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rce. it can also can mean temptation in the area of materiality. in some means it can represent that somebody is coveting your possessions or that you are coveting theirs. it can also mean obsession. devil -reversed something is going to happen, something is going to come up, but it will not be for the good, it will be for evil. tower fighting, war, power, courage and ambition. this is similar to the emperor in nature, however a lot more destructive. tower -reversed ruin, fall, danger, destruction. star this generally means hope and a bright future, positive thoughts, giving and abundance. 106 star -reversed disappointment, expectations are not being met, a lack of abundance and barreness. moon a very deceptive card, illusion, lying trickery, hidden enemies. moon -reversed deception, but o

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

y) used in the sense of minne, and in a servian song (vuk, 1 no. 94) wine is drunk' za slave bozhye' to the glory of god. in the finnish mythology is mentioned an ukkon malja, bowl of ukko; malja= swed. skal, strictly scutella, potatio in memoriam vel sanitatem. minne-drinking. 63 now that suevic cnpa filled with beer (p. 75) was a hallowed sacrificial cauldron, like that which the cimbri sent to the emperor augustus^ of the scythian cauldron we have already spoken, p. 75; and we know what part the cauldron plays in the hymisqvisa and at the god's judgment on the seizure of the cauldron (by thor from giant hymir. nor ought we to overlook the on. proper names ashctill, thorhctill (abbrev. thorkel) as. oscytcl (kemble 2, 302; they point to kettles consecrated to the as and to tlior. our know

elubrum (diut. 1^ as the vulgar took eoman fortifications for devil's dikes, it was natural to associate with roman castella the notion of idolatry. eupertus tuitiensis (t 1135) in his account of the fire of 1128 that levelled such a castcllum at deuz, which had been adapted to christian worship, informs us that some thought it was built by julius caesar, others by constantius and constantine. in the emperor otto's time, st. mary appears by night to archbishop heribert' surge, et tuitiense castrum petens, locum in eodem mundari praecipe, ibique monastcrium deo mihique et omnibus sanctis constitue, ut, ubi quondam habitavit peccatiun et cultus daemoniivi, ibi jnstitia regnet et memoria sanctorum' with more of the like, in the vita heriberti cap. 15. conf. the fanum ut cologne above, p. 81

n king and hero' frogcrus, ut quidam ferunt, otliino patre natus' to whom the gods gave to be invincible in fight, unless his adversary could grasp the dust from 1 ohg. wuotufjoz (zeitschr. f. d. alt. 1, utt, conf. wiietclii above, p. 132, and w'odel-beer, p. 156 (see siippl- in boetli; 8, 1 aganieinnon is stj-lcd casore, ami ulysses cyning [in the pref, ranlgot, ealleric, tlieodric are cyningas, the emperor always ca^ere; in a doc. in kenible 2, 304 eadred is 'cyning and casere "368 heroes. under liis feet/ wliicli the danish king frotho by fraufl contrived to do. can this froger be the as. freofsegcir, frecegar in the wessex genealogy, who had brond for father, ba^klrcg for grandfather, woden for great-grandfather? the on. table of lineage seems to mix up friosegar with frosi, his advers

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

. you may include a thimble to symbolise domestic affairs, a tiny padlock for security at home, a wooden toy boat for travel, a silver locket for fidelity, a key charm for a house, tiny painted wooden eggs for fertility in any venture- just to suggest a few. you can also use small fabric dolls to represent people, for example in a love spell. tarot cards also provide excellent symbols for magick: the emperor for power, the empress for fertility, the ten of pentacles for prosperity, the lovers for romance, the world or the eight of wands for travel, temperance for harmony, justice for matters of law, etc. even if you do not use tarot cards for divination, a brilliantly illustrated pack, such as the rider waite or the morgan greer, will by their pictures suggest all kinds of images for your

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m the jew on the various professors of the art which none may name in the course of his wanderings and travels; the account of the many wonders he worked; and, above all, the careful classification of the magical experiments in the third book, together with his observations and advice thereon. not least in interest are the many notable persons of that age for or against whom he performed marvels: the emperor sigismund of germany: count frederic the quarreller: the bishop of his city (probably either john i, who began the foundation of the w rzburg university in 1403 with the authorisation of pope boniface ix, or else echter von mespelbrunn, who completed the same noble work: the count of warwick: henry vi. of england: the rival popes john xxiii, martin v, gregory xii, and benedict xiii: th

ich is at the basis of all, and which could not be entirely true, were it not free from sect. 30 d embrasser le parti d abramelin. 31 probably meaning household. 32 as this ms. bears the date of 1458, abraham must have been born in 1362, and was consequently 47 years old in 1409. 33 sigismond, emperor of germany,was born the 14th february, 1368, and died at znatm on the 9th december, 1437. son of the emperor charles iv. and of anne of silesia, he received an excellent education. at ten years of age his father gave him the margravate of brandenburg, and two years later he was betrothed to mary, the daughter of louis the great of hungary, whom he afterwards married. he was nominated by his father-in-law his successor on the throne of poland. but the nobles preferred ladislaus, the nephew of

apolitan; gregory xii (ange conrario, a venetian; and benedict xiii (pierre de lune, a spaniard. the death of josse, and the resignation of wenceslaus, left sigismond sole master of the empire. after having received the silver crown at aix-la-chapelle in 1414, he went to preside at the council of constance, where john huss was condemned, notwithstanding the safe conduct which he had obtained from the emperor. he endeavoured to end the differences between the roman and greek churches, visited france and england under pretext of reconciling charles vi. and henry v, but, as some say, in order to form a league with the latter against france, so as to recover the ancient kingdom of arles. the death of his brother, wenceslaus, in 1409, rendered him master of boheinia, at the moment when the revo

years as king of hungary. his second wife, barbe, has been called by some, the messalina of germany. 34 frederick i, surnamed the quarreller, duke and elector of saxony, was born at altenburg in 1369, and died in 1428. he was son of the landgrave and margrave frederick the severe, and of catherine, countess of hermeberg. at only four years of age, frederick had been betrothed to anne, daughter of the emperor charles iv, later on he had serious disputes concerning this matter with the emperor wenceslaus (the brother of anne, who had disposed of her hand to another, but who ultimately consented, in 1397, to pay frederick a considerable sum by way of damages. in 1388 he fought as ally of the burgrave of nuremberg in the war of the german towns; and gained his knightly spurs in 1391, in the wa

tonic knights, waged against the lithuanians. next, he fought against wenceslaus. he married catherine of brunswick in 1402, and after various wars and quarrels, the university of leipzig was founded in 1409. the indefatigable activity which this prince displayed from 1420 against the movements of the hussites, who were directly menacing his possessions, pointed him out as a valuable auxiliary to the emperor sigismond, who was then in a very critical position. in order to assure himself definitely of the alliance of frederick the quarreller, the emperor conferred upon him the electorate and duchy of saxony; but the former could not long enjoy his new found dignities in peace, for the emperor shifted the whole weight of the war with the hussites on to his shoulders. as the other german prin

n by internal dissension. he promised at first to renounce the pontificate, if on their side gregory xii. and benedict xiii. would abandon their claims. however, he mounted the papal throne, and declared for the side of louis d anjou in the war between the latter and ladislaus regarding the throne of naples. at length, after the taking of rome by ladislaus, he was forced to implore the support of the emperor sigismond. the latter consented to grant him his protection, but on the sole condition of the convocation of the council of constance. after much hesitation, and after having taken every possible precaution to ensure his personal safety, john xxiii. consented to the assembling of the council, which he opened 7th november, 1414. being then summoned to lay aside the papal mitre, he judge

ng then summoned to lay aside the papal mitre, he judged it prudent to consent; but a few days later, he succeeded in escaping in disguise, during a tournament given by the duke of austria. he retired to lauffembourg, and protested against the abdication, which he declared to have been obtained from him by force. the council was for a moment struck with fear and consternation, but the firmness of the emperor sigismond, coupled with the effect of the declaration of j. gerson that the general councils had higher authority than the papacy, prevailed. john xxiii. was summoned to appear before the council, but refused; and soon after, being abandoned by the duke of austria, who was too weak to resist the power of the emperor, he was arrested at fribourg, and conducted to rudolfcell. on the 29th

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are to be understood as commencing always from the first nocturnal star, and not otherwise (30) keep as an indubitable precept never to give this operation unto a monarch,111 because solomon was the first who abused it; and if you should do the contrary, both you and your successors would alike lose the grace hereof. the sacred magic 92 with regard to this command, i myself having been sought by the emperor sigismond, gave him willingly the best familiar spirit which i had; but i steadily refused to give him the operation; and it should not be given unto emperors, kings, or other sovereigns (31) you may assuredly give, but it is not permissible to sell, this (operation, for this would be to abuse the grace of the lord who hath given it unto you, and should you act contrariwise unto this

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st; and thou shalt carry out all that we have said hereon in the second book. but on no account should we perform this operation to divert ourselves, nor for every class of person; but only on occasions of the very utmost and most absolute necessity. this operation i myself have performed but twice in my life, namely once for the duke of saxonia, and on another occasion in the case of a lady whom the emperor sigismond loved passionately. the familiar spirits are very prompt, and they are able to execute in most minute detail all matters of a mechanical nature, with the which therefore it is well to occupy them; as in historical painting; in making statues; clocks; weapons; and other like matters; also in chemistry; and in causing them to carry out commercial and business transactions under

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

s] editorial note: the atus of thoth liber al, cap. i, v. 57 includes the statement: all these old letters of my book are aright: but x is not the star. this also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise. in crowley s new comment on this verse, he observes: i see no harm in revealing the mystery of tzaddi to the wise; others will hardly understand my explanations. tzaddi is the letter of the emperor, the trump iv, and he is the star, the trump xvii. aquarius and aries are therefore counterchanged, revolving on the pivot of pisces, just as, in the trumps viii and xi, leo and libra do about virgo. this last revelation makes our tarot attributions sublimely, perfectly, flawlessly symmetrical. the fact of its so doing is a most convincing proof of the superhuman wisdom of the author o

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

of water, the square with the left and right sides referred to fire is attributed to the knight of cups. 17: each square is additionally referred to one of the 16 figures of geomancy, and to one of the signs or elements (saturn replacing earth as per the dual attribution of the path of tau, and thence to the hebrew letter and tarot card corresponding: thus row column attributions fire a puer h iv the emperor water d populus j vii the chariot air g puella l viii justice fire (cardinal signs) earth j carcer u xv the devil fire e fortuna minor f xi strength water h rubeus n xiii death air k tristesia x xvii the star water (fixed signs) earth b amissio w v the hierophant fire i acquisitio s xiv temperence water l laetitia q xviii the moon air c albus z vi the lovers air (mutable signs) earth f

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

type of male. in the number nine we reach the last of the purely mental qualities. it identifies change with stability. pendant to this sixfold system is the number ten< the balance of the sephiroth: kether (1 "kether is in malkuth, and malkuth is in kether, but after another manner" chokmah (2) is yod of tetragrammaton, and therefore also unity. binah (3) is he of tetragrammaton, and therefore "the emperor" chesed (4) is daleth, venus the female. geburah (5) is the sephira of mars, the male. tiphereth (6) is the hexagram, harmonizing, and mediating between kether and malkuth. also it reflects kether "that which is above, is like that which is below, and that which is below, is like that which is above" netzach (7) and hod (8) balanced as in text. jesod (9) see text. malkuth (10) contains

rimson: 4 :the 4 fours :deep violet: 5 :the 4 fives :orange: 6 :the 4 sixes- emperors or princes :clear pink rose: 7 :the 4 sevens :amber: 8 :the 4 eights :violet purple: 9 :the 4 nines :indigo: 10 :the 4 tens- empresses or :yellow: princesses :11 :the fool (swords) emperors or :bright pale yellow: princes: 12 :the juggler :yellow: 13 :the high priestess :blue: 14 :the empress :emerald green: 15 :the emperor :scarlet: 16 :the hierophant :red orange: 17 :the lovers :orange: 18 :the chariot :amber: 19 :strength :yellow, greenish: 20 :hermit :green yellowish: 21 :wheel of fortune :violet: 22 :justice :emerald green :23 :the hanged man (cups) queens :deep blue: 24 :death :green blue: 25 :temperance :blue: 26 :the devil :indigo: 27 :the house of god :scarlet: 28 :the star :violet: 29 :the moon

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

ve driven a camel until he was thirty-five years old if he had possessed any talent or ambition. st. paul had much original talent; but he is the least of the five. nor do they seem to have possessed any of the usual materials of power, such as rank, fortune, or influence. moses was rather a big man in egypt when he left; he came back as a mere stranger. 8 christ had not been to china and married the emperor's daughter. mohammed had not been acquiring wealth and drilling soldiers. buddha had not been consolidating any religious organizations. st. paul had not been intriguing with an ambitious general. each came back poor; each came back alone. what was the nature of their power? what happened to them in their absence? history will not help us to solve the problem, for history is silent. we

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

right orbit; all heaven acclaimeth thee as thou goest, transcendental in joy and in splendour; and thy light is as a beacon to them that wander afar, strayed in the night. amoun" the "old comment" covers the rest of this verse sufficiently for the present purpose. i see no harm in revealing the mystery of tzaddi to 'the wise; others will hardly understand my explanations. tzaddi is the letter of the emperor, the trump iv, and he is the star, the trump xvii. aquarius and aries are therefore counterchanged, revolving on the pivot of pisces, just as, in the trumps viii and xi, leo and libra do about virgo. this last revelation makes our tarot attributions sublimely, perfectly, flawlessly symmetrical. the fact of its so doing is a most convincing proof of the superhuman wisdom of the author o

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

mother= binah= 3= ba= the father (1+ 2= mystic number of chokmah= chokmah= 2= b= the magus= i= 1. scholion. 9= the foundation of all things= the foundation of the alphabet= yod= 10= malkuth= kether= 1. scholion z. 9= ix= the hermit= yod= 10= x= the wheel of fortune= k= 20= xx= the last judgement= c= 300= 30= l= justice= viii= 8= j= the chariot= vii= 7= z= the lovers= vi= 6= w= the pope= v= 5= h= the emperor60= iv= 4= d= the empress= iii= 3= g= the high priestess= ii= 2= b= the magus= i= 1= a= the fool= 0. scholion h. 9= luna= g= 3, etc, as before. indigo scholion q. 9= lead= saturn= 3, etc, as before. there are many other lines of argument. this form of reasoning reminds one of the riddle. why is a story like a ghost? answer. a story s a tale; a tail s a brush; a brush is a broom; a broug

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

the teacher made him a master of sixfold chamber, and an ardent sufferer toward the blazing star. for the sword, said the teacher, is but the star unfurled.2 and our father being cunning to place aleph over tau read this reverse, and so beheld eden, even now and in the flesh. whence he sojourned far, and came to a great emperor, by whom he was well received, and from whom he gat great gifts. and the emperor (who is solomon) told him of sheba s land and of one fairest of women there enthroned. so he journeyed thither, and for four years and seven months abode with her as paramour and light-of-love, for she was gracious to him and showed him those things that the emperor had hidden; even the cubical stone and the cross beneath the triangle that were his and unrevealed. and on the third day

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

with pleasure, reached out his chubby hand for them, and began to write. by the time he was five years old that baby, scarce able to speak correctly, could write in the chinese character perfectly- that wonderful and complex script that takes an ordinary man ten to fifteen years to master- and this baby of five wrote it perfectly. this child's power was exhibited all over the country, and before the emperor of japan; and the question that arises is, how did all these children get their powers? surely, because 52 for them the last writing on the book of their minds was yet clear and legible; because in their last birth that one particular set of sankh ras was so powerful that its record could still be read. and thus we all have, here in our present brains,the faded records of all our inter

= ab= the father( 1+ 2) mystic number of chokmah= chokmah= 2= b= the magus= i= 1. scholion digamma. 9= the foundation of all things= the foundation of the alphabet= yod= 10= malkuth= kether= 1. scholion zeta. 9= ix= the hermit= yod= 10= x= the wheel of fortune= k= 20= xx= the last judgment= sh= 300= 30= l= justice= viii= 8= ch= the chariot= vii= 7= z= the lovers= vi= 6= v (vau= the pope= v= 5= h= the emperor= iv= 4= d= the empress= iii= 3= g= the high priestess= ii= 2= b= the magus= i= 1= a= the fool= 0. 107 scholion eta. 9= luna= g_ 3, etc, as before. indigo scholion theta. 9= saturn= 3, etc, as before. lead there are many other lines of argument. this form of reasoning reminds one of the riddle "why is a story like a ghost" answer "a story's a tale; a tail's a brush; a brush is a broom;

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2

hy light, o compassionate maid! soul of the master, o come to mine aid! make me the man of the marvellous mission! sharpen the sword of veridical vision! cut me the knot of the mighty magician! here i devote me (record me the vow) unto the terrible task of the tao. soul of the master, the writer be thou! bring me the tablets and stylus! have done! guard me the doors; they are open to none, not to the emperor! i have begun. 195 postcards to probationers theorems i. the world progresses by virtue of the appearance of christs (geniuses. ii. christs (geniuses) are men with super-consciousness of the highest order. iii. super-consciousnes of the highest order is obtainable by known methods. therefore, by employing the quintessence of known methods we cause the world to progress. essentials of m

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pired) by the spectacle of paul's statue which now stands on the triumphal pillar of marcus aurelius at rome" we have read of many crimes attributed to this unfortunate saint by modern freethinkers, but none equal to this. poor faustina! we can imagine any self-respecting girl taking to drink and the street to save herself from such an ethical prig of a husband as the phillpottian marcus. listen. the emperor is ousted by the saint, the statue of the latter being reared upon the pedestal of the former; this evidently annoyed the stoic, for we find his hero worming about in his shroud_ where paul evidently could not get at him_ and saying "sucks to you" or to quote "a man named paul now darkles where aforetimes they set me. keep thou my pillar, paul; i grudge it not, plebeian-hearted spirit"

egg of space! i deny thee by the powers of mine understanding; swathe me in the unity of thy might, and teach me wisdom from the lips of thine all-pervading nothingness; for thou art all and none of these in the fullness of thy not-being. 32 6. o thou god of the nothingness of all things! thou who art neither the fivefold root of nature; nor the fire-crested helm of her master: o thou who art not the emperor or eternal time; nor the warrior shout that rocketh the byss of space! i deny thee by the powers of mine understanding; raise me in the unity of thy might, and suckle me at the swol'n breasts of thine all-pervading nothingness; for thou art all and none of these in the fullness of thy not-being. 7. o thou god of the nothingness of all things! thou who art neither the golden bull of the

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3

nine stars and the circling sun" not theirs to wander lost and lone, adream by mountain lake, and sea; not theirs to bear a face of stone away from human mystery: they pondered o'er the runes of time, they slew the serpent of the slime. the brutish brain, the nervous hands, the conscious power of thew and mind; the agony of burning sands, the blithe salt breezes blowing blind_ the birth-pangs of the emperor thought, of earth and pain the wonder-wrought. they hurled them blindly on the breast of foaming hate, of wild desire: 115 from time they held the old bequest, the passioned pangs, the flash of fire_ not through the gods they dreamed of ran the stream that fired the veins of man. they stanched the gaping wound with turf, with water slaked the burning maw; rolling within the boiling sur

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

it was written in the neo-hebraic language, like the mishna. the "zohar" or" sohar" spelled in hebrew zhr or zuhr "the book of splendour" or of "light" is a collection of many separate treatises on the deity, angels, souls and cosmogony. its authorship is ascribed to rabbi simon ben jochai, who lived a.d. 160; he was persecuted and driven to live in a cave by lucius aurelius verus, co-regent with the emperor marcus aurelius antoninus. some considerable portion of the work may have been arranged by him from the oral traditions of his time: but other parts have certainly been added by other hands at intervals up to the time when it was first published as a whole by rabbi moses de leon, of guadalajara in spain, circa 1290. from that time its history is known; printed editions have been issued

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

n him, wasasked what he thought of it? and he replied: it seems to me to be impossible to tell whether it was all introduction or all conclusion; certainlythere was no body in it. it was like certain fish of whom one is in doubt whether they are all head orall tail, or only head and tail; or the goddess laverna, of whom no one ever knew whether she wasall head or all body, or neither or both.then the emperor inquired who this deity might be, for he had never heard of her.and virgil replied: among the gods or spirits who were of ancient times may they be ever favourable to us! amongthem (was) one female who was the craftiest and most knavish of them all. she was called laverna.she was a thief, and very little known to the other deities, who were honest and dignified, for shewas rarely in he

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

he is the golden-coloured mercury, the[[chrusophaes hermes] whom the hierophants forbade to name. he is symbolised in grecian mythology by one of the dogs (vigilance, which watch over the celestial flock (occult wisdom, or hermes anubis, or again agathodaemon. he is the argus watching over the earth, and which the latter mistakes for the sun itself. it is through the intercession of mercury that the emperor julian prayed to the occult sun every night; for, as says vossius "all the theologians agree to say that mercury and the sun are one. he was the most eloquent and the most wise of all the gods, which is not to be wondered at, since mercury is in such close proximity to the wisdom and the word of god (the sun) that he was confused with both (idolatry, vol. ii, p. 373) vossius utters her

y? each separate people has given a different explanation, according to the peculiar tenets of their (exoteric) religion. that it was the number of numbers for those initiated into the sacred mysteries, there can be no doubt. pythagoras. calls it the 'vehicle of life' containing body and soul, since it is formed of a quaternary, that is wisdom and intellect, and of a trinity or action and matter. the emperor julian 'in matrem, etc' expresses himself thus 'were i to touch upon the initiation into our sacred mysteries, which the chaldees bacchized, respecting the seven-rayed god, lighting up the soul through him, i should say things unknown to the rabble, very unknown, but well known to the blessed theurgists (p. 141. and who, acquainted with the puranas, the book of the dead, the zendavesta

earliest akkadians all things are emanations through, not by, a creator or logos. with the semites everything is begotten[[footnote(s* whence the identity of the ideas? the chinese have the same traditions. according to the commentator kwoh p'oh, in the work called shan-hai-king "wonders by sea and land" a work which was written by the historiographer chung ku from engravings on nine urns made by the emperor yu (b.c. 2255, an interview is mentioned with men having two distinct faces on their heads, before and behind, monsters with bodies of goats and human faces, etc. gould, in his "mythical monsters" p. 27, giving the names of some authors on natural history, mentions shan-hai-king. according to kwoh p'oh (a.d. 276-324) this work was compiled three thousand years before his time, or at se

of some authors on natural history, mentions shan-hai-king. according to kwoh p'oh (a.d. 276-324) this work was compiled three thousand years before his time, or at seven dynasties distance. yang sun of the ming dynasty (commencing a.d. 1368) states that it was compiled by kung chia and chung ku (as stated above. chung ku at the time of the last emperor of the hia dynasty, b.c. 1818, fearing that the emperor might destroy the books treating of the ancient time, carried them in his flight to yin (see "mythical monsters" by c. gould, p. 27[[vol. 2, page] 55 unaided physical nature fails. 6. the water-men terrible and bad she herself created. from the remains of others (from the mineral, vegetable and animal remains) from the first, second, and third (rounds) she formed them. the dhyani came

elf. this is, then, the organ which gave rise to so many legends and traditions, among others to that of man with one head but two faces. these may be found in several chinese works, besides being referred to in the[[vol. 2, page] 302 the secret doctrine. chaldean fragments. apart from the work already cited- the shan hai king, compiled by king chia from engravings on nine urns made 2,255 b.c, by the emperor yu, they may be found in another work, called the "bamboo books" and in a third one, the "rh ya "initiated according to tradition by chow kung, uncle of wu wang, the first emperor of the chow dynasty, b.c, 1,122- says mr. ch. gould in his "mythical monsters" the bamboo books contain the ancient annals of china, found a.d. 279 at the opening of the grave of king seang of wai, who died b

get the brazen serpent of moses, and even the implied acknowledgment of the great wisdom and prudence of the serpent by jesus himself "be ye wise as serpents and harmless as doves" the chinese, one of the oldest nations of our fifth race, made of it the emblem of their emperors, who are thus the degenerate successors of the "serpents" or initiates, who ruled the early races of the fifth humanity. the emperor's throne is the "dragon's seat" and his dresses of state are embroidered with the likeness of the[[vol. 2, page] 365 the various noahs. dragon. the aphorisms in the oldest books of china, moreover, say plainly that the "dragon" is a human, albeit divine, being. speaking of the "yellow dragon" the chief of the others, the twan-ying-t'u, says "his wisdom and virtue are unfathomable. he d

. to the western kabalist, and now far more to the superficial symbologist, nursed in the lethal atmosphere of materialistic science, there is but one chief explanation of the mysteries of the cross- its sexual element. even the otherwise spiritualistic modern commentator discerns in the cross and swastica, this feature before all others[[footnote(s* so it was, and could not be otherwise. julian (the emperor) was an initiate, and as such knew well the "mysterymeaning" both metaphysical and physical[[vol. 2, page] 588 the secret doctrine "the cross was used in egypt as a protecting talisman and a symbol of saving power. typhon, or satan, is actually found chained and bound to the cross. in the ritual, the osirian cries 'the apophis is overthrown, their cords bind the south, north, east, and

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

discovery and comprehension of some of the mysteries of the secret science, was, owing to the combined efforts of the members of the brotherhoods, diligently searched for. it is added, moreover, by those who know, that once found, save three copies left and stored safely away, such works were all destroyed. in india, the last of the precious manuscripts were secured and hidden during the reign of the emperor akbar* it is maintained, furthermore, that every sacred book of that kind, whose text was not sufficiently veiled in symbolism, or which had any[[footnote(s* prof. max muller shows that no bribes or threats of akbar could extort from the brahmans the original text of the veda; and boasts that european orientalists have it (lecture on the "science of religion" p. 23. whether europe has

y doubtful, and the future may have very disagreeable surprises in store for the orientalists[[vol. 1, page] xxiv introductory. direct references to the ancient mysteries, after having been carefully copied in cryptographic characters, such as to defy the art of the best and cleverest palaeographer, was also destroyed to the last copy. during akbar's reign, some fanatical courtiers, displeased at the emperor's sinful prying into the religions of the infidels, themselves helped the brahmans to conceal their mss. such was badaoni, who had an undisguised horror for akbar's mania for idolatrous religions* moreover in all the large and wealthy lamasaries, there are subterranean crypts and cave-libraries, cut in the rock, whenever the gonpa and the lhakhang are situated in the mountains. beyond

se 76,000, five or six thousand treatises might have been destroyed during the persecutions in, and emigrations from, india. but as it is well ascertained that buddhist arhats began their religious exodus, for the purpose of propagating the new faith beyond kashmir and the himalayas, as early as the year 300 before our era* and reached china in the year 61 a.d* when kashyapa, at the invitation of the emperor ming-ti, went there to acquaint the "son of heaven" with the tenets of buddhism, it does seem strange to hear the orientalists speaking of such a loss as though it were really possible. they do not seem to allow for one moment the possibility that the texts may be lost only for west and for themselves; or, that the asiatic people should have the unparalleled boldness to keep their most

is now almost the only one to produce students who have preserved sufficient knowledge to comprehend the[[footnote(s* also called "the sons of wisdom" and of the "fire-mist" and the "brothers of the sun" in the chinese records. si-dzang (tibet) is mentioned in the mss. of the sacred library of the province of fo-kien, as the great seat of occult learning from time immemorial, ages before buddha. the emperor yu, the "great (2,207 years b.c, a pious mystic and great adept, is said to have obtained his knowledge from the "great teachers of the snowy range" in si-dzang[[vol. 1, page] 272 the secret doctrine. dead letter of the bhashyas. the reason of this is that they alone, i am informed, have occasionally real initiates at their head in their mathams, as for instance, in the "sringa-giri" i

justified in doing, becomes a crime, if successful, in simple mortals. sorcery and incantations are regarded as fables now; yet from the day of the institutes of justinian down to the laws against witchcraft of england and america- obsolete but not repealed to this day- such incantations, even when only suspected, were punished as criminal. why punish a chimera? and still we read of constantine, the emperor, sentencing to death the philosopher sopatrus for unchaining the winds, and thus preventing ships loaded with grain from arriving in time to put an end to famine. pausanias, when affirming that he saw with his own eyes "men who by simple prayers and incantations" stopped a strong hail-storm, is derided. this does not prevent modern christian writers from advising prayer during storm an

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the centre one in four flames: thus yielding ten: the number of the sephiroth. two-and-twenty leaping flames, or yodh, surround it, answering to the paths; of these, three fall below the right branch for aleph, men, and shin, seven above the central branch for the double 59 the high priestess the priestess of the silver star gimel moon 60 the empress the daughter of the mighty ones dalet venus 61 the emperor sun of the morning, chief among the mighty heh aries 62 the hierophant the magus of the eternal vau taurus 63 the lovers the children of the voice; the oracles of the mighty gods zain gemini 64 the chariot the child of the powers of the waters; the lord of the triumph of light chet cancer 65 fortitude the daughter of the flaming sword tet leo 66 the hermit the magus of the voice of pow

