is said to be able to raise from the dead anything brought to it and give it life as before. it has also been said that anyone who eats the still-warm heart of an eel will be seized with the spirit of prophecy and will predict things to come. eels figure in the folklore of many countries. the egyptians worshiped the eel, which their priests alone had the right to eat. in polynesian, melanesian, and indonesian stories, men are sometimes transformed into eels. in the philippines, eels were believed to be the souls of the dead. in new zealand, an eel head was eaten to cure toothache. in other countries, eel skins were laid on wounds to heal them. in the united states, there was a folk

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at all those who wished to question the oracle had to lay down two oboles (small silver coins. egyptian oracles the oracles of ancient egypt were as numerous as those of greece. herodotus claimed that at least seven gods in egypt spoke by oracles. supposedly, the most reliable were considered to give an intimation of their intentions by means of remarkable events. these were carefully observed by the egyptians, who recorded these events. the egyptians also considered the fate of a person was determined by the day of his birth.every day belonged to a spe- encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. oracles 1147 cial god. the oracle of jupiter ammon and the same deity at thebes existed from the twentieth to the twenty-second dynasty. he was consulted not only concerning the fate of em

othing. the symbol of ouroboros has also been interpreted as the unity of sacrificer and sacrificed, relating to the symbolism of the mystical life. the symbol dates back to mesolithic (azilian) culture and appeared in the symbolism of many races. the gnostic text pistis sophia, describes the disc of the sun as a great dragon with his tail in his mouth. the fourth-century writer horopollon stated the egyptians represented the universe as a serpent devouring its own tail, a symbol of eternity and immortality, an image also found on gnostic gems. in alchemy, the tail-eating dragon represented the guardian of mystical treasure, symbolized by the sun. alchemy was to destroy or dissolve this guardian as a stage towards knowledge of this treasure. possibly the familiar chinese yin-yang symbol is

stly fraternity, this usually gave way before the momentary impulses of the people. thus, as a rock shows its geological history by its differing strata, so the theogony of the roman gods tells its tale of the race that conceived it. there are prehistoric nature deities, borrowed from indigenous tribes; gods of the sabines, from whom the young colony stole its wives; gods of the etruscans, and of the egyptians, greeks, and persians. the temple of jupiter on the capitol contained the altar of an ancient deity, a stone-god, terminus, the spirit of boundaries. in the temple of diana of the grove, a fountain nymph was worshiped. additional instances of this kind abound. belief in spirits in addition to the gods, the spirits needed to be propitiated. indeed the objects offered to the roman for

d over it. the magician and philosopher appear to have worked together in assyria, for medical men constantly used incantations to drive out demons, and incantations were often associated with prescriptions. medical magic indeed appears to have been of much the same sort as we find among the native american. the doctrine of the incommunicable name was established among the early semites, as among the egyptians. it related to the secret name of a god that, when discovered, gave the speaker complete power over him by its mere utterance. knowing the name or description of the person or demon against whom the magician directed his charm was also essential to success. drugs were originally ascribed the power vouchsafed by the gods for the welfare of mankind and were supposed to aid greatly in e

e used both in greece and rome. the person that wanted to learn his fortune carried with him a certain number of lots, distinguished by several characters or inscriptions. walking to and fro in the public ways he asked the first boy whom he met to draw, and the inscription on the lot thus drawn was received as an infallible prophecy. plutarch declared that this form of divination was derived from the egyptians, by whom the actions and words of boys were carefully observed as containing in them something prophetical. another form of the sortes viales was exhibited by a boy, or sometimes by a man, who positioned himself in a public place to give responses to all comers. he was provided with a tablet, on which certain predictive verses were written; when consulted, he cast dice on the tablet

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of a burning lamp dug up from the monte cavallo at rome; it was still burning when found, and within it was a bituminous substance. plutarch in his work "de defectu oraculorum" states that in a temple to jupiter ammon a lamp stood in the open air, and neither wind nor rain put it out, and the priests told him it had burned continually for years- see also "licetus" cap. v. herodotus tells us that the egyptians made a special and extensive use of lamps in the religious festivals, and that the temples of king mycerinus had many mysterious ones. strabo, and pausanias in his atticus, narrate that in the temple of minerva polias, at athens, there was a mysterious lamp of gold always burning; it was made by callimachus. the altar of the temple of apollo carneus, at cyrene, was similarly furnishe

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omega, the beginning and the ending, just as elvis said, i am and i was? godfrey goes outside scripture to delve into esoteric literature for further evidence, citing among other sources the prophecies of nostradamus and edgar cayce. noting one occultist interpretation of the great pyramid (not shared by egyptologists, she writes that the great pyramid was a monument to christ, allegedly known to the egyptians as orion. the pyramid s structure, read properly, foretells the return of christ sometime around 2000. elvis presley has been mentioned in connection with the name orion on many occasions, she observes, including gail giorgio s 1978 bestseller, orion, about a godlike singer who faked his death and disappeared (godfrey, 2000. further reading godfrey, cinda, 2000. the elvis-jesus myste

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e revered divine incarnation who sired the development of taoism. and zoroaster' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% was the messianic wellspring who transmitted the zend avesta and originated the tradition passed down through the farsis. in studying the lives of these many diverse messiahs, one notices the many instances where they persevered through challenges and travails. master mosheh suffered at the hands of the egyptians and was excommunicated and sent into the desert. master yeshuvah was ridiculed by those in authority, and eventually tortured and apparently crucified. master mohammed was forced to prevail in tribal warfare, and at one point had to escape from mecca to medina. master rama was banished to the forest for fourteen years and forced to battle the demon ravana to win back his kidnapped wi

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by an all-wise egyptian priest, as the renaissance believed, but by various unknown authors, all probably greeks,1 and they contain popular greek philosophy of the period, a mixture of platonism and stoicism, combined with some jewish and probably some persian influences. they are very diverse, but they all breathe an atmosphere of intense piety. the asclepius purports to describe the religion of the egyptians, and by what magic rites and processes the egyptians drew down the powers of the cosmos into the statues of their gods. this treatise has come down to us through the latin translation formerly attributed to apuleius of madaura.2 the pimander (the first of the treatises in the corpus hermeticum, the collection of fifteen hermetic dialogues3) gives an account of the creation of the wor

on that what is remote and far distant is more holy1; hence their cult of the "barbarians, of indian gymnosophists, persian magi, chaldean astrologers, whose approach to knowledge was felt to be more religious than that of the greeks.2 in the melting-pot of the empire, in which all religions were tolerated, there was ample opportunity for making acquaintance with oriental cults. above all, it was the egyptians who were revered in this age. egyptian temples were still functioning, and devout seekers after religious truth and revelation in the graeco-roman world would make pilgrimages to some remotely situated egyptian temple and pass the night in its vicinity in the hope of receiving some vision of divine mysteries in dreams.3 the belief that egypt was the original home of all knowledge, th

to the prominence and importance of the hermetic writings and to the early and complete success of the hermes trismegistus legend as to their authorship and antiquity that lactantius, writing in the third century, and augustine in the fourth, both accept the legend unquestioningly. after quoting cicero on the fifth mercury as he "who gave c.h, ii, p. 328. 6 hermes trismegistus letters and laws to the egyptians, lactantius, in his institutes, goes on to say that this egyptian hermes "although he was a man, yet he was of great antiquity, and most fully imbued with every kind of learning, so that the knowledge of many subjects and arts acquired for him the name of trismegistus. he wrote books and those in great number, relating to the knowledge of divine things, in which he asserts the majest

the elder mercury whose nephew was mercurius trismegistus.1 so the argumentum begins, with a slightly garbled version of the augustinian genealogy of hermes, which at once places him in extreme antiquity, and almost in a mosaic context. augustine has written of mercurius, continues ficino, also cicero and lactantius. he repeats the information from cicero that mercurius "gave laws and letters" to the egyptians, adding that he founded the city called hermopolis. he was an egyptian priest, the wisest of them all, supreme as philosopher for his vast knowledge, as priest for his holiness of life and practice of the divine cults, and worthy of kingly dignity as administrator of the laws, whence he is rightly called termaximus, the three times great.2 he is called the first author of theology: h

a new faith, and the coming of christ. augustine doubts whether he did 1 in the theohgia platonica, ficino gives the genealogy as (1) zoroaster (2) mercurius trismegistus (3) orpheus (4) aglaophemus (5) pythagoras (6) plato (ficino, p. 386. in the preface to the plotinus commentaries, ficino says that divine theology began simultaneously with zoroaster among the persians and with mercurius among the egyptians; then goes on to orpheus, aglaophemus, pythagoras, plato ibid, p. 1537. this equating of zoroaster with hermes brings ficino's genealogy into some conformity with that of gemistus pletho, for whom the most ancient source of wisdom is zoroaster, after whom he puts a different string of intermediaries to those given by ficino, but arrives eventually, like ficino, at pythagoras and plat

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ch the ancient egyptians had marked by placing the uraeus upon the brows of one and at the navels of the other. the latter were mediumistic persons, receiving impressions from spirit controls through the solar plexus. they were properly designated naioth by the hebrews who used the feminine suffix to indicate their negative qualities. but the voluntary clairvoyant and the initiate, represented by the egyptians as having the serpentine uraeus in the forehead, were called naim by the hebrews who used the male suffix to designate the positive spiritual faculty which they possess. and the latin catholic version of the new testament (luke, chapter vii, verses 11 to 15) speaks of the person raised by christ as the widow's son of nain. as the serpent is not fully unfolded until the ninth arch of

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ship of the serpent in morals& dogma in the various pagan mysteries' religions of antiquity. you will recall that on another page pike was quoted saying that "masonry is identical to the ancient mysteries" which means that all their teachings in all their books are precisely the same as the ancient, pagan, satanic mysteries "the serpent entwined around the egg, was a symbol common to the indians, the egyptians, and the druids. it referred to the creation of the universe [p. 496; teaching of the 25 degree, knight of the brazen serpent] freemasonry does not believe that the universe was created by the god of the bible. this statement really supports that concept, as it dogmatically states that the serpent entwined around the egg is a symbol of the creation of the universe. freemasonry idoliz

things, until finally, about the 28th degree, he realizes he is worshipping lucifer, the good god. he has been mightily prepared for this revelation, so he can "look on such a brilliant influx of spiritual light without damaging his vision" 6 "all the buddhist crosses in ireland had serpents carved upon them. wreaths of snakes are on the columns of the ancient hindu temple at burwah-sangor "among the egyptians, it was a symbol of divine wisdom, when extended at length; and with its tail in its mouth, of eternity [again, pike capitalized divine wisdom and eternity, denoting deity] all the pagans in every era have used the serpent to worship and to consider as symbolic of wisdom. a satanic book of symbols, entitled, magic symbols, says. we shall see the deeper implications of the serpent as

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gmystery h or gsecrets h, has the same numerical value, namely 70, as the hebrew word which represents gwine h; for mystery can intoxicate as well as refresh. the mysteries of the early hebrews were closely guarded by the sons of the doctrine, and it would appear that many of their secrets were derived from egypt and later on from babylonia. we are told that moses was learned in all the wisdom of the egyptians2 and that in the first four books of the pentateuch he has esoterically laid down the principles of the secret doctrine. he initiated seventy elders into the mysteries,3 which they transmitted from mouth to ear. generally speaking, the initiates led an ascetic life in order to separate themselves from the ignorant and unwise, so that they might guard against divulging their doctrines

this heavenly doctrine to the disobedient child of earth, to furnish the protoplasts with the means of returning to their pristine nobility and felicity. from adam it passed secret wisdom of the qabalah page 10 over to noah, and then to abraham, the friend of god, who emigrated with it to egypt, where the patriarch allowed a portion of this mysterious doctrine to ooze out. it was in this way that the egyptians obtained some knowledge of it, and the other eastern nations could introduce it into their philosophical systems. moses, who was learned in all the wisdom of egypt, was first initiated into it in the land of his birth, but became most proficient in it during his wanderings in the wilderness, when he not only devoted to it the leisure hours of the whole forty years, but received lesso

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which grew first into the figure of a divine woman, and later assumed the form of a divine man, arose the emblem of the cross [12] rivers of life, vol. i, p. 70. on the nineveh tablets is pictured a tree of life which is surrounded by winged spirits, bearing in their hands the pine cone, a symbol indicating life, and which is said to have the same significance as the crux-ansata, or cross, among the egyptians. in later ages, the tree of life, i. e, the divine man, or cross, or both together, furnish immortal food to those who lay hold upon them, exactly in the same manner as did netpe, the goddess of wisdom, or spiritual life, in former times. according to the testimony of barlow, this is the subject "most frequently symbolized on early christian sepulchral tablets and monuments"[13] chri

s named azra who was worshipped under the form of a tree called samurch, and that in yemen tree-worship still prevails. to the date is ascribed divine honors. this tree is said to have its regular priests, services, rites, and festivals, and is as zealously worshipped as are the gods of any other country. we are not informed as to whether the jewish tree of life was borrowed from the chaldeans or the egyptians, but, as the significance is the same in all countries, it is of little consequence which furnished a copy for the writer in genesis. in dr. inman's ancient faiths, is a drawing from the original, by colonel coombs, of the "temptation" or of the ancient tree-and-serpent myth in genesis. this drawing, in which it is observed that the jewish idea of woman as tempter is reversed, was co

arent of the sun" and he justly concludes that isis can not be the moon [33] anacalypsis, book vi, ch. ii. apuleius makes isis say "i am the parent of all things, the sovereign of the elements, the primary progeny of time, the most exalted of the deities, the first of the heavenly gods and goddesses, whose single deity the whole world venerates in many forms, with various rites and various names. the egyptians worship me with proper ceremonies and call me by my true name, queen isis" isis, we are told, is called myrionymus, or goddess with 10,000 names. she is the persian mithra, which is the same as buddha, minerva, venus, and all the rest. faber admits that the female principle was formerly regarded as the soul of the world. he says "isis was the same as neith or minerva; hence the inscr

stronomical and material systems of idolatry they venerated the sun and the air, each under three images and three names. the same opinions equally prevailed throughout the nations which lie to the west of hindostan. thus the persians had their ormuzd, mithras, and ahriman: or, as the matter was sometimes represented, their self-triplicating mithras. the syrians had their monimus, aziz, and ares. the egyptians had their emeph, eicton, and phtha. the greeks and romans had their jupiter, neptune, and pluto; three in number, though one in essence, and all springing from cronus, a fourth, yet older god. the canaanites had their baal-spalisha or self-triplicated baal. the goths had their odin, vile, and ve, who are described as the three sons of bura, the offspring of the mysterious cow, and th

d to be renewed each day; and as he is the sun, or the incarnation of the sun, the rising and setting of this luminary depict the constantly dying and regenerating god of nature, the same as do the changing seasons. a similar idea reappears in their system of the renewal of worlds and reincarnation. regarding the doctrine of the eternity of matter held by the ancients, origen mentions a belief of the egyptians that the "world or its substance was never produced, but that it has existed from all eternity. neither is there any such thing as death. those who perish about us every day are simply changed, either they take on other forms or are removed to some other place. god cannot be destroyed, and as all things are parts of the deity everything lives and has always lived, seeming death being

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hren so far back as1398.valentin andrea, the german theologian and mystic, has left us in his works, published in and after the year1614,an account of100thegoldendawnthe doctrines and exoteric management of the r.c. society. but even the revival of mysticism was but a new development of the vastly older wisdom of the kabbalistic rabbis and of.the most ancient of all secret knowledge, the magic of the egyptians, in which the bible itself tells us that moses the founder of the jewish system was 'learned, that is, in which he had been in255 itiated. through the hebrew kabbalah we have indeed become pos255 sessed of more of the ancient wisdom than from any other source, for it must be borne in mind that the hebrews were taught at one time by the egyptians, and at a later date by the chaldean s

e egyptians, and at a later date by the chaldean sages of babylon.itis a very curious fact that the classical nations, the greek and the roman, have handed down to usbutslight glimpses of the ancient magic, and this is the more notable because greece succeeded to the mastership of egypt and rome to the empire both of the greeks and of the jews. greece indeed succeeded to a shareofthe mysteries of the egyptians, for the eleusinian mysteries were copies of those more ancient and solemn ceremonies oflsis, osiris and serapis, but they lacked the true magic of egypt, and further the classics retain but faint glimpses of even the eleusinian secrets. and these glimpses serve only to disclose the fact that the eleusinian pupils were partly ignorant of the isiac mysteries, a notable example of whic

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for mental culture. one time of peace and prosperity is alonenotable-thesolomonic era, beginning after david had ceased from his wars, to the ending of the united kingdom of israel and judah in the time of rehoboam.theera of solomon has indeed been at all times considered as the golden age of the hebrew race; it lasted from aboutb.c.1050 tob.c.975. at this period the chaldeans on the one side and the egyptians on the other, had each attained to a high state of civilization, and scientific study of the heavenly bodies had made considerable progress. from these nations, no doubt, the jews gained some knowledge of the sun, moon and planets and of star names. maunder makes a great point of the consideration that thethestar lore ofthebible217 hebrew bible was meant to teach religion and not sci

em, and that they used prayers to propitiate the good gods, and exorcisms to banish evil beings.itis uncertain, however, in most cases whether these beings were supposed to assist orhurtthe body only, or the unseen soul in itspostmortemstates also. there are some nations, however, in regard to which it has been discoveredthatviews of man's constitution were form255 ulated, notably the hindoos and the egyptians: then, at a later date, we have the views of some greek philisophers still extant.298themagical masontheold testament gives us light on the hebrew doctrines, and the jewish rabbis of the middle ages formulated a scheme of their own in the kabalah. the new testament gospels and especially the epistles of st paul teach the ideas of the founders of the christian faith.theroman catholic

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bined with a primitive hieroglyphic alphabet of twenty-two letters. eliphas levi says in hishistoirede lamagie:'theabsolute hieroglyphical science had for its basis an alphabet of which all the gods were letters, all the letters ideas, all the ideas numbers, and all the numbers perfect signs 'this hieroglyphical alphabet of which moses made the great secret of his cabala, and which he retook from the egyptians; for, according to thesepheryetzirah,it came from abraham; this alphabet, we say, is the famous book of thoth, suspected by court de gebelin to be preserved to the present time under the form of that peculiar pack of cards, which is called thetarot .theten numbers and twenty-two letters are what are called in the cabala the thirty-two paths of science, and their philosophical descrip

ul.notonly from ancient egypt,butfrom the pupils of ancient egypt, we can get light. every one of the nations which came into contact with egypt in her glory took away something 255 altered it may be and modified, with omissions and additions- still everywhere is traced the wisdom of egypt. first of all of these wemusttake the tribes of beni-israel, the hebrews. moses was learned in the wisdom of the egyptians, and he taught exoterically and esoterically. exoterically he taught it in the pentateuch. moses, of course, had divine revelation himself,butwhen did moses get that revelation? after he had been trained in all the wisdom of the egyptians, after he had become a trained occultist, an initiate, an adept.itwas that training which rendered him a fit vessel for the revelation.theesoteric

an egyptologist can tell without any possible reasonable doubt, on seeing a set. of hieroglyphics; whether theybelongto the date at which they were reported to be painted, or whether they were copies fromearlier hieroglyphics;forof course in ancientegyptthere was just about as much copying or earlier work as there is now. we get houses built now in the tudor style or gothic style, or what not. so the egyptians at the time of rameses, or especially in the later weak, degenerated ramesides, copied the hieroglyphics of their great predeces255 sors. well, the bull symbol in the course of time,andabout the period when moses was born, gives way to the symbol before it, aries. moving backward through the signs, the sun atthevernal equinox occupies the sign of aries, and then the lamb or the ram c

