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keep in mind that in the use of the hebrew alphabet in the workings of the qabalah, you will be able to correspond many different attributes from any system of magic and religion. qabalah this is a simple discourse on some of the major facets of the qabalah. it is also spelled as kabbalah and cabala.(pronounced ka-bah-lah. orgins qabalah comes from the hebrew word qbl, meaning an oral tradition, the esoteric and mystical division of judaism. the qabalah presents a symbolic explanation of the origin of the universe, the relationship of human beings to the godhead, and an emanationist approach to creation, whereby the infinite light (ain soph aur) manifests through different sephiroth on the tree of life. although the central book of the qabalah, the zohar, was not written down until around

you a basic idea of the probable outcome of any magical operation, but more importantly, the influences around you and the situation. in this lesson we are not going to teach you the circle spread divination, for this is found in another part of the book. however, we will emphasize again the need for learning and mastering this divination. in future grades of the order, you will learn extensively the esoteric, 101 alchemical, and literal meanings of each card of the tarot. it is all based on the esoteric writings of great western minds as well as the golden dawn system of magic, primarily book t. this lesson is a supplemental lesson in that it gives you a basic outline of the nature of these tarot cards. it isn't even necessary that you memorize the basic nature of these cards at this time

es. if at this time you feel the need for this spiritual divination, for whatever purpose, it may be acceptable to select a good tarot book that will help you in understanding the major arcana. do not depend on these books. those who search for ready made answers will find ready made problems. there is no quick and easy way to the art of divination. divination requires a thorough understanding of the esoteric philosophies of each portal. divination then requires one to have the ability to open the sub-conscious mind to the higher aspects of influence and at the same time remain conscious of these influences. for this reason the divination method that we have just described should not be depended on until one has the thorough understanding, and a more complete idea, of how these portals of

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besides these, the qabalists also recognise certain higher principles, of which abraham the jew does not here speak, nor yet of the faculty of reincarnation of those principles. reincarnation is a subject much treated of by the oriental sacred writings, and was undoubtedly a fundamental doctrine of the ancient egyptian magic, from which, be it well remembered, the hebrew qabalah has been derived. the esoteric buddhists divide the personality into seven principles, instead of the three given above. 128 i.e, the four cardinal points, 129 the bandages. 130 in the original ms, despersonnes religieuses. this expression would include monks, nuns, and also people bigoted in religion. 131 i.e, such evil magician. 132 serrures, which implies bolts as well as locks. 133 i.e, religious denomination

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kabbala denudata of knorr von rosenroth (a work incomplete and, in some of its parts, prostituted to the service of dogmatic interpretation, the lost symbolism of the vault in which christian rosenkreutz is said to have been buried, some of the work of dr. dee and sir edward kelly, some very imperfect tables in cornelius agrippa, the art of raymond lully, some of the very artificial effusions of the esoteric theosophists, and of late years the knowledge of the order ros rube et aure crucis and the hermetic order of the golden dawn. unluckily, the leading spirit in these latter societies1 found that his prayer, give us this day our daily whisky, and just a wee drappie mair for luck! was sternly answered, when you have given us this day our daily knowledge-lecture. under these circumstances

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ecret, subtle, and sublime, who shall name thee without veneration, without prostration of soul, spirit, and body before thy divine author, without exaltation of soul, spirit, and body as by his favour they bathe in his lustral and illimitable light? it must first here be spoken of the exoteric qabalah to be found in books, a shell of that perfect fruit of the tree of life. next we will deal with the esoteric teachings of it, as frater p. was able to understand them. and of these we shall give examples, showing the falsity and absurdity of the uninitiated path, the pure truth and reasonableness of the hidden way. for the student unacquainted with the rudiments of the qabalah we recommend the study of s. l. mathers introduction to his translation of the three principal books of the zohar,3

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ep years ago, quite in ignorance of what the last would lead to. god is indeed cut away a cancer from the breast of truth. of those philosophers, who from unassailable premisses draw by righteous deduction a conclusion against god, and then for his sake overturn their whole structure by an act of will, like a child breaking an ingenious toy, i take mansel as my type* now, however, let us consider the esoteric idea-mongers of christianity, swedenborg, anna kingsford, deussen and the like, of whom i have taken caird as my example. i wish to unmask these people: i perfectly agree with nearly everything they say, but their claim to be christians is utterly confusing, and lends a lustre to christianity which is quite foreign. deussen, for example, coolly discards nearly all the old testament, a

us of harris. 26. macgragor.5 the mage. 29. abramelin.6 the mage. 32. ancient rituals.7 from the papyrus of mrs. harris. 33. golden dawn.8 these rituals were later annexed by madame horos, that superior swami. the earnest seeker is liable to some pretty severe shocks. to see one s obligation printed in the daily mail! luckily, i have no nerves. 49. ram, ram. etc.9 thou, as i, art god (for this is the esoteric meaning of the common hindu saluation. a long road and a heavy price! to know is always a difficult work. hullo! bravo! thy name (i have seen) is written in the stars. come with me, pupil! i will give thee medicine for the mind* the phallus of shiva the destroyer. it is really identical with the qabalistic middle pillar of the tree of life. an imaginary lady to whom sairey gamp in dic

are being unselfish, do fill their hearts with devotion for the beloved saviour, and this process is, in its ultimation, so similar to the earlier stages of the great work itself, that some confusion has, stupidly enough, arisen; but for all that the practice has been the means of bringing some devotees on to the true path of the wise, unpromising as such material must sound to intelligent ears. the esoteric christian or hindu adopts a middle path. having projected the absolute from his mind, he endeavours to unite his consciousness with that of his absolute and of course his personality is destroyed in the process. yet it is to be feared that such an adept too often starts on the path with the intention of aggrandising his personality to the utmost. but his method is so near to the true

ivekananda (no connection with the firm of a similar name1 across the street, gives of the existence of the infinite. think of a circle! says he. you will in a moment become conscious of an infinite circle around your original small one. the fallacy is obvious. the big circle is not infinite at all, but is itself limited by the little one. but to take away the little circle, that is the method of the esoteric christian or the mystic. but the process is never perfect, because however small the little circle becomes, its relation with the big circle is still finite. but even allowing for a moment that the absolute is really attainable, is the nothingness of the finity related to it really identical with that attained directly by the buddhist arahat? this, consistently with 1 the swami vive a

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ecret, subtle, and sublime, who shall name thee without veneration, without prostration of soul, spirit, and body before thy divine author, without exaltation of soul, spirit, and body as by his favour they bathe in his lustral and illimitable light? it must first here be spoken of the exoteric qabalah to be found in books, a shell of that perfect fruit of the tree of life. next we will deal with the esoteric teachings of it, as frater p. was able to understand them. and of these we shall give examples, showing the falsity and absurdity of the uninitiated path, the pure truth and reasonableness of the hidden way. for the student unacquainted with the rudiments of the qabalah we recommend the study of s. l. mathers "introduction"1 to his translation of the three principal books of the zohar

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d mind and stop the upward and downward course of the pr n by jalandhara bandha. resting his body upon his palms placed upon the ground, he should strike the ground softly with his posteriors. by this the pr n, leaving ida and pingala, goes through the sushumn. the body assumes a death-like aspect. then he should breathe out.104 99 we believe this to be the exoteric explanation of this symbolism, the esoteric one being that shiva represents the solar or spiritual force, and shakti the lunar or bodily, the union of these two cancels out the pairs of opposites and produces equilibrium. 100 "shiva sanhita" chap. iv, 1-11. also see "gheranda sanhita" p. 23. 101 the jalandhara banda is performed by contracting the throat and pressing the chin firmly against the breast. 102 "hatha yoga pradipika

a silky texture passed through and over me; then one of the strange inhabitants passed through me unconscious of me, and i returned. golden dawn symbol. 14 m. three breaks. may 8th. position 1. 22 m. seven breaks. calvary cross. 50 m. did i go to sleep? 11th. designed abarahadabra for a pantacle.180 12th. i performed a magic ceremonial at night, followed by attempt at astral projection. i prefer the esoteric theosophist society's seven-fold division for these practical purposes. i think physical astral projection should be preceded by a (ceremonial "loosening of 177 in all cases when the name alone is mentioned a mediation practice is understood. prithivi-apas corresponds to water of earth. it is symbolized by a silver crescent drawn within a yellow square. see diagram 84. 178 "i.e, self

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brows, the slender hands, all hieroglyphs of a god's commands beyond the rimes that a poet knits with fruitless travail, sterile care! marvellous! marvellous, marvellous! and again a marvel, a lotus-bud dropt from the brows of a goddess unknown on the ivory steps of the golden throne, virginal brows and luminous with the star-stream flowing therein for blood. ah, but electric thrills the host of the esoteric eucharist! the pagan power of the corn and wine mystical, magical, hers and mine, the dove-plumed snake of the holy ghost that wings and writhes in the wounds unkissed! lie there, love- if i love you indeed who adore and wonder and faint for drouth of the passion-flower fallen from the other side of time and space the tedious tide. lie there, lie there, and let me bleed to death in th

he human body, as taught by greek yogis. apart altogether from the possession of a reliable literal translation of the book, there are seventy-five pages upon the development of the "kundalini" and each subject is followed in the text by a commentary in application. mr pryse expresses the view that the book is necessarily incomprehensible to the conventional theologian, yet easily comprehended by the esoteric initiate "i.e" by him who possesses the gnosis, and that the drama is perfect in all its parts. i may add that most of this class of initiative books had a double interpretation, and hence that the same may be equally found in the apocalypse, but into this mr pryse does not enter. john yarker. mr pryse has undoubtedly found the key of the apocalypse, and many of his interpretations ar

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n then taken. a further advantage was found in the fixing in the minds of the hearers of certain of these basic concepts which were new to many of them, and which helped them to grasp and to receive readily the further expansion of the theme. in presenting the lectures in book form it has been deemed advisable to retain the complete text of the lectures as given. those who are already students of the esoteric wisdom will be able to follow the line of the argument of the lectures without difficulty. for those, however, who for the first time approach the consideration of the matters here discussed, the occasional repetition of the fundamental points may help to a ready apprehension, and it is for this class of readers that the book is primarily intended- 1- copyright 1998 lucis trust alice

, and all that concerns them. this idea has only to be extended to man, considered as an atom or cell within the body of a great entity, and one can then work out along similar lines this conception of a threefold consciousness. it might here be wise if we were to come down and consider more practical matters than absolute consciousness. occidental science is coming gradually to the conclusion of the esoteric philosophy of the east, that consciousness must be predicated not only of the animal and of the human being, but that it must be recognised also as extending through the vegetable on into the mineral kingdom, and that self-consciousness must be regarded as the consummation of the evolutionary growth of consciousness in the three lower kingdoms. it is not possible in the short time now

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im, and he is seen at its very centre. this descent is brought about by the action of the initiator, wielding the rod of power, and puts a man in touch with the centre in the body of the planetary logos of which he is a part, and this consciously. the two initiations called the sixth and seventh take place on the buddhic and atmic planes; the five-pointed star "blazes forth from within itself" as the esoteric phrase has it, and becomes the seven-pointed star; it descends upon the man and he enters within the flame. again, the four initiations, prior to that of the adept, mark respectively the attainment of certain proportions of atomic matter in the bodies for instance, at the first initiation one-fourth atomic matter, at the second one-half atomic matter, at the third three-quarters atomi

stands before the lord of the world, these three great beings form a triangle, within whose lines of force the initiate finds himself. at the first two initiations, wherein the bodhisattva functions as the hierophant, the mahachohan, the manu, and a chohan who temporarily represents the second department perform a similar office. at the highest two initiations, those three kumaras who are called "the esoteric kumaras" form a triangle wherein the initiate stands, when he faces the planetary logos. these facts are imparted to teach two things, first, the unity of the method, second, that the truism "as above so below" is an occult fact in nature. at the final two initiations many members of the hierarchy who are, if one might so express it, extra-planetary, and who function outside the dense

triangle of force formed by three adepts or three kumaras. 3. the sponsors. in the case of the first two initiations, two masters stand, one on each side of the applicant, within the triangle; at the third, fourth and fifth initiations, the mahachohan and the bodhisattva perform the function of sponsor; at the sixth and seventh initiations two great beings, who must remain nameless, stand within the esoteric triangle. the work of the sponsors is to pass through their bodies the force or electrical energy emanating from the rod of initiation. this force, through radiation, circles around the triangle and is supplemented by the force of the three guardians; it next passes through the centres of the sponsors, being transmitted by an act of will to the initiate. enough has been said elsewhere

nised as symbols of office and of power, but it is not generally appreciated that they are of electrical origin, and that their true significance is concerned with the dynamic stimulation of all the subordinates in office who come under their touch thus inspiring them to increased activity and service for the race. the great rod of power of the logos himself is hidden in the sun. to recapitulate, the esoteric location of the various rods is as follows: 1. the rod of the bodhisattva lies hidden in the "heart of the wisdom" that is, at shamballa- 76- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust 2. the rod of the one initiator is hidden in "the east" a definite planetary location. 3. the rod of the solar logos is hidden in "the heart of the sun" that mysterious subjective sphere whi

ially, this may appear one of the easiest of the rules, but in practice it is not so. mistakes are easily made, and the problem of working harmoniously in group alignment is not so simple as it may appear. egoic vibration and relationship may exist, yet the outer personalities may not harmonize. it is the work, then, of the applicant to strengthen the grip of his ego upon his personality, so that the esoteric group relation may become possible upon the physical plane. he will do this by the disciplining of his own personality, and not by the correction of his brothers. rule 10. the army of the voice, the devas in their serried ranks, work ceaselessly. let the disciple apply himself to the consideration of their methods; let him learn the rules whereby that army works within the veils of ma

safe to investigate the procedure pursued by the builders, the methods followed by them, in reproducing from the archetype, via the etheric that which we call physical manifestation; their sounds must be somewhat theoretically cognised, and the sounds whereby they are swept into activity considered. this involves, therefore, the organised study, by all applicants, of: 1. the purpose of sound. 2. the esoteric meaning of words, of grammar, and of syntax. 3. the laws of vibration and of electricity, and many other subsidiary studies which concern themselves with the manifestation of divinity and consciousness through the medium of deva substance and the activity of the controlling devas. the laws of the macrocosm will be investigated, and the correspondence between the activities of the micr

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tantly tends to produce sectarianism. at the very beginning of the joint effort and after careful consideration it was decided between the tibetan (d.k) and a.a.b. that she as the working disciple on the outer plane should shoulder as much as possible of karmic responsibility on that plane, and that the teaching should go to the public over her signature. this involved the burden of leadership in the esoteric field and precipitated attack and condemnation from persons and organisations whose positions and activities were more piscean and authoritarian. the entire platform upon which esoteric teaching stands before the public today has been liberated from the limitations and follies of mystery, glamour, claim-making and impracticality, by the position taken by the tibetan and a.a.b. the sta

ct accordingly and abundantly" secret doctrine iii. 401. may this be the attitude of every reader of this''treatise on cosmic fire' alice a. bailey- 6- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust note: in the footnotes throughout this treatise''the secret doctrine" by h. p. blavatsky is designated by the initials s.d. the page references are to the''third revised edition' fire "what says the esoteric teaching with regard to fire" fire is the most perfect and unadulterated reflection, in heaven as on earth, of the one flame. it is life and death, the origin and the end of every material thing. it is divine substance" secret doctrine i. 146. our earth and man (are) the products of the three fires. secret doctrine ii. 258. fire and flame destroy the body of an arhat; their essence ma

re be revealed. it is connected with the location of the two poles, north and south, and is the centre around which the globe rotates, and is the source of the legend of a sacred fertile land within the sphere of polar influences. the mythic land of exceeding fertility, of abundant luxuriance, and of phenomenal growth, vegetable, animal and human would naturally lie where prana is received. it is the esoteric garden of eden, the land of physical perfection. surface radiation demonstrates, after distribution, as planetary prana. in man. the organ of reception is the spleen through its etheric counterpart. after distribution over the entire body via the etheric network it demonstrates in surface radiation as the health aura. seventh. thus in all the three bodies will the resemblance clearly

, existing in etheric matter. for the mass of humanity, this will be effected during the opening up of the etheric subplanes during the next two races. this is paralleled in the animal kingdom by the gradual transference of the zone of activity from the solar plexus to the rudimentary brain, and its gradual development by the aid of manas. as we consider these points, it will become apparent that the esoteric aspects of knowledge are really those zones of consciousness which are not yet conquered, and brought within the radius of control of the indwelling entity. the point to be emphasised is that when this is realised the true significance of the esoteric and the occult will be appreciated, and the endeavor of all knowers will be to draw within the zone of their knowledge other units who

ess of developing an apprehension of his environment of the same nature as man in the three worlds. this fact should be remembered by all students of this central division of our subject; above all the analogy between the cosmic physical planes and the solar physical planes must be pondered upon. it holds hid the fourfold mystery: 1. the mystery of the akasha. 2. the secret of the fifth round. 3. the esoteric significance of saturn, the third planet. 4. the occult nature of cosmic kundalini, or the electrical force of the system. one hint on this fourth point may be given for wise consideration. when the electrical interplay between the planets is better ascertained (and by this i mean their negative or positive interplay, then it will be revealed which are related or connected, and which

t certain things in connection with a heavenly man which must be borne in mind. first, that each heavenly man holds the position of a centre in the body of a solar logos; therefore, the logos of a scheme will embody some outstanding characteristic. the ten schemes are the seven, and the synthesising three not the seven and a lower three. the lower centres were vital in the last solar system (from the esoteric standpoint, and are not counted in this; they were synthesised and absorbed during the obscuration process of system i. secondly, each heavenly man is consequently the embodiment of a particular kind of electrical force which flows through his scheme as man's force flows through some one of the etheric centres in his body. each scheme, as each human centre, will a. vibrate to some one

n of the manasic principle in all three cases. the whole mystery of this principle is hidden in two fundamentals: the mystery of the resolution of the six-pointed star, into the five-pointed star.40,(124)41 the mystery of the lords of karma, who are, in themselves, the sole recipients of the mind purposes of that cosmic entity who enfolds our solar logos within his consciousness. when, therefore, the esoteric side of astrology, and of mystical geometry, has been studied, and alliance has been made between these two sciences, a flood of light will be thrown upon this matter of the intelligent principle; when the inner workings of the law of cause and effect (the law whereby the lipika lords govern all their action) is better comprehended, then and then only will the sons of men be able to s

ire of motion, which keeps in activity each atom of matter. the fire of mind is the coherent impulse and purpose, driving the forms (built up of active matter) in a specific direction, and along certain destined paths. it is consequently karmic impulse, originating cause, and operating will. it is likewise the result or the effect of this action in time, and only as the triad comes into play, via the esoteric four, are the fires of both mind and matter burnt out and the fire of spirit set free. iii. the present stage of manasic development in the three groups literally, should we paraphrase this sentence, we might express it in the form of an enquiry as to the point attained in the active working out of the purposes of the great entities involved in cosmic and systemic manifestation; we mi

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universal mind, or mind manifesting in the macrocosm. this is a great mystery but will reveal itself to the man who overcomes the five modifications of the lower mind, who through non-attachment to the lower, identifies himself with the higher, and who thus solves the mystery of the "makara" and treads the way of the kumaras. herein lies a hint to the more advanced students of this science as to the esoteric problem of the makara, hinted at in the "secret doctrine" by h. p. blavatsky. 6. these modifications (activities) are correct knowledge, incorrect knowledge, fancy, passivity (sleep) and memory. there exists a vast field of knowledge which the seer must cognise at some time or another. it is generally conceded among occult psychologists, that there are three modes of apprehension: 1

evertheless the correct significance of the terms used in the sanskrit. only vivekananda, among the many translators, gives this interpretation, putting it as follows "the repetition of the om and meditating upon its meaning (is the way" the other translators omit the final three words, though the inference is clear. the expression "the sounding of the word" must not be too literally interpreted; the esoteric "sounding forth" is based upon a study of the law of vibration, and the gradual tuning of the lower vibrations of the sheaths or vestures of consciousness so that they synchronise with the note or sound of the conscious indweller. speaking correctly, the word is to be sounded by the soul or the ego on its own plane, and the vibration will subsequently affect the various bodies or vehi

lver cord" that thread of living light which connects the monad, the spirit in man, with the physical brain. secondly, there is the earnest reflection of the man in his physical brain upon that sound as he recognizes it. the two poles of being are hinted at here: the soul and the man in incarnation, and between these two is found the thread, along which the pranava (or word) vibrates. students of the esoteric science have to recognize the technique of the processes outlined. in the case of the sounding forth of the word we have the following factors: 1. the soul who sends, or breathes it forth, 2. the sutratma or thread along which the sound vibrates, is carried or transmitted, 3. the vestures of consciousness, mental, emotional and etheric which vibrate in response to the vibration or bre

s lost, and steady progress towards the goal is made. 43. through fiery aspiration and through the removal of all impurity, comes the perfecting of the bodily powers and of the senses. though the two causes of the perfecting process are aspiration and purification, yet these two form really only one and are the two aspects of the discipline of the probationary path. the old commentary which forms the esoteric basis of the inner teaching on raja yoga has some sentences which will be found of value here in conveying the correct concept "as the breath of fire streams upward through the system, as the fiery element makes its presence felt, that which is hindering is seen to disappear, and that which was obscure becomes illuminated. the fire ascends and barriers are burned; the breath expands

desire, the one, hunger, being positive, masculine and grasping; the other, thirst, being negative, feminine and receptive. those two words are but symbols of the two great impulses underlying the sex impulse. when these impulses are dominated and controlled, then the energy of the centre lying behind the organs concerned, can be carried upward to the throat, and hunger and thirst are arrested in the esoteric sense. it should be borne in mind here that these two words are the physical plane analogies to the great pairs of opposites which the yogi has to balance and which he does balance when the solar plexus is performing its highest function. on the astral or desire plane, within the astral body of the aspirant, must this balancing process be wrought out to completion. this is the great b

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entral energy, or spirit, the coordinating force or soul, and that which these two use and unify are in reality one vital principle manifesting in diversity. these are the three in one, the one in three, god in nature, and nature itself in god. carrying the concept, for the sake of illustration, into other realms of thought this trinity of aspects can be seen functioning in the religious world as the esoteric teaching, the fundamental symbology and doctrines of the great world religions and the exoteric organisations; in government it is the sum total of the will of the people whatever that will may be, the formulated laws, and the exoteric administration; in education it is the will to learn, the arts and sciences, and the great exoteric educational systems; in philosophy it is the urge t

a form of pride, and a refusal to recognize one's temporary limitations that awakens in readers a dislike for phrases which aptly and truly say "when you are further developed, you will understand the above" this should be made clear. to the master of the wisdom, the nature of the spirit, or that positive centre of life which every form hides is no more a mystery than is the nature of the soul to the esoteric psychologist. the source of the one life, the plane, or state from which that life emanates is the great hidden mystery to the members of the hierarchy of adepts. the nature of spirit, its quality and type of cosmic energy, its rate of vibration and its basic cosmic differentiations are the study of initiates above the third degree and the subject of their investigations. they bring t

rawn into that particular part of the web of life. b. the position in the body of the planetary logos, for instance, of any specific form. c. the particular kingdom in nature which is being vitalised. 3. it is the principle of integration and the cohesive force of manifestation, from the strictly physical sense. 4. this web of life is the subjective analogy to the nervous system, and beginners in the esoteric sciences can, if they remember this, picture to themselves a network of nerves and plexus running throughout the entire body, or the sum total of all forms, coordinating and linking, and producing an essential unity. 5. within that unity is diversity. just as the varied organs of the human body are inter-related by the ramification of the nervous system, so within the body of the plan

ith harmful results. later when acting under the influence of the soul, force is rightly and wisely handled and good eventuates. true indeed it is that "the whole creation travaileth in pain until now, waiting for the manifestation of the sons of god" 2. the bringing of light. humanity is the planetary light bearer, transmitting the light of knowledge, of wisdom, and of understanding, and this in the esoteric sense. these three aspects of light carry three aspects of soul energy to the soul in all forms, through the medium of the anima mundi, the world soul. physically speaking, this can be realized if we can appreciate the difference between our planetary illumination today and that of five hundred years ago our brilliantly lit cities, our rural districts, shining through the night with t

he time has come for that thought-form to be sent upon its mission and to carry out the purpose of its being. as we saw in the earlier rule, the form is "driven" from its creator by the power of the expulsive breath. this is a symbolic statement but, at the same time, an experimental fact in the magical work. in the disciple's work, there is often failure owing to his inability to understand both the esoteric and the literal significance of this expulsive breath as he carries forward his meditation work. this expulsive breath is the result of a preceding period of rhythmic breathing, paralleled by concentrated meditation work, then a definite focussing of the attention and the breath, as the purpose of the created form is mentally defined, and finally, the vitalizing of the thought-form, b

ice, with his capacity to receive and hear, he will soon correct the errors himself and his understanding will grow. later two new methods will be employed which will facilitate the transmission of truth from the inner side to the outer plane. precipitated writing will be given to those who can be trusted, but the time is not yet for its general use. it will be necessary to wait until the work of the esoteric schools has reached a more definite phase of development. conditions as yet are not appropriate, but humanity is urged to be ready and open-minded and prepared for this development. later will come the power to materialize thought-forms. people will come into incarnation who will have the ability temporarily to create and vitalize these thought-forms, and so enable the general public

r until there is knowledge and clear vision, imaginative assumption is a potent factor in bringing about the activity of the centres. let us, for the sake of clarity, list these lotuses with their petal numbers, and their location. their colours are immaterial at present from the standpoint of the student, for much that has been given out is erroneous or in the nature of a blind, and in any case, the esoteric colours are widely different from the exoteric. 1. the base of the spine .4 petals. 2. the sacral centre. 6 petals. 3. the solar plexus centre. 10 petals. diaphragm. 4. heart centre. 12 petals. 5. throat centre. 16 petals- 112- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust 6. centre between the eyebrows. 2 petals. 7. head centre. 1000 petals. next, let the student remember two

sence itself- 118- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust the awakening of the centres the question now arises: how can this awakening and co-ordination be brought about? what steps must be taken in order to produce this vitalisation and the eventual synthetic activity of the three centres? faced with these questions, the true teacher finds a difficulty. it is not easy to make clear the esoteric and paralleling activities which are the result of character building. so oft the aspirant is anxious to be told some new thing and when he is told some old truth so old and so familiar that it fails to call forth a registering response he feels that the teacher has failed him and so succumbs to a sense of futility and depression. however, this must be met and the questions must be an

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a dramatic picture of the progress of those souls who are carried in or out of manifestation by the appearance or- 9- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust disappearance of a ray. we shall find, as we study, that words will greatly handicap our expression of the realities involved, and we must endeavour to penetrate beneath the surface meaning to the esoteric structure of truth. these rays are in constant movement and circulation, and demonstrate an activity which is progressive and cyclic and evidences increasing momentum. they are dominant at one time and quiescent at another, and according to the particular ray which is making its presence felt at any particular time, so will be the quality of the civilisation, the type of forms which w

s (of the initiate of high degree) of the embodied logos, of deity, and his identification with the consciousness of that stupendous creator who is seeking expression through the medium of the solar system. no initiate on the- 16- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust planet can identify himself with the consciousness of that identified being (in the esoteric sense of the term) who, speaking in the bhagavad gita, says "having pervaded the entire universe with a fragment of myself, i remain" these thoughts i commend to your consideration and to your careful pondering, begging you to see to it that there is a steady expansion of your sense of awareness and a growing capacity to make understanding contacts with that emerging truth, reality an

t of duality, for the loving and the loved, the desiring and the desired, must here be posited) and to emerge from subjective being into objective becoming. we call these seven by various names, as follows: 1. the lord of power or will. this life wills to love, and uses power as an expression of divine beneficence. for his body of manifestation he uses that planet for which the sun is regarded as the esoteric substitute. 2. the lord of love-wisdom, who is the embodiment of pure love, is regarded by esotericists as being as close to the heart of the solar logos as was the beloved disciple close to the heart of the christ of galilee. this life instils into all forms the quality of love, with its more material manifestation of desire, and is the attractive principle in nature and the custodia

application and correct adjustment to the plan. this time is as yet far away, and hence the distortions and misrepresentations on earth of the plan as it exists in heaven, to use the christian phraseology. it was the realisation of the present world need for illumined thinkers and subjective workers which prompted those who guide so to direct the incoming spiritual energies that the formation of the esoteric groups everywhere came about; it led also to the publication of the mass of mystical and oriental literature on meditation and allied topics which has flooded the world today. hence also the effort that i, a worker on the inner side of life, am making to teach the newer psychology in this treatise, and so show to man what is his equipment and how well suited he is to the work for whic

repared. god has created in the light. his sons can now create. what can else be done "naught" came the answer from the greater seven "let the work proceed. let the sons of god create" these words will be noted by many as of deep significance and as indicating a wide intention (during the coming cycle) to open the door wide into the temple of the hidden mystery to man. one by one we shall undergo the esoteric and spiritual counterpart of the psychological factor which is called "a mental test" that test will demonstrate a man's usefulness in mental work and power, it will show his capacity to build thought-forms and to vitalise them. this i dealt with in a treatise on white magic, and the relation of that treatise to the magical work of the seventh ray and its cycle of activity will become

al asset. it will bring within the radius of our range of contact the infra-red and ultra-violet gamut of colours, and we shall see what at present is hidden. all this will tend to destroy the platform upon which the materialists stand, and to pave the way, first, for the admission of the soul as a sound hypothesis, and secondly, for the demonstration of its existence. we only need more light, in the esoteric sense, in order to see the soul, and that light will shortly be available and we shall understand the meaning of the words "and in thy light shall we see light" this intensification of the light will continue until a.d. 2025, when there will come a cycle of relative stability and of steady shining without much augmentation. in the second decanate of aquarius these three aspects will a

of the fourth ray of harmony and beauty, and the developing power of the fifth ray of knowledge (synonymous to the merging of the intuition and the intellect in highly evolved man) have a definite effect upon the vegetable kingdom and upon the human aura. yellow-orange shines forth in both. i mention this as an illustration of an externalisation of ray force, and as an indication of the value of the esoteric science when applied to the exoteric. the blue ray of devotion passes now into the violet of what we term the ceremonial ray. what do these words mean? simply that the great musician of the universe is moving the keys, is sounding another note and thus bringing in another turn of the wheel, and swinging into the arc of manifestation the ray of violet, the great note g. these rays brin

olume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust also the lord of the fourth ray of harmony, beauty and art will add his share to the great creative work, and it will be found that, in the elusive following to its source of that mysterious revelation which we call beauty, there will be expressed that subtle quality of which "smell" in the animal sense, is the symbol. the great search and the esoteric "following of the scent" will come to an end. this fourth ray is pre-eminently the way of the seeker, the searcher and the sensitive reflector of beauty. the jewish nation has a close relation to this fourth ray and to the fourth root race, and hence their eminence at this time in the world of art, and hence the magnitude of their endless symbolic wandering and searching. when the kno

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

nd arabia, and the philosophers of greece and the west, included all knowledge which they considered as essentially divine; classifying part as esoteric and the remainder as exterior."3 we know much of the exoteric teaching. orthodox and theological christianity is founded on it, as are all the orthodox formulations of the great religions. when, however, the inner wisdom teaching is forgotten and the esoteric side is ignored, then the spirit and the living experimental experience disappear. we have been occupied with the details of the outer form of the faith, and have sadly forgotten the inner meaning which carries life and salvation to the individual and also to humanity. we have been busy fighting over the non-essentials of traditional interpretation and have omitted to teach the secret

laim or speaks about himself. those who claim to be initiates give denial to their claim in so doing. disciples and initiates are taught to be inclusive in their thoughts and non-separative in their attitudes. they never set themselves apart from the rest of humanity by asserting their status and thus automatically placing themselves upon a pedestal. nor are the requirements, as stated in many of the esoteric books, quite as simple as they are made out to be. to read some of them, one would think that as long as the aspirant has achieved a measure of tolerance, of kindness, devotion, sympathy, idealism, patience and perseverance he has fulfilled the major requirements. these are indeed primary essentials, but to these qualities must be added an intelligent understanding and a mental unfold

s man's interpretation of the recognition. at the baptism, he recognised him as his son, sent into the world, from the bosom of the father, to carry out the will of god. that which christ had recognised in the temple as a child was later endorsed by god. this recognition is repeated, and the endorsement is strengthened, by the command to the world to hear the words of the saviour, or perhaps from the esoteric and spiritual standpoint, to hear that word which was god made flesh "there is in fact an inward connection between the baptism and the transfiguration. in both cases a condition of ecstasy accompanies the revelation of the secret of jesus' person. the first time the revelation was for him alone; here the disciples also shared it. it is not clear to what extent they themselves were tr

ited attention to the words of christ will make apparent that the three outstanding characteristics of his work and the three main lines of his activity are intended to be ours also. these three are, as we have seen, first, the achieving of perfection and its demonstrating through the five great events which we call the crises in the life of christ, the five major initiations of the orient and of the esoteric schools; secondly, the founding of the kingdom a responsibility which rests upon each of us, because, though christ certainly opened the door into the kingdom, the rest of the work rests upon our shoulders; thirdly, the attaining of immortality, based on the development of that within ourselves which is of the nature of the real, which has true value and which deserves to stand the te