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force by means of which man transforms his environment, and hence it is essentially destructive in its effects upon existing conditions, for it destroys the old to build the new "in this connection observe that scorpio is the house of mars by night, in contrast to aries which mars rules by day. in the tarot, nun corresponds to death, while heh, the letter corresponding to aries, is attributed to the emperor. death is the ruler of form, and the world of formation, as the emperor is the ruler of the creative world. that is to say, all forms must change, and what changes them is imagination "the universal imagination performs the greater transformations, but the imagination of man is no different, save in degree. in fact, the imagination of man is the universal imagination at work in a parti

ever with the kingdom [198] e p i l o g o s yet is all this naught but words. without the key supplied by the understanding heart. love is that key. love, not reason; for reason followeth after love, and when reason would enslave love, then is reason but a tyrant punishing itself with what it trieth in vain to enslave. love cometh first as thou mayest see in tarot, where the empress cometh before the emperor. without love reason is sterile, for love is the generatrix of true imagery. reason can arrange, reason can harvest; but the harvester weareth also the mask of death. so this thy body is the instrument whereon may be played the song of life. nay, it is more than this; for on this harp of ten thousand strings, the wind of the spirit moveth ever, and soundeth night and day the melodies a

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. you may include a thimble to symbolise domestic affairs, a tiny padlock for security at home, a wooden toy boat for travel, a silver locket for fidelity, a key charm for a house, tiny painted wooden eggs for fertility in any venture- just to suggest a few. you can also use small fabric dolls to represent people, for example in a love spell. tarot cards also provide excellent symbols for magick: the emperor for power, the empress for fertility, the ten of pentacles for prosperity, the lovers for romance, the world or the eight of wands for travel, temperance for harmony, justice for matters of law, etc. even if you do not use tarot cards for divination, a brilliantly illustrated pack, such as the rider waite or the morgan greer, will by their pictures suggest all kinds of images for your

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saac the blind. 1194-1270 nahmanides 1194-1256 ya aqob anatoli court doctor, alchemist, and translator for frederick ii c.1231; assistant of michael scotus, whom he frequently quotes in his work: goad of the disciples. a major link between jewish-muslim spain and ghibelline italy. it is evident that he shared in the philosophical and interconfessional climate atmosphere prevailing at the court of the emperor< 1200-1280 albertus magnus c.1200 albricus "liber ymaginum deorum [book of the images of the gods- codex vat. 3413. 1200-1271 hortulanus 1201-1259 bartholomaeus anglicus 1202 d. joachim of fiore "hic abbas floris caelestis gratiae roris, here lies the abbot of the flower of the dew of heavenly grace" 1204-5 influential pseudo-joachim's 'de semi

en jeu des chartes pythagorique et la d claration de deux doutes qui se trouvent en comptant au jeu de paume, lesquelles connaissances ont t longtemps cach es par cy devant: mais depuis peu de jours sont retrouv es et expliqu es par i.j hearts/cups to air and spades/swords to fire> 1583-1628 johan daniel mylius 1583 dr john dee and his associate edward kelley in prague, in the company of the emperor rudolph ii (the son of maximilian ii. william schaw was appointed master of works for all royal building projects for king james vi (later to become james i of england. 1584-1653 johann valentin andreae 1584 edward kelley's vision of four castles john dee and edward kelley in cracow bruno's expulsion of the triumphant beast published. in london, alexander dickson the scottish disciple

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here it came from. i thought since we were not permitted to see the musicians, i should have been glad to view just all the instruments they were using. after half an hour this music ceased unexpectedly, and we could neither see or hear anything more. presently after, a great noise began before the door of the hall, with sounding and beating of trumpets, shalms and kettle-drums, as majestic as if the emperor of rome had been entering; whereupon the door opened by itself, and then the noise of the trumpets was so loud that we were hardly able to endure it. meanwhile (to my thinking) many thousand small tapers came into the hall, all of which themselves marched in so very exact an order as altogether amazed us, till at last the two aforementioned pages with bright torches entered the hall, l

blue taffeta. now as soon as we had come to the scaffold, the virgin bowed herself down to the ground, at which we were mightily terrified, for we could easily guess that the king and queen must not be far off. now we also having duly performed our reverence, the virgin led us up by the winding stairs into the second gallery, where she placed herself uppermost, and us in our former order. but how the emperor whom i had released behaved himself towards me, both at this time and also before at the table, i cannot well relate without slander of wicked tongues. for he might well have imagined in what anguish and solicitude he should now have been, in case he were at present to attend the judgement with such ignominy, and that only through me he had now attained such dignity and worthiness. mea

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housands of years. many of these stories were originally based on actual historical events and people; however, mythical elements were soon interwoven into the tales. like many other groups of people, the chinese used myths to explain their history. to make the task of separating myth from history even more difficult, many history books were burned in 213 b.c. by qinshihuangdi [chin shi wong dee, the emperor of the qin [chin] dynasty. in order to proclaim himself the first emperor of china, he ordered a massive burning of books concerning history, literature, and music. a hundred years later, confucian scholars attempted to reconstruct china s history from bits and pieces of the few surviving texts. these scholars did not hesitate to change existing myths or to discard information to suit

dson kun stole the magic earth and dropped little balls of dirt wherever he went. the dirtballs swelled into huge, fertile mounds of soil as they absorbed water. the peasants then scooped up the fertile soil and spread it over their sopping fields. kun also built dams to 53 control the flooding of the country s unpredictable rivers. unfortunately, the dams often burst and reflooded the land. when the emperor found out about the theft, he was furious and sent zurong the fire god, now the chief executioner, to track down and kill his grandson kun. zurong chased kun to the ice glaciers of the arctic and struck him dead with a flaming sword. kun s body lay trapped and frozen in the ice. chinese mythology 54 three years later, the yellow emperor sent zurong the fire god to check on his grandson

ork. secretly, the yellow emperor agreed that the world was a 55 yu rebuilds the earth big, muddy mess. none of his gods had any ideas about how to stop the raging rivers that flooded the country year after year. kun had tried to divert the rivers with dams but had failed. therefore, every spring, the rivers continued to burst their banks, drown innocent people, and destroy property. furthermore, the emperor was pleased that yu had asked for the magic earth, rather than attempt to steal it. at last, the emperor said to yu, pile the magic dirt on the back of this tortoise and go forth to control the floodwaters. with the help of this tortoise and a winged dragon, rebuild the world in your father s vision. yu was curious about the size and shape of the earth. therefore, before leaving the em

od was sent by the yellow emperor to check on his grandson kun s body, which lay frozen in the ice. when zurong hacked open the ice in which kun s body was buried he accidentally split kun s body in two. a huge dragon emerged, which became yu the great. q: how was yu successful in persuading the yellow emperor to allow him to repair the earth? a: yu asked for the magic earth and did not steal it. the emperor was already sorry that the earth had reflooded, but before yu, he did not have anyone who was capable of repairing it. q: what did yu do before he started his work? a: first, he sent gods to measure the earth. then he tried to figure out the natural course of the rivers so he would not have to fight against their natural routes to the sea. q: who were yu s companions and helpers? a: a

was never again able to persuade the lords and princes of his time to overlook his humble beginnings and judge his ideas on their own merit.1 confucius spent the rest of his life teaching and rewriting the classical literature of china. his followers kept his teachings alive after his death. in a.d. 59, more than four hundred years after his death, confucius was recognized as a heavenly being by the emperor of the han dynasty. emperors adopted his ideas about good government and built schools in his honor. this story introduces the unicorn, the chi-lin [chee leen, an animal sacred to the chinese. it does not 85 resemble the unicorn in european myths, but is a combination of many animals, including the deer, ox, dragon, and horse. a peaceful, timid animal, the chi-lin left the innocent alo

he goddess of mercy, to his home in india. she agreed with the buddha that the journey to fetch the scriptures was necessary. people on earth desperately needed more spiritual guidance. however, because she recognized that the road chinese mythology 112 between india and china was a dangerous one, kuan yin offered to travel it first, on foot, to map the route between the buddha s home in india to the emperor s palace in china. at the same time she could also assess and confront the types of dangers that human pilgrims might encounter along the way. the buddha agreed with kuan yin s plan. the sandy-haired monster, the pig, the dragon, and the monkey with an assistant, kuan yin recorded distances and the location of mountain paths along the road from india to the emperor s home in china. at

came across the very last mountain range, she found monkey encased in a stone box. five hundred years had passed since the buddha s challenge. monkey was sorry that he had been greedy and arrogant. like the others, he agreed to convert to buddhism and offered his help to worthy pilgrims. tripitaka finally, kuan yin reached the palace of the earthly chinese emperor. when she explained her mission, the emperor readily agreed to finance the journey to india. like the buddha and kuan yin, he was greatly concerned about the selfishness and greed of his people. if, as they hoped, the pilgrims were successful in their quest, the merit of the new religion could be proclaimed throughout the land. however, the emperor knew that wandering souls could easily be lost in the cold high mountains of the j

quest, the merit of the new religion could be proclaimed throughout the land. however, the emperor knew that wandering souls could easily be lost in the cold high mountains of the journey. tigers, panthers, and snakes lurked in every forest. stories of these fierce animals were terrifying, but people also trembled at tales of strange ghosts and spirits who could change their shapes at will. when the emperor asked for pilgrims, no one stepped forward. at last, a humble monk named san zang offered to fetch the scriptures. san zang s fellow monks from the monastery were astonished that such an unassuming man would volunteer for such a dangerous mission. they expressed their fears for his safety. the brave monk replied that a sincere heart and his sacred vow to fetch the scriptures would shie

rward. at last, a humble monk named san zang offered to fetch the scriptures. san zang s fellow monks from the monastery were astonished that such an unassuming man would volunteer for such a dangerous mission. they expressed their fears for his safety. the brave monk replied that a sincere heart and his sacred vow to fetch the scriptures would shield him from harm. like the buddha, kuan yin, and the emperor, the monk was concerned chinese mythology 114 about the lack of compassion he saw in his people. he hoped that the buddha s teachings would help the people learn new and better ways of living. the emperor was delighted that a brave pilgrim had at last been found. because the scriptures were called tripitaka in india, the emperor renamed the monk tripitaka. as tripitaka set out, the aut

d rule in heaven. q: what did the buddha do with monkey when he failed to jump across his palm, and why? a: the buddha sealed monkey inside a stone box and left him high on a mountaintop for five hundred years. he did this to teach monkey humility, and to give him time to meditate on his goals and priorities. q: why didn t the buddha simply give his scriptures to the people of china? a: he wanted the emperor and the people to earn them, so that they would appreciate the knowledge the scriptures contained. q: what plan did kuan yin propose to the buddha? a: she would walk the route first between the buddha's home in india and the chinese emperor s palace, and make a map. that way the pilgrims would have a tool to help them find their way from china to india. q: what evil characters did kuan

whom did kuan yin meet on the very last mountain range? a: she found monkey encased in his stone box. q: how would a successful pilgrimage help the spread of buddhism? a: people would see how powerful the new religion was if its pilgrims were able to survive their dangerous trip. q: who volunteered to fetch the scriptures? a: a humble monk named san zang stepped forward for the dangerous mission. the emperor renamed san zang tripitaka, after the indian name for the scriptures. q: why did the buddha, kuan yin, the emperor, and san zang agree to the dangerous trip? a: they knew that the people were greedy and selfish, and that they needed some new religious ideas and spiritual guidance. q: what happened to taoism when buddhism was introduced to china? a: the people of china were able to foll

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and with the darkening of my eye there has been a correspondent darkening of my vision. the cheerful prankster with just a touch of amorality has been replaced by an international terrorist (at least according to some folks) and i m certain that those who were shocked by my little drill joke now look upon my work with maximal disfavor. once jokingly called darth vader by my friends, i have become the emperor, an old, little man who longs for his comfy chair and the pleasures of the dark side of the force. in many ways doing this has been a bittersweet experience for me because it has forced me to remember a happier time and a world that might have been. so this volume is going to be a bit shorter than the first edition, because i have removed a lot of the cutesy stuff that the publishing w

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(high initiate) and the official astrologer to queen elizabeth i. he was also her unofficial secret agent, and signed his reports 007.6 in a diary entry written in prague in 1586, dee describes an encounter with a "little man" whose feet "seemed not to touch the ground by a foot height, who moved in a little fiery cloud" and who went up into the sky "in a great pillar of fire. in prague, dee gave the emperor rudolph an illustrated manuscript, written in code and claimed to be the work of roger bacon, the thirteenth century franciscan monk who upset the church authorities with his views and ideas. these included prophecies about the microscope, the telescope, the car, submarine, aeroplane, and the belief that the earth was a sphere. all of these facts would have been transmitted from the fo

r's london temple, the poet, william butler yeats, who would go on to win a nobel prize. yeat's view of utopia mirrored that of adolf hitler or josef stalin. the poet spoke of..an aristocratic civilisation in its most completed form, every detail of life hierarchical, every great man's door crowded at dawn by petitioners, great wealth everywhere in few men's hands, all dependent upon a few, up to the emperor himself, who is a god dependent upon a greater god and everywhere, in court, in the family, an inequality made law."3 remnants of the order of the golden dawn continue to this day, but the original version splintered after a row between yeats, mathers, and aleister crowley, which split the membership into quarrelling factions. other significant esoteric thinkers and groups which influe

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ich was part of the sumer empire of the aryan race. minoan place names have been found all over the mediterranean, from sicily to the syrian coast, including cyprus.17 the minoan culture was the immediate inspiration for the classic greek period and the alleged founder of the minoan dynasty was king minos, the hero of the later greeks. but king minos was in fact the same..menes, manj, manis, etc, the emperor of the sumerian empire and son of king sargon. as waddell says in egyptian civilisation and its sumer origin "the identity of minos with menes now becomes apparent, not only from the identity in their personal tradition, and the equation in their names, but also in the essentials of their culture and civilisation; and the sumerian sign for the man element in menes' name in the egyptian

inese tale about the dragon kings also makes a clear reference to shapeshifting. this is the most amazing aspect of this bizarre story- the way these reptilians can change their appearance or "shape-shift" between a human and reptilian form, evidence for which i will present shortly. a character called liu ye, who wanted to marry a princess of the "dragon race, was said to have seen the palace of the emperor change before his eyes and the courtiers dissolve and then return to their original form. he saw the coils of dragon bodies, flashing wings, and dragon's eyes. the legend says that liu ye changed his earth form and became one of the dragon race that lived in the sky. with that, he became immortal.23 serpents of the americas the story is the same in the americas with the serpent gods at

descent from the founders of rome, the "wolfsuckled" remus and romulus. reuchlin details the codes he says were used in the gospel stories by the pisos and their accomplice, the roman writer and statesman, pliny the younger. the head of the family, lucius calpurnius, who was married to the great granddaughter of herod, was a close associate of the famous roman writer, seneca. both were killed by the emperor nero in the year ad65, reuchlin says. he suggests that the mythical stories of st peter and st paul being killed by 216 children of the matrix nero in rome were inspired by these events. reuchlin says that lucius calpurnius wrote his "ur marcus, the first version of the gospel of mark, in about ad60 and the others followed when the pisos became very close to the roman leadership. after

rld. the "holy inquisition" of the roman church was not officially disbanded until the 19th century and today it is known as the "holy office. the great library of alexandria "city of the serpent's son" and other centres of priceless ancient knowledge and records were destroyed under the banner of this vicious, arrogant, creed. when the library at alexandria was destroyed in ad391 by the order of the emperor theodosius some 700,000 scrolls, codices and manuscripts were lost forever. the force behind all this knew exactly what they were doing: selling the masses a myth through which their agenda of suppressing knowledge and rewriting history could be justified. behind constantine, the pisos, and the popes were the babylon reptilian brotherhood, by now located in rome. their rituals, temples

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ty of new troy- london.lucius calpurnius piso, the head of the family, was married to the greatgranddaughter of herod the great. according to reuchlins research, piso, who usedmany pseudonyms, produced his ur marcus, the first version of the gospel of mark,in about 60ad. one of the friends who encouraged him was the famous roman writer,annaeus seneca, but it seems that both of them were killed by the emperor nero in theyear 65. with this, the name piso disappears from roman history and doesnt reappear105until 138 ad when pisos grandson, antoninus, became emperor. but from this pointthe family are mostly known as the antonines, not the pisos. in the 73 years betweenthe death of father piso and the emergence of antoninus, the foundations forchristianity were written and proclaimed under assu

us was eannus, a title for nimrod in babylon. the gold and silver keys of stpeters alleged successor, the pope, are more symbols of the secret doctrine. the popesand those who control them know what all this stuff really means. gold and silver are theprecious metals used to symbolise the sun and the moon. peter and paul are both said to109have been killed in rome during the purge of christians by the emperor nero, but thereis no evidence to confirm this because it didnt happen. two other people who weresaid to have been killed by nero, however, were lucius calpurnius piso, the head ofthe family, and his friend annaeus seneca! as the years passed, the sun religion and theesoteric symbolism of the mystery schools, were transformed into a religion based onthe literal translation of symbolic t

d latin, butthey could rely on the priests to tell them what it said they should do. people werecondemned and killed for the crime of translating the bible into english because doingso allowed millions to actually read the texts the priests were using to control andterrify them. in 553 ad, the belief in reincarnation was outlawed at the second synodcouncil of constantinople under the influence of the emperor justinian. the councildecided, without the attendance of the pope, that: if anyone assert the fabulous pre-existence of souls and shall submit to the monstrous doctrine that follows from it, lethim be. excommunicated. the monstrous doctrine was that we live forever on aneternal journey of evolution through experience and we are all responsible for ouractions in this physical life or a

golden dawn was the poet, w. b. yeats, a friend of claude debussy.yeats quite brilliantly summed up the aims of the babylonian brotherhood when hedescribed his ideal society..an aristocratic civil isation in its most completed form, every detail of his life hierachical,every great mans door crowded at dawn with petitioners, great wealth everywhere in fewmens hands, all dependent upon a few, up to the emperor himself, who is a goddependent upon a greater god and everywhere, in court, in the family, an inequality madelaw. 22this is precisely the vision for the human race planned by the reptilians. if sauniereand his friends were operating among emma calves circle, we are talking satanismhere. im not saying that sauniere was a satanist because i dont know, but he knewpeople who were. other fa

n for the human race planned by the reptilians. if sauniereand his friends were operating among emma calves circle, we are talking satanismhere. im not saying that sauniere was a satanist because i dont know, but he knewpeople who were. other famous visitors of sauniere at rennes-le-chateau were thefrench secretary of state for culture and the archduke johann von habsburg, a cousinof franz-josef, the emperor of austria.23 the habsburgs, a big-time reptilian bloodline,ruled the holy roman empire for 500 years before its demise in 1806. the priory ofsion, the merovingian bloodline, and rennes-le-chateau, definitely connect into thewider web i am exposing.among the most significant freemasonic lodges in the world today is the grandalpine lodge in switzerland. henry kissinger, one of the plane

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r correspondences. we will consider all these associations when we come to study the sephiroth in detail. 9. in the symbolic rendering of the ten holy sephiroth in the four worlds there is another important set of factors to be considered, and these are the four colour scales classified by crowley as the king scale, assigned to the atziluthic world; the queen scale, assigned to the briatic world; the emperor scale, assigned to the yetziratic world; and the empress scale, assigned to the assiatic world. 10. this fourfold classification has a far-reaching significance in all qabalistic matters, and also in western magic, which is largely based upon the qabalab. it is said to be under the presidency of the four letters of tetragrammaton, the sacred name popularly rendered as jehovah. in hebre

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r. shortly after ruska found another version appended to the kitab sirr al-khaliqa wa san`at al-tabi`a (book of the secret of creation and the art of nature, which is also known as the kitab balaniyus al-hakim fi'l-`ilal (book of balinas the wise on the causes. it has been the emerald tablet of herme othe emperor s new religion copyright 2002 ole wolf page 1 of 30 analysis of the church of satan: the emperor s new religion by ole wolf the church of satan has caused outrage and extensive media attention since its inception as the boldest champion of satan in the occult explosion peaking in the 1960es, and for better or for worse has become synonymous with modern satanism. it asserts that satanism is a unique philosophy distinctly tailored to man s life on earth which, if followed, has the p

organization were not written by barton but lavey himself. comparing the literary style of the books with her style after lavey s death lends credibility to barton as the original author, albeit strongly inspired by lavey. figure 1. a sample church of satan membership card with the follower s name and signature removed. apparently the number 100261 is printed on all membership cards issued today. the emperor s new religion copyright 2002 ole wolf page 2 of 30 orful and haunting picture of a person qualified as no less than the devil s right hand man. the strong publicity that the church of satan and its founder have received is itself no indication that the church of satan represents satanism beyond its own claim to the title as the devil s henchmen, however. it can be argued that because

defines satan somewhat ambiguously as a unified god (that is, not a god among others) which: is seen as the balancing factor in nature, and not being concerned with suffering [6, p. 40] in contrast to popular opinion among church of satan followers there is no implication that there is no life after death; the text only states that once one is dead, one will be unable to indulge in one s desires. the emperor s new religion copyright 2002 ole wolf page 3 of 30 and most satanists do not accept satan as an anthropomorphic being with cloven hooves, a barbed tail, and horns. he merely represents a force of nature [which] is an untapped reservoir that few can make use of [6, p. 62] this definition, in conjunction with the term god, lends itself to a theistic or deistic perception of satan in add

n explains that this section is a wake-up call that is only necessary for some readers. 2. a level-headed refutation of christian dogma; an assertion that there is no afterlife and hence no reward or punishment after one dies; and elaborations on different facets of a life lived accordingly. this section contains many examples of how even seemingly conflicting behavior is satanic according to the the emperor s new religion copyright 2002 ole wolf page 4 of 30 author, and effectively virtually any behavior is inherently satanic. 3. three recipes for magic focusing on aggression, lust, and compassion. the magic in the third section obviously appeals to people that enjoy magic settings, but the church of satan accepts that some followers do not feel so inclined. the church of satan states tha

one else who has an interest in this material, to analyze these ideas and synthesize the apparent contradictions into a third side that is the essence of satanic understanding [18] or, in other words, the reason that there are contradictions is that there are none; and by perceiving the ideology as ambiguous, one has not gained satanic understanding. as in hans christian andersen s popular story, the emperor s new clothes, where people would rather not admit to being stupid not seeing the emperor s marvelous new (missing) clothes, followers of the church of satan would probably rather not admit they have no satanic understanding. inevitably individual satanists will reach different interpretations. the church of satan continues: will everyone arrive at the same synthesis? no. surprised? yo

satan would probably rather not admit they have no satanic understanding. inevitably individual satanists will reach different interpretations. the church of satan continues: will everyone arrive at the same synthesis? no. surprised? you shouldn t be, as satanism is a religion which embraces the practice of individualism, not demanding that all its members have some kind of lockstep sameness [18] the emperor s new religion copyright 2002 ole wolf page 5 of 30 different and contrary individual interpretations do not warrant religious unity, however. people do not unite in disagreement not unless they join hands in a shared disagreement with something entirely different, such as satanists pet demon: christianity. if the church of satan does indeed unite its followers despite opposing interpr

n actualizes the satanic ideology as outlined in the satanic bible. it is remarkable that rites of passage, such as wedding and death, admission to adulthood (the church of satan has a concept of children vs. adults, as evidenced by the satanic baptisms, which come in those two forms, etc. are absent from the available material. such rituals serve to sustain a religion and reinforce its ideology. the emperor s new religion copyright 2002 ole wolf page 6 of 30 michael aquino s explanation above is believable, but after 36 years of existence it is surprising to conclude that rituals that actualize the ideology still have that little weight. this topic is discussed further in section 1.4, lacking rituals. a complete analysis of the church of satan s rituals is beyond the scope of this article

e, a preparation for such rituals is available, but the rituals themselves are not available for the followers* rituals concerning marriage and death may be said to be irrelevant to satanism and therefore now ignored, but because religious people tend to carry old socio-religious habits with them as spiritual baggage when they switch religions, marriage and funeral are guaranteed to be a concern. the emperor s new religion copyright 2002 ole wolf page 7 of 30 new followers. this one, and rituals for marriage, funerals, etc. would generally be the first ones to be made available for the followers of a religion. the effective absence of such rituals even today suggests that followers of the church of satan either abandon their religion quickly or do not take their religion particularly serio

lanche barton, peter gilmore, peggy nadramia (high priestess, and jeff nagy (magister [23. only the core group has decisive power. satanic scriptures will reportedly be a compilation of essays written by peter gilmore in various magazines. if so, it will resemble anton lavey s the devil s notebook and satan speaks, which are both compilations of essays that anton lavey wrote in various magazines. the emperor s new religion copyright 2002 ole wolf page 8 of 30 the soldiers, at the second-highest level, follow the guidelines issued by the core and take strong interest in studying what they consider satanic ideology. the core and the soldiers actively present satanism to the outside world. soldiers are not organized, but seem to occasionally or regularly talk with core group individuals. they

gious behavior new age behavior the tendency to wholly desert the possibility that the founder is an ordinary person or even a crook is common among followers of new religious movements. even if a follower is presented with undeniable evidence somehow the follower does not comprehend the evidence. the thought is beyond their operational paradigm, beyond obscenity and blasphemy; it is unthinkable. the emperor s new religion copyright 2002 ole wolf page 9 of 30 their ancient scripture (for example, moslems refer to the koran and christians refer to the bible, but most new religious groups refer to science, albeit mostly in the form of pseudoscience such as creation science or faith healing. the church of satan cannot refer to science, because most of its original claims of scientific foundat

and zeena lavey was soon considered a dumb blonde when she parted with the church of satan, denounced her unfather, and joined the temple of set. figure 3. only the church of satan s core group can provide a true interpretation of anton lavey s ambiguous writing. anyone else making doctrinaire statements on the meaning of his texts is branded a heretic who falsifies satanism and misleads people. the emperor s new religion copyright 2002 ole wolf page 10 of 30 it is common to find remarkably strong hostility against the new organization if eventually a group of people creates an organization of their own that follows the teaching of the founder without belonging to the founder s own organization. the church of satan is evidently no exception from the above rules, as described in section 5

eristics 2 and 3 in his refusal to cooperate with leading sociologist james r. lewis in the field on a satanic sourcebook: i suspect that this book will be padded-out with a collection of writings coming from what i d call the pseudo-satanic fringe, the usual online rabble who have no real outlet professionally or via websites which have any significant traffic, let alone any coherent philosophy. the emperor s new religion copyright 2002 ole wolf page 11 of 30 as the truism goes, you are known by the company you keep. thus, having our materials rubbing elbows with the scribblings of these people would only give them credence that they do not deserve [32] 4. the religious group prefers to describe itself as a philosophy that straddles a boundary between psychology and religion, not as a rel

ic theories, such as those of herbert spencer and sigmund freud. if satanists are inherently scientists, it is bizarre that not a single scientist ranks among the individuals usually featured in the church of satan s self-promotion. at best, the church of satan has developed an intellectual beer gut caused by lack of mental training, leaning back comfortably in a chair upholstered with ignorance. the emperor s new religion copyright 2002 ole wolf page 12 of 30 2.2 new age style from a sociological perspective the less active followers of the church of satan the interested followers and the periphery can best be classified as new age religious people and people with no actual involvement in the religion, respectively. new age religious people are characterized by rather unorganized religiou

able for everyone that such discrepancies became widely evident. where some new age religions keep their followers in the organization via degree systems allowing followers into higher organizational cult is used here to refer to religious groups of people that are not part of traditional religions, and who often find themselves in conflict with social norms. it is not used in any negative sense. the emperor s new religion copyright 2002 ole wolf page 13 of 30 levels with new secrets as their insights increase, or simply let the followers go, the church of satan thus takes a different route: if a follower revises his or her view, then the new view is satanism, too. it is only when the follower does not accept other views as satanic that the church of satan administration typically responds

wers actions does not hold in cases like this poster where the church of satan openly and actively endorses the poster in, e.g, the cloven hoof, the church of satan s official newsletter. figure 5. the text: we re looking for a few outstanding individuals welcoming visitors to the official church of satan web page somewhat contradicts the organization s claim that it does not advocate membership. the emperor s new religion copyright 2002 ole wolf page 14 of 30 4. members, priesthood, and magistrate the official church of satan web page maintains that: individuals who resonate with satan have always been an alien elite [34] this statement does not imply that one must be a member of the church of satan to qualify as elite, but it does imply that followers of the church of satan automatically

acknowledged with titles based on accomplishments in the real world: members of our priesthood are people of accomplishment in the real world they have mastered skills and have won peer recognition, which is how they have attained their position as above, so below [1] some speculation on the nature of these accomplishments has been made, as the accomplishments of some nominees have seemed rather the emperor s new religion copyright 2002 ole wolf page 15 of 30 limited. a common trait across all nominations to priesthood or magistrate is that the nominees have influenced other people to join the church of satan, that is, their accomplishment is that of contributing to an increased membership count (incidentally, the church of satan s self-image as an organization for people capable of realw

of satan administration seldom pursues copyright violators directly, but instead encourages followers of the church of satan to combat people that are followers of other satanic organizations, and hence also those that use the symbol outside of the church of satan. this enables the administration to deny direct involvement using the plea of not being responsible for the actions of its followers. the emperor s new religion copyright 2002 ole wolf page 17 of 30 ing the three decades following the creation of anton lavey s organization, especially because the interest in occultism and rebellion against authorities is still strong. the question remains what the church of satan is competing for, and why other organizations are seen as threats. the membership count cannot be important, because

the church of satan. when attacked by other organizations the church of satan may have had motives to have cast the first stone triggering an aggressive reaction from the other organization. pentagonal revisionism states that first of all the church of satan desires stratification, meaning that: water must be allowed to seek its own level without interference from apologists for incompetence [14] the emperor s new religion copyright 2002 ole wolf page 18 of 30 it is a form of lassez-faire libertarianism, which on one hand implies that the church of satan should welcome competing organizations as vehicles for stratification, and on the other hand should view them as threats. the church of satan evidently concentrates on the latter, attempting to level other organizations when natural strati