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ram key, the english masonic authors christopher knight and robert lomas argue that ancient egypt has a very important place in regards to the origins of masonry. according to these authors, the most important idea that has transpired to modern masonry, from ancient egypt, is that of a universe existing by and of itself, and evolving by chance. they explain this interesting notion in these words: the egyptians believed that matter had always existed; to them it was illogical to think of a god making something out of absolutely nothing. their view was that the world began when order came out of chaos, and that ever since there has been a battle between the forces of organization and disorder this chaotic state was called nun, and like the sumerian description, all was a dark, sunless watery

gan people, this leaning towards heretical belief appeared and, as the verse maintains, they said "moses, give us a god just as these people have gods (qur'an, 7: 138) what they said to their prophet "moses, we will not believe in you until we see god with our own eyes (qur'an, 2: 55) reveals that they were inclined to worship a material being that they could see, as their pagan religion provided the egyptians with. the tendency of the israelites to the paganism of ancient egypt, that we have here outlined, is important to understand and gives us some insight into the corruption of the text of the torah and the origins of the kabbalah. when we consider these two topics carefully, we will see that, at their source, is found ancient egyptian paganism and the materialist philosophy. from anci

in ancient egypt and came to some important conclusions about its philosophical underpinnings. the most interesting feature of ancient egyptian thought, as we said, is that it was materialist, that is, posited the belief that matter is eternal and uncreated. in their book the hiram key, christopher knight and robert lomas have some important things to say on this matter that are worth repeating: the egyptians believed that matter had always existed; to them it was illogical to think of a god making something out of absolutely nothing. their view was that the world began when order came out of chaos, and that ever since there has been a battle between the forces of organization and disorder this chaotic state was called nun, and like the sumerian descriptions, all was a dark, sunless water

his pagan tradition and modern masons is the templars) it is necessary to recall at this point that ancient egypt was one of the most referred to examples of a godless system as revealed by god in the qur'an. it is the true archetype of an evil system. many verses relate to us of the pharaohs that governed egypt and their inner-circles, their cruelty, injustice, wickedness and excesses. moreover, the egyptians were a perverse people, that acquiesced to the system of their pharaohs, and believed in their false gods. despite this, masons maintain that their origins lie in ancient egypt, and regard that civilization as praiseworthy. an article published in mimar sinan praises the temples of ancient egypt as the "source of masonic craft: kf materialism revisited the egyptians founded heliopoli

is from a book written by one of the greatest masons of all time. in his book morals and dogma, albert pike wrote the following about the compass and square: the square. is a natural and appropriate symbol of this earth. the hermaphroditic figure is the symbol of the double nature anciently assigned to the deity, as generator and producer, as brahm and maya among the arians, osiris and isis among the egyptians. as the sun was male, so the moon was female.78 this means that the compass and square, the most well known symbol of masonry, is a symbol of arian paganism and which dates back to ancient egypt or before the advent of christianity. the moon and the sun, in the passage quoted from pike, are important symbols in masonic lodges, and are none other than a reflection of the false beliefs

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was the symbol of duality, it was both creative and destructive. since it had both a forked tongue and dual penis, it was used to represent the potential's for good and evil within sexuality and the intellect. as the serpent of earth it represented that which destroys, the constant returning to the earthly cycles. in this representation it was reproductive, earth bound and destructive. while for the egyptians the heavenly serpent was that which gave man the knowledge to perceive the divine. the egyptians were well aware that serpents don t fly, but by giving the serpent wings they emphasised the unique difficulty of going beyond the earthly cycles. the shedding of skin was a useful image for the cycle of eternal re-occurrence, whereby all things repeat until final annihilation or liberati

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have tended to ignore the possibility of immigration to both regions from some hypothetical and as yet undiscovered area [however] a third party whose cultural achievements were passed on independently to egypt and mesopotamia would best explain the common features and fundamental differences between the two civilizations.11 among other things, this theory sheds light on the mysterious fact that the egyptians and sumerian people of mesopotamia appear to have worshipped virtually identical lunar deities who were among the oldest in their respective pantheons (thoth in the case of the egyptians, sin in the case of the sumerians).12 according to the eminent egyptologist sir e.a. wallis budge, the similarity between the two gods is too close to be accidental. it would be wrong to say that the

ve worshipped virtually identical lunar deities who were among the oldest in their respective pantheons (thoth in the case of the egyptians, sin in the case of the sumerians).12 according to the eminent egyptologist sir e.a. wallis budge, the similarity between the two gods is too close to be accidental. it would be wrong to say that the egyptians borrowed from the sumerians or the sumerians from the egyptians, but it may be submitted that the literati of both peoples borrowed their theological systems from some common but exceedingly ancient source. 13 the question, therefore, is this: what was that common but exceedingly ancient source, that hypothetical and as yet undiscovered area, that advanced third party to which both budge and emery refer? and if it left a legacy of high culture in

e osiris myth. osiris and seth are brothers.37 seth murders osiris. horus, the son of osiris, then takes revenge upon his uncle.38 another twist is that the hamlet character often has some sort of incestuous relationship with his sister.39 in the case of kullervo, the 32 for details of these complicated family relationships, see egyptian book of the dead, introduction, p. xlviiiff. 33 the gods of the egyptians, volume ii, p. 366. 34 the traveller s key to ancient egypt, p. 71. 35 gods of the egyptians, ii, p. 367. 36 hamlet s mill, p. 2. 37 egyptian book of the dead, introduction, p. xlix-li. 38 ibid. 39 hamlet s mill, pp. 32-4. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 260 finnish hamlet, there is a poignant scene in which the hero, returning home after a long absence, meets a maiden in the

s, engineers and stonemasons who had designed and successfully built this stupendous monument must indeed have thought like men 100 feet tall, as jean- fran ois champollion, the founder of modern egyptology, had once observed. he had seen clearly what generations of his successors were to close their eyes to: that the pyramid builders could only have been men of giant intellectual stature. beside the egyptians of old, he had added, we in europe are but lilliputians. 25 24 cited in traveller s key to ancient egypt, p. 90. 25 ibid, p. 40. champollion of course, deciphered the rosetta stone. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 283 chapter 35 tombs and tombs only? climbing down the great pyramid was more nerve wracking than climbing up. we were no longer struggling against the force of gra

s: the character of the work would certainly seem to point to diamond as being the cutting jewel; and only the considerations of its rarity in general, and its absence from egypt, interfere with this conclusion. 10 an even bigger mystery surrounded the hollowing out of the sarcophagus, obviously a far more difficult enterprise than separating it from a block of bedrock. here petrie concluded that the egyptians must have: adapted their sawing principle into a circular instead of a rectilinear form, curving the blade round into a tube, which drilled out a circular groove by its rotation; thus by breaking away the cores left in such grooves, they were able to hollow out large holes with a minimum of labour. these tubular drills varied from 1/4 inch to 5 inches diameter, and from 1/30 to 1/5 i

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celestial occurrences leave unexplained such events as the mythos surrounding the star sirius and the knowledge of its dark star neighbor, or semi-aquatic beings called the oannes (oannes were considered visitors from the sirius region who taught on earth and left behind a divine mythos and a priesthood awaiting their return. they are known to the sumerians and their babylonian successors, and to the egyptians, and held as legends to the present day by remote african tribal priesthoods) nor do comets and supernov explain the ascent of elijah alive into heaven, nor the vision of ezekiel the prophet, which in hebrew is even eerier than in the english translation. a priesthood protecting what it took to be the secrets of the divine visitors, whether an actuality or not, has existed since thes

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pans and a scale. a known weight or standard is placed on one pan and the object to be weighed on the other. any unbalanced condition will be detected by the scale. in ancient egypt such a balance was said to be located in the after-death state. the standard weight used was one feather, the symbol of the goddess maat, the goddess of truth and justice and the wife of the god thoth. the balance of the egyptians was operated by the god anubis. in addition to measuring one's karmic propensities after each life, the balance of maat was also used as a type of ini tiat ion ordeal. the candidate was obliged to weigh himself on the divine scale against the feather of maat (i.e, his karmic burden had to be as light as a feather) in order to progress to a higher magical grade. in the same way, you m

he sun within it. this reflects the occult maxim that every truth contains its opposite within it. another view of the square of ror will show spirit (d) within equal areas of air (0) and water (r. this suggests the c reat i ve eme r gence of consci ousne s s f rom i t s unconscious source. this scenario is symbolized in nature by the rising sun, and in magick by the scarab or beetleheaded god of the egyptians, khepera. further reflection on this square will yield additional solar correspondences. as an exercise, you should meditate on all of the magick squares in this manual. 258 magical operations of the vrelp now the grade of a magister teacheth the mystery of sorrow, and the grade of a magus the mystery of change, and the grade of ipsissimus the mystery of selflessness, which is cal le

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suffer no evil-doer in it, so is daz mer so reine, daz ez keine bosheit mac geliden/ so clean that it no wickedness can bear, wiener merfart 392 (see suppl. 2. fiee. fire/ like water, is regarded as a living being: corresponding to quecprunno (p. 588 n) we have a quecfiur, daz quecke fiwer, parz. 71, 13; serv. vatra zhiva, ogan zhivi (vivus, vuk 1, xlvi. and 3, 8. 20; to irvp oijptov $fttyv%ov of the egyptians, herod. 3, 16; ignis animal, cic. de n. d. 3, 14, i.e. a devouring hungry insatiable beast, vorax flamma; frekr (avidus, ssem. 50b; bitar fiur, hel. 78, 22; bitar logna 79, 20; gradag logna (greedy lowe, 130, 23; grim endi gradag 133, 11; eld unfuodi (insatiabilis) 78, 23; it licks with its tongue, eats all round it, pastures, i/e/^era, ii. 23, 177; the land gets eaten clean by it, i

le being has the advantage over the male. 3 helbling, speaking of an ill-shaped garment, starts the query (1, 177, where 692 teees and animals. nhg. webelj wiebel, as. wifel, wefel, engl. weevil, agrees with lith. wabalasf wabalis, lett, wabbols, and i trace it to weben (weave, wave) in the sense of our leben und weben/ vigere, moveri; we say( kriebeln und wiebeln of the swarming of beetles. 1 to the egyptians the beetle (scarabaeus, kavoapos, icdpatbos) was a sacred being, an emblem of inmost life and mysterious selfgeneration. they believed that he proceeded out of matter which he rolled into globules and buried in manure (see suppl. on. literature deals in no prose terms, but at once comes out with the poetic name iotunox iotunoxi (giant-ox; as that giant maiden took the ploughman with

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t to salute the place where life ended, symbolically, he found that his arms and body, while in the act of salutation, formed a shadow on the ground before him, cast by the rising sun. the shadow was in the form of the cross, and to him it meant that life was but a shadow .the shadow of the cross. an explanation, often offered by the wise, is that the origin of the cross was in the crux ansata of the egyptians.the cross with the oval opening at top, often seen in egyptian designs and used symbolically in egyptian and mystical eastern writings. the crux ansata, called the cross of life, was designed by the egyptians and mystics to represent the continuity or immortality of life. the statement that in time the oval, or upper part of the crux ansata was closed into one perpendicular piece, th

hidden and invisible god, or a truly inspired representative of god. in this latter sense the term is used in the christian bible just once; in rev. iii: 14, jesus is called "the amen. but at a much earlier date the same word, with the same mystic vowel sounds, was used to designate the name of the god of thebes, and the term amen-ra came to express the name and hierarchy of a powerful god among the egyptians. amenhotep iv changed his name to akhnaton because of the significance of the term amen. as used in modern religious practices, the term amen means verily. the origin of the word is found in the sanskrit aum and also in om. amra.if you petition for special help and your petition is answered, you are obliged, by the law of amra, to make compensation by passing along to others some por

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stones of the ephod hadgivenan answer by their extraordinary lustre; and from porphyry, iamblichus, and psellus, to the magiciansofcairo and the peepers and speculators in england at the present day. with respect to the 'superstitious rites, the long fastings, themysticalwords, the concentric""itwould seem from the observations of sir gardner wilkinson that this form of divination was employed by the egyptians before the time of moses. not only the form, but the symbols, and even titles, connected with it, are all related to those of egypt. the urim and thummim, connected with, if not part of the breast-plate of judgment of the high priest (exodusxxviii,30),and interpreted as light and truth, or revelation andtruth,correspond most remarkably with the figure of re (the sun) and thmei (truth

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n1888-adeath whichmayormay not have been hastened by his occult practices."threeof the manuscripts that irwin did not obtain,thejournalofarosicrucianphilosopher,crystallomancyandtaneachemica,carne into the handsofa. e. waite, who quoted extensivelyfrom the first two in his early works and published a part of the thimathe egyptian world. this map shows the only countries and civilizations known to the egyptians through direct contact up to the end of the second millennium bce. 1 1 introduction what is a myth? if asked this question, most people would reply that a myth is a story that is not true, even though you might want it to be. scholarly arguments about the definition of a myth have been going on for more than 2,000 years. many definitions have been proposed. among the most common are

ithin egyptian mythology. in order to explore this mythology, we must first look at the geography and history of ancient egypt. myth and geography egypt is a large country in the northeast corner of the continent of africa, but modern geographical terms have little relevance to how the ancient egyptians saw themselves. they had no conception of the huge size of africa. in the third millennium bce the egyptians known world extended only from what are now greece and turkey in the north to what is now ethiopia in the south, and from libya in the west to what is now iraq in the east (see map two. the egyptians believed that they were set apart from the people who lived in these surrounding countries. the ancient word kemet (usually translated as egypt) literally means black land. this referred

he south, and from libya in the west to what is now iraq in the east (see map two. the egyptians believed that they were set apart from the people who lived in these surrounding countries. the ancient word kemet (usually translated as egypt) literally means black land. this referred to the rich black soil of the land on either bank of the great river nile, which flows through the center of egypt. the egyptians were claiming to be the people of the valley, but they had not always been so. for many millennia north africa enjoyed a moist climate. vast areas that are now desert were then grasslands with large animal populations. nomadic peoples, all with a fairly similar culture, ranged across the grasslands. from around the sixth millennium bce on, the climate became drier and hotter, and the

ces on earth and a hard country to get in or out of. to the north there were marshes, saltwater lakes, and the mediterranean sea. the ancient egyptians were never enthusiastic seafarers and were one of the few coastal cultures to worship no deities of the sea. to the east, west, and south there were deserts that were dangerous to cross. these deserts made up about 90 percent of egypt s territory. the egyptians called them the red land in contrast to the black land of the valley.6 the mountainous areas of the deserts contained gold, gemstones, and types of hard stone that could be used to make long-lasting buildings and artifacts. the south of the country often went without rain for many years at a stretch. when rain did 2 handbook of egyptian mythology come, it was in the form of violent d

serts contained gold, gemstones, and types of hard stone that could be used to make long-lasting buildings and artifacts. the south of the country often went without rain for many years at a stretch. when rain did 2 handbook of egyptian mythology come, it was in the form of violent desert storms that could lead to destructive flash floods. the usually cloudless skies made it particularly easy for the egyptians to observe the stars and planets. much early mythology may have developed to explain the movement of celestial bodies. the habitable part of egypt was effectively a giant oasis created by the nile and its annual flood, which is known as the inundation. every year a combination of melting snows and monsoon rains in the mountains of ethiopia caused a huge increase in the amount of wate

HEAVEN HELL

s that springs from the body of osiris, which is eternal; he is righteousness itself, and they are righteous, and they live by eating the body of their god daily. on the other hand, the p. xii wicked, i.e, those who did not believe in the great god or make offerings, are hacked to pieces by the divine messengers of wrath, and their bodies, souls, and spirits are consumed by fire once and for all. the egyptians had no belief in a purgatory. the fires of the other world were, it is true, occupied daily in burning up the damned and the opponents of the sun-god, but each day brought its own supply of bodies, souls, spirits, demons, etc, for annihilation. in all the books of the other world we find pits of fire, abysses of darkness, murderous knives, streams of boiling water, foul stenches, fie

ing to his own knowledge, and according to the wishes of those who employed him. the oldest books of the dead known to us, that is to say, the religious compositions which are inscribed p. 3 on the walls of the chambers and corridors of the pyramids of kings unas, teta, pepi i, mer-en-ra, and pepi ii, are without illustrations of any sort or kind, and it is not easy to account for this fact. that the egyptians possessed artistic skill sufficient to illustrate the religious and general works which their theologians wrote or revised, under their earliest dynasties of kings of all egypt, is evident from the plain and coloured bas-reliefs which adorn the walls of their mastabas, or bench-shaped tombs, and we can only point out and wonder at the fact that the royal pyramids contain neither pain

ts of a long period of civil wars, and business was at a standstill, and farmers were unable to carry on the usual agricultural operations on which both the government and the priesthood ultimately depended for support, it was impossible for men to bury their dead with all the pomp and ceremony which were the characteristics of funerals in times of peace and prosperity. the innate conservatism of the egyptians made them cling to their ancient beliefs during this period of stress, but p. 7 no important pyramids were built, and very few private funeral chapels were maintained at expensive rates, and the souls of the dead were committed to such protection as could be obtained by the prayers of their relatives and friends, and by the utterance of religious formulae, and by inexpensive amulets

nd which were intended to reflect the more popular and more materialistic religious views and beliefs. among such books must be mentioned the "book of two ways" or the "two ways of the blessed dead" of which a version inscribed on a coffin in the berlin museum has been recently published. 1 the rubrical directions of this work show that it was compiled when implicit belief existed in the minds of the egyptians as to the efficacy of p. 13 certain "words of power (hekau) and of pictures of the gods, and it is clear that many portions of it are purely magical, and were intended to produce very material results. thus concerning one passage a rubric says "whosoever knoweth this chapter may have union with women by night or by day, and the heart (or, desire) of the woman shall come to him whenso

the vast quantities of spoil which were poured into thebes by the victorious armies of egypt on their return from western asia, the cult of the gods and of the dead assumed proportions which it had never reached before in egypt. the chief deity of thebes was amen, the "hidden" or perhaps "unknown" god, in whose honour a shrine was built to the north of the city, in a place called "ap" or "apt" by the egyptians, and "karnak" by the modern inhabitants of luxor. it is impossible to say at present exactly when the first sanctuary of p. 17 this god was built at thebes, but the discovery of the large collection of 457 votive statues of kings and officials and other objects, made by m. legrain 1 in 1901-2, indicates that the foundation of the sanctuary of amen dates from a very early period of dy