ALICE A BAILEY11 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME II ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY II

derlying consciousness of the whole, which recognises no pain or sorrow and has, therefore, slipped out of the realisation which predominantly governs the consciousness of the three great lives in our solar system. 5. it is this dimly sensed truth which lies behind the highest type of metaphysical thought, such as christian science, unity, divine science, and the emphasis laid by christianity and the esoteric schools upon the at-one-ment. this instinct towards betterment through sacrifice is itself diverse. there is, first of all, the instinct towards individual betterment, which leads to selfishness, to a grasping, and to an orientation of the materially-minded towards material possessions. there is, secondly, the instinct towards an ameliorating of the conditions of other people, first f

ly directed) to the law of service- 74- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust thirdly this law of service was expressed for the first time fully by the christ two thousand years ago. he was the forerunner of the aquarian age, and hence his constant emphasis upon the fact that he was the "water of life, the "living water" which men needed. hence the esoteric name of this law is that of "water and the fishes" the piscean age slowly, very slowly, prepared the way for the divine expression of service, which will be the glory of the coming centuries. today, we have a world which is steadily coming to the realisation that "no man liveth unto himself, and that only as the love, about which so much has been written and spoken, finds its outlet i

that imitation does not net them the true results, but only indicates to them a growing possibility. all these laws of the soul (and the law of service is no exception) manifest inevitably in two ways. first, there is their effect upon the individual. this occurs when the soul has been definitely contacted and the mechanism of the soul begins to respond. evidence of this should work out now among the esoteric students, scattered over the world, for they have reached a point where the true server can emerge from their ranks, and give evidence of an established soul- 78- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust contact. secondly, these soul laws are beginning to have a group effect in humanity itself, and to influence the race of men as a who

n with the groups of all true servers. he will submerge his personality tendencies, his ideas and his ambitions in the greater good of the whole, and self will be lost to sight. perhaps no better suggestion can be made to the man or woman who seeks to function as a true server than to ask them to repeat daily, with their whole hearts and minds behind the words, the dedication at the conclusion of the esoteric catechism, which is included at the end of initiation, human and solar. i would remind such servers that if they revolt or are dismayed by the ideas embodied in the words, that is- 83- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust perhaps an indication of how much they need the impression of this life objective upon their consciousness. tha

intuition is not yet awakened. it is to be noted how the work of the true servers is largely with the new ideas and not with the business of organisation and of criticism (for these two go hand in hand. ideas are taken by the third ray aspirant, as they emerge from the elevated consciousness of those for whom the first ray works and are rendered attractive by the second ray worker (attractive in the esoteric sense) and adapted to the immediate need and rendered vocal by the force of the intellectual third ray types. in this lies a hint for many of the third ray personalities to be found working in various fields of service at this time. ray iv. this ray is not in incarnation at the time and therefore few fourth ray egos are available in world service. there are, however, many fourth ray p

eal to the real, and from death to immortality. this is the true path of the antaskarana, which the disciple weaves from out of himself (speaking symbolically, just as the spider weaves his thread. service, an understanding of the way, and the building of the true line of escape that is the task to be carried forward upon the path of discipleship. such is the object set before all the students of the esoteric sciences at this time, provided they desire it enough, and can train themselves to work selflessly for their fellow men. as they succeed in doing this and approximate ever more closely to that which is not the pairs of opposites (and thus achieve "the central way, steadily the law of repulse begins to swing into operation. when the third initiation is taken, this law will begin to hol

of ideas which link, for instance: 1. the beatitudes (enunciated by the christ) and these seven laws. 2. the stages of the noble eightfold path and these soul potencies. 3. the eight means to yoga or union of the soul, and this septenate of influences. 4. the ten commandments of the semitic religion, and these seven spiritual laws. students would find it of interest to test their understanding of the esoteric relationships existing between these groups of teaching and see if they can, for themselves, trace the basic meanings. let us, by way of illustration, trace or indicate the relation between the seven laws and the eight means to yoga, because this will give us an illustration of the difference existing between the means to yoga as understood by the average yogi or esotericist, and as t

connote to the superficial student the simplest achievement of the probationary path. it would, however, be well if we could grasp this fact with clarity, that this simple formulation of requirements and their achievement within the aspirant's consciousness, demonstrate as the outer and veiled reactions of his mind to some deeply esoteric cosmic truths. this statement contains the very essence of the esoteric knowledge. the quite ordinary formulations of loving living and of daily instinctive self-sacrifice suffer from being so vitally familiar and yet if we could only realise it they are only on the outer fringe of the deepest world truths. they are the a.b.c. of esotericism and through them, and only through them, shall we arrive at the words and sentences which are, in their turn, the e

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

nts. one other reason might be mentioned here as indicative of the value of this book. in every case, the disciple is told what are the types of energy to which he most easily responds and upon which ray or divine emanation he finds himself. he, therefore, becomes aware of what constitutes his line of least resistance and where the major point of his life conflict is to be found. we are taught in the esoteric philosophy that seven great divine emanations, aeons or spirits (in whom we live and move and have our being) came forth from god at the time of the creation. the same teaching can also be traced in the holy bible. upon one or other of these seven rays, the souls of all forms of life are to be found as well as the forms themselves. these seven rays produce the seven major psychologica

th ray of devotion or idealism. many christian people. fanatics. numbers of earnest churchmen of all the world religions. 7. the seventh ray of ceremonial order or magic. masons. financiers. great businessmen and organisers of all kinds. executives are found with these energies in their equipment. however, only when a man is highly developed and nearing the path of discipleship is it possible for the esoteric student accurately to surmise what his ray may be. people of all kinds and professions are found on all the rays. the conflict in a disciple's life is found to lie in the fact that the ray of his soul and the ray of his integrated personality are posed against each other. at- 4- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust the same time, his emotional nature, his m

eful focal point for the master's energy in the place where you have chosen to serve. you must learn to differentiate, therefore, as time goes on and your sensitivity increases, between: 1. the vibratory influence (incoming and outgoing) of your own soul. 2. the vibratory influence (incoming and outgoing) of this particular group of disciples. 3. the vibratory influence (incoming and outgoing) of the esoteric schools- 171- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust 4. the vibratory influence (incoming and outgoing) of the head of all esoteric groups, the master morya. this you will not be able to do for some time yet, but the developing of this type of sensitivity is, for you, a needed unfoldment, and will come eventually, if you will follow my instructions with care

ithout any sense of strain or pressure it will be gradually assimilated. it will then become an integral part of your scientific knowledge, of your mental equipment, and of your technique in service, so that it will become instinctually available. forget not, that the hardly won intellectual perceptions have to become instinctual creative factors by the time a man is permitted to take initiation. the esoteric facts learned and the mental awareness achieved, will have to fall eventually below the threshold of consciousness, of thought and of awareness; they must constitute an integral part of the whole man, just as the animal instinctual nature or the reaction of the mind to the array of facts, presented by the use of the five senses, lies below the threshold of the animal consciousness, bu

hich to feel, and at other times you feel too much. you feel that there is nothing in you with which to go forward, with which to face the future no joy, no optimism and no hope of real betterment of conditions. yet you do go on. you are still young and life can hold for you much if you face it as it should be faced. what shall i suggest for your helping? first of all, i would ask you to drop all the esoteric and spiritual work which you are now doing all personal meditation and reflection, the keeping of a spiritual diary, and (this may surprise you, i am going to ask you to be one of the first in my group of disciples to begin to deal definitely with the problem of world glamour. will you- 376- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust provide a tiny germ of active

your part. you have three years in which to make the effort by means of which you can become an accepted disciple, when you return again to this earth. by this i do not mean that you are to pass over at the age of fifty-six. i am speaking of the establishing of a rhythm which will be strong enough and vital enough to produce the needed fusion of soul and personality. we who teach, watch and guide the esoteric development of man, know that unless a certain measure of fusion is established by the time fifty-six years of age is attained, it is seldom established later. after that age, a man may hold to the point achieved and foster his aspiration but the dynamic submergence of the personality in the will and life of the soul is rare after that time. when reached prior to the age of fifty-six

bility will require conscious recognition and there will be a necessary slowing down of both action and perception in the outer space-time world. the true ashram (of which the coming outer ashrams will be but reflections) is not for lower concrete mind discussion. it is a focal point of receptivity; it embraces the effort to establish mutual contact through an united recognition of the vision, of the esoteric basis of life and the laws governing action. it is not a place, however, for long and silent meditation processes, for it is a point of tension where, together, the ageless wisdom in its more esoteric aspects is discussed, where the nature of soul relationship is recognised and where the fusion of auras and the inter-blending of the "triangles" goes forward consciously. an ashram is t

n get away from yourselves and your personal reactions, your own interpretations, and your personal demands, you will discover for yourselves how and in what manner the master is seeking to impress you and the group with which you may be affiliated. you will become sensitive to that impression. you can then facilitate (as it is called) the activity of the master by a profound and deep interest in the esoteric life to the exclusion of your own and also of the master's individuality. there are many ways which can then be revealed which will aid the interplay between you, the disciple, and the master. as all the rays are the subrays of the second ray, we shall be primarily concerned with the second ray modes of working with disciples; they form the basis of all the other techniques. the diffe

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

ed by the christ, by krishna or by buddha (and passed on to the masses by their disciples) has not yet been expressed as it was hoped. men do not live up to what they already know; they fail to make practical their information; they short circuit the light; they do not discipline themselves; greedy desire and unlawful ambition control and not the inner knowledge. to put it scientifically and from the esoteric angle: spiritual impression has been interrupted and there has been interference with the divine circulatory flow. it is the task of the disciples of the- 4- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust world to restore this flow and to stop this interference. this is the major problem facing spiritual people at this time. chapter i the psychological rehabilitation of the nations t

groups within the institutional churches, by the many world groups who present the concept of god immanent, even when they do so with selfish motive and with an unwholesome emphasis upon the powers of the indwelling divinity to provide perfect health, plenty of money, serene business success and unbroken popularity! the new world religion is also being brought into expression through the work of the esoteric groups throughout the world because of their particular emphasis upon the fact of the spiritual hierarchy, upon the office and the work of the christ and upon the techniques of meditation whereby soul-awareness (or the christ-consciousness) can be achieved. prayer has been expanded into meditation; desire has been lifted into mental aspiration. this is supplanted by a sense of unity a

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

he spurious would be proclaiming themselves. all this is, however, but indicative of his coming. the counterfeit ever guarantees the true. the talk, the discussions, the silly claim-making, the pseudo-occultism and the futile efforts to "take an initiation (that undistinguished phrase which ignorant theosophical teachers have coined to express a deep spiritual experience) have been distinctive of the esoteric teaching ever since its modern inception in 1875. then h.p. blavatsky brought to the attention of the western world the fact that great disciples and masters of the wisdom were present on the earth, obedient to the guidance of the christ. later she deeply regretted doing this, as some of her papers, issued to her esoteric section, proclaimed. yet what she did was all a part of the gre

experience will be obviously blended through the stimulation of the advent of the hierarchy and of its head, the christ. a tremendous growth of understanding and of relationships will be the major result. iv. the dispelling of glamour the word "glamour" the outstanding characteristic of the astral plane, has never been correctly employed and it is a pity that it was ever used in the early days of the esoteric teachings. the so-called "astral plane" is simply the name given to that sum total of sentient reactions, of feeling-responsiveness, and of emotional substance which man has himself so powerfully created and so successfully projected that he is today the victim of that which he has made. eighty per cent of the teaching given about the astral plane is a part itself of the great delusio

such a cause as that of the return of christ; fear of the future or the love of purchasing, or the desire to give presents, or failure to realise that many small sums mount up into very large sums all these things militate against financial generosity and the reason always seems adequate. therefore, the second prerequisite is for everyone to give as they can. thirdly, the metaphysical schools and the esoteric groups have given much thought to this business of directing money into channels which appeal to them. the question is often asked: why do the unity school of thought, the christian science church, and many new thought movements always manage to accumulate the required funds whilst other groups, and particularly the esoteric groups, do not? why do truly spiritual workers seem unable t

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

vehicle of expression which receives its impact so will be the reaction and activity, and so will be the type of consciousness interpreting and using it. the ancient occult truism remains accurate "consciousness is dependent upon its vehicle for expression and both are dependent upon life and energy for existence" this remains an immutable law. the five cities which are the exoteric expression of the esoteric centre of force and through which the hierarchy and shamballa are seeking to work are the correspondence in the planetary body to the four centres up the spine and the ajna centre in the body of humanity and of individual man. in all three cases, they are "living vital focal points of dynamic force" to a greater or less extent. some predominantly express soul energy and some personali

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

sting existence. understanding. this must be appreciated in its literal sense as that which "stands under" the totality of forms. it connotes the power of recession or the capacity to withdraw from one's agelong identification with form life. i would like to point out that this withdrawal is comparatively easy for those who have much of the first ray quality in them. the problem is to withdraw in the esoteric sense, but to avoid at the same time the sense of separateness, of isolation and of superiority. it is easy for first ray people to resist the tendency to identify themselves with others. to have true understanding involves an increased ability to love all beings and yet, at the same time, to preserve personality detachment. this detachment can be so easily founded on an inability to

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

ches the subject connected with the evolutionary process from the angle of the whole and then the part, from the periphery to the centre, from the universal to the particular. among themselves, the masters do not deal with telepathy as a science warranting consideration, endeavour and impartation; they are concerned primarily with the science of impression. the term most often employed by them is the esoteric equivalent of what the average person means when he says "i have an impression" impression is the subtlest reaction (more or less accurate) to the vibratory mental activity of some other mind or group of minds, of some whole, as its radiatory influence affects the unit or aggregate of units. the first stage of correct telepathic reception is ever the registering of an impression; it i

ses as "tuning in with the infinite" or "tapping the universal mind" serve only to show how very little is known in reality about the responses and the reactions of those of high initiate rank or of those on the highest levels of hierarchical life. true capacity to invoke and evoke (within initiate ranks) is based upon a mysterious development impossible before the time of the third initiation of the esoteric sense. the active use of the esoteric sense in the occult training offered to aspirants, disciples and initiates of lesser degree produces certain changes within the brain, with corresponding changes within the buddhic vehicle; these changes enable one at will (after the third initiation of transfiguration) to contact the being, life, or the monadic point of contact with whom he will

y impress humanity because of shared experience and understanding; then the lives that compose the human family present the goal to the subhuman kingdoms and can, and do, impress them because of basic instinctual tendencies which are expressed in the human group but which are latent instinctual tendencies and potential assets in the three subhuman groups. this teaching has always been implicit in the esoteric doctrines but has not been sufficiently emphasised, owing to the point in evolution of mankind. today, mankind has made such progress that these points can be made effectively. i would call to your attention that this was the keynote of the gospel story: the human-divine nature of the christ, relating him to the father through his essential divinity, and also to man through his essent

ifferentiated life, its own unique quality or integral colouring, and its own specific and peculiar form of consciousness. this etheric body vast and unknown as it is, as to its extent is nevertheless limited in nature and static (relatively speaking) in capacity; it preserves a set form, a form of which we know absolutely nothing, but which is the etheric form of the unknown entity. to this form the esoteric science gives the name of space; it is the fixed area in which every form, from a universe to an atom, finds its location. we speak at times of an expanding universe; what we really mean is an expanding consciousness, for this etheric body of the entity, space, is the recipient of many types of informing and penetrating energies, and it is also the field for the intelligent activity o

i. the planetary life a centre in the solar system we shall now endeavour to apply whatever knowledge is available to you at this time in relation to the planetary life, expressing itself as a centre in the solar system. we shall also study its secondary expression through the medium of three major centres: shamballa, the hierarchy, and humanity. the fundamental concept of hylozoism underlies all the esoteric teaching upon the theme of manifesting life. all forms are composed of many forms, and all forms aggregated or single in nature are the expression of an indwelling or ensouling life. the fusion of life with living substance produces another aspect of expression: that of consciousness. this consciousness varies according to the natural receptivity of the form, according to its point in

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

planet. the sun is not, as stated, in any sign of the zodiac. it simply appears to be so as it passes between our little sphere, the earth, and the constellations at any particular time or season. in ancient days it was believed that the earth was the centre of the solar system and that around it revolved the sun and all the other planets. this was the exoteric knowledge and position, though not the esoteric understanding. later, when further discoveries brought more light to the human mind, our planet was decentralised and the truth was more clearly seen, though much remains as yet to be discovered and may even be of as revolutionary a nature. from certain astrological angles, a similar process of decentralisation must take place and the solar system must no longer be regarded as a point

adiation or influence. in those far off times, antedating even lemuria and constituting in lemurian days simply an ancient tradition, the moon appeared to be a living vital entity. but i would have you bear definitely in mind that today the moon is nothing more than a dead form. it has no emanation and no radiation of any kind and, therefore, has no effect of any kind. the moon, from the angle of the esoteric knower, is simply an obstruction in space an undesirable form which must some day disappear. in esoteric astrology, the effect of the moon is noted as a thought effect and as the result of a powerful and most ancient thoughtform; nevertheless, the moon has no quality of her own and can transmit nothing to the earth. let me reiterate: the moon is a dead form; it has no emanation at all

these conditions of the exact moment and the completely wise astrologer are ever to be found as yet. second: by consciously assuming the position of the spiritual observer, and by cultivating the power to respond to the soul. then, from the angle of that soul, the man must learn to control circumstance and the attendant reactions of the personality. the following attitudes and positions taken by the esoteric astrologer should also be noted- 10- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. that the planetary influences indicate the trend of the outer life circumstances. when correctly interpreted for the average man and for the unevolved man, they can and do indicate the personality destiny and fate; they do condition and completely control the

ason that i proffer this is that humanity is enough evolved so that the astrology of the soul will become possible before long; it constitutes from many points of view a reversal of normal procedure. this is both wise and necessary, and also inevitable. astrologers will eventually be divided into two classes: the exoteric astrologers who will be occupied with the horoscope of the personality, and the esoteric astrologers who will be occupied with the purposes of the soul. 3. that the rising sign indicates the remoter possibilities, and the spiritual goal and purpose of the immediate incarnation and of the immediate succeeding incarnations. this sign concerns itself with the struggle of the spiritual man "to carry on" from the point achieved so that when the life energy is temporarily exhau

e i stand and will not move until i know the law which governs all this movement up and down the land. i may revolve and turning face the many different ways; i face some wide horizons and yet today i stand. i will determine for myself the way to go. then onward i will move. i will not travel up and down the land nor turn in space. but onward i will move" there is another revolutionary idea which the esoteric science of astrology brings to its modern and exoteric aspect: in the greater cycle of man's many incarnations, he as is well recognised passes through the zodiacal circle from pisces to aries, thus retrograding through the signs as he follows the sweep or path of the sun's retrogression. this phrase has always disturbed me, but the apparent retrogression, based upon the precession of

"lords of sacrifice" and "lords of love" the flower of atma-buddhi- 25- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust in studying these hierarchies, one of the most valuable lessons to be learned is the place and importance of man in the scheme. the hierarchy, for instance, which is the essence of the intangible life of spirit, the principle of buddhi, is the esoteric cause of the cosmic marriage of spirit and matter, based on the love and desire of the logos, but each hierarchy also expresses itself through one particular manifestation which comes to be regarded by the finite mind of man as the hierarchy itself. this is not so, and care must be taken to distinguish between these hierarchies. they are latent germs of force centres and manifest subj

uence of aries, gemini and libra. under that influence the man learns to overcome desire through experiment with and experience of every kind of desire and selfish impulse. thus gradually, and with infinite pain, the human soul learns to function first as a member of the human family, and, secondly as a spiritual entity, the divine soul. you will see from the above that certain positions taken by the esoteric astrologer reverse the position of the orthodox astrology of today. the reason for this is that in the descent of ideas from the plane of ideas, they become "reversed" upon the astral plane and subject to the great illusion; astrology must eventually free itself from this reversal. a right understanding of the effect of the various energies and forces will make it apparent that, when

h the signs according to the mode recognised by orthodox astrology. he, as well as the planets, apparently retrogrades through the signs and appears to pass through the constellations from aries to taurus. but this is all part of the great illusion. 2. the wheel of life and the path of man, the divine or spiritual soul, as he passes through the signs of the zodiac according to the mode studied by the esoteric astrologer. this is the path of reality as the other is the path of illusion. this carries the disciple around the path from commencement in aries to consummation in pisces. the present method is based upon the temporary truth that ordinary man is subject to the illusory nature of manifestation and "as he thinks, so is he" when, however, he becomes hercules, the sun god (or solar ange

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

arer and more intimate way. i found that he was "the master of all the masters and the teacher alike of angels and of men" i found that the masters of the wisdom were his pupils and disciples, just as people like myself were pupils of some master. i learnt that when i, in my orthodox days, talked about christ and his church i was really speaking of christ and the planetary hierarchy. i found that the esoteric presentation of truth in no way belittled christ. he was, indeed, the son of god, the first born in a great family of brothers, as st. paul has told us, and a guarantee to us of our own divinity. the third teaching which i came across and which pulled me up short for a long time was the dual belief in the law of re-birth and the law of cause and effect, called karma and reincarnation

. life in hollywood was now easier for me. the children were old enough to go to school and kindergarten. i had many friends and the grounds at krotona, the theosophical headquarters, were delightful. krotona was a community of about five hundred people, some living on the grounds and some elsewhere in hollywood or los angeles. there were lecture halls, class rooms, a shrine room where members of the esoteric section met and a cafeteria which fed the people. the place was beautifully run and, when i got there at first, it seemed to me to be a paradise on earth. everybody there appeared to me to be deeply spiritual. i thought the leaders and teachers were at least initiates of high degree. i attended meetings and classes and learnt a great deal for which i am very grateful. after i had been

than to be a strict vegetarian and, from a pedestal of superiority, look down upon this world. again, i would point out that generalisations are inexact. i have known many vegetarians who were lovely and sweet and kind and good. it was during this year, 1918, that i discovered for the first time who it was that had come to see me in scotland when i was a girl of fifteen. i had been admitted into the esoteric section (e.s) of the theosophical society and was attending their meetings. the first time that i went into the shrine room i saw the customary pictures of the christ and the masters of the wisdom, as the theosophists call them. to my surprise there, looking straight at me, was a picture of my visitor. there was no mistake. this was the man who had walked into my aunt's drawing room

iginal impulse of universal brotherhood. we collaborated because at this time wadia seemed sound and sincere and to have the interest of the society truly at heart. the cleavage in the society was steadily widening and the line of demarcation between those who stood for the democratic point of view and those who stood for spiritual authority and the complete control of the theosophical society by the esoteric- 96- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust section was rapidly growing. the original platform of the t.s. had been founded on the autonomy of the lodges within the various national sections but, at the time that foster bailey and i came into the work, this whole situation had been fundamentally changed. those people were put into office in any lodge who were e.s. mem

ntire secret doctrine class over to me. i mention this for the benefit of united lodge of theosophists and for those who claim that the true theosophical lineage descends from h.p.b. via w. q. judge. all the theosophy that i knew had been taught me by personal friends and pupils of h.p.b. and this mr. prater recognised- 107- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust later he gave me the esoteric section instructions as given to him by h.p.b. they are identical with those i had seen when in the e.s. but they were given to me with no strings attached to them at all and i have been at liberty to use them at any time and have used them. when he died many years ago his theosophical library came into our hands with all the old lucifers and all the old editions of the theosophical m

strings attached to them at all and i have been at liberty to use them at any time and have used them. when he died many years ago his theosophical library came into our hands with all the old lucifers and all the old editions of the theosophical magazine, plus other esoteric papers which he had received from h.p.b. among the papers which he gave me was one in which h.p.b. expressed her wish that the esoteric section should be called the arcane school. it never was and i made up my mind that the old lady should have her wish and that was how the school came to get its name. i regarded it as a great privilege and happiness to know mr. prater. another old pupil of madame blavatsky and col. olcott, miss sarah jacobs, gave me the photographic plates of the masters' pictures which were given to

d him that no one was admitted into the e.s. unless they had been for two years members of the t.s. and i asked him why people who were ready for esoteric training should be kept waiting for two years in some purely exoteric group. he had no answer to this and i increased his bewilderment by pointing out (which i now see was not exactly tactful of me) what a pity it was that the arcane school and the esoteric section could not work happily together. i pointed out that the e.s. was the best school for probationers in the world as it fed the fires of aspiration and nurtured devotion in its membership but that we were a school for training people to be "accepted disciples" that is, those on the last stages of the probationary path and that our emphasis was impersonality and mental development

ogether as a group. one such group in india interested me very much. there was an organisation in india called the suddha dharma mandala. it had been founded by sir subra maniyer. it was an occult order of apparently an advanced kind. i had come across one of the books they had put out and had discovered several of the leaders of the theosophical society were working in the order, having outgrown the esoteric section in the t.s. i'm not a good hand at joining organisations but i wrote to the head of the order and asked permission to join but received no reply. the following year, as i had heard nothing, i wrote again and ordered some of their books, enclosing a check in payment. i received no reply and no books were sent me, though the check was cashed. after some months i sent a carbon co

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

parted by contact. these i will deal with under our second major heading on the diseases emanating from the group. chapter i- the psychological causes of disease- 14- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust the point i would like to make here, before proceeding further, is that i shall seek to avoid, as far as possible, all technicalities. our theme is the esoteric consideration of disease and its forms; it seeks to elucidate the subject of and the vital causes of such diseases, and to indicate the general laws with which the healer must work and the six rules which he must impose upon himself and to which he gives obedience, through discipline and understanding. you will have noted that i listed the psychological causes under four headings: 1

usually lacking in the average metaphysical healer. but they are entirely ignorant of one great field of knowledge that concerning the energies which meet and war within the human frame and of the potencies which can be set in motion if certain esoteric truths are admitted in place. until they work with the etheric body and study the science of the centres, they can make little further progress. the esoteric healer knows much about the inner forces and energies and has some understanding of the basic causes of the exoteric diseases, but his ignorance of man's mechanism is deplorable, and he fails to realise two things: first, that disease is sometimes the working out into manifestation of undesirable subjective conditions. these, when externalised and brought to the surface of the human b

gh from all the planes. the world stands open wide. related to these five stages, wherein the etheric body expands and becomes the vital livingness of all expression upon the physical plane, are the five races of men, beginning with the lemurian race, the five planes of human and superhuman expression, the five stages of consciousness and the various other groupings of five with which you meet in the esoteric philosophy. incidentally it might be of value and of interest to point out that the five-pointed star is not only the sign and symbol of initiation and finally perfected man, but it is also the basic symbol of the etheric body and of the five centres which control perfected man the two head centres, the heart centre, the throat centre and the centre at the base of the spine. when thes

dy definitely from the angle of the seven centres, as well as considering the results of the forces and energies (i use these distinctive words advisedly) which pour through them. much that i shall say will be open to question from the viewpoint of orthodox medicine, yet, at the same time, orthodox medicine has been steadily drifting towards the occult point of view. i shall not attempt to relate the esoteric attitude of healing, its propositions and methods, to the modern schools of therapy. the two are gradually approaching each other, in any case. the lay reader, for whom- 82- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust these teachings are intended, will get a clearer comprehension of my thesis if it is kept relatively free from the technical ter

ramifications are the negative aspects of the positive energies which condition or are attempting to condition the man. 3. the endocrine system. this is the tangible and exoteric expression of the activity of the vital body and its seven centres. the seven centres of force are to be found in the same region where the seven major glands are located, and each centre of force provides, according to the esoteric teaching, the power and the life of the corresponding gland which is, in fact, its externalisation- 86- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust centres glands head centre..pineal gland centre between eyebrows..pituitary body throat centre..thyroid gland heart centre..thymus gland solar plexus centre..pancreas sacral centre..the gonads centr

tre of spiritual force (for astral force is spiritual in essence) and its three manifestations. all these three dense materialisations are fed and nurtured by the- 105- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust forces and energies of the solar plexus centre. i have here given a very important fact to those who are interested in the study of medicine from the esoteric angle; rightly appreciated, it will lead to an understanding of the healing art. control of the solar plexus centre, and the right reception and release of the energies focussed in that centre would bring about a major purification, an intensive strengthening and a vital protection of the three vital organs to be found in that area of the human physical mechanism. as i have earlier po

oduces: a. the awakening in a gradual and orderly manner of the centres, according to ray types. b. the reversal of the centres so that the consciousness of the indwelling man is adequate to his environment. c. the synthesis of the life energies of all the centres, and adequacy to the demands of the initiate and the service of the hierarchy and of humanity. 6. the spinal column (from the angle of the esoteric sciences) houses a threefold thread. this is the externalisation of the antahkarana, composed of the antahkarana proper, the sutratma or life thread, and the creative thread. this threefold thread within the spinal column is therefore composed of three threads of energy which have channeled for themselves in the substance of the interior of the column a "threefold way of approach and

estroyed; every part of the body is vitalised and material perfection is produced, plus the full play of the enlightened consciousness and also of the life aspect. the nervous system then comes under the complete control of the spiritual man, and the blood stream is purified and becomes an unimpeded and satisfactory channel for the circulation of that which the energised glands discharge. this is the esoteric significance of the biblical words "the blood is the life" and also of the words "saved by the blood of christ" it is not by the blood of a christ dying two thousand years ago upon the cross in palestine that man is saved, but by the livingness of the blood of those in whom the christ life and consciousness, and the quality of the christ, is perfectly demonstrating and expressed. then

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

ligent citizen, a wise parent, and a controlled personality; it must enable him to play his part in the work of the world and fit him for living peaceably and helpfully and in harmony with his neighbours. second, it must enable him to bridge the gap between the various aspects of his own mental nature, and herein lies the major emphasis of the instructions which i am now purposing to give you. in the esoteric philosophy we are taught, as well you know, that on the mental plane there are three aspects of the mind, or of that mental creature we call a man. these three aspects constitute the most important part of his nature: 1. his lower concrete mind, the reasoning principle. it is with this aspect of the man that our educational processes profess to deal. 2. that son of mind, which we call

re are three aspects of the mind, or of that mental creature we call a man. these three aspects constitute the most important part of his nature: 1. his lower concrete mind, the reasoning principle. it is with this aspect of the man that our educational processes profess to deal. 2. that son of mind, which we call the ego or soul. this is the intelligence principle, and is called by many names in the esoteric literature, such as the solar angel, the agnishvattas, the christ principle, etc. with this, religion in the past has professed to deal- 9- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust 3. the higher abstract mind, the custodian of ideas, and that which is the conveyor of illumination to the lower mind, once that lower mind is en rapport with the soul. with this world of ideas p

the soul and the higher mind. for this the race is now ready, and for the first time in the career of humanity the bridging work can go forward on a relatively large scale. on this i need not enlarge, for it concerns the technicalities of the ancient wisdom, on which i have given you much in my other books. vii. education is therefore the science of the antahkarana. this science and this term is the esoteric way of expressing the truth of this bridging necessity. the antahkarana is the bridge the man builds through meditation, understanding and the magical creative work of the soul between the three aspects of his mind nature. therefore the primary objectives of the coming education will be: 1. to produce alignment between mind and brain through a correct understanding of the inner consti

s, progress being made from point to point until the top of the ladder has been reached. it might be noted here that this entire exegesis of the mind and of the needed bridge building is but the practical demonstration of the truth of the occult aphorism that "before a man can tread the path he must become that path itself" the antahkarana is the path symbolically. this is one of the paradoxes of the esoteric science. step by step and stage by stage, we construct that path just as the spider spins its thread. it is that "way back" which we evolve out of ourselves; it is that way which we also find and tread. some questions answered i will now attempt to deal somewhat with three questions on education asked by one of the students. i can but indicate the ideal, and in so doing i run the risk

minati. eventually it will be found that what is now taught in the schools of the esotericists will be part of the acknowledged curriculum imposed upon the rising generation, and that the teaching given to the advanced, thinking people of the world today will be adapted to the needs of the youth of the period. the nature of esotericism educators in the new age will lay an increasing emphasis upon the esoteric approach, and it might be of service if i here attempted to define esotericism in terms of the general average intelligence of esoteric students and their point in evolution. i would remind you that true esotericism is a far deeper thing (from the angle of the hierarchy) than you can appreciate. one of the most inadequate of the definitions of esotericism is that it concerns that whic

the mystery and the universality of that which moves the worlds and underlies the evolutionary process- 44- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust the first task of the esotericist is to comprehend the nature of the energies which are seeking to condition him and which work out into expression on the physical plane through the medium of his equipment or his vehicle of manifestation. the esoteric student has, therefore, to grasp that: 1. he is an aggregation of forces, inherited and conditioned by what he has been, plus a great antagonistic force which is not a principle and which we call the physical body. 2. he is sensitive to and should be increasingly aware of certain energies, at present unknown and of no use to him; of these he must eventually become aware, if he is to m

cern and with their consideration the teaching staff of an esoteric school is not called upon to deal. the task is to train students in the recognition of energy and force; to discriminate between the various types of energy, both in relation to themselves and to world affairs, and to begin to relate that which is seen and experienced to that which is unseen, conditioning and determining. this is the esoteric task. there is a tendency among esoteric students, particularly those in the older piscean groups, to regard any interest in the energies producing world events or which concern governments and politics as antagonistic to esoteric and spiritual endeavour. but the newer esotericism which the more modern groups and the more mental types will sponsor sees all events and world movements a

ve substance. the esotericist is dealing with substance all the time; he is concerned with that living, vibrant substance of which the worlds are made and which inherited as it is from a previous solar system is coloured by past events, and is (as has been said "already tinged with karma" it should also be noted that just as the physical plane, so familiar to us, is not regarded as a principle by the esoteric student, so the cosmic physical plane (from the standpoint of the cosmic lives) is likewise "not a principle" i give you here much food for thought. it might be stated that the esotericist is occupied in discovering and working with those principles which energise each level of the cosmic physical plane and which are, in reality, aspects of the qualified life energy which is working i