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o, according to johan weyer, filled the post of chief executioner to the monarch of hades. the conception of him somewhat resembles that of nemesis. zoroaster is said to have called him the executioner. others identify him with the destroying angel. evil genies were formerly called alastors. plutarch says that cicero, who bore a grudge against augustus, conceived the plan of committing suicide on the emperor s hearth, and thus becoming his alastor. sources: weyer, johannes. witches, devils, and doctors in the renaissance: johann weyer, de praestigiis. edited by george mora. binghamton, n.y: medieval and renaissance texts and studies, 1991. albertus magnus (albert of cologne (ca. 1206.1280) scholar, philosopher, and scientist traditionally believed to have been an alchemist. no fewer than 2

y to take up residence at abonotica. the rumor at length reached the ears of his fellow townsmen, who promptly set to work making a temple for the gods. the way was thus prepared for alexander, who proceeded to abonotica, diligently advertising his skill as a prophet, so that on his arrival people from many neighboring towns consulted him, and his fame soon spread as far as rome. we are told that the emperor aurelius himself conferred with alexander before undertaking an important military enterprise. lucian gives a possible explanation of the paphlagonian prophet s remarkable popularity. alexander, he says, came in the course of his early travels to pella in macedon, where he found a unique breed of serpents, large, beautiful, and so tame and harmless that they were allowed by the inhabit

of the british museum by david bremner. the linen on which it is written is of very fine texture, measures 19 feet by 9 inches, and has been translated by wallis budge in archaeologia (vol. 52, part 2. apollonius of tyana a neo-pythagorean philosopher of greece who had a great reputation for magical powers. the life of apollonius of tyana, written by philostratus at the urging of julia, mother of the emperor severus, is the only extant source of information concerning the sage, although other biographies, now lost, are known to have existed. born at tyana in asia minor, apollonius was contemporary with christ. he was educated at tarsus and at the temple of aesculapius in aegae. at the temple he became an adherent of the sect of pythagoras, to whose strict discipline he submitted himself th

ages was obtained on a single slate, and one day, accompanied by two learned professors, slade had a sitting with the grand duke constantine, who obtained writing on a new slate held by himself alone. from st. petersburg, slade went to berlin, where he is said to have obtained some marvelous manifestations in the house of professor johann zollner, and where he was visited by the court conjurer to the emperor, samuel bellachini .my object in visiting slade can be understood when i was introduced to him with my friend, whom i shall call omega, and who was bent on the same errand. slade and mr. terry constituted the circle of four who sat around the table in the center of the room almost as immediately as we entered it. there was nothing in the room to attract attention. no signs of confedera

ng that no one but richtausen could have taken the powder, armed himself and set out in pursuit. overtaking him on the road, he drew a pistol on richtausen and made him hand over the powder. richtausen, however, contrived to keep a considerable quantity. knowing the value of the powder, richtausen presented himself to emperor ferdinand, himself an alchemist, and gave him a quantity of the powder. the emperor, assisted by his mine master count russe, succeeded in converting three pounds of mercury into gold by means of one grain of the powder. the emperor is said to have commemorated the event by having a medal struck bearing the effigy of apollo with the caduceus of mercury and an appropriate motto. richtausen was ennobled under the title of baron chaos. a. e. waite, in his lives of alchem

0: 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 as the head of christendom in the world. he was its upholder, with the moors on his southern borders and the pagans (prussians and saxons) to the north and west. charles was regarded by the christians of europe as the direct rep

country are they so seldom met with. it is easy to understand from these circumstances wherefore we find so few of these phenomena of magic and the visionary and ecstatic state, in other parts of the east so frequent, and therefore they are scattered and uncertain. accounts are, however, not wanting to show that the phenomena as well as theories of prophecy were known in more remote times. under the emperor hoei ti, about 304 a.d, a mystical sect arose in china calling themselves the teachers of the emptiness and nothingness of all things. they also exhibited the art of binding the power of the senses, and producing a condition which they believed perfection. demonism and obsession the chinese of former times were implicit believers in demons whom they imagined surrounded them on every ha

the sea, and the kiau of the marshes. the lung is the favorite kind, however, and may be known when met by his having the head of a camel, the horns of a deer, the eyes of a rabbit, ears of a cow, neck of a snake, belly of a frog, scales of a carp, claws of a hawk, and palm of a tiger. his special office is to guard and support the mansions of the gods, and he is naturally the peculiar symbol of the emperor. a less familiar beast is the chi-lin, which resembles in part a rhinoceros, but has a head, feet, and legs like a deer, and a tufted tail. in spite of his unprepossessing appearance, he is of a benevolent disposition, and his image on a vase or other ornament is an emblem of good government and length of days. a strange bird, having the head of a pheasant, a long flexible neck, and a

us reign of a virtuous emperor. the tortoise (kuei, which bears upon its back the seagirt abode of the eight immortals, is a third supernatural creature associated with strength, longevity, and (because of the markings on its back) the mystic plan of numerals that is a key to the philosophy of the unseen. colors have their significance, blue being the color of the heavens, yellow of the earth and the emperor, red of the sun, and white of jupiter or the year star. each dynasty had its own particular hue, that of the chou dynasty being described as blue of the sky after rain where it appears between the clouds. the apparently haphazard conjunction of objects in the decorative schemes of chinese art is far from being a matter of chance, but adds to its decorative properties the intellectual c

ters to the davenports published in the gazette des etrangers (september 27, 1865) that the phenomena were inexplicable and could not be attributed to fraud. in later years a professor jacobs similarly testified that the phenomena seen in paris were absolutely true and belonged to the spiritual order of things in every respect. before they left paris, the davenports were summoned to appear before the emperor and the empress napoleon at the palace of st. cloud. a party of 40 witnessed their demonstration with astonishment. they were well received in belgium and appeared in st. petersburg before the czar in the winter palace. their first public seance in st. petersburg was attended by a thousand people. in 1868 they returned to england. at cooper s initiative the anthropological society appo

f july and made daily appeals to the spirits in reference to the polish prince. they grew more and more discouraging in their replies, and laski began to suspect that he had been duped. he proposed to furnish the alchemists with sufficient funds for a journey to prague and letters of introduction to emperor rudolph. at that very moment the spirits revealed that dee should bear a divine message to the emperor, and so laski s proposal was gladly accepted. at prague the two alchemists were well received by the emperor. they found him willing to believe in the existence of the famous philosophers stone. he was courteous to dee, a man of european celebrity, but was very suspicious of kelley. they stayed several months at prague, living on the funds laski had supplied and hoping to be drafted in

or. they found him willing to believe in the existence of the famous philosophers stone. he was courteous to dee, a man of european celebrity, but was very suspicious of kelley. they stayed several months at prague, living on the funds laski had supplied and hoping to be drafted into the imperial service. at last the papal nuncio complained about the tolerance afforded to heretical magicians, and the emperor was obliged to order them to leave within 24 hours. they complied, and so escaped prison or the stake, to which the nuncio had received orders from rome to consign them in may 1586. they traveled to the german town of erfurt, and from there to cassel. meeting with a cold reception, however, they made their way once more to cracow. there they earned a scanty living by telling fortunes a

d an agreement on may 3, 1587, pledging obedience to the angelic demand. soon afterward, dee requested permission from queen elizabeth to return to england and left the castle of trebona after finally separating from kelley. the latter, who had been knighted at prague, proceeded to the bohemian capital, taking with him the elixir found at glastonbury abbey. he was immediately arrested by order of the emperor and imprisoned. kelley was later released and wandered throughout germany, telling fortunes and propagating the cause of magic. he was again arrested as a heretic and sorcerer. in a desperate attempt to avoid imprisonment he tried to escape, but fell from the dungeon wall and broke two ribs and both his legs. he died of his injuries in february 1593. dee s final years dee set out from

in older english translations, generally refers to a variety of animals such as crocodiles, jackals, and serpents, but occasionally to the dragon (ezek. 29:3; 32:3. in chapter 12 of the biblical book of revelation, the dragon, a representation of the evil one, is overcome by the archangel michael. the dragon became a symbol of great strength in the european middle ages. in the fifteenth century, the emperor of the holy roman empire founded the order of the dragon to unite christian rulers against the incursions of the turkish muslims into the balkans. among those invested with the order was prince vlad of wallachia (romania. he assumed the name vlad dracul, dracul being the romanian word for dragon. his son took the diminutive form of the name as prince vlad dracula. during the time of he

s, hindus, greeks, and romans. in india emeralds were used to adorn images in temples, and moslems used emeralds as amulets, inscribed with verses from the koran. emeralds were believed to change color when surrounded by deception and treachery. they were also believed to be preservatives against decay, dysentery, and the bites of venomous creatures and to promote easy childbirth. in ancient rome the emperor nero was said to have had an unusually large emerald that he used for viewing gladiatorial contests. presumably he was shortsighted and used it as a lens. the emerald table (of hermes) a brief document believed to be the earliest statement of the principles of spiritual alchemy, ascribed to hermes trismegistus, after whom alchemy has been named the hermetic art. hermes trismegistus is

halia, and faithful agents were despatched thither by charlemagne entrusted with a secret mission. whatsoever energy remained among the oppressed, whosoever still loved justice, whether among the people or among the nobility, were drawn by these emissaries together, bound by pledges and vigilance in common. to the initiates thus incorporated they made known the full powers which they carried from the emperor himself, and they proceeded to institute the tribunal of free judges. levi s observations must be taken with a grain of salt, however. it is unlikely that the sabbat was celebrated to such an extreme. also, the vehmgericht was founded 450 years after charlemagne s reign. from the reign of robert the pious to that of st. louis (1215.70, there is not much to stimulate the student of occu

gime, he was a frequent visitor at the court of emperor louis napoleon. france encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 596 a record of the manifestations produced through his mediumship was kept by command of the empress and frequently read to her favored friends. among these memoranda is one published in the papers when it occurred. it concerns a seance held at the tuileries when only the emperor, the empress, the duchess of montebello, and home were present: pen, ink, and paper were placed on the table and a spirit hand was seen. it dipped the pen into the ink and wrote the name of the first napoleon, in perfect likeness of that monarch s handwriting. the emperor asked if he could kiss this wonderful hand. it instantly rose to his lips, subsequently passing to those of the emp

empress, the duchess of montebello, and home were present: pen, ink, and paper were placed on the table and a spirit hand was seen. it dipped the pen into the ink and wrote the name of the first napoleon, in perfect likeness of that monarch s handwriting. the emperor asked if he could kiss this wonderful hand. it instantly rose to his lips, subsequently passing to those of the empress, and home. the emperor preserved this precious autograph, and inscribed it with a note that the hand was warm, soft, and resembled that of his great predecessor and uncle. as evidence of the wide popularity spiritualism had attained by 1869, pierart quotes an article by eugene bonnemere from the siecle, a leading paper that editorialized against the movement: although somnambulism has been a hundred times an

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oh, at the mention of his mother he turned around and said to me my mother, i shall not die without seeing her again. comfort her, and tell her that i always think of her. i am not dead. why doesn t he write to her? he has written to her, but the vessel has no doubt been wrecked.at least he supposes this to be so, since he has received no answer. he tells me that he is in mexico. he has followed the emperor, don pedro; he has been imprisoned for five years; he has suffered a great deal, and will use every effort to return to france; they will see him again. can he name the place in which he is living? no, it is very far inland. these countries have no names. a similar experience was recorded by m. mirande, the head of the printing office in which the first volume of the arcanes had been p

(journal) quarterly journal concerned with anomalies, such as visions, portents, prodigies, and ufos. the name magonia was given in medieval france to a mysterious land beyond the sky, the origin of all kinds of signs and wonders but inextricably bound up with the destinies of human beings. inhabitants of magonia traveled in aerial ships and were believed to destroy crops and kidnap human beings. the emperor charlemagne issued edicts to prohibit the magonians from troubling the air and provoking storms. issues of magonia have covered such subjects as glossolalia, ouija boards, pagan occultism, coincidences, spiricom, earth lights, psychic research, bigfoot, and other fortean topics. address: john rimmer, john dee cottage, 5 james terrace, mortlake churchyard, london, sw14 8hb england. webs

t jesus, who in turn held a threepetaled lotus in his hand. the icon was seen to weep for the first time on november 14, 1696. it again was seen to weep on december 8, and on this second occasion the tears continued to flow for eleven days. the event had such impact that the town became known as mariapovch. word of the weeping icon reached the royal court of the austro-hungarian empire in vienna. the emperor ordered the icon to be brought to vienna. by the time that the emperor s representatives arrived to pick up the icon for transport back to vienna, it had become famous and large crowds gathered at every village on the way back to the capital, and they arrived only after many days delay. on december 1, 1698, the icon was finally placed in st. steven s basilica. the emperor was so impres

the simplest query on a philosophical subject, and was at a loss for sufficient language in which to express a commonplace idea. james burns, the well-known spiritualistic editor and publisher, took an interest in morse and employed him as an assistant in his printing and publishing office. the spirit entity, tien sien tie, the chinese philosopher, who said that he lived on earth in the reign of the emperor kea-tsing, gave his first addresses through morse in burns s offices in 1869. of the other spirits associated with morse s mediumship the best known was the strolling player, who supplied the humor and lighter elements in the discourses, which were models of literary grace. many proofs of spirit identity came through, some of which were years after tabulated and republished by edward t

ldea; the third in a district of persia, watered by a river called the nilab; and the fourth in syria near damascus, and near the springs of the jordan. this last supposed site was not peculiar to oriental writers, as it was maintained by some europeans, especially heidegger, le clerc, and hardouin. the following are the traditions once believed by inhabitants of the city of damascus.a city which the emperor julian the apostate styled the eye of all the east, the most sacred and most magnificent damascus. for example, m. de lamartine observed: i understand that arabian traditions represent this city and its neighbourhood to form the site of the lost paradise, and certainly i should think that no place upon earth was better calculated to answer one s ideas of eden. the vast and fruitful pla

s advice and was directed by the pope to a hermit, who ordered him to maintain complete silence, to take his food from the mouths of dogs, to feign madness, and to provoke abuse from common people without attempting to retaliate. he became court fool to the roman emperor, and three times delivered the city from saracen invasions, having, in each case, been prompted to fight by a heavenly message. the emperor s dumb daughter was given speech in order to identify the savior of the city with the court fool, but he refused his due reward, as well as her hand in marriage, and went back to the hermit, his former confessor. rocail according to ancient oriental legend, rocail was the younger brother of seth, the son of the biblical adam. the circumstances of his history were picturesque and unique

f a paper entitled the rebus, professedly devoted to innocent rebuses and charades and only incidentally mentioning spiritualism, the real object of its being. among the distinguished devotees of the subject was prince wittgenstein, aide-de-camp and trusted friend of alexander ii, who not only avowed his beliefs openly but arranged for various mediums, including d. d. home, to give seances before the emperor. the czar was impressed, and, from that time onward he consulted mediums and their prophetic powers as to the advisability of any contemplated change or step in his life. another russian of high position socially and officially was alexander n. aksakof, who interested himself in spiritualism, arranging seances to which he invited the scientific men of the university, editing a paper ps

ffs, n.j: prentice-hall, 1974. seth, dreams and projection of consciousness. walpole, n. h, stillpoint publishing, 1986. the seth material. englewood cliffs, n.j: prentice- hall, 1970. seth speaks: the eternal validity of the soul. englewood cliffs, n.j: prentice-hall, 1972. sethos (ca. 12th century c.e) according to m. a. del rio (1561.1608, sethos was a diviner, who was deprived of his sight by the emperor manuel because of his addiction to magic. it is said that the emperor andronicus comnenus, cousin of manuel, had sethos divine by hydromancy an answer to the question of who was to succeed him. the spirit gave the letters s i in reply; and on being asked when, said before the feast of the exaltation of the cross. this prediction was fulfilled, for before the date mentioned, isaac angel

hich he permitted himself to be worshiped by the mob. he declared that he himself was the manifestation of the splendor of god, and that helena, his greek slave, was its reflection. thus he imitated christianity in the reverse sense, affirmed the eternal reign of evil and revolt, and was, in fact, an antichrist. after a while, according to popular legend, he went to rome, where he appeared before the emperor nero. he is said to have been decapitated by him; however, his head returned to his shoulders, and he was instituted by the tyrant as court sorcerer. legend also states that st. peter, alarmed at the spread of the doctrine of simon in rome, hurried there to combat it. when nero was made aware of peter s arrival, he imagined peter to be a rival sorcerer and resolved to bring simon and p

eptember 20, 1942. sources: santucci, james. h. n. stokes and the o. e. library critic. theosophical history 1, 6 (april 1986: 129.39. h. n. stokes early contact with the theosophical society. theosophical history 2, 1 (january 1987: 4.22. stokes, henry newlin encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1498 stolisomancy divination from the manner in which a person dresses. in ancient rome the emperor augustus believed that a military revolt was predicted on the morning of its occurrence when his attendant buckled his right sandal to his left foot. stomach, seeing with the a phenomenon occasionally observed by the followers of franz anton mesmer in their somnambules (hypnotic subjects. in a cataleptic state closely resembling death, the subject would sometimes show no signs of intel

re exists another system of vaults below, for the vast space from the rock upwards is not likely to be filled with solid earth. some allusion seems to be made to these vaults in the writings of procopius, a greek historian of the sixth century. he was born at caesarea, in palestine, about 500 a.d, and as a young man went to constantinople, where his eminent talents brought him under the notice of the emperor justinian. in 529 a.d. justinian built a splendid church on the temple hill, in honour of the virgin mary, and in the writings of procopius there is a full and detailed account of the edifice. the historian relates that the fourth part of the ground required for the building was wanting towards the south-east; the builders therefore laid their foundations on the sloping ground, and con

e church, and the law had been tried again and again, and all had utterly failed to modify the ever-increasing horrors of this malady, louis napoleon, the french emperor, under whose protectorate morzine was then governed, yielding to the representations of his advisers, actually sent out three military companies to morzine, charged with strict orders to quell the disturbances on the authority of the emperor, or by force if necessary. the result of this highhanded policy was to increase tenfold the violence of the disease and to augment the number of the afflicted, including some of the soldiers themselves, who sank under the contagion they were expected to quench. the next move of the baffled government was a spiritual one. an army of priests, headed by a venerable bishop, much beloved in

e. la salle, ill: open court, 1913. taoism one of the three major religious systems of ancient china, together with confucianism and buddhism. early taoism derives from the tao( the road or the way) teachings of lao tzu. the origins and background of lao tzu is uncertain; in fact, most details of his life are legendary. some sources claim lao tzu was said born of poor parents in tau (honan) under the emperor ting of the kau dynasty (ca. 605 b.c.e. others believe he was a philosopher who became disgusted with the world and became a pessimist, later resigning his position in the record department and retiring to a monastery. he also allegedly met and was taught by gautama buddha, and held discussions with confucius. the name, lao tzu (meaning old master, may not be an actual persons name but

guardian angels, translated into english in 1647 by the astrologer william lilly. he wrote a third book on geomancy, or divination by means of lines and circles on the ground, a fourth upon sorcery, and a fifth on alchemy. in his work on sorcery, trithemius made an early mention of the popular story of faust, and recorded his experiences with the spirit named hudekin. reportedly, trithemius gave the emperor maximilian a vision of his deceased wife, the beautiful mary of burgundy. reputedly he defrayed the expenses of his monastic establishment at spanheim by resources obtained from the philosophers stone. sources: seligmann, kurt. the history of magic. new york: pantheon books, 1948. reprinted as magic, supernaturalism and religion. new york: pantheon books, 1971. trivah among the dayaks

t was kept in a monastery by the river jordan. in 670 c.e. the french bishop arculph, returning from a pilgrimage to jerusalem, was shipwrecked on the coast of scotland and traveled to a monastery on the island of iona. here he said he had seen the shroud and been allowed to kiss it. subsequent references are made to a surviving shroud by the venerable bede, st. willibald, st. john damascene, and the emperor baldwin. in 1284, robert de clari, chronicler of the fourth crusade, described the triumphant entry of crusaders into constantinople and mentioned the monastery of lady st. mary of the blachernes, in which a cloth claiming to be the shroud was kept. in the middle ages some 40 different shrouds were claimed to be the one in which christ was buried. at this time there also existed a vari

ovement, usui is remembered as using crystals in his healing work. he taught the reiki system to some 2,000 students, several of whom opened clinics and centers around the country. usui also wrote a brief handbook which included a description of reiki healing (though without mentioning any of the particulars of the method, the answers to some frequently asked questions, and some poems composed by the emperor designed to advise people on a worthy life. usui died on march 9, 1926, of a stroke. he was buried at saihoji temple, a traditional buddhist temple in a tokyo suburb. leadership of usui reiki ryoho gakkai was passed to a mr. ushida, and continues to the present. among his last students was dr. chujiro hayashi, a retired naval officer. he in turn taught ms. hawayo takata, a japanese-ame

basing his argument on the observed sympathy or antagonism that seems to spontaneously arise between individuals and the influence exerted by a firm will over a weak imagination. in 1609, he retired to vilvorde, near brussels, and devoted himself to medical practice and chemical experiments. he declined to leave his retirement, although his fame brought him flattering invitations and offers from the emperor and the elector palatine. almost unknown to his neighbors, he attended anyone stricken by illness without accepting any fees for his services. his published writings included: de magnetica vulnerum naturali et legitima curatione (1621, de aquis leondiensibus medicatis (1624, opuscula medica inaudita (1641, and febrium doctrina maudita (1642. some of these were translated into dutch, fr

levation, for she foretold to the germans a prosperous issue, but to the legions their destruction! veleda dwelt upon a high tower, whence messengers were dispatched bearing her oracular counsels to those who sought them; but she herself was rarely seen, and none was allowed to approach her. cercalis is said to have secretly begged her to let the romans have better success in war. in the reign of the emperor vespasian she was honored as a goddess. veleda predicted the success of claudius civilis in the batavian revolt against rome (69.70 c.e) and the fall of the roman empire. velikovsky, immanuel (1895.1979) psychoanalyst and cosmologist who emerged as a major defender of catastrophism, the idea that the earth s history and prehistory have been distorted by significant catastrophies. catas

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nd, downward to the valleys, while foam and mist high in the air are driven. yet how superb above this tumult sallies the many-coloured rainbow s changeful being; now lost in air, now clearly drawn, it dallies, shedding sweet coolness round us even when fleeing! the rainbow mirrors human aims and action. think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing life is but light in many-hued reflection. the emperor s palace the throne-room the state council awaiting the emperor. trumpets. courtiers of all kinds enter, splendidly dressed. the emperor ascends the throne, at his right hand the astrologer. emperor. i greet you, faithful friends and dear, assembled here from far and wide. i see the wise man at my side, but wherefore is the fool not here? a squire. a pace behind your mantle s sweep the

rom near and far. ye meet beneath a favouring star; fortune is written for us there above. yet wherefore in these days, oh, say, when all our cares we d thrust away and wear the mummer s mask in play and gaiety alone enjoy, why should we let state councils us annoy? but since the task seems one we may not shun, all is arranged, so be it done. chancellor. the highest virtue like an aureole circles the emperor s head; alone and sole, he validly can exercise it: tis justice- all men love and prize it; tis what all wish, scarce do without, and ask; to grant it to his people is his task. but ah! what good to mortal mind is sense, what good to hearts is kindness, hands benevolence, when through the state a fever runs and revels, and evil hatches more and more of evils? who views the wide realm f

d lies there and yet to win it, that is the art- who knows how to begin it? recall those fearful times when roving bands poured like a deluge drowning men and lands, how many men, so greatly did they fear, concealed their dearest treasure there and here. so it was of old when mighty rome held sway, so it was till yesterday, aye, till today. it all lies buried in the earth, to save it; the earth s the emperor s, and he should have it. treasurer. now for a fool, his words are noways trite. that is, in truth, the old imperial right. chancellor. satan is laying his golden nooses; we re dealing with no right and pious uses. steward. if he brings welcome gifts to court, i m sure, a little wrong with them i can endure. commander-in-chief. shrewd fool to promise each what will befit; whence it may

not avail; thou must describe him in far more detail. herald. there s no describing dignity. the healthy, full-moon face i see, the lips so full, the cheeks so blooming beneath the turban s beauty looming, the flowing robe he s richly wearingwhat shall i say of such a bearing? he seems a ruler known to me. boy charioteer. plutus, the god of wealth, is he. hither he comes in gorgeous trim; sorely the emperor longs for him. herald. now thine own what and how relate to me! boy charioteer. i am profusion, i am poesy! the poet who s attained his goal when he s poured out his inmost soul. i too am rich with untold pelf and value me the peer of plutus self, adorn, enliven, make his revels glow; and what he lacks, that i bestow. herald. bragging becomes thee charmingly, but now thine arts, pray

here is not one, and as they slap and beat it too, they only stir up flames anew; in fiery flames entangled, caught, a maskers group is burned to naught. but hark! what news is spreading here from mouth to mouth, from ear to ear! o evermore ill-fated night, how thou hast turned our bliss to blight! tomorrow morn will everywhere proclaim what no one likes to hear. yet everywhere i ll hear the cry: the emperor suffers agony! oh, would that something else were true! the emperor burns, his escort too. accursed who led him so astray, who bound about them resined spray, raging around with boisterous song, bringing to ruin all the throng. o youth, o youth, and wilt thou never keep within proper bounds thy pleasure? o highness, highness, wilt thou never use might and reason in due measure? the mim

hese who did the deed. faust it s for the chancellor to tell the story. chancellor [approaching slowly. i m blessed enough now when i m old and hoary. so hear and see the fateful, solemn leaf which into joy has transformed all our grief. he reads. to all whom it concerns, let it be known: who hath this note, a thousand crowns doth own. as certain pledge thereof shall stand vast buried treasure in the emperor s land. provision has been made that ample treasure, raised straightway, shall redeem the notes at pleasure" emperor. i sense a crime, a monstrous, cheating lure! who dared to forge the emperor s signature? is still unpunished such a breach of right? treasurer. remember, sire, yourself it was last night that signed the note. you stood as mighty pan, the chancellor came and spoke in wor

se prevent; like lightning notes were scattered on the run. the changers shops open wide to everyone; and there all notes are honoured, high and low, with gold and silver- at a discount, though. from there to butcher, baker, tavern hasting, one-half the world seems thinking but of feasting, the other in new raiment struts and crows; the draper cuts the cloth, the tailor sews. in cellars long live the emperor! is the toasting; there platters clatter, there they re boiling, roasting. mephistopheles who all alone will down the terrace stray perceives the fairest in superb array; with her proud peacock-fan she hides one eye and looking for a note goes simpering by; more swiftly than through eloquence and wit love s richest favour can be gained by it. with purse and scrip one is no longer harri

per. then a man knows what he has. there is no need of higgling or exchanging; in love and wine one can at will be ranging. if you want metal, changers are at hand; if lacking there, dig for a while the land. goblet and chain are auctioned off and sold; paper redeemed without delay in gold confounds the doubter who had scoffed and taunted. this men demand, to metals they are wonted. ready at hand the emperor s realm will hold henceforth enough of paper, jewels, gold. emperor. our realm owes you this great prosperity; as is the service, the reward should be. our empire s soil be trusted to your care, the worthiest guardians of the treasures there. you know the vast and well-preserved hoard, and when men dig, it s you must give the word. become as one, ye masters of our treasure, fulfil your