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

closure from some higher, supernatural, or, at least, superhuman beings; but only in the sense of an "unveiling" of old, very old, truths to minds hitherto ignorant of them, ignorant even of the existence and preservation of any such archaic knowledge. it has become "fashionable" especially of late, to deride the notion that there ever was, in the mysteries of great and civilized peoples, such as the egyptians, greeks, or romans, anything but priestly imposture. even the rosicrucians were no better than half lunatics, half knaves. numerous books have been written on them; and tyros, who had hardly heard the name a few years before, sallied out as profound critics and gnostics on the subject of alchemy, the fire-philosophers, and mysticism in general. yet a long series of the hierophants of

ted the clue and followed it, if to these five, namely, agathon (deity or atma, psuche (soul in its collective sense, nous (spirit or mind, phren (physical mind, and thumos (kamarupa or passions) we add the eidolon of the mysteries, the shadowy form or the human double, and the physical body, it will be easy to demonstrate that the ideas of both pythagoras and plato were identical with ours. even the egyptians held to the septenary division. in its exit, they taught, the soul (ego) had to pass through its seven chambers, or principles, those it left behind, and those it took along with itself. the only difference is that, ever bearing in mind the penalty of revealing mystery-doctrines, which was death, they gave out the teaching in a broad outline, while we elaborate it and explain it in i

y, in 135 ad. the science of horoscopy is studied now chiefly under four heads, viz: 1. mundane, in its application to meteorology, seismology, husbandry. 2. state or civic, in regard to the future of nations, kings, and rulers. 3. horary, in reference to the solving of doubts arising in the mind upon any subject. 4. genethliacal in connection with the future of individuals from birth unto death. the egyptians and the chaldeans were among the most ancient votaries of astrology, though their modes of reading the stars and the modern methods differ considerably. the former claimed that belus, the bel or elu of the chaldeans, a scion of the divine dynasty, or the dynasty of the king-gods, had belonged to the land of chemi, and had left it to found a colony from egypt on the banks of the euphr

tertained the conception of an underworld climate; as well we may, if we localize our hell in the center of the earth. all exoteric religions-the creeds of the brahmins, buddhists, zoroastrians, mohammedans, jews, and the rest, made their hells hot and dark, though many were more attractive than frightful. the idea of a hot hell is an afterthought, the distortion of an astronomical allegory. with the egyptians page 154 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt hell became a place of punishment by fire not earlier than the 17th or 18th dynasty, when typhon was transformed from a god into a devil. but at whatever time they implanted this dread superstition in the minds of the poor ignorant masses, the scheme of a burning hell and souls tormented therein is purely egyptian. ra (the sun) became t

s, the christ. kamaloka (sans) the semi-material plane, to us subjective and invisible, where the disembodied "personalities" the astral forms called kamarupa, remain until they fade out from it by the complete exhaustion of the effects of the mental impulses that created these eidolons of the lower animal passions and desires (see kamarupa) it is the hades of the ancient greeks and the amenti of the egyptians-the land of silent shadows. kamarupa (sans) metaphysically and in our esoteric philosophy it is the subjective form created through the mental and physical desires and thoughts in connection with things of matter, by all sentient beings: a form which survives the death of its body. after that death, three of the seven principles-or, let us say, planes of the senses and consciousness

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e usurped name of dionysius the areopagite, bishop of atiiens, con- verted and consecrated by st. paul, was thus enabled to penetrate into the mysticism of the medieval ages* says jacouiot" what is then this religious philosophy of the orient, which has penetrated into the mystic symbousm of christianity? we an- swer: this philosophy, the traces of which we find among the magians, the cbaldaeans, the egyptians, the hebrew kabalists and the chris- tians, b none other than that of the hindfi br&hmanas, the sectarians of the piirit, or the spirits of the invisible worlds which surround us" but if the gnostics were destroyed, the gnosis, based on the secret science of sciences, still lives. it is the earth which helps the woman, and which is destined to open her mouth to swallow up medieval ch

ian triplicate deity also consists of three persons, onnazd, mithra, and ahriman" it is that principle, of which the author of the chatdaie summary saith "they concewe there u one principle of all thinge, and dedare it to be one and good" the chinese idol sanpao consists of three equal in all respects' and the peruvians "sui^kmed their tanga-tanga to be one in three, and three in one" says faber* the egyptians have their emepht, eikton, and ptah* and the triple god seated on the lotus can be seen in the st. petersburg museum, on a medal of the northern tatars" among the church dogmas which have most seriously suffered of late at the hands of the orientalists, the last in question stands con- sfhcuous. the reputation of each of the three personages of the an- thropomorphic godhead as an ori

orthodox tertullian and the gnostic marcion. the brutal violence, unfairness, and bigotry of the "great african" repel all who accept his christianity "how can a god" inquired marcion "break his own commandments? how could he consistently prohibit idolatry and image-worship and still cause moaes to set up the brazen serpent? how command: thou sbalt not steal, and then order the israelites to poil the egyptians of their gold and silver "anticipating the results of modem criticism, marcion denies the applicability to jesus of the so-called messianic prophecies" writes the author of supernatural religion "the emmanuel of isaiah is not christ; the 'virgin' his mother, is simply a 'young woman [an almah of the temple, and the sufferings of the servant of god isaiah, lii, 13-liii, 3) are not pre

they may be therefore enduas is this spiritual life, never eternal. these endless emanations of the one first cause, all of which were gradually transformed by the popular fancy into distinct gods, spirits, angels, and demons, were so little considered immortal that all were assigned a linuted existence. and this belief, common to all the peoples of antiquity, to the chaldaean magi as well as to the egyptians, and even in our day held by the br&hmanists and buddhists, moat triumphantly evidences the monotheism of the ancient rehgious systems. this doc- trine calls the life-period of all the inferior divinities "one day of para- brahman" after a cycle of four milliards, three hundred and twen- millions of human years the tradition says the trinity itself, with all the lesser divinities, wi

th had regenerated and united his astral soul with his divine si rit, and that he was ready to ascend in spirit to the blessed abodes magic talisman at the same time as a rehgious emblem. it was adopted by the christians through the gnostics and kabalists, who used it largely, as their numerous gems testify, and who had the tau (or handled cross) from the egyptians, and the latin cross from the buddhist missionaries, who brought it from india(^ere it can be found even now, two or three centuries b. c. lite as fyrians, egyptians, ancient americans, hindos, and romans had it in various, but very shght, modifications ot shape 'hll very late in the medieval ages, it was considered a potent spell against epilepsy and de- m(huacal possession; and the

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r the mystical astrological and astronomical escaped month of the zodiac; and the stone is the philosopher s stone. the lisses of france. 43 learned papers on the fleur-de-lis. in the early armorial bearings of the frankish kings, the lilies are represented as insects, sembed (seeded, or spotted, on the blue field. these are, in their origin, the scarab ei of the orientals; they were dignified by the egyptians as the emblems of the enlightened. if the reader examines carefully the sculpture in the british museum representing the mithraic sacrifice of the bull, with its mystic accompaniments (no. 14, grand central saloon, he will perceive the scarab uis, or crab, playing a peculiar part in the particulars of the grand rite so strangely typified, and also so remotely. the motto placed under

and he showing his acceptance of sacrifices in so many instances by consuming them with fire, hence it was that the eastern people, and particularly the persians, fell into the worship of fire itself, or rather they conceived fire to be the symbol of god s presence, and they worshipped god in, or by, fire. from the assyrians, or chaldeans, or persians, this worship was propagated southward among the egyptians, and westward among the greeks; and by them it was brought into italy. the greeks were wont to meet together to worship in their prytamia, and there they consulted for the public good; and there was a constant fire kept upon the altar, which was dignified by the name of vesta by some. the fire itself was properly vesta; and so ovid: nec te aliud vestam, quam vivam intelligere flammam

ich, to speak metaphysically, the phases of time were laid. material fire, which is the brighter as the matter which constitutes it is the blacker, is the shadow (so to express, or to speak, necessarily with words, which have no meaning in the spirit) of the spirit-light, which invests itself in it as the mask in which alone it can be possible. thus, material light being the very opposite of god, the egyptians who were undoubtedly acquainted with the fire-revelation could not represent god as light. they therefore expressed their idea of deity by darkness. their chief adoration was paid to darkness. they bodied the eternal forth under darkness. in the early times before the deluge, of which phenomenon, as there remains a brighter or fainter tradition of it among all the peoples of the glob

storied spires of the hindoos, in the vertically turreted and longitudinally massed temples of the bhudds, of all the classes and of all the sects, in the religious buildings of the cingalese, in the upright flame-fanes of the parsees, in the original of the campaniles of the italians, in the tower of st. mark at venice, in the flame-shaped or pyramidal (pyr is the greek for fire) architecture of the egyptians (which is the parent of all that is called architecture, we see the recurring symbol. all the minarets that, in the eastern sunshine, glisten through the land of the moslem; indeed, his two-horned crescent, equally with the moon, or disc, or two-pointed globe of the sidonian ashtaroth (after whose forbidden worship solomon, the wisest of mankind, in his defection from the god of his

cture, we see the recurring symbol. all the minarets that, in the eastern sunshine, glisten through the land of the moslem; indeed, his two-horned crescent, equally with the moon, or disc, or two-pointed globe of the sidonian ashtaroth (after whose forbidden worship solomon, the wisest of mankind, in his defection from the god of his fathers, evilly thirsted; also, the mystic discus, or round, of the egyptians, so continually repeated, and set, as it were, as the forehead-mark upon all the temples of the land of soothsayers and sorcerers, this egypt so profound in its philosophies, in its wisdom, in its magic seeing, and in its religion, raising out of the black abyss a god to shadow it, all the minarets of the mohammedan, we say, together with all the other symbols of moon, of disc, of wi

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ts of the french populace who were given rides in the ufo's. ed: the following has no obvious reference or necessary position. no not pals but the french are such of an general pholosophic attitude even in that day that they were chosen to be contacted. now, some l-m's live in france out of preference in field of philosophical study. they like it. if early visits to asia, subsequent contacts with the egyptians at the peak of their culture, rumored associations of flight with the disappearance of atlantis, and tours of france some centuries ago, indicate a pattern, then it may be of little wonder that the civilizations of today, perhaps the most spectacular of all, are receiving attention. in many ways, the most intriguing data of all comes from the skeptical astronomers. their observations

that of the historically recorded egyptians and orientals: four to seven thousand years at most; and heaven forbid if one suggests advanced races in eras of ten, twenty, forty, or one hundred thousand years ago. yet no scientist has found a logical common denominator for the various races, cultures, and civilizations of which we have unmistakable records, except that of a common source predating the egyptians, the chinese, the indians (asiatic, the incas, and the mayas, and in fact all branches covered by the study of anthropology and ethnology. much as we may deride writers such as churchward (as per de camp; lost continents) in his rather crude presentation of his hypothesis of the lost continent of mu, his is the only general explanation of terrestrial intellectual development and dist

172 feet long. the fact that two equal dimensions were given indicating (perhaps) equal length and breadth implies disc shape. in any case it was described as a fire circle, indicating its shape, and that flames were associated with it as has so often been the case. the exact nature of the flames is of course unknown to us; they may have been electrical discharges which would have been strange to the egyptians of 1500 bc and would have been recorded as ordinary flames. as in our modern sightings, there was sometimes one object and sometimes a group or flock. they were shining, and by this it seems we can infer that they were luminous. laminated metal, covered by sheet-diamond? one other thing is obvious from this egyptian record; that mechanical flight, if it had been previously known to t

object and sometimes a group or flock. they were shining, and by this it seems we can infer that they were luminous. laminated metal, covered by sheet-diamond? one other thing is obvious from this egyptian record; that mechanical flight, if it had been previously known to the egyptians, or to their progenitors, was already a completely lost science in 1500 bc. it is in line with our thinking that the egyptians were merely another one of the trickles through the dyke of time from the previous great wave of civilization. the records of tibet, however, seem to be more complete than those of egypt, and more ancient. perhaps it is because the mountain fastnesses of tibet and northern india have not been subjected to the burnings and other destructive activities of western civilization which ann

another one of the trickles through the dyke of time from the previous great wave of civilization. the records of tibet, however, seem to be more complete than those of egypt, and more ancient. perhaps it is because the mountain fastnesses of tibet and northern india have not been subjected to the burnings and other destructive activities of western civilization which annihilated the libraries of the egyptians and the mayas. true if one may judge from his writings, colonel james churchward, in a lifetime of study, learned something of the lore which is stored in the tibetan monasteries, and supplemented this with studies throughout the world. churchward says that he came upon many records ranging back to at least 200,000 years. one of his most fascinating finds relates to mechanical flight

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and use it to attract us, saying leave your desires, the substance you were created in and have been immersed in, and go to another desire, one that i will show you? the creator does not show us that we must ascend spiritually. rather, he says that we must first go down to egypt, to the gutter of our darkest and fiercest egoistic desires. these desires are so egoistic that they are like those of the egyptians, who knew how to use egoism so perfectly that they could mummify their bodies and preserve them for centuries. they made idols of their dead and remained tied to their bodies after death. the creator does not tell abraham that he must aspire upward in order to cross to the other desire, which is where he will find the creator, who will then fill him with light. that means that the mo

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that light, which existed in all, men could always be reached and helped, and that it was their business to find that light within every one, however unpromising, and to strengthen it. the very motto of the pharaoh was glook for the light, h implying that his supreme duty as king was to look for that hidden light in every man around him, and strive to bring it forth into fuller manifestation. 58. the egyptians held that this divine spark, which exists in every one, could most effectively be fanned into flame by transmuting and bringing down to the three lower worlds the tremendous spiritual force which is the life of the higher planes, and then pouring it out over the country as has been described. knowing that spiritual force to be but another manifestation of the manifold power of god, t

asons do now. 79. the history of masonry 80. the mystery teaching of egypt was very closely guarded, and it was only with great difficulty and under special conditions that anyone not an egyptian born could be allowed to receive it. still, it was given to various distinguished foreigners, and among others to moses, of whom it is said in the biblical story that he was glearned in all the wisdom of the egyptians h. he passed on his knowledge to the jewish priestly line, and thus it survived in a more or less defective form till the time of david and solomon. 81. when solomon built his temple he erected it on masonic lines, and made it a centre of masonic symbolism and work. he unquestionably intended his temple to demonstrate and to preserve for his people a certain set of measurements, in t

is bounded by two lines, which signify moses and solomon, and also by the v.s.l, anyone who keeps himself within that circle and follows the precepts of the v.s.l. as thoroughly as did moses and solomon will not err. 113. in ancient egypt, however, long before the time of the jews, it was already a symbol with many meanings. first of all, it was the symbol of the sun-god, ra; secondly, it bore to the egyptians the signification of the earth circling round the sun. that was with them a portion of the secret knowledge reserved for the mysteries. there was a still older tradition, which held the circle to be the equator and the dot in the centre to be the pole-star, whose position changes because of the precession of the equinoxes, in which the egyptians took great interest. the inclination o

position changes because of the precession of the equinoxes, in which the egyptians took great interest. the inclination of the chief passage of the great pyramid was determined by the position of the pole-star of the period. this symbol was used once more to indicate the all-seeing eye- an idea easily suggested by the dot in the middle of the circle. 114. another interpretation of the symbol by the egyptians was particularly beautiful, and all brn. will find it well worth remembering whenever their eyes fall upon it. the three columns, representing wisdom, strength and beauty, were stated to stand round god fs throne, which was the altar itself, which they took to signify love. thus the circle describes the love of god, and the two lines which bound it are the lines of duty and destiny o

the circle describes the love of god, and the two lines which bound it are the lines of duty and destiny or, to put the idea in oriental terms, of dharma and karma. it was said that while a m.m. kept himself within the circle of the divine love, and bounded his actions by duty and destiny, he could not err. 115. the same device also signifies the first manifest-ation of the deity. it was held by the egyptians there were three successive manifestations; the first aspect far above our reach, the second and third successively lower, and their conception of these three was very similar to that of the three persons of the blessed trinity in christianity and the trimurti among the hindus; in fact, practically all philosophical religions have recognized the triple manifestation of the deity. in

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the motto of the round table. and the people learned to say of their dead: he has gone to the light. 61. and the joyous civilization of egypt grew yet more joyous, because he had dwelt among them, the embodied light. the priests whom he had taught handed on his teachings and his secret instructions, which they enshrined in their mysteries, and students came from all nations to learn the wisdom of the egyptians, and the fame of the schools of egypt went abroad to all lands(*man: whence, how and whither, pp. 284-7) 62. the gods of egypt 63. it will be seen from the above that the deities, or rather forms of deity, osiris, isis and horus were already familiar to the people, and the world teacher made it part of his work to draw their attention to the true meaning of the three persons. at what

s was the embodiment of god the father in a mighty planetary spirit. his symbol was the sun, and the influence which he outpoured was a dazzling glory of light shot through with gold, like the rays of the sun caught upon the surface of a lake. the influence of horus, who represented the divine child, was the glowing rose and gold of the eternal love which is perfect wisdom. 67. animal deities 68. the egyptians also followed the ancient practice of regarding certain animals as mirroring various aspects of the divine, because of their outstanding qualities. thus they took the intelligence of the ape, the clear-sightedness of the hawk, the strength of the bull, and so on, and attributed the quality to some particular aspect of the deity. they carefully bred certain animals as perfect represen

to some particular aspect of the deity. they carefully bred certain animals as perfect representatives of their species, and kept them apart as symbols of those divine qualities. such were the apis bulls, and the cats of bast or pasht. these animals were regarded not exactly as sacred, but as objectified examples of the qualities. in the beginning the creature was a mere symbol, but in later days the egyptians had the idea that those which had been especially set apart came to be linked with the godhead, and so were to some extent a manifestation of the deity. they then embalmed the animals and laid up the mummies in their temples, with the intention of preserving the divine influence. 69. the practice of embalming 70. in the same way the pharaoh was embalmed with the idea that his power

s, with the intention of preserving the divine influence. 69. the practice of embalming 70. in the same way the pharaoh was embalmed with the idea that his power, his connection with the deity (which was a very close one as pharaoh, would be preserved and would continue to radiate so long as the body remained. this resembled the later custom of preserving the relics of a saint. the strong love of the egyptians for their coun-try provided another reason for embalming their dead; they hoped to preserve a definite link on the physical plane which would operate to draw them back to rebirth among their own people. that it did so operate in many cases seems to have been a fact, although the will of the re-incarnating ego would doubtless have been sufficient to achieve the same result. the custom

after death- which was elaborated by countless stories of imaginary individuals, showing the results in the astral plane after death of certain courses of action during life- a fine course of education was also given to the initiates of the first degree, embracing what masons term the seven liberal arts and sciences- grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. by grammar the egyptians meant the sacred hieroglyphic writing of the priests, which was taught to all the initiates of the mysteries, but it also signified a kind of secret language, a way of speaking peculiar to the priesthood. in the secret language of the mysteries it was not so much that different words were used, as that the familiar words had a different meaning. those who have studied the translation

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

(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 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 discusse

set, who ruled the lifeless desert. even as osiris was the author of creativity and life, set was destructive. he was so violent by nature that he ripped a hole in his mother s side when he was born. as the people reclaimed land through irrigation, he was angered that osiris was diminishing his desert kingdom.he grew to envy his bother more day by day (bierlein 1994, 212 213. like other peoples, the egyptians also populated the cosmos with all manner of demons. because of their seeming obsession with the afterlife, we know the most about the dangerous demons encountered in the underworld.however, in marked contrast to other cultures, the underworld was ruled by the just god osiris rather than an evil divinity like set. ancient egypt was a civilization with a stability and history that sta

erhaps the residue of earlier animal worship. generally, egyptians gave most prominence to those gods associated with the nile (hapy, sothis, sebek, the sun (re, re-atum, horus, and helping the dead (osiris, anubis, sokaris. during the time of the old kingdom, the sun god re was the dominant god. re served to give immortality to the collective state through the pharaoh, his son. the sun seemed to the egyptians and to many other ancients to be clearly immortal, as it died every evening, traveled through the underworld, and was reborn every morning. the sun was also important to the success of nile agriculture. thus, insofar as the pharaoh was identified with the sun god, the continuity and success of the state was assured. one of the primary sources for understanding egyptian mythologies is

l preparations became centered on the fateful meeting with osiris. unlike nearly all other ancient cultures with rulers of the dead, osiris was a benign, moral figure. also unlike most other ancient cultures, egypt believed in an ethically based judgment after death. egypt thus represents a major shift in afterlife concepts, and the whole idea of afterlife judgment may well have been pioneered by the egyptians. just to reach the hall where osiris sat in judgment was a task wherein the newly dead faced many perils. the deceased could mistakenly take routes that culminated in fiery dead ends where sinister demons lay in wait.obviously, people were very concerned that they be able to conduct themselves successfully on this journey, so over time guidebooks were put together so people would kno

nd 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 150 leviathan visions of the later hebrew prophets, although the dragon usually embodies a purely 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, into whose jaws he will put hooks leviathan (dover pictorial series) limbo 151 and whom he will have thrown into the wilderness. elsewhere in hebrew scriptures, the dragon is represented also as a symbol of mourning and des

