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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

yja, and so to mary, for some kinds of orchis too, from their hand-shaped root, are called mary's hand, lady-hand, god's hand (dan. gudshaand. as dionysus stands outside the ring of the twelve olympian gods, so morsr, freyr and freyja seem by rights not to have been reckoned among the ases, though they are marshalled among them in sn. 27-8. they were vanir, and therefore, according to the view of the elder edda, different from ases; as these dwelt in asgars, so did the vanir in vanaheim, the alfar in alfheim, the lotnar in lotunheim. freyr is called vaningi, sa;m. 86. the vanir were regarded as intelligent and wise, saim. 36; and they entered into intimate fellowship with the asen, while the alfs and lotuns always remained opposed to them. some have fancied that the alfs and lotuns stand f

antess in the forest gave birth to these giants in wolfskin girdles, the miglitiest of them being mdnagarmr (lunae canis) who is to devour the moon; but in another place, while skoll chases the sun, hati, ilru&vitnis sonr (stem. 45) dogs the moon. probably tliere were fuller legends about them all, which were never written down; an old scotch story is still remembered about' the tayl of water. to the elder series must be added sif= earth, and the mi'(5garl>sormr (world-snake. but what natiire-god can oisiin have taken the phxce of? none? and was his being not one of the primeval ones 1 &c [quoted from suppl, vol. iii^ goth. fanareis? ohg. fanari, feniri? can it be our fahnentrager, pannifer? but the early norse does not seem to have the word answering to the cloth, fana, ohg. fano (flag [h

, as it were, to strike up his war-music, to sound the catgut, j)ipe and drum; but the foe draws nigh with maces and staves, and will hang up hermen (see suppl. it is not impossible that in these rude words, which have travelled down the long tradition of centuries, are preserved the fragments of a lay that was first heard when charles destroyed the irmensul. they cannot so well be interpreted of the elder arminius and the eomans^ the striking and the staves suggest the ceremony of carrying out the summer. in a part of hesse that lies on the werra, is a village named ermschwerd, which in early documents is called ermeswerder, armeswerd* ermencsioerde (dronke's trad. fuld. p. 123, ermcneswcrethe (vita meinwerci an. 1022. leibn. 1, 551= irmineswerid, insula irmini, as other gods have their i

have preceded, to whom the ohg. names scoup, scilto, zeizo would correspond. none however is so interesting as sceldwa's son, the anglo-saxon bcaiv, called by the scandinavians biar, biaf, but in the living as. epos beowulf. it is true, the remarkable poem of that name is about a second and younger beowulf, in whom his forefather's name repeats itself; but fortunately the opening lines allude to the elder beov/ulf, and call his father scild (goth. skildus, agreeing with skioldr) a scefing, i.e, son of scedf. beaw is a corruption of beow, and beow an abbreviation of bcoundf: it is the complete name that first opens to us a wider horizon. beowulf signifies bee-wolf (ohg. piawolft, and that is a name for the woodpecker, a bird of gay plumage that hunts after bees, of whom antiquity has many

trad. fuld. 489. cod. lauresh. 211; the old name of miinster in westphalia was j/imigardiford, il/i;?iigerneford (indices to pertz 1. 2, conf. il/i??iigerdeford in kichthofen 335; the avestphalian minden was originally j/midun (pertz 1, 368, and memleben on the unstrut j/i7;iileba, the great number of these proper names indicates a mythic being, to which memerolt (morolt 111) may also be related. the elder zstorse tradition names him just as often, and in several different connexions. in one place, saxo, p. 40^ interweaves a mimingus, a' silvarum satyrus' and possessor of a sword and jewels, into the myth of balder and hother, and this, to my thinking, throws fresh light on the vidugauja (wood-god) above. the edda however gives a higher position to its mhnir: he has a fountain, in which wi

his kind (see suppl. osinn then admitted into his band of valkyrs mortal maidens of kingly race, deified women standing by the side of the deified heroes; yet i do not suppose that all valkyrs were of such lineage, but that the oldest and most famous were, like the norns, descended from gods or elves. it is also worth noting, that kara and her helgi were looked upon as a second hirth of svava and the elder helgi, sam. 148^ 169. in the volundarqvisa tliree other valkyrs make their appearance together: jllad'gud'r svanhvit, rervor cdvitr, and olrlxn, the first two being daughters of king losver, the third of kiar; they unite themselves to slagfisr, volundr and egill, live with them seven years, and then escape' at vitja viga' to pursue their old trade of war again. on the whole, it seems the

4 7 INITIATION CEREMONY

he 42 first letters of the history of creation, as far as beth of the word "bohu" by various transmutations which are described at length in the sepher pardes. heg: leads practicus to tablet in north. heg: these are the qlippoth with their 12 princes, who are the heads of the 12 months of the year. in the central square are placed samael and asmodai. at the south east are the man, the serpent and the elder lilith, the wife of samael. at the north east angle are the ox and the ass, the aggareth, the daughter of machalath. at the north west angle are the scorpion and asimon the unnamed one, and nehemah. and at the south west are the lion and the horse, the younger lilith, the wife of asmodai. hiero: i have much pleasure in conferring upon you the title of lord (lady) of the 27th path. you wi

ABRAMELIN1

and abraha-melin. from these i have selected the orthography abra-melin to place on the title page, and i have adhered to the same in this introduction. as far as can be gathered from the text, the chief place of residence of abraham the jew after his travels was w rzburg, or, as it was called in the middle ages, herbipolis. he appears to have married his cousin, and by her to have had two sons, the elder, named joseph, whom he instructed in the mysteries of the holy qabalah, and lamech, the younger, to whom he bequeaths this system of sacred magic as a legacy, and to whom the whole of the first book is addressed. he speaks further of three daughters, to each of whom he gave 100,000 golden florins as a dowry. he expressly states that he obtained both his wife, and a treasure of 3,000,000

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

htly distorted version of the supernatural intelligence-dissemination that usually took place on those premises. l.k. barnes, publisher of this tome, has probably come to regret ever setting foot or tentacle inside those clammy precincts, for the crazed proprietor of that institution commenced to wave before him the manuscript copy of this book, thereby securing his soul forever in the service of the elder gods. needless to say, l.k- a longtime pilgrim in the search for the genuine necronomicon which he knew, since childhood, really existed- was suitably impressed. shocked, actually. he asked to see the dubious personality who claimed responsibility for the editing and general research work that went into the volume. this exotic individual, simon by name, appeared suddenly one day in the l

ed by the roman catholic church to such an extent- perhaps subconsciously- that a missal in the editor's possession contains an engraving for the feast of st. andrew, apostle, for november 30, that bears the legend "ecce qui tollis peccata mundi- behold him who taketh away the sins of the world- and the picture above it is of the atomic bomb! basically, there are two "sets" of gods in the mythos: the elder gods, about whom not much is revealed, save that they are a stellar race that occasionally comes to the rescue of man, and which corresponds to the christian "light; and the ancient ones, about which much is told, sometimes in great detail, who correspond to "darkness. these latter are the evil gods who wish nothing but ill for the race of man, and who constantly strive to break into our

niggurath) might actually mean. there was a battle between the forces of "light" and "darkness (so-called) that took place long before man was created, before even the cosmos as we know it existed. it is described fully in the enuma elish and in the bastardised version found in the necronomicon, and involved the ancient ones, led by the serpent mummu-tiamat and her male counterpart absu, against the elder gods (called such in the n) led by the warrior marduk, son of the sea god enki, lord of magicians of this side, or what could be called "white magicians- although close examination of the myths of ancient times makes one pause before attempting to judge which of the two warring factions was "good" or "evil. marduk won this battle- in much the same way that later st. george and st. michae

hich of the two warring factions was "good" or "evil. marduk won this battle- in much the same way that later st. george and st. michael would defeat the serpent again- the cosmos was created from the body of the slain serpent, and man was created from the blood of the slain commander of the ancient army, kingu, thereby making man a descendent of the blood of the enemy, as well as the "breath" of the elder gods; a close parallel to the "sons of god and daughters of men" reference in the old testament. yet, though the identity of the victor is clear, there were- and are- certain persons and organisations that dared side with the vanquished, believing the ancient ones to be a source of tremendous, and most unbelievable, power. worship of the ancient ones in history "let them curse it that cu

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

an tradition acknowledges that the person of "evil" is actually the oldest, most ancient of the gods. whereas christianity states that lucifer was a rebel in heaven, and fell from god's grace to ignominy below, the original story was that marduk was the rebel, and severed the body of the ancient of ancient ones to create the cosmos in other words, the precise reverse of the judeo-christian dogma. the elder gods evidently possessed a certain wisdom that was not held by their parents, yet their parents held the power, the primal strength, the first magick, that the elder ones tapped to their own advantage, for they were begotten of her. it generally accepted in the halls of magick that all of the wisdom in the world is useless without the necessary adjunct of power. this power has gone by ma

cce qui tollit peccata mundi. and a rock group from england, home of the anglican heresy, sings of "sympathy" for the devil. pazuzu. tiamat. the seven deadly sins. the fear of lovecraft. the pride of crowley. the lunar landing was the symbolic manifestation of man's newly acquired potential power to alter the nature- and perhaps, via nuclear weapons, the course- of the heavenly bodies, the zonei, the elder gods. it has a power the ancient ones have been waiting for, for millennia, and it is now within their grasp. the next century may deliver unto mankind this awesome power and responsibility, and will leave him knocking on the dread doors of the azonei, the igigi, approaching the barrier that keeps out the absu. and one day, without the benefit of necronomicon, the race of man will smash

htly distorted version of the supernatural intelligence-dissemination that usually took place on those premises. l.k. barnes, publisher of this tome, has probably come to regret ever setting foot or tentacle inside those clammy precincts, for the crazed proprietor of that institution commenced to wave before him the manuscript copy of this book, thereby securing his soul forever in the service of the elder gods. needless to say, l.k- a longtime pilgrim in the search for the genuine necronomicon which he knew, since childhood, really existed- was suitably impressed. shocked, actually. he asked to see the dubious personality who claimed responsibility for the editing and general research work that went into the volume. this exotic individual, simon by name, appeared suddenly one day in the l

. after this, the "book of calling" needs little explanation. it is the grimoire of the necronomicon, containing the formulae of ritual conjuration, as well as the seals and diagrams to accompany the rites. it is followed by "the book of fifty names" being fifty separate powers of the god marduk, defeater of chaos. this is interesting, in that the names seem to come from the enuma elish, in which the elder gods confer these fifty names upon marduk as titles, in their appreciation of his routing of evil. a sigil is given for each of the names, and a word of power for most of them. then appears the centrepiece of the book, the magan text. the word magan may mean the land of the magan which was said to lie in the west of sumer. for a time, it seems the name magan was synonymous with the place

leader is closely identified with chthonic forces, is described as "notorious, and linked to the strange fate that befell the protagonist, edward derby) supplementary material to 777 the chart that follows is based on research presently available to the editor with regard to sumerian and assyro-babylonian religions. entries in parentheses refer to the state of correspondences before the advert of the elder gods, the race of marduk; that is, it reflects the nature of the cosmos before the fall of marduk from heaven (names of zodiacal constellations are after budge's renderings) table vii [a.c] table xxv [s] 0. anu (tiamat) 1. sphere of the primum mobile enlil (absu) 2. sphere of the zodiac or fixed stars enki; lumashi (igigi) 3. sphere of saturn adar 4. sphere of jupiter marduk 5. sphere of

of the igigi, the cruel celestial spirits from beyond the wanderers of the wastes. let all who read this book be warned thereby that the habitation of men are seen and surveyed by that ancient race of gods and demons from a time before time, and that they seek revenge for that forgotten battle that took place somewhere in the cosmos and rent the worlds in the days before the creation of man, when the elder gods walked the spaces, the race of marduk, as he is known to the chaldeans, and of enki our master, the lord of magicians. know, then, that i have trod all the zones of the gods, and also the places of the azonei, and have descended unto the foul places of death and eternal thirst, which may be reached through the gate of ganzir, which was built in ur, in the days before babylon was. kn

fiercely into my ear, i understood. these are the signs carved upon the grey stone, that was the gate to the outside: an this is the amulet that i held in my hand, and hold to this very day, around my neck as i write these words: of the three carved symbols, the first is the sign of our race from beyond the stars, and is called arra in the tongue of the scribe who taught it to me, an emissary of the elder ones. in the tongue of the eldest city of babylon, it was ur. it is the sigil of the covenant of the elder gods, and when they see it, they who gave it to us, they will not forget us. they have sworn! spirit of the skies, remember! the second is the elder sign, and is the key whereby the powers of the elder gods may be summoned, when used with the proper words and shapes. it has a name

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

e one ineffable name is shown by koran xvii. 110. but monotheism is not true for the normal consciousness, but only for that of the adept [99 names of god in arabic] col. vi, line 31bis. essence, cf. a and w. col. viii. lines 1-10. beth elohim gives a quite different ten qliphoth. line 15. in the midst of the zodiacal qliphoth are lams [samael] and yadmsa [asmodai. at se corner, man, serpent, and the elder lilith the wife of samael. at ne corner, the ox and ass, and aggereth the daughter of machalath. at nw corner, the scorpion, and wmisa,3 the unnameable and hmuk.4 at sw angle, the lion and horse, and the younger lilith the wife of asmodai. col. ix. the cup of the stolistes has its rim and 2 and 3 and its foot in 10. the cadueceus is (easily) placed on the tree and divided into a, m, and

tion. notes 48 figure. nature. name. divination and spiritual meaning. 49 6 5 c of! ko change 50 5 3! of d ting a caldron, a concubine, flexibility, quick ear and eye. 51 4 4 b of b kbn ease, development, moving power, thunder. 52 1 1 e of e kan peace, a mountain. 53 3 1 d of e kien fortunate marriage, gradual advance, goose. 54 4 6 b of c kwei mei unfortunate marriage (of a younger sister before the elder. 55 4 5 b of! fbng large, abundant, progress. 56 5 1! of e l strangers. table of correspondences 49 figure. nature. name. divination and spiritual meaning. 57 3 3 d of d sun flexibility, penetration, vacillation, wind, wood &c. 58 6 6 c of c tui pleasure, help from friends, still water. 59 3 2 d of= hw n dissipation, dispersion, turning to evil. 60 2 6= of c kieh joints of body, regular

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

' so that each 'radicle' may have hundreds of gesture-derivatives. grammar, by the way, hardly existed, the quick apprehension of the atlanteans rendering it unnecessary. these two men then departed to a cavern on the side of the mountain just above the cliff, and there for a year they remained, speaking the language and carving it symbolically upon the rock. at the end of the year they returned; the elder is sacrificed and the younger returns with a volunteer, usually one who wishes to expiate a fault, and teaches him the language. during his visit he observes whether any new thing needs a name, and if so he invents it, and adds it to the language. this process continued to the end. the rest of the people abandoned altogether the use of speech, only a few years' practice enabling them to

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

d will in the higher class. 3. preposterous ignorance of the limitations of tests and techniques. 4. failure to understand human motivation. all structured utopias are stagnating tyrannies. no utopian philosopher has yet devised a state which would have allowed that particular individual, the utopian philosopher himself, to survive childhood! such fantasmogoria as these arise from the detritus of the elder age. crowley himself once remarked to grady mcmurtry that he (crowley) had been born before the age of thelema and that it would take someone born in the age to fully comprehend the age. al i,41 "the word of sin is restriction. o man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! o lover, if thou wilt, depart! there is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is a curse. accursed! accur

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

sponsibility that would come with. the title. a pacificman by nature, he was content to passon the. teachings of the cult and try to help those in need. acting as arbiter in the innumerable disputes of his. heterogeneous band of followers. did not come to him naturally. in matters ofritual and dogma, his authorityantongst his covens was unquestioned anyway-why was it necessaryto appoint him king? the elder, or high priest, in each coven was usually able to sort outits difficulties; only the insoluble ones were referred to alex 'i'1u not god/he told. them 'lean do no more than anyone of you .they agreed,toa point, but went on to itemize the times over the .years when alex's authority had been questioned, challenged and even cursed .when he had first begun making public appearances to explai

eathe life into it as we recite the correct incantations. no harm is wished her, beyond the impulse to keep her mouth shut. q: why must witches be naked for the ceremonies? a: we believe nothing should come between us and our god, that clothes are a form of deception or concealment, and that we must keep nothing from each other. q: then why do you wear a robe or loin-cloth? a: witch law says that the elder of the coven must be apart. in the days when as. many as fifty witches might attend a 123 meeting, it was necesscu:y for the elder to .be easily indentifiable. ifhe wore arobe, some of the witches who suffered from the cold claimed he had the advantage over them, hence. the ioin-cloth-e symbol of his difference but not a protection from the cold. q: does it matter where coven meetings ar

other abuses of witchcraft practised in covens? a: too many. one coven initiates its members with the use of an artificial phallus. this is nothing new to witchcraft; it. was used centuries. ago during fertility rites when .witches swore they had relations with the devil-as they called.the coven elder. they claimed that his member was cold, which was not .surprising, for the women. demanded' that the elder lie with each one of them to ensure a good harvest, and. the poor man was hard put t? it to satisfy 124 so many. an artificial phallus was used, therefore, similar to the ones inexistence in egypt centuries before the birth of christ. it was life-sized and made of stone. we deplore its use in these enlightened days. another abuse i have. discovered is the defloration of''witches' daughte

have their pay, an it be just. an this be not taking money for the art, but for good and honest work. 91. and even the christians say 'the labourer is worthy of his hire' but ifany brother work willingly .for the good of the craft without pay, tis but to theirgreater honour. so be it ordained. 92. if there. be any dispute or quarrel among the brethren, the high priestess shall straightly convene the elder$ and enquire into the matter, and they shall hear both sides, first alone and then together. 135 9j.anthdthey shall decide justly, not favourin 'd. eother. gone 81 e or 94. ever recognizing there be eo j to work under others. p p e who can never agree 95 .butatthe same ti th b rulejustly. me. ere e some people who cannot 96. to those who .ever.mus .b. hi 97- void \he coven orscl' e e .t4

s led by two other witches to the edge of the circle where he is given the opportunity of changing his mind and withdrawing. if he decides he still wants to be a witch, those inside the circle dance round singing the chant 'eko, eko azarak' which is sung in all esbats, the high priest, clad in a red velvet robe-he is the only witch allowed to be dressed-stands before the altar and proclaims he is the elder. giving his secret witch name, he recites the proclamation in runic, of which he understands only part. he outstretches his arms and legs to represent the pillars of life; his trunk is the tree of life, and his arms mercy and justice. beside him the high priestess, holding her sword above her head, invokes the power while all the other witches sit and face her. as she speaks, two male wi

of earth, air, fire, water and the power that rules them all. she is, symbolically, a living cauldron. all the lights are extinguished except for three candles on the altar. in olden times, when the altar was seven foot square, she would lie upon it, but now that the ceremony is usually held indoors, she lies on the floor. after banishing the power that has been invoked to consecrate the couple, the elder who officiates tells everyone to leave the room. he goes to the altar and turns his back on the couple while he reads the ritual which gives instructions for the male to remove the woman's veil and give her the five-fold salute of kisses on various parts of her body. the high priest invokes the erection of the sacred pillars of life and draws down the power to enter the couple and make t

veil and give her the five-fold salute of kisses on various parts of her body. the high priest invokes the erection of the sacred pillars of life and draws down the power to enter the couple and make them one. the man and woman now represent the sun and the moon, 150 and as mortals are not supposed to witness the sun and the moon in conjunction-hence the fear in olden times of watching an eclipse-the elder must keep his back to them and walk round the circle and out of the room while the couple remain within the circle. the couple have sexual relations and, in the eyes of the witches, this is just as much a marriage as the handfasting ceremony. after half an hour or so, the couple wash and dry themselves with the consecrated water and towels left in the circle, put on the new robes awaitin

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

ce. he is the son divine and his life and nature evolve through every existent form. the lord of cosmic will holds hid the future within his plans and consciousness. they are all three the sons of one father, all three the aspects of the one god, all three are spirit, all three are soul, and all three are rays emanating from one cosmic centre. all three are substance, but in the past one lord was the elder son, in the present another lord comes to the fore, and in the future still another. but this is so only in time. from the standpoint of the eternal now, none is greater nor less than- 36- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust another, for the last shall be first, and the first last. out of manifestation time is not, and freed from objectivity states of consciousness are n

rk of the brotherhood. they attract by their force into certain fields of realisation and endeavor and by that attraction and the response of those human atoms who are ready, the group soul on the upward arc, or a particular centre of a heavenly man, is co-ordinated. in the same way the animal is brought at a certain stage into the zone of influence of the lesser sons of mind human beings who are the elder brothers of the animals, as the masters of the wisdom are the elder brothers where humanity is concerned. so the interlocking proceeds and the division of responsibility. ix. what is the relation between: a. the ten planetary schemes? b. the seven sacred planets? c. the seven chains in a scheme? d. the seven globes in a chain? e. the seven rounds on a globe? f. the seven root-races and t

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

of them their essential distinguishing characteristics and qualities. for thousands of years all over the planet, the mystics and knowers have borne witness to experiences in subtler worlds where they have been brought into contact with forces and phenomena which are not of this physical world. they speak of meeting with angelic hosts; they refer to the great cloud of witnesses; they commune with the elder brothers of the race who work in other dimensions and who demonstrate powers about which ordinary human beings know nothing; they speak of a light and of a glory; of a direct knowledge of truth and of a world of phenomena which is uniform to the mystics of all races. that much of the testimony can be discarded on the grounds of hallucination may be true; that many of the saints of old we

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

eets the requirements, ever receives a rebuff. there is no question at this time that those who are in any way advanced in evolution are having that evolution hastened as never before in the history of the world. the crisis is so grave and the need of the world so great, that those who can contact the inner side of life, who can even in a small way sense the vibrations of the senior disciples and the elder brothers of the race, and who can bring down the ideals, as known on the higher planes, are being very carefully, forcefully, yet strenuously trained. it is necessary that they should be enabled to act accurately and adequately as transmitters and interpreters. i would like to point out certain factors and methods which should be borne in mind in connection with inspirational writing and

, and frequently of lower, than themselves. some are simply abstracting the content of their own subconsciousnesses, and hence we have the beautiful platitudes, couched in christian phraseology, and tinctured by the mystical writings of the past, which litter the desks of disciples, working consciously on the physical plane. some work only on mental levels, learning, through telepathy, that which the elder brothers of the race and their own souls have to impart. they tap the sources of knowledge stored in the egoic consciousness. they become aware of the knowledge stored up in the brains of disciples on the same ray as themselves. some of them, being outposts of the master's consciousness, become also cognizant of his thought. some use several of the methods, either consciously or unconsci

rth. when the energies of the solar plexus expressions hitherto of the potent desire nature, feeding the emotional life of the personality are equally transmuted and re-oriented, then they are carried to the heart centre and there is brought about as a result a realisation of group consciousness, of group love, and group purpose which makes the aspirant a server of humanity and a fit associate of the elder brethren of the race. when these three transfers have been consummated then an activity transpires in the head centre, the ultimate governing factor, and by an act of the will of the indwelling ruling soul, certain happenings take place which we can consider later in our studies. 2. the second fact to bear in mind is that as these changes and re-orientations take place, the disciple begi

ght shines ever more steadily upon one's way, and constantly a newer and higher motive emerges. again, let me illustrate: an aspirant in the early stages is practically always a devotee. to measure up to the standard set by a loved friend and teacher, he struggles and strives and gains ground. later, this object of his devotion and ardent effort is superseded by devotion to one of the great ones, the elder brothers of the race. he bends all his powers and the forces of his nature to their service. this incentive is, in its turn, surely and steadily superseded by a vital love for humanity, and love of one individual (be he ever so perfect) is lost sight of in love for the whole brotherhood of men. unceasingly, as the soul takes more and more control of its instrument and the soul nature ste

ciples are in conscious contact at times with their soul forces and for them there is no defeat nor turning back. they are the tried- 135- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust warriors, scarred and tired, yet knowing that triumphant victory lies ahead, for the soul is omnipotent. accepted disciples, who battle all the above enumerated factors, plus the black forces arrayed against the elder brothers, can call upon the spiritual energies of their group and at rare and indicated moments upon the master under whom they work. thus the work and labour expands; thus the responsibility and struggle steadily increases; yet at the same time there is also a steadily growing reception of potencies which can be contacted and utilized and which when correctly contacted insure victory at

f the greater life energies and to serve as an efficient cooperator with a plan of which he can only vision a fragment. he works, however, faithfully at the building of his aspect of the great plan and finds one day when the building is completed and he sees the whole, that he has built true to design and in conformity with the blue prints as they have been carried in the minds of the architects (the elder brothers) who in their turn are in touch with the mind of the one existence. the practical application of these truths is of utmost importance. there is no life so circumscribed and no person so situated who cannot begin to work intelligently and to build thought-forms under law and with understanding. there is no day in any man's life, particularly if he is an aspirant or a disciple, wh

r a brief period; it moves with rapidity and then is succeeded by another form. this rapidity will increase not decrease as the consciousness or inner expansion of the life of the race vibrates ever to a faster and lighter rate of rhythm. it is necessary likewise that you arrive at the realization that one of the principal objects of endeavor at the present time on the part of those whom you call the elder brothers of the race, is to stimulate, purify and coordinate the etheric body. this etheric body is not only the transmitter of prana but is the medium for all the energies which we are considering. its importance also lies in other directions: a. being of physical plane matter, literally, etheric consciousness is the next step ahead for the race. this will demonstrate at first as the ab

ng groups, or the many schools of philosophy in the orient or the occident. the condition is widespread, and the public consciousness tremendously diversified, but this state of affairs marks the summation of the period of separativeness and the end, before so many centuries, of this intense distinctiveness of thought. after noting and watching this trend of affairs for another one hundred years, the elder brothers of the race called a conclave of all departments about the year 1500 a.d. their object was to determine how the urge to integration, which is essentially the keynote of our universal order, could be hastened, and what steps could be taken to produce that synthesis and unification in the world of thought which would make possible the manifestation of the purpose of the divine lif

or bible of any kind; it has no creed nor any dogmatic formulations of truth. the motivating impulse of each and all is love of god as it works out in love for one's fellow man. they know the true meaning of brotherhood, without distinction of race. their lives are lives of willing service, rendered with utter selflessness and without any reservations. the personnel of the group is known only to the elder brothers of the race, and no register of names is kept, and there are only three main requirements: 1. a certain amount of at-one-ment between the soul and its mechanism is essential, and that inner triplicity, usually dormant in the majority, of soul-mind-brain must be in alignment and active. 2. the brain has to be telepathically sensitive in two directions and at will. it must be awar

ate action of any kind. the growth of the group and of its ideas will be slow and sure. the group exists already. it has not to be formed and organised, and there is therefore for none of you the assuming of any sense of responsibility nor the organising of any activity desired to lure these disciples, who have chosen thus to work subjectively, into publicity. such are not the methods approved by the elder brothers of the race, nor is it the way that they themselves work. know each of you for yourselves whether you stand for the new position, the new attitude towards work, and for the subjective method. decide once and for all whether you prefer to work in the old exoteric ambitious manner, building and vitalising an organisation, and so producing all the mechanism which goes with such a m

irst step towards a rational understanding of the death process. the second point to be grasped is that there can be a technique of dying and a training given during life which will lead up to the utilization of that technique. as regards the training to which a man can submit himself i will give a few hints which will be found to convey a new meaning to much work now being done by all aspirants. the elder brothers of the race who have guided humanity through long centuries, are now busy preparing people for the next great step to be taken. this step will bring in a continuity of consciousness which will do away with all fear of death and link the physical and astral planes in such a close relation that they will in reality constitute one plane. just as an at-one-ment has to be brought abo

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ychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust it should here be noted that the rays divide themselves into two groups, i.e: 1. the rays of aspect..rays 1. 2. 3. the major rays. 2. the rays of attribute..rays 4. 5. 6. 7. the minor rays. the distinction between these two groups has been well summed up in some sentences from the old commentary "the seven brothers are all the children of the same father, but the elder three partake of the father's nature. the younger four resemble the mother. the three elder sons go forth into the universe of stars, and there they represent the father. the younger four go forth into the universe of stars and show the nature of the one the father loved" the rays of aspect have longer cycles than the rays of attribute, and their measure is occultly slow, cumulative in e

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

by the son of god, the christ. initiation is a living process, and through that process all who duly discipline themselves and voluntarily acquiesce may pass, scrutinised and aided by that band of initiates and knowers who are the guides of the race, and who are known to us under many names in different parts of the world and in different ages. they are called in the west, christ and his church, the elder brothers of humanity. initiation is therefore a reality and not a beautiful and rather easily attained vision, as so many occult and esoteric books seem to claim. initiation is not a process which a man undergoes when he joins certain organisations, and which can be understood only by joining such groups. it has nothing to do with societies, esoteric schools and organisations. all that t

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difficult work in the outer world. they materialise the forms through which the hierarchy can express its intentions and they make the human contacts. there are many such disciples and they are doing this work from their own free choice and because they have realised the immediate and coming need of humanity and have pledged themselves to serve. there are, secondly, those who act as links between the elder brothers of the race, the masters of the wisdom who embody the divine plan and the workers mentioned above. i do not say that they act as links between the disciple and his master for that is a direct relationship which none may touch, particularly in the more advanced stages. this second group of working disciples- 17- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust how

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un (ii. 31) 6 "mercury heals the blind and restores sight, mental and physical (ii. 571) 7 "mercury is sometimes represented: a. as three-headed, because one with the sun and venus. b. as a cube, without arms because the `power of speech and eloquence can prevail without the assistance of arms and feet (ii. 572) 8 "the fifth race is born under mercury (the aryan race. a.a.b (ii. 32) 9 "mercury is the elder brother of the earth (ii. 48) 10 "mercury receives seven times more light than any other planet (ii. 570) 11 "buddhi and mercury correspond with each other and both are yellow and radiant golden-coloured. in the human system the right eye corresponds with buddhi and the left eye with manas and venus or lucifer (iii. 447, 448) 12 "mercury is called hermes; and venus, aphrodite and their c

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1938 the hierarchy is deeply concerned over world events. i am asked to request you to continue with the goodwill work at all costs and in the face of all obstacles. the nucleus already formed must be preserved. the new group of world servers must preserve its integrity and work undismayed. all is not yet lost. the steadiness of those who know god's plan will help humanity and aid the efforts of the elder brothers. they are those who love and do not hate and who work for unity both subjective and spiritual. this is all i can say at this time, for the hierarchy itself knows not which forces will prevail. they know that good must ultimately triumph but they do not know what the immediate future holds for humanity because men determine their own courses. the law of cause and effect can seldo

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rius has sometimes been called "the sign of the effect of scorpio. the moment we have freed ourselves from illusion, that moment we enter into sagittarius and we see the goal. we have never really seen it before, because between us and the goal there is always to be found that cloud of thought forms that prevents us from seeing it. we talk about spiritual love, devotion to the christ, devotion to the elder brothers of the race, to the soul; and as we are occupied with these thoughts we build clouds of thought forms because we are thinking, and as we think we build. therefore we have built around ourselves such a cloud of thought forms about our aspirations, that we do not see the goal. i am not cutting away the ground under your feet, but stop thinking so much about what to do and learn mo

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stors- from her shell or body, cannot be immortal. they cannot hope to become real, self-conscious and intelligent men, unless they are finished, so to say, by other creators. thus in the puranic legend, the son of the moon (soma) is budha (mercury "the intelligent" and the wise, because he is the offspring of soma, the "regent" of the visible moon, not of indu, the physical moon. thus mercury is the elder brother of the earth, metaphorically- his step-brother, so to say, the offspring of spirit- while she (the earth) is the progeny of the body. these allegories have a deeper and more scientific meaning (astronomically and geologically) then our modern physicists are willing to admit. the whole cycle of the "first war in heaven" the taraka-maya, is as full of philosophical as of cosmogonic

he seven orders to have originally been the first gods, the vairajas, whom brahma "with the eye of yoga, beheld in the eternal spheres, and who are the gods of gods; and the matsya adds that the gods worshipped them; while the harivansa (s. 1, 935) distinguishes the virajas as one class of the pitris only- a statement corroborated in the secret teachings, which, however, identify the virajas with the elder agnishwattas* and the rajasas, or abhutarajasas, who are incorporeal without even an astral phantom. vishnu is said, in most of the mss, to have incarnated in and through them "in the raivata manvantara, again, hari, best of gods, was born of sambhuti, as the divine manasas- originating with the deities called rajasas" sambhuti was a daughter of daksha, and wife of marichi, the father of

is the spouse of the eternal celibate kumara, unveils a suggestive, though veiled, reference to the kumaras, those "who refused to create" but who were compelled later on to complete divine man by incarnating in him. all this will be fully explained in the sections that follow[[vol. 2, page] 200 the secret doctrine. iii. the inflectional speech- the root of the sanskrit, very erroneously called "the elder sister" of the greek, instead of its mother- was the first language (now the mystery tongue of the initiates, of the fifth race. at any rate, the "semitic" languages are the bastard descendants of the first phonetic corruptions of the eldest children of the early sanskrit. the occult doctrine admits of no such divisions as the aryan and the semite, accepting even the turanian with ample

t will or will not be? meanwhile, such is the prophecy of the secret books and their no uncertain statements. since the beginning of the atlantean race many million years have passed, yet we find the last of the atlanteans, still mixed up with the aryan element, 11,000 years ago. this shows the enormous overlapping of one race over the race which succeeds it, though in character and external type the elder loses its characteristics, and assumes the new features of the younger race. this is proved in all the formations of mixed human races. now, occult philosophy teaches that even now, under our very eyes, the new race and races are preparing to be formed, and that it is in america that the transformation will take place, and has already silently commenced. pure anglo-saxons hardly three hu

as, in truth, only an astronomical triad- unless they accepted the more abstract and metaphysical meanings given to it by the gentiles- composed of the sun (the father, and the two planets mercury (the son) and venus (the holy ghost, sophia, the spirit of wisdom, love and truth, and lucifer, as christ, the bright and morning star; vide "revelation" ch. xxii, 15. because, if the father is the sun (the elder brother in the eastern inner philosophy, the nearest planet to it is mercury (hermes, budha, thot, the name of whose mother on earth was maia; the planet which receives seven times more light than any other: which fact led the gnostics to call their christos, and the kabalists their hermes (in the astronomical meaning, the "seven-fold light (vide at end of this. finally, this god was bel