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there has been failure, not because i seek to put the emphasis upon failure or to enlarge upon it, but because clarity of thought and of vision is necessary if the work is to go forward in a reorganised and more vital manner. if this new seed group measures up to requirements, then there may again arise correspondences to the original groups as planned. they will arise as the spiritual result of the esoteric manifestation of the potency of life to be found in the seed group. the work to be done by us in joint cooperation (as regards your training) was organised by me into seven teaching units: i. definite planned meditation. ii. teaching upon the subject of initiation. iii. training in telepathy. iv. consideration of the problems of humanity. v. teaching anent the etheric body. vi. added

i think that there is a certain vagueness in your minds as to the processes which i shall follow in dealing with this group of disciples and in the working out of the experiment hinted at earlier the experiment of group initiation. i would like, therefore, to make the whole plan clearer and indicate anew the lines along which the training given will go. this might be called the exoteric aspect of the esoteric training, for much must and will transpire upon the inner planes in the inner ashram about which nothing can be said and which will be individual as well as group expansion. i will outline the outer processes in the order of their present importance, and this in its turn is determined by the group condition for which you are one and all responsible. i. definite and planned meditation

always too big for the personality. some of the world's greatest servers are men and women who are very close to the spiritual hierarchy and working under its direction, inspiration and impression, but who know naught of esotericism so-called, do not recognise the hierarchy and (in their brain consciousness) remain unaware of its personnel, the masters of the wisdom. one of the tragedies today of the esoteric world is the vast amount of facts in the possession of esoteric students, and the piling up of knowledge anent the hierarchy and its personnel. in the minds of disciples this knowledge and this aspiration obliterates the need of their fellowmen. this constitutes one of the problems with which the hierarchy is faced. the problem of balance and of dual orientation is a very real one. as

ed by the christ, by krishna or by buddha (and passed on to the masses by their disciples) has not yet been expressed as it was hoped. men do not live up to what they already know; they fail to make practical their information; they short-circuit the light; they do not discipline themselves; greedy desire and unlawful ambition control and not the inner knowledge. to put it scientifically and from the esoteric angle: spiritual impression has been interrupted and there has been interference with the divine circulatory flow. it is the task of the disciples of the world to restore this flow and to stop this interference. this is the major problem facing the ashrams at this time- 34- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust this year, i will make clear to you what work

stages in the second year's activity were as follows: 1. the recognition by the group members of the necessity for a closer group relation within the circle of the group and with me. this is symbolic of the recognition of the world need of love, as exemplified by an attitude of goodwill and understanding, and a closer approach by humanity to the hierarchy. in the past, the religious emphasis upon the esoteric side of instruction has been the approach of the individual man to the god within, to his own higher self, the soul, the first master. in the future, the emphasis will be upon the united approach of humanity (as represented by an increasing number of groups of aspirants and disciples) to the hierarchy. according to the status of the groups and their awareness and condition of illumina

inspiration and of light can be made available to disciples and can be used for service. that is the energy of the forces of light, originating in the ashram and emanating thence; you stand as yet upon the periphery of the ashram but can avail yourselves of these energies. the force of the ashram must be "routed" through the soul (if such a word is permissible. the disciple has therefore to learn the esoteric significance of a most familiar symbol that of the triangle and the square. this has hitherto signified to him the threefold soul and the fourfold personality, or if he is advanced enough in knowledge, the spiritual triad and the fourfold personality. now he must view it in another light and learn to know it as the triplicity of the ashram, the soul and the disciple himself, with the

all phases of the master's work, and it is not possible for you, for instance, to cooperate in every phase of the work in my ashram which i have outlined in my pamphlets (and which has been summarised in the one entitled my work. but it is possible for you to choose some phase of that plan and give it your paramount attention. these activities can if adequately and strongly carried forward aid in the esoteric work of the world and the exoteric rehabilitation of right human relations. the fourth stage of the meditation work is concerned with the square which for the purposes of our work we will simply regard as the field of service and of experience experience in work and not individual life experience. you will note that this description of the meditation work, which i am asking you to car

shram; they work thus from humanitarian, interested and basically ray reasons, and all such members are more or less under the control of their soul ray; this affects most definitely the varying fields of service. these are the areas of thought within the human family wherein the preparation for the coming of the christ must be carried forward; but this activity is not, as a rule, associated with the esoteric angle or approach to truth but strictly with the angle of the betterment of human relationships. the christ himself (two thousand years ago) tried to demonstrate this mode of helpful activity; he kept the esoteric teaching for the few, the very few, who could approach understanding, but he dealt with the masses from the angle of commonsense and physical plane helpfulness. have this ev

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0- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust the great need, therefore, is not that we should cease to consult and train our psychics and mediums, but that we should train them rightly and guard them intelligently and so link, through their means, the two worlds of the physical and the astral*(1) ii. esoteric schools and disciplines our second question relates to the work of the esoteric schools or "disciplines" as they are sometimes called, and the training and safeguarding of the aspirants found working in them. i would like first of all to make one point clear. the great hindrance to the work of the majority of the esoteric schools at this time is their sense of separateness and their intolerance of other schools and methods. the leaders of these schools need to ab

nts and hinders so many; it will cause him to recognise the spiritual fundamentals which guide the steps of humanity; it will force him to overlook the intolerance and the fanaticism and separativeness which characterise the small mind and the beginner upon the path, and help him so to love them that they will begin to see more truly and enlarge their horizon; it will enable him to estimate truly the esoteric value of service and teach him above all to practise that harmlessness which is the outstanding quality of every- 13- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust son of god. a harmlessness that speaks no word that can damage another person, that thinks no thought which could poison or produce misunderstanding, and which does no action which could hurt the least of

o practise that harmlessness which is the outstanding quality of every- 13- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust son of god. a harmlessness that speaks no word that can damage another person, that thinks no thought which could poison or produce misunderstanding, and which does no action which could hurt the least of his brethren this is the main virtue which will enable the esoteric student to tread with safety the difficult path of development. where the emphasis is laid upon service to one's fellowmen and the trend of the life force is outward to the world, then there is freedom from danger and the aspirant can safely meditate and aspire and work. his motive is pure, and he is seeking to decentralise his personality and shift the focus of his attention away fro

e a conviction of hierarchical potency and a sense of illumination. it will, however, do this far more easily if the ideas i attempt to convey are backed by the understanding thought, and the intelligent mental cooperation of a group of people who have pondered deeply on the theme- 45- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust what is our theme? a study and an analysis, from the esoteric angle, of the social organisation of humanity. i seek to have you grasp some of the universal implications which the signs of the times portray and not be entirely engrossed with the immediate situation or dilemma; too close a perception and too near a point of view does not tend to true understanding. it fails, for one thing, to indicate the particular place in the general world pict

concentrate upon the shamballa and the hierarchical forces. i ask you to regard yourselves as pure and unclogged channels and to seek only to be linked with the soul of each and all, whose nature is pure love, realised synthesis and divine potency. it is essential, however, in spite of the work to which i have called these groups and which as you know is intended to lay the basis for the work of the esoteric schools of the future, that the members of all the groups realise that exoteric group work must also be undertaken. too many in these groups are satisfied with the significance of their own group work and permit it to usurp the place of objective service. if it is so hard, my brothers, to arouse aspirants, such as yourselves, to urgent service and a full sense of responsibility; if me

ntuition, spiritual perception, cooperation with the plan and spontaneous intellectual appreciation of that which is contacted, and all this is fused and blended with and by the love which i have defined above, plus that esoteric sense which must be unfolded before the second initiation can be taken. i call this especially to your attention. seek to understand and perceive the subtle evidences of the esoteric sense, and then define it and explain its processes and evidences, invoking as you do so the higher sensibilities. and now, as to the methods to be employed in creating these groups. the primary method is the presentation of the more advanced ideas (which are stimulating in their effects upon the minds which are receptive) and the presentation of the vision, which is evocative in its

ly through this crisis and to preserve an attitude of patience, goodwill, balance and compassion. let us, therefore, consider these four points because, in so doing, we shall cover the field sufficiently i believe to bring at least some measure of light to you. later i will try to explain the significance of the great invocation and to give you some idea of the nature of the forces invoked and of the esoteric meaning which these words (used so frequently by you) are in tended to convey. the cause of the present crisis it is well known to you that the great law of rebirth is the controlling and major law in all the processes of manifestation. it governs the exoteric expression of a solar logos or of a human being, and the object of this constantly recurring process is to bring an increasing

n can blind men to the facts of the case today, but there are enough people thinking clearly to make the future of right decision more probable than at any previous time in the history of the race. preparation for world goodwill the causes of the present war are ancient. this historical sequence of the predisposing factors can be clearly traced in the exoteric records of all nations as well as in the esoteric records of the hierarchy. the inherent human qualities which have led to the development of the present war are well known. all who are conscious of and observers of the war within their own natures, between personality selfishness and the selflessness of the soul, are aware of the implications and the correspondences. where then lies the solution? what must be done to arrest the fire

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

ndicated as it stands at the penetrating point of the antahkarana as it contacts the manas or lower mind and is thus the agent of the purpose of the monad, working through the spiritual triad which is as you know related to the personality by the antahkarana. the heart as an aspect of pure reason requires careful consideration. it is usually considered the organ of pure love but from the angle of the esoteric sciences love and reason are synonymous terms, and i would have you reflect upon why this should be. love is essentially a word for the underlying motive of creation. motive, however, presupposes purpose leading to action, and hence in the group-life task of the incarnating monad there comes a time when motive (heart and soul) becomes spiritually obsolete because purpose has reached a

interpretation of the phrase presents difficulty. this is owing to the false impression which the word "tension" conveys at this time. it is associated in the minds of the reading public with the thought of nerves, with points of crisis, with courage and with fatigue. is this not so? but in reality tension, occultly understood, is not associated with these aspects of personality reaction at all. the esoteric significance of tension (as far as i can explain it by limiting words) is "focussed immovable will" right tension is the identification of brain and soul with the will aspect, and the preservation of that identification unchanged and immovable no matter what the circumstances and the difficulties. you can see, therefore, how far ahead of present attitudes and goals this teaching is. i

master (and of those higher than he) is to take those steps and precipitate those "waiting events" which will eventually bring them into manifestation. this, i would remind you, is always done by the use of the will and from a point of tension. 1. the word has now gone forth from the great point of tension: accepted as a group. i would like here to call your attention to the progressive nature of the esoteric science; it is nowhere better illustrated than in this phrase; nowhere is it more clearly shown and yet, unless the intuition and the sense of correlation are functioning, the idea might escape recognition. in all the teaching given to the aspirant and to the disciple in the early stages of their training, the emphasis has been upon the "point of light" which must be discovered, broug

the monad, via the triad, and the form which the master is using to do his work among men. this form may be either his temporary personality, arrived at along the normal lines of incarnation, or the specially created form to which theosophists give the technical but cumbersome word "mayavirupa" it is the "true mask, hiding the radiant light and the dynamic energy of a revealed son of god" this is the esoteric definition which i offer you. this stage can be called the attainment of the will-to-be, not being as an individual expression but being as an expression of the whole all-inclusive, nonseparative, motivated by goodness, beauty and truth and intelligently expressed as pure love. all these stages are achieved by the attainment of one point of tension after another, and the work thus car

the attention of humanity to the o.m, the sound of the second aspect, the soul. 3. through the growing emphasis laid by the many occult groups throughout the world upon the use of the o.m, its frequent use by these groups in public, and by those intent upon meditation. the soundest approach is that of the masonic tradition, because it deals primarily with the world of meaning and with a phase of the esoteric teaching. the use of the amen in the ritual of the christian church will eventually be discouraged, because it is basically a materialistic affirmation, being usually regarded by the average churchgoer as setting the seal of divine approval upon his demand to the almighty for protection, or for the supply of his physical necessities; all this is, therefore, related to the life of desi

les would destroy themselves, whilst the ordinary man would damage himself. this exegesis of rule iv is necessarily brief because it is of such deep significance that it requires careful study, sentence by sentence, and even so it is very largely beyond the grasp of the majority of readers. it will, however, be useful for disciples to reflect upon the various meanings (there are several) and upon the esoteric implications. rule five rule v, which we are now purposing to consider, is one of great interest and practicality. i would remind you that one of the new things which the coming era of spiritual expansion will see is the inauguration of something entirely new: group initiation. hitherto, one by one, units of the human family have found their way through the door of initiation. if this

next step. their developed soul nature will be expressing itself through intelligent love and a sense of group fellowship; these two divine qualities will form a basis or foundation from which the next unfoldment can emerge and on which a more spiritual superstructure can be built. the science of meditation and the conscious building of the antahkarana will be the first two preliminary stages in the esoteric curriculum. today, the true teaching of meditation and the construction of the bridge of light between the triad and the personality are the most advanced teaching given anywhere. humanity is, however, ready for exceedingly rapid development and this readiness will demonstrate increasingly in the postwar period, and for it the disciples of the world must make ready. two factors will b

ing in of very advanced souls ever since the year 1925. these souls will be ready to give the needed training and instruction when the right time comes, having brought it over with them when they came into incarnation, and knowing normally and naturally what the modern esoteric student is struggling to grasp and understand. a study of what i have here outlined as basic requirements will show that the esoteric schools about which i wrote in letters on occult meditation lie far ahead in the distant future. the work of the preparatory schools must come first, and their work will proceed until such time that the work of the ashrams of the masters is recognised as forming part of an outer hierarchical activity. this in due time will lead to the giving of the first initiation publicly, as a part

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nd, but constructing and saving when coming from the soul. the exoteric ruler of this sign is mars, the god of war, and so hercules, acting under the right direction of thought and beginning his work on the mental plane, takes his stand as the warrior. his outstanding characteristic in this sign is the pioneering, militant spirit. the mares were in the possession of diomedes, the son of mars (but the esoteric ruler is mercury, which "illumines the mind and mediates between the soul and the personality) constellations in aries as is usual, there are three constellations connected with aries. first, there is cassiopeia, the enthroned queen, the symbol always of matter. it is most interesting to note how in the circle of the zodiac we come across three women. in connection with aries, the sig

sist of three letters each and are as follows: god, sex, law and sin. in these four words we find expressed the sum total of all that is. god, the sum total of all forms, the sum total of all states of consciousness, and the energizing life. sex, that life in operation, attracting spirit and matter and instituting the interplay between the objective and the subjective and between the exoteric and the esoteric. sex, desire, attraction, the instinctive urge to creation, the pull of the soul, the urge to divinity, desire of the male for the female, the lure of matter for spirit: all these phrases can be piled up to express some of the activities of sex in its various relations. law, the thought-impelled response of god to form; the habits instituted by the timeless interplay between the polar

new impulses make their presence felt; new and undeveloped lines of approach to spiritual truth emerge, and many teachers will arise everywhere to help lead the race into a new state of spiritual awareness. being an air sign, we find that the conquest of the air proceeds with speed, and also a constant effort is made to unify and coordinate the many and varied aspects of human endeavor. venus is the esoteric ruler of gemini and governs the second decanate; for venus makes at-one, and through its influence the law of attraction and the bringing together of the polar opposites takes place. but all these changes and unifications naturally inaugurate a new state of awareness, a new state of being, and bring in a new age and a new world. consequently, new difficulties and problems arise and we

her arms. remember also the prophecy in isaiah upon which our new testament is based "and a virgin shall conceive and bring forth a son, and link up with that verse in ephesians when st. paul said that some day we shall attain unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of christ. i would remind you that christ laid the emphasis again and again on the new birth rather than on blood sacrifice. the esoteric meaning is "the blood is the life. we are always too literal. even as the old practice of offering slain animals at the altar passed, so should pass the idea of [120] at-one-ment by the blood of christ. that was born of the medieval guilt complex and the torturing of the physical instrument as a means to produce the dominance of the spirit; when the truth is that the body should be at

initely relate it to eight other signs, as has been noted, making it the outstanding sign of synthesis. including virgo itself, we have nine signs or energies interplaying, the number of the months of gestation of the human embryo. again "as above so below. the orthodox ruler of the sign is mercury "the versatile energy of the son of mind, the soul, the intermediary between the father and mother. the esoteric ruler is the moon, veiling vulcan. the moon rules the form and we are again reminded that it is the will of god to manifest through the form. vulcan is an expression of first ray energy, while the moon exerts fourth ray energy; jupiter is the hierarchical ruler representing the second creative hierarchy (divine builders of earth's planetary manifestation, and brings in second ray ener

his first step towards the remaking of the world. the rulers of libra and its opposite sign the opposite sign of libra, with which at-one-ment must be made, is aries whose exoteric ruler is mars, while the ruler of libra is venus. exoterically, therefore, there must be at-one-ment between the will and the higher mind, expressing itself through desire or love according to the status of evolution. the esoteric ruler of libra is uranus, and saturn in this sign is the ruler of that "stupendous creative hierarchy" which forms part of the third aspect of divinity. it is for this reason that libra is closely connected with, and explains the third aspect of the godhead and hence it is a governing sign and a major determining factor where law, sex and money are concerned. the tibetan further state

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here fully illustrated; and these are the points of contact between the kabalah of the jew and the so-called esotericism of the teachings of buddha and of hinduism. it may be that the catholic church, from which the protestant church seceded, was from its origin in the possession of the hebrew rabbinic secret of the intentional exoteric nature of the bible, and of a priestly mode of understanding the esoteric kabalah, as a key to the true explanations of the jewish books, which being apparently histories are really largely allegorical. if this were granted, it would explain why the catholic church has for ages discouraged the laity from the study of the old testament books, and would lead us to think that protestantism made a mistake in combining with the reformation of a vicious priesthoo

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ired oracles continue to be revered by monks and patrons.181 once praise has been offered, the oracle is asked various questions by the surrounding monks or present members of the community. the answers to these questions are in most instances quite cryptic and require a translation by the assistants, thus showing a further act of mediation. the trance session is more of an engaged process, where the esoteric mumblings of the oracle are illuminated by the interpreting assistants and then implemented by the individual or members of the community.182 in effect, the oracle is only one element though an important one in a complex system of communal decision-making. answers can also be provided in verse. this period of interrogation, in some instances, can be framed by moments of wild frenzied

tions of the hagiographies of the ocean of oath-bound guardians of the teachings (dam can bstan srung rgya mtsho i rnam par thar pa cha shas tsam brjod pa sngon med legs bshad) written by lelung j drung zhep dorj. i include only fragments pertinent to this study so as not to repeat the redundancy of information found within the whole text. the pages of this text follow the numerical system. given the esoteric nature and obscure ritual terminology found in these texts, especially the warlord s tantra, these translations are imperfect. some segments are ambiguous and would even require the aid of adept tibetan practitioners to illuminate their meaning. thus, these translations are as accurate as they can be for the moment and anticipate future clarification. 152 appendix a the warlord s tant

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t is, therefore, sufficient to examine the babylonian and assyrian cuneiform and other inscriptions to find also therein, scattered here and there, not only the original meaning of the name adam, admi, or adami* but also the creation of seven adams or roots of men, born of mother earth, physically, and of the divine fire of the progenitors, spiritually or astrally. the assyriologists, ignorant of the esoteric teachings, could hardly be expected to pay any greater attention to the mysterious and ever-recurring number seven on the babylonian cylinders, than they paid to it on finding the same in genesis and the bible. yet the number of the ancestral spirits and their seven groups of human progeny are there, notwithstanding the dilapidated condition of the fragments, as plainly as they are to

s a term for mankind. adam appears as a proper name in genesis, but certainly in some passages is only used in the same sense as the assyrian word (p. 86. moreover, neither the chaldean nor the biblical deluge (the stories of xisuthrus and noah) is based on the universal or even on the atlantean deluges, recorded in the indian allegory of vaivaswata manu. they are the exoteric allegories based on the esoteric mysteries of samothrace. if the older chaldees knew the esoteric truth concealed in the puranic legends, the other nations were aware only of the samothracian mystery, and allegorised it. they adapted it to their astronomical and anthropological, or rather phallic, notions. samothrace is known historically to have been famous in antiquity for a deluge, which submerged the country and

modern anthropologist is quite welcome to laugh at our titans, as he laughs at the biblical adam, and as the theologian laughs at his pithecoid ancestor. the occultists and their severe critics may feel that they have pretty well mutually squared their accounts by this time. occult sciences claim less and give more, at all events, than either darwinian anthropology or biblical theology. nor ought the esoteric chronology to frighten any one; for, with regard to figures, the greatest authorities of the day are as fickle and as uncertain as the mediterranean wave. as regards the duration of the geological periods alone, the learned men of the royal society are all hopelessly at sea, and jump from one million to five hundred millions of years with the utmost ease, as will be seen more than onc

d that there is a great difference between the logos and the demiurgos, for one is spirit and the other is soul; or as dr. wilder has it "dianoia and logos are synonymous, nous being superior and closely in affinity with[[to agathon, one being the superior apprehending, the other the comprehending- one noetic and the other phrenic" moreover, man was regarded in several systems as the third logos. the esoteric meaning of the word logos (speech or word, verbum) is the rendering in objective expression, as in a photograph, of the concealed thought. the logos is the mirror reflecting divine mind, and the universe is the mirror of the logos, though the latter is the esse of that universe. as the logos reflects all in the universe of pleroma, so man reflects in himself all that he sees and finds

seven distinct states of pragna, or consciousness, are allied to seven states of matter and the seven forms of force, the division must be the same in all that concerns the earth* venus is thus[[diagram] the earth[[diagram[[vol. 2, page] 30 the secret doctrine. also of astrology, represented venus in its astronomical tables as a globe poised over a cross, and the earth, as a globe under a cross. the esoteric meaning of this is "earth fallen into generation, or into the production of its species through sexual union" but the later western nations did not fail to give quite a different interpretation. they explained this sign through their mystics- guided by the light of the latin church- as meaning that our earth and all on it were redeemed by the cross, while venus (otherwise lucifer or s

tion of man. the egyptians symbolised ank "life" by the ansated cross, or[[diagram, which is only another form of venus (isis[[diagram, and meant, esoterically, that mankind and all animal life bad stepped out of the divine spiritual circle and fallen into physical male and female generation. this sign, from the end of the third race, has the same phallic significance as the "tree[[footnote(s* in the esoteric philosophy it is male and female, or hermaphrodite; hence the bearded venus in mythology* therefore, putting aside its religio-metaphysical aspect, the cross of the christians is symbolically far more phallic than the pagan svastica[[vol. 2, page] 31 the horses of sukra's car. of life" in eden anouki, a form of isis, is the goddess of life; and ank was taken by the hebrews from the eg

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

steps god (alhim, and jehovah become the same, and though separated each and together, they are of the same one" similarly, vishnu becomes the sun, the visible symbol of the impersonal deity. vishnu is described as "striding through the seven regions of the universe in three steps" but with the hindus this is an exoteric account, a surface tenet and an allegory, while the kabalists give it out as the esoteric and final meaning. but to proceed "now light" explains the author "as shown, is 20612 to 6561, as the proper enunciation of the integral and numerical relation of diameter to circumference of a circle. god (alhim, i.e, 3.1415 to one, a modified form of the above) is the reduction of this, so as to obtain a standard unitone, as the basis, in general, of all calculation and all mensurat

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ing the tenets of the religious philosophy preached by gautama, the buddha, with the doctrines broadly outlined in "esoteric buddhism" any thing more erroneous than this could be hardly imagined. it has enabled our enemies to find an effective weapon against theosophy; because, as an eminent pali scholar very pointedly expressed it, there was in the volume named "neither esotericism nor buddhism" the esoteric truths, presented in mr. sinnett's work, had ceased to be esoteric from the moment they were made public; nor did it contain the religion of buddha, but simply a few tenets from a hitherto hidden teaching which are now supplemented by many more, enlarged and explained in the present volumes. but even the latter, though giving out many fundamental tenets from the secret doctrine of the

eaches the culmination of spiritual knowledge. unwise are those who, in their blind and, in our age, untimely hatred of buddhism, and, by re-action, of "budhism" deny its esoteric teachings (which are those also of the brahmins, simply because the name[[vol. 1, page] xx introductory. suggests what to them, as monotheists, are noxious doctrines. unwise is the correct term to use in their case. for the esoteric philosophy is alone calculated to withstand, in this age of crass and illogical materialism, the repeated attacks on all and everything man holds most dear and sacred, in his inner spiritual life. the true philosopher, the student of the esoteric wisdom, entirely loses sight of personalities, dogmatic beliefs and special religions. moreover, esoteric philosophy reconciles all religion

nies deity no more than it does the sun. esoteric philosophy has never rejected god in nature, nor deity as the absolute and abstract ens. it only refuses to accept any of the gods of the so-called monotheistic religions, gods created by man in his own image and likeness, a blasphemous and sorry caricature of the ever unknowable. furthermore, the records we mean to place before the reader embrace the esoteric tenets of the whole world since the beginning of our humanity, and buddhistic occultism occupies therein only its legitimate place, and no more. indeed, the secret portions of the "dan" or jan-na("dhyan) of gautama's metaphysics- grand as they appear to one unacquainted with the tenets of the wisdom religion of antiquity- are but a very small portion of the whole. the hindu reformer l

ptaparna cave (the sattapanni of mahavansa) near mount baibhar (the webhara of the pali mss. this cave was in rajagriha, the ancient capital of mogadha, and was the cheta cave of fa-hian, as rightly suspected by some archaeologists* time and human imagination made short work of the purity and philo[[footnote(s* dan, now become in modern chinese and tibetan phonetics ch'an, is the general term for the esoteric schools, and their literature. in the old books, the word janna is defined as "to reform one's self by meditation and knowledge" a second inner birth. hence dzan, djan phonetically, the "book of dzyan* mr. beglor, the chief engineer at buddhagaya, and a distinguished archaeologist, was the first, we believe, to discover it[[vol. 1, page] xxi introductory. sophy of these teachings, onc

uth from two entirely different stand-points. agreeably with the rules of critical scholarship, the orientalist has to reject a priori whatever evidence he cannot fully verify for himself. and how can a western scholar accept on hearsay that which he knows nothing about? indeed, that which is given in these volumes is selected from oral, as much as from written teachings. this first instalment of the esoteric doctrines is based upon stanzas, which are the records of a people unknown to ethnology; it is claimed that they are written in a tongue absent from the nomenclature of languages and dialects with which philology is acquainted; they are said to emanate from a source (occultism) repudiated by science; and, finally, they are offered through an agency, incessantly discredited before the

y. it would be worse than useless to publish in these pages even those[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] is no vain superstition. once the door permitted to be kept a little ajar, it will be opened wider with every new century. the times are ripe for a more serious knowledge than hitherto permitted, though still very limited, so far[[vol. 1, page] xxxix introductory. portions of the esoteric teachings that have now escaped from confinement, unless the genuineness and authenticity- at any rate, the probability- of the existence of such teachings was first established. such statements as will now be made, have to be shown warranted by various authorities: those of ancient philosophers, classics and even certain learned church fathers, some of whom knew these doctrines becau

sions scattered hither and thither throughout that work. nor could the vast catalogue of the archaic sciences be attempted in the present volumes, before we have disposed of such tremendous problems as cosmic and planetary evolution, and the gradual development of the mysterious humanities and races that preceded our "adamic" humanity. therefore, the present attempt to elucidate some mysteries of the esoteric philosophy has, in truth, nothing to do with the earlier work. as an instance, the writer must be allowed to illustrate what is said. volume i. of "isis" begins with a reference to "an old book "so very old that our modern antiquarians might ponder over its pages an indefinite time, and still not quite agree as to the nature of the fabric upon which it is written. it is the only origi

ine thought, that we may say "it never had a beginning nor will it have an end" with regard to its body or cosmic organization, though it cannot be said that it had a first, or will ever have a last construction, yet at each new manvantara, its organization may be regarded as the first and the last of its kind, as it evolutes every time on a higher plane. a few years ago only, it was stated that "the esoteric doctrine teaches, like buddhism and brahminism, and even the kabala, that the one infinite and unknown essence exists from all eternity, and in regular and harmonious successions is either passive or active. in the poetical phraseology of manu these conditions are called the "days" and the "nights" of brahma. the latter is either "awake" or "asleep" the svabhavikas, or philosophers of

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y meant a sort of elementary discernment between things that are worth having and those that are not worth having, and, of course, the perception will alter with advance in knowledge. by .head-learning. is meant the contents of the ruach (mind) or manas. chiah is sub-consciousness in its best sense, that subliminal which is sublime. the .eye. doctrine then means the exoteric, the .heart. doctrine the esoteric. of the equinox 38 course, in a more secret doctrine still, there is an eye doctrine which transcends the heart doctrine as that transcends this lesser eye doctrine. 9. yea, ignorance is like unto a closed and airless vessel; the soul a bird shut up within. it warbles not, nor can it stir a feather; but the songster mute and torpid sits, and of exhaustion dies. the soul, atma, despite

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mula for complete manifestation is 10 x 10 x 4, or 400. hence the cross or tav is a symbol of the tree of divine perfection; and in the ancient form of teth the circle surrounding the cross is a symbol of the "power of the letters, because the total number of hebrew letters is 22, and 22 is the characteristic number of any circle. arithmetic is the basis of all practical occultism. a knowledge of the esoteric properties and uses of number is indispensable to every seeker for liberation "the coiled fiery power" is the astral light, symbolized by a coiled serpent. it is also the kundalini of the yogis, and much concerning it will be found in the writings of madame blavatsky, who calls it fohat, and says outright that the letter teth is a symbol for fohat. see also arthur avalon's serpent pow

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h is concerned with exegesis of holy names. 1165-1235 isaac the blind. provencal kabbalist. 1165-1240 ibn arabi (spanish muslim mystic poet) d.1166 abd al-qadir al-jilani founds one of the earliest sufi orders(prominent in india and north africa. d. 1170 natanael ben al-fayyumi, the garden of intellects,astrological thought influenced by ismaili encyclopaedia of the brotherhood of purity "also by the esoteric teachings which were not widespread among the ordinary people. c.1170- 1230 gaucelm faidit -troubadour- travelled to italy and went on the fourth crusade. 1170-1200 rigaut de barbezieux troubadour refers to his beloved as the holy grail. 1172: benjamin of tudelo returns from palestine, having left in 1159. he describs his travels in sefer ha-massa ot (book of travels. 1175?-1235 micha

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om the start in its ambitions for humanity, or it was later taken over by that consciousness. i feel the highly influential egyptian brotherhood has been dominated by negative manipulation at least since the end of the reign of the pharaoh akhenaten, who died around 1,362bc. he had moved the egyptian court to a new city in middle egypt called el-amarna, and there he built a brotherhood temple for the esoteric initiations. when he died, his successors moved the royal court back north to thebes, but the brotherhood stayed at el-amarna and broke away from the state. through the centuries, other vehicles for communicating the knowledge emerged. some, like the cathars in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, were destroyed by the catholic church in the most horrific manner after spreading their

d degree freemason, manly p. hall, points out in his book, america's assignment with destiny,2 that john cabot's real name was giovanni caboto. he was born in genoa, the city where colombus is said to have been born, and caboto later became a naturalised venetian. it is suggested that he was involved with a secret christian brotherhood sect known as the johannites, which was greatly influenced by the esoteric doctrines of the templars. legends say he visited the so called 'wise men of the near east- just as colombus had done. columbus had his own brotherhood connections. his father was a member of the brotherhood branch, the order of the christ. columbus himself was involved with a group which followed the beliefs of the poet dante, who was a member of the cathar church and an initiate of

ous elements involved, at least. i believe that at the highest levels of the global elite are shadowy people who are not known to the public. i would say that the force behind the house of rothschild is right up there, but i do not believe they are at the top. they too will be taking orders and maybe the habsburg dynasty is above them in the hierarchy. the elite's power stems from their misuse of the esoteric knowledge and their conscious connection to their 'gods, the prison warders. perhaps no-one i name in this book will be at that level. people such as henry kissinger, are yes-men, and super-gofers, albeit highpowered ones. many of the others will be used without their knowledge, or full knowledge, of what they are part of. i am naming the pawns, the gofers and supergofers, of this sma

worship these various names for the prison warder consciousness. lieutenant-colonel michael aquino, a senior officer within us military intelligence, formed the temple of set, but when this was made public, the authorities said they saw no problem. during the second world war, the elite's esoteric tradition was at work on both sides. president roosevelt, who was a 33rd degree freemason, also had the esoteric name, the knight of pythias, and wore the red fez of the ancient arabic order of nobles of the mystic shrine. this organisation claimed to be connected with the illuminati.1 winston churchill, the british prime minister, was a freemason and had several meetings with the satanist aleister crowley, another esoteric guru and a high initiate of many orders, including the order of the gold

erstand nazi germany, one had to know wagner. one of the students of master race fanatic wagner was gustav mahler, whose studies with wagner were funded by baron albert de rothschild. adolf hitler was officially born at braunau-am-inn, on the border of germany and the austria-hungary empire, but the amazing story of who he really was will be told in a later book when i have compiled the evidence. the esoteric was to become a consuming passion for hitler, especially in his rise to power. he was strongly influenced by the work of helena petrovna blavatsky, who was born in the ukraine in 1831. some researchers claim she had connections with the secret society of italian revolutionaries, the carbonari, who were closely linked to the black nobility, and she was a member of the egyptian society

e theosophical society two years later. this is still around today. its doctrines are based on blavatsky books such as isis unveiled, which was written in 1877, and the secret doctrine, published in 1888. she claimed to be in psychic contact with hidden masters or supermen. these hidden masters, she said, lived in central asia and could be contacted telepathically by those who knew the secrets to the esoteric mysteries. today we call this process of communication 'channelling. there are many ufo sightings and much research which indicates that there are secret underground and underwater bases for extraterrestrials around the world, central asia among them. i am not saying that blavatsky was negative, only that hitler was influenced by her work. the belief in the masters and the great white

led vril which, by the use of the psyche, could be used to perform 'miracles. these underground supermen would, according to bulwer-lytton's novel, emerge on the surface one day and take control of the world. many nazis believed this. lord bulwer-lytton is often referred to by madame blavatsky in her book, isis unveiled. the themes of underground supermen or hidden masters can be found in most of the esoteric secret societies. certainly this was true of the order of the golden dawn, formed in 1888 by dr wynn westcott, a freemason, and s.l. mathers. they called their 'masters' the 'secret chiefs. the theme of extraterrestrials living underground fits in with the 1960s survey of contactees which detailed the stories of the pure melchedekan race with their blond hair and blue eyes. they were

ed vibrational synchronisation- possession- by the warders. in the mid-1890s, there were temples of the order in london, edinburgh, bradford, weston-super-mare, and paris, where mathers made his home. the order of the golden dawn also spoke of the vril force and one of the order's secret signs was the salute which the 206. and the truth shall set you free nazis would use when saying "heil hitler. the esoteric foundations on which nazism was created continued to build. mathers had known madame blavatsky and so had the master of the order'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 hier