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gods for polemical purposes. thus, where shall we put isis, favouring nymph of corn as she was? as the type of motherhood? as the moon? as the great goddess earth? as nature? as the cosmic egg from which all nature sprang? for as time and place have changed, so she is all of these! what of jehovah, that testy senior of genesis, that lawgiver of leviticus, that phallus of the depopulated slaves of the egyptians, that jealous king-god of the times of the kings, that more spiritual conception of the captivity, only invented when all temporal hope was lost, that medi val battleground of cross-chopped logic, that being stripped of all his attributes and assimilated to parabrahman and the absolute of the philosopher? satan, again, who in job is merely attorney-general and prosecutes for the crow

er in rendering the names of the demons into hebrew, some suffixes like ion, ius, etc. have been dropped. an alternative set of attributions and hebrew spellings can be found in the sword and the serpent by denning and phillips, and godwin s cabalistic encyclopedia. cols. clxvii clxxi. a completely different set of names for the dekans and the gods referred to them may be found in budge s gods of the egyptians, vol. ii pp 304-310. i am unaware of crowley s source for these attributions: generally the names seem at the very least somewhat hellenized. notes to crowley s notes 1 because jk= koch, power, and hm is the secret name of yetzirah (vide col. lxiv. 2 i.e, the hebrew word for ten. 3 the g.d. qliphoth lecture as published by zalewski, etc) has wdba, abaddon; crowley s reading matches t

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, and its relation with the formula of inri. also by his mystery of number he made plain the path for his successor to declare the nature of the whole universe in its form and in its structure, as it were an analysis thereof, doing for matter what the buddha was decreed to do for mind. t the book of wisdom or folly 73 bt de quodam mago gyptiorum, quem appelunt iudaei mosheh (of a certain magus of the egyptians, whom the jews call moses) he follower of tahuti was an egyptian whose name is lost; but the jews called him mosheh, or moses, and their fabulists made him the leader of their legendary exodus. yet they preserved his word, and it is ihvh, which thou must understand also as that secret word which thou hast seen and heard in thunders and lightnings in thine initiation to the degree tho

s a sure fortress, for through the quest of thy true will the mind is balanced about it, and confirmeth its flight, as the feathers upon an arrow, so that thou hast a touchstone of truth, experience holding thee to reality, and to proportion. now therefore see from yet another art of heaven the absolute virtue of our law. t the book of wisdom or folly 151 et de sphinge gyptiorum (of the sphinx of the egyptians) t is now expedient that i instruct thee concerning the four powers of the sphinx, and firstly, that this most arcane of the mysteries of antiquity was never at any period the tool of the slave-gods, but a witness of horus through the dark on of osiris to his light and truth, his force and fire. thou canst by no means interpret the sphinx in terms of the formula of the slain god. thi

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ns war. 86 \yhla. see .a note on genesis. equinox, no. ii. 90. number of tzaddi, a fishhook= tanha, the clinging of man to life (9, the trap in which man is caught as a fish is caught by a hook. the most material aspect of animal life; its final doom decreed by its own lust. also \ym, water. 91. 91= 7 x 13, the most spiritual form of the septenary. ma, amen, the holiest title of god; the amoun of the egyptians. it equals ynda hwhy (yhnwdhay, interlaced, the eight-lettered name, thus linking the 7 to the 8. not that ma (recknoning as final, 700= 741= ctma, the letters of the elements; and is thus a form of tetragrammaton, a form unveiled. 100. the number of q, the perfect illusion, 10 10. also [k, kaph, the wheel of fortune. the identity is that of matter, fatality, change, illusion. it 42

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

deussen is honest enough to admit that vedanta teaching is identical, but clearer! and he quite clearly and sensibly defines faith.surely the most essential quality for the adherent to christian dogma .as .being convinced on insufficient evidence. similarly the dying-to-live idea of hegel (and schopenhauer) claimed by caird as the central spirit of christianity is far older, in the osiris myth of the egyptians. these ideas are all right, but they have no more to do with christianity than the metric system with the great pyramid. but see piazzi smyth. henry morley has even the audacity to claim shelley.shelley!.as a christian .in spirit. talking of shelley:.with regard to my open denial of the personal christian god, may it not be laid to my charge that i have dared to voice in bald languag

LIBER RESH VEL HELIOS

tions from liber legis, ch. iii, from gunity uttermost showed h to gabide with me, ra- hoor-khuit h may be substituted. this is not necessarily the adoration taught in the a a under crowley, or by modern groups claiming to represent the a a. t.s] 2 [this may be read as an instruction to assume the god-form of ra, hathor, tum or khephera as appropriate. see gliber o h for the practices and gods of the egyptians or other works on the subject for the traditional images of these deities. but the instruction can be interpreted in other ways, and is by some. t.s (c) ordo templi orientis. key entry &c. by frater t.s. for celephais press/ niwg. this e-text last revised 26.06.20isliber rv vel spritvs svb figvra ccvi v a a publication in class d 1 2. let the zelator observe the current of his breath

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

ion. the sect of the academic philosophers instituted by plato (427-347 b.c) was divided into three major parts--the old, the middle, and the new academy. among the old academics were speusippus, zenocrates, poleman, crates, and crantor. arcesilaus instituted the middle academy and carneades founded the new. chief among the masters of plato was socrates. plato traveled widely and was initiated by the egyptians into the profundities of hermetic philosophy. he also derived much from the doctrines of the pythagoreans. cicero describes the threefold constitution of platonic philosophy as comprising ethics, physics, and dialectics. plato defined good as threefold in character: good in the soul, expressed through the virtues; good in the body, expressed through the symmetry and endurance of the

osophy in the modern world, but they bear other names and their true origin is not suspected. many of the gnostic concepts have actually been incorporated into the dogmas of the christian church, and our newer interpretations of christianity are often along the lines of gnostic emanationism. the mysteries of, asar-hapi the identity of the greco-egyptian serapis (known to the greeks as serapis and the egyptians as asar- hapi) is shrouded by an impenetrable veil of mystery. while this deity was a familiar figure among the symbols of the secret egyptian initiatory rites, his arcane nature was revealed only to those who had fulfilled the requirements of the serapic cultus. therefore, in all probability, excepting the initiated priests, the egyptians themselves were ignorant of his true charact

s. in an oracle delivered to the king of cyprus, serapis described himself thus''a god i am such as i show to thee, the starry heavens are my head, my trunk the sea, earth forms my feet, mine ears the air supplies, the sun's far-darting, brilliant rays, mine eyes" several unsatisfactory attempts have been made to etymologize the word serapis. godfrey higgins notes that soros was the name given by the egyptians to a stone coffin, and apis was osiris incarnate in the sacred bull. these two words combined result in soros-apis or sor-apis "the tomb of the bull" but it is improbable that the egyptians would worship a coffin in the form of a man. several ancient authors, including macrobius, have affirmed that serapis was a name for the sun, because his image so often had a halo of light about i

labyrinth of crete, in which roamed the bullheaded minotaur, was unquestionably a place of initiation into the cretan mysteries. p. 27 there is considerable evidence that the famous statue of serapis in the serapeum at alexandria was originally worshiped under another name at sinope, from which it was brought to alexandria. there is also a legend which tells that serapis was a very early king of the egyptians, to whom they owed the foundation of their philosophical and scientific power. after his death this king was elevated to the estate of a god. phylarchus declared that the word serapis means "the power that disposed the universe into its present beautiful order" in his isis and osiris, plutarch gives the following account of the origin of the magnificent statue of serapis which stood

e or marble by skilled craftsmen; others may have been cast from base or precious metals. one colossus of serapis was composed of plates of various metals fitted together. in a labyrinth sacred to serapis stood a thirteen-foot statue of him reputed to have been made from a single emerald. modern writers, discussing this image, state that it was made of green glass poured into a mold. according to the egyptians, however, it withstood all the tests of an actual emerald. clement of alexandria describes a figure of serapis compounded from the following elements: first, filings of gold, silver, lead, and tin; second, all manner of egyptian stones, including sapphires, hematites, emeralds, and topazes; all these being ground down and mixed together with the coloring matter left over from the fun

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

ng a blast of countermagic against some imaginary enemy when in fact a relatively simple amulet of beneficence may be all that is required. we must know what we are at hence divination. now in magic and witchcraft, the operations of divination have always been conducted by means of contact with a power which is symbolized by the astrological symbol of mercury. the greeks called this power hermes, the egyptians thoth, the scandinavians odin, the early anglo-saxons woden. this power has generally been connected with the starry sky, the air, storm winds, and also the crossroads. indeed in the voodoo pantheon the power of mercury is often known at maitre carrefour or master of the gross-roads. he is the great mediator between the worlds and is also known as psychopompos or guide of souls. the

wands in the plural all play a primary part. the rod is obviously a phallic emblem and has always been associated with divine wisdom whether it is presented in the tibetan pantheon as a dorji or thunderbolt sceptre or as the classical mercury's winged rod, the caduceus. all the legendary wizards from biblical times on have carried rods wherein their powers were often vested. jannes and jambres of the egyptians, moses, aaron and elijah, merlin, virgilius, roger bacon: the list is extensive. apart from its phallic connotations, the wand is also a pointer, or indicator, a flying arrow in the case of the greek abaris, again connected with occult methods of "finding things out" witches employ two different types of wands in their rituals: the riding staff in the past often disguised as the lege

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 1

gnifieth doing good unto all; which moses invoked, and having struck the sea, it divided into two parts in the midst, on the right hand and on the left. i conjure ye by the most holy name of el chai, which is that of the living god, through the virtue of which alliance with us, and redemption for us have been made; which moses invoked and all the waters returned to their prior state and enveloped the egyptians, so that not one of them escaped to carry the news into the land of mizraim. lastly, i conjure ye all, ye rebellious spirits, by the most holy name of god adonai malekh, which joshua invoked, and stayed the course of the sun in his presence, through the virtue of methratton, its principal image; and by the troops of angels who cease not to cry day and night, qadosch, sadosch, qadosch

in the name primeumaton, which moses named and invoked, and there fell a great and severe hail throughout all the land of egypt, destroying the vines, the trees, and the woods which were in that country; and by the name iaphar, which moses heard and invoked, and immediately a great pestilence began to appear through all the land of egypt, striking and slaying the asses, the oxen, and the sheep of the egyptians, so that they all died; and by the name abaddon which moses invoked and sprinkled the dust towards heaven, and immediately there fell so great rain upon the men, cattle, and flocks, that they all died throughout the land of egypt; and by the name elion which moses invoked, and there fell so great hail as had never been seen from the beginning of the world unto that time, so that all

MEANING OF MASONRY

those who originated modern masonry because they were ready to hand; because they were in use among certain trade-guilds then in existence; and lastly, because they are extremely effective and significant from the symbolic point of view. all that i wish to emphasize at this stage is that our present system is not one coming from remote antiquity: that there is no direct continuity between us and the egyptians, or even those ancient hebrews who built, in the reign of king solomon, a certain temple at jerusalem. what is extremely ancient in freemasonry is the spiritual doctrine concealed within the architectural phraseology; for this doctrine is an elementary form of the doctrine that has been taught in all ages, no matter in what garb it has been expressed. our own teaching, for instance

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

ment of the individual sorcerer. animal atavisms which inhabit the human brain can be categorized as two types. some typify forms of pre-human consciousness; other strains have linked themselves with the human psyche and genetics. in the final analysis either kind can be defined as totems by shamans. lycanthropy is nothing more than rites of atavistic resurgence, either on a dream level, in which the egyptians were so skilled; or upon the waking level: as when strength or stealth are obtained or invoked during moments of dire need. austin osman spare's image of "nu moon rite (illustrated in kenneth grant's "aleister crowley and the hidden god, published by skoob) holds significant keys to atavistic resurgence. it is often the case with the paintings of aos, as his true hidden genius was hi

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

erie and collaboration of all, not the ego driven, auto-cratic travesties of later periods. in many cultures the dead warriors were buried in cir-cular cairns or mounds called sidhes (pronounced she. this word connotes femalebreast and the burial chambers actually look like such from outside. the implication isthat the dead are placed again inside the womb, the breast, the symbols of renewedlife. the egyptians used to place their dead within sarcophagi that were symbols of thefemale body. in fact, the interior of the lid of the sarcophagus had the image of thenight sky as the over-arching body of the mother goddess nuith.clearly, the monarchies of any age have been responsible for atrocious crimes. and yet, themonarchs themselves claim rulership by divine right. james vi of scotland became

nd his angels fought against the dragon: and thedragon fought and his angels, and prevailed notand the great dragon was cast out that oldserpent, called the devil, and satan which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out intothe earth, and his angels were cast out with him (revelation 12:7-12) woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the land of these almighty gods? these are thegods that smote the egyptians with all manner of plagues in the wilderness (samuel 4:8) and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the lord and by his fierceanger (jeremiah 4:23) the world falls dead36atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation for behold, the lord will come with fire, and his chariots, like the whirlwind, to render hisanger with fury (isaiah 1 6:15) and the kings of

up his staff against thee, after the manner of egypt.he shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow shall strike him through (job 14:24) the world falls dead46atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation o assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation, woe untous! who shall deliver us out of the land of these almighty gods? these are the gods thatsmote the egyptians with all manner of plagues in the wilderness (samuel 4:8) that the ancients had weapons of power has been a fact long sequestered by the elites.authors who have sought to expose the facts have been persecuted, ridiculed, and hadtheir works suppressed. one of these master researchers was comyns beaumont, who wrote the following: i have said comparatively little in regard to the prehis

d culture)more than one godand the lord god said, behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever (gen-esis 3:22)come let us go down, and there confound their language (genesis 11: 7)woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the land of these almighty gods? these are the gods that smote the egyptians with all manner of plagues in the wilderness (samuel 4:8)and the king said to her, be not afraid: for what sawest thou? and the woman said unto saul, i saw gods ascending out of the earth (i samuel 28:13)thou shalt not revile the gods (exodus 22:28)he that sacrificeth to any god save unto the lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed (exodus 22:20)behold the man is become as one of us

ans or fomori of irishlegend, a cruel but civilized maritime race who tyrannized over that island until they were ultimatelydestroyed by the de danaan. they were said in hibernian legends to have ruled ireland before theflood a significant admission (p. 27-28)the saturnian cultthe flood, or more justly the great catastrophe, destroyed the cult of saturn, which became discreditedto many, including the egyptians, depicted to them as malignant devil in the shape of an immense celes-tial serpent with a hundred voices who spat lightening. he is the old serpent of revelation who wascast into the bottomless pit of hades for a thousand years (p. 30)abrahamreally abram or son of the ram, the high ram, relating to ammon. leader of the israelites, the cultof saturn.terah means terrorabraham son of te

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

guous about the reasoning and construction methods of the pyramids. they claim that these structure were more like machines that allowed the king to join with the gods after death; they were essentially stargates to the heavens, where one could be transformed into a god. instead of masses of men dragging large, perfectly cut stones from--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 18 quarries miles away, the egyptians say that magicians effortlessly cut, and lifted the stones into place. the pyramid texts, the oldest known religious texts, state that the pyramids were built to 'throw open the doors of the firmament and to make a road' so that he [deceased king] might 'ascend into the company of the gods. the egyptians also claim the pyramids were built by magicians who used words of power to effor

t hades as a villain, modern satanists( and a little common sense) have confirmed to me that he is god s greatest enemy today. in rome, he was known as pluto and the hebrews knew him as mot. in the lovecraft mythos he is azag-thoth, and to many occults he is called coronzon; just like hades, who is considered both a character and a location, coronzon is also considered a character and a location. the egyptians call this demon apep. the greeks and christians know the location of hades as sheol, or the land of the dead, but the hebrews knew it as da ath, and the author h.p. lovecraft called it yog-sothoth. hades is an incredibly powerful being, and is always described as formless. he is known as the guardian of the underworld and is said to hold the key to the qliphoth. this guardian of the

me in every religion and mythology on the planet and, because of spiritual merging that i just spoke about, may be connected with multiple gods in the same tradition. satan is spoke of as he who was instrumental in the war against the titans, and once sat beside the throne of god, but desired it so much that he was cast out of heaven. satan is called shaitan and iblis by muslims, set and seker by the egyptians, samael by the hebrews, and ahriman by the persians. satan is the god who carries away the soul. a well-known symbol, that of the all-seeing eye, is related to satan and has been called the eye of set. satan is a god of the setting sun and is therefore often symbolized by a black sun, or a sun that is in total eclipse. perhaps it was a time before the merger of satan and hades, but o

MORALS AND DOGMA

fellow-craft. in the ancient orient, all religion was more or less a mystery and there was no divorce from it of philosophy. the popular theology, taking the multitude of allegories and symbols for realities, degenerated into a worship of the celestial luminaries, of imaginary deities with human feelings, passions, appetites, and lusts, of idols, stones, animals, reptiles. the onion was sacred to the egyptians, because its different layers were a symbol of the concentric heavenly spheres. of course the popular religion could not satisfy the deeper longings and thoughts, the loftier aspirations of the spirit, or the logic of reason. the first, therefore, was taught to the initiated in the mysteries. there, also, it was taught by symbols. the vagueness of symbolism, capable of many interpret

e of 10; and if a right-angled triangle be formed, the base measuring 3 or 6 parts, and the perpendicular 4 or 8 parts, the hypothenuse will be 5 or 10 parts; and if a square is erected on each side, these squares being subdivided into squares each side of which is one part in length, there will be as many of these in the square erected on the hypothenuse as in the other two squares together. now the egyptians arranged their deities in _triads; the father or the spirit or active principle or _generative power; the mother, or matter, or the passive principle, or the _conceptive_ power; and the son _issue_ or _product, the universe, proceeding from the two principles. these were osiris, isis, and horus. in the same way, plato gives us _thought_ the _father; primitive _matter_ the _mother; an

is wont to call the intelligible, the 'idea, exemplar, and father; matter 'the mother, the nurse, and the place and receptacle of generation; and the issue of these two 'the offspring and genesis" the kosmos "a word signifying equally _beauty_ and _order, or the universe itself" you will not fail to notice that beauty is symbolized by the junior warden in the south. plutarch continues to say that the egyptians compared the universal nature to what they called the most beautiful and perfect triangle, as plato does, in that nuptial diagram, as it is termed, which he has introduced into his commonwealth. then he adds that this triangle is right-angled, and its sides respectively as 3, 4, and 5; and he says "we must suppose that the perpendicular is designed by them to represent the masculine

rinity under the names of _isis_ or _hesus, the supreme harmony; of _belen_ or _bel_ which in assyrian means lord, a name corresponding to that of adona; and of _camul_ or _cama l, a name that in the kabalah personifies the divine justice. below this triangle of light they supposed a divine reflection, also composed of three personified rays: first _teutates_ or _teuth, the same as the _thoth_ of the egyptians, the word, or the intelligence formulated; then force and beauty, whose names varied like their emblems. finally, they completed the sacred septenary by a mysterious image that represented the progress of the dogma and its future realizations. this was a young girl veiled, holding a child in her arms; and they dedicated this image to "the virgin who will become a mother-_virgini pari

s the chief. they watch, with _ormuzd_ and the _amshaspands, over the happiness, purity, and preservation of the world, which is under their government; and they are also models for mankind and interpreters of men's prayers. with _mithras_ and _ormuzd, they make a _pleroma [or complete number] of 30, corresponding to the thirty aions of the gnostics, and to the _ogdoade, dodecade, and _decade_ of the egyptians _mithras_ was the sun-god, invoked with, and soon confounded with him, becoming the object of a special worship, and eclipsing _ormuzd_ himself. the third order of pure spirits is more numerous. they are the _ferouers, the thoughts of ormuzd, or the ideas which he conceived before proceeding to the creation of things. they too are superior to men. they protect them during their life