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holars would not venture to fathom the depth of their sacred canon (lectures on the "science of religion" p. 185. max muller) but they have not fathomed it- and this is the complaint of the confucianists, as a very learned member of that body, in paris, complained in 1881[[vol. 1, page] xxvi introductory. if one turns to the ancient literature of the semitic religions, to the chaldean scriptures, the elder sister and instructress, if not the fountain-head of the mosaic bible, the basis and starting-point of christianity, what do the scholars find? to perpetuate the memory of the ancient religions of babylon; to record the vast cycle of astronomical observations of the chaldean magi; to justify the tradition of their splendid and eminently occult literature, what now remains- only a few fra

of the sun's energy and planetary motion, the perpetual care of a spirit, or spirits. the whole of antiquity believed in this idea. the occultists do not use the word spirit, but say creative forces, which they endow with intelligence. but we may call them spirits also. this theory is tabooed a great deal more on account of the "spirit" that is given room in it, than of anything else. herschell, the elder, believed in it likewise, and so do several modern scientists also. nevertheless professor winchell declares that "a hypothesis more fanciful, and less in accord with the requirements of physical principles, has not been offered in ancient or modern times (world-life, p. 554) the same was said, once upon a time, of the universal ether, and now it is not only accepted perforce but advocat

ore akin to occultism than to modern materialistic thought. we refer the sceptical reader to an article on "the source of heat in the sun" by robert hunt, f.r.s (in "popular science review" vol. iv, p. 148, who, speaking of the luminous envelope of the sun and its "peculiar curdy appearance" says "arago proposed that this envelope should be called the photosphere, a name now generally adopted. by the elder herschell, the surface of this photosphere was compared to mother-of-pearl. it resembles the ocean on a tranquil summer-day, when its surface is slightly crisped by a gentle breeze. mr. nasmyth has discovered a more remarkable condition than any that had previously been suspected. objects which are peculiarly lens-shaped. like 'willow leaves. different in size. not arranged in any order

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theologies in black pentecostalism (manuscript, 1980, james tinney collection, howard university, p. 8; bloch-hoell, pentecostal movement, pp. 36.37, 54. although it is not known if pentecostals identified mason with conjuring, at least one historian has noted a corresponding relationship (tucker, black pastors and leaders, p. 92 "hundreds from the masses were attracted to c the magical powers of the elder. at a time when the lower classes still feared their spirits and ehants' there was considerable appeal in the all-night services where one could hear unknown languages, witness healings and the exorcising of devils, and examining the collection of misshapen potatoes and crooked roots which the elder called examples of the emystical wonder of god' when mason was criticized for bringing ma

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ingly, that the levites compiled genesis and exodus. the source is obvious.the sumerian tablets speak of e.din (the abode of the righteous ones. thisconnects with the sumerian name for their gods, din.gir (the righteous ones of 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. s

eptile full-bloods and crossbreeds of the babylonianbrotherhood. the sumerian tablets prove beyond question that genesis was a muchedited and condensed version of sumer records. the sumerian story of edin became thelevites biblical garden of eden. remember the story of moses being found in thebulrushes by the egyptian princess? the same tale was told by the sumerians-babylonians about king sargon the elder. the story of moses is make-believe, as is theegyptian captivity, the exodus, at least in the form described, and also the creation ofthe 12 tribes via jacob.these texts were written by the levites, the heads of which were reptilian mysteryschool initiates in babylon. their stories are symbolic and coded for initiates tounderstand and the masses to take literally. according to the levite

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uggaldimmerankia the watcher of the igigi and the annunaki, sub-commander of the wind demons. he will put to flight any maskim who haunt thee, and is the foe of the rabisu. none may pass into the world above or the world below without his knowledge. his word is banrabishu. his seal is thus: the seventh name is asaruludu wielder of the flaming sword, oversees the race of watchers at the bidding of the elder gods. he ensures the most perfect safety, especially in dangerous tasks undertaken at the behest of the astral gods. his word is banmaskim and his seal is thus: the eighth name is namtillaku a most secret and potent lord, he hath knowledge to raise the dead and converse with the spirits of the abyss, unbeknownst to their queen. no soul passes into death but that he is aware. his word is

ovenant and of the laws and of the nature of the gates. his word is aramanngi and his seal is thusly: the fortieth name is dumuduku possessor of the wand of lapis lazuli, knower of the secret name and the secret number. may not reveal these to thee, but may speak of other things equally marvellous. his word is aratagigi and his seal is: the forty-first name is lugalanna the power of the eldest of the elder ones, possesses the secret knowledge of the world when the ancient ones and the elder ones and where one. knows the essence of the ancient ones and where it might be found. his word is baldikhu and his seal is this: the forty-second nam is lugalugga knows the essence of all spirits, of the dead and the unborn, and the starry and the earthly, and the spirits of the air and the spirits of

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uliar horror and repulsion, although admitting there were no rational grounds for it, and honestly endeavouring to do her duty by her. so great was her horror of the old lady that she would never remain in the house after her husband had left for his office in the morning, but went out herself to her club if she had no other engagement. among the frequenters of the house was an intimate friend of the elder mrs. c, a woman of peculiar psychic temperament, who always called the old lady mother and was singularly attached to her, she was also very attached to mr. c, but her feelings never exceeded, outwardly at any rate, the bounds of propriety, and mr. c, who was sincerely attached to his own wife, never paid the slightest attention to her, looking upon her as his mother's friend, and as suc

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feed on souls and haunt the lower air to pounce on living men. she sank to her knees and called upon them, three times in song, three times with spoken prayers. she steeled herself with their malignity and bewitched the eyes of talos with the evil in her own. she flung at him the full force of her malevolence, and in an ecstasy of rage she plied him with images of death" the roman historian pliny the elder, who also lived during the first century, recorded earlier accounts of particular tribes, the triballi and the illyrii, some of the members of which possessed the power of the evil eye as a genetic inheritance. he wrote about "persons of this description, who also have the power of fascination with the eyes, and can even kill those on whom they fix their gaze for any length of time, more

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n as the great old ones. they were cast down from their seats of power and driven from our world, but they did not cease to exist. they continue between the dimensions of normal time and space, dreaming and waiting for the time when they shall be able to rule the earth once again, as they did in days of old. on the matter of the great old ones, lovecraft wrote in his story the call of cthulhu "in the elder time chosen men had talked with the entombed old ones in dreams, but then something had happened. the great stone city r'lyeh, with its monoliths and sepulchers, had sunk beneath the waves; and the deep waters, full of the one primal mystery through which not even thought can pass, had cut off the spectral intercourse. but memory never died, and high priests said that the city would rise

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the other world; originally it designated the cemetery of abydos only, and its god was osiris. sa, the sa s of the greeks( greek sa' s, strabo, xvii. i, 23, the metropolis of the fifth nome of lower egypt, and the seat of the worship of the goddess neith. sekhem, the letopolis of the greeks, and capital of the letopolites nome (strabo, xvii, i, 30; it was the seat of the worship of heru-ur "horus the elder" and one of the most important religious centres in egypt. sekhet-aanru, the "field of the aanru plants" was a name originally given to the islands in the delta where the souls of the dead were supposed to live. here was the abode of the god osiris, who bestowed estates in it upon those who had been his followers, and here the beatified dead led a new existence and regaled themselves upo

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thank a kind providence that you are now alive to tell your own story in your own way. you have spoken in a manly and generous way of what passed in our lines. when i saw you at night, sitting behind a confederate cavalryman, with the blood streaming down your face, going to the rear a prisoner, i said to dr. randolph, brigade surgeon, that you were one of the `widow's son party' he being one of the elder brothers, replied `i'll see your mother's son well taken care of this night' and as most of the staff-officers were of the clan, they did the best they could for a brother in trouble "i am not a mason, but most of my staff were masons, and i know they frequently did many things that seemed to give them extra pleasure for the unfortunate on the other side. i was sure the institution was f

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. in egypt he became acquainted with abra-melin, a famous egyptian philosopher, who entrusted certain documents to him and confided to him a number of invaluable secrets. abraham then left egypt for europe, where he settled eventually at wurzburg in germany, became deeply involved in research on alchemy. he married a woman who appears to have been his cousin, and had three daughters and two sons, the elder named joseph and the younger, lamech. he instructed both sons in occult affairs, while on each of his three daughters, he settled a dowry of 100,000 golden florins. this considerable sum, together with other vast wealth, abraham claimed to have earned by traveling as an alchemist. he was well known and was summoned to perform acts of magic before many rich and influential people, notably

s chadwick hansen, paul boyer, stephen nissenbaum, and john putnam demos. the whole magical supernatural world present during the salem trials is also evident in the consideration of alchemy. for example, while condemning witchcraft, cotton mather praised john winthrop, jr, and his son wait still winthrop (1642.1717, both prominent citizens and both also alchemists. while governor of connecticut, the elder winthrop conducted alchemical experiments in the governor s mansion. he built america, united states of encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 38 one of the largest alchemical libraries in america and on occasion hosted visiting alchemists from europe. both the winthrops joined the debates then going on in medical circles over the introduction of nonorganic substances, i.e, c

and they were not charged with dabbling in magic. divine revelations had been given to earlier philosophers; why not also to the philosopher of tyana? it may be that apollonius borrowed considerably from oriental sources and that his doctrines were more brahminical than magical. sources: eells, charles p. life and times of apollonius of tyana, rendered into english from the greek of philostratus the elder. stanford, calif: stanford university press, 1923. mead, g. r. s. apollonius of tyana: the philosopher-reformer of the first century a.d. 1901. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1966. philostratus. the life of apollonius of tyana. translated by f. c. conybeare. london: macmillan, 1912. apollyon the destroying angel or prince of the underworld (rev. 9:11, synonymous with abad

s the source of the following case: miss h, the daughter of an english clergyman, was tending a dying child. his little brother, aged three to four years, was in a little bed in the same room. as the former was dying, the child woke up, and pointing to the ceiling with every expression of joy, said: mother, look at the beautiful ladies round my brother. how lovely they are, they want to take him. the elder child died at that moment. there is a group of cases in which only some sort of a presence is felt or a cloud of depression experienced, which becomes instantly relieved when the actual news of death arrives. phenomena of sound are often recorded in place of a visual apparition. sometimes they attempt to prove identity, imitating the professional work of the departed. they differ from po

hese were often used for purposes of divination, as by gazing down into clear water the mind is disposed to contemplation, often of a melancholy character. this form of divination is termed hydromancy and is similar to crystal gazing. 137 babylonia ancient religion and magic magic was integral to the religion of ancient babylonia. all the deities (the most prominent ones being ea, anu, and enlil, the elder bel) retained, even in the last centuries of babylonian development, traces of their early demonic character. ea, anu, and enlil formed a triad at the dawn of history and appear to have developed from an animistic group of world spirits. although ea became specialized as a god of the deep, anu as a god of the sky, and enlil as an earth god, each also had titles that emphasized that they

eenth century, was born april 20, 1828, in leeds, england, and grew up in an astrologically- oriented family. his grandfather had become a devotee of the stars after reading the complete herbal, a medical astrology text by nicolas culpepper and one of the few astrological texts to have survived the combined attack of protestantism and the enlightenment in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. the elder broughton inspired interest in astrology in his physician son and through him to luke broughton and his brothers. luke broughton s older brother mark became the leader of an astrological society in england and then moved to the united states to begin broughton s monthly horoscope in 1849. luke broughton began studying astrology during his teen years, and he moved to the united states in

llen. bible marvel workers. boston, 1876. cabiri (or cabeiri) a group of minor deities of greek origin. the name appears to be of semitic origin, signifying the great gods, and the cabiri seem to have been connected in some manner with the sea, protecting sailors and vessels. the chief seats of their worship were lemnos, samothrace, thessalia, and boeotia. they were originally only two in number, the elder identified with dionysus, and the younger with hermes, who was also known as cadmilus. their worship was later amalgamated with that of demeter and ceres, with the result that two sets of cabiri came into being.dionysus and demeter, and cadmilus and ceres. a greek writer of the second century b.c.e. states that they were four in number.axisros, axiokersa, axiokersos, and casmilus, corres

ded taautus (thoth, athothis, or hermes trismegistus, who invented letters; and from sydic descended the dioscuri, or cabiri, or corybantes, or samothraces. according to sanchoniathon, first built a complete ship and others descended from them who discovered medicine and charms. all this dates prior to babylon and the gods cabiri encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 234 of paganism, the elder of whom are next introduced in the generations. finally, sanchoniathon settles poseidon (neptune) and the cabiri at berytus, but not till circumcision, the sacrifice of human beings, and the portrayal of the gods had been introduced. he describes the cabiri as husbandmen and fishermen, which leads to the presumption that the people who worshiped those ancient gods were at length called b

power of american revivalism. nashville, tenn: thomas nelson, 1999. samarin, william j. tongues of men and angels. new york: macmillan, 1972. williams, j. rodman. should we all speak in tongues? christianity today (march 6, 2000: 84. woodworth-etter, maria beulah. the holy spirit. whitaker house, 1998. charlemagne (or charles the great (742.814) the greatest of the frankish kings. charlemagne was the elder son of pepin the short and succeeded his father in 768.814 c.e. he was emperor of the west, 800.814 c.e. he had a close connection with the supernatural according to legend. very often in the pages of french romance, the emperor was visited by angels who were considered to be the direct messengers of the heavenly power. these visitations, of course, were meant to symbolize his position a

students of a course in miracles (acim. the circle was founded in 1993 in response to the teaching activity of robert perry. perry had begun teaching at the miracle distribution center in fullerton, california, a primary structure for communication between the many diverse acim study groups around the country. he authored several widely distributed books, an introduction to a course in miracles, the elder brother: jesus in a course in miracles (1990, and a course glossary (1995. joining perry in the formation of the circle was allen watson. he and perry have coauthored several texts, and watson went on to write a number of volumes, all published by the circle. the circle was designed around three programmatic thrusts. the teaching wing facilitates the study of the course s idea; the trans

an law. the circle of atonement is headquartered at p.o. box 4238, west sedona, az 86340. it publishes a correspondence course and a newsletter, a better way. it has a website at http/ nen.sedona.net/circleofa/ciofaoffr.html. sources: circle of atonement. http//nen.sedona.net/circleofa/ ciofaoffr.html. april 24, 2000. perry, robert. a course glossary. west sedona, ariz: circle of atonement, 1995. the elder brother: jesus in a course in miracles. west sedona, ariz: circle of atonement, 1990. perry, robert, and allen watson. the answer is a miracle. west sedona, ariz: circle of atonement, 1998. cieepp encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 294. bringing the course to life: how to unlock the meaning of the course in miracles for yourself. west sedona, ariz: circle of atonement, 19

t-lived channeling group that originated in september 1972 when a couple (given the names luke and mark) channeled the messages of a group of seven angels. these messages were later published as the book of cosmer. following instructions from the angels, luke and mark gathered a group of 13, each of whom was given a cosmerite name: matthias, matthew, judas secarius, josephus, ananda, peter, james the elder, thomas, paul, thaddeus, and john the beloved. luke and mark completed the circle. in the summer of 1974 this circle went public with the first study of the book of cosmer and the moon monk, a periodical. cosmerism advocated the way of cosmer, which begins with a realization of the creative force innate in all things as the source of creation. humanity is on a course toward a oneness of

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

ngst the maya, kiche, and other central american peoples is even rarer than that relating to mexico, and there is little but local legend to guide research in these areas. the great storehouse of central american legend is the popol vuh, an early study published by lewis spence (1908, with some having appeared in more recent years. this fascinating work of mythological history states that some of the elder gods were regarded as magicians, and the hero-twins, xblanque and hun-ahpu, whom they sent to earth to rid it of the titan vukubcakix, were undoubtedly possessed of magical powers. as boys, the twins were equipped with magical tools that enabled them to get through an enormous amount of work in a single day. when they descended into xibalba (the kiche hades) for the purpose of avenging t

became filled with the desire to make the personal acquaintance of the author in question. accordingly he left rome and set out for alexandria, this being the home of adfar, and, on reaching his destination, did not have to wait long before gaining his desired end. the learned arabian accorded him a hearty welcome, and a little while afterward the two were living together on very friendly terms, the elder man daily imparting knowledge to the younger, who showed himself a remarkably apt pupil. for some years this state of affairs continued, but at length adfar died, and thereupon morien left alexandria and went to palestine, found a retreat in the vicinity of jerusalem, and began to lead a hermit s life there. meanwhile the erudition of the deceased arabian acquired a wide celebrity, and s

as i am setting out to travel in foreign countries. give thanks encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. norton, thomas 1125 to god, who next to his spiritual servants, honours the sons of this sacred science. after receiving this very friendly and encouraging letter, norton hurried straightway to ripley s presence, and thereafter for more than a month the two were constantly together. the elder man taught the novice many things, and he even promised that, if norton showed himself an apt and worthy pupil, he would impart to him the secret of the philosophers stone. in due course this promise was fulfilled, though it is reported that norton s own alchemical research met with various disappointments. on one occasion, for instance, when he had almost perfected a certain tincture, h

ain on these occasions. the egg is one of the most ancient symbols of new birth and has been applied to natural philosophy as well as the spiritual creation of man. sources: brand, john. observations on popular antiquities. 2 vols. london, 1813. waite, arthur edward. the occult sciences. n.p, 1891. reprint, secaucus, n.j: university books, 1974. opal gemstone of quartz or silica, praised by pliny the elder (ca. 23.79 c.e, who wrote: for in them you shall see the living fire of the ruby, the glorious purple of the amethyst, the green sea of the emerald, all glittering together in an incredible mixture of light. in ancient times many legends existed around its claimed virtues. it was believed to recreate the heart, ward off airborne contagions, and dispel sadness. it was also good for weak e

ontinued to provoke concern and debate in parapsychological circles. charles thomas cayce, the grandson of edgar cayce, and director of the edgar cayce foundation, and the association for research and enlightenment (are) reported in 1995 that the foundation s atlantic university, was expected offer the first master s degree in transpersonal studies, much of the program directed to the readings of the elder cayce and the meaning of his psychic revelations. much of the research that previously had been conducted at duke university, was being conducted through atlantic and the are, as well as programs and seminars around the united states, and internationally. are s approach to studying paranormal phenomena consisted of understanding the whole person. through holistic medical clinics, spiritu

ion from paranormal sources. rev. ed. berkeley, calif: north atlantic books, 1998. nichols, preston b, and peter moon. encounter in the pleiades: an inside look at ufos. new york: sky books, 1996. rutherford, j. f. reconciliation. brooklyn, n.y: watchtower bible and tract society, 1917. winters, randolph. the pleiadian mission: a time of awareness. atwood, calif: the pleiades project, 1994. pliny the elder (galius plinius secundus (ca. 23.79 c.e) roman historian who studied firsthand, and died during, the eruption of vesuvius on august 24, 79 c.e, and was one of the earliest writers to record that animals behaved in an unusual way prior to earthquakes. many of his writings no longer exist, but one surviving work is naturalis historia. it consists of 37 books, with a mathematical and physic

s. a strange sympathy existed between the trees and humankind, and great honor was paid to the sacred trees of rome. on the oak tree of jupiter, the triumphant general hung the shield and arms of his fallen foe, while the hedges about the temple of diana at nemi were covered with votive offerings. the trees also harbored the spirits of the dead, who came forth as dreams to the souls of men. pliny the elder stated in this matter: trees have a soul since nothing on earth lives without one. they are the temples of spirits and the simple countryside dedicates still a noble tree to some god. the various kinds of trees are sacred to their protecting spirits: the oak to jupiter, the laurel to apollo, olive to minerva, myrtle to venus, white poplar to hercules. these trees therefore partook of the

whom even the gods obeyed, and to whom the forces of earth and heaven were bond-slaves. both nero and his mother agrippina were reported to have had recourse to the infamous arts of sorcery, while in the new testament may be found testimony as to these practices in rome. the attitude of the cultured class towards magic is illustrated by an illuminating passage to be found in the writings of pliny the elder. he states, the art of magic has prevailed in most ages and in most parts of the globe. let no one wonder that it has wielded very great authority inasmuch as it embraces three other sources of influence. no one doubts that it took its rise in medicine and sought to cloak itself in the garb of a science more profound and holy than the common run. it added to its tempting promises the for

ited. a younger brother caught a chill. when an elder brother visited him, he knew at once that the young man would die soon, and communicated a statement to that effect to a mutual friend. according to medical opinion, the patient, who was not confined to bed, was in no danger, but three months afterward, he developed serious symptoms and died suddenly. when news of the death was communicated to the elder brother, he had a temporary illness. the same individual met a gentleman in a friend s house and had a similar experience; he felt, he could not explain how, that this man was near death. on two occasions within the following week he questioned the gentleman s daughter regarding her father s health and was informed that he was as usual. the daughter was surprised at the inquiries. two da

powerful music.charged so abundantly with the weirdness, mystery, and glamour of the surging ocean. vividly evokes the dutchman s ship driving before a gale, the criminal sitting terrified and hopeless at his useless helm. sea monsters among persistent legends of the sea is the belief in great monsters of the deep. the sea serpent has been reported since earliest times. the roman historian pliny the elder (ca. 23.79 c.e) described in his naturalis historia how a greek squadron on a voyage for alexander the great saw a shoal of sea serpents, each thirty feet long, in the persian gulf. much more terrifying is the great sea serpent two hundred feet long and twenty feet broad cited by olaus magnus in his history of northern people in 1555. it would be a mistake to assume that all reports of g

mystery, but it would seem that the cumean books existed until 339 c.e, when they were destroyed by the consul stilikon. augustus sent three ambassadors.paulus gabinus, marcus otacillius, and lucius valerius.into asia, africa, and italy to collect whatever could be discovered of the sibylline oracles in order to replace those that had been lost or burned. the books are of two kinds: the books of the elder sibyls (that is, of the earlier greek and roman times) and those of the later sibyls, which are falsified and disfigured with numerous interpolations. of the latter, eight books in greek and latin are still said to exist. those preserved in rome had been collected from various places, at various times, and contained predictions of future events couched in the most mysterious of symbolic

t cease before their largest brother came he would never see the face of god. lachlain answered that he would not cease till he had finished his work if all the devils in hell came. at the end of the fourth day, there sat on the end of the beam in the roof of the barn a black cat with fire.flaming eyes, and there was heard a terrific howl quite across the straits of mull into mowen. by this time, the elder of the two men was quite exhausted and sank down in a swoon, but the younger was sufficiently selfpossessed to ask for wealth and prosperity, which both received throughout their lifetime. shortly before this, cameron of lochiel received at a taigheirm a small silver shoe which, put on the foot of a newborn son of his family, would give courage and fortitude to the child. one boy, howeve

EVIL AND UNCLEAN SPIRITS

the bodies of serpents and fishes, for l. in the midst of the circle are placed lams and admca. the symbolic form of the former is somewhat like that of the devil of the tarot, but colossal and attenuated; the form is of a bloated bestial man, in a crouching position. at the southwest corner are placed the evil adam, a goat-headed skeleton-like giant, and the thousand-headed 7 hydra serpent, and the elder tylyl, the wife of lams, a woman with an ever changing and distorted countenance. at the northeast angle is trga (aggerath) the daughter of twlwjam, a fiendish wretch with serpent hair, enthroned in a chariot drawn by an ox and an ass. at the northwest angle is a gigantic scorpion with a fearful countenance but standing upright, as it were, and formed of putrefying n. after him cometh th

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

restrial visitors were flying the ships. when hamilton s story was rediscovered decades later, after ufos had entered popular consciousness, it was widely published in the ufo literature, which cited it as an example of an early close encounter of the third kind. in 1976, however, writer jerome clark collected testimony from an elderly woman who had known the hamilton family. she recalled hearing the elder hamilton tell his wife that he and his friends from a local liars club, one of them the newspaper editor, had made up the story. several years later ufo historian c 55 thomas e. bullard came upon a letter hamilton had written to a missouri paper, the atchison county mail (may 7, 1897, cheerfully confessing that there was no truth to the story. many years later, psychologist susan marie p

nineteenth century, spiritualists and other psychics proliferated. among the most prominent were william denton and his son sherman. they called themselves psychometers, which meant that they could discern any truth, however distant in time and space, by touching a physical object or, if it were out of reach, at least focusing on it. in this way they learned that mars and venus were inhabited. as the elder denton put it, a telescope only enables us to see; but the spiritual faculties enable their possessors to hear, smell, taste, and feel, and become for the time being, almost inhabitants of the planet they a re examining. in 1866, as the two men were standing out in a field watching venus rise in the evening sky, the father asked the son to study the planet and tell him what he saw. after

han reality. he came to believe that through them he entered other dimensions of existence and grew aware that this dimension and others harbor innumerable varieties of intelligent entities. e 91 further reading lilly, john c, 1972. the center of the cyclone: an autobiography of inner space. new york: julian press, 1978. the scientist: a novel autobiography. new york: j. b. lippincott. elder race the elder race, also known as els, was the first extraterrestrial group ever to arrive on earth. they showed up one billion years ago after already having colonized a considerable portion of the galaxy. but on earth, these beings originally twelve feet tall, male and female (though not as we think of sex differentiation today [williamson, 1959, and many one-eyed radically changed. earth would be t

all the while lobbying for funding. in the face of national ridicule, he argued that the people of the interior amounted to a vast new market for american goods. symmes inspired edgar allan poe to write the classic proto-sciencefiction novella the narrative of arthur gordon pym (1838. symmes s son americus kept the faith after his father had passed on. as late as 1878 he published a collection of the elder symmes s writings and lectures. the 1870s and 1880s saw a hollow- e a rt h re v i val with the publication of still other books championing the notion, including m. l. sh e r m a n s the ho l l ow gl o b e (1871, a channeled work, and frederick cu l m e r s the in n e r wo rl d (1886. helena bl a vatsky incorporated the hollow earth into her two popular and influential occult texts isis

eces published in ray palmer s amazing sto- ries, then publishing a series of stories detailing the shaver mystery, a supposedly true account of richard shaver s adventures with good and evil races living in caverns under the earth. after w. c. hefferlin made a passing reference to rainbow city, palmer ap- r 207 pended a statement describing it as the headquarters, a deserted city of the gods (or the elder race) under the ice of the [south] pole (kafton-minkel, 1989. hefferlin claimed to have access to advanced weapons and devices left over from rainbow city, but his assertions about the science behind them were so full of elementary technical errors that reader ridicule encouraged palmer to cease publishing hefferlin s writings. he and his wife reappeared, however, in 1947 and 1948, in pu

as much, even as he less plausibly claimed to have lived in the caves with the embattled teros( integrative robots; again, like their enemies the deros, beings of flesh and blood. how long he supposedly lived there is also unclear. in any event, out of these elements came a complex, alternate history of the human race. long ago, according to shaver, extraterrestrials known as atlans and titans or the elder races colonized the earth (the atlans lived on atlantis, the titans on lemuria) these beings, who possessed fantastic technologies, lived extraordinarily long lives and never stopped growing, owing to the integrative (positive) energies cast out by the sun. some grew to fifty feet, a few considerably more. eventually, however, the sun changed and began to beam detrimental (negative) ener

rawings of the prints, which his wife devoted the next five months to deciphering. she concluded that the left print s symbols depicted the sinking of the lost continents atlantis and lemuria, the right their reemergence from the ocean floor following geological cataclysms that soon would befall the planet. through an automatic-writing message given him by an acquaintance, dr. laughead heard from the elder brother, who later, according to laughead, identified himself as being jesus the christ and also sananda. laughead was to continue his work with saucers, and soon venusians would contact him. at this stage, the laugheads had not heard of dorothy martin. they did not know that she also was in psychic contact with the elder brother as well as with a group of beings she called the guardians

hurum s clarion was a planet on the other side of the moon; martin/sananda s clarion, on the other hand, existed in the etheric realm. a companion planet, cerus (sometimes confusingly referred to also as a sister thedra 229 constellation, housed other space people who kept martin s arm and hand in furious motion with automatic writing as they made good on their promise to teach her cosmic wisdom. the elder brother promised that he would return soon. they that have told you that they do not believe shall see us when the time is right (festinger et al, 1956. martin s messages were attracting attention, and a handful of followers soon came together in the chicago area. among those who spoke with martin was john otto, a ufo lecturer of national reputation and notable credulity. visiting detroi

w york: berkley medallion books, 1996. fire in the sky: the walton experi- ence. new york: marlowe and company. wanderers wanderers are extraterrestrials who traverse the cosmos in search of what george hunt williamson calls trash can worlds in other words, backward planets such as the earth. when they find such a world, they offer their souls to the reincarnation cycle. on earth their leader was the elder brother also known as the son of thought incarnate and, in a later life, jesus christ. the elder brother came to this planet accompanied by one hundred forty-four thousand lesser avatars. over the centuries, many forgot their cosmic origins and mission, but some kept the faith. after world war ii, with the coming of flying saucers, the seeding process accelerated. a space friend told wil

as, according to an account published in the houston daily post of april 21, lights in a neighbor s pasture caught the eyes of j. r. ligon and his son charley. they observed four men moving around a large dark object that they recognized, as they approached it, as an airship. its crew asked for water and accompanied the two to the house, where they filled their buckets. i accosted one of the men, the elder ligon reported, and he told me his name was wilson. they were returning from a trip out on the gulf and were now headed toward iowa, where the airship was built. it was one of five that had been constructed there. the ligons accompanied them back to the ship, a huge structure 136 feet long and 20 feet wide, with four large wings and propellers attached to bow and stern. wilson explained

FIRE OF QAYIN RITE

-angel of the golden horns, master of the primal fire, azael-qayin, appear in thy brilliance. thou art he: who fell from the sun to consecrate humankind with sacred heat. thou art he: who led the hosts of the watchers, the fair sons of the gods to mingle their fiery seed with the beauteous daughters of men in the world s morning. thou art he: king of the daemons of wisdom, thine ministers who are the elder daemons formed of the fire: shemyaza, armaros, baraqijel, kokabel, ezeqeel, araqiel, shamsiel, sariel. thou art he: who instructed us in the mystery of the metals, the crafts of shaping, the magicks of transformation: who bequeathed the wise blood unto thy progeny, teaching unto us the art of wedding earth to heaven. thou art he: the scapegoat whose self-sacrifice purifies us of sin, ign

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

seemed to exercise the wit than to elevate the knowledge. for as for morality, it stirred not in egypt until trismegistus' time, who was indeed long before the sages and philosophers of greece, but after abraham, isaac, jacob, joseph, yea and moses also; for at the time when moses was born, was atlas, prometheus' brother, a great astronomer, living, and he was grandfather by the mother's side to the elder mercury, who begat the father of this trismegistus.2 augustine thus confirmed with the great weight of his authority the extreme antiquity of hermes trismegistus, who was "long before the sages and philosophers of greece. and by giving him 1 see below, pp. 169, 172-3. 2 de civ. dei, xviii, xxix; quoted in john healey's translation. ii hermes trismegistus this curious genealogy, whereby h

that his manuscript contained. he dedicated the translation to cosimo, and this dedication, or argumentum as he calls it, reveals the state of mind, the attitude of profound awe and wonder, in which he had approached this marvellous revelation of ancient egyptian wisdom. in that time in which moses was born flourished adas the astrologer, brother of prometheus the physicist and maternal uncle of 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