draw me into this dark gallery? is not in there enough of sport, enough of fun and fraud and raillery amid the crowded motley of the court? faust don t speak of tricks! your jests are old and hoary; down to the very soles you ve worn that story; but now you re going to and fro to flee from having any talk with me. i am tormented further things to do; the chamberlain is urging and the steward too. the emperor orders- straightway must it beboth helena and paris will he see, of man and woman in their true ideal demands to see the forms distinct and real. to work! i gave my word- i must not break it. mephistopheles a foolish promise- fool you were to make it. faust whither your powers lead us, friend, you have not well reflected; we first have made him rich- no end! now to amuse him we re expe

ng. steward. a moment since his grace inquired of me. delay not! don t disgrace his majesty! mephistopheles upon that errand has my comrade gone; he surely knows what s to be done. he works secludedly and still, and all his powers he perforce engages. who d raise that treasure, beauty, at his will, requires the highest art, magic of sages! steward the kind of arts you need, that is all one; it is the emperor s will that it be done. a blonde [to mephistopheles. one word, sir! see my face without a spot, but thus in tiresome summer it is not! then brownish-red there sprout a hundred freckles which vex my lily skin with ugly speckles. a cure! mephistopheles you radiant darling, what a pity, spotted in may-time like a panther-kitty. take frog-spawn, toads tongues, cohobate them, and carefully

see them file according to their grades through distant galleries and long arcades. now they re assembling in that ample space, the old knight s hall; yet hardly all find place. the spacious walls with tapestries are rich, while armour decorates each nook and niche. here is no need, methinks, of magic incantation, ghosts will come here without an invitation. hall of the knights dim illumination. the emperor and court have entered. herald. mine ancient office of announcing plays is marred by spirits mystic interference; in vain one dares in reasonable ways to fathom their mysterious appearance. the chairs are placed, the seats are ready all; the emperor is seated just before the wall; upon the arras there he may with ease behold the glorious battles that men fought of old. now emperor and

nce- well, now, that went. faust it went, it staggered, fell, and up it jumped, fell over itself, and in a heap it plumped. mephistopheles and such conditions no one dared to blame; some standing each could, each would, claim. as peer of any has the least man passed, but for the best, things grew too mad at last. the capable arose then in their might and said: who gives us peace is lord by right; the emperor cannot, will not- let us choose a new one, one who will infuse new life into the realm he safeguards duly, where peace and justice govern truly the world he strengthens and renews" faust that sound like priestcraft. mephistopheles priests they were, be sure. their own well-nourished paunch they made secure. more than all others were they implicated. the riot grew, riot was consecrated

position of the host in the valley. drums and martial music resound from below. mephistopheles they ve taken their position well, i see; we ll join them and complete the victory. faust what is there to expect, i d like to know? fraud! dazzling magical hollow show! mephistopheles nay, stratagem to win the fight! just fix your gaze upon a lofty height and only think of your high aim. if we preserve the emperor s throne and land, then you can kneel and justly claim in feudal right a boundless strand. faust much have you ere now carried through; come then and win a battle too. mephistopheles no, you will win it; for, in brief, you ll be the general-in-chief. faust a really lofty post for me, commanding in places of which i ve no understanding! mephistopheles you let the general staff provide a

ld-fast [along in years, strongly armed, without attire. not much is thus accumulated; great riches are soon dissipated, adown life s stream they rush as swift as thought. to take is good, better to keep when taken; let the old greybeard rule unshaken and none shall plunder you of aught. they descend together. on the headland emperor. generalissimo. bodyguards. drums and martial music from below. the emperor s tent is being pitched. generalissimo. the project still seems well deliberated, that back in this convenient vale our army all be drawn and concentrated; i trust this disposition will avail. emperor how things will go now we must soon be seeing; but i dislike this giving way, this semi-fleeing. generalissimo look here, my prince, at our right flank s position. in war such ground s a

re lies in heaps the ruddy gold; quick, rake it up, fall to, lay hold! speed-booty [crouches down. quick to the work, fill up my lap! twill be enough for any hap. get-quick. and so enough! make haste and go! she stands up. your apron has a hole! oh, woe! go where you will or stand, i see you sowing treasures all too free. bodyguards of our emperor. this spot is sacred! what are you up to? rifling the emperor s treasure? shame on you! get-quick. we risked our limbs for little pay and fetch our portion of the prey. in enemies tents it s custom so, and we, we re soldiers too, you know. bodyguards. in our profession that won t do. a carrion-thief and soldier too! who nears our emperor must be a soldier used to honesty. get-quick. yes, honesty- we know that same and contribution is its name. al

; they flickered, i could not see right. fourth. how to express it i know not; the whole day long it was so hot, fearsome, oppressive, close as well. while one man stood, another fell. we groped and struck both high and low; a foeman fell at every blow. before us swayed a kind of mist, and something hummed and roared and hissed. thus it went on- here are we now! it happened but we don t know how. the emperor enters accompanied by four princes. the bodyguards retire. emperor now be it as it may! the battle s won! and shattered, over the level plain the fleeing foes are scattered. here stands the empty throne; with tapestry hung round, the traitor s store of treasure blocks up all the ground. with our own bodyguards in honour due protecting, the people s envoys we re imperially expecting; gl

all set up. beforehand, though, i ll choose for you the loveliest cup: of clear venetian glass wherein delight lies waiting, enhancing wine s good taste but never inebriating. on such a wondrous prize men oft too much depend, but you, most noble sire, your temperance doth defend. emperor what i ve designed for you in this most solemn hour, you ve heard with confidence because i speak with power. the emperor s word is great and makes each gift secure, yet needs his noble script to make the matter sure; it needs his signature. and in due form to make it, here comes the fitting man this fitting hour to take it. the archbishop-arch-chancellor enters. emperor if in the keystone doth a vaulted arch confide, then is it built securely against time and tide. you see the princes four! we have but j

d; right and left, though far may be it, spreads a thickly-peopled land. the three at table in the little garden. baucis silent still? and is there going to your starved lips not a bit? philemon fain the wonder he d be knowing; fond of talking, tell him it. baucis twas a wonder if there s any! even today it troubles me; for the whole thing was uncanny, it was not as things should be. philemon can the emperor be called sinning who bestowed on him the strand? did a herald-trumpet s dinning not proclaim it through the land? from our dunes a little distance first they set foot as we ve seen: tents and huts- soon to existence springs a palace midst the green. baucis vainly slaves by day were storming, pick and shovel, stroke on stroke; where by night the flames were swarming, stood a dike when

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more fortunate, cheerful, and ufe-giving planets, of which the chief are sol, jupiter, and venus. ficino has many enthusiastic passages on the valuable "gifts" making for health and good spirits to be obtained from these planets, which he poetically describes more than once as "the three graces".2 the equation of beneficent astral influences with the three graces may be derived from a passage in the emperor julian's hymn to the sun.3 gold is a metal full of solar and jovial spirit and therefore beneficial in combating melancholy. green is a health-giving and life-giving colour, and the reader is urged to come to "alma venus"4 and to walk in the green fields with her, plucking her flowers, such as roses, or the crocus, the golden flower of jupiter. ficino also gives advice on how to choose

through the rediscovery and imitation of classical works of art.1 in the same way, astral magic comes down in the mediaeval tradition and is reinvested with classical form in the renaissance through the rediscovery of neoplatonic theurgy. ficino's magic, with its hymns to the sun, its three graces in an astrological context, its neoplatonism, is closer in outlook, practice, and classical form to the emperor julian than it is to picatrix. yet the substance of it reached him through picatrix, or some such similar text-books, and was transformed by him back into classical form through his greek studies. one might say that the approach through the history of magic is perhaps as necessary for the understanding of the meaning and use of a renaissance work of art as is the approach through the h

ed, crowned, and wearing a saffron cloak, likewise a raven and the figure of the sun" this is the solar talisman in the de vita coelitus comparanda which we thought might be derived from picatrix.2 then, anointed with unguents made from solar materials he is to sing an orphic hymn to the sun, invoking him as the divine henad, as the mind, and as the soul. this is the neoplatonic triad under which the emperor julian worshipped the sun. as walker says the triad is not actually mentioned in the de vita coelitus comparanda. but it is alluded to by plotinus in that passage in the enneads on which ficino's work is a commentary, as the example of the hierarchy of the ideas.3 diacceto's solar rites thus bring out something which is implicit in the de vita coelitus comparanda and they probably refl

the pseudo-dionysian light symbolism. all these influences can be perceived, working together, in ficino's de sole and de lumine. as we have tried to outline in previous chapters, the concentration on the sun in the astral magic, led upwards through the christian neoplatonism of pseudo-dionysius to the supreme lux dei, and in this way the sun very nearly is for ficino what it is for hermes or for the emperor julian, the "second god, or the visible god in the neoplatonic series. the de revolutionibus orbium caelestium of nicholas copernicus was written between 1507 and 1530, and published in 1543. it was not by magic that copernicus reached his epoch-making hypothesis of the revolution of the earth round the sun, but by a great achievement in pure mathematical calculation. he introduces his

d.2' de la causa, principio e uno (1584, dial. i dial, ital, pp. 209-10. for an english translation of this work, see s. greenberg, the infinite in giordano bruno, new york, 1950, pp. 77 ff^ these events may well have been in the mind of robert greene when he wrote (about 1587 or later) his play on friar bacon and friar bungay, set in mediaeval oxford which is visited by distinguished foreigners, the emperor and others, accompanied by a foreign doctor who has won great triumphs in all the universities of europe when disputing on magic but who is defeated at oxford in a conjuring match in which friar bacon's magic proves the stronger. as a. w. ward noticed years ago, some of the foreign magician's remarks about oxford in greene's play echo phrases 210 giordano bruno in england: the hermetic

at they should call themselves giordanisti (sommario, p. 61; cf. also ibid, pp. 57, 59. 312" giordano bruno in germany giordanisti" could have any connection with the unsolved mystery of the origin of the rosicrucians who are first heard of in germany in the early seventeenth century, in lutheran circles.1 early in 1588, bruno left wittenberg for prague where he stayed for about six months.2 here the emperor rudolph ii held his court and gathered under his wing astrologers and alchemists from all over europe to assist in his melancholy search for the philosopher's stone. bruno was not a practising alchemical hermetist, but he tried to interest the emperor in his "mathesis, dedicating to him a book, which was published at prague, and which had the provocative title of articuli adversus math

reminded him? in england, he had been mainly thinking of repressive english protestants. all religious persecution and all war in the name of religion breaks the law of love. strange though bruno's magical religion was, extraordinary and indeed frightening though his inner egyptianism was, yet it did not break the law of love as the sectaries did. this is the noble side of the heroic enthusiast. the emperor gave bruno money for his mathesis "against mathematicians",2 but he did not give him any employment or position. he went on to helmstedt "iordanus brunus nolanus italus" matriculated at the julian university of brunswick, at helmstedt, on january 13th, 1589.3 this university had been founded only twelve years previously, on liberal principles, by duke julius of brunswick-wolfenbuttel

t "iordanus brunus nolanus italus" matriculated at the julian university of brunswick, at helmstedt, on january 13th, 1589.3 this university had been founded only twelve years previously, on liberal principles, by duke julius of brunswick-wolfenbuttel. 1 ibid, pp. 3-7. 2 documenti, p. 86. john dee's associate, edward kelley, was at prague at the time of bruno's visit, and in very high favour with the emperor (see c. fell smith, john dee, 1909, pp. 179 ff. 3 documenti, p. 51. on the situation at helmstedt at the time of bruno's visit, see spampanato, vita di giordano bruno, pp. 431 ff; w. boulting, giordano bruno, london, 1914, pp. 214 ff. 11* 315 the first two of these are signs for the sun and moon, and the third is a five-pointed star. these figures do in fact appear in the pages of the

14, pp. 214 ff. 11* 315 the first two of these are signs for the sun and moon, and the third is a five-pointed star. these figures do in fact appear in the pages of the "mathesistical" text which follow, dotted about here and there amidst the talk of fines and circles, spheres and angles, and so on. it therefore seems possible that this book may be written in a cipher of some kind. whether or not the emperor rudolph could read the message concealed in the "mathesis, the drift of the preface dedicating the work to him is clear. there are vicissitudes of fight and darkness and the present time of darkness is afflicted by quarrelling sects. breaking the ius gentium and consequently the order instituted by the true god, these dissolve the bonds of society, being moved by misanthropic spirits

of a tyranny by which" a vile priesthood destroys the natural order, the ius gentium, and the civil law, in italy and spain, whilst gaul and belgia are destroyed by wars of religion, and some regions in germany are most unhappy.3 in the spaccio he had emphasised the importance of a restoration of law in the reform of the heavens, but his strong interest, both here and in the prague dedication to the emperor, in the ius gentium, perhaps suggests an influence of his friend alberico gentile, the founder of international law,4 whom he had known in england and met again at wittenberg, where it was through gentile's introduction that he obtained his lectureship in the university. the rhetorical praises of the late julius take a particularly brunian turn when the speech starts to go through the

fecund figures, and "seals" of the archetypes of things.5 if the reader is a devoted disciple of giordano he will remember that he has seen those figures before, or figures almost exactly like them, namely in the articuli adversus mathematicos where they were seals of the trinity mens, intellectus, amor (pi. 11 a, b, c, seals "against the mathematicians" who seem to be explained in the preface to the emperor rudolph as the warring christian sects who should be replaced by a religion of love and a cult of nature. if the disciple is such a devoted giordanist that he has been with bruno in paris he will wonder when he sees the two diagrams labelled "plectrum mordentii" 1 see above, pp. 309, 311. 2 op. lat, i l l, p. 416. 3 ibid, p. 535. d. w. singer giordano bruno, etc, p. 71) speaks of bruno

by the figures of geomancy, by oracles, by the fatal name of bourbon, that this prince was destined to convert the hierarchies to the empire, the pulpit into a throne, the keys into swords, and that he would die emperor of the christians. the venetians were adoring this rising sun with such devotion that when a french gendeman passed through their town they would run to greet him. at the court of the emperor and in poland one heard public prayers that the empire might be confided into his fortunate hands, together with disputes concerning the reunion of religions, or the toleration of them all, and many discourses to induce italy to this point of view.1 giordano bruno was thus not alone in hoping great things of the king of navarre. the hopes for the reunion and reform of christendom which

temporal head of the world, or the french monarch. this is blanchet's interpretation of campanella's political evolution after the revolt, and i believe that he is right. i would add to it, however, the following suggestions. first, that the idea of establishing an ideal imperialist state in southern italy which was to spread to the rest of the world was not a new one. in the thirteenth century, the emperor frederick ii had established in the kingdom of sicily (which included naples) a model autocratic state,3 which he hoped to extend eventually to ii have studied campanella's mystical imperialism in relation to the french monarchy in my article "considerations de bruno et de campanella sur la monarchie francaise, u'art et la pensee de leonard de vinci, communications du congres internati

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ge of the outer-ones. the sigil of set in the guise of isolate intoxication is given as well. for these places are lonely and it pay s to be as intoxicated as one can be when isolated. to talk may be of detriment here. ii/7b: to return from these spaces is of hazard, for ye have believed that you actually went somewhere. the name of isis is illuminated, and a direct reference to the tarot trumps, the emperor, and the chariot. we also see a cube with the number 4 visible 3 times. four mountain-like shapes appearing on a wasteland. there are also 4 question marks on the page (1 in black flame beneath the cube, with the number 4 written in the point. too much advice has already been shown. ii/8a: a dweller is shown. this is highly dangerous. there is a play of the word(s: a void avoid. ii/8b:

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e ages. therefore christ exhorted his disciples to be wise as serpents. the egyptian word naja, which means serpent, is used at least once in the hebrew bible in the 58th psalm. in ancient egypt the pharaohs were kings and priests, holding a double office, and they therefore wore a double crown with a uraeus or serpent head so placed that when wearing this crown the uraeus seemed to protrude from the emperor's forehead between the eyebrows. the serpentine uraeus was therefore an apt symbol of the wisdom of the wearer. it will be remembered that according to the bible story the lucifer spirit appeared to eve as a serpent, a son of wisdom. cain according to the masonic legend, was born from this union with eve. it is also stated that the lucifer spirit then left eve, who thus became a widow

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

ity and importance is the shih or the book of poetry. this work contains the religious views of its writers, also an account of the manners, customs, and events of the times to which they belong. for 5000 years, in china, tien or ti has expressed the moving or creating force in the universe. in later ages it is observed that this name has been attached to royalty. hwang ti is the present title of the emperor of china. from some of the texts found in the shu king, it would seem that the chinese had in the remote past caught sight of the scientific fact that virtue is its own reward "heaven graciously distinguishes the virtuous. heaven punishes the guilty"[116 [116] max muller, sacred books of the east, book iv. the principal object of confucius seems to have been to inculcate those doctrine

christ was named the new sun, and in the early days of christianity the egyptians struck a coin representing o. b. or the holy basilisk, with rays of light darting from his head, on the reverse side of which was figured "jesus christ as the new solar deity" the similarity if not the actual identity of the religion of christ and that of the pagans in the second century is shown by various writers. the emperor hadrian writing to his friend servianus says "those who worship serapis are also christians; even those who style themselves the bishops of christ are devoted to serapis. there is but one god for them all; him do the christians, him do the jews, him do all the gentiles also worship" it has been said that the head of serapis supplied the first idea of the portrait of christ. before the

al significance; hence from a symbol representing the continuity of existence on the earth the cross now prefigured eternal life or existence after death. henceforward although man was dead in transgressions, through the cross, or through the crucified christ, he received eternal life. that the original signification of this symbol was understood by early christians is apparent from the fact that the emperor theodosius, between the years 378 and 395, issued a decree prohibiting the sign of the cross being sculptured or painted on the pavements of churches. tertullian also, after declaring that the devil made the sign of the cross on the foreheads of the followers of the persian mithra, accused the christians of adoring the same emblem. in 280, a. c. porphyry, referring to crosses, asked wh

many of the earlier pictures of christ, may be observed the words deo soli, which inscription signifies either "to the only god" or "to the god sol" of the various so-called christian antiquities which cover the walls of the vatican, we are assured by those who have acquainted themselves with the signification of pagan symbolism that "they have no more reference to christianity than they have to the emperor of china" the same may be said with reference to the representations on the walls of the catacombs. crishna, who was the equinoctial sun in aries, appeared 2160 years after the first buddha, who was the equinoctial sun in taurus. according to plutarch they were both modern gods when compared with the deities which gave names to the planets. buddha, or the sun in taurus, was worshipped

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the trojan war, or of the striking incident in the conversion of saul of tarsus, or of the former existence of the pharos of alexandria. and, on the other hand, of what value is negative evidence in such a discussion.thefact that the works of josephus have no mention of jesus which is not a forgery, is no proof that a gentle, wise and revered spiritual divine teacher did not preach in the time of the emperor tiberius, in jerusalem; nor is the fact that neither lord bacon, nor frederick the great, nor pope pio nono, nor spinoza, nor huxley, has ever asserted that he has seen the vault of christian rosenkreuz any reason for denying its existence in 1484 or 1600, or at any time since then. i would undertake to obtain in a week, in any large town in england, a thousand signatures to a document

ned in thetalmuds,both of jerusalem and of babylon, and is written in the neo-hebraic language, like themishnah.we must next consider thezohar,or 'book of splendour, a collection of many separate treatises on the deity, angels, souls, and cosmogony. this is ascribed to rabbi simeon ben jochai, who liveda.d.160, who was persecuted and driven to liveina cave by lucius aurelius verus, co-regent with the emperor marcus aurelius antoninus. some considerable portion of the work may have been arranged by him, and condensed by him from the oral traditions of his time:butother parts have certainly been added by other hands at intervals up to the timewhenit was first published as a whole by rabbi moses de leon, of guadalajara in spain,circa1290. from that time its history is known. printed editions

f the empire,butlater were restrained by legal decisions, from the overt practice of their art. theogenes, a citizen of apollonia, was consulted by augustuscasar.thrasyllus was the astrologer of tiberiuscasar;his son was consulted by nero. ptolomreus advised otho, and seleneus gave warnings to vespasian. these facts are narrated by the historian tacitus.theastrologer heliodorus was the adviser of the emperor valens. juvenal mentions the astrologers on several occasions.theearly christian fathers all condemned judicial astrology, among these tertullian, augustine and isidorus were most famous. apart from mythological fancies, the first man of whom it can be proved that he had astronomical knowledge is thales, a citizen of miletus, and the founder of the ionic system of philosphy; he died ab

h, the father of louis the eleventh, is said to have attended these classes. lord burleigh calculated the nativity of our queen elizabeth, and she, with other princes, consulted dr john dee, the astrologer, who was certainly to some extent a charlatan; he lived from 1527 to 1608. michael scott, who lived in the thirteenth century, was famous for his astrological knowledge and was much esteemed by the emperor frederick the second, whose death at florence happened as he had foretold; he also divined the manner of his own death by the fall of a stone and this occurred in a church by the falling of a stone from the roof. julius firmicus maternus wrote an astrologic treatise in venice 1497. valentine naibod, of padua, foretold danger to himself from a sword wound, and many years after was murde

and again approached the king and offered the remaining three books to him at the same price: he then bought them, and she left him and was never more seen. these famous sibylline books were kept in custody in the temple of jupiter on the capitol at rome. the temple was burnt and these books destroyed in the year 82b.c.after this loss a great number of falsified copies were found in rome, and so the emperor augustus collected two thousanddivination and its history 197spurious books and caused them to be burnt. an edition of these old oracles, probably many only of medieval product255 ion, is still procurable; it was published in paris in 1607, and calledsibulliakochresmoiorsibyllina oracula,by johannes opsopeeus: the oracles are given in greek and latin. the famous sibyls mentioned in gre

sight to the wearer and to keep dangers away from him. chiromancy an art which is still popular, professes to discover from the marking on the palms of the hands the future events of the life, and also certain particulars of the character of the individual; a study of much interest.202themagical masonthere is a hint of such a scheme in job, xxxvii, 7, which was known to aristotle and practised by the emperor augustuscresar.sortilegium-lotsamong the ancient greeks and romans the divination bysortes,that is by casting lots, was in very common use. hermes, the mercury of the romans, was supposed to preside over this system of discovering the will of the gods. inkleromantela,dice, black and white pebbles or beans were used; they were thrown into a vessel, together with an olive leaf to appease

edictine monastery of span255 heim, practised magic and divination; he was the confidant of henricus cornelius agrippa of nettesheim, who was perhaps the most renowned of all authors upon the occult sciences, alchemy, and magic: he flourished 1510-1535: he gives from michael scotus (1230)a description of twelve modes of augury. this latter was a scotch mathematician and magician and astrologer to the emperor frederic ii. johannes reuchlin, author ofthe mirific word of god,and pic de mirandola, the teachers of erasmus, the famous scholar who died in 1556, the very notable martin luther, the reformer who died 1546, and melanethon, were occultists and believed in the kabalistic magical learning taught by the hebrew rabbis. in england the practice of casting lots, thesortilegiumof the romans

uits, swords, wands, cups and coins; of the ten numerals; of kings, queens, and knaves; and of a fourth court card, a knight or man mounted on horseback. the knave was also at times considered as a female, and the four have also been called, cavalier, king, prince, queen and princess. in addition to these the pack includes 22 picture cards of varied meanings, called tarot trumps; among these were the emperor, the pope, the magician, the devil, the lovers, and the lightning-struck tower. the whole pack thus consisted of 78 cards. these cards are even today used by persons who have studied medieval occult science, and many such students are convinced that some magical power does reside in these symbols when used by those who have passed through a special course of astrological and kabalistic

ous as that of its egyptian competitor the cult of serapis, it extended over a great part of south and western europe and even reached britain, being spread by the roman soldiers who adopted the worship of mithra in great numbers; they were introduced to this cult at the period of pompey in his wars with cilicia. both of these cults were, however, abolished by the domination of christianity under the emperor constantine abouta.d.330.thegod of this world, according to zoroaster, was ahura mazda, king of light and spirit of the sun, often called ormuzd by english authors- a great being having many resemblances to the old hebrew mosaic ideal of jehovah.thecult was at first, at any rate, a monotheistic one,butlater became dualistic, prominence being given to the existence and powers of an evil

may refer to the rise and setting of the sun. in the later period of mithra worship in italy, these was a blending with the more usual solar worship of apollo as the sun god, as we read of mithra assol invictus, deus invictus mithras, deus sol invictus mithras;before its abolition we also find mithras associated with the paganmagna mater,the great mother goddess. as mithra worship was fading out, the emperor julian made an attempt to restore its dominance, but his failed, and persecution by christian authorities caused its extinction: the christian priests were especially bitter against the mithraists because of the similarities which christianity offered to the methods of mithra worship, for both used a ceremony of baptism, a sacred meal, the act of anointing, and252themagical masonboth o

as being placed in a secret recess of the mithraic caves, in which it would appear that artificial light must have been used. they assert that worship255 pers knelt before this figure, an unusual practice for romans, who stood in prayer. some christian fathers mention a simulated death in the secret ceremonials, and animagoresurrectionis,or symbolic return to life, and the biographer of commodus the emperor, who was a great officialin mithraic rites,verahomicidiopolluitactually killed a man, we may presume accidentally.theseven grades of mystic initiation were intended to represent a form of metempsychosis, or a succession of births and lives, one stage to be passed in each of the planets before perfect purity and wisdom could be obtained by any individual ego (see origencontracelsum,vi

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open in her hand. she representsscience, wisdom,orknowledge.3.the empress.a winged and crowned woman seated upon a throne, having in one hand a sceptre bearing a globe surmounted by a cross, while she rests the other upon a shield with an eagle blazoned therein on whose breast is the cross. she is the symbol ofaction,the result of the union of science and will.58 the sorcererand his apprentice4. the emperor.he is crowned (and leaning against a throne, his legs form a cross, and besidehim,beneath his left hand,ifa shield blazoned with an eagle. in his right hand hebearsasceptre similar to that of the empress. hisbodyand arms form a triangle, of which his head is the apex, so that the whole figure represents a triangle above a cross. he represents:realisation.5.the hierophant or pope.he is

us)to.q.andmatthegoddess oftruthwith herscales'to, and this is therefore better. alsowas attributed to.225..horus at one time. so unto the 'foolish man' is attributed air, moveable .and'.never permanent.the'juggler' isthenatural symbol of mercury, the god of tricksters and also of thedeeper.knowledge.the'high priestess'267 findeth her natural correla. tive in the]j 225venus is the 'empress';cy>is the emperor, forthesun is exaltedinthat martial and commanding sign. and so also with the others, in each shalt thou find its natural attribution.notebyv.h.fra.'srioghailmodhreamamongthegreeks and romans there existed a peculiar attribution of the deities to the zodiacal signs, thus:cy>minervatheowlt5venusthedoveiiapollothetripodalimercurytheturtle[i,jupitertheeagletjyceresthebasket'-vulcanthecap

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nclusion is the fact that consciousness can never be described in terms of material factors alone. the human brain is like a marvelous computer, in which information from our five senses are collected and processed. but, this computer does not have a sense of "self; it cannot conceive, feel or think about the sensations that it receives. the prominent english physicist, roger penrose, in his book the emperor's new mind, writes: what is it that gives a particular person his individual identity? is it, to some extent, the very atoms that compose his body? is his identity dependent upon the particular choice of electrons, protons, and other particles that compose those atoms? there are at least two reasons why this cannot be so. in the first place, there is a continual turnover in the materia

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

s 401 (this is because tthe letter z can be either 9 or 3. this is the numberfor k hr, the 20th aethyr, the aethyrof the wheel. the enochian formula of mzkzb expresses the spiritual impulse which is cyclic and yet continuous. the special aspect of this formula addresses the intoxicating effects of truth on the magician. the letters of this formula touch on a special aspect of qabalistic doctrine. the emperor (m) and the star(b) are the two extremes of this formula.crowley switched the pplaces of these two tarot paths on the tree of life tto better accord with his message. according to the formula of mzkzb, it doesn'tmatter which position they take because bzkzm is an iidenticalformula. the emperor and the star acting together encircle the impulse to create (z) which is ttemperedby experien

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g which the fires are put out in all houses. on the fourth morning the chief priest by rubbing two dry sticks together lights a new clean fire, which is distributed among all the dwellings; not till then do the women carry home the new corn and fruits from the harvest field.1 the arabs have for firefriction two pieces of wood called march and aphar, the one male, the other female. the chinese say the emperor sui was the first who rubbed wood against wood; the inconvenient method is retained as a holy one. indians and persians turn a piece of cane round in dry wood, kanne s urk. 454-5 (see suppl. i fr. major s mythol. taschenb. 1811, p. 110. need-fire. 611 it is still more interesting to observe how nearly the old roman and greek customs correspond. excerpts from festus (0. miiller 106, 2)