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

the definite article being capitalized unless it starts a sentence. hadit is emphasizing that this is a "greater empress" that he is talking about. this is of course he, the star, who is not the king as a. c. thought at the time. hadit then means simply that his name can be written hv "the empress& the hierophant. the value, of course, is 11. it should be noted that "hu" was the oldest name that the egyptians ascribed to the sphinx at gizeh. the word means prince. 17. hear me, ye people of sighing! the sorrows of pain and regret are left to the dead and the dying, the folk that not know me as yet. to know hadit only as 'not' is to be able to experience one's own starry identity only through physical death. it can never be too clearly understood that only the initiate can infuse the ruach

ergy exist in it) if the aspirant becomes attuned to "because; he may mistake the "dog syndrome" of cakkram malfunction for the "god syndrome" of higher cakkram awakening. he will identify himself with the egoic complex of the "black brethren "because" is the reflex, on a much lower plane, of the consciousness of hadit (hadit is, of course, perceived only by the awakened ajna. the winged globe of the egyptians displays the "two petals of the lotus" of hindu symbolism) being a simulacrum, it is very dangerous. it includes all the egregora of "god" that have been formed through the centuries. all "visions of god" of all religions belong to "because (the lower dhyanas are all below the abyss. they are mental phenomena their only connection with the element of spirit is the kundalini that ener

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

cieties of the east "the dwelling was not an object, a 'machine to inhabit: it was the universe that man built in imitation of god's exemplary creation, the cosmogony."2 the home was not merely a geometrical space; it was an existential and sacred place. when trade associations were indispensable, as was the case with those of the builders in ancient times, they were of a sacerdotal nature. among the egyptians, the priest embodied a special branch of human knowledge. each grade put its students through a predetermined series 6 the origins of freemasonry from ancient times to the middle ages of studies specific to the art or science that it professed. in addition, for each novitiate degree, students were subjected to trials of initiation the purpose of which was to ensure them a vocation an

n to state that nimrod (or nimroth, king of babylon, provided his masons with a "rule" stating that they should be loyal to each other and love each other. it is said that he also gave them two other rules concerning their science, though it is not known what these were. the next major figure in the narrative was abraham. he left his native region on the euphrates river for egypt, where he taught the egyptians the seven sciences. one of his students was euclid. during this time, the nobility were giving birth to so many children that they were at a loss as to how to find uses for all of them. it was euclid who, with the king's permission, taught the noble children geometry (and it was during this era that this science was given its name) and then saw to it that they built temples, churches

lting understanding generally agreed upon was that freemasonry was the "original religion" handed down from such diverse sources as king arthur, richard i, ramon lulle, the gnostics and the school of alexandria, the templars (as instructed by judas of galilee, disciple of the hermit banon, pythagoras, plato, jesus christ and the apostles, the persian philosopher each-ben-mohammed- eleansi, ormus, the egyptians, the benedictines, the rosicrucians, zoroaster, abbaris, channondas, eudoxus, hermippis, hermes trismegistus, porphyrus, plotinus, proclus, jamblique, the priesthood schools of india, the gauls, the hebrews, the essenes, and the persian magi.22 the temple of solomon had been transformed into the tower of babel. only a single brother, one of the most eminent in attendance, baron von g

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"evil" slayer of osiris, hence the personification of "evil; yet any but the most cursory study of egyptian religious symbolism is sufficient to dispel this caricature. he was rather the "god not of the gods: a neter "against the neteru: the entity who symbolized that which is not of nature. this is a very curious role for a god in egyptian cosmology. as discussed in the ruby tablet (ot.ii.a.1.a "the egyptians perceived the universe as actively controlled by conscious, natural principles (neteru. to the egyptians, all of 'nature (derived from neter) was alive and onyx tablet: ot.i.ancp temple of set author: michael a. aquino vi date: december 1, 1988 ce revision: html revision: august 8, 1999 ce the direct consequence of the wills of the neteru. nature was intelligible not just through ina

n the above quote from the point of view of a neter "a thing created in the mind thereby exists" this is dangerous ground to tread, so much more so for an ancient egyptian civilization whose entire "natural" cosmology was based upon the perfection and harmony of the universe. former director of cairo's french oriental archaeological institute serge sauneron comments "to understand the attitude of the egyptians, it is necessary to emphasize the striking contrast between their view of the world and ours. we live in a universe which we know is in perpetual movement; each new problem demands a new solution. but for the egyptians this notion of time which modifies the current knowledge of the world, of an alteration of factors which forces a change in methods, had no place. in the beginning the

egypt. as sauneron and many other egyptologists have acknowledged, egyptian philosophy was based upon a millennia-old conviction of the absolute presence and influence of the neteru, and in the virtue of a social system in which the preservation of cyclical harmony was all-important. while the new empire of the xix-xx dynasties extended egypt's influence to palestine and mesopotamia, it also made the egyptians aware that there were many other functioning cultures in which the neteru were unknown [at least by their egyptian names. moreover the concept of egypt as just one among a number of nation-states competing for power and influence in the mediterranean, rather than as the one civilization at the center of existence, must have been a most unsettling one to this ancient culture- which pr

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iterate egyptians not only identified typhon with set but invoked the powers of set-typhon, hailed set-typhon as a divine power, and so forth. strange though the magical papyri seem to us today, they document a flow of "operative" temple knowlege from egypt into the mediterranean world. this naturally invites speculation as to what theoretical or abstract knowlege might also have passed by way of the egyptians who wrote these papyri in the twilight of their civilization. in hermetic magic (york beach, me: samuel weiser, inc, 1995) stephen flowers affirms that the magical papyri were a major root of the western magical philosophy called hermeticism. betz states frankly in his preface to the greek magical papyri "it is known that philosophers of the neopythagorean and neo-platonic schools, a

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

a. vishnu, the wide-strider, measured out the cosmos in three strides. he is regarded as the protector of the world, and because of his compassion for humankind, descends to earth in various avatar forms, such as prince rama, to fight evil. whenever vishnu is incarnated, so is lakshmi, to be his bride. here, garuda is taking the loving couple to their own heaven, vaikuntha. introduction 9 female. the egyptians, for example, worshiped geb as god of the earth, and his sister-bride nut as the goddess of the sky. nowhere has worship of the eternal female been so strong as in india, where various goddesses are worshiped under the enveloping spell of mahadevi, the great goddess. devi is the consort of the god shiva (see pp. 112 13, and is worshiped as benign parvati or uma or as ferocious and ve

human beings can aspire to the divine. in their search for perfection, the immortals earn not long life on earth, in linear time, but everlasting life in heaven, in eternal time. death and the underworld for most of humanity, the moment when linear time stops is at death. all mythologies hold out the hope that was so dear to the initiates of eleusis, that there may be a new life beyond this one. the egyptians hoped to be reborn to live a new life in the field of reeds, which was a perfected version of the egypt they knew. they were sustained triptolemus, culture hero triptolemus, who taught mankind how to use the plow, stands between the two goddesses of the eleusinian mysteries, demeter, and persephone. demeter is handing him a golden ear of grain (now lost. this marble relief of the sec

es her body to make the dome of the sky. each night she swallowed the sun, giving birth to it again each morning. because of her role as the mother of the life-giving sun, nut was regarded as the universal mother. the dead were entrusted to her and her image was marked on the underside of coffin lids. geb, the earth the earth god geb is shown sprawling recumbent beneath his sister-spouse the sky. the egyptians were unusual in comparison with other cultures, because they thought of the earth as male. symbols of life and stability this figure is ha, the god of the western desert, who protected egypt from enemies in the west, especially the libyans. raising his arms in blessing, he carries the ankh, symbol of the life-giving elements of air and water, from which hangs a sacred djed pillar, si

, and essential, spell is for not dying again in the realm of the dead. papyrus of anhay c. 1250 bce this papyrus is part of a book of the dead written for anhay, a priestess of amun-re, king of the gods. nun, the god of the primeval waters (see p. 12, holds up the barque of sun, upon which the scarab beetle, another symbol of the sun, is shown pushing the sun disc, as a scarab rolls a dung ball. the egyptians believed that a dead person, armed with the right spells, could counter the terrors of the underworld, duat, and live a new life in the field of reeds. all the elements that made up the living person had to be preserved and resurrected not just the physical body and the two parts of the soul, the ka (life force) and the ba (personality, or genius, but also the individual s name and s

isis, in her search for osiris, becomes a nursemaid to a prince; both goddesses try to give the boys immortality by burning away their mortal parts, but they are interrupted. isis uttered so terrible a cry on seeing osiris corpse that it killed the baby prince she was caring for. osiris, isis, and horus osiris, the ruler of the underworld, was originally a king in the upper world where he taught the egyptians (and later, the rest of the world) how to live, worship, and grow grain (they had previously been cannibals) he earned the name wennefer, meaning eternally good. he was murdered by his jealous brother seth, who tricked him into a wooden chest, which he sealed up and sent down the nile. osiris wife isis rescued the corpse, but when seth found it, he cut it up and scattered the pieces

PIKE CUMMINGS THE SPURIOUS RITES OF MEMPHIS AND MISRAIM

x x x x the rite of memphis. in a work entitled the sanctuary of memphis, by j. e. marconis, the author, who styles himself the founder of the rite in question, thus briefly gives an account of its origin. the rite of memphis, or oriental rite, was introduced into europe by, ormus, a seraphic priest of alexandria, and egyptian sage,who had been converted by st.mark, and reformed the doctrines of the egyptians in accordance with the principles of christianity. the disciples of ormus continued, until b b b i, to be the sole guardians of ancient egyptian wisdom as purified by christianity, and solomonian science. this science they communicated to the templars.they were then known by the title of knights of palestine or brethren rose-croix of the east. in them, the rite of memphis recognizes

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

has no desire to eat the whole flock! but in the analogous case, samel was accusing the entire jewish people, saying gthese are idol-worshippers and those are idol-worshippers! h how, then, would he be satisfied just to receive [permission to inflict suffering upon] job? when the jews were crossing the split sea on their way out of egypt, at a certain point they had not reached the other side and the egyptians had entered the sea in their pursuit. at that point, we are told, the heavenly accuser protested to g-d, saying, gboth these and those are idol-worshippers. why are you planning to save these and drown those? h g-d thereupon gthrew satan a bone, h i.e, suggested that he inflict suffering upon job. this diverted his attention from the jewish people, who proceeded to cross over to dry

at that point, we are told, the heavenly accuser protested to g-d, saying, gboth these and those are idol-worshippers. why are you planning to save these and drown those? h g-d thereupon gthrew satan a bone, h i.e, suggested that he inflict suffering upon job. this diverted his attention from the jewish people, who proceeded to cross over to dry land unimpeded, leaving g-d to overturn the sea on the egyptians. furthermore: why did g-d use job to ransom israel? this seems biased, to say the least. gif tuvia sinned, should zigud be punished? h13 to understand this, we must explore another matter first. we have seen that at gthe covenant between the parts, h g-d said to abraham, g cyour seed will be sojourners in a land not theirs [they will serve them, and they will oppress them for four hu

zvot, parshat shoftim. 18. ruach hakodesh. the arizal on parashat miket 206 (sha far hapesukim) this is what is written, gand [joseph] relocated the people in cities from one end of egypt fs borders to the other h (genesis 47:21. those he relocated were those whom he had circumcised, and he moved them around in order to refine and purify them. these are the mixed multitude (the eirev rav) of whom the egyptians said, gthe people of the children of israel are more numerous and stronger than us h (exodus 1:9. but a later verse states, gand they [the egyptians] became dissatisfied with themselves because of the children of israel h (exodus 1:12 [in one verse they are referred to as gthe people of the children of israel, h whereas in the other they are referred to as simply gthe children of isr

aven when they introduced idolatry into the world. the generation of the flood caused the divine presence to ascend to the fourth heaven because of their social and sexual sins. the generation of the tower of babel caused the divine presence to ascend to the fifth heaven by declaring war on g-d. the generation of sodom caused the divine presence to ascend to the sixth heaven by their social sins. the egyptians of abraham fs generation caused the divine presence to ascend to the seventh heaven. the [souls of the] jews of the generation that was in exile in egypt were derived from the drops of semen that adam emitted during the 130 years [he was separated from his wife].2 after adam and eve ate from the fruit of the tree of knowledge, g-d informed them that they and their progeny would event

8 makot, end of chapter 3. 29 exodus 6:23. 30 addenda, 1:266b; 3:20a. 31 sanhedrin 107a. 32 psalms 52:3. parashat vaeira [second installment] the latter part of parashat vaeira records the first seven of the ten plagues; the last three are covered in the beginning of the following parashah, bo. we must now explain briefly the order of these ten plagues that the holy one, blessed be he, visited on the egyptians in egypt. the plagues were: blood, frogs, lice, the horde of animals, pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, and slaying the firstborn. they correspond, in ascending order, to the ten [sub-]sefirot of nukva, otherwise known as malchut. to explain: 1. blood. as i have told you, the numerical value of the simple progressive iteration of the name ekyeh is 44, that of the word for g

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

ic science and the higher alchemy from a long series of practised investigators whose origin is traced to the fratres roseae crucis of germany, which association was founded by one christian rosenkreutz about the year 1398 a. d "the rosicrucian revival of mysticism was but a new development of the vastly older wisdom of the qabalistic rabbis and of that very ancient secret knowledge, the magic of the egyptians, in which the hebrew pentateuch tells you that moses the founder of the jewish system was learned, that is, in which he had been initiated" in a slender but highly informative booklet entitled data of the history of <17> the rosicrucians published in 1916 by the late dr. william wynn westcott, we find the following brief statement "in 1887 by permission of s.d.a. a continental rosicr

so he flourisheth" the top of the scythe forms the tau cross of life, showing that what destroys also renews. the whole is a representation of the eternal transmutation of the life of nature, which reforms all things into fresh images and similitudes. this symbol represents the corrosive and destructive action of the infernalfire as opposedto the celestial- the dragon of the waters, the typhon of the egyptians, the slayer of osiris- which later yet rises again in horus. the scorpio, serpent of evil, delineated before <180> the figure of death in the more ancient form of the key, refers to the mixed and transforming, therefore deceptive, nature of this emblem. behind him, is the symbol of the nameless one, representing the seed and its germ, not yet differentiated into life, therefore incap

her simple red tunic reaches to the feet and she stands on black. 356 the golden dawn: volume 111 book five sentinel: anubis of the west. his form is the same as that of kerux but his nemyss, ornaments, and dress are black and white. he has a lion's tail and carries a black phoenix wand and ankh. he stand on black (note: if the reader, who is interested, will consult some such text as the gods of the egyptians by sir e. wallis budge, he will find pictures of the gods referred to. he would be well-advised to make his own tracings or drawings of them with colour as directed by these instructions.-i.r) the three chiefs imperator: nephthys nephthys has a face and body of translucent gold. she is crowned with a cap over a vulture head-dress of black and white, the vulture head being red. her co

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

e understood theuse of the dial, the precession of the equinoxes, and within a fraction the exact length of the tropicalyear, they even predicted in some cases, the return of comets.rituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliaphilosophus43 the chief seat of astronomical learning among the hindus, was at benares, but the knowledge of theindians in this science was not equal to their neighbours. the egyptians, however, who erected theirpyramids with mathematical precision, and not unlikely for astronomical purposes, and who erectednumerous monoliths to their sun-god ra, justly receive credit in astronomical history. theremarkable coincidence exists, that through the inclined entrance of the great pyramid, the stardraco, in hesperides, at its upper transit was visible day and night, and ma

e of skill and acumen. he catalogued 1082 stars, calculated themotions of the sun and moon, made observations of the planets, and described. their motions by atheory of epicycles: he also invented plain and spherical trigonometry. ptolemy followed, correctingthe procession, but insisted in placing the earth in the centre of his system.the arabians, impelled by the mahomedan faith, swept down upon the egyptians in the 7th.century, and by the destruction of the alexandrian library, the great history of the astronomy of thispast was mainly lost to the world. but the arabians surpassed the greeks in practical astronomy.continental europe took little interest in this science until the 13th century, and even then madeimmaterial advancement until the active days of the rosicrucians when fraters p

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

ted with a large hat, which, if turned down, would conceal his entire head. one hand is raised towards heaven, which he seems to command with his wand, while the other is placed upon his breast; before him are the chief symbols or instruments of science, and he has others hidden in a juggler's wallet. his body and arms form the letter aleph, the first of that alphabet which the jews borrowed from the egyptians: to this symbol we shall have occasion to recur later on. the magus is truly that which the hebrew kabalists term microprosopus otherwise, the creator of the little world. the first of all magical sciences being the knowledge of one's self, so is one's own creation first of all works of science; it comprehends the others and is the beginning of the great work. the expression, however

ed to earth, as if formulating by this gesture the one and twofold dogma which is the foundation of magic and begins the marvellous symbols of the emerald table of hermes. in the apocalypse of st. john there is reference to two witnesses or martyrs on whom prophetic tradition confers the names of elias and enoch-elias, man of faith, enthusiasm, miracle; enoch, one with him who is called hermes by the egyptians, honoured by the phoenicians as cadmus, author of the sacred alphabet and the universal key to the initiations of the logos, father of the kabalah, he who, according to sacred allegories, did not die like other men, but was translated to heaven, and will return at the end of time. much the same parable is told of st. john himself, who recovered and explained in his apocalypse the sym

igions have preserved the remembrance of a primitive book, written in hieroglyphs by the sages of the earliest epoch of the world. simplified and vulgarized in later days, its symbols furnished letters to the art of writing, characters to the word, and to occult philosophy its mysterious signs and pantacles. this book, attributed by the hebrews to enoch, seventh master of the world after adam; by the egyptians to hermes trismegistus; by the greeks to cadmus, the mysterious builder of the holy city: this book was the symbolical summary of primitive tradition, called subsequently kabalah or cabala, meaning reception. the tradition in question rests altogether on the one dogma of magic: the visible is for us the proportional measure of the invisible. now the ancients, observing that equilibri

e laugh is indeed with judas, who can congratulate himself upon not having slept like st. peter. in archaic writings preceding the captivity, the hebrew tau was cruciform, which confirms further our interpretation of the twelfth symbol of the kabalistic tarot. the cross, which produces four triangles, is also the sacred sign of the duodenary, and on this account it was called the key of heaven by the egyptians. so etteilla, confused by his protracted researches for the conciliation of the analogical necessities of this symbol with his own personal opinion, in which he was influenced by the erudite court de gebelin, placed in the hand of his upright hanged man, by him interpreted as prudence, a hermetic caduceus, formed by two serpents and a greek tau. seeing that he understood the necessit