FRATER TENEBROUS CULTS OF CTHULHU

ithin the same text. by comparing the references to each of these deities in the mythos stories, it is possible to reconstruct their inter-relationship in terms of a hierarchy, and to examine the correspondences between lovecraft s imaginary pantheon and those of pre-existing religious and mythological systems. basically, the gods of the cthulhu mythos fall into two groups, the great old ones and the elder gods, though of the latter, only nodens is mentioned by name. between ultimate chaos and the physical world stand yog-sothoth and azathoth, who share dominion over the lesser deities, pre-human races, and mankind. yog-sothoth is the outer manifestation of the primal chaos, the gate though which those outside must enter. in the dunwich horror, lovecraft writes, the old ones were, the old

he present aeon of horus. crowley describes aiwaz as, a tall dark man in his thirties, with the face of a savage king, and eyes veiled lest their gaze should destroy what they saw. according to grant, the cult of aiwaz can be traced to a period that inspired the age-long draconian tradition of egypt, which lingered on into the dark dynasties, the monuments of which were laid waste by opponents of the elder cult. it is interesting to note that lovecraft himself specifically linked the worship of nyarlathotep to pre-dynastic egypt, in the eponymously titled prose poem. the elemental aspect of nyarlathotep is aether, the communicating medium of interstellar space (or in lovecraft s terminology, the audient void. shub-niggurath is the black goat of the woods with a thousand young a title infer

cthulhu represents the abyss of the subconscious or dreaming mind, and astrologically by the sign of scorpio. ceremonially, he is referred to the west (amenta, or the place of the dead in ancient egyptian religion, and geographically, to the site of r lyeh in the south pacific (the exact coordinates for which are to be found in the call of cthulhu) as already stated, nodens is the only member of the elder gods to be mentioned by name, and lovecraft gives no further information concerning him. the sign of the elder gods is described as an upright pentagram containing an eye-shaped sigil. the points of the pentagram symbolize the four elements, plus that of spirit, the fifth or hidden element. combined, they balance the mono-elemental nature of the old ones, suggesting that the elder gods m

ned, they balance the mono-elemental nature of the old ones, suggesting that the elder gods may exist on a higher plane the eye suggests the opening if the ajana chakra, or third eye, symbolizing the facility of astral vision. in one sense, the beings described above are designated gods in as much as they are worshipped by great numbers of other beings, both human and non-human. amongst these are the elder races, who inhabited the earth in prehistoric times, and from whose presence man s very existence derives. the first of these races to visit the earth was the old ones, who came down from the stars to build their black stone city on the continent of antarctica. they are described as having starfish-shaped heads, and tubular bodies covered with tentacles and cilia. their servants are the

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

ble that the terms adam, cain, abel, and seth have an esoteric meaning which for ages was known only to the priests. from various facts which in later times are being brought forward regarding the ancient myths of genesis, it is believed that these names originally stood for races of men, and that subsequently certain religious doctrines came to be attached to them. the offering of fruit by cain, the elder brother, who was a tiller of the ground, and that of flesh by abel, who was a keeper of sheep, indicates a quarrel which ended in the death of the latter. after the death of abel, or after one of these principles or sects was subdued, the older religion was revived, and seth, as the aleim, or as the creative power within the sun, was "appointed" or again worshipped. it would seem that se

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

rned hismother'sflight fromthefirst family of her twice-married father into an episode of his fictional heroine's history.andwhateverthereal reason for her canadian journey,emmalovell returned and met' captain waite_'hethataspired-toknow'19he at least had the good grace to die honourably and, for all her rejection, emma waite could yet look upon her sisterswitha degree ofwrysatisfaction. harriet, the elder, married augustus the brother of charles dickens, andmighthave expected fame and fortune,butinstead lost in succession her sight and herhusband-whofled to americawithbertha phillips, an erstwhile friend of his wife's, and made a living by lecturing on his brother's works. embittered by this desertion aunt harriet livedwithher mother in bayswater, refusing to meet her elder sister for man

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

s foretold the death of antigonus in 315b.c.vitruvius states that astrology was introduced into greece by berosus, who settled in cos, and held a school there. berosus was a chaldean and was a contemporary of alexander the great.fromhis time astrology became naturalized among the greeks.itwas much cultivated by the stoic philosphers.fromgreece the study passed naturally to italy and to rome. cato the elder refers to it. cneius octavius had an astrologic figure found on his person when he was slain in the days of marius. sylla was advised by the chaldeans. cicero speaks of divination received by pompey and crassus. lucian also states that julius cresar noted the revolutions of the stars. nigidius figulus was famous as an astrologer in the later years of the roman republic, and foretold the

nthe treatisequod omnis probus liber.,ss. 12, 13, and the later from hisapologies for thejewsmay be found quoted in theprceparatio evangelicavii, 11, of eusebius, a christian author and bishop ofceesarea(d. 338).ournext authority is the jewish historian josephus (died 94a.d),who gives many details in hiswarsofthejewsand also in hisantiquitiesofthe jews;267and lastly we have the roman author pliny the elder (dieda.d.79, who mentions the sect in hisnatural history.following these there were, after a long interval, hip255 polytus (d. 230, porphyry (d. 305) the neo-platonist theo. sophist who repeats the account given by josephus, and solinus who repeats pliny, and the christian authors eusebius..225.(d. 338) who reproduces philo, and epiphanius (d. 403)who!mention this sect. for many hundred

esearches; the essenes practised lives of poverty,thepythagoreans were aristocratic and exclusive; the essenes believed in predestination, the pythagoreans in free will; and the essenes had a peculiar objection to the use of unguents, while the pythagoreans had no such notion of defilement; the essenes ate both animal and vegetable foods, while the pythagoreans were vegetarians. alexander lawrie, the elder, published ahistoryoffree255masonrywith anaccountof the grandlodgeofscotlandin 1804, and his successor, w. a. laurie, in 1859; it is declared in these volumes that the essenes used signs resembling those of the. freemasons; this article was, i understand, written by sir david brewster for lawrie; he gives the tract of philo,uponthecontemplativelife,as his authority; i have looked over th

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

ts and fishes.the qllphqth of theqabalah27in the midst of the circle are placed samael and asmodai. the symbolic form of the former is somewhat like that of the devil of the tarot,butcolossal and attenuated;thatof asmodaias 225 bloated, bestial man, but in a crouching position. atthesouth-east angle are placedtheevil adam, a goat-headed skeleton-like giant; and a' thousand-headedhydraserpent; and the elder lilith,thewife ofsamael,awoman with an ever-changing and distorted countenance. at the north-east angle is aggerath,thedaughter of machalath, a fiendish witch with serpent hair enthroned in a chariot drawn by an ox and an ass. at the north-west angle is a gigantic scorpion with a fearful countenance,butstanding upright as it were, and formed of putrefying water. after .267him cometh. the

GILBERT R A THE MASONIC CAREER OF A

mankind and the encouragement of philanthropy were and are it s ostensible objects, and these also were the dream of the rosicrucian but, on the other, it has never aimed at a reformation in the arts and sciences, for it was never at any period a learned society, and a large proportion of its members have been chosen from illiterate classes. it is free alike from the enthusiasm and the errors of the elder order. it been singularly devoid of prejudices 6[6] eliphas levi was the pseudonym of the french occultist alphonse louis constant (1810-75. the standard biography is by chacornac, eliphas levi (paris, chacornac, 1926. 7[7] his first published work was an ode to astronomy (1877. he published many poems and stories in minor literary journals between 1876 and 1886 8[8] the mysteries of mag

GNOSTIC CATECHISM

mankind and the encouragement of philanthropy were and are it s ostensible objects, and these also were the dream of the rosicrucian but, on the other, it has never aimed at a reformation in the arts and sciences, for it was never at any period a learned society, and a large proportion of its members have been chosen from illiterate classes. it is free alike from the enthusiasm and the errors of the elder order. it been singularly devoid of prejudices 6[6] eliphas levi was the pseudonym of the french occultist alphonse louis constant (1810-75. the standard biography is by chacornac, eliphas levi (paris, chacornac, 1926. 7[7] his first published work was an ode to astronomy (1877. he published many poems and stories in minor literary journals between 1876 and 1886 8[8] the mysteries of mag

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

reductionism and see the centres more as a landscape in which townships meld into each other rather than an a classification scheme from a biology textbook! yggdrasil:the world tree nine world i can count, nine roots of the tree volupsa nine lays of power i learned from bolthorn, bestla's father odin in the havamal yggdrasil is a prime example of the organic model of the great chain of being. in the elder edda yggdrasil is identified as a sacred ash tree, it becomes obvious that this is no ordinary tree but a tree which glyphs the worlds and which encompasses many strata's of reality. in the grimnismal yggddrasil is described as having three great roots, one lies under hel, the realm of the dead, under another dwell the giants and under the third live human beings. a squirrel runs along i

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his initiatory quest he hung on the world tree (ygdrassill) for nine days and nights and finally, falling from the tree, grasped the runes to his bosom and brought them back to earth. the kabbalistic imagery here is obvious, and shows how widely the shamanic practises of the ariosophic tradition had spread across the globe. the shamanic quest of odin is beautifully expressed in the poetic form of the elder edda. i trow that i hung on the windy tree, swing there nights all nine, gashed with a blade, bloodied for odin, myself an offering to myself, knotted to that tree, no man knows whither the roots of it run, gnostic theurgy page 113 none gave me bread, none gave me drink, down to the depths i peered, to snatch up the runes with a roaring scream and fell in a dizzied swoon. well-being i wo

the daughters of men and gave birth to every kind of mutation. these mutated creatures, called nephilim were truly evil and hideous. they are discussed in many traditional theological works such as those of clement, alexander, tertullian and justin to name a few early christian writers and philo and josephus to name a number of others. these beings brought such havoc to earth that after the flood the elder gods (emissaries from the pleroma) created a special seal across the astral dimension which surrounds the earth and locked them away until the omega day. according to the new testament these forces were kept in a spiritual dimension called tartaros. this is the meaning of verses six and seven in the new testament book of jude, these uniquely destructive demons are chained until the last

of the necronomicon. i certainly do not aim to spend much time outlining the necromonicon myth, however, a basic summary will give you the drift. the necronomicon outlines a period in time when savage and heartless gods ruled the earth, these were violent and malefic entities who were called the old ones (archons. at some time in the dim reaches of the past they caused so much havoc on earth that the elder gods locked them away in another dimension and sealed the gateway. modern necronomicon tales discuss how atomic energy and the decay of modern society has eroded the seals and that the old ones are returning. legend has it that man will have to decide on which side to fight in a cosmic battle of frightening proportions. another modern link with this myth is the work of occultist kenneth

suggest that grant and many others are under the influence of the demiurgic kingdom. while we may think some of these occult occurrences are just madness, if we correlate the tales with the biblical story of fallen angels we begin to see a hauntingly similar pattern. we are moving at lightning speed towards the omega day and the gateway is opening, if you are not on the side of treasury of light (the elder gods, then you are fair-game for the old ones. perhaps some of the strange descriptions of the books of revelation and daniel are not that farfetched after all! gnostic theurgy page 220 the resurfacing of the gnosis as the heraldic period moves towards aquarius mankind is heading towards a new period of both hope and destruction. the kali yuga is also accelerating towards its conclusion

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great goddesses are not otherwise shown in the grade, save in connection with the praemonstrator and imperator, as operating through the hierophant, seeing that isis corresponds to the pillar of mercy and nephthys to that of severity. therefore, the positions of the pillars or obelisks are but, as it were, the places of their feet. the station of aroueris: the invisible station of aroueris (horus the elder) is beside the hierophant as though representing the power of osiris to the outer order. for while the hierophant is an adeptus, he is shown only as lord of the paths of the portal so that when the hierophant is on the dais, the station of aroueris is that of the immediate past hierophant who sits on the hierophant's left. aroo-ouerist. this ends the constitutory symbolism of a temple in

are green. his feet rest on a pavement of black and white. the god-form of osiris never moves from the dais. when the hierophant has to move from the dais, he is covered by the form of osiris in action--aroueris, which is built up by the past hierophant, seated on the hierophant s left. if no one is seated as past hierophant, then inner members help formulate the second god-form. aroueris: horus the elder, is very lively to look upon- like pure flames. he wears the double crown of egypt, the cone-shaped crown in red inside the white crown of the north, with a white plume. his nemyss is purple banded with gold at the edges. his face and body are translucent scarlet. he has green eyes and wears a purple beard of authority. he wears a yellow tunic with a waist cloth of yellow striped with pu

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endeavour to arrive at a comprehension of its diverse arcana. if justice would be done to its subtleties the manifold complex of initiatory 'forms, as extant within contemporary cunning craft praxis, deserves a broad and detailed study. in the following pages an attempt will be made to accomplish this, to distinguish between the 'types' of initiation which may occur for a seeker upon the path of the elder craft, and furthermore to define the various strands of magical transmission which may be considered as 'lineages' or 'chains of g nosis' in and of themselves. in attempting to do this i shall admittedly be drawing directly from my own experience, specifically from that which i have gained as the present magister of the cultus sabbati. consequently, a subjective delimitation of the topic

ous strands of magical transmission which may be considered as 'lineages' or 'chains of g nosis' in and of themselves. in attempting to do this i shall admittedly be drawing directly from my own experience, specifically from that which i have gained as the present magister of the cultus sabbati. consequently, a subjective delimitation of the topic is inevitable. indeed, because the 'tradition' of the elder craft is of so many guises and localised variations, no definitive account of initiatory processes may even be tenable. undoubtedly omissions and generalisations will occur and for these i offer an apology in advance. nonetheless, it is hoped that the broad schemata as given below will serve to clarify and to deepen an awareness of the matter in ways hitherto unexplored. with this intent

an. of all the diverse aspects involved in the process of formal ritual initiation it is the focal role of the final apotheotic rite and the ability of its central deed, the passing-on, to act as the 'seal of power' for all initiatory relations which is of paramount importance. for those of the path, the reception of the 'power' activates the spiritual bloodline: the legacy of the fire-brand from the elder gods, from old tubalo the light-bringer, through the race of the watchers and the companie of faerie, down through the golden chain of hand-to-hand-to-hand..to now. midnight's lightning: the lineage of unique transmission vision an omen-bearing bolt of light held in the hands of the daemonic gods: an intercession trespassing fates, a revelation that brings forth to flesh the link between

ass on his power via sexual means only once in his life. this might be to his chosen successor, if female, or to his own consort in the craft. we must also consider that sexual initiation can occur in the dream-state and that the 'consent' of the aspirant may be an irrelevant consideration. it is rather a case of personal sacrifice to the deity. from my knowledge of both male and female adepts in the elder craft, the gods can and will take lovers and by their 'elixirs' convey strange knowledges, far beyond the grasp of mortal aspirations. furthermore, we should also give thought to the transmission of gnosis between adepts via their own sexual fluids. a fully empowered consort is a vehicle for the magical current, his or her blood and bodily fluids are media for the powers of the arte and

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ts into haunting and unforgettable stories of ancient space-faring races who first settled the earth aeons ago, turning the entire planet inside and out into a technological marvel. pal- mer brought out the great potential of shaver s intense and striking imagery the stuff that makes true mythology. the shaverian mythos had it that our sun developed a form of detrimental radiation which horrified the elder races, as this type of radiation is the source of mutation, aging and death in this otherwise ageless and deathless race. abandoning the earth to mutants long ago, these beings, called atlans and titans and remembered now only as legends, rejoined the nortans, a race of beings who live only in deep space, avoiding nearness to all stars that have, like our own, a tendency to turn malignan

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antric goddess, kali. horus attainment, fruition, man, humanity, the present as a result of the past. his title is 'the avenger of his father' because he fought set and avenged his father, osiris, whom set slew. horus is shown as a warrior. he is dynamic and aggressive. he is the spring which wins against winter and avenges the past summer. ur-heru cause, maturity, responsibility. his name means 'the elder horus' and he is the counterpart of the child, harpocrates. harpocrates effect, faith, acceptance, innocence. he is horus, the child. he is like the fool of the tarot. he is often shown sitting on a lotus with the first finger of his right hand resting against his closed lips in his role ofthe god of silence. hathor maternal force, protection, sustenance, fertility. hathor is the consort

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the god wainiimoinen) was making (waking) joy= he sang' io kiiwi ilo ilolle' 22, 215, joy came to joy= the song resounded, struck up. 902 poetet. and bragr, wainamoinen witli tlie finns. saga was wuotan's daughter (p. 310, as the muse was zeus's; freyja loved the minnesong: mienni lika'si vel mansongr/ sn. 29. on the origin of poetry the younger edda (sn. 82 87) gives at full length a myth, which the elder had alluded to in havanial (sffim. 12. 23-4. once upon a time the aesir and vanir made a covenant of peace, and in token of it each party stept up to a vessel, and let fall into it their spittle^ as atonements and treaties were often hallowed by mingling of bloods (ra. 193-4; here the holy spittle is equivalent to blood, and even turns into blood, as the sequel shews. the token of peace

ast, by conjuring them into the skin and bones. but they also make them settle on forest-trees, they dig them in under elder-bushes: the' elves/ in gnawing away the wood of the aspen, waste away the man at whom they are aimed. the same witch as set the' holden' on a man must take them off again; when she wants them, she goes into the wood and shakes them off the trees, or digs them out from under the elder (the elves^ grave. you may know a man into whom holden have been charmed, by there being no manikin or baby icopt, pupa) visible in his eyes, or only very faintly (voigt pp. 149. 152. this is like the devil's drawing a toad on the pupil of a witch's left eye. the nine species of holden i shall specify in the chap, on diseases. but not unfrequently the demon lover himself appears in the f

libera nos a malo' a dante diceretur' libera deus istum hominem (nomine ill) a gutta cadiva^ et quibus novem diebus missam quotidie audiret, azymum panem cibumque quadragesimalem post jejunium caperet, atque ita deo miserante convalesceret. si taraen factum est, ille convaluit, servus emancipatus est, etiam lieres adscriptus, medicina ab iunumeris adprobata multis quoque salutis contulit remedia. the elder-tree is good for tootbaclie and ague: for the former the sufferer sticks an elder-branch into tjie ground with the words^ begone, bad spirit; in the case of ague he puts it in without saying a word, but his fever sticks to the elder, and then fastens on the first person who comes to the spot unawares, dan. sup. k, 162. specially wholesome is an elder that grows over beehives (op bjintjek

; names which carry us back, if not to a god, to one of our greatest heroes of old, whose father was the wise leech wate (see suppi. but there is only a small number of herbs named after gods or heroes, compared with those referable to goddesses and wise women. most of these are now given to mary, who in this case, as in that of pretty little beetles (p. 694) and brilliant stars (p. 726, replaces the elder i'votiiyft. frauen-scjmhii is trefoliuni melilotus, whose flower resembles a shoe, in some places marienpantqfelcheu; was cypri^edium calceolus veneris formed in imitation? fraua-menteli, osa (our) fraua-menteli (tobler 204, alchemilla vulg, from its leaves being folded mantle- wise. frauaseckeli(-satchel, geumrivale, ibid. frei/ju-lidr stands for several kinds of fern (supra p. 303; doe

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. 39, sn. 66. 68; a swed. folk-song still has den leda gijger/ arvidsson, 2, 302. it is wanting in the other teut. dialects, but if translated into gothic it would be giugi or giugja; i trace it to the root giugan, and connect it with the words quoted in my gramm. 2, 50 no. 536 (see suppl. our riese is the ohg. risi (0. iv. 12, 61) or riso (n. ps. 32, 16, mhg. rise, mlg. rese (en. 7096, on. risi (the elder edda has it only in grottas. 12, swed. rese, dan. rise, m. nethl. rese, rose (huyd. op st. 3, 33. 306, now reus. to these would correspond a gothic vrisa, as may be gathered from the os. form wriso which i confidently infer from the adj. wrisiuc giganteus, hel. 42, 5. the anglo-saxons seem to have had no analogous ivrisa, as they confine themselves to j?yrs, gigant [and ent. the root of

and hazels served of old to hedge in a court of justice, as they still do cornfields, ra. 810. according to the ostgota-lag (bygdab. 30, any one may in a common wood hew with impunity, all but oaks and hazels, these have peace, i.e. immunity. in superst. i, 972 we are told that oak and hazel dislike one another, and cannot agree, any more than haw and sloe (white and black thorn; see suppl. then the elder (sambucus, ohgr. holantar, enjoyed a marked degree of veneration; holan of itself denotes a tree or shrub (as. cneowholen=ruscus. in lower saxony the sambucus iiigra is 1 so the best head had to be touched backwards, ra. 396; so men sacrificed with the head turned away (p. 493, and threw backwards over their heads (p. 628. 2 a scholium on ad. of bremen s hist. eccl (pertz, scr. 7, 379) i

same, they were wont first to say this prayer " dame ellhorn, give me somewhat of thy wood, then will i also give thee of mine, if so be it grow in the forest." and this they were wont to do sometimes with bended knees, bare head and folded hands, as i have ofttimea in my young days both heard and seen/ compare with this the very similar accounts of elder rods (sup. i, 866, of planting the elder before stables (169. of pouring water under the elder (864, and of the elder s mother (sup. k, dan. 162. 2 the juniper, wacholder, plays an impor tant part in the marchen of machandelboom; in the poem of the mirror s adventure, fol. 38, occurs the mysterious statement: fraw weckolter, ich sich dame juniper, i see daz du ir swester bist, that thou her 3 sister art, du kund ouch falsche li

from the lake across the meadows, and no one dared to touch its boughs. trees of this kind are sacred to indi vidual elves, woodsprites, homesprites; they are called in swed. 1 as. ellen. the canones editi sub eadgaro rege, cap. 16 (thorpe, p. 396, speak of the sorcery practised on ellenum and eac on oftrum mislicum treowum (in sambucis et in aliis variis arboribus. 2 the god pushkait lives under the elder, and the lettons used to set bread and beer for him beside the tree, thorn. hiarn, p. 43 [in somersetshire they will not burn elder wood, for fear of ill luck. trans] 3 my faithless lover s. 4 i find this quoted from loccenius s antiq. sueog. 1,3; it is not in the ed. of 1647, it may be in a later. afzelius 2, 147 has the story with this addition, that at the second stroke blood flowed f

148. they imparted strength to a helmet, and force to the blade of a sword. it seems much the same thing, when waggoners plait adder stongues into their whips, sup. i, 174 (see suppl. the snake crawls or wriggles along the ground; when provided with wings, it is called drache, a non-german word coming from the lat. draco, gr. spdrcwv, and introduced very early, ohg. traccho, as. draca, on. dreki. the elder (or sasmund s) edda has dreki only once, in the latish solarl. 127b; elsewhere it is ormr, as. wyrm, ohg. warm, goth, vaurms, which in a wider sense includes the snake also. the one encountered by beowulf comes before us emphatically as a winged snake (serpens alatus; nihtes fleogeft 4541, by night he flies, and hence is called uhtscea&a 4536 (nocturnus hostis, aggressor, and lyftsceaffa

4; michael having taken upon him the office of mercury or the walchure. a record of the 13th cent (mb. 7, 371) calls him praepositus paradisi et princeps animarum. a still more im portant passage, already noticed at p. 446, occurs in morolt 28 a- b, where three troops are introduced, the black, white and pale: den strtt mahtu gerne schouwen, dens umb die sele suln han/ for similar descriptions in the elder french poets, conf. meon 1, 239.4, 114-5. 3, 284. and even so early as the 8-9th cent, we find quite at the beginning of the muspilli fragment: wanta sar so sih diu sela in den sind arhevit (rises) enti si den lihhamun likkan lazit (leaves the body lying, so quimit ein heri (comes one host) fona himilzungalon, daz andar fona pehhe (pitch, hell; dar pdgant siu umpi. i have questioned (p

des) quit the country, but what he further tells of warheit is peculiar, how she slipt into a parson, and nestled in his cheek, but left him at last when he opened his lips, 7, 65 102. in 7, 751 vices are summoned to creep (sliefen) into a judge. so that both virtues and vices, like the daemon, take up their abode in men, and retire from them again. but such fancies were not far to seek, and even the elder poets make minne especially visit the heart of man, possess it, e.g. ms. 1, 26b( ach siieze minne, fiiege dich in ihr herze, und gib ir minnen muot! notice too the naive question the daughter puts to her mother, ms. 2, 260a: nu sage mir ob diu minne lebe und hie bi uns uf erde si, aid ob uns in den luften swebe (or hovers in the air above us? she has heard of higher beings, whom she imag

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(sa turn) come out of your gloomy solitude ye saturnine spirits, come with your cohort, come with diligence to the place where i am going to begin my operation under your auspices; be attentive to my labours and contribute your assistance that it may rebound to the honour and glory of the highest. the secret grimoire character of aratron lord of saturn. perfumes: saifron, with the wood of atoes, the elder and the pine. add to it a grain of musk, and consecrate the whole, pulverized and mixed together in a paste. the secret grimoire chabacter of praleg lord of mars. perfumes the head of a frog, the bovine blood, a grain of white poppy, fiowers of camomile, and camphor, pulverized into a paste by the mixing of the blood of a virgin kid. the secret grimoire character of phul lord of the moon

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with attempts by seth and his followers to destroy or despoil the body of osiris. the corpse is successfully protected by the magic of thoth and by the ferocity of anubis in his role as guardian of the tomb. the birth and childhood of horus. after a pregnancy of ten months, isis gives birth to a son called horus. this god was often referred to as horus, son of isis, to distinguish him from horus the elder, the sky god whom some traditions made a brother of osiris and seth. these two gods had distinct mythologies but were often treated as aspects of the same deity. the place of horus s birth is said to be in the delta, usually in the region of chemmis. to evade his enemies, the divine child was hidden inside a papyrus thicket or on a floating island. this nest of horus is one of the few my

ting island. this nest of horus is one of the few mythical places that is commonly shown in egyptian art. temple wall scenes depict kings in the role of the horus child in the marshes being washed or suckled by a cow. this cow can be identified with a number of goddesses but most often with hathor, whose name literally means mansion of horus. she seems to have been regarded as the mother of horus the elder and the wet nurse or foster mother of horus the younger.37 many other deities were imagined as protecting the divine child whenever isis was forced to be absent. in literary spells these deities can be changed into the humble human inhabitants of the marsh. the theme of the poisoning of the infant horus was a common one in magical texts (see horus the child and serqet in deities, themes

rings made to the gods and the dead. it also became one of the most popular of all egyptian amulets. two versions of horus are known: with eyes (khenty-irty) and without eyes (khenty-en-irty. they could be represented by an ichneumon, an animal noted for its keen sight, and a type of eyeless shrew. the vengeful horus khenty-en-irty was one of the gods who perpetually tortured the evil dead. horus the elder was said to have one green eye and a lesser white eye. green was sometimes equivalent to red in egyptian symbolism, so this was the solar eye. the white (or silver) eye was the moon. the red and white crowns of egyptian kings could be equated with the solar and lunar eyes. from the old kingdom onward, pairs of wedjat eyes were painted on coffins for the deceased to look out through. the

own in human form. his skin could be painted green, probably to symbolize the plants that come forth from the body of geb. living creatures were said to crawl on the back of geb. none of these life-forms could come into being until shu separated geb and nut so that air and light could exist between them. after their separation, geb and nut became the parents of five divine children: osiris, horus the elder, seth, isis, and nephthys. as a sky goddess, nut was also considered to be the mother of all heavenly bodies, so geb was sometimes called the father of the sun god ra. in the book of nut, geb is said to be appalled by nut s habit of eating her children. he is rebuked by the sun god, who explains that nut s behavior is a necessary part of the cycle of death and rebirth. geb himself was sa

and hu heqet (heqat, hekat) heqet was a frog goddess who helped women to give birth and the dead to be reborn. the knife-wielding frogs shown on ivory wands are probably heqet in her role as defender of women and children. heqet, mistress of joy, was among the deities, themes, and concepts 139 followers of the inundation god hapy when he brought new life to egypt each year. the roman writer pliny the elder noted an egyptian belief that frogs were spontaneously generated from the mud left by the receding nile flood. heqet came to be worshipped as a goddess of the primeval slime who gave birth to the sun god. heqet was regarded as the female counterpart of the creator god khnum, and the two are linked in a middle kingdom royal-birth myth. the sun god ra sends a group of deities to assist a w

or) horus was the celestial falcon and the embodiment of kingship. the conflict between horus and seth, the two lords, was an enduring theme in egyptian myth. the name horus probably means the distant one. two main forms of horus appear in the sources. these are sometimes regarded as separate gods, belonging to different epochs, and sometimes as aspects of the same deity. horus the great or horus the elder (harwer/haroeris) was a primeval being who initiated creation. as lord of the sky, his wings spanned the heavens, and his eyes were the sun and the moon. this horus is the son of a sky goddess, either nut or hathor. horus the younger was the son of isis who grew up to avenge his murdered father, osiris, and take his place as ruler of egypt. he was usually shown as a falcon-headed man. ea

ngs. when a king appeared to his subjects, it was compared with the glorious rising of horemakhet (horus in the horizon. the two lords, horus and seth, were either named as brothers or as nephew and uncle. many theories have been advanced to explain the origins of their combat, from memories of an ancient civil war to observations of storms or astronomical phenomena. when the combatants are horus the elder, the celestial falcon, and seth, the chaotic god of storms, the conflict seems to belong to the primeval age when opposing elements had to come together to create the divine order. the necessity of horus and seth being reconciled is stressed in many sources. one of the key images of royal art was horus the uniter and seth tying together the heraldic plants of upper and lower egypt to sym

shown in the book of the dead presenting deceased souls before the throne of osiris. the reign of horus as king of egypt was considered the model for all subsequent reigns. the semidivine kings who came after him in mythical history were called the followers of horus. in a few magical texts a scorpion goddess called ta-bitjet is called the wife of horus. a passage in the coffin texts makes horus the elder and his sister, isis, the parents of the four protective deities known as the sons of horus. a festival at edfu temple celebrated the beautiful union between horus and hathor, lady of dendara. here, horus is an aspect of the sun god uniting with the goddess who was his mother, his consort, and his daughter to renew the cosmos. texts and scenes at edfu illustrate the diversity of myths ce

ion of this statement is found in plutarch s book on egyptian religion. it tells how nut (whom plutarch calls rhea) was pregnant, but the sun god put a curse on her so that she could not give birth on any day of the year. the god hermes (thoth) played a board game with the moon and won enough light to make five extra days on which nut s children could be born. the five children were osiris, horus the elder, seth, isis, and nephthys. in other accounts of mythical history, there seems no permanent separation until the creator sun god ra decides to leave the earth after a rebellion by humanity. nut takes the form of a cow to carry ra up into the heavens, a myth encapsulated in the image of a sun disk between cow s horns that became the insignia of several goddesses. when she was holding the s

plex murder plots. the two gods were often presented as opposites. osiris could stand for order and everything that was egyptian. seth could stand for disorder and everything that was foreign. osiris ruled the fertile black land of the nile valley, and seth the barren red land of the deserts. as the god who causes storms and clouds, seth was also the natural opponent of the solar sky falcon horus the elder. alternatively, this conflict 192 handbook of egyptian mythology figure 41. a votive ostracon in cairo museum with a drawing of seth. he is shown with the head of an unknown animal (courtesy of geraldine pinch) could be stated in terms of a dynastic feud and a struggle for justice between seth the usurper and horus the younger, the posthumous son of osiris. during this long struggle seth

obek was helping to establish order. on other occasions, however, sobek was counted among the enemies of the divine order. in one spell in the coffin texts, sobek the rebel is held responsible for mutilating the body of the good god osiris. sobek was sometimes identified with the crocodile form of seth, the slayer of osiris. the greco-roman period temple of kom ombo was jointly dedicated to horus the elder and sobek. it is possible that at this site sobek represented an acceptable manifesta- deities, themes, and concepts 201 figure 44. sobek in crocodile form as lord of the fayum in the book of the fayum (carsten niebuhr institute of near eastern studies) tion of seth and that the whole temple celebrated the reconciliation of the two lords for the good of egypt. see also crocodiles; hapy;

ris the king, support his body, and beat up his great enemy. these roles are repeated in a middle kingdom ritual drama in which the sons of horus fight the followers of seth and then lift the body of osiris into the heavens. imsety, hapy, duamutef, and qebehsenuef were sometimes identified with the four pillars that held up the sky. obscure passages in the coffin texts seem to name isis and horus the elder as the parents of these four deities. kinship terms were often used very loosely in ancient egypt, so son can just mean descendant. the sons of horus were sometimes treated as identical with the group of royal demigods known as the souls of pe and nekhen. after the reign of horus, the souls ruled the kingdoms of upper or lower egypt. according to one spell, the souls of nekhen (hierakonp

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sacred chao. he is patron of the season of chaos. 2.dr. van van mojo is a fellow of the intergalactic haitian guerillas for world peace and is patron of the season of discord. 3.sri syadasti is the apostle of psychedelia and the patron of the season of confusion. 4.zarathud, a hermit of medieval europe, has been dubbed offender of the faith. he is patron of the season of bureaucracy. 5.malaclypse the elder is alleged to have been an ancient wiseman who carried as sign bearing the legend dumb through the alleys of rome, baghdad, mecca, jerusalem, and some other places. he is patron of the season of aftermath. 28 phil hine spiral pentagrams this bit explains the spiral pentagrams referred to in the discordian opening rite. the traditional pentagram is a very solid, geometrical figure- i find