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

onfirm each other, i subjoin the following anecdote as related by jung.a respectable man in stockholm bought an estate of another, paid forit,and received an acknowledgment.thepurchaser diedcontributionsto the zoist203her, that i am not dead' why does he not write to her?'hehas written to her, but he presumes the vessel waswrecked;as he received no answer. he tells me he is at mexico. he followed the emperor don pedro; was five years a prisoner, suffered much, and will make every effort to return to france: they will see him again' can he name the place he lives in 'no, it is far up in the country: such places have no names' is he with a european 'no, with a man of colour.'whydoes he not write to his mother 'because, where he is, no vessels come; he knows not to whomtoapply: then, again, h

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

ria, are useful though hostile witnesses on egyptian religion. during the fourth century ce, christianity became the dominant religion of the roman empire. the date usually given for the end of pharaonic culture is 395 ce. this was the year when the roman empire was divided into two. egypt became part of the eastern, or byzantine, empire, and most of its pagan temples were closed down by order of the emperor. the isis temple at philae on egypt s southern border stayed open until the sixth century ce because it was protected by nubian tribes who still revered the goddess. the latest known hieroglyphic texts are from philae. when there was no longer anyone left who could read the ancient texts, knowledge of the egyptian gods and their myths gradually died out. this change of religion was far

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

posted off to that ancient city, and thencewent into the wilds of transylvania to mengyco. on his return, as soon as he reached the telegraph andcivilization, he telegraphed the prefect from kardszag "don't lose sight of my man, nor let him leave paris. iwill run him in for you two days after i get back" it happened that on the day of delessert's return to paris the prefect was absent, being with the emperor atcherbourg. he came back on the fourth day, just twenty-four hours after the announcement of delessert'sdeath. that happened, as near as could be gathered, in this wise: the night after delessert's return he waspresent at de lassa's salon with a ticket of admittance to a seance. he was very completely disguised as adecrepit old man, and fancied that it was impossible for any one to de

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

ammonius saccas, the founder of neo-platonism, but was rather a critic than a follower. porphyry (the jew malek or malchus) was his pupil before he became the disciple of plotinus. it is said of him that he was a living library and a walking museum. towards the end of his life he became the instructor in greek literature of zenobia, queen of palmyra. she repaid his services by accusing him before the emperor aurelius of having advised her to rebel against the latter, a crime for which longinus, with several others, was put to death by the emperor in 273. macrocosm (gr) the "great universe" or kosmos, literally. magic the "great" science. according to deveria and other orientalists "magic was considered as a sacred science inseparable from religion" by the oldest and most civilized and lear

the secret sciences, but very often applied to a mere student. occult world, the the name of the first book which treated of theosophy, its history, and certain of its tenets. written by a.p. sinnett, then editor of the leading indian paper, the pioneer, of allahabad, india. olympiodorus the last neo-platonist of fame and celebrity in the school of alexandria. he lived in the sixth century under the emperor justinian. there were several writers and philosophers of this name in pre-christian as in post-christian periods. one of these was the teacher of proclus, another a historian in the eighth century, and so on. origen a christian churchman, born at the end of the second century, probably in africa, of whom little, if anything, is known, since his biographical fragments have passed to po

the term has now become in india a generic name to designate every kind of ascetic. yuga (sans) an age of the world of which there are four, which follow each other in a series, namely, krita (or satya) yuga, the golden age; treta -yuga, dvapara-yuga, and finally kali-yuga, the black age-in which we now page 171 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt are. zenobia the queen of palmyra, defeated by the emperor aurelianus. she had for her instructor longinus, the famous critic and logician in the third century ad (see longinus) zivo, kabar (or yukabar) the name of one of the creative deities in the nazarene codex (see isis unveiled) zohar (heb) the book of splendor, a cabalistic work attributed to simeon ben iochai, in the first century of our era (see for fuller explanation theosophical glos

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ast effectiveness, and doubtless atoned for the loss of the familiar polar auroras of the outer-world night. art and decoration were pursued, though of course with a certain decadence. the old ones seemed to realize this falling off themselves, and in many cases anticipated the policy of constantine the great by transplanting especially fine blocks of ancient carving from their land city, just as the emperor, in a similar age of decline, stripped greece and asia of their finest art to give his new byzantine capital greater splendors than its own people could create. that the transfer of sculptured blocks had not been more extensive was doubtless owing to the fact that the land city was not at first wholly abandoned. by the time total abandonment did occur- and it surely must have occurred

INVOCATION OF OUR LORD OF MIDNIGHT MAHAZHAEL DEVAL

knowledge! our blessing and our curse upon thee, for thou art twain of mask and face! in all blessing we adore thee as the corn-king, crowned amid the seven wreaths of time, most wise amongst the noble lords who serve on the path of the year and the day. in all cursing we adore thee as the boneherder, who dwelleth in the invisable ossuary at the centre of every charnel-ground. exalted art thou as the emperor in the northern gateway of power! all-hail to thee as the leader of the eight gods in the retinue of bha! we revere thee as our protector, our consort and our brother eternal guide to all who stray, self-abandoned to seek paradise in exile! hail to thee as the eight-armed giant, magister of the dragon s brood! we summon thee to the blood-acre by the lych-light of the dying sun. we call

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l dramatic, if not very impressive anathemas from every catholic diocese; threaten right and left; excommunicate and curse. per- ceiving, finally, that her thunderbolts directed even against crowned digitizecoy google examples of papal vmjperation 7 heads fall about as harmlessly as the jovian lightnings of offenbach's cakkaa, borne turns about in powerless fury against the victimized jtrotigh of the emperor of russia the unfortimate bulgarians and servians. undisturbed by evidence and sarcasm, unbaffled by proof 'the lamb of the vatican' impartially divides his wrath between the liberals of italy "the impious whose breath has the stench of the sepulcher* the "schismatic russian sarmates" and the heretics and spirituidists "who worship at the bottomless pit where the great dragon lies in w

o the hands of laniu, who became bishop m 69 (see reber'a chrit of paul, p. 122. we will treat of the subject miwe fully in now we ask in the name of common sense, how could the faitiifiii of peter's church imreaie at tuch a rate, when nero trapped and killed them hke so many mice during his reign? history shows the few christiana 6ediig from rome, wherever they oonlcc to avoid the persecution of the emperor, and the chrottiqut da aril makes uien e and multiply "christ" the artide goes on to say "willed that this visible bgn of the doctrinal authority of bis vicar should also have its portion of immortality; one can follow it from age to a^ in the documents of the roman church" tertuuian formally attests its existence in his book de praetor, haeret, ixxvi. eager to leam everything concerni

t has escaped thee, bring it back to its place, for such is the object of our alliance "this is a secret which gives death: close thy mouth lest thou sbouldst reveal to the vulgar; compress thy brain lest something should escape from it and fall outside" agruakada-parikakai. truly the fate of many a future generation hung on a gossamer thread in the days of the third end fourth centuries. had not the emperor sent in 3s9 to alexandria a rescript which was forced from him by the christians for the destruction of every idol, our own century would never have had a christian mythological pantheon of its own. never digitizecoy google maby-vmgm only isis eechristened 41 did the xeo-platonic school reiich such a height of philosophy as when nearest its end. uniting the mystic theosophy of old egyp

history of donutian's persecutions of magicians and philosophers, which affords as good a proof as any that john was generally considered a kabalist. as the apostle was in- cluded among the number, and moreover conspicuous, the imperial edict banished him not only from home, but even from the continent. it was not the christians whom confounding them with the jews, as acme historians will have it the emperor persecuted, but the astrologers and kabalists* the accusations against jesus of practising the magic of egypt were numerous and at one time universal, in the towns where he was 322. an, xix, 12. 323. seesuetoniiwbrtladoinifiiui^ 3, 12, 14- it ii neiuier crudt. dot an iiuuie injnl^iiee in it. which showi thia emperor in history ui puiing hii time in catchiiu flies mid trmnafixiiig them

be called mysterious. there was a mystery, first, in the mystical number of its 318 bishops, on which barnabas" lays such a stress; added to this, there is no agreement among ancient writers as to the time and place of its assembly, nor even as to the bishop who presided* notwithstanding the grandiloquent eulogium of constantine^ sabinus, the bishop of heraclea. affirms that "except constantine, the emperor, and eusebius pamphili, these bishops were a set of luiterate, nmpu creatures, that imderstood nothing* which is equivalent to saying that they were a set of foob. such was apparently the opinion enter- tained of them by pappus, who tells us of the bit of magic resorted to, so as to decide which were the true gospels. in his synodicon to that council pappus says that, having "promiscuo

ions of the occident, and lowered the european of those days almost to the level of a papuan savage could not have occurred. the fears of the christians were only too well founded, and their pious zeal and prophetic insight was rewarded from the very first. in the demoution of the serapeum, after the bloody riot between the christian mob and the pagan worshipers had ended with the interference of the emperor, a latin cross, of a perfect christian shape, was discovered 0m. thu demripuod applies to cyril of joiualem. not to cyril of atexaiktrw. s e footdote 113, ntpro] digitizecoy google 2h isb dnveilbd hewn upon the granite slabs of the a( ytiim. this was a lucky ducoveiy, indeed; and the monks did not fail to claim that the cross had been hallowed by the pagans in a 'spirit of prophecy' at

m critics at all, we mi^t remind the reader of the scurrilous terms in which eusebius is attacked by george syncellus, the vice-patriarch of constantinople (eighth century, for his audacious falsification of the egyptian chronology' the opinion of socrates, a historian of the fifth century, is no more flattering. he fear- lessly charges eusebius with perverting historical dates in order to please the emperor constantine' in his chronographic work, before proceed- ing to falsify the synchronistic tables himadf, in order to impart to scrip- tural chronology a more trustworthy appearance, syncellus covers euse- bius with the dioicest of monkish billingsgate. baron butuen has verified the justnetk, if not justified the jxuiteneaa, of this ofrunw induament. his elaborate researches in the recti

ic christianity of the constantinian period is simply an offspring of the numerous conflicting sects, half-castes themselves, bom of pagan parents. each of these could claim ropresentatives converted to the so- called orthodox body of christians. and as every newly-bom dogma had to be carried out by the majority of votes, every sect colored the main substance with its own hue till the moment when the emperor enforced this remow oua-podrida, of which he evidently did not himself under- stand a word, upon an unwilling world as the reliffion of christ. wearied in the vain attempt to sound this fathomless bog of international specula- tions, unable to appreciate a reugion based on the pure spirituality of an ideal conception, christendom gave itself up to the adoration of brutal force as repre

ostolic succession, which the irenaeo-eusebian chronology shows to have already included three bishops of some* josephus, the painstaking enumerator and careful historian of even the most unimportant sects, entirely ignores the exist- ence of a christian sect. suetonius, secretary of hadrian, writing in the first quarter of the second century, knows so uttle of jesus or his history as to say that the emperor claudius "banished all the jews, who were 862b, on at least one occasion pbilo visited jerusalem, ftltbough bit chief resihence iraa in' alexandria, long "a favorite abode of the learn ^r. jvdaeut.pnlatx. 853. lutrod: also ch. xrriii. digitizecoy google 33s isis unveiled continually making disturbances, at the instigation of one chrettus" meaning christ, we must suppose* the emperor ha

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ing of the sepulchre. by some inscriptions found about the tomb it appeared that she must have lain there fifteen hundred years. who she was was never known, although many concluded her to be tulliola, the daughter of cicero. this discovery has been reported from various hands. cedrenus makes mention of a lamp, which, together with an image of christ, was found at edessa in the reign of justinian the emperor. notes. 11 it was set over a certain gate there, and elaborately enclosed and shut out from the air. this lamp, as appeared from the date attached to it, was lighted soon after christ was crucified. it was found burning as in fact it had done for five hundred years by the soldiers of cosroes, king of persia; by whom, at this strange discovery and plunder, the oil was taken out and cast

chiave del gabinetto* col. 1681, 12mo, by joseph francis borri, an italian; and le compte de gabalis, ou entretiens sur les sciences secretes; imprim e paris, par claude barbin, 1671, 12mo, pp. 150. this book is the work of the abb de villars, or is supposed to be so. j. v. andrea, a writer upon hermetic subjects, was almoner to the duke of wurtemberg, and wrote early in the seventeenth century. the emperor rudolphus the second greatly* mark the letters g and c are convertible: thus gab or cab( gab ala or cab ala. the compte de gabalis is properly the compte de cabalis, or the count of the cabala. robert fludd, or flood. 167 encouraged learned men who had made acquaintance with alchemical lore. at the supposed revival of rosicrucianism in paris, in march 1623, the brethren were said to nu

ebes, anubis is represented as st. michael and st. george are in christian paintings, armed in a cuirass, and having in his hand a lance, with which he pierces a monster that has the head and tail of a serpent (a. lenoir, du dragon du metz &c, m moires de l academic celtique, tome ii. pp. 11, 12. figure 37 is the labarum. the celebrated sign which is said to have appeared in the sky at noonday to the emperor constantine was in this form. figure 38 is the monogram of the saviour. to show the fig. 35. terminal figures. 169 parallel in symbolical forms, we will add some further authorities from the temple of solomon at jerusalem. figure 39, no. 1, is an evidently corinthian foliation. it is from a pillar in the vaults of the temple of solomon at jerusalem (probably a lotus-acanthus) no. 2 is

lambeaux in all worship. rom the name of the temple, now stonehenge, comes the name of ambresbury, which stands a few miles from it. this is called the ambres of the abiri. it is two words, and means the ambres of the dii potentes, or of the yryba, or cabiri, for they are the same. the star of the l gion d honneur bears the inscription napol on, empereur des fran ais. this order was instituted by the emperor napeleon the first, after the discovery and elimination of the secret society, or brotherhood, of which general pichegru, georges cadoudal, the famous moreau, and other noted revolutionary men, were members. this order possessed, it is stated, a talisman, or mystic head, which served as a recognitive mark, and was supposed to be a sort of bond to the brotherhood. after their death, the

ion of the secret society, or brotherhood, of which general pichegru, georges cadoudal, the famous moreau, and other noted revolutionary men, were members. this order possessed, it is stated, a talisman, or mystic head, which served as a recognitive mark, and was supposed to be a sort of bond to the brotherhood. after their death, their secret insignia were discovered; and it has been stated that the emperor napoleon, whose attention was instantaneously arrested by great and unusual ideas or supernatural suggestions, in suppressing this mystic symbol or head, adopted it in another form, and substituted his own f the rosicrucian system. 187 head, in profile, as the palladium, or talisman, for his neworder of the legion of honour. the saffron robe of hymen is of the colour of the flame of fi

little doubt that this was the original domus templi, the house of buddha, corrupted into bede, and meaning wisdom. a discourse concerning the tartars, proving (in all probability) that they are the israelites, or ten tribes; which, being taken captive by salmaneser, were transplanted into media. by giles fletcher, doctor of both laws, and sometime ambassador from elizabeth, queen of england, to the emperor of russia. this was found in sir francis nethersole s study after his death (memoirs of the life of william whiston, 1749. mr. cavendish, an eminent chemist, had reason to be persuaded that the very water itself consisted solely of inflammable air united to dephlogisticated air. this last conclusion has since been strengthened very much by some subsequent experiments of dr. priestley s

an of the san gr al, ascribes to it a supernatural origin. he gave out that god was its real author, and had revealed it, in a celestial vision, to a holy hermit of britain towards the year a.d. 720. this writer makes joseph one of the coryph i of his history of the san greal. after forty-two years of captivity, joseph of arimathea, the guardian of the grail or gr al, is at last set at liberty by the emperor vespasian. in possession of the sacred vessel, and a few more relics, and accompanied by his relations and disciples, hebron and alain the fisherman, he travels over a part of asia, where he converts enelach, king of sarras. he then goes to rome, and thence to britain, where he preaches the gospel and performs thirty-four miracles. he settles in the island yniswitrin, isle of glass (th

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rtal and demanded of the gatesmen entrance. these doors opened also to his coming and, the herald before him hurrying, scaled the tower's heights to the chamber in which his father, adonai yahweh, sat upon the platinum throne, seat of heaven, and directed the movements of the elohim. now, announced by trumpet and by voice, before the very throne of god went raphael and there abased himself before the emperor of all, making due humility before that king, crouched within the shattered throne of the elohim and their kingdom, darkened by ruin's black shadow as that awful shade stooped o'er their walls and slavered, jackal-like, at such rich booty as would be his in due time. now with trembling speech gave voice to the witness he had borne on earth and the reconnaissance that he had made. this

his gaze from the white stallion and its rider, throwing up a froth, as the dread king came across the river to meet him, the iron sceptre raised high like the tail of the scorpion that has within its claws its prey. all courage then left the heart of lamech. in the shallows of the river, before the king, utanapishtim, lamech fell upon his knees, casting aside his spear and holding up open hands. the emperor in green dismounted from his horse and crossed the remainder of the distance by his own feet to stand in triumph before the prostrate lamech, raising up once more with two hands the great mace of meteoric iron. now weeping lamech made entreaty to the victor, though the battle was newly joined, and implored mercy of the king of shurupuk "utanapishtim, monarch more terrible than god, i p

if you must but it would be a foolish thing to strike down the son of god. condemn me if you must but take care that you condemn no yourself" hearing jesu. son of gabriel, speak such words as these to them, the cohanim most swiftly pronounced both verdict and sentence upon him "he is guilty and must die" so, by night, was he taken to stand before pontius pilate, governor over judaea, appointed by the emperor of distant rome. at dawn was he brought before him, pilate, who looked down upon him as he was cast to the ground before him. now did he that would be king bleed of the whip's many cuts and the savage fists of men. his raiment was torn into rags. never had a king looked so wretched. yet, looking down upon him, pilate perceived that the captive gazed upward to meet his eyes with a stare

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

all that, securing for them better wages and greatly improved conditions generally. many of our brn. must have heard of the watson ms of 1687. in that a good deal is said about s. albans work for the craft, and it is specially mentioned that he brought from france certain ancient charges which are practically identical with those in use at the present time. he was beheaded in the persecu-tion by the emperor diocletian in the year 303, and the great abbey of s. alban was built over his remains some five hundred years later. 29. in the year 411 he was born in constantinople and received the name of proclus- a name which in after life he was destined to make famous. he was one of the last great exponents of neo-platonism, and his influence overshadowed to a great extent the medieval christia

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

kept rigidly secret, and also that they attached symbolic interpretations to their tools, such as the square and compasses, the plumb-rule and level. they took pagan gods as their patrons in much the same way as the guilds which succeeded them adopted christian patron saints. the four crowned martyrs, the patron saints of masonry, were christian members of a college who were tortured to death by the emperor diocletian for refusing to make a statue of aesculapius(*j. s. m. ward: freemasonry and the ancient gods, pp. 144, 145) they were later confused with the tradition of the four brothers of horus. 442. bro. j. s. m. ward describes a building of the collegia unearthed at pompeii in 1878, which had been buried in a.d. 79, during the great eruption of mount vesuvius. it contains striking ma

forms. as christianity grew narrower and more aggressive, and less tolerant of fact, those who knew something of the truth, and wished to preserve its enshrinement in those older forms, had more and more to keep their meetings secret; for the church was exceedingly intolerant towards anyone who dared to differ from her, even in minor matters. 469. the repression of the mysteries 470. in a.d. 399 the emperor theodosius issued his celebrated edict, which was a heavy blow to the outer manifestation of the ancient pagan faith: 471. whatever privileges were conceded by the ancient laws to the priests, ministers, prefects, hierophants of sacred things, or by whatsoever name they may be designated, are to be abolished henceforth, and let them not think that they are protected by a granted privil

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

1321) was born of a guelf middleclass family. he played an important role in florentine civic and political life. after writing his first work, the vita nuova, about his youthful idealistic love for beatrice portinari, he took an active part in the administration of the commune and was on the imperial side in the struggle between guelfs and ghibellines, respectively the partisans of the pope and the emperor, who were fighting for the jurisdiction in italy. however, when the rival party splintered into two factions, he decided to support the antipapal policy of the white guelfs.after the blacks took over the city in 1301, under the wing of charles de valois, dante was exiled and his life of wandering from court to court of medieval italy began. during his exile, he wrote the convivio, his

LIBER 777

idden i. the 4 sevens amber 8 absolute or perfect i. the 4 eights violet purple 9 pure or clear i. the 4 nines indigo 1010 resplendent i. the 4 tens empresses or princesses yellow 11 scintillating i. the fool [swords] emperors or princes bright pale yellow 12 i. of transparency the juggler yellow 13 uniting i. the high priestess blue 14 illuminating i. the empress emerald green 15 constituting i. the emperor scarlet 16 triumphal or eternal one the hierophant red orange 17 disposing one the lovers orange 18 i. of the house of influence the chariot amber 19 i. of all the activities of the spiritual being strength yellow, greenish 20 i. of will hermit green, yellowish 21 i. of conciliation wheel of fortune violet 22 faithful i. justice emerald green 23 stable i. the hanged man [cups] queens

let 29 corporeal i. the moon crimson (ultra violet) 30 collecting i. the sun orange 31 perpetual i. the angel or last judgement [wands] kings or knights. glowing orange scarlet 32 administrative i. the universe indigo 32 bis. empresses [coins] citrine, russet, olive, and black (quartered) 31 bis. all 22 trumps white, merging grey table of correspondences 6 xvi* the queen scale of colour (h. xvii* the emperor scale of colour (v. xviii* the empress scale of colour. 0. 1 white brilliance white brilliance white flecked gold 2 grey blue pearl grey, like mother-of pearl white, flecked red, blue, and yellow 3 black dark brown grey flecked pink 4 blue deep purple deep azure flecked yellow 5 scarlet red bright scarlet red flecked black 6 yellow (gold) rich salmon gold amber 7 emerald bright yellow

s] editorial note: the atus of thoth liber al, cap. i, v. 57 includes the statement: all these old letters of my book are aright: but x is not the star. this also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise. in crowley s new comment on this verse, he observes: i see no harm in revealing the mystery of tzaddi to the wise; others will hardly understand my explanations. tzaddi is the letter of the emperor, the trump iv, and h is the star, the trump xvii. aquarius and aries are therefore counterchanged, revolving on the pivot of pisces, just as, in the trumps viii and xi, leo and libra do about virgo. this last revelation makes our tarot attributions sublimely, perfectly, flawlessly symmetrical. the fact of its so doing is a most convincing proof of the superhuman wisdom of the author of

LIBER ALEPH

es that are the influx upon tiphereth, which is the harmony and beauty, or sol, in every kingdom of the universe, so then also among metals. now this influx is fivefold. first, from the crown descendeth the high priestess in the path of the moon, for inspiration, and imagination, and idea: see to it that this virgin be pure, for herein error is illusion. next, from the father floweth the power of the emperor in the path of the ram, for initiative, and energy, and determination. third, from the mother are the lovers in the path of the twins, for intellectual wholeness, and for adjustment to environment. these three are from this superna and complete the theorick of thy work. after this, in the praxis and executive thereof thou hast the hermit as an influence from the sphere of jupiter in th

LIBER CHANOKH

f water, the square with the left and right sides referred to fire is attributed to the knight of cups. 17: each square is additionally referred to one of the 16 figures of geomancy, and to one of the signs or elements (saturn replacing earth as per the dual attribution of the path of tau, and thence to the hebrew letter and tarot card corresponding: thus row column attributions fire a puer h iv. the emperor water d populus j vii. the chariot air g puella l viii. justice fire (cardinal signs) earth j carcer o xv. the devil fire e fortuna minor f xi. strength water h rubeus n xiii. death air k tristesia x xvii. the star water (fixed signs) earth b amissio w v. the hierophant fire i acquisitio s xiv. temperence water l laetitia q xviii. the moon air c albus z vi. the lovers air (mutable sign

LIBER LIBERI VEL LAPIDIS LAZULI

24 liber liberi vel lapidis lazuli 15. i am the bird, and thou art my song, o my glorious galloping god! 16. thou reinest in the stars; thou drivest the constellations seven abreast through the circus of nothingness. 17. thou gladiator god! 18. i play upon mine harp; thou fightest the beasts and the flames. 19. thou takest thy joy in the music, and i in the fighting. 20. thou and i are beloved of the emperor. 21. see! he has summoned us to the imperial dais. the night falls; it is a great orgy of worship and bliss. 22. the night falls like a spangled cloak from the shoulders of a prince upon a slave. 23. he rises a free man! 24. cast thou, o prophet, the cloak upon these slaves! 25. a great night, and scarce fires therein; but freedom for the slave that its glory shall encompass. 26. so al

LIBER LVII

resurrection is hidden in death. wt. the universe is the hexagram (other meanings suit other planes and other grades* inspiration, equilibrated produces material energy [note added by ac to a copy of equinox i (5, as transribed by yorke. in the seed of the magus the universe is latent [note by ac, source as above. love balanaces the universe (x(-x= 0 [note by ac, source as above] for [this] read .the emperor is born of the queen to the wanderer [note by ac, source as above; referring to switch of tarot attributions] on the qabalah 29 truly there is no end to this wondrous science; and when the sceptic sneers .with all these methods one ought to be able to make everything out of nothing. the qabalist smiles back the sublime retort .with these methods one did make everything out of nothing

the sphere of the planets and .fixed stars. and is the realm of the divine. t.s] on the qabalah 41 scholion. 9= the foundation of all things= the foundation of the alphabet= yod= 10= malkuth= kether= 1. scholion z. 9= ix= the hermit= yod= 10= x= the wheel of fortune= k= 20= xx= the last judgement= c= 300= 30= l= justice= viii= 8= j= the chariot= vii= 7= z= the lovers= vi= 6= w= the pope= v= 5= h= the emperor62= iv= 4= d= the empress= iii= 3= g= the high priestess= ii= 2= b= the magus= i= 1= a= the fool= 0. scholion h. 9= luna= g= 3, etc, as before. scholion q. 9= indigo lead= saturn= 3, etc, as before. there are many other lines of argument. this form of reasoning reminds one of the riddle .why is a story like a ghost. answer .a story.s a tale; a tail.s a brush; a brush is a broom; a broug

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

the teacher made him a master of sixfold chamber, and an ardent sufferer toward the blazing star. for the sword, said the teacher, is but the star unfurled.2 and our father being cunning to place aleph over tau read this reverse, and so beheld eden, even now and in the flesh. whence he sojourned far, and came to a great emperor, by whom he was well received, and from whom he gat great gifts. and the emperor (who is solomon) told him of sheba.s land and of one fairest of women there enthroned. so he journeyed thither, and for four years and seven months abode with her as paramour and light-of-love, for she was gracious to him and showed him those things that the emperor had hidden; even the cubical stone and the cross beneath the triangle that were his and un-revealed. and on the third day

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

thout bodies, and impassive air" p. 17 even though neo-platonism was to intervene and many centuries pass before this emphasis took definite form. although ammonius saccus was long believed to be the founder of neo-platonism, the school had its true beginning in plotinus (a.d. 204-269. prominent among the neo-platonists of alexandria, syria, rome, and athens were porphyry, iamblichus, sallustius, the emperor julian, plutarch, and proclus. neo-platonism was the supreme effort of decadent pagandom to publish and thus preserve for posterity its secret (or unwritten) doctrine. in its teachings ancient idealism found its most perfect expression. neo- platonism was concerned almost exclusively with the problems of higher metaphysics. it recognized the existence of a secret and all-important doct

e souls of those seeking union with the immortals. the maze was also doubtless used to represent the solar system, the bull-man representing the sun dwelling in the mystic maze of its planets, moons, and asteroids. the gnostic mysteries were acquainted with the arcane meaning of serapis, and through the medium of gnosticism this god became inextricably associated with early christianity. in fact, the emperor hadrian, while traveling in egypt in a.d. 24, declared in a letter to servianus that the worshipers of serapis were christians and that the bishops of the church also worshiped at his shrine. he even declared that the patriarch himself, when in egypt, was forced to adore serapis as well as christ (see parsons' new light on the great pyramid) the little-suspected importance of serapis a