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ifteen, 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. the frontispiece to this gritual h reproduces the exact figure of the terr

is a sceptre surmounted by a globe, square and triangle: his attitude is proud and tranquil. a double sphinx or two sphinxes joined at the haunches are harnessed to the chariot; they are pulling in opposite directions, but are looking the same way. they are respectively black and white. on the square which forms the fore part of the chariot is the indian lingam surmounted by the flying sphere of the egyptians. this hieroglyph, which we reproduce exactly, is perhaps the most beautiful and complete of all those that are comprised in the clavicle of the tarot. j balance, attraction and repulsion, life, terror, promise and threat. hieroglyph, justice with sword and balance. f good, horror of evil, morality, wisdom. hieroglyph, a sage leaning on his staff, holding a lamp in front of him and en

efrained carefully from stating whence he derived his scheme and from revealing the hieroglyphics on which he commented. postel showed similar discretion, naming the tarot only in the diagram of his key to the arcana, and referring to it in the rest of his book under the title of the genesis of enoch. the personage enoch, author of the primeval sacred book, is in effect identical with thoth among the egyptians, cadmus among the phoenicians and palamedes among the greeks. we have obtained in an extraordinary manner a sixteenth-century medal, which is a key of the tarot. we are doubtful whether it should be confessed that this medal and the place where it was deposited were shown us in dream by the divine paracelsus: in any case, the medal is in our possession. on one side it depicts the jug

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998-2001, rjstewart, all rights and permissions reserved http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_171.htm [10/9/2001 12:37:42 4 napaka! zaznamek ni definiran. a guide to effective public speaking. napaka! zaznamek ni definiran. philosophy ancient egyptian philosophy inhabiting a land characterized by the regularity of the elements (behavior of the winds, the nile, the climate, the sun, and the skies, the egyptians sought perfection in stability, harmony, symmetry, geometry, and a cyclical [as opposed to progressive or linear] concept of time. egyptian achievements, correspondingly, were in areas such as astronomy, mathematics, medicine, and architecture. egyptian religion and art tend to be oversimplified in many modern treatments, due in part to the absence of verifiable data in later history

records and works of art by religious fanatics of later eras, it is estimated that modern archaeologists have at their disposal less than 10% of that country's cultural creations from which to reconstruct its values. classification: v2- 102- 1 author: michael a. aquino vi date: october 1, xix revision: january 1, xxiv html revision: oct 07, 1997 ce subject: philosophy reading list #1 #2, 16l, 16m the egyptians perceived the universe as actively controlled by conscious, natural principles (neteru. to the egyptians, all of "nature (derived from neter) was alive and the direct consequence of the wills of the neteru. nature was intelligible not just through inanimate, automatic, general regularities which could be discovered via the "scientific method" but also through connections and associat

nguage was the most ornate of the three languages, the most ancient of the three languages, and the most symbolic. it was used for the most important religious and philosophical statements, and for the most important state declarations. many of the symbols used to form the hieroglyphic language had assigned sounds, and many others did not. in addition to the sounds and symbols used to form words, the egyptians used determinatives, signs added to specifically identify each word. through the use of the determinative, it was impossible to mistake one written word for another, even if verbal sounds were the same, even if the letters used were the same. this use of a purely symbolic, picture-oriented language encouraged the ability in the learned ancient egyptians to think with right brained me

nated with the tacit consent of the priesthood. this method of "impeachment" does not seem to have been abused, because an attack on the divine pharaoh for purely partisan motives would have been thought extremely ill-omened. only for an obvious betrayal of the pharaoh's sacred trust. as determined by the priesthood. could assassination be contemplated. the chimaera: what sort of legal system did the egyptians have? the sphinx: now we enter some particularly interesting territory from a platonic standpoint. as far as can be deduced from surviving records, bureaucratic and judicial affairs were not conducted according to a centralized legal code superior to the judgment of individual officials. such officials were given a more-or-less free hand within their respective areas of responsibilit

he tyrant to write to amasis king of egypt, with whom he had friendship (as appears also by herodotus) and hospitality (formerly) that he might be admitted to the aforesaid doctrine. coming to amasis, amasis gave him letters to the priests, and going first to those of heliopolis, they sent him to the priest of memphis, as the more ancient, which was indeed but a pretence of the heliopolitans [for the egyptians imparted not their mysteries to every one, nor committed the knowledg of divine things to profane persons, but to those only who were to inherit the kingdom; and, of priests, to those who were adjudged to excel the rest in education, learning, and descent] from memphis, upon the same pretence, he was sent to thebes. they not daring, for fear of the king, to pretend excuses; but think

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be the treasurer of hell. also serves as a mentor who inspires newr demons on to greater actions of evil. inspires sloth and idleness amongst humans. his adversary in heaven is st. bartholomew. archdemon corresponding to chesed (mathers, waite. astarte- ashtoreth was originally the creating and destroying goddess of the phonicians and zidonians, assosciated closely with the cult of baal. known to the egyptians as athtar, venus in the morning, in aramaic she is the morning star, as astroarche she is queen of the stars. avnas, amy (58th spirit, goetia. president commanding 36 legions, who appears as a flame. teaches astrology and the liberal arts, bewrays treasure kept by spirits. gives good familiars. az (hebrew, from aleph-zain, meaning then, therefore. the dark goddess. azael (hebrew. dem

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of magic tunrida- scandanavian female devil typhon- greek personification of satan yaotzin- aztec god of hell yen-lo-wang- chinese ruler of hell the devils of past religions have always, at least in part, had animal characteristics, evidence of man's constant need to deny that he too is an animal, for to do so would serve a mighty blow to his impoverished ego. the pig was despised by the jews and the egyptians. it symbolized the gods frey, osiris, adonis, persephone, attis, and demeter, and was sacrificed to osiris and the moon. but, in time, it became degraded into a devil. the phoenicians worhipped a fly god, baal, from which comes the devil, beelzebub. both baal and beelzebub are identical to the dung beetle or scarabaeus of the egyptians which appeared to resurrect itself, much as the

SCHEM HA MEPHORESH

. the 72 names of the deity are thus obtained. the 19th, 20th, and 21st verses of the xiv chapter of the book of exodus each consist of 72 letters (the english translation is) 19th verse: and the angel of the elohim, that went before the camp of israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud removed from before them and stood behind them. 20th verse: and it came between the camp of the egyptians and the camp of israel; and it was a cloud and darkness (to the first) but it gave light by night (to these; and the one came not near unto the other all the night. 21st verse: and moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the lord drove back the sea with a strong east wind all that night and made the sea dry land, and the waters divided. these three verses are now to be written

ber 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 thou, 0 tetragrammaton, art a shield about me, my gl

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reconnect with those who had died. the image of amen was brought out of the temple at karnak into public view and was taken by barge across the nile to visit temples in the west. even though this was a serious occasion, music and dancing accompanied the procession of amen on the royal barge. amen would be taken into the major temples and also to a necropolis, a large graveyard to honor the dead. the egyptians ate and drank large amounts during the feast of the valley, believing this brought them closer to their dead relatives and loved ones. visits to important temples, such as those at luxor and karnak, were also important pilgrimages. abydos is an ancient holy place in egypt. it was believed that the god osiris s head was sent to abydos after he was assassinated and dismembered by his b

s of society that is not wealthy, but also is not poor. this class in egypt developed around people who held particular jobs. an artisan, or skilled worker, class helped to build and decorate the pyramids and royal or noble tombs. these workers were considered middle class. 62 world religions: almanac ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia egyptian rites of passage home life was important for the egyptians. children were seen as a blessing from the gods. thus the first rite of passage, birth, was very important to the ancient egyptians. if a couple did not have children, they made offerings of food and wine to their special deity, asking for the gift of fertility. after birth, the same deity was invoked to protect the infant from evil spirits. young boys learned their father s trade or

a long and fruitful marriage. divorce was possible, but not common. barley was the staple in egypt, as it was in mesopotamia, and bread and beer were both common. religion played a major part in the agricultural year, with the pharaoh himself, the embodiment of amen, going to the fields at the time of planting to ensure a good harvest of grain. death was an immensely important religious event for the egyptians. mummification was, for the royalty and the wealthy (and later for the artisan class as well, the first stage in the funeral rites. mummies were placed in tombs or pyramids with numerous personal items the deceased would need in the afterlife. these included everything from jewelry to weapons, furniture, and even (for the wealthy) their slaves. the daily routine of work for the major

ians had a large number of recipes of herbs and other materials for different kinds of illness. yeast, for example, was recognized for its healing qualities and was applied to leg ulcers (inflammations) and swellings. yeast was also taken internally for stomach disorders and was believed to be an effective cure for ulcers. the egyptians were the first to use and record advanced medical practices. the egyptians gathered their knowledge into large volumes, which were later adopted by the greeks. an ancient medical text written by an egyptian of greek ancestry, named hermes, survives in six books. the first of these six books was directly related to anatomy. the rest served as a book of herb and mineral recipes for various ailments or illnesses. egyptian architecture and building techniques h

with sadness. his wife and daughters died in a shipwreck off alexandria, egypt, on their way to join him. after the death of barquq in 1401, the sultan s son, faraj, came to power. soon thereafter, there was an invasion of the middle east by the mongols, warriors from central asia, led by the great conqueror timur (c. 1336 1405. timur and his mongol soldiers were marching to damascus, syria, and the egyptians feared that the troops would also attack their country. faraj took his army to help defend damascus, and the sixty-nine-year-old ibn khaldu n accompanied him as a diplomat. once in damascus, however, faraj received word of a planned revolt against him in cairo and hurried home, leaving ibn khaldu n and a small group behind. when timur and the mongols arrived, ibn khaldu n acted as a

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e then cast it into the water, and the water became sweet. the blessed holy one then gave the satan a decree and a law, and it was there that he proved israel. the blessed holy one warned israel saying (exodus 15:26, if you listen to the voice of the lord your god [and do what is upright in his eyes, give ear to his commandments, and keep all his decrees, then all the sickness that i brought upon the egyptians, i will not bring upon you, for i am god who heals you. 162. what is this like? a king had a beautiful daughter, and others desired her. the king knew about it, but could not fight those who wanted to bring his daughter to evil ways. he came to his house and warned her, saying, my daughter, do not pay attention to the words of these enemies and they will not be able to overcome you

an the left, for it is already accustomed to be there. it is regarding this that the blessed holy one said to israel (exodus 15:26, if you listen to the voice of the lord your god, and do what is upright in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and not to the commandments of the evil urge and keep all his decrees and not the decrees of the evil urge [then all the sickness that i brought upon the egyptians, i will not bring upon you] for i am god who heals you. 164. what does the evil urge gain? what is this like? a king appointed clerks over the lands of his kingdom, over his work and over his merchandise. each and every thing had its clerk. there was one clerk in charge of the storehouse containing good food. another was in charge of the storehouse containing the bahir 42 stones. eve

do not turn aside, for you will follow chaos. it will not help or save, for it is chaos [it cannot help or save] but it can do harm. the advice that i give you is that you should (exodus 15:26, listen to the voice of the lord your god, do what is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments, and keep all his decrees. when you keep all his decrees, then, all the sickness that i brought upon the egyptians, i will not bring upon you. why did he say all this? in order to close all doors, so that he should not find you soft at times and hard at times. when you keep all his decrees, then all the sickness that i brought upon the egyptians through my hand i will not bring upon you. what is the meaning of for i am god who heals you? this means that even when he comes and strikes, i am god wh

SET IN EGYPTIAN THEOLOGY

it is quite hard to collect the pieces of the puzzle that is set. egyptologists have never agreed what the animal used to symbolize set actually is. since the sages of ancient egypt did not use an unrecognizable creature to represent any other major deity, we may guess that this is intentional, and points, like the tcham sceptre, to an esoteric meaning. references: budge, e.a. wallis. the gods of the egyptians. grant, kenneth. cults of the shadow. graves, robert. the white goddess. ions, veronica. egyptian mythology. massey, gerald. the natural genesis. russell, jeffrey burton. the devviset it straight! by denytenamun this article discusses set as portrayed in ancient egypt and as understood in the modern day temple of set. this was denytenamun's first article on set. every setian is soone

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contains no evidence whatsoever for a welding of egyptian seth and jewish seth. we can now recapitulate. colpe, asserting that there was an egyptian magical papyrus which showed an amalgamation of egyptian seth and jewish seth, referred to fauth. asserting that such a welding was made on egyptian soil, fauth simply relied on bleeker and bohlig. the latter has been proven wrong that the gospel of the egyptians shows an amalgamation of egyptian seth and jewish seth. bleeker only referred to doresse in substantiation of his statement that such an identification could be found. there is no evidence for doresse's theory that the gnostics took seth-typhon to be a beneficial deity and merged him with jewish seth. furthermore, when seth-typhon appears as the sun god in the magical papyri, there i

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d. inanimate nature likewise obeyed such words of power, and even the world itself came into existence through the utterance of a word by thoth; by their means the earth could be rent asunder, and the waters forsaking their nature could be piled up in a heap, and even the sun's course in the heavens could be stayed by a word. no god, or spirit, or devil, or fiend, could resist words of power, and the egyptians invoked their aid in the smallest as well as in the greatest events of their lives. to him that was versed in the lore contained in the books of the "double house of life" the future was as well known as the past, and neither time nor distance could limit the operations of his power; the mysteries of life and death were laid bare before him, and he could draw aside the veil which hid

for money, and for purposes of gain the so-called magician was ready to further any sordid transaction or wicked scheme which his dupe wished to carry out. this magic degenerated into sorcery, and demonology, and wit craft, and those who dealt in it were regarded as associates of the devil, and servants of the powers of darkness, and workers of the "black art" in the "white" and "black" magic of the egyptians most of the magic known in the other countries of the world may be found; it is impossible yet to say exactly how much the beliefs and religious systems of other nations were influenced by them, but there is no, doubt that certain views and religious ideas of many heathen and p. xiii christian sects may be traced directly to them. many interesting proofs might be adduced in support o

r the religion of many of the sects which flourished in the first three or four centuries of our era, and which may be said to have held beliefs which were part christian and part non-christian. in its non- christian aspect it represents a collection of ideas and superstitions which belong to a savage or semi-savage state of existence, and which maintained their hold in a degree upon the minds of the egyptians long after they had advanced to a high state of civilization. we may think that such ideas and beliefs are both childish and foolish, but there is no possible reason for doubting that they were very real things to those who held them, and whether they are childish or foolish or both they certainly passed into the religion of the people of egypt, wherein they grew and flourished, and

se against whom it was directed. in the religious texts and works we see how magic is made to be the handmaiden of religion, and how it appears in certain passages side by side with the most exalted spiritual conceptions; and there can be no doubt that the chief object of magical books and ceremonies was to benefit those who had by some means attained sufficient knowledge to make use of them. but the egyptians were unfortunate enough not to be understood by many of the strangers who found their way into their country, and as a result wrong and exaggerated ideas of their religion were circulated among the surrounding nations, and the magical ceremonies which were performed at their funerals were represented by the ignorant either as silly acts of superstition or as tricks of the "black" art

he magical ceremonies which were performed at their funerals were represented by the ignorant either as silly acts of superstition or as tricks of the "black" art. but whereas the magic of every other nation of the ancient east was directed entirely against the powers of darkness, and was p. 4 invented in order to frustrate their fell designs by invoking a class of benevolent beings to their aid, the egyptians aimed being able to command their gods to work for them, and to compel them to appear at their desire. these great results were to be obtained by the use of certain words which, to be efficacious, must be uttered in a proper tone of voice by a duly qualified man; such words might be written upon some substance, papyrus, precious stones, and the like, and worn on the person, when thei

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he need not only to train the senses, but to effect that point we call the magical link that is the intersection of one's senses, psyche, and actions. changing the ways of knowledge, that is to say, changing perception is the great work. it takes years to do, and early success in magical initiation may lull us into forgetting the need to work in this area. like modern neurolinguistics programming the egyptians were familiar with three modes of knowledge: touch, hearing and sight. they identified these as other- and self-centric forms, the self-centric form being connected with the right half of the body, the other-centric with the left. these modes of perception are vital for the modern magician to learn and practice as they are key to nourishing and expanding the magical part of one's lif

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. if we had the apocryph of iannes and iambres we might understand the reference. 2. 2 tim. iii. 8] 126. i said therefore to him "how wast thou found in the red sea" and he answered "in the exodus of the sons of israel i hardened the heart of pharaoh. and i excited his heart and that of his ministers. and i caused them to pursue after the children of israel. and pharaoh followed with (me) and all the egyptians. then i was present there, and we followed together. and we all came up upon the red sea. and it came to pass when the children of israel had crossed over, the water returned and hid all the host of the egyptians and all their might. and i remained in the sea, being kept under this pillar. but when ephippas came, being sent by thee, shut up in the vessel of a flask, he fetched me up

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

why was this particular quotation chosen? the terms "word" and "light" have especially significant meanings in the occult lexicon. in the ancient mysteries of egypt the word "is said to have been the tetragrammaton (see source 9, part i, p. 889 "the connection of material light with. mental illumination was prominently exhibited in all the ancient systems of religion and esoteric mysteries. among the egyptians. the symbol of moral illumination. was also the symbol of osiris [ibid, pp. 469-470) these root-symbols are met with over and over again in all of the temples and designs used by the devotees of the "new" pagan cult [persons involved in the establishment and decoration of the prayer room, in addition to those already named, were: the senate chaplain, rev. frederick brown harris; the

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nt of the same power that generated the myths.73 the relationship between mythical imagery as a form of representation and higher, philosophical knowledge is thus stated by plotinus from the standpoint of the neoplatonic school, in connection with the guardians of priestly wisdom in egypt: whether as a result of rigorous investigations, or instinctively, in imparting their wisdom, the wise men of the egyptians do not expound their teaching and precepts by means of written signs, which are imitations of voice and speech. instead they draw pictures; and in their temple engravings they illustrate the thought that goes with each particular thing, myth and mysteriosophy 67 so that every picture is an object which embodies knowledge and wisdom as a totality, without any analysis or discussion. o

t.122 but then, he failed to recognize the path toward understanding them. let us take the gospel of john. let us look upon its drama of the achievement of knowledge. in terms both symbolic and physically real we see it enacting before our gaze what the ancient world performed as the mystery itself. the words lazarus, came forth recall the cry with which the initiator in the priestly mysteries of the egyptians summoned back to everyday life those who had undergone initiation; they had died to the earthly world and become witnesses of eternal life; the events of initiation had transported them for a time from the world. by speaking them, jesus had revealed the secret of the mysteries. that is why the jews felt that they could not allow such an act to go unpunished, as we may now understand

SYMBOLISM

nguage was the most ornate of the three languages, the most ancient of the three languages, and the most symbolic. it was used for the most important religious and philosophical statements, and for the most important state declarations. many of the symbols used to form the hieroglyphic language had assigned sounds, and many others did not. in addition to the sounds and symbols used to form words, the egyptians used determinatives, signs added to specifically identify each word. through the use of the determinative, it was impossible to mistake one written word for another, even if verbal sounds were the same, even if the letters used were the same. this use of a purely symbolic, picture-oriented language encouraged the ability in the learned ancient egyptians to think with right brained me