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laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. then the liberated old ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom. meanwhile the cult, by appropriate rites, must keep alive the memory of those ancient ways and shadow forth the prophecy of their return. in the elder time chosen men had talked with the entombed old ones in dreams, but then something happened. the great stone city r'lyeh, with its monoliths and sepulchres, had sunk beneath the waves; and the deep waters, full of the one primal mystery through which not even thought can pass, had cut off the spectral intercourse. but memory never died, and the high-priests said that the city would rise

e with rice and morgan. his wilder wanderings were very startling indeed, including frantic appeals that something in a boarded-up farmhouse be destroyed, and fantastic references to some plan for the extirpation of the entire human race and all animal and vegetable life from the earth by some terrible elder race of beings from another dimension. he would shout that the world was in danger, since the elder things wished to strip it and drag it away from the solar system and cosmos of matter into some other plane or phase of entity from which it had once fallen, vigintillions of aeons ago. at other times he would call for the dreaded necronomicon and the daemonolatreia of remigius, in which he seemed hopeful of finding some formula to check the peril he conjured up 'stop them, stop theml' h

rakus in the care of that nobleman. another card from rakus a week later, saying that his host's carriage had met him and that he was leaving the village for the mountains, was his last message for a considerable time; indeed, he did reply to his parents' frequent letters until may, when he wrote to discourage the plan of his mother for a meeting in london, paris, or rome during the summer, when the elder wards were planning to travel to europe. his researches, he said, were such that he could not leave his present quarters; while the situation of baron ferenczy's castle did not favour visits. it was on a crag in the dark wooded mountains, and the region was so shunned by the country folk that normal people could not help feeling ill at ease. moreover, the baron was not a person likely to

he heard proceeding from the now disused library of his son. books were apparently being flung about and papers wildly rustled, and upon stepping to the door mr. ward beheld the youth within, excitedly assembling a vast armful of literary matter of every size and shape. charles's aspect was very drawn and haggard, and he dropped his entire load with a start at the sound of his father's voice. at the elder man's command he sat down, and for some time listened to the admonitions he had so long deserved. there was no scene. at the end of the lecture he agreed that his father was right, and that his noises, mutterings, incantations, and chemical odours were indeed inexcusable nuisances. he agreed to a policy of great quiet, though insisting on a prolongation of his extreme privacy. much of hi

still reckoned a dweller beneath his father's roof. twice he was absent from the city on week-long trips, whose destinations have not yet been discovered. he grew steadily paler and more emaciated even than before, and lacked some of his former assurance when repeating to dr. willett his old, old story of vital research and future revelations. willett often waylaid him at his father's house, for the elder ward was deeply worried and perplexed, and wished his son to get as much sound oversight as could be managed in the case of so secretive and independent an adult. the doctor still insists that the youth was sane even as late as this, and adduces many a conversation to prove his point. about september the vampirism declined, but in the following january almost became involved in serious t

concrete garage on a high point of land at his left. stepping briskly up the neglected gravel walk he rapped at the door with a firm hand, and spoke without a tremor to the evil portuguese mulatto who opened it to the width of a crack. he must, he said, see charles ward at once on vitally important business. no excuse would be accepted, and a repulse would mean only a full report of the matter to the elder ward. the mulatto still hesitated, and pushed against the door when willett attempted to open it; but the doctor merely raised his voice and renewed his demands. then there came from the dark interior a husky whisper which somehow chilled the hearer through and through though he did not know why he feared it 'let him in, tony' it said 'we may as well talk now as ever' but disturbing as w

ivered at the mysteries the past may conceal, and trembled at the menaces the future may bring forth. what was hinted in the speech of post-human entities of the fate of mankind produced such an effect on me that i will not set it down here. after man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the great race would seize when the monstrous doom overtook the elder world. later, as the earth's span closed, the transferred minds would again migrate through time and space- to another stopping-place in the bodies of the bulbous vegetable entities of mercury. but there would be races after them, clinging pathetically to the cold planet and burrowing to its horror-filled core, before the utter end. meanwhile, in my dreams, i wrote endlessly in that hist

earth which they had already joined to their abodes and begun to inhabit. then they had sealed the entrances and left them to their fate, afterward occupying most of their great cities and preserving certain important buildings for reasons connected more with superstition than with indifference, boldness, or scientific and historical zeal. but as the aeons passed there came vague, evil signs that the elder things were growing strong and numerous in the inner world. there were sporadic irruptions of a particularly hideous character in certain small and remote cities of the great race, and in some of the deserted elder cities which the great race had not peopled- places where the paths to the gulfs below had not been properly sealed or guarded. after that greater precautions were taken, and

rly hideous character in certain small and remote cities of the great race, and in some of the deserted elder cities which the great race had not peopled- places where the paths to the gulfs below had not been properly sealed or guarded. after that greater precautions were taken, and many of the paths were closed forever- though a few were left with sealed trap-doors for strategic use in fighting the elder things if ever they broke forth in unexpected places. the irruptions of the elder things must have been shocking beyond all description, since they had permanently coloured the psychology of the great race. such was the fixed mood of horror that the very aspect of the creatures was left unmentioned. at no time was i able to gain a clear hint of what they looked like. there were veiled su

ilitary use of great winds. singular whistling noises, and colossal footprints made up of five circular toe marks, seemed also to be associated with them. it was evident that the coming doom so desperately feared by the great race- the doom that was one day to send millions of keen minds across the chasm of time to strange bodies in the safer future- had to do with a final successful irruption of the elder beings. mental projections down the ages had clearly foretold such a horror, and the great race had resolved that none who could escape should face it. that the foray would be a matter of vengeance, rather than an attempt to reoccupy the outer world, they knew from the planet's later history- for their projections shewed the coming and going of subsequent races untroubled by the monstrou

owledge of psychology led him into many long discussions with my son and me. discomfort and expectancy were oddly mingled in most of us when at length our party of eighteen rattled forth over the arid leagues of sand and rock. on friday, may 31st, we forded a branch of the de grey and entered the realm of utter desolation. a certain positive terror grew on me as we advanced to this actual site of the elder world behind the legends- a terror, of course, abetted by the fact that my disturbing dreams and pseudo-memories still beset me with unabated force. it was on monday, june 3rd, that we saw the first of the half-buried blocks. i cannot describe the emotions with which i actually touched- in objective reality- a fragment of cyclopean masonry in every respect like the blocks in the walls of

me. sometimes, on these walks, i would stumble over nearly buried fragments of the ancient masonry. though there were fewer visible blocks here than where we had started, i felt sure that there must be a vast abundance beneath the surface. the ground was less level than at our camp, and the prevailing high winds now and then piled the sand into fantastic temporary hillocks- exposing low traces of the elder stones while it covered other traces. i was queerly anxious to have the excavations extend to this territory, yet at the same time dreaded what might be revealed. obviously, i was getting into a rather bad state- all the worse because i could not account for it. an indication of my poor nervous health can be gained from my response to an odd discovery which i made on one of my nocturnal

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

seudofeet had decreased, and the whole morphology seemed coarsened and simplified. moreover, the nerves and organs just examined held singular suggestions of retrogression from forms still more complex. atrophied and vestigial parts were surprisingly prevalent. altogether, little could be said to have been solved; and lake fell back on mythology for a provisional name- jocosely dubbing his finds "the elder ones" at about 2:30 a.m, having decided to postpone further work and get a little rest, he covered the dissected organism with a tarpaulin, emerged from the laboratory tent, and studied the intact specimens with renewed interest. the ceaseless antarctic sun had begun to limber up their tissues a trifle, so that the head points and tubes of two or three showed signs of unfolding; but lake

th again into the planetary ether; but, despite all traditional preparations, found it no longer possible to leave the earth s atmosphere. whatever the old secret of interstellar travel had been, it was now definitely lost to the race. in the end the mi-go drove the old ones out of all the northern lands, though they were powerless to disturb those in the sea. little by little the slow retreat of the elder race to their original antarctic habitat was beginning. it was curious to note from the pictured battles that both the cthulhu spawn and the mi-go seem to have been composed of matter more widely different from that which we know than was the substance of the old ones. they were able to undergo transformations and reintegrations impossible for their adversaries, and seem therefore to hav

e had passed through, and of the actual though unrecognized mirage of the dead transmontane city experienced near lake s camp the day before; but it was so real to danforth that he suffers from it still. he has on rare occasions whispered disjointed and irresponsible things about "the black pit "the carven rim "the protoshoggoths "the windowless solids with five dimensions "the nameless cylinder "the elder pharos "yog-sothoth "the primal white jelly "the color out of space "the wings "the eyes in darkness "the moon-ladder "the original, the eternal, the undying" and other bizarre conceptions; but when he is fully himself he repudiates all this and attributes it to his curious and macabre reading of earlier years. danforth, indeed, is known to be among the few who have ever dared go complet

HP LOVECRAFT THE CALL OF CTHULHU

laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. then the liberated old ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom. meanwhile the cult, by appropriate rites, must keep alive the memory of those ancient ways and shadow forth the prophecy of their return. in the elder time chosen men had talked with the entombed old ones in dreams, but then something had happened. the great stone city r'lyeh, with its monoliths and sepulchres, had sunk beneath the waves; and the deep waters, full of the one primal mystery through which not even thought can pass, had cut off the spectral intercourse. but memory never died, and high priests said that the city would rise

HP LOVECRAFT THE NAMELESS CITY

the sacred reptiles- appeared to be gradually wasting away, through their spirit as shewn hovering above the ruins by moonlight gained in proportion. emaciated priests, displayed as reptiles in ornate robes, cursed the upper air and all who breathed it; and one terrible final scene shewed a primitive-looking man, perhaps a pioneer of ancient irem, the city of pillars, torn to pieces by members of the elder race. i remember how the arabs fear the nameless city, and was glad that beyond this place the grey walls and ceiling were bare. as i viewed the pageant of mural history i had approached very closely to the end of the low-ceiled hall, and was aware of a gate through which came all of the illuminating phosphorescence. creeping up to it, i cried aloud in transcendent amazement at what lay

HP LOVECRAFT THE QUEST OF IRANON

came out one by one and the moon cast on the marsh a radiance like that which a child sees quivering on the floor as he is rocked to sleep at evening, there walked into the lethal quicksands a very old man in tattered purple, crowned wiht whithered vine-leaves and gazing ahead as if upon the golden domes of a fair city where dreams are understood. that night something of youth and beauty died in the elder worbethe shadow over innsmouth by h.p. lovecraft i during the winter of 1927-28 officials of the federal government made a strange and secret investigation of certain conditions in the ancient massachusetts seaport of innsmouth. the public first learned of it in february, when a vast series of raids and arrests occurred, followed by the deliberate burning and dynamiting- under suitable p

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

d of foreigner- they say a south sea islander- so everybody raised cain when he married an ipswich girl fifty years ago. they always do that about innsmouth people, and folks here and hereabouts always try to cover up any innsmouth blood they have in but marsh's children and grandchildren loot just like anyone else far's i can see. i've had 'em pointed out to me here- though, come to think of it, the elder children don't seem to be around lately. never saw the old man "and why is everybody so down on innsmouth? well, young fellow, you mustn't take too much stock in what people here say. they're hard to get started, but once they do get started they never let up. they've been telling things about innsmouth- whispering 'em, mostly- for the last hundred years, i guess, and i gather they're mo

o look. he had once been a great dandy; and people said he still wore the frock-coated finery of the edwardian age curiously adapted to certain deformities. his sow had formerly conducted the office in the square, but latterly they had been keeping out of sight a good deal and leaving the brunt of affairs to the younger generation. the sons and their system had come to look very queer, especially the elder ones; and it was said that their health was failing. one of the marsh daughters was a repellent, reptilian-looking woman who wore an excess of weird jewellery clearly of the same exotic tradition as that to which the strange tiara belonged. my informant had noticed it many times, and had heard it spoken of a. coming from some secret hoard, either of pirates or of demons. the clergymen- o

HP LOVECRAFT THROUGH THE GATES OF THE SILVER KEY

mpses beyond the veil, and to accept him as guide, they would have been more prudent had they avoided commerce with him; for it is written in the book of thoth how terrific is the price of a single glimpse. nor may those who pass ever return, for in the vastnesses transcending our world are shapes of darkness that seize and bind. the affair that shambleth about in the night, the evil that defieth the elder sign, the herd that stand watch at the secret portal each tomb is known to have and that thrive on that which groweth out of the tenants thereof- all these blacknesses are lesser than he who guardeth the gateway: he who will guide the rash one beyond all the worlds into the abyss of unnamable devourers. for he is 'umr at-tawil, the most ancient one, which the scribe rendereth as the pro

ough the name it uttered was a dreaded and terrible one, randolph carter did not flinch in fear. instead, he spoke back, equally without sound or language, and made those obeisances which the hideous necronomicon had taught him to make. for this shape was nothing less than that which all the world has feared since lomar rose out of the sea, and the children of the fire mist came to earth to teach the elder lore to man. it was indeed the frightful guide and guardian of the gate 'umr at-tawil, the ancient one, which the scribe rendereth the prolonged of life. the guide knew, as he knew all things, of carter's quest and coming, and that this seeker of dreams and secrets stood before him unafraid. there was no horror or malignity in what he radiated, and carter wondered for a moment whether th

INVOCATION OF OUR LORD OF MIDNIGHT MAHAZHAEL DEVAL

body of the covine. all brethren should silently pace the circle widdershins to bind the rite. finally all may conjoin in a binding salutation: all hail to the thrice-great clan of azha-qayin! hail to the dragon-masked lord of albion s field! hail to jabal, jubal and tubal-cain, by the horns of the bull, the harp of the minstrel, and the hammer-knell s hymn to fire. hail to the king held high on the elder tree, to the lords and ladies of the meadow, to the good folk of the blood-acre. hail to the thrice-great wanderer, whose faith doth lie beneath his heel. thrice blessed, thrice cursed, thrice cunning be! in the name of our lady. so mote it be! aotinvocation of the adversary by akhtya seker arimanius (michael ford) october 2002 the following is a ritual which may be conducted when the su

ISIS UNVEILED

st legate or messenger of light. if bythos and ennoia are the nazarene mano, then the dual-natured, the semi -spiritual, semi-material acha- moth must be fetahil when viewed from her spiritual aspect; and if regarded in her grosser nature, she b the nazarene 'spiritus' digitizecoy google the fntst groups op christians 176 fetahil" who is the leflexiod of bis father, lord abatur, the third life as the elder sophia is also the third emanation is the 'newest- man' perceiving his fruitless uttemptb to create a perfect material world, the' spiritus' calls to one of her progeny, the karabtanot qda- baoth who is without sense or judgment('blind matter, to unite himself with her in order to create something definite out of this con- fused (turbvientog) matter, which task she is enabled to achieve

nite himself with her in order to create something definite out of this con- fused (turbvientog) matter, which task she is enabled to achieve only after having produced from this union with karabtanoa the 'seven stellars' like the six sons or genii of the gnostic hda-baoth, they then frame the material world. the same stoiy is repeated in sophia- achamoth. ddegated by her purely spiritual parent, the elder sophia, to create the world of vitihle forma, she descended into chaos, and, over- powered by the emanation of matter, lost her way. still ambitious to create a worid of matter of her own, she busied herself hovering to and fro about the dark abyss, and imparted life and motion to the inert elements, imtil she became so hopelessly entangled in matter that, like petahil, she is represente

ale virtues are also emanations, that are termed 'primitive men' tbub adam kadmon, ennoia (or si^e, the logoi in short, are the 'only-begotten' ones but not the sotu of man, which appellation properiy belongs 388. iredmiu: afouul beraiet, i, xzz, i; tbcodoret: batnlieantm /mhdantm. 389. ircnaeiu: ep. eh, i, zxri. i. digitizecoy google cheists -descent into hell' 177 to christoa the aon of sophia (the elder) and of the primitive mad who produces him through his own vivifying light, which emanates from the source or caiue of all (hence the cause of his light also, the 'un- known father' there is a great difference made in the gnostic meta- physics between the first unrevealed logos and the 'anointed' who is christos. ennma may be termed, as philo understands it, the second god, but he alone

ghost of the gnostics, and the sjnruus (female) of the naaarenes. she is be it remembered the nster of christos, the perfect emanation, and both arc 549. he u the imitersal and spiritiul germ of au things &s0. adumbraho kabb. ckt, pp. e> 7. digitizecoy google compabison with hindtl myths 227 children or emanations of sophia, the purely spiritual and intellectual daughter of bythos, the'depui. for the elder sopliia is shekhinah, the face of god "god's shekhinah, which is his image "the son zeus-belus, or sol-mithra, b an image of the father, an emanation from the supreme light" says movers "he passed for creator "i^ilosophers say the first air is anima mundi. but the garment (shekhinah) is higher than the first air, since it is joined more closely to the ain-soph, the boundless" thus sophia

the baptist's doctrine; their traditions are without a break. what they teach now, their forefathers taught at every epoch where they appear in history. they are the disciples of that john who is said to have foretold the advent of jesus, baptized him, and declared that the latchet of his shoe he (john) was not worthy to unloose. as they two the messenger and the messiah stood in the jordan, and the elder was consecrating the younger his own cousin, too, humanly speaking the heavens opened and god himself, in the shape of a dove, descended in a glory upon his 'beloved son! how then, if this tale be true, can we account for the strange infidehty which we find among these sm^ving naza- raeans? so far from believing jesus the only-begotten son of god, they actually told the persian missionar

KETAB E SIYAH

light upon the earth and thence enter in by gates of pearl, stolen from the ancient, coral shell that armoured the back of that primal beast, most archaic and fearful leviathan. coming before the father of the elohim, old beyond memory of angels, and there fell upon his knees in supplication before the king 12 whose love he would betray with the same deceit which now he prosecuted falsely against the elder brother that he should have love. he pressed his face against the floor and grovelled there a while, like a dog, before he upraised his ever-youthful face and met, with blazing eyes, the gaze of god, old beyond the memory of angels. for an instant as he beheld his father's eyes, old and filled with naught but love, the lies of michael stuck in his throat, choking him like venomous bile

light upon the earth 73 and thence enter in by gates of pearl, stolen from the ancient, coral shell that armoured the back of that primal beast, most archaic and fearful leviathan. coming before the father of the elohim, old beyond memory of angels, and there fell upon his knees in supplication before the king whose love he would betray with the same deceit which now he prosecuted falsely against the elder brother that he should have love. he pressed his face against the floor and grovelled there a while, like a dog, before he upraised his ever-youthful face and met, with blazing eyes, the gaze of god, old beyond the memory of angels. for an instant as he beheld his father's eyes, old and filled with naught but love, the lies of michael stuck in his throat, choking him like venomous bile

t begun and it would grow but steeper yet as our path sought newer heights. and another looked out from a tower in high heaven who had fled a mace, casting himself into the merciless waves. gabriel pondered now all that was and whirled anew above his head the new forged steel of his scythe. he stood in thought of all that had been and planned for tomorrow. he resolved that as had michael betrayed the elder brother and the father's favourite such a custom he would not forsake and where michael now reigned, he who sank yet deeper into corruption, gabriel would one day be prince. once more he looked out from his tower across the wide expanse of heaven and resolved that it should all be his. for such resolution would three kingdoms pay dear and the three races, shedim and elohim, and of all th

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

aid that he would think of whom to suggest as a teacher for us, and he would get back to us. i was very reluctant to even give my number, thinking that this endeavor was the same waste of time as all the previous attempts that we had undertaken. sensing my reluctance, my friend gave his phone number. we said good-bye and departed. the very next evening my friend came to my house and declared that the elder had called him and offered us a kabbalah teacher. he also informed me that a meeting was already set and it was to take place that same evening. i did not want to spend another night in vain, but i succumbed to the appeals of my friend. we arrived. the elder called another man, slightly younger than himself, but also with a white beard; he said a few words in yiddish to the younger man

al being more aggressive, i often got into arguments. all the information about us constantly streamed to the main elder, who, as it turned out, inquired about us quite often. one day, our teacher informed me that after themorning prayer, around 7 a.m, the main elder could study the "introduction to the book of zohar" with me. however, seeing that i did not understand, after two or three lessons, the elder, through our own teacher, announced that the lessons would stop. i would have continued to study, even though i felt that i did not understand anything. i was ready to read everything mechanically with him, prompted by the necessity to understand the meaning deep inside the lines. however, he must have known that my time had not come yet, and ended the lessons, though i was terribly offe

future, when i begin to understand, he would stop being so frank with me- 440- attaining the worlds beyond it happened just as he described. for years, instead of the answers, i would hear the same reply "you already have whom to ask" meaning the creator "demand, ask, plead, do whatever you want; address everything to him, and demand everything from him" the visits to the doctor did not help, and the elder had to be placed in the hospital with an ear infection for an entire month. over time i had accompanied the elder many times on his trips to the doctor; the day he went into the hospital i decided to stay with him there overnight. during the entire month i would come to the hospital at 4 a.m, climb over the fence, quietly pass through the building, and then study. for the entire month! f

LIBER 777

heism is not true for the normal consciousness, but only for that of the adept [99 names of god in arabic; omitted owing to transcriber s ignorance of that language] col. vi, line 31bis. essence, cf. a and w. col. viii. lines 1-10. beth elohim gives a quite different ten qliphoth. line 15. in the midst of the zodiacal qliphoth are lams [samael] and yadmsa [asmodai. at se corner, man, serpent, and the elder lilith the wife of samael. at ne corner, the ox and ass, and aggereth the daughter of machalath. at nw corner, the scorpion, and wmisa,3 the unnameable and hmuk.4 at sw angle, the lion and horse, and the younger lilith the wife of asmodai. col. ix. the cup of the stolistes has its rim and 2 and 3 and its foot in 10. the cadueceus is (easily) placed on the tree and divided into a, m, and

espondences 48 figure. nature. name. divination and spiritual meaning. 49 6 5 c of! ko change 50 5 3! of d ting a caldron, a concubine, flexibility, quick ear and eye. 51 4 4 b of b kbn ease, development, moving power, thunder. 52 1 1 e of e kan peace, a mountain. 53 3 1 d of e kien fortunate marriage, gradual advance, goose. 54 4 6 b of c kwei mei unfortunate marriage (of a younger sister before the elder. 55 4 5 b of! fbng large, abundant, progress. 56 5 1! of e l strangers. the hexagrams 49 figure. nature. name. divination and spiritual meaning. 57 3 3 d of d sun flexibility, penetration, vacillation, wind, wood &c. 58 6 6 c of c tui pleasure, help from friends, still water. 59 3 2 d of= hw n dissipation, dispersion, turning to evil. 60 2 6= of c kieh joints of body, regular division. 6

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

zum 65. geburtstag, ed. herbert backes (tubingen: m. niemeyer, 1972; also issued as a supplement to beitrage zur geschichte der deutschen sprache und literatur [tubingen, 94, supplement. otto hofler, ggotterkomik: zur selbstrelativierung des mythos, h zeitschrift fur deutsches altertum 100 (1971: 371.389, wonders how believers could laugh at a deity; a. ya gurevich, gon the nature of the comic in the elder edda: a comment on an article by professor hofler, h mediaeval scandinavia 9 (1976: 127.137, tries to provide an answer. peter hallberg, gom rymskvi.a, h arkiv for nordisk filologi 69 (1954: 51.77, proposed snorri sturluson as the author of thrymskvida, and various arguments for and against were advanced until gustav lindblad, gsnorre sturlasson och eddadiktningen, h saga och sed, 1978:

iceable, although it employs some idiosyncratic spellings (e.g, hovamol for havamal, and the copious footnotes are to be avoided. lee m. hollander, the poetic edda: translated with an introduction and explanatory notes, 2nd ed, rev (austin: university of texas press, 1962, uses an archaic english that is not without interest but usually baffles the ordinary reader. paul b. taylor and w. h. auden, the elder edda: a selection (new york: random house, 1967.1969, is the result of a collaboration between a scholar and a distinguished poet, but its arrangement of the poems is arbitrary, and other translations are more literally accurate. patricia terry, poems of the vikings: the elder edda (indianapolis, in: bobbs-merrill [1969, also suffers from lapses in accuracy. the most recent translation i

anguages can make use of the corpora and commentaries created by finnur jonsson and ernst albin kock; on the problems inherent to these, see roberta frank, gskaldic poetry, h in carol j. clover and john lindow, eds, old norse-icelandic literature: a critical guide, islandica, 45 (ithaca, ny, and london: cornell university press, 1985. an idiosyncratic study of eddic poetry is eleazar meletinskij, the elder edda and early forms of the epic, trans. kenneth h. ober, hesperides, 6 (trieste: parnaso, 1998. snorri sturluson a biography of snorri sturluson and consideration of his writing is marlene ciklamini, snorri sturluson, twayne fs world authors series, twas 493: iceland (boston: twayne publishers, 1978. it lacks the authority of sigur.ur nordal fs magisterial snorri sturluson([reykjavik: o

e lost beliefs of northern europe (london and new york: routledge, 1993. where davidson explores the celtic interface, thomas dubois reminds us of the existence of the religions of the sami and finns in viking age scandinavia: viking ages religions (philadelphia: university of pennsylvania press, 1999. a connection between the texts of eddic poetry and ritual was first argued by bertha philpotts, the elder edda and ancient scandinavian drama (cambridge, england: cambridge university press, 1920. terry gunnell, the origins of drama in scandinavia (cambridge, england: d. s. brewer, 1995, revisits the issue. nonprint resources keying gnorse mythology h into the google search engine on the world wide web, i got 8,540 hits. clearly there is a lot of stuff out there. at http//www.pantheon. org/m

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

tzirah, and its legs and feet in the world of assiah. this is the grand man of the zohar, of whom eliphas levi writes "it is not less astonishing to observe at the beginning of the zohar the profundity of its notions and the sublime simplicity of its images. it is said as follows 'the science of equilibrium is the key of occult science. unbalanced forces perish in the void. so passed the kings of the elder world, the princes of the giants. they have fallen like trees without roots, and their place is found no more. through the conflict of unbalanced forces, the devastated earth was void and formless, until the spirit of god made for itself a place in heaven and reduced the mass of waters. all the aspirations of nature were directed then towards unity of form, towards the living synthesis (

l. before noah's flood, there was a man called lameck as it is written in the 4 chap. of gen: and this lameck had two wives. the one was called adah, and the other zillah; by the first wife adah he gott two sons, the one called jaball, and the other juball, and by the other wife zillah he got a son and daughter, and the four children found the beginning of all crafts in the world. this jaball was the elder son, and he found the craft of geometric, and he parted flocks, as of sheep and lambs in the fields, and first wrought houses of stone and tree, as it is noted in the chap, aforesaid, and his brother juball found the crafte of musick, of songs, organs and harp. the third brother [tubal-cain] found out smith's craft to work iron and steel, and their sister naamah found out the art of weav

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

dawn was the "stella matutina" this offshoot attracted such minds as a. e. waite, evelyn underhill, and charles williams to its ranks. however, in magical circles, it is chiefly the names of aleister crowley and dion fortune that are best remembered as members of these mysterious schools, both, like yeats before them, deeply involved with the reconstruction of the old mysteries, and the return to the elder gods. the researches of freud, but especially jung, had provided part of a link with the past via the image-magic of trithemius and bruno. the rest of the link was supplied by the magical dictum publicly propounded by dion fortune herself, that in essence all gods are one god, and all goddesses but one goddess; that the varying pantheons and hierarchies are but racial and regional permut

established" faith is doing it the utmost disservice and is entirely at odds with the idea behind the practices. the nearest a witch can get to the term "orthodox" is only "the most traditional" witchcraft is basically performed by and for the individual. covens are, or should be, made up of individuals, held together by a common interest, whether it be a desire for knowledge, power, or a love of the elder gods. when you set about forming your coven, choose symbols to represent its general orientation. if it is one of knowledge, those symbols consonant with herne and the sky power, in all its manifestations, would perhaps be appropriate. on the other hand, a power orientation should perhaps suggest the development of a set of symbols appropriate to the horned one, lord of fire and energy

MEANING OF MASONRY

old power; be thou unto us an outer guard, and defend us from the perils that beset us when we turn from that which is without to that which is within; be thou unto us an inner guard, and preserve our souls that desire to pass within the portal of thy holy mysteries; be unto us the younger deacon, and teach our wayward feet the true and certain steps upon the path that leads to thee: be thou also the elder deacon, and guide us up the steep and winding stairway to thy throne; be unto us the lesser warden, and in the meridian sunlight of our understanding speak to us in sacraments that shall declare the splendours of thy unmanifested light; be thou also unto us the greater warden, and in the awful hour of disappearing light, when vision fails and thought has no more strength, be with us stil

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

nachttoter@aol.com my special thanks to- the illustrators of this edition, being nathaniel harris, shemyaza of immortal coil designs and elda isela ford, without whose knowledge, patience and companionship, this work would not be. 4 4 introduction 'darkside magic from an off-white perspective' by peter j. carroll, past grandmaster iot pact. we always advise our neophytes and initiates not to wake the elder gods, knowing full well that the best of them will rise to the bait and do so. the darkside glamour exerts a powerful charisma which every magician should explore and understand. since the dawn of history the training of sorcerers and shamans has included a 'harrowing of hell, a knowledge and power quest into the subconscious underworld of unspeakable desires and fears, and for good reas

, the dewy groves breathe and whisper of the sight of thee. my shadow rises and takes flight upon your ecstasy, towards the sabbat dance. a devils step we pace with cloven hoof. thy mysteries come to me! o great god pan, unto whom the fields pulsate with life given by your desire, grant me the ecstasy! i give under my will the flow of witch blood which courses through my veins, to the barriers of the elder ones. spirit of night, your essence is within me! closing and banish 95 95 hecate, witch mother whom i invoke under the moon. i am the belief which forms your webs of sorcery. i drink in honor of the witches sabbat mysteries. amen. spirit servitors and guardians spirit servitors are extremely useful for the vampire who practices astral projection frequently, as you are often leaving the

t sabbaths that i have attended. this lineal inheritance of the witch cult is to grow once again, and flourish as in many ages since the beginning of the human race. we know within ourselves the doctrine which we cannot write in words. i am trying to capture the essence as much as i can, a gateway to this experience, embodied in the grimoire now in your hands. sabbat invocation samael, serpent of the elder powers, great father of cain and dweller upon the earth: i seek knowledge that my desire shall bring to birth elementals of fire and water. lord of sabbath and lord of the circle, i urge thy coming with great anticipation. 99 99 we are watchers of the lineage of the craft. i am born of water and of the pure blood, my life is within the current. lord of witches, baphomet, black horned one

110 110 (sigil of black eagle) evocation of black eagle bones should be made into the sign of an 'x, representing the crossing from the day side (waking) into the night side (dream- astral) as well as the crossroads themselves. the sorcerer should then burn, in a small cauldron, incense of jasmine and frankincense and concentrate upon the sigil of black eagle. facing the altar, intone: spirit of the elder spheres, that of water, earth fire and air thee i invoke! the lightning flash from the mouth of the serpent, that o great spirit of asmodeus, to which the lineal streams flow from the lines of which thy shall walk only of thy sound of wings shall give thee sight of reverse. of raven night and hollow s dance, from a waning moon across the land, serpent and spider, dragon and wolf, i give

lightning flash from the mouth of the serpent, that o great spirit of asmodeus, to which the lineal streams flow from the lines of which thy shall walk only of thy sound of wings shall give thee sight of reverse. of raven night and hollow s dance, from a waning moon across the land, serpent and spider, dragon and wolf, i give thee life to flesh your wisdom and essence unto my presence. spirit of the elder spheres; of water, earth, fire and air thee, thee i invoke! the lightning flash from the mouth of the serpent, o great spirit of asmodeus; the lineal streams flow, the lines which can be walked only if the sound of thy wings gives sight in reverse. of raven night and hollow s dance, with a waning moon across the land, serpent and spider, dragon and wolf, i give thee life, fleshing your w

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

ltures havesimilar leitmotifs expressing the same story. the saxon tale of st. george and thedragon is a perfect fictional rendition of it. in the old testament, passages relating tothe twins, jacob and esau, may well refer obliquely to the pre-diluvian bipartisanismand their ongoing antagonism.in your limbs lie nations twain,rival races from their birth;one the mastery shall gain,the younger oer the elder reign.the meaning behind the euphemisms of the combating serpents or dragons has todo with the antagonism within the biology of the homo atlantis. the reference is tothe coils of dna, to the alien and human strands and their incompatibility. the folk-tales which have to do with the evil and good twin, the dark and fair sisters, the whiteand black witches, the twin towers, the true and fa

tiyes prestigetiye went on to become more powerful than the first wife of the pharaoh.nefertitiwas the daughter of sitamun, the pharaohs first wife.mary/sit comes as no surprise to discover in the records of akhenaton the names of two princesses calledmery-taten (beloved of aten, one being his daughter and the other his granddaughter. the mery epi-thet was also applied to queen nefertiti herself, the elder half-sister and wife of akhenaton (p. 208)it was also posited that nefertiti may actually be the real sister of moses.avaristhe city of the israelites, zaru, was built over the hyskos city of avaris (see p. 188)bad healththe older pharaoh amenhotep iii began to have bad health.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation223 appendix b: book abstracts amenhotep iv (moses) and nefe