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

entorum chronicon. the phoenix is the most celebrated of all the symbolic creatures fabricated by the ancient mysteries for the purpose of concealing the great truths of esoteric philosophy. though modern scholars of natural history declare the existence of the phoenix to be purely mythical, pliny describes the capture of one of these birds and it exhibition in the roman forum during the reign of the emperor claudius. p. 90 from the days of noah by all those who were of the church of god. the prophet sent to ninevah as god's messenger was called jonah or the dove; our lord's forerunner, the baptist, was called in greek by the name of ioannes; and so was the apostle of love, the author of the fourth gospel and of the apocalypse, named ioannes (bryant's analysis of ancient mythology) in maso

f physical sight and the beginning of ethereal vision may account for these differences of opinion. even this explanation, however, does not satisfactorily account for the satyr which, according to st. jerome, was captured alive during the reign of constantine and exhibited to the people. it was of human form with the horns and feet of a goat. after its death it was preserved in salt and taken to the emperor that he might testify to its reality (it is within the bounds of probability that this curiosity was what modern science knows as a monstrosity) the undines as the gnomes were limited in their function to the elements of the earth, so the undines (a name given to the family of water elementals) function in the invisible, spiritual essence called humid (or liquid) ether. in its vibrator

books are by no means thoroughly established. qabbalists declare that the sepher yetzirah was written by abraham. although it is by far the oldest of the qabbalistic books, it was probably from the pen of the rabbi akiba, a.d. 120. the sepher ha zohar presumably was written by simeon ben jochai, a disciple of akiba. rabbi simeon was sentenced to death about a.d. 161 by lucius verus, co-regent of the emperor marc aurelius antoninus. he escaped with his son and, hiding in a cave, transcribed the manuscript of the zohar with the assistance of elias, who appeared to them at intervals. simeon was twelve years in the cave, during which time he evolved the complicated symbolism of the "greater face" and the "lesser face" while discoursing with disciples rabbi simeon expired, and the "lamp of isr

n the pseudo-egyptian tarot the empress is shown seated upon a cube filled with eyes and a bird is balanced upon the forefinger other left hand. the upper part of her body is surrounded by a radiant golden nimbus. being emblematic of the power from which emanates the entire tangible universe, l'imp ratrice is frequently symbolized as pregnant. the fourth numbered major trump is called l'empereur, the emperor, and by its numerical value is directly associated with the great deity revered by the pythagoreans under the form of the tetrad. his symbols declare the emperor to be the demiurgus, the great king of the inferior world. the emperor is dressed in armor and his throne is a cube stone, upon which a phoenix is also clearly visible. the king has his legs crossed in a most significant manne

putable proof (if appearances can prove anything) of the possibility of transmuting base metals into gold, may be seen by everyone who visits vienna; it being a medal preserved in the imperial treasury chamber, and it is stated that this medal, consisting originally of silver, has been partly transformed into gold, by alchemical means, by the same wenzel seiler who was afterwards made a knight by the emperor leopold i. and given the title wenzeslaus ritter von reinburg"(in the pronaos of the temple of wisdom) space limitations preclude a lengthy discussion of the alchemists. a brief sketch of the lives of four should serve to show the general principles on which they worked, the method by which they obtained their knowledge, and the use which they made of it. these four were grand masters

ore which the powers of darkness fell back abashed. the student is reminded of the words in hoc signo vinces. the tau form of the cross is not unlike the seal of venus, as richard payne knight has noted. he states "the cross in this form is sometimes observable on coins, and several of them were found in a temple of serapis [the serapeum, demolished at the general destruction of those edifices by the emperor theodosius, and were said by the christian antiquaries of that time to signify the future life" augustus le plongeon, in his sacred mysteries among the mayas and quiches, notes that the crux ansata, which he calls the key to the nile and the symbol of symbols, either in its complete form or as a simple tau, was to be seen adorning the breasts of statues and bas-reliefs at palenque, cop

orum fatidicorum. concerning apollonius and his remarkable powers, francis barrett, in his biographia antiqua, after describing how apollonius quelled a riot without speaking a word, continues "he traveled much, professed himself a legislator; understood all languages, without having learned them; he had the surprising faculty of knowing what was transacted at an immense distance, and at the time the emperor domitian was stabbed, apollonius being at a vast distance and standing in the market-place of the city, exclaimed 'strike! strike-'tis time, the tyrant is no more' he understood the language of birds; he condemned dancing and other diversions of that sort. he recommended charity and piety; he traveled over almost all the countries of the world; and he died at a very great age" p. 184 a

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 2

the magus or his disciples fear. and then let the magus say: i exhort you by these holy names of god, elohim, adonai, agla, that none of you now presume to move or cross over from your appointed stations. this being said, let the magus and his disciples uncover the holy pentacles and show them towards each quarter, and they being shown in each place, there shall be noises and rushings. then shall the emperor of (the spirits) say unto you: from the time of the great addus until now, there hath not been an exorciser who could behold my person, and unless those things which ye have showed unto us hath been made, ye would not now have seen me. but seeing that ye have powerfully called us, as i believe, by the rites derived from solomon, and which but few of your comrades, or exorcisers, posses

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 2

y be called any time the day or night, but his dukes who hath 3000 servants a piece to attend them are to be called in certain hours, as vadras he may be called in the 2 first hours of the day, and so successively till you come to nadroc who is to be called in the 2 last hours of the night& then begins again (with) vadras &c. the same rule is to be observed calling the dukes belonging to demoriel the emperor of the north. camiel seal musiriel seal lamael seal carifas seal codriel seal nadroc seal vadras seal luziel seal rapsel seal zoeniel seal amesiel seal balsur seal theurgia goetia 7 the conjuration "i conjure thee o thou great& mighty& potent prince amenadiel, who is the emperor& chief king ruling in the dominion of the west &c" demoriel demoriel is the great& mighty emperor of the nor

ight. sariel seal aroam seal chamos seal bufar seal asahel seal euriel seal asphiel seal melas seal those spirits which belong to the night (are) to be called in the night& those of the day in the day. the conjuration "i conjure thee o thou mighty& potent prince asteliel &c" lemegeton: clavicula salomonis 14 barmiel the 5th. spirit in order is barmiel, he is the first& chief spirit under caspiel, the emperor of the south, he governs as king under caspiel& hath 10 dukes for the day& 20 for the night to attend him to do his will, the which are all very good& willing to obey the exorcist, whereof we shall make mention but of 8 that belong to the day& as many for the night, with their seals for they are sufficient for practise. note: every one of these dukes hath 20 servants apeace to attend t

l gayres seal pelusar seal lemegeton: clavicula salomonis 26 budis seal paniel seal narsiel seal abael seal momel seal curfas seal mosiel seal meroth seal pasiel seal liel seal aroziol seal chadriel seal gariel seal maziel seal cusijnd seal lobiel seal the conjuration "i conjure thee, o thou mighty& potent prince dorochiel &c" theurgia goetia 27 usiel the 11th. spirit in order but the third under the emperor amenadiel, is called usiel, who is a mighty prince ruling as king in the northwest, he hath 40 diurnal& 40 nocturnal dukes to attend him, in the day& in the night, whereof we shall make mention of 14 that belong to the day& as many for the night, which is sufficient for practise, the first 8 that belong to the day hath 40 servants apiece& the others 630 apiece& the first 8 that belong

appear with thy attendents in this first hour of the day, here before me in this crystal stone [or here before this circle] in a fair& comely shape to (do) my will in all things that i shall desire of you& observe this (mark* in the conjuration (that follows) and go on as followeth. the conjuration of the 4 empires (emperors "i conjure thee o thou great& mighty& potent prince carnatiel who is the the emperor& chief king ruling in the dominion of the east, i conjure (thee) carnatiel that thou forthwith appear& observe this mark& go on (from) there in the following conjuration. the conjuration to the wandring dukes, how to call them forth and any other dukes that doth not wander, only leaving out [wandering here& there (in the air] and only for (the) prince say duke "i conjure thee o thou mi

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

action?so we ask, who is evil, the one who acts it out, or the one who created the propensityin the first place? does it not seem strange that the god who promised to take care of all his people andnever bring another deluge would be so conspicuously absent during all the subse-quent horrors of history? so it goes on and on throughout the bible text. no wonder that pliny the y oungerwhen asked by the emperor trajan about christianity replied that it was a..degenerate sort of cult taken to extravagant lengths.i do not believe in the creed professed by the jewish church, by the roman church, by thegreek church, by the turkish church, by the protestant church, nor by any church that iknow of..each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, i disbe-lieve them all (tho

ion155 appendix a:the minstrels speaki am the one the orgasmatronthe out-stretched grasping handmy image is of agony, my servants rape the land.obsequious and arrogant, clandestine and vaintwo thousand years of misery and torture in my name.hypocrisy made paramount, paranoia of the lawmy name is called religionsadistic sacred whore.i twist the truth, i rule the worldmy crown is called deceit.i am the emperor of lies, you grovel at my feet.i rob you and i slaughter youyour downfall is my gainbut still you play the sycophantand revel in your pain.and all my promises are lies, all my love is hatei am the politician and i decide your fate.i march before a martyred worldan army for the fight.i speak of great heroic deeds, of victory and might.i hold a banner drenched in bloodi urge you to be br

merica with a group of spiritual masters whom they believed sur-vived the cataclysm of atlantis and who lived in shambhala, secretly influencing world affairs (p. 2)alien stone of powerat that time roerich made the bold claim that he was in possession of a piece of a mysterious stonefrom another worldroerich claimed, had sent the stone to earth from the star sirius. it had previouslybeen given to the emperor of atlantis and then to king solomon in jerusalemthe stone had been hid-den in a tower in shambhala broadcasting rays that influenced the destiny of the world (c. 1000 b.c.)the sphinxthe code name for fdr used by his agents.camp davidpreviously named shangrila by fdr.ritual murderalthough it is painful to consider, have we become complacent when it comes to systematic mass mur-der and

o on masonic aprons or certain systems in the buddhist ruins of cambodia(ankhor) and ceylon. the great temple-builders of the famous ankhor wat were considered to be thesemi-divine khmers. the avenue leading to the temple is lined with the seven-headed naga. and evenin mexico, we find the naga which becomes nagal. in china, the naga is given the form of thedragon and has a direct association with the emperor and is known as the son of heaven. while inegypt the same association is termed king-initiate. the chinese are even said to have originated withthe serpent demi-gods and even to speak their language, naga-krita. for a place that has no serpents,tibet, they are still known in a symbolic sense and are called lu (naga. nagarjuna called in tibetan,[becomes] lu-trub. in the western traditio

MORALS AND DOGMA

his gospel "was the word, and the word was near to god, and the word was god. all things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made. in him was life, and the life was the light of man; and the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not contain it" it is an old tradition that this passage was from an older work. and philostorgius and nicephorus state, that when the emperor julian undertook to rebuild the temple, a stone was taken up, that covered the mouth of a deep square cave, into which one of the laborers, being let down by a rope, found in the centre of the floor a cubical pillar, on which lay a roll or book, wrapped in a fine linen cloth, in which, in capital letters, was the foregoing passage. however this may have been, it is plain that john's go

nd good who were admitted to the mysteries, long postponed their ultimate self-destruction, and restrained the natural tendencies of the priesthood. and accordingly zosimus thought that the neglect of the mysteries after diocletian abdicated, was the chief cause of the decline of the roman empire; and in the year 364, the proconsul of greece would not close the mysteries, notwithstanding a law of the emperor valentinian, lest the people should be driven to desperation, if prevented from performing them; upon which, as they believed, the welfare of mankind wholly depended. they were practised in athens until the 8th century, in greece and rome for several centuries after christ; and in wales and scotland down to the 12th century. the inhabitants of india originally practised the patriarchal

one of these principles begins to prevail over the other, shows that the mysteries referred to the continual contest between the two principles of light and darkness, each alternately victor and vanquished. the very object proposed by them shows that their basis was the theory of the two principles and their relations with the soul "we celebrate the august mysteries of ceres and proserpine" says the emperor julian "at the autumnal equinox, to obtain of the gods that the soul may not experience the malignant action of the power of darkness that is then about to have sway and rule in nature" sallust the philosopher makes almost the same remark as to the relations of the soul with the periodical march of light and darkness, during an annual revolution; and assures us that the mysterious fest

s (the first officer after the hierophant, who represented the grand demiourgos or maker of the universe, who was posted in the interior of the temple, and there received the candidates, represented the sun. it was also held that the vicissitudes experienced by the father of light had an influence on the destiny of souls; which, of the same substance as he, shared his fortunes. this we learn from the emperor julian and sallust the philosopher. they are afflicted when he suffers: they rejoice when he triumphs over the power of darkness which opposes his sway and hinders the happiness of souls, to whom nothing is so terrible as darkness. the fruit of the sufferings of the god, father of light and souls, slain by the chief of the powers of darkness, and again restored to life, was received in

bius, quoting from aristobulus. the doctrine of the logos (word) or the noos (intellect, his incarnation, death, resurrection or transfiguration; of his union with matter, his division in the visible world, which he pervades, his return to the original unity, and the whole theory relative to the origin of the soul and its destiny, were taught in the mysteries, of which they were the great object. the emperor julian, explains the mysteries of atys and cybele by the same metaphysical principles, respecting the demiurgical intelligence, its descent into matter, and its return to its origin: and extends this explanation to those of ceres. and so likewise does sallust the philosopher, who admits in god a secondary intelligent force, which descends into the generative matter to organize it. thes

ntains and in a cave, and his self-mutilation in a fit of delirium; in which act his priests imitated him. the feast of the passion of atys continued three days; the first of which was passed in mourning and tears; to which afterward clamorous rejoicings succeeded; by which, macrobius says, the sun was adored under the name of atys. the ceremonies were all allegorical, some of which, according to the emperor julian, could be explained, but more remained covered with the veil of mystery. thus it is that symbols, outlast their explanations, as many have done in masonry, and ignorance and rashness substitute new ones. in another legend, given by pausanias, atys dies, wounded like adonis by a wild boar in the organs of generation; a mutilation with which all the legends ended. the pine-tree un

r. the new jerusalem of the apocalypse has twelve gates. the souciet, a chinese book, speaks of a palace composed of four buildings, whose gates looked toward the four corners of the world. that on the east was dedicated to the new moons of the months of spring; that on the west to those of autumn; that on the south to those of summer; and that on the north to those of winter: and in this, palace the emperor and his grandees sacrificed a lamb, the animal that represented the sun at the vernal equinox. among the greeks, the march of the choruses in their theatres represented the movements of the heavens and the planets, and the strophe and anti-strophe imitated, aristoxenes says, the movements of the stars. the number five was sacred among the chinese, as that of the planets other than the

s the most favorable one for souls that tend to re-ascend to their principle; and that when darkness and the night again become victors, was most favorable to the descent of souls toward the infernal regions. for that reason, the old astrologers, as firmicus states, fixed the locality of the river styx in the 8th degree of the balance. and he thinks that by styx was allegorically meant the earth. the emperor julian gives the same explanation, but more fully developed. he states, as a reason why the august mysteries of ceres and proserpine were celebrated at the autumnal equinox, that at that period of the year men feared lest the impious and dark power of the evil principle, then commencing to conquer, should do harm to their souls. they were a precaution and means of safety, thought to be

name we trace the hebrew _nachash, serpent. in cashmere were seven hundred places where carved images of serpents were worshipped; and in thibet the great chinese dragon ornamented the temples of the grand lama. in china, the dragon was the stamp and symbol of royalty, sculptured in all the temples, blazoned on the furniture of the houses, and interwoven with the vestments of the chief nobility. the emperor bears it as his armorial device; it is engraved on his sceptre and diadem, and on all the vases of the imperial palace. the chinese believe that there is a dragon of extraordinary strength and sovereign power, in heaven, in the air, on the waters, and on the mountains. the god fohi is said to have had the form of a man, terminating in the tail of a snake, a combination to be more fully

e was _alive--instinct with forces and powers, mysterious and beyond their comprehension. to them it was no machine, no great system of clockwork; but a great live creature, an army of creatures, in sympathy with or inimical to man. to them, all was a mystery and a miracle, and the stars flashing overhead spoke to their hearts almost in an audible language. jupiter, with his kingly splendors, was the emperor of the starry legions. venus looked lovingly on the earth and blessed it; mars, with his crimson fires, threatened war and misfortune; and saturn, cold and grave, chilled and repelled them. the ever-changing moon, faithful companion of the sun, was a constant miracle and wonder; the sun himself the visible emblem of the creative and generative power. to them the earth was a great plain

nd intelligence of the whole--this opinion of orpheus, plotinus, and the stoics, was in reality, that of many christian philosophers. for origen held the same opinion; and augustin held that every visible thing in the world was superintended by an angelic power: and cosma the monk, believed that every star was under the guidance of an angel; and the author of the octateuch, written in the time of the emperor justin, says that they are moved by the impulse communicated to them by angels stationed above the firmament. whether the stars were animated beings, was a question that christian antiquity did not decide. many of the christian doctors believed they were. saint augustin hesitates, saint jerome doubts, if solomon did not assign souls to the stars. saint ambrose does not doubt they _have

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

t: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise "love is the law, love under will, is an interpretation of the general law of will. it is dealt with fully in liber aleph. see chapters 105, 120, 121, 139, 141, 142, 192, 193, 194, 196, 198, 199, 200, 201, 203 among others. i see no harm in revealing the mystery of tzaddi to 'the wise; others will hardly understand my explanations. tzaddi is the letter of the emperor, trump tv, and he is the star, trump xvii. aquarius and aries are therefore counterchanged, revolving on the pivot of pisces, just as, in the trumps viii and xi, leo and libra do about virgo. this last revelation makes our tarot attributions sublimely, perfectly, flawlessly symmetrical. the fact of its so doing is a most convincing proof of the superhuman wisdom of the author of this b

ii. serious students should never forget that those symbols all run into each other, and that particularly in the case of "eight, and one in eight" it should be noted that first "eight" is considered by itself; then, with "one" in it "the empress and the king are not of me. his name could not be written hd (had, as crowley thought at the time of the dictation,because he is not the "king, that is, the emperor. see al i, 57, the second paragraph, and a. c 's commentary thereunto. 16. i am the empress& the hierophant. thus eleven, as my bride is eleven. please notice that "the empress" is written with capitals. in the previous verse the sentence starts after a period, so it is natural for the the of empress to be in the uppercase. in this verse, there is no reason for the to be capitalized un

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

al, such as those in segovia, montmorillon, laon, and metz.18 architectural details amount to merely one sign of eastern influence. the rediscovery of the byzantine world actually gave impetus to a broad and profound cultural and social movement. the contact with byzantium established by the crusades made it possible to rediscover the legal compilations, in all their originality and potency, that the emperor justinian applied as the foundation for his empire. it was now possible to conduct a direct and detailed study of roman law, both public and private, and roman institutions. the crusades thus revealed a vast new world rich in less tangible though enormously significant treasures. teachers soon carried into other lands this new understanding of roman law. schools focusing on its teachin

the count of saint boniface, also gave him full jurisdiction over all crafts and trades. similarly, these professions were subject to the commands of the consuls and nobility in the statutes of parma.1 in the flourishing cities of genoa and venice, the form of power remained aristocratic and its authority remained in the hands of the patricians.2 we should note that this same frederic barbarossa, the emperor of germany who was long at war with the lombard cities, was finally defeated after many expeditions. though generally speaking, the emperors, in their political claims to italy, were in opposition to the sovereignty of the communes, their choice to side either with mastery associations against the nobility or the nobility against mastery associations depended on the circumstances. the

ormed by the associates, by virtue of the same rules, for "the enlargement of divine worship and the salvation of their souls" the decline of the german brotherhoods the mastery associations in germany never attained the same level of power that their medieval italian counterparts did. their efforts were sometimes opposed by the cities' aristocrats, sometimes by the feudal lords, and sometimes by the emperor himself. the burgave of strasbourg had the right to place the masters who headed the arts corporations. in worms all such associations were suppressed in 1233, with the exception of those of the coin minters and the furriers. the statute handed down by frederic ii to the inhabitants of goslar in 1219 expressly forbade mastery associations. a decree issued in 1232 by this same emperor f

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

r jugs or urns are often used to symbolize a river god or goddess. origin of the pan pipes to escape pan s advances, syrinx was turned into a clump of reeds, and the wind whistled through them and made sweet music. pan, thwarted of his desires, cut the reeds into several unequal lengths, fastened them together with wax, and made the first syrinx, or pan pipes. the death of pan during the reign of the emperor tiberius (14 37 ce, a man called thamus, sailing past the greek island of paxi, was hailed by a godlike voice calling, thamus, the great god pan is dead! this cry was repeated whenever the sailors saw land, and a terrible weeping arose from the countryside around. some accounts place this event at the moment of christ s birth, a fitting time as many of pan s attributes have been assign

lohengrin the swan knight is a hero of medieval european myth who was eventually absorbed into arthurian legend, as the son of the grail knight parsifal (percival, see p. 80. according to the 13th-century folk epic lohengrin and related sources, when the duke of brabant died, he urged his only child, elsa, to marry his knight, friedrich of telramund. but elsa refused friedrich, who complained to the emperor, henry the fowler, that she had broken her promise, and accused her of killing her father. faced with these charges, and without anyone to defend her, elsa prayed for help. this caused the bell in the grail kingdom of montsalvat to peal, indicating that someone needed help. lohengrin came to her rescue, helped by a magical swan. lohengrin defeated friedrich in single combat, thus provi

eturn. so lohengrin must go back to the keeping of the grail, leaving elsa only his sword, horn, and ring as heirlooms for his children. duelling sword the notion that guilt or innocence could be decided in single combat by knightly champions is commonplace in medieval romance. such a duel is not a mere trial of strength or skill for, as here, divine powers may aid the righteous. henry the fowler the emperor henry the fowler was a real historical figure, the first non- carolingian ruler of the german reich (916-36. his wife matilda was a descendant of widekund, the pagan ruler who led the saxon resistance to charlemagne, and although after her death she was venerated as a christian saint, she was also feared for her supposed supernatural powers. friedrich here, elsa s challenger, friedrich

ife matilda was a descendant of widekund, the pagan ruler who led the saxon resistance to charlemagne, and although after her death she was venerated as a christian saint, she was also feared for her supposed supernatural powers. friedrich here, elsa s challenger, friedrich, is shown humbled at the hands of lohengrin. in keeping with his knightly courtesy, lohengrin did not take his life; instead the emperor condemns friedrich to be beheaded. in wagner s opera, lohengrin kills friedrich in a later combat. thr fairy melusine t he melusine legend mirrors that of lohengrin. melusine was said to be the da ughter of elinus, king of scotland, and the fairy pressina. when she grew up, she learned that her father had seen her birth against her mother s wishes, so she imprisoned him in a mountain

ns. fusang tree the ten suns lived in the legendary fusang tree in tang gu, a place beyond the eastern sea. it had nine branches up its trunk and a special branch at the top. each day, one of the suns would set off from this branch in a chariot pulled by six dragons, accompanied for a short distance by his mother. the tree features in many ancient myths, often relating to the sunrise. children of the emperor of the eastern heavens the emperor of the eastern heavens had ten children, each one a golden sun. every day they took turns going out and shining on the earth, having first washed themselves in the boiling sea. every night their mother collected them and brought them home. dragons dragons are synonymous with serpents in chinese mythology and represent wisdom, benevolent heavenly power

t aioina, the divine man, to teach the ainu how to hunt and cook. when aioina returned to heaven, the other gods complained that he stunk of human beings, so he threw away his clothes. his discarded slippers turned into the first squirrels. the sacred mountain 121 long ago, an old man found a baby girl on the slopes of mount fuji and called her kaguya-hime. she grew up to be beautiful and married the emperor. after seven years, she told her husband that she was not a mortal, and must return to heaven. to comfort him, she gave him a mirror in which he would always be able to see her. vowing to go to heaven with her, he used the mirror to follow her to the top of mount fuji. but then he could go no further. his disappointed love set the mirror ablaze, and from that day smoke has always risen

ith her, he used the mirror to follow her to the top of mount fuji. but then he could go no further. his disappointed love set the mirror ablaze, and from that day smoke has always risen from the top of the mountain. mount fuji s last major eruption was in 1707. divine vision the gaze of the goddess as it falls upon intruders may bring either blessing or death. tadatsune tadatsune was a vassal of the emperor minamoto no yoritomo, who became the first shogun (emperor) after his victory at the battle of dannourra in 1185. his brother yoshitsune was a legendary hero who appears in many noh plays. river home every river has its own god, but is also home to evil dwarf vampires known as kappa, who drown their victims and then suck out their blood. the only way to outwit a kappa is to cause it to

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

the upper part of the caduceus. the symbol of mercury on the tree of life enbraces all but kether. the horns spring from daath (knowledge) which is not, properly speak- ing, a sephira, but rather a conjunction of chokmah and binah. attribution of the tarot trumps path no. tarot trump letter symbol 11 0 the foolish man n a 12 1 the juggler 3 i2 13 2 the high priestess f d 14 3 the empress f q 15 4 the emperor il t 16 5 the hierophant 1 'tl 17 6 the lovers t x 18 7 the chariot t7% 19 8 strength (justice) d 5 q 20 9 the hermit (prudence "7 21 10 the wheel of fortune 2 3 22 11 justice (strength) 9 rr 23 12 the hanged man t3 v 24 13 death f n-l 25 14 temperance b fl 26 15 the devil y w 27 16 tower struck by lightning 3 d 28 17 the star 3 2x 29 18 the moon? x 30 19 the sun 1 0 31 20 last judgmen

of the sun in her path gimel. in interpreting a practical <211> tarot it is often admissable to regard the empress as standing for occultism. the high priestess for religion, the church as distinguished from the order. the empress, whose letter is daleth, is the door of the inner mysteries, as venus is the door of the vault. her colours are emerald, sky-blue, bluegreen and cerise or rose-pink. w. the emperor. here we have the great energising forces as indicated by the varying shades of red. it may be noted here that the red paths remain red in all planes, varying only in shade. thus aries, the emperor, the pioneer, the general, is blood and deep crimson, red, pure vermillion or flowing fiery red. he is ho nike, the conqueror, hot, passionate, impetuous, the apotheosis of mars, whether in

, the apotheosis of mars, whether in love or in war. he is the positive masculine as the empress is the positive feminine. v. hierophant. the high priest is the counterpart of the high priestess. as aries is the house of mars and the exaltation of the sun, so taurus is the house of venus and the exaltation of the moon. he is the reflective or mystical aspect of the masculine. he is the thinker as the emperor is the doer. his colours unlike those of the emperor, vary considerably. red, orange, maroon, deep brown, and chestnut brown, suggest veiled thought, interior power, endurance, contemplation and reconciliation. this card frequently indicates the hidden guardianship of the masters. v1. the lovers. the impact of inspiration on intuition, resulting in illumination and liberation-the sword

e star. rules the whole of aquarius. stars. legs of aquarius, and the issuant water head of piscis australis, part of grus, part of phoenix, part of apparatus sculptorurn, part of cetus. 75. the moon. rules the whole of pisces. stars. the connecting band of pisces, the body of cetus, the sea monster to which andromeda was exposed, part of apparatus sculptoris. part of phoenix, part of fornax. 61. the emperor. rules the whole of aries. stars. legs of aries, part of body of taurus, head and fore-part of cetus, part of fornax and of eridanus. 62. the hierophant. rules the whole of taurus. 600 the golden dawn: volume n book eight <227> stars. head and forepart of taurus the bull. the bull sent by neptune to frighten the horses of sol and those of the hippolytus. the greater part of orion the g

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

ed in the unity of god and in the 4 the doctrine of transcendental magic universal doctrine of the trinity; that, in a word, he regretted nothing of the old world but its magnificent symbols and its too gracious images. julian was not a pagan; he was a gnostic allured by the allegories of greek polytheism, who had the misfortune to find the name of jesus christ less sonorous than that of orpheus. the emperor paid in his person for the academical tastes of the philosopher and rhetorician, and after affording himself the spectacle and satisfaction of expiring like epaminondas with the periods of cato, he had in public opinion, by this time fully christianized, but anathemas for his funeral oration and a scornful epithet for his ultimate memorial. let us pass over the petty minds and small ma

men. thereby many illustrious hierophants, such as mercurius trismegistus, osiris, orpheus, apollonius of tyana, and others whom it might be dangerous or unwise to name, came after their death to be adored and invoked as gods. thereby others also according to that ebb-and-flow of opinion which is responsible for the caprices of success became emissaries of infernus or suspected adventurers, like the emperor julian, apuleius, the enchanter merlin and that arch sorcerer, as he was termed in his day, the illustrious and unfortunate cornelius agrippa. to attain the sanctum regnum, in other words, the knowledge and power of the magi, there are four indispensable conditions an intelligence illuminated by study, an intrepidity which nothing can check, a will which cannot be broken, and a prudenc

n the man- god, we affirm all this philosophically, not theologically, without infringing in any way on the teaching of the church, which condemns and must always condemn magic. paracelsus and agrippa did not set up altar against altar but bowed to the ruling religion of their time: to the elect of science, the things of science; to the faithful, the things of faith. in his hymn to the royal sun, the emperor julian gives a theory of the triad which is almost identical with that of the illuminated swedenborg. the sun of the divine world is the infinite, spiritual and uncreated light, which is verbalized, so to speak, in the philosophical world, and becomes the fountain of souls and of truth; then it incorporates and becomes visible light in the sun of the third world, the central sun of our

nother. all is transition and blending, wherefore, assuming the perfectibility, if not infinite at least indefinite, of human faculties, it will be understood that every person can attain to see all, and therefore to know all. there is no void in nature: all is peopled. there is no true death in nature: all is alive. seest thou that star? asked napoleon of cardinal fesch. no, sire. i see it, said the emperor, and he most certainly did. when great men are accused of superstition, it is because they behold what remains unseen by the crowd. men of genius differ from simple seers by their faculty of communicating sensibly to others that which they themselves perceive, and of making themselves believed by the force of enthusiasm and sympathy. such persons are the media of the divine word. let u

us and of very honourable position. there are evocations of intelligence, evocations of love and evocations of hate; but, once more, there is no proof whatsoever that spirits leave the higher spheres to communicate with us: the opposite, as a fact is more probable. we evoke the memories which they have left in the astral light, or common reservoir of universal magnetism. it was in this light that the emperor julian once saw the gods manifest, looking old, ill and decrepit a fresh proof of the influence exercised by current and accredited opinions on the reflections of this same magical agent, which makes our tables talk and answers by taps on the walls. after the evocation i have described, i re-read carefully the life of apollonius, who is represented by historians as an ideal of antique