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lobal centralisation of power that is exploding all around us today. the anunnaki, at least after the final atlantis cataclysm, sought to hide their reptilian form by keeping out of public view as much as possible. now you see them, now you don't the reptilian bloodlines covertly operating within human society created many of the ancient mystery schools to hoard the knowledge of true history, and the esoteric and technological expertise of atlantis, lemuria, and the post-cataclysmic world, especially the sumer empire. they also seized control of the other mystery schools, which were formed with a more enlightened agenda. this was one of the roles assigned to the royal court of the dragon (also known as the brotherhood of the snake) from around 2000bc when it infiltrated the more positive e

them, but it is intended that he shall imagine that he understands them..their true explication is reserved for the adepts, the princes of masonry (those of the 32nd and 33rd degrees."14 meanings and. meanings even those at the 32nd and 33rd levels are mis-led unless they are inner-circle bloodline. jim shaw says there are two meanings given to freemasons, the exoteric to the lower initiates and the esoteric to the higher ones. but there is a third- the truth- and that is given only to a tiny elite of bloodline initiates and those who progress beyond the official levels of the secret societies to the unofficial illuminati degrees. shaw says that freemasonry worships nature, the sun and moon, through the symbol of the phallus. so does christianity. the phallus, he says, represents the sun

for the "gods, and this gave them enormous power over the people. during the babylon period the anunnaki were seeking to rise from the ashes of sumer and develop their strategy for taking over the world covertly through their bloodlines and front organisations. to do this, they needed to take out of circulation the true accounts of history, especially their own role in humanity's suppression, and the esoteric knowledge that would allow the people to understand the magnitude of their own power and potential. john a. keel, in his book our haunted planet says that they chose religion as the "battleground" on which to conquer the human mind..the para-human serpent people of the past are still among us. they were probably worshipped by the builders of stonehenge and the forgotten ridge-making c

stem of divination in which stones, carrying symbols, are thrown or selected and the choice or combination read by an expert. it was himmler who formed the notorious ss and, as with the swastika, he chose an esoteric symbol for his horrific organisation. this was the double s or "sig rune, which looks like two flashes of lightning. the ss was a virtually self-contained body and the epitome of all the esoteric knowledge in which the nazis believed so passionately. only those considered racially pure were allowed to join, and instruction in the esoteric arts, including the rune stones, was fundamental to their training. the ss was run and governed as a black magic secret society. their rituals were taken from others, such as the jesuits and the knights templar. the highest-ranking initiates

berg in westphalia. they celebrated the rituals of the nordic pagans and the summer solstice. here they worshipped satan/lucifer/set, whichever name you prefer. prince bernhard of the netherlands, a reptilian habsburg and merovingian bloodline, was a member of the ss. bernhard was one of the founders of the illuminati front, the bilderberg group, and is an extremely close friend of prince philip. the esoteric arts pervaded all that hitler and the nazis did, even down to the use of pendulums on maps to identify the positions of enemy troops. the mass rallies that hitler used so effectively were designed with the knowledge of the human psyche and how it can be manipulated. 296 children of the matrix in the book, satan and swastika, francis king says "hitler's public appearances, particularly

ached after dusk and took place in a 'cathedral of light- an open space surrounded by pillars of light coming from electric searchlights pointed upwards to the sky. if a modern ritual magician of the utmost expertise had designed the ritual intended to 'invoke mars, he could not have come up with anything more effective than the ceremonies used at nuremberg."24 and what applied then, applies now. the esoteric knowledge used by the nazis for mass hypnosis on the german people is being used today to expand the global hypnosis within the human race. symbols, words, colours, sounds, and techniques of which the public are not even aware are being used in the media and in advertising to hypnotise us. the propaganda ministry of joseph goebbels was based on the esoteric knowledge of the human psyc

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ncientworld, the hierarchy focused on the sun because they knew its effect at a deep level,while the masses worshipped the sun because its heat and light had an obvious andcrucial role in ensuring an abundant harvest. in the same way, an initiate of the esotericknowledge will read the bible differently to a christian or jewish believer. the initiatewill recognise the symbolism, the numerology and the esoteric codes, while the believertakes the text literally so the same text acts as a means of passing on esotericknowledge to the initiated and creates a prison-religion for the masses who are notinitiated. great scam.to understand the ancient sun symbolism is to understand the major religions. in theancient world they used one particular symbol (see figure 13) for the suns journeythrough the

babylon. we are looking at a point in history which was to define and control the worldfrom then until now. the knowledge the levites stole from egypt and expanded as aresult of their stay in babylon, became known as the cabala (kabala, qaballa, whichcomes from the hebrew root, qbl, meaning mouth to ear. this is the method used tocommunicate the most secret information to initiates. the cabala is the esoteric streamof what is called judaism, which in fact is a front for the babylonian brotherhood, as isthe v atican. the cabala is the secret knowledge hidden in codes within the oldtestament and other texts. judaism is the literal interpretation of it. this is a techniqueyou can see in all the religions. an example of the levite coding is the names of thefive scribes, garia, dabria, tzelemia

paradise when he is 40 years old; eve follows 40 years later; during the greatflood it rains for 40 days and 40 nights; seth is carried away by angels when he is 40 andis not seen for 40 days; moses is 40 when he goes to midian and he stays for 40 years;joseph is 40 years old when jacob arrives in egypt; jesus goes into the wilderness for 40days. the bible is the word of god? no. it is written in the esoteric code of the mysteryschools. the arabian literature was also compiled by and for initiates of the mysteries andhere you find the same codes. the arbaindt (the forties) are stories which all relate to thenumber 40 and their calendar has 40 rainy and 40 windy days. their laws constantly referto 40. another series of arabian books, the sebaydt or seven are based on that number.these numbe

these same psychic powers and modes of inter-dimensionalcommunication. ok, how else can we control and diminish the great unwashed? wevegot them to believe a fantasy about jesus and weve conned them to think that after onelife on earth, god decides if they go to heaven or hell. we have also conned them to thinkthat we, the men in frocks, know how god wants them to live and that anything to dowith the esoteric is the devil. anything else? hey, we need to be careful about that sexualenergy, the creative force. got to shut that down or their power source will still be there.ive got just the man. i say, augustine, in my office, please. saint augustine of hippo,like most of the early church heroes, was from north africa. he couldnt get enough sexearlier in his life, but after his alleged conver

ccupied other parts ofafrica; and the spanish and portuguese took care of central and south america. kingleopold ii of belgium, a member of the windsor reptilian bloodline called saxe-coburg-gotha, played a major role in the european occupation and exploitation ofafrica. everywhere the reptile-aryans went they sought to destroy the native cultureand knowledge. they took out of general circulation the esoteric knowledge, memoriesand understanding of true history. ancient accounts of the reptilians and the origins ofthe white race were largely destroyed or withdrawn to secret brotherhood libraries, notleast beneath the v atican. christianity was used as the vehicle for eliminatinginformation that we vitally need to know.it would seem that the contraction of these british and european empires

weapon for thebabylonian brotherhood since its creation has been the manipulation of fear. nothinglimits peoples potential to express their true selves more than fear. it becomesunderstandable, therefore, why so many christian churches were built on ancient pagansites and why so many satanic rituals are performed in churches under the cover ofdarkness. it was the templars, with their knowledge of the esoteric arts, who financedthe great gothic cathedrals of europe between 1130 and 1250. the gothic style can beshown to have originated with the aryan race in the middle-near east. the gothiccathedrals which were funded and designed by the templars included westminsterabbey, york minster in northern england, chartres in france not far from paris, andnotre dame in paris itself. notre dame (our

bar cross becoming known asthe cross of lorraine. the double cross symbol was later used by some aspects of thechristian church and it is the origin of the term to be double crossed, manipulated.this has become another symbol of the reptilian brotherhood and you can see it in thelogo of the oil giant, exxon, controlled by their american branch managers, therockefellers. rene danjou was steeped in the esoteric underground and a student ofthe arthurian and grail legends. through his extensive possessions and connections initaly he interlocked with the black nobility and other aristocratic families and he wasan inspiration behind the emergence of the renaissance when the ancient knowledge ofegypt and greece was translated into european languages. in rene danjous court wasan astrologer called

er of the church was under more challengethan ever before. it also enlisted many more influential people into the gathering secretsociety network. the pressure on the church establishment was increased still further bythe publication of the rosicrucian manifestos in 1614 to 1616 which claimed to beissued by a secret group of initiates in germany and france. they pledged to transformthe world with the esoteric knowledge and herald a new era of religious and politicalfreedom. the catholic church and the holy roman empire were fiercely condemned.the order of the rose cross or rosicrucians, however, was no new fad. it wasfounded, apparently, at least as long ago as the pharaoh thothmes iii in the 15thcentury bc. his personal seal (cartouche) is used on modern rosicrucian literature7 andthe ros

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, and their ceremonial buildings called kivas. kivas act as a magnetic center to draw energies from the surrounding area and refocus them out the top center of the kiva. another ancient shape power pattern is the labyrinth. a labyrinth is a single-path, two dimensional maze. there are left and right handed labyrinths. direction of the labyrinth maze determines the type of energy which it focuses. the esoteric function of the maze is to guide the person through the shape power pattern and tune them into the energies associated with the pattern. its other obvious function is to channel earth energy. most labyr inths create clockwise and counterclockwise energy vortexes with subtle difierences and effects. these single-path, magical mazes are found in many places, such as china, united states

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ially is the encircler, the possibilities of the self as well as knowledge of the self. here we see a connection between lilith and leviathan, that in many ways they are nearly the same- you already know that evil samael and wicked lilith are like a sexual pair who, by means of an intermediary, receive an evil and wicked emanation from one and emanate to the other. i shall explain this relying on the esoteric meaning in the verse "in that day the lord will punish with his great, cruel, mighty sword leviathan the twisted serpent and leviathan the tortuous serpent--this is lilith-"and he will slay the dragon of the sea (isaiah 27:1. as there is a pure leviathan in the sea and it is called a serpent, so there is a great defiled serpent in the sea in the literal sense. the same holds true abov

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the near future; therefore a clearing of the ground is imperative. it may be as well to explain my own position in relation to the "golden dawn. i joined the southern branch of the scottish section of it, since disbanded, in 1919, and transferred from there to the section of it of which mrs. mcgregor mathers was the head, and which claimed the only orthodoxy. she nearly turned me out for writing the esoteric philosophy of love and marriage, on the grounds that i was betraying the inner teaching of the order, but it was pointed out to her that i had not then got the degree in which that teaching was given, and i was pardoned. she suspended me for some months for writing sane occultism, and finally turned me out because certain symbols had not appeared in my aura a perfectly unanswerable ch

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olved a yoga technique of their own which is adapted to their special problems and peculiar needs. this technique is based upon the well-known but little understood qabalah, the wisdom of israel. 3. it may be asked why it is that the western nations should go to the hebrew culture for their mystical tradition? the answer to this question will be readily understood by those who are acquainted with the esoteric theory concerning races and sub-races. everything must have a source. cultures do not spring out of nothing. the seed-bearers of each new phase of culture must of necessity arise within the preceding culture. no one can deny that judaism was the matrix of the [page 2] european spiritual culture when they recall the fact that jesus and paul were both jews. no race except the jewish rac

ion, or receptacle of influences, as the central point. whoever formulated that prayer knew his qabalah. 13. christianity had its esotericism in the gnosis, which owed much to both greek and egyptian thought. in the system of pythagoras we see an adaptation of the qabalistic principles to greek mysticism. 14. the exoteric, state-organised section of the christian church persecuted and stamped out the esoteric section, destroying every trace of its literature upon which it could lay hands in striving to eradicate the very memory of a gnosis from human history. it is recorded that the baths and bakehouses of alexandria were fired for six months with the manuscripts from the great library. very little remains to us of our spiritual heritage in the ancient wisdom. everything that was above gro

his operations. the tree and its keys are infinite in their adaptability. mystical qabala page 50 10. the four court-cards of the tarot are called in modern packs, king, queen, knight, and knave; but in the traditional packs they are, according to crowley, arranged and symbolised differently. the king, being a mounted figure, indicating the swift action of the yod of tetragrammaton; the prince of the esoteric tarot is a seated figure, corresponding to the vau of tetragrammaton; and the princess, the knave of the modern packs, correspond to the he final of the sacred name. 11. the twenty-two trumps are arranged in various ways by various authorities, of which mr. waite gives a selection, but in our system we will follow the order given by crowley for reasons already discussed. 12. in these

e work has been done upon these scattered fragments than is generally realised, however. mme blavatsky gathered together a great mass of data and exposed it to the gaze of a public which understood it little better than the child gazing at the cases in a museum and marveillng at the queer things they contain. the scholarly work of g. r. s. mead has given us much information concerning the gnosis, the esoteric tradition of the western world during the earlier centuries of our epoch; mrs atwood's monumental book has revealed the significance of the alchemical symbolism to us. none of these, however, have expounded the western tradition as initiates of that tradition, but have approached it from outside and either pieced together its fragments, or, as in the case of mme blavatsky, interpreted

ncy (which we call sex in one of its manifestations) lies the key to a very great deal. it is not for nothing that sexual imagery pervades the visions of the seer, from the song of songs to the interior castle. mystical qabala page 88 24. it must not be thought from this that i advocate orgiastic rites as the way of initiation; but i may as well say plainly that without the right understan4ing of the esoteric aspect of sex, the path is a blind alley. freud spoke the truth to this generation when he pointed to sex as a key to psychopathology; he erred, in my opinion, when he made it the only key to the nine-chambered soul of man. as there can be no health of subconsciousness without harmony of sex-life, so there can be no positive or dynamic working upon the plane of superconsciousness unle

binah to compare it with. each of the pairs ofopposites throws light on the other and is incomprehensible alone. 6. but to return to binah. the qabalists state that it is emanated by chokmah. let us translate this statement into other terms. it is an occult maxim, which is, i believe, confirmed by the researches of einstein, though i have not the knowledge necessary to correlate his findings with the esoteric doctrines, that force never moves in a straight line, mystical qabala page 96 but always curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started. it follows, then, that force proceeding thus, dividing and redividing and moving at tangential angles, will eventually arrive at a state of

hetypal ideas out of the substance of the unmanifest- to use a metaphor where definition is impossible. these ideas remain within the cosmic consciousness of the logos like the seed within the flower, because there is no soil therein for their germination. the logoidal consciousness, as pure being, cannot upon its own plane provide the formative aspect necessary for manifestation. it is taught in the esoteric traditions that the masters, disincarnate consciousnesses disciplined by form but now formless, in their meditations upon the godhead are able to perceive telepathically these archetypal ideas in the mind of god, and by realising the practical application of them to the planes of form and the line this development will follow, produce concrete images in their own consciousness which s

e universe. but the imaginative scientist, who alone is worthy of the name of research worker, uses classification not so much as a means of putting things away tidily, but to enable him to recognise relationships. 32. from the imaginative scientist who perceives to the philosophic scientist who interprets is but a step; and from the philosophical scientist who interprets in terms of causation to the esoteric scientist who interprets in terms of purpose, and so links science to ethics, is but another step. it is the tragedy of esoteric science that its exponents have nearly always been inadequately equipped upon the plane of malkuth, and consequently unable to co-ordinate their results with those obtained by workers in other fields. as long as we rest content with this state of affairs we

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practical information on the methods of psychic defence without at the same time giving practical information on the methods of psychic attack. it is not without reason that initiates have always guarded their secret science behind closed doors. to disclose sufficient to be adequate without disclosing sufficient to be dangerous is my problem. but as so much has already been made known concerning the esoteric teachings, and as the circle of students of the occult is becoming rapidly wider every day, it may well be that the time has now come for plain speaking. the task is not of my seeking, but as it has come into my hands, i will do my best to discharge it honourably, making available the knowledge which has come to me in the course of many years' experience of the strange by-ways of the

he history of two such beings, and it is interesting to note that both of them were conceived while their mothers were under the influence of drink. there is a very great deal of information available concerning the occult aspect of the incarnation of souls, but not much of the knowledge concerning the actual facts of conception has ever found its way into print. i have given a little in my book, the esoteric philosophy of love and marriage. i cannot enter into the subject deeply in these pages, for it would be too much of a digression. some points, however, it is essential to touch upon for a comprehensive survey of our subject. at the moment of sexual union a psychic vortex is formed resembling a waterspout, a funnel-shaped swirling that towers up into other dimension. as body after body

fer to paradise lost, however, we shall find that milton was familiar with both divine and infernal hierarchies, and that these were graded and charted according to a definite system. anyone who is acquainted with the qabalah will recognise that in milton he meets a fellow qabalist. in the qabalah we find the esotericism of the old testament. i propose to use the qabalistic terminology to explain the esoteric theory of evil because, firstly, it is the one i am most familiar with; secondly, it forms the basis of western occult thought and all medieval magic is based upon it, together with much modern magic; thirdly, it is, in my opinion, singularly lucid, coherent and comprehensive; and being a system consecrated by antiquity, i cannot be accused of romancing, or fabricating my own system

heep in every fold and that a fraternity which started out with the best of intentions may quite inadvertently, through the ignorance or imperfections of its leaders, begin to drift on to the left-hand path. perfectly innocent people enter it when it is in process of drifting but not yet avowedly black, and may find themselves in waters that are unpleasantly dirty, even if not actually dangerous. the esoteric dangers will be studied in detail in the next chapter, but we may very well consider in this place the exoteric dangers which may occur behind the veil of the temple, for human nature is much the same wherever we meet it, and shows little originality in choosing its road to the pit. it might be thought that in such a book as this there were no need to touch upon these matters, but if

. both these beings were conceived when their mothers were under the influence of drink, and both of them were characterised by a marked callousness, which in one case developed into deliberate cruelty. although very peculiar to look at, neither of them was in the least defective, both being, in fact, possessed of considerably more than the average share of brains. anyone who has any knowledge of the esoteric aspect of sex knows that union is as much etheric as physical. it is this fact which constitutes the real difference between normal union and self-abuse, and explains why the former is vitalising and harmonising, and the latter is exhausting and nerve-wrecking. may we not conceive it possible for anyone who can project the etheric body, or a being whose densest vehicle is etheric, to

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various incomplete forms, and was widely accepted as historical fact, it was on rare occasions recreated from these accounts and performed by groups of 18th and 19th century decadents looking for magical power and cheap sexual thrills. the black mass only ever truly existed in all its dark glory in the form of these staged re-creations. the belief was that the black mass derived its efficacy from the esoteric energy of the catholic mass perverted to evil ends. in modern times, now that christianity has lost so much of its spiritual and temporal power, there is very little reason for any group to perform the black mass. it will probably always remain merely an anomaly in the history of the occult. those interested in this subject may wish to read h. t. f. rhodes' the satanic mass, published

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y always remain merely an anomaly in the history of the occult. those interested in this subject may wish to read h. t. f. rhodes' the satanic mass, published by rider and company in 1954, and reprinted by arrow books of london in 1973. return h hhome resources demons bios fiction tyson the truth about chakras (traditional interpretation of the chakras on the body) the word chakra means wheel. in the esoteric systems of hindus and buddhists, the chakras are power centers within the human body that can be activated by specific exercises. usually there are said to be seven chakras, but in traditional hindu philosophy there are really only six- what is regarded as the seventh chakra in western occultism is outside the body, and is different in nature from the lower six. the lowest chakra is c

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comeback, esotericism utilized insights and methodologies derived from new, emerging sciences. two formally trained scientists, franz anton mesmer and emanuel swedenborg, are recognized as the fathers of modern esotericism. they opened a dialogue with the contemporary scientific community.a feat that distinguishes modern esotericism from its prescientific ancestors. as the modern world developed, the esoteric tradition spread throughout all of the world s cultures. a major dialogue began with eastern traditions in the 1960s as the west welcomed large numbers of immigrants from japan, korea, china, and southeast asia into its communities. at the same time, african religions, many having found a home in the caribbean, were also integrating themselves into western life. all of these religions

ainsworth s famous novel, the lancashire witches, deals with the subject and the pendleton locality in england. ancient and mystical order of seekers the ancient and mystical order of seekers was founded in the 1950s by clifford bias (d. 1986, the founder of the universal spiritualist association, as a society for the clergy and the more serious lay students in the association. the order explores the esoteric arts and sciences, those areas generally part of the work of occult orders and magical groups. bias produced a series of manuals, the a.m.o.s. path of light, for the order s members. the order may be contacted c/o universal institute for holistic studies, 4905 w. university ave, muncie, indiana 47304-3460. sources [bias, clifford. the a.m.o.s. path of light. 19 vols. muncie, ind: anci

ral fiber from cyprus. asbestos is of woolly texture and is sometimes called the salamander s feather. leonardus stated: its fire is nourished by an inseparable unctuous humid flowing from its substance; therefore, being once kindled, it preserves a constant light without feeding it with any moisture. asc see austin seth center ascended masters ascended masters are enlightened beings whom many in the esoteric field believe have evolved beyond the need to reincarnate on earth and now act from a higher plane of existence to assist humans in their movement toward enlightenment and guide the race in its destined evolution. the concept of ascended masters was popularly introduced by madame helena petrovna blavatsky, cofounder of the theosophical society, and described in some detail in her most

tudies faculty at the university of paris (the sorbonne) has been holding the only academic chair devoted primarily to the study of esotericism in the world, the chair in the history of western esoteric and mystical currents in modern and contemporary europe. through the 1980s and 1990s, faivre wrote and edited a series of books that have explored the intellectual currents and tradition formed by the esoteric thinkers from the sixteenth century to the present. these books have attempted to distinguish the various currents of esoteric thought and to define criteria for approaching and studying the form of thought proper to these currents. aries was founded in 1985 with faivre, r. e. deghaye, and pierre deghaye serving as its three co-directors. aries, the professional association, sponsors

y. each issue includes several articles on modern western esotericism by scholars from around the world. it is explicitly multilingual, contributions being accepted in german, french, or english. a significant portion of each issue is devoted to book reviews and surveys of periodicals concerned with various issues (theosophy, alchemy, hermeticism, rosicrucianism, christian kabbalah, etc. study of the esoteric tradition as an important subdiscipline in religious studies was given a significant boost at the end of the 1990s when the university of amsterdam established a new chair in the history of hermetic philosophy and related currents as part of its department of theology/religious studies. that chair is now held by wouter j. hanegraaff. beginning in 2000, e. j. brill of leiden, the nethe

l, who came to be known as the tibetan. he requested her to be his amanuensis for a series of books, to be dictated telepathically. the first book, titled initiation, human and solar commenced in 1920, and over the next 30 years some 18 other books were produced. she married foster bailey in 1920. the production of the tibetan books and the charge by alice bailey that the society was dominated by the esoteric section led to disagreements, and both bailey and her husband left the society. they founded the lucis trust to publish the books and the magazine beacon. in 1923 they founded the arcane school to disseminate spiritual teachings. the school became an international organization, branching into special groups. the new group of world servers was dedicated to uniting people of goodwill in

ial staff of the theosophical society s magazine, lucifer, and turned her oratorical skills to defend her new mentor and promote theosophy. in 1890 she made her first trip to the united states to revive the society badly shaken by the scandal that followed when richard hodgson of the american society for psychical research accused blavatsky of fraud. after blavatsky s death in 1891, besant headed the esoteric section, the group of blavatsky s personal occult students. in 1892 besant published her first theosophical books, karma and the seven principles of man. in 1893 she visited india for the first time and made a triumphal american tour climaxing with an appearance at the world s parliament of religions. she settled in india at the society s headquarters at adyar, madras, where she resid

l rhythms in human and animal physiology. new york: dover books, 1971. schadewald, robert. biorhythms: a critical look at critical days. fate (february 1979: 75.80. thommen, george. is this your day? new york: award, 1964. wernli, hans j. biorhythm: a scientific exploration into the life cycles of the individual. new york: crown, 1961. biosophia biosophia is one of two newsstand magazines serving the esoteric and psychic community of portugal. it emerged in 1999 as a new periodical offering a new comprehensive view of life, the universe, and humanity. biosophia is written in portuguese and appears three times annually. each issue of biosophia carries several feature articles relevant to its overall interests, which include such topics as theosophy, alternative science, astrology, holistic

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tly turned on her. the publication of the hodgson report created a public controversy and a crisis of major import within the society. while many members left, others preferred to believe that the confession by coulomb was part of a plot to discredit blavatsky. after blavatsky s death, theosophist co-founder william q. judge produced furthur mahatma letters supporting his effort to take charge of the esoteric section of the theosophical society (in opposition to the leadership of annie besant. olcott eventually declared these letters to be fraudulent. theosophists have had to live for a century with the hodgson report and the charge that the society is built upon a fraud. during this time various members have attempted to refute hodgson s (and additional supporting) claims. for example, al

promoted and helped pay for the presence of buddhists at the 1893 world s parliament of religions which led to the founding of the first buddhist organizations to formally receive americans into the faith. olcott remained president of the society until his death on february 17, 1907, at adyar, india. during the last years of his life he worked with annie besant, who succeeded blavatsky as head of the esoteric section and then succeeded olcott as president. sources: gomes, michael. the dawning of the theosophical movement. wheaton, ill: theosophical publishing house, 1987. karunaratne, k. p. olcott commemoration volume. ceylon: olcott commemoration society, 1967. olcott s contribution to the buddhist renaissance. colombo, sri lanka: publication division, ministry of cultural affairs, 1980

ngland, and educated at king edward s school, birmingham. at an early age he studied books on kabala and astrology, and became friendly with astrologer alan leo (1860.1917. he went on to study a variety of subjects, including medical dispensing, orientalism, and ancient languages. he moved to london in 1889 and joined the theosophical society, where he became a member of the inner group, known as the esoteric section, around helena petrovna blavatsky. he was very interested in astral projection. old left the society after blavatsky s death. beginning in the 1890s, old wrote extensively on astrology and his books remained popular through the twentieth century. in addition to his basic astrological texts, he developed a system of astrological prediction for the stock market and successfully

decision, besant appealed to the privy council in england, and in may 1914, the original judgment was reversed. meanwhile, katherine tingley, head of the american branch of the theosophical society also attacked leadbeater, besant, and the ose, declaring that krishnamurti is a fine chap who has been hypnotized by mrs. annie besant, and is really an unwilling follower. in 1912, american members of the esoteric section of the theosophical society (adyar) formed a school and community named krotona( the place of promise) in the hollywood hills. krotona was similar to the community tingley had developed at point loma (san diego. the complex included a temple, vegetarian cafeteria, metaphysical library, and experimental center. disciples invented stereometry, a threedimensional geometric alphab

tcher and staff, and do not even read the oupnekhata. this book is possibly a revision of one of the hindu upanishads. oupnekhata is probably from a nineteenth-century german translation titled das oupnekhat; die aus den veden zusammengefasste lebre von dem brahm (dresden, 1882, derived from an earlier latin edition of 1801. there is no single upanishad book of secrets. all the upanishads contain the esoteric wisdom of hindu metaphysics (derived from the vedas) comparable forms of meditation are also found in various hindu yoga treatises and in the bhagavad- gita, a hindu scripture derived from the mahabharata, a religious epic. our lady of endor coven our lady of endor coven was an early semipublic satanic group, which grew out of the appearance of satanas, the horned god, to herbert arth

phical forum. he also took over tingley s role as spokesperson of the society and began to give public lectures, which were later collected into some of his more popular books. the early 1930s were his most productive literary period. he completed questions we all ask (1930.31; theosophy and modern science (1930; golden precepts of esotericism (1931; fundamentals of esoteric philosophy (1932; and the esoteric tradition (1935. world war ii presented a significant challenge to the community at point loma, which was located on pacific coastal property adjacent to a major u.s. naval facility. the location was a vulnerable position should japanese forces reach the west coast, which many felt to be a real possibility at the time. that threat and the financial problems being experienced by the gr

f purucker s writings, including studies in occult philosophy (1945) and dialogues with g. de purucker (1948. purucker s work is not very well known, because the branch of the society over which he presided has dwindled in size through the last half of the twentieth century. sources: purucker, gottfried de. dialogues with g. de purucker. 3 vols. covina, calif: theosophical university press, 1948. the esoteric tradition. 2 vols. point loma, calif: theosophical university press, 1935. fundamentals of esoteric philosophy. london: rider, 1932. questions we all ask. 4 vols. covina, calif: theosophical university press, 1930.31. puthoff, harold e (1936) physicist and parapsychologist born june 20, 1936, in chicago, illinois. he earned his ph.d. from stanford university where he worked from 1972

yogi in britain in the 1960s. the school s roots actually stem from the land reform economic theories of henry george (author of progess and poverty, 1879) and the mystical theories of georgei i. gurdjieff and his disciple p. d. ouspensky. it commenced primarily as a political and economic group, founded by andrew maclaren in glasgow. it was developed by his son leon (leonardo da vinci, who added the esoteric philosophy of gurdjieff and later the meditation popularized by maharishi mahesh yogi in the belief that the practical problems of the world could best be solved by transforming the nature of human beings. leon maclaren was strongly attracted to the teachings of the mahareshi at the latter s first visit to london in 1960, and in the following year maclaren organized the maharishi s fi

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

legend was true, after all. indeed, donnelly was elected to the american association for the ad vancement of science. be f o re long, howe ve r, as critics exposed the book s errors, exaggerations, and assort e d scholarly shortcomings, belief in at l a n t i s m oved to the occult fringes, to be championed by the likes of theosophy founder helena pe t rovna bl a vatsky and other philosophers of the esoteric. be f o re the end of the nineteenth century, a growing body of occult l i t e r a t u re attested that atlantis was advanced, not just by the standards of their time, but by modern times as well; it possessed a super science that, among other m a rvelous accomplishments, had inve n t e d airplanes and television. the scottish folklorist and occultist lewis spence, who took a relative

rers by early man. these same impostors now appear as long-haired venusians (keel, 1970. christian fundamentalist authors of ufo books expressed similar suspicions. adamski s death in april 1965 marked the passing of the era of the physical contactees. even so, the most successful contactee of later years was himself a physical contactee, eduard billy meier, a rural swiss man with a background in the esoteric. like adamski and his first-generation counterparts, meier put forth photographs, artifacts, and allegedly confirmatory testimony to back up his stories of inthe- flesh meetings with space people and of rides in their spacecraft. meier s extraterrestrials are from the pleiades star system. but like adamski s venusians, they are handsome and beautiful, with blond hair and a generally n

by closing his eyes and wishing himself to other planets. three times, he said, the men in black had killed him, and three times a rejuvenation machine had brought him back to life. at the peak of his brief moment in the spotlight, neosom/childers was brought to new york city to lecture. in december 1958, he appeared on long john nebel s popular wor radio show, which catered to the eccentric and the esoteric, but he managed to get thrown off the air before his allotted time was up; his stories were too outlandish even for the famously tolerant nebel. by this time, childers had left his wife and five children and taken up with beth docker, soon renamed princess negonna, whom he soon married and honeymooned with on tythan. childers s career on saucerdom s fringes continued until the early 1

h- c e n t u ry man who called himself traksa. traksa told him that many chrononauts are living quietly among humans, keeping out of the public eye and e ven spending much of their time in a literally invisible state. traksa eventually acknow l e d g e d to goldberg that one purpose of his visit was to introduce goldberg to art bell, then host of a nationwide radio show catering to enthusiasts of the esoteric. goldberg then re a l i zed that spelled backwards, tr a k s a s name was a s k a rt. afterw a rd goldberg appeared at least nine times on be l l s popular pro g r a m. he also met muat, traksa s supervisor from the fortieth century. in earlier lifetimes, he played big roles in both atlantis and lemuria. nirev (thirty-first century) helped with the nineteenth century s industrial revo

n the bingham- ton press, after a reporter spoke with a reluctant wilcox. subsequently, walter n. webb, an astronomer and field investigator for the national investigations committee on aerial phenomena, spoke with wilcox and others. neighbors, friends, and authorities unanimously agreed that wilcox had a good reputation in the area, webb would write. wilcox had no previous history of interest in the esoteric and in fact was not much of a reader. a psychiatric examination conducted by berthold eric schwarz, m.d, a psychotherapist, concluded that wilcox suffered no mental abnormalities. unlike many figures in the contactee movement, wilcox made no attempt to exploit his alleged experience. he discussed it only when asked, and with notable hesitation. he made no further claims of encounters