MICHAEL W FORD THE VAMPIRE GATE

ears as the devil of the tarot, devouring and consuming life energy souls are the food of this force. asmodai or asmodeus appears as a bloated or bestial man, crouching but arises to crush others with a blood dripping mace or spear. he drains life force in this manner. the southeast angle is the evil adam or cain the son, a goat-headed, skeleton-like giant, the thousand- headed hydra serpent; and the elder lilith, wife of samael, a woman with an ever-changing and distorted countenance who is at times hag young maiden, beaten whore, vampire woman, beast, bird, owl, etc. the northeast angle is aggereth, the daughter of machaloth, a fiendish witch with serpent hair, standing in a chariot drawn by an ox and an ass. she is featured in the luciferian tarot. the northwest angle is a large scorpio

MORALS AND DOGMA

rtuitous, the same day was at rome the _dies natalis solis invicti, the festal day of the invincible sun. under this title, hercules, har-_acles, was worshipped at tsur. thus, while the temple was being erected, the death and resurrection of a sun-god was annually represented at tsur, by solomon's ally, at the winter solstice, by the pyre of mal-karth, the tsurian haracles. aroeris or har-_oeris, the elder horus, is from the same old root that in the hebrew has the form _aur, or, with the definite article prefixed _haur, light, or _the_ light, splendor, flame, the sun and his rays. the hieroglyphic of the younger horus was the point in a circle; of the elder, a pair of eyes; and the festival of the thirtieth day of the month _epiphi, when the sun and moon were supposed to be in the same ri

continue and did not subsist, because it had no human conformation nor the system of the balance, the sephiroth being points, one below the other. the first adam [microprosopos, as distinguished from macroprosopos, the first _occult_ adam] was the beginning, wherein the ten numerations proceeded forth from potence into act. microprosopos is the second garment or interposed medium, with respect to the elder most holy, who is the name tetragrammaton; and he is called alohim; because the former is absolute commiseration; while in macroprosopos his lights have the nature of severities, with respect to the elder universal; though they are commiseration, with respect to the lights of malakoth and the three lower worlds. all the conformations of macroprosopos come from the first adam; who, to int

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

to win gold sovereigns, clothes, cameras, and over $10,000 in lotteries and contests and you can do the same. contents introduction secrets of witchcraft secrets of money magic secrets of sex magic secrets of the cabala secrets of the spirit world< you can work magic 1: the witching circle the gray man what witches do welcome to the coven anyone can be a witch the circle of protection the sign of the elder gods love and witchcraft the black pullet the magic of herbs the children of the night the fear of witchcraft witchcraft made easy be your own secret coven 2: you can awaken your magic power the ritual that will awaken your fiery serpent physical sensations of occult power seeing your invisible power how to invoke the secret forces of nature a thank you email using witchcraft to smooth y

w and are drawn to it, and some will try to mislead you. you can protect yourself from this by taking a handful of salt and, walking in a clockwise direction, sprinkle the salt in a circle around the room all the while saying: let mischievous spirits touch me not< it's a good idea to work this protection ritual on a regular basis. the circle begins and ends at the doorway of the room. the sign of the elder gods the pentagram (five-pointed star) is another tool used by both witches and magicians to keep evil forces at bay. the more complicated forms of magic require the magician to create a cabalistic circle of protection- in which a pentagram is visualized at each of the cardinal points, joined one to the other by a fiery circle with the magician at its center. there is more to it than thi

m. amen. the words of power are pronounced lay-oh-lahm-amen. this completes the ritual and you can rest easy that nothing evil can come anywhere near you, and that all is good and positive around you. the flaming pentagram< perform the whole of the cabalistic cross ritual. with your left hand at your side, stretch out your right hand with the first and second fingers extended, to draw the sign of the elder gods (a pentagram) in the air before you. keep those two fingers together, and curl your thumb and your third and fourth fingers into the palm of your hand. draw the pentagram large, starting with your hand in the region of your left hip and sweeping smoothly upwards to the natural top limit. visualize the lines of the pentagram as white fire. when the pentagram is complete, draw back yo

NECRONOMICON ALAZIF

rs and they have walked the earth. the city of irem in the great desert has known them; leng in the cold waste has seen their passing, the timeless citadel upon the cloud-vieled heights of unknown kadath beareth their mark. wantonly the old ones trod the ways of darkness and their blasphemies were great upon the earth; all creation bowed beneath their might and knew them for their wickedness. and the elder lords opened their eyes and beheld the abominations of those that ravaged the earth. in their wrath they set their hand against the old ones, staying them in the midst of their iniquity and casting them forth from the earth to the void beyond the planes where chaos reigns and form abideth not. and the elder lords set their seal upon the gateway and the power of the old ones prevailest no

r to my spell o nasira oapkis shfe, give power chons-in-thebes-nefer-hotep, ophois, give power! o bakaxikhekh! add to ye potion pinch of red earth, nine drops natron, for drops balsam of olibanum and one drop blood (from thy right hand. combine the whole with a like measure of fat of the gosling and place ye vessel upon ye fire. when all is rendered well and ye dark vapours begin to rise, make ye the elder sign and remove from ye flames. when the unguent has cooled place it within an urn of ye finest alabaster, which thou shalt keep in some secret place (known only to thyself) until thou shalt have need of it. to fashion the scimitar of barzai in the day and hour of mars and when the moon increaseth, make thou the scimitar of bronze with a hilt of fine ebony. upon one side of the the blade

urn blue it shall be a sure sign that the spirits obey your demands whereupon thou shalt quench the blade in an afore prepared mixture of brine and cock-gall. burn the incense of zkauba as an offering to the spirits thou hast called forth, then dismiss them to their abodes with these words: in the names of azathoth and yog-sothoth, their servant nyarlathotep and by the power of this sign (make ye the elder sign, i discharge thee; go forth from this place in peace and return ye not until i calleth thee (seal ye portals with the sign of koth. wrap the scimitar in a cloth of black silk and setit aside until thou wouldst make use of it; but mark ye well that no other shall lay his hand upon the scimitar lest its vertue be forever lost. editor's note: the following graphic alphabet is deciphere

y/books/al_azif/al_azif.html 10/10/2003 talubsi! adula! ulu! baachur! come forth yog-sothoth! come forth* and then he will come unto thee and bring his globes and he will give true answer to all you desire to know. and he shall reveal unto you the secret of his seal by which you may gain favour in the sight of the old ones when they once more walk the earth* and when his hour be past the curse of the elder lords shall be upon him and draw him forth beyond the gate where he shall abide until he be summoned. editor's note: included on this page are a number of sigils and a magic circle. these illustrations are not in the manuscript but were referenced from other texts, including, but not limited to; key of solomon (see additional ms. 36,674, british museum library) and three books of occult

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

etters of the word yisrael] may be rearranged to spell yasar e-l] meaning "ruled over e-l) this corresponds to the age of 20 as mentioned above, where a person masters his very nature and desires (note: the name elokim has the same numerical value as the word hateva which means, nature) now, there are different levels in yisrael: 1. there are the emotions of chochmah. this is called yisrael saba (the elder yisrael. 2. the intellect of the emotions of zeir anpin. this is called yisrael zuta (the small yisrael. in general though, the concept of yisrael is either the emotions of the intellect or the intellect of the emotions. the level of yisrael in the intellect (chochmah, is called yisrael saba, whereas, the intellect of the emotions is called yisrael zuta. it must be noted that in contrast

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

erb gthat will go h in this verse is in the plural. gthat will go h also means gthat will extend, h implying that the name elokim expands into its 120 permutations. the arizal will presently explain that the 120 permutations themselves are entirely within the realm of holiness, but they serve as the origin of the gother gods h that constitute idolatry and denial of the one g-d. it is to this that the elder in the zohar9 alludes when he explains the verse, ggd [elokim] ruled over the nations h:10 gthe name elokim expands until other gods issue from it. h this means that the name elokim expands into its 120 permutations, all of which are still in the realm of holiness, but [whatever expands] further than this becomes other gods, which are rooted in the said 120 permutations. when the judgeme

her side h from there, as is mentioned in the zohar3 regarding the incident of the young child. according to jewish law, if three or more men or three or more women have eaten bread together, they must recite grace together. one of the party acts as the leader and formally invites the others to join him in reciting grace. in the zohar, it is recounted that the young, orphaned son of rabbi hamnuna the elder possessed great spiritual perception and mystical knowledge of the torah. one of the teachings he shared with his guests, two student of rabbi shimon bar yochai, was that when the invitation to recite grace is recited, it weakens the power of evil present at the table. the collective power of the three individual fs divine souls and the positive energy generated by their camaraderie over

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

desses are not otherwise shown in the grade, save in <104> connection with the praemonstrator and imperator, as operating through the hierophant, seeing that isis corresponds to the pillar of mercy and nephthys to that of severity; and therefore the positions of the pillars or obelisks are but, as it were, the places of their feet. the station of aroueris. the invisible station of aroueris (horus the elder) is beside the hierophant as though representing the power of osiris to the outer order- for while the hierophant is an adeptus, he is shown only as lord of the paths of the portal- so that, when the hierophant moves from the throne of the east, he is no longer osiris but aroueris. yet when the hierophant is on the dais the station of aroueris is that of the immediate past hierophant who

s feet rest on a pavement of black and white. the god-form of osiris never moves from the dais. when the hierophant has to move from the dais, he is covered by the form of osiris in action- aroueris, which is built up by the past hierophant, seated on hierophant's left. if no one is seated as past hierophant, then inner members help the hierophant to formulate the second god-form. aroueris, horus the elder, is very lively to look upon- like pure flames. he wears the double crown of egypt, the cone shaped crown in red inside the white crown of the north, with a white plume. his nemyss is purple banded with gold at the edges. his face and body are translucent scarlet. he has green eyes and wears a purple beard of authority. he wears a yellow tunic with a waist cloth of yellow striped with pu

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

m the hebrew kabalists, that these ancient masters concluded a posteriori from facts to presumable influences, which is completely within the logic of the occult sciences. we see also what diverse significations are included in the twenty-two keys which form the universal alphabet of the tarot, together with the truth of our affirmation, that all secrets of the kabalah and magic, all mysteries of the elder world, all science of the patriarchs, all historical traditions of primeval times, are enclosed in this hieroglyphic book of thoth, enoch or cadmus. the writing of the stars 105 an exceedingly simple method of finding celestial horoscopes by onomancy is that which we are about to describe: it harmonizes gaffarel with our own views, and its results are most astounding in their exactitude

RUBY TABLET OF SET

correctly] as the egyptian goddess of the sky. an examination of the hieroglyphs on the stele. called by crowley the "stele of revealing. indicates that it was not conceived or executed according to the osirian mythos [save that the dead priest is referred to as "an osiris" i.e: a dead soul "ra-hoor-khuit" is correctly translated to "ra-harakte, master of the gods" this is a form of harwer (horus the elder. the great horus of pre-osirian legend, literally "horus of the horizon" in his solar aspect of xepera. ra-harakte had been the judge of the dead in non-osirian egypt, and he was also cast as the champion of set in the osirian-mythos trial between set and horus the younger. the curious term "hadit" is simply the islamic word for a divinely inspired utterance of any sort; hence it is not

ad been the judge of the dead in non-osirian egypt, and he was also cast as the champion of set in the osirian-mythos trial between set and horus the younger. the curious term "hadit" is simply the islamic word for a divinely inspired utterance of any sort; hence it is not found on the xxvi dynasty monument. the "hadit" disc is hieroglyphically identified on the stele as "behdety, a form of horus the elder worshipped at behdet in the eastern nile delta. summarily the stele of revealing is not based upon the osirian triad at all; its themes are those of a theban sun-cult based upon horus the elder and ra-harakte. this casts an entirely new light on the book of the law that crowley transcribed on april 8- 10, 1904. he interpreted the chapters and verses of this document according to his unde

esponsibility. to comment accordingly on the book of the law. the first chapter 1. had! the manifestation of nuit. this chapter is a verbalization of the nuit-form as perceived by crowley [throughout this comment the term "form" is used in the pythagorean/platonic sense as a first and/or comprehensive universal principle] as the egyptian sky-goddess, nuit was portrayed as the mother of set, horus the elder, ra, and xepera. 2. the unveiling of the company of heaven. the book of the law constitutes an explanation of concepts derived from these five forms. harwer is completely manifest, as is necessary for the equinox of the aon of horus. the xeper-principle is partially revealed through passages in the text dealing with transformation and evolution. the form of set would remain unrecognized

s is symbolic of those who equate worship with abstinence, suffering, and deprivation. deathworship [in the biological sense as distinct from the self-obliteration sense] and worship by abstinence have no place in the aon of horus; they would be distracting to the actual word of the aon. the secret name of hoor (the hieroglyphic hor or horus) is harwer. in hieroglyphics the "great horus" or horus the elder. not the horus [the younger] of the osirian mythos. 50. there is a word to say about the hierophantic task. behold! there are three ordeals in one, and it may be given in three ways. the gross must pass through fire; let the fine be tried in intellect, and the lofty chosen ones in the highest; thus ye have star& star, system& system; let not one know well the other! within the aon of hor

tele of revealing" the three figures on this stele, whom crowley called nuit, hadit, and ra hoor khuit, lent their names to the three chapters of the book of the law. nuit he correctly identified as the egyptian sky goddess. hadit or had is not the name of any egyptian deity; the winged solar disk in question is identified in the hieroglyphs of the stele as behut-t (horus behdety, a form of horus the elder worshipped in the western nile delta at behdet.29 [the curious term "hadit" is actually arabic, and means "a divinely inspired utterance] as for ra hoor khuit, whom crowley incorrectly identifies as horus the younger,30 the hieroglyphs on the stele title the figure ra-harakhti. ra-harakhti("ra-horus of the two horizons) was a form of horus the elder identified with ra, especially in his

the debate, according to the legend, ra-harakhti was insulted and retired to his house in a huff. the proceedings resumed only after hathor had cheered the grouchy god with a strip-tease.32] the book of the law and the "stele of revealing" consequently, cannot be viewed as documents of the osiris/isis/horus the younger triad or cult. they reflect the more ancient solar/light cults of ra and horus the elder. the "opposite self" of set. and aleister crowley received the book of the law, and my opposite self declared him magus of the aeon. crowley did not acknowledge the title of magus (9=[2 (according to the aa system) until 1915-16 ce, although the book of the law appears to confirm him thus in 1904.33 but harwer, my opposite self, is a strange and fitful presence. i, set, am my self distin

s split personality was essential to his function as magus of the aon of horus, per the constitution of horus himself] crowley's "perception of harwer as a unified self" presumably refers to his ignorance of the distinction between the original horus and the later osirian corruption. the osirian horus was a unified personality (osiris' son) who fought set (recast as osiris' evil brother).40 horus the elder was complementary to set, not antagonistic towards him, and so these two original gods were often shown with a single body.41 the god identified by crowley as horus the younger was in fact horus the elder. this accounts for the "surprising" inconsistency of crowley's patron, as well as crowley's oft-expressed bewilderment at such behavior. inclusion here of the word "perplexed" may be si

first two lines of hieroglyphs in the stele of xeper (see ref. b, p. thoth-9. the throne of set is in darkness and the symbolic thigh of set blocks out the light of khem. set is alive and has form. khem is dead, a mummy, and is empty. xem-set has been newly-created as form by set. in the top part of the second panel we find four gods and one goddess of emptiness: harpocrates, osiris, isis, horus the elder, and ra, four of which are gods created by man, and one of which is the model for the others. each represents a hindrance, a pitfall, on the path which xem-set follows. harpocrates is the child in all of us. osiris is death. because xem-set is depicted as being male, isis represents the physical pleasures which tempt him. horus the elder is harwer- the black hole of emptiness, the "id mo

ked or brush-like tail. these features do not allow identification with any known animal. this situation is unique in the history of the iconography of the egyptian divinities, since the zoomorphic attributes of all the other gods may be easily identified. a further aspect of the imagery of the dark lord is the scepter carried by many gods (and some goddesses) in the egyptian pantheon, e.g. horus the elder, thoth, and xepera. several scholars identify both the 'm (djam) and ws (us) scepters with set (cf. te velde, p. 90. the 'm scepter with its crooked shaft is thought to represent thunder, and either one may be considered an expression of the aggressive, martial force of set. the significance of these facts is relevant to setians and to the philosophy of the aeon of set today. first, the

although this error on the part of the magus aleister crowley did severe damage, the aeon managed to progress to the time of set-harwer, the age of satan, and still little attention was paid to the real god of the previous aeon. let us now take a look back and see harwer, set's opposite self, through the eyes of perspective. a very ancient god, harwer, or haroeris, known also as heru-ur and horus the elder, was seen as a 'face of heaven' and a twin god of set. set was seen as the night face and harwer the day one. our ancestors in magic, those old inhabitants of khem, delighted in and dedicated themselves to providing names and assigning values to everything: on moonless nights harwer was known as mekhenti-en-irty "he on whose brow there are no eyes" and on moonlit nights he was hailed as

, thereby abbreviating os sinistre and either unknowingly or uncaringly assigning that eye a somewhat negative worth. knowing physicians as i do, i doubt they would be very impressed with such a discourse; but you can now look knowingly if such treatment is prescribed. it is perhaps not completely magus crowley's fault that he erred in his lord's correct name. after all, harwer was known as horus the elder also, and was depicted with the familiar hawk's head which horus the younger made famous. the similarity ends there, and the name of horus becomes almost exclusively associated with the younger horus, the 'crowned and conquering child' a pity, because harwer had many positive attributes and associations, being also both lord of the south and the lord of ombos (a cult center of set. he al

h shown down upon the ancient temple and those entities with whom we are linked in such a profound and magical way "xensu. the moon god. truly a messenger through the ages. linking time with timelessness. and truth with the ageless" the tuat working summary: a magical record foreshadowing the work to be undertaken through the institution of the ba-neb-tettu pylon of the temple of set i sokaris am the elder horus realized in full dignity! those who are in the tuat are the lords of the spiral force. the awakening of the gods is at hand, and the goddess shall bring forth one who is undefiled in the old ways. classification: v2- b6n.16- 1 author: william d. pridgen ii date: april 8, xxv(1) june 12, xxv(2) revision: august 21, xxv html revision: dec 16, 1998 ce subject: tuat reading list: on th

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r as the case also can be, with using trance-induction and rosaries in the next cell. there would be quite proper to induce yi-king reading in this cell or the reading known of as sand-cutting as used by arab and berber mystics. this cell is the octagon of the cells and the importance of the 8 watchers are properly introduced as the preservators of the i and also the expressions of the essence of the elder gods and through this guardians of the spaces of the double-houses. these conjurations are called properly enough octriga this cell are connected to the letter teth, connected to the leo, the serpent and lust, in addition we have the letter resh connected with the sun and the head. this cell speaks of the integration of the infernal lust in the building of the magus. the apples of eden h

it s hue ready to shine forever upon the path of the crooked way. the importance of the oracle is clearly understood in the light of the serpent being the bringer of light and the head being the sun it self. this is the joining of the great inner sage with its great afflatus in the outer that is responsible for the growth of the mage. in this cell the watchers are really watching in the guise of the elder gods and the oracular states are fostered through the dreaming state. cell 9 being the aat of the 10th and 21st letters of the sacred alphabet beware! the personified forms of formless powers are there to serve and to mediate, they may also serve to imprison and to chain he who is the slave of his own lusts. in this cell the secrets of the blood-pacts stemming from our venerated master c

he sacred letters in this cell are as mentioned yud and also we have shin connected to this house, which is reminiscent of the fangs of the demons and the snakes and the vapours the y are ejecting are the very spirit of this aeon or in life itself. the fall has been introduced and this cell is setting forth the ultimate joining of eros and death in various hexes connected to our stellar source in the elder gods. cell 10 being the aat of the 11th and 22nd letter of the sacred alphabet for whosoever is wise practises no magic, but becomes it we are now encountering the last letters of the sacred alphabet, kaph and tau. symbolized by the planet jupiter and the tarot of fortune inte racting with the tau, the cross of the universe connecting saturn with the earth. in this we find wisdom and und

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di movies on v c r through which (along with her ever-increasing hoard of indian movie magazines) she could stay in touch with events in the "real world, such as the bizarre disappearance of the incomparable gibreel farishta and the subsequent tragic announcement of his death in an airline accident; and to give her feelings of defeated, exhausted despair some outlet, she shouted at her daughters. the elder of whom, to get her own back, hacked off her hair and permitted her nipples to poke through shirts worn provocatively tight. the arrival of a fully developed devil, a horned goat-man, was, in the light of the foregoing, something very like the last, or at any rate the penultimate, straw. o o o shaandaar residents gathered in the night--kitchen for an impromptu crisis summit. while hind h

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origin (scandinavia is a region that includes modern denmark, finland, iceland, norway, and sweden) in the modern era the religion goes by a wide number of names: forn sior, meaning ancient way or tradition; forn sed, or old custom; hedensk sed, or pagan custom; and nordisk sed, or nordic custom. other names that appear in writings about the religion include norse heathenism, germanic heathenism, the elder troth, the old way, vor sior( our way, odinism, and folkish asatru. little is known about the origins of asatru. the scandinavian religion on which it is based was practiced in northern europe during the first millennium (a period consisting of one thousand years) of the common era, meaning the years from 1 through 1000 ce, until the countries in the region converted to christianity. its

ture of the soul, meditation, yoga (a discipline aimed at preparing the mind for perfect spiritual insight, karma (the belief that one s destiny is affected by the sum total of one s deeds, and reincarnation (the belief that one s soul is reborn in another body. he also studied the hindu sacred texts, particularly the vedas and the upanishads. after ramakrishna s death in 1886, narendra inherited the elder s role as a spiritual master. he and a group of ramakrishna s followers took vows as monks and lived in a house in the indian city of baranagar. at this point narendra took the monastic name vivekananda, formed from the words vivek, meaning conscience or mind, and ananda, meaning joyous. the title swami, which means owner or lord in hindi, is used to identify a teacher and ascetic, or on

SET IN EGYPTIAN THEOLOGY

tings he is portrayed as bearer of a harpoon at the prow of the boat of ra, warding off the serpent apep. yet the warlike and resolute nature of set seems to have been regarded with ambivalence in egyptian theology, and the portrayal of this neter went through many changes over a period of nearly three thousand years. pictures of a god bearing two heads, that of set and his daylight brother horus the elder, 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 c

SEVEN SHADES OF SOLITUDE

single spark, the self-shining lumina. this seed of luminous awareness is the resurrecting shard of the smaragdina, the crown-stone of lumial, the angelic soul of witchblood. it is the luciferian bone-charm of wisdom that moves upstream against the current of all-that-is: the power of the void in constant becoming as the flesh of the initiate. the hermitage of seth resides under the patronage of the elder gods, the gods that were before the mortal gods of mortal men. the gift of seth is secret- 000- we may conclude by summarising three main views of solitude: external, internal, and secret. the external view of solitude is that arising from physical isolation, that is, from the seclusion of the self from all others. in this view one is deemed alone in terms of external referents. by virtu

nature without bias or compromise; all may serve to empower the position of his spiritual equipoise. having attained to a realisation of magical autonomy the mage may serve as initiator unto all aspirants, for all other is the mirror of his own selfhood. in nomine kabilo. the secret view of solitude is the natural state of existence- the primordial condition of i as void: the autonomian vessel of the elder faith. in nomine satilo- 000- wisely we must make our way through the maze of mirror d altars. slowly, slowly, toward and beyond the crack called midnight (an earlier version of this article first appeared in the cauldron, no. 98, nov. 2002. it is adapted from materials contained in the dragon-book of essex by andrew d. chumbley. the initiatic edition of this book was privately published

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

occasionally lost my way in their labyrinth" said i "faith, they are rather difficult gentlemen to understand "yet their knottiest problems have never yet been published. their sublimest works are in manuscript, and constitute the initiatory learning, not only of the rosicrucians, but of the nobler brotherhoods i have referred to. more solemn and sublime still is the knowledge to be gleaned from the elder pythagoreans, and the immortal masterpieces of apollonius "apollonius, the imposter of tyanea! are his writings extant "imposter" cried my host "apollonius an imposter "i beg your pardon; i did not know he was a friend of yours; and if you vouch for his character, i will believe him to have been a very respectable man, who only spoke the truth when he boasted of his power to be in two pl

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

. there existed a belief that osiris himself experienced some difficulty of getting up to the iron plate, and that it was only by means of the ladder which his father ra provided that he at length ascended into heaven. on one side of the ladder stood ra, and on the other stood horus, 1 the son of isis, and each god assisted osiris to mount it. originally the two guardians of the ladder were horus the elder and set, and there are several references in the early texts to the help which they rendered to the deceased, who was, of course, identified with the god osiris. but, with a view either of reminding these gods of their supposed duty, or of compelling them to do it, the model of a ladder was often placed on or near the dead body in the tomb, and a special composition was prepared which ha

he mighty lady, the mistress of the gods, who knew ra by his own name" now from a few words of text which follow the above narrative we learn that the object of writing it was not so much to instruct the reader as to make a magic formula, for we are told that it was to be recited over p. 142 figures of temu and horus, and isis and horus, that is to say, over figures of temu the evening sun, horus the elder, horus the son of isis, and isis herself. temu apparently takes the place of ra, for he represents the sun as an old man, i.e, ra, at the close of his daily life when he has lost his strength and power. the text is a charm or magical formula against snake bites, and it was thought that the written letters, which represented the words of isis, would save the life of any one who was snake

SORCERIES OF ZOS

their writings the influx of extra-terrestrial powers which have been moulding the history of our planet since time began; that is, since time began for us, for we are only too prone to suppose that we were here first and that we alone are here now, whereas the most ancient occult traditions affirm that we were neither the first nor are we the only ones to people the earth; the great old ones and the elder gods find echoes in the myths and legends of all peoples. austin spare claimed to have had direct experience of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligences, and crowley- as his autobiography makes abundantly cleardevoted a lifetime to proving that extra-terrestrial and superhuman consciousness can and does exist independently of the human organism. as explained in images and oracles

THE BOOK OF THE ELDER KINGS GOLDEN DAWN

y no claim to discipleship. assimilating slowly, he would not be conscious of his learning, he would not repeat the vital mistake; without fear he would accomplish with ease. the only teaching possible is to show a man how to learn from his own wisdom, and to utilise his ignorance and mistakes. not by obscuring his vision and intention by righteousness. 56 57 58 59. 60 61 62 63 64 65lathe book of the elder kings issued by the thelemic order and temple of the golden dawn official holy book of the novus ordo aureae aurora concerning the great white brotherhood received by sir david cherubim copyright (c) 1989 e.v. 0. there is silence. and now the elder kings make speech: 1. we come in the name of the most beloved one, the most mysterious one, whom is the grand lord of the aeon, and whose hol

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ng until sometime in 1897 when both he and phinuit essentially retreated back into the spirit world upon the arrival of a powerful control known simply as the imperator. harvard university psychologist william james, author of the varieties of religious experience, was brought to piper s seance room by some rather astonishing reports which he had heard from his mother-in-law and his sister-inlaw. the elder woman had heard the medium give the names, both first and last, of distant relatives. later, james s sister-in-law had approached piper with a letter written in italian that had been sent to her by a writer who was known only to two people in the entire united states. the medium placed the letter to her forehead and gave details of its contents and described the physical appearance of th

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d by the immediate withdrawal from the contest of marshall chaffin s widow and son once they were allowed to examine the document. 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 ghosts and phantoms 21 joel grey and patrick stewart in the television production of the christmas carol (the kobal collection) evidently they, too, recognized the handwriting of the elder chaffin. the journal s summation of the strange case of james chaffin s will stated the difficulty in attempting to explain the case along normal lines. for those willing to accept a supernormal explanation of the event, it should be noted that the chaffin case is of a comparatively infrequent type, in which more than one of the witness s senses is affected by the spirit. j. p. chaffin b

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strology, with personality traits and psychology stressed; from her father, she learned the painstaking technical aspect of casting a chart. in her younger days the world of astrology was a glamorous one. every summer the family would vacation in the riviera, and leek fs skills were in great demand among the celebrities and nobility that would gather on the beaches. among her notable clients were the elder aga khan, queen marie of rumania, and author somerset maugham. although leek had nostalgic feelings for that particular time, her later life was to show her an even more exciting use for her astrological skills. sybil leek was determined to aid in the understanding of witchcraft. unfortunately, she found some of the gravest misunderstandings in her adopted country of the united states. t

THE GOLDEN ESSENCE

, on one level; a human transformation/rebirth through understanding of the divine mysteries was a lower harmonic to the cosmic rebirth or regeneration; the same event in essence, if not in magnitude. in fact, as we shall see, regeneration and recognition have a deep and important relationship in this context. what happens to a dream deferred the primal (and later) christian mysteries had ignored the elder wisdom of regeneration and renewal, in exchange for a very specific form of renewal or regeneration, which they summed up as a belief in resurrection. their notion was of a very personal experience of regeneration, called resurrection, which was usually seen as being a gift from god specifically to humankind (as animals and plants had no souls) and they saw their idea of resurrection as

uly universal, worldshaking experience in the here and now with a simple faith-based guarantee that the renewal of the faithful christian and his loved ones would take place on the last day or at some point after death. what was meant to be a direct experience of reality became a deferment of reality, a bitter rain check that was miscalled faith. in short, when the christians denied and destroyed the elder wisdom from whence they sprang, when they denied the divine feminine, or at best attempted to channel her into a form that they could tame and contain, a form without overt sexuality and independence (so as not to offend their patriarchal sensibilities) and when they locked their understandings of their redeeming son of light into a linear time mold, and locked this universal being into

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

ho will die! one day we shall awake at last from the painful dreams of a tormented life; our ordeal will be finished, and we shall be sufficiently strong against sorrow to be immortal. then we shall live in god with a more abundant life, and we shall descend into his works with the light of his thought, we shall be borne away into the infinite by the whisper of his love. we shall be without doubt the elder brethren of a new race, the angels of posterity. celestial messengers, we shall wander in immensity, and the stars will be our gleaming ships. 18 we shall transform ourselves into sweet visions to calm weeping eyes; we shall gather radiant lilies in unknown meadows, and we shall scatter their dew upon the earth. we shall touch the eyelid of the sleeping child, and rejoice the heart of it

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

ed by the roman catholic church to such an extent- perhaps subconsciously- that a missal in the editor's possession contains an engraving for the feast of st. andrew, apostle, for november 30, that bears the legend "ecce qui tollis peccata mundi- behold him who taketh away the sins of the world- and the picture above it is of the atomic bomb! basically, there are two "sets" of gods in the mythos: the elder gods, about whom not much is revealed, save that they are a stellar race that occasionally comes to the rescue of man, and which corresponds to the christian "light; and the ancient ones, about which much is told, sometimes in great detail, who correspond to "darkness. these latter are the evil gods who wish nothing but ill for the race of man, and who constantly strive to break into our

b niggurath) might actually mean. there was a battle between the forces of "light" and "darkness (so-called) that took place long before man was created, before even the cosmos as we know it existed. it is described fully in the enuma elish and in the bastardised version found in the necronomicon, and involved the ancient ones, led by the serpent mummutiamat and her male counterpart absu, against the elder gods (called such in the n) led by the warrior marduk, son of the sea god enki, lord of magicians of this side, or what could be called "white magicians- although close examination of the myths of ancient times makes one pause before attempting to judge which of the two warring factions was "good" or "evil. marduk won this battle- in much the same way that later st. george and st. michae

hich of the two warring factions was "good" or "evil. marduk won this battle- in much the same way that later st. george and st. michael would defeat the serpent again- the cosmos was created from the body of the slain serpent, and man was created from the blood of the slain commander of the ancient army, kingu, thereby making man a descendent of the blood of the enemy, as well as the "breath" of the elder gods; a close parallel to the "sons of god and daughters of men" reference in the old testament. yet, though the identity of the victor is clear, there were- and are- certain persons and organisations that dared side with the vanquished, believing the ancient ones to be a source of tremendous, and most unbelievable, power. worship of the ancient ones in history "let them curse it that cu

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

an tradition acknowledges that the person of "evil" is actually the oldest, most ancient of the gods. whereas christianity states that lucifer was a rebel in heaven, and fell from god's grace to ignominy below, the original story was that marduk was the rebel, and severed the body of the ancient of ancient ones to create the cosmos in other words, the precise reverse of the judeo-christian dogma. the elder gods evidently possessed a certain wisdom that was not held by their parents, yet their parents held the power, the primal strength, the first magick, that the elder ones tapped to their own advantage, for they were begotten of her. it generally accepted in the halls of magick that all of the wisdom in the world is useless without the necessary adjunct of power. this power has gone by ma

cce qui tollit peccata mundi. and a rock group from england, home of the anglican heresy, sings of "sympathy" for the devil. pazuzu. tiamat. the seven deadly sins. the fear of lovecraft. the pride of crowley. the lunar landing was the symbolic manifestation of man's newly acquired potential power to alter the nature- and perhaps, via nuclear weapons, the course- of the heavenly bodies, the zonei, the elder gods. it has a power the ancient ones have been waiting for, for millennia, and it is now within their grasp. the next century may deliver unto mankind this awesome power and responsibility, and will leave him knocking on the dread doors of the azonei, the igigi, approaching the barrier that keeps out the absu. and one day, without the benefit of necronomicon, the race of man will smash