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who are forcing these changes on a reluctant and evil illuminati corps. pagan origins of the sign of silence the masonic practice of signs warning of frightening penalties for breaking silence most definitely is of pagan origins. in greece, rome, babylon, and egypt, those who had loose lips often paid with their lives and fortunes, so sacred and guarded were the secrets of the mystery religions. the egyptians and romans even worshipped a god of silence, harpocrates, a form of the solar deity. harpocrates was often pictured sitting on his mother's lap, suckling at her breast. later, the catholic church adopted similar images in the veneration of mary with child. sometimes harpocrates was pictured naked or with horns on his head, symbols of power. he often sat on a lotus flower. the lotus i

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l the flexed position of the body, and discoveries of other sites where stone slabs were placed over the neanderthal graves, along with food and tools, suggests that neanderthal man believed in life after death. their concept of the afterlife must not have been that much different than the life they experienced on earth; they provided the dead with food, tools, and other everyday items, much like the egyptians did for their journey to the next life. death to the neanderthals may have even been regarded as a kind of sleep, perhaps like a rest before a rebirth, as corpses were carefully positioned in the fetal state. sources: burial, ritual, religion, and cannibalism. http//thunder.indstate. edu/ ramanank/ritual.html. 10 july 2001. oldest discovered burial site while many people consider the

mparative anthology of sacred texts. new york: paragon house, 1995. ancient egypt and the afterlife the ancient egyptians were preoccupied with the specter of death and the problem of how best to accomplish passage to the other side. there was never an ancient people who insisted upon believing that death was not the final act of a human being, that it is not death to die, with more emphasis than the egyptians. in the cosmology of the early egyptians, humans were considered the children of the gods, which meant that they had inherited many other elements from their divine progenitors than physical bodies. the ba, or soul, was portrayed on the walls of tombs as a human-headed bird leaving the body at death. during a person s lifetime, the ba was an intangible essence, associated with the br

now been extended so that any deceased human, commoner or noble-born, who had the means could become an osiris. the most important ceremony associated with the preparation of the dead was the opening of the eyes, mouth, ears, and nose of the deceased. this rite was thought to guarantee 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 afterlife mysteries 17 the egyptians did not believe that mummifying a body would enable it to come back to life in the next world. they knew the physical body would remain in this world, but they preserved it, believing that the spirit of the person needed its body as a kind of base or reference point. if a body could not be recovered, had it, for example, been destroyed by fire or lost at sea, it was a serious matter

tatue or a kind of reconstruction or artistic portrait would be used for the departing spirit. an important ritual was performed at the funeral service of the departed, called the opening of the mouth. this ceremony was a magical treatment of the mouth and other apertures of the body to ensure the spirit s ability to continue to hear, see, eat, and so forth, should it need to in the spirit world. the egyptians also performed this ceremony over statues and paintings, to endow them with a form in the afterworld. sources: ruffle, john. ancient egypt: land of the priest-king; egyptian temples: houses of power. in eerdman s handbook to the world s religions. edited by r. pierce beaver. grand rapids, mich: william b. eerdman s publishing co, 1982. egyptian journey to the next world uponan egypti

ng along through various expressions of the life force until, after about 3,000 years, it could once again achieve rebirth as a human. m delving deeper gaster, theodor h, ed. the new golden bough. new york: criterion books, 1959. larousse dictionary of beliefs and religions. new york: larousse, 1994. osiris: death and resurrection osiris was called lord of lords, king of kings, and god of gods by the egyptians. according to the scholar e. a. w. budge [osiris] was the god-man who suffered, and died, and rose again, and reigned eternally in heaven. they [the egyptians] believed that they would inherit eternal life, just as he had done. the ancient myths proclaim that osiris first received renown as a peaceful leader of a higher culture in the eastern delta, then as a powerful ruler over all

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cteristics until they became men and women. among the superstitions associated with the dog is the ancient belief that the howling of dogs portends death and calamities. this appears to be a relic of the time when humans made deities of animals, and as a deity, the dog was supposed to be able to foresee death and give warning of it by howling or barking. this superstition became perpetuated among the egyptians, who depicted the god that presided over the embalming of the dead as anubis, the jackal-headed deity. it was also anubis s task to lead the spirits of the deceased to the hall of judgment. among many native american tribes, it is the dog who awaits the spirit of the newly deceased on the way of departed spirits and who accompanies the entity to the land of the grandparents. in addit

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 superstitions, strange customs, taboos, and urban legends 193 canines and humans formed a common bond more than 140,000 years ago. on wood or bone. today these amulets have taken the form of good-luck charms and are offered in such forms as miniature wishbones or horseshoes, little china pigs or elephants. the dutch, the irish, the italians, the egyptians, and the chinese all fear the evil eye and have charms for the purpose of warding off its evil influence. the dutch place broad strips of black paint upon their farmhouses; the irish have special charm phrases; the chinese employ the universal means of fighting off the evil eye by spitting over the shoulder to frighten away the evil one. italians, especially the men, wear a charm sha

as unlucky. the greeks, romans, and egyptians considered the sneeze a kind of internal oracle that warned them in times of danger and foretold future good or evil. sneezing to the right was considered lucky; to the left, unlucky. an old flemish belief maintained that a sneeze during conversation proved the truth of a remark. such a superstition was also prevalent among the greeks, the romans, and the egyptians. the custom of uttering a benediction, a god bless you, after the sneeze is universal, and each country has its own particular superstition concerning it. the romans believed that the sneeze expelled evil spirits; therefore, the act of sneezing was considered an effort on the part of the person to rid his or her system of evil spirits, and those present at the time would say, good lu

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 214 superstitions, strange customs, taboos, and urban legends walker, barbara g. the woman s encyclopedia of myths and secrets. san francisco: harper& row, 1983. hospitality and etiquette in primitive times, hospitality most often found expression in great feasts in honor of some momentous event or to pay homage to an important visitor. the egyptians of 4,000 years ago feasted in great halls, offering food to their gods before they themselves touched a morsel. the egyptians were fond of elaborate dinners as a form of entertainment, the serving of food continuing for several hours. both men and women were invited, and dining couches and small tables were provided for the guests, who regaled themselves with dishes of fowl, game, fi

body as long as possible. coffins are sold to the bereaved families as dependable containers that will be able to preserve and protect the body of their beloved for centuries. crypts and vaults to contain family coffins are placed above ground and constructed of concrete or granite. embalming the body of the deceased was practiced in ancient egypt where the warm, dry climate assured its success. the egyptians anointed, embalmed, and buried their dead, and made mummies of the men and women of power, rank, and importance. to mummify, the egyptians extracted the brain and the intestines, cleaned out the body through an incision in the side, and filled the body cavities with spices. the body was then 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 222

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h is itself a description of the seven stages of gold-making. hermes, who is called trismegistus, gthree times the greatest, h was a deity of a group of greeks who once founded a colony in egypt. this transplanted god drew his name from hermes (mercury to the romans, the messenger of the greek hierarchy of deities and the god who conducted the souls of the dead to the underworld kingdom of hades. the egyptians identified hermes trismegistus with thoth, who, in their pantheon of gods, was the divine inventor of writing and the spoken word. these same greek colonists developed an interest in the old egyptian religion, then went on to combine elements of their hellenistic beliefs, add fragments of judaism and other eastern belief constructs, and set about creating a synthesis of the various t

from the physical plane. they cannot, however, interfere in any way with human free will, which always must make the choice between good and evil. in their capacity to help, though, these angels can be called upon to assist humans in various ways. it is these archangels, then, that the magi evoke in their ceremonies. accompanying the concept of the planetary spirits, or archangels, was something the egyptians called ghekau h or word of power. the word of power, when spoken, released a vibration capable of evoking spirits. the most powerful hekau for calling up a specific spirit in ceremonial magic is that spirit fs name. gto name is to define, h cried count cagliostro, a famous occultist of the eighteenth century. and, to the magi of the middle ages, to know the name of a spirit was to t

r gospel uses the same 12 zodiacal signs as does astrology, but begins with virgo and ends with leo. katter stated that, according to tradition, jacob and his 12 sons carried zodiacal tablets and banners into egypt and carried them out in the exodus. like astrology, the star gospel holds that the 12 signs stand for 12 positions of the sun in relation to earth. while western astrology evolved from the egyptians, babylonians, chaldeans, and greeks, chinese astrology developed independently of outside influences and was formed around the belief that the emperor was divine. some scholars of astrology place the beginning of chinese astrology during the reign of emperor fu hsi around 2800 b.c.e. and attribute the naming of the 12 signs of the chinese zodiac to a legendary emperor yao. the figure

ses of scarabs (a kind of beetle) were also prominent. a scarab encloses an egg in mud or dung and rolls it along to a spot where it can be warm and safe. egyptians considered this a metaphor for the journey of the sun each day. the scarab amulet became a common emblem for regeneration and was placed with the dead. sumerians, who inhabited mesopotamia (present-day iraq) and were contemporaries of the egyptians, had amulets inscribed with images of animals and gods. they also inscribed such images on seals for everything from pottery to vaults to doors: the emblem on the seal represented a guardian spirit that would bring bad luck to those who opened the sealed compartment without permission of the owner. the treasures of king tutankhamen of egypt (c. 1370.1352 b.c.e) abound with crystals i

according to its proponents, existed in the caribbean ocean and had many of the attributes associated with atlantis. the mysterious lost lands of lemuria and mu were conceived of during the nineteenth century, when the theory of evolution was introduced and was among the advances in the sciences that challenged conventional ways of understanding life. archaeological discoveries among the ruins of the egyptians, mayans, and other societies were forcing new interpretations of history, and radical forms of mysticism, such as theosophy, were becoming popular. references to the lost continent of mu can be traced back to 1864 and a french archaeologist named charles-etienne brasseur de bourbourg. he had become fascinated by hieroglyphics found on mayan ruins that dated back several centuries. by

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

ccording to the mathematics of god. mysteries of other worlds, hidden forces, strange revelations, mysterious illnesses, exceptional faculties, spirits, apparitions, magical paradoxes, hermetic arcana, we shall say all, and we shall explain all. who has given us this power? we do not fear to reveal it to our readers. there exists an occult and sacred alphabet which the hebrews attribute to enoch, the egyptians to thoth or to hermes trismegistus, the greeks to cadmus and to palamedes. this alphabet was known to the followers of pythagoras, and is composed of absolute ideas attached to signs and numbers; by its combinations, it realizes the mathematics of thought. solomon represented this alphabet by seventy-two names, written upon thirty-six talismans. eastern initiates still call these the

gation of the ternary, and the affirmation of the natural forces alone. the ancient hierophants, as our learned and witty friend desbarolles is about to explain in an admirable book which is at present in the press, had given a complete "resume" of magical science in the human hand. the forefinger, for them, represented jupiter; the middle finger, saturn; the ring-finger, apollo or the sun. among the egyptians, the middle finger was ops, the forefinger osiris, and the little finger horus; the thumb represented the generative force,and the little finger, cunning. a hand, showing only the thumb and 151 the little finger, is equivalent, in the sacred hieroglyphic language, to the exclusive affirmation of passion and diplomacy. it is the perverted and material translation of that great word of

y the knowledge of the great magical agent, or by the rational and ontological notion of the absolute. the universal agent is a force tractable and subordinate to intelligence. abandoned to itself, it, like moloch, devours rapidly all that to which it gives birth, and changes the superabundance of life into immense destruction. it is, then, the infernal serpent of the ancient myths, the typhon of the egyptians, and the moloch of phoenicia; but if wisdom, mother of the elohim, puts her foot upon his head, she outwears 202 all the flames which he belches forth, and pours with full hands upon the earth a vivifying light. thus also it is said in the zohar that at the beginning of our earthly period, when the elements disputed among themselves the surface of the earth, that fire, like an immens

of the mysteries of the tetragram. in fact, the order of the letters of that great name indicates the predominance of the idea over form, of the active over the passive, of cause over effect. by reversion that order one obtains the contrary. jehovah is he who tames nature as it were a superb horse and makes it go where he will; chavajoh (the demon) is the horse without a bridle who, like those of the egyptians of the song of moses, falls upon its rider, and hurls him beneath it, into the abyss. the devil, then, exists really enough for the qabalists; but it is neither a person nor a distinguished power of even the forces of nature. the devil is dispersion, or the slumber of the intelligence. it is madness and falsehood. thus are explained the nightmares of the middle ages; thus, too, are e

e to will is to do. for this reason the gospel tells us that men will be judged according to their works. our works make us so much what we are, that our body itself, as we have said, receives the modification, and sometimes the complete change, of its form from our habits. a form conquered, or submitted to, becomes a providence, or a fatality, for all one's existence. those strange figures which the egyptians gave to the human symbols of divinity represent the fatal forms. typhon has a crocodile's head. he is condemned to eat ceaselessly in order to fill his hippopotamus belly. thus he is devoted, by his greed and his ugliness, to eternal destruction. man can kill or vivify his faculties by negligence or by abuse. he can create for himself new faculties by the good use of those which he h

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ame, is enough to dismiss some malicious and/or curious and misinformed critics. finding among students of the mystery of divine name- names like a. kircher with his 'oedipus aegyptiacus (rome, 1655, or that of archangelo de borgonovo, we see that martinists of tradition using the divine name- ieshouah- are in very good company. to use a metaphor, just like the angel separated the israelites from the egyptians at the time of the symbolic crossing of the red sea, so also the letter shin separates, into two parts, the four letters of the initial tetragram i.h.v.h, expressing the living god, god of the world, the manifested god; the two numerical values thus obtained are very significant. yet, how more significant is this insertion of shin, the mother-letter designating the fire, into the cen

y from him a part of his own spiritual powers. the operator clothed in an alb or not, will wear a bandolier or a collar proper to his/her degree but without the usual jewel of the order. 5. operational cloth: the operational cloth is made from a piece of crimson red cloth, linen or silk, approximately 25 square inches- which is according to the dimensions of the pyramid cubit, the sacred cubit of the egyptians, which served as a unit of measure since the construction of the temple of solomon7. the traditional martinist pantacle, of approximately 8 in. in diameter should be embroidered, painted or otherwise adorned in lace, in black and white, in the centre of this cloth. it will be perfectly satisfactory and as efficient, to place as a substitute the metal jewel of the order on the right s

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

s and statues. the purpose of this iconography was to ward off the spiritual- and psychic- circumstances which would precipitate a plague, or some other evil "evil to destroy evil" although the ancient people of the world were conscious of an entity we might call the :author of all evil, the devil or satan, as evident in the sumerian creation epic and the rumoured existences of the cult of set of the egyptians, the more pressing concern was usually the exorcism of tiamat, she exists, somehow, just as the abyss exists and is perhaps indispensable to human life if we think of her as typifying the female quality of energy. although marduk was responsible for halving the monster from the sea, the sumerian tradition has it that the monster is not dead, but dreaming, asleep below the surface of

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t and use it to attract us? saying: leave your desires, the substance you were created in and have been immersed in, and go to another desire, one that i will show you. the creator does not show us that we must ascend spiritually. rather he says that we must first go down to egypt, meaning to the gutter of our darkest and fiercest egoistic desires. these desires are so egoistic that they are like the egyptians in our world, who knew how to use the egoism so perfectly, that they could mummify their bodies and preserve them virtually forever. they made idols of their dead and were tied to their bodies. the creator does not say to abraham that he must aspire upward in order to cross to the other desire, that there is where he will find the creator and there is where he will fill him. that mea

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

this connection, though he only knows the creative value of desire, and that since a and not-a are mutually limiting, therefore interdependent, therefore identical, he who forbids an act commits it. vol. ii, p. 193. agnosticism ex oriente lux. as old as the vedas is the idea of agnosticism, though in name it is not yet forty years of age. everywhere we look we find the. of paul, midst the greeks, the egyptians, the hebrews, the chaldeans, the aryans, and the chinese, and its light is focussed in the greatest of the great: socrates and plato, malebranche and descartes, locke and spinoza, hume and berkeley, swedenborg and kant, hegel and comte, tyndall, spencer, and huxley. declining the mimetic, seeking the idiosyncratic, and standing by the eclectic, it has stood and grown a colossus of th

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whom its purchase was first proposed, fell through, and he subsequently sold it to sir john soane, it is said for the sum of 2000. an examination of the sarcophagus shows that both it and its cover were hollowed out of monolithic blocks of alabaster, p. 45 and it is probable, as mr. sharpe says, 1 that these were quarried in the mountains near alabastronpolis, i.e, the district which was known to the egyptians by the name of het-nub, and is situated near the ruins known in modern times by the name of tell al-'amarna. in the yet-nub quarries large numbers of inscriptions, written chiefly in the hieratic character, have been found, and from the interesting selection from these published by messrs. blackden and fraser, we learn that several kings of the ancient and middle empires carried on w

beechey, who that day came from luxor, entered the tomb, but was also disappointed "the next day, the 19th, by means of a long beam we succeeded in sending a man up into the aperture, and having contrived to make a bridge of two beams, we crossed the pit. the little aperture we found to be an opening forced through a wall, that had entirely closed the entrance, which was as large as the corridor. the egyptians had closely shut it up, plastered the wall over, and painted it like the rest of the sides of the pit, so that but for the aperture, it would have been impossible to suppose, that there was any further proceeding; and anyone would conclude, that the tomb ended with the pit. the rope in the inside of the wall did not fall to dust, but remained pretty strong, the water not having reach

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

9 and abram journeyed, going on still toward the south. 12:10 and there was a famine in the land: and abram went down into egypt to sojourn there; for the famine [was] grievous in the land. 12:11 and it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into egypt, that he said unto sarai his wife, behold now, i know that thou [art] a fair woman to look upon: 12:12 therefore it shall come to pass, when the egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, this [is] his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive. 12:13 say, i pray thee, thou [art] my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee. 12:14 and it came to pass, that, when abram was come into egypt, the egyptians beheld the woman that she [was] very fair. 12:15 the princes also of

uitful in the land of my affliction. 41:53 and the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of egypt, were ended. 41:54 and the seven years of dearth began to come, according as joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of egypt there was bread. 41:55 and when all the land of egypt was famished, the people cried to pharaoh for bread: and pharaoh said unto all the egyptians, go unto joseph; what he saith to you, do. 41:56 and the famine was over all the face of the earth: and joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of egypt. 41:57 and all countries came into egypt to joseph for to buy [corn] because that the famine was so sore in all lands. 42:1 now when jacob saw that there was corn in egypt

r, of whom ye spake unto me? and he said, god be gracious unto thee, my son. 43:30 and joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought [where] to weep; and he entered into [his] chamber, and wept there. 43:31 and he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself, and said, set on bread. 43:32 and they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the egyptians might not eat bread with the hebrews; for that [is] an abomination unto the egyptians. 43:33 and they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another. 43:34 and he took [and sent] messes unto them from before him: but benjamin s mess w

go up with his brethren. 44:34 for how shall i go up to my father, and the lad [be] not with me? lest peradventure i see the evil that shall come on my father. 45:1 then joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, cause every man to go out from me. and there stood no man with him, while joseph made himself known unto his brethren. 45:2 and he wept aloud: and the egyptians and the house of pharaoh heard. 45:3 and joseph said unto his brethren, i [am] joseph; doth my father yet live? and his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence. 45:4 and joseph said unto his brethren, come near to me, i pray you. and they came near. and he said, i [am] joseph your brother, whom ye sold into egypt. 45:5 now therefore be not grieved, nor a

le; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have. 46:33 and it shall come to pass, when pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, what [is] your occupation? 46:34 that ye shall say, thy servants trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we [and] also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of goshen; for every shepherd [is] an abomination unto the egyptians. 47:1 then joseph came and told pharaoh, and said, my father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of canaan; and, behold, they [are] in the land of goshen. 47:2 and he took some of his brethren [even] five men, and presented them unto pharaoh. 47:3 and pharaoh said unto his brethren, what [is] your occupation? and they s