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

islam, as sufism (arabic tasawwuf. the christian cabala emerged from the mystical side of christianity, which developed as a parallel tradition to pauline dogma as it diverged and became estranged from its judaic roots. the christian cabala evolved as a way to harmonize jewish kabbalistic doctrines with christian theology. the precise usage of the word qabalah to denote the ideas and practices of the esoteric teachings and the secrets of the torah emerged from the circle of yitza aq the blind (1200ce, and was used in the same context by eleazar of worms (beginning of the thirteenth century).2 the word qabalah (hlbq lit. receiving, also welcoming of god) alludes to a dynamic state of direct communication and mystical union of the individual soul with the divine. in that sense, it is synonym

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

hermetism and cabalism had brought in their train. in the opening years of that momentous seventeenth century, every kind of magic and occultism was rampant. the authorities were deeply alarmed. in france, hundreds of sorcerers were being burned every year,3 which, as lenoble has said, is an indication not only of the prevalence of magic but of belief in its powers. there can be little doubt that the esoteric and demon-ridden atmosphere of this period was the final outcome as it were, the decadence of the revaluation of magic ultimately deriving from ficino and pico and which, extravagantly continued by such descendants of theirs as cornelius agrippa, had received support from the animistic interpretations of nature of the renaissance philosophers. as koyre has said "pour les gens du xvie

FRATER TENEBROUS CULTS OF CTHULHU

any living being, and had accumulated a vast collection of information on the various cultures that exist in the universe. this completes the pantheon of non-human entities. in turn, the worship of the great old ones is continued on earth by secret societies whose traditions and rituals preserve the hidden knowledge of these elder races. lovecraft documents three such cults, the cult of cthulhu, the esoteric order of dagon, centred in innsmouth (actually newburyport, massachusetts, and the starry wisdom sect. in the haunter of the dark, lovecraft describes how the latter sect held meetings in a church in providence, where it communed with an avatar of nyarlathotep via a magical object known as the shining trapezohedron. the name, starry wisdom, recalls that of crowley s argentum astrum, o

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL

the old testament, containing the atlantean mystery teaching, we learn that mankind was created male-female, bi-sexual, and that each one was capable of propagating his species without the co-operation of another as is the case with some plants today. later on, we are informed, jehovah removed one pole of the creative force from adam, the early humanity, and that there were henceforth two sexes. the esoteric teaching supplements this information by stating that the purpose of this change was to use one pole of the creative force for the building of a brain and larynx wherewith mankind might acquire knowledge and express itself in speech. the intimate connection between the organs, brain, larynx and genitals is evident to anyone upon the slightest examination of facts. the boy's voice chan

bear a child seeing i know not a man" et cetera, it is very evident that the tree of knowledge is a symbolical expression for the creative act. then it is plain that the serpents taught eve how to perform the creative act and that eve instructed adam. therefore, christ designated the serpents as harmful while admitting their wisdom. to get at the identity of the serpent it is necessary to invoke the esoteric teaching, which points them out as the martial lucifer spirits, rulers of the serpentine sign scorpio. their initiates, even so late as the egyptian dynasty, wore the uraeus or serpent symbol in the forehead as a sign of the source of their wisdom. as a consequence of this unauthorized use of the creative force, humanity ceased to be ethereal and crystallized into the coats of skin or

acher how to pull the plugs and soar into the higher spheres or, as the masonic saying is, to "travel in foreign countries" this is in harmony with the dictum of christ that to become his disciple one must leave father and mother. that is one of the hard sayings of the gospel and generally misunderstood because it is taken to refer to our physical father and mother in the present life, whereas in the esoteric point of view something very different was intended. to get the idea let us once more call to mind that the lucifer spirits by the introduction of iron into the system made it possible for the human ego to become an indwelling spirit, but continued oxidation of the blood renders the body undesirable as a habitation in time and death ensues. therefore, though the lucifer spirits helped

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

lets look at what he had to say "the apocalypse is, to those who receive the nineteenth degree, the apotheosis of that sublime faith which aspires to god alone, and despises all the pomps and works of lucifer [ibid] it seems to contradict the sentence first quoted above, it appears to contradict the quote above where pike identifies lucifer as the masonic light-bearer. however when you understand the esoteric explanation from doc marquis, your understanding clears up completely. the apocalypse is identified first by pike as being the book of revelation written by the apostle john. pike then states that similar books from other religions are just as 'inspired' as revelation, mentioning plato, philo, the sephar yezirah, and the sohar. pike says all three of these books- apocalypse [revelatio

o big deal that the book of revelation denigrates the "pomp and works" of satan, since the god of that book is known to hate satan. pike then says that these three books "are the completest embodiment of occultism [ibid] now, we understand that pike views the god of the apocalypse as being the opposite but equal to satan just as typical occultists believe and teach! secondly, doc marquis provides the esoteric, occultic, explanation. pike is also saying in this sentence that, in the previous 18 degrees, masons believed that god was the light-bearer, but now, in this 19th degree, pike is giving them new revelation. this insight completely squares with stated masonic policy of deliberately misleading masons in the lower degrees until they were really ready for the "truth" this is the truth- m

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

ated. 12 the shell, the white, and the yolk form the perfect egg. the shell protects the white and the yolk, and the yolk feeds upon the white; and when the white has vanished, the yolk, in the form of the fledged bird, breaks through the shell and presently soars into the air. thus does the static become the dynamic, the material the spiritual. if the shell is the exoteric principle and the yolk the esoteric, what then is the white? the white is the food of the second, the accumulated wisdom of the world centring round the mystery of growth, which each single individual must absorb before he can break the shell. the transmutation of the white, by the yolk, into the fledgling is the secret of secrets of the entire qabalistic philosophy. gknow that all the upper and the lower worlds are com

above, which is the real and true paradigm or ideal model, of the visible universe below, the latter being the reflection, a simulacrum or shadow, of the invisible perfect ideal above. this idea was fully understood by the ancient egyptians, as was shown in their deities nut or neith, the upper world, shu or ma, the intermediary, and seb, the earth.14 in india, the same idea is fully set forth in the esoteric books of the vedas, called the upanishads. it is the supreme ideal brahm which is the only true. it manifests itself first in brama, vishnu and siva, past, present and future time, and through these in the visible, the last being maya, or illusion. the temples of most of the archaic peoples of asia and of egypt were intended to be visible copies of the heavenly temple, the starry firm

grammaton represents the remaining seven sephiroth. this revelation of the shin shows the triadic nature of the first three sephiroth which constitute the intellectual world, and it closely relates it to many mysteries. thus, in ydw shaddai (almighty, the name of the deity before he revealed himself as yhvh, the shin comes first; in messiah (hywm) and the exoteric jesus (ovwy) it comes second; in the esoteric yeheshuah (hvwhy) it comes in the middle; and in serpent (whk) it comes last. in yeheshuah it is the letter of mercy, for it is the central equilibrating fire; in all the others it is the letter of wrath, for it is out of equilibrium, and particularly so in shaddai and the serpent. in actual conception these three sephiroth form a trinity in unity of knowledge, that which knows and th

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

although the secret meaning of all the allegories contained in the old testament is not fully understood, still the belief that cain, abel, and seth represented the self-triplicated deity at a time when the idea of man as a creator had been accepted, or when his power to reproduce was becoming the highest idea of a creative force, is consistent with what is known of the cabala of the jews, or of the esoteric meaning of the jewish scriptures formerly known only to the priests. in other words, the ancient doctrines, the true meaning of which was no longer understood by them, were patched together as a basis for the later developments in jewish religious experience. we have seen that six hundred years after adam appears noah, another self-triplicated saviour or preserver of man, with his ark

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

0,is an exaltation of married love, dedicated to his wife,butit remains lyrical poetry for poetry's sake: his later works are quite different.abookofmysteryandvision(1902)andstrangehousesofsleep(1906)are no longer collections of simple versebutattempts at conveying to the world at large the essenceofhisownmysticalexperience-althoughthe manner of expression is more appropriate to the characters in the esoteric verse dramas which form a significant part ofthetext,these would undoubtedly have bewildered his early readers in w>ung folks'paper,justas they infuriated such unmystical critics as g.k.chesterton,whosaid ofabookofmysteryandvision:we have seen his face, and the memory of its beauty dwells for ever in ourminds-itconstrains us towards the perfect life; like a magnet, it draws us to the

ing the final poem 'an invocation' by philip dayre, in the bodyofhis review.whathe may not haveknownwas that 'philip dayre' was a.e.waite. in later years waite returned again to the fairy theme,bothin poetry and in prose,buthe was wise enough to recognize that, however significant those works might be to himself, they spokewitha very muted voice to others and he looked for other ways to propagate the esoteric doctrines he was slowly developing.duringhis years of multifarious reading at the british museum, waite had acquired an immense fund of knowledge on the history and practiceofthe occult sciences, and in the late 1880s he began toputit to good use. he realized that if his speculative'writingwas to be taken seriously he must first establish a reputation among the 'occult' public as a so

al intent.whetherornotthis was so, they caught the popular imagination and stimulated theologians, occultists, and satirists to write innumerable attacks upon, and defences of, the putative rosicrucians. as for the myth itself, it concerned the life andworkof one christian rosencreutz, a mystic and adept of the fifteenth centurywhofounded, it wasclaimed;a secret fraternitywiththe aimofpropagating the esoteric wisdom he had acquired during his travels in theholyland, egypt, andnorthajrica. in addition to their esoteric studies, the members of his fraternity sought for spiritual development and 'practised acts ofbenevolencev-especially the healing of the sick. after the deathofchristian rosencreutz, in 1484, his body was embalmed and sealedwithinaseven-sided vault, the locationofwhich remain

etters written by waite (c) small diaries. pocket diaries for the years1909to1942.(those for1911and1914are missing.)collectaneametaphysica.a bound volume of miscellaneous notes, unpublished and discarded poems, and records of sittingswithmediumsc.1880-7.thesecretcommonwealthofroguesandvagabonds.abound volume of typescripts of unpublished sensational fictionc.1880-1900.esotericfreemasonry.notes on the esoteric history of freemasonry, its doctrines, symbols, and science. unpublished typescriptc.1893.avalon.theoriginal manuscript draft of the poem, in waite's hand.dianavaughanandthequestionofmodernpalladism.unpublished typescript of the sequel to devil-ujorship infrance(1897).thesodalityoftheshadows.manuscript records of the society,boundupwithtwounpublished storiesc.1900-10.dealingsinbibliom

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

ccasions therendezvouswasmadeastrallythemat the time and placewhich had beenastrallyappointedbeforehand. for my part ibelievethem to be human andlivingupon this earth; but possessing terrible superhuman powers.'theirterrible powers were endorsed fully by mathers' moreloyal-and,some would say, credulous-followers. among these wasdredward berridge, a homoeopathic physician and support-aaion 39cr of the esoteric sexual doctrinesofthomas lake harris, which he attempted to propagate within the golden dawn (annie homiman condemned him for this as 'impure and mischievous. within theorderhe was known by his motto of'resurgam, and under this name he contributed an article on the rosicrucians to a. e. waite's joumaltheunknownworld;it contained the following remarkable claim regarding the order's pri

e or notoriety in the occult world, a few were scientists. and there was w. b. yeats. yeats was initiated at mina mathers' studio on 7 march 1890, when he took the motto 'demon est deus inversus (the devil is the converse of god, and was entered as number 78 on the outer order roll.hewas already deeply immersed in the occult, having helped to found the hermetic society in dublin in1885and joining the esoteric section of the theosophical society in 1888. eastern theosophy, however, held little for him at this time and he was ever suspicious of madame blavatsky'smahatmas; his real interests are evident in his first contribution tolucifer,'irish fairies ghosts and witches, in the introduction to which he reveals his familiarity with paracelsus and with the doctrine of elementals. perhaps it w

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ownthe goldendaum:twilightofthe magicians(aquarian press, 1983. 5 letter tof.l.gardner, quoted in howe,op.cit.,p. 165. 6 quotedinhowe,op.cit.,p. 210. 7 see queenborough,op. cit.,appendix iv. 8 ibid. 9 ibid. 10 ibid.part one: rosicrucian1.christian rosenkreuz and the rosicruciansthe rosicrucians of medieval germany formed a group of mystic philosophers, assembling, studying and teaching in private the esoteric doctrines of religion, philosophy and occult science, which their founder, christian rosenkreuz, had learned from the arabian sages, who were in their turn the inheritors of the culture of alexandria. this great city of egypt, a chief emporium of commerce and a centre of intellectual learning, flourished before the rise of the imperial power of rome, falling at length before the marti

or of our own in earlier rounds, than the present (unless the destroyed worlds of unbalanced force refer to these; the inviolability of law, as karma, is not a prominent feature; and the number of rebirths is limited generallyto three. some small part of the kabalistic doctrine is found in thetalmud,but in this collection of treatises there is a grossness that is absent from the true kabalah and the esoteric eastern system: such are the theories of the debasement of menintoanimal forms; and of men reborn as women, as apunishment*for earthly sins in a previous life: see rabbi manasseh in the nishmath chiim, or 'breath of lives. but it must be remembered that many of the doctrines to which we may justly take exception are limited to the teachings*ifnotaspunishment,yetthemajority of female l

f the sublime and exalted stages of manifestation: to the world such notions arebutdreams, and any attempt to formulate them leads only to suspicions of one's sanity; still to the metaphys255 ician these ideals supply a theme of intense interest, and to the theosophist they supply an illustration drawn from a foreign source of the spiritual traditions of a long-past age, which leads one to accept the esoteric indian suggestion that these spiritual conceptions are either supplied from time to time by great minds of another stage of existence from our own, or are remnants of the faiths and wisdom of a long-vanished era which had seen the life-history of races more spiritual than our own and more open to converse with the holy ones of higher spiritual planes; for spiritual wisdom can only be

hrough the dark ages following the ruin of the augustan era; to dominant118themagical masonpaganism followed utter ignorance of the masses until a dawn arose in europe and a monotheism was developed anew, not jewish, but christian, and became exoteric, and its exoterism became its weakness, and its priesthood became once more self seeking, and neglected the primaltruth-yeteven through this period the esoteric purity was preserved by the few, by the learned, by the pious. i will not 'wander into the area of discussion which rages around the sole origin of freemasonry from trade guilds, from templarism, from the jewish race, from the hermeticists, or from the rosicrucians. i am content to recognise that all these associations have been concerned in its growth, and am content that our present

GILBERT R A THE MASONIC CAREER OF A

ng his lifetime waite was castigated, and with justification, for his peculiarities of style, for his frequent errors of historical fact and for his cavalier attitude and contemptuous references to his contemporaries. all this must be admitted against him, but he was also a highly original thinker who broke completely new ground with his studies of what he termed the 'secret tradition, while, for the esoteric school of thought within freemasonry, he has been the most pervasive and powerful influence of this century. as such, his writings deserve more careful and objective analysis than they have received to date, and it is the purpose of this paper to encourage such analysis by demonstrating, through a study of his masonic career, both waite's originality and his continuing influence. unli

g; there were, however, other ways to propagate the secret tradition. ever since his marriage in 1888 waite had officially styled himself as an author, despite his involvements in publishing and with the horlick's food company, and it was through his books that he was best known to most of his masonic brethren. his authority in all matters occult was widely accepted, as was his great knowledge of the esoteric byways of freemasonry, and this undoubtedly helped him to gain entrance to the various lodges, chapters and preceptories he sought to join- all of which contained potential converts to his ideas. once converted they tended to seek admission to the independent& rectified rite of the golden dawn and to its successor, the fellowship of the rosy cross, but it must be stressed that waite n

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orst aberrations of the human mind" is that its doctrine is connected in large part with magic. for thousands of years, the kabbalah has been one of the foundation-stones of every kind of magic ritual. it is believed that rabbis who study the kabbalah possess great magical power. also, many non-jews have been influenced by the kabbalah, and have tried to practice magic by employing its doctrines. the esoteric tendencies that took hold in europe during the late middle ages, especially as practiced by alchemists, have their roots, to a great extent, in the kabbalah. the strange thing is, that judaism is a monotheistic religion, incepted with the revelation of the torah to moses (peace be upon him. but, within this religion is a system called the kabbalah, that adopts the basic practices of m

f the kabbalah and were transmitted from there to masonry. tem. in this development, this esoteric enterprise, which began first in the east, in china and tibet, and then spread to india, mesopotamia and egypt, formed the basis of a priestly knowledge that had been practiced for thousands of years and formed the basis of the power of the priests in egypt.20 how can there be a relationship between the esoteric philosophy of the priests of ancient egypt and present-day freemasons? ancient egypt a classic example in the qur'an of a godless political system disappeared thousands of years ago. can it have any influence today? to find the answer to these questions, we must look at the ancient egyptian priests' beliefs with regards to the origin of the universe and of life. the ancient egyptian b

GNOSTIC CATECHISM

ng his lifetime waite was castigated, and with justification, for his peculiarities of style, for his frequent errors of historical fact and for his cavalier attitude and contemptuous references to his contemporaries. all this must be admitted against him, but he was also a highly original thinker who broke completely new ground with his studies of what he termed the 'secret tradition, while, for the esoteric school of thought within freemasonry, he has been the most pervasive and powerful influence of this century. as such, his writings deserve more careful and objective analysis than they have received to date, and it is the purpose of this paper to encourage such analysis by demonstrating, through a study of his masonic career, both waite's originality and his continuing influence. unli

g; there were, however, other ways to propagate the secret tradition. ever since his marriage in 1888 waite had officially styled himself as an author, despite his involvements in publishing and with the horlick's food company, and it was through his books that he was best known to most of his masonic brethren. his authority in all matters occult was widely accepted, as was his great knowledge of the esoteric byways of freemasonry, and this undoubtedly helped him to gain entrance to the various lodges, chapters and preceptories he sought to join- all of which contained potential converts to his ideas. once converted they tended to seek admission to the independent& rectified rite of the golden dawn and to its successor, the fellowship of the rosy cross, but it must be stressed that waite n

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accordingly, fundamentalism is most prevalent in religions of "the book- protestantism, islam and so forth. while other forms of fundamentalism exist, the most pernicious forms are those which in reaction to materialism and scientism use rationalism to create a stalwart of dogma and doctrine, and yet in the process destroy the very foundation of the true religious vision- mysticism. to appreciate the esoteric and mystical view of truth we need to travel back to ancient greece and examine the allegory of the cave as used by plato. this allegory, beyond all others, offers us a real insight into the problem of what truth is. plato sees all of humanity as prisoners, each of us has been kept chained in a subterranean cavern from birth, facing a dark wall. only a very small amount of light enter

orted until now, in the age of the wolf they have dissipated into the pool of illusions. religions, ideologies and movements are hence exoteric. exoteric- of philosophical doctrines, treatises, modes of speech, etc: designed for or suitable to the generality of disciples; communicated to outsiders, intelligible to the public. hence of disciples, etc. belonging to the outer circle; not admitted to the esoteric teaching. oxford english dictionary esotericism (the inner teachings) are elusive and hard to find, they have been passed from "mouth to ear" through brotherhoods, sects and orders. they do not evolve, while their appearance may change from age to age, they exist as memories and reflections, transmissions from the golden age (the equivalent in time to the world of ideals) through hist

certain association for you. for example, you would probably relate the term occult to something sinister and evil, and yet the word itself simply means "hidden. members of the medical profession, for example, use the term occult bleeding for bleeding which comes from an unknown source. hardly sinister or demonic i would suggest. again and again we must emphasise that to understand and appreciate the esoteric worldview you need to put aside the associations, prejudices and pre-conceptions you have and consider new meanings for the terms that are used. it is important for you to understand the language we use in the context of how we use it, and not in terms of prevailing religious terminology. we are not asking you to just accept everything we say or blindly agree with our redefinition of

t exists! giving some consideration to this tale we may begin to hypothesise about various planes, dimensions, worlds or orders of existence. if we project our cube into higher dimensions, we can create an infinite progression until we reach some final point of conclusion. in the ancient traditions this has been known for a long time, and while the number of levels or planes may vary depending on the esoteric tradition, the model- the great chain of being remains remarkably the same. in the words of arthur lovejoy, author of "the great chain of being "it (the great chain of being, has been the dominant official philosophy of the larger part of civilised mankind through most of its history. the traditional model of the universe. that sign is the sign of the cross, which very clearly represe

the sun. the gnostic handbook page 34 this ability to show the origins of the symbols of many systems is a unique characteristic of gnosticism. rather than there being conflicts between pagan and so called christian, theism and non theism and related contradictions, we find that all alternatives are reconciled within an all encompassing system. this is the insight which gnosticism gives, it shows the esoteric meaning behind religious symbol systems and in some sense bypasses them by divining their true meaning. this does not degrade the role of myth, legend, tales and scriptures but places them in the real position, that is, as the outer flesh or form of the mysteries. scriptures cannot stand alone, within the gnosis at their heart, they become as stone. impersonal to personal as part of t

eated. these forms as known in the gnostic tradition as archons, they are the products of mankind enlivened by fallen spirits and fed by our own emotions. they can control and influence individuals, collectives even nations and governments. jesus decried the jews not because of racial prejudice but because the judaic community of that period had become fundamentalist and literalist, they had lost the esoteric core of their tradition. in becoming so extreme they had created a destructive thought form which they were feeding. in gnostic literature these archons can so increase in power that they become dominions, forces which control whole groups of people even races and countries. so while the jewish people thought they were worshipped the iam, they were actually feeding a false god, an arc

structive thought form which they were feeding. in gnostic literature these archons can so increase in power that they become dominions, forces which control whole groups of people even races and countries. so while the jewish people thought they were worshipped the iam, they were actually feeding a false god, an archon they had created from their own ignorance. this happens all too often and why the esoteric tradition is so imperative. without the guidance of gnosticism and esotericism, many will be caught within the web of exoteric (outer) religion. fundamentalism, cults, literalism, extremism are all products of incorrect readings of the spiritual tradition. when these groups develop their thoughtforms take on a life of their own and not being connected to the real energies of the great

g levels of importance, ability and significance, and that to reduce all aspects of the "body" of the "organic" society to an equal footing would be like suggesting the head is equal to the arm, the appendix to the eyes. this basic inequality is a foundation stone of the unique vision of gnosticism which emphasizes individual spiritual development over a vast number of lives. to really appreciate the esoteric and religious significance of these cycles we need to consider two major figures and their outlines of the sacred cycle rene guenon and julius evola. rene guenon and julius evola guenon is not a man who liked the press, he was a bitter critic of the cult of personality and avoided worthless shows of ego. while guenon would have avoided offering any biographical details, i think that a

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and gnostic apostolic church web: http//www.ozemail.com.au/ pleroma or write to: institute for gnostic studies po box 492 armidale nsw 2350 austra opage 3 all rights reserved 1996-2000 email: pleroma@ozemail.com.au gnostic apostolic church institute for gnostic studies note: please study the gnostic handbook before studying this volume. gnostic theurgy page 4 the gnostic teachings were central to the esoteric schools of all traditions. even though separated by time, space and cultural forms, they were linked together by a common wisdom, a nexus which spans time and space to form a lineage of oral and written teaching which continue to this day. in the earliest stages of man s present cycle we find records of this tradition in images drawn on cave walls, strange statues, enigmatic diagrams

t in using stories with multiple meanings. even the numerical descriptions of his disciples in the gospels have such an application. there are 12 disciples, 70 outer disciples and then the multitudes. here we have an obviously hierarchical structure. the twelve disciples who are symbolic of twelve signs of the zodiac and the twelve tribes of israel. they may be related to the innermost teachings- the esoteric mysteries. the seventy disciples who are symbolic of the seven rays and the seven days of creation etc. they may be related to the mesoteric or intermediate teachings. the multitudes who are symbolic of the exoteric or outer teachings. to understand the alpha event we need to consider the various myths, legends and religious stories and deduce the essential event from behind them. due

t beyond time and space, and worlds trapped in the mesh of matter. these worlds may be populated, there may be other streams of life, some waiting to help mankind, to liberate him from this prison while others, perhaps, more malefic to the human lifestream, may wish to keep him in bondage. these other realities, then, are the subject of our next chapter. x gnostic theurgy page 22 when considering the esoteric traditions regarding man and the universe it is sometimes difficult to get a handle on what these various planes, dimensions and worlds really mean. at times the ancient tabulations can seem more like counting the angels on the head of a pin than anything of real practical value. however, in the twentieth century as research into holography and light revealed many secrets, these ancie

t various planes, dimensions, worlds or orders of existence. if we project our cube into higher dimensions, we can create an infinite progression until we reach some final point of conclusion. if we combine this understanding with our refraction model we can come to see that there must be multiple levels of existence. in the ancient traditions this has been known for a long time, and depending on the esoteric tradition, the number of these planes is either four or seven. worlds and planes the gnostic tradition tends to use two systems of structuring the universe, a sevenfold system (derived from the rosicrucian tradition) and an older fourfold system (derived from the kabbalah. both interlock and work well in combination. together these systems illustrate the multi-dimensional nature of re

you like, but really they are worlds. i do not mean globes, necessarily, that is, solid spherical bodies. they are around and in globes, yet they are truly worlds, spheres of action, spheres of consciousness; and each one of these kosmical elements, in addition to being a world, is infilled with its own humanities, countless, numberless, innumerable, beyond all human computation. fundamentals of the esoteric philosophy, page 398. dr.de purucker, rider and company, 1938. gnostic theurgy page 30 a scientific model of the seven planes to help explain these divisions further we should consider the research of dr.timothy leary. leary is best known for his infamous psychedelic research in the sixties, and subsequent battles with the law. however, less known is his research into the fields of pe

not real or stable. using the terms of holography we could say that matter is interference in the pattern of spirit. from this we can begin to see how the alpha event fits into our model. however, there is more, since the alpha event changed the quality of our energy source, it also changed the resulting spectrum- we now have reality as a hologram, a mirage or illusion. this hologram, in terms of the esoteric tradition, contaminated the planes and caused the lowest reaches of the desire plane to become what we know as physical. it also caused a breach in the spiritual world, and formed what is known in gnosticism as the great schism. the great schism the church teaches that god is the source of all perfect and that the whole world, visible and invisible, is his creation. yet one does not n

ale, a story of proteus, who could change his shape at will. when an old man attempted to grab him, hoping to ascertain his real form, proteus was sleeping as a stone. on being touched he became a plant, when approached again he became a serpent and then transformed into a man and finally a spirit, at which time he flew off into the sky. here we clearly have a classical myth being used to outline the esoteric teaching of reincarnation as taught within the greek traditions. the zohar, a hebrew mystical and kabbalistic text, tells us that all souls must undergo reincarnation and that the souls of men revolve like a stone that is thrown from a sling that has been spun many times before finally being let go. those souls that have reached perfection stay in their holy places, only those which h

the bible talks of the period from creation to the end of the world, it is clearly limiting man s opportunities to be redeemed. man s opportunity for transfiguration is limited, he does not have an eternity to make up his mind. again and again we find that reincarnation is for a certain time span only and ends with either ascension or annihilation. there is no room for universal reconciliation in the esoteric tradition. karma reconsidered what about karma? to understand the way in which reincarnation works we have to examine the effects of our actions. in generally held christian doctrine there is a belief that actions do not really have an effect, we ask for forgiveness and the effects of the act are removed. this is obviously not correct, every action has an effect. even if the gnostic t

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ish. it's an old occult axiom that says "difficult to acquire, easy to lose" let the adept, therefore, take due caution to let every effort under heaven and earth be made to keep the trust of this sacred vigil. it is but a handful of people at any age or time in history who deeply understand the profound necessity of returning the light from whence it came. for it is well known by those who study the esoteric fabric of life that light travels in a circuit. to return the light is to receive the light. in the words of jesus "what you have done for the least of them you have done for me" healing is a sacred responsibility and blessing that has its roots and tradition in our order as far back as our founder g.h. frater c.r.c. we can only be certain of one thing, the axiom "physician, heal thys

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

ngth in from fetish to god in ancient egypt, e.g. p. 43: it is impossible to think that the highest order of the priests did not possess esoteric knowledge which they guarded with the greatest care. each priesthood. possessed a gnosis, a superiority of knowledge, which they never put into writing. it is therefore absurd to expect to find in egyptian papyri descriptions of the secrets which formed the esoteric knowledge of the priests. see also page 27, and sacred science, pp. 273-4. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 360 in one, for example, ra, the sun god, was depicted as seated upon an iron throne encircled by lesser gods who moved around him constantly and who were said to be in his train .35 likewise, in another passage, the deceased pharaoh was urged to stand at the head of the

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

white. he was light-brown skinned, an asiatic cast of countenance, and he had oily black hair. it is interesting that the celebrated film malcolm x chooses to imply that this figure was nation of islam leader elijah mohammed. while elijah mohammed and his mysterious teacher wallace fard (who vanished without a trace) had come out of high degree prince hall freemasonry, and certainly knew some of the esoteric secrets, the being malcolm x described is more in accord with aleister crowley s description of the pr terhuman intelligence aiwass than of elijah mohammed. in the shadows, the men in black had long lurked, biding their time, waiting. here and there, now and then, some people thought they had seen them, but they weren t quite certain; perhaps they more sense than actually regarded the

s co-founder of the national ufo conference, one of the oldest ufooriented conventions in the world. greenfield edits the paraufologist and is a charter member of the permanent organizing committee of the national ufo conference. in addition, greenfield has been an occultist since 1960, and has practiced ceremonial magick since 1969. in 1985, after years of service, he was consecrated a bishop in the esoteric gnostic spiritual tradition, and has served a substantial metropolitan congregation in this capac- ity since 1988. visit dr. greenfield s excellent website at: http//www.mindspring.com/ hellfire/bishop/ 94 also available for more information: http//www.lulu.com/magickroots/ secret rituals of the men in black witheld from publication for over a decade, this companion volume to secret c

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

as been studied. one important point should be perfectly plain to all who read this manual: the a.m.o.r.c. will not accept into membership those who wish to enjoy its benefits but do not want to pursue its course of study and become trained to assist in the general advancement of mankind. hundreds of inquiries are received each year from men and women who believe they have sufficient knowledge of the esoteric and mystical sciences and who want, therefore, only the benefits of association with the rosicrucians. regardless of the fact that these persons offer to pay their yearly dues in advance or make other financial inducements, they are never invited to join the a.m.o.r.c. and cannot become members. the work of grand lodge sanctum membership is unique. it consists of the most complete cou

one rosicrucian order in the americas, australasia, europe, africa, and asia, recognized as the authorized body perpetuating the ancient organization, and which was affiliated with the international federation of esoteric orders and societies. the a.m.o.r.c. is affiliated in the fraternal and federation sense, however, with the rosicrucian order and its allied bodies in other lands. ques. what is the esoteric federation? ans. the federation was known as federation universelle des ordres et societes initiatiques (or by the initials of the term, fudosi. it was an alliance of fourteen or more of the esoteric organizations throughout the world which were carrying out the work of the great white rrotherhood, and all of which conducted esoteric initiations for the attunement of the initiate with

int of a larger rose residing at the heart of the large cross.symbolic of the macrocosm. upon the four ends of the large cross are inscribed the three alchemical symbols: mercury, sulphur, and salt. at the top of the cross, mercury is placed in the center, sulphur on the left, and salt on the right. upon the other ends of the cross the symbols have been inscribed in such an order as to conform to the esoteric tradition. also upon each arm, adjacent to the alchemical symbols, is the symbol of the pentagram. this five-pointed figure is a symbolic rep [75] resentation of the rosy cross itself: the victory of the quintessence over the four alchemical elements. the wheel at the top of each pentagram represents the quintessence; the small triangle on the left, with the point downward and a line

save further explanations. but within the past fifty years certain unquestioned records have proved the rosicrucian contention that he was one of england's noble men.in heart, soul, and deed. as a pioneer in the revolution of methods of education he stands without a peer, and the effect of his "secret society" upon mankind in europe was ever a puzzle to the multitude until it was discovered that the esoteric society, to which much of his correspondence seemed to refer, was the rosicrucian order. then it was found that some of his literary co-workers were his official emissaries or deputies of the rosicrucian order, making periodical journeys to foreign jurisdictions. it was bacon, who, as imperator of the rosicrucian order, wrote the now internationally famous book called the fama fratern

received by ancient traditions. the written teachings of the kabala go back perhaps no [181] later than the eleventh century. there is every evidence, however, that the oral teachings were in existence at a far earlier date. traditionally, they are said to date back to the time of the secret wisdom related by moses. by a system of numbers, and letters of the hebrew alphabet, the kabala discloses the esoteric mysteries. its philosophy, in other words, concerns ontology, the nature of being; cosmology, the origin of the universe; theology, the nature of god; and anthropology, man's relationship to god and the world. karma.a term used by us to mean the working of the law of compensation. rosicrucians do not contend, however, that the exactions of the law of compensation will result in any re