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pified among the ancients by chains of gold, which issued from the mouth of hermes. nothing equals the electricity of eloquence. speech creates the highest intelligence in the most grossly constituted masses. even those who are too remote for actual hearing understand by sympathy and are carried away with the crowd. peter the hermit convulsed europe by his cry of ggod wills it! h a single word of the emperor electrified his army and made france invincible. proudhon destroyed socialism by his celebrated paradox: gproperty is robbery. h a current saying is sufficient on occasion to demolish a reigning power. voltaire knew this well. he who shook the world by sarcasms. so, also, he who feared neither pope nor king, neither parliament nor bastille, was afraid of a pun. we are on the verge of f

h, entitled amphitheatrum sapientae aeternae. khunrath represents and resumes the most learned gnostic schools, and connects in symbology with the mysticism of synesius. he affects christianity in expressions and in signs, but it is easy to see that his christ is the abraxas, the luminous pentagram radiating on the astronomical cross, the incarnation in humanity of the sovereign sun celebrated by the emperor julian; it is the luminous and living manifestation of that ruach- elohim which, according to moses, brooded and worked upon the bosom of the waters at the birth of the world; it is the man-sun, the monarch of light, the supreme magus, the master and conqueror of the serpent, and in the fourfold legend of the evangelists, khunrath finds the allegorical key of the great work. one of the

es of asceticism and compression of the senses was inevitable and can occasion no surprise, but we must not accuse transcendental magic of irregularities which it has never authorized. isis is chaste in her widow hood; diana panthea is a virgin; hermanubis, possessing both sexes, can satisfy neither; the hermetic hermaphrodite pure; apollonius of tyana never yielded to the seductions of pleasure; the emperor julian was a man of rigid continence; plotinus of alexandria was ascetic in the manner of his life; paracelsus was such a stranger to foolish love that his sex was suspected; raymund lully was initiated in the final secrets of science only after a hopeless passion which made him chaste for ever. it is also a magical tradition that pantacles and talismans lose all their virtue when he w

at is, of intelligence and speech. this day is propitious to revelations, initiations and great discoveries of science. 3. the celestial mother, or empress. the third day was that of man's creation. so is the moon called the mother in kabalah, when it is represented in association with the number 3. this day is favourable to generation and generally to all productions, whether of body or mind. 4. the emperor, or ruler. the fourth day is baleful: it was that of the birth of cain; but it is favourable to unjust and tyrannical enterprises. 5. the pope, or hierophant. the fifth day is fortunate; it was that of the birth of abel. 6. the lover, or liberty. the sixth day is a day of pride; it was that of the birth of lamech, who said unto his wives: gi have slain a man to my wounding, and a young

of the greeks and was represented by st. john in his apocalypse as the woman clothed with the sun, crowned with twelve stars and having the moon beneath her feet. she is the mystical quintessence of the triad; she is spirituality, immortality, the queen of heaven. d the porte or government of the easterns, initiation, power, the tetragram, the quaternary, the cubic stone, or its base. hieroglyph, the emperor, a sovereign whose body represents a right-angled triangle and his legs a cross image of the athanor of the philosophers. h indication, demonstration, instruction, law, symbolism, philosophy, religion. hieroglyph, the pope, or grand hierophant. in more modern tarots this sign is replaced by the image of jupiter. the grand hierophant, seated between the two pillars of hermes and of solo

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law-changing, but laws can be changed with caution by wise men (philosophers. failures of the ideal state result in timocracy (run according to soldierly ideals or power, oligarchy (based upon control by wealth, democracy (a state governed by the passions of the masses, and tyranny (manipulation by self-interested autocrats. the platonic academy existed for 900 years. it was finally abolished by the emperor justinian in 529 ce; he was afraid that it was too unchristian. the platonic dialogues were lost to europe until the 15th century. the philosophy of aristotle classification: v2- 102- 5 author: michael a. aquino vi date: october 1, xix revision: january 1, xxiv html revision: oct 07, 1997 ce subject: philosophy reading list #16 aristotle's influence began ca 342 bce, when he arrived at

llenic divinities, but in a context more animistic and less humanistic, with a priestly class to interpret them. the roman poet lucretius (98-55 bce) is representative of the later epicurean and stoic influences that gradually superseded the old animistic paganism. marcus tullius cicero (106-43 bce) is generally regarded as one of the more prominent advocates of this roman stoicism [together with the emperor marcus aurelius (161-180 ce, although he considered himself an academic skeptic [after the platonic academy in athens. in the 1st century bce rome saw the significant influence of imported initiatory systems, such as those of mithras (persia, the magna mater (phrygia/asia minor, and osiris/serapis (egypt. roman philosophy was heavily influenced by the customs, needs, and functions of t

of his sex-magic diaries] were pathetic and fruitless. the "great mystery" which crowley declined to explain in his comments on the grounds that it was reserved to the highest grades of initiation, was simply that he believed sex-magic to be the most potent form of the art. explained only at the highest degrees of the o.t.o. crowley understood "book" as the tarot, and the hebrew letter tzaddi as the emperor trump in that deck. in his commentary he proceeded to explain why this passage identified this trump as complementary to the star trump xvii. which i simply do not see implied by the above passage of the book of the law [crowley devised a hebrew/cabalistic interpretation for the tarot, which i consider useless. 58. i give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life

ld yield 8 "adjustment. among other things this trump signifies the displacement of an obsolete aeon by a new one. trump #1 "the magus. refers to crowley's role "in 8. i.e: in the new aeon as the instrument of adjustment. this is "vital" insofar as the harwer neter cannot manifest itself in the objective universe save through the mind of a material/intellectual medium "the empress (trump #3) and "the emperor (trump #4) add to trump #7("the chariot, signifying the north solstice and the mystery of the grail. this is indeed a "further secret" as it is not of harwer and would be revealed only in the hall of the dead (walhalla) at wewelsburg castle, westphalia, in xvii/1982 ce. 16. i am the empress& the hierophant. thus eleven as my bride is eleven "the empress (trump #3) and "the hierophant (

luence priest bushey's understanding of the style he must employ to paint this card, it should nevertheless give you some idea of the completed project. my apologies to the lovers of fine art. ptah: i have finished my sketches and notes. set: good. now we shall discuss the symbols employed. you may begin where you choose. ptah: i have noticed that this card, like the hierophant/ priest of set and the emperor/ magister templi, is extremely similar to that card with respect to symbols which it replaces. this i believe is because the margin of error in the old cards is less than those cards necessitating more radical design changes, such as the star/ pentagram of set and art/ the golden section. the astrological determiner is this time implied via symbols, namely the twisted horns of the man

e that is not relative to the working. the performance of the invoking pentagrams (the right column of pentagrams, or the invoking of the objective bodies, should be performed in just the opposite manner, as its function is to regain the normal objective state in the ritual chamber. the tarot trumps. trump 0- the fool. trump i- the magus. trump ii- the priestess. trump iii- the empress. trump iv- the emperor. trump v- the hierophant. trump vi- the lovers. trump vii- the chariot. trump viii- adjustment. trump xix- the hermit. trump x- fortune. trump xi- lust. trump xii- the hanged man. trump xiii- death. trump xiv- art. trump xv- the devil. trump xvi- the tower. trump xvii- the star. trump xviii- the moon. trump xix- the sun. trump xx- the aeon. trump xxi- the universe classification: v2- c

higher. this may be another reason that trump i flows upward in its lines and shows fluid action rather than a frozen stasis. trump ii the priestess the priestess, trump ii, known in some decks as the high priestess, is one of what de givry refers to as one of the six titled personages belonging to human society, the other five according to that author being (in the older style titles) the pope, the emperor, the juggler, the empress, and the hermit. it was de gebelin, according to de givry, who attempted to place the tarot figures into a logical arrangement and thereby find correlations between the deck and society. the relationships he advanced are of passing interest and are worth mentioning if only for the further correspondences of the thoth deck and the thelemic/satanic/setian interp

hermit. it was de gebelin, according to de givry, who attempted to place the tarot figures into a logical arrangement and thereby find correlations between the deck and society. the relationships he advanced are of passing interest and are worth mentioning if only for the further correspondences of the thoth deck and the thelemic/satanic/setian interpretations. the six titled personages: the pope the emperor the juggler the high priestess the empress the hermit the two allegorical personages: the devil death the four cardinal virtues (with the hanged man as prudence: justice strength temperance prudence the three astronomical elements: the sun the moon the star the two elements of fate in human life: the lovers the wheel of fortune the four elements in cosmic fate: the chariot the judgemen

ress; she is also a crucial factor in life itself. without life coming from life none would exist. everything in trump iii is alive- the lotus, the pelican, birds, and the flowing lines of lady harris' brush strokes. the trump thereby attracts the glance of the setian vy virtue of its indications of becoming rather than stasis. that coming into being will take the mind to the next card, trump iv- the emperor. trump iv the emperor trump iv is a card flowing with calm and confident inner peace and a masculinity which is there without the drive to assert itself. like trump iii's empress whose femininity flows from an inner wellspring of its own origin, the man of trump iv draws on his core self and quite simply is that he can first realize the extent of his abilities and then decise to what u

mp iv draws on his core self and quite simply is that he can first realize the extent of his abilities and then decise to what uses they will be put. the ordered balance of the card is apparent at even a casual glance. it is not only visible, but appealing to the eye perhaps because as the good mr. plato says..the right love is to love the orderly and beautiful soberly and in the spirit of music" the emperor's figure as portrayed by lady harris is exactely that: orderly and beautiful. it is an interesting coincidence that both the figures of the emperor in the thoth deck and that of set in the temple of set stele hold ceptres in their right hands and crosses in their left hands. there are of course differences: the emperor holds a ram-headed sceptre, while set's has the stylized set-head

eads pointed inward. seen as such, it could be symbolic of temporal influence coming about from an aggressive nature. i do not advance this as dogma, but it does fit with the red color of the card and overall power presented in it] the ram, ares, can be seen in four places in three forms: the capitals of the throne [himalayan wild rams, according to the book of thoth, the sceptre, and the lamb at the emperor's feet. the presence of the ram and the color red are both suggestive tro set himself- red being set's color and ares being the greek god of war and another corresponding form of the dark one. the overall message of the card seems to be one of being. it was described some years back as being the master of the temple card rather than the emperor and there are indeed more than a few simi

estive tro set himself- red being set's color and ares being the greek god of war and another corresponding form of the dark one. the overall message of the card seems to be one of being. it was described some years back as being the master of the temple card rather than the emperor and there are indeed more than a few similarities in the degree and the figure within the card. both the master and the emperor have made tremendeous strides towards strengthening the inner universe to a point at which the imposition of the conditions of that universe are far more easily imposed on the objective universe coexisting with it. the "orderly and beautiful" direction of trump iv portrays a soul both content with itself and self-contained. it has learned euripides' lesson that it is useless to vex its

e objective universe coexisting with it. the "orderly and beautiful" direction of trump iv portrays a soul both content with itself and self-contained. it has learned euripides' lesson that it is useless to vex itself at mere things since they care nothing about it, but are simply (and occasionally annoyingly) there. being self-contained it does not humbly accept events and do nothing about them; the emperor is a soul with a violent past which took it first to an uneasiness of the self and then to a disturbance which resulted in the realization of its separateness from general nature. the very separateness of that soul's presence teaches itself yet another valuable lesson: all existing things change and do so both quickly and consistently. it sees, from its unique vantage point, a new nuan

change and do so both quickly and consistently. it sees, from its unique vantage point, a new nuance of another of euripides' writings: what has grown from the earth goes back to the earth, but what has sprung from heavenly seed, back to heavenly realms returns. marcus aurelius comments that the verse means either a dissolution of intertwining atoms or a similar dispersion of unfeeling elements. the emperor might view it as saying that the lower base parts of himself must return to the elements which formed it, but the highest and best, the aristos, adheres to that which is working its way toward divinity. it is that aristos which by virtue of its refinement (or its indulgence) which is able to select what is or is not the valuable cargo of the self. the emperor also portrays yet another

which is able to select what is or is not the valuable cargo of the self. the emperor also portrays yet another stage, if considered in that special light, of magical evolution that all of us encounter at one time or another in our quests. note that the trump does not display a passive figure. what we see is one which appears to be in waiting or holding itself in readiness. there is out analogy: the emperor has conquered his foes and has gathered about himself the things he sees as beautiful and orderly. he has succeeded in building his universe through change in accord with will. the question facing him is that of what to do with events as he has shaped them. as the high priest recently commented "and now? what next" those are the questions which all of us dwell upon at one point or anot

do with events as he has shaped them. as the high priest recently commented "and now? what next" those are the questions which all of us dwell upon at one point or another. it is not correct to say we always experience hesitation when contemplating those next steps; the wisdom accumulated by previous experiments tend to rule out rash and thoughtless actions in favor of cool and calm deliberation. the emperor is a trump with symbols of valuable knowledge. an examination of it should reveal even further insights and analogies to the initiate taking the card in hand. trump v the hierophant "it is impossible" wrote magus crowley in the book of thoth of this trump "to explain this card thoroughly, for only the course of events can show how the new current of initiation will work out" while i am

ding. in this day and age such an interpretation is simple enough to understand, but beyond pr it has little significance. however, the "let not the waters whereon thou journeyest wet thee. and, being come to shore, plant thou the vine and rejoice without shame" quote is a fair enough rendering of one of the pleasures of the magistri at home in the blue sea of binah. somewhat similar to trump iv, the emperor, trump xii displays another side of the male coin. whereas the emperor sits in alert control and dignity, the central figure of the hanged man is suspended in meditation and alert to matters other than those immediately apparent. granted, the position itself is less than could be wished for, but the attention of the hanged figure is on subjects impacting on a subjective level far deepe

al. atu vii, the chariot, connects binah (3) and geburah (5, understanding and strength. its position on the left pillar indicates that much of its influence and import is passive, rather than active. note that the four sphinxes which draw the chariot are not moving. in crowley's discussion of this trump, the only active motion is that of the rays within the grail. this card is potential. atu iv, the emperor, connects netzach (7) and yesod (9, occult intelligence and pure intelligence. like path 5 above, it connects the right and center pillars, but is much lower on the tree, with much more physical/mundane import. the emperor is regal and noble, but very active and interested in the world. this is the card of practical magic. 40again, you may find that avendish's the black arts contains s

SABBATIC KABALA OF THE CROOKED PATH

the virgin-will of the mage. the other construction in this cell is the solar fasette found in the letter tzaddi which means fish-hook, but is also connected to the star through its kabbalistic connotations. in lurias initatic system the rabbi of the mysteries was honoured with the title tzaddiquin. further this cell reflects the influence of aries, which in the tarot has been given the domain of the emperor. this explains the warrior like flavour of the cell and the solar influences of the cell. the formulae of zayin is captured in the formulae of the opposer as well as in its connection with the mercurial formulae of the pentagram as the cosmomatrix of transformation. the ram has found its expression in tz, the first sign of zodiacus who is the bringer of fire and light is essential to t

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

with a full-throated 'illallah" gibreel realized that his move across the compartment and his inadvertent taking of allie's unusual name had been mistaken by his companion for overtures both social and theological "john maslama" the fellow cried, snapping a card out of a little crocodile-skin case and pressing it upon gibreel "personally, i follow my own variant of the universal faith invented by the emperor akbar. god, i would say, is something akin to the music of the spheres" it was plain that mr. maslama was bursting with words, and that, now that he had popped, there was nothing for it but to sit it out, to permit the torrent to run its orotund course. as the fellow had the build of a prize-fighter, it seemed inadvisable to irritate him. in his eyes farishta spotted the glint of the t

or hoohoo humorous reasons. my fafavourite pup pup poison "it is very kind of you to bring gibreel home" allie belatedly got the point "you must allow us to offer you a drink "sure! sure" sisodia actually clapped his hands "for me, for whowhole of heehee hindi cinema, today is a baba banner day" o o o "you have not heard perhaps the story of the paranoid schizophrenic who, believing himself to be the emperor napoleon bonaparte, agreed to undergo a lie--detector test" alicja cohen, eating gefilte fish hungrily, waved one of bloom's forks under her daughter's nose "the question they asked him: are you napoleon? and the answer he gave, smiling wickedly, no doubt: no. so they watch the machine, which indicates with all the insight of modern science that the lunatic is lying" blake again, allie

SATANGEL

e. originally a babylonian goddess lilitu, or ardat-lilil. lucifer (latin, bringer of light. the rebel angel who was cast from heaven (isiah 14:12. certain gnostic sects regard lucifer as a divine power in his own right, and the witches recognise him as the initiator and bringer of illumination. in etruscan gypsy lore he is the father of aradia and consort of diana. it is this godform that became the emperor of hell (grimorium verum. roman god of the morning star (venus. luciftias (enochian, brightness) whose return is heralded, alongside babalon, in the call of the thirty aethers. lucifuge (latin, running from the light. servants of lucifer who hunt for souls to damn. they are the henchmen who come to collect when a pact has been fulfilled, who tear the soul from the body with their sharp

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

rus of persia as king. 515 bce the second jewish temple is built in jerusalem. 483 bce death of the buddha. c. 470 399 bce life span of the greek philosopher socrates. c. 428 348 bce life span of the greek philosopher plato. 384 322 bce life span of the greek philosopher aristotle. c. third century bce period in which the major text of daoism, the dao de jing, is likely written. c. 273 c. 232 bce the emperor ashoka of maurya, in present-day india, begins to spread buddhism beyond the borders of india. c. 6 bce jesus of nazareth, also known as jesus christ, is born. c. 30 ce jesus christ is put to death by crucifixion by roman authorities in jerusalem. 70 ce roman troops crush the great revolt by occupying jerusalem, massacring jews, and destroying the second temple. 142 revelations given t

eat revolt by occupying jerusalem, massacring jews, and destroying the second temple. 142 revelations given to the holy man zhang daoling (also spelled chang tao-ling, who becomes the first of the great celestial masters in daoism. 224 651 during the sassanid dynasty, zoroastrianism spreads aggressively throughout the persian empire. 313 the roman emperor constantine converts to christianity. 380 the emperor theodosius i declares christianity the official religion of the roman empire. 610 according to islamic belief, the prophet muhammad begins receiving revelations and prophecies from the archangel jabra il (gabriel. 632 the death of muhammad marks the beginning of a long period of islamic civil war and separation of islam into sunni and shiite sects. xii world religions: almanac timeline

maya. his father, suddhodana, ruled over a small village and was part of the ruling sakya clan. most of what is known of the buddha comes from later accounts rather than contemporary historical records made during 87 his lifetime. in 1996, however, a team of archaeologists (scientists who study the remains of past human civilization) discovered a marker honoring the buddha s birthplace set the by the emperor ashoka in 250 bce. siddhartha journeys to enlightenment according to buddhist legend, the buddha s birth was no ordinary event: the story, which is similar to the story of the conception of jesus christ (c. 6 bce c. 30 ce) in christian tradition, says that siddhartha was conceived in a dream involving a white elephant carrying a lotus flower. this dream was interpreted as meaning that

ve 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. these divisions have remained throughout the history of buddhism. 90 world religions: almanac buddhism spreads throughout asia the spread of buddhism was enhanced by the work of the emperor ashoka (also called asoka) of maurya, in presentday india, who ruled from c. 273 to c. 232 bce. ashoka converted to buddhism after a bloody struggle to gain power. thereafter, this powerful emperor decided to devote himself to peace. he had thousands of about buddhism belief. buddhists believe that suffering is the central human condition and is caused by desire. nirvana, or the end of

crifice their lives for the sake of their beliefs) some of the worst persecutions of early christians happened during the reigns of the roman emperors from about 81 to 305 ce. the emperors made the new religion illegal and often executed believers who would not give up their faith. such persecutions were the result of christians refusing to worship the roman state or its emperor. in ancient rome, the emperor himself was considered a god. worshipping the emperor and the gods of rome was a sign that a person was a good roman citizen. a religion like christianity that taught there was only one god and whose believers could not worship the emperor was a threat to the emperor s power. despite such difficulties, by the fourth century, christianity had spread as far west as spain and into both pe

and in religious texts. the church in the east, however, still used greek. the bishop of rome became the pope, or leader, of the church in the west (the countries of europe and the americas. the eastern church had a less centralized structure, with the patriarch, or district leader, of constantinople as the unofficial head of that branch. most real power in the east, however, lay in the hands of the emperor. 126 world religions: almanac christianity these differences intensified over questions of doctrine, particularly over the nicene creed. finally in 1054 a formal separation took place, resulting in two distinct churches: the roman catholic church and the eastern orthodox church. thereafter, the popes in rome fought for secular, or political, power with the princes and kings of europe

took place, resulting in two distinct churches: the roman catholic church and the eastern orthodox church. thereafter, the popes in rome fought for secular, or political, power with the princes and kings of europe. by 926, european states had loosely joined together as the holy roman empire, with the pope in rome as the spiritual head. the pope would in turn make one of the many princes in europe the emperor. this system remained in place until 1806. however, there was continual competition between the popes and the princes for power. meanwhile the eastern orthodox church extended its control over asia minor and over christians in the middle east. constantinople became the center of what was called the byzantine empire. this empire ruled over what had been the eastern half of the roman wor

y: a wife owed respect to her husband, sons (and daughters) to their mothers as well as their fathers, and so on down to the wives of the sons, who owed respect to everyone. the ideal ruler, for confucius, should be the model gentleman, who rules by de, or political power achieved through virtue and honesty. the ideas for confucianism grew out of a troubled time in china. the centralized power of the emperor was breaking down, and society in general was suffering because of it. confucius was born during a period known as the zhou dynasty. this dynasty lasted from the eleventh century bce to the third century bce. in 771 bce, however, under pressure from invading tribes from central asia, the zhou kings had to move their seat of government eastward to what is modern loyang. the next several

e; also known as lao tzu, the founder of daoism in around the seventh century bce. 154 world religions: almanac confucianism all through this period china was divided into warring states. the zhou emperors never became strong enough to unite the country or to control the warring feudal lords (members of prominent families who made their living from plots of land, called fiefs, assigned to them by the emperor. invasions came from the west and south, and small kingdoms banded together for a time for mutual protection and then broke apart. it was a dangerous and lawless time, and confucius, as well as other philosophers, looked for a way to make society better and more stable. the period after the time of confucius is called the warring states period (401 256 bce) because of the violence and

e. for mozi, the problem with society was that people loved too selectively rather than giving their love universally, meaning to love everyone. yang zhu, meanwhile, preached a form of individualism and the promotion of self-interest. becomes state religion under emperor wu in 206 bce the han dynasty began. by this time confucianism already played a major role in the political life of the nation. the emperor wu, who lived from 156 to 87 bce, made confucianism the official state religion. in 136 bce emperor wu established what became the imperial university, solely for the study of confucian classics, or the five classics. these are texts mostly from before the time of confucius that were adapted to confucianism in five different subject areas: metaphysical or spiritual, political, poetic

hysical world but also in the spiritual world. he merged theories of spiritual forces from many different schools of thought, including native religions ranging from shamanism (belief in powerful nature spirits that a shaman, or holy man, can reach) to daoism into his explanation of the confucian way, emphasizing a love of the natural or cosmic order. in so doing, he further justified the role of the emperor as the living link between tian and earth, or the son of heaven. not all confucians agreed with the direction taken in dong s philosophy, but the belief system continued to wield great power throughout the han period. soon all public schools in china were offering regular sacrifices to confucius; the imperial university enrolled thirty thousand students, and temples in honor of confuci

arth, or the son of heaven. not all confucians agreed with the direction taken in dong s philosophy, but the belief system continued to wield great power throughout the han period. soon all public schools in china were offering regular sacrifices to confucius; the imperial university enrolled thirty thousand students, and temples in honor of confucius were built throughout the land. together with the emperor and the godlike personages of heaven and earth, confucius was fast becoming one of the most respected symbols of power and authority in china. later, in 492 ce, he was made a saint; by the eleventh century he was raised to the rank of an emperor; and in the early twentieth century he was made a god. although spiritual matters in china during the tang dynasty (618 907 ce) were left larg

rs after the death of confucius, the second most influential figure of the religion was born. mencius (372 289 bce preached a philosophy of benevolence, or kindness and caring, towards others. for mencius, human nature is essentially good and perfectible. he also argued for introducing a class of scholar-officials, which ultimately led to the chinese civil service, a class of employees who served the emperor in administering the empire, the longest-established human institution on record. mencius criticized the philosophy of mozi and the mohists for their indiscriminate (random or without limits) love for all people. for him, it was not right that a stranger should be entitled to the same degree of love as a parent. equally, he found that the individualism of yang zhu led to political diso

od, and incense to the royal spirits. this ceremony, carried out according to the record of rites, also involves dance and music. the confucian shrine in seoul and those around the countryside of south korea are sites for honoring confucius on his birthday, celebrated in late september or early october. confucian temples were once the sites of many offering ceremonies. sometimes these were led by the emperor himself. for example, the emperor would perform the winter solstice (the shortest day of winter) ceremony in beijing to celebrate the return of positive yang energy, wearing blue robes embroidered with dragons. at the confucian temple, he would light a pile of sticks set onto the circular-shaped altar, signifying the shape of heaven. the rising smoke from this fire summoned the god sha

ns. at the confucian temple, he would light a pile of sticks set onto the circular-shaped altar, signifying the shape of heaven. the rising smoke from this fire summoned the god shangdi, the supreme lord, to the ceremony. the meat from a young bull would be served as an offering, all accompanied to the 166 world religions: almanac confucianism music of gongs, flutes, and stones beaten like drums. the emperor would also lead the ceremony at the temple of agriculture at the beginning of the planting season, plowing a furrow in a sacred field. confucians also practice a form of meditation known as quiet sitting, which is described in the book great learning. quiet sitting is much like meditation in religions such as buddhism and daoism and like them involves a clearing of the mind. confucians

ughout the analects, confucius advises his followers to respect the spirits and to make offerings and sacrifices to them with care, thought, and sincerity. in addition, the work of confucius helped uphold the claim of rulers of the zhou dynasty that they had been put into power by the mandate of heaven, or by holy decree. when it became a state religion during the han dynasty, confucianism helped the emperor legitimize the status of the rulers as decreed by heaven. the scholars, or ru, those who had mastered the classic tradition and knew all the rituals, were in charge of state ritual offerings and sacrifices to various gods. for the people who believe in and practice confucianism, this path is generally considered a philosophical and scholarly tradition, very much like religions such as

nated philosophy, became dominant in korea. japanese confucianism deviated even more from the traditional chinese version. in japan the idea of filial piety and devotion was replaced by the concept of loyalty to the ruler as the most important of the five relationships. most japanese also held on to some shinto beliefs, the native religion of japan. the most important of these was the belief that the emperor was divine, or godlike. this was another 172 world religions: almanac confucianism deviation from chinese confucianism, which holds that a ruler will be removed from power by heaven if he does not act morally. another difference was that the samurai (warrior) class was considered the highest class instead of the scholar-bureaucrat of chinese confucianism. all these changes had profound

written in part by the famous philosopher zhuangzi (c. 369 c. 286 bce. where the dao de jing is world religions: almanac 189 daoism daoist gods religious daoism has many gods and goddesses, as well as various levels of heaven. the gods live in a complex and structured land similar to that of the chinese imperial system. this was an elaborate system with many levels of government and workers, from the emperor to his advisers near the top to the servants at the bottom. among the most popular daoist gods are the ba xian, or the eight immortals, as well as xi wang-mu, mu gong, and zao-jun. the eight immortals are symbols of good fortune. they are based on actual historical persons. only one of the ba xian is a woman. each represents a different condition of life, including masculinity and femi