TURNER ROBERT ARBETEL OF MAGICK

by nature& sometimes of him that is in the service of god: in which latter sense it is taken in matt, 2.1,2. when the wise men came to worship jesus, and this is the first and highest kind, which is called divine magick; and these the latins did entitle sapientes, or wise men: for the feare and worship of god, is the beginning of knowledge. these wise men the greeks call philosophers; and amongst the egyptians they were termed priests; the hebrews termed them cabalistos, prophets, scribes and pharisees; and amongst the babylonians they were differenced by the name of caldeans& by the persians they were called magicians: and one speaking of sosthenes, one of the ancient magicians, useth these words: et verum deum merita majestate prosequitur& angelos ministros dei, sed veri ejus venerationi

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

s, prior to their initiation, by abstaining from venery, and all impure food.1 we may therefore be assured, that no impure meaning could be conveyed by this symbol; but that it represented some fundamental principle of their faith. what this was, it is difficult to obtain any direct information, on account of the secrecy under which this part of their religion was guarded. plutarch tells us, that the egyptians represented osiris with the organ of generation erect, to show his generative and prolific power: he also tells us, that osiris was the same deity as the bacchus of the greek mythology; who was also the same as the first begotten love (erwj prwtogonoj) of orpheus and hesiod.2 this deity is celebrated by the ancient poets as the creator of all things, the father of gods and men;3 and

tory of orpheus himself is so confused and obscured by fable, that it is impossible to obtain any certain information concerning him. according to general tradition, he was a thracian, and introduced the mysteries, in which a more pure system of religion was taught, into greece (brucker, vol. i, part 2, lib. i, c. i) he is also said to have travelled into egypt (diodor. sic. lib. i, p. 80; but as the egyptians pretended that all foreigners received their sciences from them, at a time when all foreigners who entered the country were put to death or enslaved (diodor. sic. lib. i, pp. 78 et 107, this account may be rejected, with many others of the same kind. the egyptians certainly could not have taught orpheus the plurality of worlds, and true solar system, which appear to have been the fun

hile their separation from each other marked the divisions, by which it is made to return on itself, and thus produce years, months, and days. the symbol of the creative power is placed upon them, because these divisions were particularly under his influence and protection; the sun being his visible image, and the centre of his power, from which his emanations extended through the universe. hence the egyptians, in their sacred hymns, called upon osiris, as the being who dwelt concealed in the embraces of the sun;4 and hence the great luminary itself is called kosmokratwr (ruler of the world) in the orphic hymns.5 this general emanation of the pervading spirit of god, by which all things are generated and maintained, is beautifully described by virgil, in the following lines: deum namque ir

neumon, and the ibis, received similar honours. the symbolical characters, called hieroglyphics, continued to be esteemed by them as more holy and venerable than the conventional representations of sounds, notwithstanding their manifest inferiority; yet it does not appear, from any accounts extant, that they were able to assign any reason for this preference. on the contrary, strabo tells us that the egyptians of his time were wholly ignorant of their ancient learning and religion,1 though impostors continually pretended to explain it. their ignorance in these points is not to be wondered at, considering that the most ancient egyptians, of whom we have any authentic accounts, lived after the subversion of their monarchy and destruction of their temples by the persians, who used every endea

ation; for herodotus is the earliest traveller, and he visited this country when in ruins. it is observable in all modern religions, that men are superstitious in proportion as they are ignorant, and that those who know least of the principles of religion are the most earnest and fervent in the practice of its exterior rites and ceremonies. we may suppose from analogy, that this was the case with the egyptians. the learned and rational merely respected and revered the sacred animals, whilst the vulgar worshipped and adored them. the greatest part of the former being, as is natural to suppose, destroyed by the persecution of the persians, this worship and adoration became general; different cities adopting different animals as their tutelar deities, in the same manner as the catholics now p

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ods. the aztecs and mayans used the truncated pyramid to perform their human sacrifices upon in the belief that the blood-force liberated there would reflux down to their cultural works. they did not understand that this force was of the darkness, and it ultimately destroyed them; for when the spanish conquistadors came, the native cultures had no will to resist. the truncated stone cones used by the egyptians for altars are miniature versions of the pyramids of the aztecs and mayans. since the dawn of history works of magic have been performed on high places. altars and sacred groves can still be found on some hills in europe, and churches were often constructed on the elevated sites of older temples. mountains were revered as homes of the gods. those seeking illumination climbed to the t

, it will tip down the delicately hinged scale. the jackal-headed anubis adjusts the balance to ensure absolute honesty. the god of the scribes, thoth, records the list of sins. nearby waits the monster arnmut, the devourer (part crocodile and part lion, to seize the souls found unworthy of admittance into the presence of osiris and grind them to nothingness in his mas- sive jaws-the damnation of the egyptians was not hell but eternal oblivion. souls that had defiled themselves were not fit to merge with the light. their life experience was so much chaff, good for nothing but to fuel the fires of the world. if the soul was found worthy, then great thoth would speak thus: his heart hath indeed been weighed, and his soul hath borne witness concerning it; it hath been found true by trial in t

n of shadows and its true nature is oblivion. that the egyptian and christian myths are essentially the same is demonstrated conclusively by the medieval images of the great scale that weighs souls at the last judgment. examples of this scale of souls are to be found in the doorway of autun cathedral (eleventh centu- ry) and in the doorway of bourges cathedral (thirteenth century, both in france. the egyptians understood the dynamic aspect of the balance of life-that every action was part of the final assessment of the soul. a deed could be balanced but never erased. nor could anyone escape the ultimate judgment as to the worth of their existence. cosmic law is a machine that is not subject to prejudice or affec- tion. it always weighs true. although the norm of society is the sum of the g

and always it remains with them. eternally new, it is as old as time. no wealth may buy it, but it can be freely given. this magic place, which once seen is never forgotten, is the temple of the spirit. hermetic magic, with its characteristic love of synthesis, has tried to integrate the best features of all three temples into its own temple of the art. its design is reminiscent of the caskets of the egyptians, which often contain a box within a box within a box. the outer temple of magic is a physical place, usually a room or a building but occasionally a grove or a field. the middle temple is an imaginary set- ting that often bears little resemblance to the physical surroundings of the magus. the inner temple is entered with the descent of the light into the magic circle, and its charact

manifest beings are sub- servient to the light. earnest prayer is the one ritual action no demonic force can directly prevent the magus from performing. the magus should open his or her personal self without reservation to the divine spirit, which will wash through the body of the magus like a cool stream and carry away any obsession. the god-forms of egypt are particularly useful in magic. since the egyptians were themselves great magicians, they personified all the natural forces around them so that those forces could be used magically. this personification resulted in a diverse pantheon of hundreds of deities. each god must be studied individually so that the magus will know precisely which is most appropriate for any specific purpose. the gods of the greeks are less abstract and more h

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d this cannot be learnt or taught; it can only be spontane us' fortune is a bit misleading, in that it is perfectly possible to teach anyone to vibrate a word of power in a physical sense. what cannot be easily taught is the inner vibration of the word, which occurs on higher levels of the mind. the general concept of vibrating power words to control spiritual beings was derived from the magic of the egyptians and the gnostics, who used words composed of vowel sounds as weapons and as instruments of compulsion on the astral levels. these words were meaningless in the ordinary sense, and came to be known as barbarous words of evocation, since it was believed that they derived from ancient and forgotten languages. however, the words used by the golden dawn were not meaningless, but were hebr

alls on the land, and the stream from the other falls into the water. a single great star dominates the other seven above her head. it is evident that she is involved in some occult ritual that pertains to the fecundity and fruitfulness of the land and the water. in the tree visible past her shoulder, a bird sits and watches. the great star is sirius, known as the dog star, which was venerated by the egyptians because it rose above the eastern horizon at the time of the year when the nile river flooded and overflowed its banks. in this way, the fertility of the farmlands of egypt were annually renewed by a fresh deposit of river silt. the bird is the phoenix, which periodically renews itself and rises as a youthful bird from the remains of its former aged body. when we gaze around at the w

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rificed before the altar. the first-born males of non-sacrificial animals were simply destroyed, or redeemed by substituting a sacrificial animal. first-born sons were redeemed by the offering to the priests of five shekels of silver (num. 18:15-7, but strictly speaking they belonged to god in return for sparing the first-born of the hebrews during the last plague of egypt, when the first-born of the egyptians, including the son of the pharaoh, were taken (exod. 13:15. it is very possible that the twelve selected by joshua to carry the stones across the jordan were first-born sons. again, there is no mention of the number of the stones erected by abraham, but it would be reasonable to suspect that it was a set number and that the stones were erected in an established pattern. we can make s

2 tetragrammaton four pillars supported the sky at the cardinal points. later these pillars became the scepters of four gods "four elder spirits who dwell in the locks of hair of horus" namely amset (south, hap (north, tuamutef (east, and qebhsennuf (west. the supporting pillars were formed from the hair of horus, whose head was the heavens and whose eyes were the sun and moon (see budge, gods of the egyptians, vol. i, pp. 157-8. each of the sets of angels described in kelley's vision has a corresponding set of enochian names which are extracted by various techniques from the watchtowers. for example, the name of the king of each quarter is found by reading the eight letters in the center of the great cross of that watchtower in a clockwise inward spiral, so that the vibration of the name

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

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

nephthys brought forth a son named anpu (anubis, though he is not mentioned in the legend. of these gods osiris is singled out for special mention in the legend, in which khepera, speaking as neb-er-tcher, says that his name is ausares, who is the essence of the primeval matter of which he himself is formed. thus osiris was of the same substance as the great god who created the world according to the egyptians, and was a reincarnation of his great-grandfather. this portion of the legend helps to explain the views held about osiris as the great ancestral spirit, who when on earth was a benefactor of mankind, and who when in heaven was the saviour of souls. the legend speaks of the sun as the eye of khepera, or neb-er-tcher, and refers to some calamity which befell it and extinguished its li

face must follow him thither. then he went up into heaven and prepared a place to which all might come. then he said "hetep sekhet aa" i.e "let a great field be produced" and straightway "sekhet-hetep" or the "field of peace" came into being. he next said "let there be reeds (aaru) in it" and straightway "sekhet aaru" or the "field of reeds" came into being. sekhet-hetep was the elysian fields of the egyptians, and the field of reeds was a well-known section of it. another command of the god ra resulted in the creation of the stars, which the legend compares to flowers. then the goddess nut trembled in all her body, and ra, fearing that she might fall, caused to come into being the four pillars on which the heavens are supported. turning to shu, ra entreated him to protect these supports

by brugsch appeared in the ahandlungen der gottinger akademie, band xiv, pp. 173-236, and another by wiedemann in his die religion, p. 38 ff (see the english translation p. 69 ff. the legend, in the form in which it is here given, dates from the ptolemaic period, but the matter which it contains is far older, and it is probable that the facts recorded in it are fragments of actual history, which the egyptians of the late period tried to piece together in chronological order. we shall see as we read that the writer of the legend as we have it was not well acquainted with egyptian history, and that in his account of the conquest of egypt he has confounded one god with another, and mixed up historical facts with mythological legends to such a degree that his meaning is frequently uncertain

odiles and hippopotami, so that they might be able to wreck his boat and devour him. as the boat of the god approached them they opened their jaws to crush it, but horus and his followers came quickly on the scene, and defeated their purpose. the followers of horus here mentioned are called in the text "mesniu" i.e "blacksmiths" or "workers in metal" and they represent the primitive conquerors of the egyptians, who were armed with metal weapons, and so were able to overcome with tolerable ease the indigenous egyptians, whose weapons were made of flint and wood. horus and his "blacksmiths" were provided with iron lances and chains, and, baying cast the chains over the monsters in the river, they drove their lances into their snouts, and slew 651 of them. because horus gained his victory by

WICCA EIGHT SABBATS OF WITCHCRAFT

ve is the eve of all hallow's day (november 1st. and for once, even popular tradition remembers that the eve is more important than the day itself, the traditional celebration focusing on october 31st, beginning at sundown. and this seems only fitting for the great celtic new year's festival. not that the holiday was celtic only. in fact, it is startling how many ancient and unconnected cultures (the egyptians and pre-spanish mexicans, for example) celebrated this as a festival of the dead. but the majority of our modern traditions can be traced to the british isles. the celts called it samhain, which means 'summer's end, according to their ancient two-fold division of the year, when summer ran from beltane to samhain and winter ran from samhain to beltane (some modern covens echo this str

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

into the air. adam rose in prayer before the creator, saying, the woman you gave me has fled from me. immediately the holy one sent three angels after her. the holy one said to adam: if she wants to return, all the better. if not, she will have to accept that one hundred of her children will die every day. the angels went after her, finally locating her in the sea, in the powerful waters in which the egyptians were destined to perish. they told her what god had said, and she did not want to return (alphabet of ben sira 23a-b) and god created the human species in god s own image. male and female created god them (genesis 1:27) 286 scottish gaelic poetry editor s note: this collection is from the book nuadh bardachd/ modern scottish gaelic poetry (you won t find it in the library) with colle

WILLIAM WESCOTT GOLDEN DAWN HISTORTY LECTURE

xoteric arrangements of the rosicrucian society. it seems likely it was andrea who published in 1614 the fama fraternitatis, or theory of the society, which must have been derived from the old records of the pupils of christian rosenkrawz. but even this arrival of mysticism was a new development of the older wisdom of the qabalistic rabbis and of that very ancient secret knowledge of the magic of the egyptians into which moses had been initiated. through the qabalah, indeed, europe became possessed of the ancient wisdom more than from any one other source, for the hebrews were taught at one time by the egyptians and later by the chaldees of babylon. it is a curious fact that the classic nations, the greeks and romans, have handed down to us but slight glimpses of the ancient magic, and thi

ere taught at one time by the egyptians and later by the chaldees of babylon. it is a curious fact that the classic nations, the greeks and romans, have handed down to us but slight glimpses of the ancient magic, and this is more notable because greece succeeded to the mastership of egypt, and rome to the empire of both the greeks and jews. greece did indeed succeed to a share in the mysteries of the egyptians for the eleusinian mysteries were copies of the ancient ceremonies of isis, osiris and serapis; but they lacked true magic. and further, the classic writings contain but faint glimpses of even the eleusinian mysteries, and these disclose the fact that the pupils were partly ignorant of the true mysteries, a notable example of which is seen in the use of the words konx om pax, of whic

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

ny single system of worship throughout the world, without being struck by the peculiar persistence of the triple number in regard to divinity. whether as a group of deities, a triformed or 3- numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott headed god, a mysterious triunity, a deity of 3 powers, or a family relationship of 3 persons, such as the father, mother and son of the egyptians, osiris, isis and horus. and again in the various faiths we see the chief dignity given in turn to each person of the triad. some rejoice in the patriarchal unity, some in the greater glory of the son, and others again lavish all their adoration on the great mother. even in trinities of coequal males, each has his own special worshippers. note this especially among the hindus, where

. wyn n wes tcott it has been calculated by the late dr. kenealy that a messiah, or divine teacher, has been sent to the world every 600 years, thus- adam, the first messenger from the gods to our race on earth. enoch the second 600 years. fo-hi, the third, to china in particular. brighou, a hindu prophet. zaratusht, zoroaster, the fifth, to persia. thoth, taautus, or hermes trismegistus, sent to the egyptians. amosis, or moses, the jewish law-giver, the seventh. lao tseu, a second to china, 600 b.c, the eighth. jesus the ninth, to the jews first and then to the gentiles. mohammed the tenth; he flourished about a.d. 600. chengiz khan the eleventh, a.d. 1200, conquered persia. who the special messenger of 1800 was, the author is ignorant. the secrets of the naros of the apocalypse and of th

coelian, aventine, viminal, quirinal, esquiline, and the capitol. in latin times it was called urbs septicollis. some old authors speak of valentia as a secret name for rome. the bijou notes and queries, vol. xiv, p. 235, says that the 7 days of the week have all been used as sacred days. sunday by christians; monday by the greeks. tuesday by the persians. wednesday by the assyrians. thursday by the egyptians. friday by the turks. saturday by the jews. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the number 7 was curiously related to h. p. blavatsky and the theosophical society. lucifer was first published in 1887, and 1887 is the sum of 17 hundred, 17 tens and 17 units. h. p. b. lived at 17 lansdowne road, and 17 avenue road. lucifer was published at 7 duke

ace and union, in the masonic third token, the union of two five points of fellowship. in the bible, we notice 10 commandments, 10 instruments to which jewish psalms were sung, 10 strings in the psaltery, and that the holy ghost descended ten days after the ascension. tucer, rabanus and raymond lully associate the numbers 8 to air, 5 to fire, 6 to earth and 12 to water. apuleius states that among the egyptians it was customary to fast 10 days before sacrificing and budge says that they used a 10-day week. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the ten sephiroth form the essence of the hebrew dogmatic kabalah, a subject which is too vast and complex to be entered upon in this volume on numerals. a mere glance at the sephirotic emanations of the absolute d

men including the bridegroom. ten cups were drunk at a funeral party three before supper, three at supper and four after the meal at the recitation of the four blessings. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott abraham was tested 10 times; 10 miracles were performed in egypt to help the children of israel, and 10 at the red sea. ten plagues were made to afflict the egyptians. ten times the jews offended god in the wilderness. ten times did the shekinah come down into the world; at the garden of eden; at the tower of babel; at sodom; in egypt, see exodus iii. 8; at the red sea, psalm cviii. 9; on mount sinai; at the temple; in the pillar of cloud; on the mount of olives, see zechariah xiv. 4; the 10th is omitted in the original reference, avoth d rabbi na

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theurgy, and in a curious fragment it is said "if thou often invokest it (the celestial constellation called the lion "then when no longer is visible unto thee the vault of the heavens, when the stars have lost their light the lamp of the moon is veiled, the earth abideth not, and around thee darts the lightning flame, then all things will appear to thee in the form of a lion" the chald ans, like the egyptians, appear to have had a highly developed appreciation of colours, an evidence of their psychic susceptibility. the use of bright colours engenders the recognition of subsisting variety and stimulates that perception of the mind which energizes through imagination, or the operation of images. the chald an method of contemplation appears to have been to identify the self with the object

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e a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse's heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. i have waited for thy salvation, 0 lord' moses says 'dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from bashan' the armorial bearings of dan are green, and an eagle. these things 38 fit with the martial and fierce nature of this sign, in which mars principally bears sway. to the sign scorpio the egyptians attributed the serpent, and also typhon, the slayer of osiris, and on this account they called it the 'accursed sign' in good symbolism it is generally represented by the eagle. the horse's heels which the serpent bites are found in the centaur figure of sagittarius, which follows scorpio in the zodiac" holy name arsl tribe benjamin sign sagittarius angelic name zarzilg "of benjamin

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