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rful that thoughtful men supposed that the strife of words ought to cease, and considered it possible to extract one harmonious system from these various teachings panaetius, athenagoras, and clement were thoroughly instructed in platonic philosophy, and comprehended its essential unity with the oriental systems. in those days, the jew aristobulus affirmed that the ethics of aristotle represented the esoteric teachings of the law of moses; philo judaeus endeavored to reconcile the pentateuch with the pythagorean and platonic philosophy; and josephus proved that the essenes of carmel were simply the copyists and followers of the egyptian therapeutae (the healers. so it is in our day. we can show the line of descent of every christian religion, as of every, even the smallest, sect. the latte

tenets of all these various sects as to show they had all originated from one and the same source, and tended all to one and the same end. if the writer on ammonius in the edinburgh encyclopedia knows what he is talking about, then he describes the modern theosophists, their beliefs, and their work, for he says, speaking of the theodidaktos: he adopted the doctrines which were received in egypt (the esoteric were those of india) concerning the universe and the deity, considered as constituting one great whole; concerning the eternity of the world and established a system of moral discipline which allowed the people in general to live according to the laws of their country and the dictates of nature, but required the wise to exalt their mind by contemplation. q. what is your authority for

heir secular religious series the merkabah (the exterior body "the vehicle" or, the covering which contains the hidden soul-i.e, their highest secret knowledge. not one of the ancient nations ever imparted through its priests its real philosophical secrets to the masses, but allotted to the latter only the husks. northern buddhism has its "greater" and its "lesser" vehicle, known as the mahayana, the esoteric, and the hinayana, the exoteric, schools. nor can you blame them for such secrecy; for surely you would not think of feeding your flock of sheep on learned dissertations on botany instead of on grass? pythagoras called his gnosis "the knowledge of things that are" or [translit.greek "he gnosis ton onton" and preserved that knowledge for his pledged disciples only: for those who could

apilavastu, and budhism, the "wisdomism" which you say is synonymous with theosophy? a. just the same difference as there is between the secret teachings of christ, which are called "the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven" and the later ritualism and dogmatic theology of the churches and sects. buddha means the "enlightened" by bodha, or understanding, wisdom. this has passed root and branch into the esoteric teachings that gautama imparted to his chosen arhats only. q. but some orientalists deny that buddha ever taught any esoteric doctrine at all? a. they may as well deny that nature has any hidden secrets for the men of science. further on i will prove it by buddha's conversation with his disciple ananda. his esoteric teachings were simply the gupta-vidya (secret knowledge) of the ancie

ngs, or of him who understands theosophy in his own-if the expression may be used-sectarian and egotistic way "handsome is, as handsome does" could be paraphrased in this case and be made to run "theosophist is, who theosophy does" page 13 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt -ooo- theosophists and members of the t.s. q. this applies to lay members, as i understand. and what of those who pursue the esoteric study of theosophy; are they the real theosophists? a. not necessarily, until they have proven themselves to be such. they have entered the inner group and pledged themselves to carry out, as strictly as they can, the rules of the occult body. this is a difficult undertaking, as the foremost rule of all is the entire renunciation of one's personality-i.e, a pledged member has to becom

mselves to carry out, as strictly as they can, the rules of the occult body. this is a difficult undertaking, as the foremost rule of all is the entire renunciation of one's personality-i.e, a pledged member has to become a thorough altruist, never to think of himself, and to forget his own vanity and pride in the thought of the good of his fellow-creatures, besides that of his fellow-brothers in the esoteric circle. he has to live, if the esoteric instructions shall profit him, a life of abstinence in everything, of self-denial and strict morality, doing his duty by all men. the few real theosophists in the t.s. are among these members. a. this does not imply that outside of the t.s. and the inner circle, there are no theosophists; for there are, and more than people know of; certainly fa

r. theosophy has to inculcate ethics; it has to purify the soul, if it would relieve the physical body, whose ailments, save cases of accidents, are all hereditary. it is not by studying occultism for selfish ends, for the gratification of one's personal ambition, pride, or vanity, that one can ever reach the true goal: that of helping suffering mankind. nor is it by studying one single branch of the esoteric philosophy that a man becomes an occultist, but by studying, if not mastering, them all. q. is help, then, to reach this most important aim, given only to those who study the esoteric sciences? a. not at all. every lay member is entitled to general instruction if he only wants it; but few are willing to become what is called "working members" and most prefer to remain the drones of th

iences? a. not at all. every lay member is entitled to general instruction if he only wants it; but few are willing to become what is called "working members" and most prefer to remain the drones of theosophy. let it be page 15 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt understood that private research is encouraged in the t.s, provided it does not infringe the limit which separates the exoteric from the esoteric, the blind from the conscious magic -ooo- the difference between theosophy and occultism q. you speak of theosophy and occultism; are they identical? a. by no means. a man may be a very good theosophist indeed, whether in or outside of the society, without being in any way an occultist. but no one can be a true occultist without being a real theosophist; otherwise he is simply a black

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experiment with various approaches to the evocation of spirits, beginning with the lesser key of solomon the king. some observations on our results with the entities of the lesser key of solomon are enclosed. during this project, i found my interests returning to a recurrent obsession- the entities of the cthulhu mythos. the final essay, evoking yog-sothoth (originally written for the journal of the esoteric order of dagon) is an attempt to pull together a 6 theoretical model relating to mythos entities, earth lights, and other factors. at the time of writing this, i was very much into creating .theoretical models. prior to embarking on practical projects. in a way, i was prompted to .specialise. in methods of evocation by virtue of the fact that at the time, i hadn.t encountered much in

se led us to postulate that the lk spirits tended to a certain degree of conservatism over the parameters within which they could he cal led forth. the visions that they imparted to us concerning the optimum environment for conjuration definitely belonged to the .baroque. school of magic- cellars, clouds of incense, lots of paraphernalia etc. 27 evoking yog-sothoth introduction one of the aims of the esoteric order of dagon is to develop effective magical techniques with which to interact with the great old ones. as a member of the pylon of yog-sothoth lodge, i have become increasingly interested in the possibility of ritually evoking this entity as a tangible phenomena. the aim of this article is to expound a possible methodology by which entities such as yog-sothoth can be contacted, dra

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es azoetia- andrew d. chumbley stealing the fire from heaven- stephen mace by the same author: prime chaos available from chaos international publications bm sorcery, london wc1n 3xx, uk. price $20 including post& why and waste hundreds of dollars on on bogus 'astral' initiations and ridiculously overpriced correspondence courses? the hermetic order of the morning star presently doing business as the esoteric order of the golden dawn, originally known as the eternal golden dawn (then the hermetic order of the golden dawn international, has for years been milking vast sums of money from innocent individuals from remote areas who were seeking traditional initiation in the golden dawn. what many of these individuals actually received (some of whom ended up paying thousands of dollars over the

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ociety] never has done, and never will. you get all the alchemical first principles, and they have most important mss upon that great subject, the taro. this would enable mrs gardner to exercise her powers of clairvoyance in a legitimate way without danger, for the taro prevents the imagination from wandering. a short time ago, an ukase was issued from the headquarters of the t.s, that members of the esoteric section should not belong to any other occult order. i at once wrote to say that i belonged to the rosicrucian society, but i was ordered to give it up, and i felt bound to do so at once without hesitation, and wrote to some of my yorkshire chelas' who belonged to it and the t.s, to do the same. they were dismayed, and two of them went, as a deputation, to h[elena] p[etrovna] b[lavats

re were a few women. the deputation to h.p.b. would have included t. h. pattison, 8 honoris causa in the soc. ros. and frater 30 the alchemist of the golden dawn she had made a mistake and she wrote to me for advice, which i gave, and the consequence was, she withdrew this ukase as regards this rosicrucian society. the result was that dr wynn westcott, the head of this rosicrucian society, joined the esoteric section of the t.s. and with him some 20 others, and about 14 from yorkshire. all is well that ends well! there is now at bradford a flourishing lodge of this rosicrucian society and the lodge is worked very well indeed by men who really know something. dr wynn westcott is well known in masonry, and macgregor mathers, the learned qabbalist, is also in it. if you think of joining it, t

dismissal from his editorial employment and he returned to london to write about his communications with the mahatmas in the occult world (1881) and esoteric buddhism (1883. the british theosophical society now changed its name to the london lodge of the theosophical society with sinnett as its president. when madame blavatsky finally settled in london in 1887 she founded the blavatsky lodge with the esoteric section as a cult within a cult. the london lodge' had no e.s. madame blavatsky found it convenient to ignore sinnett, hence the 'spite' mentioned by ayton. glad to hear from you. xmas brings all sorts of petty interruptions incidental to my position here, and i have been very busy. it is satisfactory to hear that t.s. matters are gomg on well, tho' h.p.b.'s health breaking down is a

who had been at school with w. b. yeats. at the age of eighteen he read a paper on theosophical theories of evolution at a meeting of the dublin hermetic society. it was subsequently printed in the dublin university review. he helped to form a dublin lodge of the t.s. in 1886. yeats did not join it but became a member of the blavatsky lodge soon after he came to london in 1887 and was admitted to the esoteric section late in 1888. the golden dawn appeared to offer more interesting occult experiences and he was initiated in it on 7 march 1890. charles johnston married madame blavatsky's niece and would have been regarded as a member of the family circle at 17 lansdowne road. we are very grieved to hear of your misfortune. such things must happen to every man i suppose, and are part of our e

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

tune was a popular one among the intelligent people of the region. her own attitude toward shadowed innsmouth- which she never seen- was one of disgust at a community slipping far down the cultural scale, and she assured me that the rumours of devil-worship were partly justified by a peculiar secret cult which had gained force there and engulfed all the orthodox churches. it was called, she said 'the esoteric order of dagon, and was undoubtedly a debased, quasi-pagan thing imported from the east a century before, at a time when the innsmouth fisheries seemed to be going barren. its persistence among a simple people was quite natural in view of the sudden and permanent return of abundantly fine fishing, and it soon came to be the greatest influence in the town, replacing freemasonry altoget

n'ry chimbly. other folks was prosp'rin, too- fish begun to swarm into the harbour fit to kill' an' heaven knows what sized cargoes we begun to ship aout to newb'ryport, arkham, an' boston. t'was then obed got the ol' branch railrud put through. some kingsport fishermen heerd abaout the ketch an' come up in sloops, but they was all lost. nobody never see 'em agin. an' jest then our folk organised the esoteric order 0' dagon, an' bought masoic hall offen calvary commandery for it. heh, heh, heh! mart eliot was a mason an' agin the sellin, but he dropped aout o' sight jest then "remember, i ain't sayin' obod was set on hevin' things jest like they was on that kanaky isle. i dun't think he aimed at fust to do no mixin, nor raise no younguns to take to the water an' turn into fishes with etern

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

tune was a popular one among the intelligent people of the region. her own attitude toward shadowed innsmouth- which she never seen- was one of disgust at a community slipping far down the cultural scale, and she assured me that the rumours of devil-worship were partly justified by a peculiar secret cult which had gained force there and engulfed all the orthodox churches. it was called, she said 'the esoteric order of dagon, and was undoubtedly a debased, quasi-pagan thing imported from the east a century before, at a time when the innsmouth fisheries seemed to be going barren. its persistence among a simple people was quite natural in view of the sudden and permanent return of abundantly fine fishing, and it soon came to be the greatest influence in the town, replacing freemasonry altoget

ry chimbly. other folks was prosp'rin, too- fish begun to swarm into the harbour fit to kill' an' heaven knows what sized cargoes we begun to ship aout to newb'ry-port, arkham, an' boston. t'was then obed got the ol' branch raitrud put through. some kingsport fishermen heerd abaout the ketch an' come up in sloops, but they was all lost. nobody never see 'em agin. an' jest then our folk. organised the esoteric order 0' dagon, an' bought masoic hall offen calvary commandery for it. heh, heh, heh! mart eliot was a mason an' agin the sellin, but he dropped aout o' sight jest then "remember, i ain't sayin' obod was set on hevin' things jest like they was on that kanaky isle. i dun't think he aimed at fust to do no mixin, nor raise no younguns to take to the water an' turn into fishes with etern

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; tbe latter tbe ettmal petiu in a lake of fire (aid brivubmef if tbey answer us tbat it is in tbe apocalyjae (zz, 10, we are prepared to demonstrate wbenoe tbe tbeologist jobn himself derived tbe idea "and the dmu tbat deceived tbem was cast into tbe lake of fire and brimstone, wbere the beaet and tbe false prophet are and shall be tonnented day and night for ever and ever" he says. laying aside the esoteric interpretation tliat the "devil" or tempting demon meant our own earthly body, which after death will surtjy dissolve in the fiery or ethereal elements" tbe word 'eternal' by which our theologians interpret the words 'for ever and ever' does not exist in tbe hebrew language, either as a word or meaning. there is no' hebrew word which propeiiy expresses eternity; chvf, tnilam, accordin

mic worihip. by h. m. weatropp and c. staniland wake) in this appendix prof. alexander witdo' voy justly remarks as follows "we presume that the apostle of the circumcision, as paul, his great rival, styles him, was never at the impenal city, nor had a successor there, not even in the ghetto. the 'chair of peter' therefore, is tacred rather than apostolical. its sanctity proceeded, however, from the esoteric rdigiod c^ the former times of rome. the hierophant of the mysteries probably oc- cupied it on the day of initiations, when exhibiting to the candidates the petroma (atone tablet containing the last revelation made by the hioiqihsnt to the neophyte for initiation" digitizecoy google 26 isis vnvbilbd that were on the other side ot the flood, or the gods of the amorites, in whose land y

t panic among the christian fathers. that spirit of jesuitism and clerical craft, which prompted farkhurst, many centuries later, to suppress in his h^rrew lexicon the true meaning of the first word of genesis, originated in those days of war against the expiring neo-platonic and eclectic school. the fathers had decided to pervert the meaning of the word daimon" and tbey dreaded above all to have the esoteric and true meaning of the word rasit unveiled to the multitudes; for if once the true sense of this sentence, as well as that of the hebrew word ludt (translated in the septuagint 'angels' while it means emanations" were understood rightly, the mystery of the christian trinity would have crumbled, carry- ing in its downfall the new religion into the same heap of ruins with the ancient m

origed* clemens alezandrinus^ chalcidius^ methodius* and mai- monides* on the authority of the tar^m of jerusalem, the orthodox and greatest authority of the jews, held that the first two words in the book of oeruais b-rasit mean wudom, or the principle; and that the. idea^ these words noeaning 'in the beginning' was never held but by the profane, who were not allowed to penetrate any deeper into the esoteric sense of the sentence. beausobre" and after him godfrey hig- gins, have demonstrated the fact "all things" says the kahala "are derived from one great principle, and this principle is the unknown and invieible god. from him a substantial power immediately proceeds, which is the image of god, and the source of all subsequent emanations. this second principle sends forth, by the energy

me, tie. i, p. 291 (uv. vi, i. 61. a. rmb: cydopaedia. art 'kabkla' digitizecoy google 3e isis dntehed that heaven and earth were the first works of god. he only said that god created heavea and earth through the prindpu, who is his son. it is not the time he points to, but to the immediate author of the creatichi" angels, according to augustine, were created b^ore the firmament, and according to the esoteric interpretation, the heaven and earth were cre- ated after that, evolving from the second principle or the logos the creative deity "the word priticipe" says beausobre* quoting augus- tine "does not mean that the heaven and earth were created before anything else, for, to begin with, the angeu were created before that; but that god did everything through his wisdom, which u his verlmm

all others. this law, mentioned by all writers on the aadent initiation, speaks for itself. the claim of augustine* that all the exfja- nations given by the neo-platonists were invented by themselves, is ab- surd. for nearly all the ceremonies in their true and successive order are given by plato himself, in a more or less covered way. the mysteries are os old as the world, and one well versed in the esoteric mythologies of various nations can trace them back to the days of the ante-vedic period in india. a condition of the strictest virtue and purity is required from the vaiu, or candidate, in india before he can become an initiate, whether he aims to be a simple fakir, a ptavhiia (public priest) or a sannf/dsi, a saint of the second degree of initiation, the most holy as the most revered

christians whose faitb is sincere and whose practice coin- cides with their profession. but with an arrogant, dogmatic, and dis- honest clergy we have nothing to do except to see the ancient philosophy antagonized by modem theology in its puny offspring, spiritualism defended and righted so far as we are able, so that its grandeur and suffi- ciency may be thoroughly displayed. it is not alone for the esoteric philosophy that we fight; nor for any modem system of moral philo- sophy, but for the inalienable right of private judgment, and especially for the ennobung idea of a future life of activity and accountability. we 'eagerly applaud such commentators as godfrey higgins, inman, payne knight, king, dunlap, and dr. newton, however much they dis- agree with our own mystical views, for their

e u not one that con- veys a deeper moral than the case of the bomaa church. the divine law of compensation [karma] was never more striking exemplified than in the fact that by her own act she has deprived herself of the only pos- able key to her own religious mysteries. the assumption of godfrey higgins that there are two doctrines maintained in the boman church, one for the masses and the other the esoteric for the 'perfect' or the initiates, as in the ancient mysteries, appears to us unwarranted and rather fantastic. she has lost the key, we repeat; otherwise no terrestrial power could have prostrated her, and except as having a superficial knowledge of the means of producing' miracles' her clergy can in no way be compared in their wisdom with the hierophants of old. in burning the work

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d no two individuals are the same. however we can provide a selection of tools for tuning to the divine nutrition channel that the individual can then experiment with and yogic practice is one of these tools. i have also come to believe over the years that all yogic practices are required to successfully feed from the divine nutrition channel as each practice brings a specific tuning tool. one of the esoteric teachers that i readily identify with on many levels is omraam mikhael aivanhov and just as i began the final section of the food of gods, a book on his teachings arrived, as a gift, in the mail. i always pay attention to these type of coincidences as although the book came with a postcard written in french, i knew it was required reading for me. the book is called the splendor of tip

KARR DON NOTES ON THE STUDY OF EARLY KABBALAH JEWISH MYSTICISM IN ENGLISH

gnahmanides symbolical reading of history, h in studies in jewish mysticism, edited by j. dan and f. talmage (cambridge: association for jewish studies, 1982. halbertal, moshe. concealment and revelation: esotericism in jewish thought and its philosophical implications, translated by jackie feldman. princeton. oxford: princeton university press, 2007, chapter 11 gtradition, closed knowledge, and the esoteric: secrecy and hinting in nahmanides f kabbalah h. henoch, chayim j. ramban: philosopher and kabbalist. northvale. jerusalem: jason aronson inc, 1998. idel, moshe. gnahmanides: kabbalah, halakhah, and spiritual leadership, h in jewish mystical leaders and leadership in the thirteenth century, edited by m. idel and m. ostow (northvale/ jerusalem: jason aronson inc, 1998. koren, sharon fa

tional conference on the history of jewish mysticism: the beginnings of jewish 20081 24 mysticism in medieval europe, edited by joseph dan (jerusalem: the hebrew university, 1987. wolfson, elliot. along the path: studies in kabbalistic myth, symbolism, and hermeneutics. albany: state university of new york press, 1995: chapter 1. gthe image of jacob engraved upon the throne: further reflection on the esoteric doctrine of the german pietists. h. gthe mystical significance of torah study in german pietism, h in jewish quarterly review, vol. 84, no. 1 (july 1993. through a speculum that shines: chapter five. ghaside ashkenaz: verdical and docetic interpretations of the chariot visions. h. yassif, eli. gthe medieval saint as protagonist and storyteller: the case of r. judah he-hasid, h in crea

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ers, flowed into syria and arabia, and thence with added force- garnered from the new divine powers made manifest in the profound mystery of the blessed jesus- into europe, through northern africa, finding a home in spain, where it took deep root. from this stock sprang into full flower that richness of speech and song for which the troubadours will live for ever, manichaeans who sang and chanted the esoteric wisdom they dared not speak. 668. next we see them dispersed in sects, taking local names- separated in name only, but using the same secret language, having the same signs. thus, everywhere they journeyed, and no matter by what name they were called, each knew the other as a widow s son, bound together on a mystic quest, knitted- by virtue of a secret science- into one community; wit

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

e. new affiliates of the inner mystery school standing behind bota are referred to as associate members, and receive graded lessons on the order s teachings. they may become members, that is to say working builders, and may affiliate with active chapters around the united states, canada, and a number of other countries around the world. upon receiving advanced instruction, they may participate in the esoteric activity of bota. the headquarters of bota, which is located in los angeles, is governed by the grand chapter, consisting of four initiates called grand chiefs. the prolocutor general and president of the corporation represent the link between the inner school and the rest of the order. bota groups can be found in numerous u.s. states as well as in canada, great britain, the netherlan

iew in the 1970s via the very loosely organized illuminates of thanateros, chaos magic had become a significant strand of occultism by the 1980s. drawing heavily pen drawing by dave carson of h.p. lovecraft (1890 1937, surrounded by his creations (fortean picture library) 44 charleroi case from the thinking of spare and kenneth grant (the latter was responsible for disseminating spare s writings, the esoteric order of dagon emerged in 1980. this group conjured the dark demons created by h. p. lovecraft. a more significant new group to grow out of the chaos base was thee temple ov psychick youth, founded in 1981 by the musician genesis p-orridge. see also crowley, aleister ;magic and magical groups for further reading: baddeley, gavin. lucifer rising: sin, devil worship and rock n roll. lon

ht with her. it is still active in london as the society of inner light, and is the ancestor of many other important magical organizations now functioning in england. fortune worked as a psychiatrist, specializing in helping people recover from and counter psychic attacks, the topic of her best-known book, psychic self-defense. see also magic and magical groups for further reading: fortune, dion. the esoteric orders and their works. st. paul, mn: llewellyn, 1971 .psychic self-defense. london: aquarian press, 1957. the gate and gate 2 the gate, a 1987 film, offers the familiar oops- we-accidently-opened-the-gate-to-hell-and-letthe- demons-out! theme in a suburban, home alone setting. in the 1992 sequel, a teen sacrifices a hamster to invoke the powers of darkness. gnosticism gnosticism is a

mel. the neo-pythagorean church is subject to a supreme heliophant, and its american jurisdiction is under bishop pierre-antoine saint-charles of boston, whereas michael bertiaux in chicago is over the caucasian-american members. the ancient order of oriental templars a lodge with credentials derived from the pre-crowleyite ordo templi orientis in germany the arithmosophical society, zotheria and the esoteric traditions research society (both outer courts of the various esoteric structures) are associated with the church. see also magic and magical groups for further reading: green,marian. the elements of ritual magic. longmead, shaftesbury, dorset, uk: element, 1990. melton, j. gordon. the encyclopedia of american religion. 5th ed. detroit, mi: gale research, 1996. mr. bubbles case the mr

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kabbala denudata of knorr von rosenroth (a work incomplete and, in some of its parts, prostituted to the service of dogmatic interpretation, the lost symbolism of the vault in which christian rosenkreutz is said to have been buried, some of the work of dr. dee and sir edward kelly, some very imperfect tables in cornelius agrippa, the art of raymond lully, some of the very artificial effusions of the esoteric theosophists, and of late years the knowledge of the order ros rube et aure crucis and the hermetic order of the golden dawn. unluckily, the leading spirit in these latter societies1 found that his prayer, give us this day our daily whisky, and just a wee drappie mair for luck! was sternly answered, when you have given us this day our daily knowledge-lecture. under these circumstances

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ecret, subtle, and sublime, who shall name thee without veneration, without prostration of soul, spirit, and body before thy divine author, without exaltation of soul, spirit, and body as by his favour they bathe in his lustral and illimitable light? it must first here be spoken of the exoteric qabalah to be found in books, a shell of that perfect fruit of the tree of life. next we will deal with the esoteric teachings of it, as frater p. was able to understand them. and of these we shall give examples, showing the falsity and absurdity of the uninitiated path, the pure truth and reasonableness of the hidden way. for the student unacquainted with the rudiments of the qabalah we recommend the study of s. l. mathers .introduction. to his translation of the three principal books of the zohar

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p years ago, quite in ignorance of what the last would lead to. god is indeed cut away. a cancer from the breast of truth. of those philosophers, who from unassailable premisses draw by righteous deduction a conclusion against god, and then for his sake overturn their whole structure by an act of will, like a child breaking an ingenious toy, i take mansel as my type* now, however, let us consider the esoteric idea-mongers of christianity, swedenborg, anna kingsford, deussen and the like, of whom i have taken caird as my example. i wish to unmask these people: i perfectly agree with nearly everything they say, but their claim to be christians is utterly confusing, and lends a lustre to christianity which is quite foreign. deussen, for example, coolly discards nearly all the old testament, a

of harris. 26. macgragor.5.the mage. 29. abramelin.6.the mage. 32. ancient rituals.7.from the papyrus of mrs. harris. 33. golden dawn.8.these rituals were later annexed by madame horos. that superior swami. the earnest seeker is liable to some pretty severe shocks. to see one.s .obligation. printed in the daily mail! luckily, i have no nerves. 49. ram, ram. etc.9..thou, as i, art god (for this is the esoteric meaning of the common hindu saluation. a long road and a heavy price! to know is always a difficult work. hullo! bravo! thy name (i have seen) is written in the stars. come with me, pupil! i will give thee medicine for the mind* the phallus of shiva the destroyer. it is really identical with the qabalistic .middle pillar. of the .tree of life. an imaginary lady to whom sairey gamp in

are being .unselfish. do fill their hearts with devotion for the beloved saviour, and this process is, in its ultimation, so similar to the earlier stages of the great work itself, that some confusion has, stupidly enough, arisen; but for all that the practice has been the means of bringing some devotees on to the true path of the wise, unpromising as such material must sound to intelligent ears. the esoteric christian or hindu adopts a middle path. having projected the absolute from his mind, he endeavours to unite his consciousness with that of his absolute and of course his personality is destroyed in the process. yet it is to be feared that such an adept too often starts on the path with the intention of aggrandising his personality to the utmost. but his method is so near to the true

ivekananda (no connection with the firm of a similar name1 across the street, gives of the existence of the infinite .think of a circle. says he .you will in a moment become conscious of an infinite circle around your original small one. the fallacy is obvious. the big circle is not infinite at all, but is itself limited by the little one. but to take away the little circle, that is the method of the esoteric christian or the mystic. but the process is never perfect, because however small the little circle becomes, its relation with the big circle is still finite. but even allowing for a moment that the absolute is really attainable, is the nothingness of the finity related to it really identical with that attained directly by the buddhist arahat? this, consistently with 1 the swami vive a

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

stianity and neo-platonism many basic tenets of the latter were accepted by the former and woven into the fabric of patristic philosophy. briefly described, neo-platonism is a philosophic code which conceives every physical or concrete body of doctrine to be merely the shell of a spiritual verity which may be discovered through meditation and certain exercises of a mystic nature. in comparison to the esoteric spiritual truths which they contain, the corporeal bodies of religion and philosophy were considered relatively of little value. likewise, no emphasis was placed upon the material sciences. the term patristic is employed to designate the philosophy of the fathers of the early christian church. patristic philosophy is divided into two general epochs: ante-nicene and post-nicene. the an

nymous with childishness, while thoughtfulness is symbolic of maturity. there are, however, but few mature minds in the world; and thus it was that the philosophic-religious doctrines of the pagans were divided to meet the needs of these two fundamental groups of human intellect--one philosophic, the other incapable of appreciating the deeper mysteries of life. to the discerning few were revealed the esoteric, or spiritual, teachings, while the unqualified many received only the literal, or exoteric, interpretations. in order to make simple the great truths of nature and the abstract principles of natural law, the vital forces of the universe were personified, becoming the gods and goddesses of the ancient mythologies. while the ignorant multitudes brought their offerings to the altars of

raic initiation. faber is of the opinion that this ladder was originally a pyramid of seven steps. it is possible that the masonic ladder with seven rungs had its origin in this mithraic symbol. women were never permitted to enter the mithraic order, but children of the male sex were initiates long before they reached maturity. the refusal to permit women to join the masonic order may be based on the esoteric reason given in the secret instructions of the mithraics. this cult is another excellent example of those secret societies whose legends are largely symbolic representations of the sun and his journey through the houses of the heavens. mithras, rising from a stone, is merely the sun rising over the horizon, or, as the ancients supposed, out of the horizon, at the vernal equinox. john

darkness of their own making, occasionally slipped through at this hour and assumed the forms of various creatures. the mystics of eleusis also laid stress upon the evil of suicide, explaining that there was a profound mystery concerning this crime of which they could not speak, but warning their disciples that a great sorrow comes to all who take their own lives. this, in substance, constitutes the esoteric doctrine given to the initiates of the lesser mysteries. as the degree dealt largely with the miseries of those who failed to make the best use of their philosophic opportunities, the chambers of initiation were subterranean and the horrors of hades were vividly depicted in a complicated ritualistic drama. after passing successfully through the tortuous passageways, with their trials

resurrection because it falsely estimates and mistrusts the innate understanding within the human soul. the ciconian women who tore orpheus limb from limb symbolize the various contending theological factions which destroy the body of truth. they cannot accomplish this, however, until their discordant cries drown out the harmony drawn by orpheus from his magic lyre. the head of orpheus signifies the esoteric doctrines of his cult. these doctrines continue to live and speak even after his body (the cult) has been destroyed. the lyre is the secret teaching of orpheus; the seven strings are the seven divine truths which are the keys to universal knowledge. the differing accounts of his death represent the various means used to destroy the secret teachings: wisdom can die in many ways at the

are based upon the atlantean mystery rituals. the myth of the dying god the myth of tammuz and ishtar is one of the earliest examples of the dying-god allegory, probably antedating 4000 b. c (see babylonia and assyria by lewis spence) the imperfect condition of the tablets upon which the legends are inscribed makes it impossible to secure more than a fragmentary account of the tammuz rites. being the esoteric god of the sun, tammuz did not occupy a position among the first deities venerated by the babylonians, who for lack of deeper knowledge looked upon him as a god of agriculture or a vegetation spirit. originally he was described as being one of the guardians of the gates of the underworld. like many other savior-gods, he is referred to as a "shepherd" or "the lord of the shepherd seat"

er being baptized by the blood of a bull, the new initiate was fed entirely on milk to symbolize that he was still a philosophical infant, having but recently been born out of the sphere of materiality (see frazer's the golden bough) is there a possible connection between this lacteal diet prescribed by the attic rite and st. paul's allusion to the food for spiritual babes? sallust gives a key to the esoteric interpretation of the attic rituals. cybele, the great mother, signifies the vivifying powers of the universe, and atys that aspect of the spiritual intellect which is suspended between the divine and animal spheres. the mother of the gods, loving atys, gave him a starry hat, signifying celestial powers, but atys (mankind, falling in love with a nymph (symbolic of the lower animal pro

e works: the divine pymander of hermes mercurius trismegistus (london, 1650, translated out of the arabic and greek by dr. everard; hermetica (oxford, 1924, edited by walter scott; hermes, the mysteries of egypt (philadelphia, 1925, by edouard schure; and the thrice-greatest hermes (london, 1906, by g. r. s. mead. to the material contained in the above volumes he has added commentaries based upon the esoteric philosophy of the ancient egyptians, together with amplifications derived partly from other hermetic fragments and partly from the secret arcanum of the hermetic sciences. for the sake of clarity, the narrative form has been chosen in preference to the original dialogic style, and obsolete words have given place to those in current use. hermes, while wandering in a rocky and desolate

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ious aspects of the fraternity: albert pike, robert freke gould, fort newton, albert gallatin mackey, and w. l. wilmshurst. walter leslie wilmshurst (1867-1939) was a mystic with a practical knowledge and profound understanding of the religions of the world. the meaning of masonry discloses the real purpose of modern freemasonry and clearly states the true body of teaching and practice concerning the esoteric meanings of masonic ritual. freemasonry is based on the three great principles: brotherly love, relief, and truth. over the years, brotherly love and relief have been so stressed that the craft is in serious danger of becoming primarily a social and charitable organization. truth, the most difficult principle to recognize and thus the most difficult to achieve, has long been neglected

e deeper limits of the official churches for the purpose of teaching what are called" the mysteries: for imparting to suitable and prepared minds certain truths of human life, certain instructions about divine things, about the things that belong to our peace, about human nature and human destiny, which it was undesirable to publish to the multitude who would but profane those teachings and apply the esoteric knowledge that was communicated to perverse and perhaps to disastrous ends. these mysteries were formerly taught, we are told" on the highest hills and in the lowest valleys" which is merely a figure of speech for saying, first, that they have been taught in circumstances of the greatest seclusion and secrecy, and secondly, that they have been taught in both advanced and simple forms

and original science of geometry (literally" earth measuring; determining the occult potentialities of the human earth or temporal organism under spiritual stresses" god geometrizes" wrote plato, with intimate knowledge of the subject. many of the euclidean and pythagorean theorems, now regarded merely as mathematical demonstrations, were originally expressions, veiled in mathematical glyphs, of the esoteric science of soul-building or true masonry. the well-known 47th proposition of the first book of euclid is an example of this and in consequence has come (though few modern masons could explain why) to be inscr ibed upon the past master's official jewel. again, the squaring of the circle that problem which has baffled so many modern mathematicians--is an occult expression signifying tha