. after this, the "book of calling" needs little explanation. it is the grimoire of the necronomicon, containing the formulae of ritual conjuration, as well as the seals and diagrams to accompany the rites. it is followed by "the book of fifty names" being fifty separate powers of the god marduk, defeater of chaos. this is interesting, in that the names seem to come from the enuma elish, in which the elder gods confer these fifty names upon marduk as titles, in their appreciation of his routing of evil. a sigil is given for each of the names, and a word of power for most of them. then appears the centrepiece of the book, the magan text. the word magan may mean the land of the magan which was said to lie in the west of sumer. for a time, it seems the name magan was synonymous with the place

leader is closely identified with chthonic forces, is described as "notorious, and linked to the strange fate that befell the protagonist, edward derby) supplementary material to 777 the chart that follows is based on research presently available to the editor with regard to sumerian and assyro-babylonian religions. entries in parentheses refer to the state of correspondences before the advert of the elder gods, the race of marduk; that is, it reflects the nature of the cosmos before the fall of marduk from heaven (names of zodiacal constellations are after budge's renderings) table vii [a.c] table xxv [s] 0. anu (tiamat) 1. sphere of the primum mobile enlil (absu) 2. sphere of the zodiac or fixed stars enki; lumashi (igigi) 3. sphere of saturn adar 4. sphere of jupiter marduk 5. sphere of

of the igigi, the cruel celestial spirits from beyond the wanderers of the wastes. let all who read this book be warned thereby that the habitation of men are seen and surveyed by that ancient race of gods and demons from a time before time, and that they seek revenge for that forgotten battle that took place somewhere in the cosmos and rent the worlds in the days before the creation of man, when the elder gods walked the spaces, the race of marduk, as he is known to the chaldeans, and of enki our master, the lord of magicians. know, then, that i have trod all the zones of the gods, and also the places of the azonei, and have descended unto the foul places of death and eternal thirst, which may be reached through the gate of ganzir, which was built in ur, in the days before babylon was. kn

fiercely into my ear, i understood. these are the signs carved upon the grey stone, that was the gate to the outside: an this is the amulet that i held in my hand, and hold to this very day, around my neck as i write these words: of the three carved symbols, the first is the sign of our race from beyond the stars, and is called arra in the tongue of the scribe who taught it to me, an emissary of the elder ones. in the tongue of the eldest city of babylon, it was ur. it is the sigil of the covenant of the elder gods, and when they see it, they who gave it to us, they will not forget us. they have sworn! spirit of the skies, remember! the second is the elder sign, and is the key whereby the powers of the elder gods may be summoned, when used with the proper words and shapes. it has a name

r gods, and when they see it, they who gave it to us, they will not forget us. they have sworn! spirit of the skies, remember! the second is the elder sign, and is the key whereby the powers of the elder gods may be summoned, when used with the proper words and shapes. it has a name, and is called agga. the third sign is the sigil of the watcher. it is called bandar. the watcher is a race sent by the elder ones. it keeps vigil while one sleeps, provided the appropriate ritual and sacrifice has been performed: else, if called, it will turn upon you. these seals, to be effective, must be graven on stone and set in the ground. or, set upon the altar of offerings. or, carried to the rock of invocations. or, engraved on the metal of one's god or goddess, and hung about the neck, but hidden from

ried to the rock of invocations. or, engraved on the metal of one's god or goddess, and hung about the neck, but hidden from the view of the profane. of the three, the arra and the agga may be used separately, that is to say, singly and alone. the bandar, however, must never be used alone, but with one or both of the others, for the watcher must needs be reminded of the covenant it has sworn with the elder gods and our race, else it will turn upon thee and slay thee and ravage thy town until succour is to be had from the elder gods by the tears of thy people and the wailing of thy women. kakammu! the metal amulet that i retrieved from the ashes of the fire, and which caught the light of the moon, is a potent seal against whatever may come in the gate from the outside for, seeing it, they w

THE GOD SET

s, desert fiends, and bad animals such as the hippo and the jaguar of the south. he is mentioned in a famous 12th dynasty writing called the discourse of a man with his ba in which his solar aspect iaa is referred to. bikka reed has a great translations of this text. in the 18th dynasty a remarkable pharoah hatshepsut reintroduced the worship of set by building a temple dedicated to him and horus the elder at ombos. this marked a strong interest in set's eternal nature, for example in hatshepsut is the prophecy (which she had placed in her tomb at der el-medina) that "she will not only enjoy the days of horus, but the days of set will be added to her span" she was also interested in the antinomian nature of the set cult- in fact she preformed one of the most scandalous acts available to a

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

anites spread abroad. 10:19 and the border of the canaanites was from sidon, as thou comest to gerar, unto gaza; as thou goest, unto sodom, and gomorrah, and admah, and zeboim, even unto lasha. 10:20 these [are] the sons of ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries [and] in their nations. 10:21 unto shem also, the father of all the children of eber, the brother of japheth the elder, even to him were [children] born. 10:22 the children of shem; elam, and asshur, and arphaxad, and lud, and aram. 10:23 and the children of aram; uz, and hul, and gether, and mash. 10:24 and arphaxad begat salah; and salah begat eber. 10:25 and unto eber were born two sons: the name of one [was] peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother s name [was] joktan. 10:26 and

: and the lord was intreated of him, and rebekah his wife conceived. 25:22 and the children struggled together within her; and she said, if [it be] so, why [am] i thus? and she went to enquire of the lord. 25:23 and the lord said unto her, two nations [are] in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and [the one] people shall be stronger than [the other] people; and the elder shall serve the younger. 25:24 and when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold [there were] twins in her womb. 25:25 and the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name esau. 25:26 and after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on esau s heel; and his name was called jacob: and isaac [was] threescore years old when she bare them. 25:

raced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. and he told laban all these things. 29:14 and laban said to him, surely thou [art] my bone and my flesh. and he abode with him the space of a month. 29:15 and laban said unto jacob, because thou [art] my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what [shall] thy wages [be] 29:16 and laban had two daughters: the name of the elder [was] leah, and the name of the younger [was] rachel. 29:17 leah [was] tender eyed; but rachel was beautiful and well favoured. 29:18 and jacob loved rachel; and said, i will serve thee seven years for rachel thy younger daughter. 29:19 and laban said [it is] better that i give her to thee, than that i should give her to another man: abide with me. 29:20 and jacob served seven years for

own way have i recompensed upon their heads, saith the lord god. 23:1 the word of the lord came again unto me, saying, 23:2 son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: 23:3 and they committed whoredoms in egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity. 23:4 and the names of them [were] aholah the elder, and aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. thus [were] their names; samaria [is] aholah, and jerusalem aholibah. 23:5 and aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the assyrians [her] neighbours, 23:6 [which were] clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses. 23:

d. 9:9 for this [is] the word of promise, at this time will i come, and sarah shall have a son. 9:10 and not only [this] but when rebecca also had conceived by one [even] by our father isaac; 9:11 (for [the children] being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of god according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth) 9:12 it was said unto her, the elder shall serve the younger. 9:13 as it is written, jacob have i loved, but esau have i hated. 9:14 what shall we say then [is there] unrighteousness with god? god forbid. 9:15 for he saith to moses, i will have mercy on whom i will have mercy, and i will have compassion on whom i will have compassion. 9:16 so then [it is] not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of god that she

y prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. 4:15 meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. 4:16 take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee. 5:1 rebuke not an elder, but intreat [him] as a father [and] the younger men as brethren; 5:2 the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity. 5:3 honour widows that are widows indeed. 5:4 but if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before god. 5:5 now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in god, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day

revealed: 5:2 feed the flock of god which is among you, taking the oversight [thereof] not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; 5:3 neither as being lords over [god s] heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. 5:4 and when the chief shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away. 5:5 likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. yea, all [of you] be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for god resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. 5:6 humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of god, that he may exalt you in due time: 5:7 casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. 5:8 be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, se

9 and we know that we are of god, and the whole world lieth in wickedness. 5:20 [and] we know that the son of god is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true [even] in his son jesus christ. this is the true god, and eternal life. 5:21 little children, keep yourselves from idols. amen. page 707 2 john the second epistle of john 1:1 the elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom i love in the truth; and not i only, but also all they that have known the truth; 1:2 for the truth s sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever. 1:3 grace be with you, mercy [and] peace, from god the father, and from the lord jesus christ, the son of the father, in truth and love. 1:4 i rejoiced greatly that i found of thy childr

e, receive him not into [your] house, neither bid him god speed: 1:11 for he that biddeth him god speed is partaker of his evil deeds. 1:12 having many things to write unto you, i would not [write] with paper and ink: but i trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full. 1:13 the children of thy elect sister greet thee. amen. page 709 3 john the third epistle of john 1:1 the elder unto the wellbeloved gaius, whom i love in the truth. 1:2 beloved, i wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. 1:3 for i rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. 1:4 i have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. 1:5 beloved, thou doest fa

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

irosa) and black poplar (populus niger. hemlock and water hemlock have similar poisonous effects. it was a concoction of hemlock that was used to execute the greek philosopher socrates. hansen asserts that the juices of the two hemlocks, when rubbed into the skin, cause the sensation of gliding through the air.31 monkshood is poisonous when applied to the surface of the skin. the naturalist pliny the elder wrote in his natural history that the roman calpurnius bestia murdered a succession of wives by rubbing aconitine on their sexual parts as they slept "it is established that of all poisons the quickest to act is aconite, and that death occurs on the same day if the genitals of a female creature are but touched by it."32 the juice of the opium poppy causes languor and hallucinations. in m

for scrying. the crystals grow to a large size and can be polished into spheres or ovoid shapes. pink quartz and smoky quartz are both common, but the most highly prized for scrying purposes are transparent and free from both coloring and inclusions. in ancient times, it was believed to be a form of petrified ice, created by intense and sustained cold. 188. soul flight the roman naturalist pliny the elder repeated the popular view when he wrote "that it is a kind of ice is certain."1ss referring to the persian magician osthanes, pliny observed "as osthanes said, there are several forms of magic; he professes to divine from water, globes, air, stars, lamps, basins, and axes, and by many other methods, and besides to converse with ghosts and those in the underworld."189 divination by "globe

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

or daughter, shed down thy light upon me! shower down thy light unto the dark corners of the earth. for i believe in thee and bear thy witness. i shall walk with thee into fire. holy art thou, lord of the universe. the one in all, the all in one. i (your name, conduct this holy ritual of baptism to invoke the wing of the winds (name of angel, into this ring of gold (or silver, by the authority of the elder king (state the banner. so let it be. walk three times clockwise around the altar, or if there is not enough room for this, rotate your body three times clockwise about your own axis as you stand before the altar. visualize a swirling vortex of light descending into the circle, with its focus upon the candle flame. visualize the entire space within the magic circle pervaded by the color

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

s "i am thoth, i have come from heaven to make protection of horus, and to drive away the poison of the scorpion which is in every member of horus. thy head is to thee, horus; it shall be stable under the urert crown. thine eye is to thee, horus [for] thou art horus, the son of keb, the lord of the two eyes, in the midst of the company [of the gods. thy nose is to thee, horus [for] thou art horus the elder, the son of ra, and thou shalt not inhale the fiery wind. thine arm is to thee, horus, great is thy strength to slaughter the enemies of thy father. thy two thighs[fn#228] are to thee, horus. receive thou the rank and dignity of thy father osiris. ptah hath balanced for thee thy mouth on the day of thy birth. thy heart (or, breast) is to thee, horus, and the disk maketh thy protection. t

silver, nor the command of the thunder, but wisdom and knowledge which constitute the power and happiness of those heavenly beings. it is therefore well observed by homer (iliad, xiii. 354, and indeed with more propriety than be usually talks of the gods, when, speaking of zeus and poseidon, he tells us that both were descended from the same parents, and born in the same region, but that zeus was the elder and knew most; plainly intimating thereby that the empire of the former was more august and honourable than that of his brother, as by means of his age he was his superior, and more advanced in wisdom and science. nay 'tis my opinion, i own, that even the blessedness of that eternity which is the portion of the deity himself consists in that universal knowledge of all nature which accomp

a voice commanding him to proclaim aloud that the good and great king osiris was then born, and that for this reason kronos committed the education of the child to him, and that in memory of this event the pamylia were afterwards instituted, which closely resemble the phallephoria or priapeia of the greeks. upon the second of these days was born aroueris,[fn#300] whom some call apollo, and others the elder horus. upon the third day typhon was born, who came into the world neither at the proper time nor by the right way, but he forced a passage through a wound which he made in his mother's side. upon the fourth day isis was born, in the marshes of egypt,[fn#301] and upon the fifth day nephthys, whom some call teleute, or aphrodite, or nike, was born. as regards the fathers of these children

fn#302] and in consequence they neither transacted any business in it, nor even suffered themselves to take any refreshment until the evening. they further add that typhon married nephthys,[fn#303] and that isis and osiris, having a mutual affection, enjoyed each other in their mother's womb before they were born, and that from this commerce sprang aroueris, whom the egyptians likewise call horus the elder, and the greeks apollo [fn#293] i.e, nut, the sky-goddess [fn#294] i.e, keb, the earth-god [fn#295] i.e, ra [fn#296] i.e, aah [fn#297] in egyptian "the five days over the year [fn#298] in egyptian thus- i. birthday of osiris, ii. birthday of horus, iii. birthday of set, iv. birthday of isis, v. birthday of nephthys [fn#299] one of the chief titles of osiris was neb er tcher, i.e "lord to

ess [fn#294] i.e, keb, the earth-god [fn#295] i.e, ra [fn#296] i.e, aah [fn#297] in egyptian "the five days over the year [fn#298] in egyptian thus- i. birthday of osiris, ii. birthday of horus, iii. birthday of set, iv. birthday of isis, v. birthday of nephthys [fn#299] one of the chief titles of osiris was neb er tcher, i.e "lord to the uttermost limit of everything [fn#300] i.e, heru-ur "horus the elder [fn#301] it was horus, son of isis, who was born in the marshes of egypt [fn#302] this day is described as unlucky in the hieroglyphic texts [fn#303] set and nephthys are regarded as husband and wife in the texts; their offspring was anubis, anpu. xiii. osiris having become king of egypt, applied himself to civilizing his countrymen by turning them from their former indigent and barbarou

d oil over it, she delivered it again into the hands of the king and queen. now, this piece of wood is to this day preserved in the temple, and worshipped by the people of byblos. when this was done, isis threw herself upon the chest, and made at the same time such loud and terrible cries of lamentation over it, that the younger of the king's sons who heard her was frightened out of his life. but the elder of them she took with her, and set sail with the chest for egypt. now, it being morning the river phaedrus sent forth a keen and chill air, and becoming angry she dried up its current. xvii. at the first place where she stopped, and when she believed that she was alone, she opened the chest, and laying her face upon that of her dead husband, she embraced him and wept bitterly. then, seei

opolis magna, kusae, heliopolis, diospolis of lower egypt, letopolis, sais, hermopolis of lower egypt, athribis, aq (schedia, ab in the libyan nome, netert, apis [fn#307] moses was laid in an ark of bulrushes, i.e, papyrus, and was found uninjured [fn#308] we meet with a similar statement in the tale of the two brothers, where we are told that the younger brother, having declared his innocence to the elder brother, out off his phallus and threw it into the river, where it was devoured by the naru fish. xix. after these things osiris returned from the other world, and appeared to his son horus, and encouraged him to fight, and at the same time instructed him in the exercise of arms. he then asked him what he thought was the most glorious action a man could perform, to which horus replied "t

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

hieving this blending, we do not have a real existence. the four bodies of sin (physical, vital, astral and mental) are controlled by the ego. the ego, the i, is not the divine being of the human being. indeed, the i is the total sum of successive i's, for instance: john the drunkard, john the lover [don juan, john the intellectual, religious john, john the merchant, young john, mature john, john the elder, etc all are a succession of i's, a succession of phantoms that are inevitably condemned to death. the i does not constitute the whole of what the human being is. john fought in the tavern, john is now a religious man, john became a bandit; to that end, every person is a dance of johns, so who is the true john? therefore, if we do not escape from the fallacy of all of those multiple i's

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

d or bad harvests, making women and cattle fruitful, and causing a magic (hypnotic) sleep. the accounts of both latin and gaelic writers give us a fair idea of the high estimation the natives had for their druids, and both in gaul and in ireland it was believed that the cult originated in britain. so they sent their 'theological students' there to learn its doctrines from the purest source. pliny the elder tells us that britain 'might have taught magic to persia. we know little of their teachings but they believed in reincarnation. caesar tells us they held the following belief 'souls are not annihilated, but pass after death from one body to another. by this teaching men are much encouraged to valour, through disregarding the fear of death' this was the usual belief, as the hero cuchulain

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

ator. selections from: zen buddhism. mount vernon, the peter pauper press, 1959. pp.61, 55. sayings of the zen masters (trading dialogue for lodging) providing he make and wins an argument about buddhism with those who live there, any wandering monk can remain in a zen temple. if he is defeated, he has to move on. in a temple in the northern part of japan two brother monks were dwelling together. the elder one was learned, but the younger one was stupid and had but one eye. a wandering monk came and asked for lodging, properly challenging them to a debate about the sublime teaching. the elder brother, tired that day from much studying, told the younger one to take his place. go and request the dialogue in silence, he cautioned. so the young monk and the stranger went to the shrine and sat

and had but one eye. a wandering monk came and asked for lodging, properly challenging them to a debate about the sublime teaching. the elder brother, tired that day from much studying, told the younger one to take his place. go and request the dialogue in silence, he cautioned. so the young monk and the stranger went to the shrine and sat down. shortly afterwards the traveler rose and went in to the elder brother and said: your young brother is a wonderful fellow. he defeated me. relate the dialogue to me, said the elder one. well, explained the traveler, first i held up one finger, representing buddha, the enlightened one. so he held up two fingers, signifying buddha and his teaching. i held up three fingers, representing buddha, his teaching, and his followers, living the harmonious lif

s, living the harmonious life. then he shook his clenched fist in my face, indicating that all three come from one realization. thus he won and so i have no right to remain here. with this, the traveler left. where is that fellow? asked the younger one, running in to his elder brother. i understand you won the debate. won nothing. i m going to beat him up. tell me the subject of the debate, asked the elder one. why, the minute he saw me he held up one finger, insulting me by insinuating that i have only one eye. since he was a stranger i thought i would be polite to him, so i held up two fingers, congratulating him that he has two eyes. then the impolite wretch held up three fingers, suggesting that between us we have only three eyes. so i got mad and started to punch him, but he ran out a

le the steed; it is good to have discretion with strength; let the unskillful be made powerless. bright are the tops of the brakes; gay the plumage of birds; the long day is the gift of the light; mercifully has the beneficent god made them. bright the tops of the meadow-sweet; and music in the grove; bold the wind, the trees shake; interceding with the obdurate will not avail. bright the tops of the elder-trees; bold is the solitary singer; accustomed is the violent to oppress; woe to him who takes a reward from the hand. the spoils of annwn earliest welsh poetry, pg. 213 the following poem, the spoils of annwyn, refers to the adventures of the mabinogian hero, pwyll, who visits the land of the dead (annwn) praise to the lord, supreme ruler of the high region, who hath extended his domini

a battle waging spear i am a salmon in a pool i am a hill of poetry i am a ruthless boar i am a great noise from the sea. i am a wave of the sea who but i knows the secret of the unhewn dolmen? tree alphabet beith the birch luis the rowan nuinn the ash fearn the alder saille the willow huath the hawthorn duir the oak teinn the holly coll the hazel muinn the vine gort the ivy ngetal the reed ruis the elder tree irish-gaelic poetic wisdom (book of druidry, pg. 89) 254 spirit i am the wind that blows over the sea, i am the wave of the ocean; i am the murmur of the billows; i am the ox of the seven combats; i am the vulture upon the rock; i am a ray of the sun; i am the fairest of plants; i am a wild boar in valour; i am a salmon in the water; i am a lake in the plain; i am the craft of the a

and his two wives in the old days, when men were allowed to have many wives, a middle-aged man had one wife that was old and one that was young; each loved him very much, and desired to see him like herself. now the man s hair was turning grey, which the young wife did not like, as it made him look too old for her husband. so every night she used to comb his hair and pick out the white ones. but the elder wife saw her husband growing grey with great pleasure, for she did not like to be mistaken for his mother. so every morning she used to arrange his hair and pick out as many of the black ones as she could. the consequence was the man soon found himself entirely bald. yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield. the two crabs one fine day two crabs came out from their home to tak

himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots. j. lavater my father gave me these hints on speech-making: be sincere, be brief, and be seated. james roosevelt the quieter you become the more you can hear. baba ram dass when abbot pambo was asked to say a few words to the very important bishop of alexandria, who was visiting some of the desert fathers, the elder abbot replied: if he is not edified by my silence, then there is no hope that he will be edified by my words. thomas merton. travel unless we change direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed. chinese the dog that trots about finds a bone. romany seek knowledge even in china. muslim he who seeks, finds either his god or his misfortune. turkish a journey of a thousand miles be

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

nd each one said before him create the world through me. 19 there is much of interest here that calls for interpretative embellishment, but we must restrain our steps and keep to the main path. significantly, the mythic account of creation, ma aseh bere shit, in zohar begins from the end, tau, the seal of emet, truth exposed in its concealment. the zoharic version is framed in terms of r. hamnuna the elder s observation that the order of alef and beit is reversed in the beginning of torah, that is, the first two words, bere shit bara, begin with beit and the next two, elohim et, with alef. taking hold of the inversion of alef and beit at the incision of the inception opens the way to re/covering what has been uncovered. when the holy one, blessed be he, wanted to create the world, all the

ZALEWSKI GOLDEN DAWN ENOCHIAN MAGIC OCR

es, but in my opinion, no system compares with enochian magic, approached with the proper stability and foundation. pat zalewski is a "practicing" magician rather than one of the "armchair" variety who merely theorizes about magic. pat and his wife, chris, have spent the last 10 years dedicated to the research, preservation, and development of the gd material placed in their care, much of it from the elder adepts of the whare re temple in new zealand. they are both practicing magicians. together they are in the process of writing a number of books which detail their experiences with the golden dawn work. shortly before his death, regardie traveled to new zealand to meet with zalewski. he told a number of us on his return that he had finally found a "golden dawn man" we at ra horakhty templ

BOOK OF BARUCH

lcias, wrote in babylon, 2 in the fifth year, and in the seventh day of the month, what time as the chaldeans took jerusalem, and burnt it with fire. 3 and baruch did read the words of this book in the hearing of jechonias the son of joachim king of juda, and in the ears of all the people that came to hear the book, 4 and in the hearing of the nobles, and of the king's sons, and in the hearing of the elders, and of all the people, from the lowest unto the highest, even of all them that dwelt at babylon by the river sud. 5 whereupon they wept, fasted, and prayed before the lord. 6 they made also a collection of money according to every man's power: 7 and they sent it to jerusalem unto joachim the high priest, the son of chelcias, son of salom, and to the priests, and to all the people which

4 7 INITIATION CEREMONY

forms of the enneagram refer to the triple ternary. the three forms of the dekagram relate to the duplicated heh, to the ten sephiroth and to malkuth. the three forms of the endekagram are referred to the qlippoth. the four forms of the dodekagram are referred to the zodiac, the three quaternions of angular, succedent, cadent and movable, fixed and common. the 4 triplicities and the 24 thrones of the elders (going to the second tablet) the term polygon is referred to a figure having only salient or projecting angles, the term polygram to a figure having reentering angles as well. the number of possible modes of tracing the lineal figures will then be triangle, 1; square, 1; pentangle. 2: hexangle, 2; heptangle. 3; octangle. 3; enneangle,4; dekangle, 4; endekangle, 4; dodekangle, 5. heg: le

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

ore a pure white buckskin dress, her long hair flowing behind her like a sea of corn. she sang into the souls of the men that each should act on his thoughts. eagerly the first, not recognising her sacred nature, hurried towards her and a white mist covered them. the sound of rattlesnakes was heard and when the cloud lifted, there were only the bones of the young man. she told the other to inform the elders of the tribe that she would come to them next morning with a great gift for the people. a huge ornate ceremonial tepee was erected and in the morning she entered, carrying a special bundle on her back and singing a holy song. the men kept their eyes lowered when she entered, as she had instructed. she unfastened the bundle and took from it the buffalo calf pipe, which is still the most

ADEPTUS MINOR INITIATION

shall open. the door is guarded by the elemental tablets and by the kerubic emblems" chief "to 120 years are referred symbolically the five grades of the first order, to the revolution of the powers of the pentagram, and also the five preparatory examinations for this grade. it is written 'his days shall be 120 years' 120 divided by 5 equals 24, the number of hours in a day and of the thrones of the elders in the apocalypse. further, 120 equals the number of the 10 sephiroth multiplied by that of the zodiac, whose key is the working of m and the four elements typified in the wand which i bear (chief, second, and third adept enter the vault consecutively, chief passes to the east of the pastos facing west. second adept goes to the south facing north. third adept goes to the north facing so

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

h gate the seal of the east gate the seal of the south gate the seal of the west gate one type of mandal of calling another type the book of fifty names the book of fifty names of marduk, defeater of the ancient ones this is the book of marduk, begotten of our master enki, lord of magicians, who did defeat tiamat, known as kur, known as huwawa, in magick combat, who defeated the ancient ones that the elders may live and rule the earth. in the time before time, in the age before the heaven and the earth were put in their places, in the age when the ancient ones were rulers of all that existed and did not exist, there was nought but darkness. there was no moon. there was no sun. no planets were they, and no stars. no grain, no tree, no plant grew. the ancient ones were masters of spaces now

and the dead will rise and smell the incense! the urilia text the following is the text of urilia, the book of the worm. it contains the formulae by which the wreakers of havoc perform their rites. these are the prayers of the ensnarers, the liers-in-wait, the blind fiends of chaos, the most ancient evil. these incantations are said by the hidden priests and creatures of these powers, defeated by the elders and the seven powers, led by marduk, supported by enki and the whole host of igigi; defeaters of the old serpent, the ancient worm, tiamat, the abyss, also called kutulu the corpse-enki, yet who lies not dead, but dreaming; he whom secret priests, initiated into the black rites, whose names are writ forever in the book of chaos, can summon if they but know how. these words are not to be

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

a da das pa-aox busada caosago, das cahisa od ipuranu telocahe cacureji o-isalamahe lonucaho od vovina carebafe? niiso! bagile avagao gohon. niiso! bagile momao siaionu, od mabezoda iad oi asa-momare poilape. niiasa! zodameranu ciaosi caosago od belioerasa od coresi ta a beramiji. the forty-eight keys or calls 28 the midday, the first is as the third heaven made of 26 hyacinthine pillars, in whom the elders are become strong, which i have prepared for mine own righteousness, saith the lord: whose long continuance shall be as bucklers to the stooping dragon, and like unto the harvest of a widow. how many are there which remain in the glory of the earth, which are, and shall not see death until the house fall and the dragon sink? come away! for the thunders (of increase)8 have spoke. come aw

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

rd the righteous qydc 205 splendrous rd) mighty; hero rbg mountain rh 206 assembly; area )rd) hail drb spake; word, thing; cloud; murrain rbd they of the world mlw( ymy to see, observe, perceive; to consider h)r 207 a scorpion (cf. 372) b)rg) lord of the universe mlw( nwd) light (aur is the balanced light of open day; cf. 9& 11) rw) limitless pws ny) ate hrb walled, fenced rdg that which cuts rbh the elders (deut. 21:19) mynqz melt, fuse qqz the crown of the ark; strange, foreign; border rz to grow great, multiply hbr demons; injurers myqyzm 208 feather hrb) a cistern rwb bowed 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

tention trc( resemblance, likeness, image *nwymd at the end of the days; the right hand *nymy wings *mypnk bone; substance, essence; body *mc( divination; witchcraft *msq 761 ruin, destruction, sudden death *ns) 762 a structure; mode of building *nynb apertures *mybqn 764 gracious, obliging, indulgent *nwnx brains *nyxwm 765 and god blessed them myhl) mt) krbyw 766 they of the world *mlw( ymy 767 the elders (deut. 21:19 *mynqz demons; injurers *myqyzm 768 coppery, brassy yt#xn the high priest *lwdg nhk 770 going forth (said of the eyes of hwhy; lit. fem. gwanderers h) tw++w#m unfruitful, barren trq( strengthening *nykm a name of god *n( points, pricks, dots *mydwqn giants *mylpn thine enemy *kr( 771 the bearded countenance: a title of tiphareth nypn) ry# 772 seven years myn (b# 773 the sto

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

20. dwy, yod, the letter of the father. 21. hyha, existence, a title of kether. note 3 7= 21. also why, the first three (active) letters of hwhy. mystic number of tiphareth. 22. the number of letters in the hebrew alphabet; and of the paths on the tree. hence suggests completion of imperfection, finality, and fatal finality. note 2 11= 22, the accursed dyad at play with the shells. 24. number of the elders;40 and= 72 3. 72 is the divided name. 26. hwhy. jehovah as the dyad expanded, the jealous and terrible god, the lesser countenance. the god of nature, fecund, cruel, beautiful, relentless. 28. mystic number of netzach, jk, power. 31. al, not; and la, god. in this part i( nature as it is) the number is rather forbidding. for al is the god-name of chesed, mercy; and so the number seems to

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. 20. ivd, yod, the letter of the father. 21. ahih, existence, a title of keter, note 3 x 7= 21. also ihv, the first 3 (active) letters of ihvh. mystic number of tiphereth. 22. the number of letters in the hebrew alphabet; and of the paths on the tree. hence suggests completion of imperfection. finality, the fatal finality. note 2 x 11= 22, the accursed dyad at play with the shells. 24. number of the elders; and 72 3. 72 is the "divided name" 99 26. ihvh. jehovah, as the dyad expanded, the jealous and terrible god, the lesser countenance. the god of nature, fecund, cruel, beautiful, relentless. 28. mystic number of netzach, kch "power" 31. la "not; and al "god" in this part i("nature as it is) the number is rather forbidding. for al is the god-name of chesed, mercy; and so the number seems

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3 2

um viginti annos patebo" which the chief adept explains as follows] the 120 years refer symbolically to the five grades of the first order, and to the revolution of the powers of the pentagram; also to the five preparatory examinations for this grade. it is written "his days shall be 120 years" and and 120 divided by five yields 210 twenty-four, the number of hours in a day, and of the thrones of the elders in the apocalypse. further, 120 equals the number of the ten sephiroth multiplied by that of the zodiac, whose key is the working of the spirit and the four elements, typified in the wand which i bear. 4 for a further account of these see "the elemental calls of dr. dee" in sloane mss, british museum. illustration on page 211 described and aproximated "diagram 64. the lotus wand" the to