SEPHER YETZIRAH WESTCOTT

rm of the universe. yet he is not only that form; for nothing can or does exist outside of himself; his substance is the foundation of all, and all things bear his imprint and are symbols of his intelligence" hebrew tradition assigns the doctrines of the oldest portions of the "zohar" to a date antecedent to the building of the second temple, but rabbi simeon ben jochai, who lived in the reign of the emperor titus, a.d. 70-80, is considered to have been the first to commit these to writing, and rabbi moses de leon, of guadalaxara, in spain, who died in 1305, certainly reproduced and published the "zohar" ginsburg, speaking of the zoharic doctrines of the ain suph, says that they were unknown until the thirteenth century, but he does not deny the great antiquity of the "sepher yetzirah" in

ook of formation" and another similar work; and rashi in his commentary on the treatise "erubin" considers this a reliable historical notice.other historical notices are those of saadya gaon, who died a.d. 940, and judah ha levi, a.d. 1150; both these hebrew classics speak of it as a very ancient work. some modern critics have attributed the authorship to the rabbi akiba, who lived in the time of the emperor hadrian, a.d. 120, and lost his life in supporting the claims of barchocheba, a false messiah: others suggest it was first written about a.d. 200. graetz however assigns it to early gnostic times, third or fourth century, and zunz speaks of it as post talmudical, and belonging to the geonim period 700-800 a.d; rubinsohn, in the bibliotheca sacra, speaks of this latter idea as having no

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

107. luke 19:10. 108. luke 17:20-21. 109. luke 10:20. 110. john 1:1, 1:14. 111. ernst renan, das leben jesu (leipzig n.d, pp. 261-263. 112. john 11:47. 113. renan, loc.cit. 114. john 11:4. 115. john 11:25. 116. schelling, ber die gottheiten von samothrake (stuttgart and t bingen, 1815, p. 40. 117. the story is preserved by eunapius. earlier editions referred to constantine, but the allusion is to the emperor julian. 118. steiner s view was remarkably confirmed by the discovery of the secret mark fragment in 1958. for this discovery, and its new version of the lazarus story in the light of steiner s approach, see a.welburn, the beginnings of christianity (floris books, edinburgh, 1991, pp. 249ff. the resurrection of lazarus culminates in the communication of a mysterion, 224 christianity as

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e find yet another indication of napoleon's secret society involvement. wearing red, the color of rothschild and blood, napoleon signifies his lefthand path orientation. the symbology of the threetowered church in the background of the painting (behind the curtain) signifies the boast that napoleon, a political sovereign, is also lord over the spiritual realm. in this famous painting of napoleon, the emperor is depicted using his right-hand in giving the royal arch mason handsign. 74 codex magica irish-american politician and author ignatius donnelly caused a sensation in 1882 with his book, atlantis: the antediluvian world. donnelly claimed scientific evidence for the existence of the fabled lost continent of atlantis, which sunk under the sea, predecessor of modern civilization. donnelly

s skin, hands upraised, palms outward, exactly as is done in various masonic, rosicrucian, witchcraft, thelemic, and o.t.o. rituals to this day (hislop's, the two babylons, p. 45) a show of hands 179 as we shall see in this chapter of codex magica, this sign has been displayed in public media by presidents, presidential candidates, prime ministers, and many other vips throughout history including the emperor of france, the freemason napoleon bonaparte. clinton the devil, president of the u.s.a. president bill clinton was named time magazine "man of the year" in 1993. on the time cover making the announcement, president clinton's head was pictured with the "m" in the time masthead of the magazine stretched and appearing to be two horns on clinton's head.3 were the magazine's editors telling

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the persecutions of the christians by emperor diocletian (245 316) in 305. once or twice a year since 1389, st. januarius dried blood has liquefied in full view of the pilgrims who arrive to pay tribute to his memory in naples. the blood of st. lorenzo (d. 258) rests in a small flask in the right wing of the church of st. maria in amaseno. lorenzo was martyred on august 10, 258 under the order of the emperor valerian (d. 260, and although he was condemned to be burned to death on a grill, some of his blood was caught and preserved by his fellow christians. each year on the anniversary of his martyrdom, the vial is brought near the altar and locked in a glass cabinet. there, in full view of the assembled worshippers at st. maria, the transformation of the centuries-old clotted blood to liqu

n. the shroud of turin: the burial cloth of jesus christ? new york: doubleday, 1978. 666 the association of the number 666 with the antichrist is derived from revelation 13:18 in which john the revelator is told in his apocalyptic vision that the number of the beast is 666 and that the number stands for a person. in john s world of the first century, the beast that ruled the earth would have been the emperor, the caesar, of the roman empire, nero (37c.e. 68 c.e. using the hebrew alphabet, the numerical value of caesar nero, the merciless persecutor of the early christians, is 666. although jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e) made it clear when speaking to the apostles that no one will know the exact hour or day of his second coming, for many centuries certain christian theologians have associate

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hat the larger american public became fully aware of the tong warriors with their chain mail shirts and hatchets. like so many secret societies, the origins of the triad tong have been lost in the lore of legend. according to some students of the tongs, in 1647 a community of monks who lived in the fukien province of china had become masters in the art of war. when a foreign prince invaded china, the emperor sent 138 of these monks to throw out the invading forces. after three months of bitter fighting, they routed the enemy and returned to their monastery laden with gifts and honors from the grateful emperor. while the monks were content to resume their lives of contemplation, some of the emperor fs ministers were jealous of the favors he had bestowed upon them and persuaded him that the

onths of bitter fighting, they routed the enemy and returned to their monastery laden with gifts and honors from the grateful emperor. while the monks were content to resume their lives of contemplation, some of the emperor fs ministers were jealous of the favors he had bestowed upon them and persuaded him that the monks were deceptively planning a rebellion. fearful of their martial arts skills, the emperor decided to attack the monks without warning and sent a strong force of the imperial guard, armed with gunpowder, to destroy the monastery. it was said the flames ignited by the blasts soared up to heaven, where they were seen by the immortals who, perceiving the injustice being dealt the monks, came down to earth and pushed aside one of the monastery fs huge walls, enabling 18 monks to

n house, 1989. vankin, jonathan, and john whalen. the 60 greatest conspiracies of all time. new york: barnes& noble, 1996. the gmagic bullet h that killed jfk? were so badly burned that they soon died, and the surviving five escaped from the imperial troops by miraculous means. after many ordeals the five monks came to a city in fukien province where they founded a tong whose aim was to overthrow the emperor who had betrayed their loyalty. that tong exists today as the triad tong, and the five monks who founded it, according to the legend, are known as the five ancestors. although the revolt against the emperor failed, the survivors scattered throughout china and established five provincial grand lodges, each led by one of the five monks. initiation into the triad society is based on a blo

nd occult secrets. while his intellect brought him fame, wealth, and political favor, the turbulent times in which he practiced his craft also brought him condemnation, poverty, and prison. agrippa became immersed in the supernatural and the occult and sought to develop a synthesis that would unite various magical systems and religious traditions with the kabbalah. while in paris on a mission for the emperor maximilian i (1459.1519, agrippa formed a secret society with a group of like-minded scholars and noblemen. the pact they vowed to uphold envisioned a reformed world, and they pledged to come to one another fs assistance whenever needed. later, when their efforts to restore one of their members to his former position of power failed, the group was disbanded. a humanist and feminist ahe

ious hours for her coronation. pleased with his pronouncements, she continued to grant him the favor of her attention, and she made many promises of preferment.none of which were kept. disillusioned by the intrigues of the english royal court, dee left the country for holland. in 1564 while residing in antwerp, dee published his greatest work, monas hieroglyphica. after he had presented a copy to the emperor maximilian ii 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 64 magic and sorcery secret enochian letters used by john dee (fortean picture library (1527.1576, dee returned to england to produce more learned occult volumes. in 1571, while residing once again on the continent, dee fell ill. when elizabeth heard of it, she sent two of her best p

d his 12 sons carried zodiacal tablets and banners into egypt and carried them out in the exodus. like astrology, the star gospel holds that the 12 signs stand for 12 positions of the sun in relation to earth. while western astrology evolved from the egyptians, babylonians, chaldeans, and greeks, chinese astrology developed independently of outside influences and was formed around the belief that the emperor was divine. some scholars of astrology place the beginning of chinese astrology during the reign of emperor fu hsi around 2800 b.c.e. and attribute the naming of the 12 signs of the chinese zodiac to a legendary emperor yao. the figures of the chinese zodiac bear no similarity to those of the west. each sign is represented by a different animal and is composed of a 12-year cycle. the i

mpress (arcanum three) is the symbol of feminine instinct, a thought or solution that arises directly from the subconscious. the number three is the key that unlocks the door to intuition and is the driving energy that unites positive and negative, male and female. on the material level, the empress card represents the human aspect of love and symbolizes the sexual conjunction of male and female. the emperor (arcanum four) warns that no one can compromise with his or her conscience. the emperor of wisdom is activated by the fire of the vital force within all humans and regenerated by the alchemical slogan that all nature is regenerated by fire. the number four represents the primordial substance that is the origin of all the universe and is the numerical constituent of all manifestations i

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ng has been broken, and it is the viii only weapon that can destroy the gods. the dwarf mime tries uselessly to mend it. when siegfried comes he makes no such error. he melts its fragments and forges a new sword. in spite of the intense labour which this costs, it is the best plan to adopt. levi completely failed to capture catholicism; and his hope of using imperialism, his endeavour to persuade the emperor that he was the chosen instrument of the almighty, a belief which would have enabled him to play maximus to little napoleon's julian, was shattered once for all at sedan. it is necessary for the reader to gain this clear conception of levi's inmost mind, if he is to reconcile the "contradictions" which leave waite petulant and bewildered. it is the sad privilege of the higher order of

ance of our children, it is the price of the blood of our fathers! it is by charity that the martyrs took consolation in the prisons of the caesars, and won over to their belief even their warders and their executioners. it is in the name of charity that st. martin of tours protested against the torture of the priscillians<church, especially in spain. the emperor maximus, a spaniard, was inclined to put it down with a strong hand and confiscate the heretics' property. the gallic clergy hounded him on, and the councils of bordeaux and saragossa encouraged him. two spanish priests "ithacus" and "idacus" clamoured for the heretics' punishment by the secular arm. but st. martin of tours, stalwart champion of orthodoxy as he was, resisted, and in 38

e communion with them, and their fury at this is eloquent testimony of their sense of his power. they appealed to maximus, who delivered over martin bound to them. but in the night maximus sent for martin, argued, coaxed, persuaded him to compromise. the schism would be great, he persisted, if martin continued to exasperate the ithacans. martin said he had nothing to do with persecutors. in wrath the emperor let him go, and gave orders to the tribunes to depart to spain and carry out a rigorous inquisition. then martin returned to maximus and bargained. let this order be revoked, and he would receive communion with the ithacans next day at the election of the new archbishop. the order was revoked, and martin kept his word. but when he knew the cause of humanity safe, he departed, and on hi

ry to be without conscience and without judgment? there is doubtless the secret of this incredible perversity, of this murderous fury, of this unwholesome hate against all order, all ministry, all hierarchy, of this fury, above all, against the dogma which sanctifies peace, obedience, gentleness, purity, under so touching an emblem as that of a mother. this wretch thought himself sure not to die. the emperor, thought he, would be obliged to pardon him; an honourable exile awaited him; his crime would give him an enormous celebrity; his reveries would be bought for their weight in gold by the booksellers. he would become immensely rich, attract the notice of a great lady, and marry beyond the seas. it is by such promises that the phantom of the devil, long ago, lured gilles de laval, seigne

ll kinds of hallucinations, and all lies. so, verger slept in blood, to dream of i know not what abominable pantheon; and he awoke upon the scaffold. but the aberrations of perversity do not constitute an insanity; the execution of this wretch proved it. 177 one knows what desperate resistance he made to his executioners "it is treason" said he "i cannot die so! only one hour, an hour to write to the emperor! the emperor is bound to save me" who, then, was betraying him? who, then, had promised him life? who, then, had assured him beforehand of a clemency which was impossible, because it would revolt the conscience of the public? ask all that of the "grimoire" of honorius! two incidents in this tragic story bear upon the phenomena produced by mr. home: the noise of the storm heard by the w

eries of science: i refer to "universal analogy" deprived of this key of transcendental dogma, he could see no more of the gods than the sun, the seven planets, and the twelve signs of the zodiac; but he did not see in the sun the image of the logos of plato, in the seven planets the seven notes of the celestial gamut, and in the zodiac the quadrature of the ternary circle of all initiations. 187 the emperor julian, that "adept of the spirit" who was never understood, that initiate whose paganism was less idolatrous than the faith of certain christians, the emperor julian, we say, understood better than dupuis and volney the symbolic worship of the sun. in his hymn to the king, helios, he recognizes that the star of day is but the reflection and the material shadow of that sun of truth whi

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ith the overall plan (or "that which is above is like unto that which is below. it is important to appreciate also the background concepts underpinning the doctrine of the four worlds of kabbalah (a) the quaternary the number four has a symbolic connection to the concepts of space, classification, and the physical world. it is the number of order and relativity. it is the cube or altar upon which the emperor (card iv of the tarot) is seated, dispensing order and form to the manifest world. jung saw the balanced quaternary (or tetrad) as a fundamental pattern of thought. the quaternary is an archetype of almost universal occurrence. it forms the logical basis for any whole judgement. if one wishes to pass such judgement, it must have this fourfold aspect. this judgement, of course, is that

irrors the initiation of the creative process through chockmah. in symbolic form, showing the reversal of the man, it refers to the mystic state of the magus (the grade assigned to chockmah) which is utterly opposite to the uninitiated state in that it is connected directly to the divine (wise one of chockmah) rather than the normal state of being connected to malkuth (ego state of yesod. emperor the emperor has aries assigned to it in the zodiacal attributions, and this fits neatly with the burst of "red" energy of the spring equinox as a lower manifestation of the cosmic burst of creation in chockmah. the emperor is the law and the logos as is the magus, who gives the "word of the aeon. the tarot cards in the lesser arcana are related to each of the sephiroth based on the simple principl

is also the number of binah, and the first of the numbers to enclose a space: 0: no space nought (ain soph aur) 1: point point (kether) 2: vector line (chockmah) 3: space triangle (binah) the empress is a fitting personification of binah as mother of life, and nature as the formation of living things. the tarot cards to which the letters of binah are attributed are the magician, hermit, death and the emperor. these show the action of the process of binah thus: the magician is the logos, the creative word issued from chockmah as the universal will, given direction and the light enclosed in a container (the light in the lamp of the hermit. it is then transformed or translated across the abyss (symbolised by the death card) and the energy structured into manifestation (the emperor bearing the

path connects tiphareth to kether and is the path of transcendence from self-identification to universal-identification. it functions as the impact of our true state into our self-aware state (when operating as awakened consciousness by various practices, and hence the high priestess shows tiphareth as a measure of our reflection of truth, which hence flows into the lower sephiroth. iv. emperor: the emperor represents the power accessible to the fully operating tiphareth from chockmah, the source of all movement and direction. the emperor is the light of creation which bears one upwards through the letter heh, meaning "window. vi. lovers: operating at the same level as the emperor, but on the other side of the tree, the lovers represent the "impact of inspiration" from binah "understandin

to tiphareth is accessed, and the whole work is then returned to again, but now in order to allow the higher sephiroth their full expression. hod is spelt in hebrew hvd, heh-vau-daleth, and totals to 15 by gematria. this is also the mystic number of geburah, being the summation of 1+2+3+4+5, and points to a close relationship between the two. the letters of hod are symbolised by the tarot atus of the emperor, the hierophant, and the empress. one could see in this the marriage of the emperor and empress by the hierophant, symbolising the experience of hod on a mystical level. the cards of the paths connecting hod to its companion sephiroth of the tree are as follows: hanged man (geburah) the hanged man represents consciousness drowned in matter as one meaning of the image of the sacrificed

s of photism we may have in mystical experience are no more reality than any other experience, and are still merely the garments of god, not the being (ii) the second triad as depicted adds the two paths leading from the upper sephiroth to tiphareth, the seat of awareness. these two paths are path 15 and path 17, the "constituting" and the "disposing" intelligences. the first is the path to which the emperor card is attributed, and relates to the "creation in warm darkness. this fits with the symbolic meaning of aries, the generative force in astrology, which is also attributed to the path. on the other side of the tree, the "lovers" card symbolises the "disposing" of occult experience through intuition, which is how the golden dawn saw the card, as the "impact of inspiration on intuition

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m is connected to geburah and to the hebrew letter heh (7, a symbol of creative power. through the letter heh, the pentagram becomes a symbol of intuition and understanding. but it is also a symbol of sight, which is the sense attributed to heh. therefore it is the magical symbol of true vision. the letter heh is also connected with the sign of aries, the warrior-protector, and the tarot card of "the emperor" who is the ruler and executor of the divine law. in human physiology, aries is especially referred to the head (symbolized by the uppermost point of spirit in the pentagram. aries is ruled by mars and its exaltation is the sun, the symbolic source of all light. tlus again leads us to ideas of strength and protection through the warrior energy of mars-aries, as well as solar light and

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e name of four letters. they refer to father, mother, son, as your earliest studies in the qabalah acquainted you. you will compare this with the word of the 3. it is further of the very greatest importance to remember that the three principal officers of the royal arch represent the three functions of prophet, priest, and king. now in the tarot j. is the hermit, the prophet of the eternal; h. is the emperor, and v. the hierophant, pope, or high priest. now the left side of the triangle l.j.a= 41= ma the mother, while a.i.l. means a stag, goat, or ram, from the curved horns of those animals, and therefore means the father, and the beginning of whirling file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c5.html (19 of 22 [12/28/2001 2:03:44 pm] the secret rit

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rating quality, when the loins, and parts adjacent, are anointed with it. no less than 1400 flasks of that oil were either expended at the altar in unctions, or charitably distributed, during this f te in the year 1780; and as it is usual for every one, who either makes use 1 the cure of diseases by oil is likewise of ancient date; for tertullian tells us, that a christian, called proculus, cured the emperor severus of a certain distemper by the use of oil; for which service the emperor kept proculus, as long as he lived, in his palace. 8 letter from sir w. hamilton of the oil at the altar, or carries off a flask of it, to leave an alms for st. cosmo, the ceremony of the oil becomes likewise a very lucrative one to the canons of the church. i am, sir, with great truth and regard, your most

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of tedious, repetitious pages to gain a single new fact or insight. almost all books on the tarot merely parrot what others have said or written. here is a mnemonic for the beginner that presents in rhymed form a single key word for each of the cards of the major arcana: i. the magus wills with bolts of fire. 11. the priestess shapes her hidden desire. 111. the empress births beneath the sun. iv. the emperor rules the four as one. v. the pope blesses the narrow way. vi. the lovers tempt by night and day. vii. the chariot conquers with iron mind. viii. the balance weighs and pays in kind. ix. the hermit lights the right-hand path. x. the wheel turns, the gods laugh. xi. the strength of faith shuts savage jaws. xii. the martyr bows to heaven's laws. xiii. the reaper frees the souls from eart

n to the world, which is placed on the back-center square. it suggests the pivotal importance of the cards numbered five, ten, fifteen, and twenty; each of which sums up the meaning of the four cards that precede it. for example, the magus is opposite the priestess (called the popess in the mar- seilles deck) on the top cube. these cards are active and receptive aspects of spirit. the empress and the emperor are also opposite on the first cube. they suggest the nurturing and ordering forces of the material world. the capping card on top of the cube is the hierophant (the pope in the marseilles deck, who is hermaphro- ditic and embraces both the spirit and the flesh. the fifth card joins the preceding four cards physically in the model even as it links them symbolically. if the symbols of t

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. everything has been arranged for her pleasure. the ruling intelligence is venus, goddess of love and sensual enjoyment-and also the goddess who presides over the health of beasts and the growth of crops. her oracle is delivered in the form of the pantomime staged for the empress by the minstrels who have been hired to entertain her. by observing the show, closely held truths may be revealed. iv the emperor hebrew letter: heh (window) correspondence: aries path: fifteenth the emperor is an elderly but strongly built man with a white beard, who sits upon a throne in a place of natural fortification that encloses and protects his army. it is evident from the armor he wears beneath his tunic and cloak that he is engaged in some military campaign. he looks directly forward with an unwavering

on, or the armed guards that constantly pace and keep watch on the walls of the keep. the contest will be a battle of wills as much as a physical confrontation, and the victor will be the side that does not lose sight of its greater purpose. the ruling intelligence is the god of shepherds, who in egypt took the form of the ram-headed deity, amon. his oracular revelations are delivered directly to the emperor, who relies on them for his strategies of warfare. by conversing with the emperor on his throne, they can be discovered. 208 soul flight v the hierophant hebrew letter: vau (nail) correspondence: taurus path: sixteenth the hierophant is the pope of a religion of ancient origins and long-established traditions, who ensures that the divine laws are observed and who punishes those who vio

truth of individual spiritual things" 14. chokmah to binah hebrew letter: daleth tarot trump: i11 the empress correspondence: venus "the fourteenth path is the illuminating intelligence and is so called because it is that chashmal which is the founder of the concealed and fundamental ideas of holiness and of their stages of preparation" 15. chokmah to tiphareth hebrew letter: heh tarot trump: iv the emperor correspondence: aries "the fifteenth path is the constituting intelligence, so called because it constitutes the substance of creation in pure darkness, and men have spoken of these contemplations; it is that darkness spoken of in scripture, job xxviii. 9 'and thick darkness a swaddling band for it" 16. chokmah to chesed hebrew letter: vau tarot trump: v the hierophant correspondence:

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r yellow for east, red for south, blue for west, or green for north. those with a deck of tarot cards may use the twenty-two trumps to define the circle and triangle of evocation. consider the circle as the face of a great clock, with 12:oo at the east. the cards should be positioned with their bases directed inward to the center of the circle. at 12:oo place the star, at 1:00 the lovers, at 2:00 the emperor, at 3:00 strength, at 4:00 temperance, at 5:00 the chariot, at 6:00 death, at 7:00 the moon, at 8:00 the devil, at 9:00 the hierophant, at 10:oo the hermit, and at 11:oo justice. the cards of the triangle should all be upright with their bases perpendicular to the base of the triangle. at the apex place the fool; on the left side of the second row put the universe; on the right of the

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jerogl fico es la boca del hombre. binah la inteligencia. planeta venus. tercera carta del tarot, la emperatriz. el s mbolo primitivo es una mano en actitud de coger. estos tres sephirotes son la corona sephir tica. 6 the other seven inferior sephiroth come in the following order: chesed mercy; jupiter, the divine i, atman, primeval hieroglyphic is represented by a breast. the fourth tarot card, the emperor. geburah severity; the fifth card of man, the pope or the hierophant of the tarot: mars, the warrior of aries. tiphereth beauty, venus of taurus, the love of the holy spirit, the causal body of the man, the sixth card of the tarot, the lover. netzach victory, justice of the arcanum, the seventh card of the tarot, the chariot, saturn. hod glory, mercury of gemini, the eighth card of the

ncentrating on that genie; then vocalize the mantra i.a.o. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ooooooooooooooooooo when profound meditation is intelligently combined with the state of slumber, it allows you to enter into the elemental paradises of nature. every alchemist needs to work with the elementals of nature. the hieroglyphic of the fourth arcanum of the tarot is the emperor; the sovereign appears forming a marvelous triangle with his body. when the legs of the emperor are crossed, they form a cross; this is the image of the athanor[ ah-than-or] of alchemists; the joint of the cross with a triangle is only possible by means of the potable gold (sacred fire) of alchemy. practica con los gnomos meditad profundamente en el templo coraz n del centro de la tier

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eflected in the phrase "together in unity" which equals sixty-five, the magic sum of the square of mars. the first principle number relating to mars is five, which is geburah on the tree of life. this is the special seat of will power on the tree and its principle divine name elohim gibor, means god of strength. to mars is attributed the letter peh and also heh (5, to which is assigned aries, and the emperor. this path is called the "constituting intelligence" five is also the numeration of ad, mist or vapor, and in hebrew mysticism this refers to the dark cloud or vapor that constitutes the substance of primordial creation, figure 7-c: traditional figure 7-d: alternate and that hovered over the waters in genesis. the root word gab also equals five and refers to the vault or surface of hea

nd is appropriately attributed to the power of geburah. it is sometimes known as the star of the will. figure 7-j: traditional figure 7-k: alternate 5: sephirah of geburah 5: abb, ahbah: to blossom or to bear fruit("the whole universe is an expansion of my primal will to yield fruit" book of tokens, meditation on heh) 5: heh (h, the number of the fifth letter of the hebrew alphabet, attributed to the emperor and aries 5: ad, ade: vapor, mist root: relative unity, an emanation 5: bba, bahbah: door, gate 5: gb, bab: upper surface, vault, rim (of wheel) root: the idea of a thing placed under another thing, a protuberance, a knoll, everything convex 5: da, dah: this, a talmudic word referring to man, the human, whose symbol is five root: the sign of natural abundance and division 25: divisions

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free on: www.abika.com 8 date' fixed by their astrologers according to the moon. thus, despite its shaky start (for over three centuries, no one knew when jesus was supposed to have been born, december 25 finally began to catch on. by 529, it was a civic holiday, and all work or public business (except that of cooks, bakers, or any that contributed to the delight of the holiday) was prohibited by the emperor justinian. in 563, the council of braga forbade fasting on christmas day, and four years later the council of tours proclaimed the twelve days from december 25 to epiphany as a sacred, festive season. this last point is perhaps the hardest to impress upon the modern reader, who is lucky to get a single day off work. christmas, in the middle ages, was not a single day, but rather a peri

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urance of the goodness of providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. all other things, our powers; our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. but this rose is an extra. its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. it is only goodness which gives extras, and so i say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. the emperor s horses the te of piglet pg. 196 a great man retains a child s mind. and, as the following story by chuang-tse shows, the great man respects the child s mind, as well: accompanied by six of his wisest men, the yellow emperor journeyed to chu-t zu mountain, to speak to the mystic ta kuei. in the wilderness of hsiang ch eng, the procession lost its way. after wandering for some time, th

ystic ta kuei. in the wilderness of hsiang ch eng, the procession lost its way. after wandering for some time, the men came upon a boy tending horses. do you know the way to chu-t zu mountain? they asked him. i do, the boy replied. in that case, they said, would you know where we might find the hidden dwelling of the hermit ta kuei? yes, he answered, i can tell you. what a fascinating child! said the emperor to his companions. he knows this much he stepped from his chariot. let me test him, and called the boy to him. tell me, said the yellow emperor. if you were in charge of the empire, how would you go about ruling it? i know only the tending of horses, the boy replied. is ruling the empire any different from that? not satisfied, the emperor questioned him again. i realize that 276 govern

ell me, said the yellow emperor. if you were in charge of the empire, how would you go about ruling it? i know only the tending of horses, the boy replied. is ruling the empire any different from that? not satisfied, the emperor questioned him again. i realize that 276 governing is hardly your concern. still, i would like to know if you have ever had any thoughts about it. the boy did not answer. the emperor asked him once more. the boy replied by asking, is governing the empire different from tending horses? explain the tending of horses, said tile yellow emperor, and i will tell you. when taking care of horses, said the boy, we make sure that no harm comes to them. in doing so, we put aside anything within ourselves that would injure them. can ruling a nation differ from that? the yellow

tzu said, i m not you, so i certainly don t know what you know. on the other hand, you re certainly not a fish, so that still 279 proves you don t know what fish enjoy! chuang tzu said, let s go back to your original question, please. you asked me how i know what fish enjoy, so you already knew i knew it when you asked the question. i know it by standing here beside the hao river. seven openings the emperor of the south sea was called shu (brief, the emperor of the north sea was called hu (sudden, and the emperor or the central region was called hun-tun (chaos. shu and hu from time to time came together for a meeting in the territory of hun-tun, and hun-tun treated them very generously. shu and hu discussed how they could repay his kindness. all men, they said, have seven openings in thei

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stendom were st. george for england, st. denis of france, st. james of spain, st. andrew of scotland, st. david of wales, st. patrick of ireland and st. antonio of italy. the 7 sleepers of ephesus, according to the monkish legend, were christians who hid in a cave under the persecutions of decius in the 3rd century. they fell into a trance and slept 200 years. they awaked in a.d. 447 and going to the emperor theodosius ii, they convinced him of the truth of the life beyond the grave. this done, they returned to the cave to sleep until the last judgment. the 7 dolours of the virgin mary is the name of a roman catholic fast day held on the friday before palm sunday. the 7 wise masters were officers of king kurush who tell stories to save the life of the king s son. they exist in greek, syria

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