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

he speaks of the presence or existence of angelicbeings, or overlords, who are being invoked to literally take part in the terrestrial oper-ations of mankind. the masonic fathers and builders of the city referred to these enti-ties by their latin term, cosmocrates: the leader of these mighty beings was due to take over the direction of western civilizationin 1881 caused considerable excitement in the esoteric circles of washington d.c, and theoccult world in general. the very word capitol derives from caput draconis, meaning the head and tail of thedragon. we feel that ovason's book and his findings clearly proves the existence of the mac-robes. in the past, when one of the serpent masters or one of thesons of the serpents ended their long life, their confederateswould generally commemorat

that morning of april 3, 1791, was remarkable. the sun and moon were not theonly pair in aries at that time: no fewer than five of the known planets were in that zodiacal ram thesign which favors brave undertakings (p. 7)cosmocrates (angelic beings of the creation)the leader of these mighty beings was due to take over the direction of western civilization in 1881caused considerable excitement in the esoteric circles of washington, d.c, and the occult world in gen-eral (p. 33)appendix b: book abstracts244atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation virgoin the arch of the skies on the day the foundation stone for the white house was laid, there was a mostinteresting conjunction. shortly before noon, the moon had entered the same degree as the dragonshead (a node of the moon. both p

in sanskrit and means serpent [further meanings from the sanskrit-english dictionary by monier-williams: m. not moving, a mountain (in atharva v eda; the number 7(because of the 7 principal mountains; any tree or plant (in mahabharata; the sun] in the east indianpantheon it is connected with the serpent spirit and the dragon spirit. it has an equivalence to the bur-mese nats, or god-serpents. in the esoteric tradition it is synonymous for adepts, or initiates. in indiaand egypt, and even in central and south america, the naga stands for one who is wise. the [buddhist philosopher] nagarjuna of india, for example, is shown with an aura, or halo, of sevenserpents which is an indication of a very high degree of initiation. the symbolism of the seven serpents,usually cobras, are also on masoni

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terious power; and they taught that by its utterance the world was created. in india it was forbidden to pronounce the word aum or om, the sacred name of the one deity, manifested as brahma, vishna, and seeva. these superstitious notions in regard to the efficacy of the word, and the prohibition against pronouncing it, could, being errors, have formed no part of the pure primitive religion, or of the esoteric doctrine taught by moses, and the full knowledge of which was confined to the initiates; unless the whole was but an ingenious invention for the concealment of some other name or truth, the interpretation and meaning whereof was made known only to the _select few. if so, the common notions in regard to the word grew up in the minds of the people, like other errors and fables among all

and the places of initiation, which in the ancient ceremonies were generally under ground. the temple of solomon presented a symbolic image of the universe; and resembled, in its arrangements and furniture, all the temples of the ancient nations that practised the mysteries. the system of numbers was intimately connected with their religions and worship, and has come down to us in masonry; though the esoteric meaning with which the numbers used by us are pregnant is unknown to the vast majority of those who use them. those numbers were especially employed that had a reference to the deity, represented his attributes, or figured in the frame-work of the world, in time and space, and formed more or less the bases of that frame-work. these were universally regarded as sacred, being the expres

s and romans. under the same influences of toleration, even those who embraced christianity, mingled together the old and the new, christianity and philosophy, the apostolic teachings and the traditions of mythology. the man of intellect, devotee of one system, rarely displaces it with another in all its purity. the people take such a creed as is offered them. accordingly, the distinction between the esoteric and the exoteric doctrine, immemorial in other creeds, easily gained a foothold among many of the christians; and it was held by a vast number, even during the preaching of paul, that the writings of the apostles were incomplete; that they contained only the germs of another doctrine, which must receive from the hands of philosophy, not only the systematic arrangement which was wantin

their doctrines and those of the jud o-egyptian philo, of alexandria; itself the seat of three schools, at once philosophic and religious--the greek, the egyptian, and the jewish. pythagoras and plato, the most mystical of the grecian philosophers (the latter heir to the doctrines of the former, and who had travelled, the latter in egypt, and the former in ph nicia, india, and persia, also taught the esoteric doctrine and the distinction between the initiated and the profane. the dominant doctrines of platonism were found in gnosticism. emanation of intelligences from the bosom of the deity; the going astray in error and the sufferings of spirits, so long as they are remote from god, and imprisoned in matter; vain and long-continued efforts to arrive at the knowledge of the truth, and re-e

the music of the spheres of pythagoras was the image; these were the analogies of the two systems; and we discover in them some of the ideas that form a part of masonry; in which, in the present mutilated condition of the symbolic degrees, they are disguised and overlaid with fiction and absurdity, or present themselves as casual hints that are passed by wholly unnoticed. the distinction between the esoteric and exoteric doctrines (a distinction purely masonic, was always and from the very earliest times preserved among the greeks. it remounted to the fabulous times of orpheus; and the mysteries of theosophy were found in all their traditions and myths. and after the time of alexander, they resorted for instruction, dogmas, and mysteries, to all the schools, to those of egypt and asia, as

would naturally be supposed, from the fact that they reverenced the sun, not as a god, but as a symbol of light and fire; the fountain of which, the orientals supposed god to be. they lived in continence and abstinence, and had establishments similar to the monasteries of the early christians. the writings of the essenes were full of mysticism, parables, enigmas, and allegories. they believed in the esoteric and exoteric meanings of the scriptures; and, as we have already said, they had a warrant for that in the scriptures themselves. they found it in the old testament, as the gnostics found it in the new. the christian writers, and even christ himself, recognized it as a truth, that all scripture had an inner and an outer meaning. thus we find it said as follows, in one of the gospels "u

rmies; as the aggregate of the forces [alohayim] of nature; as the mighty, the victorious, the rival of bal and osiris; as the soul of nature, nature itself, a god that was but man personified, a god with human passions, the god of the heathen with but a mere change of name, he assumes, in his communications to moses, the name [ihuh, and says to him [ahih ashr ahih, i am what i am. let us examine the esoteric or inner meaning of this ineffable name [hih] is the imperfect tense of the verb to be, of which [hihi] is the present [ahi? being the personal pronoun "i" affixed] the first person, by apocope; and [ihi] the third. the verb has the following forms. preterite, 3d person, masculine singular [hih, did exist, was; 3d person com. plural [hiu. present, 3d pers. masc. sing [ihih, once [ihua

pter of the same book, becomes clear. the alhim is the aggregate unity of the manifested creative forces or powers of deity, his emanations; and ihuh-alhim is the absolute existence, or essence of these powers and forces, of which they are active manifestations and emanations. this was the profound truth hidden in the ancient allegory and covered from the general view with a double veil. this was the esoteric meaning of the generation and production of the indian, chaldean, and ph nician cosmogonies; and the active and passive powers, of the male and female principles; of heaven and its luminaries generating, and the earth producing; all hiding from vulgar view, as above its comprehension, the doctrine that matter is not eternal, but that god was the only original existence, the absolute

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

n nuit and us human beings, insofar as we are incarnated stars, is in the sahashara cakkram. see liber v. 14. above, the gemmed azure is the naked splendour of nuit; she bends in ecstasy to kiss the secret ardours of hadit. the winged globe, the starry blue, are mine, 0 ankh-af-na-khonsu! exoterically, this is a straightforward description of the relative positions of nuit and hadit in the stele. the esoteric meaning had better remain secret. 15. now ye shall know that the chosen priest& apostle of infinite space is the prince-priest the beast; and in his woman called the scarlet woman is all power given. they shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men. the authority of the beast rests upon this verse; but it is to be taken in c

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

at evolved from judaism. one tradition surrounding the cabala is that magic spells and rituals based upon its system possesses an extremely potent effect over all forms of matter. chapter 5 tells you exactly how to use the magical power of the cabala to increase your money supply. secrets of the spirit world is there a place of coming together between the living and the dead? an essential part of the esoteric arts is communicating with the spirit world. this is something that occultists have been doing since the beginning of time, and now you can join their ranks. the secret of contacting the spirit world is disclosed in chapter 6. there you ll see how you can make a powerful occult tool in minutes, and use it to make direct contact with the invisible inhabitants of the next dimension to g

nk you letter #6 a magical threesome thank you letter #7 magical aphrodisiacs the black candle of love thank you letter #8 sex magic for couples 5: ancient secrets of the cabala the tree of life the power of the spheres the sacred names of power the middle pillar circulation ritual using the middle pillar ritual to obtain money the ultimate protection the cabalistic cross the flaming pentagram 6: the esoteric arts secrets of the spirit world secret of the golden light how to recognize signs and omens how one man used visions to receive $300 how to make a spirit communication device between the living and the dead getting answers from your pendulum how to ensure the spirit force will not lead you astray advanced pendulum work a secret code of communication your psychic legacy from the past

french officer, seeing that his protector possesses a talisman that confers immediate proficiency in all tongues, is instructed in the powers and wonders of twenty-two talismanic figures and magical rings, as well as in the secret of the manufacture of the black pullet. after these instructions, and in spite of many prayers, the old man of the pyramids expires upon a sofa, while his apprentice in the esoteric arts swoons at the feet of his mentor. in due course, accompanied by the familiar spirits that have been transferred to his service, laden with treasures, and with the ashes of the sage in a costly urn, the french officer returns to his native country. he makes his abode in provence, spending his days in experiments with the black pullet. such is the legend of the black pullet, a hand

rams. behind me shines the sixrayed star. repeat the cabalistic cross. this completes the ritual, which is still secretly practiced today as an opening ceremony in many occult lodges. after you have practiced this a few times, and found the swing of it, you will find it equally effective if you merely imagine you are making the gestures, while you say the words and names of power aloud. chapter 6 the esoteric arts< can you look far into the future and know what lies ahead? yes! says the esoteric arts. divining the future is something that occultists have done since the beginning of time, and is an essential part of the esoteric arts. in the pages of this powerful chapter, you ll find traditional ways to look ahead in time and get an idea of what is going to happen by means of signs and ome

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

ld not forget that under the norman monarchs and for three centuries following william the conqueror's victory at hastings in 1066, the official language of england was french. the oldest statutes of english workers to have come down to us (from 1351 and 1356) were still written in french. throughout the middle ages on into the renaissance, french was also the international language of crafts and the esoteric language that craftsmen used. thus it is in france where we actually must look to find the origin of this term.1 in the middle ages the word franc served not only to qualify what was free in opposition to that which was servile and what bore the mark of purity and high quality, but it also and more specifically designated every individual or property that was exempt from manorial serv

sty, image of the king and no other, who personally embodies grandeur and the perennial. this is a completely different world. based on this shift, it seems incontestable that a ritual continuing to express traditional values in a thirteenth-century christian form, especially occurring as it did among craftsmen, could be nothing less than a teaching that had been passed down from an earlier time. the esoteric character of the operative ritual can be boiled down to the general symbolism of the building of solomon's temple, which was one of the most popular myths of the middle ages. this popularity reveals an interpretation of the story that reaches far beyond the tale of the magnificent temple, which david began and solomon completed in order to provide a dignified place to worship the eter

ng assertions concerning efforts made by the stuarts and the jesuits through freemasonry. all of this, however, held only an episodic place in the history of the high masonic grades. what is primary and indubitable in the propagation of these grades and the constitution of the systems they embodied is their ritual and symbolic contents, which made them the vehicles of choice for mysticism and all the esoteric and hermetic doctrines that were popular during the eighteenth century. this is clearly where the new focus of the tradition occurred and the question that arises is how this harmonized with the sources of craft freemasonry. the grand lodges and modern freemasonry 261 the pope and the condemnation of freemasonry the pope was never alarmed by craft freemasonry. quite the contrary; the

PIKE CUMMINGS THE SPURIOUS RITES OF MEMPHIS AND MISRAIM

t is in masonic affiliation.any mason under the jurisdiction of this grand lodge who shall hereafter take or receive, confer or be present at, or assist in the conferring of any degree, grade or order, in or under the authority of any organization or body claiming to be masonic, or which uses or employs in its ceremonies, either directly or indirectly, or by reference to or otherwise, any part of the esoteric work, signs or symbols of the three degrees of ancient craft masonry, and which is not declared to be recognized as such masonic organization or body by this grand lodge, is guilty of a masonic offence. the section following the above lists the same bodies as previously referred to as duly recognized. one of the most sweeping edicts against the rite of memphis is that adopted by the g

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

h, of course, feelings and emotional reactions cannot be legislated per se, the point is that there is a progression of stages in mourning, and jewish practice is designed to help the mourner along these stages and encourage him to progress from stage to stage, thus making the mourning process into a transformational, spiritual growth process [as to why specifically the letter chaf is diminished] the esoteric reason is because she [sarah] was from the lower world, which is alluded to by a small chaf. in contrast, the final chaf always alludes to ima, for she extends into z feir anpin, while the regular chaf refers to [the partzuf of] rachel. as we said above, sarah in her essence personifies ima, but in this world she also plays the role of nukva, i.e, malchut. relative to each other, thes

into the lower realms, below atzilut, as completely as ima does into z feir anpin, this would allow the forces of separateness and evil that begin to exist at these levels too much opportunity to derive life force( gsuck h) from this revelation. nowadays, during the exile, when she is.due to our sins.below, the departure of the righteous from this world causes their souls to elevate her. this is the esoteric meaning of the verse, gand he gathered his feet into the bed. h3 the condition of exile is that malchut is gcaught h in the lower worlds and prevented from returning home into atzilut to couple with her husband, z feir anpin. spiritually this means that our means of expression (thought, speech, and action) exist unnaturally within non-holy contexts, and are deprived of the true holy i

st thousand, and then the proper number of girls or animals was separated accordingly. in contrast, every fiftieth girl or animal was separated from the half-share of the civilians as it was being counted. this difference accounts for the difference of expressions used in the commandments regarding the two halfshares. still, we have only answered questions 1, 2, and 5 of the five above questions. the esoteric explanation of the above, however, is the same as the mystical explanation of our sages f statement that g[walking with] wide steps diminishes a man fs eyesight by one five-hundredth. h4 this statement of our sages can be understood based on what is written in the zohar5 regarding how [malchut] extends her step outward. as we have explained on this passage,6 this refers to when nukva

corruption in g-d fs ways before saying that he is ga steadfast gd, h since the former is the negation of evil while the latter is the affirmation of perfection. why, then, are these ideas mentioned in the opposite order? the answer to all this is as follows: the torah possesses both an exoteric and esoteric dimension; these are called peshat[ gsimple meaning h] and sod[ gsecret h, respectively. the esoteric dimension is not appropriate for all people, but only for those who are like angels. the exoteric dimension, in contrast, is appropriate for all people. from the giving of the torah at mt. sinai on, the esoteric meaning of the torah was always reserved for the select elite that were spiritually refined enough to appreciate it and not to interpret it mistakenly. it is only in recent hi

its teachings have become increasingly available to the general public. referring to this esoteric dimension of the torah, the angels said, when the holy one, blessed be he, wanted to give the torah to israel: ghow much might there is in your name! h gyour name h is the torah, which is all names of the holy one, blessed be he.3 [the angels felt that the torah, which they perceived as being] only the esoteric dimension [should not] be given on earth [i.e, to mankind. this is the meaning of the verse: gg-d our lord, how mighty is your name in all the earth, for you have given your glory over the heavens. h4 they did not know that since the exoteric dimension of the torah is not relevant to them. since they are immortal.it was given to mankind. the phrase gfor you have given your glory over

-d told moses to respond to this argument, which he did by pointing out how the simple meaning of the torah refers to all sorts of situations that are irrelevant to angels. this, then, is the mystical meaning of ggive ear, o heavens. h the gheavens h are the holy and righteous people, who although they live on earth are similar to the angels who dwell in heaven. to them it is said, ggive ear h to the esoteric dimension of the torah, since this aspect of the torah, as it were, is not said out loud [so that all may hear] but rather whispered into the hearer fs ear. this is why the expression ggive ear h is used; the esoteric dimension of the torah was communicated only to the righteous, since it is difficult to grasp. this is also why[.in reference to the esoteric dimension of the torah] the

the 3 ramban, introduction to commentary on the torah; yonat elim 29; shnei luchot habrit, yitro. 4 psalms 8:2. 5 shabbat 88b. the arizal on parashat haazinu 823 verse, gthe man spoke to us harshly. h6 in contrast, the verb gto talk h or gto say h [refers to softer speech, used, for example] when one speaks to women. in our case, it is used [even] for the common men who, like women [did not learn the esoteric aspect of the torah. this distinction between the verb gto speak h (root: dalet-beit-reish) and the verb gto say h or gto talk h (root: alef-mem-reish) is common in the talmud and midrash. it is based in part on the verse preceding the account of the giving of the torah at mt. sinai: gthus shall you say to the house of jacob, and declare to the house of israel. h7 tradition understand

es, respectively, as we have explained previously. the verb gdeclare h used in this verse (tageid) is phonetically similar to the word for gtendon h (gid, prompting the comment of our sages: to the men moses was bidden to communicate the harsher aspects of the torah. the arizal now reinterprets this understanding of this verse to refer to the exoteric and esoteric dimensions of the torah. this is the esoteric meaning of the verse: gthus shall you say h.this refers to the exoteric dimension of the torah, which is easy to understand. gto the house of jacob h.referring to the common people; gand declare h.this refers to the esoteric dimension of the torah, which is ehard as tendons f to understand for enot every mind can bear it f9 and enot all who wish to take upon himself the mantle may do

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

ht, such admission is granted, not on demand, but at the discretion of the greatly honoured chiefs of the second order. moreover, an interval of nine months must elapse before the portal is again opened to you. nine is the number of luna in yesod, nine lunar months are the period of gestation before birth; five is the number of the pentagram of the the golden dawn: volume 11 book three microcosm, the esoteric luna number- the number of the spirit and the four elements- of the soul entering the body. nine multiplied by five yields 45, the number of yesod, and the supreme number of the square of saturn, as the triad expanded into matter. closing ch. ad (knocks) very honoured fratres and sorores, assist me to close the portal of the vault of the adepti. all rise. honoured hiereus see that the

y of the tattwa tides or currents, will find that this document throws much light on s.a.'s key plan of sephiroth e ccliptrc circle 04 tiphcreth wiih northern 4 point. hamisphere southern hemisphere acf5. s.a.'s key plan of the paths nort aern herntsphere southern hemisphere 605 <235> s.a.'s kfx plan of the tarot northern hemisphere star rqulus southern hemisphere 606 tree of life in a sphere 607 the esoteric system of astrological divination.-i.r) in the book "t" it is written''also the dragon (i.e. draco, the constellation at the northern pole of the heavens) surroundeth the pole kether of the celestial heavens."it is further laid down that the four aces (symbolised by the princesses and amazons, rule the celestial heavens from the northern pole of the zodiac unto the 45th degree of lati

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

yet he steers very close to vulnerability to such charges at times, not because he is truly supporting paganism, but because his argument leads always towards religious tolerance and a theosophical or perennial spiritual viewpoint. nothing is more hateful to the extremist than tolerance and compassion. we find more than an echo of this situation in modern attacks by religious fundamentalists upon the esoteric occult and new age movements, which seek, as did kirk, to find a unity out of diversity, rather than to perpetuate a hostile and divisive enforced religion. there are times, of course, when we might wish that our modern esoteric revivalists could demonstrate even a fraction of kirk's clarity of thought and strength of spiritual conviction and discipline. introduction 12 fundamental co

he material described by kirk and primal magical arts still practiced in ethnic groups or isolated communities today. to deal with this important area of study adequately, we would need to add an anthropologist to our group of experts, so in introduction 15 the present book these connections are touched upon not as examples of anthropological material, but only in the senses where they merge with the esoteric or perennial wisdomtraditions expressed in so many different forms through the centuries. in other words, the gaelic seers had initiatory techniques sometimes similar to those of the siberian shamans, though there is no suggestion that one derives in any way from the other. they rise from properties and qualities of human consciousness, particularly in relationship to the environment

ience and from that reported by others of good character. it is interesting to note that many of his examples involve displacement of an event in time, very simple matters of seeing something a year or a few days or even an hour before it occurs. these visions are of a slightly different emphasis than the fairy traditions reported by kirk, who seems more concerned with the subterranean dimension, the esoteric philosophy, and the possibilities of physical transportation and translation or conception between fairy and human. tarbett's account is, as stated in the title, succinct, dwelling upon practical matters. he then conjectures the reasons for the sight, and provides us with a valuable piece of information, which kirk takes up, disputes, and amplifies in his response. page 44. several [w

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he principle antagonist of the truth during the first four centuries of our period" such is the statement of one who looks at it from the point of view of a christian ecclesiastic, and indeed the church fathers from the time of justin martyr onward have declared that the devil, in the mysteries of mithras, had plagiarized their most sacred rites by anticipation. the mithriac mysteries represented the esoteric side of a great international religious movement, which the uniting together of many peoples into the graeco-roman world had made possible, and which resulted from the contact of greece and rome with the thought of the east. 6. the mystic diagrams it is very probable, therefore, that in these diagrams squares may represent treasures or the substance-side, while circles may represent g

any ideology, beyond any given cultural environment, beyond any specific time-period or geographic locus) is indispensable to the magician. no magical order can be sustained for long without it, and this is why most orders have been short-lived. an intriguing exception to the rule is the original priesthood of set, the most ancient godentity of egypt. ancient egyptian politics was an extension of the esoteric principles of its priesthoods into mundane affairs. and though the setian priesthood was exterminated by osirian persecution during the xxv dynasty, egypt was a viable nation (indeed, the first true nation, as opposed to city-state) for three thousand years. a test of adept knowledge introduction towards the end of his tenure as high priest, magus ronald k. barrett decided that the te

e rite is concluded. the blue feather goes with the envelope. while allowing a few minutes for the ashes to cool, personal work can be done. the guardian of the gate closes it using his left hand. the black flame is extinguished. the bell is rung. celebrant: gso it is done h footnotes 1. scorpion goddess, associated with water 2. isis as the dark mystery sirius, the origin of mankind representing the esoteric earth 3. earth 4. lion goddess, wisdom in action, fire 5. goddess of all darkness, associated with air pure science transfinitudes in "the kaliyuga pylon study guide" there is a question about aleph-nought. recently an adept asked me to explain this idea and its relevance to setian philosophy. to many sorcerers and witches of the l.h.p, the mathematical sciences appear dry and difficu

e a secret glory for them that love me. see #i-24; 5+6=11. see also the comment concerning #i-20. the five-pointed star is the pentagram of set, and a red circle is the egyptian symbol for the sun. this fragment is inconclusive, but it might suggest the encircled sigil of baphomet [used during the age of satan] with its solar connotations of virility. a glimpse of things to come. to non-initiates the esoteric nature of the book of the law might seem "black (i.e: satanic, but in fact it is "blue& gold (a "god"-oriented initiatory system of magical philosophy. for the "secret glory" see again #i-30. 61. but to love me is better than all things: if under the night-stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the serpent flame therein, t

t him.the opener of the way "the left hand of anubis19 is grasping the right hand of anubis" or, the initiate, in his work, utilizes the function of anubis.which means the latter is functioning to bring about others who can increase the functioning of the temple. there are distinct messages in the stele showing both forms of anubis. on a somewhat superficial level, one must see the mundane before the esoteric can be appreciated. the black jackal is not the common jackal of egypt. canis lupister could be considered as a symbol of finite man, going about life obeying the impulses generated by nature; the black jackal, on the other hand, symbolizes that which moves not in accord with nature but against its laws [common jackals] prefer carrion (which is a clue to the principle of anubis" now

which one inevitably encounters in life, such as health, security, fame, amusement, etc. according to ouspensky, people are in normal circumstances under two kinds of influences. influences (a) are in line with the mentioned man nro 1-3 example, i.e: of mechanical origin, while influences (b) are of conscious origin, though their present manifestation may not be conscious (that is, they come from the esoteric schools of all ages, from the "inner circle of humanity. influences (b) reach man f.e: in the forms of literature and philosophy. if a person tunes into influences (b, a strong and right kind of "magnetic centre" may be formed (a group of interests which begin to help him as a controlling, guiding, and mirroring focus in his awakening. gradually he may begin to evaluate himself a bit

SATANGEL

essive, and that alchemy was in some way primitive, or that modern astronomy is an improvement upon the astrology of the ancients. yet this is not really so; the ancient egyptians possessed knowledge of chemistry that is only now being verified by modern science. their astrologers were aware of the dog star sirius before modern astronomers were. the difference is that these schools also possessed the esoteric wisdom, of which modern science recognises only the outer forms. so it is with the hermeticists, who were well aware of much that we now call psychology, yet also recognised that the human mind is not the limited faculty that modern man supposes. the cracking of this code, through the performance of rituals of incantation, might be self hypnotic psychodrama or actual gateways through

SATANIC BIBLE

name- satanism? certainly it would be far less hypocritical. in recent years there has been an attempt to humanize the spiritual concept of christianity. this has manifested itself in the most obvious non-spiritual means. masses which had been said in latin are now said in native languages- which only succeeds in making the nonsense easier to understand, and at the same time robs the ceremony of the esoteric nature which is consistent with the tenets of the dogma. it is much simpler to obtain an emotional reaction using words and phrases that cannot be understood than it is with statements which even the simplest mind will question when hearing them in an understandable language. if priests and ministers were to have used the devices to fill their churches one hundred years ago that they

SATANISM AN EXAMINATION OF SATANIC BLACK MAGIC

viduals will using psychical or occult forces. the second spelling of magic adds a 'k' to the end of the word, thus 'magick' this spelling dates back to the writings of aleister crowley's system of magick- itself satanism- an examination of satanic black magic side 1 af 21 file//c:\windows\skrivebord\nyt%20til%20bibilotek\ona\various\satanism_an_examin. 20-04-03 a collection of sacred-magick.com< the esoteric library based upon older qabalistic and eastern magical traditions. crowley added the letter 'k' in order to differentiate between his own brand of sex magick and other non-sexual forms of magic. in this essay i have however used both forms of the word, in relation to how the relevant satanic group spells the word. initiation during the 13th century a secret religious society known as

turn when it was linked to the medieval witches sabbath. accordingly the inclusion of a horned figure who presided over the ceremony and who came to be associated with the hebraic scape-goat came to be one of the satanism- an examination of satanic black magic side 3 af 21 file//c:\windows\skrivebord\nyt%20til%20bibilotek\ona\various\satanism_an_examin. 20-04-03 a collection of sacred-magick.com< the esoteric library central aspects of the black mass. the orgy was also then included, something that was most likely derived from the rites of the bacchanalia or dionysiac cults of ancient rome and greece, of which shall be spoken presently. in his book the black arts (pan books ltd. 1967, richard cavendish outlines the proceedings of the witches sabbath. commencing with the witches paying homa

f constraining opposites'(11) yet probably the best example to show the blasphemous nature of the mass of heresy is that in some countries individuals who perform it may be liable to prosecution and imprisonment. satanism- an examination of satanic black magic side 5 af 21 file//c:\windows\skrivebord\nyt%20til%20bibilotek\ona\various\satanism_an_examin. 20-04-03 a collection of sacred-magick.com< the esoteric library ritualised sexual magic 'if sex magick is the most popular subject within occultism this merely proves that it is also the most misunderstood'(12) this introduction to the subject of ritualised sexual magic by the society of dark lily, indicates how some satanists view sex. this view is also true of the order of nine angles, who place sexual magic in a rational position amongs

riends of hekate and associated individuals have used this form of symbolism in their magical activities where they have utilised the apocryphal imagery of the christian bible in an attempt to construct a magical satanism- an examination of satanic black magic side 7 af 21 file//c:\windows\skrivebord\nyt%20til%20bibilotek\ona\various\satanism_an_examin. 20-04-03 a collection of sacred-magick.com< the esoteric library version of the antichrist. a second interpretation of the abyss comes from the order of nine angles who suggest the abyss to be located where the world of causality meets with the world of a-causality. whilst the former is understood primarily as rational and physical, the latter is understood to be irrational, non-physical and magickal. this understanding of the abyss as a ga

more commonly known by it's initial's o.t.o, has written a trilogy of books on the subject of using such dark energies. this has been formulated into the 'typhonian current' a system of magic that works with the dark side of the cabalistic tree of life. although some groups such as the order of nine angles oppose a cabalistic interpretation of satanic magic, the o.t.o. uses what is described as 'the esoteric doctrines of the 'black' magick of the left hand path'(21) opposition to left hand path cabalism is largely due to an aeonic approach to magic in general which views the judeo-christian esoteric and mystical traditions as being a distortion upon the pagan ethos which lacked any absolute duality. this is indicated by the dual nature of the pagan gods, satanism- an examination of satani

aditions.(23) together with a unification with the natural order, is the acquisition of wisdom that is found not only in satanic and left hand path traditions but also in those of the right hand path. here wisdom satanism- an examination of satanic black magic side 9 af 21 file//c:\windows\skrivebord\nyt%20til%20bibilotek\ona\various\satanism_an_examin. 20-04-03 a collection of sacred-magick.com< the esoteric library refers to an understanding of the cosmos in essence, as it is. from a jungian perspective it implies a withdrawal of not only one's own projections but also of all the projections from all other people onto the universe. everything is therefore understood according to its inner nature rather than its exterior form. this is referred to as 'acausal perception' by the order of ni

sychical energy that can be directed in accordance with specific goals, or, alternatively stored in a crystal for later use. the second use of human sacrifice is that it 'draws down dark forces or 'entities'(32) satanism- an examination of satanic black magic side 11 af 21 file//c:\windows\skrivebord\nyt%20til%20bibilotek\ona\various\satanism_an_examin. 20-04-03 a collection of sacred-magick.com< the esoteric library one other aspect of the order of nine angles methods of sacrifice is that the victim is traditionally beheaded. this tradition stems back to the ancient head cults of europe, a tradition that was still in existence in great britain up until at least the 17th century, when a scottish clan leader beheaded seven treacherous member of the madonnell clan and ceremonially washed the

14. society of dark lily 'sex and the occult' in dark lily 10 (dark lily: london. 1990, p. 16. 15. revelations 9:1-3. 16. society of dark lily 'crossing the abyss' in dark lily 4 (dark lily: london, 1988, p. 17. satanism- an examination of satanic black magic side 13 af 21 file//c:\windows\skrivebord\nyt%20til%20bibilotek\ona\various\satanism_an_examin. 20-04-03 a collection of sacred-magick.com< the esoteric library 17. ibid, p. 18. 18. cavendish. richard. the black arts (pan books ltd: london, 1967, p. 296. 19. lamm, asim mathep, the qliphoth (mathep lamm. 1991. 20. cavendish, richard. the black arts (pan books ltd: london, 1967, p. 296. 21. grant, k. nightside of eden (skoob books publishing: london. 1994, dustjacket 22. order of nine angles 'the abyss' in hostia volume i (thormynd pres

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flutes, or to the sound of a watermill, or even while just enjoying nature with his friends and followers. he often chanted his verses while sufi islam sufism is often referred to as a sect, or subgroup, of islam. this is only partially true. sufism is less a sect than a way of approaching islam. members of the two main branches of islam, the sunnis and the shi ites, can also be sufis. sufism is the esoteric division of islam, meaning that its members believe in mystical knowledge held by a small, restricted circle of people. sufis can be recognized by their characteristic long robes and the wound turbans on their heads. sufism emerged during islam s early years in the seventh and eighth centuries, when the religion was expanding and wealth was flowing into the islamic empire throughout t

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on, 1893, p. 63. 178:2 for iaoouei we should probably read iao ouei. 178:3 british museum, gnostic gem, no. g. 33. 178:4 kenyon, greek papyri, p. 123. 178:5 ibid, p. 123. these names read michael, raphael, gabriel, souriel, zaziel, badakiel, and suliel. 179:1 kenyon, op. cit, p. 121. 180:1 he of alexandria, who lived about a.d. 120. he was a disciple of menander, and declared that he had received the esoteric doctrine of saint peter from glaucias, a disciple of the apostle. p. 182 chapter vi. magical ceremonies. in the preceding pages we have seen how the egyptians employed magical stones or amulets, and magical words, and magical pictures, and magical names, in the performance of deeds both good and evil; it remains to consider these magical ceremonies in which the skill of the magician-p

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hristianity as mystical fact who were initiated could know something of the goal of the mysteries. from now on there could be witnesses to the secrets of a higher reality among those who have not seen, and yet have believed. chapter 8 the apocalypse of john the seven letters at the end of the new testament stands an extraordinary document. it is the apocalypse the secret revelation of saint john. the esoteric character of the work is apparent from the opening words: the revelation of jesus the christ, which god granted him in order to show to his servants how the necessary events will shortly run their course. this is communicated in signs sent by god s angel to his servant john.123 the revelation is imparted in signs; we must not therefore interpret the text literally, but look for a deep

riosophy and not of ordinary historical traditions. the essence of christianity 149 some of them appealed to the neoplatonic philosophy, which also had its roots in the mysteries. the gnostics were confident that the wisdom of man could give birth to a christ by whom the historical figure could be measured in the light of which alone the historical figure could be given his rightful significance. the esoteric tradition a special interest attaches to the teachings that we find in the books attributed to dionysus the areopagite.167 it is admittedly the case that these books are never mentioned prior to the sixth century a.d, but the place and date of their composition is not the relevant question here. what interests us is that they present christianity, through the medium of ideas of neopla