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

but he was given no details. on arriving at the party he was led into the drawing-room where five full covens-sixty-five people-were awaiting him. laid out over a chair were new robes ofdeep blue velvet which apparently had been made specially for him 'but i .don't need any new robes' he said. he had always designed and sewn his own 'we have been. in conference with all: the other covens' one of the elders told him 'we have come to the conclusion that since you are our founder, the only one amongst us directlydescended from witches, and equipped with knowledge that outstrips ours, we want to crown you "king of the witches" and acknowledge you. formally as the foremost authority on witchcraft: alex could not help being flattered by such esteem and loyalty, but he had no stomach for the ext

gain. it was plain that he was innocent ofrevealing the innermost secretsof the brotherhood and had no intention of following huysmans. the witches of his covens.realized that their leader was not going to succumb to cancer. in the end alex was persuaded to be their king. he put on the new robes. in a ceremony made up partly of rites for the crowning of egyptian pharaohs, partly of witch rituals; the elders placed a crown ofcopper, brass with a little silver, and blue velvet upon his head. they anointed his bare feet with oil and sat him on the throne before the altar as representative of their homed god. afterwards they cast the crown into the cauldron of fire so that the oaths of allegiance they had taken would be binding for all time, otherwise they, too, would return to dust like the c

e tell where the. covendom be. 33. or thecovenstead. 34..or where the meetings be. 35. and if any break these laws, even under torture, the curse of the goddess shall be upon them, so they may never be reborn on earth and may remain where they belong, in the hell of the christians. 36. let each high priestess govetn her coven with justice and love, with the help and advice .of the high priest and the elders, always heeding the advice of the messenger of the gods if he cometh. 37. she will heed all complaints of all brothers and strive to settle all differences among them. 38. but. it must be. recognized that there will always be people who will ever strive to force others to do as they will. 39. these are not necessarily evil. 40. andi they oft have. good ideas and such ideasshould be talk

their brothers, or if they say, 42 elders.oftheirintentiont and on the instant avoid theirdwe11ing and remove to the new covendotll. 46. members of the old coven may join thenewonewhefi it.ds formed. but if they do, they must utterly avoid the old coven. 47. the elders of the new and .the old covens should meet in peace and brotherly love. to decidetlie. new boundaries. 48. those of the craft who dwell outside both. covendoms m

theirdwe11ing and remove to the new covendotll. 46. members of the old coven may join thenewonewhefi it.ds formed. but if they do, they must utterly avoid the old coven. 47. the elders of the new and .the old covens should meet in peace and brotherly love. to decidetlie. new boundaries. 48. those of the craft who dwell outside both. covendoms may join. eitherbu.t not both, 49. though all may, if the elders agree, meet for the great festivals if it be trtily in peace and brotherly love, 50. but splitting the coven off means strife. so for this reason these laws were made of old and may the curse of the goddess be on any who disregard them. so be it ordained $1. if you would keep a book, let it be in your own hand ofwrite. let brothers and sisters copy what they will, but. never let the boo

say 'but how may many ride the air if they be not as light as thistledown' 133. but the curse ofthe goddess be on any who cast suspicion on any of the brotherhood. 134. or who speak of any real meeting-place or where they bide. 135. let the craft keep books with the names of all herbs which are good, and all cures so all may learn. 136. but keep another book with all bills and apices and let only the elders and other trustworthy people have this knowledge. so be it ordained. 137. and may the blessings of the gods be on all who keep these laws, and the curses of both the god and the goddess be on all who break them. 138. remember the art is the secret of the gods and may only be used in earnest and never for show or vainglory. 139. magicians and christians may taunt us saying 'you have no p

of a knife. corrosive acid is poured over the wax and it bites into the metal where the knife has drawn its 149 designs. the average time for a first-grade witch. to learn the techniques of witchcraft and collect the weapons is about two years. those who cannot afford the cost-anything between 10 and loo-are helped from coven. funds. a second-grade witch is taught to conjure up iamiliars and help the elders to train first-grade witches. as soon as the coven exceedsthirteen, the second-graders are allowed to form a new coven of their own to which they can invite three or four from the old coven to form a nucleus. a further two years of training is usually necessary before the third-and final-grade is taken. alex insists that only those married or about to be married can take this grade, and

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ll where the covendom be. 33. or the covenstead. 34. or where the meetings be. and if any break these laws, even under torture, the curse of the goddess shall be upon them, so they may never be reborn on earth and may remain where they belong, in the hell of the christians. 35. disputes let each high priestess govern her coven with justice and love, with the help and advice of the high priest and the elders, always heeding the advice of the messenger of the gods if he cometh. 36. 37. she will heed all complaints of all brothers and strive to settle all differences among them. but it must be recognized that there will always be people who will ever strive to force others to do as they will. 38. 39. these are not necessarily evil. 40. and they oft have good ideas and such ideas should be tal

gree with their brothers, or if they say, 42 "i will not work under this high priestess" 43. it hath ever been the old law to be convenient to the brethren and to avoid disputes. new covens any of the third may claim to found a new coven because they live over a league away from the covenstead or are about to do so. 44. anyone living within the covendom and wishing to form a new coven, shall tell the elders of their intention, and on the instant avoid their dwelling and remove to the new covendom. 45. members of the old coven may join the new one when it is formed. but if they do, they must utterly avoid the old coven. 46. the elders of the new and old covens should meet in peace and brotherly love to decide the new boundaries. 47. 48. those of the craft who dwell outside both covendoms ma

nt avoid their dwelling and remove to the new covendom. 45. members of the old coven may join the new one when it is formed. but if they do, they must utterly avoid the old coven. 46. the elders of the new and old covens should meet in peace and brotherly love to decide the new boundaries. 47. 48. those of the craft who dwell outside both covendoms may join either but not both. though all may, if the elders agree, meet for the great festivals if it be truly in peace and brotherly love, 49. but splitting the coven oft means strife, so for this reason these laws were made of old and may the curse of the goddess be on any who disregard them. so be it ordained. 50. grimoire if you would keep a book, let it be in your own hand of write. let brothers and sisters copy what they will, but never le

ir pay, an it be just. an this be not taking money for the art, but for good and honest work. 90. and even the christians say "the labourer is worthy of his hire" but if any brother work willingly for the good of the craft without pay 'tis but to their greater honour. so be it ordained. 91. quarrels if there be any dispute or quarrel among the brethren, the high priestess shall straightly convene the elders and inquire into the matter, and they shall hear both sides, first alone and then together. 92. 93. and they shall decide justly, not favouring one side or the other. 94. ever recognising there be people who can never agree to work under others. 95. but at the same time, there be some people who cannot rule justly. 96. to those who must ever be chief, there is one answer"'void the coven

t how may many ride the air if they be not as light as thistledown" 133. but the curse of the goddess be on any who cast suspicion on any of the brotherhood. 134. or who speak of any real meeting-place or where they bide. wortcunning 135. the craft keep books with the names of all herbs which are good, and all cures so all may learn. but keep another book with all the bales and apies and let only the elders and other trustworthy people have this knowledge. so be it ordained. 136. and may the blessings of the gods be on all who keep these laws, and the curses of both the god and the goddess be on all who break them. 137. use of the art remember the art is the secret of the gods and may only be used in earnest and never for show or vainglory. 138. magicians and christians may taunt us saying

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

ns. then, only after this evidenced preparation, do we read that he proceeded to teach.23 recognition and preparation for participation in the divine plan was next followed by dedication to that plan. after the transfiguration he entered into a full realisation of what lay ahead for him, and he defined it clearly to his disciples, saying. the son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and- 31- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day. if any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me."24 then we read later in the same chapter that "he steadfastly set his face to go" up to the place of suffering and of sacrifice. finally came the realisation t

BELL CHRISTOPHER PAUL TSIU MARPO THE CAREER OF A TIBETAN PROTECTOR DEITY

ght demon with a red cord.359 [compose 344 because that master monk is avalokite.vara. 345 the seven riders. 346 individual. 347 for protection. skt. rak.a rak.a. 348 which are the destroyed teachings. 349 of being initially killed by the king. 350 because of the initial prayers of the princess. 351 "one-eyed woman" 352 this is understood as summoning the deities for purposes of propitiation. 353 the elders. 354 the location of the temple complex of samy. 355 red eye on the rise. this is in reference to tuesday and the planet mars; this segment seems to be referring to an astrologically appropriate time. 356 and words. 357 by means of a blood knife. 158 effigies360 from] red earth361 of the three highest362 and barley flour, which endows [the might demon] with the manner of grasping363 and

BOOK OF JASHAR

ation that sinks into such folly may be destroyed by its neighbors" thus the kingdom of the noahites was dissolved by the voice of god, for they then ignored each other's commands and all returned to their homes. on the road to hebron, abram had a vision of endless wars. so he turned to god and asked "must all that is good in a nation be destroyed because of one error" then god relented and said "the elders of each nation should learn from other nations, even as they teach their own wisdom to their children. let no one fight against another people unless he has heard their story and listened to their prayers. then you may find peace" and abram asked "how can we be fathers of separate nations? will not my sons marry their daughters, and my daughters marry their sons" then god put a blessing

asks god whether conflict must be so wasteful of human values and potential. god answers abram's concerns by commanding that we must not fight or destroy other nations until we have learned about them. this commandment is linked to the earlier commandment, to pass cultural traditions on to our children. thus, while the children are only commanded to learn their nation's culture from their elders, the elders are commanded both to teach their national culture to their children and to study the cultural traditions of foreign nations, especially those nations with which they are in conflict. if attentive and sympathetic listening is an essential manifestation of love, then the new commandment here can be compared closely to the christian commandment to love your enemy. notice that the loving a

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

including all the others, the total number in each world is 100, or 400 for the four worlds. yet all 400 are included in the primal ten, the ineffable, unmanifested tree of life subsistent eternally in en soph aur, the limitless light. the letter tav, because its number is 400, represents the total manifestation of the sephiroth. the" four-and-twenty thrones of primal forces" are the "thrones of the elders" mentioned in the first chapter of the apocalypse, written by one who was a profound qabalist. the number 24 is the result of the multiplication of the digits in 406 (4 x 6, the number of the letter-name th v. the twenty-four thrones are the positive and negative manifestations of the twelve forces corresponding to the twelve signs of the zodiac "instruction" or "erudition" is the meani

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

ore a pure white buckskin dress, her long hair flowing behind her like a sea of corn. she sang into the souls of the men that each should act on his thoughts. eagerly the first, not recognising her sacred nature, hurried towards her and a white mist covered them. the sound of rattlesnakes was heard and when the cloud lifted, there were only the bones of the young man. she told the other to inform the elders of the tribe that she would come to them next morning with a great gift for the people. a huge ornate ceremonial tepee was erected and in the morning she entered, carrying a special bundle on her back and singing a holy song. the men kept their eyes lowered when she entered, as she had instructed. she unfastened the bundle and took from it the buffalo calf pipe, which is still the most

CHYMICAL WEDDING OF CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ

walked about the stage in this procession, till at last they began to sing altogether as follows: i this lovely time bringeth much joy with the king s wedding, so sing ye all that it resound page 54 and gladness be to him who giveth it to us. ii the beauteous bride whom we have long awaited shall be betrothed to him, and we have won whereafter we did strive o happy he who looketh to himself. iii the elders good are bidden now, for long they were in care, in honour multiply that thousands arise from your own blood after this thanks were returned, and the comedy was finished with joy, and the particular enjoyment of the royal persons, so (the evening also drawing near already) they departed together in their aforementioned order. but we were to attend the royal persons up the winding stairs

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

and the frankists, were at the heart of the french revolution. the brotherhood plan was openly revealed when a member of adam weishaupt's bavarian illuminati was struck by lightning and killed at ratisbon while carrying secret papers. these revealed the plans for world revolution and the new 50..and the truth shall set you free world order and they had a remarkable resemblance to the protocols of the elders of zion, of which more shortly.23 the bavarian government had the headquarters of the illuminati searched. much more information was found and the french authorities were told of the plan. but events in france had by now reached such a momentum that nothing could stop them. by 1789, more than 2,000 freemasonry lodges had affiliated with the grand orient organisation which, in turn, was

is period: the end of god in the human mind. the elite's god is the luciferic consciousness, but they wanted the human mind to reject all beliefs in eternal life and believe in mortality, finality, and materialistic 'science. this would turn human consciousness into an even greater slave to this material level. in the very late 1800s, a controversial document came to light called the protocols of the elders of zion. i call them the illuminati protocols and i quote many extracts from them in the robots' rebellion. some say they were a forgery made public only to discredit jews, 52. and the truth shall set you free and i use the term tlluminati protocols' to get away from the jewish emphasis. if they were a forgery, something that is quite possible, what were they a forgery of, and by whom?

ion about the background to the ills that the robot radicals say they oppose. i do not claim that every last word and detail is accurate, because we are dealing with the history of a secret strategy, after all, but it makes (i and many, many, others believe) a significant contribution to the debate. was it accepted as such by the robot radicals? not quite. my use of extracts from the protocols of the elders of zion was too much for political purity to take. it didn't matter that i had emphasised, as i do in this book, that this is not a plot by jewish people; it didn't matter that i renamed them the illuminati protocols for the specific reason of getting away from their association with jewish people; it didn't matter that these protocols, which came to light in the late 1800s, contain det

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ed accounts of the conspiracy in books like .and the truth shall you free, since updated many times. on to the scene came a couple of naive and immature young "journalists" called john murray and matthew kalman. they had decided, on no evidence because the opposite is true, that i am "anti-semitic. their whole case was that i quoted in a previous book, the robots' rebellion, from the protocols of the elders of zion, which, i suggest, were planted by the illuminati to blame it all on the jews and for other reasons. what the protocols do, however, is reveal in detail the techniques that have been provably used to advance the illuminati agenda these past 100 years and more. it mattered not to kalman and murray that i called them the illuminati protocols, nor that i had emphasised in the book

DAVID ICKE THE BIGGEST SECRET

s and destroy the status quo.you lend money to both sides to fund the war and then you lend them even more torebuild their devastated countries. they get in debt (control) to you and you increaseyour wealth (power. such control and power allows you to build a new society in theimage of your agenda, when the war you have created and funded has destroyed theold structure. the so-called protocols of the elders of zion were discovered in the lastcentury and tell in incredible detail the events and methods of manipulation we haveseen manifest in the 20th century. these documents were very much the creation of therothschilds and the reptilian-aryans. but they are not really the protocols of theelders of zion, they are, in truth, the protocols of sion, the sun, and the priory ofsion. so much disi

DEMONIC BIBLE

zodiajiere riore. irejila cahisa da das pa-aox busada caosago, das cahisa od ipuranu telocahe cacureji o-isalamahe lonucaho od vovina carebafe? niiso! bagile avavago gohon. niiso! bagile mamao siasionu, od mabezoda iad oi asa-momare poilape. niiasa! zodameranu ciaosi caosago od belioresa od coresi ta beramiji (dee) the midday of the first is as the third heaven made of 26 hyacinth pillars in whom the elders are become strong which i have prepared for my own righteousness sayth the lord whose long continuance shall be as bucklers to the stooping dragons and like unto the harvest of a widow. how many are there which remain in the glory of the earth which are and shall not see death until this house fall and the dragon sink? come away, for the thunders have spoken. come away, for the crowns o

e and shall not see death until this house fall and the dragon sink? come away, for the thunders have spoken. come away, for the crowns of the temple and the coat of him that is, was, and shall be crowned are divided. come appear to the terror of the earth and to our comfort and of such as are prepared (lavey) the midday of the first is as the third indulgence made of hyacinthine pillars, in whom the elders are become strong, which i have prepared for mine own justice, saith satan, whose long continuance shall be as bucklers to leviathan. how many are there which remain in the glory of the earth, which are, and shall not see death until the house falls and the dragon doth sink? rejoice, for the crowns of the temple and the robe of him that is, was, and shall be crowned are no longer divide

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

ed during bad times, especially in the later years of the empire, to a frenzied search for new gods, borrowed from various countries rome had conquered. in times of misfortune and disaster, the romans were always ready to utilize a non-roman deity if his or her favors promised more than those of their own deities. although there was a strong conservative element in the populous, and the custom of the elders was strongly upheld by the priestly 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

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

1958. the philosophy of the saucers. fly- ing saucer review 4, 3 (may/june: 10 11. brodie s deros in the mythology of the shaver mystery, the creation of richard sharpe shaver, deros are cannibalistic, sadistic idiots who live in caves underneath the earth. as the degenerated descendants of an advanced race of extraterrestrials that thousands of years ago colonized our planet, they have access to the elders advanced technology. they use it, however, for destructive and even perverted purposes on 48 brodie s deros each other and, most of all, on surface humans, whom they sometimes kidnap for torture and other unpleasant purposes. the bulk of the shaver mystery material was published, mostly as true, in two science-fiction magazines, amazing stories and fantastic adven- tures, in the mid- to

described the nature of the cosmos, eart h s sec ret history, and human beings spiritual nat u re. the teachings we re circulated under the name mission rama, organized as a nonpro fit corporation. they hold that there are three diff e rent universes: material (septennial, mental( eternal, and spiritual (mental. our ow n milky way is under the direction of twe n t y- four highly evo l ved beings, the elders of the ga l a x y. beneath them are advanced civilizations which actively assist lesser but deve l o p i n g races. each of these takes on a particular task, as genetic engineers, keepers, gu a rdians, ins t ructors, and the like. galaxy m-31, in the a n d romeda constellation, is the seat of an ext remely important council where re p re s e n t at i ves of a number of galaxies in our r

lemuria) these beings, who possessed fantastic technologies, lived extraordinarily long lives and never stopped growing, owing to the integrative (positive) energies cast out by the sun. some grew to fifty feet, a few considerably more. eventually, however, the sun changed and began to beam detrimental (negative) energy, causing, among other effects, aging and mortality. to block the deadly rays, the elders built an immense cavern world to house the earth s fifty billion atlans and titans. but the effort ultimately failed, and twelve thousand years ago the elders who survived fled to other stars, leaving behind a small population, which had fallen victim to the detrimental radiation. some wandered to the surface and in time forgot their history as they became the mortal and confused homo s

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

to work and built, or caused to be built for themselves, a temple or lodge house, or home; they calledit'domussanctispiritus',the house of the divine spirit. here they settled and this was their abode, study and laboratory; from thence they issued forth intumon deeds of mercy and of healing, and of teaching, and of observation. from this first circle there were formed other circles in succession, the elders teaching the juniors, and so was the secret knowledge both*i.e. helena petrovna blavatskychristian rosenkreuz17preserved and extended. c.r. lived to a very advanced age, 106 years, and dying at last was buried, as had been arranged by him and the members of his inner circle, in a special vault within theirdomusor secret dwelling. some form of embalming was used, and the vault was decora

o testify that they were not in possession of any evidence that successors of 'rosy cross the adept' still exist in england; or that any suchavault exists here or anywhere else in europe. yet that need not upset my belief, or your belief, if you hold it, that adept rosicrucians do still exist; nor willitupset the fact that i have met a person in this very blavatsky lodge (who was known to most of the elders in theosophy among you) who assured me of the truth of these assertions, and who claimed to have seen such a vault. not that i am weak enough, or so ignorant of human nature as to suppose, that any statement of mine would make you believe, nor do i want you to believe this. seeing is believing, and if you cannot see, you are not to be blamed,byme,for not believing: but take my former ca

let no one fear the powers ofevil-to you it is given to fight and to conquer, with purity and courage, and the high magical power of the pentagram, in which the order instructs you- where is the true student who has succumbed? he is not of us! take courage then, ye neophytes! be not daunted by the difficulties and the dangers of occult study- toil onwards to the pinnacles of wisdom- and taught by the elders of the order, who are always more ready to teach than you to learn, and armed by an active courage and an indomitable will, go on and prosper, for thereisa summun bonum- a quintessence74themagical masonof wisdom, and universal benevolence, and of mighty power, besides the lower- and yet high aspiration of the attainmentofperfecthappiness[an address to members of the isis-urania temple o

a dream. daniel v. 7, 11:theking calls on the astrologers to explain a writing. genesis xli, 8:themagicians are called on to explain a dream of pharaoh. in the new testament, consult: actsxix,19: men who possessed curious books burned them before paul. as regards divination in general, this magical art is repre255 sented by three hebrew words--maquesem, kasiphim, and lachash. in numbers xxii. 7, the elders of moab and of midian have rewards for divination. in deuteronomy xviii, 9-10, diviners are condemned, and the jews are to consider them as an abomination. in ezekiel xii. 24, the lord denies the use of diviniation to the people of israel. in ezekiel xiii. 7, 23, diviners are forbidden. in the new testament we find a note in actsxvi,16: a damsel has powers of divination, she brought her

had become tinctured by the greek thought of alexandrian civilization, and that they prepared the ground for the simple and moral life inculcated by jesus: other authors find their system related to buddhism, and others again find resem255 blances to the teaching of pythagoras of samos. in addition to these general characters of the sect the following notes have been made: josephus explains that the elders adopted the children of other jews and moulded them to suit their own tenets; that all adults who entered the sect must give up their belongings to the common funds; they always wore white clothing, and considered any oily substance to defile them; before sunrise they never spoke of common matters,butoffered ancestral prayers(invocatio)'as if they besought the sun to rise; their general

had elapsed he became an approacher,presioneggion,was admitted more closely to their way of living, and shared their baths of purification: after two years more had expired and he was still approved of, he was admitted as anhomiletesto the meals of the fellowship,butonly after taking a solemn oath to be most pious, most just, never to injure anyone, to hate the wicked, to denounce liars, to obey the elders, to have no secrets from his fellows, and to disclose no private religious teachingtooutsiders, even at the hazard of life, to preserve their sacred writings, and to keepfreemasonry and the essenes 237secret the names of god's holy angels. for the gravest offences an essene was subject to exclusion from the society, which amounted to slow starvation, because he had been forbidden to tak

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

er. when he had done, aaron standing on the right hand, his sons, eleazar and ithamar, were introduced to a second rehearsal; this being over, the seventy elders that composed the sanhedrim were admitted; and lastly, the people, as many as pleased: to all of whom moses again repeated both the law and the explanation as he received them from god. so that aaron heard it four times, his sons thrice, the elders twice, and the people once. now, of the two things which moses taught them, the law and the explanation, only the first was committed to writing; which is what we have in exodus, leviticus, and numbers; as to the second, or the explication of that law, they were contented to impress it well in their memory, to teachitto their children, and they inturnto theirs, etc. hence the first is t

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

y were not of this cycle, they are the true firstfruits from beyond earth. throughout history they have reincarnated as teachers, leaders, warriors and priests, they were the builders of the great pyramid in egypt under enoch and will lead the lost tribes of israel in the end times. and they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, the gnostic handbook page 94 and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. these are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. these are they which follow the lamb whithersoever he goeth. these were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto god and to the lamb. revelation 13:3-4 the celestial class are those who have

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

t while they are incarnated in human bodies they are not of this cycle, they are the true firstfruits. throughout history they have reincarnated as teachers, leaders, warriors and priests, they were the builders of the great pyramid in egypt under enoch, and will lead the lost tribes of israel in the end times. and they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. these are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. these are they which follow the lamb whithersoever he goeth. these were gnostic theurgy page 132 redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto god and to the lamb. revelation 13:3-4 the celestial

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ENOCHALL

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

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS K

emblems" chief adept "the one hundred and twenty years refer symbolically to the five grades of the first order and to the revolution of the powers of the pentagram; also to the five preparatory examinations for this grade. it is written 'his days shall be one hundred and twenty years; and one hundred and twenty divided by five yields twentyfour, the number of hours in a day and of the thrones of the elders in the apocalypse. further, one hundred and twenty equals the number of the ten sephiroth multiplied by that of the zodiac, whose key is the working of the spirit and four elements typified in the wand which i bear (chief adept knocks four times. all face east. chief adept opens the vault wide, enters, passes to the eastern end, or place of the head of the pastos, the coffin of 9 christ

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS T

, appear, sing praises unto the creator! od o-micaolz aaiom bagle papnor and be mighty amongst us! for to this remembrance i dlugam lonshi od vmplif v-ge-gi bigliad! is given power, and our strength waxeth strong in our comforter! nof m the eighth key bazm elo i ta piripson oln nazavabh the mid-day, the first, is as the third heaven made of hyacinthine ox casarmg vran chis vgeg ds pillars in whom the elders are become strong, which i have 13 abramg baltoha goho iad soba prepared for my own righteousness saith the lord, whose long mian trian ta lolcis abai-vovin od continuance shall be as buckles to the stooping dragon and like aziagiar rior irgil chis da ds pa-aox unto the harvest of a widow. how many are there which remain in busd caosgo ds chis od ip uran teloch cacrg the glory of the ea

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS T3

, appear, sing praises unto the creator! od o-micaolz aaiom bagle papnor and be mighty amongst us! for to this remembrance i dlugam lonshi od vmplif v-ge-gi bigliad! is given power, and our strength waxeth strong in our comforter! nof m the eighth key bazm elo i ta piripson oln nazavabh the mid-day, the first, is as the third heaven made of hyacinthine ox casarmg vran chis vgeg ds pillars in whom the elders are become strong, which i have abramg baltoha goho iad soba prepared for my own righteousness saith the lord, whose long mian trian ta lolcis abai-vovin od continuance shall be as buckles to the stooping dragon and like 13 aziagiar rior irgil chis da ds pa-aox unto the harvest of a widow. how many are there which remain in busd caosgo ds chis od ip uran teloch cacrg the glory of the ea

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

he fifth sun, our current epoch, is the face of tonatiuh, the sun god himself. his tongue, fittingly depicted as an obsidian knife, juts out hungrily, signalling his need for the nourishment of human blood and hearts. his features are wrinkled to indicate his advanced age and he appears within the symbol ollin which signifies movement.11 why is the fifth sun known as the sun of movement? because, the elders say: in it there will be a movement of the earth and from this we shall all perish. 12 and when will this catastrophe strike? soon, according to the aztec priests. they believed that the fifth sun was already very old and approaching the end of its cycle (hence the wrinkles on the face of tonatiuh. ancient meso-american traditions dated the birth of this epoch to a remote period corresp

nd that its destruction was near, and cried out in a bitter voice: tell me what is being done on the earth that the earth is so afflicted and shaken. 25 these words are from the hebrew book of enoch, but similar afflictions and shakings have been foretold in all the central american traditions that speak of the demise of the present epoch of the world an epoch, as the reader will recall, in which the elders say [that] there will be a movement of the earth and from this we shall all perish. 26 the reader will also not have forgotten the date calculated by the ancient maya calendar for the end of the world: the day will be 4 ahau 3 kankin [corresponding to 23 december ad 2012, and it will be ruled by the sun god, the ninth lord of the night. the moon will be eight days old, and it will be th

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

is the sacredsociety)'they arefollowersofthe rosy cross [where arethey]'the societyis in france and unless you went there and were installed a brother you could not possibly become one. napoleon the rst emperor of france was a member of that society [what is their purpose/what do theystudy]'they study the occult sciences after an interview with an invisible power, which they have at stated times. the elders travel to jerusalem [where do theymeet]'you have seen their place of meeting in the crystal-it is in the[blank]they then return to the rest of the society with the instructionsthey receivefrom the invisible agent-upon this they act. they are not limitedto thewealthyforjean-jaquesrousseau was one of its firmest supporters. i will showyouvisionsthat will tend to enlighten you, but in the

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charms used by apollonius to his profound knowledge of the sympathies and antipathies (or repugnances) of nature. unable to deny the evident superiority of their enemies' powers, the fathers had recourse to the old but ever-successful method that of slander. they honored the theurgists with the same insinuating calumny that had been resorted to by the pharisees against jesus "thou hast a daemon" the elders of the jewish synagog had said to him "thou hast the devil" repeated the cunning fathers with equal truth, ad- dressing the pagan thaumaturgist; and the widely-bniit d charge, erected later into an article of faith, won the day. but the modem heirs of these ecclesiastical falsifiers, who denounce magic, spiritualism, and even magnetism as being produced by a demon, forget or perhaps nev

n shows numbering but trom seven to twelve men in each church, belonged unquestionably to the poorest and most ignorant classes. they had and could have no idea of the highly philosophical doctrines of the flatonists and gnostics, and evidently knew as httle about their own newly-made-up religion. to these men who if jews, had been crushed under the tyrannical dominion of the 'law' as enforced by the elders of the syna- gogs; and if pagans, had been always excluded, as the lower castes are until now in india, from the religious mysteries the god of the jews and the 'father' preached by jesus were all one. the con- tentions which reigned from the first years following the death of jesus, between the two parties, the pauline and the petrine, were deplorable. what one did, the other deemed it

s jesus. laying aside the theological disputes of christianity which tiy to blend together the jewish creator of the first chapter of geneaia with the 'father' of the new tettament, jesus states repeatedly of his father that "he is in aecret" surely he would not have so termed the ever- present' lord god' of the mosaic books, who showed himself to moses and the patriarchs, and finally allowed all the elders of israel to look on himself' when jesus is made to speak of the temple at jerusalem as of his "father's house" he does not mean the physical building, which he maintains he can destroy and then again rebuild in three days, but of the temple of solomon the wise kabalist, who indicates in his proverbs that every man is the temple of god, or of his own divine spirit. this term of the "fat

l, but no inter- loper has ever partidpated in the rites of initiation which take place occasionally on fridays in the greatest secrecy. women are admitted to them as well as men, and play a part of great importance at the initiation of men. he probation, unless some extraor^nary exception a made, is long and severe. once in a certain period of time a solemn ceremony takes place, during which all the elders and the initiates of the highest two degrees start out for a pilgrimage of several days to a certain place in the mountains. hi^ meet within the safe predncts rjl a monastery said to have been erected during the earliest times of the christian era. outwardly one sees but old ruins of a once grand edifice, used, says the legend, by some gnostic sects as a place of worship during the reli

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

tone. kabbalah talks only of one soul, the soul of any one of us, and about that soul s ascent to the final stage. it is said in the bible that when the arms (faith) of moses (moshe, deriving from the verb limshoch to pull, to take oneself out of egoism) became weak, he began to lose the battle with the enemies (those he thought were his enemies were his own egotistical thoughts and desires. then the elders (his wise thoughts) sat him down (lowered his own intellect) on a stone (above egoism) and raised his arms (faith) and put a stone beneath them (lifted faith above the demands of the egoistic common sense, so that israel would triumph (the aspiration to the spiritual ascent. it is also said that the forefathers were idol-worshippers (the initial aspirations of a person are egoistic and

LIBER CHANOKH

azodiajiere riore. irejila cahisa da das pa-aox busada caosago, das cahisa od ipuranu telocahe cacureji o-isalamahe lonucaho od vovina carebafe? niiso! bagile avagao gohon. niiso! bagile momao siaionu, od mabezoda iad oi asa-momare poilape. niiasa! zodameranu ciaosi caosago od belioerasa od coresi ta a beramiji. the midday, the first is as the third heaven made of 26 hyacinthine pillars, in whom the elders are become strong, which i have prepared for mine own righteousness, saith the lord: whose long continuance shall be as bucklers to the stooping dragon, and like unto the harvest of a widow. how many are there which remain in the glory of the earth, the forty-eight keys or calls 30 which are, and shall not see death until the house fall and the dragon sink? come away! for the thunders (

LIBER LVII

20. dwy, yod, the letter of the father. 21. hyha, existence, a title of kether. note 3 7= 21. also why, the first three (active) letters of hwhy. mystic number of tiphareth. 22. the number of letters in the hebrew alphabet; and of the paths on the tree. hence suggests completion of imperfection, finality, and fatal finality. note 2 11= 22, the accursed dyad at play with the shells. 24. number of the elders;41 and= 72 3. 72 is the .divided name. 26. hwhy. jehovah as the dyad expanded, the jealous and terrible god, the lesser countenance. the god of nature, fecund, cruel, beautiful, relentless. 28. mystic number of netzach, jk .power. 31. al .not; and la .god. in this part i(.nature as it is) the number is rather forbidding. for al is the god-name of chesed, mercy; and so the number seems t

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

t has been dissolved, separated, and again united so that it becomes a body composed of twelve bodies, like the cube. the cube also consists of six pyramids with the six surfaces of the cube as their bases. the points of these six pyramids meet at the center of the cube. these six pyramids, each consisting of four triangles, signify the elements, and produce the magical number 24, which refers to the elders before the throne. the six surfaces and the point constitute the magical number 7. if 7 be multiplied by 7 again, and so on 7 times, the answer will reveal the method used by the ancients for measuring the periods of eternity; thus (1) 7 x 7= 49 (2) 49 x 7= 343 (3) 343 x 7= 2,401 (4) 2,401 x 7= 16,807 (5):16,807 x 7= 117,649 (6) 117,649 x 7= 823,543 (7) 823,543 x 7= 5,764,801 (this is n

ing in fact still a young man, and who had by no means attained to advanced age. now, that the first stage of early life embraces thirty years, and that this extends onward to the fortieth year, every one will admit; but from the fortieth and fiftieth year a man begins to decline towards old age, which our lord possessed while he still fulfilled the office of a teacher, even as the gospel and all the elders testify; those who were conversant in asia with john, the disciple of the lord (affirming) that john conveyed to them that information. and he remained among them up to the time of trajan. some of them, moreover, saw not only john, but the other apostles also, and heard the very same account from them, and bear testimony as to the'(validity of) the statement. whom then should we rather

he four corners of creation and the multitude of eyes with which they were covered are the stars of the firmament. the twenty-four elders have the same significance as the priests gathered around the statue of ceres in the greater eleusinian rite and also the persian genii, or gods of the hours of the day, who, casting away their crowns, glorify the holy one. as symbolic of the divisions of time, the elders adore the timeless and enduring spirit in the midst of them. p. 186 relationship of the various parts of the alpha and omega to the seven sacred planets of the ancients. to quote "the logos-figure described is a composite picture of the seven sacred planets: he has the snowy-white hair of kronos('father time, the blazing eyes of 'wide-seeing' zeus, the sword of arcs, the shining face of

of god" he who sat upon the throne held in his right hand a book sealed with seven seals which no man in heaven or earth had been found worthy to open. then appeared a lamb (aries, the first and chief of the zodiacal signs) which had been slain, having seven horns (rays) and seven eyes (lights. the lamb took the book from the right hand of him that sat upon the throne and the four beasts and all the elders fell down and worshiped god and the lamb. during the early centuries of the christian church the lamb was universally recognized as the symbol of christ, and not until after the fifth synod of constantinople (the "quinisext synod" a.d. 692) was the figure of the crucified man substituted for that of agnus dei. as shrewdly noted by one writer on the subject, the use of a lamb is indicati