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illment of selfinterest and will apart from god and his will. that is why this brotherhood of evildoers are rebels, opposers of good, colluders with any and all forms of apostasy. the propensity of the illuminati to engage in rebellion, against god, country, and even organized civilization itself is evidenced in the inner meaning of their centuries old rallying cry "liberty, equality, fraternity" the esoteric meaning of which is liberty from the dictates of god, equality of all men only in death, and the unity of evildoers. truly, the man who has taken vulgar and bloody oaths to defend the order and has vowed to protect its secrets against onslaught by would be interlopers and intruders is not above killing those who oppose his ambitious personal goals or who stand in the way of the attain

ag private clubs, june 2004, read mostly by wealthy members of elite country clubs. trump is shown three times, once on the cover and twice inside, in cabalistic poses. analysis: at center, above, trump's necktie and hands create a sexual "diamond in the lotus" position, with three triangles. the magazine cover photo at left includes the mirror factor, the message being that there are two trumps, the esoteric, private "illuminati trump" and the outgoing and extroverted "public trump" finally, at top, right, we also are shown a serious donald sitting and giving the required cabalistic triangle sign with both the fingers and thumbs of both hands touching. this is a common sign of recognition among illuminati. 418 codex magica twenty-one magical signs of the jewish cabala the six-pointed star

of the circle, particularly that of the point within the circle, is a prominent feature of masonic theology. the point within the circle according to mackey's masonic encyclopedia the hidden, true meaning of this symbol, the point inside the circle, is far different than what the everyday masonic brother is told. in reality, its meaning is yet another proof that masonry is a sex cult. mackey says the esoteric explanation is that the point within the circle is the male phallus, or penis, and the circle is the female yoni, or vagina. here, says mackey, is a "symbol of fecundity, expressed by the male generative principle."4 but, mackey emphasizes, the sun is still not forgotten in masonry, for while the 462 codex magica importance to the illuminati masons and yet is so little recognized as s

ston in 1789, this banner was carried by a group during a procession in honor of his visit. the "v" is the focal point of the emblem, but the three goat heads contained within the eggshaped device and the bearded goat head atop it are also significant in occult teaching. victory for the devil 525 526 codex magica victory for the devil 527 the occultist who drew the design at right well understood the esoteric meaning behind the symbols. first, we see the "v" sign which, in shadow, becomes the gnarled and ugly, dark image of satan. what appears at first to be good (benediction, when seen from the hidden perspective of the unseen becomes malediction. the diamond and circle at top indicate the same principle, that black equals, or shadows, white, and white mirrors black. this is the hegelian

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leusis was undertaken to ensure initiates a happy immortality. m delving deeper ferm, vergilious, ed. ancient religions. new york: philosophical library, 1950. gaster, dr. theodor h, ed. the new golden bough. new york: criterion books, 1959. larousse dictionary of beliefs and religions. new york: larousse, 1994. hermetic mysteries the hermes trismegistus (the thrice greatest hermes, who set forth the esoteric doctrines of the ancient egyptian priesthood, recognized the reincarnation of impious souls and the achievement of pious souls when they know god and become all intelligence. hermes was the name the greeks gave to the egyptian god thoth, the god of wisdom, learning, and literature. to hermes was given the title scribe of the gods, and he is said to have authored 42 sacred books, the h

life. the deaths of young children were less tragic, since they were being punished for previous sins and would be reborn in a new life. proselytes to judaism were jewish souls which had been incarnated in gentile bodies [transmigration] also allowed for the gradual perfection of the individual souls through different lives. the zohar (hebrew for splendor, the main work of the kabbalah, describes the esoteric reality that lies behind everyday experience, and insists that the real meaning of the torah lies in its mystical secrets. although tradition declares rabbi simeon ben jochai (c. 80 c.e) as its author, later scholarship acknowledges the contribution of rabbi moses de leon (1240 1305) and other hebrew scholars in the thirteenth century. the zohar states that since the human soul is roo

m wore a black turtleneck sweater and coat. the satanic high priest stole the show, however, in a black cape lined with scarlet silk and a closefitting blood-red hood from which two white horns protruded. the cynical might point out that lavey s san francisco-based church headquarters was once a brothel; the purists among the satanists might grumble about how lavey s showbiz approach has demeaned the esoteric allure of their secret rituals; but it is difficult to be dogmatic about the precise rites and liturgies of the black mass. most authorities agree that the early sabbats were held well away from the cities and villages on large areas of flat ground. many covens preferred hilly ground, even mountain- 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

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im to build a house where he could live peacefully and well. to share the power of the legendary stone of transmutation with the unwise, the worldly, and the greedy would be disastrous. quietly, rosencreutz accepted only a handful of carefully evaluated students to whom he imparted the knowledge that he had acquired in ancient egypt and the connection that he had made with the mystery schools and the esoteric teachings of great masters. he was particularly enthusiastic about telling his students about pharaoh amenhotep and the monotheistic view of one god. at first there were only three disciples in attendance; then later, eight brothers, including rosencreutz himself, swore to uphold the following precepts: 1. they would not profess any creed but the goal of healing the sick without rewar

f the middle ages, was powerful and all pervasive, and the text remained a source of strength and inspiration to seekers of enlightenment for many centuries. as the influence of the christian church grew stronger throughout all of europe, the kabbalah and those who taught its mysteries retreated into the shadows of universities and libraries; and for many scholars, the text was regarded as one of the esoteric and sometimes forbidden hidden works of ancient wisdom. in the twentieth century, carl g. jung (1875.1961) introduced the kabbalah to the psychotherapeutic community and spoke highly of its value in achieving a sense of wholeness with the universe. study of the kabbalah underwent a dramatic rebirth of interest in the 1960s when there was both a resurgence of jewish spirituality and an

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viously been considered immutable laws which are in effect merely habits of nature. it is this very principle that has helped examine, and at the same time, confound the "greenhouse effect" and global warming. the magician must remain open to possibilities and opportunities that those blinded by expectation cannot see, and this is depicted by the "fool" of the tarot deck, who should be considered the esoteric emblem of the new physics. another extension of the lattice idea is that of the link between macrocosm and microcosm, the "greater" world and the "lesser" world. it can be seen that if the whole universe is modelled as a latticework of reflective spheres, each point in the universe reflects everything else. thus, if a change occurs within one sphere, the whole is equally changed, and

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ther vocalized as "elohirn) while this the middle pillar exercise 83 argument may be true for devout jews, it is not valid for practicing magicians in the tradition of the golden dawn. there are several examples of hebrew mystics vocalizing the various permutations of the tetragrammaton for specific ritual work with the sephroth. this points to the differences between orthodox jewish practice and the esoteric practice of western hermetic magicians. 8. for the same reason indicated in the above endnote, the divine name here should be pronounced "yod heh vav heh el-oh-ah ve-dah-ath" 9. the "ch in chai should be pronounced like the scottish word "loch" 10. another common suggestion is to vibrate the name several times until it fills the mind completely, and no other thoughts remain. one other

burah, on the deity's right shoulder, is reflected to our right shoulder. this is because the magician seeks to bring the image of god inside the aura. tlvs is a greatly simplified version of a magical operation known as the assumption of godforms, and it points out figure 10: adam kadmon, the "reversed tree" the pentagram 183 the difference between the exoteric beliefs of mainstream religion and the esoteric practices of ceremonial magicians (see figure 11, p. 184) commenting on the qabalistic cross in h s book transcendental magic, eliphas levi, the man most responsible for the occult revival of the nineteenth century, wrote that "this sign, made after ths manner, should precede and terminate the conjuration of the four."8 the conjuration of the four refers to the four elements of fire

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

rmen saeculare. tannhauser. berashith. ahab. the god-eater. alice. the sword of song. the star and the garter. the argonauts. goetia. why jesus wept. oracles. orpheus. rosa mundi. gargoyles. collected works, vols. i, ii, and iii. by which, if they have eyes to perceive, they will become sacramental and holy, through the fire-baptism of a new birth, and will hold the key of all mysteries locked in the esoteric sign of the sabbatic goat, the baphomet of mendes, the signatures of solve and coagula. gthe everlasting yea and nay. h a.m.e.n. my faults are more numerous than i care to think of; yet it is without fear or trepidation that i offer this essay to the public. it has been a difficult task. in simple words and complex symbols crowley has written with st. leo. gknow, o man, thy dignity; h

me, i am no more *orpheus, vol. iii, p. 213. and nor shall the mind revoke at ease these myriad cressets from the sun; constrained in sober destinies thought fs river shall its ripples run into the one, the one, the one, the one *gargoyles, vol. iii, p. 97. i may here point out that not only in their sapphic brilliance, but also in their mirrored mysticism, so many of crowley fs poems are akin to the esoteric teaching of the sufi poets of persia, such as jelaladdin and jami. a very beautiful parable of jelaladdin runs as follows: one knocked at the beloved fs door; and a voice asked from within, gwho is there? h and he answered, git is i. h then the voice said, gthis house will not hold me and thee. h and the door was not opened. then went the lover into the desert, and fasted and prayed i

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seal on the breast of nature also expresses the thought that knowledge comes from god and is as limitless as its source. the veil falling over the face announces that nature reveals her truths only to the pure in heart, and hides them from the curious and profane. the book half hidden under the mantle signifies that but half of the truth can be discerned by the physical senses, the exoteric side. the esoteric, or other half, must be apprehended through the application of the psychic senses. reason, divorced from intuition, can discern only in the realm of effects; but re-wed to intuition, can remove the obscuring mantle from nature's most secret page and pursue her mysteries at leisure. these mysteries are revealed only in solitude, to the sage who meditates in silence in the full and calm

THOUGHTS ON SETH

he confused present (by slaying apep) is done for the sake of a self-determined future. one of set's cult titles, set- heh, means god of unending futurity" not all of don's musings may apply to us directly, but he gives some "talking points" on what the godforms of set and osirus mean to our work. seth also symbolizes even such realms as chaos mathematics and information theory, and indeed any of the esoteric sciences especially the dangerous ones, like nuclear physics. seth does represent darkness of course, but seth is also aiwass/prometheus, the "spark" in the darkness, the "black flame" of intelligence and will. this is indicated by the white triangle on the black ground that is the badge of the heirus. seth gives the grips and words to the aspirant, the symbolic secrets of the gods. s

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and must make the fool his or her model in order to delve deeply into the patterns and shades of life. it is a saying of the east: only still water reflects a true image. only the fool per- fectly understands what each card means, because he knows nothing. none of the many modern tarots that have been devised in the last few hun- dred years are of more than passing value to the serious student of the esoteric. all are derived from the tarot of marseilles, the oldest and most perfect of the tarots. although older individual decks of other styles exist, the marseilles tarot is the one from which magic draws its inspiration. its history is certainly more ancient than the examples of it that have survived in museums and private collections. the magus should always refer to the marseilles deck

d to malkuth. this completes the 22 paths, or channels, on the tree of the sephiroth. only the 25th and 26th paths depart from this very clear pattern of projection from higher to lower, first to the right side and then to the left in the case of sephi- roth on the middle pillar of the tree. this seems more than enough reason to- question the placement of these two paths. occultists familiar with the esoteric correspondences to these paths will defend them on the grounds that their occult correspondences are meaningful, but these correspondences were applied after the paths were numbered, no; before, and rationalizations were later developed to justify and explain them. some of the explanations defending particular sets of correspondences on the tree are strained, to put it mildly. that th

the method of forming telesmatic images can easily be applied to existing spirits, who are usually so poorly described in the literature that calling them forth necessitates creating their images in the mind. starting with what is known about the nature of a given spirit, a shape can be built up and a magical esoteric name extracted from that form. then a sigil can be constructed that is based on the esoteric name. after the form of a spirit has been conceived, it must still be brought to life. until its birth it is like the conception of a work of art: it has no tangible reality. spirits are made real through the rituals of invocation and evocation, already given. as a separate act, the magus may wish to symbolically infuse vitality into the telesmatic image, but this is not required. the

must be discarded, and a more acceptable form sought. neither of the above ways of deriving sigils is completely satisfactory. the intuitive method is too dependent on whim, while the sigil wheel is overly rigid. a compromise that will be both effective and practical is needed between freedom and formalism. here is a method of deriving sigils that combines the intuitive and mechanical techniques. the esoteric name of a spirit is first turned into a sigil by applying it to the sigil wheel. this part of the process is mechanical. the magus then studies the rough sigil with his or her intuition, seeking those aspects that must be changed or elim- inated. the changes must never be arbitrary, but they can be achieved by a variety of devices. the magus can alter the words in the descriptive phra

quite possibly from the structure of the human hand. for this reason the ten sephiroth and twenty-two paths on the tree can be related to the fingers in such a way that a complete system of magic can be formed based on the movements and positions of the hands alone. this is not a novel idea. hand mudras have always played an important part in eastern religions. the buddhist priests tend to guard the esoteric meaning of their intricate hand positions jealously, and it is questionable if the true meaning of the buddhist finger magic has ever been revealed, although books have been written on the fortunately the westerner need not depend on the whims of buddhist monks. he or she can formulate an original system of finger magic that will be every bit as powerful as any coined in the east. the

things uttered in hebrew, and translated into another tongue, have not the same force in them."52 the third reason for secret alphabets is their utility in the construction of seals, amulets, talismans, and pentacles. because the letters are unknown except to the initiated, and because they embody in their very shapes magical power, they may be used on seals and other ritual objects to represent the esoteric names of spirits or the hidden functions of the objects, and also to infuse those objects with poten- cy. hebrew was used in the golden dawn to inscribe the names of angels on the four elemental weapons, for example, and the hebrew alphabet was employed in the construction of spirit sigils. the main occult alphabets employed in modern magic are hebrew and its eso- teric mutations, gre

d take a short cut to happiness. such short cuts lead nowhere. attempts to cheat destiny end in shimmering mirages that tempt the foolish ever deeper into the wilderness. only through self-knowledge-needs, desires, limitations, and abilities- and by being receptive to the guidance of the light can the magus hope with reason- able confidence to tread the single true way of his or her life. this is the esoteric tao of chinese philosophy, always unique yet always perfectly suited to each individual. the way is not predestined, as this term is commonly understood. no omnipotent being legislates destiny. rather, it is the best response of the human soul to internal and external conditions moment by moment, given the existing resources. it can be visualized as water flowing downhill, which alway

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without intending to do so, or who find themselves suddenly knocked out of their physical bodies by some traumatic shock. the second type of living traveler on the astral planes is made up of those possessing psychic abilities who deliberately experiment with the projection of the astral double, such as the theosophist oliver fox and the spiritualist sylvan muldoon. another type is the student of the esoteric mysteries who is taught to travel the planes by a spiritual master. his dark reflection is the student of a black magician, also taught to negotiate the planes by his master. some souls of a debased nature are so transformed in the astral levels that they are scarcely recognizable as having once been human. among these are souls of an extremely lustful and base disposition, who after

owe, magicians of the golden dawn, 69. but it was felt by many who were no longer satisfied with conventional religious beliefs. the influence of helena petrovna blavatsky's theosophical society was notable in this ontext" the order of the golden dawn was a rosicrucian society that admitted both men and women. its purpose was the revival of the occult wisdom of the past-not merely the teaching of the esoteric philosophies of greece, rome, persia, egypt, and judea, but also the revival of the practice of ritual magic both for the perfection of the individual and the advancement of the human species. even though it made use of numerous pagan gods and goddesses in its rituals, it was fundamentally christian, as all rosicrucian societies must be. the primary symbol of the golden dawn was the r

er himselfforged orprocured to be forged the professed correspondence between him and them, and my tongue having been tied all these years by a previous oath of secrecy to him, demanded by him, from me, before showing me what he had either done or caused to be done or both."l15 the secret chiefs mathers was concerned that florence farr not be misled into thinking that westcott was responsible for the esoteric teachings of the golden dawn because he himself, aided by his wife, was at that time receiving psychic communications from the secret chiefs, a hierarchy of enlightened beings, and it was mathers who transcribed their dictations into the rituals and teachings that would later constitute the second order. exactly who or what these secret chiefs were, mathers always remained uncertain

of fortunetelling. they became a popular instrument for both divination, and meditation once the notion began to circulate among french occultists during the following century that the cards had higher meanings hidden in 198 soul flight their symbolism. the twenty-two picture cards received the most attention. they were linked by french occultists with the letters of the hebrew alphabet, and with the esoteric associations that attach to those letters in the mystical system of the kabbalah. chief among the french exponents of the higher significance of the tarot was eliphas lcvi (1801-1875, who wrote in 1860 concerning the tarot "now the extant tarot is certainly that of the gypsies and has come to us by way of judea. as a fact, its keys are in correspondence with the letters of the hebrew

he hebrew letters is that both are twenty-two in number, and even this association is imperfect since some tarot packs have more than twenty-two trumps. however, the standard tarot adopted by french occultists in the nineteenth century does indeed have trumps equal in number to the hebrew letters, and this was enough to cause a connection to be formed between the two. teachings of the golden dawn the esoteric analysis and magical use of the tarot was not elevated to the level of high art until it became part of the system of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. samuel liddell mathers, in the process of conveying the teachings of the secret chiefs that he and his wife received psychically by scrying, astral travel, and other means, delivered a complete set of occult correspondences for th

to her esoteric studies, but this may be set down more to the predictability and sameness of the men who pursued her than to her entanglement with astral visions. she simply became bored with sex, having had enough of it to last any woman a lifetime. the poet w. b. yeats, who along with the playwright george bernard shaw and a dozen others had been her lover, referred to her increased pursuit of the esoteric as her "insatiable, destroying curiosity,"242b ut we may suspect the only thing destroyed was his masculine ego. there is some truth in the fable that men and women who taste of the fairy feast can never return to the mortal world, but only in the sense that the astral planes are powerfully attractive to individuals of romantic sensibilities who are bored or sickened with everyday rea

be little resistance, but when you try to sweep it through quickly, the water presses back. if i had done nothing at all, nature would have followed its course, and my projected body would have reintegrated itself with my physical body effortlessly. conclusion the end of the journey s oul flight in its many diverse forms is one of the great pillars of the western esoteric tradition, and indeed of the esoteric tradition of the entire human race. it has been used for thousands of years to access alternative realities, to plumb the depths of the subconscious mind, and to establish direct communications with spiritual beings. those who engage in soul flight always do so for the same reason-to acquire knowledge not readily available through other methods. it is only our cynical modern age, so o

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em, or masters of the name, employed tetragrammaton to heal the sick and banish evil spirits. one such ba'al shem was the great jewish magician rabbi loew of prague, who breathed life into lifeless clay by means of the power of the ihvh and with it created the dreaded golem. during the renaissance, xiv tetragrammaton johannes reuchlin and other christian kabbalists transformed tetragrammaton into the esoteric fivefold name of jesus and proclaimed it the key to all the mysteries. alchemists employed it prominently in their emblems, as did visionary mystics such as robert fludd and jacob boehme. almost all the great figures in occultism over the past two centuries have recorded observations and speculations about the name. the nineteenth- century french magician gerard encausse, better known

he very being, of what it signifies. when a name is rightly vibrated by the tongue and lips upon the air, it comes alive. a resonance is established between the living name and the thing itself. by manipulating the name, the potential of the named thing is released upon the world. to articulate ihvh is to harness the power of supreme deity, both to create and destroy, for human ends. according to the esoteric doctrine of the jewish mystic-magicians known as kabbalists, the structure of tetragrammaton forms the blueprint upon which the entire universe of space and time, matter and energy, good and evil, humans and angels, is based. the name does not merely reflect the makeup of the world-it is the world. in the most ancient book of the kabbalah, sepher yetzirah (the book of formation, it is

is linked to the right leg and hod to the left leg. yesod falls on the organ of generation. malkuth is given to the feet. there is another more simple pattern that shows the letters of tetragrammaton arranged one above the other in the crude shape of the human body. yod is the head of this figure, the first he its arms and shoulders, vau its breathing torso, and the second he its pelvis and legs. the esoteric message inherent in this seemingly childish stick man is extremely significant. not only is the ihvh the living pattern of the creator whereby the power of god may be released and harnessed, and the structure of the universe through which the world may be subdued, but it is also the shape and foundation of humanity. its proper use permits a human being to rule, not only other human be

were quite sincere in their belief that the name ihshvh had displaced and rendered ineffective the name ihvh, we need not give their opinions too much credit. tetragrammaton can never be displaced by another name, since it embodies in its very structure the order and plan of the universe. the fivefold name supplements tetragrammaton, but it does not supplant it. reuchlin gives two ways of writing the esoteric name of jesus. the first is with the added shin in the exact middle of tetragrammaton-ihshvh(;71tu;7, pronounced yeheshuah. the second form uses the same five hebrew letters, but places the shin after the vau of tetragrammaton- ihvshh(;7ttf1;7, pronounced yehovashah. as i demonstrated in my book, the new magus (pp. 110-i, both of these names can be extracted with supreme elegance from

e successfully purged of their malevolent associations by the name yeheshuah coupled with the banishing vortex. even the name ihshvh alone, strongly vibrated upon the air without the visualization of the banishing vortex, is potent in cleansing spaces. of all names of power, the name of yeheshuah is the most potent, when properly vibrated, for curing sickness or banishing malicious spirits. it is the esoteric name of the messiah of the jews and the christ of the christians. the magical power that has always been most closely associated with jesus is the ability to drive out sickness from the mind and body. thus the name ihshvh is not only a banishing formula, but a healing formula as well. to free a person from nightmares, possession, depression, or obsession (persistent destructive though

resents the first he( 3) and the mutable quality. the vertical bar of the cross of the elements represents the vau (1) of the name and the horizontal bar the second he. the entire cross stands for the earth and the fixed quality. the symbol of aries, which is the first of the fire signs, and as dee observes "the origin of the fiery triplicity (hieroglyphic monad, p. 13, stands for the shin (u) of the esoteric name of jesus. notice that shin, which is the hebrew letter associated with fire, has three points, even as the fiery symbol of aries has three points. these may be taken to stand for the divine trinity. dee states that he has added the sign of aries to the monad "to signify that in the practice of this monad the use of fire is required (theorem x. had dee not added the sign of aries

f the crescent of the moon over the cross of the earth. he makes the error, as it seems to me, of assuming that the sign of aries is an essential component of the planetary glyphs. i believe that the arrow in the glyph of mars is no more than a corrupted form of the cross. the prominence of the number twenty-four in the hieroglyphic monad is conclusive proof that the work is indeed concerned with the esoteric name of the hieroglyphic monad divisions of the cross god. you will remember that there are actually twenty-four banners of tetragrammaton, but because the second and fourth letters of the name are the same, only twelve distinct forms may be written, unless the first h is distinguished in some way from the second h. dee relates these twenty-four banners to the twenty-four hours of the

UNLEASHING THE BEAST

parking controversy, we will see, was something of an obsession throughout crowley's life. beginning in 1899, crowley also began to explore a variety of eastern spiritual traditions. after studying yoga in mexico, he traveled to ceylon and india in 1901-2, during which time he studied various forms of buddhism and hinduism. as we will see below, it seems possible that he also learned something of the esoteric techniques of indian tantra- though perhaps not as much as most contemporary adepts generally suppose -142- however, it was in 1904 that crowley would receive his first great revelation and the knowledge that he was to be the herald of a new era in human history. according to his own account, crowley's guardian angel, aiwass, appeared to him and dictated the book of the law (liber al

a shastra society.lxxi although the kama sutra in fact had little if anything to do with tantra, it would soon become largely confused and often completely identified with tantra in the western popular imagination. crowley, too, seems to have inherited this orientalist identification of tantra with sex, and he would soon become infamous as one of the first western authors to wed sexual magic with the esoteric rites of tantra. as his disciple kenneth grant put it "the revival of tantric elements in the book of the law may be evidence of a positive move on the part of [crowley] to forge a link between western and oriental systems of magick."lxxii but the question is, how much did crowley really know about indian tantric traditions- that is, beyond the second-hand comments and bursts of moral

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

stral, que hizo, qu vio, etc, etc. este ejercicio debe ser diariamente, sin cansarse jam s. tendr is que llegar a ver y a o r las grandes realidades internas. 54 arcanum 8 let us study, in this lecture, the eighth key of basil valentine (illustration of viridarium chymicum) the eight key is a clear and perfect alchemical allegory of the processes of death and resurrection that inevitably occur in the esoteric preparation of the philosophical stone. the entire inner preparation of the stone and the metallic transmutation are represented in this allegory. the entire human material employed in this work dies, it becomes rotten, corrupted and becomes blackened within the philosophical egg, then it becomes marvelously white. the entire summary of the great work is found within the philosophical

onvierte de hecho en la carne y la sangre del cristo. esta es la transubstanciaci n. 98 arcanum 15 let us go now to study the fifteenth arcanum of the tarot. we are going to study the male goat of mendes, typhon baphomet, the devil. the alchemist must steal the fire from the devil. when we work with the arcanum a.z.f. we steal the fire from the devil; this is how we transform ourselves into gods. the esoteric pentagram shines upon the forehead of the male goat [see image on next page. the caduceus of mercury replaces the sexual organs. in synthesis, we can state that the caduceus of mercury represents the sexual organs. every alchemist needs to work with the caduceus of mercury. this work is performed by means of the transmutation. the five pointed star shines when we steal the fire from t

durante el sopor del sue o en instantes de estar despertando. 111 arcanum 17 this is the seventeenth arcanum of the tarot. the hieroglyphic of this arcanum is the radiant star and eternal youth. in this arcanum there appears a naked woman who is spreading the sap of universal life over the earth which is coming out of two jars, one made of gold and the other made of silver. if we carefully study the esoteric content of this arcanum, we will discover the perfect alchemy. we need to work with the gold and with the silver, with the sun and with the moon in order to incarnate the star, this star has eight points. indeed, the star of eight points is venus. whosoever attains the venusian initiation has the bliss of incarnating the dragon of wisdom (the inner christ, the arcanum 17 represents th

rcano xvii. la savia contenida en los vasos de oro y plata, cuando es sabiamente combinada y transmutada nos permite llegar hasta la encarnaci n de la estrella. la estrella crucificada en la cruz es el cristo. 116 arcanum 18 now, let us study the eighteenth arcanum of kabbalah. this is the arcanum of the crepuscule [twilight. it becomes necessary for our gnostic disciples to profoundly reflect on the esoteric content of this arcanum. we have been strongly criticized for not continuing with the already known hebraic monotony. certainly, we do not want to follow the same hebraic monotony. we, the gnostics, are only interested in that which is called comprehension. we want our students to comprehend each arcanum and thereafter develop it within themselves. first, we want our disciples to disc

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tic lodge can now be yours. do you have the will to dare the assay into the silent depths of the unknown? about the author soror a. l. lives and writes in her niche in the woods with her cat and herb garden. she belongs to a working hermetic lodge on the west coast and welcomes correspondence on magical squares. about the illustrator after studying buddhism for five years, lloyd nygaard turned to the esoteric traditions of the west and spent seven years in a fourth way school practicing the inner disciplines of spiritual evolution. he has studied the writings of paul foster case for the past eleven years with other students from a variety of traditions that have the golden dawn as their common source. he works as a design engineer in the aerospace industry, and is currently writing a thesi

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

a certain breathing exercise, can become fixated and restricted to what the technique has to offer. the adherents may set up schools to teach the sacred ritual, forgetting that any technique has its relevance only for a certain community at a certain time. just as can happen with any scientific technique which is overextended or which persists for too long, the original application and intent of the esoteric technique may become lost, although the surface appearance of the enterprise is well-maintained. religions construct cathedrals and design robes, just as scientist develop elaborate equipment and professional journals, but all too often the enterprise may become limited to a propagation of the means, with the original end, the desired objective, forgotten. selection from: robert e. or

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

sfied with the amount of knowledge to be gained at home, he left his native land and spent many years in travel, visiting in turn most of the great centers of learning. history narrates that his pilgrimage in search of wisdom extended to egypt, hindostan, persia, crete and palestine, and that he gathered from each country fresh stores of information, and succeeded in becoming well acquainted with the esoteric wisdom as well as with the popular exoteric knowledge of each. he returned with his mind well stored and his judgment matured, to his home, intending to open there a college of learning, but this he found to be impracticable owing to the opposition of its turbulent ruler polycrates. failing in this design, he migrated to crotona, a noted city in magna graecia, which was a colony found

w. wyn n wes tcott every religion. there are seven planes of being, the upper three are subjective and unknowable to mankind, the lower four are objective and may be contemplated by man as metaphysical abstractions. so there are the seven principles of man, and the upper triad are parted from the lower group of four at dissolution. 79. the seven principles constituting man are variously named by the esoteric buddhism, by the vedantic scheme, and by other philosophies, but they correspond in idea. first from above come atma, a ray from the absolute; buddhi, spiritual soul; and manas, human soul; these are the superior triad, which separates at human death from the lower tetrad of principles. the lower four are kama rupa, the passions; linga sarira, the astral body; prana, life essence; and

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

dict stand. hence, the adage that the signet of god is truth from which springs the observation that emet is composed of the first, middle, and last letters of the alphabet. to think the essence of this matter, to submit to the call of what must be thought,45 is to discern the correlation of truth and language, or, more precisely, hebrew, which is depicted in rabbinic lore (and all the more so in the esoteric accretions to the tradition) as the cosmic language, a pure or originary speech, the proto/verb inscripted as spoken, spoken as inscripted.46 at this juncture, we do not yet know what this correlation is supposed to communicate, but in time the matter will be unraveled. what can be posited here is that medieval kabbalists introduced (or, at least, made explicit) the link between the c

inning, middle, and end, which correspond theologically to creation, revelation, and redemption a narratological conception of history that distinguishes the jewish people from other nations whose time is bound to the sun or the rotation of the sphere81 in an eternal cycle of return that has no beginning or end and, consequently, no possibility for authentic novelty or creativity in the middle.82 the esoteric significance of the scriptural account that links the epiphany at sinai to the third month is to underscore that the temporal modality appropriate to torah, which linear circularity (a)temporal poetics as intellect does not fall under the category of time, is the singular present wherein there is no division of time at all (he-attah ha-meyuhad she-ein bah hilluq zeman kelal).83 the ti

f integration (olam ha-yihud, alma de-yihuda. surely, i am not advocating a dualism when i speak of two vectors nor do i deny that kabbalistic tradition presumes an analogical relation between the two spheres such that one gains knowledge of the latent from the manifest and of the manifest from the latent an ancient hermetic teaching with roots in platonic philosophy that had a profound impact on the esoteric teachings of judaism, christianity, and islam as they evolved in the middle ages. it is worthwhile mentioning one extract from cordovero where he frames the kabbalistic teaching in these terms: from the lower beings we discern the supernal beings, as it says from my flesh i would behold god (job 19:26, and by means of them a man can discern divinity. after a man contemplates the super

een attributes of mercy. the second circumcision, which foreshadows the eschatological moment, triggers the transmutation of the carnal body into the semiotic body, that is, the body composed of the twenty-two hebrew letters, which are contained, in turn, in the tetragrammaton, the mystical essence of torah, configured as an anthropos in the imagination of the visionary. in brief, we can say that the esoteric gnosis of kabbalah, which underlies the hasidic teaching championed by shneur zalman, advocates the transubstantiation of the flesh into word in 114 chapter two contrast to the christological incarnational emphasis on the word becoming flesh.300 the implication of body transposing into letter for the kabbalistic understanding of time may be inferred from the scriptural statement that

is boundless. the root of the coming-to-be of the order of time [shoresh hithawwut seder zemannim. which is intermediary between ein sof itself and the emanation, the locus of the coincidentia oppositorum, which is called ancient of days (atiq yomin, for it is the eternality of the days [nishiyyut ha-yomin. 301 that the temporal overcoming of time, an over-coming that ensues from under-going, is the esoteric intent of shneur zalman s eschatological teaching may be adduced from another passage, where he sets out to explain why the sinaitic epiphany took place in a desolate desert (midbar hareivah: the matter is that the essence of engagement with torah is to be in the aspect of complete annihilation in the light of the infinite, blessed be he [iqqar eseq ha-torah hu lihyot bi-vehinat bittu

perspective this is the intent of the rabbinic dictum that god is the place of the world but the world is not his place. that is, all things in timespace are god even if god is not all things in spacetime.55 the notion of world implicit in the hoary myth is dependent on the paradox of determinate indeterminacy,56 that is, a structure that is at once closed and open, formed and formless.57 this is the esoteric significance of the orthography of beit, the mark that inscribes the beginning that is second. the inscription, however, is concomitantly an erasure, for the beit that begins torah veils the alef whence it originates. the role of torah as preserving the concealment of that which must be concealed is alluded to in the following bahiric text: r. bun said: why is it written from eternity

he beginning (re shit, which is beit. only if we appreciate this will we be in a position to comprehend the significance of interpreting me-olam as lehe alem, to be hidden. in proclaiming its primordiality, torah is asserting, albeit cryptically, that it conceals the matter that must be hidden from the entire world, which is the head, the illimitable origin, whence it springs forth. this, too, is the esoteric sense of the statement attributed to torah: i was first in order to be the origin of the world. the phrase that i translate as origin of the world is ro sh le-olam. i have opted for a literal rendering, but this may obscure the intended meaning. the context demands that the word le-olam be vocalized as le alem, to conceal. once that is understood, then the expression assumes an altoge

the creation of souls evincing the movement from the one beyond one to the one that is many, the one that encompasses division issuing from the one that is indivisible.75 this transition marks the beginning and hence it is symbolized by beit, the second that is first.76 further support may be adduced from the verse peleg elohim male mayim. its plain sense is: the channel of god is full of water. the esoteric exegete, however, read (in the double sense of interpreted and vocalized) the word peleg as palag, to divide, thereby changing the syntax of the verse. the proper noun peleg elohim, channel of god, is turned into predicate and subject, palag elohim, god divided. moreover, the expression male mayim is not the predicate nominative is full of water, but the nominative fullness of water

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

cal condition. the latter, the grade of adeptus exemptus, being referred to the higher and more exalted rank and attainments of he who founded the rosicrucian order as a new formulation of the occult philosophy or wisdom religion which, we cannot doubt, has never been entirely absent since the manifestation of the human intellect with a capacity for the apprehension of things divine. on comparing the esoteric historical account given in the fama with that contained in our 5=6 ritual, several important divergencies and discrepancies become apparent. the fama was written for the public, and is therefore not absolutely correct. instances of the "blinds" introduced into the fama occur where, in the description of the vault, it is stated "this is all dear and bright, as also the seventh (the se

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