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

ion to the life and acts of the greatbeing in whose honor the building was erected. the death of one of the original nega-tive aliens was attended by similar rituals. the places on earth where one of theseoriginal aliens were laid became a zone that later experienced great upheaval and con-flict (like northern ireland and palestine, for example. scientists and biologists in the service and pay of the elders of atlantis have been continu-ally desecrating these sacred temples. many have paid with their lives, as there are powerfulapotropaic spells working around the structures. but the object is to extract dna samplesfrom the mummies to further their present nefarious necromantic experiments. the serpents possess great knowledge of geomancy and constructed their sites andcities with precisio

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

the new chairman would be the occasion for a fairly unique ceremony. everyone would go to the patronal church and sing vespers. when they reached the verse of mason corporations in france 161 the magnificat where it says "deposuit potentes de sede" the chairman who was stepping down from his post would leave his seat, which was located in the center of the choir, and find himself a new seat among the elders. at the same time and continuing through the end of the verse "et exaltavit homilies" the newly elected chairman would take possession of the baton, the emblem of his station, and sit down on the chair vacated by his predecessor."18 every year the brotherhood sang a solemn mass, which was followed by a procession in which one member carried the candle and baton of the trade. the followi

t. the last phrase, which i emphasized, indicates that the oath was made on the bible, most likely on the gospels. we have observed this earlier in france, in etienne boileau's le livre des metiers, and in england in the 1352 regulation of the york masons. closer to the present, this instruction can be found in the 1683 statutes of the york lodge cited earlier. this statute specifies that "one of the elders takes the book; he or she who would be made a mason places his or her hands upon the book, and then the instructions are given" the text goes on to say "it is a matter of great peril for a man to perjure himself upon the book" we shall see, when studying masonic ritual, that the bible, the square, and the compass were considered to be the three symbolic "pillars" of the lodge. the revis

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

spires and causes nukva to mature and develop .anthologized and translated from sha far hamitzvot and ta famei hamitzvot 9 avot 1:12. 577 parashat beha falotecha [second installment] in this parashah, moses complains to g-d that he cannot lead the people by himself. gi cannot carry all this nation by myself, for it is too heavy for me. h1 in response, g-d told moses, ggather for me seventy men of the elders of israel cand take them to the tent of meeting, and they will present themselves there with you. i shall descend and speak with you, and i will set aside some of the [divine] spirit that is upon you and place it upon them. h2 to select the seventy, moses took six from each tribe, i.e, 72 elders, and placed 72 pieces of paper in a box. on 70 of them were written the word gelder h and tw

e narrative then goes on to say that gmoab became disgusted because of the israelites, h referring to the jews themselves, who were derived from abel. the literal meaning of the words translated as gthe israelites h (benei yisrael) is gthe children [or edescendants f] of israel, h i.e, of jacob; this refers only to the direct descendants of jacob as opposed to moses f converts* g[and moab said to the elders of midian, enow this assembly will eat up everything around us] as the ox eats up the greens of the field. f h3 an ox that has been established legally as a goring ox derives from the evil of esau, who is the gblack ox h mentioned in the sages f teachings.4 once an ox gores other animals three times unprovoked, it is legally classified as a ggoring ox h (shor mu fad) and its owner becom

reful h refers to learning [how to do the commandments] and gand do them h refers to performing [them] as it sounds. here, too, gtake care h means be sure not to forget what you have learned, so that you can do it, as indicated by gto do c. h this explains what i learned about the [following] passage of the mishnah: gmoses received the torah from sinai [and transmitted it to joshua, and joshua to the elders, and the elders to the prophets, and the prophets transmitted it to the men of the great assembly. h8 it was pointed out that with regard to moses, the expression greceived h is used, whereas with regard joshua, the expression gtransmitted to h is used. it would seem that it would have been more consistent either to speak of both of them as having greceived h or as having been gtransmit

and the prophets transmitted it to the men of the great assembly. h8 it was pointed out that with regard to moses, the expression greceived h is used, whereas with regard joshua, the expression gtransmitted to h is used. it would seem that it would have been more consistent either to speak of both of them as having greceived h or as having been gtransmitted to. h furthermore, the next two stages, the elders and the prophets, are not spoken of as having received or having been transmitted to. finally, the prophets are said to have gtransmitted h it to the men of the great assembly. why not follow the precedent and simply say, gand the prophets to the men of the great assembly? h it was answered that gtransmitted to h implies being acted upon forcefully. as it is written, gand [the conscript

h11 thus, the verb in question denotes involuntary transmission. therefore, inasmuch as our holy torah gis longer than the earth [and wider than the sea, h12 moses had to transmit it to joshua against forcefully, for joshua was unable to receive it all on his own. only moses had the power to receive it easily. but joshua received it only on moses f power, beyond his ability. as for gand joshua to the elders h: since he was transmitting it to many people, his own power was not required, for amongst many people, one will remember most of what he learned, another most of what he learned [and thus they will all, together, cover the subject. it is therefore not as difficult as it is with an individual who has to remember the whole torah by himself. the same pertains for gand the elders to the p

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

the magical weapons of chesed, geburah and tiphareth respectively, just as the fire wand, water cup, air dagger and earth pentacle each establish the magus in netzach, hod, yesod and malkuth. h.s. adeptus minor ritual 225 the five preparatory examinations for this grade. it is written "his days shall be 120 years,"and 120 divided by 5 equals 24, the number of hours in a day, and of the thrones of the elders in the apocalypse. further, 120 equals the number of the ten sephiroth multiplied by <204> that of the zodiac, whose key is the working of the spirit and the four elements, typified in the wand which i bear. a11 face east. chief adept opens the door wide, passes to east or head of pastos of c. r c, and faces west. second enters and passes to south facing north. third enters and passes t

s i shall open- and the door is guarded by the elemental tablets and by the kerubic emblems. the 120 years refer symbolically to the 5 grades of the first order and to the revolution of the powers of the pentagram; also to the five preparatory examinations for this grade. it is written "his days shall be 120 years" and 120 divided by 5 yields 24, the number of hours in a day and of the thrones of the elders in the apocalypse. further 120 equals the number of the ten sephiroth multiplied by that of the zodiac, whose key is the working of the spirit and the four elements typified in the wand which i bear. chief knocks. all face east. chief adept opens the vault wide, enters, passes to the eastern end, or place of the head of the pastos or coffin of c.r, and then faces west. second enters and

rance '0d 0-micaolz zaaiom 3bagle 4papnol the enochian calls 6 77 'is given power, 2and our strength 3waxeth strong 4 onu r comforter '1 dlugam lonshi wd vmplif 3v-ge-gi 4bigliad water of air(*note: ialprg "burning flames" in the second call.-1.r) the eighth key 'the mid-day, m e f i t, 31s as the t h i heaven 4made of hyacinthine 'bazm 2elo 31 ta piripson 401n nazavabh <338 'pillars 226 31n whom the elders 4are become strong, 5which i have zox 3casanng vran this vgeg 5ds 'prepared tor my own righteousness 3saith the lord, 4whose long 'a bramg 2baltoha 'goho lad 4soba 'continuance 2shall be as buckles 3to the stooping dragon 4and like 'mian 4rian ta lolcis 3abai-vwin 40d 'unto the harvest of a widow. wow many 3are there 4which remain in 'aziagiar rior 211gil 3chis da 4ds pa-aox 'the glory

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

sacred mosque. there we must surely go" now the panchayat's quintet began to debate heatedly. there were the crops to consider, and the impossibility of abandoning their homes en masse "it is not to be conceived of, child" the sarpanch told her "it is well known that allah excuses haj and umra to those who are genuinely unable to go for reasons of poverty or health" but ayesha remained silent and the elders continued to argue. then it was as if her silence infected everyone else and for a long moment, in which the question was settled- although by what means nobody ever managed to comprehend- there were no words spoken at all. it was osman the clown who spoke up at last, osman the convert, for whom his new faith had been no more than a drink of water "it's almost two hundred miles from her

SATANGEL

1c-noqol rit 2zacar 3zamran 4oe-crimi 5qaada. 1and be mighty 2amongst us! 3for to 4this remembrance 1od o-micaolz 2aaiom 3bagle 4papnor 1is given power, 2and our strength 3waxeth strong 4in our comforter! 1i dlugam lonshi 2od vmplif 3v-ge-gi 4bigliad the eighth key 1the mid-day, 2the first, 3is as the third heaven 4made of hyacinthine 1bazm 2elo 3i ta piripson 4oln nazavabh 1pillars 226 3in whom the elders 4are become strong, 5which i have 2ox 3casarmg vran 4chis vgeg 5ds 1prepared 2for my own righteousness 3saith the lord, 4whose long 1abramg 2baltoha 3goho iad 4soba 1continuance 2shall be as buckles 3to the stooping dragon 4and like 1mian 2trian ta lolcis 3abai-vovin 4od 1unto the harvest of a widow. 2how many 3are there 4which remain in 1aziagiar rior 2irgil 3chis da 4ds pa-aox 1the gl

SATANIC BIBLE

re riore. irejila cahisa da das pa-aox busada caosago, das cahisa od ipuranu telocahe cacureji oisalamahe lonucaho od vovina carebafe? niiso! bagile avavago gohon. niiso! bagile mamao siasionu, od mabezoda iad oi asa-momare poilape. niiasa! zodameranu ciaosi caosago od belioresa od coresi ta beramiji (english) the midday of the first is as the third indulgence made of hyacinthine pillars, in whom the elders are become strong, which i have prepared for mine own justice, saith satan, whose long continuance shall be as bucklers to leviathan. how many are there which remain in the glory of the earth, which are, and shall not see death until the house falls and the dragon doth sink? rejoice, for the crowns of the temple and the robe of him that is, was, and shall be crowned are no longer divide

SCHEM HA MEPHORESH

e 72 fold name this refers to the seventy two names of the expounded name yhvh. four is the number of the letters of the tetragrammaton. four is also the number of the letters of the name adni which is its representative and key. the latter name is bound with the former and united thereto, thus iahdvnhy forming a name of 8 letters. 8 x 3, the number of the supernal triad, yields the 24 thrones of the elders of the apocalypse, each of whom wears on his head a golden crown of three rays, each ray of which is a name, each name an absolute idea and ruling power of the great name yhvh tetragrammaton. the number 24 of the thrones multiplied by the 3 rays of the crown which equals 72, the name of god of 72 letters, which is thus mystically shown in the name yhvh, as under (or as the book of revel

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

the fifth century bce, a council was called to establish a commonly agreed-upon version of the buddha s teachings and his rules for monks. those teachings and rules voted on by the monks became the basis for the central buddhist text, the pali canon, which was originally written on palm leaves. differences soon emerged, however, between a group of more traditional believers, called the school of the elders, and another, less traditional group. the school of the elders focused on the personal pursuit of enlightenment. the other group believed in helping everyone to achieve enlightenment. this central difference ultimately led to a split between buddhist followers. the more traditional group became known as theravada, or way of the elders. the other group became the mahayana, or majority. t

s buddhist. european nations also have a small presence of buddhists, but their presence continued to increase slowly in the early twenty-first century. sects and schisms buddhism had already split into two main branches, or schools, by the first century bce. in the early twenty-first century there exist three main types of buddhism: theravada, mahayana, and vajrayana. theravada means doctrine of the elders, and it bases its practices and beliefs on the original teachings of the buddha as gathered in the pali canon. it is sometimes referred to as the hinayana branch, or small vehicle, but this is not considered to be a polite term for theravada. theravada has a strict interpretation of the buddha s teachings and places great emphasis on the final step in the eightfold path, right concentra

uding celibacy, or refraining from sexual intercourse. he wore a yellow robe similar to those of buddhist monks, although he was not one himself. he also counseled others to exchange their western names for traditional native names. dharmapala assisted olcott in opening more than three hundred schools in ceylon. this helped revive buddhism s traditional branch of theravada, which means the way of the elders. when he was twenty years old, dharmapala began writing for a weekly paper, the saraasavi-sandaresa. this was the first of many writing jobs he held throughout his lifetime. he eventually took over the paper s entire operation, writing, printing, and distributing it twice a week. he argued for a revival of native sinhalese traditions and a return to the country s buddhist roots. togethe

he told god that he would be unable to explain god s identity to the people, that the people would not believe him, and that he would be unable to carry out such a huge task. god answered each of moses s objections, and moses eventually relented. moses then returned to egypt. when he arrived he met his older brother, aaron, whom god had already informed of moses s coming return. the two met with the elders of the israelites and, with aaron doing most of the talking, informed them of god s intentions. aaron would later become moses s chief general. 280 world religions: biographies moses these elders attempted to persuade the pharaoh to release the israelites, but he refused. to show his support for the israelites, god unleashed a series of plagues on egypt over the course of a year. the wa

ome was visited each day by his male mother, his mother s brother. in dagara culture the maternal uncle plays the role of water person, or peacemaker, and tries to maintain serenity and goodwill in the village. water persons are also thought of as reconcilers, resolving conflicts and restoring friendships. in some s case, many hoped that his uncle could find a way to fold him back into the tribe. the elders subjected some to a number of divinations, which are efforts to interpret omens (signs) and uncover secret knowledge or foretell the future. the elders determined that some had not fully returned to the village. they claimed part of his soul was missing, still back at the school and the world of white people. they said that his only hope was to undergo an initiation ritual called a baor

d and had visions of his grandfather and that he made contact with the beings that inhabit the natural world. in his autobiography he details his first night at the initiation camp, where a fire ritual gave him insight into the world of his ancestors. in a chapter entitled trying to see, he makes clear the importance of learning to see the world in new ways and describes his initial resistance to the elders instructions. he admits he even tried to lie to them to convince them that he was making progress. eventually some achieved a breakthrough, as detailed in a chapter entitled in the arms of the green lady. during his experience, he had a vision of a yila tree, the green lady of the chapter s title. by intensely focusing on the tree, he came to see it in a new way, the way of the dagara

to dry regions. ea: one of the gods who created humans and gave them souls. spurn: reject or refuse. world religions: primary sources 65 the epic of gilgamesh its length must correspond to its width. roof it over like the apsu. i understood and spoke to my lord, ea: my lord, thus is the command which you have uttered i will heed and will do it. but what shall i answer the city, the populace, and the elders! ea spoke, commanding me, his servant: you, well then, this is what you must say to them: it appears that enlil is rejecting me so i cannot reside in your city, nor set foot on enlil s earth. i will go down to the apsu to live with my lord, ea, and upon you he will rain down abundance, a profusion of fowl, myriad) fishes. he will bring to you a harvest of wealth, in the morning he will

irst century. many are no longer in their original form, but exist only in translation. others form the core scriptures (the sacred writings of a religion) of various sects of buddhism. a sect is a smaller group within a larger religious body, which has beliefs that differ from the main body. one of the major traditional sects of buddhism is referred to as theravada, a term that means doctrine of the elders. a doctrine is a set of rules or principles. in the early twenty-first century, theravada is the dominant form of buddhism practiced in such countries as cambodia, laos, burma (myanmar, sri lanka, and thailand. it is also practiced in bangladesh, parts of china, and in vietnam, and it has experienced a revival in southern india. through missionary activity, in which believers seek to sp

, buddhists have many, and all can provide buddhists with principles to follow in their lives. according to buddhist tradition, a council of buddhist elders met three weeks after the death of the buddha. their purpose was to remember the truths that the buddha had taught and to implant these truths in the minds of the buddha s followers. because the buddha s teachings had never been written down, the elders organized them and brought them together so that they could be more easily recited orally. only later were they written down. to this day millions of buddhists recite verses from the dhammapada daily, regarding them, in effect, as prayers that keep them focused on the teachings of the buddha and to guide them in their daily activities. the buddha is shown seated under a bodhi, or fig, t

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on your own or learning from one of your mentors, you must really desire to receive the full benefit of the keys, be willing to practice them, and one day teach others who need it as much as you. nothing is free, and the contract must be kept. all adepts pay for their higher education by passing on their knowledge along with the wisdom to use it. as we say "the youngers shall follow the advice of the elders, and the elders shall show favor to the youngers" do you see? all adepts run in circles, or perhaps, we should say, complete their circuits. after all, you can't get electrical current to run in a shorted circuit, and neither will the force. as always, you must ask for further understanding as you will need help in making sense of what follows as it is a process of growing as much as le

nk. it must also be shown that there is both action and reaction. how we react makes all the difference. the children must be shown that they are responsible for their own actions, and that they must pay a price for any wrong thinking or action on their parts. when the cbr lessons are correctly and fairly taught, both mentor and student will soon learn that the youngers shall follow the advice of the elders, and the elders shall show favor to the youngers. the circle shall not be broken. the sixth principle adepts supports their community. until the day when we can all live in and around our own cbr communities, we must do the best we can with the existing communities such as they are. however, we can make them more to our liking by gradually restructuring them a little at a time, and beco

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ame with the sorrowful thought of losing all contact with a loved one was lessened by the assertion of a fellow tribesperson that he or she could still communicate with the spirit of the one who lay in the grave. among early humans, those individuals who claimed to be able to visit the place of the dead were known as shamans, and the messages that they relayed from the spirit world were sought by the elders regarding every major tribal decision. originally, the term shaman was applied to the spirit doctors and exorcists of the tungus of siberia, but in recent years the title has been applied as well to the medicine men and women of the various north american tribes who also serve as mediums, healers, and visionaries for their people. many tribal traditionalists still revere the wisdom that

e. the early churches included a time for the healing of its members within the formal service, a practice which many contemporary christian congregations still maintain, as a prayer for the sick if not as an actual time for the laying on of hands. the pattern for such a procedure within the church service was set forth in the epistle of james (5:14 16: is any one of you sick? he should call upon the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the lord. and the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the lord will raise him up. if he has sinned, he will be forgiven. therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. the prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. the may 1, 2000, issue of ne

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eye. atlanteans, she stated, were the fourth root race. they evolved from lemurians after much of lemuria sank, and they lived on the edge of the continent in the northern atlantic. atlantis sank around 8,000 b.c.e, according to blavatsky, and its inhabitants fled to central asia. rudolf steiner (1861.1925, who founded anthroposophy, was another proponent of lemuria. other mystics have envisioned the elders of lemuria, known as the thirteenth school, who moved to an uninhabited plateau of central asia now called tibet before the catastrophe that wiped out their land. they established a library and a school of spiritual adepts known as the great white brotherhood. certain land masses on the planet are supposedly the last remains of lemuria, from pacific islands (fiji, hawaii, and easter isl

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h gate the seal of the east gate the seal of the south gate the seal of the west gate one type of mandal of calling another type the book of fifty names the book of fifty names of marduk, defeater of the ancient ones this is the book of marduk, begotten of our master enki, lord of magicians, who did defeat tiamat, known as kur, known as huwawa, in magick combat, who defeated the ancient ones that the elders may live and rule the earth. in the time before time, in the age before the heaven and the earth were put in their places, in the age when the ancient ones were rulers of all that existed and did not exist, there was nought but darkness. there was no moon. there was no sun. no planets were they, and no stars. no grain, no tree, no plant grew. the ancient ones were masters of spaces now

and the dead will rise and smell the incense! the urilia text the following is the text of urilia, the book of the worm. it contains the formulae by which the wreakers of havoc perform their rites. these are the prayers of the ensnarers, the liers-in-wait, the blind fiends of chaos, the most ancient evil. these incantations are said by the hidden priests and creatures of these powers, defeated by the elders and the seven powers, led by marduk, supported by enki and the whole host of igigi; defeaters of the old serpent, the ancient worm, tiamat, the abyss, also called kutulu the corpse-enki, yet who lies not dead, but dreaming; he whom secret priests, initiated into the black rites, whose names are writ forever in the book of chaos, can summon if they but know how. these words are not to be

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50:5 my father made me swear, saying, lo, i die: in my grave which i have digged for me in the land of canaan, there shalt thou bury me. now therefore let me go up, i pray thee, and bury my father, and i will come again. 50:6 and pharaoh said, go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear. 50:7 and joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of egypt, 50:8 and all the house of joseph, and his brethren, and his father s house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of goshen. 50:9 and there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company. 50:10 and they came to the threshingfloor of atad, which [is] beyond jord

m that i am: and he said, thus shalt thou say unto the children of israel, i am hath sent me unto you. 3:15 and god said moreover unto moses, thus shalt thou say unto the children of israel, the lord god of your fathers, the god of abraham, the god of isaac, and the god of jacob, hath sent me unto you: this [is] my name for ever, and this [is] my memorial unto all generations. 3:16 go, and gather the elders of israel together, and say unto them, the lord god of your fathers, the god of abraham, of isaac, and of jacob, appeared unto me, saying, i have surely visited you, and [seen] that which is done to you in egypt: 3:17 and i have said, i will bring you up out of the affliction of egypt unto the land of the canaanites, and the hittites, and the amorites, and the perizzites, and the hivite

to me, saying, i have surely visited you, and [seen] that which is done to you in egypt: 3:17 and i have said, i will bring you up out of the affliction of egypt unto the land of the canaanites, and the hittites, and the amorites, and the perizzites, and the hivites, and the jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey. 3:18 and they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of israel, unto the king of egypt, and ye shall say unto him, the lord god of the hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the lord our god. 3:19 and i am sure that the king of egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand. 3:20 and i will stretch out my hand, and smite egypt with all my wonders

him go: then she said, a bloody husband [thou art] because of the circumcision. page 33 exodus 4:27 and the lord said to aaron, go into the wilderness to meet moses. and he went, and met him in the mount of god, and kissed him. 4:28 and moses told aaron all the words of the lord who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him. 4:29 and moses and aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of israel: 4:30 and aaron spake all the words which the lord had spoken unto moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people. 4:31 and the people believed: and when they heard that the lord had visited the children of israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped. 5:1 and afterward moses and aaron went in, and told p

until the one and twentieth day of the month at even. 12:19 seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land. 12:20 ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread. 12:21 then moses called for all the elders of israel, and said unto them, draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover. 12:22 and ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip [it] in the blood that [is] in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that [is] in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. 12:23 for the lord will pass

he people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against moses, and said, wherefore [is] this [that] thou hast brought us up out of egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst? 17:4 and moses cried unto the lord, saying, what shall i do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me. 17:5 and the lord said unto moses, go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go. 17:6 behold, i will stand before thee there upon the rock in horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. and moses did so in the sight of the elders of israel. 17:7 and he called the name of the place massah, and meribah, because of the chiding

the lord, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the egyptians, and out of the hand of pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the egyptians. 18:11 now i know that the lord [is] greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly [he was] above them. 18:12 and jethro, moses father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for god: and aaron came, and all the elders of israel, to eat bread with moses father in law before god. 18:13 and it came to pass on the morrow, that moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by moses from the morning unto the evening. 18:14 and when moses father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, what [is] this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stan

re you on eagles wings, and brought you unto myself. 19:5 now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth [is] mine: 19:6 and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. these [are] the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of israel. 19:7 and moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the lord commanded him. 19:8 and all the people answered together, and said, all that the lord hath spoken we will do. and moses returned the words of the people unto the lord. 19:9 and the lord said unto moses, lo, i come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when i speak with thee, and believe thee for eve

r the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee. 23:32 thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. 23:33 they shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee. 24:1 and he said unto moses, come up unto the lord, thou, and aaron, nadab, and abihu, and seventy of the elders of israel; and worship ye afar off. 24:2 and moses alone shall come near the lord: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him. 24:3 and moses came and told the people all the words of the lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, all the words which the lord hath said will we do. 24:4 and moses wrote all the words of th

tar. 24:7 and he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, all that the lord hath said will we do, and be obedient. 24:8 and moses took the blood, and sprinkled [it] on the people, and said, behold the blood of the covenant, which the lord hath made with you concerning all these words. 24:9 then went up moses, and aaron, nadab, and abihu, and seventy of the elders of israel: 24:10 and they saw the god of israel: and [there was] under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in [his] clearness. 24:11 and upon the nobles of the children of israel he laid not his hand: also they saw god, and did eat and drink. 24:12 and the lord said unto moses, come up to me into the mount, and be there: and i will giv

f the children of israel he laid not his hand: also they saw god, and did eat and drink. 24:12 and the lord said unto moses, come up to me into the mount, and be there: and i will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which i have written; that thou mayest teach them. 24:13 and moses rose up, and his minister joshua: and moses went up into the mount of god. 24:14 and he said unto the elders, tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, aaron page 45 exodus and hur [are] with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them. 24:15 and moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount. 24:16 and the glory of the lord abode upon mount sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto moses out of the midst

through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done [somewhat against] any of the commandments of the lord [concerning things] which should not be done, and are guilty; 4:14 when the sin, which they have sinned against it, is known, then the congregation shall offer a young bullock for the sin, and bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation. 4:15 and the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the lord: and the bullock shall be killed before the lord. 4:16 and the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock s blood to the tabernacle of the congregation: 4:17 and the priest shall dip his finger [in some] of the blood, and sprinkle [it] seven times before the lord [even] before the vail. 4:18 a

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he art itself is none other quam naturalis philosophi absoluta consummatio, then the absolute perfection of natural philosophy. nevertheless there is a mixture in all things, good with evil, of falsehood with truth, of corruption with purity. the good, the truth, the purity, in every kinde, may well be embraced: as in the ancient worshipping of god by sacrifice, there was no man knowing god among the elders, that did not forbear to worship the god of all power, or condemn that kinde of worship, because the devil was so adored in the image of baal, dagon, astaroth, chemosh, jupiter, apollo, and the like. neither did the abuse of astrology terrify abraham (if we believe the most ancient and religious writers) from observing the motions and natures of the heavenly bodies. neither can it dehor

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ive in stone huts. at the end of the steep and winding road, at the crest of the mountain, rises a city of white stone walls. the sun-gilded clouds press close to its sides, so that at times the city almost appears to rise from the clouds themselves. it inhabitants are a cultured race of artists, athletes, and philosophers. excellence of both mind and body is universally prized. even the faces of the elders glow with good health. the goddess who rules the city as its queen is a slender yet athletic woman with long blonde hair held in place beneath a golden tiara, dressed in a white gown that resembles the style of ancient greece. she speaks with a clear, melodic voice. 250 soul flight 9. hagalaz literal meaning: hail general sense: destruction, violence, loss, deprivation, disaster, wrath

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ad each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, holy, holy, holy, lord god almighty, which was, and is, and is to come (rev. 4:2-8) in this text, the manifest and occult permutations of tetragrammaton appear in the form of the twenty-four elders seated about the throne of christ, but also as the twenty-four wings of the four beasts. the elders are the actual banners of the name. they must be seated in pairs, because every banner has two forms that appear the same but are distinguished by the placement of the first h and second h. these two sets of banners correspond to the twelve hours of the day and the twelve hours of the night. each beast has three pairs of wings. each pair represents the two angels associated with a parti

tar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall be four horns. and the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof (ezek. 43: 15-6. a square is presumably also the shape of the great white throne of god, which seems to be supported upon, or composed of, the four beasts (rev. 4:6. around the heavenly throne are the twenty-four lesser thrones of the elders, who represent karma, or cause and effect in time, at the most fundamental level. these seats are probably arranged in opposite crescents of six, one circle of twelve above a second circle of twelve, with the upper and lower elders forming pairs that represent the hours of the day and the equivalent hours of the night. for a justification of this division of the seats of the elders, see

ols the working of its corresponding wing of the winds. these angels are exalted in nature, as is proved by their placement around the very throne of god (rev. 4:6-8. they must be ruled by an even higher nature. the only beings possessed of a more holy nature than the wings of the winds are the twentyfour seated elders with their white robes and crowns of gold, and the seven fiery spirits of god. the elders are the banners of tetragrammaton, and the fiery spirits are the seven traditional planets. these planets are divided into two sects ruled by the sun and the moon. the sect of the sun contains jupiter, saturn, and mercury. the sect of the moon contains mars, venus, and mercury. there is another ancient division of the planets in astrology that assigns them under the sun and moon to the

an a voice of wind? the notes of a trumpet are indeed framed within the depths of the jaws of the musician who plays them, in this case, christ himself. the "burning flames" would seem to be the active powers that drive the vital breath through these articulating instruments, giving rise to words of power that command the wings of the winds. in a sense, the trumpets, which represent the voices of the elders and are all their power, create the wings from chaos by shaping them and giving them names. the wings only exist by virtue of the articulation of the ancient ones. similarly, the twentyfour elders, who are the notes of the trumpets, only exist by virtue of the invisible breath of god "you are become a building, such as is not, but in the mind of the all-powerful" here "building" signifi

twelve thousand of those who are blessed are chosen from each of the twelve tribes. therefore, it is evident that they are sealed with the twelve banners of tetragrammaton, one banner for each of the tribes. as these chosen ones stand before the throne, divine harpers begin to sing and play: 204 tetragrammaton and they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. these are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. these are they which follow the lamb whithersoever he goeth. these were redeemed from among men, being the first fruits unto god and to the lamb (rev. 14:3-4) although it is very dangerous to attach spe

embrance is given power" the remembrance referred to is the recitation of the qualities of the spirits of the east. power is given over these spirits to the magician who can correctly define their characteristics, because in the remembrance of the spirits, the spirits are born anew into the universe. the eighth key the midday, the first, is as the third heaven made of hyacinth pillars 26, in whom the elders are become strong; which i have prepared for my own righteousness, saith the lord; whose long continuance shall be appendix a: the keys as bucklers to the stooping dragon, and like unto the harvest of a widow. how many are there which remain in the glory of the earth, which are, and shall not see death, until this house fall and the dragon sink! come away, for the thunders have spoken;

beautiful youth accidentally killed by apollo. some of hyacinthus' blood dripped onto the ground, and from the spot sprang up a purple flower with the greek letters ai, a1 (woe, woe) written on its petals. the pillars suggest a house of god, or temple, and both these images occur later in the key. they are said to be 26, which may signify two parallel rows of six pillars each. within this house, the elders "are become strong" the "long continuance" of the pillars that support the vault of heaven in the south (for this is the image they evoke) makes them bucklers, or shields, against the "stooping dragon" some versions of the key give "stooping dragons" here, but the singular seems more applicable, since only a single dragon is mentioned later in the key. the dragon is the symbol of chaos

hen the masculine aspect of the female principle may be regarded as dominating or conquering, while the feminine aspect of the female principle may be looked upon as dispensing equitable judgments. neither aspect of the fifth sephirah can be called merciful, since mercy belongs on the right side of the tree, but the din aspect is just while the geburah aspect is wrathful. the strong connection of the elders with time is emphasized. they sit upon their seats "vexing all creatures of the earth with age" in the enochian transcripts, it is emphasized by the angels that god exists outside of time. one of the angels, who is not named, says to kelley "the effect of god his will is not of time; and therefore not to be known of man, till that moment and end of time shall appear, wherein it must be

f the earth with age" in the enochian transcripts, it is emphasized by the angels that god exists outside of time. one of the angels, who is not named, says to kelley "the effect of god his will is not of time; and therefore not to be known of man, till that moment and end of time shall appear, wherein it must be published, and finished with power (casaubon, p. 58. time begins and is regulated by the elders, which in fact is precisely why they are said to be old. appendix a: the keys 223 this connection previously appears in the third key, where the banners of god are visually represented as a clock face. that the "12 kingdoms" of the third key are the same group of elders as the twenty-four "sons of fury, the daughters of the just" seems incomprehensible, unless we realize that the banner

of twenty-four hours. this dichotomy is nicely illustrated by the existence of two types of clock, those that run on a twelvehour cycle, and those that run on a twenty-four-hour cycle. it is also found expressed in the great clock in the piazza san marco in venice (see the description in the analysis of the third key. how can we be sure that the enochian angels intended that dee should understand the elders of the apocalypse to be both twelve and at the same time twenty-four in number? we know this from the vision of the heavenly throne received by kelley in the crystal: now i see all those men, whose feet i saw before: and there sitteth one in a judgement seat, with all his teeth fiery. and there sit six, on one side of him, and six on the other. and there sit twelve in a lower seat under

ose feet i saw before: and there sitteth one in a judgement seat, with all his teeth fiery. and there sit six, on one side of him, and six on the other. and there sit twelve in a lower seat under them (a due& faithful relation, p. 61) this vision, received by kelley on january 13, 1584, before he received the enochian keys or the watchtowers of the great table, is vital to a true understanding of the elders, who are the same as the banners of the name. the four beasts represent the individual letters of the name. they are described as both surrounding, and yet a part of, the heavenly throne. this means they lie outside of time, even as christ is timeless. the elders, or banners, are the first beginning of time. this, by the way, is why god acts in the world through messengers or agents, ca

first beginning of time. this, by the way, is why god acts in the world through messengers or agents, called angels. the world exists in time. god exists, or is, outside of time. it is necessary to use an intermediary to bridge this gulf, and this link between time and timelessness is the banners, called "elders" by st. john to indicate their primacy and lordship over time. notice the division of the elders in kelley's vision. six elders sit on one side of the throne and six on the other side. it is not stated what pattern their seats form, but from the circle and sickle imagery in the third key, we might guess that they are arranged in two crescents enclosing the throne. 224 tetragrammaton on the right side of christ would be the crescent of seats comprising the banners of the first half

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